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- From Israel call number 03 7960766
- From Italy call (+39) 06 65640
- From other countries, contact the Customer Relations Office for your country of residence
Find out more
Alitalia has a dedicated team for passengers requiring special assistance. Request special assistance when you book your flight. Call us at least 48 hours before departure to request assistance tailored to your needs.
If your flight is operated by one of our alliance airlines or by a franchising partner, different restrictions may apply. In such cases, please contact us prior to departure.
According to EC regulation 1107/06, within the EU territories, airport operators must assist all persons with a disability during their time at the airport. This includes persons whose mobility is reduced due to physical disability (locomotory or sensorial), those with an intellectual disability or impairment, or those with disabilities relating to age, illness or any other cause. Airlines will provide the airport operator with all necessary information to enable the former to deliver an appropriate service.
To enable us to forward your request, please contact us when making your booking and in any event at least 48 hours before departure.
For more information on the rights of persons with reduced mobility, please consult EC REGULATION 1107/06
According to the safety provisions issued by the EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency), in Air Ops – Commercial Air Transport (May 2013). Passengers who require special provisions, assistance and/or equipment when they are flying are regarded as belonging to the SCP (Special Category of Passengers).
The following are included in this category:
- Persons with reduced mobility (PRMs) who, without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2006, are understood to be any person whose mobility is reduced due to any physical disability, sensory or locomotory, permanent or temporary, intellectual disability or impairment, any other cause of disability, or age
- Infants (under two years old) and unaccompanied minors
- Deportees, inadmissible passengers (INAD) or prisoners in custody
SCP travelers must travel under conditions that ensure the safety of the aircraft and its occupants. Companies are responsible for checking that "the number and categories of SCPs [present on board] do not exceed the number of passengers capable of assisting them in case of an emergency evacuation." For safety reasons, SCPs cannot sit in seats by emergency exits.
For this reason, in order to comply with the aforementioned safety measures, you may be asked to book on an alternative flight to the one you wish to take.
Alitalia is covered by this regulation for any flight that begins or ends at a US airport.
You may obtain an accessible copy of the DOT's regulations implementing the Air Carrier Access Act, 14 CFR Part 382, by any of the following means:
- for calls made from within the United States, by telephoning the Toll-Free Hotline for Air Travelers with Disabilities on1-800-778-4838 (voice) or 1-800-455-9880 (Textphone - TTY);
- by telephoning the Aviation Consumer Protection Division on 202-366-2220 (voice) or 202-366-0511 (Textphone - TTY);
- by emailing the Air Consumer Protection Division, C-75, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., West Building, Room W96-432, Washington, DC 0590;
- by visiting the Aviation Consumer Protection Division's website.
If you require special assistance, please go to the check-in desk one hour before the check-in time stated for other passengers. If you are traveling with a wheelchair or other mobility aid, you must check in at least one hour before departure for domestic flights, one and a half hours before for medium-haul flights and two hours before for long-haul flights.
Alitalia will make all reasonable efforts to ensure boarding for passengers needing assistance who did not book the service at least 48 hours in advance or who did not go to the check-in desk in advance as requested, on condition that this does not lead to the delay of the flight.
If you need medical clearance for fitness to fly, ask your attending physician to complete the MEDIF medical clearance form no more than seven days before your travel date and fill in Form A "Information for customers requiring special assistance", which must be signed by you or your representative.
The MEDIF must be sent to the Call Center during the booking stage and must be submitted to the Alitalia medical department at least 72 hours before you travel, excluding Saturdays and public holidays. If medical clearance is required for the transportation of passengers on stretchers, the form—completed in full, stamped and signed by the passenger's attending physician—must be provided at least five working days in advance, not counting Saturdays and public holidays.
For customers with a FREMEC (Frequent Traveler Medical Card), Alitalia accepts this card as "medical clearance for travel" within the limits of the stable condition indicated and within the validity period of the card. For medical clearance for other services/conditions not covered on the FREMEC (e.g. oxygen), clearance should be requested from the company by submitting the MEDIF form and Form A.
If you have a limb in plaster, it is not advisable to fly for 48 hours after the plaster cast has been fitted.
Conditions for clearance
Fit to fly medical clearance.
Proof of medical clearance for air travel must be provided by:
- Those affected by diseases that could be spread to other passengers
- Those affected by conditions that could worsen as a result of the flight
- Those needing oxygen therapy or a stretcher on board
- Those who, for physical or mental reasons, cannot take care of themselves
- Those who require specialized medical care on board
- Women in their last four weeks of pregnancy or who have a pregnancy with medical complications
- Premature infants
- Those who need to transport biological matter
Air travel is not generally recommended in the following specific clinical cases for passengers who:
- Suffer from serious cardiac conditions such as: serious heart failure or coronary thrombosis, heart attack. Passengers with these conditions are generally not accepted for six weeks after a heart attack.
- Have undergone treatment for the presence of gas, for example pneumothorax, or of air in the nervous system for ventriculography, pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum etc.
- Suffer from mental illness and/or nervous disorders that require more intense tranquillizers; are not accompanied and for whom special measures are required; have serious cases of earache with occlusion of the Eustachian tube;
- Are suffering from contagious or infectious diseases
- Have serious cases of contagious skin disease
- Have recently suffered from poliomyelitis, unless the infection was over a month ago. Every phase of poliomyelitis.
- Have large tumors in the rib cage, a serious hernia, intestinal occlusion, illnesses leading to high endocranial pressure, skull fracture, or who have a recent jaw fracture with permanent damage to the ligaments
- Have recently undergone surgery from which the wound has not had sufficient time to heal
- Women who are pregnant, and seven days before and after giving birth
- Premature babies or newborn infants under 7 days old
When booking your flight, please inform the airline of your need to travel with a powered or folding wheelchair or any other walking aid. You can check in two mobility aids at no extra cost (e.g. wheelchair and walker).
Alitalia will do its best to ensure that mobility aids are transported safely but some factors may prevent them from being transported. For full details, click here. In order to help us transport your mobility aid correctly, please download the Powered Mobility Aid information form and give it to the agent or attach it to your mobility aid.
If you wish, we can provide assistance between check-in and the gate or aircraft and between the gate and the arrivals lounge. Depending on the airport, you will be provided with an airport electric buggy or a wheelchair.
Because of the airport infrastructure, in many airports wheelchairs will be taken away at check-in, labeled and carried in the hold. We advise you to arrive at the airport at least 2 hours prior to your departure time, so we can provide you with the best possible assistance or at the point within the airport boundary designated not later than two hours before the published departure time. If your wheelchair has been stowed in the hold, we will make every effort to return it to you as close as possible to the aircraft door.
If this is not possible, we will make sure that there is a wheelchair waiting for you to take you to the baggage claim area.
For wheelchair passengers with travel itineraries involving a connection at Rome Fiumicino Airport who require assistance during the embarkation or disembarkation process (assistance type WCHC and WCHS), and in order to offer the best possible service and a comfortable and calm travel experience, Alitalia recommends a minimum connection time of 1 hour and 15 minutes (for connections between two domestic Italy flights, connections between international flights from/to Schengen countries and domestic Italy flights, or connections between two international flights from/to Schengen countries) or 1 hour and 30 minutes (for connections between two intercontinental flights, connections between intercontinental and domestic Italy flights, connections between domestic Italy flights and international flights from/to non-Schengen countries, or connections between intercontinental and international flights from/to Schengen or non-Schengen countries). You are kindly invited to contact the Alitalia call center for more information.
When departing from Rome Fiumicino, if you hold a parking card for people with disabilities, you can access the Z.T.L. (Limited Traffic Zone) in front of the entrance to the airport halls at no charge. Furthermore, by filling the online form on the A.D.R. website, you will be able to stop for longer than the customary 15 minutes allowed.
For long term parking, A.D.R. offers a number of free car parks. For more information click here.
If you depart form Milan Malpensa or Linate, you will find all information on parking for people with disabilities at this page.
All Alitalia aircraft are equipped with wheelchairs on board to help passengers with mobility problems make their way from their seat to the aircraft restroom and back. Remember the crew can't give any assistance within the restrooms. Aircraft of Alitalia partner airlines may not be equipped with wheelchairs on board; you are advised to check this at the time of booking.
A companion is someone who accompanies a disabled passenger. The following categories of passengers may not act as companions:
- Children (under the age of 16)
- Physically or mentally impaired persons
- Persons who are too weak or frail
There are two categories of companions: safety assistants and personal assistants.
Find out more
A safety assistant is a person of at least 16 years of age, physically and mentally able, willing to assist a person with reduced mobility (PRM) in the event of emergency or able to understand and apply safety instructions on behalf of the PRM.
A safety assistant is not a personal assistant who looks after the PRM's personal needs. A safety assistant must be provided as a condition of travel when the PRM is:
- not able to appropriately respond to flight safety instructions because of a mental disability;
- not able to physically ensure his/her own evacuation in case of emergency due to a severe mobility impairment;
- not able to communicate with flight attendants due to visual and hearing impairments;
- traveling as a member of a group of people with disabilities, in order to ensure compliance with the safety requirement that there should be one able passenger for each passenger belonging to the Special Categories.
A personal assistant is a person who is fully familiar with the physical condition of the passenger with a disability and who is capable of attending to the passenger's in-flight needs, such as medical procedures, feeding and assistance using the restroom facilities (including during any delays or flight disruptions). The flight crew may help passengers to open meal packages and accompany them to the restroom door, but cannot assist them with eating or taking medication, nor assist them inside the toilet. If you require help with any of these functions, it is highly recommended that you travel with a personal care attendant.
If you are a passenger who falls into this category, we will try, if flight conditions permit, to leave the seat next to yours free.
We would like to remind you that the standard measurements of our seats in Economy Class may vary between 46.99 cm (18.5 inches) and 41.98 cm (16.53 inches)
If, for greater comfort, you wish to purchase an extra seat, you can do so at the booking stage by contacting the Call Center.
In such cases, purchasing an extra seat is only possible in Economy Class on all medium- and short-haul aircraft in the Alitalia fleet.
Finally, for safety reasons, you cannot sit by the emergency exits, in particular, exits over the wing.
In order to make it easier for passengers with mobility problems to transfer between an aircraft seat and a wheelchair, all aisle seats on Alitalia aircraft are equipped with movable armrests. If you are traveling with a companion, he/she will have priority for the seat next to you. Depending on availability and a number of other factors, your companion may sit in the same row as you or in the row immediately in front or behind.
Passengers traveling with an assistance dog on domestic and intercontinental flights are offered bulkhead seats to accommodate the animal more comfortably. International flights are excluded as bulkhead seats are only available in Ottima class. For these flights, passengers will be offered an aisle seat.
If you have a disability that affects only one side of your body, you will be offered a seat on the side of the plane which allows your mobile side to be by the aisle, for safety reasons. If one of your legs in plaster or otherwise immobilized, but in such a way that you can still bend your knee, you will be offered, where possible, a seat by the bulkhead. Go to the check-in desk at least one hour before the other passengers.
If you are not able to bend your knee and you cannot remain seated with the seat in the upright position during takeoff, turbulence or landing, you must travel using a stretcher.
For safety reasons, the seats in the row by the emergency exit cannot be given to passengers with reduced mobility.
Passengers are carried on a stretcher if they are injured, are sick or cannot bend their lower limbs and are not able to remain seated with the seat in the upright position during takeoff, periods of turbulence or landing. Stretchers are available only on economy class on most of Alitalia aircrafts. Please check availability when booking for the flight/specific day of travel.
If you need to travel on a stretcher, you can request this service at the time of booking. Be sure to request the service well in advance so that we can make the necessary arrangements. Don't forget to obtain medical clearance for fitness to fly, the MEDIF form (to be completed by your physician) and ensure you have completed and signed Form A "Information for customers requiring special assistance".
A Safety Briefing Card is available for blind and visually-impaired passengers on medium-haul Airbus aircraft.
Safety Briefing Card
A Safety Briefing Card is available for blind and visually-impaired passengers on medium-haul Airbus aircraft. The card contains passenger safety information in Braille with raised illustrations for blind passengers, in line with regulations on legibility and color contrasts for visually-impaired passengers. The features of the card are as follows:
Text with letters and colors for visually-impaired passengers (and their assistants);
Text written in Braille;
3D illustrations of a number of elements such as the location of emergency exits, the layout of the cabin, instructions on how to fasten and unfasten seat belts, emergency positions and the use of safety jackets and oxygen masks.
When booking, please let us know if you need to travel with a guide dog or assistance dog. We recommend that you use a dog harness and bring a muzzle with you to use during the cruising phase, if necessary, at the request of the captain, for safety reasons.
Recognized guide dogs or assistance dogs are carried free of charge and there are no weight limits. Please also note also that some countries have special requirements regarding the admittance of animals. We recommend that you read the regulations before you travel. To enter the United Kingdom with a recognized guide dog, please also consult these guidelines.
Recognized assistance dogs
European Regulation 1107/2006 requires airlines to accept recognized assistance dogs free of charge, either in the cabin or in the hold The definition of recognized assistance dogs is specified in ECAC Doc 30, Part I, Section 5: Facilitation of the transport of persons with reduced mobility, June 2012 edition:
"The term recognized assistance dogs refers to guide dogs and other assistance dogs trained to assist persons with a wide range of disabilities with everyday tasks. Guide dogs, primarily used to provide mobility assistance to blind or partially sighted people, are those trained by an organization that is affiliated with or recognized by the International Guide Dog Federation (IGDF). Assistance dogs are trained by organizations that meet the full Assistance Dogs International (ADI) membership criteria.
If you have diabetes, you do not need clearance to fly, provided that you have not been hospitalized in the 30 days before the flight. In this case only, the Medical Information Form (MEDIF) must be completed by your doctor and sent together with Form A "Information for customers requiring special assistance" signed by you. The MEDIF form must be sent to the Call Center at the booking stage.
You can also request a special meal for flights over three hours; this must also be done when booking.
Carry insulin with the devices needed for administration in your hand luggage. This way, it will be readily accessible during the flight and will prevent any risks associated with alterations to the substance due to the sudden temperature changes that may occur in the hold. You can carry enough insulin for your entire trip (outbound flight, stay and return flight).
To pass through the security controls in the airport, just show the original certificate from your treating physician, dated within the last 30 days.
Find out about the other special assistance services:
- Oxygen therapy for passengers with cardiac, pulmonary or respiratory problems, to prevent any disturbances caused by the cabin pressure when the aircraft is at high altitude. If you need oxygen equipment on board you must request it in advance. We can only provide oxygen to one passenger per flight so availability may be restricted. The Medical Information Form (MEDIF) needs to be completed by your doctor and sent together with Form A "Information for customers requiring special assistance" signed by you. Alitalia standard continuous flow is 4/ltm. Contact Alitalia to check whether it is available on the aircraft you are planning to fly on. We cannot provide oxygen on the ground at any airport.
- Transportation of liquid medicine and syringes on board , for personal use, in sufficient quantity for the entire trip (flights to and from the destination and the duration of the stay). To pass the security checks at the airport, you must have:
- medical certificate dated within 30 days of the flight that attests to the need, quantity and method of administration of the drug
Please notify the cabin crew if you need to use needles during the flight. You will be given a special container in which to dispose of them. Do not hook intravenous devices to the overhead compartments: they could interfere with the emergency oxygen mask system.
Portable medical devices include all small electrical/electronic equipment, powered by battery and used for medical diagnosis, treatment and monitoring passengers' health. Please inform Alitalia if you need to carry a device of this type with you. For safety reasons, these devices require prior authorization, from time to time, by the Alitalia Medicine and Avionics Departments.
Passengers who use portable oxygen concentrators (POC) approved by the FAA or other medical equipment may submit, instead of the MEDIF, a certificate issued by their own attending physician, which indicates the oxygen flow necessary and that the patient is capable of seeing/hearing the device's safety signal and taking action. If this is not the case, they must be accompanied by another person.
After receiving approval from Alitalia for the portable medical devices or small electrical/electronic equipment, the following regulations must be complied with:
- The battery must be kept in hand baggage.
- The battery must be individually packaged and protected from short circuits.
- A number of batteries sufficient for the entire flight duration must be carried, taking possible delays into account (around 150% of the duration of the flight).
For lithium batteries:
- In the case of alkaline or lithium batteries, the lithium content must be more than 2 g but less than 8 g and the voltage must be less than 100 Wh per battery.
- For lithium ion batteries, the watt-hour rating must be more than 100 Wh, but less than 160 Wh.
- The batteries used must be of a type that meets the requirements of the United Nations Manual of Tests and Criteria, Part III, subsection 38.3.


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Backseat Boyz Shoot Interview vol. 1 and 2 DVD-R
Volume 1.
Trent Acid and Johnny Kashmere, The Backseat Boyz, have grown to become one of the best tag teams on the indy scene for their charisma and unique teamwork. Both sat down together with RF Video for this exclusive Shoot Interview covering life as an independent tag team. This is like two Shoots in one!!! Kashmere and Acid hold nothing back in giving their true opinions on everything from CZW to Japan to everyone they've worked with. You'll find out what the different promotions are like, what life is like as an indy wrestler and thoughts on some of the biggest names the two have encountered.
-Who trained them
-Growing up as wrestling fans
-Memories of Johnny teaming before wrestling with Trent
-How they started teaming in NWA New Jersey
-Early matches
-Why they started using the Midnight Express them
-Coming up with their double team moves
-How they ended up working for CZW
-First impressions of John Zandig
-Trent talks about an altercation from years ago with Homicide in CZW
-Were they ever close to going to ECW
-What happened at the final ECW Arena show when they were told to bring their wrestling gear
-Would they have left CZW for ECW
-Working an angle with The Dudley Boyz on Sunday Night Heat
-Working with Albert
-Dealing with Paul Heyman
-What the CZW locker room thought of them appearing on WWE TV
-Reaction when CZW started on Channel 48 in Philly
-Kashmere talks about working the tag match with Jun Kasai at Un F'N Believable
-Trent talks about his ladder match against Ric Blade
-Thoughts on when CZW feuded them against each other
-Memories of the first time CZW ran the ECW Arena
-Memories of the Best of the Best tournaments
-Working for Phoenix Championship Wrestling
-Being managed by Donnie B
-Working the family oriented atmosphere at Phoenix compared to the CZW style
-Working against The SAT
-Initial impressions when CZW started working with Big Japan
-What was the first tour like
-Wrestling in Japan against Mens Teoh & Jun Kasai
-Trent talks about his matches against Winger
-How the CZW wrestlers were treated by the Big Japan wrestlers
-What happened when Zandig severed ties with Big Japan
-Talk about locker room morale when they heard about Messiah getting his thumb cut off
-Trent talks about working against Jerry Lynn
-Working against The H8 Club
-Thoughts on the feud between CZW and IWA Mid South
-The formation of HiFive
-Thoughts on CZW's current direction
-Trent talks about the fans thinking he didn't want to do jobs and being called Triple H
-Talk about the angle where Zandig hung himself
-Talk about CZW's debut show in Italy
-Was there any problem going into the locker room since you were seen as "CZW guys"
-How did Zandig react when he found out you were working more dates
-Did they ever have any conversations with XPW about jumping to their promotion
-Trent talks about his cross promotional feud against Homicide with their matches in CZW
-Thoughts on getting the Tag Team Titles and dropping them so quickly
-Working with Special K
-Thoughts on the Scramble Cage Match on 11/1
-Talk about their reaction when Teddy Hart started doing all the flips in the ring after the match and what happened backstage
-Working for NWA Wildside
-Working for PWF
-The CZW locker rooms
-The CZW booking styles
-Kashmere talks about his recent problems with CZW where he quit the company
-Their future goals
-Would they ever go to WWE if the opportunity came up
-Working singles matches compared to tag matches
-All that and much more!
Volume 2.
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Lead Pollution at Outdoor Firing Ranges: Poisonous Pastime
Lead in Outdoor Firing Ranges
"We fired round after round, match after match, without realizing what lead could do to us."
—Joseph P. Tartaro, Second Amendment Foundation news release, January 10, 1998
Choked by stagnant markets and growing social disapproval, the gun industry has made increasing the number of shooting ranges the keystone of its survival strategy. Introducing kids to guns is a key element of the industry plan.
But lead doesn't mix with children and the environment. Lead is one of the most deadly toxins on the planet. Poisonous Pastime documents in detail the ways in which the shooting range industry is poisoning children and heavily polluting the environment with lead and other toxins:
- Most ammunition used at ranges is made of lead....between 400 and 600 tons of lead are used each day to make bullets and "a high proportion of it is left to clutter up shooting ranges." It is no wonder,then, that numerous studies—since at least the 1970s—have documented that outdoor shooting ranges are major sources of lead pollution in the environment, and that indoor shooting ranges are significant sources of lead poisoning among people who use them.
Poisoning Kids
Tragically, children—the gun industry's prime target—are most vulnerable to the toxic effects of lead:
- Lead is particularly harmful to the rapidly developing brains and nervous systems of fetuses and young children. This harm has been well-studied in actual human cases, not mere theoretical calculations, animal studies, or academic conjecture....Their protection hinges on vigilant parents and aggressive public health authorities...."It makes you stupid," in the words of one lead testing expert, and the damage is irreversible.
Parents often put their own children at risk, because they do not know that their visits to the local range can result in lead poisoning of the kids at home:
- Because lead dust settles on clothing, shoes, and accessories worn or used at the range, the families of persons who work at or use firing ranges are also subject to "take-home" exposure to lead dust. This can cause secondary lead poisoning, particularly in children....shooters can even contaminate their children's clothing by washing them together with the clothes they wore to the range.
National Rifle Association publications and other gun magazines aimed at children often encourage them to "get into" reloading their own ammunition, a process which sometimes includes the dangerous process of casting lead bullets:
- Melting lead produces a fume which can remain airborne for several hours, is easily inhaled, and can contaminate surfaces. The director of a New Hampshire occupational health center said some of the worst cases of lead poisoning he has seen have been in people who make their own bullets...."That's a wonderful way to poison not only yourself but members of your family," said another state health official.
Poisonous Pastime also documents the risk shooting ranges pose to other third parties, like range employees, construction workers on range facilities, and those who share buildings with ranges, live, or work near ranges:
- A day-care center in Clearwater, Florida, was forced to close and the children were required to have blood tests after it was discovered that a neighboring indoor shooting range was venting lead-contaminated air into the center's playground area....California health officials have seen "some serious lead poisoning cases among construction employees engaged in demolition of a firing range, as well as among these employees' children."
Wrecking the Environment
Besides poisoning kids and others, shooting ranges are wrecking the environment at a prodigious pace:
- According to Sports Afield, "the quantity of recreational lead deposited in the environment is enormous. For example, at some trap and skeet ranges, lead shot densities of 1.5 billion pellets per acre have been recorded. That's 334 pellets in every square foot." This massive pollution at shooting ranges is entirely separate from another question, posed by a U.S. Forest Service official at a gun industry shooting range symposium, of "where the lead is going for the millions of shooters who currently are not using established ranges," but are instead shooting on open public land.
This frightful record happens because the shooting range business operates "under the radar." These problems are no secret within the industry itself: Poisonous Pastime is based largely on records of internal industry meetings and gun industry publications. Although some newer shooting ranges incorporate state-of-the-art environmental and public-health controls, thousands of ranges all over America are operated on shoe-string budgets. Many are operated as informally as sandlot baseball diamonds, without even the most elementary protection for their users, the environment, and the public:
The Boston-based Strategic Planning Institute found in a recent report outlining a gun industry survival strategy for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) that "a large majority of shooting facilities in the country are not professionally managed, commercial operations."
Similarly, a major supplier of shooting range equipment, Caswell International Corp., was reported in 1989 by the NRA's American Rifleman magazine to have found that "a lot of people trying to get in on a shoestring" in the shooting range market were "cutting corners on costs that resulted in substandard ranges in terms of safety, environmental concerns and cleanliness." An engineering consulting firm specializing in shooting ranges notes in its promotional materials that the increased attention to lead contamination and human health exposure "has put range owners and operators into areas outside of their expertise."
The industry chooses to downplay the seriousness of its problems, hide them from the general public, and allow thousands of unregulated shooting sites to continue to operate without strict oversight.
What Can be Done? Poisonous Pastime lists specific things that can be done by the vast majority of Americans who do not own guns and have no interest in allowing the shooting range industry's reckless rampage to continue. Here are a few examples from among many others that activists can pursue to protect kids and the environment:
- All children who have any direct or indirect exposure to a hooting range or to reloading should immediately have their blood lead levels tested.
- No children should be allowed at shooting ranges, nor should they participate in or be exposed to ammunition reloading, since there is no "safe" level of lead exposure for children.
- Local activists can form coalitions with health and environmental groups to conduct "audits" of shooting ranges to check lead levels at ranges and ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including zoning, noise, environment, as well as health and safety.
- Congress can give first priority for tax funds that are now used to promote shooting ranges to cleaning up and repairing lead damage to public lands caused by the so-called "shooting sports."
- Congress should forbid use of federal dollars for any range that permits use of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, or machine guns.
- The lead hazard at shooting ranges calls into question the wisdom of encouraging or requiring firearm safety training as a mechanism to reduce firearm-related violence, and demonstrates the folly of supporting range development with public funds.
The Violence Policy Center is a national educational organization working to stop gun death and injury in America through research, analysis, and advocacy for effective firearms policy. For more information and a full copy of the May 2001 study, Poisonous Pastime: The Health Risks of Target Ranges and Lead to Children, Families, and the Environment, please contact Naomi Seligman at 202-822-8200 ext. 105 or [email protected]


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Brewers Falls To Angels At Miller Park
Conger Hits Game Winning Homerun
Pinch-hitter Hank Conger came through with a two-run homer in the ninth inning off closer Jim Henderson that sent the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-5 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night.
Milwaukee had been 50-0 this season when leading after eight innings, the only team in the majors without a loss.
Henderson (3-4) retired his first two batters in the ninth before pinch-hitter Josh Hamilton doubled off the glove of sliding right fielder Caleb Gindle. Conger followed with his seventh home run, driving a 2-1 delivery to right.
Dane Da La Rosa (6-1) pitched a perfect eighth for the win. Ernesto Frieri worked the ninth for his 29th save in 33 chances.
Jonathan Lucroy drove in four runs and scored another for the Brewers. He doubled in two runs in the first and singled home two more in the seventh to give Milwaukee a 5-4 lead.
With the Brewers trailing 4-3, pinch-hitter Norichika Aoki greeted Buddy Boshers, who relieved to start the seventh, with a single off the glove of second baseman Grant Green. With one out, Scooter Gennett was hit by a pitch. Michael Kohn relieved and Jean Segura reached on a single off the glove of shortstop Erick Aybar to load the bases. Lucroy followed with a two-run single to right.
The Angels scored three runs on five singles in the third to erase a 2-0 deficit. J.B. Shuck singled and moved to third on a single by Aybar. Mike Trout squibbed an infield single to the right side, scoring Shuck. Kole Calhoun followed with an RBI single to right, scoring Aybar from second and sending Trout to third. Luis Jimenez's one-out single scored Trout to make it 3-2.
The Brewers tied it 3-all in the bottom half when Lucroy singled with two outs, stole second and Aramis Ramirez followed with a double down the right-field line. Chris Iannetta opened the fourth inning with his seventh home run, hammering a 1-0 pitch to left-center to put the Angels on top 4-3.
Lucroy's two-run double put the Brewers up 2-0 in the first. Gennett and Segura opened with consecutive singles and Lucroy followed with an opposite-field drive into the right-field corner.
NOTES: Hamilton was held out of the starting lineup for the second straight game with a sore shoulder. "He's a little better," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We'll see if he's available at some point to pinch-hit." ... The Angels' back-to-back shutouts of Tampa Bay on Thursday and Milwaukee on Friday were their first consecutive road shutouts since May 12-13, 1999, against the Yankees. ... Henderson had recorded a save in each of his last 12 appearances.


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Use Avatar Characters to Guide your Learners
Guest Blog by: Bryan Jones, author of the Assets eLearning Blog and President of eLearningArt.com, a stock photo site for the eLearning industry.
Introduction to Using Avatars
In my last post, I introduced the idea that characters can be used in a number of ways in your eLearning course. Now I'd like to start with the first example: eLearning avatars. An avatar is probably the most common use that I see in eLearning courses. Some common characteristics of an avatar in a course are that they:
- Are designed to guide a learner through the course
- Speak directly to the learner
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Home Decor, 1 Week to Go!
Thanksgiving is only a week away! Halloween seems like yesterday~
I just love pumpkins and I'll keep them as long as I can~
What is your upcoming holiday plan?
I keep things simple this time of year, and try not to stress out before all the holiday cheer
Between the Halloween goblins and the Christmas elves,
Keep things to a minimum, we need to rest ourselves!
We've stocked the bar
and the menu is done~
Pretty soon we'll start cooking, and that will be fun!
My son is going to brine the turkey with the recipe and instructions found here, on Big Green Joe a blog about cooking on a Big Green Egg ceramic cooker. Yep, that is the way we're rolling this year, turkey cooked on the Big Green Egg. Before cooking he is going to stuff it with lemons, oranges, onions, garlic and thyme.
I just happen to have some lemons! A special friend just gave us a bushel full! Look at the size of them!
Did you know you can freeze lemons? For more lemon uses click here~
For the side dishes HHjr and I chose 2 recipes that we experimented with this fall, and 2 recipes from our favorite Food Network stars, Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri.
Green Beans Clementine [there's lemon in this too!] is a light dish to balance out some of the heavier ones. It is also a cold or room temperature dish, which frees up precious room in your refrigerator and oven. You can also make this one day ahead! We are changing the pecans in this dish to almonds since the sweet potatoes have pecans in them.
The Squash Gratin is a yellow squash casserole that was adapted from the Blackberry Farms cookbook. It is made with grape tomatoes and Manchego Cheese…it might sound like a strange choice but it is sooooo good and it will balance so well with all the other dishes.
For the most important Stuffing or Dressing~what do you call it?~ we are relying on Food Network's super star, Bobby Flay. We chose his Sourdough, Wild Mushroom and Bacon Dressing.
Whiskey Glazed Sweet Potatoes from Guy Fieri finish the list of sides, it's your basic sweet potato casserole amped up a with a little flavor boost of whiskey
Dessert is actually being brought by my SIL so that will be something festive for sure~ and I don't know what it will be so I put 2 of my recent fall desserts on the menu in case you need some last minute ideas in that category~
Mini Pecan Pies with Chocolate
I recently tried a little larger version of these and they were extra tasty because they could hold more chocolate and pecans!
I tried making them in my mini bundt/pumpkin pan just for fun
Large or small you can't go wrong!
So, take a deep breath, the holidays have only just begun!
for a tutorial on making the Turkey Bottle Topper/Napkin ring click here
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Looks like a delicious Thanksgiving, Jenna.
We are going out to eat with our family Sunday. Granddaughter and grandson in law Xanti and Kyle will be in town from KC, Monday. The plan is to meet them for lunch next week. They have so many stops we decided to get together for Thanksgiving early. Lessens the stress for everyone, since family is scattered rural and city.
Sounds like a star studded menu! Wow, my mouth is watering with your side dishes. The side dishes are always my favorites and these all sound over the top. I also had no idea you could freeze lemons. These are such beauties!
I try to get everything (major) done in November so that I can enjoy all of the parties as business of December. I also read the book 20 years ago – Unplug the Christmas Machine and now I just do the things I choose to do – it really helped destress the holidays.
Enjoy your fabulous menu.
Thank you so much for all the lovely recipes. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
A fantastic menu, and I love how you have stocked and decorated the bar. The lemons stole the show too! I do freeze them. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I am trying not to panic since I've done very little for Thanksgiving yet but Monday I will be in full swing. Your menu sounds great. The guys do our turkey on the Green Egg also. I think we stuffed it with an apple, onion, thyme and I will be have to find the recipe for the other items.
Your pilgrims and turkey are so cute. Love your painted glasses in your bar.


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Monkey Island is one of those franchises that conjures up fond memories for just about anyone that played PC games in the 1990s. The adventures of Guybrush Threepwood were smart, funny, challenging, and gorgeous to look at, factors that have made them popular with adventure gamers, even though it's been nearly a decade since the last game was released. LucasArts has just announced something that has adventure game fans jumping for joy: not only is the original Monkey Island title being enhanced/re-released, but Telltale Games is working on a brand new series of episodic titles for the franchise.
First up, LucasArts confirmed rumors that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is set to be released for Xbox Live this summer; the game will not only feature enhanced graphics, but complete voice-acting, too, and a hint system will also be included. Meanwhile, Telltale is launching the new episodic Tales of Monkey Island for both the PC and WiiWare on July 7th. According to the Telltale Blog, Tales is set to be five episodes long, will feature an entirely new adventure for Guybrush and his friends, and is already available for pre-order.
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CAIRO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Egypt's government will delay by up to three months a rationing of subsidised fuel initially set for April as part of austerity measures to secure a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, its oil minister said on Tuesday.
The quotas, to be implemented through a system of smart cards allowing drivers a limited amount of subsidised fuel, were due to start in April, just as the country is set to hold parliamentary elections.
"The usage of smart cards for petroleum products will be implemented in the period between April and July," Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Osama Kamal told reporters on the sidelines of an industry event.
The Islamist-led administration that took office in July vowed to push through a reform of subsidies, which swallow as much as a quarter of the state budget, to lower its deficit but is reluctant to hurt voters.
It eliminated subsidies on 95-octane gasoline, the highest grade available, late last year, prompting many motorists to switch to subsidised lower-octane fuel.
Egypt, which has endured two years of political instability since the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak, reached a preliminary agreement with the IMF in November for the $4.8 billion loan to support its struggling economy.
Cutting the deficit is a condition to secure the loan. But the government is still considering steps to curb spending on fuel subsidies as well as changes to the tax system that would target the wealthy.
The finance minister said late last month that the government would complete a revised economic reform plan and invite the IMF to visit Egypt soon, but no date has been set and the country's foreign reserves are dwindling.
Government subsidies for energy products for the first half of the financial year (2012-2013) cost around 55 billion Egyptian pounds ($8.19 billion).
Kamal said he expects the cost of energy subsidies for the full year to rise by 5 percent to 120 billion pounds from 115 pounds last year. ($1 = 6.7141 Egyptian pounds) (Reporting by Asma Alsharif; Editing by Paul Taylor and Tom Pfeiffer)


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"Jew in the City" creator coming to Northbrook Theatre
Allison Josephs, whose "Jew in the City" YouTube videos have garnered more than 1 million views, is making her first Chicago area appearance Sunday, July 21, at Northbrook Theatre.
Josephs, who is known for her use of humor in dispelling stereotypes about religious Jews, said she had an "aha" moment about seven years ago inspired by "lonelygirl15," which appeared to be a teenager's video blog, but was outed in 2006 as a fictional scripted show, attracting worldwide attention and changing views of what was possible on YouTube.
"I jumped on the YouTube train pretty early on," she said.
Orthodox Jews are "doing the worst job of PR" based on the view of them as "backward, repressed, outdated, sexist, and anti-scientific," she said. "I feel like it is my responsibility to at least put the information out there. People do with it what they will."
She said she has been amazed at the reach of her work. For example, she began corresponding by email with a person in Scotland who saw her videos but had no local access to a deeper understanding of Judaism, and was able to put her in touch with sources who could help her develop her faith. It has changed that person's life, she said.
Josephs said she grew up in a comfortable, nonreligious household, with a father who was a doctor and had a second home in the mountains. She was thrown into existential crisis at age 8 when a girl a grade above her was murdered by her own father.
She began asking questions about death and the meaning of life and her family had no guidance to give. Eventually, she found her answers in Orthodox Judaism.
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There is no doubt we enjoy using our smartphones, iPads or even any other mobile device for a variety of motives and aspirations.
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When it comes to entertainment, Smartphones are the best way to transform our boring time into charming and delightful moments. But if we want to celebrate our night party with a big cinematic screen, things get a little bit interesting.
Though one may go through several data cable connections and endless efforts to synchronize their smartphone contents with the TV sets or LCDs, the end result is a bulk of countless cords and cables with poor performance and shortcoming output.
To tackle this complications, Chromecast is the best option. It help us to connect out mobile devices with the television screens without any difficulty or inconvenience and provide us to access a variety of multimedia contents through our mobile devices.
And then of course not without popular apps for Android Showbox. The more popular the application becomes, becomes the more ways of using it.
Such as: Download Showbox for IPhone and iPad, Showbox for Mac or Run ShowBox on your PC. Therefore, and not without Showbox to chromecast. This option (Showbox to chromecast) we consider
What is Chromecast?
Chromecast is a portable thumb-sized media streaming device that helps us to connect our TV, LCDs or any bigger screens with Android Phones, iPad, iPhone, Windows, Chromebook or laptops to enjoy favorite entertainment collections and apps right at our fingertips. It is a portable streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port of the TV devices.
The digital media device was developed and initiated by Google, Inc. as a HDMI dongle that can run multimedia contents on HD televisions and bigger screens or can display directly by streaming via Wi-Fi network.
Users may select the desired media content by means of mobile apps and web apps that are supported by Google cast technology.
Showbox to Chromecast: How to Stream Showbox to TV devices via Chromecast?
Showbox to Chromecast can be demonstrated by updating the latest version of Showbox that no longer requires MX player to play multimedia contents.
Users may download AllCast app via Google play store, Android market stores or ITunes to send photos, music and videos on the Android devices to Chromecast. AllCast connects the android users to various devices including Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Xbox 360, Xbox one, Roku, WDTV , Samsung, Sony as well as Panasonic Smart TVs. The instructions given below may help the users to connect their Android phones to Chromecast.
- Uninstall MX player from the manage apps.
- Turn on installation of applications from "Unknown sources" in the security options.
- Download and Install Showbox via APK file form web stores.
- Download and Install AllCast from Google play store or ITunes for Mac, iPhone or iPad.
- Choose the desired movie content from Showbox and open it via AllCast.
- After the app begin to search for the players, select ChromeCast to connect it to the Television screen.
By following these instructions, users may connect their HD television screens via Smartphones to enjoy a wide range of multimedia content at their fingertips.
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Jayjay Zifanwe and I are heading up a new project called the LEA Full sim art series. The details are below but essentially you will receive a full sim for one month. It will be up to you when to open your exhibit, if for example you have built much of the work off site and need only set it up then you could have close to a month for the showing. If you are building fresh then it will come down to how fast you can get it done in time for an opening. So as it says below send us a 100 word explanation of what you wish to do by the 10th of September.
The LEA FULL SIM ART SERIES, will initially run for 6 months, starting
1st October 2011, and ending on the 31st of March 2012. All artists in
SL will be able to apply to have a FULL SIM art show, and the closing
date for applications is the 10th of September (we would be keen to
highlight those whose works have not had the opportunity to have been
shown on such a scale before)
What you get:
1) The FULL SIM to use inclusive of the media and UP TO 15,000 prims (you dont have to use all)
2) The SIM will be given to the artist on the 1st day of the month
3) When to launch the show will be up to the artist
4) Shows will end on the final day of the month, and the next artist
will receive use of the SIM from the 1st day of the next month
5) An article on the LEA Blog, UWA Blog, Bryn Oh's blog, Second Life arts and entertainment, the Virtual Outworlding Blog and the ToxxNews Website
will appear at the start of the show, or during the show (if other
blogs confirm they will cover it, they will be officially added to this
How to Apply:
1) Send a NC to both Jayjay Zifanwe and Bryn Oh with a 100 word description of what your plan for the full sim artwork is.
2) Include in the NC, the names of anyone who might be working with you on the FULL SIM creation
3) Indicate on the NC which month you prefer, Oct 2011, Nov 2011, Dec
2011, Jan 2012, Feb 2012, Mar 2012 (1st, 2nd, 3rd preference)
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Recently Glyph Graves created a really neat build in Second Life using Kinect to chart his real life face into prims within SL. In the process of seeing his work I came across this video of someone using kinect in a similar manner for the game Minecraft. It should be noted that this person was not hampered by an internet connection or server so he is basically working off the processing power of his own computer, whereby doing the same in SL is quite another story. I played Minecraft for a day until I dug myself into a very deep hole and was daunted by the huge amount of effort it was going to take me to climb out again. But what's impressive about this it recognizes the colours of his shirt and look at the speed that is builds him juggling or his cat playing. I just had to post it.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
some thoughts..
I know there is alot of excitement about the coming implementation of mesh and I look forward to making more detailed works in SL too. However it is very important that we understand mesh will not nor should not push out the use of prims nor sculpts. The fox you see here is a total of 7 prims. If it were done in mesh it would likely rise to around 500 prims because currently the size of your work as a mesh varies the amount of prims they will cost. The benefit in making this fox worth only 7 prims while being on megaprims is a huge benefit over mesh at the moment. So lets keep that in our arsenal of tools when building. But a sculpts overall value will diminish greatly if they end up looking like blobs to the vast majority of users. Because you buy a large nail doesn't mean you should throw away all your little nails and screws.
Another thing to consider about sculpts is that a huge portion of the economy from fashion to furniture is now based off of sculpts. People will not like the idea of replacing items because things suddenly start looking less appealing. As well many of the artworks in Second Life will suffer the same problem.
On phoenix viewer, in the bottom right, is a scalable tool to rise or lower LOD. It's not hard to find and easy to change. On viewer 2 and Firestorm I have yet to find where to adjust the LOD setting and I am an experienced user. A new user will never find the LOD setting before they determine whether they wish to stay or not. I spoke to Jessica Lyon (Phoenix/Firestorm viewers) the other day about this and they will be increasing LOD to 2 or 2.5 for the next update, but a similar attempt to speak to Torley Linden has not been successful. Thing is I have no idea who to contact about this at Linden Lab so that is why I am writing this post. Also while I am at it please add the multitude of windlights to Viewer 2 and revert the way we adjust windlights back to how they originally were. Right now I can't edit any default windlights even slightly which is a huge problem for machinimatographers. Sometimes you just need to lighten a windlight or make a minor change which takes seconds but unfortunately now you must create a whole new windlight.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Anna's Many Murders book
Oh and the preview shows only 15 pages. It is 42 pages.
I made a physical book for Anna's Many Murders so I can read it to my brothers little daughter at night.... oh wait that's a terrible idea she will have nightmares. Oh well too late I have already ordered them one. One huge benefit in being an artist is you can do inappropriate things and people just shrug it off saying "oh they are just an artist..." However if you do the same thing as a Lawyer people will exclaim "what on earth were they thinking!??" One huge benefit in being a Lawyer though is that these unjust comments just make you cry into your pile of money.
People have been asking for Anna's to be made into a book and so here it is. And for those of you who have been asking for the full Rabbicorn story be made into one book then you will be pleased to know that I have begun to work on that as well. So hopefully it will be finished within a few months. I know I said that a few months ago but this time it really has a chance of being a true statement.
Really though I make these books for myself. Anna's was three months to create and was exhibited for two months then it fades off into my inventory. Machinima and books like these are a nice way for me to keep a record of things I have done. It is the transient nature of virtual worlds I suppose, things come and go. I was speaking to a person the other day who was telling me of the greatest sims to go see. They were very enthusiastic which is great, but were unaware of builds from the past such as Greenies or Black Swan. It's funny but I imagine that if the original Greenies (not the heavily marketed version at the end) were to suddenly be plopped back into Second Life it would be seen as a brand new build and again become a very popular destination for explorers. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it was a room on such as massive scale that avatars became mouse sized. The theme inside was that some little green aliens arrived and were exploring the kitchen and living room. You can see it on one my crappy early machinima from back in 2009 if you like Greenies
Monday, August 1, 2011
Annas Many Murders machinima
Unfortunately the patron who had supplied me with a sim to build Annas Many Murders had come into hard times a few months ago when Annas opened and I took over paying for the sim. I can not afford to rent the sim any longer. So the build will come down in a week or so. I am happy to have gotten this machinima done though.
This is the SLURL is you wish to see it before it goes. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bryn%20Oh/67/208/186
The machinima can be shown full screen as it is HD. Should be a button somewhere to do that.
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Fun Books and Activities for October
Need some quick ideas to make October a cool month of reading? Look no further! I've got a few for you right here!
Monster fun with Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Make your own books and story pieces of The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything.
Enjoy the beautiful weather with some autumn reading adventures and Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf.
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The Turner Prize-nominated work is one of the landmarks of the Young British Artist movement that shook up the art world in the 1990s.
It goes under the on hammer on Tuesday, with an estimated price of 800,000 pounds to 1.2 million pounds ($1.3 million to $2 million).
The work is being sold by collector Charles Saatchi, who was instrumental in promoting the careers of Emin, Damien Hirst and other 'YBAs.' They were renowned for their unorthodox approach and nontraditional materials, from Hirst's pickled sharks to Emin's confessional assemblages.
Emin, 50, mined her tumultuous personal life for some of her best-known works, including 'My Bed' and an appliqued tent entitled 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With.'
'My Bed' was made after a period of severe depression triggered by a relationship split. The artist said Friday that seeing it on display at the auction house was 'surreal.'
'Every time I'm near the bed or install the bed I get flashbacks and recollections of when I first saw the bed, which was in my bedroom and that was 16 years ago,' she said.
'I can't really, still, come to the reality of the situation that it's moved and come so far.'
'I just hope it goes to a nice place. It's helped me a lot.'
Christie's contemporary art specialist Francis Outred said the bed was among the most important British 20th-century artworks because it 'transformed the way the general public engage with contemporary art.'
When it was first exhibited in 1998, the bed provoked both praise and disgust and prompted two guerrilla artists to stage a pillow fight among the sheets.


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Maryland health officials may ask state lawmakers for permission to oversee plastic surgery centers, a move inspired in part by the death of a Lochearn woman after liposuction.
The state health department had already been considering whether to ask for a change to the legal definition of free-standing surgery centers to align regulations with medical risk instead of insurance billing practices, Secretary Joshua Sharfstein said. Surgical centers currently are subject to state inspection only if they meet certain criteria in how they bill insurance companies, he said.
The issue became a priority after three liposuction patients at Monarch Medspa in Timonium came down with aggressive infections, prompting health officials to temporarily close the facility Wednesday, he said. One of the patients died Monday.
"There's an unevenness, in a sense, to the level of regulation that applies," Sharfstein said. "Something like this makes us more interested in exploring this issue."
The department plans to seek public input before making any recommendations to the General Assembly.
While doctors and nurses who perform plastic surgery must be board-certified, the facilities where the procedures are performed are not always subject to inspection and other oversight. Insurance companies and the federal government require most surgical centers to meet standards of safety and infection prevention, but many plastic surgery centers deal with patients who pay out of their own pockets.
The three patients who underwent liposuction at the Timonium facility within the past month contracted infections of a bacteria known as group A staphylococcus, the state health department said. The bacteria is the same one that causes strep throat and other common illnesses but is rarer and more dangerous when infecting the skin and other body parts. The state said its inspectors observed "probable deviations from standard infection control practices" at the center.
Health officials began considering updates to surgical center regulations this spring during a review of abortion clinic oversight, Sharfstein said. Some public comments on that issue questioned why officials were looking at abortion clinics when there are other unregulated facilities performing different but equally risky medical procedures, he said.
While a state law specifically permits health officials to regulate abortion clinics, when it comes to other types of surgical centers, the code isn't as clear, Sharfstein said. That is why officials would need permission from the legislature.
State law defines what is called an "ambulatory surgical center" as a facility that performs outpatient procedures and "seeks reimbursement from payors as an ambulatory surgery center." Similar facilities where individual doctors send out the bills fall outside the scope of the legislation, Sharfstein said.
Some plastic surgery centers fall outside those regulations because they bill patients directly, but others may seek licensing or accreditation voluntarily, said Andrea Hyatt, administrator of Dulaney Eye Institute in Towson and president of the Maryland Ambulatory Surgery Association.
A state law passed in 2010 added some state oversight of plastic surgeons, but it did not address the surgery centers themselves. Under the law, the state Board of Physicians can discipline doctors who perform certain cosmetic procedures in unlicensed or unaccredited facilities. The law does not apply to liposuction procedures in which less than 1,000 cubic centimeters of fat are removed, or any procedures in which only local anesthesia is administered.
Monarch is not among the certified ambulatory surgical centers listed by the Maryland Health Care Commission and does not list any accreditations on its website. Company officials said Thursday that they did not have further comment. In a statement Wednesday they called the infections "a new development" and said they are working with health inspectors to investigate the source.
Accrediting organizations typically inspect facilities every two to three years to review safety and infection control procedures, said Dr. Salvatore DiMercurio, a Hagerstown plastic surgeon who is president of the John Staige Davis Society of the Plastic Surgeons of Maryland. That includes, for example, requirements to have emergency materials and medications in case of infections, and to throw away medications when they expire, DiMercurio said.
"If you don't have a governing body saying, 'I'm sorry, you need to throw this out and keep buying it,' you can cut some corners," DiMercurio said.
Del. Kirill Reznik, a Montgomery County Democrat who was the lead sponsor of the 2010 legislation, called discussions about oversight of plastic surgery centers worthwhile, but challenging.
"If we go down this path and we open that can of worms, we may delve into some areas that are going to be incredibly bureaucratic and may not provide any real change in terms of patient outcome," Reznik said.
Dr. Craig Vander Kolk, a plastic surgeon at Mercy Medical Center, said many plastic surgery patients may be attracted to facilities that only perform with local anesthesia because it seems safer than general anesthesia. But often, it can be riskier to undergo procedures in doctors' offices or operating rooms that haven't been accredited, he said.
Hyatt said she encourages patients to seek out information on centers' accreditations and licenses before undergoing any invasive procedures.
"Patients should feel free to ask," she said. "If you don't see it in the waiting room, you need to be asking questions."
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Well, If you look at the enthusiasm that I followed up the "I'm sorry" post below you'll realize that my updating this blog is pretty much over. I had a great time writing and running this blog. I hope you had a great time reading it. I'll echo what I said in the last post about how I keep tabs on the hogs. The Razorbloggers and Expats are a great resource.
The thing that's new, and has kind of replaced my posting here, is Twitter. I've found that during the baseball season several Twitterers keep people up to date inning by inning. So if you're interested the people that I follow in regards to the Hogs and the SEC are…
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It's a snowy day here in Kansas City, but that didn't stop me from making a visit this morning to Woodside Health & Tennis Club in Westwood, KS (a suburb of Kansas City). Ten years ago, I lived near the facility, but when I drove by, I always thought of it as a country club with tennis courts. Boy was I wrong!
Christopher Bell, general manager, was kind enough to take more than an hour out of his day to show me around. The facility is a bit unusual in that it is housed in two buildings that are across the street from each other. The north building has been renovated into what reminded me of a zen-like ski lodge. Lots of windows, natural wood and stone with a gorgeous stone fireplace in the restaurant/cafe area near the front desk. Maybe it was the snow outside, but as we sat near the fireplace at the end of the visit, I felt like I should have been carrying skis and drinking a hot chocolate.
The north building not only houses the restaurant, but it also includes a cardio area that used to be a Pilates room, a weight area, a spa, a chiropractic service, locker rooms with lounges and flat-screen TVs, a small indoor pool, a sauna, a steam room and three outdoor pools plus several outdoor tennis courts.
The south building is still being renovated. It houses the spin room, some group fitness rooms, a Pilates area, a walking track and cardio/weight areas, a child care area plus some indoor and outdoor tennis courts.
With the higher-end look of the facility has also come a move into the wellness area (hence, the spa and chiropractic business). They hired a wellness director and offer lectures every month or so on healthy living topics.
My visit was definitely a treat and worth the time. Now, if only I still lived a few blocks away. I'd be tempted to switch my membership--and for more reasons than just being able to sip hot chocolate by that fireplace. - Pam


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East and Central Africa's largest economy is on the growth track as Ethiopia's GDP is expected to increase from US$ 84 billion in 2018 to US$ 91 billion in 2019 and US$ 99 billion in 2020. Ethiopia's GDP has thus grown more than tenfold between 2000 (US$ 8 billion) and 2018 and would grow more than twelvefold by 2020. (World Bank) As a result, Ethiopia became one of the world's fastest-growing economies and an impressive investment destination in Africa.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Carmelo Anthony was recovering from an injury for New York, and Detroit's top two big men were also out.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Carmelo Anthony was recovering from an injury for New York, and Detroit's top two big men were also out.
The Knicks were ready to be aggressive, but the initial result was ugly — 11 turnovers in the first quarter.
"Sometimes you can try to over-attack," guard Raymond Felton said. "Sometimes you've got to take what the defense gives you no matter who's playing."
The Knicks settled down after that sloppy start, and although they relied more than expected on their outside shooting, they eventually pulled away in the fourth quarter for an 87-77 victory Wednesday night.
Felton scored 26 points, and New York went on a 16-0 run in the fourth to put away the game.
Anthony sat out after injuring his right knee Monday. The Pistons were without big man Greg Monroe, who has a sore left ankle, and Detroit coach Lawrence Frank missed the game because of a personal matter.
The Pistons have also been without 6-foot-11 rookie Andre Drummond, who has a stress fracture in his back.
"I told our guys after the game that I have nothing negative to say," said Detroit assistant Brian Hill, who filled in for Frank. "I thought we played some difficult lineups out there tonight. I thought they gave us every ounce of energy that they could possibly give us."
The Knicks overcame their early turnovers and led 44-38 at the half. Brandon Knight scored 17 points for the Pistons and led a third-quarter rally, but Detroit managed only 12 points in the fourth.
The Knicks have won five of six heading into Thursday's home game against Oklahoma City.
"Melo is a big piece of our ballclub and we have had games this year where he missed and we have been successful," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "That is the sign of a true team, a team that is willing to step up and make plays and win regardless of who is in uniform."
Amare Stoudemire took advantage of Detroit's depleted interior, scoring 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting, but Tyson Chandler scored only two points.
New York ended up taking 35 shots from 3-point range against the undermanned Pistons, making 13.
The Knicks trailed 73-71 when they went on their decisive run, which included two 3-pointers by J.R. Smith, one by Jason Kidd and another by Felton to cap it.
Smith scored 20 points.
Detroit's Jose Calderon had 10 points and 16 assists.
Hill joked before the game that he might need a blindfold and a cigarette because of the difficult task ahead. The Pistons trailed by 15 in the second quarter before a mild rally before halftime.
"It just happens throughout the season, when guys go out with injuries," Knight said. "It made it a little bit tougher as far as trying to find a flow for our team, but I think we did a good job just playing the game and figuring it out."
Detroit controlled the start of the third as well. Knight scored 11 of his team's 13 points in one stretch and gave the Pistons a 65-55 lead when he made a 3-pointer with 2:44 left, but Detroit didn't score for the rest of the quarter.
Felton scored the last seven points of the period to tie it at 65.
The Knicks also scored the first six points of the fourth, but Detroit answered with eight in a row and took a 73-71 lead on two free throws by Rodney Stuckey.
"The game of basketball is about runs," Felton said. "Those guys put up a good fight. They started hitting some shots, making plays, getting defensive stops, but we reversed it at the end of the third in the last five or six minutes and then in the fourth."


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One thing we've noticed during the past campaign is that Barbara Boxer, by all appearances, has had work done. We knew that long ago with Arnold. No apologies necessary.
The state they represent is the cosmetic surgery capital of the world. A little 'nip tuck' is a very personal way for politicians and Hollywood types to stimulate the state's economy and bond with their constituents. But plastic surgery will not eliminate a fundamental concern for the leadership of the state Democratic Party. It's getting old.
The "new" governor? He's 72. Dianne Feinstein? She's 77. Boxer turned 70 this month. Nancy Pelosi is 70 and state Treasurer Bill Locker is 69. Even the chairman of the state party John Burton is 77.
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All of them have had such long and successful careers that there has much attention paid to building a farm team. Until now. And that is why what is happening at the registrar's office this week in California's 58 counties is so important.
While it was wise to talk the young and urbane San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom into using the Lt. Governor's job as a "place holder" what Democrats desperately need now is to win the race for Attorney General. Kamala Harris has a slight lead that will probably hold. The largest counties that are still sorting, validating and counting leftover provisional and late absentee ballots from election day went for Harris by serious margins. . The LA County Registrar of Voters office will update its numbers today and that will be bad news for Steve Cooley.
What kind of AG Harris will make is anybody's guess. But here is what we know: She is bright, attractive articulate and African American. She is also personable and a polished public speaker. A few might think of her as a female Obama. She actually might be better than that.
Which is one reason why the national GOP spent over a million dollars trying to defeat her. Easier to stop her in the down ballot race than later when she's running for Senate.
Harris will make an interesting foil for Newsom and Controller John Chaing down the road when the three will be jockeying for advancement four years from now. Assuming the current line-up decides to step aside.


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Christine Janis wrote:...(Mark you, if a single cell can *develop* into a complex multicelllar organism, then surely one can, over time, *evolve* into one?)
Your claim is not supported by genetics. A fertilised egg develops into a human because it is programmed with genetic information that determines the phenotype, whereas bacteria will remain bacteria because they do not have the genetic information to transform themselves into anything else. As I said before, you don't have any good arguments so you need to resort to nonsense arguments such as this.
Your attempt to provide an evolutionary explanation for the diaphragm, by cutting and pasting from someone else, fails miserably:
Christine Janis wrote:"...The diaphragm is important in lung ventilation, especially at high levels of activity. The diaphragm forms at the level of the thoraco-lumbar boundary, and the loss of lumbar ribs in cynodonts has long been thought to herald its evolutionary appearance. Many vertebrates have a transverse septum within their peritoneal cavity* that separates the lungs from the viscera, and stabilizes the viscera. The mammalian diaphragm is basically a muscularization of this septum, as can be seen in mammalian development. The muscles of the diaphragm share a common developmental origin with the muscles of the forelimb."
The scenario described (cut and pasted) will not work for many reasons. How were the alveoli in the lungs performing ventilation and perfusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide while the diaphragm was supposedly evolving over eons of time? What evolved first, the diaphragm or the neural innervations of the diaphragm?! As I mentioned earlier (and you did not answer), a partially evolved diaphragm will not function correctly and will result in respiratory failure and death. The forelimb muscles are controlled by motor neurons, whereas the diaphragm requires autonomic innervations to function. The basic rhythm of respiration is controlled by the respiratory centre in the brain stem. According to evolution, the respiratory centre of the brain could not have evolved for any plan or purpose, yet the respiratory centre performs the crucial purpose of regulating breathing. What irrational nonsense evolution is. The scenario you describe reveals a woeful misunderstanding of anatomy and physiology, and pathophysiology. Respiration won't function, which will result in death. My statements above are based on real science, unlike your cut and pasted, fictitious scenario.


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Warde girls 10th in CIAC Golf Championships
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Playing her first hole of the day, the second toughest hole on the course, Greenwich's Catherine McEvoy stumbled out of the gate with a double bogey. It was the last mistake she made.
McEvoy, a sophomore, ended up making six birdies, including five on the back nine, to finish with a terrific 2-under-par 72 to capture individual medalist honors and help propel the Cardinals to their first CIAC girls golf state championship Tuesday at Orange Hills Country Club in Orange.
Greenwich finished with a team total score of 335, the lowest score shot by a winning team, beating Berlin's 348 set in 2012. McEvoy set a state record for the lowest individual score, beating Westhill's Allison Oakes, who had the previous record of 77 set in 2008.
Fairfield Warde finished 10th as a team.
"I think I'm still kind of in shock. I'm so thrilled for them. They never cease to surprise me," said Greenwich head coach Marie Shimchick, whose team also won the FCIAC crown last week at Fairchild Wheeler. "To set records in both the individual and team scores is just phenomenal.
"It feels great to have a CIAC title. We have a couple of titles from when we were in the Connecticut Girls Golf League. The last one we had there was from 1988 so it's wonderful to have a CIAC title and bring a state title back to the FCIAC."
Greenwich won by a lofty nine shots over runner-up Berlin (346), which saw its string of three straight CIAC titles snapped. Staples, which was ranked first in the state by the CIAC for much of the season, finished third with a 355 team score.
"Frankly, the girls did a great job this year," said Berlin head coach Jim Barnes. "We lost our two senior co-captains (including last year's individual medalist Julia Kemmling) and I had two sophomores and a junior that had to fill in. We shot 346, that's a great score. But when you have a young lady that throws a 72 at you, that's a little tough to overcome. Greenwich has a great team, Marie's a great coach. We'll be back next year."
Among the region's teams that participated in the tournament, Danbury (378) finished tied for fifth, Darien (398) finished ninth, Warde (401) placed 10th, Ridgefield (409) tied for 12th, and Trumbull (440) finished 16th. Individually, after McEvoy's 72, Hand's Gabrielle Martin and E.O. Smith's Karina Larson shot 4-over 78s and Greenwich junior Alexandra Sazhin, Avon's Marissa Grillo and Ridgefield's Rachel Corry all shot 6-over 80s.
But it was McEvoy, with her best round of the season, who stole the show. Starting shotgun-style on the 446-yard, par-5 18th, McEvoy could only manage a 7 before starting to right the ship with a birdie at the 406-yard, par-5 fourth. That bird let her finish the front nine at 1-under, and then she really turned on her game, birdieing four of her next five holes (10, 11, 13 and 14) and adding a final bird at the par-5, 391-yard 17th.
"I hit the ball really well," McEvoy said. "I hit a lot of greens in regulation and I knew that coming in here, if I managed to not three-putt a lot, I'd be able to shoot a good number, and I think I only three-putted once. I definitely made a lot of putts, but it helped that I was able to get off the tee and be in good position. I was hitting my irons well into the greens."
Greenwich also got rounds of 90 from Kendyl Nethercott and 93 from Pamela Jennemyr to round out its top four scorers. Staples got rounds of 83 from Faith Garcia, 85 from Anelise Brown, 91 from Mary Bennewitz and 96 from Marie McHugh. Danbury was led by Katelyn Mooney (88), Liz Pena (96), Danielle Polinchock (96) and Faith Mancuso (98).
For Warde, it was Sarah Vimini (94), Kathleena Inchoco (100), Bailey Cooke (102) and Nadia Caputo (105).
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CIAC girls golf championship at Orange Hills CC
Team scores: 1. Greenwich 335, 2. Berlin 346, 3. Staples 355, 4. Avon 368, 5. Danbury 378, 5. Farmington 378, 7. Simsbury 383, 8. Glastonbury 394, 9. Darien 398, 10. Fairfield Warde 401, 11. Hand 403, 12. Hall 409, 12. Ridgefield 409, 14. Manchester 413, 15. East Catholic 436, 16. Trumbull 440.
Individual results from regional teams
Greenwich: Catherine McEvoy (72, first), Alexandra Sazhin (80, tied fourth), Kendyl Nethercott (90, tied 17th), Pamela Jennemyr (93, tied 23rd), Mana Fujiwara (109, tied 65th); Staples: Faith Garcia (83, seventh), Anelise Browne (85, tied 11th), Mary Bennewitz (91, tied 21st), Marie McHugh (96, tied 33rd), Alexandra McMahon (99, tied 40th); Danbury: Katelyn Mooney (88, 16th), Liz Pena (96, tied 33rd), Danielle Polinchock (96, tied 33rd), Faith Mancuso (98, tied 36th), Andrea Stock (109, tied 65th); Darien: Juliana Lee (90, tied 17th), Amanda Sload (93, tied 23rd), Margot Sweeney (107, tied 57th), Megan Whittier (108, tied 60th), Bridget Wolters (115, 73rd); Warde: Sarah Vimini (94, tied 27th), Kathleena Inchoco (100, tied 43rd), Bailey Cooke (102, tied 49th), Nadia Caputo (105, tied 52nd), Kaleigh Townsend (114, tied 70th); Ridgefield: Rachel Corry (80, tied fourth), Casey Snow (107, tied 57th), Lauren Kudera (108, tied 60th), Lily Damron (114, tied 70th), Lily gold (116, 74th); Trumbull: Alexa Brown (94, tied 27th), Christina Lane (106, tied 55th), Hailey Pekera (118, tied 76th), Madison Thompson (112, tied 79th), Carly Netting (141, 84th).
Competiting as an individual: Joy Essaghof (Weston, 91, tied 21st).


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