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BY RANIA HABIB Gone are the days of complex technical equipment that filmmakers had to lug around for hours to shoot a single scene. Today, even a Flip camera can accompany a director throughout his shoot. The relative technical simplicity of filmmaking will bring projects to completion; but where do these films go once they're done and dusted? At the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), they'll go to Filmmart – the meeting point for industry professionals and those who will buy and sell their films. 'Since its launch in 2008, Filmmart has fielded more than 750 films, documentaries and shorts and ... read more
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Last week General Electric reiterated for the second time that it will continue paying out a quarterly dividend of $0.31/share in 2009. GE is going thought a difficult transition, as it is trying to deleverage and decrease the profit contribution of its GE Capital unit from 50% to 40%. Furthermore the company is also trying to maintain its triple A rating and to keep its dividend safe.
With GE's earnings expected to be around $0.50 in 4Q 2008, the earnings per share for 2008 in total comes out to $1.88-$1.90. If the dividend is maintained at $1.24, then the payout ratio will climb to its highest levels since 2005. The deleveraging factor of 6, is a result of the company lower outstanding commercial paper balance to $50 billion from $75billion. Furthermore GE now plans to issue about $45 billion in long-term debt next year, which is less than the $66 billion it has maturing. The company received $3billion in funding from Warren Buffett and $12.2 billion from sales of common stock.
Due to the decrease in leverage it seems that the new GE that will emerge after the financial crisis is over will be different. I doubt that the new GE will be able to grow its earnings in the double digits, assuming that its leverage is lower, which allows for less flexibility to fund projects that make profit for shareholders. Furthermore given the fact that the dividend costs about $13 billion annually, I see an increased chance of a dividend cut. Just because the company reaffirms that it won't cut its dividends, doesn't really mean that it won't do it two months later. Citigroup(C) and Bank of America (BAC)were two noticeable companies, whose CEO's claimed that their dividends were safe, only to reduce them several months after those statements.
If GE doesn't cut its dividends keep holding shares of the company, without adding any new funds to the position would be a good move. If General Electric does cut its dividends however, the wise decision would be to allocate your funds in other opportunities.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Is GE's dividend safe?
Last week General Electric reiterated for the second time that it will continue paying out a quarterly dividend of $0.31/share in 2009. GE is going thought a difficult transition, as it is trying to deleverage and decrease the profit contribution of its GE Capital unit from 50% to 40%. Furthermore the company is also trying to maintain its triple A rating and to keep its dividend safe.
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I hope GE is able to maintain its dividend or at least that its stock price recovers before they cut it. I bought GE because it is a Dividend Aristocrat but it looks like their days as one might not be much longer.ReplyDelete
I will be glad if GE just maintains its dividend. In other news have you looked into utilities and MLPs for current income?
Thanks for writing about the GE dividend situation. I have as of recently been thinking about taking a stake in GE for a verity of reasons, most importantly the dividend, but haven't moved yet. I keep replaying a quote in my head, I think its from Warren Buffett "Buying a stock for its dividend is like getting married for the sex. What happens when the sex stops?"ReplyDelete
GE is solid company and I believe it will move away from alot of this risky stuff its been doing. The Dividends will be cut there is no question about that. Without all the financials, it will be very hard to maintainReplyDelete
DGI- I might add a utility or two too my portfolio eventually. I've heard the taxes for MLPs were really complicated. I have to do more research on that before I buy any. I'm not that worried about current income. I'm looking more for growing dividends for the rest of my portfolio.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the analysis on GE. I think they will eventually make the cut in 2009. As you mentioned, just like BAC did.ReplyDelete
As a GE holder, I would love it if the kept the dividend unchanged. I won't sell until a cut is made official. However I won't add any new money to my GE position either.
If it stops, you have to move on and find a new partner/investment :-)
Have you considered KMR, which holds KMP stock. KMR pays your dividend in partial shares, so you don't have to pay taxes until you sell.
I hope I am wrong on GE. But if I am not, then I am sure there are many other companies that will be able to increase their dividends even in this tough environment.
I still hold some shares of GE as well. Given today's news of a possible ratings downgrade I am not sure how safe the dividend is over the next year. They really need to sell off some of their divisions.ReplyDelete
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Batum's agent spun a lot of media press getting Nic the best deal and it worked. Batum said he knew he'd be back in Portland but any savvy businesman would maximize profits for his client while the opportunity was there. Neil Olshey sat down with Nic when we matched and said he'd been in contact with Batum through the process and the whole thing was publicly embarrassing to Nic. Nic's agent did what he's paid to do and if the Blazers didn't match, Nic wanted to play for a good coach. At that point the Blazers didn't have a coach if you remember correctly. Seeing as how it was possible for the Blazers not to match the Wolves offer, Nic was showing optimism if the change happened. It wasn't all in Nic's hands to make a choice because he was restricted. Big difference from choosing a team as a free agent. None of the current players have complained their way out of Portland. I don't think your 50% stat on Nics health is even close to accurate.
yea I guess that article about the whole conversation niel olshey had with nic was only read by me and you lol
Posted 05/10/2013 2:37 PM
I read it and as I said, he was covering his ass and was doing the Michael Jackson Moonwalk.
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Posted 05/10/2013 8:04 PM
Maniac your starting to just sound vindictive rather than justified. Nics toughness, consistency and huge contract can be call into question as can his ball handling and aggression on offense but your just flat out attacking Batum the person reel it in man.
Posted 05/10/2013 9:52 PM
Cmeesee47 - Thank you for speaking sense to me. Sometimes I get so passionate about this team; I can tend to go off the deep end. I apologize to all whom I offended.
Bottom line, I wish we could but Wes's heart and desire in Batum's body. Then Batum would be unstoppable.
I hate it when I see players who have God Given Talents like Batum and he does not use them to his fullest ability.
Wes has probably 40% less the talent that Nico does. But who shows up to play every night with determination and heart. Not Nico, but Wes.
Riverman, let me clarify to you, I do not hate the guy. I do hate the way he wastes his talent and hurts the team. Secondly, I hate his inconsistent play and his disappearing acts. Finally, to clarify my statement above, if you took it as derogatory that was not my intent, just making a frank observation about his behavior last summer and the fact that he point blank said (not his agent) that he did not want to play in Portland. Then, this is a fact, that after Portland matched the offer sheet, he changed his mind and all of a sudden he wanted to play for Portland.
Look, I look at facts and his history, not his potential. We have been waiting for his potential now for 5 Full Years. I gave him grace on his first year and he really was a bad player. I laid out today that in the last four years he has lost 1/3 of his games either where he was out with an injury, or where he played in a diminished capacity because he had an injury. Then you factor the games where he was mentally checked out or disappeared all together and that gets you to the 40% or so of his games in the last four years where he was useless to the team.
So the question is, do we wait for his potential, or use the entire NBA free world who says he is a great player and use that free advertising to leverage a good trade for him?
I think this is the best time to trade him. I do not hate him, I hope he succeeds, but after five years in Portland I do not think his success will appear here.
Again, I apologize to all the Batum fans who think I hate him. I do not. I just want him to play to his potential as all you want him to every game, not 60% of the time. Is that too much to ask for $11M per year?
Thanks cmeese
Posted 05/10/2013 10:00 PM
how can he this is his first year really having a significant role on the team in a new system alot of ppl tend to forget he played his career as a catch and shoot guy and never really was given a chance til now to be anything more then that and personally I think he's gonna be alot better next season with some work this off season
Posted 05/10/2013 10:07 PM
I hope he plays he simmer league like Wes does!
Posted 05/11/2013 2:07 AM
Yeah, will Summer League be broadcast on TV? And you're right Blaser. He needs to adapt to his role. If you switch a SF up to a stretch 4, he's not immediately going to be effective, he takes some time to figure it out. Same way, remember how Chauncey Billups went from a playmaker to a catch and shoot guy? Took about a year, but he's pretty good now.
Posted 05/11/2013 10:03 AM
Maniac your diminished capacity argument is flawed Nico mentally checking out was still better than what we had backing him up. I would much rather see a 50% Batum than any Babbitt.
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Posted 05/11/2013 11:15 AM
LOL Chloe
Wes is making 6 million a year for shooting 3s, and playing D. Wes gives us leadership but a healthy Batum gives us much more on the court. I would trade Wes before I trade Batum unless Batum gets us a legit player
Posted 05/11/2013 12:06 PM
umm this is a business before anything any real manager will do that for you it's common sense your hired to get your player the best deal for the most money you possibly can it's common sense other wise there would be no need for management companys
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Hating Batum cause he is French should be enough.
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Posted By Curvychloe on 05/11/2013 1:29 PM
Thats society for ya,money by any means necissary,yet people agree with it. If he really didnt feel that way,then thats lying plain and simple,lying for more cash.
your super emotional like most fans dude never once said anything bad about portland he didn't say "portland is one giant shit hole" or anything all he said was he preferred to play in minnesota @ the time so your really over reacting to begin with
Posted 05/11/2013 9:48 PM
and ppl tend to forget this is a job would you rather stay at a minumum wage job you've been working at for years if you had an offer to go lets say (insert your dream job here) for 10 or more bucks an hour? it's the same concept really
Posted 05/12/2013 1:25 AM
And what's wrong with the French Cmeese?
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well thats pretty much a managers job is to land a player the best deal possible if that wasn't the case then there wouldn't be any use of a manager
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Posted 05/12/2013 10:32 AM
River maybe the man never met your mother or many French people, I went to Paris, France a few years ago and the people there were very smug. I just attributed it to dealing with tourists all the time. Note once I got out of Paris the people were highly hospitable as long as I was not trying to speak and thus butcher their language.
I think Noah by himself certainly dispels the soft French player, then again Noah was born in New York and grew up playing ball in America while Batum came over from the French system. I think the emphasis on finesse basketball in Europe certainly presents a less physical form of basketball and thus the argument that French players are softer than their American counter parts.
For the record some French are arrogant, some Americans are arrogant these are just facts. It does not make either bad people but it is typically best to avoid generalizations as it just makes you look ignorant when someone proves you wrong.
Posted 05/12/2013 11:26 AM
Wow, went to sleep with a decent discussion (borderline argument but all in good spirit) about Nic Batum, and woke up to this. You know many French people Billy? How can you say that the French are 'exceedingly arrogant'? Maybe you had a bad experience with a frenchman but that doesn't mean the whole race is arrogant. What if someone think of your people like that?
Posted 05/12/2013 11:49 AM
Have you traveled outside the US Ripcity most other countries have that exact same feeling about Americans.
Posted 05/12/2013 12:03 PM
Posted 05/12/2013 12:28 PM
Cmeese, I have never even been to the US, because I am not American. And I can assure you, in my country, while like any other there are people who don't like the US, most us simply don't care. It doesn't make a difference to us what nationality you are, just that you are a decent person. Most of my countrymen have too many problems of their own to think about these things.
Riverman, if my numerous hours watching American crime shows is right, doesn't your wife automatically get citizenship if she marries a US Citizen?
Posted 05/12/2013 12:41 PM
Posted 05/12/2013 2:33 PM
Sounds fair enough. Always wanted to know, is Portland really that weird? Like is it very hipster, or just odd?
Posted 05/12/2013 7:00 PM
It's a little of both RC you can pretty much find your place here since we have all kinds of people and that's why I'm proud to be born and raised here there's no other place like it that's from my experience of course. I think this thread topic is over most of the fans here has shared their opinion on Batum and now were going off the deep end that's one of the reasons why I don't post as much we go to far sometimes you have to realize that even though it a handful of us we represent this fan base and sometimes I don't understand how we get the media attention that our fan base gets when we act like this the thing people don't do anymore is that they don't think before they speak and they uses that "it's Freedom of Speech" line and that's true but, it also comes with a responsibility you can't hide behind that just so that you can talk bad about a person or a nationality.
It's seems that everyone forgets about the "Golden Rule" nowadays "Treat others the way you want to be treated.
Posted 05/12/2013 7:44 PM
The reaction on here seems like I dropped a racial slur. Maybe not all French are arrogant, which they probably are not but the ones I have met are but the ones I have met have been every bit as arrogant as I am if not more. River I never met your mother but I believe you when you say she was everything you said and more.
Batum has always seemed smug to me that is my opinion and I am entitled to it. I need to avoid generalized comments that was wrong. If Batums children are offended by such generic comments then I feel bad for their sheltered existence. I grew up in Oakland and had to worry about getting shot or stabbed at school if all they have to worry about is silly Internet posts than they have it well, which is what everyone deserves.
Posted 05/12/2013 8:00 PM
Posted 05/12/2013 8:06 PM
Thanks Carl, river I never meant any insult to your family.
Posted 05/12/2013 8:52 PM
There are arrogant people and humble people of all nationalities, geesh.
Posted 05/13/2013 6:03 AM
actually theres a huge percantage of ppl that don't like america cause we try to play world police and think it's cool to get involved in everyone elses business it's true lol
Posted 05/13/2013 8:46 AM
Posted 05/13/2013 8:47 AM
Posted 05/13/2013 9:38 AM
I get your point Knorton but I also think there is a major distinction between calling someone arrogant and calling someone a homo, or a racial slur.
I seriously doubt that anyone ever committed suicide by being called arrogant, I know for a fact that calling someone fat can have that result. I know for a fact making fun of someones sexuality can have that result.
I think that is an important distinction.
Posted 05/13/2013 9:50 AM
Posted 05/13/2013 10:39 AM
Right, so if we can all just get back to arguing whether Nic Batum is a star or not, that'd be great.
Posted 05/13/2013 10:47 AM
Posted 05/13/2013 3:56 PM
Not yet, but he will be. I would like to place a wager. Gentleman's wager, no money or nothing. Nic Batum will be a star next year. Not an All Star, but one of our best. And you will admit it.
Posted 05/13/2013 4:13 PM
Best case scenario Batum will go back to 16-17 pts 5-6 rebs 5-6 ast and 1 stl 1 blk which would be AWESOME
Worst case scenario is he will play like he did post injury last seaso
Posted 05/13/2013 5:27 PM
Posted 05/13/2013 6:35 PM
17 6 and 5 with improved defense would be nice.
Posted 05/13/2013 6:48 PM
Im not sure he can get back to that. Theres a chance that he gets comfortable just shooting 3s and stays around the 12-14 ppg range
Then I would unload him because that wouldnt be worth 11mill
Posted 05/13/2013 7:08 PM
That's what I'm afraid of Siccolo. That and LMA is going to be 29 soon.
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PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) - A ten-year-old boy left home alone with his sister used his mother's gun to shoot an intruder in the face, police said.
Late Tuesday, West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies received a call to a Port Allen apartment complex after several shots rang out from inside one of the apartments. "You are out here trying to work and for someone to come and do that and invade your home is very hard," the children's mother said. She asked to not be identified.
Deputies say Dean Favron and Roderick Porter knocked several times on the apartment door. The two young children, a ten-year-old boy and eight-year-old girl, stood on the other side, terrified. "He told his sister to be quiet and seconds later, they started kicking on the door and finally kicked the door in," said Sheriff Mike Cazes. The two children ran to their mother's bedroom closet.
In a panic, the ten-year-old grabbed his mother's gun for protection. "He did what I told him to do. I never told him to get the gun, but thank God he did," she said. Once the two suspects opened the door, threatening the kids, deputies say the boy fired a bullet into the lip of Roderick Porter. The two men were taken to the hospital by a third suspect, who is a 15-year-old juvenile. Once they got to the hospital, they were later arrested. "It's just hard. I don't understand why they would do that. I know they have little brothers and sisters and they wouldn't want anyone to break into their house," said the mother.
Each man is held on $150,000 bond. The juvenile, was taken to a local detention center. One of the suspects, Dean Favron, just finished serving almost seven years in prison for aggravated assault on a Baton Rouge police officer and two carjacking charges. He was released on June 6th.
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Although legal and medical definitions vary, rape is typically defined as oral, anal, or vaginal penetration that involves threats or force against an unwilling person. Such penetration, whether wanted or not, is considered statutory rape if victims are younger than the age of consent. Sexual assault is rape or any other sexual contact that results from coercion, including seduction of a child through offers of affection or bribes; it also includes being touched, grabbed, kissed, or shown genitals. Rape and sexual assault, including childhood sexual assault, are common; the lifetime prevalence estimates for both ranges from 2 to 30% but tends to be about 15 to 20%. However, actual prevalence may be higher because rape and sexual assault tend to be underreported.
Typically, rape is an expression of aggression, anger, or need for power; psychologically, it is more violent than sexual. Nongenital or genital injury occurs in about 50% of rapes of females.
Females are raped and sexually assaulted more often than males. Male rape is often committed by another man, often in prison. Males who are raped are more likely than females to be physically injured, to be unwilling to report the crime, and to have multiple assailants.
Rape may result in the following:
Most physical injuries are relatively minor, but some lacerations of the upper vagina are severe. Additional injuries may result from being struck, pushed, stabbed, or shot.
Psychologic symptoms of rape are potentially the most prominent. In the short term, most patients experience fear, nightmares, sleep problems, anger, embarrassment, shame, guilt, or a combination. Immediately after an assault, patient behavior can range from talkativeness, tenseness, crying, and trembling to shock and disbelief with dispassion, quiescence, and smiling. The latter responses rarely indicate lack of concern; rather, they reflect avoidance reactions, physical exhaustion, or coping mechanisms that require control of emotion. Anger may be displaced onto hospital staff members.
Friends, family members, and officials often react judgmentally, derisively, or in another negative way. Such reactions can impede recovery after an assault.
Eventually, most patients recover; however, long-range effects of rape may include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD—see Posttraumatic Stress Disorder), particularly among women. PTSD is an anxiety disorder; symptoms include re-experiencing (eg, flashbacks, intrusive upsetting thoughts or images), avoidance (eg, of trauma-related situations, thoughts, and feelings), and hyperarousal (eg, sleep difficulties, irritability, concentration problems). Symptoms last for > 1 mo and significantly impair social and occupational functioning.
Goals of rape evaluation are
If patients seek advice before medical evaluation, they are told not to throw out or change clothing, wash, shower, douche, brush their teeth, or use mouthwash; doing so may destroy evidence.
Whenever possible, all people who are raped are referred to a local rape center, often a hospital emergency department; such centers are staffed by specially trained practitioners (eg, sexual assault nurse examiners [SANE]). Benefits of a rape evaluation are explained, but patients are free to consent to or decline the evaluation. The police are notified if patients consent. Most patients are greatly traumatized, and their care requires sensitivity, empathy, and compassion. Females may feel more comfortable with a female physician; a female staff member should accompany all males evaluating a female. Patients are provided privacy and quiet whenever possible.
A form (sometimes part of a rape kit) is used to record legal evidence and medical findings (for typical elements in the form, see Table 1: Typical Examination for Alleged Rape); it should be adapted to local requirements. Because the medical record may be used in court, results should be written legibly and in nontechnical language that can be understood by a jury.
Table 1
General information
Demographic data about the patient
Name, address, and phone number of the guardian if the patient is under age
Name of police officer, badge number, and department
Date, time, and location of examination
Circumstances of attack, including
Activities of the patient after the attack, such as
Last menstrual period
Date of previous coitus and time, if recent
Contraceptive history (eg, oral contraceptives, intrauterine device)
Physical examination
General (extragenital) trauma to any area
Genital trauma to the perineum, hymen, vulva, vagina, cervix, or anus
Foreign material on the body (eg, stains, hair, dirt, twigs)
Examination with Wood's lamp or colposcopy when available
Data collection
Condition of clothing (eg, damaged, stained, foreign material adhering)
Small samples of clothing, including an unstained sample, given to the police or laboratory
Hair samples, including loose hairs adhering to the patient or clothing, semen-encrusted pubic hair, and clipped scalp and pubic hairs of the patient (at least 10 of each for comparison)
Semen taken from the cervix, vagina, rectum, mouth, and thighs
Blood taken from the patient
Dried samples of the assailant's blood taken from the patient's body and clothing
Smears of buccal mucosa
Fingernail clippings and scrapings
Other specimens, as indicated by the history or physical examination
Laboratory testing
Acid phosphatase to detect presence of sperm*
Saline suspension from the vagina† (for sperm motility)
Semen analysis for sperm morphology and presence of A, B, or H blood group substances‡
Baseline serologic test for syphilis in the patient§
Baseline testing for sexually transmitted diseases in the patient§
Blood typing (using blood from the patient and dried samples of the assailant's blood)
Urine testing, including drug screen|| and pregnancy tests
Other tests, as indicated by the history or physical examination
Treatment, referral, physician's clinical comments
Witness to examination
Disposition of evidence
Name of the person who delivered the evidence and the person who received it
Date and time of delivery and receipt
*This test is particularly useful if the assailant had a vasectomy, is oligospermic, or used a condom, which may cause sperm to be absent. If the test cannot be done immediately, a specimen should be placed in a freezer.
†This test should be done by the examining physician if it can be done in time to detect motile sperm.
‡In 80% of cases, blood group substances are found in semen.
§This test is not recommended by all authorities because evidence of preexisting sexually transmitted diseases may be used to discredit the patient in court.
||Many authorities recommend not including comments or tests regarding the presence of alcohol or drugs in the patient because evidence of intoxication may be used to discredit the patient in court.
Before beginning, the examiner asks the patient's permission. Because recounting the events often frightens or embarrasses the patient, the examiner must be reassuring, empathetic, and nonjudgmental and should not rush the patient. Privacy should be ensured. The examiner elicits specific details, including
Many rape forms include most or all of these questions (see Table 1: Typical Examination for Alleged Rape). The patient should be told why questions are being asked (eg, information about contraceptive use helps determine risk of pregnancy after rape; information about previous coitus helps determine validity of sperm testing).
The examination should be explained step by step as it proceeds. Results should be reviewed with the patient. When feasible, photographs of possible injuries are taken. The mouth, breasts, genitals, and rectum are examined closely. Common sites of injury include the labia minora and posterior vagina. Examination using a Wood's lamp may detect semen or foreign debris on the skin. Colposcopy is particularly sensitive for subtle genital injuries. Some colposcopes have cameras attached, making it possible to detect and photograph injuries simultaneously. Whether use of toluidine blue to highlight areas of injury is accepted as evidence varies by jurisdiction.
Routine testing includes a pregnancy test and serologic tests for syphilis, hepatitis B, and HIV; if done within a few hours of rape, these tests provide information about pregnancy or infections present before the rape but not those that develop after the rape. Vaginal discharge is examined to check for trichomonal vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis; samples from every penetrated orifice (vaginal, oral, or rectal) are obtained for gonorrheal and chlamydial testing. If the patient has amnesia for events around the time of rape, drug screening for flunitrazepam (the date rape drug) and gamma hydroxybutyrate should be considered. Testing for drugs of abuse and alcohol is controversial because evidence of intoxication may be used to discredit the patient.
Follow-up tests for the following are done:
However, testing for STDs is controversial because evidence of preexisting STDs may be used to discredit the patient in court.
If the vagina was penetrated and the pregnancy test was negative at the first visit, the test is repeated within the next 2 wk. Patients with lacerations of the upper vagina, especially children, may require laparoscopy to determine depth of the injury.
Evidence that can provide proof of rape is collected; it typically includes clothing; smears of the buccal, vaginal, and rectal mucosa; combed samples of scalp and pubic hair as well as control samples (pulled from the patient); fingernail clippings and scrapings; blood and saliva samples; and, if available, semen (see Table 1: Typical Examination for Alleged Rape). Many types of evidence collection kits are available commercially, and some states recommend specific kits. Evidence is often absent or inconclusive after showering, changing clothes, or activities that involve sites of penetration, such as douching. Evidence becomes weaker or disappears as time passes, particularly after > 36 h; however, depending on the jurisdiction, evidence may be collected up to 7 days after rape.
A chain of custody, in which evidence is in the possession of an identified person at all times, must be maintained. Thus, specimens are placed in individual packages, labeled, dated, sealed, and held until delivery to another person (typically, law enforcement or laboratory personnel), who signs a receipt. In some jurisdictions, samples for DNA testing to identify the assailant are collected.
After the evaluation, the patient is provided with facilities to wash, change clothing, use mouthwash, and urinate or defecate if needed. A local rape crisis team can provide referrals for medical, psychologic, and legal support services.
Most injuries are minor and are treated conservatively. Vaginal lacerations may require surgical repair.
Sometimes examiners can use commonsense measures (eg, reassurance, general support, nonjudgmental attitude) to relieve strong emotions of guilt or anxiety. Possible psychologic and social effects are explained, and the patient is introduced to a specialist trained in rape crisis intervention. Because the full psychologic effects cannot always be ascertained at the first examination, follow-up visits are scheduled at 2-wk intervals. Severe psychologic effects (eg, persistent flashbacks, significant sleep disruption, fear leading to significant avoidance) or psychologic effects still present at follow-up visits warrant psychiatric or psychologic referral.
Family members and friends can provide vital support, but they may need help from rape crisis specialists in handling their own negative reactions.
PTSD can be effectively treated psychosocially and pharmacologically (see Treatment).
Routine empiric prophylaxis for STDs consists of ceftriaxone Some Trade Names
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125 mg IM in a single dose (for gonorrhea), metronidazole Some Trade Names
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2 g po in a single dose (for trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis), and either doxycycline Some Trade Names
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100 mg po bid for 7 days or azithromycin Some Trade Names
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1 g po once (for chlamydial infection). Alternatively, azithromycin Some Trade Names
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2 g po (which covers gonorrhea and chlamydial infection) can be given with metronidazole Some Trade Names
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2 g po, both as a single dose.
Empiric prophylactic treatment of hepatitis B and HIV after rape is controversial. For hepatitis B, the CDC recommends hepatitis B vaccination unless the patient has been previously vaccinated and has documented immunity. The vaccine is repeated 1 and 6 mo after the first dose. Hepatitis B immune globulin Some Trade Names
(HBIG) is not given. For HIV, most authorities recommend offering prophylaxis; however, the patient should be told that on average, the risk after rape from an unknown assailant is only about 0.2%. Risk may be higher with any of the following:
Treatment is best begun < 4 h after penetration and should not be given after > 72 h. Usually, a fixed-dose combination of zidovudine Some Trade Names
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(ZDV) 300 mg and lamivudine Some Trade Names
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(3TC) 150 mg is given bid for 4 wk if exposure appears low risk. If risk is higher, a protease inhibitor is added (see Postexposure prophylaxis (PEP)).
Although pregnancy caused by rape is rare (except in the few days before ovulation), emergency contraception (see Emergency Contraception (EC)) should be offered to all women with a negative pregnancy test. Usually, oral contraceptives are used; if used > 72 h after rape, they are much less likely to be effective. An antiemetic may help if nausea develops. An intrauterine device may be effective if used up to 10 days after rape. If pregnancy results from rape, the patient's attitude toward the pregnancy and abortion should be determined, and if appropriate, the option of elective termination should be discussed.
Last full review/revision August 2009 by Norah C. Feeny, PhD
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There are four major categories of EAI:
- Database linking: databases share information and duplicate information as needed.
- Application linking: the enterprise shares business processes and data between two or more applications.
- Data warehousing: data is extracted from a variety of data sources and channeled into a specific database for analysis.
- Common virtual system: the pinnacle of EAI; all aspects of enterprise computing are tied together so that they appear as a unified application.
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So far this week, TV5 has shown you secrets from McDonalds and Burger King and today, we have an inside look at Olive Garden's hidden items.
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One Baltimore Ravens draft pick whose development bears watching is defensive end Brent Urban. Chris Canty will certainly be paying attention. When Urban is ready to start, it could signal the exit for Canty. It might come this year or in 2015. ...Blog | May 14, 2014
Cowboys pick Ken Bishop in 7thTodd Archer
IRVING, Texas -- The pick: Ken Bishop, defensive tackle, Northern Illinois My take: The Cowboys took their third defensive linemen of the draft in Bishop, who is 6 feet, 306 pounds. He fits as a run defender for a unit that struggled to stop the r...Blog | May 10, 2014
Cowboys need more Bradie James picksTodd Archer
IRVING, Texas -- In talking about Bradie James on Tuesday, Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones could not help but think of the draft. It wasn't just that the draft is coming up Thursday. It was something James signified in turning...Blog | May 07, 2014
Kareem Canty backs off Auburn Tigers commit, will visit South Flo...Jeff Goodman
Marshall transfer Kareem Canty, hours after giving coach Bruce Pearl and Auburn a verbal commitment, has decided to visit South Florida before making a decision.Story | Conversation | April 20, 2014
Auburn Tigers get commitment from Marshall transfer Kareem CantyJeff Goodman
Marshall freshman guard Kareem Canty, who averaged 16.3 points and 5.5 assists per game last season, has committed to Bruce Pearl and his Auburn staff.Story | Conversation | April 19, 2014
Reviewing Cowboys' free agency: 2010Calvin Watkins
With free agency entering the final stages, we'll review the Cowboys' past five free-agency classes. We'll continue with 2010. Players signed: None Starts earned: 0 Analysis: This was the first time the Cowboys didn't sign anybody in free...Blog | April 15, 2014
Eron Harris leads top 2014 transfersJeff Goodman
Transfers are the fad, the new-age tool to recruit. I compile the transfer list each offseason, and have done it for the past seven or eight years. It went from a few phone calls the first year or two to the point where I get hounded all season for a...Blog | March 31, 2014