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Dr. Narayan's research interests include trauma resuscitation and hemostasis, trauma and injury prevention, acute care surgery, humanism in medicine, surgical education, health care economics and cost effective health strategies, and global health.
Harris DG, Drucker CB, Brenner ML, Sarkar R, Narayan M, Crawford RS. Patterns and Management of Blunt Abdominal Aortic Injury. Ann Vasc Surg. 2013 Jun 19
Lissauer ME, Diaz JJ, Narayan M, Shah PK, Hanna NN.Surgical intensive care unit admission variables predict subsequent readmission. Am Surg. 2013 Jun;79(6):583-8.
Hirshon JM, Risko N, Calvello EJ, Stewart de Ramirez S, Narayan M, Theodosis C, O'Neill J. Health systems and services: the role of acute care. Acute Care Research Collaborative at the University of Maryland Global Health Initiative. Bull World Health Organ. 2013 May 1;91(5):386-8.
Gruen RL, Brohi K, Schreiber M, Balogh ZJ, Pitt V, Narayan M, Maier RV. Haemorrhage control in severely injured patients. Lancet. 2012 Sep 22;380(9847):1099-108.
Including emergency and acute care as a global health priority. Risko N, Calvello EJ, de Ramirez SS, Narayan M, Hirshon JM. Int J Emerg Med. 2011 Dec 12;4:75.
Narayan M, Scalea T. Ruptured horseshoe kidney J Trauma. 2011 Aug;71(2):516.
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Pre-tournament press conference with Maria Sharapova
Q. How do you feel?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Good. I'm feeling really good. Obviously, I would have loved to have gone into Brisbane and play that. I wish I would have had maybe two, three extra days to be able to practice some more overhead stuff and serve and whatnot.
Yeah, but I came here a little bit earlier than obviously I would have wanted to. I've been able to get a lot of good practice in, playing on center court, be in Melbourne for a little bit.
Q. Can you describe what happened? Did you wake up with the neck stiff in the morning? Was that the first time it ever happened that it was bad enough to prevent you from practicing?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: It was something I was feeling a little bit. Then I woke up I think it was the day before Christmas Eve, it was a Sunday. I was like, Wow, this is not too good. Christmas Eve I had to do like a few tests, machines, MRI. It was just not good enough, certainly not for Korea, Dr. (indiscernible). If I get anything in that type of area... He just wanted to make sure that I really took care of that.
Q. Did it ruin your Christmas?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Not at all. It actually gave me an extra couple days at home. I had more time to wrap (smiling). Just what I need in my life, another few presents to wrap.
Q. You've gone into Grand Slams a lot of different ways. Going in this time, does it really matter that you haven't had match play or does it not matter at all?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I would have loved to come in with a few matches. But sometimes circumstances don't allow that, and that's okay.
To me, I'd rather be going onto the court knowing that I'm healthy. Yes, I might be a little bit rusty, but I'll work my way through it. I'm experienced enough to know the adjustments I have to make in those types of circumstances. I went to Brisbane. I certainly would have loved to step on the court and play those matches.
Q. Do you actually play matches?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I did, yeah.
Q. Who would you play against?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I played a couple of the junior boys here, actually a good couple Australian kids. I think one of them got a wild card in the main draw. I played against Daniela a set out on Margaret Court just now. It was nice to be able to go out and play in front of a crowd because I haven't done that in a bit.
Other than that, just some girls here and there.
Q. You handled those junior boys okay, no problem?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Hmm. One of them was really on top of me and then I got really mad. I think he had eight set points and I ended up winning the set. I'm not going to tell who it is. Too embarrassed. I don't think he slept well after that one.
Then another one, I think it was Luke Saville, we didn't actually finish. The set took too long.
Yeah, it was just nice to be able to have different types of game styles as well.
Q. Joining Twitter sometime this month?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I am.
Q. When is that going to happen?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: It's a surprise (smiling).
Q. Do you have a user name picked out and everything?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Maybe (smiling).
Q. Can you give us a hint?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I would tell you if I could.
Q. You were pretty active on Facebook. You've grown to like it a lot more now?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: That's my New Year's resolution, to be a little more active. I was getting a little lazy in the last few years. Certainly the last six months I wanted to step it up. I'm actually really enjoy doing it. I like to write. When I'm taking pictures now, I'm actually thinking of taking pictures for my fans to be able to see what's going on in my life a little bit. I think it's a really nice interaction. I also like writing, making it fun and interesting, giving a different perspective than what people see of me on a daily basis in my sport.
Q. Is Sugarpova putting it more out there as a saleswoman, a brand partially?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I mostly do it for my fans. I think I have over nine million fans. I don't quite really believe that. I think Max is probably just pressing the button all the time, all the different computers, all his different devices.
But it's certainly a great way to reach out to the world. I mean, when I look at the incredible fan base I have from all around the world, no matter. I just went to Brazil, I haven't been there in a few years, just to see the excitement, to see a different fan base.
When people write me letters, they mention their only kind of connection that's more personal is through my social media. That's when I realize it's so important to me.
Q. Do you ever answer any of those letters? Nine million people are a lot.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: The letters or the Facebook posts?
Q. The communications.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I don't write letters back. Most of them end with, Can you please send me an autograph? Yeah, my mother and I actually have a whole system where she goes through all the mail and I sign as many as I can back.
Q. What was another New Year's resolution?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Oh, I don't know. You know New Year's resolutions never come true. I just hope to keep one, so...
I'm not very good at those. But this one I'm going to try really hard.
Q. Tennis wise?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Are you asking me for my goals for this year?
Q. Whatever you want to talk about.
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Yeah, I mean, I certainly have a lot of goals. The off season was a really good time for me to look back on the previous year, just settle down, have some time off. I was also thinking about the things I want to work on, goals I want to accomplish.
But those are just step by steps. I don't like to talk about my open goals too much.
Q. You mentioned looking back. Do you look back on who you were five years ago and all that's gone on since then? What do you make of all that?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: Certainly I was playing some of my best tennis in my career. Little did I know six months later I would not be playing tennis at all.
It's certainly nice to look back at those memories, nice to be able to sit here. I think this is, what, my 9th or 10th year playing the Australian Open. It's nice to be still here in the middle of my career and go out on a court and compete in front of thousands of people.
Q. Is it good to be back in Australia?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: It is. I'm not sure if it's because you're training for a month and a half and you're officially board of training and life in that period of time that you really want to get going again.
You're just over the fitness, you're over your coach for a little bit. You really want to go out into a match atmosphere. Part of it is because you're coming here. It's summertime. Everyone is in a great mood, chatty, probably half drunk it's so hot, you just want cold Mojitos.
But, yeah, I love it. They're so passionate about the sport itself.
Q. When you won in 2008, six months later you were out with the shoulder, was there anything here that you could feel here, a little sensation?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I don't want to look back to that. Yeah, I mean, certainly anything with the shoulder, the surgery, it's not the most pleasant memories.
Q. Because Serena has been playing so great and is considered by many as the favorite to win the tournament, does it take a little bit of the pressure off everyone else and put it pretty much on her shoulders?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I think everyone reacts to it a little bit differently. There's a reason why everyone's playing here and everyone's in the draw. You can't worry about somebody else that's not even close to you in a certain part of the draw. You have to take it a step at a time.
That's certainly my goal and my job here.
Q. You've had a lot of tight matches with Venus over the years. What are your thoughts on that matchup?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: First of all, we still have to get to that point and then we can discuss it further.
There's no doubt that she's a champion, an experienced one at that. No matter where she's ranked, what level she's at, she's a tough opponent.
Q. When you haven't played much at all going into a slam, how do you keep yourself calm knowing that you might not play your best early on and build from there?
MARIA SHARAPOVA: I think it's just experience, maybe giving yourself that extra slack in case you do make a few more errors, you don't concentrate maybe as well as you would if you were in that match groove.
But, yeah, just giving yourself a little bit more room for error I guess as well, going out there. Just because you're rusty doesn't mean you're not going to play well. You might maybe go for a little bit more in certain situations.
I'm too experienced to feel that way. I shouldn't be feeling that way.
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An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack, into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom and its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
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Open daily, the Dining Room is located on the first floor of the West Hospital and features a wide variety of daily selections. Breakfast choices include bagels, a fruit bar and made-to-order breakfast entrees. Lunch and dinner feature a daily soup and salad bar, the "corner grill," made-to-order sandwiches, traditional entrée choices, Arrezzio pizza and a stir fry counter. A variety of tempting desserts and beverages are also available.
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Enjoy fresh, made-to-order deli sandwiches and a variety of hot entrees. The Skywalk Deli offers daily breakfast and lunch. If you are in a hurry, our Grab-n-Go cooler is stocked with a great assortment of specialty salads and sandwiches made fresh daily. We also feature hand-dipped Blue Bunny Ice Cream and Alterra coffee. The Skywalk Deli offers a large selection of specialty beverages and light snacks. Carry-out selections or in-deli dining are both available. The Skywalk Deli is conveniently located on the 2nd floor skywalk joining Froedtert Hospital and the Specialty Clinics.
Located on level 1, Froedtert Hspital, north side of the Dining Room, the Patio Cafe is open for service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Patio Cafe offers a full service Alterra coffee station, including all your favorite Alterra latte and cappuccino drinks. The Patio Cafe offers a variety of hot and cold menu items, and breakfast is available 24 hours a day. Try a made-to-order deli sandwich or a signature entrée, along with a cup of your favorite soup. You can also enjoy soft serve custard, fresh popped popcorn, cookies or a quick snack of candy or chips.
Located on the second floor of the Clinical Cancer Center Open Monday through Friday for breakfast, lunch, snacks or an early dinner. The bistro offers a variety of delicious bakery, sandwiches, desserts, salads, beverages, fruits and cheeses in our Grab & Go case.
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Please note: If your doctor has ordered a special diet, some items may not be available or may be altered. In addition, some medications may need to be coordinated with meals. If you are on insulin or need assistance with meals, please notify your nurse each time you order a meal.
The cafeteria, located on the lower level, offers a constantly changing variety of lunch and dinner selections
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Food and beverage machines are located near the Cafeteria. Beverage machines are also located in the Birth Center waiting room, the Emergency Department waiting room and in the Outpatient Care Center. A newspaper vending machine is located on the lower level in the Cafeteria.
Coffee is available in the Cafeteria, the Community Cafe, the Outpatient Care Center lobby and the ICU lobby.
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2013 - Clement Chu-Sing Lau
Associate Director for Technical Services and Administration, University of Baltimore, School of Law Library, Baltimore, Maryland
Liu, Zhusheng 刘朱胜. "Meiguo gonggong tushuguan fa yanjiu 美国公共图书馆法研究 (American Public Library Law)." Tushuguan 图书馆 (Library) 2012.3 (2012): 1-7. Print.
Liu, Zhusheng 刘朱胜. "Meiguo gonggong tushuguan fa yanjiu: xu 美国公共图书馆法研究:续 (American Public Library Law)." Tushuguan 图书馆 (Library) 2012.4 (2012): 1-7. Print.
Mr. Lau's article was published in two parts. Each part appeared as the "featured article" under the subject of "中美图书馆员交流" (China-U.S. Librarians Exchange) by the journal Library (图书馆). This bimonthly publication has been published by the Hunan Library (湖南图书馆) and the Hunan Society for library science (湖南省图书馆学会) since 1973. It is one of the core library journals in China. It has been indexed by all core Chinese academic journal databases. This article was selected for its high quality and thoroughness in research, and easy to read presentation. His ability to process and organize a large amount of information is commendable. The article is clearly a well-organized and well-researched presentation that is timely and useful to Chinese librarians and the library community. Mr. Lau has made a significant contribution by introducing American public library law, its history, and development to the Mainland Chinese library community. He also provides a great learning opportunity for Chinese-American librarians to understand the U.S. legal system and the libraries in which they are employed. This is indeed an excellent scholarly work that will inspire our colleagues in China and benefit CALA members as well.
2012 - Sharon Q. Yang
Systems Librarian, Rider University Libraries, Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Yang, S. Q., & Hofann, M. (2011). Next Generation or Current Generation? A Study of the OPACs of 260 Academic Libraries in the United States and Canada. Library Hi Tech, 29(2), 266-300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378831111138170
Ms. Yang's article was selected for its originality and high quality. It is clearly a well-researched paper with an interesting and relevant topic, and solid data collection from 260 college and university libraries in the US and Canada. This is the first and only study on a large scale that evaluates the progress towards the Next Generation Catalog in academic libraries in North America. It contributes significantly to identifying areas for improvement and providing input on how to develop the next generation catalogs in order to maximize the use of library information and services.


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Witnesses are expected to take the stand Friday in a high-profile murder case in Bay County.
Opening arguments were heard Thursday.
Prosecutors say Stephen Ashley Jr. shot and killed Lonnie Houston in 2011.
Ashley Jr. has been jailed since police arrested him on November 16, 2011, charging him with killing the father of five.
Ashley is also accused of torching Houston's body inside a car along the Saginaw River in Zilwaukee Township. Houston's badly burned body was found in the back seat of a Cadillac along the banks of the Saginaw River.
An autopsy showed Houston had been shot twice in the head before being dumped in the Cadillac's back seat.
The flames were so intense crews were forced to use a "fire fighting foam" to put it out.
Originally the case was handled by the Saginaw County Sheriff's Department, but the case was transferred to the Bay County Sheriff's Department when it was discovered Houston had been shot and killed in Bay County's Hampton Township.
Houston had a criminal record and served time in prison for assault with intend to do great bodily harm, less than murder, and for possessing marijuana. He was released from prison in 2010.
A Houston family member said of Lonnie, "He was a good person, he was a great father of five who loved his family, his collection of tennis shoes and his prized possession, his 1977 Monte Carlo. Lonnie loved to laugh and smile. He will be missed by many and loved by all."
If convicted, Ashley will spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole.
Two other men charged in the shooting death are Kaleb Rosin and Brett Vaughn. Rosin and Vaughn are scheduled to face trial February 12.The prosecution expects Rosin and Vaughn will testify on their behalf during Ashley's trial.
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Five people are known to be dead and police continue to search for 30 missing people after a nursing home fire in Quebec, Canada yesterday.
The tragedy sparked our curiosity about safety procedures in local retirement communities. Valley News Team's Mellaney Moore investigates how prepared one of them is:
157 residents call Fargo's Bethany on 42nd retirement living community home.
With various levels of independence among those residents, the 200 staff know it's important to have organized safety procedures.
"That's 100 percent of our focus to make sure they're cared for and accounted for," says Human Resources and Safety Director Adam Broers.
Every month, one of the day, evening or overnight shifts will have a fire drill, equaling one drill in each quarter.
"Staff members on each shift will go through four each year," he says.
In skilled nursing areas, the building is broken down into neighborhoods of13-19 residents. The design speeds up evacuation and moves residents to other areas- keeping them out of the cold.
"We want them beyond the safety of two fire doors. So we would close or isolate the door with the fire and then get all of our residents beyond another door, so we effectively create two fire doors of protection," says Broers.
Residents like Coty Smith know the drills well.
"The alarm goes off and it rings...and rings and rings," she says.
At the same time, the system notifies nearby fire departments and Bethany staff of the fire's exact location.
"I think our Fargo Fire Department response time is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-5 minutes," Broers says.
After evacuation from a neighborhood, all residents can be accounted for. Smith says the organized plan helps her feel safe.
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Veer Dave has been in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Peter's University Hospital for more than two months. He was born on October 24, 2013, weighing just 2 pounds 11 ounces.
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Prop 8 Ruling -- for the Better!
Robin Sax: On August 4, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. Prop 8 was passed by Californians in November of 2008 and amended the state constitution to define marriage as being solely between a man and a woman. Walker sided with opponents of the November 2008 decision, which excluded gays from marrying in California. In his ruling, Walker said that Proposition 8 violates the equal-protection clause by denying gays and lesbians the right to marry a member of the same sex.
The legal trajectory of same-sex marriage in California is very complex. In 2000, Proposition 22 (a.k.a. the "California Defense of Marriage Act") was passed; it added the following provision to the Family Code: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." In September of 2005, the California Assembly voted to make same-sex marriage legal, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill. In May of 2008, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, but Prop 8 subsequently invalidated that decision. But now, with Judge Walker's ruling, we're back to gay marriage being legal in California. Confused yet?
All of this legal repositioning makes me think we are headed to a U.S. Supreme Court case. Opponents of Prop 8 have vehemently argued (and I agree) that same-sex couples should enjoy the same rights, privileges and responsibilities of heterosexual couples. This is a clear-cut civil rights issue. I say, let same-sex couples suffer the hardships of marriage, too! Come on, people -- it's absolutely ridiculous to say marriage is a "sacred" tradition in America.
More than 55 percent of marriages in our country end in divorce these days (often, ugly and difficult divorce). Opponents of gay marriage say, "California's constitutional marriage amendment exists to strengthen society, encourage monogamous and loving marriages and provide the optimal environment to ensure the well-being of children." But how in the world does discriminating against a specific group make anyone's marriage stronger?!
California and many other U.S. states are so behind the rest of the world on this issue. Our neighbors, the Canadians, legalized same-sex marriage in July of 2005, and the practice is also approved in the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont have legalized marriage for same-sex couples, too. (So far, same-sex marriage is recognized but not performed in Maryland, New York and Rhode Island.)
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Judge Walker is gay himself -- but that should have nothing to do with the ruling. As a lawyer, Walker represented the U.S. Olympic Committee in a suit seeking to prohibit a group from using the term "Gay Olympics."
Pro-gay-marriage activists include Steve Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Levi's CEO John Anderson and many others. Some churches oppose same-sex marriage, yet some, such as the Unitarians and the Metropolitan Community Church, bless gay marriages and perform commitment ceremonies. The Catholic Church forbids it. But it shouldn't matter either way: Separation of church and state is a core tenet of the Constitution, and the issue of gay marriage is a Constitutional, not faith-based, one.
Some anti-gay-marriage activists talk about the effect gay marriage will have on kids. I can't understand their arguments whatsoever. In my view, preventing a loving (same-sex) couple from making a legal commitment to each other can only hurt their children. I have seen firsthand (and statistics also show) that same-sex couples raise wonderful kids who love their two moms or two dads just the same as any kids love their parents. As a prosecutor, I have seen many troubling family situations occur in heterosexual marriages: domestic violence, violent custody battles, abuse in the home and many other terrible circumstances.
I have never seen a situation wherein two loving people (of any gender) wanting to marry and make a life together could possibly hurt their kids. If all of the anti-gay-marriage activists would refocus their energy to help keep our kids truly safe (from sexual assault, abuse, abduction, domestic violence -- across our state and country), then we would truly be serving our children and the next generation. In many ways, same-sex couplehood reminds me of how converts from one religion to another treat the sanctity of their new religion. In my experience, it's usually the people who choose parenthood, overcome obstacles and work for their rights who end up being the most fit, involved and effective parents. Protecting the civil rights of all Americans also strengthens our families. I hope that Judge Walker's ruling has helped to resolve this issue once and for all ... but judging by the history of California, we are probably not quite done with it yet.
Whatever ends up happening in the future, the time has come for us all to accept that gay couples are couples. There are two-mom families, two-dad families and many other combos out there. Let's use this historic moment to embrace our differences and teach our children not to hate, but to accept!
As a heterosexual Christian, I am supposed to be against gay marriage. But logic simply fails me.
For the better ? What happened to make you hate GOD so much ? It says right in the bible that being gay is a sin an abomination. Where do you get that it's alright to be gay ? GOD never said that.
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"I pack my own food more and if they offer me food, I just say 'no thanks'. A lot of times people want to eat my snacks. It's kinda funny."
— Taylor, 13
"For parties, I bring a gluten-free cupcake. For Thanksgiving, we make sure the turkey or whatever meat there is will be gluten-free. Mom and dad and me bring a gluten-free pie or something else gluten-free so we know I can eat something."
— Allison, 8
"I usually contact the person who's having the event and see what they are making and if there is a way to make any adjustments so I could have it. If they have nothing or can't change it, I'll just bring some gluten-free food with me."
— Pierson, 16
"I eat gluten-free cookies. They're yummy!"
— Sydney, 5
"Usually if there's cake or something, I'll stay away from that. But I can have the fruit or some little stuff or I'll pack something to go with me like a gluten-free variation of whatever is being served. For family holidays, we'll talk to our relatives and see what they're planning on making and bring something — a dessert or appetizer or side — that I know I can eat when I'm there."
— Joan, 14
"Usually I just don't eat. Sometimes I'll bring food with me or I'll eat before I go out. But if it's at my friends' house, they'll know I'm gluten-free and make sure there's something I can eat."
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Summary: When John Harmon--who has been left a fortune if he will marry the girl his miserly father chose for him--is found floating dead in the Thames, he sets in motion a story overflowing with cases of deception and mistaken identity, of murder and attempted murder, of sin and redemption. The influence of the notorious Harmon inheritance ripples through a large cast of vividly drawn characters from every level of society, including Noddy Boffin, known as "the Golden Dustman"; the one-legged villain Silas Wegg; willful Bella Wilfer; saintly Lizzie Hexam; the sharp-witted doll's dressmaker Jenny Wren; the social-climbing Veneerings; the ruthless speculator Fascination Fledgeby; and the river-scavenging corpse robbers Gaffer Hexam and Rogue Riderhood. Out of this flurry of invention Dickens creates in Our Mutual Friend a portrait of a city and a civilization that is at once indignant, compassionate, and utterly unforgettable. Charles Dickens's last completed novel features one of his most surreal and haunting visions of London, shadowed by towering dust heaps that supply the corrupting riches at the heart of the plot and washed by the dark river that winds its way insistently through the story. This edition reprints the original Everyman's preface by G. K. Chesterton and features forty illustrations by Marcus Stone.
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I came to this site last March regarding my daughter's hemangioma. I learned about Timolol and found my city's top pediatric dermatologist to analyze her hemangioma and prescribe me Timolol. She started treatment at 9 weeks old. She is turning 7 months old tomorrow.
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Antiques lovers flocked to Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids Sunday. It was the 53rd Midwest Antique Show.
110 vendors from around the country brought in their goods. The show is known for its emphasis on Americana and antiques from the 18th and 18th centuries.
The Collector's Eye collectable antiques show, focusing on items from the 1890s through 1950s, was also going on. The two shows allowed antique lovers to find treasures from any era.
"They're important because they're attractive pieces of art to decorate your home with plus they're great investments," said Tom Rawson, show promoter.
The Midwest Antique Show happens twice a year and brings in more than 1,200 people to each show.


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WaveMark will be attending HIMSS March 3 - 7 in New Orleans. This will be the 3rd time WaveMark is exhibiting at HIMSS. WaveMark is part of the the Intelligent Hospital Pavilion, Booth #8711, which is comprised of different hospital rooms showcasing the most advanced medical technologies working together to provide better patient care for the future. President Bill Clinton will be one of the keynote speakers this year.
WaveMark will be displaying its full range of innovative supply chain solutions from its customizable cabinets, usage capture stations and mobile solutions for health care providers and medical device field reps. Within the Intelligent Hospital, WaveMark will show its solution integrated with various other systems to help improve the future of healthcare.
The "Intelligent Hospital ™" section of the Pavilion provides a practical overview of a variety of technologies seamlessly integrated to provide clinicians with 'real-time' patient information delivered to their smartphones or tablets. Numerous use cases simulates scenarios from the OR, ICU, Step-down and ED rooms as part of the "Intelligent Hospital".
Clinicians see first-hand how information collected through the use of data capture technologies and from diverse patient care environments including remote locations. The pavilion showcases solutions that incorporate auto-ID/Bar code scanning, RFID, RTLS (real time locating systems), Sensors and Wireless technologies. The "Intelligent Hospital™" demonstrates centralized and distributed methods of managing physiological data and alarms. The Pavilion focuses on raising the level of awareness and educating healthcare professionals.
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PreConference Speakers: Room 255, Sunday March 3
John Wass - 1:30 – 2:00
CEO, WaveMark
The Intelligent Hospital: Why coordination and speed are critical to patient safety
Carola Endicott - 2:00 – 3:30
Senior VP Operations and Services, WaveMark
Realizing the Promised ROI
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Director Surgical Services, Tufts Medical Center
Using RFID to improve Clinical, Operational, and Financial results
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The College Success Program (CSP) supports students that are First Time In College Freshmen (aka "FTIC") who have not yet declared a major and is also open to students in a major who are interested in making their transition into university life a positive and successful experience. Our program is intentionally designed to guide students through a curriculum developed to enhance the life skills of CSP students and to prepare them to declare a University of Houston major that bests suits the student so that they can achieve both their academic and career goals. Besides FTIC students, CSP serves several other populations including students transferring to UH from another institution (other than high school) looking to explore our many academic options. Our transfer students are served by informative orientation sessions and the Next S.T.E.P. program which was developed to help students adjust to the academic rigor at UH, and to learn more about UH resources, activities, traditions, and spirit.
CSP is also committed to assisting students who may be facing some academic performance challenges including being place on academic warning, probation or suspension. These students may be struggling with coursework, time manage ment, personal situations, or having the motivation to accomplish their academic and personal goals. Through completion of required workshops, UScholars staff help struggling students to develop a plan that will get them back on track to graduation. CSP offers students many benefits including a computer lab, one-on-one and small group tutoring for most of the core curriculum, peer mentors that are experienced and successful students, academic and student development workshops, and scholarships. To learn more about the resources available to you as a UScholars student, please visit our website or come down and visit us in the basement of the M.D. Anderson Library.


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Require drug testing to receive welfare benefits
The purpose of welfare benefits is to help people who are down on their luck and in the process of searching for a new line of work. Providing money to individuals who are addicted to drugs is not a worthy cause. Welfare is supposed to be temporary and should only help those who are going to be able to one day secure another job/career in my opinion. States such as Texas are proposing legislation to have more strict over sight to make sure the money does not fall into the wrong hands.
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On Saturday, March 23rd 2013, Innisfree Hotels will turn off the lights for one hour in six Gulf Coast hotels for the company's 2nd annual celebration of Earth Hour.
Participating hotels include the Hilton Gulf Front, Hampton Inn and Holiday Inn Resort on Pensacola Beach Florida, and the Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn& Suites and Holiday Inn Express in Orange Beach, Alabama.
Innisfree will encourage their guests to join hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world in the largest environmental event in history. The goal is to raise awareness about climate change by encouraging guests to turn out out their hotel room lights during Earth Hour. Each hotel will also celebrate the occasion with their guests with fun events such as candle lit dinners or cookies and milk in a candle lit lobby.
Earth Hour was started by the World Wildlife Federation in Australia in 2006 when residents of Sydney were inspired to show their support for action on climate change by turning out their lights. The following year, 2.2 million residents of Sydney and more than 2,000 businesses enjoyed an hour of darkness. In 2008, the City of Toronto in Canada joined in and the Earth Hour movement went global.
Last year hundreds of millions of people in 35 countries and more then 400 cities and towns turned out their lights; in doing so, they sent a powerful message to governments around the world that solutions to the climate change crisis must be global in scope. Earth hour demonstrates the amazing things that can be achieved when people around the globe come together for a common cause.
Earth Hour is now an annual event scheduled on the last Saturday of March; closely coinciding with the equinox to ensure most cities are in darkness as it is rolled out around the Earth.
This year WWF is harnessing the power of social media to encourage people around the globe to commit to lasting action on climate change. We encourage you to join the 700 million people who have liked Earth Hour on Facebook.
Earth hour demonstrates that everyone, from children to CEOs and politicians, has the power to change the world they live in. Innisfree Hotels is honored to join this movement and we look forward to celebrating Earth Hour with our guests.


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NCI Analysis Reveals Critical Factors for Minority Trial Recruitment
An article in the August 1 Journal of Clinical Oncology by researchers in NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention shows how effective Minority-Based Community Clinical Oncology Programs (MBCCOPs) have been in boosting minority enrollment in cancer clinical trials, and outlines steps that could be taken to see higher enrollments in the future. NCI funds 13 MBCCOPs in 10 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico to increase the number of underrepresented groups in cancer clinical trials. Begun in 1990, these programs are part of the larger network of 63 NCI-funded CCOPs based in clinical research facilities.
Although MBCCOPs make up less than 20 percent of all CCOPs, they contribute 33 percent of the overall minority recruitment for all trials in the CCOP network, and 44 percent of minority recruitment to cancer prevention and control trials. In the early years of prevention and control trials (1995-1999), between 51 and 60 percent of the participants at MBCCOPs were minorities; by 2003, 80 percent of participants in these trials were minorities.
"The MBCCOP program has been successful in improving both the visibility of and accessibility to clinical trials in minority communities," said Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens, program director. "In addition to increasing minority participation in trials, the program holds great potential to contribute to minority-focused research in a number of ways."
Some of the most critical factors that influence recruitment of minorities to clinical trials within the MBCCOPs are the availability of protocols targeting the most common cancers seen in minority communities, the level of institutional support for minority recruitment, and issues endemic to the communities themselves, such as cultural barriers and access to transportation.
Study Questions Benefits of Community Screening for Breast Cancer
During the past 20 years, results from randomized trials have led to the widespread adoption of screening mammography and clinical breast exams. However, a study in the July 20 Journal of the National Cancer Institute calls into question the mortality benefit of breast cancer screening as practiced in the real world, compared with the well-controlled situations of clinical trials.
Dr. Russell Harris of the University of North Carolina framed the question in an accompanying editorial: "To what extent is widespread screening in the United States in 2005 contributing to reducing breast cancer mortality?"
For the study, Dr. Joann Elmore and colleagues at the University of Washington reviewed the medical records of approximately 4,000 women from 6 health plans across 6 states. They identified 1,351 women who had died from breast cancer between 1983 and 1998, and 2,501 women, matched for age and risk factors, who had not been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The researchers found similar screening rates among the groups, but an advantage to screening was not clear. For example, 69.7 percent of the cancer patients aged 50-65 years with an average risk of developing the disease had gotten mammograms and/or breast examinations by a clinician in the past 3 years, compared with 69.2 percent of the cancer-free women of similar age and risk.
While the study results conclude that screening may have less impact on mortality in "real world" practice than it has proven to have in closely monitored clinical trials, the authors caution that their study is too small to verify that a modest reduction in mortality could be occurring in some subgroups. Additionally, they note, women who receive more than one screening within 3 years might have a greater benefit.
Genes Involved in Breast Cancer Spread to Lungs Identified
Breast cancer often metastasizes to the lungs, leading to a poor prognosis, but clinicians have no way of knowing which patients might be at risk for such metastases. Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, reported in the July 28 Nature, identifies a series of genes that mediate the spread of breast tumors to the lungs.
Dr. Andy Minn and colleagues developed a line of highly metastatic human breast cancer cells. When injected into mice, the cells developed into large lung tumors. Gene microarray analysis of the tumors highlighted a set of genes abnormally active in the cancer cells that migrated to the lungs compared with those that did not.
The team then examined tumors from 82 breast cancer patients. They found a subset of patients whose tumors seemed to abnormally express the newly identified genes. A close examination of the most crucial genes identified a clear split in risk among patients. Those with abnormal levels of the genes had an 89-percent risk of lung metastasis over 10 years versus a 56-percent risk among patients without the abnormal gene pattern.
Further analysis revealed that a separate set of genes is responsible for spreading breast tumors into bone - the second most common site of breast cancer metastases. The authors speculate that bone and lung metastasis are therefore different molecular processes. "In addition to providing...potential prognostic tools and possible targets for cancer treatment, the present findings shed light on the biology of breast cancer metastasis," they write.
Resistance to treatment with ONYX-015, a genetically modified virus that selectively attacks tumor cells, can be overcome by inducing a heat-shock response in tumor cells, according to a study in the July Cancer Cell.
ONYX-015, the first modified adenovirus to be approved for testing in human clinical trials, has proven in early stage clinical trials to be effective in shrinking tumors when combined with chemotherapy. The researchers sought to determine why some patients failed to respond to treatment with ONYX-015.
Dr. Clodagh O'Shea and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, reported that in laboratory studies, inducing a heat-shock response made tumor cells that were initially resistant to therapy with ONYX-015 amenable to treatment. The heat shock, the authors noted, "rescued" intracellular functions needed for the virus to replicate inside the tumor cell and induce cell death.
Specifically, they reported, heat shock restores late RNA export in resistant cells. The heat-shock response was induced both by pharmacologic induction with benzoquinoid ansamycins and by incubating the cells at elevated temperatures. In both cases, late RNA functions were rescued in resistant tumors, increasing viral yield 10-fold or more in 8 out of 10 resistant tumor cell lines. Moreover, viral activity in primary cells was not restored by the heat shock.
A clinical strategy that does not advocate suppression of fever, or that includes the heat-shock induction, they concluded, "could greatly augment ONYX-015's clinical utility as a cancer therapy."
In Stage I Seminomas, Carboplatin Just as Good, If Not Better, Than Radiation
Because the cure rates for men with stage I seminoma, a type of testicular cancer, are nearly 100 percent, clinicians focus on relapses and side effects in evaluating the best treatment. To this end, a European research team compared the standard adjuvant treatment, radiation, with single-dose carboplatin chemotherapy to see if adverse effects can be reduced. Their results are published in the July 23 Lancet.
Men in the study, who had their cancerous testicle removed before enrollment, were randomized to receive either a single intravenous dose of carboplatin or radiation of the groin dosed between 30 Gy in 15 sessions and 20 Gy in 10 sessions. The researchers used chest x-rays; chest, abdomen, and pelvic CT scans; and blood tests for tumor markers to monitor recurrence. Patients recorded side effects of treatment in a diary.
After a median of 4 years of follow-up, relapse-free survival was nearly the same in both groups: 96.7 percent in the radiation group and 97.7 percent in the carboplatin group after 2 years, and 95.9 percent versus 94.8 percent, respectively, after 3 years. Men who received carboplatin had less fatigue after treatment and returned to work more quickly than those who received radiation. "As well as carboplatin having fewer acute toxic effects than radiotherapy," the authors wrote, "some preliminary data indicate that carboplatin treatment delays and possibly reduces the incidence of contralateral second germ-cell tumours." They also noted that more follow-up is needed to confirm their findings.