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In his introductory remarks at the Paris Conference for Long-Term Value & Economic Stability, Angel Gurría talks about the importance of long-term investments and their capacity to help to bring back confidence and to achieve long-term sustainable development throughout the world
The gobal economic crisis has led to a sharp contraction in steel production, consumption, prices and jobs.
The 66th session of the Steel Committee took place in Paris on 8-9 June 2009.
The current economic crisis has exposed the deficiencies of economic global governance and the risk of having a highly integrated global economy with fragmented global economic decision-making and regulation. To improve our impact, we do need stronger, more inclusive and better coordinated international organisations, warned the OECD Secretary-General.
With the the global economic crisis, governments are now focused on restoring national economic and employment growth and financial stability which also poses risks for freedom of investment. If they all recognise that open markets will ultimately contribute to a sustainable recovery, they might be tempted to adopt "beggar thy neighbour" policies, including investment protectionism and unfair incentives to attract or retain
With the global economic crisis, governments are now focused on restoring national economic and employment growth and financial stability which also poses risks for freedom of investment.
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CFE Insight, a journal published on a regular basis by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE).
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Guidelines for Recipient Country Investment Policies relating to National Security have been adopted by the OECD to help governments maintain fair treatment of international investors while meeting their countries' security needs.
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Government officials from ASEAN countries and investment experts gathered to discuss on various efforts to create a more attractive investment climate in Southeast Asia at the Forum. OECD's investment instruments and peer review methods were presented and well received by participants as they can help advance their own agenda of investment policy reforms. The Forum took place in Bangkok, Thailand on 27-28 April 2009.
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U.S. Sees Hottest 12 Months And Hottest Half Year On Record
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its chart-filled "State of the Climate Global Analysis" for June 2012:
The big stories are the heat and drought:
- The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during June was 71.2°F, which is 2.0°F above the 20th century average. Scorching temperatures during the second half of the month led to at least 170 all-time high temperature records broken or tied. The June temperatures contributed to a record-warm first half of the year and the warmest 12-month period the nation has experienced since recordkeeping began in 1895.
- According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, as of July 3, 56.0 percent of the contiguous U.S. experienced drought conditions, marking the largest percentage of the nation experiencing drought conditions in the 12-year record of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
How off-the-charts has the last year been? NOAA has done the math:
- During the June 2011-June 2012 period, each of the 13 consecutive months ranked among the warmest third of their historical distribution for the first time in the 1895-present record. The odds of this occurring randomly is 1 in 1,594,323.
As meteorologist Dr. Jeff Masters puts it, "Thus, we should only see one more 13-month period so warm between now and 124,652 AD–assuming the climate is staying the same as it did during the past 118 years. These are ridiculously long odds, and it is highly unlikely that the extremity of the heat during the past 13 months could have occurred without a warming climate."
UPDATE: NOAA did the math inappropriately in multiple respects. Obviously, individual months in the US temperature record are correlated (weather persists, though not as much as you might think). So simply taking 1/3 (one third) to the 13th power as NOAA did is not the right way to do the calculation. Doing the calculation correctly isn't easy, but Lucia of The Blackboard says "I am getting a probability less than 1 in 100,000." That said, it is also wrong for NOAA to do the calculation assuming each of the last 13 months was merely in the top one third — when 6 of the last 13 months were in the top 4% warmest months (you can find all the rankings here by stepping through month by month). Most likely the probability of this particular heat wave in an alternative universe America where the climate that isn't warming is less than 1 in 1.6 million, but it is a very tricky calculation to do. I have emailed Tom Karl, director of the National Climactic Data Center, and will post any change they make. Masters has added a correction here.
Like a baseball player on steroids, our atmosphere has been "juiced" with human emissions of greenhouse gases, which means we are going to be breaking heat records at an "unnatural" pace for a long, long time. Climatologist Richard Alley offers a different analogy in a column today:
Humans have made some extreme weather events more likely, and they are happening.
Just as a back-street gambler might beat someone in an honest game but has a better chance with loaded dice, Nature might have caused this summer's weather but we gave it a boost. More importantly, under business as usual, today's children may one day think of this summer as cool.
How extreme has the weather been in 2012?
- The U.S. Climate Extremes Index (USCEI), an index that tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought and tropical cyclones across the contiguous U.S., was a record-large 44 percent during the January-June period, over twice the average value. Extremes in warm daytime temperatures (83 percent) and warm nighttime temperatures (70 percent) covered large areas of the nation, contributing to the record high value.
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Unfortunately, NOAA offers little near-term hope for alleviating the drought. Here's their forecast through the end of September:
This does not bode well for US crops.
And since it tends to be hotter in a widespread drought, there's every reason to believe the above average warmth will continue. Mother Nature is just getting warmed up!
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Corn prices surge as USDA reports 18 states hurt by drought
The U.S. Department of Agriculture report said 30% of the corn in the 18 states that produce most of the nation's crop is now considered in poor or very poor condition. A week ago, it was 22%.
The drought will end. El-nino conditions are manifesting right now and with that will come cooler weather for the US. People will shrug and say what global warming, its cool now, and all will be forgotten.
Australia had a record drought with record fires and many dead, people were becoming more concerned about global warming, but then the el-nino broke and a la-nina set in. With it came cooler weather and lots of rain and flooding. No one connected the dots with record floods and global warming, because it was cooler, in fact almost record breaking coolness. As el-nino sets in here and we set new record droughts and high temperatures, some people will mention climate change and others (those who vote conservative) will be quick to point out the cool summer that we have just had. Nothing will change until food becomes scarce and by then we will truly be entering the first phase of humanities slow fall.
A 1 in 1.6 million event and Shell wants to prepare for a one in 10 year storm in exploiting the pristine Arctic and arguing against the Coast Guard 1 in 100 year requirement as being too excessive. Get real Shell… In reality Shell should just pack up and leave. Invest in the Green Awakening Economy and do good for Humanity Shell. You owe us big time as is.
"… staggering for its irresponsibility…"
In his recent article, 'The Silence on Global Warming' (published on consortiumnews and republished today on CommonDreams.org), Robert Parry includes quite a few quotes from John Kerry's recent "major" speech on the Senate floor on June 19.
Here are two of them:
"…the silence that has enveloped a once robust debate is staggering for its irresponsibility."
"What's worse, we've stood by and let it all happen — we've treated falsehood with complacence and allowed a conspiracy of silence on climate change to infiltrate our politics."
Again, that's from John Kerry's speech in the Senate.
And he hits the nail on the head.
But realize (of course), the most prominent enabler of this silence, by far, is President Obama himself. And we are enabling him to enable it!
CAP is how many blocks from the White House? — and is full of folks (and connected to others) who were in high places in previous Democratic administrations and in the Democratic party. So what is up? Why are we not insisting at the top of our lungs (and walking across town) that Obama break the silence in politics regarding climate change and inject the issue, energetically, into the current public and political discussions? Why??
Indeed, is it the AAAS, the NAS, or both, that are (along with CAP) located in Washington, just blocks from the WH?
When John Kerry says that the silence is "staggering for its irresponsibility", and that "we've stood by and let it all happen", he is talking about the President and also us! He is talking not only about senators and Republicans — we already know they're not gonna bring it up — but he's ultimately talking about President Obama, CAP, CP, the MSNBC folks, the Democratic talking heads and pundits, the scientific academies, Bill and 350.org, the environmental groups, me and you — ALL OF US — all of us who are not incessantly insisting that President Obama end the silence and replace it with whatever is necessary.
"staggering for its irresponsibility" is an understatement! And the most irresponsible people (specifically regarding the present silence) at this particular point are not those Republicans or oil execs who don't want to talk about climate change, never wanted to talk about it, never said they would, will never bring it up unless someone else does, and are wishing the topic would just go away. Instead, they are the people with public platforms and megaphones, or with connections to the White House, who COULD bring public and personal pressure on the White House to inject climate change into the present public dialogue, including the media. The President is the single person who can best break the silence that Kerry condemns, and people here (CP, CAP, and all the others listed above) are in the best positions to catalyze him to do so.
a One-In-1.6-Million-Event is a bit of nonsense, really…weather tends towards the trend…warm dry winters beget hot dry summers…
It certainly will not be over a million years to the next record smashing extreme hot weather event.
"Means Nothing!
1. It's only 'weather' not climate
2. It's the urban heat island effect
3. It's sunspots
4. It's galactic rays
5. It's cloud feedback
6. It's El Nino
7. It's La Nina
8. It's Al Gore
9. ummmm…hold on a sec……oh!…It's inaccurate weather stations! (Yes!)
10. Oh! and….it's been hotter before
11. and…oh, only back to 1895…that's real impressive!
12.Mars is warming also
13. Venus is warming also
14. Alpha Centuri is warming also
15. It was cold last night (well, at least a little bit 'coolish)
16. Please provide more…I think we can make it to 100!…anything, god forbid, ANYTHING than acknowledge what is actually happening."
Oh, we're well past 100!
Yes, this is the pattern and folks won't remember it three weeks later. We have to remind them.
But then again this time the weather is different from any I remember and my memory is good plus I'm no longer young.
There will be economic effects this time and the prices of commodities will increase. They need to be reminded again and again.
"The June temperatures contributed to a record-warm first half of the year and the warmest 12-month period the nation has experienced since recordkeeping began in 1895."
Before some denialist hack jumps on you JR, I think you *meant* to say, "warmest 12-month period starting in July" since that links to all July-to-June 12 month periods, of which the current has been the hottest, but it doesn't show how this 12 mo period compares to other 12-month periods..but it's a remarkable graph..I notice a "lake wobegon" effect…since the mid-late 1990s ALL years are "above average", all blue dots above the grey horizontal line.. The other calculatin I'm still trying to wrap my brain around..but this "Lake Wobegon" effect is not good news for the nation…
Bzzt. Try again.
I feel the same frustration as you do and wish Obama would speak up BUT my rational brain tells me: if Obama spoke up tomorrow and then again and then again, and if there were as few people in the strets as now, it would accomplish nothing (or very little, or help the Republicans)
But if Obama said nothing, and there were 100,000 in the street every week (that's VERY modest, it's like 10,000 in comparison with a country 1/10 our population and that happens quite a lot) then it doesn't matter what Obama said or didn't say before…if there were 100,000 every single week indefinitely (and building to 150,000 and 200,000 and more) this would make a difference.
I'm not trying to "Let Obama off the hook" just comparing two scenarios and suggesting which one is actually likely to succeed, and it's the latter one. The hard part is making the latter happen. [look in mirror] [look also at fellow commenters here]
that was supposed to read [looks in mirror] fingers or keyboard botched the "s"
The extra "s" makes all the difference..meaning I was putting myself on the spot as much or more than others…
Thank you, Jeff! Keep pointing out this obvious and total moral vacuity on the part of our President.
Clarification: yes, the graphic at the top does compare all 12-month periods..but the *link* which the words "warmest 12-month period " in that bullet point, links to, is one which only shows a graph of all July-June 12 month periods..
Remember when we used to look forward to summer?
And the trend is: warmer.
Hell n high water
"…the government has an ideological agenda to develop the Canadian economy based on the extraction of oil out of the Alberta tar sands as quickly as possible and sell it as fast as it can, come hell and high water,…."
Hell n high water
"…the government has an ideological agenda to develop the Canadian economy based on the extraction of oil out of the Alberta tar sands as quickly as possible and sell it as fast as it can, come hell and high water,…."
It will not be slow. The cascading collapse of various ecosystems will feed off each other with dreadful synergies like an avalanche gaining speed and mass. And unstoppable, from at least a few decades back, as we are beginning to understand. The brainless frogs have won, and we all get to boil together.
You seem to be assuming that they have a conscience. That would be an error.
The Right will never accept the truth because environmentalism is quintessentially Left, in that it puts life before money and power, and hence the Right will oppose it out of a pure reflex action, and because the Right cannot ever admit error or learn from their mistakes. Their hypertrophied egos (a pathological over-compensation for their mediocrity, in classic Dunning-Kruger fashion)will never allow it.
This is just the state of the climate for the U.S. The "global analysis" won't be released for a few days.
I feel the same way mulga, especially about leaders..and even the "person in the street" right-winger, this rings true about "never admit error"…but isn't a more compassionate (and "left wing") analysis one which for the very end of your post, subsitute something else instead of "mediocrity"? Certainly morally it's a low quality response…some have high intelligence (e.g. masters degree in geology etc)…I think it's not just compassionate but true to say it's a kind of PTSD they have..in fact some of us are left/progressive because we saw and deeply painfully felt pain at a young age seeing unfairness…I think some of them experienced something similar..but learned the wrong lesson..or learned the pain of being 'odd man/woman out' and made fun of for not conforming…they don't consciously lie to themselves, but the conformity got embedded at a very deep psychological level..even liberal/left we are not immune but for some, it's much stronger: you do NOT critice the tribe (so don't be anti-war) and its ideology or else you'll be made fun of so you deeply repress your doubts and you go with right-wing economics….that's not so crazy, they repress homoerotic thoughts, people repress doubts about god and cover those doubts by being ultra religious, sometimes…why not in economic ideology and more in politics?
As you can see I'm not just saying maybe we should be more compassionate in interpretation in order to have a 1% chance of winning over 1% of them, or to "be nice" (though those two are, well, nice too) but because at a deep level I think it's true…
Like you I feel the visceral frustration with right wingers, the ideology that is the death of civilization…and feel the same anger at the deny, deny, deny, never admit wrong, etc…leaders are so locked in they will virtually none of them will truly chance, but at the grassroots level, I think this insight into some kind of reaction to PTSD (rather than just being 'less smart') is an insight we can maybe use…if not to win of the right wingers then at least win over some of the public that is sitting on the fence confused, unsure which side to listen to…
17. Crap and tax doesn't work.
18. It is all a scam made up by *insert Agenda 21, scientists, Al Gore, media, or NWO*.
When talking to a contrarian, make it a point to ask what solutions they have for climate change mitigation that work for their tastes. Most of them avoid the question, and some have flat out told me that it would be impossible to reduce emissions even if it were hypothetically required.
Really, the problem is with an emotional response that they have towards climate change and the solutions proposed. There is no logic that gets through to them, depending on their level of emotional attachment. Some have gone so far as to suggest wild conspiracy hypotheses.
19. It is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
20. Volcanos are producing more CO2 than mankind.
21. Ocean acidification isn't happening or isn't a problem.
Damn right. Some will boil in the sun, while others will boil in the mushroom clouds.
I keep hoping that "We the People" wake up and serve that function. I see no other solution. With the power these Corpro/People weld at this late date,???
I was an undergrad during the Viet Nam war. We screamed, marched, and sat in the streets. Students have always been the conscious of society. And in this case, the younger you are, the more this slow-motion disaster will affect your life. So where are their voices??? Where is the rising-up anger for our lack of action???
And I thought Global Warming didn't exist…
One has to be not a genius to project these "decades ago – announced trends" further into the future.
The future trend threatens the survival of our very civilization. We have to stop consuming fossil fuels and transition to a low carbon economy – immediately.
hey, put it this way… at least we're smarter and have more time to prepare! i'm still not convinced, but if this is a trend, it may be time to get real.
Lewis Yablonsky coined a term for this sort of corporate zombie-the Robopath. That slim volume woke me up to the reality of the terminal decline of humanity, led by those dead souls who had replaced their human consciences with a cash register.
Fair enough. Empathy and compassion are essential to a humane life and civilization. I regret despising these creatures so much, because negativity is not constructive. I really wish that these people would wake up and join the decent fraction of humanity, but I doubt, to the point of being utterly convinced, that they ever will. Indeed I expect them to grow ever more vicious and when the disaster is upon us, I expect them to attack us, out of vengeance at being wrong and in order that they survive and we do not. That is how the Right acts, and has always acted throughout history. They are the death-impulse, the power of Thanatos, the destructive urge that resides within humanity and has always made our long-term survival problematic. The only way to defeat them and save humanity,(because, be certain, they are destroying us), involves actions that make us like them, which might be their ultimate and most ironic victory of all.
I'm tempted to do a "Visual Connection Experiment"…
Place 1 Gallon of ICE, in a Glass Box, along with 1 Gallon of Gasoline. Put a hole at the bottom to collect the melted ICE into a bucket.
Light a match, throw it inside, push RECORD on a video camera… then post the results to YouTube.
For every 18 miles a car travels, this is how much the icecaps melt… Ships, Airplanes, Houses, burn far more… It would frighten everyone.
The problem with our layman's "understanding" is we've "visually hidden" what the burning of fossil fuels actually does!
Next time, look at the "pipes" coming out of your roof of your house… it's all invisible fire… gas, heat pushed right up into the atmosphere!
I give our "human based" world 600-900 years more if we continue, which is scary!
Let's go 80% nuclear in the meantime, otherwise expect a smokey planet in less than 150 years…
I think of radical ideas like giving countries "5 years" to clean up their most polluting industries… then give them a final, 6 month notice to get the people out… then BOMB that area. That might sound radical, but it's entirely rational.
Think about it…


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In 1970, Walter Mischel conducted a now classic experiment. He left four-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If the child rang the bell, he would come back and let her eat the marshmallow. But if she resisted ringing the bell, and waited for him to return on his own, the child would be given two marshmallows. The choice was between instant gratification and delayed-but-increased gratification.
Mischel videotaped the kids desperately trying to exercise self-control. Some broke down and rang the bell in less than a minute. Others lasted up to 15 minutes. Mischel continued to track the children through their teen years and into adulthood. He concluded that the children who exhibited the least self-control at four were more likely to become bullies, receive poor grades in school, and have substance abuse problems by age 32. The preschoolers who waited, on the other hand, tended to outperform their peers in school, went on to college, and became healthier adults.
I have considered conducting this same experiment with my own children, but I'm afraid of what the outcome might reveal about them ... and me. Mischel wrote in his report, "It pays to work toward the future instead of living for instant gratification." That is the basic goal of parenting. We try to nurture an infant, which has no ability to delay his desires, into a mature adult who can control his desires in order to maximize future pleasure and minimize future pain.
Mischel's marshmallow test reveals the missing factor in our contemporary conversations about sex. Ours is not the first sex-saturated culture to inhabit the earth, but we are the first to also have an economic system predicated on instant gratification. Consider that a century ago, when America's rural citizens and European immigrants flooded into cities, sexual immorality was rampant. In 1910 Chicago had over 1,000 legal brothels. What kept this vice from consuming the population, however, was the virtue of self-control extolled by both the church and wider culture. Many of those who were part of the "Greatest Generation" valued self-denial, delayed gratification, and hard work. These values had real benefits when also applied to the populations' spiritual and sexual lives.
This all changed in the second half of the twentieth century as the United States became a consumer economy. Today, prosperity depends more upon the rapid, repeated consumption of disposable goods and experiences, and less upon the slow, hard work of manufacturing. The rise of advertising during this period also taught us how to desire what we did not need, and the importance of satisfying our desires without delay. As Pepsi's latest campaign says, we should "Live for now."
Research among Millennials is revealing the impact of being shaped by an instant gratification culture. It shows Millennials have an unrealistic expectation of success early in life without first investing years of hard work. In other words, they not only want two marshmallows, they expect to receive them without waiting at all. Millennials feel entitled to what earlier generations expected to earn.
Access to sex and pornography combined with the value of instant gratification has created a perfect smut storm that is causing chaos for churches, kids, marriages, and communities. Unfortunately, many Christian attempts to combat this wave may be doing more harm than good. Rather than cultivating the spiritual fruit of self-control, some churches are doubling down on the culture's value of instant gratification with 30 Day Sex Challenge campaigns or by touting research saying churchgoers have better sex. Adding to the problem is the use of marketing and outreach strategies by churches that also appeal to self-interest and abandon the gospel call to self-denial.
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NORTHPORT | The Northport City Council amended the 2010 city budget on Tuesday to reflect a shortfall in revenue.
Since April, the city has experienced a shortfall of about $520,000 in expected general fund revenue and $350,000 in expected water and sewer revenue. The city has made up for the shortfall through cuts in expenditures, said City Administrator Scott Collins.
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Overview: A group of sailors get trapped on an oil rig and are terrorized by an alien who likes to turn into a stripper.
Directed By: Jim Wynorski, 2004.
The Case For: I guess if you wanted to watch a movie about mind-controlling aliens and isolation you could rent this if "The Thing" was out.
The Case Against: Somewhere, someone's going to make money off that rental, and that just encourages them to make more movies like this.
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Okay, let's say your rich uncle just died of a massive heart attack, right? Let's say he didn't catch you stealing pain medication out of his vanity for all those years, and you were the recipient of a rather large dead-uncle stipend. Finally, let's say your father sits you down in the living room after the funeral. After a little chit-chat, he looks you dead in the eye and asks you a simple question:
"Son, what are you going to do with all that money?"
Some people would buy a house, maybe a car. Others would give the money to friends and family to make sure everyone lived a comfortable life. Still others would give a large chunk of the cash to charity.
Other persons – namely unskilled ones who would steal pain medication from an elderly man and possibly huff rubber cement behind the dumpster at Burger World – would move to Hollywood and start a movie production company. While I have no factual basis for this statement, I am fairly sure this is how Hellfire Productions began.
If you don't believe me, just look at the name. "Hellfire Productions." While it certainly doesn't show the level of intellect a name like "Dudez" does, the name "Hellfire" undoubtedly reflects a certain type of attitude towards life. The attitude of a person who got a tribal tattoo in 1998 and still proudly bears it with his sleeveless Budweiser shirt. A guy who got arrested for running over a group of children after driving his Jeep 70 miles an hour in a school zone and to this day says "little shits had it coming." A person, nay, a dude, who is 30 years old and still religiously attends high-school keg parties.
I'm pretty sure that, when America is a lost civilzation and space explorers come to search our ruins, even they will wonder what happened in those eighteen hours.
And in that same vein, a person who would greenlight a movie like "The Thing Below." In fact, I'm sure the meeting between the movie's pitchman and the suits at Hellfire was one of the greatest intellectual matches in human history:
Pitchman: Okay, like, the people are stranded on an oil rig, right? And there's an alien. And like, the people all have certain gimmicks. Maybe a cowboy and a punk rock girl.
Executive: Any tits?
Pitchman: Yeah, man. Tons of 'em.
Executive: Rock on, bro!
Executive slams a case of Miller Light and throws his desk through the window while steel guitars wail in the background
The Thing Below opens like any high-caliber film would: With about five minutes of military stock footage. Interlaced with said footage are the opening credits, which look like a gigantic, ugly mismash of Impact fonts and Photoshop filters. While all this goes on, a drum-and-bass-heavy soundtrack lets the viewer know that something political is, in fact, going on.
Unfortunately, watching grainy clips of Navy helicopters cruise around is about as interesting as "The Thing Below" gets. After the opening credits (which, besides the stock footage, feature a shot of an explosion that has nothing to do with the plot) the phrase "Eighteen Hours Earlier" flashes across the screen. After watching the film a few times, I am still confused about what that phrase signifies. There is nothing in the film that signifies it is leading up to those eighteen hours, and I'm pretty sure that, besides the stock footage, it does not show any other type of military force. Maybe "Eighteen Hours Later" was the movie's original title. Maybe it took the cast and crew 18 hours to film, cut, and finalize the film.
Whatever the case, I do know what Director Jim Wynorski did not spend those 18 hours on: Directing a film that makes even a little bit of sense. After the credits the film cuts to a dark room where two men in suits are doing their best to look very intimidating while smoking cigarettes. Text at the bottom of the screen tells us we are in a "Military Warehouse." While one man types away at a gigantic Dell laptop, the other spouts off possibly the most generic movie-military jargon ever heard.
This is a good time to bring up something else about "The Thing Below." The characters do not speak in normal dialogue. Instead, they speak in clichés. Constantly. Not one exchange is made that does not involve an old colloquialism a grandmother might say. Here is a snippet of dialogue that, while not said in the film, summarizes most of the speech in the movie:
"Dammit, colonel, listen. We've got five good troops on that boat and they have a snowball's chance of finding a needle in a haystack. I know a stitch in time saves nine, but the buns are burning and the oven's getting cold. We need an answer, and we need it now!"
TOTAL WRECK - crazy-eyed hound is covered in cobwebs, has a vespiary on back, graffiti on side and savage thirst for boat fuel. Frankly, I'm in over my head. He's in room 115 at Motel 6, yours free. 555-2851
Yes, it's the perfect form for surviving a car crash. But it's also the perfect form for so much more, like surviving the trauma of reading any news headline in 2016.
Thirty games and a novel piece of hardware for sixty dollars? This is an insult to my honor.
Selling objects to the past, lighters, weed, etc. Pretty intriguing stuff.
Title of this one pretty much says it all. If it's what you're looking for, then uh, look no further
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Snakes Take Two Bites of the Apple at Fitch Park
17-year old Panamanian LHP Anfernee Benitez tossed four innings of no run/no hit ball with eight strikeouts, 16-year old Dominican SS Sergio Alcantara singled twice, tripled, and scored two runs, and Tyler Linton cracked a two-run double to cap a four run 8th inning rally, as the Diamondbacks outlasted the Cubs 8-6 on Field #4, and Wagner Mateo belted an RBI double to put the D'backs on the board in the top of the 1st, and Andrew Velasquez laced an RBI triple to plate the Diamondbacks final run in the top of the 4th, as the D'backs withstood a Cub rally in the bottom of the 9th (Cubs scored twice and left the bases loaded) and defeated the Cubs 5-3 on Field #2, sweeping a Cactus League Extended Spring Training doubleheader played this morning at Fitch Park in Mesa, AZ.
Jose Rosario got the start for the Cubs on Field #4 and had a rough 1st inning, surrendering four runs on four hits (three singles and a double) and a walk. But then he found his rhythm and retired 12 of the last 13 men he faced (five on strikes) before reaching his pre-planned pitch limit (67).
Rony Rodriguez whacked a two-run HR in the bottom of the 5th and Justin Marra followed an inning later with a two-run double to help the Cubs tie the game on Field #4, and then the Cubs took a 6-4 lead in the bottom of the 7th, before the D'backs erupted for four runs off reliever Chad Martin (capped by the Tyler Linton two-run two-bagger) in the top of the 8th. Martin had a really poor outing, allowing four runs on six hits (three singles, two doubles, and a triple) in just two innngs of work
Albert Almora was in the lineup on Field #4 and played CF for six innings, getting four AB and going 1-4. He struck out (swinging) twice against Anfernee Benitez, then he broke up the no-hitter by rifling a single off RHRP Bobby Hillier and past the D'backs third-baseman leading off the bottom of the 5th (before scoring on the Rony Rodriguez HR), and popped up to the second-baseman in short RF in his final PA (also versus Hillier).
Prior to the doubleheader, RHP Chang-Yong Lim (July 2012 TJS rehab) threw a 25-pitch "live" BP inning on Field #1, facing Jose Morales (strained hamstring rehab), Lance Rymel, and Justin Marra. The 36-year old side-armin' Korean and one-time closer for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows (NPB) was signed by the Cubs post-2012, and has been rehabbing at Fitch Park for the past couple of months. Barring a medical setback, I would think he will probably see some EXST game action soon. (Fellow South Korean Dong-Yub Kim bowed to Lim in "we are not worthy" style as he passed behind the batting cage on Field #1 on his way to Field #4).
In EXST Cubs roster news, INF Bryant Flete has been moved down to the VSL Cubs. Flete had an interesting weekend, playing in the EXST game at Talking Stick last Friday, flying to Venezuela on Saturday, and then playing in the VSL Cubs inaugural yesterday morning (Flete hit lead-off and played SS for the VSL Cubs).
Here are the abridged box scores from today's games (Cubs players only):
1. Rashad Crawford, RF: 1-4 (1-3, 1B, F-7, HBP, K)
2. Carlos Penalver, SS: 0-5 (6-3, P-3, 4-3, P-3, 4-3)
3. Jeffrey Baez, CF: 1-4 (K, F-8, 1B, P-3, R)
4. Yasiel Balaguert, 1B: 2-4 (K, P-3, 1B, 1B, R)
5. Mark Malave, 3B: 0-2 (BB, F-7, K, BB, R)
6. Trevor Gretzky, DH: 2-4 (1B, K, K, 1B, RBI)
7. Brad Zapenas, 2B: 1-4 (K-DP, F-7, K, 1B)
8a. Erick Castillo, C: 0-2 (3-1, F-8)
8b. Alberto Mineo, C: 0-1 (BB, 6-3, RBI)
9. Roberto Caro, LF: 0-3 (6-3, F-7, 1-3, BB)
1. Trey Lang: 3.0 IP, 6 H, 4 R (4 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP, 1 GIDP, 46 pitches (27 strikes), 3/4 GO/FO
2. Jasvir Rakkar: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 2 K, 26 pitches (18 strikes), 2/2 GO/FO
3. Mike Hamann: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 24 pitches (14 strikes), 4/1 GO/FO
4. Tyler Bremer: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 15 pitches (11 strikes), 2/3 GO/FO
SS Carlos Penalver - E-6 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely)
1. Erick Castillo: 1-2 CS
2. Alberto Mineo: 0-1 CS
X. Albert Almora, CF: 1-4 (K, K, 1B, P-4)
NOTE: Almora batted four times, leading off the bottom of the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 6th innings
1. Frandy de la Rosa, 2B: 1-4 (K, K, 4-3, 1B, RBI)
2. Jesse Hodges, 3B: 1-3 (K, F-7, 1B, HBP, R)
3. Jacob Rogers, 1B: 1-4 (K, K, 1B, P-6, R)
4a. Rony Rodriguez, C: 1-2 (5-3, HR, R, 2 RBI)
4b. Justin Marra, C: 1-2 (2B, K, 2 RBI)
5. Jose Dore, LF-RF: 0-3 (K, HBP, K, K)
6. Kevin Encarnacion, RF-CF: 1-3 (BB, L-9, 1B, F-7, R)
7. Xavier Batista, DH: 0-3 (5-4 FC, F-7, BB, K, R)
8. Francisco Sanchez, SS: 0-4 (6-3, K, K, K)
9a. SLOT WAS SKIPPED FIRST TWO TIMES THRU BATTING ORDER
9b. Dong-Yub Kim, LF: 0-2 (F-8, P-5)
1. Jose Rosario: 4.2 IP, 4 H, 4 R (4 ER), 2 BB, 5 K, 1 WP, 67 pitches (40 strikes), 4/5 GO/FO
NOTE: Top of the 5th inning was stopped with two outs when Rosario reached his pre-planned max pitch limit for the game
2. Daury Torrez: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 29 pitches (19 strikes), 2/2 GO/FO
3. Chad Martin: 2.0 IP, 6 H, 4 R (4 ER), 0 BB, 1 K, 34 pitches (26 strikes), 2/3 GO/FO
Rony Rodriguez: 0-1 CS
WEATHER: Sunny with temperatures 100+
NOTE: It wasn't a Cactus League Extended Spring Training game, but the Cubs did play a seven-inning intrasquad game yesterday (Monday) at Fitch Park.
LHP Kyler Burke (strained oblique rehab) got the start for Squad "A" and went 5.1 IP (79 pitches), allowing one run (it was unearned) on three hits (two singles and a triple) and a walk. He struck out four, with a 7/1 GO/FO. Burke should be ready to move up to (presumably) either Daytona or Tennessee.
Jacob Rogers and Yasiel Balaguert were the offensive stars of the game. Rogers belted two doubles (including a two-run double high off the CF "Batter's Eye") and a two-run HR and drove-in four runs for Squad "A," and Balaguert collected a single, a double, and a triple, drove-in two runs, and scored one for Squad "B."
Albert Almora played CF for five innings for Squad "A" and batted four times, going 1-4. He grounded out 4-3 in his first AB, chopped a single over the third-baseman's head his second time up, grounded out 6-3 in his third PA, and flied out F-9 in his final AB.
Rashad Crawford batted once in each of the first three innings for Squad "B," to practice hitting LH against a LHP (Kyler Burke). Formerly a switch-hitter, Crawford is trying to learn to hit LH (only) to take better advantage of his blazing speed. He isn't a very good hitter to begin with (he's hitting 094/216/186 with 13 K in 37 PA in 14 Cactus League Extended Spring Training games), so it's not like he's giving up much by hitting LH versus LHPs.
The game was halted by the coaches briefly in the top of the 6th so that Frandy de la Rosa could run around the bases three times, after he neglected to run out an infield pop up.
Here is the box score from yesterday's intrasquad game:
X. Rashad Crawford, CF: 0-3 (F-7, 4-3, K)
NOTE: Crawford batted three times, leading off the top of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd innings
1. Carlos Penalver, SS-DH: 0-3 (6-3, 5-3, L-7)
2. Yasiel Balaguert, LF-DH: 3-3 (3B, 1B, 2B, R, 2 RBI)
3. Reggie Golden, DH-LF: 0-3 (E-6, 4-3, K)
4. Trevor Gretzky, 1B: 1-2 (1B, 1-3, BB, SB, CS)
5. Garrett Schlecht, RF: 0-2 (3-U, K, BB)
6. Lance Rymel, C: 0-3 (5-3, F-7, K)
7. Mark Malave, 3B: 0-1 (BB, F-9, BB, CS)
8. Frandy de la Rosa, 2B: 0-3 (K, P-5, K)
9. Brad Zapenas, DH-SS: 0-1 (K, HBP, R)
10a. SLOT WAS SKIPPED FIRST TIME THRU BATTING ORDER
10b. Roberto Caro, CF: 0-0 (BB, R)
X. Albert Almora, CF: 1-4 (4-3, 1B, 6-3, F-8)
NOTE: Almora batted four times, leading off the bottom of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th innings
1. Kevin Encarnacion, DH-CF: 1-2 (F-9, 1B, BB, R, SB)
2. Danny Lockhart, 2B: 1-3 (1B, 5-3 DP, E-4, R)
3. Jesse Hodges, 3B: 1-2 (BB, 1B, K, 2 R)
4. Jacob Rogers, 1B: 3-3 (2B, HR, 2B, 2 R, 4 RBI)
5. Jose Dore, DH #2: 0-2 (K, BB, K)
6. Justin Marra, C: 1-3 (K, K, 1B, RBI)
7. Xavier Batista, RF: 0-2 (BB, F-8, L-7)
8. Dong-Yub Kim, LF: 0-2 (BB, 6-3, K, SB)
9. Francisco Sanchez, SS: 0-2 (K, E-3, R)
1. Duane Underwood: 2.2 IP, 4 H, 3 R (3 ER), 3 BB, 3 K, 1 GIDP, 60 pitches (34 strikes) 3/1 GO/FO
2. Carlos Martinez: 1.0 IP, 3 H, 4 R (2 ER), 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HR, 39 pitches (24 strikes), 1/1 GO/FO
NOTE: Bottom of the 4th inning was stopped with two outs when C. Martinez reached his pre-planned max pitch-limit for the game
3. Orbandy Rodriguez: 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R (1 ER), 0 BB, 3 K, 26 pitches (18 strikes), 0/2 GO/FO
1. Kyler Burke: 5.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 4 K, 79 pitches (52 strikes), 7/1 GO/FO
2. Jorge Diaz: 0.2 IP, 1 H, 2 R (2 ER), 1 BB, 1 K, 1 HBP, 1 WP, 15 pitches (8 strikes), 0/1 GO/FO
3. Juan Francisco: 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 2 K, 23 pitches (8 strikes)
1. C Lance Rymel - E-2 (overthrow on SB attempt allowed runner to score)
2. 1B Trevor Gretzky - E-3 (three-base fielding error allowed batter to reach 3rd base safely and runner from 1st to score)
3. 2B Frandy de la Rosa - E-4 (fielding error allowed batter to reach base safely & unearned run to score)
SS Francisco Sanchez - E-6 (throwing error allowed batter to reach base safely & unearned run to score)
Lance Rymel: 0-2 CS, 1 PO, 1 E (see above)
Justin Marra: 2-3 CS
RF Garrett Schlecht - batter (Justin Marra) was thrown out 9-6 trying to stretch single into double
Villanueva punching his
Villanueva punching his ticket to the bullpen tonight.
...and continuing it into the
...and continuing it into the 3rd.
...and the 5th.
...and the 5th.
cargo has a 5/5 night...2hr,
cargo has a 5/5 night...2hr, 2 singles, double
also, s.camp missing with a 78mph changeup is a dangerous thing...for cubs fans.
...on the cubs side, d.barney goes 3/4 with a HR and a double...raising his avg to .186
"Cubs manager Dale Sveum said
"Cubs manager Dale Sveum said Tuesday that Arodys Vizcaino (elbow) is a couple weeks away from appearing in a game."
scott baker is jelly.
Is there any news on Scott
Is there any news on Scott Baker's progress? I know hindsight is 20/20 but I never understood the Scott Baker signing. Why pay 5.5 million to a pitcher on a 1 year deal who at best won't return to form until after the trade deadline? It doesn't make sense for a rebuiling team without a club option for next year. I don't think this year's contract leads to any better deal next year. Do you really think his agent is going to let him take $5.5 million less from the Cubs than another team next year because they were nice.... How does this payoff?
up until he had a couple of
up until he had a couple of bumps in the road he was expected to be ready by april/may.
he was ahead of schedule at one point where they were talking about him being ready for opening day, but probably not ready to throw 100+ pitches until a few weeks into the season.
As I recall, this deal
As I recall, this deal greases the wheels for perhaps a favorable one again next year. If the guy doesn't retire, that is.
So I went to see the Kane
So I went to see the Kane County Cougars host, ironically, the Peoria Chiefs. Haven't been there since 1999 to see the Lansing Lugnuts with Choi, Zambrano, and Patterson. Corey looked like the second coming of Lou Brock that night, sigh. Last few years, I've been going to Beloit when the Chiefs were in town against the Snappers , and enjoyed the old-school ambience. KC is more of a Chuck E Cheese vibe, constant kid buzz even on a slow night. But the best draft beer selection I've ever seen in a ballpark and good Bobak's sausage. Randall Road less scenic than Kishwaukee Valley Road, though. (I live far Northwest.)
Cougars scored early, but looked bad late against a couple of Chief relievers who turn out to have some pretty impressive numbers. Damn Cardinals. Shaky defense didn't help stop Chiefs from putting it away later. Observations:
Bijan Rademacher is ready for Daytona, and it would be no surprise if he gets moved up when Almora arrives at KC. Good defense and speed, hits the ball hard, good eye. No home run power yet, so I guess he profiles as a backup.
Wilson Contreras was a pleasant surprise. He's a lean, athletic catcher, made a nice pickup and throw on a swinging bunt and hit a home run to center.
Jeimer Candelario has little range at third base.
Rock Shoulders is a big fellow, but appears to have the athleticism to play left field. Smoked a double to left-center.
Dan Vogelbach's body language told me he was unhappy with his approach--swinging at pitches he should have taken and taking ones he should have hit. Still reached the warning track against an early crosswind even though he didn't get it all. Quick bat. Trying hard defensively at first--you could see him concentrating on timing his flips to the pitcher covering--but a work in progress.
Phillies talking a minor
Phillies talking a minor league chance on Zambrano.
What's the over under on days in the organization?
Dear Phillies,
Dear Phillies,
If for some unimaginable reason Carlos Zambrano doesn't work out for you, we'll trade you a starter.
Taking a minor league chance
Taking a minor league chance on a guy that used to be the Cub's ace...
Hi Phil, what's your take on
Hi Phil, what's your take on the potential of Jacob Rodgers and 3b Hodges? They caught my eye when I was there in April. Thanks. Bob
so much fail
"In 26 games with High-A
"In 26 games with High-A Daytona this season, Soler is hitting .281/.369/.542 with five homers, 14 RBI, 19 runs and three steals in four attempts. His 13 walks in 111 plate appearances is an encouraging sign, as he totaled just 12 free passes in 149 PAs at two lower levels last season."
While I think it is premature, what do we think would trigger a move up to West Tenn?
matt szcuzur and jae hoon ha
matt szcuzur and jae hoon ha are blocking him and doing well...effectively right now even though neither are expected to be impact players (or even a solid starter option) compared to soler.
either can/do play CF as well as RF, too...and it seems both are being groomed for super-utility-OF roles while getting the play time and ABs to keep their outside chance of starting roles alive.
Thanks guys, and Crunch it
Thanks guys, and Crunch it seems to me that the only thing that "blocks" Soler is doing what is best for Soler. Any other player that gets in the way of that will find another roll in the organization.
That's the problem Vogelberg
That's the problem Vogelberg and Shoulders found all the rolls
There is an abundance of
There is an abundance of rolls now that hendry is gone.
Dough? Yeah, you kneed good
Dough? Yeah, you kneed good dough to make rolls.
soler is a lot more important
soler is a lot more important than szcuzur and ha...no doubt.
one of them has to move to AAA to play RF/CF to open up a slot for soler in AA, though.
right now b.jackson, d.sappelt, and b.bogusevic are hogging the OF slots in AAA.
if r.sweeney doesn't start hitting that could be figured out rather soon with sappelt coming back up, b.jackson getting called back up, or bogs (who's been playing all 3 OF slots) being added to the 40-man and opening up a place for szcuzr/ha to move up and open up RF for soler in AA (both szcuzr and ha are better used in CF).
soler is hands down the most important player out of everyone mentioned...especially given his contract/pay. i doubt he'll be blocked if/when he starts mastering A ball to the point it's a joke...something will be forced to happen.
val returns...
val returns...
DeJesus CF Castro SS Rizzo 1B Soriano LF Schierholtz RF Valbuena 3B Navarro C Barney 2B Samardzija P
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I have a lot of faith in Baez that he's going to turn into a more consistent, solid player. It looks like it took him about a half season or so of futility at the plate to figure out he was not talented enough to get away with the crazy approach he had. I think his running game will eventually have a more measured aggression.
I hope the D and bullpen show up. Cubs haven't had much luck against Davies, and he's been going well lately. A little uncomfortable with the Cards only 6.5 back--feels like they're right on our tails compared to the 11 game lead I've grown accustomed to.
Cardinals, stop that. Right now.
In a year or two, a lot of fans are going to point at trading him as a mistake. He'll probably be slashing something like 280/400/480 for Seattle at the time. Of course, by WAR, he'll still be worth less than 3, since we're talking zero defensive value.
vogelbomb debut for tacoma (AAA SEA)... 3-3, 1bb, 1 HR, 1 double...DH'd.
while he mostly played 1st considerably more than DH for AAA CHC, DJ Peterson is probably going to see most of the time at 1st for AAA SEA.
Carl Jr.! Very nice!
Baez with another "WTF?" play trying a delayed steal with a runner on 3rd and one out.. Remarkable talent, needs to make better decisions.
m.montgomery up in the pen with a man on 2nd, 2 out, and rondon 20 pitches into the inning.
...and rondon ends it 22 pitches in with a popout to RF.
I gotta say with the crappy defense the Brewers have displayed outside of Fowler I'm pretty disappointed the offense hasn't shown more and Rizzo seems to be very swing happy lately. That said my god am I happy Madden has finally given Carl Edwards a chance after multiple times up with nothing. I don't think he could handle a starting role with his body frame but his stuff plays so well in a relief role and he seems to be able to handle high stress situations very well.
2nd at bat. Fowler is good for the Cubs run differential.
welcome back fowler.
More slow news...
Did Davey Martinez have to bring the shotgun?
glad to see almora going to AAA to get work.
.265/.291/.422 through 86PA...2hr, 7 doubles.
i don't expect too much of an improvement when he's taking over CF next year, but the team doesn't really need him right now as much as they need him to get regular work (imo).
CHITOWNMVP01: The Cubs MLB Reserve List (40-man roster) has had one slot open since 7/6 (when RHRP Joel Peralta was Designated for Assignment).
The problem with the September roster is all of the pitching changes. They should find a way to limit pitchers to twelve except for extra inning games. More pinch hitters or pinch runners do little to slow the game down and are more fun than endless calls to the bullpen. I also think the fans get cheated when they use position players to pitch because employed a half dozen pitchers with righty-lefty switches. Having as few as four positions players on the bench to start a game also leads to some pretty ugly defensive substitutions.
CHITOWNMVP01: Joe Nathan's 30-day Article XIX-C minor league rehab assignment expires tomorrow, but he doesn't have to be reinstated from the 60-day DL tomorrow.
Also, I think 40 man roster should be full, not at 39, unless I counted wrong. I'm in a hurry to leave the house.


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The Art of Compromise
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Anyone who's ever been in any kind of human relationship with anyone knows that compromise is key. Whether it's eating at a home-style buffet that closes by 5 p.m. because that's where Grandma wants to go or sitting through your best friend's mime punk band / drum circle, we all do things we may not want to out of love. Sometimes, though, it works out so that everyone gets what they want.
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In many ways, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex epitomizes the Ancient Greek tragedy. The narrative is framed by prophecy; poetic priests foreshadow and omniscient oracles foretell each ruinous event. Past and present collide with catastrophic consequences, raising the eternal question: Is the individual ruled by fate or freewill? (The Ancients seem deleteriously attached to the power of the former.) A chorus of citizens speculates incessantly, often in echo of the audience's observations.
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I noticed that there is no dealloc method already placed in various class files when i create an ios5 based project, but I remember that there is a ready-made dealloc method placed in most of these files in ios 4.3 based projects ... does that mean that if I did not release allocated objects, no memory leak will happen ? or should I my own dealloc method ?
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CBRNE - Nerve Agents, Binary - GB2, VX2 Follow-up
- Author: Larissa I Velez-Daubon, MD; Chief Editor: Duane C Caneva, MD, MSc more...
Further Outpatient Care
See the list below:
- Patients who are discharged from the hospital do not usually require further instructions or care. Nerve agents have not been associated with organophosphate-induced delayed neuropathy. Advise patients with miosis not to drive at night until their visual deficit resolves, which may take several weeks.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder is common after terrorist events; patients may need a psychiatric evaluation or referral.
Further Inpatient Care
See the list below:
- Admit all patients with liquid exposures for observation, even if initially asymptomatic. Onset of symptoms with these exposures may be delayed as long as 18 hours.
- After a vapor exposure with only minimal symptoms, the patient can usually be discharged home.
- Admit patients who have more than simple miosis for observation and further inpatient care.
Inpatient & Outpatient Medications
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- The cornerstone of management is the early use of antidotes (atropine and pralidoxime). No evidence supports the use of long-term therapy after the acute phase is over.
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- Prompt delivery of antidotes is of foremost importance in these patients. Transfer to a higher level of care facility may be arranged after decontamination, antidote administration, and stabilization of the patient.
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- Patients with status epilepticus or hypoxemia may experience anoxic brain injury.
- Delayed or insufficient use of pralidoxime can lead to protracted muscle weakness.
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- If patients recover from the acute effects of the exposure, chronic effects are generally not expected. Subtle behavioral and cognitive changes have been noted to persist for days to weeks after the initial exposure. Patients may have permanent sequelae if they experienced anoxia during the acute phase of the poisoning.
Patient Education
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- For excellent patient education resources, visit eMedicineHealth's First Aid and Injuries Center. Also, see eMedicineHealth's patient education articles Chemical Warfare and Personal Protective Equipment.
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|Chemical Name
|LCt50, mgXmin/m3
|Ethyl N -dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate
|Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate
|Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate
|O-Ethyl S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonothioate
|Severity of Exposure
|Signs and Symptoms - Liquid*
|Signs and Symptoms - Vapor†
|Localized sweating at site
Localized fasciculations at site
Slight dyspnea
|Above-mentioned symptoms and the following:
Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea
Generalized weakness
|Above-mentioned symptoms and the following:
Moderate-to-marked dyspnea
(bronchorrhea and/or bronchoconstriction)
|Above-mentioned symptoms and the following:
Loss of consciousness
Generalized fasciculations
Flaccid paralysis and apnea
|Above-mentioned symptoms and the following:
Loss of consciousness
Generalized fasciculations
Flaccid paralysis and apnea
|* Onset possibly delayed
† Rapid onset of symptoms
|Dose (Adult)
|2 mg q5-10min prn
Note: The MARK 1 kit contains 2 mg of atropine.
|Excessive muscarinic symptoms
|Relative: IV route in hypoxia has been associated with ventricular fibrillation.
|Pralidoxime chloride (Protopam, 2-PAM)
|15-25 mg/kg over 20 min; can be repeated after 1 h
Note: The MARK 1 kit contains 600 mg of pralidoxime.
|Symptomatic nerve agent poisoning
|Rapid infusion may result in hypertension; may worsen symptoms in carbamate poisoning
|Diazepam (Valium)
|2-5 mg IV
10 mg IM
|Moderate or severe signs of poisoning, seizures
|*Adapted from Sidell, 1992.[3]
|Severity/Route of Exposure
|Atropine (Adult Dose)
|Decontamination and 18-h observation for liquid exposures
|2 mg for severe
rhinorrhea or
dyspnea; may be
|Administer if dyspnea
is not improving
or if GI
symptoms occur
|Decontamination and 18-h observation for liquid exposures; oxygen
|6 mg; may need to repeat
|Administer with atropine
|Administer even in absence of seizures
|Decontamination; oxygen
|Start with 6 mg; may need to repeat
|Administer with atropine; should repeat once or twice
|Administer even in absence of seizures
|Airway, breathing, and circulation; decontamination
|*Adapted from Sidell, 1992.[3]


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Paperback Fiction Bestsellers For May 26
Compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide in collaboration with the American Booksellers Association. This list reflects sales ending May 22.
1. The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
7 weeks on list
Paperback, 544pp, $16.00
Berkley Trade
Pub Date: Apr. 5, 2011
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan
9 weeks on list
Paperback, 352pp, $14.95
Pub Date: Mar. 22, 2011
3. Cutting for Stone
By Abraham Verghese
69 weeks on list
Paperback, 688pp, $15.95
Pub Date: Jan. 26, 2010
4. Room
By Emma Donoghue
2 weeks on list
Paperback, 352pp, $14.99
Back Bay Books
Pub Date: Jun. 1, 2011
5. Water for Elephants
By Sara Gruen
121 weeks on list
Paperback, 350pp, $14.95
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub Date: Mar. 1, 2011
6. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
By Helen Simonson
25 weeks on list
Paperback, 384pp, $15.00
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub Date: Nov. 30, 2010
7. The Postmistress
By Sarah Blake
16 weeks on list
Paperback, 384pp, $15.00
Berkley Trade
Pub Date: Feb. 1, 2011
8. Little Bee
By Chris Cleave
66 weeks on list
Paperback, 304pp, $15.00
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date: Feb. 16, 2010
9. Our Kind of Traitor
By John le Carre
4 weeks on list
Paperback, 320pp, $15.00
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Pub Date: Apr. 26, 2011
10. The Imperfectionists
By Tom Rachman
20 weeks on list
Paperback, 304pp, $15.00
Dial Press Trade Paperback
Pub Date: Jan. 4, 2011
11. Island Beneath the Sea
By Isabel Allende
3 weeks on list
Paperback, 480pp, $14.99
Harper Perennial
Pub Date: May. 1, 2011
12. Matterhorn
A Novel of the Vietnam War
By Karl Marlantes
2 weeks on list
Paperback, 608pp, $15.95
Grove Press
Pub Date: May. 10, 2011
13. The Art of Racing in the Rain
By Garth Stein
102 weeks on list
Paperback, 336pp, $14.99
Harper Paperbacks
Pub Date: Jun. 1, 2009
14. Super Sad True Love Story
By Gary Shteyngart
2 weeks on list
Paperback, 352pp, $15.00
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub Date: May. 3, 2011
15. Imperfect Birds
By Anne Lamott
7 weeks on list
Paperback, 336pp, $15.00
Riverhead Trade
Pub Date: Apr. 5, 2011
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