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Freshman (2011)... All-Big Ten first team ... NFHCA All-West Region first team ... Synapsesports.com All-Rookie team ... All-Big Ten Tournament team ... NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad ... U-M Athletic Academic Achievement award (2011) ... Named the U-M Female Rookie of the Year at the Michigan Athletic Academic Achievement award banquet ... Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Oct. 25) ... National Freshman of the Week by Synapse Sports (Oct. 24) ... Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week (Oct. 4) ... Started all 22 games in the backfield for the Maize and Blue ... Collected the game-winning goal in a 2-0 victory over Iowa (Oct. 1) ... Added a game-winner in the Michigan State victory (Oct. 21) ... Had the third goal in the 4-2 win over Indiana (Oct. 28) ... Had the team's lone goal in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinal game against North Carolina (Nov. 13) ... Scored her first career goal and added an assist in the win over Central Michigan (Sept. 9) ... Assisted on a goal in the Big Ten Tournament semifinal game against Iowa (Nov. 4) ... Had a goal and added an assist in the win over Yale (Oct. 8) ... Dished out two assists in the win over New Hampshire in the NCAA Tournament first round (Nov. 13) ... Assisted on both of Rachael Mack's goals in a 3-2 overtime win at Temple (Sept. 3) ... Had her first career defensive save against Ohio State (Sept. 23) ... Attempted 20 shots on the season, including three at Temple... Had an assist in the win over Miami (Sept. 24) ... Helped U-M's defense to six shutouts on the season, including 2-0 wins over Iowa (Oct. 1), Penn State (Oct. 16) and Michigan State (Oct. 21) ...
Prep... Graduated from Onze Lieve Vrouwe van Lourdes (2011) ...
Club/Junior Team... Played for the Braxgata Hockey Club, playing in the Honour Division (2010) ... Helped Braxgata to a fifth-place finish in the division ... Played for Herakles, winning several national championships with the youth teams and played two years in Division I as a midfielder.
National/International... Is the captain of the Under-18 Belgian National Team (2011) ... Started playing for Belgium at age 14 ... Helped the Under-16 team to a fifth-place finish at the European Nations Championship in the Netherlands (2008) ... Was the youngest player at the Under-18 European Nations Championship, helping Belgium to a best-ever fourth-place finish (2009).
Personal... Enrolled in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business ... Born Jan. 21, 1993 ... Daughter of Pierre-Emmanuel Fobe and Anne-Claire Borremans.
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That all came out of the fact that he wanted more to do, so it was a blessing.AdvertisementWhen Bill said "I want more to do," we thought "Well, let's go ahead and take a risk and put stuff in front of him that he may or may not do. Let's do Caddyshack jokes, let's do Ghostbusters jokes, and see if he reacts." We feared that he would not wanna make fun of his career or that he wouldn't want to do anything self-referential. Instead, he totally embraced it. We're calling Sony, going, "Get us the Ghostbusters outfit down here immediately! And see if we can get the rights to 'I'm Alright' by Kenny Loggins from Caddyshack!" So that all got put into motion in a hurry based on his willingness to do these crazy things.Paul Wernick: It's so very rare that an actor is willing to make fun of himself and I think it endears, that ability to laugh at yourself, endears and audience to you. 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Posted By Taylor Smith On Dec 25 2011 @ 12:59 pm In Los Angeles Clippers,NBA | No Comments
Ah, the time has finally come.
Almost two full months late, the NBA is set to get underway today, with five delicious games to help distract you from the A Christmas Story marathon.
Things get kicked off with the Celtics and Knicks at noon, followed by the world champion Dallas Mavericks hosting the Heat at 2:30.
At 5, the new-look Lakers will host MVP Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls, while at 7:30 the Magic take on the Thunder.
And, in the nightcap, the L.A. Clippers travel north to face the Golden State Warriors.
The Clippers, of course, have been the talk of the NBA's abbreviated offseason after pulling off a blockbuster trade that landed Chris Paul a few weeks back. L.A. won both of their preseason tilts with their in-house rivals, the Lakers, in rather spectacular, dunk-a-riffic fashion.
They haven't reached the playoffs since the 2005-06 season, and are obviously hoping that the addition of CP3 will change the fortunes of the franchise. They also added a pair of former All-Stars in Caron Butler and Chauncey Billups to the starting lineup.
The Warriors have struggled through a similarly futile recent history, having reached the playoffs just one time (2006-07) in the last 17 seasons. This campaign may be headed for a rough start, as well, as they may be without star guard Stephen Curry, who sprained his ankle in the final preseason game against Sacramento last week. He's officially listed as day-to-day.
The Pacific Division rivals split their four meetings last season, but Golden State has won the last three at home against the Clippers.
Tip-off is scheduled for 10:30pm ET.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008My twelve year old couldn't wait to show me what he will be doing in school.
Sewing an apron!!! He knew how excited I would be. I actually think he is looking forward to it too. I remember my home-ec class like it was yesterday. We started in eighth grade, and made a jacket, with a zipper. I wore mine. (Of course, I did.)
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Oh my, I remember home ec class! I wish they still had it. I went for probably 15 years from home ec until the next time I touched a sewing machine and I still remembered how to thread it. I was amazed.
I'm looking forward to seeing your tangled yoke. Mine is ready for some cabling and I'm a little afraid. Maybe you'll give me courage!Yeah, an apron!! That was my first sewing/home ec project too. Oh, what strange memories that brings back from the 7th grade;)
We later made pants. Totally embarrasing! I remember we were all sent to the bathroom to put them on and wear them for the entire class to see. *blush*
Be sure to show pictures of your sons apron when it's done!oh this is a great post! reminds me of my home ec sewing project - a navy dress with large white daisies on it (hey it was the 60's). it was hideous and i only wore it once to a funeral. i'm sure your son will do much better than i did.
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12 children hurt when Conn. fair ride loses power
Updated 7:45 pm, Sunday, September 8, 2013
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — Authorities say 12 children were injured when a ride at a Connecticut fair suddenly stopped, sending its riders crashing into each other.
Norwalk police say a dozen children and one adult were transported to hospitals after the rotating swing ride at the city's Oyster Festival came to a sudden stop Sunday afternoon. All but one were treated and released.
Officials did not release the age of the lone victim hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
State police say a mechanical failure caused the ride to stop, which sent its occupants careening into each other. They say no riders were ejected from the ride or fell to the ground.
Troopers with state police fire and explosion unit are investigating the cause of the failure.
Other rides were briefly halted for inspection.


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Let me not go too much into the details. My first award is the Superior Scribbler Award which was handed out to me by both Meenakshi Nair @ Ponderings and Betty Manousos @ CUT AND DRY. THANKS A LOT FRIENDS!!!
And that's why Meenakshi gave me this award - "A multi talented person, whose writing is as good as his singing. Oh, and must say he too is a multiple blogger, like me".
- Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.
- Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
- Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to This Post, which explains The Award.
- Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List. That way, we'll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives This Prestigious Honor!
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- Brian Miller @ WAYSTATIONONE, for maintaining a blog with a clean posts rich in imagination and good language.
- Matthew @ AbodeOne Three, for sheer descriptive elegance that he brings to his each post.
- SupahMommy @ Adventures of a Wanna-Be SupahMommy, for making me laugh without a fail every time I visit her.
- Steven Anthony @ No Excuse, No Explanation, for maintaining a blog so vivid with his own experiences and unique regular columns like 'Friday Phone Calls'
- Braja @ LOST and FOUND in INDIA, for the kind of very insightful things that she writes about. She calls herself a Blogging Yogini' and I can't agree any less to that.
And here is the Mr. Linky List for you to register your name as the recepient of this award.
*****************************************************************************Ok, now to my second award. This is called 'A present For Your Blog' award and this was given to me by MITR-FRIEND @ My Travelogue. I got this one for my travel blog - Where The Roads Take Me. I'm surprised that I got an award for that blog 'coz that's the least noticed of the 5 blogs that I maintain. I'm overwhelmed at this!!! THANKS A LOT MITR!
And look at what she had to say about me - "A biker man from Kerala who goes wherever the road take him. A brand new yet a promising blog. And I actually like his name very much".
- Meenakshi Nair @ Ponderings (Obviously)
- Betty Manousos @ CUT AND DRY (Obviously)
- Stacy J Warner @ Stacey's Respite
- Chief @ (Hiding from the Kids)
- Mama Zen @ The Zen Of Motherhood
- Lisa E @ FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
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- Lena @ WHAT LENA LEAVES...
- Amy @ ... (Now, that's her blog's name)
- Jo @ Diary Of A Sad Housewife
- Kelly Muys Wood @ tearing up houses
- Eva Grant @ Wrestling with Retirement
- Vodka Mom @ Vodkamom
- Toddler Brain @ TODDLER brain
- Charmaine@ MIDDLE AGED DATING
- Manic Mother @ Manic Mother
- Gloria @ GLORIA'S SPANISH VIEW
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Puf... pant... woooo... I think that's enough for now.
And, I'll not say that these are all the bloggers who I follow regularly. In fact, I do not follow more than maybe 10 or 15 blogs on a regular basis. But we've all visited each other's blogs one time or the other and have left such wonderful comments that were an inspiration for me to keep blogging. If not for you, I would've stopped blogging long back! And I take this opportunity to tell you that I have not forgotten you and also that your presence at my blog will always be remembered.
Now, if anyone still feels that I've missed out on you it's either 'coz I find some of the blogs not accessible any more or 'coz I simply missed out on you (I couldn't sit and find each one of you. I'm sorry.)
And finally, Tasha & Ekan Thank You All for your wonderful support and encouragements!
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"Of course race is involved. Because people don't generally lose their minds and start acting like idiots in this country unless race is involved somehow…"
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- traditionalguy said...
Wisconsin should not elect Judges if they cannot use political ads in the campaign.
- Rick said...
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/06/how-to-fail-the-barbri-midterm-and-still-pass-on-the-first-try/ at the top of the page linked. Isn't that you again? unacknowledged?
- E.M. Davis said...
Dear Internetters,
Please find a new picture of a law student cramming.
I'm being stalked by a bedheaded blonde with bad glasses!
WV: ingling. I had an ingling I would see that fucking picture again. - 7/6/10, 10:38 AM
- Big Mike said...
Did you link to this because you're a professor at the Wisconsin Law School? Or because your iconic photo is posted in the upper left corner?
- E.M. Davis said...
Still having comment issues. Mine only shows up on the Blogger-themed comments page, not when you click on the datestamp in the original post.
Also, it doesn't register as a comment on the original post, which still reads 0 comments. - 7/6/10, 10:41 AM
- The Crack Emcee said...
Thank. You.
- John Lynch said...
1. The ad accuses a lawyer of doing his job. A public defender gets an appeal all the way up to the state supreme court, and we are supposed to take that as a bad thing? Doesn't that show that he knows what he is doing?
2. The case still results in the defendant being imprisoned.
3. The ad lied, omitting the part about the defendant going to jail, but most political ads do.
4. Lying in political ads is supposed to be a bigger no-no for judges than for other officials. Why? Why are judges supposed to follow rules for elected officials that no one else does? Why have elected judges, then? - 7/6/10, 10:52 AM
- Alex said...
- Synova said...
Well, if I were running for the office in Wisconsin I know what MY campaign ad would say.
And I'm the first to scoff at the notion that everything is about race and racism and manipulating racists but the description of the ad in question is beyond egregious. If the rapist had actually been released early instead of serving his full sentence I don't think that I'd put as much weight on the implication that the black guy was trying to keep black criminals on the street because it would all seem more factual. Since it was pretty clearly a carefully crafted insinuation, its very easy to see... insinuation. - 7/6/10, 11:11 AM
- Synova said...
All the Obama campaign stuff I got in the mail was full of the same outright lies. McCain wants to do this! McCain will do that! And often enough it was completely contrary to what McCain's stated opinions were about anything. They were taking a Republican party plank and presenting it as McCain's personal opinion.
Liars are liars.
And the weasely twisting of what is in order to lie without actually *lying* in a way that is actionable is why people hate lawyers. - 7/6/10, 11:16 AM
- Oligonicella said...
"Of course race is involved. Because people don't generally lose their minds and start acting like idiots in this country unless race is involved somehow…"
Prohibition. - 7/6/10, 11:42 AM
- raf said...
Of course race is involved
More likely, power/politics is involved.
Which is why race continues to be the big issue it remains. - 7/6/10, 11:58 AM
- Ann Althouse said...
"Isn't that you again? unacknowledged?"
It's a running joke over there at this point. They know I don't mind.
The writer of the linked-to post is black, btw.
@John Lynch Is it really a lie? There's a missing fact that is relevant, and there's also a deliberate effort to make people feel uneasy about criminal defendants having their rights enforced and about having someone who has defended the accused making the call about what the scope of rights is. To call that kind of slanted presentation a lie... is itself a slanted presentation.
I think the best thing is to counter an ad like that with a better ad. Butler could have portrayed Gableman as unsuitable to be a judge because he presented a legal matter that way. Going after him after the election is too partisan, and the partisan split on the court looks awful. - 7/6/10, 11:58 AM
- A.W. said...
Well, the two opinions are here:
(liberal bloc)
And here:
(conservative bloc) - 7/6/10, 12:14 PM
- A.W. said...
btw, from the facts found below in the case: "Nothing that Justice Butler did in the course of his representation of Mitchell caused, facilitated, or enabled Mitchell's release from prison in 1992."
Um, isn't that an embarrassment in and of itself? he failed to make any difference. He might as well have not been there. - 7/6/10, 12:19 PM
- edutcher said...
Willie Horton, like John Henry, will never really die.
PS Some nice guy from Cincinnati should take that hard-working girl with the glasses out on a date. - 7/6/10, 1:10 PM
- David said...
From the article: " . . . a potentially interesting legal issue breaks down along party lines."
An important legal issue--maybe the most important--free speech.
Just what we need--the courts deciding who is telling the truth in political ads.
That's the news media's job. (Whoops!!) - 7/6/10, 1:20 PM
- Lance Burri said...
"Of course race is involved. Because people don't generally lose their minds and start acting like idiots in this country unless race is involved somehow…"
Has this guy ever watched a football game? - 7/6/10, 8:21 PM


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text: 12 Ways to Rid Your House of Bad SmellsBrett Martin5/21/12 5:00pmFiled to: Home modCleaningSmellsTop952EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkExhaust fans and open windows only go so far toward eliminating foul odors. Making your sniffer happy oftentimes requires something extra, like baking powder, vinegar or special charcoal. For smells that make you run out of the room holding your nose, try these tricks:1. ID the source and remove it"The key to odor removal is removing the source of the odor," says Bob Smolka, restoration manager for ACR, Inc., a specialized cleaning services company in Wheeling, Ill. If mold, mildew, faulty plumbing or an animal carcass in your chimney is causing the smell, then spraying air fresheners and burning candles will only temporarily overpower the stench. You need to eliminate the source of the problem for a true fix.2. Wash away foul dishwasher smellsFill a dishwasher-safe cup with white vinegar, place it on the top rack, and run it through a cycle without any dishes. If you don't have a safe cup, pour two cups of vinegar into the bottom of the dishwasher. Be prepared for the vinegar to smell for an hour or so, but then all smells will be gone.3. Cover temporary kitchen odors, like burnt toast and fried bacon. Turn on the exhaust fan, open the windows and spray an air freshener.4. Tame pet odor, including the kitty litter boxActivated charcoal, which is a form of carbon that has been "activated" to make it extremely porous, is great for absorbing a range of odors, especially those caused by pets. You can buy activated charcoal specifically designed for pet odors for $7. Put them in or near your litter box to help mitigate the stink.5. Eliminate washing machine mold smellsThe door on front-load washing machines seals so tight that air never circulates inside, allowing mold and mildew to grow-and stink up the laundry room. Wash away the mold and the smell by running a cycle with only two cups of bleach and warm or hot water. Or buy tablets like Affresh (three for $8) that you stick in the washer to clean it. Whichever method you choose, leave your door open between washings.6. Keep your garbage disposal from smelling like garbageJust because you stick waste in your disposal doesn't give it permission to foul up your kitchen. Cut a lemon, lime or orange into chunks and drop them into the running disposal. The citrus will get rid of most odors. If not, follow up with half a cup of white vinegar with cold water-if you can put up with a brief round of vinegar smell.7. Deodorize the fridgeThe age-old solution to tame fridge odors is to open a box of baking soda and stick it on a shelf or along the back. Change it annually and keep it away from vegetables since the sodium bicarbonate in the baking soda can cause leafy veggies to wilt quickly. Sodium bicarbonate has a unique chemical property that attracts and absorbs odors.8. Rub out urine and bacteria smells in carpetVinegar is highly acidic, which enables it to kill bacteria and also remove urine smells. Mix one part vinegar with three parts water and rub it on the carpet with a cloth. Then rinse the carpet with water and let it air dry. Then train your pet to stop peeing on your carpet.9. Overpower curry, fried fish and other food smellsIf you do a lot of spicy or fried cooking, the smells can become ingrained in your cabinets, which you'll need to wash with warm water and soap. But for immediate relief after cooking, boil a cup of vinegar on the stove. The vapors that release into the air cut the other smells, although the vinegar will cause the kitchen to smell bad for a bit.10. Remove cigarette smoke stinkFor an occasional infraction of someone lighting up in the house, an air freshener and open windows will eliminate the smell. But heavy smoking over a long period requires washing, sealing and painting the walls, Smolka says. It may also require cleaning the duct system. "There's no magic solution," he says, but there is a misconception that clean air machines—also known as air purifiers and ozone machines—are a good solution for getting rid of these types of heavy, ingrained smells. But Smolka recommends against those units; they can produce dangerous levels of ozone that can kill plants, deteriorate rubber and cause eye irritation and other health problems at high concentrations.11. Hide embarrassing bathroom stankYour fan can only do so much. For goodness sake, light a candle. Or better yet, use a long-term odor remover, like a Glade PlugIn.12. Be proactiveTo keep odors at bay, regularly use an air freshener like Febreze not only in the air, but also by lightly spraying, or misting, curtains or couches in a room. Be sure to read the label first—some products will stain cotton.Reply95 repliesLeave a reply


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Posted: January 21, 2009
The battlefield is a tough place, which is why defense contractors are developing tomorrow's weapons before anyone else can. Check the Eye Drive unmanned ground vehicle and a new Boeing/Lockheed Martin collaborated jet fighter.
It's Day 2 of the Obama reign and he has some important military priorities to get to work on. We can only hope he is watching this edition of Military Tech, as we explore all of these new weapons and we hope we never have to use.


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Misshapen kidney06/04/2010 |
During a recent CT scan for an unrelated problem it was discovered that my right kidney had a "bump" on it.Recently I have developed twinges in my lower right back but only when I move.There is no pain as such. Could this be associated with my misshapen kidney? I`m a 71 year old male who suffers from osteoarthritis.
No, the unusual shape of your right kidney is very, very unlikely to be causing the twinges you feel in your lower back. Fetal kidneys have a different shape than adult ones and are more lumpy or "lobulated"-looking; they gradually smooth out with age, but sometimes a hump will persist. Ask your doctor whether the lump had any kind of unusual appearance, suggesting that it might be a tumor; if so, further studies should be obtained, and if not, don't worry about it any more. Please see the link to our article on "kidney pain" for a description of the sort of pain that can be blamed on the kidneys.
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Dondi praised the role of French coach Pierre Berbizier in turning around the fortunes of the youngest members of the Six Nations Championship.
Dondi said: "We did improve a lot especially after we appointed Pierre Berbizier, which really took us to another dimension.
"OK, we didn't win a game in this Six Nations season but we really played some good rugby and the response of the press and fans towards us has been more than positive.
"Certainly we didn't take the chance to win games against Wales, Scotland and especially against Ireland, but I didn't see any large score against us and against big teams like England and the first half in France we really showed great organisation and if we kept more focused maybe we could have got the result as well.
"But we still had a great tournament and we are proud of ourselves."
Dondi repeated his threat to move Italy's Six Nations base away from Rome unless the Stadio Flaminio is upgraded.
"Certainly we are looking forward to improve things next year when we must get the points we missed in this tournament," said Dondi.
"But first the Rome council most improve things in the Stadio Flaminio.
"They must meet and satisfy our request or for sure the next Six Nations Championship, Italy will play away from Rome."


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Generic Name: polidocanol
Dosage Form: injection, solution
Indications and Usage for Asclera
Asclera® (polidocanol) is indicated to sclerose uncomplicated spider veins (varicose veins ≤1 mm in diameter) and uncomplicated reticular veins (varicose veins 1 to 3 mm in diameter) in the lower extremity. Asclera has not been studied in varicose veins more than 3 mm in diameter.
Asclera Dosage and Administration
For intravenous use only. Parenteral drug products should be inspected visually for particulate matter and discoloration prior to administration, whenever solution and container permit. Do not use if particulate matter is seen or if the contents of the vial are discolored or if the vial is damaged in any way.
For spider veins (varicose veins ≤1 mm in diameter), use Asclera 0.5%. For reticular veins (varicose veins 1 to 3 mm in diameter), use Asclera 1%. Use 0.1 to 0.3 mL per injection and no more than 10 mL per session.
Use a syringe (glass or plastic) with a fine needle (typically, 26- or 30-gauge). Insert the needle tangentially into the vein and inject the solution slowly while the needle is still in the vein. Apply only gentle pressure during injection to prevent vein rupture. After the needle has been removed and the injection site has been covered, apply compression in the form of a stocking or bandage. After the treatment session, encourage the patient to walk for 15 to 20 minutes. Keep the patient under observation to detect any anaphylactic or allergic reaction (see Warnings and Precautions [5]).
Maintain compression for 2 to 3 days after treatment of spider veins and for 5 to 7 days for reticular veins. For extensive varicosities, longer compression treatment with compression bandages or a gradient compression stocking of a higher compression class is recommended. Post-treatment compression is necessary to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis.
Repeat treatments may be necessary if the extent of the varicose veins requires more than 10 mL. These treatments should be separated by 1 to 2 weeks.
Small intravaricose blood clots (thrombi) that develop may be removed by stab incision and thrombus expression (microthrombectomy).
Dosage Forms and Strengths
Asclera is available as a 0.5% and 1% solution in 2 mL glass ampules.
Asclera is contraindicated for patients with known allergy (anaphylaxis) to polidocanol and patients with acute thromboembolic diseases.
Warnings and Precautions
Severe allergic reactions have been reported following polidocanol use, including anaphylactic reactions, some of them fatal. Severe reactions are more frequent with use of larger volumes (> 3 mL). The dose of polidocanol should therefore be minimized. Be prepared to treat anaphylaxis appropriately.
Severe adverse local effects, including tissue necrosis, may occur following extravasation; therefore, care should be taken in intravenous needle placement and the smallest effective volume at each injection site should be used.
After the injection session is completed, apply compression with a stocking or bandage, and have the patient walk for 15-20 minutes. Keep the patient under supervision during this period to treat any anaphylactic or allergic reaction (see Dosage and Administration [2]).
Accidental Intra-arterial Injection
Intra-arterial injection can cause severe necrosis, ischemia or gangrene. If this occurs consult a vascular surgeon immediately.
Inadvertent Perivascular Injection
Inadvertent perivascular injection of Asclera can cause pain. If pain is severe, a local anesthetic (without adrenaline) may be injected.
Adverse Reactions
Clinical Study Experience
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.
In 5 controlled randomized clinical trials, Asclera has been administered to 401 patients with small or very small varicose veins (reticular and spider veins) and compared with another sclerosing agent and with placebo. Patients were 18 to 70 years old. The patient population was predominately female and consisted of Caucasian and Asian patients.
Table 1 shows adverse events more common with Asclera or sodium tetradecyl sulfate (STS) 1% than with placebo by at least 3% in the placebo- controlled EASI study (see Clinical Studies [14]). All of these were injection site reactions and most were mild.
Asclera (180 patients) | STS 1% (105 patients) | Placebo (53 patients) | |
Injection site haematoma | 42% | 65% | 19% |
Injection site irritation | 41% | 73% | 30% |
Injection site discoloration | 38% | 74% | 4% |
Injection site pain | 24% | 31% | 9% |
Injection site pruritus | 19% | 27% | 4% |
Injection site warmth | 16% | 21% | 6% |
Neovascularisation | 8% | 20% | 4% |
Injection site thrombosis | 6% | 1% | 0% |
Ultrasound examinations at one week (±3 days) and 12 weeks (±2 weeks) after treatment did not reveal deep vein thrombosis in any treatment group.
Post-marketing Safety Experience
The following adverse reactions have been reported during use of polidocanol in world-wide experience; in some of these cases these adverse events have been serious or troublesome. Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size and without a control group, it is not possible to estimate their frequency reliably or to establish a causal relationship to drug exposure.
Immune system disorders: Anaphylactic shock, angioedema, urticaria generalized, asthma
Nervous system disorders: Cerebrovascular accident, migraine, paresthesia (local), loss of consciousness, confusional state, dizziness
Cardiac disorders: Cardiac arrest, palpitations
Vascular disorders: Deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, syncope vasovagal, circulatory collapse, vasculitis
Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders: Dyspnea
Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders: Skin hyperpigmentation, dermatitis allergic, hypertrichosis (in the area of sclerotherapy)
General disorders and injection site conditions: Injection site necrosis, pyrexia, hot flush
Injury, poisoning and procedural complications: Nerve injury
Drug Interactions
No drug-drug interactions have been studied with Asclera.
Pregnancy Category C. Polidocanol has been shown to have an embryocidal effect in rabbits when given in doses approximately equal (on the basis of body surface area) to the human dose. This effect may have been secondary to maternal toxicity. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Asclera should not be used during pregnancy.
Animal Studies
Developmental reproductive toxicity testing was performed in rats and rabbits with intravenous administration. Polidocanol induced maternal and fetal toxicity in rabbits, including reduced mean fetal weight and reduced fetal survival, when administered during gestation days 6-20 at doses of 4 and 10 mg/kg, but it did not cause skeletal or visceral abnormalities. No adverse maternal or fetal effects were observed in rabbits at a dose of 2 mg/kg. No evidence of teratogenicity or fetal toxicity was observed in rats dosed during gestation days 6-17 with doses up to 10 mg/kg. Polidocanol did not affect the ability of rats to deliver and rear pups when administered intermittently by intravenous injection from gestation day 17 to post-partum day 21 at doses up to 10 mg/kg.
Human Studies
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies on the use of Asclera in pregnant women.
Labor and Delivery
The effects of Asclera on labor and delivery in pregnant women are unknown.
Nursing Mothers
It is not known whether polidocanol is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk and because of the potential for serious adverse reactions in nursing infants, avoid administering to a nursing woman.
Pediatric Use
The safety and effectiveness of Asclera in pediatric patients have not been established.
Geriatric Use
Clinical studies of Asclera did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects.
Overdose may result in a higher incidence of localized reactions such as necrosis.
Asclera Description
Asclera is a sterile, nonpyrogenic, and colorless to faintly greenish-yellow solution of polidocanol for intravenous use as a sclerosing agent.
The active ingredient, polidocanol is a non-ionic detergent, consisting of two components, a polar hydrophilic (dodecyl alcohol) and an apolar hydrophobic (polyethylene oxide) chain. Polidocanol has the following structural formula:
C12H25(OCH2CH2)nOH Polyethylene glycol monododecyl ether Mean extent of polymerization (n) : Approximately 9 Mean molecular weight : Approximately 600
Each mL contains 5 mg (0.5%) or 10 mg (1.0%) polidocanol in water for injection with 5% (v/v) ethanol at pH 6.5-8.0; disodium hydrogen phosphate dihydrate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate are added for pH adjustment.
Asclera - Clinical Pharmacology
Mechanism of Action
The active ingredient of Asclera is polidocanol.
Polidocanol is a sclerosing agent that locally damages the endothelium of blood vessels. When injected intravenously, polidocanol induces endothelial damage. Platelets then aggregate at the site of damage and attach to the venous wall. Eventually, a dense network of platelets, cellular debris, and fibrin occludes the vessel. Finally, the occluded vein is replaced with connective fibrous tissue.
Polidocanol has a concentration- and volume-dependent damaging effect on the endothelium of blood vessels.
During the major effectiveness study (EASI-trial), scheduled blood samples were taken from a sub-group of 22 patients to measure plasma levels of polidocanol after Asclera treatment of spider and reticular veins. Low systemic blood levels of polidocanol were seen in some patients.
The mean t1/2 of polidocanol in 4 patients with evaluable data receiving 4.5 -18.0 mg was 1.5 h.
Nonclinical Toxicology
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
Long-term studies to evaluate carcinogenic potential have not been conducted with polidocanol. Polidocanol was negative in bacterial reverse mutation assays in Salmonella and E. coli, and in a micronucleus assay conducted in mice. Polidocanol induced numerical chromosomal aberrations in cultured newborn Chinese hamster lung fibroblasts in the absence of metabolic activation.
Polidocanol did not affect reproductive performance (fertility) of rats when administered intermittently at dosages up to 10 mg/kg (approximately equal to the maximum human dose on the basis of body surface area).
Clinical Studies
Asclera was evaluated in a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo- and comparator-controlled trial (EASI-study) in patients with spider or reticular varicose veins. A total of 338 patients were treated with Asclera [0.5% for spider veins (n=94), 1% for reticular veins (n=86)], sodium tetradecyl sulfate (STS) 1% (n=105), or placebo (0.9% isotonic saline solution) (n=53) for either spider or reticular veins. Patients were predominately female, ranging in age from 19 to 70 years. All of them received an intravenous injection in the first treatment session; repeat injections were given three and six weeks later if the previous injection was evaluated as unsuccessful (defined as 1, 2 or 3 on a 5-point scale, see below). Patients returned at 12 and 26 weeks after the last injection for final assessments.
The primary effectiveness endpoint was improvement of veins judged by a blinded panel. Digital images of the selected treatment area were taken prior to injection, compared with those taken at 12 weeks post-treatment, and rated on a 5-point scale (1 = worse than before, 2 = same as before, 3 = moderate improvement, 4 = good improvement, 5 = complete treatment success); results are shown in Table 2.
Treatment Group | Polidocanol (n=155) | STS (n=105) | Placebo (n=53) |
Digital Photograph Scores at 12 weeks | |||
Mean ± SD | 4.5* ± 0.7 | 4.5*± 0.7 | 2.2 ± 0.7 |
Digital Photograph Scores at 26 weeks | |||
Mean ± SD | 4.5* ± 0.7 | 4.5*± 0.8 | 2.2 ± 0.7 |
The secondary efficacy criterion was the rate of treatment success, pre-defined as a score of 4 or 5 with patients scoring 1, 2, or 3 considered treatment failures; results are shown in Table 3.
Treatment success?* | Polidocanol (n=155) | STS (n=105) | Placebo (n=53) |
At 12 weeks (Visit 4) | |||
Yes | 95%† | 92%† | 8% |
No | 5% | 8% | 92% |
Missing | 0.6% | 0% | 0% |
At 26 weeks (Visit 5) | |||
Yes | 95%† | 91%† | 6% |
No | 5% | 9% | 94% |
At 12 and 26 weeks, patients' judgement of the results was assessed by showing them the digital images of their treatment area taken at baseline and asking them to rate their satisfaction with their treatment using a verbal rating scale (1 = very unsatisfied; 2 = somewhat unsatisfied; 3 = slightly satisfied; 4 = satisfied and 5 = very satisfied); results are shown in Table 4.
Polidocanol (N=155) | STS (N=105) | Placebo (N=53) | |
Patient satisfaction with treatment after 12 weeks (Visit 4) | |||
Satisfied or very satisfied | 87%* | 64% | 14% |
Patient satisfaction with treatment after 26 weeks (Visit 5) | |||
Satisfied or very satisfied | 84%* | 63% | 16% |
How Supplied/Storage and Handling
Asclera is supplied in single-use, preservative free ampules in the following packages:
NDC 46783-121-52 Five 0.5% ampules (2 mL)
NDC 46783-221-52 Five 1.0% ampules (2 mL)
Each ampule is intended for immediate use in a single patient. Each unopened ampule is stable up to three years.
Store at 15-30°C; (59-86°F).
Patient Counseling Information
Advise the patient to wear compression stockings or support hose on the treated legs continuously for 2 to 3 days and for 2 to 3 weeks during the daytime. Compression stockings or support hose should be thigh or knee high depending upon the area treated in order to provide adequate coverage.
Advise the patient to walk for 15 to 20 minutes immediately after the procedure and daily for the next few days.
For two to three days following treatment, advise the patient to avoid heavy exercise, sunbathing, long plane flights, and hot baths or sauna.
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The Chair of ASEAN for 2013, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, spoke at the twenty-third summit on October 9, 2013, on the theme "Our People, Our Future Together."
We discussed the situation in the South China Sea and further reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace, stability, and maritime security in the region in accordance with the principles contained in the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), ASEAN's Six-Point Principles on the South China Sea, and the Joint Statement of the 15th ASEAN-China Summit on the 10th Anniversary of the DOC. In this regard, we reaffirmed the collective commitments under the DOC to ensuring the resolution of disputes by peaceful means in accordance with universally recognised principles of international law, including the 1982 FINAL United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, without resorting to the threat or use of force, while exercising self-restraint in the conduct of activities.
We remain committed to ensure the full and effective implementation of the DOC in its entirety, including the mutually agreed joint cooperative acti vities and projects in accordance with the Guidelines for the Implementation of the DOC. In this regard, we welcomed the commencement of formal consultations between ASEAN and China on the COC following the th ASEAN - China Senior Officials Meeting on the I mplementation of the DOC and the 9th ASEAN - China Joint Working Group on the Implementation of the DOC held in Suzhou, China on 14-15 September 2013. Taking into account the importance of the 10th anniversary of the ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership in 2013 and the positive progress of dialogue and consultations, we looked forward to intensifying official consultations with China on the development of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC) with a view to its early conclusion. The COC will serve to enhance peace, stability and prosperity in the region. We also looked forward to developing the ideas of establishing hotlines of communication to further enhance trust, confidence and to respond to emergency situations at sea and cooperate in the area of search and rescue for vessels in distress at sea as part of an "early harvest" package of the COC.


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Here is a section from Mark Harris' article on the Windsor Bishops' gathering in Navasota:
...I gather that the bishops meeting at Camp Allen want greater clarity from the Archbishop concerning what they view as the crisis in the Communion brought about by The Episcopal Church. At the center of this matter of clarity continues to be the issue of invitations to Lambeth. They will likely demand that the deadline of September 30th be quickly followed by a response from the Archbishop in which he will withdraw Lambeth invitations to those of the US bishops who do not comply with the primates requests from Dar Es Salaam. It is thought that they will consider it catastrophic if the deadline is ignored.
It would appear then that the sacred date of September 30, 2007 becomes more and more a marker around which, for the moment, the "crisis" will form – the bishops from Sydney Australia want the need to reply to invitations pushed back later than September 30th, and the Windsor Bishops want the date held as a time certain for "compliance" by American bishops. The press is on for House of Bishops to step back from their understandings of last March and step forward into actions that can only be consummated by radically changing the way The Episcopal Church makes decisions.
Of course, the Episcopal Church cannot "radically change" the way that she makes decisions because to do so would involve actually making decisions and if we have learned anything over the last four years we've learned that the sacred polity of the Episcopal Church is not designed to do that. The House of Bishops cannot set policies apart from General Convention because that would subvert the democratic process and we are, after all, a "democratic" church. But then again General Convention cannot establish any policies to be enacted in dioceses because, of course, that is for the bishops to do. And, finally, Executive Council cannot make any decisions apart from the House of Bishops or General Convention because, again, the Episcopal Church is a democratic church.
Anyway, here is Chris Johnson's take on Mark Harris' article:
The Windsor bishops may well "demand that the deadline of September 30th be quickly followed by a response from the Archbishop in which he will withdraw Lambeth invitations to those of the US bishops who do not comply with the primates requests from Dar Es Salaam" and they probably "will consider it catastrophic if the deadline is ignored."
For the Windsor bishops, the nightmare scenario runs roughly as follows: what happens if TEC holds firm and Dr. Williams doesn't give the Windsor bishops what they want after the September meeting? Do they back down, go to Lambeth anyway and hope that TEC completely changes its mind next year?
How TEC would be persuaded to do that is about as doubtful as it is possible for anything to be. If the Windsor bishops do cave, their leverage is gone. If TEC stiffs Dr. Williams in September and he still invites them to Lambeth, my gracious lord of Canterbury fatally undermines the position of the primates and for all intents and purposes, kills not only the Dar es Salaam Communiqué but the Windsor Report itself.
Chris is absolutely correct which is why the Windsor Coalition is inconsequential. Only five or six bishops (Network bishops of course) in Navasota are willing to break with Canterbury. Canterbury knows this just as certainly as he knows the same about the supposed "22" orthodox primates. And because only a small minority of Windsor bishops are willing to express their dissent with something more than a vote or statement or "strongly worded letter", there is no reason for Canterbury to do anything at all to meet their demands. As a group, the Windsor Bishops are devoted to Canterbury first and orthodox principles second and unless they re-prioritize and discover some willingness to act, their coalition meetings will remain utterly inconsequential. This has been true from the very beginning.


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WASHINGTON – Kelly Carioto has been named to the 2011
CoSIDA Academic All-District Team, it was announced on
Thursday. Carioto earned a spot on the District 2 Second
Team. A native of Pittsburgh, Carioto captured the 2011 shot
put title at the Landmark Conference indoor championship and the
ECAC indoor championship.
A history major with an overall grade point average of 3.94,
Carioto had a terrific year for the Cardinals. In addition to
winning the pair of indoor championships she also won the shot put
title at the Lebanon Valley Invite and the Dickinson Invite and
placed fifth in the event at the Frank Colden Invite.
Carioto was named the Landmark Conference Female Field Athlete of
the Week on two occasions this academic year and placed second in
the shot put at the conference outdoor championships. Also at
that meet, she finished fourth in the hammer throw.
Carioto then went on to compete at the ECAC outdoor championship
where she finished sixth in the shot put and fourth in the
Carioto is a three-time All-Landmark Conference selection, a
multi-year member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll
and was named to the 2011 Landmark Conference Winter All-Academic
Carioto honored for work in and out of the classroom
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2000 is a men's fragrance from Lacoste, which was launched in honor of the new millennium in 1999. Sharp spicy - chypre fragrance with lavender and amber. Top notes: lavender, pear, grapefruit and koumarin. Heart: pepper, coriander and ginger. Base: oak moss and amber.
Available as EDT of 75 ml. The nose behind this fragrance is Jean-Michel Duriez.
Perfume rating: 4.78 out of 5 with 13 votes.
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This cologne smells very peppery. When I smelled it for the first time, I was immediately reminded of a fragrance I smelled before. And a few minutes ago I remembered it. Joop rococo has an almost identical smell. Pepper, a lot of pepper. Strong pepper.
It can't be compared with the smooth pepper smell of a Shiseido Basala. Lacoste 2000 has the strongest pepper note I've smelled in any cologne. Every other note listed in the base is hiding behind the strong pepper note.
I you are a pepper fan, this cologne is made for you!
Gourmand fans should make a big round around this. I think that's the reason why there is so much hate it or love it about this cologne.
The first version (100 ml) with the on/off button looks very nice.
And don't forget, this cologne was created by the same perfumer who created Yohji Yamamoto Homme!
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Sittin in at Sweet Oregon Grill
When the Oregon GI Blues Music Festival collapsed last weekend, leaving Pinetop Perkins, the legendary 87-year-old blues pianist from Chicago, more or less stranded in Portland, it was starting to look like another one of those sad-sack musician stories. É At least it was until Peter Dammann, who plays guitar with Paul deLay, invited Pinetop to sit in with the band out in Hillsboro at the Sweet Oregon Grill Ñ which, incidentally, is becoming one of the area's hipper music venues. Idea was, the band would cut him in on their earnings. É At the end of the night, owner Jerry Wilson rewarded Pinetop with what Dammann called 'a big fat tip.' É Dammann wouldn't disclose the exact amount, but whatever it was, Wilson could probably afford it. He cleared $200 million (after taxes) on sales of the Soloflex exercise machine. É And that was back in the early '80s, when $200 million was real money.
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Insiders say Ron Saxton, who finished second in the Republican gubernatorial primary, is seriously considering a run for mayor. É Add his name to a growing list that includes U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, county Chairwoman Diane Linn, county Commissioner Maria Rojo de Steffey, city Commissioners Erik Sten and Jim Francesconi, and Vera Ñ who, believe it or not, still hasn't ruled out another run. É While Chief Kroeker still seemed to be in the running for the job in L.A., a lot of folks who would ordinarily be raising Cain about his top-down, hard-nosed style held their tongues. É Why? Because they didn't want to hurt his chances of getting the job. É Get ready for some straight talk about the demise of community policing in P-town.
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Local comic Art Krug marvels that even after $90 million worth of therapy, Keiko won't go away to join his brethren in the wilds. 'Doesn't he know that company and fish stink after three days, and he's both?' É 'Yes, I know Keiko's actually a mammal,' says Krug. 'But the joke doesn't work that way.' É Bette Sinclair, who does public relations work for most of the big restaurants in town, has commissioned local artist Leslie Ann Butler to paint a portrait of her poodle, Louis. É You, too, can have Butler paint a portrait of your pet for anywhere from $800 to $3,000. É Until last weekend, the folks at Pastaworks, the boutique grocery story on Hawthorne, were puzzled by the large number of orders they were getting every Sunday for cannoli Ñ which, in case you haven't had the pleasure, is a rich Italian pastry filled with ricotta cheese and chocolate. É Seems that everyone in P-town is having 'Sopranos' parties.
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Just when you were beginning to think that no one cared about Bigfoot anymore, Steve Peterson and his girlfriend say they ran into one last month when they were camping near Mount St. Helens. More than one, actually. É It was sometime before dawn and foggy as well, so they didn't actually get a good look at them, but they believe there were three creatures present. É One had a deep voice that went 'whoo, whoo, whoo,' one tore off the limb of a tree, and one did a lot of whistling. After the sun came out, according to the Western Bigfoot Society's latest newsletter, 'activity died away.' É Personally, I'm a little bit dubious about the one that broke off the tree limb. Could have been anything.


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Below are some examples of life purpose definitions (written as "I" statements) that relate to the quality or guidance that you didn't receive enough of as a child. Choose the one with the most powerful language for you. When you have chosen, write or type it below the definition from the first step.
I help others to feel accepted. I help others accept themselves. I inspire others to feel accepted. I inspire others to feel accepted at the deepest level. I empower others to feel accepted. I inspire acceptance. I empower acceptance. I am acceptance in action. I guide others to their deepest acceptance. Come up with your own wording if there is something you can formulate (or by combining one or more) that is more powerful than any of the above, but remember to keep it short. Seven words or less is optimal.
What is truly remarkable about clarifying your life purpose with this question is that it reveals the truth that what you did not receive enough of is what drives your passion. This means that what you have been healing for yourself, perhaps struggling with most of your life IS NOT a liability. It is, in fact, your greatest strength. So, if what you have thought was a liability is your greatest strength, then nothing can stop you from fulfilling your most direct, powerful, and successful expression of your life purpose.
Final Step
Look at the two life purpose statements you have written down or typed. Ask whether you feel more excited and fulfilled as a result of definition number 1 or number 2. Most people have more passion about number 2. Some people will choose number 1, but it is a more mental or logical choice. If this is the case, try opening your heart and testing number 2 again.
While both may be powerful for you, most often number 2 is the greater driver of passion. You can also use some of the language from each if that makes the life purpose definition you chose more powerful. The two may be very close or even identical. This is simply greater confirmation of your life intention.
Once you have narrowed down the wording to the most powerful and succinct statement, say it out loud several times and feel the passion and power.
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The governing Council of the Global Environment Facility today named Dr. Naoko Ishii of Japan to be the CEO and Chairperson of the GEF, choosing a senior official in Japan's Ministry of Finance with extensive experience in international institutions and global environmental issues.
The GEF Council's unanimous decision followed a months-long worldwide search process involving consideration of scores of candidates to head of the world's largest public funder of international programs to benefit the global environment. The Council is a representative body of delegates appointed from among the GEF's 182 member nations.
"The Council enthusiastically congratulates Naoko Ishii on her selection as GEF CEO and Chairperson," said Jozef Buys, Co-chairman of the GEF Council and Council member from Belgium. "The Council fully understands that this is a critical position at a critical time for the global environment, and we firmly believe that Naoko will energetically direct and enhance the work of the GEF."
Dr. Ishii is currently the Deputy Vice Minister of Finance and the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan for Global Environmental Affairs. With today's decision, she will become on August 1st the fourth CEO of the GEF, succeeding Monique Barbut of France, who departs at the conclusion of her second term as head of the GEF.
"I am honored to be the GEF Council's choice to head this unique organization with such a vital mission," Dr. Ishii said upon being informed of her selection.
She added: "In this decade, the world will make decisions that will determine whether we succeed or fail in the quest to protect vital ecosystems, while raising the quality of life for all citizens. The GEF must play an important role in catalyzing transformational change in the way the global environment is managed. It must continue to be an honest champion of global commons, a convener of global and local leaders, a tireless promoter of innovative ideas, and a leader in results-focused investments".
Dr. Ishii congratulated Ms. Barbut on the successful completion of her second term as GEF CEO and Chairperson, recognizing her role in scaling up GEF programs while greatly improving operational efficiency.
Ms. Barbut, who became GEF CEO in 2006, wished Dr. Ishii well in her new post and expressed confidence in the continued sound management of the GEF.
"I know Dr. Ishii well from her work with the GEF on behalf of the Government of Japan, and I am confident that this important institution is in good hands going forward," said Barbut. "The GEF depends on close and cooperative working relationships with our member states and on the careful management of increasingly scarce public funds. Dr. Ishii has a proven track record in both these areas, and her extensive experience in international institutions will serve the GEF well."
Dr. Ishii brings to the GEF three decades of international experience in development, finance and global environmental issues. In her current post at Japan's Ministry of Finance, she provides oversight of Japanese development policies on Multilateral Development Banks, as well as global environmental funds including the GEF, the Climate Investment Funds, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, and the Forest Carbon Partnership Fund. She represented the Japanese Government on the Transitional Committee responsible for designing Green Climate Fund.
According to Jose Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance and Public Credit for Mexico and head of the G20's finance track, "The appointment of Dr. Ishii is good news for the global environment. Her experience in development, environment, finance, and on the front line as a 'doer,' as well as in the field of policy, will serve the GEF very well at this critical moment of unparallel challenges."
Prior to her appointment as Deputy Vice Minister of Finance, Dr. Ishii served as the World Bank's Country Director for Sri Lanka and Maldives, stationed in Colombo. Her tenure in Sri Lanka coincided with the final phase of that country's protracted armed conflict. In that role she developed a conflict sensitive approach and formed a coalition among a wide range of stakeholders. Over the course of a 30-year career, Dr. Ishii has spent half of that time in various high impact institutions including the World Bank, the IMF and Harvard Institute for International Development. She has also held increasingly senior positions throughout her career in the Japanese Ministry of Finance.
Dr. Ishii has a number of books and academic papers to her credit including Empirical Analysis on Modern Economic Growth: Institutions Critical to Sustainable Economic Growth, published in Japan. She has been awarded the Okita Memorial Prize for International Development Research.
In naming Dr. Ishii to the CEO position, the GEF Council, gathering in Washington this week for the first of its twice-yearly meetings, accepted the recommendation of its Selection and Review Committee (SRC), which ranked her first among three finalists for the position. In its report to the full Council, the SRC noted Dr. Ishii's well-established reputation in the international development and environment communities, her well articulated view on the institution's future role, her awareness of the challenges confronting the GEF, and her collaborative and diplomatic approach to addressing global concerns.


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It's over a year since the credit crunch began wreaking havoc throughout the global economy. Never before, it seems, have we been so aware of how dependent our economies are upon the willingness to lend and borrow.
Since August 2007, we have seen Lehman Brothers go bankrupt, the remnants of Bear Stearns indirectly salvaged with Federal Reserve funds, Merrill Lynch purchased by the Bank of America, and the Fed take an 80 percent stake in AIG (and provide it with a bridging loan). Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have been taken over by the US government. Eleven federally-insured American banks have failed. A collapsing English bank has been nationalized by the British government.
Financial institutions in America and Europe have written off billions in losses. Thousands of financial-sector jobs across the world have been eliminated. People's careers have been shattered. Everyone is asking: "Who's next?"
Given this environment, it's not surprising that considerable anger has been directed against those who specialize in the credit business, especially subprime lending, be it of mortgages or credit cards.
No doubt, some predatory lending has occurred. We need only pick up the nearest newspaper to read about elderly couples on the brink of bankruptcy, because they signed mortgage agreements that they either didn't understand or were never adequately explained to them by their financial advisors.
We should, however, remember that much subprime mortgage lending was to people hoping to make a killing in the housing boom that, to their misfortune, began imploding last year. Then there's the disturbing BasePoint Analytics report stating that almost 70 percent of mortgage early-payment defaulters made fraudulent misrepresentations on their original loan applications.
But why, some argue, should subprime lending businesses exist in the first place? Aren't they financial traps for the poor and vulnerable? Don't they discourage prudent saving? There have even been calls for official caps on interest rates offered by private lenders.
The difficulty with some of these critiques is that they often reflect fundamental misunderstandings of the nature of credit and its underlying moral apparatus.
Credit is about lending others the financial means – the capital – that most of us need at some point of our lives. Whether it's starting a business or buying a house, most people need capital. This means someone else, such as a bank or a private lender, has to be willing to take a risk. Yes, they do stand to profit if the mortgage is paid off or the business succeeds. But they also lose if a house is foreclosed or a business goes bankrupt.
Charging interest is how lenders maintain their loan's value and make a profit (the margins of which are much narrower than most people realize), thereby increasing the sum total of capital available in a society. But it's also their way of calibrating risk: The higher the risk, the higher the interest-rate in order to compensate for the greater possibility of loss.
Now consider what would happen if interest rate ceilings were imposed by government fiat. If lenders were prohibited from charging interest rates commensurate to the risks involved, they would be unlikely to lend capital to entrepreneurs and businesses pursuing high-risk endeavors. Hence, many risky but wealth-creating and employment-generating activities would simply never occur.
Legislated interest rate ceilings would also mean that some poor people would never have the chance to acquire the capital they might need, for example, to go to college, let alone begin developing a credit-record. Entire categories of people – recent immigrants, the urban poor – could be condemned to life on the margins.
But at a deeper level, such regulations ignore the fact that while credit is about capital, it is ultimately about something more intangible but nonetheless real.
The word "credit" is derived from credere, the Latin verb for "to believe" but also "to trust." Whether it's giving someone a credit card for the first time, or extending a small business the capital it needs to grow into a great enterprise, providing people with credit means that you trust and believe in them enough to take a risk on their insight, reliability, honesty, prudence, thrift, courage and enterprise: in short, the moral habits without which wealth-creation cannot occur.
A moment's thought about credit thus reminds us how much market capitalism, so often derided as materialistic, relies deeply upon a web of moral qualities and non-material relationships. Once these are corrupted, whether by basic dishonesty or excessive regulation, the wheels of wealth-creation splutter and eventually grind to a halt. Businesses die, people lose their jobs, and families suffer.
Could there be a better demonstration that there can be no markets without morality?


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Threats to Hong Kong's media freedom should alarm us all
Stephen Vines says we must safeguard this key aspect of our way of life
The shocking attack on former Ming Pao editor Kevin Lau Chun-to seems likely to have been the work of those seeking to intimidate journalists who dare to hold the government and powerful people on both sides of the border to account.
Violence of this kind is, lamentably, not unknown in Hong Kong where there have been a number of other attacks on journalists and newspaper publishers who are prominent government critics. This violence represents a kind of "black terror" and it contributes to an atmosphere surrounding the media that is most troubling.
Yet Hong Kong's media remains free in many respects and is certainly in far better shape than its counterparts on the mainland. However, journalists are being removed from their posts, government television licences are reserved for the chosen few, critical media sees pressure exerted by the withdrawal of advertising, and so on.
There is not one big cataclysmic event that demonstrates how media freedom is being eroded; it's more a case of a drip, drip effect that turns into a flood. In other words, the situation is complicated but to make sense of what's happening involves stepping back and asking the simple question: is Hong Kong's media in better shape today than it was, say, 10 years ago?
To evade answering this question, commentators who purport to support a free media try to cast doubt on the credibility of individuals who have been caught up in the media suppression storm. This is the oldest trick in the book because all human beings are flawed, and if you search hard enough, it is easy to find fault. But this is a shameless tactic because it seeks to create a diversion from the real issue of threats to media freedom.
The situation in Hong Kong is complicated because the emergence of a relatively free media has a rather short history. For most of the colonial period, media outlets were far from independent. Newspapers started life in Hong Kong to promote special interests, including the opium trade. As time went on, the most persistent criticism of the government came from media outlets controlled by the Communist Party's propaganda machine. Other newspapers, including this one, had long periods when they slavishly served the interests of the colonial administration.
It is hard to pinpoint when the media changed, but it may have been as recently as the early 1980s when even the government-run broadcaster began to assert its independence, new publications emerged and the public showed a considerable appetite for a free media.
That appetite has not diminished; indeed, it has grown and finds considerable expression on the internet. However, traditional media remain remarkably strong in Hong Kong and the public has high expectations.
This is why many of those who took part in last Sunday's press freedom rally had nothing to do with the media, a point widely misreported by outlets that described it as a "demonstration by journalists". Many people realise that media freedom is hardly an issue only for those employed in the industry; on the contrary, it is a key issue for anyone concerned with the preservation of Hong Kong's way of life. When media freedom shrivels, a precious public safeguard starts to fade.
Media freedom is a bit like clean air; in some ways hard to define but easier to recognise when it disappears. People are aware of the cumulative damage to the environment that leads to high levels of pollution but only really start worrying when they need to don face masks before venturing outside. The absence of media freedom will probably become stunningly clear when it's too late to do anything about it, but we should not wait for this to happen.
Stephen Vines is a Hong Kong-based journalist and entrepreneur


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The indefatigable John Conyers --- one of America's few true elected freedom fighters --- wants your input on what he can next do to move Election Reform forward. Give him some. He actually listens.
  w/ Brad & Desi
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The indefatigable John Conyers --- one of America's few true elected freedom fighters --- wants your input on what he can next do to move Election Reform forward. Give him some. He actually listens.
"A Politician Who Listens to Americans...Go Figure."
(24 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
said on 3/25/2005 @ 11:30 pm PT...
JC's blog is wonderful! Good man and good politician.
He keeps up to the minute newswise and answers comments. Check it out. It's a wonderful feeling to have this direct connection to government leaders.
The wave of the future.
Very, very, very good.
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said on 3/25/2005 @ 11:35 pm PT...
JC's blog is wonderful! Good man and good politician.
He keeps up to the minute newswise and answers comments. You can feel his desire to hear us. It is a treat to have this direct connection to the government. The wave of the future.
Very, very, very good.
COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
said on 3/26/2005 @ 1:46 am PT...
Hey!!!! The server is wacko! It told me the website was not responding.
You can't believe anything anymore.
COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
said on 3/26/2005 @ 3:08 pm PT...
Is Rep. Conyers fully informed on the ACVR crew?
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said on 3/26/2005 @ 3:09 pm PT...
Is Rep. Conyers fully informed on the ACVR crew?
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
said on 3/26/2005 @ 3:10 pm PT...
Sorry, I think there's an echo...
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
said on 3/26/2005 @ 5:55 pm PT...
Yes. (Yes.)
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
said on 3/26/2005 @ 10:48 pm PT...
I love Rep. Conyers' blog. Even suggested to his webmaster that they change the font as it was really hard (for me at least) to read and... guess what, they changed the font!
I love it when TPTB actually listen!
Hannah, with the challenged eyes
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
said on 3/27/2005 @ 6:13 am PT...
Conyers/Friedman '08!!!
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said on 3/27/2005 @ 4:40 pm PT...
Conyers/Friedman '08!!!---Why not?
We are so few and they are so many, it wouldn't be a fair fight! We should be sorry to take such advantage of them!
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said on 3/27/2005 @ 5:28 pm PT...
Way to go *CONYERS*.We michiganders support you all the way,as you do us.Thanks for the good job & getting the word out where it is needed.You are truely one hard working*DEMOCRAT*.
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said on 3/27/2005 @ 8:53 pm PT...
Brad, I am deeply pleased with this connection to Congressman Conyers. It makes me feel like something is really being done. This direct line of the people to the government, where we can all talk together and brainstorm, knowing an elected official is hearing us all. So truly democratic.
A lot of the blogs are just blowing off steam, which is all right, but Bradville is serious about political change.
I commend you and John Conyers, and I am delighted to a part of it.
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said on 3/27/2005 @ 8:56 pm PT...
I think Conyers knows he has the support of people who care about strangers, those in need, those hurting, those concerned about the earth, and those who care about america and who fight amerika.
And they know they have the support of Mr. Conyers and those of his ilk on both sides of the isle.
Our common problem is the neocon theocrazy that is polluting the political environment in the US.
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Jim Cirile
said on 3/27/2005 @ 9:59 pm PT...
Conyers is a hero. You can tell we're gaining momentum when the neocons start their own front group to smear us. Excellent work, Brad, Conyers, everyone!
Let's all of us do our part to help Rep. Conyers--and our nation. I am plastering BUSH CHEATED '04 bumper stickers all over Los Angeles. I leave them on the windshields of everyone with a Kerry bumper sticker. I have stopped traffic several times to hand them to folks who honk and give me thumbs up when they see mine. Order a pile of them from David Lytel at redefeatbush.com and get to work! The more we can raise this issue's awareness, the sooner the s*** hits the fan!
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said on 3/27/2005 @ 10:14 pm PT...
Has Rep Conyers any advise on re-openning the Lemme investigation , I can not help think this all started to move once Clinton Curtis got involved and word got out.
Raymond Lemme may have gave his life for this fight for the truth and people need to find out the truth about his death .
Raymond Lemme was investigating Clinton Curtis's claims.
COMMENT #16 [Permalink]
Peg C
said on 3/27/2005 @ 11:55 pm PT...
Rep. Conyers is the hero we need for our present Constitutional crisis. We must continue to support and undergird his efforts and his sacrifice; otherwise, his efforts will go down in "History" as "quixotic" and his honesty will be portrayed as a pose.
This is a good, dedicated, intelligent man. We are greatly in his debt. Keep communicating...and continue to be honest in all your communications.
COMMENT #17 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 7:39 am PT...
You donks just don't get it, do you? Conyers is in the MINORITY party. He can't do anything. The Republicans have a lock on the House. Conyers is just making noices and as Einstein observed, "Like the cackling of geese."
You guys crack me up! Conyers? Hahahaha! Losers.
COMMENT #18 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 7:57 am PT...
Hi all,
Funny - I just had an urge to go have a banana, but then I said, "Aw, heck, manana!" Could it be something subliminal, like every 17th frame or like that?
COMMENT #19 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 11:51 am PT...
The Republicans recently issued a statement concerning their anticipated loss of House seats in '06. A staunch Republican publisher in Nebraska, very influential, just left the Republican Party.
People like Congressman Conyers will become more and more appealing to the public, since he projects sincerity. The people get the feeling that he cares about issues important to them, and that he genuinely wants to help get these policies in action. A winning game.
COMMENT #20 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 11:53 am PT...
People who think they have a lock on power, and others can do nothing, are headed for a fall. Very silly.
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said on 3/29/2005 @ 12:48 pm PT...
...since he projects sincerity.
Only to those residing in downtown Detroit and to those he's conned outside of Michigan. The people of Michigan have written both him and Detroit off a long time ago - right about Coleman Young's reign of terror. Old "ghetto John" would get elected by his glorious constituents even if they showed him molesting 6 year old kids on WJR's evening news. But to everyone else in the state, he's a fraud, a joke, and a huckster. Sorta like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
COMMENT #22 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 12:59 pm PT...
Well, I like him.
COMMENT #23 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 2:01 pm PT...
Well, I like him.
That tells me a lot about you, and what I see is not very encouraging. You libs are enamored with frauds like Conyers, Kerry, and Ol' Slick. That's probably why you rejected Howlin' Howie and likewise why you'll go for Hillary "Thunderthighs" Clinton in '08.
She's gonna get beat like a red-headed stepchild.
COMMENT #24 [Permalink]
said on 3/29/2005 @ 3:26 pm PT...
That's funny, Mana....." Howlin' Howie."


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A Guide to Buying Boys Shoes
Kids' feet grow at the blink of an eye—which means if you're a mom of a boy, you'll get plenty of practice shopping for boys shoes. Whether you're looking for seasonal footwear like snow boots and sandals, an everyday pair of sneakers for rough-and-tumble play, or fancy shoes for your next dressy affair, fit counts. When it comes time to add to your son's shoe collection, keep these tips in mind.
All feet are not created equal. Generally, one foot is slightly larger than the other. When measuring your son's feet, make sure you choose a size based on your child's largest foot.
Measure width and length. Shoe size is not determined by just the length of your child's foot—width is also important for toddlers and young children. Check out feet measuring tutorials online, such as this one by Stride Rite, and then measure at the end of the day after his foot has expanded. Have him stand up, so that his foot spreads.
Re-measure often. Children grow at different rates, so it's impossible to know just how long a pair of shoes will last. Pay attention to your child's cues. Re-measure your child's feet if they begin to complain of discomfort. Inspect shoes regularly for signs of uneven wear—on the top, sides and bottom. If there are signs of wear, get out the measuring tape.
Leave a little room. Once you've measured your child's foot, make sure the size you select allows about a finger's width of room beyond the longest toe to ensure your child's toe bed has room to spread.
Consider your socks. Whether you're buying sneakers, sandals, or dress shoes, you should take a measurement with his socks as well, so that you can account for the extra padding.
When it comes to active shoes, look for closed toes and good traction. In the heat, it's nice to have a shoe that breathes and is washable (trust us). In the cooler months, a leather outer provides an extra layer of warmth and protection.
Buy new. The American Podiatric Medical Association advises against hand-me-down shoes. Shoes mold to the wearer's feet and second-hand shoes can result in an ill fit. Invest in a new pair and you're guaranteed to get good use out of it.
Don't force it. You may be sure you've picked the just-right size for your son, but if his new shoes arrive and don't fit quite right, don't force him to wear them. We offer hassle-free returns of unworn merchandise so send them back and try it again.