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Is Influenza an Influenza‐Like Illness? Clinical Presentation of Influenza in Hospitalized Patients
Hilary M. Babcock , MD, Liana R. Merz , MPH and Victoria J. Fraser , MD
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Vol. 27, No. 3 (March 2006), pp. 266-270
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Background. Early recognition of influenza virus infection in hospitalized patients can prevent nosocomial transmission. Objective. To determine the clinical presentation of influenza in hospitalized patients. Design. Case series. Data were collected retrospectively from medical records and included demographic information, comorbidities, clinical symptoms and signs, microbiologic test results, and outcomes (including pneumonia and intensive care unit [ICU] admission). Setting. A 1,400‐bed teaching hospital. Patients. A total of 207 inpatients who received a diagnosis of influenza virus infection during 3 seasons from 2000 to 2003. Results. Over the course of 3 seasons, 207 patients received a diagnosis of influenza (186 were infected with influenza A virus, and 21 were infected with influenza B virus). The most commonly reported symptoms were cough (186 patients [90%]) and subjective fever (137 patients [66%]); 124 patients (60%) had a documented temperature of 37.8°C or greater before influenza was diagnosed. Sore throat was uncommon (44 patients [21%]). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria for influenza‐like illness (ILI)—temperature 37.8°C or greater and either cough or sore throat—were met by 107 patients (51%). There were no differences in the proportion of patients who met ILI criteria with respect to age, sex, season, influenza virus type, or time to diagnosis in the hospital. Most patients (150 [72%]) received acetaminophen. Only 41 patients (20%) had positive results of clinical cultures; 178 patients (86%) received antibiotic therapy. Fifty‐six patients (27%) had pneumonia: 36 (17%) required admission to the ICU, and 25 (12%) required ventilatory support. Patients with pulmonary disease were more likely to require ventilatory support (12 [26%] vs 13 [8%]; \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSizes{10}{9}{7}{6} \begin{document} \landscape $P=.003$ \end{document} ). Conclusions. Only half of hospitalized patients with influenza met CDC criteria for ILI. These criteria may be more appropriate in outpatient settings. A high index of suspicion is needed to recognize influenza in hospitalized patients.
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CHELAN — The Lake Chelan Community Hospital will try once again this November to win voter approval of a $19 million bond to replace its aging facility with a new $31 million hospital.
Hospital commissioners last week voted unanimously to go back to voters with the same plan that failed two years ago. As with the last proposal, the new hospital would be nearly twice the size of the current facility, and would be built on 12 acres in the Apple Blossom Center, which the hospital district bought in 2009.
When the bond request failed in August 2012, 57 percent of voters favored it, but a 60-percent favorable vote was needed. The hospital board hopes for a higher voter turnout by putting it on November's general election ballot, said hospital CEO Kevin Abel.
Abel said coming back to voters because it's the only responsible thing to do.
The plan includes borrowing money with the hospital's debt capacity, relying on the hospital foundation and grants, and asking voters for less than two-thirds of the cost.
"We had a financial analysis done by an accounting firm to see if there was any other way to do it," he said. "This is the best way to get the project done."
Abel said that the community has grown over the last four decades, and the 42-year-old hospital is no longer meeting the needs of the community.
"The facility has a number of serious issues," he said. They can't fit wheelchairs in bathrooms on the lower floor. Heating and cooling systems need replacing. And the hospital needs private rooms instead of semi-private ones for better infection control.
"We also feel it's very important to physician-recruiting to had adequate facilities," he said.
Abel said in addition to the community's medical needs, a new hospital is important to its economic vitality.
As one of Chelan's top employers, the hospital must survive into the future to continue to benefit the community, he said.
Attempting to engage the community in the effort, the hospital has been hosting a series of presentations on the proposal. Additional community forums are being planned, and community groups are encouraged to call to arrange a presentation for their meetings or gatherings.
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"I was always going to go to Regis," she said. "But the assistance helps make it easier."
Amy Dorsett was a recipient of the same scholarship last year, now she is studying for finals in her freshman year at Colorado Northwestern Community College in Rangely.
"The scholarship obviously helped but my experience as a trainer in high school was also beneficial," she said. "I have a lot more freedom than other trainers who are freshmen."
Dorsett was the lone trainer for the baseball team at CNCC this year, while other first-year trainers had to be supervised. She plans to attend the University of Texas after her two years at Rangely and earn a degree in sports medicine. The athletic training program for high school students provides the opportunity to learn about sports injuries and management. Then, if a trainer chooses to pursue the medical or education fields in college, a scholarship is offered.
Dilldine and Lisa McDermott are the scholarship recipients this year. McDermott plans to attend the University of Wyoming and hopes to study education. Both girls were trainers for the football and boys' basketball teams for all four or their years in high school.
What make the scholarships possible is the proceeds from annual physicals that Moffat County athletes receive. The $15 physical is organized by high school athletic trainer Jeff Pleasant and the Craig medical community.
Pleasant said that in the 10 years of the program, 25 to 30 scholarships have been awarded. They start at $500 and vary depending on how many physicals are given and how many scholarship recipients are in the program.
"This is a good deal for everybody," Pleasant said. "The local doctors volunteer their time and the proceeds go to the scholarships and to supplies for the high school trainers."
The physicals will be from 5 p.m. until everyone is examined on May 18 for Craig Middle School students, and on May 20 for MCHS students. They will be at the Craig Medical Clinic.
"We have the students go through a couple of different stations of doctors," Pleasant said. "That way there is more than one person looking at them and makes a better chance that something wrong might be caught."
The physicals are performed in the spring instead of the fall so athletes can get a problem looked at and treated during the summer.
"We used to do the physicals in the fall but if somebody didn't pass the physical they were rushing around trying to get cleared for that season," Pleasant said.
According to Pleasant physicals generally cost $50 to $100 as a regular doctor visit.
"We are fortunate enough to have at least nine local physicians volunteer their time," he said.
Pleasant said he expects 450 students to attend for the high school night. Forms for the physicals are available in the athletic office of the high school and at the main office of Craig Middle School. These are the only days physicals are offered for the '04-'05 school year. All athletes must pass a physical before being eligible for any activity.


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Get an overview of this hotelLas Vegas hotel in Paradise with free breakfast and free airport shuttle
With a stay at La Quinta Inn & Suites Las Vegas Airport South in Las Vegas (Paradise), you'll be close to Sunset Park and University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
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Make yourself at home in one of the 140 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
Be sure to enjoy recreational amenities, including an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness center. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in a common area. The complimentary shuttle will take you to the nearby casino or shopping center.
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and express check-in. Planning an event in Las Vegas? This hotel has 2500 square feet (232 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary (available 24 hours).
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In addition to an outdoor pool, La Quinta Inn & Suites Las Vegas Airport South provides a spa tub and a fitness center. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Event facilities measuring 2500 square feet (232 square meters) include conference space. A roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and an area shuttle are complimentary for guests. This business-friendly hotel also offers coffee/tea in a common area, laundry facilities, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
La Quinta Inn & Suites Las Vegas Airport South is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 140
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
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Check-in time ends at midnight
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Ariel Corporation Reports Preliminary Second Quarter Results
Jul 26, 1999, 01:00 ET from Ariel Corporation
CRANBURY, N.J., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariel Corp. (Nasdaq: ADSP) today reported net sales of $2,760,021 for the three months ended June 30, 1999, a decrease of $1,351,169 from net sales of $4,111,190 for the three months ended June 30, 1998. Ariel reported a net loss of ($3,247,936) or ($0.33) for the three months ended June 30, 1999 compared to a net loss of ($3,378,261) or ($0.35) per share for the three months ended June 30, 1998. Ariel's net sales for the six months ended June 30, 1999 decreased 44% to $5,824,661 from the $10,387,807 reported for the six months ended June 30, 1998. For the six months ended June 30, 1999, Ariel reported a net loss of ($6,254,744) or ($0.64) per share, compared with a net loss of ($5,177,191) or ($0.54) per share for the comparable period in 1998. The revenue decrease in 1999 as compared with 1998 includes a reduction in sales to PC Integrators of approximately $3.3 million as PC Integrator demand for high-end communications options remains weak industry-wide -- as anticipated by Ariel's transition to focus on internet service providers (ISPs) and technical original equipment manufacturers. Gross margin for the three months ending June 30, 1999 was $1,585,290 or 57% of sales, as compared to $1,643,126 or 40% for the same period in 1998. For the six months ending June 30, 1999 gross margins were $3,257,792 or 56% of sales as compared to $4,239,363 or 41% for the same period last year. The increase in gross margin as a percent of sales reflects a significantly improved mix of sales concentrated in Technical OEMs and ISPs vs. lower-margin PC Integrator business. Jay H. Atlas, CEO and President, commented, "Second quarter results were in line with our expectations as we continue to transition our products, marketing, and sales programs to more effectively focus on the Internet Service Provider and Technical OEM markets. Demand for Ariel's TOEM products remains strong, and our recent announcement of Ariel Access Architecture(TM) is expected to further strengthen our position with technical original equipment manufacturers. Internet industry opinion and initial customer reactions to our PowerPOP(TM) architecture continue to be positive. We expect our aggressive efforts to fully implement Ariel's transition to this market focus will continue through the second half of 1999." More About Ariel Ariel Corp. (Nasdaq: ADSP) is a leading provider of high-density remote access plug-in cards for applications such as Internet access, corporate Intranet/Extranet access, on-line services, telecommuting, transaction processing, and unified messaging. Ariel's remote access products make it easy for OEMs and system integrators targeting ISPs, corporate enterprises and other service providers to add high-density remote access to open systems platforms running a variety of popular operating systems, including Windows NT and Linux. Ariel's high-density remote access cards provide V.34, V.90-compatible 56K, and basic rate ISDN remote dial-in, LAN dial-out, and Internet back-haul. Available in ISA, PCI and CompactPCI formats, the cards connect to T1, E1, ISDN, and POTS lines. Ariel's remote access products run Windows NT and Linux out of the box. An SDK is available for OEMs who want to use Ariel's remote access products with other operating systems. For more information on Ariel products, please contact Ariel Corporation at 2540 Route 130, Cranbury, NJ 08512. Phone 609-860-2900. Fax 609-860-1155. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. World Wide Web: http://www.ariel.com. 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HCV -Lab tests, giant platelets?Nov 17, 2002 I've been on peg/rib treatment for 2 months now, I have genotype2. My last blood test stated they could not obtain a platelet count due to 'clumping'. I then took another special test in order for them to read the platelet count, however it stated 'Evaluate results with caution. The white blood cell count & platelet count may be altered due to interferences coused by the presence of significant numbers of large/giant platelets. Platelet count was 93 / white blood cell count was 4.4. Is this normal or should I be concerned? Thank you for your help |
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I am a Jew living in the United Kingdom, a country with a Jewish population of less than 0.5% of the total. I am a Jew living in Cumbria, possibly the least Jewish county in England. I am a Jew who married not beneath a sacred canopy in a synagogue but in the plain surroundings of a Quaker Meeting House in the Lake District. My partner will shortly become an ordained Anglican Minister. Our children have a love of Christianity and Judaism but will find their spiritual home in church.
I appear to have forfeited my rights to comment on matters of concern to the Jewish community. From Judaism's perspective I am most definitely living on the very margins.
Or is there another way of looking at this?
The great benefit given by distance is improved perspective. From where I stand I can take in wider views and appreciate a grander landscape of religious and political thought. That's especially true when it comes to Israel-Palestine and interfaith relations - the two main themes of this blog.
Writing from the edge leaves me free from tribal affiliations but without abandoning tribal affections. My Jewish edginess allows me to walk away from religious or theological rivalries. instead I am free to concentrate on commonality - the shared ground the overlaps between communities and faiths where open minds can meet.
This is not to advocate some kind of religious 'mush' devoid of distinct traditions, liturgies, prayers, celebrations and festivals. Religious particularism helps to forge personal identity, rootedness, community pride, a vital sense of connectedness. These things only go wrong when a particular route to a universal understanding of faith and humanity slips into exclusivity and chauvinism. The attitude and world outlook that says: Only my path is the right path. My truth is the whole truth. Only my light shows the way to redeeming the world.
On Israel-Palestine, my Jewish edginess allows me to understand the collective Jewish narrative that sees Israel not as a normal country but as a just answer, a messianic redemption, for a people who have suffered thousands of years of discrimination, oppression and genocide. My edginess allows me to step outside of this narrative, to question its understanding of history, theology and politics. It allows me to enter the narrative of the Palestinian people and be changed by that experience and understanding.
So what of Micah? And what is the paradigm shift he calls for? Why is he my edgy companion on this blog?
The Hebrew Prophet Micah, like the best of the Hebrew Prophets, was a critic of the religious and political power elites of his day. In starting this blog I was looking for a manifesto, a clear set of words, a vision to be aspired to and strive for. The paradigm shift I hope for, call for and pray for is summed up in these verses from the 6th chapter of the book of Micah :
6 With what shall I come before the LORD
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
The words appear so reasonable but in reality they are as radical and counter-cultural today as they were in Judea in the 8th century BCE. We worship the wrong things, we fail to do justice, we do not show kindness and we walk upon the earth with a haughty arrogance.
Micah is writing from the edge. I hope that one day we will both find ourselves in the middle.


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Geert Wilders' Courageous Journey
Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders has released in 2012 his autobiographical account of his internationally known condemnation of, and personal conflicts with, Islam, with a forward available online by his fellow comrade in letters vis-à-vis Islam, conservative columnist Mark Steyn. Marked for Death: Islam's War against the West and Me recounts how an individual Dutchman became aware of an aggressive and authoritarian agenda in Islam as a faith-based political ideology. Through personal travels to the Middle East and the example of Muslim migrants who sought not to assimilate to Holland's world-renowned tolerant culture, but rather despised and sought to dominate it, Wilders recognized the incompatibility of Islam's canonical core with a free Western civilization. Wilders in turn personally experienced this incompatibility as his continuing condemnation of Islam brought him not the intellectual interchange due a debater in public forums, but rather personal and legal endangerment. Yet Wilders persevered and prevailed, thereby giving an example of how the free world can once again overcome a totalitarian threat.
As Steyn writes in his forward, the Wilders "who emerges in the following pages is not the grunting thug of media demonology but a well-read, well-traveled, elegant, and perceptive analyst." Wilders traveled and worked in Israel following his 1981 high school graduation, beginning a lifelong passion for this country that has led to at least annual visits throughout the years, over 50 trips in all. During this initial stay in Israel, Wilders also made his first visit to a majoritarian-Muslim country, Egypt.
Wilders was "overwhelmed by the kindness, friendliness, and helpfulness of its people." Yet an "overwhelming sense of fear" under the dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak also possessed these people. Additionally, their capital "Cairo was poor and incredibly dirty," making Wilders "amazed that such a place could be a neighbor of Israel, which was so clean." One "big mistake" by Wilders here was buying a glass of water from a public water collector, leading to several days of severe diarrhea spent lying on a hostel floor for two dollars a day "in a crowded, stinking room."
Wilders' travels made him notice critical attitudinal differences between Muslim Arabs and Jews. Understandably in the context of Israel's fight for survival amongst surrounding Arabs, "Israelis often had negative political opinions about Arabs." Yet even Israelis who had lost loved ones to Arab terrorism "did not feel offended by the Arabs' mere existence." In Egypt, though, the "mention of Israel inevitably produced an outburst of vitriolic hatred." This "wrath was not confined to Israeli soldiers or politicians or to Israelis who had done them personal harm," but rather "was hatred against all Jews, even children." It "was hard to find an Arab who spoke about Jews with anything but unconcealed contempt."
Wilders' experience with Islam at home in Holland has been no less negative. In his chapter "Conquest," Wilders writes that mass Muslim migration is turning many Dutch neighborhoods into "cities of the prophet." This is in emulation of Islam's prophet Muhammad and his original followers who sought refuge from Mecca in the largely Jewish settlement of Yathrib in the Arabian Peninsula in 622. "By foolishly welcoming Muhammad and Meccan followers into their town," Wilders writes, "the Yathribians guaranteed their own extinction and the transformation of their land into Medina, the 'City of the Prophet', which it has remained ever since." Wilders' writes elsewhere that Muhammad's emigration or hijra from Mecca to Medina, the orientation point of the Islamic calendar, is an "intrinsic part of Islamic culture" such that for some Muslim immigrants "Islam is meant to dominate, not to assimilate" in the immigrants' new home. Thus, with the open encouragement of Muslim leaders like Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, "immigration is Islam's Trojan horse, paving the way for jihad" in another Islamic attempt "to conquer Europe."
The result is a "slippery slope toward full Islamization" of Europe under "creeping Shaira" as a "non-violent infiltration of our institutions, a stealth jihad." Among many examples cited by Wilders, municipal authorities in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam as well as the nearby Belgian port of Antwerp have begun registering polygamous marriages. Pools and beaches in diverse European countries such as Finland and Italy have also accommodated Muslim demands for strict sexual segregation with separate bathing areas. In Britain, non-Muslim women have even had to wear the so-called burkini adaptation of Islamic female body covering.
Likewise, Europe faces the depredations of many Muslims who see the continent not as a new home to settle, but rather as a foreign society to be subjugated and plundered in accord with Islam's history of raiding. Holland, for instance, has 40 areas known as "Vogelaar neighborhoods" after a list published in 2007 by the Dutch Minister of Integration and Housing, Ella Vogelaar. Here large Muslim communities exhibit high crime rates, particularly with respect to non-Muslim victims, vigilante enforcement of sharia norms such as those involving the "modesty" of females, and a susceptibility to riots provoked by any incident à la Rodney King. Even state authorities such as the police only enter these areas with the greatest precaution. France similarly has since 1996 751 internationally known zones urbaines sensibles (sensitive urban areas or ZUS), the scene of extensive rioting in 2005 with over 10,000 destroyed cars. Wilders describes the same phenomenon of non-Muslim "no-go" areas in Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Muslim hostility extends beyond individual criminal acts to state social services. Some imams in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have told their congregations to avoid work and paying taxes in order to drain their host societies through welfare payments. Similarly, a Pakistani immigrant told a Norwegian newspaper that he and his boss avoided paying taxes.
Wilders' ongoing exposure to Islam has prompted his extensive study of the same. Wilders is a "fervent reader of the Koran," often compared by Wilders to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, banned in many countries like Wilders' Holland. Reading the Koran for the first time, Wilders expected "to find injunctions to 'love thy neighbor'...similar to those in the Bible, but instead...found the spite of a god who hates."
Drawing upon the analysis of many other scholars of Islam, Wilders discerns that "Islam is primarily a political ideology, not a religion." In particular, unlike "authentic religions" Islam "does not teach the golden rule" but rather "institutionalizes inequality." Wilders has come to the conclusion that while "many moderate Muslims" exist, the "political ideology of Islam is not moderate-it is a totalitarian cult with global ambitions."
Like others, Wilders has determined that oft-criticized "inhuman aspects form the core of Islam," thereby marginalizing any attempt to formulate a benign understanding of Islam as esoteric and largely unviable. Therefore "there is no such thing as 'Islam with a human face,' just as there was no real 'socialism with a human face' or 'national-socialism with a human face.'" "People who reject Islam's violent, intolerant, and misogynistic commandments may be moderates," Wilders analyzes, "but they are not practicing 'moderate Islam'-they are not practicing Islam at all." Having traveled to Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey, Wilders recognizes the great "potential" of Muslim individuals. Yet Wilders concludes, "Islam is the problem-and we should not be afraid to say so," thereby rejecting any attempt to "sugarcoat Islam...out of a misguided fear of offending its adherents."
Wilders has paid a price for his condemnation of Islam. Since November 4, 2004, two days after the Amsterdam murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim, Wilders has lived under constant police protection "like a prisoner" due to similar death threats. "Providing permanent protection for critics of Islam," Wilders observes, "is one of the many costs a society has to pay once it allows Islam inside its borders." Wilders also endured a prosecution in Holland for his anti-Islam statements before obtaining a critical legal victory for free speech on June 23, 2011.
Yet Wilders has ultimately obtained results. Following the strong showing (15.5% of the vote) of Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) in the June 9, 2010, Dutch general elections, Wilders was able to demand in return for PVV support for a minority government changes in Dutch immigration policy. Dutch policies now restrict the extent of immigrant family unification to spouses and young children, emphasize integration into Dutch life as opposed to cultural relativism, and expel residents convicted of crime. The Dutch government, meanwhile, denounced the 57-member state (including Palestine) Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for its calls to suppress Wilders following his legal victory. The Dutch government has also strengthened its support for Israel, cutting support for "humanitarian organizations" supporting anti-Israel sanctions and questioning Israel's right to exist. Along with Israel and the United States, Holland also boycotted the shamelessly anti-Israel United Nations anti-racism conference (Durban III) in September 2011. Wilders' defiant example shows that free nations need hardly submit to Islamic threats often seen as insurmountable.


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Now that I've dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let's drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn's history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years.
On Wednesday, the New York Times ran five - count'em, FIVE - stories on Strauss-Kahn, Director-General of the International Monetary Fund. According to the Paper of Record, the charges against "DSK," as he's known in France, are in "contradiction" to his "charm" and "accomplishments" at the IMF.
Au contraire, mes chers lecteurs.
Director-General DSK's cruelty, arrogance and impunity toward African and other nations as generalissimo of the IMF is right in line with the story told by the poor, African hotel housekeeper in New York City.
Let's consider how the housekeeper from Guinea ended up here in New York. In 2002, this single mother was granted asylum. What drove her here?
It began with the IMF rape of Guinea.
In 2002, the International Monetary Fund cut off capital inflows to this West African nation. Without the blessing of the International Monetary Fund, Guinea, which has up to half the world's raw material for aluminum, plus oil, uranium, diamonds and gold, could not borrow a dime to develop these resources.
The IMF's cut-off was, in effect, a foreclosure, and the nation choked and starved while sitting on its astonishing mineral wealth. As in the sub-prime mortgage foreclosures we see today, the IMF moved quickly to seize Guinea's property.
But the IMF did not seize this nation's riches for itself. Rather, it forced Guinea to sell off its resources to foreign corporations at prices much like the sale of furniture on the lawn of a foreclosed house.
The French, Americans, Canadians, Swiss (and lately, the Chinese) came in with spoons out and napkins tucked in under their chins, swallowing the nation's bauxite, gold and more. In the meantime, the IMF ordered the end of trade barriers and thereby ruined local small holders.
As a result of the IMF attack, Guineans who could, fled for freedom and food. This week, then, marked the second time this poor African was molested by the IMF.
Now we have the context of how these two, the randy geezer of globalization and the refugee ended up, in quite different positions, in that New York hotel room.
Since taking over the IMF in 2007, erstwhile "Socialist" Strauss-Kahn has tightened the screws in an attempt to maintain the free-market finance mania that ruined this planet in the first place. [That's worth a story in itself - and that's coming. Our team has a stack of inside documents from the IMF that we will be releasing in my new book in the Fall.]
DSK's lawyers say the relationship with the housekeeper was "consensual." But DSK says that about all IMF agreements with nations over whom it holds life and death powers. That's like saying a bank robbery is consensual so long as you don't consider the gun.
Whether it was agreed-upon sex or brutal rape, it could only have been "consensual" in the same way that the people of Guinea consented to IMF-ordered financial rapine.
The Times article quotes an IMF crony of Strauss-Kahn saying DSK gets his way by "persuasion" not "bullying." Tell that to the Greeks.
It was DSK who, last year, personally insisted on brutal terms for the so-called bail-out of Greece. "Strong conditionality" is the IMF term. Strauss-Kahn demanded not just a devastating cut in pensions and a deliberate increase in unemployment to 14%, but also the sell-off of 4,000 of 6,000 state-owned services. The DSK IMF plan allowed the financiers who set the financial fires of Greece to pick up the nation's assets at a fire-sale price.
The Strauss-Kahn demands were not "tough love" for Greece: The love was reserved solely for the vulture bankers who received the IMF funds but were not required to accept one euro in lost profit in return. DSK, despite the advice of many, refused to ask the banks and speculators to reduce their usurious interest charges that were at the root of Greece's woes.
Requiring Greece to sell assets, drop trade barriers, and even end the rule that Greek ships use Greek sailors has nothing to do with saving Greece, but everything to do with DSK's continuing the right-wing free-market mania that got this planet into trouble in the first place.
I do not consider it a stretch to say that a predator in the bank boardroom suite assumes his impunity applies to the hotel suite.
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whats wrong hi,my betta,graphic is doing this wierd yawning thing,can you help me thanks. |
Umm...can you explain a bit more? I'm having a hard time picturing this/trying to figure out what could be the cause. |
its like he does this thing where he opens his mouth as wide as he can,and it almost appears as if he is yawning.And one more thing,can you tell me why my betta backflips,then does a little spin,then goes back to swimming,making a bubblenest,and all the other things bettas do,but he only does this after he's done eating. here is all the information that wou will need to know to figure this out.heated 45 gallon plants 3 snails.please help graphic.THANKS |
Sounds like hes happy to me, the bubblenest is a sure sign, i wouldnt worry, just let him goof around |
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Just for clarification, bubble nests aren't always sure signs of health - although in this particular instance I'd say it is if he is eating properly, etc. The 'yawning' thing is normal, my cute little bettas have always done that, it seems to be a normal among many species of fish, actually: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...i/46748d71.jpg Woo hoo!!! :D :D :D BTW, a 45 gallon for one betta and a few snails? I'm glad to see you're providing it with plenty of exploration space and room to stretch its fins. No doubt a considerable upgrade from the cup you purchased him from. :( |
I have a tank at work for the secretaries and one of my Black Skirted Tetras does the "yawning" thing..I am always suprised at how big his mouth opens up! |
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I think you should get him some friends. :wink: He sounds like a really happy fish! :D |
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Here's a wedding from the spring from the historic Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, SC. You might remember Megan & Breck from their engagement or maybe her bridal session. These guys are actually moving to Texas soon, which is really a bummer. I really enjoyed getting to know them and everyone that I have met through them. Breck also has some of the coolest man toys on the planet. I expect a big going away party and an invitation!
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Governor Pat Quinn today named Grace Hong Duffin as Acting Secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS).
Hong Duffin has served as the department's Chief of Staff since 2009. She replaces Michelle R. B. Saddler who left the post this week when Governor Quinn named her as his new Chief of Staff.
"Grace Hong Duffin has been a faithful public servant to the people of Illinois, working to help our most vulnerable residents," said Governor Quinn. "As the helm of DHS, she will oversee the many important programs that low-income families throughout the state depend on every day."
Born in South Korea, Hong Duffin immigrated to the United States in 1975. She was raised in the Chicago area and received a Bachelor of Science in human development and social policy from Northwestern University and a Juris Doctorate from the Chicago-Kent College of Law. She also earned her Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
"I look forward to working closely with Governor Quinn and his administration to provide effective and efficient services for vulnerable Illinoisans," said Acting Secretary Hong Duffin. "We will continue to look for ways to meet the current budget challenges while maintaining quality human services for those we serve."
Hong Duffin spent eight years working as an assistant state's attorney in the office of Cook County State's Attorney Richard A. Devine. She has also previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Governor's Office and Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Grace Hou was recently named to the position of Acting Secretary of DHS and declined for personal reasons. Hou will remain Assistant Secretary for Programs at DHS, a position she has held since 2003. Prior to joining DHS, Hou was the Executive Director of the Chinese Mutual Aid Association, a nonprofit social service agency that serves Chinese immigrants and refugees. Hou has a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and is pursuing a Master of Public Administration from the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Governor Quinn rounded out the DHS leadership team by naming Matthew Hammoudeh as Assistant Secretary for Operations. Hammoudeh previously worked as Acting General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor at the Illinois Department of Central Management Services where he assisted with DHS and other agencies with implementing accountability and fiscal initiatives that resulted in millions of dollars in savings for the state and significant improvements in agency operations. He has a Master's degree in biology from the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law.


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Public Praire Dog hunting
I am new to this forum. Im looking to go to South Dakota praire dog hunting in the begining of June. I have never been praire dog hunting before and was just curious what kind of public land there is, if you can go without a guide and find good shooting.
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I don't know about the rest of the state but the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands has lots of PDs.
The forest service use to mark PD towns on their maps, haven't had a BGNGL map in a long time so I don't know if they still do. SD use to have a Non Resident License, again I don't know if they still do. It wasn't very much if I remember right. Like I said, its been a while, I live in Wyoming so its hard to justify crossing over into SD for PDs when we have so many here.
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If you go to the Buffalo Gap get a map of the plague areas I think you can get it through their office at Wall.
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Use Google earth- you can see them from above quite clearly.
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Shooting prairie dogs within the Conata Basin area of Buffalo Gap National Grassland is prohibited year-round since August 1, 1998." http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fs...ands-%2520Maps |
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I went out in the fall last year and had a good time. SD has a lot of private land that are "walk in" areas to hunt and as long as no livestock are present you can hunt. They have maps and the areas are well marked.
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Not sure about the maps, but make sure you don't forget your 30.06 for the full effect of PD huntin
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Michael Jackson audio: The pop star's slurred words echoed Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom at the trial of the doctor accused of killing him, as a worldwide audience watched on TV and Michael Jackson's family looked on from inside the courtroom.
LOS ANGELES — First, prosecutors showed a graphic photo of Michael Jackson's body. Then, they played a recording of his voice, just weeks before his death.
Slow and slurred, his words echoed Tuesday through a Los Angeles courtroom at the start of the trial of the doctor accused of killing him. As a worldwide audience watched on TV and Jackson's family looked on from inside the courtroom, a drugged Jackson said:
"We have to be phenomenal. When people leave this show, when people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen nothing like this in my life. Go. Go. I've never seen nothing like this. Go. It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'"
Prosecutors played the audio for the first time during opening statements as they portrayed Dr. Conrad Murray as an incompetent physician who used a dangerous anesthetic without adequate safeguards and whose neglect left the superstar abandoned as he lay dying.
Defense attorneys countered that Jackson caused his own death by taking a drug dose, including propofol, after Murray left the room.
Nothing the cardiologist could have done would have saved the King of Pop, defense attorney Ed Chernoff told jurors, because Jackson was desperate to regain his fame and needed rest to prepare for a series of crucial comeback concerts.
A number of Jackson's family members were in the courthouse, including his father Joseph, mother Katherine, sisters LaToya and Janet, and brothers Jermaine, Randy and Tito. LaToya Jackson carried a sunflower, her brother's favorite flower.
The family's most emotional moment came when the prosecutor played a video excerpt from Jackson's "This Is It" rehearsal in which he sang "Earth Song," a plea for better treatment of the environment.
As Jackson sang the words, "I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars," his mother, Katherine, dabbed at her eyes with a tissue.
Prosecutor David Walgren noted it was Jackson's last performance.
Murray, who arrived at court holding hands with his mother, has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, he could face up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license.
Speaking for more than an hour, Walgren relied on photos and audio recordings to paint Murray as an inept and reckless caretaker.
Walgren showed a photo of a lifeless Jackson on a hospital gurney. He juxtaposed the image with those ofJackson performing. Walgren also played the recording of Jackson speaking to Murray while, the prosecutor said, the singer was under the influence of an unknown substance roughly six weeks before his death.
The prosecutor said that Murray recorded the conversation with his groggy patient on his cell phone.
Jackson trusted Murray as his physician, and "that misplaced trust in Conrad Murray cost Michael Jackson his life," Walgren said.
The recurring theme was Jackson's never-ending quest for sleep and propofol, the potion he called his "milk" and that he believed was the answer. Jurors were told that it was a powerful anesthetic, not a sleep aid, and the prosecutor said Murray severely misused it.
The prosecutor said while working for Jackson, the doctor was shipped more than four gallons of the anesthetic, which is normally given in hospital settings.
Chernoff, the defense attorney, claimed the singer swallowed several pills of the sedative lorazepam on the morning of his death and that was enough to put six people to sleep. After taking a self-administered dose of propofol, Jackson did not even have a chance to close his eyes, Chernoff said, claiming he died instantly.
Chernoff, who had long hinted that the defense would blame Jackson for his own death, added a surprise. He claimed that Jackson died not because his doctor continued to give him the drug but because he stopped it, forcing Jackson to take extreme measures.
"What we will hear is that Dr. Murray provided propofol for two months to Michael Jackson for sleep," Chernoff said. "During those two months, Michael Jackson slept. He woke up and he lived his life.
"The evidence will not show you that Michael Jackson died because Dr. Murray gave him propofol. The evidence is going to show you Michael Jackson died when Dr. Murray stopped," the attorney said.
He said Murray was trying to wean Jackson off of propofol and had been giving him other sleep aids known as benzodiazepines trying to lull him to sleep.
On June 25, 2009, the last day of Jackson's life, Chernoff said, he was in the third day of a weaning process and it didn't work.
"Michael Jackson started begging. He couldn't understand why he wasn't sleeping.... When Michael Jacksontold Dr. Murray 'I have to sleep. They will cancel my performance,' he meant it," Chernoff said.
Murray, in a recording of his interview with police detectives, acknowledged that he relented and agreed to give Jackson a small dose of propofol.
Walgren said Murray's claim that he gave the singer a minuscule dosage, enough to keep him asleep perhaps five minutes, was not true. He also accused Murray of deception when he hid from paramedics and hospital emergency staff that he had given Jackson propofol. He said they were desperately trying to revive him but didn't know about the drug.
He returned repeatedly to the fee Murray was to be paid — $150,000 a month — and pointed out that he first had asked for $5 million.
"There was no doctor-patient relationship," Walgren said. "... What existed here was an employer-employee relationship. He was not working for the health of Michael Jackson. Dr. Murray was working for a fee of $150,000."
Chernoff countered with a description of Murray's history of treating indigent patients for free. At times during the defense attorney's opening statements, Murray appeared to be crying and wiped his eyes with a tissue.
Jackson's family members appeared pained as Walgren described the singer as a vulnerable figure, left alone with drugs coursing through his body.
"It violates not only the standard of care but the decency of one human being to another," he said. "Dr. Murray abandoned Michael when he needed help."
Following opening statements, Jackson's choreographer and friend, Kenny Ortega, testified that Jackson was in bad shape physically and mentally less than a week before his death.
He said he sent a message to Randy Phillips, producer of the "This Is It" concert, telling him that Jackson was ill, probably should have a psychological evaluation and was not ready to perform.
"It's important for everyone to know he really wants this," he wrote. "It would shatter him, break his heart if we pulled the plug. He's terribly frightened it's all going to go away."
In response to the email, Ortega said, a meeting was called at Jackson's house where Ortega clashed with Murray, who told him to stop playing amateur psychiatrist and doctor.
"He said Michael was physically and emotionally capable of handling all his responsibilities for the show,'" said Ortega, "I was shocked. Michael didn't seem to be physically or emotionally stable."
Within a few days, he said, Jackson had recouped his energy and was full of enthusiasm for the show.
During the defense opening statement, Chernoff referred to Dr. Arnold Klein, Jackson's dermatologist, who the judge decided will not testify.
The attorney tried to blame Klein for some of Jackson's woes, saying Klein gave Jackson the painkiller Demerol and he became addicted to it.
He told jurors that Klein would not be testifying but his records would be available and an addiction specialist would testify that one of the side effects of Demerol withdrawal is trouble sleeping. Chernoff said Murray was unaware of a Demerol shot administered to Jackson on June 16 and thus didn't realize there could be a fatal interaction with propofol.
Klein's attorney, Garo Ghazarian, later in the day issued a statement calling the allegations preposterous and "merely an attempt to whitewash the facts surrounding the death of ... Michael Jackson while under the management of Dr. Conrad Murray."
He noted there were no traces of Demerol in Jackson's autopsy or in his home, indicating he was not addicted. He also said Klein's use of the drug was not excessive. He noted that Klein was cleared by authorities of any wrongdoing in Jackson's death.


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