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The Feasibility of Simplified Telephone Follow-up After Medical Abortion (SMART)
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Condition | Intervention |
Induced Abortion |
Other: telephone follow-up |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | The Feasibility of Simplified Telephone Follow-up After Medical Abortion |
- To determine the rate of completion of telephone interviews after medical abortion, and the rate of return for follow-up if necessary. [ Time Frame: four months ]
- To determine if a standardized set of questions can predict pregnancy expulsion, and to determine which method of misoprostol administration women prefer. [ Time Frame: four months ]
Enrollment: | 139 |
Study Start Date: | February 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | August 2009 |
Primary Completion Date: | June 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: 1
All women undergoing medical abortion will have telephone follow-up approximately one week after using mifepristone and misoprostol.
Other: telephone follow-up
subjects undergoing medical abortion will recieve a telephone call and be asked a series of clinical questions. Expulsion of the pregnancy will be assessed based on the answers to those questions.
Detailed Description:
This is a prospective trial to evaluate the feasibility of performing a telephone interview to predict if pregnancy expulsion has occurred. In those women for whom expulsion has not been predicted to have occurred, the trial will evaluate if they will present for a follow-up visit. We plan to recruit 154 women that desire a medical abortion from Magee-Womens Hospital, Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, and private offices in the surrounding area. Women who are no more than 63 days gestation will receive mifepristone 200mg and misoprostol 800mcg. Each subject will choose between two evidence-based methods of using the misoprostol: buccally 24-72 hours or vaginally 0-72 hours after mifepristone. A follow-up phone call with a clinician will occur 5-9 days after mifepristone administration. Based on clinical history, including a structured question set, the subject and the clinician will predict if expulsion occurred. If either or both feel that expulsion may not have occurred, the women will return for follow-up in the office within one week for sonographic evaluation. If they both predict that expulsion has occurred at this initial phone call follow-up, the subject will perform a urine pregnancy test at home in approximately 3 weeks. She will have a follow-up phone call after the pregnancy test to obtain the results. The subject will only have an additional visit and ultrasound examination if the urine pregnancy test is positive.
The primary outcome is the percentage of women that will be available for follow-up over the phone, and/or return visit if necessary. The secondary outcomes are to determine if a standardized set of questions of clinical history after medical abortion will be useful to predict expulsion of the pregnancy and which mode of misoprostol administration women prefer. In addition, the study will confirm if women and clinicians are accurate at predicting expulsion of the pregnancy, compare the ability of patients and clinicians to predict expulsion of the pregnancy, determine how many women require follow-up evaluation after a telephone interview, and to determine the pregnancy continuation rate after misoprostol and mifepristone in this study.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- healthy females
- requesting an elective termination of pregnancy by medical abortion
- an intrauterine pregnancy </= 63 days gestation
- willing and able to sign the informed consent
- willing to comply with the study protocol and visit schedule
- willing to have a surgical abortion/D&C if indicated
- with easy and ready access to a telephone
Exclusion Criteria:
- contraindication to mifepristone
- contraindication to misoprostol
- cardiovascular disease -hemoglobin <10 g/dL
- known clotting defect or receiving anticoagulants
- pregnancy with an IUD
- breastfeeding
- ultrasound evidence of an early pregnancy failure
- pelvic examination with evidence of acute cervicitis
- prior participation in this research study
- current participation in a conflicting research study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00619658
United States, Pennsylvania | |
Center for Family Planning Research, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213 |
Principal Investigator: | Lisa K Perriera, MD | Center for Family Planning Research, University of Pittsburgh |
Additional Information:
Responsible Party: | University of Pittsburgh |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00619658 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | February 8, 2008 |
Last Updated: | January 27, 2016 |
Keywords provided by University of Pittsburgh:
telephone follow-up medical abortion induced abortion |
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Reporter journeys into the heart of America's conservative revolution
Monday, September 25, 2006
Aired 4/19/09
Many journalists and scholars have written about this so-called Red-Blue political split among Americans. Brian Mann is an NPR reporter who sees it in his own family. His book, called Welcome to the Homeland, is very much about his relationship with his brother, Allen. Allen lives in rural Missouri. He votes Republican and attends an evangelical church.
Brian Mann, who calls himself a liberal, believes the Red-Blue split in America is actually a divide between urban America and rural, small town America.
- Brian Mann, reporter and editor for North Country Public Radio author of Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Heart of America's Conservative Revolution .
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Elin Nordegren isn't wishing her ex-husband, Tiger Woods, good luck in his new relationship with Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn. The former model "hates Lindsey Vonn and everything about this romance," a source tells Us Weekly.
Woods has been dating 28-year-old Vonn for almost a year, but the couple finally made their relationship public in March. Since then, they have been spotted together with Sam, 5, and Charlie, 4, Woods' and Nordegren's children from their six-year marriage.
The source reports that the 33-year-old Nordegren is "angry Tiger even has visitation rights to the kids." During those scheduled visits, the new girlfriend has been photographed taking the Tiger's children to school.
It doesn't appear that Nordegren has hopes of rekindling the relationship with Tiger that went south after his 2010 cheating scandal. Nordegren reportedly has been dating Chris Cline, a billionaire coal magnate whose $12 million estate is located in her North Palm Beach neighborhood.
When asked how 37-year-old Tiger felt about his ex's feelings, the source replied, "He doesn't care about her. He's so egotistical!"
Earlier this month at the CFDA Fashion Awards, Vonn spoke out about the intense media scrutiny surrounding the new couple's relationship. "We're dealing with it. We're happy," the Olympian told a reporter. "And that's all that matters."
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I have a simple question I cant seem to find the answer to. So I know the GFSZA law states that no one can carry on school grounds unless you have a state issued permit and your state allows it. So being in alabama, I am ok to CC on school grounds. However, unless I'm reading it wrong, it is completely different in regards to discharging the weapon. As I understand it, only LEOs and security guards may discharge on school grounds and having a CC permit does NOT exempt you from this.
So my questions. Did I interpret this correctly? If I did, why CC on school grounds if you wont be able to shoot the BG?


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Slow-Roasted Halibut with Asparagus and Salsa Genovese
- 1 pound green olives, pitted
- 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian flat-leaf parsley
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
- 2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme leaves, optional
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon minced capers, rinsed before mincing
- 2 small clove garlic, minced
- 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil , plus more for storing
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Put 1 1/2 tablespoons of the olive oil in a shallow baking dish. Place the fish fillets in the baking dish and turn to coat them with the oil. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Spoon the wine around the fish. Bake until the fish just flakes, about 20 minutes.
Whisk a tablespoon or 2 of the juices from the baking dish into the salsa and oil mixture to thin and flavor it, then spoon the sauce over the fish. Serve at once.
Add all the ingredients except for the olive oil and pulse until nearly pureed. With the machine running, add 6 tablespoons olive oil through the feed tube, pureeing until the mixture is almost smooth. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Refrigerate in an airtight container with a thin film of olive oil on top to protect it from oxidizing. The flavors will stay lively for 2 to 3 days.
Michael's Notes: Choose an olive that is not too heavily brined, such as picholines or Lucques from France.
Yield: about 2 cups


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Latin liturgical rites
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Latin liturgical rites used within that area of the Roman Catholic Church where the Latin language once dominated (the Latin Rite or Western Catholic Church) were for many centuries no less numerous than the liturgical rites of the Eastern autonomous particular Churches. Their number is now much reduced. In the aftermath of the Council of Trent, in 1568 and 1570 Pope Pius V suppressed the Breviaries and Missals that could not be shown to have an antiquity of at least two centuries (see Tridentine Mass and Roman Missal). Many local rites that remained legitimate even after this decree were abandoned voluntarily, especially in the nineteenth century. Most religious orders that still kept a rite of their own chose in the second half of the twentieth century to adopt the reformed Roman Rite as revised in accordance with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council (see Mass of Paul VI). A few such liturgical rites persist today for the celebration of Mass, since 1965-1970 in revised forms, but the distinct liturgical rites for celebrating the other sacraments have been almost completely abandoned.
Liturgical rites currently in use within the Latin-Rite Catholic Church
Roman Rite
The Roman Rite is by far the most widely used. Like other liturgical rites, it developed over time, with newer forms replacing the older. It underwent many changes in the first millennium and a half of its existence (see Pre-Tridentine Mass). The forms that Pope Pius V, as requested by the Council of Trent, established in the 1560s and 1570s underwent repeated minor variations in the centuries immediately following. Each new typical edition (the edition to which other printings are to conform) of the Roman Missal (see Tridentine Mass) and of the other liturgical books superseded the previous one.
The twentieth century saw more profound changes. Pope Pius X radically rearranged the Psalter of the Breviary and altered the rubrics of the Mass. Later Popes continued to make such changes, beginning with Pope Pius XII, who revised the Holy Week ceremonies and certain other aspects of the Roman Missal in 1955.
The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was followed by a general revision of the rites of all the Roman Rite sacraments, including the Eucharist. As before, each new typical edition of an official liturgical book supersedes the previous one. Thus, the 1970 Roman Missal, which superseded the 1962 edition, was superseded by the edition of 1975. The 2002 edition in turn supersedes the 1975 edition both in Latin and, as official translations into each language appear, also in the vernacular languages. Under the terms of Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI, the Mass of Paul VI is known as the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite.
The Tridentine Mass, as in the 1962 Roman Missal, is still authorized for use as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite under the conditions indicated in the document Summorum Pontificum.
Anglican Use
The Anglican Use is a use of the Roman Rite. During the Liturgy of the Eucharist, especially the Eucharistic Prayer, it is closest to the Roman Rite, while it differs more during the Liturgy of the Word and the Penitential Rite. The language used, which differs from the more widely used ICEL translation of the official Latin, is based upon the Book of Common Prayer, which was originally written in the 16th century. Most AU parishes use the Book of Divine Worship, an adaptation of the Book of Common Prayer.
The Anglican Use is permitted, under the Pastoral Provision of 1980, in ten parishes in the United States, all of which left the Episcopal Church. The same Pastoral Provision also permits the ordination of married, former Episcopal ministers as Catholic priests.
Algonquian and Iroquoian Uses
Also called "Indian Masses", a number of variations on the Roman Rite developed in the Indian missions of Canada and the United States. These originated in the 1600s, and some remained in use until the Second Vatican Council. The priest's parts remained in Latin, while the ordinaries sung by the schola were translated into the vernacular (e.g., Mohawk, Algonquin, Micmac, and Huron). They also generally featured a reduced cycle of native-language propers and hymns. At present they are rarely used.[1]
Zaire Use
The Zaire Use is an inculturated variation of the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. It is used to a very limited extent in some African countries since the late 1970s
Western Rites of "Gallican" type
Ambrosian Rite
The Ambrosian Rite is celebrated in most of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy and in parts of some neighbouring dioceses in Italy and Switzerland. The language used is now usually Italian, rather than Latin. With some variant texts and minor difference in the order of readings, it is similar in form to the Roman Rite. Its classification as Gallican-related is disputed.[2]
Rite of Braga
The Rite of Braga is used, but since 18 November 1971 only on an optional basis, in the Archdiocese of Braga in northern Portugal.[3]
Mozarabic Rite
The Mozarabic Rite, which was prevalent throughout Spain in Visigothic times, is now celebrated only in limited locations, principally the cathedral of Toledo.
Carthusian Rite
The Carthusian rite is in use in a version revised in 1981.[4] Apart from the new elements in this revision, it is substantially the rite of Grenoble in the twelfth century, with some admixture from other sources.[5] It is now the only extant Mass rite of a religious order; but by virtue of the Ecclesia Dei indult some individuals or small groups are authorized to use some now defunct rites.
Western Rite of sui generis type
Benedictine Rite
The Order of Saint Benedict has never had a rite of the Mass peculiar to it, but it keeps its very ancient Benedictine Rite of the Liturgy of the Hours.
Defunct Catholic Western liturgical rites
African Rite
The African Rite was used, before the 8th century Arab conquest, in Latin-speaking North Africa, in particular the Roman province of Africa, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia, of which Carthage was the capital. It was very close to the Roman Rite, so much so that Western liturgical traditions have been classified as belonging to two streams, the North African-Rome tradition, and the Gallican (in the broad sense) tradition encompassing the rest of the Western Roman Empire, including northern Italy.[6]
Celtic Rite
The ancient Celtic Rite was a composite of non-Roman ritual structures (possibly Antiochian) and texts not exempt from Roman influence, that was similar to the Mozarabic Rite in many respects and would have been used at least in parts of Ireland, Scotland, the northern part of England and perhaps even Wales, Cornwall and Somerset, before being authoritatively replaced by the Roman Rite in the early Middle Ages. "Celtic" is possibly a misnomer and it may owe its origins to Augustine's re-evangelisation of the British Isles in the sixth century. Little is known of it, though several texts and liturgies survive.
Some Christians–typically groups not in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, especially some Western Orthodox Christian communities in communion with Eastern Orthodox Churches, e.g. Celtic Orthodoxy–have attempted to breathe life into a reconstruction of the Celtic Rite the historical accuracy of which is debated. Historical evidence of this rite is found in the remnants of the Stowe (Lorrha) Missal.
Gallican Rite
The Gallican Rite is a retrospective term applied to the sum of the local variants, on similar lines to that designated elsewhere as the Celtic Rite (above) and the Mozarabic Rite, which faded from use in France by the end of the first millennium. It should not be confused with the so-called Neo-Gallican liturgical books published in various French dioceses after the Council of Trent, which had little or nothing to do with it.
Defunct local Latin Rites or Uses
Several local rites (more properly, uses or variants of the Roman Rite) of limited scope existed, but are now defunct.
- The Sarum Rite (more properly Sarum Use), a defunct variant on the Roman Rite originating in the Salisbury diocese, which had come to be widely practised in England and Scotland around the 1530s, while the Protestant Reformation swept across continental Europe; practised alongside limited other variants such as the Use of York, Lincoln Use, Bangor Use, and Hereford Use.
- The Cologne Use, used in the diocese of Cologne (German: Köln) prior to 1570.
- The Lyonese Rite of the diocese of Lyon, France, which some consider to have been (rather than Milan) the centre of diffusion of the Gallican liturgy.[7]
- The Nidaros Use, long defunct, based mainly on imported English liturgical books, used in pre-Reformation Norway.[1]
- The Uppsala Use, suppressed during the Reformation, formerly the dominant variant of the Roman Rite used in northern Sweden.
- The Aquileian Rite, a defunct rite originating in the former patriarchate of Aquileia in northern Italy.
- The Benevento Rite, a defunct Latin rite originated in this city in Italy.
- The Durham Rite (defunct: Durham, England)
Rites of religious orders
Some religious orders celebrated Mass according to rites of their own, dating from more than 200 years before the papal bull Quo primum. These rites were based on local usages and combined elements of the Roman and Gallican Rites. Following the Second Vatican Council, they have mostly been abandoned, except for the Carthusian Rite (see above). Religious orders of more recent origin have never had special rites.
The following previously existing rites of Mass, distinct from the Roman Rite, continue to be used on a limited basis by the permission of ecclesiastical superiors:
The Catholic Encyclopedia applied the word "rite" also to the practices followed (to some extent even now, a century later) by certain Roman Catholic religious orders, while at the same time stating that they in fact followed the Roman Rite:
- ↑ Salvucci, Claudio R. 2008. The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions. Merchantville, NJ:Evolution Publishing. See also http://mysite.verizon.net/driadzbubl/IndianMasses.html
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-19-280290-3), article Ambrosian rite
- ↑ Braga - Capital de Distrito (in Portuguese)
- ↑ The text of the Carthusian Missal and the Order's other liturgical books is available at Carthusian Monks and Carthusian nuns
- ↑ The Carthusian Order in Catholic Encyclopedia. The text of the former Ordo Missae of the Carthusian Missal is available at this site.
- ↑ Early Western Liturgics
- ↑ See the section Liturgy of the article Lyons in the Catholic Encyclopedia


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Several local businesses are to be on display and free wine and appetizers are to be served as part of the Women's Entrepreneurial Network's Business Trade Show and Social.
The event is scheduled Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the W.W. Knight Nature Preserve, 29530 White Rd. in Perrysburg.
The trade show will highlight more than 20 vendors as well as wine samples from Uptown Vineyard and appetizers from Manhattan's restaurant. A 50/50 raffle will also be held.
For more information, contact Melissa Combs at 419-349-4757.


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Chico's First Tarpon - Cuba 1956
Chico's First Tarpon on Fly.
I was six years old when my dad and my uncle took me fishing for the first time. They used heavy cotton hand lines dyed brown with mangrove roots, and wrapped in a crisscross fashion on a stick. Years later we would use a Cuban YoYo to hold the line. My passion for fishing grew fast and by the time I was 12 or so, I was using a spinning rod, both for bait and lures. And soon I was catching snook, tarpon, jacks, black bass and many other species. I thought I knew it all. Typical of a teenager.
But in 1956, my dad hired an American captain to run his new 62' sport-fisherman. The captain, besides using spinning tackle, turned out to be a fly fisherman. One look at the big fat fly line unrolling in the air and I was in love - the smell of bamboo, the beautiful flies, the leader construction, and the casting, of course. I didn't know it then, but I had started an affair that would last the rest of my life.
Soon I had a couple of fly rods. And Orvis Battenkill 9 ½ feet long, which I still own, and a metal fly rod who's name I don't remember. What I do remember is that I used my spinning tackle less and less. Occasionally going out on a fishing trip without the "back up" of a spinning outfit, only fly. And I thought this was so cool.
At that time, in the late 50's, I never saw another Cuban fly fisherman. And mind you, I fished all over the place. In rare occasions, I would see an American fly fishing that was there on vacation or working for a large corporation. As far as I know, I was the only Cuban fly fisherman at that time.
Anyway, in those days, I hung around with a small group of spin fisherman that was very advanced for it's time. We made our own jigs, wrapped or re-wrapped guides when needed, worked on our reel's drags and swapped information. We fished all around the island and took many big fish with spinning tackle with 8 and 12 pound line. I was the only one of the group that fly fished, and I remember that my fly fishing affair was looked upon with amusement by the group, and as highly impractical.
One of the favorite places to fish, specially for tarpon, was the old small village of Surgidero de Batabano, a port on the South side of the island less than an hour's ride from Havana through a winding bumpy road that still brings back good memories. The port of Batabano, had a large marina where we would rent a row boat. The fishing destination was not far way. We were looking, among the many commercial boat anchor, for one that was cleaning fish at the time. If I remember correctly it was usually less than a half hour of rowing to reach one of these boats.
As you approached the working vessel, several fishermen would be on their knee in front of a large pile of fish. They would select the mangrove and lane snapper, grouper and other commercially valuable fish, and stack them, with their bellies down on a big wooden box. The cooler in those days. Then, when no more could be lined up on the bottom, they would pour a layer of crushed ice, and begin to stack another layer of fish, then another layer of ice, and so on until the big box was full and a new one was brought up to deck. But in the meantime, all the "undesirable fish", parrot fish, grunts, undersize fish of all kinds, maybe a few crabs and odd shrimp were discarded over the side.
Also visible from our row boat, even at a good distance, was a dark half circle against the side of the vessel, maybe 30 to 60 feet in length what was pure tarpon. And in that mass there were fish ranging from about ten pounds to over one hundred. Fins and flashes constantly showing as the tarpon competed for the next discarded fish. Often catching them just before the tossed fish reached the water. It was quite a sight.
When you cast in the dark mass you never knew how big a fish you would hook. Often we had to row after them returning when the fight was over. And hoping they had not finished cleaning the pile, or the fishing would be over.
If you cast in the middle of this dark mass, you would hook a tarpon immediately, of course, but this would be a mistake, because as the fish ran through all the other tarpon, your line would be constantly rubbing on other fish, and invariably you would be cut off. So we soon learned to hook our fish at the edge of the half circle. We still lost fish, but we landed a few. And in order not too loose valuable lures, we often just used bait. After all, they would take anything, even a piece of white rag.
One day, after thinking about it for a long time, I decided to hook one on my fly rod. My friends knew this was coming.
Because I was a purist, probably still am, I thought that the "only" tippet to use on fly was eight pound tippet. How I came to that conclusion I don't know. Maybe because my favorite spin tackle was eight pounds or because eight pounds is what I would use for bonefish. Anyway, for me eight pounds was fly fishing, twelve pounds was barbaric.
This particular day, I remember that there was only one boat cleaning, and they were about finished. So the familiar half circle against the big vessel was small, with just a few tarpon. That was fine with me, I only needed one. So as soon as my friend rowed me within casting range, I cast my best Joe Brooks yellow streamer at the edge of the half circle. I was hooked up immediately.
After a few jumps, the fish left the area for deeper water, and we followed. I probably did not have the best knots those days so I suspect that my eight pound test tippet was probably closer to six pounds at best. Anyway, suffice is to say that the fight was long. At the end, the fish was dead tire and so was I. If it had been a boxing match it would have been called a tie. But I was thrilled, and so was my friend. So when we got to shore, we decided to take the tarpon home to show my dad. And to take pictures. The car never quite lost the tarpon smell.
At home, in the kitchen scale, he weight just over 20 pounds. My mom took the photos, and them both my parents, my aunt and the maid, agreed that it was time for me to dispose of this "non edible" fish.
Up to that point, I had felt that this was a most wonderful experience, and that I had learned a lot from it. But the learning was not over. To dispose of my tarpon I drove by myself to the Almendares river, only a few blocks from my home. I parked the car and walked a few hundred feet through the bushes to the water's edge, carrying the tarpon in my arms. Then I remember gently putting it in the water and letting it slip away. The current turned him on his side, and it flashed with the light, then he was gone. I stood there for a few seconds on my knees in silence. This was sad. This was a waste. And for once, I knew it.
I had thought that landing the tarpon with my fly rod would be a great learning experience, and it was, but the real big lesson turned out to be when I had to release it. I matured quite a bit that day, and in many ways, became a better fly fisherman.


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The woman was visiting relatives in Ramle, in central Israel, when the conflict broke out. One of the rockets hit in a garden that her children had been in a short while earlier. The idea of her children potentially dying because of her decision to visit relatives in the danger zone was too much to bear.
But Schreiber, director of the Psychiatry Department at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon and dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, had plenty of experience to draw from. He has been treating victims of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder for many years, in this country that has been in a perpetual state of conflict since its war-torn founding in 1948.
All Too Familiar
As rockets again put more than a million Israelis in harm's way this week, Schrieber met with a team of visiting journalists. He spoke about lessons he and other researchers have learned -- lessons that can be useful around the world for treating soldiers and veterans, as well as civilians affected by the traumas of war.
Dr. Schrieber explained that clinicians have learned to follow three guidelines based on experiences of the Israeli army treating combat soldiers:
1) Treat the victim in proximity to where the trauma occurred;
2) Deal with it immediately; and,
3) Assure the victim(s) that feelings of stress are understandable and to be expected, though they are expected to recover from the experience.
"Sometimes you have to be not only empathetic but clever," said Schrieber in our interview in Be'er Sheva this week. Indeed, as he spoke, the city was on high alert following the latest round of clashes that began last Friday, when Israeli forces struck Palestinians they said were about to carry out a terror raid.
First Steps
In the case of the young mother, Schrieber treated her by first having her sit in a chair instead of bed. When he began discussing her children, there was some sign of reaction, but still no speech.
When he suggested to her husband that he take the children home and leave the mother to recover where she was, the mother finally began to cry and talk about her feelings.
"This opened her up," said Schrieber. "If not, she would have had post-traumatic stress disorder."
Preparedness Helps
Schrieber, who is researching a method to predict how patients will respond to anti-depressants based on the molecular structure of brain cells, has also completed a soon-to-be published study of the impact of continuous rocket barrages on Israeli society.
He says he found that constant preparedness at the workplace and at home, helps Israelis feel more secure. New construction regulations require all buildings to include emergency safe rooms and older buildings to be retrofitted with them.
"This structure creates safety," he said, referring not just to the physical reality of safety, but to the psychological sense of safety, as well.
As a result, he sees children who have grown up with bombardment as part of their life for the last decade coping relatively well. "Their resilience is better than that of adults," he said.
A Widening Arc
Schrieber's work has become more important as war-related trauma that comes from living under bombardment has spread in Israel, with the range of rockets from enemies in Gaza and Lebanon increasing. While once only outlying border areas were affected, large cities like Ashkelon and Beer Sheva are increasingly hit by the attacks.
Schrieber has found that people in smaller communities cope better with the attacks. That's because in Israel, small communities, such as religious settlements and kibbutzes tend to be more "ideologically cohesive" than urban areas.
Although the country is living under a much larger threat in the form of a potential nuclear standoff with Iran down the road, it has come to accept that the current rocket bombardments, though potentially deadly, are not an existential threat.
"Out of 100 missile attacks, only one person has been seriously injured," said Schrieber. "We can live with it. We are proud of our resilience. Maybe we are a bit crazy."
Schrieber isn't the only Israeli expert on trauma. Edna Foa, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, developed a treatment technique for PTSD after the start of Israel's so-called Second Intifada in 2000 and has been applying it for treatment of American veterans, as well.
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Good morning. This hearing will come to order.
I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing titled, "Assessing Inadequacies in VA Data Usage for and Services Provided to Visually-Impaired Veterans." My name is Mike Coffman, and prior to hearing testimony and asking questions to our witnesses, I ask that each Member state his or her name to assist our witnesses in identifying who is speaking. Thank you for your cooperation. Now let us begin.
This hearing focuses on continued problems within VA that have caused its contribution to the Vision Center of Excellence to stagnate, allowed VA systems to continue to operate in noncompliance with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and compromised other services provided to veterans with visual impairments.
The creation of the Vision Center of Excellence, or VCE as we will refer to it today, was mandated by the National Defense and Authorization Act of FY 2008. It stated that the Department of Defense was required to create the facility and to collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs in doing so. One of the main responsibilities required in the 2008 NDAA for the operation of the VCE was to "enable the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to access the registry and add information pertaining to additional treatments or surgical procedures and eventual visual outcomes for veterans who were entered into the registry and subsequently received treatment through the Veterans Health Administration."
The reference to the registry is that of the Defense and Veterans Eye Injury and Vision Registry, which we will also refer to as the Registry today for convenience. The DoD has done a commendable job of populating the Registry, with over 20,000 unique patient entries. However, the most recent number VA has provided the Committee regarding its contribution to the Vision Registry is one entry. One, compared to 20,000. Notably, in an October 2013 briefing, VA staff stated that the one entry was just a test case to ensure that their transfer of information would work. So, essentially, VA had not entered any veterans information into the Registry, which precludes VA from meaningfully contributing to the very purpose the Registry was created, "to collect the diagnosis, surgical intervention, operative procedures and related treatments, and follow up of each significant eye injury incurred by members of the Armed Forces while serving on active duty." We will hear from a veteran today who will articulate the importance of VA fulfilling its obligation to contribute to the Registry.
Another major issue we will address today is VA's continued failure to bring its information systems into full compliance with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Section 508 addresses access for people with physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities to various types of technologies. Two separate memoranda, dated July 26, 2012, issued by then-Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology Roger Baker, illustrated the ongoing problems within VA regarding Section 508 compliance. Both memoranda reference how recent audits conducted by the VA showed that most of the content and information on VA websites was not Section 508 compliant.
Further, in a 2012 VA Dashboard Summary analysis, every site reviewed showed a status of less than 50% compliance with Section 508. Some notable examples include: VA Jobs (86% critical), eBenefits (95% critical), and VA Forms (100% critical). The rating of "critical" in the analysis states that the listed percentage is the amount of that website that is "completely inoperable." We will hear today in VA's testimony that they are making great strides in bringing VA systems into compliance with Section 508. However, we will also hear from a blinded veteran who must actually navigate these pages himself. He may be inclined to disagree.
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Peripheral blood stem cells are immature cells. They make white cells, red cells, and platelets. White cells fight infection. Red cells carry oxygen. Platelets prevent bleeding. Some types of cancer treatment damage stem cells. A peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT) replenishes stem cells that have been destroyed by cancer treatment. PBSCT is also used as a cancer treatment.
Stem cells are collected before cancer treatment. After treatment, the cells are put into your bloodstream. The cells travel to your bone marrow and begin making new blood cells. Stem cells can be collected from your own blood. This is called an autologous transplant. Or they may come from a donor. This is called an allogeneic transplant. These stem cells may be better able to kill cancer cells than your body's own cells. It can also prevent relapse. This is known as the graft-versus-tumor effect. The type of transplant used depends on various factors. Both types have advantages and risks.
This type of transplant comes from your own stem cells.
Before the transplant: First, the stem cells are collected (removed from your body) one month to several years before your transplant. A week or so before the stems cells are collected, you will be given medicine to help your bone marrow make more stem cells. Your blood will be tested each day to see if you have enough stem cells to collect. Before collection, a thin, flexible tube (catheter) is placed in a vein in your neck, chest, or groin. This is called a central line. The collection can take one or more days. During this time, you will be connected to a special machine. The machine removes some blood, takes out the stem cells, and returns the blood to you. You may feel a tingling in your lips or hands. The collected stem cells are frozen in a special freezer. Stem cells can be safely stored for many years. Then before your transplant, you will also have high-dose chemotherapy. Or you may have radiation. These procedures are usually done in a hospital or clinic.
The transplant procedure: The transplant can be done in a hospital, clinic, or at home. The stem cells are given through your central line into your bloodstream. The procedure can take several hours to a day or more. During the transplant you may also feel short of breath or have a tight feeling in the chest. You may have high or low blood pressure. A nurse will be with you during the transplant. You will be monitored closely. You will also receive IV fluids. This helps wash out a preservative called DMSO that is used to store the stem cells. DMSO may cause a taste or smell like garlic or creamed corn. You will notice this during the stem cell transplant and up to 36 hours later.
This type of transplant comes from donor stem cells.
Before the transplant: You will receive chemotherapy. This may be high-dose (myeloablative) therapy. Or it may be lower-dose chemotherapy. The type you have depends on certain factors. Your doctor can tell you which you will have. You may also receive radiation. These procedures are usually done in a hospital or clinic.
The transplant procedure: The stem cells are usually transplanted the day after the last dose of chemotherapy. The donor cells are given "fresh." This means they have not been frozen and do not contain preservatives. The stem cells are given through your central line into your bloodstream. The procedure can take several hours. During the transplant you may also feel short of breath or have a tight feeling in the chest. You may have high or low blood pressure. A nurse will be with you during the transplant. You will be monitored closely. You will also receive IV fluids.
Once you return home, follow the instructions you have been given for caring for yourself. These include:
Take all medicines as directed. You will be given medicine to help prevent infection. If you had an allogeneic transplant, you will take medicine to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). This is a reaction between the donor stem cells and your body. These medicines may be needed for up to 1 year.
Care for your central line as instructed. Proper care helps prevent serious infection. Avoid swimming and hot tubs while you still have your central line.
Avoid people with colds, flu, or other contagious illness until your blood counts have returned to normal.
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In recent months, prestigious, mainstream Israelis like Yediot Ahronot columnist Nahum Barnea have predicted exactly this.
And Nahum Segal, among others, encouraged the purchase of all Israeli products—in Green Line Israel and beyond.
In recent months, prestigious, mainstream Israelis like Yediot Ahronot columnist Nahum Barnea have predicted exactly this.
Nahum altered all for the worse; and he wrote a new fifth act, which was still worse than the mere verbal or semi-alterations.
The wealth of Nineveh is called endless by the prophet Nahum.
"He and all the men and boys have gone to join the army," said Nahum.
He wanted it for Nahum Brown, who lives in the old house up the road.
John Sargent laid a pacifically detaining hand on Nahum Beals's arm as he strode past him.
Nahum Sprague seized him by the collar and said, "Follow me."
To gather fresh roots out of the earth and eat them Little Father Nahum looks upon as sinful gluttony.
consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his prophecies. He was probably a native of Galilee, and after the deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a place on the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.


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The couple met in front of Butler Library eight years ago when they were attending Columbia University. The groom stood by the bride's side when her mother suddenly passed way two years into their relationship, and she stood by his side when he was pulling all-nighters and working weekends while he was working as an investment banker. The groom proposed to the bride by the fountain in Lincoln Center in March 2011 and took the bride to Per Se for dinner to celebrate their engagement and surprised the bride by throwing a party afterwards surrounded by their friends. Soon after, the couple started searching for the perfect venue and the bride did not like any venues that they looked at in Manhattan. They wanted an intimate wedding of no more than 100 guests but did not want a crammed space. The groom suggested the Foundry, and they booked the venue on the spot.
This wedding was a perfect DIY project for the bride and the bridesmaids. The bride chose ivory and lavender shades and later added pale pink and dove gray. The bride's friend carefully designed the invitations and edited programs and menu cards from a DIY website. The bridal party and the bride's friends spent hours tying ribbons on the programs and menu cards. The "Bride and Groom" sign also was a DIY job. At the bride's request, one of the bride's close friends made gorgeous copper wire stands for the table number cards. The wedding favors, mini doughnuts, were carefully put in open window, eco-friendly, brown boxes.
The couple did not hire a wedding planner or a day-of coordinator. They gave a detailed schedule to the wedding party and their vendors, and the groom stepped in on the day of the wedding to create a hiccup-free wedding. The couple worked with Larry from Stortz Lighting to create the breathtaking chandeliers that would seamlessly blend in with rustic brick walls and transform the place into a romantic venue. The bride worked with Larry every step of the way to create the chandeliers, and they were able to transform the raw, rustic Foundry into a timelessly romantic wedding venue. The bride and her bridesmaids carefully selected all the furniture and table tops, from the metal finished rustic tables to unpolished silverware to further create the rustic and romantic atmosphere. For the floral design, the bride chose cream and lavender. A family friend created the centerpieces and bouquets using seasonal spring flowers such as peony, lilac and ranunculus. Cherry blossom branches were placed on each side of the altar during the ceremony. Strings of white orchids were carefully hung on the big floor to ceiling windows of the main hall, the greenhouse and also on the fire place in the greenhouse. After the dinner in the main hall, the couple had their cake-cutting ceremony in the greenhouse. Their wedding cake, a green tea cake with raspberry buttercream topped off with white fondant, was created by Silk Cakes. Followed by the cake-cutting, the groom surprised the bride by serenading her. The couple ordered Laudree macaroons and Chikalicious' petit fours in addition to cupcakes to create a yummy dessert station. The wedding came to an end when Korilla food truck came. The bride wanted a perfect hangover food for her guests. The guests enjoyed the Korean-style burritos and tacos.
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The Skellig islands off the coast of Kerry are a must visit on a vacation in Ireland. The islands can only be reached by boats that run daily from Portmagee. There are 2 islands, the larger island called Skellig Michael and the smaller island called Little Skellig. On the island you will see a wide range of sea birds especially gannets and if you time it right the cute looking puffins may be nesting. On Little Skellig 23,000 pairs of gannet nest each year, every space of the island is covered with these birds.
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Peter Hitchens, the conservative and devoutly Christian brother of Christopher, wrote something in his most recent Daily Mail column that moved me deeply. He was commenting about how he and about 100 other people stand along the roadside with their hands over their hearts as the remains of Great Britain's war dead pass by in Oxfordshire near the town of Oxford where he resides. Writing about those who gather to honor their country's fallen, Hitchens avers: "We feel, in short, that a country where nobody could be bothered to stand by the roadside for its dead soldiers wouldn't be worth living in."
He lauds one Abdul Latif and his wife, immigrant Muslim citizens of the U.K., who also have begun standing and honoring those who gave the full measure. These people stand in contrast to Islamo-Fascist rabble rousers, at whom Pope Benedict XVI courageously took aim in his famous in Regensburg address, many of whom express joy at the death of U.K. military members. Of those, like Mr. & Mrs. Latif, he writes they are as likely "as sick" as he is of Britain's "swear-word and sex culture, and that they understand that courage is the greatest of all the virtues – because none of the others is worth anything without it." Of their own courageous gesture, Hitchens rightly observes that it "is a reminder to us that there is an alternative to multiculturalism and decay." All of this is made more worthy of comment by the fact that Mr. Hitchens, as a conservative, opposes his country's on-going involvement in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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WQED and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are changing the way the world listens to classical music. They're also changing the way the world watches classical music.
With the help of C360 live streaming technology, the PSO's performance Sunday at the Allegheny County Summer Concert Series at Hartwood Acres literally will offer anyone in the world a chance to see and hear classical music for free.
The concert will be presented in conjunction with Classical WQED-FM and exhibit a visual live streaming technology that offers an option to zoom in on a particular musician or watch the coverage from various angles.
"All you need is an Internet connection and Adobe Flash," said Ron Davenport Jr., general counsel to Sheridan Broadcasting. He began working with the idea of the C360 in 2003, and the patent was approved in October 2013. He hopes to offer the C360 for other events such as operas and ballets.
Although the PSO has streamed audio before, this will be the first live video streaming.
"Because it's an outdoor concert, we hope it'll be visually interesting to see," said Jim Cunningham, artistic administrator for WQED-FM and host of the live stream. He especially thinks the program will be appealing because it will feature a lot of patriotic music, such as Morton Gould's "American Salute." The concert, conducted by PSO resident conductor Fawzi Haimor, will feature an array of pieces, including Bernstein's Overture to "Candide" and Copland's "Letter From Home."
Mr. Davenport said that watching a concert in person is the "best way to see something like this," but the live stream appeals to a wider, national audience, including friends and families of musicians who may not live near Hartwood Acres' performance area in Hampton.
"There's some emotion that goes on in seeing a classical orchestra perform, and by watching it [through streaming] they'll experience some of that emotion. It's not often we can show the Pittsburgh Symphony with some visual experience," said Maria Pisano, WQED marketing associate. "We broadcast them on the air, but this is just another way to experience that."
Ideally, this technology will not replace the experience of going to a symphony, but rather increase interest in it. The idea is still fledgling, but Mr. Cunningham noted a potential in bringing in a "newer, larger, perhaps younger" audience that may be inclined to either purchase tickets to watch a symphony online or purchase tickets for a live show.
"More people are hearing classical music more than before with streaming, and on demand. It's a good time for classical music," Mr. Cunningham said. "We hope people will be turned on enough that they'll want to come to Heinz Hall and go to a concert in the winter."
Mr. Cunningham appeared confident of a fruitful future for classical music.
"We'll see how it goes, but I think it's the way of the future, no question," he said.
The concert will begin in person and online at 8:15 p.m. Sunday. The online concert will be available at pittsburghsymphony.org/hartwood or at wqedfm.org, and the performance will be broadcast live on WQED-FM 89.3.
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The tweaks include many features iPhone users have long lobbied for. They include the ability to cut, copy and paste text; rotate from portrait mode to landscape mode in key applications; and the ability to send photos, locations and audio information over the cellphone network via MMS.
Other tweaks include Spotlight, a single application that allows users to search for information in Apple's
Apple discussed the updates as it offered a sneak peek of the next version of its iPhone operating system to developers and the press at its headquarters. The software will be available Tuesday as a developer beta and as a free update for iPhone customers sometime this summer. The software will cost $9.95 for iPhone touch customers.
The stakes are high: Apple is relying on its smart phone business to deliver growth as its iPod business matures and the worldwide PC market stagnates.
Apple sold 13.7 million iPhones last year. The iPhone operating system now powers more than 30 million devices, including the iPod touch. That's in large part thanks to Apple's App Store, introduced last year, which opened up the iPhone software to outside developers.
More than 25,000 applications are available on the iPhone now, and iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 800 million applications over the past eight months.
Separately, Apple introduced more than 1,000 APIs, or software hooks, that developers can use to add new capabilities to their applications. They include the ability for software makers to sell subscriptions to new content, additional levels for games and the ability to sell new content–such as a book–inside an application.
Apple also introduced the ability to automatically discover other applications running on nearby devices using Bluetooth. This will allow gamers, for example, to square off against other players.
Developers can also pair up their applications with hardware. That trick would allow a software developer to turn an iPhone into an equalizer for a set of speakers.
Maps and directions will also play a bigger role in the iPhone. Developers will also be able to embed
Finally, Apple also added a long-overdue push notification service, allowing developers to ping a user with an audio or text cue when, for example, they get a new text message.
Shares of Apple rose $2.49, or 2.6%, to $97.91 in Tuesday afternoon trading. So far this year, the company's stock has risen more than 8%.
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For decades, Clarence Clemons has arguably been the hardest-working rock & roll sax player in the industry. He is currently on the road again, with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, on the Working On A Dream tour.
Over the years, as Clemons has juggled his successful solo career and his work with The Boss, he has always maintained that physical activity was important to his job. He has said:
I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
I found this video on YouTube, which I thought gave some very interesting insights into the sax player known as The Big Man. The interview is a few years old; it was taped when Clemons was 42. At the time, he worked out for 3 hours a day and played 4-hour shows at night. Yikes!
Here's an example from one of the E Street Band performances that shows the physical nature of some of the work that Clarence Clemons was doing.
Yes, he certainly needs to be in good shape to be able to pull this stuff off night after night, for months on end!
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The Rangers' No. 17 prospect tossed 5 2/3 innings of no-hit ball before allowing a double as the Class A Hickory Crawdads beat the Savannah Sand Gnats, 6-1, on Saturday.
Jackson (2-0) did not allow a hit until T.J. Rivera doubled. Camden Moran followed with a single, but the 2010 first-round pick retired Brian Harrison on a fly ball to center field on his final pitch of the night.
"I was throwing in and away all night with my fastball and it caught too much of the plate and he went with it," Jackson said, referring to Moran. "Wish I threw a different pitch there, but you can't take back mistakes. It didn't ruin my night though."
Jackson ended up allowing two hits and a walk while striking out seven over six innings.
"I was just throwing strikes and my defense was playing unbelievable," he said. "I was lucky enough to throw a strike or they made a play behind me. I had the best defense behind me."
Jackson retired 12 in a row before Moran's two-out hit in the sixth. It was the first time in his brief Minor League career that the 20-year-old right-hander completed six innings.
"I'm pretty happy," Jackson said. "I think before I went 4 2/3 [innings] and I was pretty frustrated that I couldn't get that third out. I was pretty excited to get to that sixth inning."
The Florida native has followed up a rocky debut season with an excellent start to 2012. He leads the Class A South Atlantic League with 29 strikeouts, ranks ninth with a 1.31 ERA and has yielded only 12 hits over 20 2/3 innings. Command was an issue for him last year as he walked 48 batters in 75 innings. He's issued seven free passes this year.
"Really, instead of just blowing out and throwing as hard as I can, I've been pounding the zone and pumping it up when I need to," Jackson said. "Our pitching coaches and staff and catchers have been calling a great game and I've been able to throw the ball where I want to. And my secondary pitches have been working."
Jorge Alfaro, Texas' No. 7 prospect, doubled, tripled and drove in two runs, while Drew Robinson was 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs for the Crawdads.
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
By Shelley Grieshop
Fall arrives with stomach flu outbreak
Auglaize County health officials continue to monitor the spread of a stomach virus circulating in the Grand Lake area.
"We've seen a lot of vomiting and diarrhea," county medical director Dr. Juan Torres told board members Tuesday morning.
Director of nursing Cindy Jones also spoke on the issue.
"Last week, on Monday, I received a call from the St. Marys school nurse about a high absenteeism rate in the middle school," Jones said.
In two days, similar symptoms were being reported in students at the high school and elementary levels where absenteeism also began to increase, she said.
Mercer County health officials also have recently reported high numbers of the illness.
Jones said the stomach flu is different from the seasonal flu, which typically causes respiratory problems. She said the stomach flu often spreads quickly to all age groups but rarely requires hospitalization.
One Auglaize County doctor had trouble keeping his doors open last week after numerous staff members and their families became ill, she added.
Jones vowed to continue tracking the number of people showing up at area hospitals and physician offices with the flu-like symptoms.
"We're looking into this carefully. Hopefully it's nothing more than a virus," she said.
She noted that stool samples were taken and sent to the Ohio Department of Health for testing but results have not yet returned.
Torres reminded the public to frequently wash hands with soap and water to reduce the health risk. He also explained that it's common for colds and influenza to arrive in the fall when the weather changes.
Torres also spoke about another health problem that is being diagnosed more frequently in the local area: methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MERSA) - a highly-drug resistant bacteria often found on the skin. He said the risk of MERSA often arises this time of year as people suffer scratches and cuts while performing outdoor tasks. "You should wash the wound immediately with soap and water," he said.
He also advised placing an infection-fighting ointment on the area to speed the healing process. Symptoms of a MERSA infection can include redness and soreness at the wound site and a fever.
The health board learned the environmental department has received an increase in phone calls from area residents asking about bedbugs. Sanitarian Curt Anderson said he's confirmed three specimens recently but has no confirmed outbreaks in the county.
Most of the cases he's reviewed involve residents who live in rental properties, he said.
"We're also getting a lot of questions about public places" such as movie theaters and hotels, he added.
The State Fire Marshal's Office handles bedbug infestations in public buildings, Anderson told the board.
Bedbugs derive nourishment from human blood and can live up to 10 months without feeding, Anderson said. They lay up to 500 eggs in a lifetime and the tiny insects reach the adult stage within five weeks, he said.
"That's the reason they multiply so fast," Anderson added.
The recommended treatment is to hire a professional exterminator. Unfortunately, the EPA currently bans the most successful chemicals against bedbugs, he said. Effective eradication methods require repeat treatments with chemicals that leave residual traces, he added.
The treatment process is expensive, Anderson said.
Bedbugs are considered a nuisance pest and not a health risk because their bites typically aren't painful and the insects do not carry disease.
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Giving away this New York Times bestselling book on my blog next week. Watch this space.
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Reminiscing spring in Istanbul.
Last but not least IDdesign 'Who Are You Today?' - Upnordic. Calm zen, nature-lover.
Some more from the IDdesign campaign 'Who Are You Today?' - Global. Are you an explorer?
IDdesign campaign 'Who Are You Today?' - Deluxe. Luxury is the main theme here.
IDdesign campaign 'Who Are You Today?' - Urban. Specially dedicated to all Tweet Warriors out there.
#FF @EntrepreneurUAE - exciting new business reality show. Nice photo of both judges and sponsors of the show.
Prince Charles shaking it up in Zanzibar in November. #howcool
Tribute to Freddy Mercury on his birthday today from my trip to his birth land.
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One of Ottawa's most successful microbreweries has a major expansion on tap.
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Beyond the Pale plans to move its brewing operations later this year from its current 2,000-square-foot facility at 5 Hamilton Ave. in Hintonburg to a new 8,000-square-foot location at 250 City Centre Ave., just north of Somerset Street W.
Co-owner Shane Clark says the brewery, which opened in November 2012 and was initially 900 square feet, has outgrown its current home. The company's 31/2-barrel system now churns out 400 litres per batch, but demand for Beyond the Pale's suds has reached the point where the plant is running 20 hours a day, six days a week.
"It's a bit much," Mr. Clark, who owns the brewhouse along with his father Al and pal Rob McIsaac, said with a chuckle. "I'm the brewer, and I might crack."
Not that he's really complaining.
"It's a wonderful problem," he conceded.
The City Centre location will feature a much larger 15-barrel system, which can produce 1,750 litres per batch. Work on the new facility will start in March, and the owners hope to be brewing there by August. Mr. Clark estimates the move will cost about half a million dollars.
All three owners live in the neighbourhood, making City Centre an ideal location, he said.
"It's as close as humanly possible to where we live," he said. "We like to be able to walk to work."
The company, whose product is now poured at about 45 pubs in the Ottawa area, sells nearly 15,000 litres of beer a month at bars and its retail outlet on Hamilton Avenue. Mr. Clark said if all goes well, Beyond the Pale will be ready to start marketing its brew at the LCBO by early in 2015.
Under provincial law, a brewery cannot operate more than one retail outlet until it produces at least 2.5 million litres a year. Mr. Clark said the store and tasting room will likely remain on Hamilton Avenue for a while, although he said they might eventually be relocated to City Centre as well.
"We're kind of debating what the best strategy is," he said.
The City Centre property, part of a retail and warehouse complex, is currently zoned for mixed use and will require an amendment to be used as a brewery. Mr. Clark said he and his partners have been in talks with city officials for months and don't anticipate any problems getting the rezoning approved.
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A Tiny MCE plugin which makes writing latex equation easy and WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get). It converts latex code into image which shows real beautiful latex equations on your post.
It adds an "fx" botton on the wordpress TinyMCE editor, on clicks it the codecogs latex equation editor pops up, where you can edit latex, then click the copy button to copy the equation image back in TinyMCE textarea.
You can also use this editor to only input latex code and let plugins like quicklatex, mathjax or Latex for WordPess to convert it to equation image, you'd better change line 90 in editor_plugin.js tinyMCE.activeEditor.execCommand('mceInsertContent', false, ''); to tinyMCE.activeEditor.execCommand('mceInsertContent', false, '\['+latex+'\]'); inorder to only copy LaTex code to TinyMCE textarea when click the copy button.
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Last week (The Deluxe Pillbox) I wrote about strategies for managing the medicine we take for a variety of health conditions.
Our culture seems to respond to illness with a quest to find "a pill for every ill". However, we often overlook the powerful preventive medicine represented by our daily diet. In some cases, dietary changes can slow the progress of a disease. A classic example is the benefit of oatmeal to reduce cholesterol.
While only a doctor can suggest the diet that is best for your overall treatment plan, some generalizations can be made. One of the simplest ways to move toward a more healthful diet is to think of a rainbow!
Rainbow Eating is a playful tool to help us fill our plates with a wider variety of fruits and vegetables. It recognizes that each color represents a different group of vitamins, antioxidants and healthy compounds, such as lutein and lycopene. Consider putting one or two new foods on your shopping list to try this week, then gradually expanding your repertoire of food sources.
Red skinned apples, beets, red cabbage, cherries, cranberries, pink grapefruit, red grapes, red peppers, pomegranates, red potatoes, radishes, raspberries, rhubarb, strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon
Yellow-skinned apples, apricots, butternut squash, cantaloupe, carrots, grapefruit, lemons, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, papayas, peaches, pears, yellow peppers, persimmons, pineapple, pumpkin, rutabaga, yellow squash, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, tangerines
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Blackberries, blueberries, eggplant, figs, plums, prunes, purple grapes, raisins
Bananas, cauliflower, garlic, ginger, jicama, mushrooms, onions, parsnips, potatoes, turnips
(Of course, some of these foods have the potential to interfere with your medications, so check your medication instructions for any food interactions, such as grapefruit.)
Even though many doctors do not ask us about our diets or direct our food choices for optimum health, there is overwhelming evidence that adding generous amounts of fruits, vegetables, and other plant based food to our diet can decrease our risk of chronic diseases such as stroke, Type 2 Diabetes, some cancers, heart disease, and high blood pressure. Besides, it makes our plates look so stunning!
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WestPoint Gets Second Life From White Knight
March 7, 2005
,West Point, Ga. — Contrarian investor Wilbur Ross — who bucks the conventional wisdom by buying and resuscitating companies and industries written off as all but dead — has cut a deal to buy bankrupt textiles producer WestPoint Stevens. The move ensures the continued survival of the nation's largest towel producer and positions it to emerge from Chapter 11 as a debt-free and newly competitive force in the industry.
WestPoint's white knight is billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, who throughout his long career has specialized in bankruptcy restructuring and distressed companies. Now, through an investment company he formed four years ago, WL Ross & Co., he has turned his attention to the struggling American textiles industry.
Earlier, Ross bought out two other bankrupt textiles companies — Burlington Industries and Cone Mills — knitting them together as the International Textiles Group. Now he's turned his attention to reviving a once-proud company brought low by excessive debt rung up to add capacity just as low-cost imports challenged the American home fashions industry, making much of that capacity suddenly redundant.
Under the terms of the deal, an investment group led by Ross will buy substantially all of the assets of WestPoint Stevens, putting in $480 million to pay down secured debt, and raising another $207.5 million through a rights offering.
The new company Ross is forming would also pay down WestPoint's current debtor-in-possession loans, allowing it emerge from bankruptcy entirely debt free. With an unencumbered balance sheet, and updated plants which make it the nation's low-cost towel producer, WestPoint could rapidly reposition itself as an industry powerhouse, and in a sudden reversal of fortune start to pose a formidable threat to its larger rival, Springs Industries Inc., with its limited domestic towel production.
In recent months, WestPoint has attracted the attention of another investor, maverick corporate raider Carl Icahn, who snapped up much of WestPoint's debt, starting with the second lien. The move put Icahn in a position to engineer his own takeover of the company.
The package Ross has put together seems, on the face of it, to provide a big payday to Icahn — so long as he doesn't try to block the deal. WestPoint and Ross said in separate press releases "second lien facility holders would receive $10 million released from escrowed adequate protection payments provided they do not object to the transaction."
Thanks to balky creditors, whose bickering has forced the company to write and re-write a business plan more favorable to their interests than the company's, WestPoint has remained in Chapter 11 far longer than it had originally anticipated, almost two years, since June 2003.
Clearly eager to get the company out and back on its feet, Ross has inserted a "drop dead" provision in the deal, requiring that WestPoint emerge from bankruptcy and complete the purchase agreement by July 31 or all bets are off.
But chances are that WestPoint will be out of Chapter 11 and the deal put to bed much sooner, said Lorraine Miller, WestPoint senior vice president of finance. "We hope to be out well before that, by the end of the second quarter," or the end of June, she said.
Eager to get the deal done, Miller said WestPoint will likely file a new plan with the bankruptcy court some time this week. "The way it works, then the court sets a date for bids to be filed for a potential auction."
Acting to preempt any possible competition in an auction, the deal Ross and WestPoint have inked provides Ross the investor with a $5 million breakup fee if the company goes to a higher bidder in an auction to be held, largely as a formality, by the bankruptcy court.
Not entirely clear is who Ross's partners are in the investment group he's formed to buy WestPoint Stevens. Ross told Home Textiles Today the group is composed of five parties, but only two are identified in the press release issued by Ross and WestPoint — Contrarian Capital Management and CP Capital Investments — leaving the door open for potential offshore investment in the company.
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Hoping some expert out there could help me with a knowledge deficit. How does one determine what the compliance of a particular cartridge is, and likewise a particular tonearm. What is the process.
I once added to a discussion on a Nagaoka MM cartridge that I owned and thought better than my Sumiko Celebration MC cartridge and was blasted for misleading readers because having an SME 3009 tonearm, with its' inherrent compliance (whatever that is), that of course the Nagaoka would sound better than the Sumiko. Both cartridges look to be about the same size and weight, both have about the same vertical tracking force, so what do I measure to know these things?