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The Midnight Smile
Vinny, our little guy, had caught something at day care last week, and by Tuesday we were both sick. I had a cough and congestion; he had a runny nose and respiratory issues. By Thursday night, his breathing had become labored and he was wheezing. My wife was more concerned about his breathing than I was. Chalk it up to a difference between moms and dads, I guess.
So she decided to call the doctors office (the answering service actually), and when we got a call back from Vinnys doctor, she suggested that we take him to the all-night medical clinic.
We got there at around 8:30 p.m. After filling out many forms and waiting for many long minutes, we finally saw a nurse and a doctor. They put Vinny back on the nebulizer, making this the third time he has had to use it. They also gave him a dose of steroids to reduce the inflammation.
By the time this was all done, it was midnight. We were finally at the front desk checking out, and I was filling out more forms. My own congestion and coughing were getting worse, and I was falling asleep on my feet.
You may be wondering where the awesome part of this comes in...
Well, as I was filling out some medical form, I looked over at Vinny sitting in my wifes lap. He was about 20 feet away. When he saw me looking at him, he flashed the most beautiful smile. I smiled back at him and said, Hey Vinny!
With that smile, my discomfort from the last 4 hours disappeared. My congestion and fatigue diminished.
I realized at that moment that this was not about me.
So what if I did not get to sit at home watching TV. So what if I did not get to surf the Internet or read a book. I had spent the last four hours, with my wife, making sure that our son was ok. And when he smiled at me, I knew that I had done something that was infinitely more important and fulfilling than any self actualizing activity I could have done with my time.
I get miniature versions of this feeling when I look at my son sleeping at night. I realize that even if I thought my day was bad that it was actually perfect if, at its end, my son is sleeping peacefully and comfortably in his crib.
In light of recent articles about hating our lives, but loving our children, which I blogged about here, my sons midnight smile at the 24-hour medical clinic reconfirmed to me that when you love your children, and you are dedicated to their lives, nothing can make your own life less than beautiful.


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Used up 4 precious tsp of this amazing stuff to brew two cups of iced tea for my brother and myself. Thinking back, I'm preeeetty sure that should've been 8 tsp. Yeah… but anyway…
I simmered up some medium simple syrup and put a bit over ice, then iced up my Goji Pop and HOLY MOTHER is it ever delicious iced… I may have to go and get another like 200g of this to get me through summer.
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John Kasich "Takes On" "Special Interests"
Pledging to "take on special interests" is a time-honored tradition in American politics. It's easy because everyone hates "special interests" and safe because "special interest" can refer to just about anything. John Kasich, the former GOP congressman and Lehman Brothers banker who's running against Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, knows all this. That's presumably why he's promoting his latest ad with this text:
Ted Strickland's most reliable special interest allies—the labor unions—came to his defense last week with almost $1 million in negative attack ads against me. It's further proof that Ted Strickland's complete lack of accomplishment leaves him no other option but to attack and smear.
So, while Ted Strickland's campaign is benefiting from almost $1 million in negative attacks paid for by special interests, you might be interested to hear what I have to say about special interests by clicking here.
The message is clear: Ted Strickland's union allies are special interests, and John Kasich is going to stand up to them. But if unions are Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland's "most reliable special interest allies," who's backing Kasich? Well, we do know that when he was a congressman, big financial firms and pharmaceutical companies dominated the list of his largest donors. You can review Kasich's current contributors here—it's more of the same. (Strickland's are here.) But I want to focus on one donor in Kasich's congressional career and how a single vote Kasich took affected that donor and the state of Ohio.
National City Corp (a.k.a. NatCity), was a giant subprime lender and Kasich's third largest donor during his second final term in Congress (1999-2000). As the Cleveland-based company imploded in 2008, it announced plans to cut 15 percent of its workforce (about 4,000 jobs) before being bought by PNC Bank with the help of several billion dollars in taxpayer assistance.
The PNC acquisition led to more cuts, as the Pittsburgh-based bank didn't need another headquarters in Cleveland. Kasich blames Strickland for those lost jobs, but the truth is more complicated. While in Congress, Kasich voted for "Foreclosure" Phil Gramm's Commodity Futures Modernization Act, a bill that helped make possible the explosion of "synthetic CDOs," credit default swaps, and the subprime mortgage market in general. (UBS, the giant Swiss bank that later hired Gramm, was Kasich's number-one donor in 2000.) Big banks like NatCity and UBS supported the CFMA because it allowed them to get more involved with the then-lucrative subprime mortgage market. By 2006, NatCity was almost entirely focused on subprime lending. By late 2008, one of Cleveland's oldest institutions was no more.
The point is that all this talk about "taking on special interests" is silly. In his ad, Kasich says "you can't be in a position where somebody's your buddy so that you give them something special." But unless campaigns are publicly funded (or funded by very small contributions from individuals), you can never know for sure that a donation isn't influencing a politician's decisions. If NatCity and UBS hadn't given Kasich all that money, he might still have voted for the CFMA. Or maybe he wouldn't have. We don't really know. What we do know is that donors aren't stupid. Unions give Strickland money because they think he'll do right by them and their members. And bankers and pharmaceutical companies give Kasich money because they believe he'll deliver for them. And if you believe otherwise, well, I have some old NatCity subprime loans to sell you.
UPDATE: Anonymous makes some good points in the comments. Yes, Strickland voted for CFMA, too. But the point of the post isn't that Kasich is responsible for the collapse of NatCity. He's not, and I didn't say he was. That would be ridiculous. The point is that one man's "special interest" is another man's key supporter, and that the "special interest" attack is a meaningless cheap shot. The side point about NatCity is that Kasich's blaming Strickland for all the lost jobs in Ohio is silly—the financial crisis was a huge event with many, interconnected causes. As I said, things are "more complicated" than Kasich claims.
I also corrected the error about 1999-2000 being Kasich's "second" term in Congress, which was really stupid. Sorry—don't know how that happened.


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a song or tune that a person hears repeatedly in their head
'They bore into your head. They won't let go. There's no known cure. Earworms can attack almost anyone at any time. … Earworms are those songs, jingles and tunes that get stuck into your head …'
Daniel DeNoon, Lycos Health 27th February 2003top earworm candidates are … 'Who Let The Dogs Out' by the group Baha Men, Abba's 'Dancing Queen' and 'We Will Rock You' by Queen
At last, a word to describe something that we've all been mentally tortured by at some stage in our lives! We all know that feeling of hearing a particularly catchy tune on the radio and then being plagued by it for the rest of the day. Now we've finally got a way to refer to it instead of talking about 'this song which keeps going round and round in my head'. James J. Kellaris PhD, a marketing professor at the University of Cincinnati in the United States, gave a presentation on the subject of earworms at a meeting of the Society for Consumer Psychology in February 2003. Kellaris claimed that nearly 98% of people have had songs stuck in their head at one time or other. His research indicates that 74% of earworms are related to songs with lyrics, 15% are jingles (short musical phrases) used in advertising, and 11% are tunes without words.
The compound earworm attack has been coined to refer to episodes of this phenomenon, which usually last several hours and occur very frequently across the sample of 559 students questioned. Musicians and music lovers suffer more frequent and longer-lasting earworm attacks, with people who have 'neurotic habits' such as tapping fingers or biting pencils also being particularly susceptible.
Top earworm candidates in popular music are songs like 'Who Let The Dogs Out' by the group Baha Men, Abba's 'Dancing Queen' and 'We Will Rock You' by Queen.
The term earworm derives from a literal translation of the German word Ohrwurm, which has been used to describe such 'cognitively infectious' pieces of music. The parasitic connotations of the word relate to its original meaning: an earworm is a kind of worm which can crawl into the ear, and also denotes a large, highly destructive larva which feeds on corn and cotton crops.
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Vandals smashed the windows of 21 cars parked outside two Bustleton condominiums and an apartment complex over the weekend, police said.
Capt. Joseph Zaffino, the 7th Police District commander, said 13 autos parked at Pathways Condominiums, 9921 Bustleton Ave., and five at Regency Condominiums, 9945 Norwalk Road, were broken into sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning. Three vehicles were hit outside an apartment building at 600 Red Lion Road, he said in a phone interview Monday. Zaffino said police did not have descriptions or video of the vandals.
The vandals worked quickly and quietly. And they didn't just smash windows, said Kay Hebding, Pathways' manager. Items were stolen from some of the cars.
"It's amazing no one heard anything," Hebding said in a phone interview Monday.
She said she knows tools and GPS were taken from some of the vehicles. The captain said the vandals stole items from five of the 21 targeted vehicles.
A wallet as well as vehicle consoles also were taken, the captain said.
All the vehicles were locked, he said. Each had at least one window smashed.
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Advanced Voting Solutions has now told three Pennsylvania counties that they have decided not to go any further with federal testing of their voting system, a requirement by the state before any voting system can be certified for use there. The question is all about a change to software that was required by the state. Rather than not take the path required by PA law, AVS has decided to argue with the state that the change is not consequential and does not require federal testing and certification. Rather than scream bloody-murder county election officials seem ready, willing and able to give AVS a pass as they talk about how much they like AVS's voting machines. What is wrong with these people and when will they wake up and realize AVS is scamming them?...
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Berry pickers exploited: Judge
Elderly Indo-Canadian berry pickers were systematically exploited and persuaded to collude with their bosses to defraud the Employment Insurance (EI) system, a federal judge has concluded.
The 782-page decision ends a year-long appeal in which 75 Lower Mainland farm workers fought to overturn orders to repay $500,000 in EI benefits and penalties for claims in 1997.
The outcome is a mixed decision – Tax Court of Canada Judge Dwayne Rowe ruled about half the pickers must repay benefits but struck down orders against more than 30 others, depending on individual circumstances.
However Rowe's findings are a hammer blow against an industry he found is rife with opportunity for "rotten" business practices.
"Something is radically wrong with certain aspects of the federal family reunification program and also the berry and vegetable industry in British Columbia," Rowe stated.
He gave the example of a 65-year-old grandmother who travels two days from her village in India to Vancouver and is quickly hired by a contractor to pick berries from dawn to dusk – likely at below minimum wage – and be transported in a dangerously crowded van.
Rowe said workers endure such hardship because they are assured they'll get cheques from the Canadian government through the winter "provided they obey – absolutely – the dictates of their employers and pay the full amount of tribute exacted at their discretion during the settling-up meeting."
Female workers are shut out of the financial dealings, he said, and the fine details of the EI fraud are often negotiated with the contractor by husbands, sons or sons-in-law.
All the berry, fruit and vegetable pickers in the appeal case were from Delta, Surrey, Richmond, Mission and Abbotsford and all worked for contractor S & S Harvesting Ltd.
Pickers were paid on a piece rate but the employer falsified records to create the illusion they were paid more money on an hourly basis – to deliver workers enough insurable hours to qualify for EI.
The mastermind of the scam at S & S was owner Surjit Randhawa, who Rowe said exerted "Svengali-like control" over his employees.
"To the majority of them he was a god-like figure who had to be obeyed even years later when they no longer had any relationship with him," the judge found.
"Randhawa had willing subjects who were quite content to do his bidding" because it was in their interests to avoid repaying EI benefits they'd already received based on Randhawa's faked employment records.
"The fact that he continued to operate a labour contracting business as of the 2006 season – and may still do so – is cause for concern as he seems to be able to carry out these EI/UI scams with impunity."
Rowe also found the lot of workers in the industry hasn't improved much.
Blueberry pickers are better off now thanks to rising demand for the lucrative crop, he said, but strawberry and raspberry pickers get "the same dismal earnings" they received in 2007.
The judge called for possible criminal investigations for forgery, perjury or conspiracy to commit fraud.
He also urged the province to tighten contractor licensing and boost enforcement of employment standards and workplace safety.
"The transportation of workers in unsafe vans with makeshift seats – built by laying planks on overturned plastic buckets – and cramming 20 or more people into a 15-passenger van is not only dangerous, it borders on criminal."
Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society executive director Charan Gill said similar prosecutions are also underway against at least 300 other farm workers.
Gill considers it a colossal waste of money – particularly since the case against the 75 from 1997 has cost several million dollars, much more than the government ever stood to recoup.
Gill said the same practices continue today – pickers are paid at piece rates, records are later converted to hourly for reporting purposes and fraud continues unabated.


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A guest post by Martin Ryan on euthanasia:
Simon, Louise and the kids came to visit today. Little Katie had her first day at school last week, she was so excited about it and showed me the picture that she drew for me. I'm running out of room for them! It's lovely that she remembers her old grandma. It's so wonderful to see them every couple of weeks and share their little milestones.
Simon's having a hard time at the moment though. The recession has hit his plumbing business very hard. He reckons he's got another three months and then they'll have to look at selling their home. He's worked so hard to get where he is.
I know this place is costing them a lot. $500 a week is a big additional expense at the moment. Since I lost all my money in Blue Chip finance I've had to rely on Simon and Louise and they've been great about it. He never mentions it and bats it away as the least he can do whenever I bring it up. Tom and I raised a great son.
But it's not fair on him. He deserves to have a better life than that. He needs his house now more than he needs a rattly old mother. I figure if left to natural means I've got another few years in me. I'd love to see Sarah hit school too, and perhaps even finish the memoirs. But that's at least $50k out of Simon and Louise's pocket. Out of Sarah and Katie's university fund.
Such a fall. I used to make such a difference in this world, teaching, speaking. Now I'm nothing but a burden on my family.
Yes, they'll be fine without me – better off in fact. I'll speak with the doctors tomorrow. I'll play something up, maybe the kidneys. I hear they don't ask too many questions if you've got all your marbles.
I remember when they introduced the euthanasia law they talked about all the safeguards they'd put in. But of course the standards slip. They have to, there's too much work to do to check every old lady's reasons.
I'm always happy to run guest posts. It goes without saying I don't agree with the perspective in this post as being at all realistic, but I accept some people think that could happen.


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Does adding salt help water boil?
Salt is often added to boiling water when preparing spaghetti or other pasta. One reason is to add flavor to the food. Some people believe that the addition of salt increases the boiling point of the water. Technically, they are correct, but the increase is rather small. You would need to add over 100 grams of NaCl to a liter of water to increase the boiling point a couple of degrees, which is just not healthy.
Boiling Point Elevation
Figure below shows the phase diagram of a solution and the effect that the lowered vapor pressure has on the boiling point of the solution compared to the solvent. In this case, the solution has a higher boiling point than the pure solvent. Since the vapor pressure of the solution is lower, more heat must be supplied to the solution to bring its vapor pressure up to the pressure of the external atmosphere. The boiling point elevation is the difference in temperature between the boiling point of the pure solvent and that of the solution. On the graph, the boiling point elevation is represented by \begin{align*}\Delta T_b\end{align*}.
The magnitude of the boiling point elevation is also directly proportional to the molality of the solution. The equation is:
\begin{align*}\Delta T_b=K_b \times m\end{align*}
The proportionality constant, \begin{align*}K_b\end{align*}, is called the molal boiling-point elevation constant. It is a constant that is equal to the change in the boiling point for a 1-molal solution of a nonvolatile molecular solute. For water, the value of \begin{align*}K_b\end{align*} is 0.512°C/m. So the boiling temperature of a 1-molal aqueous solution of any nonvolatile molecular solute is 100.512°C.
- Boiling point elevation is defined.
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Bruno Campanini wrote: > "Jean-Marc Gulliet" <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com> wrote in message > news:f58bk7$6ve$1 at smc.vnet.net... > >> I believe the last line is a typo (otherwise your request does not make >> any sense). > > Yes it is. > Thank you Jean-Marc and thanks to the other fellows. > I got a number of good solutions to my question. > > May I go on... > What if I can have one or more repeated elements in subsets? > That is the number of combinations of 3 elements out of 4 > - with one or more duplicated elements - is Binomial[4+3-1,3] = 20 > > How can I get the list? > > Bruno > You should investigate the package Combinatorica. For instance, from the documentation center Combinatorica/tutorial/Combinatorica or from the web http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/Combinatorica/tutorial/Combinatorica.html is a good place to start with it. Regards, Jean-Marc


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BOSTON, Massachussetts -- The votes are cast. The polls are closed. The verdict is in. But defeated Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is not convinced. He insists that the media refer to him as "President-Elect Romney." He has been spotted thanking Americans for supporting him and making his "victory" possible.
"He's in total denial," says newly re-elected Vice President Joe Biden. "Just yesterday, he gave President Obama and I the classifieds section of several newspapers and told us that McDonald's has a few openings." Obama was unavailable for comment.
Romney even took his delusion to the internet when his transition website went live immediately after Obama was announced as the winner. The newly relaunched website contains inspirational quotes from "President-Elect Romney" and a campaign slogan. Pictured is Romney standing in front of an American flag.
The Mormon reportedly "cried like a little girl" when he found out he had lost and headed straight for a bottle of Jack Daniels. Even more painful and embarrassing was his defeat in his home state of Massachussetts. "He was very depressed," says rock legend and Republican nutcase Ted Nugent. "I've never seen a Republican cry like that since Nixon resigned. Or when Carter beat Ford. Mitt was crying so much and going so hyserical, that he made Spongebob look like Obama!" Nugent was referring to Obama crying as he thanked his campaign workers, vs. Spongebob's typically over-the-top crying.
In an eery coincidence, Obama's "defeat" website accidentally went up before being taken down two hours later. It consisted solely of a long and detailed angry letter to Americans for "voting that clown into office."
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The life expectancy of Python regius, or ball python, is about 25 years, but the Academy has a ball python specimen that nearly doubled that number during its years on Earth. The Philadelphia Zoo received this snake from an animal dealer in 1945, and it lived there for 48 years, setting the longevity record for a ball python in captivity. Upon the snake's death in 1992, the Zoo donated it to the Academy. We preserved the snake's skin and skeleton.
Ball pythons are the smallest of the African pythons, and they are easily bred in captivity. These black, brown, and gold-spotted creatures are common household pets because of their size (three to five feet) and because they are easily handled. They get their name from their ability to roll into tight balls when they are under stress.
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This proposal describes an ancillary study to a recently initiated comparative effectiveness trial "Surgical Ablation versus No Surgical Ablation for Patients with Persistent or Longstanding Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Mitral Valve Surgery" (NCT00903370), which is part of the NHLBI-sponsored Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSN).
Its aims are to perform a time-sensitive substudy of continuous heart rhythm monitoring and to develop and apply novel statistical tools to assess ablation effectiveness in groups of patients. As such, it will provide critical new knowledge to support a secondary objective of the parent trial: to inform rhythm monitoring and analysis strategies for future trials of rhythm control in atrial fibrillation (AF). Great enthusiasm for innovative tissue-destroying (ablation) procedures to treat AF has led to technology outstripping science. Mechanisms of AF (which afflicts >3 million Americans) remain poorly understood, methods to assess its cure are primitive, and guidelines for analyzing rhythm outcomes are flawed due to lack of appropriate statistical methodology. Why? After ablation procedures, AF may recur in episodes of varying duration. Yet current monitoring consists of "snapshots" of semiannual rhythm recording (Holter), or more frequent-but short-transtelephonic monitoring (TTM). Ideally, an implantable monitoring device could detect all these episodes over a patient's lifetime;however, even if this were possible, statistical methods to analyze this series of occurrences in groups of patients for comparative effectiveness of AF therapies or to identify risk factors are poorly developed. Right now a window of opportunity exists to make important strides in more thorough AF assessment and proper data analysis because the CTSN has just launched a randomized trial of surgical AF therapies that includes weekly TTM of atrial rhythm as well as traditional 6- and 12-month Holter assessment. We propose a time-sensitive substudy of implanting an FDA-approved miniature loop recorder to capture AF episodes continuously. These data will be used in the development of a suite of new analytic methods for aggregating data such as these across time and across patients to characterize time course and identify modulating factors. They will then be used to assess the trial's rhythm endpoints and suggest designs for more informative future trials with substantially reduced sample size. We have assembled a team of clinicians and statisticians, including individuals who designed the parent trial, who are experienced in implanting the monitoring device, and who are experts in analytic methods research, to develop and apply novel methods to these several types of rhythm data. We will leverage developments from an intramural NHLBI machine learning program at Cleveland Clinic and State of Ohio-funded Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center. The analytic methods have wide applicability to the important field of longitudinal data analysis.
A chaotic heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF), which affects more than 3 million Americans, especially the elderly, causes strokes, and commonly accompanies heart valve disease. AF treatments outstrip scientific understanding of the rhythm and how to assess treatment success across time in clinical trials. Thus, the Institute of Medicine has placed trials of AF treatment in the first tier of 100 comparative effectiveness priorities for the nation. An NIH-sponsored trial of surgical treatment of AF is has just been launched, and we propose a substudy of an implanted rhythm monitoring device (Medtronic REVEAL XT) and new methods of AF analysis for groups of patients that will help assess the trial's endpoints and inform future trials. Thus, this ancillary study application proposes to (1) collect, in a subset of patients, more refined rhythm data than proposed in the parent trial, (2) develop generalizable new methods of analysis, and (3) apply these methods to both the data collected through continuous monitoring as well as the follow-up data collected in the parent trial through Holter and trans-telephonic monitoring. (End of Abstract)
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Once again, the United States and Japan failed to reach an agreement on auto tariffs. Tariffs on automobiles are one of the remaining key issues that lie between the two countries in relation to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
On April 9th and 10th, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Japanese Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Akira Amari met in Tokyo to discuss the TPP deal. Apparently, they had intensive negotiations that extended to nearly 18 hours in just two days. After the meetings, both told reporters that, despite progress, considerable differences still remain.
The two key sticking points are autos and agriculture. Japan wants to eliminate tariffs on automobiles, while the U.S. wants to eliminate or at least substantially reduce tariffs on rice, beef, and pork. The U.S. currently has 2.5 percent tariff on passenger cars and 25 percent tariff on light trucks. Unidentified sources reported that, during the Froman-Amari meeting, the U.S. proposed to eliminate its auto tariffs over a 30-year span but that Japan rejected the proposal.
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Kidney, Liver, And Heart Transplantation
Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) is indicated for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in kidney, liver, and heart allogeneic transplants. Cyclosporine (MODIFIED) has been used in combination with azathioprine and corticosteroids.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) is indicated for the treatment of patients with severe active, rheumatoid arthritis where the disease has not adequately responded to methotrexate. Gengraf® can be used in combination with methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis patients who do not respond adequately to methotrexate alone.
Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) is indicated for the treatment of adult, nonimmunocompromised patients with severe (i.e., extensive and/or disabling), recalcitrant, plaque psoriasis who have failed to respond to at least one systemic therapy (e.g., PUVA, retinoids, or methotrexate) or in patients for whom other systemic therapies are contraindicated, or cannot be tolerated.
While rebound rarely occurs, most patients will experience relapse with Gengraf® as with other therapies upon cessation of treatment.
Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) has increased bioavailability in comparison to Sandimmune® Soft Gelatin Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP). Gengraf® and Sandimmune® are not bioequivalent and cannot be used interchangeably without physician supervision.
The daily dose of Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) should always be given in two divided doses (BID). It is recommended that Gengraf® be administered on a consistent schedule with regard to time of day and relation to meals. Grapefruit and grapefruit juice affect metabolism, increasing blood concentration of cyclosporine, thus should be avoided.
Specific Populations
Renal Impairment in Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplantation
Cyclosporine undergoes minimal renal elimination and its pharmacokinetics do not appear to be significantly altered in patients with end-stage renal disease who receive routine hemodialysis treatments (See CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY). However, due to its nephrotoxic potential (See WARNINGS), careful monitoring of renal function is recommended; cyclosporine dosage should be reduced if indicated. (See WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS)
Renal Impairment in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriasis
Patients with impaired renal function should not receive cyclosporine. (See CONTRAINDICATIONS, WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS)
Hepatic Impairment
The clearance of cyclosporine may be significantly reduced in severe liver disease patients (See CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY). Dose reduction may be necessary in patients with severe liver impairment to maintain blood concentrations within the recommended target range (See WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS).
Newly Transplanted Patients
The initial oral dose of Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) can be given 4 to 12 hours prior to transplantation or be given postoperatively. The initial dose of Gengraf® varies depending on the transplanted organ and the other immunosuppressive agents included in the immunosuppressive protocol. In newly transplanted patients, the initial oral dose of Gengraf® is the same as the initial oral dose of Sandimmune®. Suggested initial doses are available from the results of a 1994 survey of the use of Sandimmune® in US transplant centers. The mean ± SD initial doses were 9±3 mg/kg/day for renal transplant patients (75 centers), 8±4 mg/kg/day for liver transplant patients (30 centers), and 7±3 mg/kg/day for heart transplant patients (24 centers). Total daily doses were divided into two equal daily doses. The Gengraf® dose is subsequently adjusted to achieve a pre-defined cyclosporine blood concentration. (See Blood Concentration Monitoring in Transplant Patients, below) If cyclosporine trough blood concentrations are used, the target range is the same for Gengraf® as for Sandimmune®. Using the same trough concentration target range for Gengraf® as for Sandimmune® results in greater cyclosporine exposure when Gengraf® is administered. (See Pharmacokinetics, Absorption) Dosing should be titrated based on clinical assessments of rejection and tolerability. Lower Gengraf® doses may be sufficient as maintenance therapy.
Adjunct therapy with adrenal corticosteroids is recommended initially. Different tapering dosage schedules of prednisone appear to achieve similar results. A representative dosage schedule based on the patient's weight started with 2.0 mg/kg/day for the first 4 days tapered to 1.0 mg/kg/day by 1 week, 0.6 mg/kg/day by 2 weeks, 0.3 mg/kg/day by 1 month, and 0.15 mg/kg/day by 2 months and thereafter as a maintenance dose. Steroid doses may be further tapered on an individualized basis depending on status of patient and function of graft. Adjustments in dosage of prednisone must be made according to the clinical situation.
Conversion from Sandimmune® (Cyclosporine) to Gengraf® Capsules (Cyclosporine Capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) in Transplant Patients
In transplanted patients who are considered for conversion to Gengraf® from Sandimmune® (cyclosporine), Gengraf® should be started with the same daily dose as was previously used with Sandimmune® (cyclosporine) (1:1 dose conversion). The Gengraf® dose should subsequently be adjusted to attain the pre-conversion cyclosporine blood trough concentration. Using the same trough concentration target range for Gengraf® as for Sandimmune® (cyclosporine) results in greater cyclosporine exposure when Gengraf® is administered. (See Pharmacokinetics, Absorption) Patients with suspected poor absorption of Sandimmune® (cyclosporine) require different dosing strategies. (See Transplant Patients with Poor Absorption of Sandimmune® (cyclosporine), below) In some patients, the increase in blood trough concentration is more pronounced and may be of clinical significance.
Until the blood trough concentration attains the pre-conversion value, it is strongly recommended that the cyclosporine blood trough concentration be monitored every 4 to 7 days after conversion to Gengraf®. In addition, clinical safety parameters such as serum creatinine and blood pressure should be monitored every two weeks during the first two months after conversion. If the blood trough concentrations are outside the desired range and/or if the clinical safety parameters worsen, the dosage of Gengraf® must be adjusted accordingly.
Transplant Patients with Poor Absorption of Sandimmune® (Cyclosporine)
Patients with lower than expected cyclosporine blood trough concentrations in relation to the oral dose of Sandimmune® (cyclosporine) may have poor or inconsistent absorption of cyclosporine from Sandimmune® (cyclosporine). After conversion to Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]), patients tend to have higher cyclosporine concentrations. Due to the increase in bioavailability of cyclosporine following conversion to Gengraf®, the cyclosporine blood trough concentration may exceed the target range. Particular caution should be exercised when converting patients to Gengraf® at doses greater than 10 mg/kg/day. The dose of Gengraf® should be titrated individually based on cyclosporine trough concentrations, tolerability, and clinical response. In this population the cyclosporine blood trough concentration should be measured more frequently, at least twice a week (daily, if initial dose exceeds 10 mg/kg/day) until the concentration stabilizes within the desired range.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
The initial dose of Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) is 2.5 mg/kg/day, taken twice daily as a divided (BID) oral dose. Salicylates, NSAIDs, and oral corticosteroids may be continued. (See WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS, DRUG INTERACTIONS) Onset of action generally occurs between 4 and 8 weeks. If insufficient clinical benefit is seen and tolerability is good (including serum creatinine less than 30% above baseline), the dose may be increased by 0.5-0.75 mg/kg/day after 8 weeks and again after 12 weeks to a maximum of 4 mg/kg/day. If no benefit is seen by 16 weeks of therapy, Gengraf® therapy should be discontinued.
Dose decreases by 25%-50% should be made at any time to control adverse events, e.g., hypertension elevations in serum creatinine (30% above patient's pretreatment level) or clinically significant laboratory abnormalities. (See WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS)
If dose reduction is not effective in controlling abnormalities or if the adverse event or abnormality is severe, Gengraf® should be discontinued. The same initial dose and dosage range should be used if Gengraf® is combined with the recommended dose of methotrexate. Most patients can be treated with Gengraf® doses of 3 mg/kg/day or below when combined with methotrexate doses of up to 15 mg/week. (See CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Clinical Trials)
There is limited long-term treatment data. Recurrence of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity is generally apparent within 4 weeks after stopping cyclosporine.
The initial dose of Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED]) should be 2.5 mg/kg/day. Gengraf® should be taken twice daily, as a divided (1.25 mg/kg BID) oral dose. Patients should be kept at that dose for at least 4 weeks, barring adverse events. If significant clinical improvement has not occurred in patients by that time, the patient's dosage should be increased at 2-week intervals. Based on patient response, dose increases of approximately 0.5 mg/kg/day should be made to a maximum of 4.0 mg/kg/day.
Dose decreases by 25% to 50% should be made at any time to control adverse events, e.g., hypertension, elevations in serum creatinine ( ≥ 25% above the patient's pretreatment level), or clinically significant laboratory abnormalities.
If dose reduction is not effective in controlling abnormalities, or if the adverse event or abnormality is severe, Gengraf® should be discontinued. (See Special Monitoring of Psoriasis Patients)
Patients generally show some improvement in the clinical manifestations of psoriasis in 2 weeks. Satisfactory control and stabilization of the disease may take 12 to 16 weeks to achieve. Results of a dose-titration clinical trial with Gengraf® indicate that an improvement of psoriasis by 75% or more (based on PASI) was achieved in 51% of the patients after 8 weeks and in 79% of the patients after 16 weeks. Treatment should be discontinued if satisfactory response cannot be achieved after 6 weeks at 4 mg/kg/day or the patient's maximum tolerated dose. Once a patient is adequately controlled and appears stable the dose of Gengraf® should be lowered, and the patient treated with the lowest dose that maintains an adequate response (this should not necessarily be total clearing of the patient). In clinical trials, cyclosporine doses at the lower end of the recommended dosage range were effective in maintaining a satisfactory response in 60% of the patients. Doses below 2.5 mg/kg/day may also be equally effective.
Upon stopping treatment with cyclosporine, relapse will occur in approximately 6 weeks (50% of the patients) to 16 weeks (75% of the patients). In the majority of patients rebound does not occur after cessation of treatment with cyclosporine. Thirteen cases of transformation of chronic plaque psoriasis to more severe forms of psoriasis have been reported. There were 9 cases of pustular and 4 cases of erythrodermic psoriasis. Long term experience with Gengraf® in psoriasis patients is limited and continuous treatment for extended periods greater than one year is not recommended. Alternation with other forms of treatment should be considered in the long term management of patients with this life long disease.
Blood Concentration Monitoring in Transplant Patients
Transplant centers have found blood concentration monitoring of cyclosporine to be an essential component of patient management. Of importance to blood concentration analysis are the type of assay used, the transplanted organ, and other immunosuppressant agents being administered. While no fixed relationship has been established, blood concentration monitoring may assist in the clinical evaluation of rejection and toxicity, dose adjustments, and the assessment of compliance.
Various assays have been used to measure blood concentrations of cyclosporine. Older studies using a nonspecific assay often cited concentrations that were roughly twice those of the specific assays. Therefore, comparison between concentrations in the published literature and an individual patient concentration using current assays must be made with detailed knowledge of the assay methods employed. Current assay results are also not interchangeable and their use should be guided by their approved labeling. A discussion of the different assay methods is contained in Annals of Clinical Biochemistry 1994;31:420-446. While several assays and assay matrices are available, there is a consensus that parent-compound-specific assays correlate best with clinical events. Of these, HPLC is the standard reference, but the monoclonal antibody RIAs and the monoclonal antibody FPIA offer sensitivity, reproducibility, and convenience. Most clinicians base their monitoring on trough cyclosporine concentrations. Applied Pharmacokinetics, Principles of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (1992) contains a broad discussion of cyclosporine pharmacokinetics and drug monitoring techniques. Blood concentration monitoring is not a replacement for renal function monitoring or tissue biopsies.
Gengraf® Capsules (cyclosporine capsules, USP [MODIFIED])
25 mg
Oval, white imprinted in blue, 25 mg, and the code OR. Packages of 30 unit-dose blisters. (NDC 0074-3108-32).
Oval, white imprinted in blue, the "a" logo, 25 mg, and the code OR. Packages of 30 unit-dose blisters. (NDC 0074-6463-32).
100 mg
Oval, white, with two blue stripes, imprinted in blue, 100 mg, and the code OT. Packages of 30 unit-dose blisters. (NDC 0074-3109-32).
Oval, white, with two blue stripes, imprinted in blue, the "a" logo, 100 mg, and the code OT. Packages of 30 unit-dose blisters. (NDC 0074-6479-32).
Store And Dispense
In the original unit-dose container at controlled room temperature 68°-77°F (20°-25°C). (See USP Controlled Room Temperature).
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An investigation dating back to 2008 has resulted in the indictment of nine individuals and a Queens Village medical clinic for an alleged insurance scam that bilked no-fault insurers out of $150,000, the Queens district attorney said this week.
DA Richard Brown said the defendants are variously charged with the crimes of scheming to defraud, insurance fraud, grand larceny, attempted grand larceny and falsifying business records.
If convicted, the individual defendants — seven from Queens and two from Brooklyn — face up to seven years in prison.
The medical clinic, Queens Integrated Medical Care, at 209-05 Jamaica Ave., faces felony charges punishable by a fine up to double the amount of the illegal gain.
"No-fault fraud and abuse is a billion-dollar-a-year business in New York and should not be viewed as a victimless crime," Brown said. "Such rip-offs hit the honest consumer in the pocketbook by way of higher premiums. Today's indictments send a clear message to those who are attempting to fleece the system for their own personal gain that law enforcement's fight against insurance fraud is ongoing and that those who cheat will be sought out and vigorously prosecuted."
According to the criminal complaint, the ring allegedly exploited New York's no-fault law, which requires vehicles registered in the state to carry insurance that allows drivers and passengers to obtain up to $50,000 in medical coverage incurred as a result of an accident regardless of who may be at fault.
The NYPD's Fraudulent Accident Investigation Squad and the Queens district attorney's Rackets and Organized Crime Bureau launched the investigation in June 2008 with surveillance and court-authorized electronic eavesdropping on Integrated Medical Care.
The investigation revealed that Integrated employees would steer clients — individuals who had been in legitimate, though minor, car accidents — to the clinic in exchange for monetary compensation from clinic manager Albert Kopolovich, who then instructed these clients to fabricate and exaggerate injuries, the DA said. The clinic's medical providers could provide a "cookie cutter" course of medical treatment designed to bill no-fault insurers at the maximum rate per patient — $50,000 under New York's no-fault law, the complaint said.
Kopolovich, of Brooklyn, is charged with scheming to defraud, insurance fraud, grand larceny, attempted grand larceny and falsifying business records.
The other defendants include Hazel Abrams, 55, of Rosedale; Aaron Dawkins, 25, of Cambria Heights; Antoinette Duncan, 40, Rolph Nozine, 28, and Tamara Easy, 26, all of Jamaica; Wilburt Gordon, 54, of Rochdale; Raymond Mattison, 53, of Springfield Gardens; and Jason Wade, 27, of Brooklyn.
"Health insurance costs are through the roof and fraud is one of the reasons why," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. "I want to commend the NYPD detectives, Queens prosecutors and the state Department of Financial Services for working together to put this fraud factory out of business."
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"During the Gold Rush, the San Francisco Bay's native oyster habitat was all but wiped out due to overharvesting and hydraulic mining washing sediment onto the bay floor. But a Richmond-based nonprofit has plans to restore the shellfish's lost habitat along the Point Pinole shoreline."
"Point Pinole has been a hotspot for oysters over the past couple summers, said Christopher Lim, Living Shoreline Program manager at The Watershed Project, making it an ideal target for restoration.
'Oysters, I think, definitely have that connection to people whether it's through food … (or) the history of oysters in San Francisco Bay,' Lim said. 'Part of the reason we would like to restore oysters is because we know of their ecosystem benefits in the Bay, and they were probably here in much greater numbers in the past.'"
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