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I had a miscarriage about 4 months ago and now i think I am pregnant. What are my chances of not having another miscarriage with this one?
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I missed my period for February and been having only a few symptoms of pregnancy. I am going to get checked out but I scared that they will say i am not pregnant or will have another miscarriage. I am trying really hard to keep it safe, even stopped smoking till I find out for sure. Any advice so I can avoid having a miscarriage?
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I am very sorry about your loss and I really wish I could help you with this. It was a good idea to quit smoking and doing all you can to be healthy. Try not to stress too much as that isn't healthy at all. I can tell you to make sure to go to your doctor as they will be the best source for answers to your questions. Good luck and I hope everything works out for you!
I am so sorry about your loss. I had a miscarriage last year over mothers day and then three months later found out I was pregnant and expecting the end of April. I am about 33 wks. and a very healthy pregnancy. Good Luck! you will do great just remember no lifting, and start taking your prenatal vitamins if you haven't already.
condolences for your loss. I had two miscarriages last year and found myself asking the same question - unfortunately, no one could give me a definitive answer, it may happen again, or it may not.. as in most cases no one really knows exactly why it happened (not very helpful huh?). By the second time i was very wary and reluctant to share the news or even let myself get too excited. I began to think that maybe thats just my lot in life.. but i decided to try just once more and then accept fate. Im pleased to say that i am now 30 weeks pregnant and doing well - so yes, there is hope (i kept it quiet till i was 12 weeks as i couldn't face the thought of having to tell everyone that i had lost another).Well done you for stopping smoking (not an easy task) - anything that improves your health is always beneficial to your self-image and well being. If things do take a turn for the worse, be gentle on yourself, don't take on blame - life's to short. good luck!
I'm sorry about your miscarriage. I know how that feels, and #10 was no less devistating than #1. I was so scared when I got pregnant for the 12th time (I have a 7-yr-old), wondering if I would ever give my daughter a sibling or my fiance a son. I didn't think I could handle another miscarriage. I'm emotionally a wreck. But when week 12 came and went, I started breathing a little easier. None of the miscarriages got past week 11 except for my stillborn son. And when my 15-week ultrasound showed a healthy active fetus I knew this was gonna happen. At least having a baby - even if it's a girl it's good.Long story short, there is hope for a healthy pregnancy after loss - even multiple losses. There is a possibility that you may miscarry again, but try to not cross that bridge until you get to it.My suggestion in the future - either way - is that if you're trying to get prego eat and stay healthy as if you already are. You quit smoking, so don't start back up when this pregnancy is over. You're eating healthy and exercising, keep doing it post-pregnancy. You'll give your next child a headstart.
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Margarete Schön (1895 – 1985) is best known for her role as Kriemhild, the beautiful but revengeful princess of Burgundy in Fritz Lang's silent epic Die Nibelungen (1924). The career of this German stage and film actress spanned nearly fifty years.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 676/1, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen (1924, Fritz Lang).
The Vengeful Kriemhild
Margarete Schön was born as Margarete Schippang in Magdeburg, Germany in 1895. She received private acting lessons with the theatre actor Hans Calm in Dessau. In 1912 she made her stage debut in Bad Freienwalde. Shortly thereafter, she received a commitment at the municipal theatre of Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz, Poland). From 1915 to 1918, she was part of the ensemble cast of the Deutsches Theater in Hannover, and from 1918 to 1945 she performed at the Staatstheater Berlin (Berlin State Theatre). According to Wikipedia and IMDb, Schön made her film debut in the silent Du meine Himmelskönigin/You are my queen of heaven (1919, Carl Wilhelm). Philippe Pelletier at Ciné Artistes and Thomas Staedeli at Cyranos write that her first appearance was a year earlier, in Schirokko (1918, Edmund Heuberger) with Kurt Brenkendorf. She would spend the next years in small roles for directors Carl Froelich, Hanna Henning, and Walter Schmidthässler. She had bigger parts in Die Pflicht zu leben/The obligation to live (1919, Carl Wilhelm) with Reinhold Schünzel, and Die goldene Krone/The Golden Crown (1920, Alfred Halm) starring Henny Porten. She worked several times with the Danish director Robert Dinesen who was her husband at the time. Among their films were Frauen vom Gnadenstein/Women of Gnadenstein (1920, Joe May, Robert Dinesen), and Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft/Inge Krafft's Calvary (1921, Robert Dinesen) featuring Mia May. Schön had a leading role as Hannele's (Margarete Schlegel) mother in the popular drama Hanneles Himmelfahrt/Hannele's Ascension (1922, Urban Gad), based on the Traumgedicht (dream poem) by Gerhart Hauptman. For director Friedrich Zelnik she appeared in Erniedrigte und beleidigte (1922) starring Lya Mara. Then she really became a star after the release of Fritz Lang's two-part mythical fantasy Die Nibelungen (1924). Lang and his wife at the time, Thea von Harbou, had written a script based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200. Schön had a starring role as the vengeful Kriemhild, opposite Paul Richter as the epic hero Siegfried. Its success would cement her popularity in Germany and she achieved international recognition as an actress. Strangely, there was not a real follow-up film. She appeared in several unremarkable productions. In the more interesting films, like her husband's Der Weg durch die Nacht/The Way Through the Night (1929, Robert Dinesen), she only had a supporting part.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 672/6, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen (1924, Fritz Lang).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1922/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Atelier Ebert, Berlin.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 851/1, 1925-1926. Photo: Photo Hanni Schwarze, Berlin.
Wife or Mother
Margarete Schön made the transition to sound films with ease and through the 1930's and 1940's she was a popular character actress. She often portrayed parts as the wife or the mother. For the UFA she played princess Amalie in Das flötenkonzert von Sans-Souci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (1930, Gustav Ucicky) starring Otto Gebühr as King Frederick II of Prussia; Madame Mercier in the Chopin biography Abschiedswalzer/Farewell Waltz (1934, Géza von Bolváry), and the mother of Ilse Werner in Ihr erstes Erlebnis/Her First Experience (1939, Joseph von Báky). In 1931 she even co-directed a film herself, Schön ist die Manöverzeit/Manoeuver Time Is Fine (1931, Margarete Schön, Erich Schönfelder) with Ida Wüst. It would remain her only directorial job. During the Second World War she appeared in approximately ten films, but she generally avoided roles in Nazi propaganda films and stayed decidedly apolitical. One exception was an uncredited bit part in Veit Harlan's nationalistic film Kolberg (1945, Veit Harlan) starring Heinrich George. One of her most popular roles of the era was the character Frau Knauer opposite Heinz Rühmann in the classic comedy Die Feuerzangenbowle/The Punch Bowl (1944, Helmut Weiss) for Terra-Filmkunst studios. After the Second World War, Schön worked extensively for the radio and also worked as a voice actor for the synchronisation of foreign films. From 1948 to 1950, she played for the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), the state-owned film studio of East Germany. There she appeared in small roles in such films as Affaire Blum/The Blum Affair (1948, Erich Engel) about an anti-Semitic court case in Weimar Germany, Die blauen Schwerter/The Blue Swords (1949, Wolfgang Schleif) starring Hans Quest as the inventor of blue porcelain, and the biography Semmelweis - Retter der Mütter/Dr. Semmelweis (1950, Georg C. Klaren) with Käthe Braun. Back in West-Germany she had parts in such films as the thriller Rittmeister Wronski/Cavalry Captain Wronski (1954, Ulrich Erfurth) starring Willi Birgel, and Oberwachtmeister Borck/Sergeant Borck (1955, Gerhard Lamprecht). Her last screen appearance was in the TV film Ich rufe Dresden/I Call Dresden (1960, Curt Goetz-Pflug). That same year she retired from acting. Margarete Schön was married to Danish director Robert Dineson. In 1968, she was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis for her long and outstanding achievements in the German cinema. At the age of 90, she died in West-Berlin, Germany in 1985.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 675/7, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Fritz Lang). Siegfried (Paul Richter) presents Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) the circlet.
German postcard by Ross verlag, Berlin, no. 673/4, 1919-1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Fritz Lang). Siegfried (Paul Richter) presents Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) the circlet.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, nr. 673/6, ca. 1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Fritz Lang). Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) mourns Siegfried's (Paul Richter) death and points accusingly to Volker von Alzey (Hans Adalbert Schlettow).
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 675/9, ca. 1924. Photo: Decla-Ufa-Film. Publicity still for Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Fritz Lang). Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) and Brunhild (Hanna Ralph) at the side of the body of Siegfried (Paul Richter).
Sources: Philippe Pelletier (CinéArtistes) (French), Volker Wachter (DEFA Filmsterne) (German), Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Mixing Electronic Music In Ableton Live
Mixing Electronic Music In Ableton Live
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Mediocre mixing ruins songs. Don't let good songs go to waste – get a complete mixing education with Isaac Cotec in Mixing Electronic Music In Ableton Live.
Isaac, better known as Subaqueous, is an Ableton Certified Trainer who's been making electronic music in Ableton since 2002. In this class, he'll discuss the why behind the how of mixing and help you make better decisions during every step of your mixing process. You'll learn about:
- Setting up your studio: monitors, acoustic treatment, etc
- Routing and gain structure
- Dynamic range and compression
- Advanced EQing and spatial placement
- Adding color and dimension: reverb, delay, and effects
- Basics of mastering in Live
Isaac will show you how to zoom out and take conceptual control over the mix and then zero in on the steps it'll take to get there.
Mixing Electronic Music In Ableton Live will get you up-to-speed on the why and the how of mixing so you never degrade another song again.
Includes Isaac's complete mixing example set in Ableton with all examples of compression, eq, track setup and panning along with the frequency worksheet of instrument placement, a pdf on sharing tracks with others and a pdf on mixing in Ableton Live. Over 1GB in total!
Lessons1Who I Am 2Free Preview: Introduction to Mixing 3The Mixing Toolset 4Reference Makes Perfect 5Calibrating Your Room 6Using a Reference Track 7Preparing Your Mix 8Understanding Gain Staging 9Analog vs Digital Gain Staging 10Adding Dynamics to your Mix 11Getting a Balanced Mix 12What is Loudness? 13What Is Compression? 14Compression Parameters 15Basic Compression Techniques 16Multiband, Sidechain and Glue Compression Techniques 17The Golden Rule of Compression 18Basics of Equalization 19High Pass and Low Pass Filters 20Additive and Subtractive EQ 21Mid-Side EQ 22Spatialization and Panning 23Panning In-Depth in Ableton 24Using Reverb 25Mixing Recap
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Over the eight years of George W. Bush's presidency, proponents of major global-warming legislation tried to spark action in Congress by focusing on the Senate.
There, heavyweights like Republican John McCain of Arizona and Democrat-turned-independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut helped raise awareness of the climate issue even though they never approached the 60 votes needed to pass a bill capping greenhouse gas emissions.
But with President Obama in the White House, strategists shifted their attention to the House. And Friday, they scored a big win, a 219-212 vote in favor of a sweeping climate and energy bill.
Now the focus shifts again to the other side of Capitol Hill, where sponsors can point to a House bill that addresses a number of the concerns raised in the past by the Senate. And they hope it can help build momentum that never existed during the Bush years.
"The House acted; I think the Senate will come to the same conclusion," David Axelrod, Obama's top political adviser, said yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The [House] bill that was crafted helped ameliorate some of the hard edge that people were worried about. I think that will carry the day in the Senate, as well."
Axelrod acknowledged that Democrats lack the 60 Senate votes they need to overcome a filibuster. But he insisted Obama would not let the House bill wither.
"The vote is not tomorrow," Axelrod said. "The vote will come sometime in the fall. I think we will fashion an energy package that will move this country forward and carry the day."
According to an E&E analysis of the Senate, 60 votes is within reach for a cap-and-trade climate bill, but many concessions must be made to get the measure across the goal line.
To start, there are 45 senators in the "yes" or "probably yes" camp, including Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe.
There are 23 fence sitters. Alaska's Mark Begich (D) and Lisa Murkowski (R) need to keep their home state's oil and gas interests in mind, while Ohio's Sherrod Brown (D) and Michigan Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow are pressing for provisions that help agriculture and their state's ailing manufacturing and auto industries.
There are also 32 Republicans who are unlikely to vote for a climate bill of the shape and size that Obama and congressional Democratic leaders envision, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Missouri Sen. Kit Bond and Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, an outspoken skeptic about the link between man-made greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Different senators have different perspectives on how the climate debate will play out in their chamber.
"I don't think the appetite for that kind of thing is nearly as strong on the Senate side as there is in the House," said Republican Bob Bennett of Utah.
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who visited the House floor last week to lobby reluctant lawmakers, said in an interview that the measure has a chance of clearing the Senate.
"I'm optimistic, if it comes over here, that we'll have a 50-50 or better odds of passing it out of the Senate," he said. "There's a lot of momentum over here to work on this. I think we've been tactically smart, letting the House go first. I think if they can find the sweet spot, it's a very similar sweet spot over here. Stay tuned."
Sept. 18 deadline
The Senate debate is expected to begin in earnest when lawmakers return from the Fourth of July recess.
Boxer will have the bulk of the responsibilities in writing the cap-and-trade provisions of the legislation.
In an interview Saturday, Boxer said she would introduce a climate bill "very soon" in July, with "enough time so we can have a couple of legislative hearings and a couple of briefings."
The three-term senator said she would build from the House bill, with plans for a markup before the end of July. Beyond Boxer's Environment panel, five other Senate committees are also expected to weigh in: Agriculture, Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources, Finance and Foreign Relations.
Reid has set a Sept. 18 deadline for the six committees to produce their pieces of the bill for consideration on the Senate floor this fall. Already, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee this month approved major sections of the bill after a marathon markup.
On Friday, Reid called to congratulate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on passing the climate bill. And in a press release after the House vote, the Nevada Democrat said he planned to work with Obama to get his version of the bill adopted.
"The [House] bill is not perfect, but it is a good product for the Senate and our committees to start considering and begins the nation's inevitable movement to clean and abundant renewable energy and away from harmful and inefficient use of fossil fuels," Reid said.
House Democratic leaders on Friday trumpeted their accomplishment and did what they could to press Reid and the Senate.
"I urge the Senate to pass it, perhaps amend it, but get it to conference quickly, so that we can send a bill that President Obama will sign and point to as one of the single most historic achievements of this Congress, and maybe any Congress," Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said.
A more active White House
The White House, which played a major role in the closing days of the House debate, is expected to play a greater role in the Senate debate. After all, Vice President Joe Biden served in the Senate for 36 years and Obama spent four years there.
"Clearly, we saw the president was very engaged in this effort," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the head of the House Democrats' 2010 campaign operation. "So he's going to be working with us very hard to get the votes in the Senate. Obviously, having served there, he knows a lot of the members."
The president and his team will face a challenge, since regional interests tend to trump party loyalties in energy legislation.
"I think you have to think what the impact is at home," Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said earlier this month. "Certainly, I want to support the president when I can. But I can't when I can't.
It is unclear where Obama might do the most good. A day after last November's election, President-elect Obama talked about climate change during a meeting in Chicago with his Republican rival from the presidential race, McCain, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
In an interview earlier this month, McCain, who twice forced Senate floor votes on cap-and-trade legislation during the Bush years, said he had not heard from Obama on climate change since last November.
"I don't think it's possible," McCain said. "It's total disarray. There's no bipartisanship, there's no consensus."
Asked how Obama could win his vote on climate change, McCain replied, "Sit down and negotiate seriously. We've had none of that."
Graham said he would support climate legislation so long as it includes less aggressive emission targets and greater incentives for nuclear power and offshore oil and natural gas development.
"The bottom line, if you want to get 60 votes, you're going to have to broaden this beyond cap and trade," Graham said.
Obama will also need to watch his left flank, which includes Boxer, Vermont's Bernie Sanders (I), and New Jersey Democrats Robert Menendez and Frank Lautenberg. Consider nuclear power, an issue that McCain amped up in his 2005 climate bill to the point that it ultimately drove Boxer and three other senators to vote against the plan.
"If the president moves toward McCain, then he loses people like Barbara Boxer," said Andrew Wheeler, a former staff director for the Environment and Public Works Committee's ranking Republican, Inhofe.
Boxer insists that Obama has been laying the groundwork for the climate debate by sending to Capitol Hill several of his top advisers, including Axelrod and White House climate czar Carol Browner. Also of note: one of Obama's top legislative affairs officials at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is Sanders' former environmental aide, Jessica Maher.
'Heart of success'
The consensus on Capitol Hill is that no group will be more important to the success of the next Senate global warming bill than the collection of moderate Democrats from the Midwest, Rust Belt and West who say the climate debate so far has not taken their interests into account.
"The heart of success resides in industrial state senators who are both Democratic and Republicans," said James Connaughton, who chaired CEQ under President George W. Bush. "That's not just success in passage, but the lasting success of the program."
Connaughton, who now works to promote cap-and-trade legislation as a vice president at Baltimore-based Constellation Energy, said Obama would be smart to focus in on this group of 15 or so senators. "These guys are responsible for the manufacturing engine of America," he said. "They kind of have an accountability that goes beyond their state, to be sure that the policy is done in a way that doesn't disrupt or create incredible disruption in that sector."
Chelsea Maxwell, a former climate adviser to former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), said Senate Democratic leaders may very well finish close to the House's position on the legislation. But they must not pretend they are cutting and pasting from the House bill.
"The Senate has to go through the process itself," said Maxwell, a consultant at the Clark Group. "Those members have to be negotiated with. They have to be out there with pens and paper, saying this is the timetable, this is the target, this is what we need for agriculture offset. They really have to go through that."
Maine's Collins urged Democrats to work cautiously on the climate bill. "I think it's an enormously complicated issue, and it'd be a mistake to try to rush through it," she said early this month. "The House bill has become a monstrosity. It's huge. It has all sorts of accommodations to special interests, and I hope that we in the Senate will start fresh."
Starting fresh may mean making concessions to moderate Republicans on the cap-and-trade plan, though that could mean upsetting environmental groups and liberal Democrats. Consider Murkowski, who two years ago co-sponsored a bill with Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) that curbed greenhouse gas emissions, but with a ceiling on how much carbon allowances would cost.
"I keep going to some of the reasons I supported it," Murkowski, the ranking member of Bingaman's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in an interview earlier this month. "There was a safety valve, an escape hatch, if you will. There was a level of certainty to industry that you knew how bad bad was going to be. I've not seen that in what's coming out of the House."
There are other obstacles, too. Economic conditions and demands on the United States from China, heading into U.N. climate talks this December, make the Senate debate even more complicated, said Wheeler, who works now for B&D Consulting.
"I see the climate bill in the Senate to be in worse shape than it was a year ago," Wheeler said. "The number of issues and problems have expanded, not decreased."
Reid can expect pushback from many Democratic moderates as they slog through an agenda this summer and fall that is jammed with health care reform, fiscal 2010 appropriations bills and Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation.
"I'm just saying. I don't see, personally -- and again, this is above my pay grade -- I don't see how it all fits together this year," said Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad (D-S.D.). "Just go through the list."
Inhofe insists that Democrats have no more than 35 supporters for cap-and-trade legislation. And he predicts that Obama does not want to risk an unsuccessful Senate floor fight ahead of the December U.N. climate negotiations in Denmark, where international pressure on the United States will be enormous.
"I think they are trying to put out as pretty a picture as they can for Copenhagen, but they don't want to go there after it's defeated," Inhofe said.
Details matter
Yet there is plenty of reason to think a deal remains possible this year in the Senate on the climate bill.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), a close friend of Obama's who has remained on the fence on climate legislation, said the global warming debate will fit in well with the president's overall agenda.
"I think there's more likely to be compromises this year, because everyone understands the economy is in such a fragile condition that you don't want to pass anything that's going to do any kind of have the opposite impact that we're trying to have on the stimulus," she said. "We don't want to work against ourselves here in terms of job creation."
Maxwell, the former Senate staffer who worked on last year's climate bill, urged sponsors not to ignore Republicans who on the surface have doubts about a cap-and-trade bill, including Sens. Michael Crapo of Idaho, Sam Brownback of Kansas and George Voinovich of Ohio. Crapo and Brownback worked in 2008 on a series of agriculture amendments that never came up for floor debate because the legislation got bogged down over procedure.
"Engagement even from those who are leaning 'no' is important," Maxwell said. "You can never get them on the fence if they're not paying attention to the details."
For his part, Voinovich tried during last year's debate to offer an alternative with a far less aggressive cap-and-trade concept. This time around, the two-term Ohio lawmaker, who retires in 2010, told E&E he wants to engage Democrats throughout the process.
"I'm going to continue to try to work to see if we can't come up with something that makes sense," Voinovich said. "If I can't do that, then the next issue would be to try to get those amendments passed in the committee. And if that doesn't work, then I'll have to do what I did last time, and that's try and stop this bill from getting passed."
And do not forget Lieberman. The Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee no longer sits on Boxer's committee, one of his punishments for supporting McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign. But the Connecticut independent said he would try to work on the issue through a series of amendments or a bipartisan group that could factor into the debate once the bill gets out of Boxer's committee.
"Let's put it this way," Lieberman said. "There are a number of Republicans who are neither a definite 'yes' or a definite 'no.' And that's the group I'm working with."
Reporter Allison Winter contributed.
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I am keen to obtain information regarding Thomas and Henry Playford, who were baptized on 25 January 1759 at Chedgrave in Norfolk. They were sons (presumably twins) of Henry and Elizabeth Playford. Thomas, aged 80, was buried in 1839, and Henry, aged 83, was buried in 1842. I have not found written records of where they were buried, but it was not at Chedgrave. I think that Thomas was probably the Thomas Playford (my great-great-great grandfather) who was buried at Barnby Dun in Yorkshire in 1839, but I lack documentation to prove this. Does anyone know of such documentation, and is anyone aware of what happened to Henry Playford?
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Developing mental health education for health volunteers in a township in South Africa
Bradshaw, T
Mairs, H
Richards, David
University of Exeter (David Richards - at the time of publication, the author was at the University of Manchester)
Date issued
Primary Health Care Research & Development
Cambridge University Press
South Africa like many countries is moving towards a system of community care for people with mental health problems. This is set against a backdrop of under-resourced and overburdened services. These problems are particularly apparent in the township communities. The aim of this study was to devise an education programme for South African volunteer health workers using principles adapted from the UK evidence base for psychosocial intervention (PSI) and to evaluate the impact of the education programme on community volunteer health workers' knowledge about mental health issues. A stakeholder consultation exercise was held to explore: the context of South African services; the transferability of the UK evidence base and educational strategies to South Africa; and to inform the design of an educational programme. Evaluation of the community volunteer educational programme was undertaken using pre- and post-education focus groups. Twenty-one volunteers working with mentally ill people in the community from one township attended a three-day, six module course. After the course, volunteers: were able to articulate a greater range of aetiological and contributing factors to the development of mental health problems, including stress vulnerability and traditional belief frameworks; could describe a more humanistic model of mental health identification; identified a wider range of both formal and informal helping strategies; were more aware of the negative impact of interpersonal behaviours for people with mental health problems. Volunteer involvement has been confined to communicable diseases in South Africa. Volunteers educated about mental health care could assist in the South African policy of 'horizontal' integration of services into primary care from their current 'vertical', specialist-orientated structures.
Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © Cambridge University Press 2006.
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text: Sport Clips Partners with St. Baldrick's Feb 2, 2016 Posted By Sport Clips News It is with great pleasure that we at Sport Clips Haircuts announce a partnership with St. Baldrick's Foundation. Our company has been a proud supporter of the organization for numerous years as they work to help conquer childhood cancer. We have pledged to donate $1 million to help the cause. The mission of St. Baldrick's is to change the realities of childhood cancer. The numbers are staggering and countless children are diagnosed with cancer each year. Two-thirds of these children treated for cancer will suffer long-term effects due to the treatment options available to them. Since 2007, Sport Clips hair stylist Keli Knappage has been volunteering to shave heads at St. Baldrick's Trinity Hall event in Dallas, Texas. After 7 years helping the organization, Keli shaved her own head and helped raise roughly $6,000 to fund research childhood cancer. We are honored to have the opportunity to partner with an organization so dedicated to helping young children who have been diagnosed with cancer. Nearly all of our locations will be promoting the St. Baldrick's Foundation and we will have stylists volunteering to help the events put on by the organization. Furthermore, we will hold some events of our own to help with donations to this worthy cause. Our team at Sport Clips Haircuts is encouraged by this opportunity and we hope that others will step up and help in the fight to conquer childhood cancer once and for all. Contact us today to learn more about our charitable efforts and how you can be a franchise owner that cares. Categories Sport Clips News Previous Next Related Posts: Jun 18, 2018 Sport Clips Founder Gordon Logan Offers Insight For Putting Heroes First Read More Jun 14, 2018 Sport Clips Builds and Maintains Lucrative Relationships at ICSC RECon Read More Jun 5, 2018 Sport Clips Haircuts tops category in Forbes 2018 "Best Franchises to Buy" Read More


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Its successor, Windows Server 2008, was released in February 2008.
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Back in January, Trish Bendix wrote a piece on the UK series Mistresses becoming a US series, which will star Alyssa Milano, Yunjin Kim and Rochelle Aytes (who I previously had never heard of but is supremely attractive). Trish got the inside scoop on the character Josslyn, played by Jes Macallan, who will eventually find herself with a lady lover.
Josslyn's character is described as "free-spirited and capricious" and in half of the promo shots on ABC's website, she's wearing a tiara, so I like her already.
I won't lie, when I first heard there would be a queer relationship on this show, I was rooting for it to be Alyssa Milano's character, Savannah. Alas, it's her younger sister. Josslyn seems sassy and fun, though, so it should be interesting to watch her develop feelings for another woman — and, true to the title of the show, a woman in a serious relationship. In fact, Josslyn (a real estate agent) meets this woman, Alex, while she and her partner are looking for a house.
Alex will be played by Shannyn Sossamon, who you might recognize from A Knight's Tale, Wristcutters: A Love Story or How To Make It In America.
According executive producer Rina Mimoun, it's a fleshed out story (no pun intended) that will start as a friendship and grow into something more as the season goes on. Which means it won't be a one-and-done lady lovin' experience, like so many shows do just to say they did.
When I asked my roommate if she had heard about this show and whether or not she would watch it, she said it piqued her interest because she heard Alyssa Milano was in it, and the preview grabbed her because it used the song "Come and Get It." (Actually she said, "that song by that little girl that I usually hate actually worked for the show and made me want to watch it." Minor details.)
She also saw Lost star Yunjin Kim switching from sweet Sun to sultry Karen as a negative, but I think it's quite the positive change.
Since I've known about Josslyn's impending lady-on-lady adventures for months now, I've searched for it in every preview, script tease, and character bio they have released, but nothing implies any homosexuality or bisexuality whatsoever. This could be either an awesome or a decidedly not-awesome thing, depending on their angle. If their point was, "This is a show about human experience" and they are categorizing lesbian infidelity in the same exact category as heterosexual infidelity, then I am 100% behind them.
I'm hoping the reason they haven't revealed any sweet lady kisses in their previews isn't because they're afraid it will turn viewers off, but because they want it to be as surprising to the audience as it will, apparently, be to Josslyn. From what I understand, Josslyn is enjoying the single life, living and loving as she pleases, and is as shocked as anyone when she starts to have serious feelings for someone, and that it happens to be another woman.
I'm not sure how they will approach the topic of sexuality, whether Josslyn will start to identify as gay or bisexual, or if she'll choose not to have a label at all. At the TCA event, Jes said her character is a little thrown by the sudden realization and asks herself, "Now that I'm a lesbian, how do I walk?" (Thankfully, it seems the ultimate message is that you don't have to walk differently if you find yourself in love with a woman for the first time. Though swagger is always encouraged.)
You do get a little peek of Josslyn and Alex kissing in this promo:
Cheers to dirty little secrets!
Jes Macallan (@JesMacallan), Alyssa Milano (@alyssamilano), and Rochelle Aytes (@rochelleaytes) will be live-tweeting the premiere tonight at 10 p.m. on ABC. Tweet along with them (and me!) and use the hashtag #HomoWrecker to find fellow AfterEllen readers.
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Has Web 2.0 lost it's sparkle? Finding multiple posts suggest an intriguing trend.
At Techcrunch, Robin Wauter uses a barometer of declining number of startups contacting his company and including the term Web 2.0 in the subject line or message as an indicator suggesting the "Death of Web 2.0".
Beyond this Wauters looks to Google trends for insight into Web 2.0 interest:
".. the term started being used at the end of 2004 when Tim O'Reilly organized the first edition of the Web 2.0 Conference. Search queries for the term started picking up in the middle of 2005, when TechCrunch was started - with the tagline "Tracking Web 2.0″ by the way - and the number kept increasing until the end of 2007. After that, the trend is clearly downwards, falling back to the level it reached in early 2006 today. If the trend continues, there should only be a handful of people left who scour search engines for 'Web 2.0' by 2011."
I've added a note to my 2011 calendar to test that prediction. Meantime, seriously, where does Web 2.0 stand? Where do we look for clues to declining Google search interest in Web 2.0? And what new is capturing attention?
A February 2009 McKinsey Quarterly article "Six ways to make Web 2.0 work" provides helpful insights? It reports McKinsey's study of 50 Web 2.0 early adopters over the past two years and finds:
"Our work suggests the challenges that lie ahead. To date, as many survey respondents are dissatisfied with their use of Web 2.0 technologies as satisfied."
The article goes on to describe the impediments dissenters cite:
"..organizational structure, the inability of managers to understand the new levers of change, and a lack of understanding about how value is created using Web 2.0 tools. We have found that, unless a number of success factors are present, Web 2.0 efforts often fail to launch or to reach expected heights of usage. Executives who are suspicious or uncomfortable with perceived changes or risks often call off these efforts. Others fail because managers simply don't know how to encourage the type of participation that will produce meaningful results."
The rest of the article is recommended reading especially as it reiterates the case that Victoria Axelrod and I will be making Monday to our FOWA workshop participants. Successful technology development and adoption demand both focus on engaging stakeholders in the business improvement to be gained and a deep understanding of the human networks on whose success they depend.
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Is Apple's iPhone SE about to get an upgrade?
Apple' plans to arrange iPhone manufacture in India are coming into view – and they seem to feature the return of the iPhone SE.
April's child
A Reuters report tells us the iPhone SE will begin rolling off Apple partner Wistron's new Bengaluru India production lines in April. April's child may be "full of grace", but it remains to be seen if the iPhone SE the company plans to introduce will be the same phone as the current iPhone SE model, or if it intends upgrading the device.
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Linda Singler Holyfield, RN, MSN, and the president and CEO of P&S Surgical Hospital, has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare leadership. She has devoted much of that time creating healthcare opportunities in northeast Louisiana.
Linda spent the first 15 years of her career developing and managing numerous critical care services. During that time, she designed and opened four adult ICUs, a PICU, and telemetry units; she also started an open-heart program and developed an emergency department. She then led the establishment of a community health center, a community clinic for the underserved, the Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute, and P&S Surgical Hospital. Under her leadership, P&S Surgical Hospital has grown from a small ambulatory surgery center that performed approximately 3,500 cases annually, to a thriving surgical hospital that performs approximately 10,000 cases each year. Linda also serves as president and CEO of Specialty Management Services of Ouachita, a healthcare management & consulting company.
She works locally and nationally to improve healthcare and healthcare systems. Linda led the development of a statewide health improvement plan, Louisiana Turning Point Initiative, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and W. K. Kellogg Foundations. In addition, she served as a member of Governor Kathleen Blanco's Health Care Reform Task Force and Governor Bobby Jindal's Health Care Transition Committee. She was also a member the national Catholic Health Association (Washington, DC) Task Force on the Uninsured.
She is a member of the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Children's Coalition, American College of Healthcare Executives, Louisiana Hospital Association, and the Physician's Hospital Association. She currently serves on the Louisiana Public Health Institute, the University Health Board of Trustees, the ULM Foundation Board of Trustees. She is past president/board chair for the United Way of Northeast Louisiana, the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, and the Wellspring. She has served as adjunct nursing faculty for ULM, Louisiana Tech University, and Grambling State University. In recognition of her efforts to improve her community, she and her husband Joe were awarded the Rambin/Silverstein Award by the Monroe Chamber of Commerce.
Linda received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and a Master of Nursing Administration (with a healthcare administration minor) from Northwestern State University. She then completed a yearlong, Healthier Communities Fellowship sponsored by the HealthCare Forum in San Francisco.Bio | Email me
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Terri Hicks, MBA, is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at P&S Surgical Hospital. She is also Senior Vice President and CFO of Specialty Management Services of Ouachita, a healthcare management and consulting company. Her incredible work ethic has resulted in 20 years of professional advancement and entrepreneurship.
She began her healthcare career as a receptionist at a hematology and oncology clinic, where she was promoted to assistant manager. The hematology and oncology clinic was purchased by the Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute in 1995. She eventually became the business administrator until her departure in 1998, when she was hired as the operations manager at what is now known as P&S Surgical Hospital. She was quickly promoted to operations director and ultimately, the hospital's CFO and Vice President.
Terri's financial and business expertise has contributed greatly to the growth and progress of P&S Surgical Hospital. Under her leadership, every financial audit has been deemed unqualified. In addition, she has led the creation and development of operational systems throughout the hospital, including human resources, information technology systems and business operations. She has established hospital procedures, implemented staff training, and created unique organization methods still utilized by the hospital today.
Terri has also led three information technology conversions and has updated all of the hospital's billing, operational, financial, and clinical systems. She oversees a staff of 60 employees, while preparing budgets, forecasting revenues, negotiating contracts, and developing strategic plans. She also possesses significant expertise in statistics, trending, and analytics.
She is active in the Monroe community, currently serving as the Treasurer on the Monroe Chamber of Commerce Executive Board of Directors. She earned a bachelor of science in business accounting and an MBA at the University of Phoenix.Bio | Email me
Vice President of Patient Care Services
Debbie Austin, RN, MSN, CNOR, is the Vice President of Patient Care Services at P&S Surgical Hospital, where she ensures each patient enjoys the very best experience. Her commitment to patients has resulted in a National Press Ganey Summit Award, given to hospitals that achieve a 99 percent in-patient satisfaction rate. She has also played an integral role in the hospital's addition of two operating rooms, a renovated cath lab, 12 additional patient rooms and a new radiology pre-operative clinic. Debbie has also worked diligently to help the hospital achieve the unique distinctions of "Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery" and "Minimally Invasive Gynecology."
Prior to her time at P&S Surgical Hospital, she worked at Glenwood Regional Medical Center for almost 20 years. She began her career there as a perioperative nurse and was promoted to the director of surgical services. She eventually became the clinical coordinator of education, where she was responsible for providing educational opportunities for the hospital staff.
Debbie's experience in surgery, education, and administration have allowed her the opportunity to learn all aspects of the nursing field and to share that education with her staff at P&S Surgical Hospital. She is knowledgeable in the areas of finance, standards of care, regulatory, business, and nursing. She understands the dynamics of the nursing workforce and is committed to staffing flexibility, creativity, and balance in life and work. Her 35 years in the nursing field have given her experience in surgery and have allowed her to develop professional relationships with physicians—all in a progressive and fast-paced environment with excellent quality and patient outcomes.
Debbie earned a bachelor of science in nursing at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and a master of science in nursing at the University of Phoenix. She is also certified in perioperative nursing.Bio | Email me
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Men Of Honor tells the courageous tale of an African-American sailor (Gooding) who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer (De Niro) and a tragic shipboard accident, Carls iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible in an incredible finish that will leave you cheering.


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So let me give you some background before I go on a ramble. I am 23, I've been doing Roxycodone and Oxycontin since i was 18 until 22. I was doing about 5-6 Roxys, or 2 80mg OCs a day. I come from a family where money was not a problem so I always had the money to support the habit. So when I was 22, I decided I need to stop. Constant mood swings, lack of enthusiasm for anything except getting pills, the withdrawals- I just needed to stop. I hated myself. So I heard of taking Suboxone, it seemed like a "miracle" drug. Now, while I was on suboxone, I never used that as a subsutitue, as some do, do drugs, cant find them ok well I'll just pop a sub. Nah, I actually took it because I wanted to follow a program and get better. For a year straight, it was great- I started working out again, less moodier, surrounded myself with better people, everything was great. I started off taking 2 8mg subs daily, all the way down to less then 2mg a day, practically nothing. It was about 10-11 days ago when I finally decided I was ready to make the next step, and put that chapter of my life in the past. I wanted to stop the suboxone. So on I went.
Day 1- Not so bad, little did I know it was the only day I would sleep.
Day 2, Mild w/d 1 hour of sleep
Day 3 Mild w/d no sleep
Day 4 Bad w/d no sleep
Day 5 slept for an hour, mild withdrawal.
Now, I had never detoxed from Suboxone before so I did not know what to expect. We all have went through pain killer withdrawal and it is more severe but it doesn't last as long. I went to my doctor day 5, I said doc, what the hell is going on, it is day 5, shouldn't it be over by now? Pain killer withdrawal usually goes 3-4 days of severe withdrawal and then it is over, I know your body takes a while to get better,but the sever symptoms should be gone in 4 days, 5 the most. He said to me, suboxone withdrawal usually last anywhere from 12-16 days. At that moment I remember closing my eyes and thinking, I've gone through all of this and I am not even half way there yet? What the hell am I going to do? Suffering from insomnia is the worst, and now I have to do this for another 10 days? I was better off quitting cold turkey right off the bat. The reason why suboxone sounded so good is because A, you go on about your day thinking the problem is over, and B, a Dr. is prescribing it so it seems like it;s actually helping you which it is not. It's prolonging the problem. Let me say that again, its prolonging the problem. So now what to do? Do I keep going like this? I decided to go a different direction. I took vicodin the last 5 days. The first day I took it I only needed 1, the most I took after that was 2 at the most. I did that for 5 days not to get high, but hope to go through withdrawals from the actual pain killer rather than suboxone. So now, I woke up today knowing the next 3 days would suck, but I know I can get by it. There is no way I am going through 12-16 days of Suboxone withdrawal. I just won't. I am hoping this lasts until Sunday the latest, it is Thursday so hopefully 4 days the most, and I will be feeling better Monday. The only thing I am taking to sleep is Tylenol PM, no Xanax, or valium, I don't want any of this ???? in my system any more. I am taking a stand- the pain I have gone through trying to kick this is just a reminder why I never want to go through this again. It makes me sick that I became like this, and I can't wait for the day I wake up not needing a tablet to get by. That will be the most rewarding day of my life. It has been 4 years since I have been me, and for those that are going through the same thing or something similar, don't get sucked in to the hype of suboxone- you ????ed up along with myself, and now is the time to pay the price for it.


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Barack Obama certainly enjoys the trappings and perks of the Office of President. The actual job of being President, however, doesn't seem to interest him. His desire to avoid being tied to any specifics of any proposal have caused him to do what no modern President has done. He is the first President since 1921 to abdicate the task of drafting a federal budget to Congress.
Congress established the modern budget process in 1921. Under the terms of the law, the President is required to submit a budget for the federal government no later than the first Monday in February. Obama has only met this statutory deadline once during his Presidency, a record worse than any modern President. Obama has missed the deadline 4 times. Prior to him, all the Presidents back to 1921 together missed the deadline twice.
Pentagon officials recently advised the House Armed Services Committee that the President's budget wouldn't be delivered until April 8th, a 9 week delay that trumps any previous delay. Worse, though, the long delay means that Congress will initiate its own debate on the budget, without input from the Executive Branch.
On Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan unveiled the House GOP budget proposal. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats will unveil their first budget proposal in 4 years. By the time Obama gets around to submitted his mandated proposal, Congress will have had almost a month to deliberate on its proposals.
As we've seen throughout his tenure, Obama prefers lofty rhetoric over the day-to-day give-and-take required to enact legislation. He spoke in general, focus-tested, words about ObamaCare, the stimulus, financial services regulation and a host of other issues, while leaving the gritty, horse-trading work to Congress.
After Congress had finished, Obama appeared on the scene, Zelig-like, to put his signature to its work. He probably scheduled the bill-signings around tee times.
One of the central jobs of the Presidency is to manage the Executive Branch. The Office is responsible for making sure federal agencies can meet their mission with the resources available. Obama, however, can't be bothered to report to Congress what resources he believes the government needs to meet its mission.
We were told Obama would be an historic President. I don't think his unprecedented abdication on the budget is what they had in mind.


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Five Months, 19 Days and Counting
It's been five months and 19 days since Ferdinand's amputation and the boy is still rocking on. He finished up the chemo treatments like a boss and got a clean bill of health from Dr. Mones at Alpine Hospital. He gave us a little scare with a cough but then Fiona the Fierce — Ferdi's Chihuahua sister — came down with the same cough so it was decided that it was just allergies or a little bug.
He gets tired more quickly nowadays but that's the only sign that he's not at full capacity. Otherwise, he acts like a pup, playful, cuddly, raring to go at the slightest jingle of the keys.
He is somewhat of a local celebrity. I was in the bank with him (Elevations Credit Union is very cool about him coming in despite the sign on their door) and a guy rushed over to him, cooing his name and hugging him like they were long lost pals. He finally stood up from the love session and acknowledged the bewildered look on my face by explaining, "I'm one of his Apple store friends! I haven't see you guys in a while…"
We spend every Sunday morning at Tod's coffee shop in Gunbarrel, sitting on the tiny patio (the sidewalk) having breakfast, reading the paper, communing with the other regulars, planning out our Home Depot shopping list and generally enjoying what we refer to as 'our Sunday church service.' For us, it's better than church because 1) we get coffee and 2) we have Ferdinand with us. He has weekly admirers who bring him treats and last week someone even brought their Great Dane puppy, Gus, to meet Ferdinand!
It's funny, everyone who meets him says how much they'd love to have a big dog like him but the big ones just don't live very long and they don't want to put themselves through that loss. They tell stories of dogs with cancer whose people chose euthanasia over amputation because they couldn't bear to go through all that and then lose them anyway. I get it, Ferdi is our fourth Great Dane, they do break your heart sooner than a little dog. And amputation was an incredibly difficult choice with no guarantees.
But I also get that every Dane has been worth the heartache whether we lost him at two years old or at three or at nine and a half. The surgery, as difficult as it was, has given us a little more time with this one. We can never know how much more time we have with him of course, the vet says it could be years, but even if the worst happened tomorrow, we know for sure that it will be worth the anguish to have five more months, 19 days and counting.
12 seconds of perfect doggie fun
One month to the day after his amputation. Such an inspiration, this one. Go FERDINAND!!!! See the video here 🙂 http://youtu.be/iJD6SlWBmOw
A Blessing in Shih Tzu Form
How about a nice cuppa Golden Chai
This Golden Retriever spent the first three years of her life as a breeder in the puppy mills but now she's been rescued. Just a week ago she started her new life as a beloved companion and her Human wanted to commemorate the moment with a photo shoot. Look at her smile!
Pooch helps pop the question
"I'd like to arrange a photo shoot as a gift for my girlfriend. And could you do one extra little thing? …" So began one of the most distinctive shoots I've had so far. Anthony went on to explain that he wanted photos of his girlfriend, Natalie with her dog, Abigail, and himself. And at the end of the session he wanted me to photograph him getting down on one knee and proposing! To Natalie, not Abigail — just to be clear. I think Abigail approved when her lady said, "YES!"
Balls, Balloons and Big Sad Eyes
More recent photos from Doghouse Studios shoots. See lots of adorable dogs and cats at our online gallery
Cockers, Calicos and more …
Slideshow of recent Doghouse Studios shoots. You can see more charming canines (and cats) at the Doghouse Studios online gallery!
A mature Aspen photographs like a pup
This is Aspen. She is 14 years old but you'd never know it from looking at her! Gorgeous isn't she? Thanks for dropping by the studio for a portrait session, Aspen!
Camp Muddy Paws learns how to take great dog photos
I got to teach a How to Take Great Photos of Your Dog class at the Humane Society of Boulder Valley's Camp Muddy Paws this week and it was a blast! The class was made up of 40 kids, 11-12 years old and armed with digital cameras. We discussed tips for shootingat interesting angles, getting the dogs to look at you with interest, how to crop a photo to make it more interesting, and much more. The kids asked really well-thought-out questions and kept me on my toes. Then they broke into groups to put what they learned into practice with a couple of borrowed dogs from the shelter.
Here's some of their photos – great work everyone!
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
OMG I have never been disliked by a canine the way this little Bichon Frise disliked me. Her name is Izzie and her buddy's name is Lily. Lily loved me as you can see – she totally cheeses it up for the camera! But Izzie could barely stomach glancing at me out of the corner of her eye. They make a great pair, a study in contrasts like the comedy/tragedy masks 🙂


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I wrote 3 months ago about the launch of the new Shinkansen E5 series, a new train which will begin commercial operations March next year.
E5 Series Shinkansen
I'm writing again about it because, last week, the JR East company opened a public contest to… name the new E5 series.
Of course, there are some prizes, the Gold prize would be an E5 series Shinkansen commemorative plaque plus an originally designed E5 series Shinkansen Suica card and the Silver prize would be the E5 designed Suica card. The contest is opened at the JR East website and the deadline is April 1st.
[Later edit: from the application page, it seems to me that you can only apply if you have a Japanese address… So, if you want to participate, maybe a postcard is a better solution]:
"Atarashii Tohoku Shinkansen no ressha aisho boshu" Jimukyoku
P.O. Box 32 go, Tokyo Ginza Branch, 100-8691, JAPAN
JR East is looking for…
"a name that is not only easy to understand but is capable of representing the train's speed and comfort."
The train is painted in a "Tokiwa" green-white scheme with a bit of pink (Tokiwa 「常盤」 is the name of a lake), has a very distinctive long nose, some advanced technical details like car body tilting system and full-active suspension and, talking about comfort, features a very comfortable looking power-reclining "shell" seats…
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Pour a glass of wine and take in the fragrance of fresh pine as it lingers in the air with the accompaniment of raucous hummingbirds as they too enjoy the views from this incredible hillside home. This mountain residence has clean transitional lines throughout with a protected view corridor of the stunning Tenmile Range. The home has vaulted ceilings, high-end kitchen, two master suites, a wine room, two decks, heated driveway, 3-car garage and over an acre of beautifully wooded land.
Victorian, family-oriented, and breathtaking natural beauty describe the classic Colorado ski town of Breckenridge. Enjoy countless outdoor activities, in both winter and summer, because Breckenridge averages over 300 days of sun each year and over 300 inches of snow each winter! With over one-million skier visits last year, Breckenridge is one of the most popular winter resorts in the country. Highlights include Breckenridge's historic main street, thrilling terrain parks, boutique restaurants and shops, and the new Riverwalk Center. Throughout the year, cultural events like the Breckenridge Film Festival, the Backstage Theatre, weekend farmers markets and art festivals will entertain you. Quaint streets feature fine dining and endless shopping opportunities. With an array of ski-in/ski-out housing opportunities, you only have to throw open your front door and go. The resort ski runs come right down into town, so you can ski home for lunch. And the limited availability of these properties makes them highly valued. A perfect mountain town!
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Prenatal exposure to alcohol can have lasting effects on functioning in attentional, cognitive, social, and behavioral domains, and is a major cause of mental retardation. Infants born to African-American and/or low SES women appear to be at increased risk of adverse effects. Screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment (SBIRT) approaches are a promising option for addressing this significant need: many studies have suggested that these approaches can be successfully used in primary care settings to identify and reduce alcohol use, and their brief proactive nature gives them substantial potential for reaching otherwise unidentified at-risk women. Unfortunately, growing evidence suggests that the promise of SBIRT approaches may be limited by the amount of time, training, expertise, and commitment they require. Computer-delivered SBIRT approaches may address this limitation by providing consistent screening and evidence-based brief interventions, at low cost, without requiring substantial investments of time or energy from medical staff. However, several Stage I steps are necessary before moving to a Stage II clinical trial. This R34 application will therefore lay the groundwork for a fully powered clinical trial of a computer-delivered SBIRT for alcohol use during pregnancy. It will do so through the conduct of five key preliminary studies, including: (1) evaluation of the utility of handheld mobile devices and an anonymous self-interview format in screening for at-risk drinking among patients attending a prenatal clinic;(2) modification of an existing computer-delivered motivational intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy, to a priori standards of acceptability (to experts as well as representative pregnant women);(3) development of an evidence-based tailored messaging supplement to the single-session brief intervention;(4) examining the validity of, and cut scores for, the biomarker Ethyl Glucoronide (EtG) in pregnant women;and (5) collecting data on the acceptability, feasibility, and estimated effect size of the modified computer-delivered intervention through an N = 50 Phase I randomized clinical trial. Participants in this trial will be a diverse sample of women at-risk for alcohol use during pregnancy, the majority of whom will be African-American and/or low SES. These key preparatory steps will greatly facilitate the subsequent development of an R01 application to conduct a Stage II clinical trial for alcohol use during pregnancy. These steps will also provide important preliminary data on (a) a novel method for risk factor screening in primary care;(b) the potential utility of EtG as a biomarker for alcohol use during pregnancy and in the perinatal period;and (c) the effect size estimate for a fully computer-delivered, combined brief interactive/tailored messaging intervention requiring only a single contact. If successful, this line of research could lead to a highly cost-effective, high-reach intervention for alcohol use during pregnancy;these reductions in alcohol use could in turn have a meaningful population impact on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Prenatal exposure to alcohol can have lasting negative effects on children whose mothers used alcohol during pregnancy. Brief screening and intervention for maternal alcohol use in prenatal care settings has been shown to be helpful, but is often not implemented. Computer-delivered screening and brief intervention may be much easier to implement. The proposed project will therefore conduct a series of crucial preliminary studies designed to lay the groundwork for a full-scale clinical trial.
|Ondersma, Steven J; Beatty, Jessica R; Rosano, Thomas G et al. (2016) Commercial Ethyl Glucuronide (EtG) and Ethyl Sulfate (EtS) Testing is Not Vulnerable to Incidental Alcohol Exposure in Pregnant Women. Subst Use Misuse 51:126-30
|Ondersma, Steven J; Beatty, Jessica R; Svikis, Dace S et al. (2015) Computer-Delivered Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use in Pregnancy: A Pilot Randomized Trial. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 39:1219-26
|Pollick, Sarah A; Beatty, Jessica R; Sokol, Robert J et al. (2015) Acceptability of a computerized brief intervention for alcohol among abstinent but at-risk pregnant women. Subst Abus 36:13-20


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This is a summary of the European public assessment report (EPAR) for Clopidogrel Apotex. It explains how the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) assessed the medicine to reach its opinion in favour of granting a marketing authorisation and its recommendations on the conditions of use for Clopidogrel Apotex.
- What is Clopidogrel Apotex?
Clopidogrel Apotex is a medicine that contains the active substance clopidogrel. It is available as tablets (75 mg).
Clopidogrel Apotex is a 'generic medicine'. This means that Clopidogrel Apotex is similar to a 'reference medicine' already authorised in the European Union (EU) called Plavix.
- What is Clopidogrel Apotex used for?
Clopidogrel Apotex is used in adults to prevent atherothrombotic events (problems caused by blood clots and hardening of the arteries). Clopidogrel Apotex can be given to the following groups of patients:
- patients who have recently had a myocardial infarction (heart attack). Clopidogrel Apotex can be started between a few days and 35 days after the attack;
- patients who have had a recent ischaemic stroke (stroke caused by failure of the blood supply to part of the brain). Clopidogrel Apotex can be started between seven days and six months after the stroke;
- patients with peripheral arterial disease (problems with blood flow in the arteries);
- a condition known as 'acute coronary syndrome', when it should be given with aspirin (another medicine that prevents blood clots). Acute coronary syndrome is a group of heart problems that include heart attacks and unstable angina (a severe type of chest pain). Some of these patients may have had a stent (a short tube) placed in an artery to prevent it from closing up;
- atrial fibrillation (irregular rapid contractions of the upper chambers of the heart), when it should be given with aspirin. It is used in those patients who have at least one risk factor for vascular events such as a heart attack or stroke, cannot take vitamin-K antagonists (other medicines that prevent blood clots) and are at low risk of bleeding.
The medicine can only be obtained with a prescription.
- How is Clopidogrel Apotex used?
The standard dose of Clopidogrel Apotex is one 75-mg tablet once a day, taken with or without food.
- How does Clopidogrel Apotex work?
The active substance in Clopidogrel Apotex, clopidogrel, is an inhibitor of platelet aggregation. This means that it helps to prevent blood clots from forming. When the blood clots, this is due to special cells in the blood called platelets aggregating (sticking together). Clopidogrel stops the platelets aggregating by blocking a substance called ADP from attaching to a special receptor on their surface. This stops the platelets becoming 'sticky', reducing the risk of a blood clot forming and helping to prevent another heart attack or stroke.
- How has Clopidogrel Apotex been studied?
Because Clopidogrel Apotex is a generic medicine, studies have been limited to tests to determine that it is bioequivalent to the reference medicine, Plavix. Two medicines are bioequivalent when they produce the same levels of the active substance in the body.
- What are the benefit and risk of Apotex?
Because Clopidogrel Apotex is a generic medicine and is bioequivalent to the reference medicine, its benefit and risk are taken as being the same as those of the reference medicine.
- Why has Clopidogrel Apotex been approved?
The CHMP concluded that, in accordance with EU requirements, Clopidogrel Apotex has been shown to have comparable quality and to be bioequivalent to Plavix. Therefore, the CHMP's view was that, as for Plavix, the benefit outweighs the identified risk. The Committee recommended that Clopidogrel Apotex be given marketing authorisation.
- Other information about Apotex
The European Commission granted a marketing authorisation valid throughout the EU for Clopidogrel Mylan Pharma on 16 October 2009. The name of the medicine was changed to Clopidogrel Apotex on 20 January 2010.
For more information about treatment with Clopidogrel Apotex, read the package leaflet (also part of the EPAR) or contact your doctor or pharmacist.
This EPAR was last updated on 07/05/2018 .
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Pharmacotherapeutic group
Antithrombotic agents
Therapeutic indication
Prevention of atherothrombotic events.
Clopidogrel is indicated in:
- adult patients suffering from myocardial infarction (from a few days until less than 35 days), ischaemic stroke (from 7 days until less than 6 months) or established peripheral arterial disease;
- adult patients suffering from acute coronary syndrome:
- non-ST-segment-elevation acute coronary syndrome (unstable angina or non-Q-wave myocardial infarction), including patients undergoing a stent placement following percutaneous coronary intervention, in combination with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA);
- ST-segment-elevation acute myocardial infarction, in combination with ASA in medically treated patients eligible for thrombolytic therapy;
- prevention of atherothrombotic and thromboembolic events in atrial fibrillation;
- in adult patients with atrial fibrillation who have at least one risk factor for vascular events, are not suitable for treatment with vitamin-K antagonists and who have a low bleeding risk, clopidogrel is indicated in combination with ASA for the prevention of therothrombotic and thromboembolic events, including stroke.
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Geneva/Johannesburg – A promising new diagnostic test will finally help detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), increasing the urgency to solve major problems around the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines, according to a new report by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
DR-TB is on the rise, but less than seven percent of 440,000 new cases each year receive treatment, and DR-TB kills 150,000 people annually1.
The treatment of DR-TB relies on old antibiotics, many of which have severe side effects, ranging from constant nausea to deafness, and must be taken as complex regimens – patients must take up to 17 pills every day for up to two years. However, these are the only drugs that exist today that can tackle DR-TB. MSF's report shows that these drugs are riddled with persistent supply and price problems that must be urgently addressed.
"Patients have been stuck in a vicious circle – not enough people are diagnosed, and drug supply problems along with high prices stand in the way of putting more people on treatment," said Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director of MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. "The low demand for DR-TB drugs has made the market unattractive for producers, which is reinforcing supply and price problems."
MSF's report examined medicines used to treat DR-TB according to the number of suppliers, quality assurance and price, based on information obtained from the Global Drug Facility and drug manufacturers. It found that four of the recommended medicines are available from only one quality-assured source. Relying on a sole supplier whose production could be disrupted or stopped at any time always carries a risk of dangerous treatment interruption for patients. For example, supplies of the injectable drug kanamycin were disrupted during 2010, leading to a temporary global stockout.
Additionally, MSF's report found that several DR-TB medicines are very expensive, with prices for two drugs having increased by more than 600 percent and one drug by more than 800 percent over the last decade. A 24-month DR-TB treatment regimen can cost as much as US$9,000 for one patient – 470 times more than the $19 per patient it costs to cure standard, drug-sensitive TB.
"Now that we have a new test that can detect DR-TB in less than two hours instead of three months, we're going to see many more people who will need reliable drug supplies to get cured," said Dr. Jennifer Hughes of MSF in Khayelitsha, South Africa. MSF is rolling out the new Xpert MTB/RIF test in 15 countries this year. "We need to see some immediate action to resolve these problems and improve access to DR-TB drugs so that more people are started on treatment and transmission of this disease is reduced," said Dr. Hughes.
One way to kickstart increased production of some of these drugs is for donors to guarantee purchase volumes for several years to producers upfront. Other mechanisms such as better forecasting of the mid- to long-term needs for DR-TB drugs are also needed to help attract more producers to the market, to improve supply security and increase competition that helps brings prices down.
"We have developed a model of managing DR-TB within the community that can be scaled up to allow increased access to treatment in high-HIV prevalence settings. With faster diagnosis and better treatment models of DR-TB we need to fix the supply and price issues with DR-TB drugs. We also need to see new drugs developed", Dr Hughes said.


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Herman Miller Picnic Posters
• 16 December 2009
These new-to-me Herman Miller Summer Picnic Posters make me want to redecorate. They are fabulous with a capital "F".
You can find a nice selection of new posters here, or a few select framed versions here. Also, if you are interested in a vintage (and subsequently more expensive) version, go here.
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Love that lemon print
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wow, these are fantastic!
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Josh HeytveltHt/Wt: 6-11 / 235 lbs
Position: PF
Team: Gonzaga
Class: Senior
2009 Draft Profile - Josh HeytveltJosh Heytvelt is one of the more underrated players in this draft. He was projected to be a possible lottery pick a couple years ago, but then ran into minor legal problems. Since then, he has re-dedicated himself and gained back the complete respect of his Gonzaga teammates. He did not post incredible numbers, but watching him go head to head with some of the best big men in the country illustrated how effective he can be. He has a variety of skills which enables him to do more than just play down low. Some of his most developed attributes are his athleticism, great hands, good vision, constant nose for the ball, and a nice shooting touch. He can stretch the defense with his abililty to knock down jumpers, and then he has quickness and agility to attack if bigs do not close out well. Heytvelt may go anywhere from mid to late first round, but it will be a great pick wherever he gets selected. He can really help a team with his big skill set and natural ability.
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Trix (company)
This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (March 2009) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Trix is a German company that originally made Trix metal construction sets. one of its co-founders was Stephan Bing, the son of the pioneer toy-maker industrialist Ignaz Bing. In 1935 the company began producing the electrically powered model trains that it became famous for, under the Trix Express label. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the Trix company produced a small range of fairly unrealistic AC powered three rail models running at 14 volts.
Trix Twin[edit]
Unlike other manufacturers of the period, Trix allowed two trains to run on the same track simultaneously under independent control, one collecting current from the left rail and centre, the other from the right and centre. This system was known as 'Trix Twin'.
United Kingdom[edit]
In the United Kingdom Trix models were distributed by Bassett-Lowke under the brand name 'Twin Train Table Railway', initially using German outline models painted in British colours, and from 1937 onwards relatively crude models of British locomotives and rolling stock.
Production resumed in 1948 but began to lag behind the technology used by rivals. Trix switched from AC to DC (with its simple reversing function) later than rivals like Tri-ang, particularly the British Trix company. In 1956 Trix switched to DC and in 1967 to two-rail as used by most competitors. The failing Trix brand was taken over several times becoming Trix Twin Railways, Trix Trains, British Trix and then merging with Liliput. Production of British Trix OO gauge trains ceased in 1973.[1]
N gauge models under the Minitrix brand were made from the late 1960s mostly of European prototypes (German and British primarily). North American prototypes were also manufactured and marketed under the Aurora "Postage Stamp" brand; later these items were sold under the American Tortoise, Model Power and Con-Cor brands. Trix sometimes utilized North American consultants to aid in the design of this portion of the product line. The "Hornby Minitrix' brand was used in the 1980s for a short lived range of British outline models using the earlier product tooling.
Trix's owner in the 1980s and 1990s was Mangold, which went bankrupt in the late 1990s and Märklin purchased the assets in January 1997. In part, this purchase was a reflection of Märklin's need for added production capacity; Trix had been manufacturing certain items for Märklin in previous years. The purchase was also in response to the earlier purchase of the Karl Arnold company by the Italian company Rivarossi; Märklin were very keen to take over Trix market share in 2-rail H0 and especially Minitrix, until then Märklin had not marketed N gauge models. In 2003, Märklin introduced its first N gauge models under the well established Minitrix brand. A number of Märklin H0 scale three-rail AC locomotives have also been introduced in two-rail DC versions under the Trix logo and many models are shared between the two brands.
Since around 2003 or 2004 Trix has made a two-rail version of the Märklin C-track, and the two are mostly identical except for the colour of the trackbed and the height of the rails (with Märklin being 2,3 mm high and Trix 2,1 mm). Also, some of Märklin's digital components (such as the Mobile Station) are made in Trix versions with different colours and another logo; but otherwise identical and fully compatible with Märklin's. For a number of years Trix has made two-rail versions of many Märklin models with only minor differences, such as axles (electrically insulated) and for powered models (being of lighting and/or a motor) power pickup.
United States[edit]
Outside Europe, the Minitrix brand is very popular in the United States of America.
Other Trix brands[edit]
Besides the AC Trix Express and Minitrix brands, the Trix company is also well known for its 1:87 scale DC brands, Trix International and Trix H0, dating back at least to the early 1970s and still being produced today.
Bavarian prototypes[edit]
A particular Trix speciality is the reproduction of Bavarian prototype models from Epoch I and their equivalent Epoch II, DRG versions. Examples such as the B VI (BR 34), D XI (BR 984-5), D XII (BR 73), G 3/4 H (BR 54), Gt 2x4/4 (BR 96), P 3/5 H (BR 384), PtL 2/2 (BR 983) and S 3/6 (BR 184) have been produced in the steam locomotive line, along with numerous passenger and goods wagons.
Brass models[edit]
Trix also produced highly detailed brass models of steam locomotives in limited quantities under the "Fine Art" label, predominantly in the late-1990s.
External links[edit]
- (in English) Trix Trains Official US website
- (in German) (in English) Official website in Germany
- (in Dutch) Official website in the Netherlands
- (in English) Enthusiast's site on early Minitrix in North America
- ^ Ramsay's British Model Trains catalogue, 6th edition 2008 page 414.