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After this post rounding up some of our case studies, articles and reports on social media, I thought I'd steal Andrew Warren Payne's idea and do the same for ecommerce.
We have written a lot on ecommerce since the blog launched, but here are 70 or so or our best practice tips, interviews with ecommerce folk, stats, and reports from the past year or so.
Hope you find this useful...
Ecommerce best practice tips
Ecommerce best practice is one of our favourite topics and we've written plenty of posts on this since the blog was born in 2006.
Here are some of the best articles from the last year or so, covering many aspects of ecommerce.
Check out Tim Leighton Boyce's comprehensive two-part guide to ecommerce consumer surveys, a post which never received the attention it deserved.
General best practice tips
Effective ecommerce: five tips to improve the after-sales service
Christmas e-commerce: 35 tips to increase conversions
10 things Lovehoney learned from setting up an e-commerce site
11 great ways to use social proof in ecommerce
Best practices for e-commerce consumer surveys: part one
Best practices for e-commerce consumer surveys: part two
10 brilliant examples of responsive design in ecommerce
10 more examples of responsive design in ecommerce
Five ways to work with content on ecommerce sites
How to avoid duplicate content issues in ecommerce
The pros and cons of a Facebook login on ecommerce sites
Six interesting examples of gamification in ecommerce
International ecommerce
The dos and don'ts of setting up an ecommerce business in China
The 11 Cs of e-commerce internationalisation
Checkouts and product pages
10 tips for improving ecommerce checkouts
10 tips for improving e-commerce product pages
Eight different ways of using product videos in ecommerce
11 useful examples of copywriting for product recommendations
E-commerce calls to action: 10 best practice tips
E-commerce consumer reviews: why you need them and how to use them
Navigation and site search
10 ways to improve your e-commerce navigation
Site search for e-commerce: 13 best practice tips
E-commerce drop-down menus: examples and best practices
What fashion and beauty retailers can teach you about site search
Carousels on ecommerce sites: are they worth bothering with?
Paul Rouke
Paul Rouke is Head of usability and conversion at PRWD, and has written some excellent posts on ecommerce best practice since 2008.
It's worth checking out all of the posts he's written for us, but here's a selection...
A responsive ecommerce masterclass from Nixon: part one
Shopping basket best practice from ASOS
Nine women x nine hours = nine usability insights
Booking.com: improving conversion with best practice persuasive design
Lings Cars and the art of persuading visitors to buy
Site reviews
We've reviewed a bunch of ecommerce launches and relaunches over the years, Some are great, some are stinkers. Here's some from the past 12 months...
Personalisation is key theme in Morrisons' first foray into ecommerce
H&M's new '& Other Stories' site offers quirky but fun user experience
Bonmarché's e-commerce relaunch shows an understanding of its target audience
ASOS's new mobile site is usable but unspectacular
Site review: the new RoyalMail.com delivers on customer experience
Sears site review: the good, the bad and the ugly
Site review: Four Seasons $18m redesign
Do bigger images mean improved conversion rates? Three case studies
Is site search less important for niche retailers?
74% of businesses believe user experience is key for improving sales
40% of shoppers used reserve and collect over Christmas: stats
Stats: Do consumers appreciate live chat on websites?
Stats: Multichannel commerce variations across countries, people and products
50+ fascinating stats about mobile commerce in the UK
Shop Direct and Tesco have fastest sites among Europe's top retailers: report
Australian ecommerce: Nine stats you might have missed
E-commerce stats: The importance of returning customers
E-commerce now more popular than high street shopping: report
Budget and lack of resources are biggest barriers to optimization: report
How tablet shoppers are changing e-commerce [infographic]
Opportunities for global e-commerce [infographic]
oad times for top retail sites slump 22% in the past year: infographic
Even when so much within digital is measurable, there is always a difference in opinion between what is the 'right' way to do things, versus the 'wrong'.
It's this discussion and debate that fuels so much of the innovation within the industry.
Why a One Web approach is the way for ecommerce
Personalisation and tablets will dominate changes to ecommerce in 2013
Five reasons why the UK leads the world for ecommerce
Is Primark mad to ignore ecommerce?
What makes a good ecommerce business?
14 reasons behind John Lewis' 44% increase in online sales
Q&A: John Lewis on the ingredients of a successful multichannel retail strategy
Q&A: House of Fraser's Andy Harding on using the web to drive offline sales
Q&A: Whatusersdo's Lee Duddell on UX testing
Q&A: Lovehoney's Matthew Curry on jiggle balls, TV and user experience
And of course, as well as the posts above, make sure you check out Econsultancy's reports on the topic to give yourself the edge in your work.
Ecommerce Platforms Buyer's Guide 2013
E-commerce Best Practice Compendium
The Internationalisation of E-commerce: A Best Practice Guide
How to Run a Successful E-commerce ITT
Christmas 2012 Online Shopping Survey Report
E-commerce Projects - Digital Marketing Template Files
Checkout Optimization Guide: 70 ways to increase conversion rates
E-commerce Checkout Form Guidelines - Digital Marketing Template Files
Product Pages: A Best Practice Guide
How the Internet Can Save the High Street
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As if people haven't got enough to read Graham!! No seriously, thanks for bringing together so many invaluable resources (and for giving my content a mention too which is much appreciated).
I'm expecting one or two shares of this article... not to mention what a significant library of resources in to cutting edge ecommerce this is for people looking to get in to the ecommerce industry.
This is fab Graham - thanks for putting it together!
Graham, this is OUTSTANDING!!! Seriously, everything you need all right here. Thanks so much! I'll be sending it along to all my industry fellows! :)
So excited that I came across this post. Constantly scouring blogs to find info on this topic area, now I've got it all in one place. Going to take a while to get through, but looking forward to doing it.
Thanks so much for putting such a comprehensive list together in one place! Seriously - thanks.
wow, such a helpful selection of resources, thanks so much for putting them up!
hello Graham,
Really some great info and really a nice post to read.Thanks for some really great content.
This is a really epic list of Ecommerce resources! I'd love to add a link to a free ebook I helped write about Ecommerce optimization to the list!
For ecommerce entrepreneur, it is a hard choice to pick a suitable ecommerce platform, several criterions need to be checked like server costs, functionality, integration with other third party softwares like CRM, Amazon etc, Enlightened It Development http://www.enlighteneditdevelopment.com/ doesn't suggest Magento for all entrepreneur's it is based on their requirements whether they have large product database, need multiple stores, or integration with other third party softwares.
Incredible list, I would add 14 ways to detect fraud. It is a must because it kills your profit. http://www.willows-consulting.com/E-Commerce/credit-card-fraud-prevention.html
Fabulous work! This gives so much information with so many resources - thanks for putting it together.

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We begin tonight with so much for that. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre walked out of the National Energy Board's first day of Montreal hearings into TransCanada's Energy East pipeline when protesters disrupted the proceedings. Coderre, a vocal opponent of the project, nonetheless called the ruckus and forced postponement of the hearings a "circus."
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2006-2007 Grant Recipients
The Committee for Community and Diversity is pleased to announce the recipients of The President's Community and Diversity Grant Fund. The grant fund provides financial support to projects that foster interactive, inter-group communication, collaboration and educational programming with an emphasis on diversity and/or community. Nineteen proposals were timely submitted and the following twelve were selected for funding:
(1) TC DocNet
Sirene Lim
Linda Choi
Current doctoral students formed the group TC DocNet to respond to collective needs and requests of fellow doctoral students to network academically outside of their departments. TC DocNet aims to facilitate interdisciplinary academic conversations so as to build an enriched learning community among part-time and full-time doctoral students, faculty, and alums across TC programs and departments. Online forum and friendly in-person meetings are designed to promote networking among doctoral students across disciplines; share scholarly interests in a range of educational issues, as well as research experience in different contexts using a spectrum of theories and methodologies.
(2) Voices of Youth: Community Scholars Group
Professor Edmund Gordon
Veronica Holly
"Voices" represents the various modes of communication TC has for broadcasting diversity; and it also represents the voices that surround, impact and support TC and its mission through Voices of Youth and Voices of Diversity. Voices of Youth is where the Community Scholars Journal (CSJ) will give TC members and area community residents the opportunity to learn from one another and to celebrate our common goals. CSJ will produce a short publication created from the written work of young Harlem residents chosen from submissions in neighborhood schools. There will be an event honoring these students by giving them an opportunity to read portions of their work, sit on a panel with TC students and faculty to discuss how TC and the surrounding community can come together.
(3) Voices of Diversity
Professor Edmund Gordon
Veronica Holly
Voices of Diversity is an initiative to bring faculty, staff, and students of color together to develop a system of mentorship and support, and create a space to share insights into successes and obstacles faced on a predominately white campus. The product of this meeting will be put in a historical narrative and featured on the IUME website.
(4) Who Decides? Choosing Films with Youth and Teachers for Schools
Elisabeth Johnson
Stavroula Kontovourki
PiCS, the Pedagogy in Cinema Society is interested in broadening the scope of its mission. They are interested in increasing the size and breadth of their dialogic community by reaching out to other student organizations interested in film and critical issues. The reasons are to better understand the impact of film and media as a tool to instigate critical dialogue on social action; and to reinforce the mission to utilize media as a pedagogical tool to stimulate conversation and action, by extending the organization's impact beyond the TC community and using these conversations to develop collaborative relationships with area high school students and teachers -- some of the people at the heart of their mission.
(5) Anthropology at Teachers College: Applications across the Disciplines
Ruth Kennedy-Mountjoy
Ariel Zycherman
Yan-di Chang
Kathryn Becker
Co-Sponsor: Professor Lambros Comitas: Applied Anthropology and Anthropology in Education Programs
An eight week initiative composed of a lecture series and a film series dedicated to demonstrating the relevance of anthropological theory and methods to the Teachers College community and in furthering the mission of the Office for Diversity and Community. They will be showcasing the relevance of anthropological knowledge to the TC community through a four part lecture series engaging the TC anthropology faculty and students with the faculty and students from other departments. They will also be showcasing a two-part film series that depict anthropology's involvement in current issues affecting the US and surrounding areas.
(6) Building Bridges: Creating a Healthy, Supportive, and Diverse Community
Lisa Farrel
Kamauru Johnson
Minkyung Kim
Building a diverse community by evaluating and establishing a sense of rapport within Teachers College community using three events: Involvement of facilities, security staff, students and faculty to mix and mingle; for the community to engage in discussion on issues and themes of concern throughout the TC community; and students and faculty to have an opportunity to voice opinions and discuss them at an informal setting. This project builds upon last year's successful smaller Building Bridges program that focused on Whittier and Lowell Residents.
(7) American Indian/Native American Perspective on Leadership Attributes: with a Discussion about the History, Culture and Effects of Forced Assimilation a Century Later
Dr. Elvira Largie -- Minority Post-Doc Fellow
Co-sponsor: Dr. Carolyn Riehl, Associate Professor -- Department of Organization Leadership
Dr. Craig Richards, Professor -- Department of Organization Leadership
American Indian/Native American (AI/NA) traditionalist/practitioners present on AI/NA history, culture and leadership attributes (live oral traditional story tellers) who will provide greater insight into a "Life" that is ignored or lost, or even misunderstood in academia. An opportunity to have interactions with AI/NA from the Navajo, Hope, and Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian Reservation, to increase understandings and hopefully spark interest in students to become active leaders and participants in understanding the unique relationship that the US government has with AI/NA Nations.
(8) State Asian IdentitY (SAY)
Ji Kyung Lee
Yoon Lee
Seungho Moon
Young Jung Suh
An all day forum for Asian students and the entire TC community to: recognize and understand the distinct culture and customs that Asian students bring to the TC community; to challenge misconceptions on Asian student image in the U.S.; and to increase awareness of the struggles Asian students face in school. The program will include a panel presentation: A Self Portrait of Asian Students; traditional Asian food lunch; traditional Asian activities including: Shu-Yeh (calligraphy), Talchum (Korean traditional mask dance); Yut Nori (Korean Traditional Games); and Sa-Mul-No-Ri (instrument/percussion); conversational dialogues and Korean film and discussions.
(9) Self-Care Workshops: How to Manage Stress, Time and Personal Needs
Dr. Dinelia Rosa -- Director, Center for Psychological Services
Gregory Payton
Sponsored by the Psychological Emergency Response Team (PERT) of TC promotes (educates) mental health wellness within its campus community through discussion of topics related to mental health well-being and to offer services in the form of didactics, experiential exercises, consultations and support groups.
(10) African Culture Night
Joy Spencer
Co-sponsor: SIPA's Pan African Network
A Columbia University campus-wide African Culture Night to introduce students to African culture where students have an opportunity to partake in various African dishes, dance and drumming workshop and a fashion show. Student interest in African continues to grow despite the closing of the Institute for African studies at SIPA.
(11) Working Towards Peace with Body and Spirit: A Women's
Self-defense Workshop
Yuko Uchikawa
Sponsored by The Peace Education Center at TC in collaboration with Ruckus Safety Awareness, a self-defense and safety awareness organization based in NYC will teach one self-defense workshop with the emphasis on the TC women's community. They will provide safety skills, discuss the issues of violence and peace, and build a sense of community for the diverse female population (faculty, student, staff) at TC.
(12) Second Annual Health Disparities Conference: March 9 - 10, 2007
Dr. Barbara C. Wallace -- Associate Professor of Health and Education
The two day conference goals are consistent with TC's mission to close the disparities and inequities gaps, with a focus on health, while fostering collaborations between health disparities, researchers, practitioners, and community members, as well as between academic, community-based, and faith-based organizations. This year, the conference has a special tract: the Health Care Disparity Reduction Certificate Tract. The grant will provide scholarships for TC community attendance and participation.


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A number of years ago, on a hiking trip in Bolivia with my dad, I encountered one of the most harrowing 24 hours of my life. This experience helped to shape and define me, and is one of the most seminal moments of my life. It showed me that you can never give up, no matter how bad things are. This is the unedited account that I wrote about a month after the incident happened.
Chapter I: The Problem
It was a cool, foggy morning when I woke up. The crisp mountain air filled my nostrils, quickly replacing the stale tent air I had been breathing all night. We had camped in a dip in the midst of a flat that was most of the way up the mountain. I took a moment to absorb the scene around me; the small mountain lake sparkled in the early morning sun. The ground was hard but not frozen under my feet as I walked towards the lake to sit down. There were plenty of large rocks randomly spread out around the flat, and I tried to find the one that the sun was shining most heavily on.
Today was our rest day. We had hiked six hours a day the past three days making our way up and across the Quimzacruz mountain range. The campsite we were at that night was our highest so far, nestled up at 14,200 feet we were at just about the height of the cloud line, which accounted for the fog. The hiking to get there had been slow and arduous at first, as I quickly found out the exponentially increasing effects of higher altitude. Each breath had to be deeper than normal, as if you were concentrating on remembering how to take each breath. The altitude required that you drink significant amounts of water each day, at the very least four liters. This had proven to be fairly difficult because there were times I felt like I was force feeding myself water, but in the mornings I was always thirsty. I took a swig of water as I stared out at the lake, one hand shielding my eyes from the bright morning sun.
I got up and headed back to the tent to get dad up for breakfast. When I got there he was sitting on his knees inside the tent, head poked out as he splashed the hot water Peter (the head trek guide) had brought to our tent. He looked up and opened his mouth to say good morning, but he was interrupted by a fit of coughing.
"Hey, you don't look so good," I told him, laughing, "you look… old!"
"Yeah, well-" he coughed, "you don't look like prince charming yourself." He continued to cough so I reached out to pat him on the back but he held up a hand, "I'm fine."
I turned back thinking that he sounded really sick for someone who was fine, but I just attributed it to the E. Coli that he came down with our first night on the mountain. "You know, we're really lucky to be here. This is the most amazing place I've ever been." I cried back to the tent.
"Yeah," my dad said, climbing out of the tent, "its – gorgeous" his speech was interrupted by another serious round of coughing. Suddenly, mid-cough his hand slapped to his mouth and as the coughing subsided he looked down at his palm. I managed to see his palm for a split second before he quickly wiped it off on the ground. He had coughed up something, and from the look of disappointment on his face it was obviously something bad.
"What's the matter?" I asked, worried. He looked at me and said,
"Well I've started to cough up the pink frothy stuff." He said, and then as if listening to my thoughts he said, "It's the defining symptom of pulmonary edema." "Is that serious?" I asked, hoping for a no. "Well, in all honesty, if we don't get to a lower altitude it can be fatal." The bottom had fallen out on this trip, and I could feel my heart start to race. I wasn't able to even start to process the fact that my father could, truly, die. My mind immediately was bull rushed with a torrent of questions, but only one managed to make its way to my mouth,
"Wha-what are going to do?" I said shakily. "Right now I am going to talk to Peter, and see what he thinks is our best option."
Chapter II: Plans
After a tense breakfast I walked back to the tent with my dad. His stride told the whole story, he looked defeated, but it was what he said next that I remember most, "I'm sorry." He said, his eyes pointed forward.
I was caught completely off guard. "Sorry? What on Earth are you sorry for?"
"I'm sorry," he sighed, "that you have to cut your trip short because of me." I was stunned.
"Are you kidding?! Why are you apologizing to me? I've been lucky to see what I've seen, it's been an amazing experience, and that's all I could have asked for. Right now all you need to do is be concerned with yourself." I sat him down on a rock outside our tent and handed him a bottle of water, "Here, take this. I'm going to pack up the tent I want you to rest." He tried to protest but my head was already buried deep inside the tent as I was shoving my sleeping bag into its stuff sack.
The packing took a good bit longer on my own than it would have with my father's help, but I was not about to let him do any extra work. I worked to stuff the sleeping bags into their compression sacks, a task that I struggled with over and over again; eventually it took me three tries to get them stuffed. Packing up the tent, I heard coughing and conversation outside, but I tried not to get distracted focusing on getting everything packed up.
Fifteen minutes later, as I exited the tent for the final time Peter approached where we sat, and delivered some sour news: in order to get down, we would have to go up, way up. The route down would have us going over a 16,000-foot pass. As if it couldn't get worse, we didn't have a satellite telephone because the Bolivian government had discontinued support for them. We asked Peter about the possibility for a rescue helicopter, and were told that he would find out what out exit strategy was as soon as he got in touch with the trip organizer in La Paz. Peter set off to a nearby peak in an attempt to get a cell phone signal. The peak would have taken us most of the day to reach, but Peter, being both in better shape and fully acclimatized to the altitude, would be able to get to the peak within an hour and a half. The plan was that we would meet him at the top of the 16,000 ft pass and head down the backside of that as he explained to us the scenario. As Peter set off, a team consisting of my father, the porters that had come with the group up the mountain, and me prepared to head out on what would be a long, arduous journey.
Chapter III: The Carry
Things started out fine, the morning fog still hung low over the damp ground and there was a subtle chill in the air. We started off towards the first incline which was in itself at least a mile off in the distance and barely visible through the fog. Dad took it slow and steady, taking each step with purpose. He fought off requests to be carried, not willing to push his burden on to others. Each step, however, took more out of him and, as we arrived at the bottom of the first false pass I stopped him.
"Dad, put your pride aside for a second," I told him with a newfound authority in my voice, "you wont make it up this pass on your own please let the porters carry you!" He knew I was right, and resigned to be carried. As he sat down in the makeshift human sling I handed him my hat in gloves. "You're shivering," I told him as he took them. It was at that moment, when I saw my father, the man that I had looked to as an indestructible pillar in my life, sitting there looking so defeated by his condition the full reality of the situation came crashing down around me.
We pushed on, father in tow, up the steep pass. The higher we got, the more strained my dad's breathing became. Also the higher we got the more difficult the terrain got. The pass was steep and each step of the incline got steeper and rockier. It was hard for me, with just a backpack on, and I could only imagine how tough it was on the porters and most of all my dad. I looked over at him; he was white as a ghost and looked worse than ever. I knew that we had to get down and get down fast, but we were staring the final and hardest part of the pass in the face. The pass was covered in shale and very steep but we had to cross it.
As the porters and I stared at our next step, my dad started to get up and walk. I saw him out of the corner of my eye and sprinted over to him. "What—do u think you're doing?" I panted. He couldn't stand it any more and had started out on his own; but the forty-yard journey had taken a lot out of him and he had to sit down. Things had gotten worse, and we were forced to push on speeding up the pass. The internal tug-of-war that was going on between fatigue and adrenaline was overshadowed by worry, so all the physical stress that I personally was going through was shoved to the side as we slipped and slid our way up the pass.
It seemed to take a lifetime but we finally made it to the top of the pass. We looked down on a gorgeous valley; it stretched out for about two miles, the hilly green landscape interrupted by two mountain lakes and beyond the last lake the land disappeared into the fluffy, white clouds. There was a steady breeze and I could see the clouds starting to spill over into the valley, like foam over the edge of a beer glass. A few wild cattle were grazing on the grass in the middle of the valley. We only took about ten seconds to breathe in the majesty, however, because every second at 16,000 feet brought my dad closer to death. We hurried down the backside of the pass. The improvement was slight but noticeable; I looked at my dad, smiling for the first time in hours. Suddenly, one of the porters lost his footing as I stared on in horror. The porter slid down hard on his knees and my dad came falling to the ground not too hard, but hard enough. As they fell I sprinted over to the scene, I looked at my dad he winced but gave me a weak thumbs up. I then turned my attention over to the porter. Neither my father nor I spoke Spanish so communication was difficult, I had been getting by using Peter as a translator but he was still on top of the mountain trying to reach La Paz. So I, using what little Spanish I remembered from middle school, spoke to the porter,
"Senior… tu… es… bein?" I said shakily.
"Es bein." He winced as I offered my hand to help him up. I turned back to my dad who had gotten back up.
"Dad, he's ok are you sure you are fine?" I rushed to follow him as he walked down.
"Yes, I am. Please don't try to stop me William; I want to walk from here." His toughness astounded me; even as weak as he was he wanted to take his life back into his own hands. I felt myself swell with respect for him. I walked with him over the soft terrain, admiring all the qualities in him that I had taken for granted. Amidst all this good feeling, the fact remained that even at the base of the pass and in the valley we were still significantly higher than we had started that day. Dad didn't stand a chance if we couldn't manage to get much lower within the next five hours. I could feel the anxiety bubble with every pensive step through the fog.
Chapter IV: Dire Straits
We reached the last lake with no further incidents, and sat down to rest and wait. It was just the porters and us and we had no idea where to go next. Below us, a slope disappeared into the clouds and despite dad's condition we decided that we should wait for Peter to reach us rather than head into the unknown without him.
Time passed, first a little then a lot we waited for Peter for about an hour before he arrived. Upon his arrival he huddled together with the porters and had a fifteen-minute meeting before walking over to us.
"Peter, it's good to see you! What's the news?" I stood to shake his hand.
"I'm afraid it's not great," he said looking from my father to myself, "first some good news, I got a hold of Quan back in La Paz, and they have sent a rescue car to meet us in a village at the base of the mountain."
Again a wide smile broke on my face, "That's great news Peter!" however; as Peter didn't return my smile it quickly faded from my face as well.
"The bad news, however, is that pass," he pointed down into the clouds, "is false. It takes you down for about 1500 feet and then drops sharply. It's in-traversable."
"What?!" I could feel the anger building up inside of me. How could he miss something as huge as that? What did he expect us to do once we got to this point? But dad put a hand on my shoulder before I could say anything.
"So what do we do now Peter?" he asked, strained, but calm.
Peter shifted his glance back to my dad, "There is one way down, but it is very risky. We need to scale around the side of the mountain over there," he said pointing to an ominous cliff-side "path", "and from there we can find a path that will lead us down into the village." I stared, slack-jawed and wide-eyed at the dangerous pathway. There was a "path" if you could call it that, it was about two feet wide at most and wound precariously and steeply. It stretched across the side of the mountain into and out of sight. We would, essentially, be scaling the side of the mountain with no climbing equipment. Dad, in his weakened condition would have to do the climb without being carried. The climb would once again take us up higher, only adding further to the already crisis-level situation. One false move, one slip and the fall would be 500 feet onto sharp rock. The situation all of a sudden seemed far more dire.
"Well, let's not waste any of the few remaining hours of daylight that we have." My dad clapped his gloved hands together, as I whipped my head around.
"Are you sure dad? That looks incredibly dangerous." I said, trying to shut out visions of my dad falling to his death.
"What other choice do we have?" He was right, like it or not, this was our only choice, we had to make it or else he didn't stand a chance. I felt like crying I felt that this might truly be the last day I spent with my dad. The coughing and wheezing had only worsened with the altitude and it seemed like it was only a matter of time before the edema would usurp the strength that he had gained from the steroids he'd taken to help him survive the journey.
The pass proved just as difficult as I had feared. The ground wasn't sturdy and the weight in our packs made it difficult to keep our balance. I had a personal brush with death on the cliff-side. While moving up on a slight slope the ground gave under foot and I started to wobble. In that microsecond, my whole life flashed before my eyes, I thought for sure this was the end for me. My eyes shot down, briefly to the sharp rocks below that I was destined to be impaled on. Then in a second instant, I was shook back into reality. I felt the strong hands of a porter help to sturdy me. Once again my inability to speak Spanish left me not being able to properly express myself to the porter, and my quick, "muchos gracias, senior", seemed utterly insignificant. We moved slowly across the cliff-side. I tasted blood in my mouth and realized that I had bit my lip, nervously following my dad. Amazingly, we made it relatively unscathed to a flat area where we could sit and rest.
I sat down next to my dad and handed him the last of our water. He looked like he was about to faint but managed to smile weakly at me. I felt my eyes start to water as I fought back tears. I looked away and took a deep breath. "I-I love you dad," I said turning back toward him. I threw my arms around him and hugged him; he returned the hug lovingly albeit weakly. I was certain that this was it for him thoughts began to race through my head, 'What am I going to tell mom?' What are we going to do without dad around? As the questions swirled, the tears came and I allowed myself to cry. I held onto my dad for a few minutes before he broke the embrace, turning to Peter.
"Would you mind taking a picture of us? The view here is amazing." I wiped my eyes as he handed Peter the camera. The camera flash went off and it was as if it triggered a change in our fate. Immediately after, one of the porters called out to Peter, who walked over leaving us for a few minutes. We wondered what all the commotion was about, and we didn't have to wait long to find out. Peter came back over and said,
"We've found a path down; it'll lead us down through some pastures and eventually into the village." Relief spread over us, as we were reinvigorated by the great news.
We started down the path and we started to quickly drop altitude we stopped once we reached the cloud line. I looked over at my dad and smiled, he was starting to look better already. We sat down and I pulled out the Heath bars that, ironically, had been part of his father's day present. We split one as we looked out over the clouds.
"Wow," I said and that was all I could think to say. The clouds stretched out like a snowy landscape; rising majestically out of them was the 21,100-foot peak of the mountain Illimani. Few clouds intruded on its presence, and it sat there like an iceberg, with the occasional wave of cloud splashing across its sides. The setting sun perched behind the mountain framing it in a glorious aura. The sight was nothing short of a religious experience; it was like staring straight into heaven. I have never been a religious person, but this magnificent vista seemed to be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel and I thanked God that my dad had made it through with me.
Part II: Into the Clouds
Chapter I: Scouting
We turned and looked at each other and smiled. The day wasn't over yet, however. We descended into the thick clouds and were quickly enveloped in thick fog. We couldn't see more than about 100 feet in front of us. We had reached a slope that had us losing a lot of altitude really quickly, but because of a combination of poor visibility and our makeshift route had us wondering exactly where we were descending into. The porters spread out through the fog as we sat and waited for direction.
"Dad, do you still have those Heath bars?" I asked. Relief had cleared my head enough to remember that in his pack dad had two heath bars that we had given him as a small part of his Father's Day gift.
"Yeah!" His expression told that he had forgotten all about them too. I realized at that moment how tired I was feeling, the adrenaline was starting to wear off as I was no longer in crisis mode. I hoped the sugar would help keep my energy up, as I had no idea how much further we had to go, and nor did anyone else. I took one candy bar and dad took the other, we ate slowly to make it feel like it was more substantial than it was. For five minutes we sat there, for the first time since that morning I was completely calm, I breathed deeply smiling.
The porters were calling to each other in Spanish trying to find a path down through the fog. Peter motioned for us to keep moving. I threw on my pack and started after him dad walking behind me. The incline was such that I had to fight gravity from making me sprint down. To combat that feeling I leaned back and stepped hard and purposefully using my poles to keep me balanced. There was a lot of loose rock on the ground interspersed with the soft soil that made up the bulk of the incline. As we walked the faint outline of one of the porters appeared in the fog. Peter called out to him and he called back, then gave a whistle and disappeared into the fog again. We heard more whistles in response, from the other porters who were scattered along the slope. I looked at my watch, it was 5:45, and our daylight was very quickly running out.
Visibility had dropped to about 75 feet when we reached a ledge where all the porters had gathered. We were at the point where what little light that was left would be gone within the next 15 minutes, and we still didn't know exactly where we were. Peter walked over to us to explain the situation.
"We basically, have two options at this juncture. Either we stop and camp here until light, or we can keep going I have my head lamp—"
"And I have one as well, so does dad." I interrupted. "—and a few of the porters have lights as well. The only issue is that the path we would have to go down is steep and narrow, so it will be extremely slow and potentially dangerous as we keep moving. I'll let you two talk it over a little bit." Peter walked away and rejoined the porters in conversation. I turned to dad,
"Well what altitude are we at now?" I asked. Dad pulled the altimeter out of his pack, it read 12,340 feet. We were at about the same height as the city of La Paz, and that altitude bought us a decent amount of time. Our food and water situation, however, was getting dim and a night's sleep at this altitude would be metabolically intensive and we might not have the energy to finish our journey in the morning with little food and water. We had only one option, to brave the dark and keep moving toward an unknown destination, our only navigator being Peter, who had failed us before already. I could feel the adrenaline start to build again, but this time it wasn't purely motivated by fear, it was also excitement.
Chapter II: Night
We flicked on our headlamps and stood in a single file line Peter in front, dad behind him, and me pulling up the rear. This was to have someone in front of and behind dad in case he ran into trouble. The porters again had gone way out in front of us scouting the path ahead. The light from our headlamps danced in the fog, showing swirls as the light reflected off the moisture. This path was only slightly wider than the "path" that we had taken to scale across to the slope, but at least this time it seemed that it was used semi-regularly. We would walk across the slope for ten minutes or so and then make a sharp turn and make a sharp decent for a brief period of time before the path leveled off again. The next few hours of hiking passed basically the same way. To break the monotony I tried to play music in my head, remembering bits and pieces of songs that I listened to a lot.Eventually, I realized I was just managing to get several songs stuck in my head at once, so I stopped.
The terrain changed very little but the more we walked the more of it we seemed to be able to see. The fog was clearing as we came out of the clouds. It was in this clarity that we finally got our glimpse of reprieve. As we rounded a corner I happened to look out into the darkness that stretched seemingly endlessly into the horizon, except it was broken up by a few, very faint, lights. I rubbed my eyes and they were still there.
"Peter," I called out, "look over there in the distance. I think I see lights." Peter looked out where I was pointing. At first he thought it was the headlamp of one of the porters who was scouting, but after calling out towards them he looked back and smiled. We finally had a visible goal; we knew that there was a town out there, however distant.
As we kept moving I kept my eyes on those lights, but dishearteningly they never seemed to get any closer. It was draining, I felt like Sisyphus pushing towards our goal but never seeming to make any progress. It seemed like an eternity, but finally, an hour or so later we had something else break up the monotony again. Before we had been winding back and forth, looking out into the sea of darkness with those lights beckoning us off in the far distance; but now there was a change in the scenery. Seemingly without warning we were surrounded on the left and right hand side by thick plant life. I shined my light on a thick leaved plant to my left and remembered the coca leaves that I had in my pack. I called for a break.
Sitting down I threw off my pack with a sudden burst of energy that surprised both Peter and dad, who flinched slightly. I dug through it until I felt what I wanted. I pulled the plastic bag out of my pack wordlessly and held it up for all to see. I looked at my dad and flashed him a half-smile.
"Kinda wish I hadn't forgotten about these," I said putting two of the dried coca leaves in my mouth and handing him the bag at the same time. "Yeah," he said doing the same and passing the bag to Peter who took some and handed the bag back to me. We got up again chewing on the leaves for energy. The porters had split in half, half several paces in front of us and half several behind. Although the look of the surroundings had changed the path hadn't we were still winding back and forth, however, now we were winding tighter and faster and descending quicker.
Occasionally, through the thick growth I got a glimpse of the lights, which finally seemed to be getting closer, which perked up my mood and the next half hour passed very quickly. As quickly as the growth had snuck up on us, it disappeared behind us. We were once again out in the open, the lights of the town clearly visible again, but still way off in the distance. Something else was off in the distance though, something that made everyone smile. A light that was winding back and forth on around the mountains… headlights.
When I originally wrote this story, I intentionally left off the ending, as it did seem to change the tone of the piece a bit. But now, I will help fill in the final gaps. The car that we we saw did, in fact, end up being our rescue vehicle, but it was not the end of our harrowing adventure. When we reached the road, we had lost track of the vehicle as it twisted around the mountain roads. We ended up plodding along that road aimlessly for another two hours before we were finally picked up. Thinking that this was the end of our long journey we had a moment to relax… that is until we reached the small mining town we thought we had seen from the mountain.
We pulled into the middle of a dark town square, with cobble stone roads and a large open space where we parked our cars. The intention was to get a little sense of direction then turn around and head to a base camp the program had set up a number of miles away.
But like many things on this trip, the intent didn't necessarily equate with the result. Within minutes our car was completely surrounded by the local towns people, some of them obviously angry, others inquisitive and curious. Peter pointed out to us that we may be some of the first white people they had seen, as he got out of the car to see what the fuss was about. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed one of them approach the gate to the town and pull it shut, closing us in.
Peter was gone for what felt like an hour, and during the meantime we sat in the back of the car, nervous as we were poked at by natives, as if we were animals in a zoo. All we wanted to do was sleep but it was impossible over the noise and commotion outside the car. We had been given explicit instructions to stay in the car, and as the time passed the tension began to rise among us. Dad remained stoic, trying to help me stay calm.
The crowd around the car began to thin out, presumably as locals grew tired of the novelty and returned to bed (it was after 2am at this point); and shortly after Peter returned to the car to help explain the situation. Apparently some of the locals had spotted our headlamps as we traversed down the mountain, and had thought we were poachers trying to steal their minerals (which they depended on to maintain the village). They apparently had had a lot of problems with mineral poachers lately and were prepared to hold us in their jail. Thankfully, Peter was able to convince them in an emergency town hall meeting that we were, in fact, not poachers and just a bunch of tired people who had gone through a rather harrowing day. They finally decided that we could go and opened the gates back up for us and sent us on our way.
With the tension of the situation finally released, we all shared a long laugh about what had just transpired. It would be a long, twisty, car ride before we would arrive at our destination, and we were tired. Laughter was replaced with snores as everyone drifted off into a brief, cramped sleep.
When we woke up, we were in front of a small house that was buried in the side of the mountain. We got out of the car and were approached by the program head that lived there.
"You all must be starving," he laughed, "come on in and get a bite to eat."
The words were music to my ears that were almost drowned out by the cacophony of hunger noises emanating from my stomach at the time. We entered the house and were smacked in the face by the smell of chicken being heated up. We all guzzled down some water, and a beer, and set to eat the best chicken sandwiches any of us have ever tasted, before or since.
The next morning we began the journey back to La Paz. Dad was not completely out of the woods yet, and while getting down to lower altitude had helped, it was still likely that he would need a trip to a hyperbaric chamber. One of the problems though with La Paz was that it was still at 11,000 feet above sea level (one of the highest cities in the world) therefore it was in our best interests to head back to the US and lower altitude.
As we arrived at the airport (the world's highest at 12,000ft) there was a massive snowstorm that we thought might delay our exit, but thankfully we were able to return safely to the US, despite one of the more nerve-racking takeoffs I've ever experienced. The whole experience was stressful, frightening, and difficult, but if you asked me to do it all over again I would. Sometimes you don't find out about your inner strength until you've run through the fire.


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- BUSQOM 1080: Data Analysis for Business (3 credits)Offered in Fall Term only
The purpose of this course is to enhance the statistical and analytical skills of Pitt Business students to the level necessary for them to deal with Data Mining and other essential material in the Business Analytics Certificate. The course should also be of interest to students exploring the analytical parts of other areas, such as marketing. The goals of the course are to: (1) cover material not currently treated in STAT 1100, but which is preparatory to Data Mining; (2) provide software skills in statistical packages used in business, such as SPSS, SAS, or R; and (3) provide experiential exposure to business applications of the material. Prerequisite: STAT 1000 or STAT 1100 with a grade of B or greater.
- BUSSCM 1760: Data Mining (3 credits)Offered in Spring Term only
This course is an introduction to the most popular methods used in managerial data mining, and provides experience in using commercial software to explore real data sets. The prerequisite of this course is BUSQOM (new course): Data Analysis for Business. Models considered include those from statistics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, such as discriminate analysis, logistic regression, clustering, neural nets, tree/rule induction, and association rule modeling. This course is methods oriented, as opposed to being methodology oriented, so students learn about when and how to use techniques and how to interpret their output rather than the details about how those techniques work. Prerequisite: BUSQOM 1080: Data Analysis for Business.
- BUSQOM 1090: Applied Optimization and Simulation (3 credits)Offered in Fall Term Only
The purpose of this course is to enhance the problem-solving skills of Pitt Business students to the level necessary for them to deal with complex decision problems using optimization and simulation. Building on the foundation provided in the required BUSQOM 0050 Quantitative Methods course, the topics herein will include linear, nonlinear, integer, multiple objective and stochastic optimization. Simulation topics will include both spreadsheet simulation and process simulation. The goals of the course are to: (1) provide advanced modeling skills in optimization and simulation; (2) provide skills in software packages used in business, such as the Analytic Solver Platform and Arena; (3) get practice on asking the right questions, on dealing with problem complexity, on critical thinking and on gleaning insights to complex problems. Prerequisite: BUSQOM 0050 with a grade of B or greater.
- BUSBIS 1605: Database Management(3 credits)Offered regularly in fall and spring terms
As information systems have become essential to business operations, the data generated by those systems is a critical and valuable corporate asset. This course develops students' knowledge of the technologies and techniques for collecting, disseminating, and managing data. The objective of the course is to develop immediately useful skills, such as SQL query construction and data modeling, while providing exposure to a range of data management technologies, strategies, and issues. Hands-on exercises with database management systems are provided to develop students' skills in SQL and database design. Discussions, assignments, and projects focus on the challenges of developing and using database systems in dynamic organizations.
2. Elective Course (3 credits) – Select one from the following:
Note: This course should correspond to elective choices within the student's business major and may also be counted towards the completion of the business major.
- BUSQOM 1085: Applied Business Analytics Project (3 credits)The objective of this course is to provide the student a meaningful experience with a real-world client and problem. Each project is different and in general will provide the opportunity for a team of students to apply various conceptual and analytic skills taught in the major and in Pitt Business and to report to the client the results of these analyses and recommendations. Using experiential learning approaches, this project course will provide students with an opportunity to apply analytics concepts, techniques and strategies to real-world problems faced by an actual client and/or organization.
- BUSSCM 1765: Forecasting (3 credits)This course focuses on forecasting methodologies and their applications in business. It will cover traditional forecasting methodologies along with an overview of the state-of-the-art of forecasting with methodologies ranging from judgmental to statistical knowledge sources. Forecasting should not be confused with planning. This course will focus on forecasting methodologies using statistical knowledge. By the end of the course students should know how to collect data and analyze them with a suitable computer program, and ultimately generate forecasts by selecting and fitting an appropriate model.
- BUSACC 1236: Accounting Information Systems (3 credits)Deals with both the design and implementation of accounting-information systems and their ability to collect data on the activities of the organization, to accumulate and summarize it, and to make the information available to managers for analysis, decision making, and control. Special emphasis is placed on the problems inherent to this effort.
- BUSFIN 1351: Financial Modeling (3 credits)This course applies economic theories to solve various problems in financial management and investments. Using a hands-on approach in building financial spreadsheet models. Students will gain knowledge of numerical and graphical practices. These include but are not limited to asset return calculations, portfolio theory, index models, capital asset pricing model, option pricing models, bond pricing and investment performance analysis. Microsoft Excel is the primary tool to implement these financial models, however the course will also make use of statistics and probability.
- BUSFIN 1329: Fixed-Income Securities (3 credits)This course examines the concepts that are most frequently encountered in the market for fixed income securities. Specifically, the course describes the most important fixed-income securities and markets and develops tools for valuing these securities and managing their interest rate and credit risk. Historically, "fixed-income" refers to securities which promise fixed cash flows over their lives such as a fixed-rate coupon bond. Now, it is generally accepted that a fixed income instrument is one whose value is driven by the level of interest rates and/or the value of a related underlying asset. This classification would include floating rate bonds, callable bonds, bond futures, bond options, caps, floors and collars, interest rate swaps, credit derivatives and asset-backed securities. The purpose of the course is to provide participant with the ability to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the impact of these factors on global markets.
- BUSMKT 1428: Digital and Social Media Marketing (3 credits)This course covers advertising, marketing and communication strategies in the new media landscape where traditional and social media co-exist. The course will focus on 1) how social media strategies can be used effectively in marketing programs; 2) when they should/should not be used; 3) how to build them; and, 4) how to measure, track and evaluate their performance and effectiveness. This marketing strategy course will focus on analyzing, developing, implementing and evaluating media strategies as an integral part of overall marketing strategy.
- BUSMKT 1465: Pricing Strategies and Tactics (3 credits)The purpose of pricing is to create value to the firm in the form of profits. Pricing practices are changing dramatically in an era of e-commerce and globalization. The objectives of this course are to: 1) expose students to seminal concepts and theories on pricing from a marketing manager's viewpoint; 2) develop independent assessment skills of the pricing strategies/tactics used in a variety of industries; 3) provide opportunities for applying pricing knowledge to real-world problems. The course will be taught using interactive lectures, cases, problem sets and independent reports.


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Carbamazepine Dosage
Medically reviewed on October 20, 2016.
Applies to the following strengths: 100 mg; 100 mg/5 mL; 200 mg; 400 mg; 300 mg
Usual Adult Dose for:
Usual Pediatric Dose for:
Additional dosage information:
Usual Adult Dose for Epilepsy
Initial dose: 200 mg orally 2 times a day (immediate and extended release) or 100 mg orally 4 times a day (suspension)
Increase dose at weekly intervals by adding up to 200 mg/day using a 2 times a day regimen of extended release or a 3 times a day or 4 times a day regimen of the other formulations.
Maintenance dose: 800 to 1200 mg/day.
Dosage generally should not exceed 1200 mg/day.
However, doses up to 1600 mg/day have been used in rare instances.
Use: Epilepsy:
-Partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor, temporal lobe)
-Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal)
-Mixed seizure patterns which include the above, or other partial or generalized seizures
Usual Adult Dose for Trigeminal Neuralgia
-Initial dose: 100 mg orally 2 times a day (immediate or extended release) or 50 mg orally 4 times a day (suspension)
-May increase by up to 200 mg per day using increments of 100 mg every 12 hours (immediate or extended release), or 50 mg 4 times a day (suspension), only as needed to achieve freedom from pain. Do not exceed 1200 mg per day.
-Maintenance dose: 400 to 800 mg per day
-Some patients may be maintained on as little as 200 mg per day while others may require as much as 1200 mg per day.
-At least once every 3 months throughout the treatment period, attempts should be made to reduce the dose to the minimum effective level or to discontinue the drug.
-True trigeminal Neuralgia
-Beneficial results have also been reported in glossopharyngeal neuralgia
Usual Pediatric Dose for Epilepsy
Less than 6 years of age:
-Initial dose: 10 to 20 mg/kg/day orally in 2 to 3 divided doses (tablets) or 4 divided doses (suspension)
-Increase dose at weekly intervals to achieve optimal clinical response administered 3 or 4 times a day.
-Maximum dose: 35 mg/kg/day
-If satisfactory response not achieved, measure plasma levels to determine if in therapeutic range.
-Comments: The manufacturer makes no recommendation regarding the safety of doses above 35 mg/kg/24 hours.
6 to 12 years of age:
-Initial dose: 100 mg orally 2 times a day (immediate or extended release tablets) or 50 mg orally 4 times a day (suspension)
-Increase dose at weekly intervals in 100 mg per day increments using a 2 times a day regimen of extended release or a 3 times a day or 4 times a day regimen of the other formulations.
Maintenance dose: 400 to 800 mg per day
Maximum dose: 1000 mg per day
Greater than 12 years of age:
-Initial dose: 200 mg orally 2 times a day (immediate and extended release) or 100 mg orally 4 times a day (suspension)
-Increase dose at weekly intervals in 200 mg per day increments using a 2 times a day regimen of extended release or a 3 times daily to 4 times daily regimen of the other formulations.
-Maintenance dose: 800 to 1200 mg per day
-Dosage generally should not exceed 1000 mg in children 12 to 15 years and 1200 mg/day in patients older than 15 years.
-Doses up to 1600 mg/day have been used in rare instances.
Use: Epilepsy:
-Partial seizures with complex symptomatology (psychomotor, temporal lobe)
-Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal)
-Mixed seizure patterns which include the above, or other partial or generalized seizures
Renal Dose Adjustments
Data not available
Liver Dose Adjustments
Data not available
Dose Adjustments
Dosage should be adjusted to the needs of the individual patient. A low initial daily dosage with a gradual increase is advised. As soon as adequate control is achieved, the dosage may be reduced very gradually to the minimum effective level.
-Serious dermatologic reactions and HLA-B 1502 allele:
Serious and sometimes fatal dermatologic reactions, including toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), have occurred in patients treated with this drug, often accompanied by mucous membrane ulcers, fever, or painful rash. The risk is 10 times higher in patients with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele, HLA-B 1502 which occurs mostly in Asian patients. These patients should be screened for HLA-B 1502 allele before starting treatment. Treatment should not be initiated in these patients unless benefit clearly outweighs risk.
-Aplastic anemia and agranulocytosis:
Risk of developing aplastic anemia and agranulocytosis is 5 to 8 times greater in patients treated with this drug than in the general population. A complete blood count should be obtained before beginning treatment and CBC should be routinely monitored.
-This drug should be considered a narrow therapeutic index (NTI) drug as small differences in dose or blood concentrations may lead to serious therapeutic failures or adverse drug reactions.
- Generic substitution should be done cautiously, if at all, as current bioequivalence standards are generally insufficient for NTI drugs.
-Additional and/or more frequent monitoring should be done to ensure receipt of an effective dose while avoiding unnecessary toxicities.
Consult WARNINGS section for additional precautions.
This drug is slightly dialyzed by hemodialysis. The dialysis clearance averages 54 mL/min. Using a Cobe Century II hollow tube dialyzer with a cuprophane membrane, 10% of a dose is removed during 4 hour of hemodialysis.
Hemoperfusion has been reported to be useful in the removal of carbamazepine during acute overdose.
Other Comments
Administration advice:
-Tablets (including the chewable and extended release forms) and the suspension should be taken with meals. The extended release capsules can be taken with or without food.
-The controlled-release tablets may be halved, but should be swallowed without chewing, crushing, or dividing a controlled-release half tablet. If necessary, the capsules can be opened and the contents sprinkled over food, such as a teaspoonful of applesauce or other similar food products. Capsules should not be crushed or chewed.
-The oral suspension is particularly useful for patients who have difficulty swallowing or who need careful dosage adjustments. The oral suspension should be shaken prior to administration.
-Abrupt dose reduction or withdrawal may precipitate convulsions or status epilepticus. If this drug has to be withdrawn abruptly in a patient with epilepsy, the changeover to the new antiepileptic agent should be made under cover of a suitable agent (such as intravenous diazepam or intravenous phenytoin).
-Damaged tablets or extended-release tablets without a release portal should not be consumed.
-When converting patients from conventional tablets and liquid to modified-release tablets, the total daily dose may need to be increased. When converting patients from the oral route to rectal suppositories, the dosage should be increased by 25%. Final dosages should always be based upon individual response and plasma levels.
-Baseline and periodic complete urinalysis and BUN determinations are recommended for patients treated with this drug because of observed renal dysfunction.
-Liver function tests should be performed prior to initiating therapy with this drug and routinely thereafter, especially in patients with a history of liver disease and in elderly patients. Therapy should be withdrawn immediately in cases of aggravated liver dysfunction or acute liver disease.
-Complete blood counts (including platelets and possible reticulocytes) and serum iron should be obtained prior to initiating therapy with this drug and routinely thereafter. If the white blood cell or platelet count is definitely low or decreased during treatment, the patient and the complete blood count should be closely monitored.
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Feeding the Mouth That Bites
Washington, D.C.
Pakistan is, or was until recently the showpiece of development aid policy. Its five-year plans have been sound, their application intelligent and conscientious, their results gratifying. Thus the second plan, just terminated, yielded in the five years a cumulative economic growth of 29 per cent—with, what is more rare and not less precious, an increase in agricultural output substantially greater than the growth of the population. Half of the outside aid that went into the plan was contributed, mostly in cheap government loans, by the United States. That this success for the more enlightened and far-sighted view of foreign aid policy should have been followed first by the collapse of the political relationship between Pakistan and Washington, and now by an old-fashioned territorial conflict hazarding all that has been achieved, is a severe blow to the men of enlightenment, who were ploughing a hard enough furrow already. It is not much consolation to them that the rival policy of using aid as a weapon to secure American political and military ends has been discredited at the same time.
The figures of American military aid to India and Pakistan have never been published, but the amount given to Pakistan since the early 1950s is variously estimated at between $1.2 billion and $2 billion. Since the Chinese attack in the Himalayas in 1962, India has received American arms to the value of perhaps $200 million. Mr. George Ball, the Under Secretary of State, explained in April that each country was intended to use these American arms not against the other, but to protect itself against a threat from the North:
Our assistance to Pakistan is based on developing Pakistan as an effective bastion against the historic movement of the Soviet Union down into the subcontinent and the Khyber Pass…the problem of India again is simply to respond to a demonstrated vulnerability of India across the high mountains to the North, which was shown in 1962 when the Chinese launched their aggression.
But the Indians and Pakistanis have refused to see their military interests in those terms.
Naturally the large amounts of military equipment that have gone to the two belligerents have not been supplied in blithe unconcern about the use that might be made of them. The supplies of spare parts and ammunition have been restricted to make it difficult to use the American tanks and aircraft against the "wrong" enemy for long. American disapproval of the recent fighting, on both sides, is not of course in doubt. Disapproval of Pakistan is at present noticeably more emphatic than disapproval of India. However, the Administration had really no choice but to stop military supplies to both sides…. It might have preferred to stop them quietly and say little about it, but the appropriations for foreign aid have been under debate in Congress, and the doubts that Congress entertains about foreign aid are much reinforced by the spectacle of two recipients using it to fight each other.
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March 28, 2007 08:08 ET
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(CCNMatthews - March 28, 2007) -
Black Diamond Income Fund (TSX:BDI.UN) ("Black Diamond" or the "Fund") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters (the "Underwriters"), led by Raymond James Ltd. and including BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., GMP Securities L.P., Canaccord Capital Corporation, and Acumen Capital Finance Partners Limited, in connection with a "bought deal" trust unit financing by way of short form prospectus of an aggregate of 1,500,000 trust units at a price of $8.90 per trust unit for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $13,350,000, with an over-allotment option in favour of the Underwriters to purchase up to an additional 150,000 trust units at a price of $8.90 per trust unit, for further gross proceeds of approximately $1,335,000, which would increase the offering to approximately $14,685,000, if fully exercised. Net proceeds of the financing will be used to finance its accretive growth capital expansion which includes the recently announced oil sands camp expansion, its workforce accommodation acquisition, its Southern Ontario space rentals fleet acquisition, and for general working capital purposes. The Trust will be proceeding to file a preliminary short form prospectus with the securities authorities in all the provinces of Canada, excluding the province of Quebec, on or about April 2, 2007. The offering is subject to regulatory approval, including approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange and is expected to close on or about April 18, 2007.
The Fund is an unincorporated open ended investment trust governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta. The principal undertaking of the Fund, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Black Diamond Limited Partnership, is to rent modular structures for use as workforce accommodation and temporary workspace, and to provide complementary services including transportation, installation, dismantling, repair and maintenance of modular structures, as well as related services through three operating divisions consisting of Black Diamond Camps, BOXX Modular, and Black Diamond Site Services.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell securities, nor is it a solicitation of an offer to buy securities, in any jurisdiction. All sales will be made through registered securities dealers in jurisdictions where the offering has been qualified for distribution. The securities offered are not, and will not be, registered under the securities laws of the United States of America, nor any state thereof and may not be sold in the United States of America absent registration in the United States or the availability of an exemption from such registration.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information set forth in this press release, including a discussion of future plans and operations, contains forward looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, some of which are beyond management's control, including but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, fluctuation of commodity prices, fluctuation of exchange rates, environmental risks, industry competition, availability of qualified personnel and management, stock market volatility, timely and cost effective access to sufficient capital from internal and external sources. Actual results, performance or achievement could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by these forward-looking statements. For more information please contact Black Diamond Income Fund, by its Manager, Black Diamond Group Inc.
The TSX has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Black Diamond Income Fund, by its Manager,Black Diamond Group Inc.Trevor Haynes, President and Chief Executive Officer(403) 206-4737(403) 264-9281 (FAX)orBlack Diamond Income Fund, by its Manager,Black Diamond Group Inc.Michael Burnyeat, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer(403) 206-4740(403) 264-9281 (FAX)
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German Entertainment Giants Eurolite and Futurelight Ship First Chip On Board (COB) LED Lighting Technology To US Shores
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - After months of anticipation, the first of 50+ new lighting products featuring brand-new Chip On Board LED technology have arrived in the US, courtesy of the German brands Eurolite and Futurelight. These new products showcase an amazing new advancement - referred to as COB - that promises to fundamentally change the way LED lighting will be used by the entertainment industry.
Craig Singer, President of Inner Circle Distribution (ICD), is thrilled with the initial reaction of his customers to these products. His firm, Inner Circle Distribution (ICD), handles distribution exclusively here and throughout the Americas, and he couldn't be more enthused. "These products have really changed the LED lighting game," Singer says. "COB is going to transform how LEDs are used, how they develop, and ultimately how they are perceived by the industry."
Described as resembling a cheese cracker, the COB LED is nonetheless a big step forward in LED performance. Its unique design provides a uniform light area with no single points of light visible, output ability previously unheard of in LEDs, and better heat dissipation, making COB perfect for the exacting requirements of professional lighting designers.
"These COB fixtures are unlike anything this industry has seen," says Bruce Bandy, Director of Sales for ICD. "We were first introduced to the technology at Pro Light and Sound in Frankfurt earlier this year, and we've been chomping at the bit ever since. I can't tell you how excited we are to bring these great products to our customers for the first time."
So what makes the EUROLITE COB LED so special? The reason lies within the design of the chip itself. Numerous single LEDs are mounted extremely close together on each chip, the closeness of the elements gives the impression of a single light source.
ET Entertainment News had this to say: "colors....are so deep and homogenous that comparisons with MSD lamps and such do not pose any problems at all. A fact that has not been true for LEDs until now." In contrast to common LED spots with tricolor and quad color diodes, with COB there are no apparent single color points or color shades. COB LEDs allow simplified control of LED arrays or LED clusters. COB light sources can produce 100 lumens per watt or more. Their high energy efficiency and their harmonic, even light emission spectrum make them ideal for professional use.
German Trade Journal Sound Check, had raves for the new COB Technology in their July edition: "The color mixing of the Eurolite COB spots is spectacular....color shades are finally a thing of the past. All of the colors are extremely convincing [including] orange, pastels and white." The tester also had warm words for the practical features and handling of the multi spots. The COB audience blinder even qualified as "a sensation." The Eurolite LED PMC-16x30W COB RGB was singled out as the magazine's "favorite," due in part to the sheer LED power of 480 watts, or as they put it, "Pure power to also blind on huge stages." They also praised the product's flexibility: "With this unit you'll get a blinder, a matrix effect and a powerful spot for color mood setting – everything in one housing."
The testing and refining of this technology has been pioneered by Steinigke Showtechnic of Germany. With this launch in the US and the Americas, Eurolite and Futurelight now pave the way for its widespread use in show technology, with over fifty products on offer in their COB lighting portfolio.
Contact Inner Circle Distribution for more information on COB LED Technology:
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Robuckets are robots programmed to help the work of the Plumbers.
The Robuckets have a bucket-like lower torso with a Plumber badge, while wearing a standard Plumber Suit on the upper torso. They also have white thin legs with silver "toes". They have black faces with humanoid eyes with white circular dishes and a light blue light bulb on the top of their heads.
A Robucket appeared in The Final Countdown. It sacrificed itself so that the Plumber Headquarters can be launched into the orbit. At the end of the episode it was revealed that the Plumbers had many Robuckets at their disposal.
The Robucket is very loyal to the Plumbers as shown in The Final Countdown.
Ben 10: Omniverse
- Outbreak (first appearance)
- Mud Is Thicker Than Water (cameo)
- A Fistful of Brains (cameo)
- The Final Countdown
The name of the Robuckets' is a combination of robot and bucket.


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Because Planet Hope is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, boat donations are tax deductible. We will work with donors to maximize their deduction.
Planet Hope is in need of seaworthy, safe boats for our Sailing Programs. We are located in Deale, Maryland and will pick up boats from anywhere on the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries. We also accept larger boats from anywhere on the East coast, as long as they are able to make the trip to the Chesapeake Bay.
How we use our vessels: Boats are used for sailing instruction, sailing clubs, apprenticeship program or in some cases, sold for support.
Please fill out the following form and one of our representatives will contact you to discuss the donation process. You can also contact us at: (800) 518- 2816.