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Thrombosprin 75/75mg Capsule 10
By Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd Prescription Needed
What is THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG?
- THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG contains combination of Aspirin and Clopidogrel which belongs to a group of medicines called Antiplatelets
- Platelets are very small structures in the blood which clump together during blood clotting. By preventing this clumping, antiplatelets reduce the chances of blood clots forming (a process called thrombosis)
What THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG is used for?
- It is used to prevent formation of blood clots , which can lead to atherothrombotic events (such as stroke, heart attack, or death)
Talk to your doctor before taking THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG, If you
- are allergic to Aspirin, Clopidogrel or to any of the ingredients in THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG
- are allergic to other salicylates or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- have had an asthma attack or swelling of some parts of the body
- have or ever had an ulcer in your stomach or small intestine
- ever had the problem of your blood not clotting properly
- are suffering from gout
- have severe liver or kidney problems
- have a recent serious injury or surgery (including dental)
- have a planned surgery (including dental) in the next seven days
- have had a clot in an artery of your brain (ischaemic stroke) which occurred within the last seven days
- If you are pregnant or might become pregnant, you should tell your doctor before taking THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG
- If you become pregnant while taking THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG, consult your doctor immediately as it is recommended not to take clopidogrel while you are pregnant
- You should not breast-feed while taking this medicine
THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG is not intended for children and adolescents under 16 years of age
Tell your doctor if you are taking medicines used for
- prevention of clots (e.g. warfarin, heparin)
- Organ rejection after transplantation (e.g. ciclosporin, tacrolimus)
- High blood pressure (e.g. diuretics and ACE-inhibitors)
- Regulation of the heart beat (digoxin)
- Manic-depressive illness (lithium)
- Pain and inflammation (e.g. anti-inflammatory medicines such as ibuprofen, or steroids)
- Gout (e.g. probenecid)
- Epilepsy (valproate, phenytoin)
- Glaucoma (acetazolamide)
- Cancer or rheumatoid arthritis (e.g. methotrexate)
- Depression (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as sertraline or paroxetine)
- treating inflammation, including rheumatic diseases and inflammation of the intestines (corticosteroids).
- Iron salts (for treatment of iron deficiency anaemia), carbonates (treatment of peptic ulcer and reflux), Alkali hydroxides (antacids)
- heparin or any other injectable medicine used to reduce blood clotting, ticlopidine, other antiplatelet agent.
- a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (including but not restricted to fluoxetine or fluvoxamine), medicines usually used to treat depression.
- omeprazole or esomeprazole, medicines to treat upset stomach
- fluconazole or voriconazole, medicines to treat fungal infections
- efavirenz, a medicine to treat HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infections
- carbamazepine, a medicine to treat some forms of epilepsy
- moclobemide, medicine to treat depression
- repaglinide, medicine to treat diabetes
- paclitaxel, medicine to treat cancer
- Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you
- You can take THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG orally with or without food, and at the same time each day
If you take more THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG
- If you accidentally take too many medicine, contact your doctor immediately or go the nearest hospital
If you forget to take THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG
- If you miss a dose, wait until it is time for your next dose, then go on as normal
- Do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten dose
If you stop taking THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG
- Do not stop taking THROMBOSPRIN 75/75MG without first consulting your doctor
Like all medicines, this medicine also can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them
- sudden wheezing, swelling of your lips, face or body, rash, fainting or difficulty in swallowing
- reddening of the skin with blisters or peeling and may be associated with a high fever and joint pains
- unusual bleeding, such as coughing up blood, blood in your vomit or urine, or black stools
- fever, signs of infection or extreme tiredness
- signs of liver problems such as yellowing of the skin and/or the eyes (jaundice)
- indigestion
- increased tendency for bleeding
- bleeding in the stomach or bowels, bruising, haematoma (unusual bleeding or bruising under the skin), nose bleed, blood in the urine. bleeding in the eye, inside the head, the lung or the joints
- hives
- runny noses
- breathing difficulty
- headache
- stomach ulcer, stomach upset
- excessive gas in stomach or intestines
- rashes, itching, dizziness, sensation of tingling and numbness
- nausea and vomiting
- cramps in the lower respiratory tract, asthma attack
- inflammation in the blood vessels
- hypersensitivity reactions, such as swelling of e.g. lips, face or body, or shock
- abnormal heavy or prolonged menstrual periods
- vertigo
- enlarged breasts in males
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Norway's "Doomsday Vault" will open tomorrow, just in time to safeguard our biodiversity against the apocalypse. Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, about 620 miles from the North Pole, the vault has been built to withstand nuclear missiles or a plane crash on top of it, but it's also far enough above sea level that it won't be flooded by melting icecaps. Click through for more images of the Doomsday Vault.
The vault will hold up to 4.5 million batches of seeds for the world's main food crops, allowing humanity to re-establish agriculture if our main food plants disappear due to a catastrophe. Already, "gene vaults" from Iraq and Afghanistan were destroyed due to the wars in those countries. Images by AP.

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Grail Moviehouse, the new movie theater coming to downtown Asheville at 45 S. French Broad Ave., is quickly coming together, as this video shows. Check it.
Steve White and Davida Horwitz announced earlier this year that they were planning to open a theater inside the same building that is already home to Hopey and Co. grocery (formerly Amazing Savings), The Downtown Market, and Sly Grog Lounge. A new brewery is also planned for the location.
The Grail Moviehouse will have two screens and seat 250 in 4,500 square feet of space. The theater expects to open next year. It will screen indy flicks, classics, documentaries, foreign films and local projects.
More Grail Moviehouse background here.
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Defense Department to Close TALON System
By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2007 - The Defense Department announced today that it will close the TALON intelligence reporting system Sept. 17 and maintain a record copy of the collected data in accordance with intelligence oversight requirements.
TALON, which stands for Threat and Local Observation Notices, was established in 2002 by then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as a way to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to U.S. servicemembers and defense civilians at stateside and overseas military installations. It is being closed because reporting to the system had declined significantly, and it was determined to no longer be of analytical value, said Army Col. Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman.
The department is working to develop a new reporting system to replace TALON, but in the interim, all information concerning force protection threats will go to the FBI's Guardian reporting system, Keck said.
"No one should think that we're no longer looking at force protection and making sure that information that law enforcement people, security people get reported is moving up some way to be evaluated so that we take force protection precautions and evaluate if there's a threat or not," Keck said. "That's still certainly happening."
The TALON system came under fire in 2005 for improperly storing information about some civilian individuals and non-government-affiliated groups on its database. The Defense Department conducted a four-point review of the system in December 2005 and, as a result, purged a large amount of information that was deemed unnecessary from the database.
The Defense Department Inspector General reviewed TALON, and in a report dated June 27, 2007, found that the program legally gathered and maintained information on individuals and organizations. However, the report found that the department's Counterintelligence Field Activity maintained TALON reports without determining whether the information should be retained for law enforcement and force protection purposes.
Keck said the department will evaluate possible future reporting systems, but that there is no timeline to establish a new system. It may be determined that the Guardian system or another reporting system already in place serves the needs of the Defense Department, he said.
Defense Department to Close TALON System [ http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47127 ]


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LegLoungerSay good-bye to pillows and wedges. This LegLounger from the makers of the BedLounge is designed to comfortably support your legs, knees, and feet. The unique design allows for different height settings to help you achieve maximum comfort. Use it with the BedLounge for total body comfort.
The teardrop shape of the LegLounger makes it highly adjustable. While seated, you will be able to roll or glide the LegLounger to find the most comfortable position. Two air lifting cushions inside the LegLounger can be adjusted to give you more firm or softer support. Just turn the soft grip valve to adjust the firmness.
The LegLounger is designed for your comfort. It has an internal frame with self-inflating air cushions. Aircraft grade foam provides support while evenly displacing your weight. Choose between a feather and down fill or a hypoallergenic down fill. Both provide soft support for your legs, knees, and feet. The hypoallergenic down is synthetic which makes it a better choice for people with allergies. Another advantage of the synthetic down is that it will not lose its shape.
Made in the USA.
Other Features:
- Lightweight, making it easy to transport
- Comes with a machine washable slip cover. Add another slip cover to change the look.
- Slip covers are available in many different colors of cotton as well as fleece.
- The cotton covers are made from 100% cotton and the fleece cover is made from velour fleece.
24 inches wide and 13 inches high
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Problems of an orthopedic nature involving the bones, joints and muscles in children are seen in this clinic. Such conditions include congenital, acquired and traumatic limb deformities, scoliosis and spinal deformities, neuromuscular disease or any problems with bone, joints, muscles, and ligaments that affect growing children.
Follow-up care for problems related to fractures of bones, dislocations of joints and other traumatic disorders is provided. The clinic also treats congenital limb deficiencies such as fibular hemimelia, proximal femoral focal deficiency, hemiatrophy, radial hypoplasia, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, vitamin D-resistant rickets with bowing and limb length inequality, as well as acquired conditions such as bone loss from fractures, osteomyelitis, nonunions, growth arrests from both trauma and infections and malunions or significant deformities of bone.
Fax: 501-978-6440
Orthopedic Clinic
Main Hospital, 1st Floor
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
Note: This clinic is available to your child by physician referral. Talk with your child's physician and tell him/her you would like to be referred to Arkansas Children's. Have the doctor contact the appointment center to make a referral at 501-364-4000. If your child does not have a regular physician, please call 501-364-4000 and we will be happy to recommend one in your area.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12 -- Truvada, the only medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for HIV prevention, is effective in blocking the virus even if people do not adhere to their daily regimen perfectly, a new study indicates.
The researchers say their findings build on a 2010 clinical study, called the iPrEx study, which found Truvada could prevent new infections in people at high risk for HIV.
"After the initial iPrEx study, there was concern that the protective effect of Truvada was fragile, and that individuals taking the drug would need to adhere perfectly to daily regimen for it to work," study co-leader Dr. Robert Grant, an investigator at Gladstone Institutes and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said in an institute news release. "This new study suggests that Truvada can help block the virus even if the person on a daily regimen doesn't always adhere perfectly."
To determine the effectiveness of Truvada if people didn't take the medication exactly as prescribed, the researchers developed a clinical trial in which two, four or seven doses per week of the drug were given to 24 people who were not infected with HIV.
The investigators measured the different concentrations of the drug in the participants' blood and compared these concentrations to those of participants in the iPrEx study. The researchers used the comparison to determine how well the people involved in the first study adhered to their drug regimen and how well their concentration of the drug was able to protect them against HIV.
"Surprisingly, we found that the iPrEx participants didn't have to adhere perfectly to the drug regimen to reap Truvada's benefits," said Grant. "Even in those patients who didn't adhere perfectly, their risk of contracting HIV still dropped by more than 90 percent -- offering a high level of protection against the virus."
The researchers concluded that their findings help determine the most effective dose of the drug, which would reduce costs and increase convenience for patients.
Study co-leader Peter Anderson, from the University of Colorado, explained that the researchers' next step "is to take the methods we've developed and create simple yet powerful tools that can measure drug adherence to help doctors monitor how well Truvada is working in their patients. Yet until these and other efficacy studies of alternative dosing strategies have been completed, the only regimen that that should be used in clinical practice is the FDA-approved one Truvada each day."
Grant added: "Patients should still take one pill a day to achieve the best results, and we encourage people to explore multiple methods to prevent HIV -- such as regular condom use, early treatment of HIV infection in partners, good communication and male circumcision. We hope that our findings lead to more effective use of prevention tools that finally squash the HIV/AIDS epidemic."
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Medvedev warns Georgia and Ukraine against joining NATO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF34zpY8xws
June, 2008
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsbhi1mrQ7s
Russo-Armenian relations, Eurasian geopolitics and resisting the Western alliance
Dear reader,
Arevordi will be taking a sabbatical to tend to personal matters. New blog commentaries will henceforth be posted on an irregular basis. The comments board however will continue to be moderated on a regular basis.
The last 20 years or so has also helped me see Russia as the last front against scourges of Westernization, Globalism, American expansionism, Zionism, Islamic extremism and pan-Turkism. I have also come to see Russia as the last hope humanity has for the preservation of classical western civilization, Apostolic Christianity and the traditional nation-state. This realization compelled me to create this blog in 2010. Immediately, this blog became one of the very few voices in the vastness of cyberia that dared to preach about the dangers of Globalism and the Anglo-American-Jewish alliance, and the only voice preaching the strategic importance of Armenia remaining within Russia's orbit. From about 2010 to 2015 I did monthly, at times weekly, commentaries about Russian-Armenian relations and Eurasian geopolitics in general. It was very difficult as I had no assistance in this endeavor. The time I put into this blog therefore came at the expense of work and family. But a powerful feeling inside me urged me to keep going; and I did.
When Armenia finally joined the EEU and integrated its armed forces into Russia's military structures a couple of years ago, I finally felt a deep sense of satisfaction and relaxation, as if a very heavy burden was lifted off my shoulders. I finally felt that my personal mission was accomplished. I therefore felt I could take a step back, as I really needed the rest. Simply put: I have lived to see the institutionalization of Russian-Armenian alliance. Also, I feel more confident now that Armenians are collectively recognizing the strategic importance of Armenia's ties with Russia. Moreover, I feel satisfied knowing that, at least on a subatomic level, I had a hand in the outcome. As a result, I feel a strong sense of mission accomplished. I therefore no longer have the urge to continue as in the past. In other words, the motivational force that had propelled me in previous years has been gradually dissipating because I feel that this blog has lived to see the realization of its stated goal. Going forward, I do not want to write merely for the sake of writing. Also, I do not want to say something if I have nothing important to say. I feel like I have said everything I needed to say. Henceforth, I will post seasonal commentaries about topics I find important. I will however continue moderating the blog's comments section on a regular basis; ultimately because I'm interested in what my readers have to say and also because it's through readers here that I am at times made aware of interesting developments.
To limit clutter in the comments section, I kindly ask all participants of this blog to please keep comments coherent and strictly relevant to the featured topic of discussion. Moreover, please realize that when there are several anonymous visitors posting comments simultaneously, it becomes very confusing (not to mention extremely annoying) trying to figure out who is who and who said what.Therefore, if you are here to engage in conversation, make an observation, express an idea or simply attack me, I ask you to at least use a moniker to identify yourself. Moreover, please appreciate the fact that I have put an enormous amount of information into this blog. In my opinion, most of my blog commentaries and articles, some going back ten-plus years, are in varying degrees relevant to this day and will remain so for a long time to come. Articles in this blog can therefore be revisited by longtime readers and new comers alike. I therefore ask the reader to treat this blog as a depository of important information relating to Eurasian geopolitics, Russian-Armenian relations and humanity's historic fight against the evils of Globalism and Westernization.
Thank you as always for reading.


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The Internet lives for leaks, and today's is a photo of Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley in their upcoming crime-romance that comes by way of Holland.
A still from "London Boulevard" that was posted on the Dutch film site Totaal Film shows Farrell walking past a wall plastered with posters of Knightley.
Farrell plays Mitchell, a small-time crook fresh out of jail who strikes up an unlikely relationship with Charlotte, a reclusive movie star played by Knightley. The film also features Ray Winstone as an ex-crime boss, David Thewlis as Knightley/Charlotte's manager, Ann Friel as Farrell/Mitchell's sister and Eddie Marsan as Detective Inspector Bailey
Based on the novel by Ken Bruen, "London Boulevard" marks the directorial debut of screenwriter William Monahan ("The Departed"). It's slated for a UK release on Oct. 15, but will no doubt be picked up for U.S. distribution. Unless of course it is, against all odds, an epic mess, in which case it will probably still get picked.
This will be Farrell's first film since his small part in "Crazy Heart," while Knightley can next be seen in "Never Let Me Go," which dropped its first trailer today.


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Research shows that sleep-deprived people produce fewer virus-fighting cells. And it's normal to sleep a bit more in winter; before we had electricity, people went to bed earlier and slept longer as the days got shorter. As often as possible this season, treat your immune system to an early bedtime.
Your body has its own thermostat that regulates temperature -- that's what goose bumps do. Overheated houses and workplaces can make this internal thermostat "lazy" and less effective. To keep your internal heating system in good working order, take "contrast showers" -- hot water followed by a blast of cold. Try starting with 5 seconds of cold water and working up to 30 seconds.
Yoga's twists, backbends, and inversions stimulate important immunity components -- the adrenal glands and lymphatic system -- helping them perform better. Its deep breathing also helps calm the nervous system, which tells the immune system when to fight off a threat and when it can rest -- signals that can become garbled when you're tense. Try our immunity-boosting poses this season to help stave of the sniffles.
Stock your cupboards with the right ingredients to transform chicken, fish, tofu, or beef into a healthy meal in a snap.Get the Recipes
A steaming bowl of soup is comfort food in the purest sense -- and a worthy meal for anyone aiming to eat a little healthier.Get the Recipes


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Banyak virus yang tersebar lewat jaringan komputer di warnet maupun kantor terutama akibat adanya akses internet. Satu komputer client saja yang terinfeksi, akan bisa menginfeksi seluruh jaringan komputer yang mungkin hingga ratusan. Apalagi setiap komputer client men-share file/folder akan lebih mudah terkena virus yang notabene selalu mencari peluang untuk mengandakan diri dan kemudian menyebar.
Opamer simak cara mengatasinya dari Norman antivirus di bawah ini:
Stopping network share infectors
Many viruses today are share infectors. They infect open shares throughout the network. A single infected computer is capable of infecting hundreds of other machines.
It is a common scenario that many sites have open shares on their servers where all users has unlimited access. The intention of these shares is to provide an universal area where all users can exchange common files and information. Other scenarios include shares that are not intended for common purposes, but they are open due to lack of planning and security.
No matter the reason, these file shares are highly exposed to viruses like Pinfi and Funlove that have open file shares as a target for infection.
A share infector scenario:
The figure above illustrates an unprotected workstation (IP: 192.168.0.13) that is allowed to execute a file infected with the Pinfi virus. The infected workstation will propagate open file shares on computers in the network, look for files with .exe and .scr extension on these shares and then try to infect these files.
All servers in this situation are protected with updated antivirus software, which monitors the file system on the servers. An attempt to infect files on these shares will be detected and infected files are instantly cleaned.
The problem, however, is that the workstation is still infected and will re-infect the .exe and .scr files shortly after the antivirus software has performed the first clean operation. We now have an infect-clean-infect cycle that will go on forever unless something is being done with the original infection: the infected workstation.
Finding the source of the problem
In a large network with hundreds, even thousands of machines, it can be really hard to find this particular workstation. The Virus Alert message normally just points at the target file for the infection, which virus that was found, and what has been done to the file. There is obviously a need for some extra information to solve this problem.
One way of solving the problem is to use an external tool to monitor a file that is likely to be infected. To avoid too many changes on any of the original servers it may be a good idea to set up a new test machine in the network, create an open share on this machine, and place a copy the .exe file here. In the Pinfi case we know that .exe files are attractive targets to infect, and we copy the file calc.exe from the \Windows directory to the new file share. The calc.exe file is now a "bait" for the infector.
Before we connect the "bait" machine to the network, we need to install a "sniffer" program. We think Ethereal is a good alternative, but programs like Sniffer Pro and Etherpeek will do as well, but Ethereal can be downloaded free of charge. It contains a lot of functionality, so in this paper we will only cover functions relevant to solve this particular scenario.
Install Ethereal
You need two components:
1. Install and run the WinPCap driver that can be downloaded from winpcap.polito.it
2. Install and run Ethereal - can be downloaded from ethereal.com
NOTE: Although our experience with Ethereal is good, we do not support it, so you use it at your own risk.
Monitoring the activity on the network
When Ethereal is installed, make sure that the NVC's On-access scanner is running on the machine, and start the NVC Utilities program where you open the Messages window.
Before you start monitoring the file, make sure that it gets infected by watching the virus alerts in the Messages window. If no virus alerts appear, then the bait does not work. Check again to make sure that the directory containing the bait really is shared, and that all users have full access to the share.
If this still does not work, you may need to install Ethereal on one of the servers where the infection originally appeared. Some share infectors just infect shares that were available upon start of the infected program. In such a case, find a file here to use as bait for the infection.
Now start Ethereal. We want to capture the activity that the machine receives via the network. But we only want to focus on activity related to the bait, which is the calc.exe test file.
n the lower left corner there is a field labelled Filter: In this field type the string:
smb.file contains "calc.exe"
Select the command Capture/Start and then click OK. The capture window appears. From now on watch the activity in the NVC Utilities' Messages window. As soon as there is a new infection on our bait, close the Ethereal capture window. The log from the capture appears in the main window. Make sure that our filter is active by clicking Apply.
By watching the "Source" and "Destination" columns you should now be able to see the IP addresses used in manipulations of the calc.exe file. In our case the local address for our machine is 192.168.0.15. The other IP address involved in the transactions is 192.168.0.13.
Obviously a machine with the address 192.168.0.13 is the infector. You can now solve the problem by isolating it and then perform a complete On-demand scan supplied with the relevant fix(es).
Repeat the process to ensure that there are no other infectors in the network.
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The small stack of envelopes that arrives at Grace Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul, Minn., each day are filled with good will and small bills — ones, fives and tens mostly.
The donations lift the spirit, said Rev. Oliver White, but they likely won't be enough to save the church.
"Technically, we should be packing," White said.
On June 1, the church will likely default on a high-interest loan and lose its building, unless it can come up with $175,000 to buy the loan out.
As of Wednesday (May 16), Grace Community was about $170,000 short, but its plight has gained considerable attention within and without the UCC, thanks to one of several reasons the predominantly African-American church may lose its home.
In 2005, White, took a stand at the UCC's General Synod in opposition to many of his congregants and backed support for same-sex marriage. His side won the day at the conference, with about 80 percent of the vote, but White came home to a congregation divided over his belief that gay couples deserve the UCC's blessing. Immediately, he began to watch its numbers dwindle.
The congregation, founded in 1990 in a relatively poor African-American neighborhood, grew smaller and poorer, and two years later took out a high-interest $150,000 loan, which now has an even higher interest rate of 23 percent.
When the church was growing financially desperate earlier this spring, a predominantly gay UCC megachurch in Dallas delivered a $15,000 check to help with the interest payments.
The donation, hand-delivered, gave the remaining members of the congregation hope.
But an incident earlier this spring in which a gunman drove by the church firing shots and screaming "die faggots," shook the congregation. There were no physical injuries, and it inspired them to fight harder to survive.
In hindsight, White said, signing the loan was a terrible mistake, and buying it out is the key to the church's survival. White is asking 200,000 people to donate $1 each, working his church networks and with rally.com, an online fundraising tool that has gleaned more than $700 for Grace Community.
If the goal isn't met, according to the church's statement on rally.com, the pastor's "decision to take a stand in favor of gay marriage rights will have cost him and his small congregation their spiritual home."
But Grace Community had serious fiscal needs even before White took his stand. And even White acknowledges that the church could have done a better job of managing its money.
Race also plays a role in the church's plight.
To many other churches within the generally progressive UCC, the question of same-sex marriage was easily settled in the affirmative.
But African-American churches have generally been more resistant, making White's stance particularly brave in the eyes of many gay rights proponents — such as those at the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas — who realized the stakes for Grace Church were particularly high.
Race also plays into the relationship between White's church and the denomination, and its efforts to keep Grace Community afloat. The UCC's Minnesota Conference counts 135 churches, including one predominantly Native American church and one African-American church — Grace Community.
"It's of great interest to us to have ministry in both those communities," said Conference Minister Karen Smith Sellers, citing years of financial assistance to Grace Community from the conference and individual UCC churches, an estimated total of more than $100,000.
In 2007, the conference, with agreement from Grace Community, decided to diminish its financial support, Sellers said. "We released ourselves from a relationship that began to look unhealthy," she said.
White attributes only good intentions to the state conference, which, he said, rightfully pointed out that Grace Community's finances could have been better kept and more transparent. But despite the conference's willingness to help, their concerns seemed patronizing to some parishioners, he said.
"I don't think they meant it to be racist but it came off that way," said White, who met with Sellers on Thursday to discuss the church's future.
"It could be God has other plans for this congregation," Sellers said before the meeting.
In the meantime, the donations continue to dribble in, from people of all races, gay and straight alike. White continues to pray for that "miracle check" that will solve his problem.
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The house was listed for sale for about one year at $50 million, so the sale price was 88 percent of the list price. Morris said the buyer was a referral to him through the Sotheby's network.
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text: American College of Surgeons Quality Programs Trauma Trauma Education Rural Trauma Team Development Course Back to Trauma Education Rural Trauma Team Development Course RTTDC Frequently Asked Questions RTTDC Resources RTTDC Course Search RTTDC 4th Edition RTTDC Evidence of Effectiveness Rural Trauma Team Development Course RTTDC Course Search RTTDC 4th Edition RTTDC Evidence of Effectiveness The Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC) emphasizes a team approach to the initial evaluation and resuscitation of the trauma patient at a rural facility. With more than 60 percent of the country's trauma deaths occurring in rural areas, the course assists health care professionals in determining the need to transfer the patient to a higher level of care. The one-day course includes interactive lectures on both medical procedures and communication strategies and three team performance scenarios. 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Sue and Ben Erickson thought they were prepared after learning that their baby could be born with physical or mental disabilities. An ultrasound during the 36th week of pregnancy revealed an excess of cerebral fluid on the unborn infant's brain, but the young Huntley couple quickly accepted that God must have a special plan.
They were overjoyed when Matthew Donald Erickson emerged from the womb on Dec. 11 in seemingly great form at just over 6 pounds.
He wriggled his arms and legs, grimaced and scored high on the newborn checklist to assess health.
But what came next was unfathomable.
Surgeons at Children's Memorial Hospital, while removing fluid from the 4-day-old baby's brain, discovered a large mass. A biopsy confirmed devastating news.
Matthew has cancer, they said. The Ericksons were stricken with fear. How, they wondered, can a baby be born with cancer?
There was more.
The baby suffers from an especially aggressive form of brain tumor, a high-grade glioma, most often diagnosed in adults, the doctors said. The cancer, whose causes are unknown, had already engulfed most of the right hemisphere of Matthew's brain. Only about five children nationally are born with such a rare, usually fatal, condition each year, his doctors said.
"Why him?" said Sue Erickson, 33. Her eyes welled as she recalled her initial reaction. "It's just not fair."
The doctors said they would understand if the couple took their baby home with hospice care, loved him and waited for the inevitable.
But the team of specialists offered another option: chemotherapy, a toxic potion used to target and kill cancer cells that has shown mixed success with infants. The drug, to be delivered intravenously, offers no guarantees. It could, in fact, cause additional long-term damage, or even hasten Matthew's demise.
Ben, 34, blurted out the first question that came to his mind: "Is Matthew dying? Was he born dying?"
The oncologist replied no, that Matthew's organs were functioning normally and, aside from the malignant tumor, he was healthy.
"That was a pivotal answer to me," Ben said. "If he's not dying, let's let him live. Let's give him a shot."
Their baby had proved to be a fighter, after all, thriving after brain surgery. The couple rallied, found support from their families and friends and chose to view the daunting journey ahead as a blessing.
"We just looked at each other and said, 'If there's any chance at all, we have to give it to him,'" Sue said.
At 6 weeks old, Matthew weighed 8 pounds 15 ounces — having never turned down a decent bottle of rice formula, his mother noted. He sported the equivalent of a baby comb-over, with wispy dark hair and eyes that lean toward blue, like his dad. The only obvious sign of his precarious health was a jagged scar on his head that his parents massage daily.
He yawns and makes small, precious noises familiar to parents, but never wails or cries like a typical infant. Long before his birth, his parents followed a songwriter, Matt Hammitt, whose own child was born with heart defects. Little did they know that his song about that child, "All of Me," would become the thing that Sue said "gets me through."
"Afraid to love/ Something that could break/ Could I move on/ If you were torn away?
"And I'm so close to what I can't control/ I can't give you half my heart/ And pray He makes you whole."
In 2009, Sue's parents lost their jobs with an industrial cleaning service near Flint, Mich., and moved into the Ericksons' two-bedroom town house to help the couple with their growing family, which includes Matthew's older siblings Nolan, now 3, and Sophia, 17 months.
The arrangement turned out to be a godsend after Matthew's diagnosis upended their lives.
Louise and Bob Turner have helped bathe, feed and baby-sit their grandchildren while juggling doctor appointments.
Sue was able to continue work for a private investigative agency, and Ben returned to his teaching job at South Elgin High School.
The Turners completely support the couple's decision, though are admittedly afraid. The day of the surgery, when doctors first spoke the word "cancer," family members sat together in shock. Then each wandered off separately, heading down different corridors in the hospital to cry privately, Louise said.
"I don't know what chemo will do to Matthew," said Louise, 53, affectionately called "Nunny" by her grandchildren.
Louise was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after moving to Illinois and underwent radiation treatment. She knows her grandson faces a formidable challenge. While her daughter avoids looking to the Internet for information about Matthew's cancer, Turner scours online medical sites, trying to balance her fear with her faith.
"One day, I got on my hands and knees and cried out to God saying, 'I don't understand,'" she said in a waiting room during a recent doctor's appointment. "I went to the hospital that day, and this peaceful feeling came over me. And then Matthew gave me this little smirky smile."
Louise watched Nolan and Sophia recently while pediatric surgeon Tord Alden met with Sue and Matthew in his Westchester office. Alden has been monitoring Matthew's growth and measuring his head to check if the tumor has caused swelling.
The doctor pointed to grainy images of Matthew's brain on a computer, before and after surgery. The white smudges that defined the monster in Matthew's brain were impossible to reconcile with the squirming, cooing baby in Sue's arms.
Sue asked if the doctor could tell if there was "good brain" beneath fluid and tumor. Alden said that he doesn't know.
"We do have kids where we take out half of their brain for seizures, and a lot of that function moves over to the other side of the brain," he said.
Sue was encouraged after hearing from the mother of another child who underwent chemotherapy at 10 days old and is now 4.
Lauren Strickland of Naperville emailed Sue to share her experience with her daughter, Paris, who was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at 9 days old and began chemotherapy the next day. Paris went on to have surgery, radiation, more chemotherapy and other treatments at Children's Memorial and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, her mother said.
Today, Paris undergoes brain scans every three months to make sure the cancer doesn't return. She has some trouble with her walking gait but shows no sign of cognitive or verbal delays, Strickland said.
"Really, you have to accept there are some things you cannot control, as badly as you want to," said Strickland. She advised the Ericksons to stay strong and not be afraid to search for other opinions.
"There is a light at the end of the tunnel, possibly," said Strickland. "It's a rough situation."
Children also suffer fewer side effects, such as nausea, from the drug treatment, doctors say.
"When you hear cancer, you think, 'My baby's going to die tomorrow,'" Sue said. "You think of cancer as death. It was scary. But to know there are babies who have survived chemo ..."
Nationally, fewer than 1 percent of all pediatric brain tumors are congenital, or present at birth. The reported incidence of congenital brain tumors is 1.1 to 3.4 per million live births, according to research.
High-grade gliomas are not hereditary, and there are no known environmental causes for the disease. Dr. Rishi Lulla, a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Children's Memorial Hospital who is involved with Matthew's care, reassured Sue and Ben that there was no way they could have prevented Matthew's sickness.
"We really don't know why this happened to him," Lulla said. "There's nothing ever related to pregnancy, habits or anything associated with a congenital brain tumor. … That is where I wanted to be the firmest with them, to make sure they understand that."
Early on, Lulla and other specialists discussed Matthew's diagnosis and reviewed his test results during a meeting of the hospital's pediatric brain tumor board. Every week, about 30 oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, surgeons and palliative care professionals fill a conference room to compare notes and come up with a recommended course of treatment for their most complicated patients.
"Given that Matthew is quite small and the tumor is quite large, we believe a surgery would be harmful," Lulla said.
Doctors were candid with Sue and Ben, telling them that without taking any action, Matthew would die.
Chemotherapy, when administered to children under age 3 with a high-grade glioma, offers a 40 to 50 percent chance of survival for three years, Lulla said.
After that?
"We really don't know," Lulla said. "Our best attempts to predict have been wrong."
Matthew could face surgery in the future, or, less likely, radiation therapy. Some tumors go away and never recur, Lulla said. The size of Matthew's tumor and the potential side effects of chemotherapy present the biggest challenges, he said.
"We all agreed if Matthew was doing well, clinically, we would allow some time to pass so he could grow, develop an immune system and gain some weight," Lulla said. "We may at that point decide to begin chemotherapy, or if everything is going stable, we may elect to wait another few months."
Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, associate director for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago, said that it is important for the medical team to give the family a choice of treatment or hospice — because the prognosis is poor — and support them no matter what they decide.
No one, no matter how medically astute, can predict with absolute certainty the outcome or child's quality of life.
"There's no right answer," Ross said.
"It's a really hard decision, and it's not the science alone that tells us to do X or Y," she said. "We view this very much as a shared decision, to have the family and the physicians work together to define what is best. Regardless of one's own preferences, it's very important to support and not to abandon the family, whatever they decide."
Support for the family has soared during Matthew's short life.
Louise started a Facebook page for him, which has drawn nearly 150,000 page views worldwide. Every few days, she posts new pictures or video, holding Matthew up to her computer for close-ups of his chubby cheeks.
Students at South Elgin High, where Ben works, surprised the family in late January with a $5,000 check. They raised the money selling T-shirts that read "Grey Matters" on the front, with the Erickson family name on the back.
Sue and her mother broke into tears as hundreds of students filled the school's foyer and lined the balcony. Ben, who teaches radio and TV broadcasting, was suddenly on the other side of the camera as his students recorded the event.
"Initially, I didn't want to burden anybody with this problem. It's dramatic. It's heavy-duty," Ben said later.
He was overwhelmed by the outpouring of concern from his students, family and friends, who began calling and texting over winter break and haven't stopped. Then he realized, "That's what kind of kept me sane."
The Ericksons have health insurance but aren't yet sure what medical costs will be covered. They recently received an 18-page bill for $750,000, Sue said.
As Matthew has gained weight and grown stronger, it has been easier for the couple to be more optimistic. But the reality looms. Their baby will have his next brain scan in late February, when chemotherapy will be considered.
"I can't possibly give up on one of my kids," Ben said. "He's just so strong."
A fundraiser is planned from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. March 1 at Nick's Pizza & Pub, 990 S. Randall Road, Elgin. Direct donations to the "Matthew Erickson Benefit fund" can be made at any PNC bank. Information: greymatterstshirt.weebly.com.
Sue and Ben Erickson thought they were prepared after learning that their baby could be born with physical or mental disabilities. An ultrasound during the 36th week of pregnancy revealed an excess of cerebral fluid on the unborn infant's brain, but the young Huntley couple quickly accepted that God must have a special plan.