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Congratulations to Stephanie Hughes, you were randomly chosen to receive the magazine from last post...I will send it to you as soon as you get me your address!!
I hope you all survived the election process...I am glad it is all done with! And glad to live in a country where we have a choice, and a chance to vote!!!
The Hurricane...Sandy. These storm victims are very heavy on my mind...I have donated to the Red Cross and am donating a quilt too. Please see Quiltville for information about donating, on her November 8th post. My prayers and thoughts are with all of you and your families affected by this terrible storm. And may the power be on for everyone, ASAP!!
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33 comments:
- Rosa said...
They are fabulous!!
- November 8, 2012 at 4:36 PM
- Nancy said...
Blue is my favorite color, and your quilts are fabulous!
- November 8, 2012 at 4:46 PM
- Janet O. said...
Julie, I love the little added touch to the String X blocks. Gives it a whole new look.
What a nice little baby quilt, too And of course, I love the mini!
I think the sunflower looks great without a ninth petal. The string petals are so cute!
- November 8, 2012 at 5:17 PM
- Sue SA said...
Blue and white is such a fab combo. Love that white star in blue sashing quilt, its on my to do list and I have started cutting. I hope the bonus triangles were from that project? Cos now I know to keep mine and what I can do with them!
- November 8, 2012 at 5:29 PM
- *karendianne. said...
Love all the blues. Very pretty and your string quilt... Simply amazing. Diggin' your creativity!!!
- November 8, 2012 at 6:20 PM
- Leeanne said...
looks like the happy Blues to me!
- November 8, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- Missy Shay said...
I love the blues! I was going through my stash and was really surprised that I do not have very much blue!
- November 8, 2012 at 6:28 PM
- Mary said...
The blue string quilt is absolutely awesome! I love the blue baby quilt too! It's sure to be an heirloom for the mother to cherish!
I have 3 glorious nights off to stay up and quilt! Whew, I thought they would never get here! I have a bunch of fabric gifted by a dear friend to sink my teeth into! Love ya!
- November 8, 2012 at 6:58 PM
- Kim said...
I call these trickle down scrap quilts scraps just keep coming from one project to the next and ..how adorable.....I never met a blue quilt I didn't love! Happy Sewing
- November 8, 2012 at 7:29 PM
- Angie said...
Julie, you are amazing! They're all delightful. :)
- November 8, 2012 at 7:39 PM
- Kathy ... aka Nana said...
They're all gorgeous, but that Blue String X quilt is simply delectable!
- November 8, 2012 at 8:09 PM
- Karen said...
I find blue quilts very soothing. Our bedroom is done in blue & off white.
- November 8, 2012 at 8:31 PM
- Quilter Kathy said...
Only you could make an all blue quilt be amazing...and not just one but several...yum!
- November 8, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- AnnieO said...
I was just looking at the String X on Bonnie's website today, thinking even I could attempt that, having never done strings before. Your blues look wonderful with that crisp white! Pretty pretty.
- November 8, 2012 at 8:47 PM
- regan said...
Great quilts and minis! I need to start making some string blocks..... gotta use up some of this stash! I always love how a simple change on a string quilt can make it totally different!
- November 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM
- Caryl W said...
I really like ALL of your blues!
- November 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- Helen in the UK said...
That's a lot of blue!! All looking great though :)
- November 9, 2012 at 2:37 AM
- Nicky said...
Blue is growing on me - more of a green girl myself! Love the first quilt in particular!
- November 9, 2012 at 2:41 AM
- Barb said...
great collection of beautiful blue quilts! Love the doll quilt :)
- November 9, 2012 at 7:08 AM
- KaHolly said...
gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS!
- November 9, 2012 at 7:31 AM
- Lori said...
You've got the blues! Lovely, lovely blues!!!
- November 9, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Lois Arnold said...
Just lovely! Everything in blue -- what's not to like! I didn't even notice the sunflower had 8 petals, it looks fine as it is!
Our church gave last week's entire general fund offering to 2 organizations where 100% of the $$ goes to aid victims of this storm. That amount was just under $146,000. A drop in the bucket when millions are needed, but every bit helps!
- November 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Teri said...
I am enjoying watching you play with your blues. As you go through your scraps, do you use all of a certain color before you move on?
- November 9, 2012 at 5:42 PM
- Vic in NH said...
Nice eye-candy! Thanks for the ideas and the inspiration.
- November 12, 2012 at 7:39 AM
- Millie said...
Just beautiful Terry. I enjoy your blue quilts a lot. Bonnie's X quilt in blue is stunning.
- November 13, 2012 at 4:32 PM
- Valerie said...
Gorgeous blue quilts...I'm not ready for snow but it makes me think of it! ;)
- November 15, 2012 at 6:42 AM
- SubeeSews said...
You are as crazy for string piecing as I am!!! Love the blues!
XOXOXO Subee
- November 15, 2012 at 4:25 PM
- Sandra Coleman Clarke said...
Hi Julie, I found a redwork angel that says "a friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when I forget the words". I went back to your blog on Nov. 5, 2011 and now I do not see this. I just found one sheet of this laying on my computer table but no pattern. Can you help me find the pattern?? Thanks, Sandra
- November 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM
- Jenny Watson said...
All quilts are looking fabulous...
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- November 23, 2012 at 4:48 AM
- *karendianne. said...
Hope you had a very nice Thanksgiving. Thinking of you... *karendianne.
- November 24, 2012 at 5:19 AM
- Hashim Aamla said...
These quilts are looking gorgeous.
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A former New Orleans Saints cheerleader who filed a federal complaint against the team said that cheerleading coaches described the team's players as "predators" and warned the squad's members to stay away from them.
Bailey Davis, who said she was fired from the Saints cheerleading squad over a photo she posted to her private Instagram account, said a strict fraternization policy forbid the cheerleaders from interacting with the players beyond saying "hello" and "good game."
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The team said the photo violated a rule that prohibits cheerleaders from appearing "nude," "semi-nude" or in "lingerie." The team also accused her of breaking another rule that forbids cheerleaders from going to a party where players are present.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of triglyceride to hdl-c ratio (TG:HDL-C) as an insulin resistance (IR) marker for overweight and obese children. A total of 271 blood samples of obese and overweight children aged 9–16 years were analysed for fasting glucose, lipids and insulin. Children were divided into IR and non-insulin resistance, using homeostasis model assessment (HOMA). The children were then stratified by tertiles of TG: HDL-C ratio. The strength between TG:HDL-C ratio and other parameters of IR were quantified using Pearson correlation coefficient (r). Odds ratio was estimated using multiple logistic regression adjusted for age, gender, pubertal stages and IR potential risk factors. Children with IR had significantly higher TG:HDL-C ratio (2.48) (p = 0.01). TG:HDL-C ratio was significantly correlated with HOMA-IR (r = 0.104, p < 0.005) and waist circumference (r = 0.134, p < 0.001). Increasing tertiles of TG:HDL-C ratio showed significant increase in mean insulin level (p = 0.03), HOMA-IR (p = 0.04) and significantly higher number of children with acanthosis nigricans and metabolic syndrome. The odds of having IR was about 2.5 times higher (OR = 2.47; 95% CI 1.23, 4.95; p = 0.01) for those in the highest tertiles of TG:HDL-C ratio. Hence, TG:HDL-C may be a useful tool to identify high risk individuals.
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In Malaysia, it was estimated that 3.9% of children under the age of 18 years were obese. A lifestyle school-based intervention programme was therefore developed specifically for overweight and obese children to address this problem. Named as "My Body is Fit and Fabulous ([email protected]), the programme was piloted between January and December 2014 in selected public schools in Putrajaya, the Administrative Capital City of Malaysia. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between TG:HDL-C ratio and IR among the overweight and obese school children who participated in [email protected] programme.
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DHS Requests $300 Million To Purchase Even More Devices That Don't Work
from the the-only-defect-i-see-is-that-not-enough-money-is-being-spent deptFor all of us who agree that the US government spends money wisely (yeah... that's pretty much nobody), here's yet another depressing story about throwing away perfectly good taxpayer money in the bizarre pursuit of... well, what exactly?
This particular story starts way back in the Cheney-Bush years (no, that's written correctly) when the administration was pushing for the adoption of the Advanced Spectroscopic Portal machine as a way to prevent importation of radioactive materials for use in dirty bombs or workshop nukes.
It's a promising idea. Anti-terrorism technology with a specific aim and purpose. This would be all well and good, except for one little problem: they don't work.
In January, the National Academy of Sciences released a report that found there was no way to know whether the machines, known as ASPs, worked as promised. An academy panel found that in promoting the machines to Congress, the department's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office had presented its findings "in ways that are incorrect and potentially misleading."
That report followed the department's decision to abandon plans to use ASPs for primary screening at ports and borders because of such questions.
The DHS has a much different definition of "abandon" than you or I (or Webster) do, apparently:
Now, the nuclear detection office said it intends to buy up to 400 ASPs by 2016, according the office's budget request, even though the department has not fulfilled internal requirements to conduct an independent review of the results of ASP testing before buying the equipment, according to the new GAO report.
Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: Preposterous. Even better, the GAO found that the DHS has no intention of ever having the ASPs independently reviewed. But that won't stop it from asking for more money, despite it being stated earlier by the Obama administration that this very program would be scaled back:
In February 2010, Obama administration officials told Lieberman that they had decided to sharply scale back the ASP program because of continuing questions about its costs and performance. But in February this year, department officials said in a budget document that they intended to use the machines widely for secondary screening. The department said that "between 300 and 400 ASP systems are required to complete the currently planned build-out."
Well, I'm sure the DHS knows best. After all, way back in 2006, the GAO found that the program's adminstrators had "underestimated the costs, overstated the benefits and provided misleading information to Congress." This isn't the sort of thing that stops an unsuccessful government program, though. If anything, it just means "double down."
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Many homeowners are intimidated at the prospect of remodeling bathrooms. It's no secret that adjusting everything from wall tiling to plumbing can be costly, but you don't need to completely renovate the space to create more visual appeal. The Telegraph recommends starting by changing the fixtures in the shower and sink. This can make a notable difference, especially if yours have become dull or rusted over time.
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Packham & Company Bottled Water
Packham & Company
were one of four
mineral water manufacturers
based in Croydon in 1880.
They filled bottles of this shape
with sparkling water, ginger ale
and lemonade
between 1876 and 1920.
Pieces of the past can turn up
in unusual places.
This bottle was found in a local garden!
Croydon Health Survey, 1849
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Croydon Health Survey, 1849
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"Some of the poorer class
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take water from the landlord's pump."
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Half of Croydon's homes
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One time for Fetti Gang, YG Hootie
P Smurf, what up nigga?
[Verse 1: Fetti Gang]
It's Fetti Gang, Flocka Flame, and John Belushi
Get your cameras out we 'bout to make a movie
All this Rosé got a nigga woozy
BSM, shout out to YG Hootie
Bottoms up, bottles up
Take your bitch to the tele and make her gobble nuts (swallow)
They know we gang bang, they ask us what we do it for
We just tell 'em we some pimps in red uniforms
Just met a bitch from Thailand, she like to bang cock
So I put her on the strip and told her bring clock
Fetti Gang the unit, BSM the movement
Red flags everywhere, this just how we do it
[Hook: Waka Flocka Flame] x2
We some turnt up niggas
Down to pull a trigger
All for one, one for all
My nigga, you my nigga
Kill, why we kill three
Back against the wall
Middle finger, screaming fuck this industry
We too fucking street
[Verse 2: YG Hootie]
My whip, two doors
My phone, new whores
BSM, we T-U
Running through the pack we need more
Bitch, pulled up at headquarters
Homie, that's your girlfriend
I fucked up her life, turned that to a whirlwind
Got a lot of money, still gangbanging
Fall to the club, with my chain swanging
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Keychain, pink stones, got that for them red bones
On Piru Street with the chopper
Knock a nigga ass out just like Flocka
That's that shit I learned, that enterprise
You ain't down to kill, don't get in the ride
T-T-U, too turnt up
T-T-G, leave you stuck
(Get your ass laid out), nigga who gon' pick you up?
Blood holiday, formerly a hundred deep
Young, rich nigga, still thuggin', Eazy-E
[Hook] x2
[Verse 3: P Smurf]
John Belushi, brand new Rolls
Bitch poking out like Kat Stack's nose
Chain so icey need a Mizay charm
Leather so soft, this feel like home
YG on and I feel like Russell
No English-speaking bitch, understand my hustle
That F3 style, for fiend boys
That Maserati place, say fiend boys
Them Prada jeans cost five hanks
But you broke niggas can't speak my language
Couple more shows, I'm a buy a Vanquish
Y'all moving slow like a pack of penguins
We do a show like a lone alliance
Big BSM chain covered in diamonds
Hoppin' out of them burgundy and gold
Looking like I'm one of them 49ers
Niggas know what time it is
'Bout a half a million worth of diamonds bitch
Y'all playing with loose change
I'm in your hood feeling like I'm at a shooting range
It's John Belushi, westside daddy
Came through his hood point the Mac .90 addie
We the BT boys hop up in the Magnum
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Aug 4, 2009
Hey man!
You answered my question and true to my word I just donated to your extremely worthy cause.
Your reply to my question (including your good luck karma!) was posted literally on the morning of the day I'm going to get tested! And after many previous questions went unanswered! Is it an omen? I don't know but it certainly has made me feel so much better.
Whatever the test result Dr B thanks for taking the time to address my worries.
All the very best to you and your folks,
V V Worried aka messed-up cookie x
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi Cookie,
Thanks for your thanks and your donation to the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation (www.concertedeffort.org). Both are warmly appreciated. In return I'm sending an extra dose of my good-luck karma that your test will be negative and your cookie will no longer be messed up! I suggest you start practicing your WOO-HOO, OK?
Good luck.
Dr. Bob
Seroconversion: symptoms? Aug 3, 2009
Dr B,
Seroconversion: does it entail symptoms like the ARS does?
Fever etc. will occur as symptoms of ARS in most ppl a few weeks after getting the disease, and then they will sero-convert usually about 3 months after, right?
When they seroconvert, does that process include symptoms like the ARS, or does it happen completely on the sly?
I'm scared sh*t of an exposure that on the face of it seems "low to non-existant" with a csw in amsterdam using a condom throughout that neither broke nor slipped. I experienced no ARS symptoms either. However I may have experienced a fever approx. 4.5 months after my exposure which i now look back on and have decided was me "sero-converting". It went on for months too. Does a fever accompany the conversion process? And is 4.5 months a valid amount of time to suspect seroconversion?
I have a persistent (months) swollen lymph node in my neck and CRP and e-sed blood exams as well as a chest x-ray all came back normal, which kind of worries me even more cos i'd rather they picked up something. my GF had a mystery fever that scared the sh*t out of me and all in all i'm a messed-up cookie that just needs a hiv expert to tell me my risk is remote and my symptoms don't fit so i can grow the ballz to get tested!
around the same time of 4.5 months after exposure i noticed an odd taste in my mouth that only pops up here and there but has persistently been there and i've never experienced it before this time and i know it's either the hiv or the oral thrush. what's the deal with funny tastes in mouth?
please address my questions and tell me to man-up and go get tested please Dr B I will donate to the foundation I just need some support from a knowledgeable professional and general kick-ass dude like yourself!!!
sorry for clogging up your inbox with my chyte!
all the best!
V V worried ! ! !
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello V.V. Worried (a k a "messed-up cookie"),
Seroconversion refers to the development of detectable levels of anti-HIV antibodies in the blood. In other words going from "HIV antibody negative" to "HIV antibody positive."
Acute retroviral syndrome (ARS) is a combination of symptoms that can accompany the seroconversion process. The severity and spectrum of these symptoms can vary greatly from person to person. Some folks have such mild symptoms they go unnoticed while others experience symptoms so sever they wind up in the hospital.
Most HIV-infected folks will have detectable levels of anti-HIV antibodies in their blood within four to six weeks after primary HIV infection. Some folks may take a bit longer to seroconvert. That is why we recommend waiting at least three months to get HIV tested.
I agree your HIV-acquisition risk is "low to nonexistent." A fever 4.5 months after your walk on the wild side in Amsterdam's red light district is not consistent with ARS. Symptoms of ARS manifest themselves two to three weeks after infection.
So, as requested, here is my advice. It's as simple as 1-2-3:
1. Man-up.
2. Grow a set.
3. Get tested. (You'll be glad you did!)
The results will undoubtedly be negative and you'll soon be screaming YABBA-DABBA-DO-WOO-HOO like a banshee in heat.
Thanks for the donation to the Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation (www.concertedeffort.org). It's warmly appreciated. In return I'm sending you my good-luck karma that your definitive HIV test is negative. I'm very confident it will indeed be negative.
I'd also suggest you peruse the wealth of information on this site and in its archives. You should find the information enlightening and encouraging.
Be well. Stay well. (Yes, you are indeed well.)
Dr. "Knowledgeable Professional General Kiss-Ass Dude"
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(Reuters) - The future of the Phoenix Coyotes remained in limbo on Friday after Greg Jamison missed a deadline to purchase the team before the lease agreement he had negotiated with the City of Glendale expired.
Despite another setback in the long-running ownership saga, the National Hockey League (NHL), which owns and operates the team, said in a statement it believes a deal can still be done.
"We remain hopeful the Coyotes sale process will be resolved successfully and we will continue to work with the City of Glendale to move the process forward," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said.
For more than three years, the NHL has been searching to find a buyer for the team they bought out of bankruptcy in 2009 for $140 million.
The league has resisted relocating the franchise but attempts to find a buyer have repeatedly hit roadblocks or fallen through.
Jamison is seen in many quarters as the league's last chance to find someone willing to roll the dice and keep the team in Phoenix, but the former San Jose Sharks CEO could not secure the necessary financing before the arena lease agreement with the City of Glendale expired at midnight on Thursday.
"Today, we were informed by the National Hockey League that Mr. Jamison was unable to close on his purchase of the Coyotes," Coyotes president and COO Mike Nealy said in a statement posted on the team's website on Friday.
"Mr. Jamison will continue to work with the NHL and the City of Glendale to close a deal that will keep the Coyotes in the Valley.
"Although there is no set timetable, hopefully it will be soon. The Coyotes will continue to be owned by the NHL and nothing changes for our organization."
Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto; Editing by Mark Lamport-Stokes


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Eredivisie Wrap: Twente topple Vitesse
Twente kept up their Eredivisie title charge as they beat fellow contenders Vitesse 2-0 on Saturday.
After dominating a goalless first half at De Grolsch Veste, Twente eventually took the lead 10 minutes into the second period when Luc Castaignos slotted the ball beyond Vitesse goalkeeper Piet Velthuizen.
The visitors' chances of mounting a comeback were dealt a blow five minutes later when Patrick van Aanholt was sent off for a late challenge on Dusan Tadic.
And the in-form Serbian topped an impressive display by scoring his side's second goal with a 78th-minute lob - his 10th goal in the league this season.
The result sees Twente climb to within a point of league leaders Ajax, who play on Sunday, while Vitesse could be eight points behind the Amsterdam club come the end of the weekend.
Den Haag's resurgence following the departure of Maurice Steijn continued as they climbed out of the automatic relegation spot with a 1-0 win at Roda, who went bottom.
Mitchell Schet scored the only goal of the game in the 53rd minute, as Den Haag went 16th.
It could have been an even better day for Den Haag, had NEC not recorded an impressive 3-1 win at RKC Waalwijk to climb to the safety of 15th position.
Romeo Castelen put the hosts in the ascendancy when he scored in the sixth minute at the Mandemakers Stadion.
However, NEC responded well and went in at the break 2-1 up thanks to goals from Navarone Foor and Lasse Nielsen.
English striker Michael Higdon made sure of the win midway through the second half to take NEC to within two points of their opponents in the table.
In the day's remaining clash, Utrecht gained a valuable point in their own fight against relegation with a 1-1 draw at AZ Alkmaar.


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I woke up early to go to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center in New York City. It is a world-famous cancer center, and Dr. Noy is a highly recognized specialist in cancers of the lymphoid immune system, especially lymphoma. I was warmly greeted by her secretary. The first day was a pretty long one simply because there was a long registration process that I had to go through in order to be able to interact with patients. Her secretary was so hospitable and made me feel comfortable in the office during the registration process. When I was finally allowed to enter the clinic around 3pm, I had unfortunately missed many of the patients, but I still got to see the last three patients and sit with Dr. Noy as she reviewed patient charts with a fellow. It was a very cool experience because I got to see what goes on behind the curtain as the doctors prepare to meet the patients, how they present the information to the patients, and then how they discuss patient responses afterwards. I learned that how you present the same information (framing) has a strong influence on the patient's understanding of the information and their subsequent decisions based on that information. I also learned that in most cases, if you lay the options out in a logical, simple manner, patients are more confident about making a decision on what treatment to take. So even though it ended up being a very short day in clinic, it was still a valuable experience.
The second day I attended a lecture by Dr. Groopman and his wife Dr. Hartzband in the Rockefeller Research Laboratory adjacent to the Memorial-Sloan Kettering main building. It was on medical decision-making, which was a very interesting topic for non-specialists and pre-meds like myself. Dr. Groopman was applying game theory to the medical setting, which made me interested in perhaps taking game theory before I graduate Princeton. I was able to understand everything in the lecture without any medical training, which I think made it even more interesting to me. Following the lecture, I followed Dr. Noy to do rounds with her. I then followed another Attending, and ended up doing rounds until noon. This was a very useful time for me, seeing the in-patients and also having time to talk to the interns and residents that were rounding with me. In addition to several MD's, one of them was an MD/PhD, another an MB/PhD (she got her medical degree from China, hence the MB), and I also met a clinical pharmacologist. It was great to interact with doctors who have followed different tracks to get there, and I was able to get their contact information in case I had questions later. I remember the MD/PhD intern telling me that she had taken the non-traditional route in doing MD first then transferring into an MD/PhD program, and inspiring me by saying something along the lines of: " You don't need to be so hung up on trying to plan out the next 10-20 years of your life. If you have a clear dream and goal, then even if it isn't the traditional route, you will be able to achieve it if you put in the effort." The rest of the day I spent with Dr. Lamanna in clinic. Her specialty is in leukemia, particularly in chronic lymphoycytic leukemia (CLL). It was interesting that patients with CLL tend to be older, and therefore they age with the disease and do not usually die of the disease, but with the disease. I loved that she has a very charismatic style of interacting with the patients; she was very outgoing and energetic when speaking with them.
The final day, I did rounds again, then attended a multi-disciplinary conference between various specialists in which they discussed two patient cases. Then, I spent the rest of the day in clinic with Dr. Noy. I witnessed a lumbar puncture, two bone marrow procedures, and longer patient-doctor discussions than on Monday. I felt that Dr. Noy has a very calm and witty way of interacting with the patients, and that she made the choices very clear for the guardians and patients in deciding which treatment path to take. It was very good to know that you can have real interactions with patients; not just 10-minute short encounters, but 30-40 minute sessions to really get to know the patient better. Also, there was a foreign couple who came in, and so a translator was on the phone translating between Dr. Noy and the patient. It was a very unique experience truly realizing what a global world we live in.
I am so grateful to Dr. Noy for this opportunity. She not only found time to allow me to shadow her, but also went out of her way to try to fill up my schedule so that I could meet different doctors and experience the various elements that make up a doctor's day-to-day life. She was very friendly and down-to-earth with me. I was happily surprised that in addition to being so accomplished in her career, she is also a singer and an artist. I was worried that I might have to give up my hobbies of singing and drawing if I become a doctor, but it was great to see a real example of someone who has managed to do all.


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#1 Earthquake Causes River to Disappear in Costa Rica07-15-2011, 02:49 PMFollowing a series of moderate earthquakes that struck the country Tuesday, residents around the Guacalito River in Costa Rica discovered that the river had disappeared. Earthquake-report.com reported that sometime after the earthquakes, villagers living near the river, which is located near Armenia de Upala, discovered that the river was dry.
It was not immediately known if the waters of the river had disappeared due to sinkhole activity that can occur after earthquakes or if the earth shaking caused damming that dried up the river near the Miravalles volcano. The quakes were centered near the Nicaragua and Costa Rica border in the same vicinity as the Miravalles volcano.
An entire body of water disappears? Strange but true, and this isn't the first time this odd event has happened.
In 2010, the Iska River in Slovenia disappeared after local residents heard loud crashing and banging overnight. The next morning, the river was dry and the riverbed was full of fish and other creatures. It was believed that the waters of the river had drained through a large crack into an underground riverbed. This disappearance was not believed to have been related to an earthquake.
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Cody Clark absolutely thought he would come through Sunday afternoon at Minute Maid Park. He felt it, sensed it, wanted it. The bases were loaded as he strolled to the plate. The Astros trailed by one and were down to their final out in the bottom of the ninth.
After 11 years in the minor leagues, Clark had called a brilliant game while guiding Dallas Keuchel through seven scoreless innings. Chia-Jen Lo blew the save in the top of the ninth, but the Astros loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning for Clark.
The storybook ending fell short, though. Blue Jays closer Casey Janssen deflected Clark's chopper to the second baseman for a groundout, sealing a 2-1 come-from-behind victory that allowed Toronto to avoid a three-game sweep.
"That's what movies are made of right there," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "If Janssen doesn't deflect that ball, it's probably a game-winning, two-RBI single and his first major league hit. And then, obviously, everybody in the clubhouse feels a whole lot different."
That's not to say it hasn't been a magical week for Clark, who took his family on the emotional rides of their lives.
Finally in control of the tears that overwhelmed him Thursday night, he began sharing the news of his promotion with the people who lifted him during his lowest moments and persuaded him not to give up on his childhood dream.
First he called his wife Jordan, who was already in Little Rock, Ark., after packing up the apartment Cody had left behind in Oklahoma City after he had been demoted to Class AA Corpus Christi. Pregnant and exhausted, Jordan was already getting into bed.
"What are you doing tomorrow?" Cody asked Jordan.
Jordan told Cody, 31, she planned to spend Friday shopping for the things they'll need once their baby girl arrives in January.
"Why don't you come to Houston instead?" Cody asked.
A long time coming
Nothing else needed to be said. Cody, a career minor leaguer with more dejection than celebration during his difficult road to the majors, was heading to the big leagues. Finally.
"I just started crying," Jordan said. "It was insane. It was really exciting. I was up that whole night. I slept for maybe an hour."
Cody's next call was to his parents, Doug and Carol. Twenty-seven years after Doug's career ended when the Oakland A's released him during spring training in 1976, a part of the former outfielder/first baseman was coming to the majors.
"What are you doing tomorrow, Dad?" Cody asked Doug.
Doug planned to mow the lawn, run a couple of errands and give a few baseball lessons Friday.
"Can you cancel that and get to Houston?" Cody asked.
Doug then held back tears before handing his wife the phone.
Carol broke down immediately, just as Cody had in front of Astros assistant general manager David Stearns, pro scouting director Kevin Goldstein and Class AA Corpus Christi manager Keith Bodie after he was told he was headed to the Show.
He reached the majors on Friday and made his debut as a pinch hitter for Jason Castro before catching later in that game. On Sunday, he got his first major league start before nearly 30 friends and relatives who made the trip from Arkansas, including his 91-year-old grandfather, C.L. Guinn.
Guinn wanted to surprise Clark, but Carol broke the news to her son late Saturday night. There are only so many good surprises a guy can take in a short span.
"That was amazing," Cody said. "My grandfather is 91 years old. He showed up today, and it was amazing. We lost our grandma (Wilma) during spring training, so it's been tough on him. It just meant so much that he was here today."
A week before he made his major league debut, Clark learned that his wife of three years was going to have a baby girl.
"We've been blessed lately," Jordan said. "We found out we're having a little girl last Friday. Then on Thursday he found out he was coming to the majors. It's been a very exciting time."
Close to quitting
Clark considered retiring after the 2012 season, just as he considered quitting after a disappointing 2008 season at Class AA.
"I told him I would support him in anything he would do," Jordan said. "But I thought he would regret it if he decided to give up. He's never been one to give up. He's never been one to quit. He is known for his dedication and work ethic.
"So he just said, 'I must be doing something right if I've been playing for this long.' "
Clark, who lined out to a diving Jose Reyes at short in the fifth inning, showcased his defensive prowess by throwing out Kevin Pillar attempting to steal second base in the fifth. He also threw out Reyes attempting to steal second in the eighth.
"I was really hoping that would get through," he said of Reyes' diving catch. "He made a good play. It was nice to be able to come back and throw him out."
And for a few minutes, it appeared as though the magical week would end in storybook fashion.
"There was no doubt in my mind I was going to get a hit right there, no doubt in my mind," Clark said after his first major league start. "I knew I was going to get a hit, but it didn't happen today."


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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday that the U.S. job market still needs help from the Fed and that the central bank must remain intent on adjusting its policy to respond to unforeseen challenges.
In her first major speech on Fed policy, Yellen sought to explain the Fed's shifting guidance on its interest-rate policy, which at times has confused or jarred investors. She said the Fed's policies "must respond to significant unexpected twist and turns the economy may make."
"Thus far in the recovery and to this day, there is little question that the economy has remained far from maximum employment," Yellen told an audience at the Economic Club of New York.
She said the Fed's forecast for moderate growth has changed little since last fall despite the severe winter. Fed officials still see only a gradual return to full employment over the next two to three years, Yellen said.
Yellen said the Fed continues to face challenges in its efforts to invigorate the economy's recovery from the Great Recession. It's been reducing its bond purchases, which have been intended to keep loan rates low to stimulate spending and growth. But the Fed has kept its benchmark short-term rate at a record low near zero since late 2008.
After taking over from Ben Bernanke on Feb. 3, Yellen presided over her first Fed meeting on March 18-19. At that meeting, the Fed pared its monthly bond buying by $10 billion for a third time to $55 billion. The Fed is expected to keep reducing the purchases at each meeting this year before ending them altogether by year's end.
At a news conference after the March meeting, Yellen had unsettled financial markets when she answered a question asking her to explain the Fed's commitment to keep short-term rates low for a "considerable time" after the bond purchases end.
Yellen said a "considerable time" could mean "something on the order of around six months." That startled investors, who viewed the comment as a signal the Fed might start raising rates by spring 2015, earlier than investors had been expecting. Many analysts don't think the first Fed rate hike will occur until late in 2015.
But in a speech in Chicago on March 31 and again in her remarks Wednesday, Yellen made clear that she thinks the still subpar economic recovery will continue to need the help of low rates for some time. An increase in short-term interest rates would elevate borrowing costs and could hurt stock prices.


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At the IBM Center for Applied Insights, we're always searching for new best practices to share with IBM, our clients, and the rest of the world. Which is why, at a recent team meeting, we gathered to discuss a new article from McKinsey. In "The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology", McKinsey outlines nine questions all boards should be posing to their company management in order to be "technology winners". You'll probably notice that few of these questions focus on the technology – they focus on how to get business value from the technology. These nine questions fit so well with what we try to accomplish at the Center, I thought it would be a good exercise to pull key insights from some of our studies to see how we are helping to address them:
1. How will IT change the basis of competition in our industry?
As we've seen in many industries, technology is radically changing the competitive landscape, allowing new companies to gain significant market share from established players. In our 2012 Tech Trends report, we segmented over 1200 respondents into 3 groups based on their organizational stance on emerging IT. What we discovered was that the leaders (Pacesetters) were ahead of their competitors in the mobile, analytics, cloud, and social business spaces. These Pacesetters believe emerging technologies are critical to their business success and are using them to enable new operating and business models to improve their competitive position.
2. What will it take to exceed our customers' expectations in a digital world?
Customer expectations are as high as they've ever been – customers demand an experience that is convenient, immediate and hyper-personalized. In "Why leading marketers outperform", we found that leading marketers deliver targeted, personalized messages to customers in real-time through channels such as social media and mobile. These marketers encourage innovation, measure every customer interaction and touch point, and collaborate regularly with IT. Compared to traditional marketers, these leaders have a three year CAGR that is more than 40 percent higher.
3. Do our business plans reflect the full potential of technology to improve our performance?
Investing in technology is expensive, but it can yield incredible returns and boost performance. We asked over 1500 IT decision-makers about their attitudes in the Platform-as-a-Service space in "Exploring the frontiers of cloud computing." We found that the leaders, or "Pioneers", were adopting PaaS as a way to drive innovation and improve application lifecycle across the enterprise. For these pioneers, benefits included increased resiliency, efficiency, data management integration, and optimization. According to one respondent, a VP of IT, utilizing PaaS can make a company "more nimble and cost-effective, with consistent performance and faster roll outs." Sounds like a pretty good payoff to me.
4. Is our portfolio of technology investments aligned with opportunities and threats?
A technology portfolio must clearly reflect current opportunities and threats, change regularly, and balance short and long-term technology investments. In our Sourcing study, we looked at CEMEX, one of the world's leading suppliers of cements, as an example of company that leveraged opportunity and minimized risks with its long-term sourcing strategy. CEMEX realized it needed to accelerate its transformation and become more agile to respond rapidly to new opportunities and threats. It engaged with a strategic sourcing provider to cut costs, improve productivity, and deliver transformative innovation. CEMEX built innovation into its sourcing contract by requiring the provider to invest annually in innovative projects that helped CEMEX achieve desired business outcomes.
5. How will IT improve our operational and strategic agility?
Across industries, customers expect new customized products and services, faster than ever before. In order to decrease time to market, companies can leverage IT to improve operational and strategic agility. We studied operations strategy decision makers from financial markets firms in "Beating market mandates: How winners are re-engineering financial markets operations" to better understand the characteristics of leading companies. The leaders in the study excel at meeting both regulatory and marketplace requirements, and typically introduce new products and services in 3 months or less. These leaders are extremely agile – focusing on improving access to analytics and reducing complexity.
6. Do we have the capabilities required to deliver value from IT?
At the Center for Applied Insights, many of our studies are about identifying and understanding the groups that get the most value from IT. Whether it's Chief Information Security Officers who have a mature security strategy, CMOs who act as Marketing Scientists and deeply understand their customers through analytics, or CFOs who accelerate performance through analysis and prescriptive insight, we want to understand the capabilities necessary to get the best possible value from IT.
7. Who is accountable for IT and how do we hold them to account?
Who "owns" IT is becoming increasingly difficult to determine. Leading organizations have clear operating models that determine accountability for IT activities – it's not just the CIO who is accountable anymore. In "Accelerating performance: The evolving role of the CFO", we discuss how the CFO must contribute to the company's IT strategy as well. This study looks back at the 2010 IBM Global CFO study, to see how the 2010 leaders are performing today. The outperformers excelled in finance efficiency and business insight, and continue to outperform financially today. However, in order for these leading CFOs to accelerate the performance of their organizations, they must now expand their influence beyond financial decisions to broader, strategic choices about business and operating models.
8. Are we comfortable with our level of IT risk?
With explosive growth in connectivity and collaboration, information technology is becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage – managing risk from IT must be an enterprise-wide priority. In our article series "Security Essentials for CIOs", we define an approach to manage all forms of IT risk, whether it is cybersecurity risk, IT compliance, risk to the supply chain or technology impacts to business transformation efforts.
9. Are we making the most of our technology story?
The McKinsey article could not have ended on a better question. We aim to bring stories to life – to show how leaders are building and advancing their businesses with IT. We use data to identify best practices, and communicate an IT story that addresses competition, strategy, value, performance, and risk.
Time and again, we've identified leaders in our studies and determined that these leaders are asking and getting answers to the nine questions above. If "digital technologies are disrupting industries," then to be a technology winner in any industry, companies need to ask the right questions about IT strategy, and, more importantly, act on the answers they receive.


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What happens if I throw up my birth control pill?
Sarah replies:I started a pack of combination birth control pills for the first time on the first day of my period as instructed and took it perfectly until the third week. In the third week, I was sick and that Wednesday about 20 minutes after taking my pill, I threw up. The following day, Thursday, I fell asleep very early (being sick) and missed the pill that night. (I usually take it at 8pm). I woke up at 11am on Friday and took the pill I missed and then took my usual pill at 8pm that night. I finished the pack and got my period. So I know I'm not pregnant right now and I was using condoms anyway. Now my question: When I start my next pack of pills, am I protected? Was the danger period from missing pills just until my period? The pill pack says I should have thrown out the pack after the second pill missed and started another pack but I didn't do that. So again, when I start up my new pack of pills will I be protected or am I in danger of still ovulating? And how long does it take for the pill to digest in your system? Because the pack says if I only missed one pill I am fine. But I don't know if the pill I took before I threw up counts.
Your pills should be fully effective beginning at the start of your new pack. Typically, problems with pills only affect that particular cycle (unless the problem itself carries over into the next pack). So as long as you don't have any problems during your next cycle, you should be well protected.
Generally, if you throw up less than 2-3 hours after taking a pill, you should assume that the pill may not have made it into your system. So if you threw up 20 minutes after taking your pill, then you would count that as a missed pill on Wednesday. Thursday's pill would probably be called "late" rather than missed. If you had been relying on your pill to protect you (which you probably would not have been doing anyway since this was your first pack and you usually want to wait one full pack before relying on it), then it would have been wise to consider your protection compromised. But in this case, since you used a condom without problems, you were still protected by that method.
Especially if pregnancy is absolutely not an option for you, a good rule of thumb is to backup or abstain for the rest of any cycle where you have had illness that caused you to vomit or to have missed (or late) pills. It's better to backup anytime you have any doubt or question than to have worries later.


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