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From 1994 through 1996, a general Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center reorganized its mental health services from a traditional discipline-based structure to a unitary service line organized around patient care functions. A comparison of data from 1993 and 1997 indicated increased efficiency, substantial transfer of patients from inpatient to outpatient care, and growth in academic programs not explainable solely by temporal, regional, or national trends or by trends within the VA medical center. Although the results should be interpreted conservatively because of the observational nature of the study, the reorganization appeared to facilitate the positive changes that occurred over the study period.
Clearly, it is important "to base development of new clinical services on sound principles … driven by well-constructed models" (1). However, few data exist for use in evaluating models for health service delivery.
Traditionally in Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers, as in many other medical centers, mental health services have been divided among several professional disciplines, each headed by a chief. Clinical activity is coordinated through a committee of chiefs and a matrix organizational structure. This discipline-based "stovepipe" organization is prone to several problems. The reporting structure can be complex. Reorganization, redeployment, and coordination of services can be difficult when multiple lines of authority exist. Workload expectations can be inconsistent.
An alternative organization is the health service line or product line (2,3), defined as "a comprehensive set of services to meet the needs of a particular segment of the market … or an integrated set of services … distinguished from other services by the technology or specialty employed"(4). A key characteristic of a health service line is organization around integrated services or patient care functions. For example, all disciplines and staff involved in cardiology or in mental health are brought together in a single structure.
Most reports about service lines are qualitative (5,6,7). One recent semiquanitative study of vertical integration of services for patients with schizophrenia—not a service line by the strict definition—resulted in a decrease in average inpatient length of stay from 90 to 30 days and a 15 percent increase in outpatient appointments (8). However, the observational study reported here is, to our knowledge, the first quantitative study of the impact of establishing a hospitalwide mental health service line for all diagnoses.
An extensive description of the setting, process of change, and results is available from the first author. Briefly, the Providence VA Medical Center is a medium-sized general medical center located in an urban, working-class area and serving a veteran population of 180,000 in Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and southeastern Massachusetts. The medical center served 14,800 veterans in fiscal year 1993 and 15,700 veterans in fiscal year 1997, the first and last years of data analysis in the study.
In fiscal year 1994 the director of the medical center requested a budget-neutral reorganization of mental health services to emphasize efficiency and continuity of care. The process included input from administrators, service chiefs, and frontline clinical and clerical staff. The process can be summarized conceptually in terms of three aspects.
First, clinical and clerical staff involved in direct delivery of mental health care were consolidated into a single mental health and behavioral sciences service. The consolidation included staff from the disciplines of psychiatry and psychology and relevant staff from social work, nursing, and rehabilitation medicine who were involved in providing mental health care. The sole exception was that inpatient nursing staff remained with the nursing service, for reasons of coverage and specialized competencies.
Second, line reporting relationships were reorganized so that staff in each of the six existing patient care programs reported to a coordinator or medical director, rather than to their discipline chief. These six programs were the inpatient unit; the outpatient programs, which included the substance abuse clinic, the posttraumatic stress disorder clinic, and general clinics; the community care day program; and the residential homeless program.
All possible combinations of reporting relationships among psychology, nursing, and social work staff resulted. Physicians reported to the medical director of their program, but coordinators directed day-to-day activities of all staff including physicians. Coordinators and medical directors reported directly to the chief of the mental health and behavioral sciences service, producing flat organizational structure of six clinical programs, each organized around their respective patient care functions.
Third, all patient care processes were reorganized by a series of multidisciplinary process action teams. For example, all new patients were funneled through a single assessment clinic to assign patients to specific programs on the basis of diagnosis, workload equity, and academic need. The reorganization was complete by the end of fiscal year 1996.
Data from before, during, and after the reorganization were derived from the administrative database. Quantitative variables were chosen on the basis of the medical center director's goals of maximizing "continuity, effectiveness, and efficiency of mental health care," echoing key parameters articulated by the VA undersecretary for health (3).
t1 summarizes changes in key service variables from 1993 to 1997. Over this period, the number of veterans served by the medical center increased by 21.1 percent, and use of inpatient services was reduced by 61.6 percent. Increased efficiency was evidenced by a concomitant decrease in mental health staff of 13.9 percent—.9 full-time equivalents (FTEs) for physicians; two FTEs for doctoral-level psychologists; one FTE each for master's-level social workers, registered nurses, and physicians assistants; and 2.1 FTEs for clerical staff. Staff reduction was achieved through attrition and consolidation of outpatient positions. No inpatient or outpatient clinical program was closed.
Without a formal controlled trial, the changes summarized in t1 cannot definitively be attributed to the establishment of the mental health service line rather than to other concurrent factors. Accordingly, we investigated several other potential contributing forces. First, it is not likely that the changes seen at this VA medical center were passively driven by temporal trends, although during the years of the study there were some clear trends away from inpatient care and toward outpatient care. For example, across VA medical centers nationwide, length of stay for mental health treatment decreased 11 percent (9), compared with 50 percent at our medical center. Inpatient mental health beds per 10,000 veterans decreased 31.2 percent nationwide, compared with 33 percent at our center. The percentage of resources dedicated to inpatient mental health care at VA centers nationwide as a percentage of total mental health resources decreased 11.2 percent. Finally, the number of veterans served by the VA New England regional network increased by 3.5 percent, compared with 21.1 percent at our mental health center.
Second, it is not likely that the patients seen after the reorganization were less severely ill, because several clinical severity indexes did not change on a regional network level (data available on request). Third, reductions nationwide in VA inpatient bed-days of 34 to 43 percent have been reported for major medical and psychiatric diagnoses between fiscal years 1992 and 1996 (10), compared with a 61.6 percent reduction at our mental health center. Fourth, no concurrent reorganizations were implemented at our medical center, and no other changes occurred that could explain these data. However, bed-days for medical-surgical care decreased by 41 percent over this interval.
Concern has sometimes been expressed that the formation of service lines can erode the academic mission of a health care organization by consolidating traditionally distinct professional disciplines. In fact, the number of psychology doctoral trainees remained stable at three FTEs, and psychiatry residents increased from nine to 10.5 FTEs, a 16.7 percent increase. Between 1993 and 1997, annual research funding for investigator-initiated grants to mental health clinical staff from federal agencies increased from $140,040 to $184,188, a 31.5 percent increase; in 1998 funds rose to $308,350, an increase of 120 percent over 1993 funding.
The limitations in this observational study are clear. First, quality of care was not directly assessed, and thus we cannot exclude the possibility that patients deteriorated clinically during this time. Second, sicker patients may have dropped out of treatment. However, the comparative national and regional data presented above reduce the likelihood of these possibilities to some degree. Third, it is possible that the changes were due in part to the idiosyncratic features of the personnel or hospital. Such site-specific factors likely do play a role, and we suggest that the reorganization played a facilitative rather than a causative role in the effects seen.
Several mechanisms may be involved, principally reorganizing work units around patient care functions and especially realigning reporting structures to support this reorganization. We suggest that these changes facilitated development of a function-based culture that in turn stimulated and supported reworking of patient care processes.
Clearly, controlled investigations are needed, especially those including direct measurement of quality of care and patient outcome. The findings of this study suggest some of the key components and mechanisms to consider in reorganizing and evaluating the delivery of mental health services.
The authors thank Martin Charns, Ph.D., for helpful comments on an early draft of this report. This report was partly supported by VA Health Services Research and Development grant DEV97-015.
The authors are affiliated with the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center (116A), Providence, Rhode Island 02908-4799 (e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.com). Dr. Bauer is also affiliated with the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University in Providence. Dr. Chirico-Post is with the office of the dean at Brown University.
Changes in service-related variables between 1993 and 1997 at a Veterans Affairs medical center that established a unified mental health service line1
1 The reorganization was implemented in 1994 and was completed in 1996
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RE: Merging Office of Environment, Safety and Health into Office of Safety and Security Performance Assurance
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edit: sorry to hijack this thread... it's a very frustrating problem
Posted 14 August 2009 - 08:11 PM
Also, want to add this link to thread gathering doctors and other experts admitting to the diet and acne connection:
Also, this thread is almost at 10,000 reads. Go team!
Posted 21 August 2009 - 02:48 PM
About Calcium- how much do you really need
You don't need as much as you think and that dairy and calcium supplement vendors try to tell you. Calcium deficiency is rare and the planet is filled with people that eat little dairy yet have strong bones. What you need is the other nutrients the body needs to use the calcium and to make bones such as D, Magnesium, Vitamin C, vitamin K, zinc and boron.
C is need to make new cells. Any new cell including bone cells. Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body. About 50% of total body magnesium is found in bone.
Calcium sources:
There's calcium in broccoli, spinach, almonds, and other greens and seeds, stock made by boiling bones. Fish bones as in canned sardines. all kinds of foods. Most calcium supplements come from rocks. The calcium in animal bones, shells and plants is much more usable by the body. A little acid (vinegar or lemon juice) added to veggies, egg shells and when boiling bones extracts more calcium. Make your own 'supplements.'
Your body takes minerals from your bones when it needs them.
Don't consume things that impairs the body's ability to use calcium or causes the body to take calcium from the bones. Like the phosphoric acid in sodas and other carbonated drinks, excessive amounts of caffeine, salt, sugar, alcohol, protein. Cigarette smoking. drugs like aspirin, antacids, cortisone and corticosteroids, antibiotics, Stress and depression.
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Posted 28 August 2009 - 09:55 AM
Use niacinimide. That's the only form I've seen any studies or references to studies on. And in the studies, they found a 5% solution provided the benefit. 5% = 1/20th. I never measure, but I figure you could measure a capsule and then add 19 of whatever that measure is of aloe.
Posted 30 August 2009 - 12:46 AM
Like I was saying though, this is easily one of the most helpful and informative threads in this ENTIRE section of the forum! Please pin it!!
Posted 14 September 2009 - 05:52 PM
And I've registered the domain name dietforacne.com. I haven't set the domain up on a server yet and when I do, it will probably just point here for quite a while because I should be doing other things, like working. But it might make it easier to find. Also, there's a link in my signature so all you have to do is find a post of mine. You can always use the pinned Food and Recipe thread as a quick way to find a post.
Also, I've added topics to do with oily skin, sebum quality and the impact of fats. There's little info in them, but I wanted to make sure people realize these are factors. And much of the info is already scattered elsewhere under other categories.
This thread is doing pretty good though. Over 12,000 reads, which I think is a lot for a thread that isn't an active discussion and is rarely on the first page of topics.
Oh, and here's a tip I just found, thanks to NatureMade: Nutrients measured in IUs are fat soluble while nutrients measured in grams (mg, mcg) are water soluble.
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Posted 15 September 2009 - 05:48 PM
The vast amount of info here is up-to-date with research... and I'm often browsing this post to further my understanding of the various supplements/ diet changes recommended to me by my doctor. This post definitely has good info for those of us with acne prone skin, but ultimately the info is relevant to general health as well. I think everyone trying to get clear will benefit from reading this post. (...though maybe they'll appreciate it more appropriately after researching acne formation, so that they also know the purpose/mechanisms of their various acne treatments.... and thus will further understand why the info here is valuable for any regimen...)
Thanks for keeping this updated, alternativista!
Posted 21 September 2009 - 07:28 PM
It would be great to get this turned into an E-book haha, or just a book... I'd love to have this in a little hard cover, handy whenever I need information.
Thanks so much
Posted 11 October 2009 - 07:06 PM
List of members who've cleared their skin via diet and healthy lifestyle.
Posted 20 October 2009 - 08:47 PM
I would like to add, if it isn't in a link here, that for estrogen dominance, cruciferous vegetables are VERY helpful. Cruciferous veggies being: cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, and broccoli. I recall kidney beans being good as well. It really helps people with this and with PCOS, because they lower estrogen via some mechanism I can't recall.
PS - Did you used to be SweetJade?
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Posted 30 October 2009 - 10:50 AM
I would like to add, if it isn't in a link here, that for estrogen dominance, cruciferous vegetables are VERY helpful. Cruciferous veggies being: cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, and broccoli. I recall kidney beans being good as well. It really helps people with this and with PCOS, because they lower estrogen via some mechanism I can't recall.
PS - Did you used to be SweetJade?
Yes, they are mentioned under Good Things for Hormones as well as anytime sulfur is mentioned such as the sections on inflammation and liver health.
Now why would Sweetjade use another name? She's a hero. But I'll take that as a compliment.
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What is the relationship between overproduction of histamines and foods such as cinnamon?
I've only seen one published research study involving the relationship between cinnamon and histamine, and that study showed that cinnamon was effective in preventing excessive formation of histamine!
Certain foods do indeed have high histamine content. Histamine is a substance typically produced from the amino acid histidine. This amino acid is found in many protein-containing foods, especially if those foods have had time to age. When a food is high in the amino acid histidine and certain types of bacteria are given enough time to start metabolizing parts of the food, they can convert histidine amino acids found in the food's proteins into histamine. (In biochemical terms, they decarboxylate the histidine using a decarboxylase enzyme.)
Practically speaking, since this buildup of histamine from histidine in food can take a good bit of time, it is often aged, higher protein foods that contain larger amounts of preformed histamine. These foods can include fermented soybean products (like fermented soy sauce), many cheeses, and other fermented foods like sauerkraut. Aged meats can also contain higher amounts of preformed histamine. When fish starts to spoil-even before the signs of spoilage are detectable-there can be a buildup of histamine in the fish from this same bacterial process. For this reason, it's important to include the freshest of fish in your Healthiest Way of Eating if you are trying to avoid all preformed food histamines.
The histamine question gets more complicated, however, when you consider the digestion of any higher protein food. Certain bacteria found in the digestive tract can also take the histidine in any food and convert it into histamine. In other words, if a person does not have a fully healthy digestive tract, there is a chance that his or her body will end up with too much food histamine, not because that histamine is found preformed in food, but because the histidine amino acids in food are being converted into histamine inside of the digestive tract. In this case, avoiding high-histamine foods won't help a person nearly as much as restoring digestive vitality and digestive tract function.
In my book, The World's Healthiest Foods, I note that there are 160 milligrams of total protein in two teaspoons of ground cinnamon. I've been unable to find a breakdown of specific amino acids in cinnamon, but there would definitely be far lower than 160 milligrams of histidine in two teaspoons of cinnamon because there would be a pattern of various amino acids in this spice (like in every spice). For this reason, cinnamon would be an unlikely source for much histamine exposure (either preformed in the spice or formed upon breakdown in the digestive tract).
One nutrient that stands out in the histamine allergy research is vitamin B6. In the cells that line our digestive tract (and elsewhere in our body as well) there are enzymes called diamine oxidases. These enzymes can break down histamine into other substances before it gets absorbed into our bloodstream. They are also enzymes that require vitamin B6 to function. Making sure that you've got optimal B6 intake is one way to help lower the risk of histamine reaction in your body. In my book, you'll find a full profile of vitamin B6 and food that provide it in the greatest quantity.
For more information on this topic, please see:
Vitamin B6
Csaba G, Kovacs P, Tothfalusi L, et al. Prolonged effect of stress (water and food deprivation) at weaning or in adult age on the triiodothyronine and histamine content of immune cells. Horm Metab Res. 2005;37(11):711-5.
Oguri S, Enami M, Soga N. Selective analysis of histamine in food by means of solid-phase extraction cleanup and chromatographic separation. J Chromatogr A. 2007;1139(1):70-4.
Sato T, Horiuchi T, Nishimura I. Simple and rapid determination of histamine in food using a new histamine dehydrogenase from Rhizobium sp. Anal Biochem. 2005;346(2):320-6.
Wood JD. Histamine, mast cells, and the enteric nervous system in the irritable bowel syndrome, enteritis, and food allergies. Gut. 2006; 55(4):445-7.
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Would it be wise to eat an assortment of raw veggies, nuts, etc.? I tend to think stews and soups are tastier and easier to eat, but I guess it would be best to eat more like a hunter-gatherer, and reduce the number of cooked meals? Let your stomach get good 'isolated' exposure to one food at a time, and then move on to another food for the sake of variety?
Thanks for all the info in the thread, I've just begun my exploration into the dietary side of this whole thing. I have discovered two things that severely impacted my acne in the past: The use of harsh cleansers, and ejaculation. As soon as I stopped the cleansers, my facial acne reduced immensely. As soon as I reduced ejaculation to 1x per week tops, my acne subsided! I'm try to bolster my system overall so that I CAN have sex comfortably without worrying so much about the effects of it. But I guess ultimately the first step is the acknowledgment of the problem.
Posted 18 January 2010 - 05:13 PM
Would it be wise to eat an assortment of raw veggies, nuts, etc.? I tend to think stews and soups are tastier and easier to eat, but I guess it would be best to eat more like a hunter-gatherer, and reduce the number of cooked meals? Let your stomach get good 'isolated' exposure to one food at a time, and then move on to another food for the sake of variety?
You should eat a variety of raw foods for the enzymes and nutrients damaged by heat, but stews and soups are good too. Also, try stir fries and curries with lots of onions, garlic, ginger, tumeric and heavy on veggies like cabbages, kale, broccoli, sweet potato, etc. These quicker cooking methods without a lot of water minimize nutrient loss. Cook just until done. When the veggies start turning from bright green to brown, nutrients have been destroyed. And the spices are also highly anti-inflammatory. Also cook legumes like lentils with onions, garlic, maybe add tomatoes, maybe curry powder, with greens thrown in when it's all cooked. You can of course, add shrimp, chunks of fish, chicken, etc to these dishes, but you'll have to figure out the timing to keep from overcooking anything. Fish and shrimp cook really fast as do greens, broccoli, etc. This is how I eat most days and I try to keep a pot of something on hand ready to eat all the time, with a serving or two in the freezer as well.
I frequently make curry with lots of onions, sweet potatoes, peas, then chopped spinach or whatever green I have in the freezer thrown in when everything else is done. Then add either a little coconut milk or yogurt. The potatoes make it seem like a comfort food, yet it's very nutritious.
You could also try sticking to hypo-allergenic foods, which also happen to be good nutrient-dense and anti-inflammatory foods. There's a link to info under Food Intolerances.
Do check out the food and recipe thread for lots of meal ideas and recipes:
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 08:51 AM
I'm far from clear and I don't want to tempt fate but if I had to guess at a post that could potentially fix me, this would be it!
Just showing some appreciaiton, keep up the good work..
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Just bumping this thread as its a very good starting point for anyone new to the diet/holistic scene!
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The Omron NEC 801 compressor nebulizer incorporates Virtual Valve Technology (V.V.T) that enhances the delivery of medication. With this Virtual Valve Technology, the nebulizer is able to produce more aerosols of respirable size for you to inhale. This unique V.V.T design produces results in lesser parts of aerosol that could be lost and wasted, hence reducing medication wastage.
BodyOne of the lightest compressor nebulizer produced by Omron, this nebulizer weighs just 270 g making the device extremely compact and portable. Built to provide ease of use, this nebulizer machine comes in four main parts comprising of the main compressor unit, tubing, medication cup and the mouthpiece with extra face masks that can be alternately used. The compressor unit, which is lightweight and small, houses an on/off button for easy operation and a durable PVC material tubing, that connects the unit to the medication cup and mouthpiece. The compressed air passes through these tubes to convert medication solution contained in a medication cup, into aerosols or mist. The medication cup is capable of holding 7 ml of medication solution.
The medication cup is connected to a mouthpiece that allows you to inhale the medication with ease. If you are not comfortable using the mouthpiece, you have the choice of using a face mask. The nebulizer device comes with an adult and child mask, hence making it ideal for everyone, irrespective of their age.
Performance and Features
The NEC 801 compressor nebulizer by Omron leveraged by its V.V.T design delivers sufficient medication to your lower airways at an average nebulization rate 0.3 ml per minute. Unlike many compressor nebulizers, the compressor unit in this device allows for a very quiet operation with a very low sound level of 46 dB. This nebulizer machine also provides 5 spare air filters that are replaceable, thereby meeting hygiene standards. The filters reduces the chance of infection by removing bacteria from the gas delivered to you, thus preventing normal air particles from polluting your compressor.
The Omron compressed nebulizer produces a particle size of 3 μm, hence making it feasible for these tiny particles to infiltrate into the narrow branches in your lower airways. The Mass Median Aerodynamic Diameter (MMAD) of the aerosol in this nebulizer is 3 μm. The MMAD is associated with quantifying aerodynamic particle size distribution or the average of the distribution of aerosol mass with respect to aerodynamic diameter.
This compressor nebulizer machine operates soundly at a temperature ranging from 10 to 40 degree Celsius and humidity ranging from 30 to 85% RH. You can store the Omron compressor nebulizer at a temperature ranging from 25 to 60 degree Celsius with a humidity ranging from 10 to 95% RH. The NEC 801 Omron compressor nebulizer uses electricity with a power supply of 100 - 240 v and 50/60 Hz. The device consumes only 7.2 W of power supply making the nebulizer machine environment friendly.
|In The Box
|Sales Package
|Air Tube (PVC, Adult Mask (PVC), Compressor, Nebulizer Kit, Child Mask (PVC), Instruction Manual, 100 cm), Mouthpiece, 5 pcs Spare Air Filters, Carrying Bag, AC Adapter
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|Width (cm)
|14.2 cm
|Depth (cm)
|9.8 cm
|Weight (gram)
|270 g
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|Mmad (micro m)
|3 µm
|Medication Capacity (ml)
|7 ml
|Average Nebulization Rate (ml/min)
|0.3 ml/min
|Particle Size (micro m)
|3 µm
|Device Characteristics
|Storage Humidity Range Max(%RH)
|Operating Temperature Range Max(DegC)
|Storage Temperature Range Min(DegC)
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|Operating Humidity Range Max(%RH)
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|Power Required
|100 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz
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|1 Year Omron India Warranty and Free Transit Insurance.
omron nec 801 compressor Nebulizer Low noise compared to NEC 28,
Length of pipe is less compared to NEC 28, working fine till now.
delivered in good condition. simple to use with less residue
omron nec 801 compressor Nebulizer Low noise compared to NEC 28,
Length of pipe is less compared to NEC 28, working fine till now.
delivered in good condition. simple to use with less residue
i bought this nebulizer two weeks back and I am not really happy with it. The reason why i chose this one was because it claimed to have less sound...my baby gets startled every time i switch on to give it to her. It hasnt solved my purpose.


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DETROIT (WJBK) -- Police are working to piece together events that led to the death of a Livonia grandmother found on Detroit's east side hours after she went missing.Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody says 88-year-old Lorraine McKaig was found nearly frozen, but still breathing, on the grounds of the Coleman A. Young International Airport after 11 p.m. Wednesday. Woody says earlier McKaig's vehicle crashed through an airport fence on McNichols, but she had no apparent injuries from the accident. She later died at a hospital."Why was she over there?" asked McKaig's granddaughter, Jodie Blankenship. "It's just so odd."Blankenship said her grandmother followed a strict routine that included lunch at Daly Restaurant, located near the location of a massive warehouse fire.Blankenship says her grandmother was apparently redirected from her route on Merriman Road. The road was closed due to the fire, but McKaig tried to get around a traffic barrier and was ticketed.McKaig's daughter, Sue Modzelewski, 61, of Blooomfield Hills believes she was turned in the wrong direction. ""She drove all the way to (Coleman A. Young International Airport). That's what we believe happened," Modzelewski tells the Detroit Free Press.McKaig was reported missing around 4 p.m.An autopsy was scheduled for Friday.Detroit and Livonia police say the investigation is ongoing.
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"I'm going to pee on Tylo now," I say to Jack, and march our toy-for-the-weekend into the bathroom. We're both naked, which I think would indicate I was serious, but once I have him inside he just stands there. "Get in the bathtub!" I say, with an unspoken "you moron".
He climbs into the hotel bathtub and lies down. I straddle him, one foot in the tub and one outside it, parting my vaginal lips with one hand. And once again I discover what Bitchy Jones said is true: in the excitement of getting to pee on someone, you're often too excited to relax and let go.
I struggle for a few minutes, only releasing a trickle, and Jack says something disparaging about how girls never can pee on command. He takes his cock out, and there's a pause.
"You can't do it either!" I crow.
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Lehigh County telemarketer will pay $75,000 to resolve claims of illegal solicitations
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Linda Kelly today announced that an agreement has been reached with a Lehigh County telemarketer to resolve claims that the company illegally solicited charitable contributions and portrayed themselves as members of fraternal organizations, including firefighters and constables.
Kelly identified the company as Atlantic Productions, 1633 W. Allen St., Allentown. Atlantic Productions operates as a telemarketing fundraising firm on behalf of a variety of nonprofit organizations.
According to the Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC), Atlantic Productions called consumers to solicit charitable contributions while not properly registered with the Pennsylvania Department of State and misled donors into thinking that they were speaking with firefighters, constables or other public safety officials instead of paid professional solicitors.
Kelly said that Atlantic Productions hired some callers who had prior criminal records that included theft or dishonesty.
Additionally, donors were led to believe that their donations would benefit their local municipalities when in reality the money would only go to membership or fraternal groups.
Atlantic Productions also sent donation confirmations entitled "official receipt" along with stickers and decals displaying an "official" constable sticker, which is illegal under the Solicitations of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act.
Kelly noted that warning letters were sent to Atlantic Productions' clients for failure to properly oversee their telemarketers' fundraising activities.
In addition to the Pennsylvania State Constables Association, Atlantic Productions also raised funds for the Reading Police Beneficial Association, International Association of FireFighters Local 302 Allentown, Fraternal Order of Police Queen City Lodge #10 Allentown, and the Rajah Shiners A.A.O.N.M.S. of Reading.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB)---Some businesses along Frankfort Avenue are banding together after recently being hit by thieves.
The incidents have happened during the day in the Crescent Hill neighborhood.
"We had about 3-4 customers in the store, so it was a pretty brazen attempt at robbing us," says Ian Herrera.
Ian Herrera is manager of the Heine Brothers Coffee, near the corner of Frankfort Avenue and Bayly Avenue.
He says, within the last few weeks on a Monday, the store was robbed at 1:30 in the afternoon.
"It was a gentleman about a little over six feet tall, on the skinny, lanky side. He had most of his face covered. He had a surgical mask, sunglasses, and a tight fitting ball cap," says Ian Herrera.
He says the man threatened them with something in his pocket, but never showed a weapon. He says the man demanded cash, even skipping the tip jar on the counter.
Authorities say LMPD's Robbery Unit is investigating the incident.
A few stores away at the Crescent Hill Trading Company, there has been another incident within the last few weeks, but not a robbery.
The person waited until an employee turned their back, to then take money.
Kathy Schmitt says her dog is usually a good deterrent, but wasn't at the store that day.
"It really hurts small business when you get that wad of cash to go out the door," says Kathy Schmitt, Owner of the Crescent Hill Trading Company.
As a result of the recent robbery and theft in the Frankfort Avenue area, business owners say they are on alert and looking out for one another.
"So we're just trying to get the word out to people to be more vigilant and maybe not turn your back, but just to kinda greet people when they come in the door and just make sure they know that you know they're in the shop," says Kathy Schmitt.
Schmitt is hoping customers will continue to stay loyal during this time, and that whoever is responsible for the recent incidents will soon be caught.
"We've just been offering each other kind words and making sure that we know the description between each of these different incidents, and we're definitely watching each other's back around here," says Ian Herrera.
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So I'm posting this two months late, but it's better late than never, right? This was my Purim costume which is basically like Halloween but we don't go trick or treating. I had no time to actually make a costume from scratch so I had to make do with stuff I had lying around the house, thankfully I have a weird wardrobe so this wasn't as difficult as this sounds.
The skirt is my Mystery Pocket Skirt
I had some fabric lying around and was inspired by a tie I saw on the internet so I decided to make it. I never actually wore this but it turned out perfect for my costume!
Last but not least, I made the hat especially for the occasion, it came out a little smushed but I'm proud at my first attempt at making the hat.
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Yelp Faces an Uphill Battle
Ishfaque is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
Shares of the online consumer review company, Yelp (NYSE: YELP), got battered after its Q3 earnings release. Yelp operates in an extremely competitive environment in the Local Ad space by connecting consumers with local businesses. It broadly competes with almost all of the leading search engines and a number of smaller regional companies for Local Ad dollars and commerce based deals. Intensified competition and low margins have impacted Yelp's bottom line, and it has not swung to profitability yet.
Revenue stream
Yelp's revenues come in mainly from the Local ad space consisting of performance and impression based advertising and enhanced profile pages which amounted to $28.5 million. Local revenue was 78.3% of total revenues, whereas the revenues from brand advertising were $5.9 million, and the rest was from Yelp deals which stood at $2 million.
Revenues are growing rapidly, but profitability hasn't gained any ground at all. Top line growth for Yelp has been stellar, but mainly due to its small size and aggressive sales and marketing. Yelp's expenditure on the Sales and Marketing front has been roughly ~63% of its total revenue in the first nine months of 2012.
Gaining momentum in mobile
Yelp made material progress in its mobile ambitions thanks to Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) integration of the Yelp mobile app in the iOS 6 system, and also the integration with Apple Maps aided to stimulate user engagement and acquire more user eyeballs. In Q3 2012, more than 8.2 million people accessed Yelp through a mobile device which represents Y/Y growth of 64%. In addition to Apple's iOS, a substantial amount of traffic came from Android users as well. Growth in the number of mobile devices coupled with expansion in Europe will provide the additional tailwind to drive Yelp's mobile traffic.
A staggering 45% of all Yelp's search queries are conducted on mobile devices, and management indicated on the Q3 conference call that the click-through rate on mobile devices is significantly higher than on desktop, which would help in attracting more businesses to advertise on mobile when it starts rolling out local ads on mobile devices.
International ambitions
Yelp currently doesn't generate any revenue from its international locations, but has made investments to turn that around. Yelp acquired another cash burning business in the form of Qype, and it is closing down the 'Email Deals' unit of Qype. Qype will provide Yelp with a lot of traffic and online content to get access into key strategic markets such as Brazil, Germany, UK etc. However, Qype will only aid in top line revenue growth and cause net losses to expand even more.
Intensely competitive landscape
Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) integration of Google+, Google Maps, Zagat Survey and Frommer's to form Google+ Local will surely give Yelp a run for their money. Google had its sights on the local content for a while now, it had previously attempted to acquire Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Yelp before, so the tech behemoth is pretty adamant in its ambitions.
In 2011, ~42% of Yelp's reviews came from restaurants alone. Zagat Survey ran as a paid subscription service and recently Google has made the service free on its search engine. Detailed ratings, reviews, photos and directions in the map pop up in the top right hand corner, once a user searches for the name of a restaurant that has been reviewed on Zagat. In addition, the Google+ Local service connects users with recommendations from friends on Google+ who have visited and wrote a review on Zagat Survey, thus gaining more credibility compared to taking advice from complete strangers.
Yelp's revenue model of hiring a large sales force to sell ads and commerce deals to local businesses is very similar to the one employed by Groupon. Yelp competes with Groupon for local deals, and at the end of Q3-2012, there was more than 40,000 deals on Yelp.com.
However, Groupon operates at a much higher volume of sales, has a more diversified product portfolio and a larger cash hoard to operate with relative to Yelp. After Yelp's deal with Qype closes, its cash position will fall below $100 million, and recurring net losses can cause incremental damage to its cash balances.
The Bottom line
Yelp operates in a business which does not have a durable competitive advantage. In addition, small business owners are a lot more likely to pursue direct mail and other forms of traditional offline advertising, and are also more skeptical of using their small advertising budget online.
In addition, the scary part is a disproportionate portion of Yelp's traffic comes from Google's search function. Google, being the clear-cut 800 pound gorilla in the Internet space, has already ramped up its pursuit of local advertising dollars.
An unprofitable company with strong revenue and user growth will likely be a takeover candidate. While an acquisition is possible, but the chances of that coming to fruition is very minimal and because of Yelp's dual class structure which hands the company's insiders ~96.7% of voting control.
Putting the pieces of the puzzle together, one thing is for certain, substantial headwinds lie ahead.
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The Devil May Cry series have been around awhile and it's fast and visceral brand of hack 'n' slash action has spawned the likes of the mega selling God of War series. The series has been long due for the reboot and veteran game development studio Ninja Theory have taken on the challenge. The result is one of the most memorable, stylish, engaging and furious games you will ever play. Click next to find out why.