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I will literally believe anything Paul Giamatti tells me. He could walk up to me right now and tell me the sky is green and I'd high five him and say, "Right on! I love your movies". So if he tells me that "Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires" is still going to happen then I believe him. The film would be a sequel to 2002's "Bubba Ho-tep" and Giamatti would play Colonel Parker, the former manager of Elvis. How awesome would it be to have Giamatti as your personal life manager? Just wake up and he tells you what to eat and stuff? He's not in the best shape so that might not work out but still. He seems like a nice guy.
Good news kids. "The Walking Dead" has officially been picked up by AMC for a fourth season. But there's some bad news also here. Glen Mazzara, the guy who replaced Frank Darabont as the shows driver, has left the show as well. No word yet on who will replace him but word on campus is the reason for the split is a difference of opinion between Mazzara and AMC. Really just makes me think how happy I am that Eric and I came to an agreement on who should be the drunk one on the podcast pretty quickly.
I'm just going to come right out and say it. I love the movie "Mean Girls". I guess a lot of people do though so I'm not really admitting anything crazy here. Whatever, I'm sorry I let you into my soul now. The reason I bring up the film is because it's director, Mark Helmer, has been tapped to direct a new coming of age vampire flick titled "Vampire Academy". Based on the book with the same name the story tells the tale of a young lass who travels to a hidden school where she learns the ways of a special breed of vampires who can walk in the daylight. Honestly this sounds like some sort of Skinamax flick and I pray they land Lindsay Lohan as the lead.
Hey it's Friday the 13th! I completely forgot that when I got dressed this morning and just randomly put on my Jason mask t-shirt. Now I feel like that guy who wears the shirt of the band he's going to see to their concert. Only more white trash. Unless that band is White Trash, who had the second most popular song about pie in the 90's.
I wish I could stop talking about Daniel Radcliffe. I'd give anything really. But here's a new clip from "The Woman In Black", which stars the little bugger as a lawyer sent to a remote village to sort out the paperwork of a recently deceased client. In the clip he's all napping and looking so god damn cute I could just squeeze him. Oh here I go again! What did the doctor tell me? Oh yeah. I should want to invite Daniel Radcliffe over for dinner. I shouldn't want to cut into him, and wear his skin as a Key to other worlds and dimensions.
Ah crap. NBC has put in a order for a new series based on everyone's favorite blood sucker, Dracula. The show, which is cleverly titled "Dracula" is being described as "Dangerous Liaisons meets The Tudors" or in "Joe Terms" a movie I never saw crossed with a TV show that made me feel like I had just eaten a box of Fig Newtons and washed it down with a Fresca. Think about that for a few minutes.
Speaking of things that make me feel like less of a man here's a new look at Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket from the upcoming big screen adaptation of "The Hunger Games". I don't know why it makes me feel like less of a man but when I look at the picture I feel like I should say things like "No white pants after Labor Day" and "Oh I can't wait for Fashion Week".
I love the movie "Fargo" but apparently not as much as this guy in California who got himself pulled into a wood chipper. Of course he died, which is awful. I only hope someday if I died in a strange way some prick on the internet will post the new article about it with some stupid sarcastic movie reference. It's kind of a dream of mine.
And here's a story about a woman who is under arrest after she bit two children at a California book store. Serves them right for going into a book store. That kind of crap doesn't happen at video game stores where kids should be.
Over the past two years, Rob Zombie has been making waves in the movie world with his renditions of "Halloween" and "Halloween 2". One of his lesser known side projects has been his adventures in the world of comics. Just as is the case with his films, his comic book ventures have had both detractors and fans. One of the products to come out of this experiment of his is the character of El Superbeasto, the foul mouthed and over sexed luchadore hero.
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Left Behind is a popular series of apocalyptic fiction novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. It is the story of a post-rapture world, after all the Christians disappear.
Left Behind was adapted into two movies (so far) which star Kirk Cameron.
Left Behind has also inspired a video game; Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
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My wife swiped a pole going through the drive-thru and damaged the side of my truck. What now?
Unfortunate. I hope you have collision coverage -- that will pay for the damage to your truck, minus your deductible. If you're not going to get a lot of money out of the claim after your deductible is subtracted, it may not be worth filing a claim. It's better to keep your claim record clean than to get a small amount of insurance money.
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Van Moody, author of "The People Factor, How Building Great Relationships and Ending Bad Ones Unlocks Your God-Given Purpose," says the right relationships can propel you to great heights of achievement; the wrong ones will tether you to mediocrity and mire you in disappointment.
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What are essential elements of a successful professional relationship?
It depends on two people agreeing to give and take; it requires mutual pursuit and promises joint benefit. Successful professional relationships are possible when people respect each other and share the same values. It is a state of being mutually connected for positive purposes with positive results.
Define a toxic relationship.
You're in a toxic professional relationship with a boss or peer when they:
» Stifle your talent and limit your opportunities for advancement
» Twist circumstances and conversations to their benefit
» Chide or punish you for a mistake rather than help you correct it
» Remind you constantly or publicly of a disappointing experience or unmet expectation
» Take credit or withhold recognition for new ideas and extra effort
» Focus solely on meeting their goals and do so at your expense
» Fail to respect your need for personal space and time
How can one establish a healthy relationship with toxic people?
Setting boundaries is one of the best ways to effectively work with unhealthy people. While you may not be able to change the tone of the relationship, we teach people how to treat us by what we allow. Healthy boundaries keep frustration and confusion low. Boundaries remind people of what is acceptable to you and what is reasonable to expect from you. Boundaries prevent unhealthy people from taking up too much of your time, energy, or resources — all precious commodities in the workplace. Toxic people don't like boundaries because they want to shift responsibilities according to their mood or the project. It is important to recognize that toxic people create work environments that mirror their personal environments. They want to operate where they are most comfortable. They will not set boundaries for you.
What are some exit strategies?
There are important questions a person must ask themselves when they have to end an unhealthy business relationship: How should I think about this situation? What do I say to bring closure to the relationship? And how do I respond to others when they ask about the other person? It's important for you to be very clear about where your career is headed and why it requires the relationship to change. That way, you can muster up both the boldness and kindness to do it. If, after you decide to end the relationship, you should:
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Japan rolls out 500 robots that detect levels of pollen in the air so allergy sufferers can gauge the threat when headed outside.
A simple kit currently seeking funding on Kickstarter allows you to use your smartphone's camera as a 150x microscope.
Hello's Sense sleep system tracks your z's to give you the best rest possible.
Sunny and warm, or cloudy with a chance of rain? These weather apps will keep you in the know.
Human reproduction would not respond well to changes in gravity, according to work performed by a biologist at the University of Montreal.
The AirGenius 5, Honeywell's new "smart" air cleaner, is now available in Target stores.
We've got some ideas for how you can while away the hours while Sony's PlayStation Network remains down. How about PC gaming, social gaming, changing your passwords, or heading outside (just kidding on that last one!)?
Creating a tiny version of a coaxial cable, researchers at the University of California at San Diego create smallest laser to date, an advance that could lead to optical computer chips or high-resolution displays.
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Speed up your web server with memcached distributed caching
Swiss Cheese
To prevent RAM fragmentation, the daemon uses a slab allocator [6] for memory management. This method specializes in repeatedly reserving and releasing small chunks of memory. In the case of memcached, small means a maximum of 1MB; the daemon will not accept anything bigger than this. If you want to store more, you need to distribute the data over multiple keys or use a different caching system.
Memcached does not concern itself with security. Clients do not need to authenticate against the daemon. Anybody who can access the network can access the cache without reserve. An attacker who knows the usernames behind the keys can systematically ask all the daemons for these names. Cryptic keys can help provide some rudimentary protection. To generate them, you need to hash the usernames in the scope of your own application and then use the results as keys. All account data should be deleted from the cache after use. Also, it is a good idea to define a limited lifetime for the data and to add more layers of security, starting with a firewall to protect the server farm against outside attacks.
Memcached is easy to set up and integrate with existing applications, but this convenience comes at the price of a number of worrisome vulnerabilities. If you manage to address these issues, you get a very fast, distributed cache that will not fail you – even in extreme conditions. The system demonstrates its value day after day on LiveJournal and Slashdot. At the same time, the system is extremely frugal. Because memcached mainly generates hashes, CPU power is not at a premium, and you can even use older computers as cache providers.
- Memcached: http://www.danga.com/memcached
- Overview of client libraries: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Clients
- Inside the protocol: http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/MemcacheBinaryProtocol
- Libmemcached: http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html
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This map makes me jealous of your skills!
This is fantastic. I love the cross section views. Gives the map a whole new dimension.
This map makes me jealous of your skills!
I want to live there.
Awesome, I imagine smelling pine trees when looking at the cross sections.
This map is great! I love the side views!
Great use of plan and elevation.
The colors of the map are beautiful, great work!
The cut aways are a very interesting element. And I like the effects of the water in the shores. It is simi old school looking. Wonderful!
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You may have seen pictures of Lady Gaga on stage on her Born This Way Ball tour over the past few months, but don't expect the singer to be sporting those same outfits when the tour hits the U.S. next year.
The singer tweeted , "THE BORN THIS WAY BALL is getting a face-lift for America. I heard rumors @VERSACE IS CUSTOM DESIGNING ALL THE CLOTHES AND NEW LOOKS."
Gaga also promised more fun activities for her U.S. fans when the tour gets underway January 11 in Vancouver.
She tweeted, " #BTWBALL in America will have a tailgate gypsy party being thrown by @BREEDLOVENYC and @ladystarlightny EVERYDAY pre-show in parking lot." Breedlove and Lady Starlight are two old musical pals of Gaga's.
In other Lady Gaga news, she's continuing her association with Barneys, the swanky New York City department store she teamed up with last year to launch her pop-up store "Gaga's Workshop." She's one of several celebrities featured in a new display in the store's legendary Christmas windows, which are being unveiled Wednesday.
According to Women's Wear Daily , the display features an animated film called Electric Holiday , in which Minnie Mouse dreams of being a fashionista. As Minnie imagines herself traveling to Paris Fashion Week, she meets animated versions of some of fashion's biggest icons, including Sarah Jessica Parker , Linda Evangelista , and Gaga, pictured how she appeared on a recent cover of Vogue , with sky-high blonde hair and a purple dress.
Electric Holiday will be projected on LED tiles that cover the Barneys ground floor facade.
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WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) - The man hospitalized after a drive-by shooting at the Wally World Bar near Waupaca has been released from the hospital. Waupaca County Sheriff's Captain Don Conat confirms that 35-year-old Rickey Stoflet Junior was sent home from Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah Monday.
Stoflet was shot when a number of bullets from a moving vehicle penetrated the walls of the tavern March 23rd. Stoflet was in the attached living quarters when the shooting took place around 3:00 a.m.
Investigators are still trying to find the two people that fired the weapons. They believe the car is a four-door Chevrolet Impala made between 2000 and 2005, and is light in color.
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Published by Steve O'Donnell on Monday 11th February 2013, 14:06 | Related | Filed Under
Why do many small businesses spend more money on coffee and tea than on their information technology systems? Working with Dell Computers, I recently moderated an expert Think Tank in Amsterdam covering how small and medium businesses invest in technology for growth. This was an incredibly insightful discussion from owners and managers in all types of small businesses and the challenges that they face.
The panel divided into two segments, on one side those that built their business on technology and a deep understanding of the strategic value of IT, the ways to leverage automation and an understanding of how to buy and operate these systems was a key differentiating advantage for them. On the other side of the discussion were a number of amazingly successful businesses who only used technology superficially within their business.
Undoubtably there are types of business where technology can have a disproportionate effect on the leverage of an SME. David Hatheramani of London based (but international focus) A Suit That Fits depends on technology to reach his clients, to leverage low cost manufacturing in Nepal and to help automate fitting. He is a CEO who understands technology and knows how to create leverage above and beyond his company size. A Suit That Fits now makes more suits than all of the tailors in Saville Row, London put together. Stéphanie Cardot CEO of TO DO TODAY, a Paris based corporate concierge service is also growing her business at a quite incredible rate but with limited technology leverage. Plainly TO DO TODAY is a great business and Stéphanie recognises that leveraging technology is key to continued growth and increased reach as she is searching for a key new hire, a director of digital marketing.
My key takeaway from the Think Tank is that many small businesses are hamstrung by a lack of understanding of how to leverage IT and how to vision a new way of working that encompasses appropriate use of technology. Many small business owners see all of the technology marketing from vendors but fundamentally fail to understand how to apply these innovations to their business to drive value and leverage. Technology companies and technology consultants are too focussed on products and not focussed enough on solutions. Recent research shows that small and medium businesses are adopting Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions very rapidly. Perhaps this is happening as these have a defined outcome, tend to be business aligned and don't require lots of scarce technology skills to integrate and exploit.
Small and medium businesses desperately need help and guidance from trusted technology advisors who can bridge the digital divide and deliver business leverage. SMEs will continue to treat technology investments as a cost of doing business rather than a fundamental point of leverage that enables automation, customer interaction and sustainable growth unless this digital divide can be bridged. There is a huge opportunity for smart systems integrators, innovative vendors and a new way of working with SMEs to really accelerate the creation of jobs and value in our communities.


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Six Spartans Qualify for 2014 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
March 5, 2014
EAST LANSING, Mich. - After a successful conference meet, the Michigan State track & field team has qualified six Spartans to compete at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M on March 14 and 15. The members of the team that will challenge the nation's best include Tori Franklin (triple jump), Antonio James (shot put, weight throw), Leah O'Connor (mile), Kurt Schneider (heptathlon), Rachele Schulist and Caleb Rhynard (3,000m).
Albuquerque or Bust
Joining them in their first indoor national competition will be Kurt Schneider in the heptathlon (No. 7 - 5,738 points), Leah O'Connor in the mile (No. 3 - 4:34.35), while Rachele Schulist (No. 11 - 9:06.85) and Caleb Rhynard (No. 16 - 7:53.34) each qualified in the 3,000-meter run.
Conference Honors
Earning First-Team All-Big Ten recognition was Franklin and O'Connor for their individual event wins, while Erin Billette, Alicia Evans and Aubrey Wilberdig were named to the All-Big Ten second team for their performances in the record-setting distance medley relay.
With a win in the shot put, James earned First-Team All-Big Ten honors on the men's side, while freshman Tim Ehrhardt received Second-Team All-Big Ten recognition for his runner-up finish in the pole vault.
Record Breaking Spartans
Tori Franklin and Leah O'Connor's set new conference championship records that were a combined 37 years old. Franklin's mark in the triple jump not only broke the meet record, but is the best jump in the history of the Big Ten since 2003. Accompanied by the storied history of the mile, O'Connor broke the previous meet record set by Suzy Favor-Hamilton in 1988.
Also rewriting the Spartan record books, the marks from Caleb Rhynard, Kurt Schneider and the members of the distance medley relay were a combined 44 years old.
Previous Record, New Record:
Climbing the Rankings
Regionally, the Spartan women finished second in the Great Lakes Region, while the men moved up to a seventh-place finish.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
all the single ladies...
This summer has been tough.
Beautiful and fun. But overwhelming and tiring.
My husband has been traveling a ton.
I have been traveling a ton.
It has been a constant dance of pack/unpack/pack/unpack, catch up, leave again... then repeat.
After two back to back trips and being without my husband for eleven days, a sweet and dear friend sent me the most wonderful text.
"I am bringing you dinner tonight."
Those were the exact words that I needed to hear that day.
Because it was one of those days.
A too long, short fused, counting down the minutes until bedtime, sort of day.
My girls missed their dad. I missed my husband.
I was tired. They were tired of me being tired.
Penny came in and brought happiness and comfort in a casserole dish.
Which led me to think about the single mamas who face what I was facing. Except it is every single night. The military wives who sacrifice so very much, while their dedicated husbands are fighting to keep this nation free. The women who selflessly, lovingly do double duty, and deserve all of the support we can extend them.
My eleven days were hard. But my eleven days were NOTHING in the grand scheme of life.
Think of a mama who could use a night off from cooking.
A mama who is so worthy of the comfort and thoughtfulness that a meal can bring.
Surprise them.
I promise that it will mean more to them than they will ever know.
It is fun and unexpected, and who doesn't love yummy breakfast for dinner?
Monkey bread is a delicious and easy treat to make. I have yet to meet a kid who didn't gobble it up.
breakfast bake can be assembled beforehand and also makes great left overs.
A two-fer.
I also send along a gallon of orange juice, as well as, pack paper plates, napkins, and disposable cutlery. Because what is almost as great as a night off of cooking? A night free from dishes.
I challenge you to think of someone you can bless.
Someone who could use some love in the form of cozy food.
There is nothing better.
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Awesome idea! I know that for the 3 years that my husband lived in Chicago and I lived in MI it was soooo hard. I had some good friends who would say "Let's go to dinner". How nice to not have to eat alone! I, also, had a great neighbor to help if something happened at the house. I feel for my single girlfriends and sister-in-law who is single. Lonely nights and lots to around the house all.by.yourself! I make sure to send them cards and little pick me ups (since we live states apart) just to give them something special that day.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing and suggestion of paying it forward!
Sounds wonderful, and I have so been blessed with family within 5 minutes of us and AWESOME neighbors, who when hear someone is sick, or stressed come to my rescue... I love them... Dinner is a HUGE blessing... I also love to bake, and so I don't eat ALL of my baked goods, I like to surprise them with treat just because too... Thanks for sharing your yummy recipes!ReplyDelete
As a proud wife of a US Marine, I thank you for seeing how hard our life can be. We call ourselves geographical single parents! But we wouldn't have it any other way! I will soon be alone with 4 kids and no husband for 14 months so keep the easy recipes coming!! Again thank you for seeing how hard it can be!ReplyDelete
Ooh, this post gave me chills! I'm not a wife or mother yet, but I do have sympathy for single mothers and military wives. This is such a great reminder to remember those very strong ladies!ReplyDelete
This is a great idea. We always do this for new moms, but certainly anyone would love this. A nice simple way to easily make someone's day!ReplyDelete
As a single mom, I can totally relate. Unfortunately most of my friends are on the other side of the block. Many have never even seen my new place of almost a year, much less come hang out or bring dinner since my divorce. So many 'married' friends seem to think it's harder to 'relate' with a single mom since they are no longer 'a family'. It breaks my heart, really. You have no idea what a simple dinner would mean to a full time working mommy of 2!ReplyDelete
Thanks for this post. :)
What a nice friend!! It is hard to be without a husband for so long. I really take my hat off to all of the single moms out there.ReplyDelete
Great post -- I love the idea of paying it forward!
I have been a single mom for three years now, and it is very hard! But what some people fail to realize is that it can be 100 million times better than the marriage you were in. I agree with another commenter (my word) Your married friends tend to shy away. Almost as if divorce is a contagious disease lol! But life is what it is and you make the best of it each and every day! Having a friend like you would sure make it more fun!!! Thanks for thinking of us singles (;ReplyDelete
My husband is in the military and is away right now. It is amazing to me the people that rally to help me out - so sweet. Reminds me it really does take a village!ReplyDelete
That monkey bread looks awesome. I sense a treat coming on!
thanks for this reminder Julie. I have been very blessed to be part of a mom's group that does mommy meals anytime a new baby is born, or there is an illness, or surgery, or whatever other calamities that you can think of that prevent us moms from functioning at 100%. It is a wonderful treat to give someone a home cooked meal. But this reminds me that i don't need to wait for a calamity or a birth in the family to do this, I can do it just because. And I know just the person that could use this little surprise :)ReplyDelete
I love this idea, why didn't I think of that?! I get so exhausted when my husband is out of town, this would be special. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
such a great idea to support mamas for the sake of being supportive. i love that it doesn't need to be because someone is sick or just had a baby, it's just because. i'm on the case. i accept the challenge!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting that and putting that idea into so many minds. My husband has been deployed four times within five years and I had little ones at home. I survived on cereal, frozen dinners and the occasional trip to McDonalds. It's exhausting, to say the least. A homecooked meal from a friend would have been AWESOME! A military wife/single mom would totally appreciate this.ReplyDelete
Agreed. :) I thought immediately of my sister when reading this post - she has a newly divorced friend who is invited to dinner at my sister's house (with her 3 yr old wild child) every night. I don't have many friends who have kids, but I'll store this away for when they do!ReplyDelete
PS- do you have a good recipe for that monkey bread? (is that what you call it?) YUM.
Love the idea of sending along breakfast for dinner (everyone's favorite treat) because they can eat any leftovers for breakfast the next morning too. Great idea!ReplyDelete
As a mom whose hubby just started traveling 3-4 nights a week for his new job, I know a night off from cooking dinner would be wonderful. I will also say that more than a cute onesie, blanket or toy....dinner is the BEST gift to give a mom with a new baby. Even if it's takeout or frozen lasagna that you heat up...it's more appreciated than anything!ReplyDelete
great idea!!!ReplyDelete
every time my husband goes out of town i pray for the single moms. it is HARD and they do deserve love & recognition. what a great post, and great idea!ReplyDelete
we often bake muffins or cookies and take them to friends or family just because...but i love this idea and i REALLY love the whole *brinner* idea, including dishes, etc :) great advice and yes, i think about this often...the military wive/mamas doing it solo every day with all that worry and stress that we cannot understand or relate to.what do i have to complain about?ReplyDelete
thanks julie! XO
Friends are so amazing.ReplyDelete
Our church has a program that provides meals for single mommies, military wives, new moms, etc. - one night a week, meals are made and then taken to the homes... it's so much fun putting together the meals ;) ...like different themes & such.
I know being in a military family myself, it really helped my mom (& my sis & I!) when our daddy was away. :)
I just took dinner to a family this week. Their one month old baby had to have surgery and they have 7 other kids! We just took them Subway, but I know it made their evening routine easier. Taking a meal to someone is one of the easiest ways to show them love I think.ReplyDelete
My husband travels a ton and now with two kiddos I way to often have those days where I am counting down the minutes until bed time. I try to remind myself that there are people out there that are singel mamas ALL the time...I don't know how they do it. And God bless those military wives!!! Thanks for the reminder. {OH, I also love monkey bread, YUM!...and I think I have that same cake stand!}ReplyDelete
super great post...ReplyDelete
our sunday school class/church does this for people that are sick or families that just had babies.
a great resource for setting up such meals is www.mealtrain.com
you will not be disappointed :)
I would love to do this. If only I knew how to cook... Maybe you should come out with a cook book!ReplyDelete
Wonderful idea for sure! And what a sweet friend to do that for you!ReplyDelete
having had my hubby gone for the last six months...it's so hard!ReplyDelete
i wish there were more caring folks like your friend and you! it would be so nice to have someone else think about dinner one night!
so many nights i open a can of veggies and throw some chicken nuggets in the oven. my kids are so over that. last night i made pot roast in the crock pot. usually we would have have a pot leftover. we didn't have a single bite left in the crockpot!!!! ummm...can you tell my kids were craving a home cooked meal!!!!!
hopefully more folks will follow your lead!
Are you in my brain? Because I started a post this week about this very topic...or at least about why you should always have a casserole in the freezer ready to be gifted.ReplyDelete
And now I really want monkey bread... excellent post!
My daughter is a single mom, divorced 3 years ago and has two kids, 6,8. I feel as though I myself have also gone through the whole big D with her. Its been awful. Hard days, harder nights and she was working full time. Now out of work and back home living with us. She shares joint custody and for 3 years had the kids monday thru friday. Her X got the kids on sat sun and monday mornings. He tried blaming her that their youngest wasnt going to pass kindergarten. I don't know how she's made it through the last 3 years, as its about done me in big time. Well now the judge awards her X with Mon-fri and she gets them 3 weekends a month and wed nights. Reason, because the father has a good job and can afford rent. She has to live with us. She was a stay at home mom and now she has to pay the price of that. I pray that things will turn around for her. She is an awesome mother and her kids are her whole life. Life can be so hard when your all alone. yes she has us but it's just not the same as a partner in life. Im so thankful for my husband, we are sharing 35 years of marriage next month. Wish I knew how to help her emotionally. Welcome any advise. thanksReplyDelete
i TOTALLY thought this same thing when my husband was traveling. i was totally a single mom. but then i was like, wait, my husband still comes home. my bed won't always be empty. i have someone to call when i need it. and it totally made me FEEL for those who don't have that. thanks for the challenge b/c even though i've THOUGHT about it, i haven't had an action. as a result of the traveling, my husband's company relocated us to be with him. while that's a blessing in the obvious ways, it's SUPER hard in others...i'm motivated to find a way to reach out in my new community!ReplyDelete
"you and me together...we can do anything..baby!" that's what me and dh say anyway :)
love this.ReplyDelete
this is something we love to do often...it is so do-able for me despite have many young children. i have to make dinner anyway, so why not bless someone in the process?!
we often think of new moms, but yes single moms would be so blessed by this. we also do this for a local outreach program that has a feeding program.
i haven't done it this week, so thank you for the encouragement to find someone to bless!
Thank you for posting this. I am one of those military wives. And it does get really hard. Because the worry can take so much out of you. No one should have to worry that their husband might not make it home. Thankfully mine did make it back, but it's terrifying all the same. So, yes, a dinner made by someone else IS really beneficial. Especially breakfast for dinner! One of our favorites! (And what we did last night!)ReplyDelete
what a nice gesture, funny b/c I've been thinking about dinner since I've been awake this morning...my mind hasn't even wrapped itself around breakfast yet.ReplyDelete
I SO-O-O-O agree with this one! We have just organized a group called "Anonymous Love" {make sure your hubby knows what the title means before he catches THAT one in the subject of an email...lol!} and we provide meals for or baked goods for single, greiving, distressed women and/or new mamas.ReplyDelete
No-strings-attached meals were the best gift anyone gave me after having both of my babes :)
Love the recipe ideas too!
i love this post, thank you for the reminder!ReplyDelete
love it, great idea. Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
So true. I am a military wife and although my honey hasn't yet been deployed (I know that time will come) I have seen many moms who have done it all. Everyday. Thanks so much for reminding us all to think of others.ReplyDelete
I know exactly what you mean. My husband travels a lot too. In fact he has been gone the last two weeks. He missed meet the teacher nite and the first week of school. I have often thought that I just don't know how single moms do it every day. I love the idea of bringing dinner. I have a friend whose husband just deployed a few weeks ago. I am definitely going to use your suggestion and bring her dinner.ReplyDelete
New follower--found you through Whatever and Songs Kate Sings.
Thanks for the idea! My hubby is deployed and I would love a night off from cooking. My son has two friends who's fathers are deployed as well. Now I will give those two moms a night off every month until their husbands return. It will be one less thing for them to think about one night a month. I will also be volunteering my husband to work on their Honey Do list(once he returns). My friend volunteered her husband and he tackled my whole list. Now my hubby's list isn't as long. Every little thing counts.ReplyDelete
I just spent some time catching up on your blog. Let me just say that I love this post. Really. I hate to cook. I am not good at it. At all. But there are a COUPLE of meals I can handle and I know how much a good dinner can mean! When we had our last two kids, we were lucky enough to have friends bring us dinner - seriously the best gift EVER!!
I can't wait to see some of your recipes! Be sure to share some of the SUPER EASY ones for me!! :)
Hope things begin to settle down for you just a bit!!
what an awesome idea....i am quite sure that ALL single mom's would welcome a surprise like this....ReplyDelete
thanks for sharing!
Excellent idea! And has a single mom to two young kids for a year and a half now, a friend dropping off dinner unexpectedly would be a god-send. And a first.ReplyDelete
OOHHH!!!! Thanks!!!!! A friend of mine's husband died unexpectedly a month ago today. :( I've been bringing her dinners every week but it's so hard because the meals have to be kosher style(can't mix meat and diary). Tonight I'm making a the "girly" version to bring to her tomorrow for dinner. Her and her girls are going to LOVE it! XOXOXOReplyDelete
Ahh what a brilliant friend, it sure is hard but it will all be worth it.ReplyDelete
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text: Priority Areas for National Action Transforming Health Care QualityThis AHRQ-funded report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) documents disturbing shortfalls in the quality of health care in the United States. In 2001, an IOM report recommended the systematic identification of priority areas for quality improvement. This new IOM report outlines guiding principles, criteria, and a list of 20 priority areas for improvement. As next steps, the report recommends that AHRQ work with other public- and private-sector organizations to continuously assess progress in making improvements in the 20 areas by developing and improving data collection and measurement systems, reviewing the evidence base and deciding on updated priorities every 3 to 5 years, and disseminating the results of quality improvement strategies, among other responsibilities. This summary highlights the IOM report; the full report can be purchased from IOM at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10593.html.Select to download print version of the summary (PDF File, 180 KB). Plugin Software Help.ContentsSummaryStudy Purpose and ScopeGuiding PrinciplesCriteriaFinal List of Priority AreasProcess for Identifying Priority AreasNext StepsReferences SummaryThis report follows several studies spearheaded by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and other groups that document disturbing shortfalls in the quality of health care in the United States. The following statement prepared for the National Roundtable on Health Care Quality captures the magnitude and scope of the problem:"Serious and widespread quality problems exist throughout American medicine.... [They] occur in small and large communities alike, in all parts of the country and with approximately equal frequency in managed care and fee-for-service systems of care. Very large numbers of Americans are harmed as a result" ( Chassin and Galvin, 1998:1000).Likewise, two subsequent IOM studies—To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Institute of Medicine, 2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (Institute of Medicine, 2001a)—focus national attention on patient safety concerns surrounding the high incidence of medical errors and sizable gaps in health care quality, respectively.In addition to the IOM, many others have assumed leadership roles in the movement to address and improve health care safety and quality. These efforts have included both large-scale national initiatives, such as the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry (1998) and Healthy People 2010 (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2000), and private efforts such as the work of the RAND Corporation, which resulted in a call for mandatory tracking and reporting of health care quality (Schuster et al., 1998).The newly released chart book from the Commonwealth Fund, which examines the current status of quality of health care in the United States, confirms that quality problems persist (Leatherman and McCarthy, 2002):Fewer than half of adults aged 50 and over were found to have received recommended screening tests for colorectal cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001; Leatherman and McCarthy, 2002).Inadequate care after a heart attack results in 18,000 unnecessary deaths per year (Chassin, 1997).In a recent survey, 17 million people reported being told by their pharmacist that the drugs they were prescribed could cause an interaction (Harris Interactive, 2001).Problems such as those cited above have now been noted so frequently that we risk becoming desensitized even as we pursue change. Our technical lexicon of performance improvements and system interventions can obscure the stark reality that we invest billions in research to find appropriate treatments (National Institutes of Health, 2002), we spend more than $1 trillion on health care annually (Heffler et al., 2002), we have extraordinary knowledge and capacity to deliver the best care in the world, but we repeatedly fail to translate that knowledge and capacity into clinical practice.Return to Contents Study Purpose and ScopeThe IOM's Quality Chasm report sets forth a bold strategy for achieving substantial improvement in health care quality during the coming decade (Institute of Medicine, 2001a). As a crucial first step in making the Nation's health care system more responsive to the needs of patients and more cable of delivering science-based care, the Quality Chasm report recommends the systematic identification of priority areas for quality improvement. The idea behind this strategy was to have various groups at different levels focus on improving care in a limited set of priority areas, with the hope that their collective efforts would help move the nation forward toward achieving better quality health care for all Americans.In response, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) contracted with the IOM to form a committee whose charge was threefold:To select criteria for screening potential priority areas.To develop a process for applying those criteria.To generate a list of approximately 15 to 20 candidate areas.Return to Contents Guiding PrinciplesSystems ApproachBehind each of the priority areas recommended in this report is a patient who may be receiving poor quality care. This is due not to a lack of effective treatments, but to inadequate health care delivery systems that fail to implement these treatments. For this reason, the committee considered quality to be a systems property, recognizing that although the health care workforce is trying hard to deliver the best care, those efforts are doomed to failure with today's outmoded and poorly designed systems. The committee did not concentrate on ways of improving the efficacy of existing best practice treatments through either biomedical research or technological innovation, but rather on ways to improve the delivery of those treatments. Indeed the goal of the study was to identify priority areas that presented the greatest opportunity to narrow the gap between what the health care system is routinely doing now and what we know to be best medical practice. Scope and FrameworkThe Quality Chasm report proposes that chronic conditions serve as the focal point for the priority areas, given that a limited number of chronic conditions account for the majority of the nation's health care burden and resource use (Hoffman et al., 1996; Institute of Medicine, 2001a; Partnership for Solutions, 2001; The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2001). Chronic conditions do represent a substantial number of the priority areas on the final list presented in this report; however, this committee was constituted and charged to go beyond a disease-based approach. Therefore, the committee decided to recommend priority areas that would be representative of the entire spectrum of health care, rather than being limited to one important segment.Given this broader perspective, the committee decided a framework would be useful in helping to identify potential candidates for the priority areas. The committee built upon the framework originally developed by the Foundation for Accountability and subsequently incorporated into the National Health Care Quality Report (Foundation for Accountability, 1997a, 1997b; Institute of Medicine, 2001b).This consumer-oriented framework encompasses four domains of care (terms in parentheses are the clinical terms corresponding to each of these stages):Staying healthy (preventive care).Getting better (acute care).Living with illness/disability (chronic care).Coping with end of life (palliative care).In response to the Quality Chasm report's ardent appeal for systems change, the committee supplemented these four categories with a fifth—cross-cutting systems interventions—to address vitally important areas, such as coordination of care, that cut across specific conditions and domains.Like all frameworks, that employed by the committee has advantages as well as limitations. The committee found its framework to be useful for initially identifying candidate areas and then later in the process for checking the balance of the final portfolio of recommended priority areas. However, one of the framework's limitations was that it tended to result in placing conditions into rigid categories, whereas health care for many of the priority areas involves services in all five categories. Figure 1 presents the committee's initial framework for determining priority areas. The overlapping circles represent the interrelatedness of the five categories.Recommendation 1The committee recommends that the priority areas collectively:Represent the U.S. population's health care needs across the lifespan, in multiple health care settings involving many types of health care professionals.Extend across the full spectrum of health care, from keeping people well and maximizing overall health; to providing treatment to cure people of disease and health problems as often as possible; to assisting people who become chronically ill to live longer, more productive and comfortable lives; to providing dignified care at the end of life that is respectful of the values and preferences of individuals and their families.Evidence-Based ApproachThe committee developed its recommendations using an evidence-based approach. Particularly for estimates of disease burden, the committee relied on quantitative data from national datasets to compare the burden of disease as regards prevalence, disability, and costs across priority areas.At the same time, the committee recognized that the existing evidence base could provide only partial guidance for fulfilling its charge. Specifically, there was little quantitative data available for comparing the costs and outcomes of quality improvement programs across different priority areas.For this purpose, the committee supplemented quantitative data with qualitative data and case studies of successful examples of system change. These sources were used to study whether, for a condition posing a high health burden, there was evidence that quality improvement could substantially improve care. Here, the committee used evidence to examine the potential benefits of system change, rather than to generate numerical rankings for particular priority areas.To ensure a stronger evidence base in the future, the committee has recommended strategic investment in research on effective interventions that can improve the quality of care in a number of the priority areas and the development of accompanying standardized measures.Return to Contents CriteriaThe committee used three closely related criteria—impact, improvability, and inclusiveness—in selecting the priority areas.Recommendation 2The committee recommends use of the following criteria for identifying priority areas:Impact—the extent of the burden— disability, mortality, and economic costs—imposed by a condition, including effects on patients, families, communities, and societies.Improvability—the extent of the gap between current practice and evidence-based best practice and the likelihood that the gap can be closed and conditions improved through change in an area; and the opportunity to achieve dramatic improvements in the six national quality aims identified in the Quality Chasm report (safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, efficiency and equity).Inclusiveness—the relevance of an area to a broad range of individuals with regard to age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity/race (equity); the generalizability of associated quality improvement strategies to many types of conditions and illnesses across the spectrum of health care (representativeness); and the breadth of change effected through such strategies across a range of health care settings and providers (reach).Return to Contents Final List of Priority AreasThe committee's selection process yielded a final set of 20 priority areas for improvement in health care quality. Improving the delivery of care in any of these areas would enable stakeholders at the national, State, and local levels to begin setting a course for quality health care while addressing unacceptable disparities in care for all Americans.The committee made no attempt to rank order the priority areas selected. The first two listed—care coordination and self-management/health literacy—are cross-cutting areas in which improvements would benefit a broad array of patients. The 17 that follow represent the continuum of care across the life span and are relevant to preventive care, inpatient/surgical care, chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and behavioral health, as well as to care for children and adolescents (select for details). Finally, obesity is included as an "emerging area" that does not at this point satisfy the selection criteria as fully as the other 19 priority areas. An emerging area is one of high burden (impact) that affects a broad range of individuals (inclusiveness) and for which the evidence base for effective interventions (improvability) is still forming. Recommendation 3The committee recommends that DHHS, along with other public and private entities, focus on the following priority areas for transforming health care:Care coordination (cross-cutting).Self-management/health literacy (cross-cutting).Asthma—appropriate treatment for persons with mild/moderate persistent asthma.Cancer screening that is evidence based —focus on colorectal and cervical cancer.Children with special health care needs.1Diabetes—focus on appropriate management of early disease.End of life with advanced organ system failure—focus on congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Frailty associated with old age— preventing falls and pressure ulcers, maximizing function, and developing advanced care plans.Hypertension—focus on appropriate management of early disease.Immunization—children and adults.Ischemic heart disease—prevention, reduction of recurring events, and optimization of functional capacity.Major depression—screening and treatment.Medication management— preventing medication errors and overuse of antibiotics.Nosocomial infections—prevention and surveillance.Pain control in advanced cancer.Pregnancy and childbirth— appropriate prenatal and intrapartum care.Severe and persistent mental illness—focus on treatment in the public sector.Stroke—early intervention and rehabilitation.Tobacco dependence treatment in adults.Obesity (emerging area). 1 The Maternal and Child Health Bureau defines this population as "those (children) who have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional condition and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally" (McPherson et al., 1998:138).Return to Contents Process for Identifying Priority Areas In response to its charge, the committee developed a process for determining priority areas (go to Figure 2). This process was refined according to the committee's experience in selecting the priority areas recommended in this report, and is suggested as a model for future priority-setting efforts. The steps in theprocess can be summarized as follows:Determine a framework for the priority areas.Identify candidate areas.Establish criteria for selecting the final priority areas.Categorize candidate areas within the framework.Apply impact and inclusiveness criteria to the candidates.Apply criteria of improvability and inclusiveness to the preliminary set of areas obtained in step 5.Identify priority areas; reassess and approve.Implement strategies for improving care in the priority areas, measure the impact of implementation, and review/update the list of areas.Throughout the process, public input should be solicited from multiple sources.Following is a detailed description of each of the above steps. This description encompasses both the process initially formulated by the committee and modifications that emerged as a result of the committee's deliberations.Determine FrameworkThe framework used by the committee's has been discussed and is detailed in Chapter 1 of the full report.Identify CandidatesIn developing an initial candidate list, the committee drew on a variety of sources. These included:The collective knowledge and broad expertise of its members.Feedback received from presenters and the public at a workshop held in May 2002.Work done by other groups in the area of the burden of chronic conditions/diseases and by organizations that have already established lists of priority conditions/areas to meet their specific needs.Using all these resources, the committee settled on a list of approximately 60 candidate priority areas to screen by means of the process outlined above. Selecting just 60 candidates for the first cut was extremely difficult, as there are hundreds of diseases, preventive services, and health care system failures that might be included. The remaining steps in the process were then applied to narrow this list still further to the 20 areas recommended by the committee.Establish CriteriaThe criteria used by the committee were cited above and are discussed in depth in Chapter 2 of the full report.Categorize Candidates Within the FrameworkOnce a pool of candidate areas had been established, they were organized within the categories of the framework. For example, using the committee's initial framework, diabetes was placed under chronic care, tobacco dependency treatment under preventive care, pain control under palliative care, antibiotic overuse under acute care, and care coordination under cross-cutting systems interventions.Apply Criteria to CandidatesAfter identifying a list of candidate priority areas and organizing them within the framework, the committee applied the selection criteria to each area, being particularly sensitive to the impact on disadvantaged populations. All three criteria were applied in a single step when the committee performed this selection process. On the basis of its experience, however, the committee recommends a two-step process for future efforts: one should screen for impact first, then for improvability, and throughout the process, particular attention should be paid to inclusiveness.This two-step approach would identify more clearly for consumers, practitioners, and researchers the rationale for including some areas and not others. It would elucidate, for example, which areas did not meet the impact criterion and which met this criterion but not that of improvability. Such clarification could help shape future work in the areas involved. Moreover, future applications of this approach to update the priority areas might well involve richer data analysis and more extensive feedback from the public and health professionals.Identify Priority AreasThe priority areas selected by the committee were listed under Recommendation 3 and are discussed in more detail in Chapter 3 of the full report.Return to Contents Next StepsWith the priority areas having been identified, the final step in the process is to implement strategies for improving care in the priority areas, measure the impact of implementation, and periodically review/update the list of areas. Impact should be measured using methods that are standardized and can permit comparison across these diverse areas of quality improvement. The assessment must include measures of the degree to which the system has been transformed and of the clinical impact on patient care.As such changes are effected, the list of priority areas should be reviewed and updated—optimally every 3 to 5 years. Other areas may need to be added to the list as the result of new data on impact or the development of new treatment interventions. Likewise, if strategies for improvement are effective, it may be possible to remove some areas from the list.Recommendation 4The committee recommends that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in collaboration with other private and public organizations, be responsible for continuous assessment of progress and updating of the list of priority areas. These responsibilities should include:Developing and improving data collection and measurement systems for assessing the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts.Supporting the development and dissemination of valid, accurate, and reliable standardized measures of quality.Measuring key attributes and outcomes and making this information available to the public.Revising the selection criteria and the list of priority areas.Reviewing the evidence base and results, and deciding on updated priorities every 3 to 5 years.Assessing changes in the attributes of society that affect health and health care and could alter the priority of various areas.Disseminating the results of strategies for quality improvement in the priority areas.Throughout this study, the committee often encountered a lack of reliable measures to use in assessing improvability for the priority areas under consideration. Available datasets, although useful, were also limited in that they were unable to provide information on health status and health functioning because of their disease—and procedure-based orientation. In addition, it was difficult to compare many quality improvement efforts because of a lack of standardization in the way outcomes were measured.Thus, the committee concluded that particular attention should be focused on enhancing survey data and developing new strategies for collecting, collating, and disseminating quality improvement data. Those conducting quality improvement studies should be encouraged to include a core set of measures that would allow comparability across different conditions, just as consensus standards have been developed for conducting and reporting cost-effectiveness analyses (Gold, 1996; Russell et al., 1996; Siegel et al., 1996;Weinstein et al., 1996). Only with such standardized approaches will it be possible to use findings from quality improvement studies for future efforts at priority setting.Recommendation 5The committee recommends that data collection in the priority areas:Go beyond the usual reliance on disease- and procedure-based information to include data on the health and functioning of the U.S. population.Cover relevant demographic and regional groups, as well as the population as a whole, with particular emphasis on identifying disparities in care.Be consistent within and across categories to ensure accurate assessment and comparison of quality enhancement efforts.If AHRQ is to spearhead this undertaking, appropriate funds must be allocated for the purpose. National experts should be convened to develop action plans in the priority areas, and this should be done expeditiously so as to sustain momentum and ensure the timeliness of the committee's recommendations.Recommendation 6The committee recommends that the Congress and the Administration provide the necessary support for the ongoing process of monitoring progress in the priority areas and updating the list of areas. This support should encompass:The administrative costs borne by AHRQ.The costs of developing and implementing data collection mechanisms and improving the capacity to measure results.The costs of investing strategically in research aimed at developing new scientific evidence on interventions that improve the quality of care and at creating additional accurate, valid, and reliable standardized measures of quality. Such research is especially critical in areas of high importance in which either the scientific evidence for effective interventions is lacking, or current measures of quality are inadequate.The list of priority areas identified by the committee is intended to serve as a starting point for transforming the nation's health care system. Many of the leading causes of death are on this list. Just five of the conditions included—heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes—account for approximately 1.5 million deaths annually and represent 63 percent of total deaths in the United States (Minino and Smith, 2001).2 If redesigning systems of care resulted in merely a 5 percent mortality improvement in these areas alone, nearly 75,000 premature deaths could potentially be averted.Although AHRQ's role in monitoring progress and updating the list of areas will be critical, the health care system will be changed only through the individual and organized actions of patients, families, doctors, nurses, other health professionals, and administrators; no national body or collaboration can accomplish the task alone. The priority areas deliberately encompass a wide range of health care issues in which improvement is needed for overall system change. However, the priorities are also specific enough that individuals and organizations can choose areas on which to focus their improvement efforts, helping to guarantee that all Americans will receive the quality health care they deserve. 2 Heart disease (ischemic heart disease and hypertension), 537,088; cancer, 551,833; stroke, 166,028; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 123,550; diabetes, 68,662. Total = 1,447,161; total deaths all causes = 2,404,598.Return to Contents References Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2001. Trends in screening for colorectal cancer—United States, 1997 and 1999. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 50:161-6. Chassin, M. R. 1997. Assessing strategies for quality improvement. Health Aff (Millwood) 16(3):151-61. Chassin, M. R., and R. W. Galvin. 1998. The urgent need to improve health care quality. Institute of Medicine National Roundtable on Health Care Quality. JAMA 280(11):1000-5. Foundation for Accountability. 1997a. 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Hemangiomas are the most common vascular malformation in infants and children. The malformation is composed of capillaries and other small vessels. They may occur anywhere on the body and most appear as solitary skin lesions without involvement if the airway.
Subglottic hemangiomas may form a large mass in the subglottic airway causing varying degrees of airway obstruction. They grow rapidly for at least 12 to 18 months followed by slow shrinking (called involution). However, not every subglottic hemangioma will shrink completely. Many require active intervention because of their life-threatening nature in the airway.
Hemangiomas of the larynx or trachea are often seen in children who have multiple hemangiomas appearing in a particular dermatomal region (one of the four regions of the body associated with a particular spinal nerve). They may be associated with hemangiomas in other non-airway sites such as the skin of the scalp or back.
Endoscopic view of bilateral subglottic hemangiomas.
To diagnosis a subglottic hemangioma, the child will first have a plain neck X-ray. The X-ray alone may show a mass in his airway. Flexible laryngoscopy in the office may also be enough to reveal that a hemangioma is causing the respiratory symptoms.
To confirm the diagnosis, the doctor will perform an endoscopy with microlaryngoscopy and bronchoscopy. This will help to determine the extent of the airway hemangioma and make sure that it has no extension into the tracheal airway. Once the airway is established, an MRI of the neck and brain is useful to ensure that the hemangioma has not extended into the neck or skull.
There are many potential treatments for subglottic hemangiomas which will depend on the severity of the child's case. A drug called propanolol is rapidly becoming the first line treatment for severe subglottic hemangiomas.
Propanolol shows promise in rapid reduction of airway symptoms for children with subglottic hemangiomas. All patients must undergo a cardiac evaluation before beginning this therapy. Propanolol is a beta blocker that causes capillary vasoconstriction, decreased expression of vascular endothelial growth factors, and apoptosis (death) of capillary endothelial cells. This causes the hemangioma to shrink.
The most common side effect of propanolol is drowsiness and hypoglycemia. For this reason, the child is observed in the hospital when he starts taking the drug and for start of treatment and the dosage is gradually increased to therapeutic levels over several days. This treatment may be supplemented with steroids. Most patients will respond within one to two weeks, but some may not respond at all and require other treatments. At CHOP, these children are always followed closely by the vascular malformation team.
Subglottic hemangiomas can be treated using steroids, tracheostomy, laser, intralesional steroid injections, microdebrider excision, and open surgical excision. These all come with some risk.
Watch as a surgeon removes a subglottic hemangioma, and see the airway before and after treatment.
The outcome for treatment with endoscopic, open surgery or propanolol is outstanding and most patients go on to live normal lives.


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Ghost Light Audiobook
One of this year's top Doctor Who audiobook releases is Ghost Light, a reading of the popular (if slightly baffling) 1989 serial by Marc Platt.
Step inside a gloomy, decrepit mansion and unravel the mysterious connections between an unexplained fire, a 19th century naturalist with blasphemous theories and a disquieting feeling that this all is very familiar in Doctor Who: Ghost Light.
In the audiobook adaptation of the novelisation of the TV serial (phew!) the Seventh Doctor and Ace find themselves inside Gabriel Chase, Victorian home that a thirteen year-old Ace once burnt to the ground, presided over by Josiah Samuel Smith, a Neanderthal man-servant named Nimrod and a mysterious stone space craft hidden in the basement.
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The Whole range has been superb and hopefully some of the missing culrpits will turn up next year (we know the Twin Dilemma and Earthshock are up in Jan and Feb 2012)
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Early indications are that Justin Timberlake 's music comeback is a success.
Billboard predicts that his just-released collaboration with Jay-Z , "Suit & Tie," could sell at least 400 thousand downloads for the week ending Sunday.
To put that number into perspective, Justin's fastest-selling single to date, "SexyBack," racked up 250 thousand downloads during its first week of release in 2006.
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Robert Gibbs knows how to deliver a speech, especially one focusing on youth and reading, a cause he is dedicated to.
"After I left the White house, I wanted to do something to give back," Gibbs said.
The Former White House Press Secretary grew up in Auburn, and as the son of two AU librarians, Gibbs understands the importance of reading.
"Because if you are not good at reading, it's very hard to learn anything else," he said.
Gibbs partnered with the Lee County Boys and Girls Club and founded The Pine Hills Literacy Center in Auburn. He set up a library with 2,000 books and it's used by hundreds of Boys and Girls club members every year and their families.
Last year Gibbs rewarded children who excelled with a trip to the Georgia Aquarium.
"I can honestly say in all the experiences I have had over the last few years, taking 40 kids to the aquarium in Atlanta was as fun and as rewarding as anything I have ever done," he said. "I have also never been more exhausted at the end of that day."
As the keynote speaker at Thursday's fundraising luncheon, Gibbs asked the audience to give freely of their time and money to help support the club..
"I told kids yesterday that you can do anything you want to do if you just dream it, it is up to us to help give them the opportunities to chive those big dreams," he said.
Mr. Gibbs shared with us he has a 9-year-old son who, like him at that age, wasn't really interested in reading until they found the right books.
His advice for parents: if your kids like sports, get them books on sports, if they like bugs, get them books on bugs and make the time to read with them as much as you can.
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Candy corn makes this natural snack for fall gatherings. The sweet and salty flavors are irresistible. —Marlene Harguth, Maynard, Minnesota
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Prep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min. + cooling
2 cups pretzel sticks
1 cup mixed nuts
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1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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8 cups popped popcorn
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