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3 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
2 scallions, thinly sliced, including the crisp part of the green
1/2 cup fresh spinach, chopped fine
2 skinless salmon fillets, roughly the same size, weight and shape
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine cream cheese and feta, mashing and stirring with fork until well blended. Add chopped scallions, spinach and combine well.
Spread this mixture evenly over one salmon fillet. The filling will make it stand about 3/4 inch above the fillet. Top with second salmon fillet. Brush both sides with olive oil, turning the whole thing over carefully with your hand and the use of a broad spatula.
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This team has been the tail of two seasons up until the Miami game, and since the Miami game when Portland lost at home to Miami. Prior to that game Portland was 24-5.
OK, I have been quite on this board for a while, but after watching last night's game against Minnesota and when Minnesota is missing three players that score 60% of their points and Portland still has problems beating them I do not see Portland making it past the first round.
The league got educated at the Miami game with the defense Miami played which was aggressively playing the jump shot. Starting with the Miami game Portland is 12-10 so basically they have played .500 Ball for ¼ of the season.
There are four glaring issues which will prevent Portland from getting past the first round or even make the playoffs.
They live and die by the jump shot;
They do not play defense;
They do not play in the paint;
Lack of bench scoring.
Now at this point some think I will blame Batum, well not is not the case, there is enough blame to share at this point. Where has Lillard been driving into the paint and getting free throws? Yes Batum has been inconsistent and his untimely turnovers; Yes Aldridge is getting his points, but isn't it time for him to set the example when he shoots his jump shot to follow up on his own rebound instead of assuming his shot is going to drop: Wes, when his jump shots are not dropping why is he not wreaking havoc in the paint; and where is Stott in all of this in not coaching the Blazers to correct these issues which made them virtually unbeatable in the first 29 Games.
Bottom line, they better figure something out, as if they play .500 ball the rest of the way, in the west they will not make the playoffs.
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The thread of Java Embedded and Internet of Things was woven into all aspects of JavaOne this year and very prominent at OpenWorld as well. The 3rd IT Revolution is happening fast, and there is no doubt Oracle and Partners are throwing their muscle behind it. Here is a recap of information.
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The "Times" published a major business section article on the use of the 100 point scale. None of it is really news to folks here, but I found the article well written and well researched. It's amazing that excellent retailers believe they can sell only of a wine rated 89 compared with a wine rated 90.
"THIS is what a blessing looks like in the wine business: Wine Spectator, a handsome glossy monthly that markets itself as a field guide for wine aficionados, recently bestowed a rating of 90 on a 2004 cabernet sauvignon from the Valentin Bianchi Famiglia winery in Argentina.
This is what a blessing does: After the wine received the 90, Brian Zucker, who oversees online sales for K&L Wine Merchants, a large retailer in San Francisco, decided to promote the Valentin Bianchi cabernet in an e-mail message to tens of thousands of customers.
If it had scored an 89, Mr. Zucker said, "we would have sold a tiny fraction of what we'll end up moving." But because of the 90, and considering the wine's price, $12.99, he declared himself "absolutely confident" that K&L would sell out its inventory of the Argentinean cabernet.
Mr. Zucker said he was promoting the Valentin Bianchi because he thought it an attractive buy even before Wine Spectator treated it to a 90. But that is hardly always the case with a high-scoring wine. "A wine that is highly rated takes on a life of its own," he said. "It doesn't necessarily represent the best value, but that doesn't seem to matter.""
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Monday, August 22, 2011
The Eat Spot, Wilmington, NC
The Eat Spot bills itself as Wilmington's only gatropub. Now gastropub, the term originated in England, is best defined as a bar or pub that serves high end food. My first experience with a gastropub was at The Three Stags in London so I thought I'd see what the American interpretation of the word was, plus I'd heard some good things about The Eat Spot and we were hungry.
It sits at the corner of Princess and Front Street in Downtown Wilmington and doesn't look all that big from the outside, plus it looks a bit plain. Inside however, there is quite a bit of room and there is a large wooden bar, probably oak, in a bright finish. There are plenty of tables and a small area on the second floor loft. That's where we sat, upstairs. There were four adults and three children in our party and our server (I'm sorry I can't remember his name but he was very good and personable) took our drink order. Water, club soda and chocolate milk for the kids. I later ordered a local IPA.
After looking at the menus we decided. My son-in-law and I both had the cheeseburger with bacon added which came to $9.75 each. We got the PBR battered onion rings in place of the fries and that proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made. Those rings were amazing, probably the best I've ever had and that's saying something. Crispy with a hint of the beer flavor coming through. Finally there is an acceptable use for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Okay, when I was younger and it was the cheap beer I had quite a bit of it but with good micro-breweries out there there is no reason to have it now.
Teresa had the Veggie sandwich at $7.99, grilled vegetables of al kinds, even Brussels sprouts, with fresh chips. She said it was very good. The kids had chicken fingers with fries at $5.00, the same thing they get everywhere so they are connoisseurs of the dish and they liked them. My daughter had the strawberry and brie salad. When she started to eat it she said the salad didn't seem fresh so we pointed it out to the waiter and he said he'd take care of it. A few moments later he returned with a new plate and it was excellent. Never be afraid to point out a problem with a meal in a good restaurant as the chef will be happy to make a correction. They want everything to be right.
Overall we had great food at reasonable prices with great service. I even had a chat with the manager and he told me that the owner was in the kitchen cooking. Nice touch. I'd recommend The Eat Spot for a good meal and a few beers. They certainly live up to the name gastropub. Make sure you order the onion rings. They have a website for more information, or you can facebook them.
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Sunday, August 21, 2011
Carolina Girls Grillin' Cafe, Wilmington, NC
I read about this place once and threw it in the back of my mind to stop by and try them, but every time I passed them on College I wasn't hungry. Well, finding myself on College and being hungry, I decided to stop.
Inside it's nice with a long kitchen/prep area so you can watch the ladies prepare your food, and see that they keep a clean looking kitchen. On the other side are tables. I looked at the menu and decided on the Cubano Sandwich, shown here.
There are two locations, one is on Castle Hayne Road and the other on College. They have a website for more information and it has a short video which shows the interior of the restaurant.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Nutt Street Comedy House, Wilmington, NC
There are no burgers here, but there are brews and laughs. If you are in Wilmington and want some entertainment stop by Nutt Street for some live comedy.
They have an open mic night on Thursday's and often have some bug name talent in, as well as some other interesting events such as improv. Entry price is reasonable and they have plenty of different beers for sale at good prices.
My son-in-law, Mike Santo (pictured here), started to do stand-up a couple of years ago and he's getting quite good at it. Check them out at their website for more information.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Caprice Bistro, Wilmington, NC
We were in Wilmington on Bastille Day this year and we'd already eaten at another place when we looked at the menu at the Caprice Bistro and said, "Darn, we should have eaten here." Well this time when we were walking downtown we stopped by and looked at the menu. After about thirty seconds I saw what I wanted and asked Teresa if she saw anything. She said there were a few things that interested her so in we went.
Caprice Bistro is small and looks like every bit like a French bistro. We were seated right away, they weren't that busy, and our waiter Jay appeared. He was very pleasant, personable and helpful. I knew what I wanted, the escargots gris (shown above) and the duck confit (shown below). Teresa decided to get out of her comfort zone and she ordered the pork tenderloin (bottom photo) instead of a chicken dish.
Jay brought us fresh bread and soon the escargot arrived. The smell was delightful and the taste even better. The snails were perfect and were swimming in a garlic sauce that I sopped up with the bread. A small bowl of heaven for eight bucks. Normally I prefer my escargots Burgundy style, but this was amazing and I could have eaten a soup bowl of it. Next up were the entrees. Between the two dishes the table smelled wonderful. My duck was perfectly cooked with crispy skin and tender meat that fell off the bone. It came with grilled potatoes and a small salad with the house dressing and each component blended in sweet harmony with the others. More than eating, it was a sensual experience of French comfort food done right.
The pork was equally good with an amazing sauce and fresh mashed potatoes and carrots. We passed a few things back and forth to try and at one point I wound up with some food in my water glass. No problem, Jay immediately replaced the glass for me.
The total bill was $44.51 plus tip for a gourmet meal. We looked at the deserts and while a creme brulee and coffee would have been the perfect finish, we were full. Next time though. Maybe next time I'll go on a Wednesday when they have rabbit.
So the bottom line. Service, impeccable. Food, perfect. Ambiance, very good. Prices, reasonable. Stop in sometime and enjoy a classic French meal. It will fill your belly and warm your heart. They have a website for more information.
Update 04/13/12- We went back for another meal and it was simply amazing. I got the mussels Bruxelles and Teresa got the Coq au Vin. My mussels were the best I've ever had. They were cooked in beer, garlic (lot's of garlic), mustard and cream.
Update 04/13/12- We went back for another meal and it was simply amazing. I got the mussels Bruxelles and Teresa got the Coq au Vin. My mussels were the best I've ever had. They were cooked in beer, garlic (lot's of garlic), mustard and cream.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Winner's Circle, Exton, PA
Yes, that picture is what you think it is. It is a burger with bacon and cheese on a glazed donut, and yes I did eat it. It is called the Krukker and it was from The Winner's Circle in Exton, Pennsylvania. I'll get back to the burger in a minute.
Winner's Circle is a sports bar in Exton across the street from the mall. It is fairly bright and adorned with sports memorabilia and plenty of televisions. The wait staff is friendly and the service is good. There is a good beer selection and I decided on Hop Devil from Victory. The menu has some good choices, but I focused on the burgers. You can build your own burger; choose the meat, choose the roll and choose two toppings. The combinations looked good, until I looked at the craft burgers and saw the Krukker for $9.00. That was what I was going to build anyway. It was a half-pound burger with American cheese and bacon on a glazed donut. With it came an ample supply of fries and a wet-nap.
The burger was good. I'd ordered it medium and it was past medium-well, but still tasty. The sweetness of the glazed donut combined nicely with the saltiness of the bacon and the taste of the beef. The glazed donut however was sticky and messy, hence the wet-nap. I've seen this done elsewhere and they invert the donut so the sticky side faces the burger. While not as pretty, this practice makes it easier to eat. Overall it was good, but I think I'll try some other combinations next time we go there.
Actually, one of the main reasons we went was that on Tuesdays kids eat for a buck. My grandson had a hot dog, yogurt, apple slices and an ice-cream for a dollar and my wife and daughter got wraps. Good food and good service. They have a website for more information.
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Greek City, Ramsey, NJ
Now here's one of those places we stumbled upon quite by chance and we almost passed it up. We were in Jersey to do some shopping when Teresa wanted to stop at the Kohl's in Ramsey. As we were leaving I noted what looked like a small place in the mall with a sign that said Greek Food, or something like that. We debated and decided to try it out, figuring it to be a hole in the wall dive.
Well, inside it looked totally different. It looked classy. So classy that we looked at the menu before deciding to eat there. We found a nice selection and the prices were okay so we went in. We were seated at a table, but the booths are cooler with frosted seats and lights behind them. We were given water, bread and a small bowl of kalmati olives. The waiter brought a plate by to show us the daily fish selection and gave us time to decide.
Teresa decided on the Chicken Souvlaki (above) at $17.00. Those lovely things in the front are lemon roasted potatoes, which were delicious. I am not a big potato fan, but I could eat those every day. It also had a good tzatziki sauce and the chicken was good.
I went out of my comfort zone and instead of ordering the Gyro platter at $15, I got the Kohilia Lakonia at $25. Pan seared sea scallops over fresh spinach with garlic and olive oil. When it came I was a bit disappointed as it looked small, but at the end there was just plenty on the plate. On top of that it was quite well done. The scallops were perfectly seared and the spinach was just right.
I was considering dessert, but passed this time. Next time I want to try the one of the calamari dishes and see how their saganaki is. Oh yes, we will be back again, and again.
In short, the food was excellent, ambiance pleasant, the prices fair, and the service good. It does take some time for the food to come, but well worth the wait. You need to try this place sometime. They have a website for more information. By the way, lunch prices are cheaper.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
River Rock Cafe, Wallkill, NY
Before you read this, be aware that they have changed the name, and perhaps ownership. Friends of mine went there recently and were quite disappointed, probably because they were sick afterward.
The River Rock Cafe recently opened in a place in Wallkill that has been the home of many places in the past. The one thing all of those previous restaurants had in common is that I'd never eaten in them as they never lasted long enough. I decided to stop by and try the new one out, just in case.
The River Rock Cafe recently opened in a place in Wallkill that has been the home of many places in the past. The one thing all of those previous restaurants had in common is that I'd never eaten in them as they never lasted long enough. I decided to stop by and try the new one out, just in case.
One part is an ice cream stand, the middle has a counter with some good looking pizza and to the left is the dining area. At two o'clock on a Friday afternoon there were a few people there. We looked over the menu and there were quite a few interesting selections at reasonable prices.
Teresa had a chicken panini with salad on the side and I got the Little Rock Burger (The eight ounce version as opposed to the twenty ounce one) with cheese and sweet potato fries. It came on a Kaiser roll with lettuce, tomato and onions. I ordered it medium and it was more medium-well. It was good though, as were the sweet potato fries. I tasted the panini and the chicken was nice and moist and there was plenty of flavor.
The bill? Under fifteen dollars with tax. Good food at good prices with good service. We'll be back to see how they are doing as time passes. No website, but you can check them out on Facebook.
Update-We did go back and the place was crowded. I decided to try the fish and chips (Corona battered cod) at $7.75. It was okay, not great, but okay. Teresa got a personal pizza at $5.75 and it was . . . . well not all that good. Not bad, but not anything I'd be going back for. We both probably should have gotten a sandwich.
Update-We did go back and the place was crowded. I decided to try the fish and chips (Corona battered cod) at $7.75. It was okay, not great, but okay. Teresa got a personal pizza at $5.75 and it was . . . . well not all that good. Not bad, but not anything I'd be going back for. We both probably should have gotten a sandwich.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Poppy's, Beacon, NY
Poppy's is a small place in Beacon, New York and the only reasons I knew about it is that the owner was on Chopped on the Food Network, he won, and that someone I know is somehow related to him. Outside of that I would have driven by and never spotted the place. Instead I looked it up and figured out where it is.
Like I mentioned, it is small and I saw on his website that he was doing some remodeling, either that or he's going for a real rustic look. Either way, it is a bit Spartan in there. The menu is simple, burgers, fries, sloppy Joe's and tomato sandwiches. Drinks are in bottles and he does have Goose Island Orange Cream soda. That alone was worth the trip.
We each got the classic small burger at six bucks which included cheese, grilled onions and a small cup of pickles. We shared a small fries (more than enough for two) and two drinks. About twenty bucks. The burgers were from grass fed, organic, local beef and they were quite good. The fries tasted fresh cut and they were good as well, but I would have liked them to be a bit crispier.
Okay, it was a good burger and fries. Was it great? No. If you are in Beacon, stop in for a burger, but don't go too far out of your way if you aren't in Beacon. They have a website for menu and stuff.
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Labels: Beacon, burgers, Dutchess County, Food Network
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Canapé, A Pop-Up Restaurant, Wilmington, NC
Update- They are doing this once more on November 6 and the tickets are $50 per person in advance. The last time they sold out, so hit the link below for more information.
Pop-up restaurants are an interesting concept wherein a restaurant opens in a backyard, and abandoned warehouse or an empty restaurant for one night only. The menu is special and they are popular in the big markets like LA, Chicago and New York and the word is usually spread by twitter.
I was asked by Shea Carver over at Encore magazine to pass this on to my readers and I thought some of you might be interested. Canapé is doing an event at Manna on Princess Street, they're turning the place over for one night, on August 22nd at 6:00 PM. The cost is $75.00 a person for an eleven course meal.
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Something that may go on to become one of the more regrettable moves that the Obama Administration has made comes out of the absolute rush to bury the negative story that has become the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from the second that the cap of the spill held straight on through this day and beyond. The trumpeting has been loud and clear:
The White House announced Wednesday that a "vast majority" of the oil in the Gulf has dissipated or been collected, following the plugging of the BP Deepwater Horizon well — but environmental groups are skeptical.
As officials were monitoring a thus-far successful "static kill" of the undersea wellhead, the administration responded, ironically enough, with a leak to The New York Times: a new government analysis claiming that only 26 percent of the estimated 4.9 million-barrel spill still remains intact in the Gulf of Mexico.
The chorus from rational thinkers: Where did the oil go?
So far, the Deepwater Horizon disaster seems to be following the legacy of another greatly famous spill, 1989′s Exxon Valdez disaster. In the aftermath of that spill, 70% of the oil was broken down by natural forces (50% biodegrading, 20% evaporation). The remaining 30% made for one of the worst environmental disasters in American history. 14% of the grand total from the Exxon Valdez was actually recovered. More than 15% remains out there to this day. A similar extrapolation for the Deepwater Horizon means that there will be oil out there on the Gulf shores through the start of the 2030s decade.
The extraordinary usage of oil dispersant is what makes things seem better:
According to David Pettit, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, the administration is using the report to suggest that "the worst is over." The truth, Pettit says, is that about a quarter of the oil has dispersed — meaning it still exists, but in microscopic particles in the ocean — and another 26 percent of the oil is still unaccounted for.
The dispersant has done its job – breaking the huge puddles of oil into small droplets which don't show up on our TV screens as ugly masses that show the true scope and size of the disaster. The result? The Obama Administration is allowed to deflect and move away from this as far and as quick as possible.
Side effect: with the oil well capped and the large masses of oil broken up, an adequate estimate of just how much oil spilled – which would determine the amount of BP's fine – can go in no way other than one to benefit BP:
The blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico gushed 12 times faster than the government and BP estimated in the early weeks of the crisis and has spilled a whopping 4.9 million barrels, or 205.8 million gallons, according to a more detailed analysis announced late Monday.
BP's Macondo well spewed 62,000 barrels of oil a day initially, and as the reservoir gradually depleted itself, the flow eased to 53,000 barrels a day until the well was finally capped and sealed July 15, according to scientists in the Flow Rate Technical Group, supervised by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Department of Energy.
At these figures, BP could be on the hook for somewhere between $4.5 and $17.6 billion for the spill of 4.1 million barrels of oil. Internal documents at BP painted a much more dire (and realistic?) picture of what was going on at the site of the blowout. Documents released by Congress show that BP's estimate of the 'worst case' scenario for a blowout with no blowout preventer to be as many as 100,000 barrels per day – raising the amount of fines to between $9.76 and $38 billion. When applying for a permit to drill the well, the worst case was estimated back then to be 160,000 barrels per day – adjusting fines higher to $15.62 to $61.12 billion.
In any event, an accurate measurement will not be taken, and that's about the best news possible for BP. Actually, it might only be the second best bit of news. Turns out, they'll also get to be in charge of gathering their own evidence to be used against them:
"The items at the bottom of the sea are a big deal for everybody," said Stephen Herman, a New Orleans lawyer for injured rig workers and others.
BP will surely want a look at the items, particularly if it tries to shift responsibility for the disaster onto other companies, such as Transocean, which owned the oil platform, Halliburton, which supplied the crew that was cementing the well, and Cameron International, maker of the blowout preventer.
BP and Transocean — which could face heavy penalties if found to be at fault — have said they will raise some of the wreckage if it can be done without doing more damage to the oil well. That would give the two companies responsibility for gathering up the very evidence that could be used against them.
But the federal government has said it simply doesn't have the know-how and the deep-sea equipment that the drilling industry has. And it said the operation will be closely supervised by the Coast Guard.
Closely supervised by the Coast Guard – the same Coast Guard that never got the accurate estimates of the oil gusher, and has consistently low-balled estimates from the start – initially saying on April 23rd, the day the rig sank, that no oil was going to leak into the Gulf.
The administration, for its part, has continued to tread lightly on a line between happiness over the disaster being "over" and trying to not hang a virtual "Mission Accomplished" banner behind them, and some members of the media have called them out on this:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, battered by weeks of questions about the administration's spill response, bristled when asked whether he would display a "Mission Accomplished" banner.
"I think it is fairly safe to say that because of the environmental effects of Mother Nature, the warmer waters of the Gulf and the federal response, that many of the doomsday scenarios that we talked about and repeated a lot have not and will not come to fruition," said Gibbs, who otherwise was happy to field 90 minutes of press questions flanked by National Incident Commander Thad Allen and Obama's top environmental adviser Carol Browner.
Once again, intelligent people – scientists – find their selves on the outside looking in when it comes to trying to deliver truth to the masses. In this case, it's the harsh reality that this disaster still has a long, long way to go:
But those assurances failed to satisfy scientists and environmental groups, who disputed the claim by Carol Browner, the White House energy and climate adviser, that "the vast majority of oil is gone".
In Louisiana, state wildlife officials told CNN that tar balls and patches of oil were still washing up in the marshes and coastal areas of St Bernard, Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes.
Susan Shaw, a marine toxicologist and director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute, said the White House had been too quick to declare the oil was gone. "The blanket statement that the public understood is that most of the oil has disappeared. That is not true. About 50% of it is still in the water," she said.
Like other scientists, she said the report failed to explain how it reached its estimates on the amount of oil that was biodegraded naturally, or dispersed with chemicals. "There are a lot of unanswered questions."
Even the White House's own estimates still left a spill five times the size of that from the Exxon Valdez, she said, with long-term consequences that would be unknown for years to come.
The "out of sight, out of mind" mentality is likely to continue, sadly.
The new report comes after days of speculation about where the Gulf oil has gone. After the damaged well had been capped July 19, U.S. Coast Guard flyovers didn't spot any big patches of crude on the water.
But oil cleanup is mostly getting rid of what's on the surface, Carney said. There's a common perception that "as long as you keep it off the beach, everything's hunky dory," he added.
In fact, scientists are still finding plenty of spilled Gulf oil—whether it's bubbling up from under Louisiana's islands, trapped underneath Florida's sugar-white beaches, or in the ocean's unseen reaches.
This week, biological oceanographer Markus Huettel and colleague Joel Kostka dug trenches on a cleaned Pensacola beach and discovered large swaths of oil up to two feet (nearly a meter) deep.
Oil gets trapped underground when tiny oil droplets penetrate porous sand or when waves deposit tarballs and then cover them with sand, said Huettel, of Florida State University in Tallahassee.


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CalTrans rented eight DustBoss DB-60s for dust suppression on the Doyle Drive project, with on-site training supplied by the manufacturer.
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The Presidio remained open to the public during demolition, so the contract called for a control plan to prevent dust from leaving the project boundaries.
Demolition of the old structure involved approx. 4700 linear feet of roadways, including 150 spans, yet the plan allowed complete road closure for just one weekend.
One full-oscillation DB-60 can cover nearly 125,000 square feet more than (11,600 square meters) with a highly efficient dust-trapping mist.
When completed, the new parkway will reveal striking views of the Presidio and San Francisco Bay.
Originally constructed in 1936, Doyle Drive is a busy thoroughfare that carries thousands of cars per hour in peak traffic periods. In 1990 it underwent a full seismic evaluation and was determined to have reached the end of its useful service life, deemed structurally and seismically deficient due to the ravages of time and continuous use. Its replacement will be an entirely new Presidio Parkway design, including two short tunnels, a wide landscaped median, and engineered transitions to city streets to ease traffic and improve safety. When completed, the new parkway will also produce a dramatic visual change, as the bulky concrete Doyle Drive structures are removed to reveal striking views of the Presidio and San Francisco Bay.
In spring 2010, Phase I of the project got underway, with the construction of a tunnel and detour roadway to shift traffic completely off Doyle Drive. Demolition of the old structure, which involved about 4700 linear feet of roadway, including some 150 spans in three distinct structures, began in 2012. Yet the plan required that the road be completely closed for just one weekend to demolish the entire length.
"There was only a 57-hour window to demolish the existing structure and complete construction of the bypass before we had to reopen the roadway to vehicle traffic," explains California DOT (CalTrans) resident engineer Andrew Yan. "The structure was divided into four main components, all to be demolished within the same time frame. It was a tall order, but we planned every detail."
The takedown required a fleet of 40 pieces of demolition equipment, including 20 hydraulic excavators outfitted with a variety of work tools, such as hammers, grapples, pulverizers, and shears. Crews also used backhoe loaders, track loaders, wheeled loaders, and articulated dump trucks, all running continuously to meet the tight deadline.
Because of its proximity to the Presidio, a historic national park that remained open to the public during demolition, the contract called for a dust control plan to prevent all visible dust from leaving the project boundaries while work was underway.
"In some places, the public areas were less than 100 feet away from the demolition activity," Yan says. "There's also a residential neighborhood and business corridor adjacent to Doyle Drive. "We also had to consider the nearby marsh, wetlands, and forest, as well as the wildlife within those habitats."
With dust suppression such a high priority, CalTrans researched several equipment options to supplement traditional water trucks and manual spraying. "Because we had simultaneous demolition in four distinct locations, we needed dust control over a very wide area," Yan says. "But the manpower we could commit to that was limited. The initial equipment designs we reviewed didn't convince us that they could deliver the coverage we required."
Yan remembered that another CalTrans project, the Oakland Bay Bridge West Approach in San Francisco, faced similar dust suppression issues. Engineers had successfully controlled the demolition dust on that job with large atomized misting units from Dust Control Technology (DCT), Peoria, Ill. After reviewing specifications on the various models and discussing the project requirements with DCT, he arranged a rental of eight DustBoss DB-60s, with onsite training supplied by the manufacturer.
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The weight gain associated with the antipsychotic olanzapine is a possible benefit for patients with anorexia nervosa. Bissada et al. (CME, p. 1281) compared olanzapine with placebo as an additional treatment for 34 women in an intensive day hospital program for anorexia nervosa. Over 10 weeks, those randomly assigned to olanzapine gained more weight and gained weight faster; the target body mass index was reached by 88% of the olanzapine group and 56% of the placebo group. Both groups had declines in obsessions, compulsions, depression, and anxiety, but those taking olanzapine had significantly larger decreases in obsessive thoughts. Dr. Katherine Halmi discusses perplexities in randomized, placebo-controlled treatment trials for anorexia nervosa in an editorial on p. 1227.
People who hoard compulsively but do not have other symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) differ in several respects from hoarders with OCD. Pertusa et al. (CME, p. 1289) found that those without OCD reported less hoarding-related checking and obsessions, cited intrinsic or sentimental value as motivation, and were older when their clutter was deemed excessive. Those with hoarding plus OCD scored higher on clinician ratings of severity and functional impairment. They were also more likely to hoard letters, receipts, old medication, and bizarre items, such as rotten food. On the other hand, both hoarding groups had more family history of OCD and hoarding than people with other anxiety disorders or community comparison groups. In an editorial on p. 1229, Drs. James Leckman and Michael Bloch examine hoarding as part of their developmental and evolutionary perspective on OCD.
Patients with bipolar disorder who responded only partially to either valproate or lithium achieved a 63% response rate after aripiprazole was added for 6 weeks, whereas adding placebo resulted in a 49% response rate. Vieta et al. (p. 1316) report that the difference in symptom reduction between adjunctive aripiprazole and placebo was evident after 1 week. The advantages for aripiprazole included a lower proportion of patients with emergent depression and more improvement in psychosocial functioning. Among the patients who completed the 6-week study, both the valproate and lithium subgroups had greater improvements with adjunctive aripiprazole than placebo. Patients taking lithium plus aripiprazole had a 28% rate of akathisia, versus 12% for those taking valproate plus aripiprazole and 4%–6% for patients taking adjunctive placebo. An editorial by Drs. Joseph Calabrese and David Kemp on p. 1234 relates clinical trials for bipolar disorder to treatment in the real world.
Diagnoses of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for very young children involved in motor vehicle accidents were more reliable when based on modified symptom criteria than on established DSM-IV criteria. For older children, however, a DSM-IV diagnosis of acute stress disorder in the month following the accident was better than the alternative criteria for predicting PTSD at 6 months. For the children ages 2 to 6 years, all diagnoses were based on parental reports of symptoms. For the children ages 7–10, Meiser-Stedman et al. (p. 1326) compared the findings based on reports by the child only, by the parents only, and by both. Diagnoses based on combined parent-child reports at 2–4 weeks were better predictors of 6-month diagnoses than those based on a single source. Dr. Michael Sheeringa highlights the study's contributions in an editorial on p. 1237.
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Found the whole process of boarding very smooth and quick - we opted to the first boarding time of 3.00-3.30pm. Very smooth process.
Had already organised my Credit Card details through the website - so the only thing we had to do was to swap my husband and daughter from one cabin to another - was not a problem.
We found the food and entertainment great. We got into the spirit of it and participated in lots of events - bean bag toss, trivia, dodge ball. My daughter had the "timetable" and had us running from one end of the ship to the other!! Was good - we walked off the breakfast, lunch and dinners.
The staff were all fantastic - could not complain about anyone.
The staterooms were great - we had a balcony room and was more spacious that I expected.
The cruise director - Stu and his assistant - Eli were both great and really funny guys.
About the only complaint that I would have - was that the venues were cold!!!
They do get you on the price of drinks - but that was to be expected.
Waterslides were great for the kids. There was a good over 18 yrs area - Serenity - which was pretty crowded most of the time (as it was a school holiday cruise and there were a lot of kids)
I thought the shore excursions to be a bit pricey - I would not book them next time - now knowing what to expect.
My recommendation for Mare is to be one of the first off the ship - as the beach gets very crowded!!
We did miss out on one port - Isle of Pines - because of bad weather - but that was no-ones fault. The staff put on extra activities on board to fill in our day.
I had read some not so good reports on this website about the Carnival Spirit and I must say that we were pleasantly surprised.
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Interview with Paul Orlando, Hong Kong's Global Startup Expert
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Startups need all the help they can get. So when someone like Paul Orlando comes around, offering expert advice and critical resources, it is a rare treat for entrepreneurs and their budding businesses. With first-hand experience founding a New York startup and working with lots of other founders, Paul has a wealth of insight to … More
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10 Useful Travel Apps
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How in the world did we ever manage before the advent of travel apps? How did we ever fire off directions to our hotel in Kazakh? Navigate the bowels of Shinjuku Station? Book a last-minute ferry to Sardinia? Hunt down the best pho bo in Vietnam? Yes, indeed, the pre-travel app world was a strange … More
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They provide us with tabloid newspapers, second-rate coffee, fatty, salty, sugary bites in a pinch and, yes, when the occasion calls for it, contraception. Ah, vending machines. Is there anything they can't do? Perhaps more aptly, the question is, is there anything they can't package, stuff into and sell from a vending machine? As we … More
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OBJECTIVE: The study describes changes over time in the adjunctive use of valproate and other mood stabilizers—lithium, carbamazepine, and gabapentin—among hospitalized psychiatric patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. METHODS: For each calendar year from 1994 through 1998, data were drawn from a database containing clinical and drug prescription information for every inpatient in the adult civil facilities of the New York State Office of Mental Health. RESULTS: In 1994 a total of 26.2 percent of inpatients diagnosed as having schizophrenia received a mood stabilizer, compared with 43.4 percent in 1998. In 1994 lithium was the most commonly prescribed mood stabilizer, for 13.2 percent of patients, followed by valproate, for 12.3 percent. In 1998 valproate was the most commonly prescribed, for 35 percent of patients, followed by lithium, for 11.3 percent. On average, patients received valproate for about two-thirds of their hospital stay, at a mean dose of 1,520 mg per day. CONCLUSIONS: The adjunctive use of valproate nearly tripled from 1994 to 1998 among patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Valproate has become the most commonly prescribed mood stabilizer for this population, despite the paucity of evidence in the literature for efficacy in this use. Controlled clinical trials are needed to examine the adjunctive use of mood stabilizers, in particular valproate, among patients with schizophrenia.
Although originally developed as anticonvulsant drugs, carbamazepine, valproate, and, more recently, gabapentin and lamotrigine have been used as mood stabilizers in the treatment of bipolar disorder, much as lithium has been used (1,2,3,4). These agents are used both singly and in combination with one another (5). Their rates of use relative to one another have changed over the past decade. According to researchers from a Veterans Affairs medical center, from 1989 to 1994 the use of valproate monotherapy came to surpass that of lithium for patients with schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder (6).
After the Food and Drug Administration approved valproate for the treatment of bipolar disorder in 1995, a large increase in its use was observed among patients with bipolar disorder hospitalized in facilities operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health (7). More than half received valproate in 1996.
The use of mood stabilizers has broadened to cover a wide spectrum of mental disorders besides bipolar disorder. These agents have been used successfully in augmentation strategies with antidepressants (8) and neuroleptics (9). Control of impulsiveness and aggressiveness has also been specified as a treatment goal for this group of agents in a variety of diagnoses (10,11). In 1993 one-quarter of the inpatient population at a state-operated psychiatric hospital in New York received a mood stabilizer, although less than 20 percent of them had been diagnosed as having bipolar disorder (12). In that study, a review of the reasons for the prescription of mood stabilizers suggested that the intended effects of the treatment were to improve impulse control and reduce aggressive behavior.
This paper reports on the use of mood stabilizers, and of valproate in particular, among all patients with schizophrenia hospitalized in psychiatric centers operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health. Patients in this population usually are already receiving antipsychotic medication. Very few double-blind, placebo-controlled studies have been conducted on the "off-label" uses of mood stabilizers. Nonetheless, a plethora of retrospective case reviews, open trials, and case reports have served to launch the adjunctive use of mood stabilizers for a variety of conditions, most often agitation and aggressive behavior (13). With the exception of one open trial (14), no reports, anecdotal or otherwise, have appeared on the use of the newer mood stabilizers—gabapentin and lamotrigine in particular—for patients with schizophrenia. Because of the large numbers of patients receiving valproate (available as valproic acid or divalproex sodium), the emphasis of this report is on valproate.
To determine the extent and change over time of the use of valproate and other mood stabilizers among inpatients in the New York State psychiatric hospital system, we used the integrated research database created by the information sciences division of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research to obtain data retrospectively. The database contains patient information—such as demographic characteristics; dates of admission, transfer, and discharge; and diagnosis—and drug prescription information for every inpatient in the 19 adult civil facilities (reduced over time to 18 facilities) of the New York State psychiatric hospital system. The prescription information includes drug, dosage, and duration of order. Complete data are available from 1989 on, and partial information is available as far back as the 1960s. The integrated research database has been used previously to examine the extent, pattern of use, and effectiveness of depot neuroleptics (15,16) and the use of risperidone (personal communication, Javitt DC, 1999), as well as to compare valproic acid and divalproex sodium (7).
For each calendar year from 1994 through 1998, all inpatients who received at least one dose of any mood stabilizer as well as those who received no mood stabilizers were identified. Counts of patient episodes of care were obtained for each year by counting discrete admissions.
This study linked prescription orders with current diagnosis. However, a patient's clinical presentation may change over time, and hence the diagnosis of record can change from one admission to the next. Patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia may have been diagnosed at another time as having schizoaffective or bipolar disorder. In tabulating the total numbers of patients per diagnostic category, we considered the diagnosis to be the one recorded most recently for the episode of care. In tabulating numbers of patients in specific medication categories, we used the most recent diagnosis recorded before the patient received the first dose of the medication.
Diagnoses of schizophrenia included those assigned the DSM-IV numerical codes of 295.1x, 295.2x, 295.3x, 295.6x, and 295.9x. Diagnoses of schizoaffective disorders were those coded 295.7x. Diagnoses of bipolar disorder included the codes 296.0x, 296.4x, 296.5x, 296.6x, 296.7x, and 296.8x.
We analyzed the 1998 data in more detail. For patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia for whom at least one dose of valproate was prescribed or for whom no mood stabilizers at all were prescribed in 1998, further details about age, gender, ethnicity, and length of stay were retrieved from the database. For a subset of patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia for whom valproate was prescribed for two weeks or more in 1998, we also retrieved information on the dosage and duration of valproate administration, on the proportion of time the drug was administered over the length of stay, and on whether it was coadministered with an antipsychotic medication.
t1 summarizes use of valproate and other mood stabilizers from 1994 through 1998 for patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia for whom at least one dose of a mood stabilizer was prescribed in the course of a discrete hospital admission. For comparative purposes, we also included 1998 data on use of mood stabilizers for patients with schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder. In 1994 a total of 2,201 of 8,405 inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (26.2 percent) received a mood stabilizer. Lithium was most commonly prescribed (for 1,109 patients, or 13.2 percent), followed by valproate (for 1,037 patients, or 12.3 percent). In 1998 a total of 2,134 of 4,922 inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (43.4 percent) received a mood stabilizer, with valproate most commonly prescribed (for 1,724 patients, or 35 percent).
Patients with schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder were more likely than patients with schizophrenia to receive a mood stabilizer. The proportion of patients with those disorders who received a mood stabilizer also rose from 1994 to 1998 (earlier data not shown), predominantly as a result of an increase in the use of valproate. For schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder, a small absolute percentage decrease in use of lithium or carbamazepine was observed. In 1998 gabapentin was prescribed about as often as carbamazepine for patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder.
Additional data were retrieved for 1998 on patients with schizophrenia for whom at least one dose of valproate was prescribed and on patients for whom no mood stabilizer was prescribed. t2 summarizes the data on patient age, gender, and ethnicity as well as length of stay for these groups.
In 1998, of 1,724 patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia and receiving valproate, the drug was prescribed for two weeks or more for 1,601 patients (92.9 percent), which constitutes 32.5 percent of all patients diagnosed as having schizophrenia. On average, they received the drug for about 72 percent of their hospital stay at a mean±SD dose of 1,520±655 mg per day; 32.4 percent received valproate for their entire hospital stay.
For 95 percent of the patients with schizophrenia who received valproate, an antipsychotic medication was prescribed simultaneously. t3 summarizes coadministration rates for the different antipsychotic medications used with valproate. The rates of valproate use, calculated as a percentage of all patients receiving a given antipsychotic, are in a relatively narrow range, from 28.9 percent to 37.9 percent.
The increase in use of mood stabilizers, and valproate in particular, for patients with schizophrenia has paralleled similar increases for patients with schizoaffective disorder or bipolar disorder. For the latter two diagnoses, mood stabilizers have held an established place in the psychopharmacological armamentarium and have been evaluated in a number of controlled clinical trials. Mood stabilizers prescribed for patients with schizophrenia have not received such evaluation.
Only a few reports have described clinical trials of the adjunctive use of valproate for patients with schizophrenia. Wassef and colleagues (17) counted a total of 130 patients in the eight papers they reviewed in detail. Among the positive studies examining the use of valproate in the treatment of schizophrenia, most were open label (9,18,19,20,21,22,23,24), some were double blind (25,26), and some also included patients with diagnoses other than schizophrenia (9,18,25). Negative reports have also been published (27,28), including one in which valproate was prescribed after antipsychotic medications were stopped (29).
The adjunctive use of mood stabilizers is widely believed to reduce aggressive and impulsive behavior (12). Expert consensus guidelines suggest the adjunctive use of mood stabilizers for patients with schizophrenia and "persistent excitement" (30), but little has been presented in the way of evidence obtained in randomized clinical trials. For lithium, clinical trials have produced negative reports (31,32). Carbamazepine has been studied in small trials or in trials that lump together patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder (11,33,34,35,36,37). Valproate may have antiaggressive effects, but the evidence for its efficacy is based principally on uncontrolled studies and case reports describing mostly patients with dementia, mental retardation, personality disorders, and brain injuries (18,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48).
The increase in the use of mood stabilizers for patients with schizophrenia may be partly attributable to a changing state hospital population. As the hospital system's census and capacity decline, the patients who remain and the patients who continue to be referred to these tertiary care psychiatric centers may be more treatment resistant and prone to aggressive behavior and therefore more likely to be exposed to novel psychopharmacological approaches. The proportion of patients admitted to these hospitals and diagnosed as having schizophrenia has increased from 39.8 percent of all admissions in 1994 (8,405 of 21,132) to 47.6 percent of all admissions in 1998 (4,922 of 10,335).
The age, gender, ethnicity, and length-of-stay distributions for patients admitted with schizophrenia changed slightly from 1994 to 1998. The number of patients whose length of stay was less than 180 days decreased from 46.4 percent to 33.9 percent; the number of women patients decreased from 33.3 percent to 28.8 percent; the number of white patients decreased from 50 percent to 43.5 percent; and the mean age rose from 44.8 years to 45.8 years. None of these differences explain the observation that the use of valproate has nearly tripled in this population, from 12.3 percent to 35 percent. In absolute terms the number of patients with schizophrenia receiving valproate increased from 1,037 to 1,724, or 66 percent, over the five-year period, despite the decrease in system bed capacity of approximately 50 percent.
With the passage of time, clinicians may become increasingly familiar with mood stabilizers, leading to increased use. It is unlikely that the increase in utilization is attributable to the treatment of a concomitant seizure disorder. In an earlier study of this state hospital population, about 10 percent of all patients receiving valproate in 1996, regardless of psychiatric diagnosis, were reported to have a history of seizure disorder (7).
An unexpected finding was that in 1998, use of gabapentin exceeded use of carbamazepine for patients with schizophrenia. Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant drug that recently has come into use in the treatment of bipolar disorder (49), and it has been suggested that it may be useful in the management of behavior dyscontrol (50). Only one report could be found in the literature describing the use of gabapentin for patients with schizophrenia (14). The report described an open-label study of 18 patients with anxiety symptoms, ten of whom had been diagnosed as having schizophrenia; 14 experienced clinical improvement.
The population studied here resided in 19 hospitals (reduced to 18 over time) across New York State. The prescriptions counted represent the combined practice patterns of a geographically diverse group of more than 500 psychiatrists. One limitation of this study, however, is that the data cover inpatients only. The rate of use of valproate and other mood stabilizers among patients with schizophrenia being treated as outpatients in clinics operated by New York State psychiatric hospitals is unknown. One report in the literature describes antipsychotic and concomitant medication use among 316 indigent patients with schizophrenia being treated in 1995 as outpatients in an inner-city environment (51). In that study, 13.3 percent received adjunctive valproate, 10.8 percent lithium, and 3.5 percent carbamazepine. These figures indicate a significant adjunctive use of mood stabilizers, with rates only somewhat lower than those we report for inpatients in 1995: 19.8 percent, 13.3 percent, and 6.5 percent for valproate, lithium, and carbamazepine, respectively (see t1).
The monetary cost of valproate treatment and the attendant costs of obtaining and measuring blood levels are not trivial. The bulk cost of a four-week supply of valproate at 1,500 mg per day is approximately $10.87 for the generic valproic acid, and $98.98 for divalproex sodium (as reported by the pharmacy at the Rockland Psychiatric Center, May 1999). The New York State Medicaid reimbursable cost of a valproate plasma level determination is $10.50, exclusive of venipuncture costs; the full rate is $77.70 (as reported by a local private laboratory in Rockland County, New York State, May 1999). From 1996 data, 430,981 patient-days in which valproic acid was prescribed and 253,185 patient days in which divalproex sodium was prescribed can be counted; the drug cost is at least $1 million during that year for the state-operated psychiatric centers in New York, exclusive of any associated costs for blood monitoring.
From 1994 to 1998, the adjunctive use of valproate has nearly tripled among patients with schizophrenia. Valproate has become the most commonly prescribed mood stabilizer in this population despite the paucity of evidence in the literature that this use is efficacious. Whether prescribing valproate for patients with schizophrenia is good or bad is impossible to determine without outcomes data. Research is lagging behind clinical practice. The results reported here reveal an urgent public health need for controlled clinical trials to test the efficacy of the adjunctive use of mood stabilizers, particularly valproate, for patients with schizophrenia.
Maintenance of the integrated research database of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research is supported by grants from Eli Lilly & Co. and the Janssen Research Foundation.
Dr. Citrome is director of the Clinical Research and Evaluation Facility at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York, and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York University. Dr. Levine is deputy director of the institute and research professor of psychiatry at New York University. Ms. Allingham is a research scientist in the institute's information sciences division. Send correspondence to Dr. Citrome, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, New York 10962 (e-mail, firstname.lastname@example.com). This paper was presented as a new research poster at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association held May 15–20, 1999, in Washington, D.C.
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