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Directions to The Old Ground Hotel
City Distance from Ennis
Cork 83 miles / 133km
Galway 42 miles / 67km
Killarney 91 miles / 156km
Tralee 89 miles / 142km
Getting Here from Shannon Airport
14 miles / 23km. Approx 20 minutes.
- From Shannon Airport take the N19 exit.
- At the 4th roundabout, take the N18 signposted Galway.
- Take Ennis exit off duel carriageway (N85) Continue straight through two roundabouts and take 3rd exit on Clare Abbey roundabout
- Approach traffic lights and turn right continuing to station roundabout.
- Take first exit off roundabout and continue straight on Station Road.
- Hotel Entrance on your right as you approach the end of Station Road.
Getting Here from Dublin, via Limerick
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- From Dublin, take the N7, signposted Limerick. You will pass through the villages of Moneygall, Toomevara and Birdhill.
- On arrival in Limerick, at Parkway Roundabout take the 3rd exit onto the N7 (signposted City Centre, Galway (N18), Shannon Airport)
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This report was prepared by the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and by RTI International (a trade name of Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC). Work by RTI was performed under Contract No. HHSS283200700002I.
All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission from SAMHSA. Citation of the source is appreciated. However, this publication may not be reproduced or distributed for a fee without the specific, written authorization of the Office of Communications, SAMHSA, HHS.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Guide to Drug Abuse Warning Network Trend Tables, 2009. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2011.
This publication may be downloaded from http://www.oas.samhsa.gov or from http://DAWNinfo.samhsa.gov. Or please call SAMHSA at
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1. Major features of DAWN Trend Tables
1.1 Analytic groups
1.2 Workbooks containing national estimates
1.3 Workbooks containing metropolitan area estimates
1.4 Table format
1.5 Special note on age categories
2. Values reported in DAWN Trend Tables
2.1 Estimates of ED visits
2.2 Rates of ED visits per 100,000 population
2.3 Sampling error
2.4 Confidence intervals
2.5 Suppression
2.6 Comparisons across years
List of Tables
Table 1. DAWN analytic groups
Table 2. Workbook names for national estimates
Table 3. Prefixes for workbook names for metropolitan areas and divisions
Table 4. Tables in each workbook
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Trend Tables present estimates of the number of drug-related ED visits for different groups of patients and different geographic locations. In 2009 DAWN produced 130 Microsoft Excel workbooks; 10 workbooks contain estimates for the Nation, and the same 10 workbooks are repeated for each of 12 metropolitan areas. Each workbook contains 56 spreadsheets. Each spreadsheet contains estimates for 2004 through 2009 for about 500 drugs. This document is intended to help DAWN data users find the exact workbooks and tables that they are interested in.
The most current DAWN Trend Tables are located at https://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/data/. General information about DAWN is available at https://dawninfo.samhsa.gov/, including detail on the DAWN data program and the methodologies used to collect, process, and report data. Information on other sources of data on substance abuse and mental health from the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality is located at http://samhsa.gov/data/.
DAWN analytic groups represent different groupings of visits that were developed to meet the data needs of a range of audiences. The DAWN analytic groups and their definitions are provided in Table 1.
|Analytic group
|All visits
|This analytic category includes all visits that are reportable to DAWN without regard for the reason for the visit or the specific drugs involved. It includes all forms of drug misuse or abuse plus visits resulting from adverse reaction, accidental ingestion, suicide attempts, and patients seeking detoxification. This grouping is useful for looking at overall levels of drug involvement in ED visits.
|Drug misuse or abuse
|Overall drug misuse or abuse
|This analytic category includes visits that involve all forms of drug abuse or misuse as defined by DAWN. This is the combination of visits from the following four analytic groups: illicit drug visits, nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals, alcohol-related visits, and underage drinking. A visit may appear in more than one of those subgroups, but it will appear only once in this overall group. Suicide attempt visits and seeking detox visits are included in this category if illicit drugs were involved.
|Illicit drugs
|This analytic category includes visits that involve the use of drugs that have limited or no therapeutic value and are generally illegal if taken without a prescription. These substances include cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA (Ecstasy), GHB (4-hydroxybutanoic acid), flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), ketamine, LSD, PCP, and hallucinogens. Visits involving the inhalation of substances for their psychotherapeutic properties (e.g., sniffing model airplane glue) are included.
|Nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals
|This analytic category includes visits that involve nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals: patients who took a higher than prescribed or recommended dose of their own medication, patients who took a pharmaceutical prescribed for another person, malicious poisoning of the patient by another individual, and documented substance abuse involving pharmaceuticals.
|All alcohol
|This analytic category includes visits for patients of all ages when alcohol is used in combination with other drugs, plus visits involving alcohol use with no other drugs for patients under the age of 21.
|Underage drinking
|This analytic category includes ED visits that involve alcohol use (alone or with other drugs) for patients under the age of 21.
|Drug-related suicide attempts
|This analytic category includes ED visits that involve drug-related suicide attempts. It includes visits for drug overdoses, as well as suicide attempts by other means (e.g., using a firearm) if drugs were involved or related to the suicide attempt. Inclusion in this analytic category has no restrictions on the type of drug used.
|Seeking detox services
|This analytic category includes various situations such as nonemergency requests for admission for detoxification services, visits to obtain medical clearance before entry to a detox program, and acute emergencies in which an individual is in distress (i.e., displaying active withdrawal symptoms) and is seeking detox. These estimates do not include patients who seek or enter the hospital's detox unit through other avenues.
|Adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals
|This analytic category includes ED visits in which an adverse health consequence (such as side effects or an allergic reaction) resulted when taking prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, or dietary supplements as prescribed or recommended.
|Accidental ingestion of drugs
|This analytic category includes ED visits in which an individual accidentally or unknowingly used a prescription drug, over-the-counter medication, or dietary supplement. Drug-related accidental ingestion typically involves patients aged 5 and under.
Workbook names have three parts: a prefix that describes the geographic coverage of the workbook, a middle term that reflects the latest year of the data, and a suffix that describes the analytic group. Table 2 lists the workbook names for the 10 workbooks containing estimates for the Nation. Note that data for all years are contained in each file. Therefore, for example, each spreadsheet in the 2009 DAWN Trend Tables contains data for 2004 through 2009.1
|Analytic group
|Workbook name for file with national estimates
|All visits
|Nation_ 20xx_All.xls
|Overall drug misuse or abuse
|Nation_ 20xx_AllMA.xls
|Illicit drugs
|Nation_ 20xx_Illicit.xls
|All alcohol
|Nation_ 20xx_Alcohol.xls
|Underage drinking
|Nation_ 20xx_Underage.xls
|Nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals
|Nation_ 20xx_NMUP.xls
|Drug-related suicide attempts
|Nation_ 20xx_Suicide.xls
|Seeking detox services
|Nation_ 20xx_Detox.xls
|Adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals
|Nation_ 20xx_Adverse.xls
|Accidental ingestion of drugs
|Nation_ 20xx_Accidental.xls
In addition to providing national estimates, DAWN prepares estimates each year for DAWN metropolitan areas that have sufficient participation to support estimates with acceptable reliability and precision.
Table 3 lists the prefixes used to name workbooks containing estimates for metropolitan areas and divisions. For example, for 2009 the workbook containing national estimates for ED visits involving all misuse or abuse is named "Nation_2009_AllMA.xls." The workbook with parallel estimates for Boston is named "Boston_2009_AllMA.xls."
|Metropolitan areas and divisions (1)
|Workbook name
|(1) Unless otherwise noted, DAWN defines metropolitan areas using the MSA and Division definitions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in June 2003 (available at http:/www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/b03-04.html). For consistency, DAWN uses these names and definitions even if the names or composition were subsequently changed by OMB.
(2) Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Division.
(3) Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL and West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL Divisions.
(4) Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond Counties, NY.
NOTE: MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
|Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
|Boston_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI
|Chicago_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Denver-Aurora, CO
|Denver_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI
|Detroit_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX
|Houston_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Miami-Dade County Division (2)
|Miami_Dade Div_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Miami-Fort Lauderdale Divisions (3)
|Miami_FortLauderdale Div_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
|Minneapolis_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|New York-5 Boroughs Division (4)
|NewYork_5Boroughs Div_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
|Phoenix_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|San Francisco-San Francisco Division
|SanFrancisco_SF Div_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
|Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
|Seattle_20XX_{analytic group}.xls
For the 2009 data year, each of the 12 geographic areas listed in Table 3 has a set of 10 Excel workbooks, one for each analytic group listed in Table 2.
Each Excel workbook is formatted the same way. A workbook contains 56 data tables (spreadsheets), each representing a single demographic or visit characteristic. Examples of a demographic characteristic are "males" or "age 0–5." An example of a visit characteristic is "the patient was discharged home."
The rows of the tables represent drug categories and drugs. Each drug and drug category appears on the same row in each table (e.g., the estimate of ED visits involving cocaine is always reported on row 15).
The 28 columns in each table provide the following information:
Unless otherwise noted, each table has the same arrangement of rows and columns. Table 4 lists the tables that appear in each workbook.
|Table title
|Description of visits included in table
|Table of contents
|The Table of Contents lists each table that appears in the workbook. By clicking the table name, the user is taken automatically to that sheet in the workbook. A link to return to the Table of Contents is provided at the top and bottom of every spreadsheet.
|Table notes
|The table notes that appear in this spreadsheet apply to each table in the workbook. Also included here is the suggested citation to use when reproducing a table.
|ED visits by drug
|All ED visits included in the analytic group (e.g., all visits involving illicit drugs).
|Visits involving male patients.
|Visits involving female patients.
|Visits for which gender of patient is not documented in ED visit records.
|Age—Under 21
|Visits involving patients under the age of 21.
|Age—21 and older
|Visits involving patients aged 21 and older.
|Age—0 to 5
|Visits involving patients aged 0 to 5.
|Age—6 to 11
|Visits involving patients aged 6 to 11.
|Age—12 to 17
|Visits involving patients aged 12 to 17.
|Age—18 to 20
|Visits involving patients aged 18 to 20.
|Age—21 to 24
|Visits involving patients aged 21 to 24.
|Age—25 to 29
|Visits involving patients aged 25 to 29.
|Age—30 to 34
|Visits involving patients aged 30 to 34.
|Age—35 to 44
|Visits involving patients aged 35 to 44.
|Age—45 to 54
|Visits involving patients aged 45 to 54.
|Age—55 to 64
|Visits involving patients aged 55 to 64.
|Age—65 and older
|Visits involving patients aged 65 and older.
|Visits for which age of patient is not documented in ED visit records.
|Visits involving patients reported as White and not Hispanic or any other race/ethnicity.
|Visits involving patients reported as Black and not Hispanic or any other race/ethnicity.
|Visits involving patients reported as Hispanic regardless of any other reported race/ethnicities.
|Race/ethnicity—All other
|Visits involving patients reported as one or more race/ethnicities other than White, Black, or Hispanic.
|Visits for which race/ethnicity of patient is not documented in ED visit records.
|Patient disposition—Evidence of follow-up treatment
|Visits involving patients for whom evidence existed of some type of follow-up care (e.g., referral to a detox program, admission to the hospital, transfer to another facility).
|Patient disposition—No evidence of follow-up treatment
|Visits involving patients for whom no evidence existed of follow-up care (e.g., treated and released to home or jail).
|Patient treated and released
|Combined category for visits involving patients treated and released to home, police/jail, or detox program.
|Treated and released—Home
|Visits involving patients treated and released to home.
|Treated and released—Police or jail
|Visits involving patients treated and released to the police or sent to jail.
|Treated and released—Detox or treatment program
|Visits involving patients treated and released with a referral to a detox or treatment program.
|Patient admitted to this hospital
|Combined category for visits involving patients admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU), surgery, detox, or psychiatric or other inpatient unit.
|Admitted—Intensive care unit
|Visits involving patients admitted to the ICU.
|Visits involving patients admitted for surgery.
|Admitted—Chemical dependency or detox unit
|Visits involving patients admitted to the chemical dependency or detox unit in the hospital.
|Admitted—Psychiatric unit
|Visits involving patients admitted to the psychiatric unit in the hospital.
|Admitted—Other inpatient unit
|Visits involving patients admitted to another inpatient unit in the hospital.
|All other dispositions
|Combined category for visits involving patients who transferred, left without being seen, or died; other dispositions; and unknown dispositions.
|Other disposition—Patient transferred to another health care facility
|Visits involving patients who transferred to another health care facility.
|Other disposition—Patient left against medical advice
|Visits involving patients who left against medical advice.
|Other disposition—Patient died in ED
|Visits involving patients who died in the ED.
|Other disposition—Other
|Visits involving patients who had other dispositions.
|Other disposition—Unknown
|Disposition of visit not documented in ED visit records.
|Number of drugs per ED visit—One drug
|Visits involving only one drug.
|Multiple drugs visits
|Visits involving more than one drug.
|ED visits involving drugs with alcohol
|Visits involving alcohol. For adults, the alcohol must have been used in combination with another drug to be reportable to DAWN. For patients under the age of 21, the alcohol may have been used either alone, with no other drug involvement, or with other drugs.
|Number of drugs per ED visit—Two drugs
|Visits involving exactly two drugs.
|Number of drugs per ED visit—Three drugs
|Visits involving exactly three drugs.
|Number of drugs per ED visit—Four drugs
|Visits involving exactly four drugs.
|Number of drugs per ED visit—Five or more drugs
|Visits involving five or more drugs.
|Drug combinations
|This table reports ED visits for major and mutually exclusive drug combination groups. That is, each visit is counted in one and only one drug combination group. The rows in this table do not conform to the standard template, but the columns do.
|Frequency of drugs reported
|This table reports counts of drugs, not ED visits. Each ED visit can involve up to 22 drugs. The estimates in this table reflect how often each drug was involved in ED visits. The rows and columns conform to the standard format.
|Drugs confirmed by toxicology testing
|This table reports counts of drugs, not ED visits. Each ED visit can involve up to 22 drugs. The estimates in this table reflect how often each drug involved was confirmed through toxicology testing. The rows and columns conform to the standard format.
|Expanded listing of illicit drugs
|This table reports ED visits for more detailed drugs and drug categories than are found in the standard format. The rows in this table do not conform to the standard template, but the columns do.
|Expanded listing of psychotherapeutic drugs
|Similar to expanded listing of illicit drugs but provides estimates for psychotherapeutic drugs.
|Expanded listing of central nervous system drugs
|Similar to expanded listing of illicit drugs but provides estimates for central nervous system drugs.
|Expanded listing of respiratory drugs
|Similar to expanded listing of illicit drugs but provides estimates for respiratory drugs.
|Expanded listing of cardiovascular drugs
|Similar to expanded listing of illicit drugs but provides estimates for cardiovascular drugs.
The age categories used for reporting ED visits in the DAWN Trend Tables reflect critical junctures in drug use. For example, patients aged 0 to 5 are reported on separately because they are typically the accidental ingestion patients. Patients aged 12 to 17 are considered to be in their formative years, and understanding the nature of their drug use is important for prevention efforts. Patients under the age of 21 are reported on separately to facilitate study of topics such as underage drinking. Patients aged 18 to 20 are reported on separately from those aged 21 to 24 to isolate drug-taking behaviors before and after the critical age of 21. Older patients are grouped in wider categories because the concern is primarily on treatment that is not as age sensitive. As a consequence, the age categories are not evenly sized—for example, the age group 30 to 34 covers 5 years, whereas the age group 35 to 44 covers 10 years. The size of an age group is an important consideration when comparing estimates of ED visits for different age categories.
The following values appear in the columns of the DAWN Trend Tables. The order in which values are listed here corresponds to the order in which they appear in the standard table format.
Estimates of drug-related ED visits are calculated by applying weights and adjustments to the data provided by the sampled hospitals participating in DAWN. The primary sampling weights reflect the probability of selection, whereas separate adjustment factors are included to account for nonresponse, data quality, and the known total of ED visits delivered by the universe of eligible hospitals as reported by the most current American Hospital Association survey.
Standardized measures are helpful when comparing levels of drug-related ED visits for different age groups and genders. DAWN Trend Tables report rates of ED visits per 100,000 persons by age and gender. Rates are based on population data from the U.S. Census Bureau. If an estimate is suppressed, the rate will also be suppressed.
DAWN does not produce population-based rates for race/ethnicity categories because race/ethnicity information in ED records is often missing or is very limited.
Because DAWN relies on a sample of hospitals, each estimate produced from the DAWN ED data is subject to sampling variability, the variation in the estimate that would be observed naturally if different samples were drawn from the same population using the same procedures. The sampling variability of an estimate in this publication is measured by its relative standard error (RSE), which is reported as a percentage. The precision of an estimate is inversely related to its RSE. That is, the greater the RSE, the lower the precision (see Section 2.5).
DAWN Trend Tables include the lower and upper boundaries of the confidence intervals (CIs) for all estimates at the 95 percent confidence level. For example, the estimate of the number of ED visits involving any type of drug misuse or abuse in 2009 was 2,070,439. A 95 percent CI means that, if repeated samples were drawn from the same population of hospitals using the same sampling and data collection procedures, the number of ED visits reported (2,070,439) will fall between the lower (1,779,183) and upper (2,361,695) boundaries 95 percent of the time.
DAWN estimates with RSE values greater than 50 percent or estimates based on fewer than 30 ED visits (weighted or unweighted) are considered too imprecise for publication and are not shown. An asterisk (*) is displayed in the place of these suppressed estimates. Ratios (percentages or rates per 100,000 population) based on suppressed estimates are likewise suppressed.
DAWN Trend Tables assess between-year changes by comparing estimates as follows:
In the 2009 DAWN Trend Tables, for example, 2009 estimates are compared with those for 2004 (first year), 2007 (year before last), and 2008 (last year). The tables report percentage differences between years only if they are statistically significant at the p < 0.05 level.
1 Major changes to DAWN were instituted in 2004 as the result of a redesign that altered most of DAWN's core features. Changes were made in the design of the hospital sample, the drug-related cases eligible for DAWN, the data items submitted on these cases, and the protocol for case finding and quality assurance. These improvements created a permanent disruption in trends. As a result, the base year for comparison to later years is 2004.
2 Because of data limitations in 2004, the current year's data for visits involving adverse reactions are compared with 2005, not 2004.


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RAPIDES PARISH, La. (KALB News Channel 5) A Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office investigation of battery on a juvenile leads to four arrests.
According to the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office, on December 1, 2013 at 2:30 p.m., Deputies responded to a local hospital in reference to a possible battery that had been committed on a juvenile.
RPSO said upon arrival at the hospital, Deputies made contact with a case worker from the Department of Children and Family Services. The case worker reported the subject, later identified as Amber Boudreaux, entered the ER with her 14-month-old child who had a severe eye injury.
Deputies observed Boudreaux had injuries to her face and forehead as well. RPSO said Boudreaux first alleged that she had fallen causing her to drop the baby. Deputies said Boudreaux later alleged that during a dispute with her fiancé, Bruce Soileau, he struck her in the face while she was holding the child.
After responding to the residence on Esler Field Rd. where the battery occurred, Deputies located Soileau, and he alleged that Boudreaux had tripped over a dresser and dropped their baby. RPSO said during the interview with Soileau, deputies observed several pieces of drug paraphernalia in plain view.
According to Deputies, Sydnee Ratcliff and Joshua Ledet were located at the residence along with two small children in a bedroom with marijuana as well as several marijuana smoking pipes. Deputies said methamphetamine residue was also located in some baggies on a dresser. According to RPSO, Patrol Supervisors said the living conditions in the residence were some of the worst they had ever seen. Soileau, Ledet and Ratcliff were placed under arrest.
The DCFS case worker responded to the residence to follow up investigation into the living conditions of the children. RPSO said the children were later released to the custody of DCFS pending further investigation. Deputies said Soileau, Ledet and Ratcliff admitted to smoking narcotics in the residence with the children present. According to RPSO, Soileau, Ledet and Ratcliff were transported to the Rapides Parish Detention Center where they were booked on various charges. Boudreaux was also arrested and transported to the Rapides Parish Detention Center and booked on various charges. Soileau remains in jail on a $20,750.00 bond.
Arrestee: Bruce William Soileau, 31
112 Hagan Dr, Pineville, La.
Charges: Child Neglect, Drug Paraphernalia 2nd Offense, Illegal Use of CDS in presence of <17 and 2nd Degree Battery
Arrestee: Amber Rose Boudreaux, 30
Released on $2000.00 bond
106 Tartar Lane, Pineville, LA
Charges: Cruelty to Juveniles, Drug Paraphernalia 3rd Offense and Illegal Use of CDS in presence of <17
Arrestee: Joshua Joseph Ledet, 25
Released on $11,000.00 bond
6717 Esler Field Rd, Pineville, LA
Charges: Child Neglect, Drug Paraphernalia 1st Offense, Possession CDS I / Marijuana 1st Offence and Illegal Use of CDS in presence of <17
Arrestee: Sydnee Marie Ratcliff, 24
Released on $10,500.00 bond
Charges: Child Neglect, Drug Paraphernalia 1st Offense and Illegal Use of CDS in presence of <17


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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Quickies: Hummus and Baba Ganoush
I am totally in love with Middle Easter food. And for the veg-centric eater, your nearest Middle Eastern market is a treasure trove of inexpensive, nutrient-rich eadibles. Last week I was very excited to find fresh eggplant in my garden, however picking the fruit was a little tricky. Who knew they have thorns? Ouchy!!!
My new favorite field trip is Middle East Bakery & Grocery, on the far north side of Chicago. On a recent rainy day, I spent over an hour perusing the very organized shelves of the market. Pita bread was still warm in the packages. Shelves were packed with bulk dried fruits, lentils and fresh spices and herbs.
After receiving amazing recipes for hummus and baba ganoush from one of my yoga students, I was anxious to purchase a little tahini on the way home from my garden. I left the market with bread, cookies, olives, yogurt-cucumber dip and fresh pita chips.
Here are two easy and delicious recipes from Rose Karim so you can make you're own snacks. She encouraged me to alter the recipes to suit my taste, and then to be creative with additional ingredients such as red peppers, pine nuts, and artichokes.
1 can of chick peas (rinse) (16 ounce)
1-2 garlic clove
Juice of 1 lemon or 1 lime (limes have no seeds)
¼ cup of water (add more water if necessary… a little at a time or it will be soupy)
¼ cup of tahini sauce (add to taste)
Salt to taste
Olive Oil
Flat Italian parsley leaves to decorate
Pita Bread
Place rinsed chick peas in food processor (or blender*) add all ingredients with 1/2 the water. Add more water, a little at a time, until you reach the consistency you like. Place on platter drizzle with olive oil.
To compliment dish: cut cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, olives, hot peppers and etc.
**Blenders have a tendency to get stuck – turn off blender and push with spoon or fork adds a little water at a time until it blends.
Traditionally when eating hummus eat from the outside and work your way to the middle of the plate.
1 large eggplant
1 garlic clove crushed
½ juice of lemon or lime
Chopped Italian Flat Parsley ¼ cup (curly is okay the best is Italian flat parsley)
2 – 3 tablespoons of tahini sauce (add to taste)
Salt to taste
2 – 4 tablespoons of Olive Oil to taste
Pita Bread
By hand (a chunkier texture):
Preheat oven to 400o for about 10 minutes. Wash eggplant and pierce eggplant several to times with knife, place on foil. Place in oven for about one hour. Eggplant would look prune like and soft when done. Place garlic glove in a bowl with salt and crushed. When eggplant is done, peel eggplant placed in bowl and smash with fork. Add lemon juice, tahini sauce mix well with fork; at the end add chopped parsley. Place on platter drizzle with olive oil.
Note: Eggplant is extremely hot--be careful when peeling.
By food processor (smoother texture):
Place garlic glove in food processor until smooth. Add with parsley and chopped. Add baked, grilled, peeled eggplant with lemon juice, salt and process or pulse until you reach desire consistency. Place on platter drizzle with olive oil.
Note: Eggplant is extremely hot-- be careful when peeling.
Grill Eggplant instead of oven roast.
You could grill (pierce) eggplant on a grill for that smoky flavor, but you must turn it every ten minutes – always place eggplant on foil. Eggplant is done when it looks prune up and soft when done. Be careful not to over grill the eggplant. It will swivel up quickly and turn charcoal like.
Note: Eggplant is extremely hot-- be careful when peeling.
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Atlantis creeps up on Hubble
Space shuttle Atlantis is poised to rendevous with the Hubble Space Telescope on its final servicing mission to the venerable eye in the sky. Shortly before 15:00 GMT, NASA reported: "Orbiting nearly 50,000 feet (9 1/2 statute miles) behind the telescope, Atlantis' crew performed a precisely-targeted thruster firing called the …
How close to the fuselage?
The fact that it's even public knowledge makes me wonder, this sounds similar to what caused the disintegration of STS-107. Last time they refused to get a satellite to have a closer look in orbit when it was suggested by engineers. If they want any kind of budget from Obama going forward, they'd better make damn sure it's OK this time.
Still, here's to looking out of a nice clean Hubble, and the safe return of Atlantis.
Space shuttle safety
NASA know that a repeat of Columbia will doom any more Shuttle flights and big problems all round for NASA.
Maybe the "managers" listen to Engineers now.
"...grapple of the telescope...."
Presumably, they're expecting this to result in either three falls or a submission from the telescope.
What's the backup plan if the telescope wins?
The spandex leotard, thanks.
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But we discovered a counter to that trend. It's called "reverse medical tourism" and it is drawing patients from all over the world.
Daniel Wisniak is one of those patients. He's visiting the Tampa Bay area from Israel, in hopes of correcting a medical condition revealed in a blood test three years ago.
Doctors in Israel found Daniel had a parathyroid tumor. It's not cancerous, but can eat away at bones, cause pain, fatigue and memory problems. Daniel wanted the tumor removed; his doctors wanted to wait.
"I said listen my friend, this is the end of the line for me. I've had three years of this. Enough is enough," Daniel says. "I was not willing to wait any longer, I've wasted three year in very bad physical feeling."
Daniel looked online for a new direction, and that search led him right here, to Tampa General Hospital.
TGH is home to a Parathyroid Specialty Center where doctors perform 25,000 surgeries a year -- 20 times more than any other hospital in the world.
On his YouTube page, Dr. James Norman explains the entire process, down to the driving directions. Daniel watched the video before heading into surgery, which we were allowed to observe.
"We try and make his incision pretty small here an inch or inch and a half," Dr. Norman explains. "He's had some ten or twelve ultrasounds -- five or six cat scans -- and a whole bunch of MRIs and all sorts of other things, and he didn't need a scan. All he needed was a knife."
While big facilities like the Mayo Clinic and John Hopkins have an international edge, niche surgeons in our own backyard are attracting patients from as far away as Singapore.
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Novelist Philip K. Dick anticipated by four decades the Internet of Things, a phenomenon touted loudly by the press from this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Internet-aware automobiles, toothbrushes, mattresses, infant monitors, fitness trackers, pet collars, tennis rackets, lightbulbs, toilets, bathroom scales, "wearable" tech, tricorder-like medical sensors, and more have arrived or are on their way.
Dick, ever the dystopian, recognized that one man's technological boon is inevitably another's bane, and expressed this view most bleakly in his Ubik. The novel, published in 1969 but set in the early 1990s, posits a world populated with nearly sentient appliances. Joe Chip, the novel's protagonist, is so broke he's in arrears with the robots that clean his apartment, and they have reported him to a credit agency as a deadbeat. One morning, upon attempting to exit his apartment, the smartdoor blocked him, saying "Five cents, please."
"I'll pay you tomorrow," Chip promised after searching his empty pockets.
The door isn't having it, and refused to open. "What I pay you," Chip said, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you."
"I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed." Chip did as told, retrieving the contract and reading it.
"You discover I'm right," said the door in a smug voice.
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13 U.S. Code § 142 - Repealed.
Section, acts Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1158, 68 Stat. 1020; Aug. 28, 1957, Pub. L. 85–207, § 10, 71 Stat. 483; Mar. 15, 1976, Pub. L. 94–229, § 1, 90 Stat. 210; Oct. 27, 1986, Pub. L. 99–544, § 1(a), 100 Stat. 3046, provided that Secretary of Commerce take periodic censuses of agriculture and irrigation.
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Repeal effective Oct. 1, 1998, see section 3(d) ofPub. L. 105–113, set out as an Effective Date of 1997 Amendment note under section 1991 of Title 7, Agriculture.
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The focus of my research program over the past decade has been to investigate the role of the domestic dog as a comparative biomedical model with an emphasis on the cytogenetic aspects of cancer research. The power of a canine model for cancer research lays fundamentally in the unique demographic history of many dog breeds. Domestic dogs are organized into more than 350 phenotypically distinct genetic isolates, termed breeds, which are characterized by unique constellations of morphology, behavior, and susceptibility to naturally occurring diseases, including numerous cancers. Many breeds of dog have been developed by generations of tightly controlled breeding over a relatively short time (100-400 years), during which the restricted gene flow between breeds, combined with moderate to high levels of inbreeding, has resulted in modern dog breeds with considerably reduced genetic heterogeneity. Genetic investigations of canine diseases may thus be conducted amongst a reduced level of the background noise that is usually associated with investigations of more heterogeneous genomes such as our own. Identifying disease-associated genes (or even gene expression patterns) in dog breeds is therefore likely to be simpler than in human populations.
Cancers in dogs occur spontaneously and so canine tumor genomes are expected to reflect the natural variety of genetic lesions that are observed in human cancer genomes, a feature that is not evident with induced rodent tumors. Furthermore, the pathophysiological similarities between naturally occurring human and dog diseases, combined with recent advances in veterinary medicine, allow the dog to be considered as an ideal second species for comparative and translational research, providing genetic resources and clinical data to fill gaps between fundamental research in rodents and human clinical studies.
Over the past decade my lab has played a pivotal role in developing the molecular cytogenetic resources that are required to support the role of the dog as a model system for genetic studies.
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- 1986 Sir W. H. Tate University Undergraduate Scholarship for outstanding achievement in Science
- 2004 Faculty Professional Research and Development Award (NCSU).
- 2006 Pfizer Award for Excellence in Veterinary Research (NCSU).
- 2006 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award
- 2007 Asa Mays Award for Excellence in Canine Health Research


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Anita Bradford avoids people with the sniffles and keeps a close watch on air quality. Even on yellow-air-quality days, the 78-year-old's terminal lung disease bids her to lie low and stay indoors.
But seclusion wasn't enough to escape the ash-laden smoke billowing from the Wood Hollow Fire over Bradford's Spanish Fork home.
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"When that stuff came over the mountain I told my husband, 'We've got to get out of here,' " said Bradford, who packed the car and fled to California for an impromptu vacation. "We stayed away for a week and had a good time. But it was an expense we hadn't budgeted for."
Utah's wildfire threat may have subsided. But Bradford still bristles at bearing the brunt of ill health and the costs.
The Wood Hollow Fire, caused by arcing power transmission lines, started June 23 and took 10 days to contain. One of the hundreds of fires that scorched parched Utah lands this summer, the blaze cost nearly $4 million to fight.
"But for every $1 spent fighting these fires there are plenty more spent on related health problems," speculates Bradford. "These are costs that go relatively unseen."
There is no easy way of tallying these costs: the doctor visits, sick days and lost productivity. Evidence of a rise this summer in emergency room visits and hospitalizations for respiratory complaints is anecdotal.
Timpanogos Hospital reports about a dozen asthma-related visits during the Saratoga Springs and Alpine fires. The University of Utah's emergency department treated 31 more respiratory complaints this June than last June, despite seeing fewer patients overall.
"In one night the weekend before the Fourth [of July], I saw five people with severe symptoms, not just with a cough, but people we were admitting or keeping overnight," said U. ER doctor Troy Madsen. Normally, Madsen says he may see one or two such cases a shift.
Smoke from wildfires is a mixture of gases such as carbon dioxide and particles from burning trees and other plant materials, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Large particles can burn your eyes and irritate your nose and throat. But it's the small particles, those 30 times tinier than the diameter of a human hair, that get sucked deep into the lungs and wreak havoc.
"Small children, seniors and people with lung and heart problems are more affected than the rest of us," said Kent Bott, staff meteorologist at the Utah Department of Environmental Quality.
There are numerous studies charting the health effects of urban air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels. Whether the short, sometimes higher bursts of pollution from wildfires have the same effects is an open question.
One Environmental Protection Agency-led study of a 2008 wildfire in North Carolina showed a link between smoke and increased emergency room visits for heart failure and lung diseases such as asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis.
Bott said Salt Lake County air monitors never registered above moderate levels for small or large particulates. Utah County had several yellow air days and one red day through late June and early July, he said.
Red air alerts are common in winter when temperature inversions trap pollution in the valley, sometimes for days on end.
But Madsen believes that while "people during the winter are used to having to stay indoors, the fires caught them off guard."
In some cases, heavy smoke may have been compounded by allergies, he added.
For Bradford, the health calculus was simple and so are the policy solutions to mitigate risks for wildfires.
The retiree has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring or thickening of the lungs. The cause of the condition is unknown. There is no cure or proven treatment; her only recourse is to avoid situations that make it worse.
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Language Acquisition Through Short Stories for Second Language Learners
The objective of teaching a language is to make the learners learn the language and use it infallibly. This is done best when the learners are involved actively in the learning process. Involvement comes only if sufficient interest is aroused and sustained in the classroom. Considered as one of the most resilient forms of edutainment, a short story always augments intellectual stimulation and definitely has a great impact on human mind. It has linguistic, psychological, cognitive, social and cultural relevance as well. Catering to the needs of the second language learners, the syllabus should be revised and the curriculum should include short stories which will evince keen interest among the second language learners. This paper adopts a stylistic approach and seeks to focus on the possibility of using short stories as a pedagogical tool to develop language skills thereby fortifying professional advancement and career growth.
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Sacramentans eager to get to the heart of Napa Valley for a day of wine tasting customarily speed by the first winery they encounter along Highway 12 connecting Interstate 80 with the valley's main route, Highway 29.
Tucked into a vineyard high on a hill, it isn't easy to see, for one. Motorists also likely are focused on simply surviving the congestion and the drama of a $115 million widening of Highway 12. The sooner they put that behind them, they well may feel, the better.
So they breeze right through the traffic signal at Kirkland Ranch Road and zip on to Yountville, Rutherford and St. Helena.
The folks of Reata winery, however, are saddled up and ready to rope them into turning right at Kirkland Ranch Road for a bit of western hospitality. "Reata," Spanish for "lariat," is the year-old name for a winery initially called Kirkland Ranch and then, briefly, Valley Gate Vineyards.
A year and a half ago, Madison Vineyard Holdings of Colorado acquired the property, brought in new winemaking personnel, came up with the name Reata to recognize the site's ranching history, and are ready to start grabbing the attention of at least some of the 36,000 motorists who drive Highway 12 daily.
They're doing it in part with a heavily timbered, 57,000-square-foot production facility and hospitality center in the middle of the estate's 300 acres, 100 of which are planted to vineyards, with much of the rest of the property continuing its more traditional role of providing pasture for cattle and sheep.
From the wraparound veranda of the tasting room, visitors get an appreciation of just how close the site is to San Pablo Bay, which helps provide the setting's cool breezes, making it a site especially fitting for chardonnay and pinot noir, the focus of Reata's winemaking goals.
Reata's new winemaker, Nori Nakamura, just wrapped up his first vintage on the estate, though he's an old hand at working with Napa Valley grapes.
His first exposure to wine came in his native Tokyo, where an uncle, an opera singer who performed in both Japan and Italy, had an Italian restaurant, Maria. But while Nakamura was around wine at the restaurant, he didn't give it much heed until he spent a month in Italy with his brother, a furniture designer, in 1993.
On the last night of his stay in Milan, his brother took him to a posh restaurant where they shared a bottle of a 1981 Barbaresco.
"That was my definitive moment. It was exotic, it was sexy," Nakamura recalled of the wine. "I was overwhelmed by the power of that wine, how it could make me so emotional, how it could provide so much joy. I decided then that I wanted to pursue this."
He returned to Tokyo, completed his studies in economics at Keio University, and joined the hotel chain Nikko. After earning a certificate in wine service from the Japan Sommelier Association, he transferred to the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco as catering manager.
That was in 1999. The hotel's wine program was so French-oriented that he didn't visit the Sonoma and Napa wine regions until three months after he'd moved to San Francisco. When he did get there, he was immediately smitten by the scene, the wines and the possibilities. He subsequently spent virtually every weekend touring wineries, 170 the first year alone.
When he found himself wanting to move beyond tasting wine to making it, he began to ask winemakers how they got to where they were.
"Eighty percent of them said they'd gone to UC Davis. I didn't know what that was," Nakamura said.
When he found out, he enrolled and earned a second bachelor's degree, this one in viticulture and enology. Before becoming winemaker at Reata, he worked at several Napa Valley wineries, including Napa Wine Co., Pine Ridge Vineyards and Artesa Winery.
Five years from now, he hopes to be recognized in large part for the balance and length of his wines.
"I don't care for powerful, high-alcohol, heavily extracted wines," Nakamura said. "I don't use much oak. I don't want it to stand out. It should push the fruit, but stay behind it."
Though he didn't make the Reata wines now on the market, they nevertheless provide that sort of model. Made by consulting winemakers David Stevens and Dave Dobson, Reata's first wines include a 2009 Napa Valley viognier whose barrel fermentation was held in check so its bright and refreshing essence of honeysuckle, peach and spice wouldn't be overshadowed by oak; a spirited 2010 Napa Valley chardonnay whose ripe flavors run to the apple, peach and pear end of the fruit spectrum; and a meaty and mineral-y 2010 Napa Valley pinot noir.
Reata also has a second label, Whiplash, under which it has released a pleasant if simple 2010 California chardonnay and a fleshy, fruity and earthy proprietary red blend from the 2009 harvest called Redemption, based largely on syrah but also including substantial portions of barbera and zinfandel.
The most impressive wine in the current lineup, however, is the Reata Estate 2010 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, which seizes the appellation's forthright berry and cherry flavors in a luxurious package that lingers long on the palate with notes of spice, leather, tobacco and truffles. In commercial wine competitions it consistently has won gold and silver medals.
The irony here is that the grapes that yielded the wine were grown in neighboring Sonoma County rather than Napa Valley. For Sacramentans on a wine-tasting holiday, that just means they don't have to drive all the way to the coast to sample the wine.
Reata 2010 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir
By the numbers: 14.2 percent alcohol, 6,200 cases, $30
Context: Fish, pork, chicken or beef dishes scented with rosemary or oregano, or pasta tossed with a basil pesto, would be a good fit for the pinot noir, say Reata officials. They also note that it pairs well with cheeses such as Camembert and Brie. (Reata's principal officers are Alyssa O'Hare, who grew up on a raspberry farm in northern Oregon, and Bryan E. Gordon, who grew up in a family that imported specialty cheeses from Europe, including France).
Availability: In Sacramento, look for the pinot noir at BevMo stores. It also can be ordered through the winery's website, www.reatawines.com.
More information: Reata's Western-theme visitors center, which includes a homey tasting room, banquet facilities and an observation area overlooking the working winery, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Reata's resident chef, Karen Chiappone, is just launching a wine-and-food program that is to include such dishes as truffled mac 'n' cheese and marinated short ribs paired with Reata wines.
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SAN JOSE, CA - OCTOBER 23: Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller announces the new iMac during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on October 23, 2012 in San Jose, California. Apple is expected to introduce a smaller, less expensive version of the iPad. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Some iMacs are sporting labels that say "Assembled in the USA," a change from the machines' usual assembly in China.
The phenomenon was first reported by Fortune, when a San Jose, Calif. reader notified the publication about the new label on his new 21-inch iMac. More were found but it doesn't necessarily mean that Apple is moving all its assembly to the United States, AppleInsider reported.
All the major components of a computer, including the motherboard and hard drive, are imported. The computer's components then are put together in a simple "screwdriver" operation in the U.S., are not substantially transformed under the Customs Standard, and must be marked with a foreign country of origin. An "Assembled in U.S." claim without further qualification is deceptive.


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We eat just as much with our eyes as we do our taste buds, and that's why food manufacturers are eager to serve up a variety of enticing pictures and promises on their packages.
The Food and Drug Administration has started cracking down on companies with overblown marketing claims.
If you examine any food product, you may have trouble matching the label on the front of the package to what's listed on the back.
What's facing you from every shelf is the creative work of food manufacturers and marketers.
"Having you perceive that a product is something different than the manufacturer wins that battle," says Johnson & Wales Culinary Instructor Ray Zoller.
For example, we didn't find any butter in some brands of buttered popcorn, or real blueberries in one brand of blueberry cereal. Instead, what we found was a lot of flavoring.
"It's more cost-effective for them to do that than to put the natural product in there," Zoller said.
Natural and artificial flavors are made in laboratories, so be sure to take the time to read the fine print.
We found one brand of strawberry-flavored oatmeal that didn't have any strawberries at all, and instead had red-colored pieces of apple.
"Buyer beware," Zoller said. "You have to educate yourself about what you are buying."
When you are trying to buy foods made with whole wheat or grains, the first thing you should do is look at the ingredient label.
If 100-percent whole wheat or a grain-like rye isn't listed first, you could be buying a bag of bread made with mostly white flour and colored with molasses or caramel.
"So, we're marketing a product to appear as one thing when, in fact, it's something totally different," Zoller explained.
The same thing happens with juices versus drinks. We found one carton sitting in the orange juice section, but there was zero juice in it.
Some "juice" drinks primarily contain water and high-fructose corn syrup.
"You're looking at flavored sugar water," Zoller said.
It may sound too good to be true that manufacturers have invented things like "sugar-free cookies" and "sugar-free liquid sugar."
What they've invented is sugar alcohols, or compounds which the body is unable to absorb completely. They still have calories, but few enough per serving that the FDA doesn't require them to be counted on the label.
Anything labeled "natural" must be healthy, right?
Well, the FDA doesn't define the word, and there are some strong interpretations like adding sugar and palm oil to the ingredients in natural peanut butter.
"It is a natural ingredient, but it's something you wouldn't expect to be in peanut butter," Zoller said.
Experts say consumers should do a little more inspection of the products they intend to buy before putting them in your grocery cart.
Food manufacturers want your attention, so just make sure your focus is on the fine print so you'll know if what you're paying for matches the promise.
Ambiguous terms like "low" and "reduced" are often relative to serving size. You can call cake "low fat" if you only offer a small portion and watch out for fillers.
When manufacturers lighten or reduce one ingredient, it has to be replaced by something else. In some cases, it's replaced with sugars or cellulose, which is a compound found in wood.
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