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Easter is the way we live our faith, ask our questions, offer our prayers, gather as the body of Christ, serve in and through our shared ministry, mature as disciples of Jesus Christ.
In her message, the Governor said, "Easter is the time of the year when we remember the sacrifice and Resurrection of Jesus Christ".
Today, children will be scrambling for Easter eggs.
Easter Sunday marks the close of the 40 days of lent which Christians commit themselves to by observing fasting, abstinence and goodwill to all.
Easter is primarily a time to reflect on Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, but for many, Easter is like Christmas, it is celebrated as a combination of the secular and the sacred. All that Jesus had told them was now coming back to them and was making sense to them. all was being fulfilled as Jesus had said.
In Egypt, Coptic Christians marked a somber Easter a week after twin bombings by the Islamic State group killed dozens of worshippers at churches in two separate cities.
It's the churches 8th annual hunt, hosted by the Knights of Columbus, who say it's a fun way to get the family together and educate children about the importance of the Easter holiday. That connects with the church's view that every Sunday is a celebration of Easter.
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) President Rev. Samson Ayokunle has assured Nigerians that the power of resurrection will end the menace of corruption and recession.
"Jesus waits for you and me, embracing us in our moments of greatest need and desire", Cardinal DiNardo said. "Let us rejoice in the glorious resurrection of Lord Jesus Christ on the auspicious occasion and pray for renewed peace and the prosperity to one and all". And that's what Easter does - gently or powerfully - that Jesus died on the cross not because God wasn't in control, but because He was - and still is.
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Santa may be a hero driving a pack of reindeer as he blazes from rooftop to rooftop at cruising altitude Christmas Eve, but, well, he's chubby, ruddy and beard-y. Hot cider and gingerbread cookies are about as close as he gets to spicy.
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Friday the 30th of October was a big night, Nina Kraviz was in Sheffield and playing one of our coolest warehouses – Hope Works. I was one of the hundreds of lucky people to get my hands on a prestigious ticket. I hadn't visited Hope Works since Jackmaster graced its halls exactly a year earlier, so I was extremely excited.
I arrived in style – by Uber I mean. We were queuing for almost half an hour, which I was okay with, despite the irritating 'gap year' student in front of me. There was an notable excitement in the air, some people had their best sports gear on whilst others were making an effort for the Halloween weekend.
Once in, I checked out the rave cave, notably different since I'd last visited as it's now outside in a separate warehouse. Approaching it I was concerned as to where and what I was going to walk into as a huge black curtain covers basically a hole in the wall; although when lifted I was struck by lights and heavy techno. After it got too intense I headed to the main room to get myself a Dark Fruit, which i'm always happy to drink, an illustrious choice for the evening!
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Powell Interview on CBS's Face the Nation
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman For Immediate Release
March 10, 2002
Interview Of Secretary Of State Colin L. Powell By Bob Schieffer And Gloria Borger Of CBS's Face The Nation
March 10, 2002 Washington, D.C.
(10:33 a.m. EST)
MR. SCHIEFFER: Good morning, again. The Secretary of State is in the studio with us. Mr. Secretary, thank you so much. We'll get right to it. The Middle East seems worse than ever, once again. You're sending your man, General Zinni, back out to the region. What are you telling him to do? Does he have a plan? Is he just going to try to get the violence stopped? What do you expect from him?
SECRETARY POWELL: General Zinni is going out with a specific mission, and that is to get both sides to agree to enter the Tenet work plan and to participate in the execution of the Tenet work plan. The Tenet work plan is part of our long-range process of getting to the Mitchell process, and that will get us into negotiations, negotiations that ultimately will lead to discussions on the basis of UN Resolutions 242 and 338.
So we have a vision. We have a plan to solve this crisis. But it begins with ending the violence. And what General Zinni is going to do is to get both sides together, sit them down, get security conversations to begin, get the violence down. But not just talk back and forth. Do it in the framework of the Tenet plan.
We're sending him back at this time because both sides indicated receptivity to a visit by General Zinni at this point. He's going to stay in the region and fight his way through this. We're not going to allow acts of violence to stop General Zinni from doing his work. And I'm pleased that Prime Minister Sharon, a couple of days ago, indicated that his requirement for days of quiet being set aside so that we can get this going. I hope that this is the beginning of the end to this violence.
But the violence continues. It's horrible. I condemn the acts of violence that were perpetrated yesterday against innocent Israeli citizens. I also have to be concerned about some of the responses from the Israeli side. I know that they are executing acts of self-defense; they are under attack. But at the same time, I think we have to be careful about situations where humanitarian or Red Cross or Red Crescent or doctors and people like that are injured in the course of doing their work.
So this is the time for both sides to exercise maximum restraint in order to make sure that General Zinni can come in with some hopeful circumstances.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Now let me just kind of go through a little explanation here. When you say the Tenet plan, this is a series of steps to dial back the violence that was kind of worked out by CIA Director Tenet when he was out there.
SECRETARY POWELL: Exactly.
MR. SCHIEFFER: And the Mitchell Plan you're talking about, this is the plan that George Mitchell, the former Senate Democratic leader, had worked out some time back. So you're going to try to work within the framework of those two plans.
Let me move to something else, Mr. Secretary, that has to do with that region. As you well know, a top secret policy paper was leaked to the Los Angeles Times this week. It outlines our nuclear strategy, and, among other things, it says that nuclear weapons would be an option in any kind of a confrontation with -- it lists Russia, with China. It also lists Iraq.
What can you tell us about that? And are nuclear weapons on the table should it come to a showdown with Saddam Hussein?
SECRETARY POWELL: Let's put this in context.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Okay.
SECRETARY POWELL: I think there is less than meets the eye, and less than meets the headline, with respect to this story. We are always reviewing our options -- military options, conventional weapons, nuclear weapons. We're always reviewing our diplomatic and economic and political options. And one of the things we are required to do by Congress is to make a review of our nuclear weapons posture, and this particular study took note of two important developments since the last study was done.
One, the Soviet Union is gone and Russia has fundamentally changed with respect to its relationship with the United States. President Bush took note of this even before he came into office, saying we're going to reduce the number of nuclear weapons that we keep in our inventory because Russia has changed. And in the first year of his administration, Russia clearly is becoming a friend and not an adversary, and we hope to lock in with the Russians a reduced number of nuclear weapons that we keep in our force structure.
The other development that this study took into account is that there are nations out there developing weapons of mass destruction. And prudent planners have to give some consideration as to the range of options the President should have available to him to deal with those kinds of threats. Right now, today, not a single nation on the face of the earth is being targeted by an American nuclear weapon on a day-to-day basis. We just don't do that. And so this is prudent military planning, and it's the kind of planning I think the American people would expect.
There is also an aspect of the story saying we're getting ready to develop new nuclear weapons. We are not. What we are looking at, and what we have tasked the Pentagon to do, is to see whether or not within our lowered inventory levels we might want to modify or update or change some of the weapons in our inventory to make them more effective. But we are not developing brand new nuclear weapons, and we are not planning to undergo any testing. So I want to make sure we don't get the international community upset by what is essentially sound conceptual planning on the part of the administration.
MR. SCHIEFFER: But let me ask you just about another part of this, because I remember that before the United States went to war with Iraq, the last thing that the Bush Administration did was to send the Secretary of State Jim Baker to Iraq and to say to Saddam Hussein we want you to know that nuclear weapons are an option. He didn't say we're going to use them. He said we're not going to take that option off the table.
Are we saying the same thing?
SECRETARY POWELL: I was in the administration as that administration's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and what Jim Baker did, and what we all did, was to make it clear to the Iraqis that the President of the United States and the American people had a full range of options available to them. Obviously a full range of options goes from an M-16 rifle to a nuclear device. You don't have to --
MR. SCHIEFFER: Is that still the policy?
SECRETARY POWELL: Yes, the President has a full range of options available to him. But we are not looking for a war, and it seems most unlikely that, among all the options we have, this is an option we would have to exercise in any foreseeable way that I can understand it.
But I think it is very useful for people to know that there is a full range of options. This is not new to this administration. The previous administration made the same point in a declaratory statement that Secretary Bill Perry, during the Clinton Administration, put out and which still remains US policy.
But the headlines suggesting that somehow we are now targeting specific individual countries, whereas all that study said, as reported in the newspapers, is that this class of nations -- Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea -- are developing the kinds of weapons of mass destruction that should be troubling to all of us. And we have said this for many, many years -- previous administrations and this administration -- and it is prudent for the American President and for our Department of Defense to examine all the options that are going to be available to an American President as he deals with the threats that are out there in the world.
MS. BORGER: A couple of follow-ups here to Bob's questions, Mr. Secretary. First of all, does this represent a change in our nuclear first-strike policy?
SECRETARY POWELL: No. Our nuclear first-strike -- which -- you have to be a little more precise, so I can be precise.
MS. BORGER: Well, you can -- why don't you say does it --
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, there are two aspects to this. The United States has never said we would not strike first against some nation that possesses nuclear weapons. It's an important point because we think it is best for any potential adversary out there to have uncertainty in his calculus. But we have also said, as a declaratory statement -- this gets a little tricky -- but for those nations that are non-nuclear possessing nations, we would have no intention of fighting them with nuclear weapons unless a certain set of circumstances came into place where they aligned themselves with nations that might have nuclear weapons, or get into weapons of mass destruction.
So there is a theology associated with all of this, but you know we have a range of military options that can be used to defend the nation and defend our interests and our allies around the world, and we should not get all carried away with some sense that the United States is planning to use nuclear weapons in some contingency that is coming up in the near future. It is not the case. What the Pentagon has done with this study is sound military conceptual planning, and the President will take that planning and he will give his directions as to how to proceed.
MS. BORGER: I'd like to go back to the Middle East for a moment, if I might. There is an Arab summit coming up in Beirut at the end of this month. Can you tell us what you would like to see coming out of that summit?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, I am encouraged by the fact that the Arab foreign ministers are meeting now, over the last several days, and there is consensus growing around the idea of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Abdullah, for this vision that he presented to The New York Times a week or so ago that all of the Arab nations should show a willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist and normalize relations with Israel, meaning diplomatic relations, in response for peace and in response to some settlement of the borders between Israel and a new state that we would call Palestine. And the President has said that is his vision as well.
Now, the way the Crown Prince stated the nature of that boundary is going to be a subject of intense discussion and debate, but I would be very pleased if, when the Arab League met at the end of the month, they would put some texture to the Crown Prince's vision.
MS. BORGER: Do you think that Israel should lift the travel ban on Yasser Arafat so that he can attend this meeting?
SECRETARY POWELL: I think that Prime Minister Sharon should give this serious consideration. As we get closer to the time of the summit, as you know, there was great concern on the part of the Prime Minister over the murder of Minister Zeevi. Some of the individuals responsible who have been identified as being responsible have been arrested, and I hope that as we move forward over the next week or two before the summit, the Prime Minister can take a look at the situation and make a judgment as to whether it serves his interest or serves the interest of getting this crisis behind us to let Mr. Arafat attend the summit. But it is not something we are going to deal with in the next day or two.
MR. SCHIEFFER: All right, let's take a break here. We'll come back in a minute and talk more about this, and also about the war in Afghanistan in just a moment.
MR. SCHIEFFER: And we're back again with the Secretary of State. Mr. Secretary, before we go to Afghanistan, let's talk a little bit more about Iraq. This whole business of inspections, getting Iraq opened back up. There were meetings at the United Nations about this. How is that coming along, and where do you think it's going?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, the Iraqi Foreign Minister came to New York and spoke to Secretary General Kofi Annan and to Hans Blix, the gentleman who would actually run the inspection program. And I know that Kofi Annan said to the Iraqis these have to be the right kinds of inspections, and you can't put conditions on what our inspectors have to do. President Bush has repeatedly called for the inspectors to go back in. The Iraqis heard, I think, the message clearly from the Secretary General, and I think they'll be coming back for another meeting with the Secretary General in April. And we'll see what happens.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, do you have any idea that they would go along with this, or that they would --
SECRETARY POWELL: I don't know what they will do. It's hard to predict what the Iraqis will do. But the one thing I am absolutely sure of is that we will not bend the standards, we will not step back, we will not allow them to try to drag us into some regime where these inspectors are not able to go where they have to go when they have to go to see whatever it is they believe is suspicious. We cannot accept that kind of change to the inspection regime.
If the Iraqis are not doing this, and they say they are not developing weapons of mass destruction, then let the inspectors in. Let the inspectors in to verify it. They can see what's happening overtly and they can try to find out what the Iraqis may have put underground as well.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Well, is there a deadline?
SECRETARY POWELL: No, these UN resolutions --
MR. SCHIEFFER: I mean, do we see a deadline?
SECRETARY POWELL: These UN resolutions will continue in effect. The Oil-for-Food program and the sanctions will remain against the Iraqis until they comply with the demand of the international community that they account for the weapons of mass destruction and the programs that they had underway at the end of the Gulf War, and which we are quite sure they have continued. They say they haven't. If they haven't, let the inspectors in.
MS. BORGER: Just to clarify for a moment what you're saying here, are you saying complete, unfettered inspections, 24/7, any time we want, no prior notification?
SECRETARY POWELL: I think that's the way you conduct an inspection with this kind of regime. But of course Dr. Blix, Hans Blix, will have his set of standards. I've given you what I think is the right way to go about it.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Let's talk a little bit about Afghanistan. How is this current operation going? How is the war overall going?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, I think the war overall is going well. When you look at the objectives we've set for ourselves, we've broken the Taliban, we've broken al-Qaida, we have put in place a new government, an Interim Authority, and we are starting now to help that Interim Authority actually govern the country and provide for the people.
At the same time, as we said at the very beginning, there are continuing problems. We have to make sure that we dig out all of the remaining al-Qaida and Taliban, and this battle that you've been watching for the last week or two essentially is doing that. It will continue for a while longer -- I don't know how many more days -- but it sounds like and seems like we now have the upper hand and our troops are mopping up and going through these cave complexes and looking for soldiers.
MR. SCHIEFFER: So you think this is a mop-up operation that's going on now?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, I think I would characterize it that way. I can't say that it might not turn back into a battle if they run into a pocket of resistance, but it is an operation that will continue for some time. I don't want to give a number of days because I'll leave that to the Pentagon. But I'm very proud of the way our troops have handled this. We had some casualties initially; we adjusted quickly with our Afghan allies.
And by the way, so many other allies were in there with us from a variety of other nations, all working together, determined to make sure that al-Qaida does not regenerate inside of Afghanistan and that the Taliban doesn't regenerate, and that we give the people of Afghanistan hope for a better future.
MS. BORGER: Well, what about in Pakistan? Can you foresee the US military going into Pakistan to hunt down -- some people say there were 5,000 al-Qaida and Taliban in Pakistan.
SECRETARY POWELL: I don't know how many al-Qaida or Taliban are in Pakistan. I don't anticipate troop movements into Pakistan on the part of the United States armed forces. We do have people in Pakistan working with Pakistani authorities. President Musharraf has been very forthcoming, has dedicated some of his troops to this mission as well. And so I think we have a good relationship with Pakistan and the Pakistanis are quite capable of controlling their terrain.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Mr. Secretary, does the fact that the President imposed this tariff on imported steel, has that had any kind of an impact on the coalition of countries that have come together to fight this war?
SECRETARY POWELL: No, the coalition remains together and remains strong. Obviously there was some disappointment on the part of some of our friends with what the President did with steel imports, but the President had to comply with the law and he believed he had an obligation under the law to take some actions to give our steel industry some breathing space for a couple of years in order to make adjustments that would make it more competitive. And I hope our friends, even those who are very disappointed by our action, will understand the necessity for that action.
MS. BORGER: Mr. Secretary, as you know, the Vice President, as you mentioned, has left for the Middle East today. Doesn't all of this news coming out of Israel, the news about the Defense Department report that we were just talking about about nuclear weapons, doesn't this complicate his trip to a great degree?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, it gives him other things to talk about that he might not have planned to talk about. But Vice President Cheney understands these nuclear issues very, very well, having been a former Secretary of Defense, and he will put it in context and in perspective so that it is not a disturbing feature of his discussions or his trip. I think that part will be dealt with.
The violence in the Middle East, the Vice President will talk to this at every stop. He will consult with all of our moderate Arab friends and with our friends in Great Britain as well. And I hope that by the time he gets there General Zinni will have been on the ground for a few days and will have had an opportunity to see if we can get something going.
But remember, General Zinni is going not just to talk; he's going to help the two sides get into the Tenet work plan, something both of them have agreed to do previously. And the only reason for doing the Tenet work plan is to get to the Mitchell process. It's a way of getting into the process so that they can start to have confidence in one another again. And the only reason for getting into the Mitchell process is to get to the political solution at the end of it: negotiations.
MR. SCHIEFFER: What is the first step of the Tenet work plan?
SECRETARY POWELL: The first step is to lay out a series of actions both sides will take to get the violence under control. And we're even prepared to send additional American monitors in with General Zinni to start monitoring actions that the sides are taking - can the two sets of security forces, on the Israeli side and the Palestinian side, start working with one another.
But all of this will bear no fruit whatsoever if Chairman Arafat does not do everything in his power to bring the terrorists under control and to use his powerful voice as the leader of the Palestinian people to tell his people this gets us nowhere, this kind of violence, this kind of terrorism of the kind we have seen in recent days, does nothing but destroy our vision for a Palestinian state.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Let me just ask you. You said we are willing to send in more monitors. What does that mean? A large force? How many people?
SECRETARY POWELL: A small -- we haven't decided on a number, but it's always been there. It is part of the Tenet work plan as our work progresses, the United States is willing to send in some monitors to assist in watching the situation and giving some confidence to both sides and sort of just helping keep the process moving. It's not news. It's something that was announced last year at the G-8 summit meeting.
MS. BORGER: Are they receptive to this idea?
SECRETARY POWELL: Yes, these are American monitors initially in some small number. Maybe it will grow over time. Both sides are receptive. And of course the Palestinians have always wanted international monitors to come in, but I think that Prime Minister Sharon is quite comfortable with some number of American monitors. That's been out there for some time.
MR. SCHIEFFER: All right. Well, we'll stop there. Thank you so much, Mr. Secretary, for being with us.
SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you, Bob, Gloria.
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Gallery Preview for "Bewitching 5" @ Stranger Factory (Oct 1-Nov 1)
Stranger Factory's annual group Halloween exhibit "Bewitching" has launched, with delectable pieces for this 5th edition currently previewable online here. Select images are previewed here, but truly, much more spectacularness needs to be seen at the link!
"We will begin accepting online purchase inquiries at 12 Noon Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Monday, October 5th. We will be accepting online purchase inquiries by email at that time. Inquiries must be emailed to: email@example.com""Bewitching 5" is a "hauntingly spectacular celebration of all things dark and spooky" - exhibits thru November 1st, 2015 @ Stranger Factory (@ 3411 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 / 505-508-3049)
"This years participating artists include Paul Kaiju, Travis Lampe, Amanda Louise Spayd, Chris Ryniak, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Scott Radke, Jay Hallopeter, Joe Scarano, Drilone, Kelly Tunstall, Alison Bamcat, Kristina Drake, Donald Ross/Scribe, Alisa Ross/40 Threads, Brandon Styles, Jen Musatto, Max Lehman, Matt Duncan/Creeptoons, Stefani Rabideaux/Fika Art, Daniel Talone, Richard Page/UMETOYS, Keely Reichman, Splurrt, Stan Manoukian, Josh Stebbins, Kelly Tunstall, Michele Lynch, Tim Lee, Genevieve Geer, Peter Hague, Karl Deuble, valeri blossom, Vanessa Ramirez, Danita Art and more!"
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Lecture 2 and 3 Leukopoiesis, bone marrow, WBC disorders Abdulkarim Aldosari. O bjectives. Define and describe Leukopoiesis List proper cell maturation of the myeloid and lymphoid series Characterize changes in neutrophil count and morphology that develop in response to infections
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Leukopoiesis, bone marrow, WBC disorders
Normal indices for WBC
DifferentialAbsolute counts
Lymphocytes 20-44% 1.2-3.4 x 103/µl
Monocytes 2-9% 0.11-0.59 x 103/µl
Neutrophils 50-70% 1.4-6.5 x 103/µl
Bands 2-6% 0-0.7 x 103/µl
Eosinophils 0-4% 0-0.5 x 103/µl
Basophils 0-2% 0-0.2 x 103/µl
Absolute count = %/100 x WBC
Two main groups of WBCs:
Functional pools
The myeloblast is the first recognizable precursor cell
The promyelocyte evolves when the primary, or azurophil, lysosomal granules are produced
The main function of neutrophils – internalization of microorganisms
Phagocytosis-three phases:
Step 1. Migration
Bacteria in tissue > sends out signal via chemoattractants > stimulate changes in neutrophil morphology and migration > neutrophil clings to the endothelial receptors > penetrates through the endothelial cells via diapedesis > neutrophil migrates to site of infection = chemotaxis
Three modes of neutrophil migration
Locomotion – random, non-directional movement of neutrophils as they roll along vessel endothelium until site of infection or injury
Chemokinesis – chemoattractants accelerate the migration speed of neutrophils
Chemotaxis – directional migration to site of infection
Step 2. Opsonization
Neutrophils recognize and attach to infecting organism via circulating Igs and activated complement components which coat the surface of the bacteria
Neutrophil membranes carries receptors for the Fc fragment of Igs and activated complement only.
Ingestion will not take place without
the presence of membrane-bound Igs
Step 3. Phagocytosis: ingestion, killing, digestion
Ingestion begins as soon as neutrophil receptor and bacteria bind together > pseudopods envelop microbe > form vacuole = phagosome > cytoplasmic granules fuse to phagosome, release contents > lytic action of enzymes > killing and digestion of microbe =
Killing and digestion mechanism:
A leukemoid reaction is an increase in white blood cell count similar to what occurs in people with leukemia. However, the reaction is actually due to an infection or another disease and is not a sign of cancer. Blood counts will usually return to normal when the underlying condition is treated.
Changes in the morphology of neutrophils that occur during a leukemoid reaction
Toxic granulation
Dohle bodies
Vacuolated cytoplasm
Ingested microorganisms
Absolute decrease in the number of circulating neutrophils < 1.5 x 109/L
Mild – 1.0-1.5 x 109/L
Moderate – 0.5-1.0 x 109/L
Severe - < 0.5 x 109/L
Life threatening - <0.2 x 109/L
Not normally the only indicator of disease > should be correlated with pt history and other clinical findings and lab results.
Due to recurrent bacterial infection – Staph Aureus, Strep viridans, Gram negative enteric bacteria
Occur in the cutaneous and soft tissues > spread to the blood stream
Due to increased destruction or removal of neutrophils – in PB
Infections, immune disorders
Maturation defect – impaired BM release
Megaloblastic anemia
Proliferation defect – decreased production
Aplastic anemia
BM replacement disorders
Drugs reactions
Myeloablative therapy – radiation therapy
BM fibrosis
Abnormal distribution
Can be acquired or congenital
Immune mediated
Treatment – antibiotics for infections, prednisone for autoimmune response
Defects in genes encoding ribosomal proteins (SBDS, RMRP) and mitochondrial proteins (AK2, TAZ) are associated with congenital neutropenia syndromes
Some variants of congenital neutropenia may be due to mutations in genes controlling glucose metabolism (SLC37A4, G6PC3) or lysosomal function (LYST, RAB27A, ROBLD3/p14, AP3B1, VPS13B).
Patients with congenital neutropenia are prone to severe and recurrent bacterial infections such as otitis media, bronchitis, pneumonia, osteomyelitis, or cellulitis. Long-term neutropenic states also predispose to fungal infections.
Hereditary abnormalities in function > bacterial infections
Familial due to a general metabolic defect
Pathophysiology is unknown
Functional defects are classified by the general type of defect
Classes of qualitative neutrophil disorders
WBC counts are variable
PB smear is not used to differentiate the disorders except for the large granules present in Chediak-Higashi Syndrome
Best understood disease of neutrophil function
Hypersegmentation – five or more nuclear lobes
(AML, Myelodysplastic syndromes)
Pseudo-Pelger-Huet anomaly - Hyposegmentation
70-90% Bilobed or no lobulation
Secondary to
Nuclear chromatin very coarse and condensed
Dumbbell shaped
Versus true Pelger-Huet – autosomal dominant, inherited disorder
Monocytes circulate from 8hrs to 3 days before entering tissues > macrophages
Note the four distinct characteristics
Dull gray-blue cytoplasm
Convolutions of the nucleus
Blunt pseudopods
Lacy chromatin
Reactive monocytosis
Monocytosis due to malignancy
Lymphoid progenitor > T or B cell
T cell in thymus
B cell in adult bone marrow
Null cells (natural killer cell NK) in bone marrow – unknown maturation sequence
T, B, Null cells morphologically identical
Distinguished functionally and by immunological markers
In thymus and bone marrow lymphocytes differentiate, proliferate and mature into fully functional immune cells
In secondary lymphoid organs – lymphocytes interact with antigen-presenting cells (APC), phagocytes and macrophages in an active immune response
Secondary organs = lymph nodes, spleen, mucosal tissues (tonsils, Peyer's patch)
Nucleus is clumped
Cytoplasm clear, darker blue at periphery of cells
Indented cytoplasm
Nucleus is lacy, brain-like convolution
Ground-glass appearance of cytoplasm
Blunt pseudopods between cells
Compress cells - not indented by cells
Reactive lymphocytes = transformed or benign lymphocytes
Not the same as atypical = malignant-appearing cells
Reactive lymphocytes occur in normal patients
< 10% of total lymphocytes
Large – 9-30 µm N:C – low to moderate
Nucleus round to irregular
Cytoplasm – colorless to dark blue, uneven staining
Chromatin – coarse to moderately fine
Nucleoli absent to distinct
Drugs reactions
Miscellaneous (allergic reactions, autoimmune diseases)
Most notable cause – Infectious mononucleosis (IM)
CBC with differential
Peripheral blood smear
Serologic studies
When absolute count < 1000 lymphocytes/mm3 (< 1.0 x 109/L)
Normocytic normochromic anemia
Granulocytopenia may also be present
Causes – infections, auto immune diseases, systemic diseases, malignant disorders, other disorders ( immunodeficiency disorders, nutritional deficiencies), radiation therapy
Most have a decrease in T lymphocytes, CD4+ helper T cells.
If abnormalities in white blood cell count > perform a blood smear
Under low power: Scan the edges and center for abnormal cells
High power: perform WBC estimate. Count 10 fields and average
no./high power fieldestimated total WBC count
2-4 4000-7000
4-6 7000-10,000
6-10 10,000-13,000
10-20 13,000-18,000
Correlate estimate with automated instrument count
Evaluate morphology of WBCs, record abnormalities
Oil immersion 100x
Perform 100 WBC differential count
Moving in a zig-zag
Count all WBCs until 100 cells are counted
Correct total WBC based on the number of nucleated red cells
Corrected WBC = WBC x100
100 + No. of NRBCs/100 WBCs


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NEW YORK — When Jerome Armstrong began consulting for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, he thought the ethical thing to do was to suspend the Web journal where he opined on politics.
But to suggest others do the same with their journals, otherwise known as blogs? No way.
"If I'm getting paid by a client, I don't blog about it. That's my personal set of standards," Armstrong said. "I'm not going to hold anybody else to my personal standards. I'm not going to make that universal."
The growing influence of blogs such as his is raising questions about whether they are becoming a new form of journalism and in need of more formal ethical guidelines or codes of conduct.
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 27 percent of adults who go online in the United States read blogs. And blogs have greater impact because their readers tend to be policy makers and other influencers of public opinion, media experts say.
So far, many bloggers resist any notion of ethical standards, saying individuals ought to decide what's right for them. After all, they say, blog topics range from trying to sway your presidential vote to simply talking about the day's lunch.
Blogging is more like a conversation, and "you can't develop a code of ethics for conversations," said David Weinberger, a prominent blogger and research fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "A conversation with your best friend would become stilted and alienating."
Others, however, have pushed written guidelines.
Code could help credibility
Jonathan Dube, managing producer at MSNBC.com and publisher of CyberJournalist.net, modified the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics and urged fellow bloggers to adopt it. The principles: Be honest and fair. Minimize harm. Be accountable.
Longtime blogger Rebecca Blood circulated guidelines that call for disclosing any conflicts of interest, publicly correcting any misinformation and linking to any source materials referenced in postings.
"It seems pretty clear to me that having some kind of standard contributes to an individual blogger's own credibility," she said.
Yet Blood knows of fewer than 10 bloggers who have adopted her guidelines by linking to the document.
How bloggers handle matters of ethics and disclosure varies greatly.
While Armstrong suspended his blog, a partner in his political consulting firm, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, kept his going and instead posted a disclosure about the payment. The Dean campaign had paid the pair $3,000 a month for technical consulting services.
Others saw no need to disclose at all. In South Dakota, blogger Jon Lauck said many people knew he was a paid consultant to John Thune's Senate campaign last year, but Lauck didn't believe he had to post any "flashing banner" on his site.
He said that unlike mainstream news organization, blogs like his never claim to be objective, and anyone reading a few posts would quickly know he was pro-Thune — with or without disclosure.
Beyond politics, marketers have turned to blogs as well.
A company called Marqui is paying about 20 bloggers $800 a month to write about the company and its products for managing marketing campaigns. Marqui says negative reviews are OK, and bloggers are permitted to disclose the payments.
Dr Pepper/Seven Up took a similar tactic when it launched a new flavored milk drink called Raging Cow.
Many news organizations have formal guidelines separating editorial and business operations, and journalism schools and professional societies try to teach good practices.
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Bloggers, though, tend to shudder at being called journalists, even as lines between the two blur.
When Apple Computer got court orders allowing it to subpoena bloggers for the identities of people who had leaked company secrets, two of the bloggers responded by claiming they were entitled to protect confidential sources the way traditional journalists do.
And in Cambridge, Mass., over the weekend, a conference called "Blogging, Journalism and Credibility" explored the evolution of blogging and journalism and the influences of one on the other.
Many bloggers believe standards of practices are inevitable, even if they aren't something formalized in writing.
Zephyr Teachout, who was Dean's director of online organizing, likens it to crafting a constitution — not necessarily written as a formal code of conduct but as a set of accepted norms.
"Do you do it through a code of ethics? Do you do it by just talking to a lot of people about it? I don't know," she said.
Teachout has been thinking about such issues for about a year, she said, and is "constantly changing my mind."
"Now, to some degree, bloggers are going through the same stages that professional journalism went through at the beginning of the 20th century," said Jay Rosen, a blogger and professor of journalism at New York University. That was when newspapers started becoming independent and severed ties with political parties.
History repeats self
In some sense, bloggers already have informally adopted norms that go beyond what traditional journalists do, Rosen said. For instance, bloggers who don't link to source materials aren't taken seriously, while traditional news organizations have no such policies.
Dan Gillmor, an ex-newspaper columnist now studying citizen-driven journalism through blogging, said bloggers who want an audience will voluntarily adopt principles of fairness, thoroughness, accuracy and transparency.
"No one's bound by these rules," Gillmor said, "but I think some norms will emerge for people who want to be taken seriously."
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Torpedo hit puts Petty at the top
The Sydney Sun-Herald — April 20, 1980
"We're always hearing that we're the future of rock and roll," said Tom Petty last January. "I don't want to be the future — I want to be the present."
Petty, 28-year-old Florida-born musician, had his wish soon after, when his album, Damn the Torpedoes, hit the top of the U.S. charts.
Petty and the Heartbreakers begin their Australian tour with concerts at the Capitol Theatre next Saturday and Sunday. To celebrate, we have 25 copies of the soar-away album from Astor to give away.
There's a juicy story behind every Petty song, a slice of his experiences with his record company, friends and the world at large.
Refugee, the hit single, is aimed squarely at the bigwigs of MCA who kept him in and out of court for a year in a contract wrangle:
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some,
Who knows, maybe you were kidnapped, taken away, held for ransom
It don't really matter to me
Everybody's had to fight to be free.
Petty gets the lawyers who caused him all that aggro in his sights on Century City:
Don't worry about the rain, don't worry about the thunder.
Century City's not everything covered.
An earlier song, Listen to Her Heart, carries a message: Don't mess with cocaine. In a telephone interview with the Sun-Herald, Petty said: "It's a true story. A lot of people in California, LA especially, have this cocaine habit. It never fails to crack me up.
"The song is sort of a sneer at the cocaine etiquette. I don't use it myself."
Restless is a throwback to the alienation and confusion of his adolescent days, while in Shadow of a Doubt he bemoans an on-again, off-again romance.
Petty's bag is heavy-duty rock, a counterpoint to his raspy voice which reminds one critic of Jagger's menace and Dylan's twang.
He's been compared frequently with Bruce Springsteen, too.
"That's nice of them to say so," said Petty, "we're about the same age, both American and we both have well-known bands. But I don't think we sound alike, and I don't think he influences me."
Tom Petty is his own man.


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MARRIAGE: Studies can reflect biases
Re: "Study finds 'suboptimal' results" (letter, 4-9).
Mark Twain once wrote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
The study of gay parents and the children they raise does not reflect the circumstances of those children or the love of the family they are raised in. Many gay and lesbian couples adopt children with pre-existing issues or with disabilities inherited from their parents which led to them being put up for adoption in the first place.
To judge the parenting of these couples without acknowledging the issues inherent in the child's background is not only …


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Wow, i've been here what, like 4-5 years and i'm finally nearing my 100th post. My popularity has of course died in the last few months, and it's obvious why. I have no motivation, and I have not TOUCHED MF7 since that post with the screenshot. I literally have no inspiration, and Krinkel's new toon which was basically a repeat of what we've seen for years but this time more boring, has offset me even more.
I have promised myself and all of you that i WILL work on MF7 throughout the summer, and although i've been forgotten, I will live up to that promise. 100th post will be the release of MF7. Stay tuned to here for updates, and my site aswell.
Update: Madness Flageration is STILL at a stand-still. I don't know if it will ever be done, but whatever. Every madness animator has like, left the planet and madness seems dead. Pretty sad, I remember all the good times on this site. At the rate the animations are coming, i'm guessing MF7 will be the last original madness animation out there. I have striven to innovate on the formula and have some pretty cool ideas to keep it fresh, and offer a different kind of ending than most madness animations have done.
As for me, life has me by the balls, so i'm very inactive. Hopefully MF7 will be done in the next few years, but sometimes hope just isn't enough to inspire.
Madness Flageration 5 on YouTube!
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I'm still alive, folks. I probably won't be on NG in the future, so I finally convinced myself to finish MF7. It will most likely be the last animation I'll ever do, at least for this site. It's going to be super long and filled with my terrible artwork. Anyways nobody is probably around to read this anymore, because madness animators are dead, just like madness itself. Kind of sad really, there was a great community of people who devoted their time to making classic madness tributes back in the day. This madness day was pretty dull to be honest. I used to be hyped about all the big name madness animators, most of which have moved on, submitting their awesome animations. Welp, I might as well leave you with a screenshot too. A screenshot that really highlights my philosophy: Madness should be dark and violent as fuck. MF7 will hopefully make even the least sensitive gore fans a bit sick.
A collab that was inspired by me! =D I never thought my lazy animation design would become popular enough to warrant something like this. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/655092
Another fucking update: Okay, so is it just me or has MF6 been removed from the site? I can't find it under my "movies" tab. Wtf. I received no message about this and I just noticed it today. Well, that really sucks. Upon further investigating it apparently got un-published by the "moderation team" which means someone probably reported it. I got literally zero notification about when and why it was removed. Even this generic message doesn't say for sure what the reason was. This is absolutely unnaceptable and you'd think that after a decade of this site being up they'd have better removal policies. The only reason it gave me was "The music was probably unlicensed". Well I went to the page with the music and it says it is not authorized for commercial use. None of my animations have earned me a single cent in any sort of revenue, so I'm pretty sure MF6 is not commercial use. Even on Youtube where I reuploaded it there are no ads or anything, I'm not gaining any money from it (nor will I ever want to). Plus, there are other animations listed on the music page that use the exact same song and are still up.
So essentially my animation was taken down for no discernable reason and I wasn't notified whatsoever. Again, unnacceptable. It says I need to PM Tom Fulp but I don't really feel bothered to do so (again, unless you guys just wanna see it on here again). For now, it's still up on Youtube but I think the Youtube version has some weird audio issue (where one song keeps on playing when it shouldn't) so I guess you guys will have to deal with that. I think if MF7 is ever completed (which unfortunately isn't looking likely) I'll just upload it on Youtube but link it through newgrounds.
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Myanmar is one of the most loved travel destinations for the reasons of a purity injected in the culture of the country. People in Myanmar are soaked with the olden culture of their country even in the modern time which is a great add-on in its natural beauty. Myanmar is packed with loads of exquisite cultural tour destinations and people flock to Bagan during their trip to Myanmar.
Bagan is one of the most famous tourist destinations of Myanmar and from there, people usually take a turn back to their respective accommodations but two of the least visited but exotic tourist spots are also located near Bagan, often unvisited.
Popa – Salay Travel Guide is here to acquaint you with these two exquisite tourist sights of Myanmar.
An hour downstream along the Irrawaddy River, at the south of Bagan is a provincial market. The market is a great place to buy mementos at bargain prices. A further 30-minute walk along the road will lead you to the old village of Salay.
The village of Salay holds the most exotic scenic beauty of Myanmar. Salay mainly is the land of monasteries and pagodas. Popa – Salay Travel Guide suggests you to take a tour around this ancient village, to witness a great deal of architectural beauties. The great ancient monasteries and pagodas are still well taken care and maintained by the monks of Salay.
There is a lot in Salay that you can capture in your cameras to adore for a lifetime.
As per the Popa – Salay Travel Guide, there are a number of monasteries in Salay that depict different culture, like the famous Yok Sone Kyaung Monastery which is a great display of Burmese culture. Also there is Man Paya Pagoda, which possesses architecture that displays Buddhism. Also there is a museum dedicated to Burmese literature.
Continuing your stroll out of the town, you will come across Mount Popa which is an ancient extinct volcano, around 1500 meters up the slopes. Climbing Mount Popa can give you the most thrilling experience of your life as from the top of it, you can witness the vistas of Salay.
To the Southwest of Mount Popa is a monastery called Taung Kalat which is built somewhere on the top of Mount Popa and its scenic beauty is breathtaking.
As per the Popa – Salay Travel Guide, the monastery is a great symbolization of the religious history of Mount Popa.
If you're looking for a serene tourist place with fewer crowds then Popa – Salay Travel Guide suggests you to take this off route to these two spectacular places so that you can have an amazing memory for life.
The trip is an easy route from Bagan and can be wound up even in a day's time. The availability of cabs is easy from Bagan and you can easily add charms to your trip to Myanmar by visiting these exotic places.
Mount Popa and Salay can be your great experience with the cultural and religious sights and you can always seek the help of Popa – Salay Travel Guide in planning your tours and trips.
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Or was Snowden's action a simple breach of his contract to treat his work confidentially, not as the government claims, treason? Was there a way Snowden could have raised his concerns within his organization before unilaterally pulling the switch that unleashed a cascade of documents? Some have compared Snowden to Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers and was widely vilified, but whose acts eventually were condoned by the Supreme Court. Ellsberg had tried to call attention to the report through proper channels before releasing it to The New York Times and turning himself in.
Snowden's act also has been compared to a working journalist's use of a leak, a practice which is common and rarely criminalized? But was his deluge so different in volume that it became different in kind? And isn't it ironic that Snowden is being protected by several countries with records of secrecy and harassment of journalists to which he has sought asylum? Currently, he has requested asylum in 21 countries, it has been reported.
Snowden has embarrassed his country (itself not a crime), but is accused of deeply prejudicing it (and thus committing very serious crimes). There has been some positive fallout. Twenty-six senators have complained about the government's practices after seeing the information Snowden released.
And one of the FISA judges has publicly defended her role in adjudicating government requests for secret taps and email scrutiny, describing for all to consider the guarded processes involved. But the vastness of Snowden's disclosures deters the public from deciding whether his actions ought to be condemned or praised. But surely the public can consider the wisdom and necessity of the government (NSA) contracting with private companies (Booz Allen Hamilton) to do its sensitive work.
Not discussed in the barrage of media coverage of Snowden's massive leaks of government documents he had access to in his work for a government contractor is the question whether the documents he leaked should have been classified in the first place.
Many enlightened experts and prestigious government commissions have concluded that much (as much as 90 percent, some argue) information that is classified should not be in the first place. Psychology professors at the University of Colorado concluded in a recent study that "people tend to inflate the value of 'secret' information simply because it is secret." They refer to the phenomenon as "secrecy heuristic." And, by exaggerating the value of secret information, they "cede privacy in the interest of national security," according to their study.
In my book In Confidence, When To Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure, I described the work of five Blue Ribbon investigations of our classification system criticizing the proliferation of classified documents by government officials. That historic trend has created "a government of secrets," with classifications determined by thousands of mid-level officials holding a stamp marked secret, an expensive, veritable "secrecy machine" that is costly in coin and social values.
Millions of documents are classified yearly, and the process of declassification is cumbersome, expensive, and unsure, mostly immune from sunshine and freedom of information laws designed to curb such excesses.
Nonetheless, it's a stretch to call Snowden's act civil disobedience. In those situations, people stand up for their actions and use their defense to make their points at personal risk. Unlike the civil rights warriors in the 1960s, or Vietnam protestors, Snowden fled and is seeking asylum. His father naively called the Justice Department reportedly attempting to persuade authorities to allow his son to choose his venue and be assured he's released on bail. That's not likely to happen.
Snowden is likely to pay for his actions, as most whistle-blowers and avowed patriots do. How he did what he did may prove more damning than what he sought to accomplish. As columnist David Ignatius noted in The Washington Post recently, even those who trust the government are worried about "malcontents and self-appointed do-gooders who may get security clearance."
One good and positive outcome of the Snowden incident would be a sober and authoritative reform of classification laws and not leaving that important reform either to irresponsible outlaws or virtuous whistle-blowers.