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Two Parts:Reasons You Should Visit the Doctor ImmediatelyKnowing When a Cut Needs StitchesCommunity Q&A
Yikes! You've got a cut and it looks pretty nasty. Sometimes it's hard to tell if the open wound is in need of stitches, which help it heal properly and reduce scarring. If you're not sure whether or not it deserves stitching and want to save yourself an unnecessary trip to the hospital if it doesn't, here are some helpful tips and methods you can use to find out if your open wound is really in need of serious medical attention.
Part 1
Reasons You Should Visit the Doctor Immediately
1Try to stop the bleeding as well as you can. Elevate the injured body part above the level of the heart, as this can help to diminish bleeding. Use a clean cloth or slightly damp paper towel, and apply firm pressure to the open wound for about 5 minutes.[1] Then, remove the cloth or paper towel to check if it's still bleeding.
- If it's bleeding is significant, do not proceed to any other steps and go to the hospital immediately.[2]
- If the bleeding is uncontrollable, or blood is gushing from the wound, call emergency services immediately, as this can be life threatening.
2Check if an object is lodged in the area of the wound. If there is foreign material present in the injury, it is always important to see a doctor right away.[3] This is because of the risk of infection, the need to assess if and how the object can be removed safely, as well as the possibility of needing stitches.
- Do not try to remove the object. Sometimes the object helps to stop the wound from bleeding excessively. If there is anything stuck in the wound, you should see a doctor in the emergency room immediately.[4]
3See a doctor immediately if the cut has been caused by a human or animal bite. These cuts pose a much higher risk of infection, you may need to be vaccinated for prevention, and receive antibiotics, so regardless of whether stitches are needed you should seek professional medical help.[5]
4Consider the area of the injury. If the cut is on the face, the hands, the mouth, or the genitals it is important to be seen by a doctor, as you may need stitching for cosmetic reasons and proper healing.[6]
Part 2
Knowing When a Cut Needs Stitches
1Understand why stitches are used. Stitches have a multitude of uses. The most common reasons to get stitches are:[7]
- To close a wound that is too big to be closed otherwise. Using stitches to bring the edges of the wound together can help to speed up healing.
- To prevent infection. If you have a large, gaping wound, closing it with stitches can help to minimize the risk of infection (as skin that is broken open, especially large, gaping wounds, are a prime target for an infection to enter the body).
- To prevent or reduce scarring after your wound heals. This is especially important when the cut is on areas of the body that are more cosmetically important, such as the face.
2Consider the depth of the wound. If it is greater than 1/4 inch deep, the wound may be eligible for stitching. If it's deep enough that you can see yellow fatty tissue, or even bone, you should definitely see a doctor for treatment.[8]
3Evaluate the width of the wound. Are the edges of the wound close together, or do they need to be pulled together to cover the exposed tissue? If the edges of the wound need to be pulled together to cover a gap of exposed tissue, this is an indication that stitches may be required. By pulling the edges of the wound close enough to where they can touch, stitches can help to speed healing.[9]
4Look at the location of the wound. If the open wound is located on a specific area of the body where there is a lot of movement involved, it will most likely need stitching to prevent re-opening of the wound caused by movement and stretching of the skin. For example, an open wound on the knee joint or fingers (especially where joints connect) would be eligible for stitches whereas an open wound on the thigh would not really need stitching.[10]
5Ask your doctor about getting a tetanus shot. Tetanus shots last no longer than 10 years and then you'll have to be re-vaccinated. If you have an open wound and it's been longer than 10 years since you've had a tetanus shot, go to the hospital.[11]
- While you are at the hospital, you can have the doctor evaluate the cut also to see if it will need stitching.
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Does my toe need stitches if it is still bleeding a few days after it was cut?Jonas DeMuro, M.D.Dr. DeMuro is a Board Certified Critial Care Surgeon in New York. He received his M.D. from the Stony Brooks University School of Medicine in 1996.
Critical Care SurgeonPersistent bleeding on a cut indicates that it is not healing. This is a cut that certainly needs to be seen by a physician and may benefit from stitches.
What if the cut is on my brain?Jonas DeMuro, M.D.Dr. DeMuro is a Board Certified Critial Care Surgeon in New York. He received his M.D. from the Stony Brooks University School of Medicine in 1996.
Critical Care SurgeonAny cut that is so deep that it involves the skull or brain tissue would definitely need to be seen immediately at the hospital for assessment by a neurosurgeon. It would also require imaging, such as a head CT. This is a medical emergency and should be treated without delay. It is not something you can figure out or treat on your own.
I don't want my mom to know I self harm but one of my cuts might need stitches. What can I do?wikiHow ContributorFollow all the steps to sterilize the wound as best you can. Unfortunately you might have to tell someone like I did. Your life and safety are more important than the guilt you might feel.
How long can I wait to get stitches?wikiHow ContributorThey don't like to do stitches longer than six hours after the injury, so don't hesitate too long!
I still don't know if my daughter needs stitches! What can I do?wikiHow ContributorTake your daughter to the hospital immediately.
My stitches opened before the wound had fully healed. Should I be worried?wikiHow ContributorIf the wound remains closed, then you're probably good to go. Keep the healing wound clean so that it doesn't get infected. It may leave a more visible scar, however. When in doubt, see a doctor.
Would it be possible to give myself stitches with nothing but rubbing alcohol, some clean towels and bandages, fishing line, and a sewing needle?wikiHow ContributorYes, it is possible to give yourself stitches with those materials, but it is always better to seek professional medical help.
Do I need stitches for a small cut that isn't deep if it is on my forehead?wikiHow ContributorHead injuries tend to bleed a lot. If yours isn't, you're pretty lucky, but you should go to a medical professional if you are having doubts. Stitches can reduce scarring that may occur if you don't get stitched.
I've left mine for more then 6 hours and it has reached fatty tissue. My wound is flat and wide because the fat has popped up to fill in the gap. I don't want to get stitches because I'm afraid of needles, so what can I do?wikiHow ContributorYou have to go get help. I understand the fear of needles but if you don't go get the wound looked at, it could get an infection and that would only make things worse. Please go see a doctor.
Does getting stitches hurt?wikiHow ContributorIt doesn't hurt at all. They numb the area severely beforehand so you don't even feel the stitching process.
I have large knife wound on top of left arm caused by a knife how do I treat at home
- If you're still not sure whether or not your wound needs to be stitched and seen by a doctor, you should always go to the hospital just to be safe.
- If scarring is a problem for you, then you should go to the hospital for stitches as they can prevent extreme scarring and help wounds heal correctly.
- Always get to the hospital if there is uncontrollable or persistent bleeding or the wound is contaminated.
- Always keep up to date with vaccinations and shots to prevent severe infections and disease.
Sources and Citations
- ↑ http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1048.aspx?CategoryID=72&
- ↑ http://firstaid.about.com/od/softtissueinjuries/a/06_stitches.htm
- ↑ http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1048.aspx?CategoryID=72&
- ↑ http://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/first-aid-and-emergencies-20/emergencies-and-first-aid-news-227/cuts-and-stitches-644518.html
- ↑ http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1048.aspx?CategoryID=72&
- ↑ http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1048.aspx?CategoryID=72&
- ↑ http://firstaid.about.com/od/softtissueinjuries/a/06_stitches.htm
- ↑ http://firstaid.about.com/od/softtissueinjuries/a/06_stitches.htm
- ↑ http://firstaid.about.com/od/softtissueinjuries/a/06_stitches.htm
- ↑ http://www.webmd.com/first-aid/tc/cuts-when-stitches-are-needed-topic-overview
- ↑ http://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/first-aid-and-emergencies-20/emergencies-and-first-aid-news-227/cuts-and-stitches-644518.html
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Unanswered: PLz Plz! I need Help with MS FlexGrid in VB 6.0.
Hello Everyone,
I am actually new to VB 6.0 programming. In a small project I am trying to show the entire records of a table,located in Oracle database, in a hierarchichal flexgrid.
But when I set the dataSource property of FlexGrid to the Recordset object, I get "Run Time Error 91, Object Variable or With Block Variable not Set."
following is the code in the Load event of the form containing the FlexGrid.
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim adoConn As New ADODB.Connection
Dim ConnectionString As String
adoConn.CursorLocation = adUseClient
ConnectionString = "Provider=MSDAORA; user id= scott; password= tiger;"
adoConn.Open ConnectionString
Dim adoRecSet As New ADODB.Recordset
adoRecSet.CursorType = adOpenDynamic
adoRecSet.LockType = adLockOptimistic
adoRecSet.Open "employee1", adoConn, , , adCmdTable
Set MSFlexGrid1.DataSource = adoRecSet
End Sub
Any help will be Highly Appreciated..
Thanks a Ton in advance.
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It looks like you are using the FlexGrid not the Hierarchical FlexGrid.
The FlexGrid cannot be bound directly to an ADO Recordset, it must be bound to an ADO Data Control.
The alternative is to populate the grid using code.
adoRecSet.Open "employee1", adoConn, , , adCmdTable With MSFlexGrid1 .Rows = .FixedRows .Cols = adoRecSet.Fields.Count + .FixedCols Do Until adoRecSet.EOF .AddItem String$(.FixedCols, vbTab) & adoRecSet.GetString(, 1, , " ") Loop End With End Sub
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Thank you
Thank you very much.
You are right. I was required to use MS hierarchichal FlexGrid. And mistakenly i used MS FlexGrid.
I changed the thing and it worked smoothly.
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|Can we please be done with "Creepy" as a thing now?
I am not attacking anyone, not Engadget, nor Rick King, but this slang term...I'm ready for it to go, especially when our kids use it as ubiquitously and randonly (see what I did there?) as they are.
This is linguistic and vocabulary laziness that is indicative of intellectual laziness and I'm ready to be done with it; we call it lazy writing instructionally. On some level, aren't we all ready to be done with lazy thinking?
This drone is not coming-on to the water recipient in a sexually aggressive way, nor is it stalking him with malicious intent. It's trying to bring him some water...which, as it's a "delivery, he asked for in the first place. Can someone explain exactly what is creepy here? Is it new? Sure. Unorthodox? Definitely. A thing we've never seen before? Potentially, but in no way is that "creepy"
Let's define terms. Language and communication only work when we all agree that the words we use mean the same things to all of us; word definition is not the best place for personal interpretation.
Dictionary.com defines creepy thusly:
If you want to see what they say synonyms are, click here, but I assure you they're not pleasant.
So here is the edtech tie-in, and in part, adults and school officials who approach edtech and specifically the internet from ONLY a harm-avoidance/reduction model are responsible for the student mindset I am about to explain. If you paint something as only dangerous, that's what the perception of it will become. But also our current linguistic over-reliance on this word when what we mean is "new", or "not used to it" is becoming a problem in edtech...at least in my view.
One of the teachers I support has had a few students (and then a few more) in her middle and high school classes, where she is a frequent Google Classroom user, copy the assignment into a new doc and do the work there, specifically so she cannot open it up and see what they are doing. And here' the thing, they're not doing anything inappropriate, they're working. She's not doing anything inappropriate, she's working. In fact, she's utilizing the thing that so many of us love about Google Apps for Education (GAFE), namely: live document collaboration. When we asked the students why they were doing it, they responded with some version of, "it's creepy just having my teacher in there [the doc] whenever." When we asked what was "creepy" about it, in true middle and high school fashion, either "I dunno" or "it just is."
No. I'm sorry. Not sufficient. When you accuse a teacher of being "creepy" you'd better have some damn thought behind it. Not everyone takes that word so lightly. We think in language. Words indicate thought--words mean something important.
Was the teacher doing anything out of order here? Absolutely not.
Does the word "creepy" have a negative, sexually aggressive, stalker-like connotation? Absolutely yes. And before you tell me I am overreacting or over-thinking this, Let's try a little 2nd grade empathy. How would you like it if a kid told you (and then each other) your teaching practice, especially one that you saw as progressive, revolutionary, and "how the new generation learns," was "creepy?" For those of us who pride ourselves on being responsive to students, that's not a good day. Then add an anti-edtech parent into the mix….not good.
Language works because we all agree words have the same meaning for all of us. Slang is a purposeful attempt to subvert that commonality to create exclusive use by a group of people. I get that. Further, I get why kids do that, and I have no problem with that as a concept. I don't think students, and now more and more adults, are specifically trying to paint each other with this particular (creepy) brush, but we are. And we increasingly use this term because something is basically unfamiliar.
Is that really the mindset we want our kids walking into the wide and diverse world full of amazing, different and unusual new things, that all those things are "creepy"?
Yeah, me neither. So how about we all knock it off and use our bigger words. And while we're at it, how about we call it out in our kids, and use it as a teachable moment?


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Discussion in 'Tennis Tips/Instruction' started by Wilsonbro11, Mar 16, 2013.
Is there any good simple videos on 1 hB or do you have any tips?
This series was of most help to me personally:
There are many others, and I believe there was a thread about 1hbh instructional vids; can't look it up atm
How to hit a Tennis Backhand ( One Handed ) in HD / Instructional - Lock and Roll Tennis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRJrhIoNJs&feature=relmfu
You hit a good 1HBH with your legs.
I don't just mean having a good leg push off.
You've got to move into a perfect hitting position. Because most hit out of a "closed" stance (see above videos) you have to be stepping in and across.
Many players jam themselves by not giving themselves enough distance to step in at a diagonal.
Many players also make the mistake of turning their shoulders (uncoiling) too much so they are already facing the ball before they start their swing.
Watch how hard Tommy Haas works getting set up in the perfect position backhand after backhand.
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Back to school tomorrow. I'm really not ready!
Today while I was getting the last minute things organised I could feel myself working up to a panic.
I don't think it is just the return to school that worries me - it's the return to regular life. Back to work after 10 months off. Back to cooking and cleaning and doing all the jobs that other people have helped me with since the transplant. Back to after school activities and a busy schedule.
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My son and daughter in law have just been told that my grandson is going to play in the Netherlands he is staying in Kaastel de Berckt, so they want to stay as near as possible to him, but it has to be cheap, as it would be two adults i child of 3 and l baby of 15 months. They are hoping to fly ryanair into Eindhoven and fly from dusseledorf home. Can anyone recommend somewhere for them?
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Kasteel de Berckt is at Baarlo (across the river at Venlo).
Here are some sugeestions:
I have not found an ideal match to your preferences yet (price, distance and number of people).
Perhaps it's better to look in the city of Venlo, but prices will be at the higher side due to the Floriade flower expo and the upcoming high tourist season.
as I am Dutch, I never have to sleep in hotels here-its all so close by.
TRY these sites for hotelbookings: zoover.nl or booking.com-extend search to 15/20 kms around Venlo or Baarlo or set to price/lowest. As an alternative maybe search for holidaycamps/bungalows-there should be quite a few in that area. (google for landall greenparks).
WARNING; that RYAN airport is NOT the main DUS airport, but a former RAF airportbase at WEEZE and VERY hard to reach-by normal bus/train, from Venlo.
DO check the airport site (airport weeze niederrhein) for connections and do make sure to understand them! This trip will likely cost a lot more as the flight itself (and it just happens I booked myself on RYAN 20/25 mins ago-quite another flight though).
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Spice Up Your Cup Of Tea With A Splash Of Holiday Flavors
Christmas tea blends are a nice way to add some holiday spirit to your daily routine. Christmas tea blends and the similar masala chai tea often include black tea, clove, cinnamon and orange peel, with some variations adding vanilla, fruit, nuts, pine needles, cinnamon candies or cacoa nibs (part of a cocoa bean).
Taste the Tea reference reviews more than 50 versions. These blends can be prepared as plain tea or served with milk and sugar, the same as black tea in general.
A masala chai blend is an Indian version of spiced tea — that's what it means when translated. They typically include black tea, cardamom, clove, cinnamon and a lot of ginger and often also black pepper and star anise. Masala chai is traditionally boiled vs. brewed (simmered vs. steeped in hot water), cooked along with milk to draw the most out of the spices. A four- to five-minute steep doesn't release most of the flavor in spices, and very little from the dried fruit, but it would draw a lot out of a tea.
Adding sugar helps offset the spiciness of masala chai, and the same is true of Christmas blends to some extent. Clove sounds great in a tea, but it's a challenge to balance tasting like clove and being too spicy, and even the citrus works better with enough sweetness to round it out.
Preparing versions of either tea blend at home is like cooking. The following explains how to prepare Christmas blends if you want to go beyond buying a premade blend, which also works.
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Boiling a tea instead of steeping it makes it easier to adjust the recipe in mid-process. Boiling with milk actually changes the milk flavor, cooking it to some extent. No matter how a tea blend is made, excessive strength can be offset by adding milk and sugar or even more hot water. If a tea is prepared by simmering instead cooking, time doesn't matter so much. Ten minutes would draw a lot of flavor out of a blend, and beyond 20 minutes not so much would change, unless hard-to-infuse ingredients like whole cloves or dried fruit chunks are included.
Black tea recommendations
The obvious choices when looking for a black tea would be loose Ceylon or Assam, bold, malty, earthy and astringent black teas from Sri Lanka and India, respectively. Most versions are moderately priced ($3 to $5 per 50 grams/2 ounces), but slightly better versions might be worth the extra expense.
Mixing two completely different black teas works well, adding depth. Consider using either Ceylon or Assam tea along with a milder Chinese black tea. Many other countries produce good black teas in a range of styles, but they may be harder to find.
When making a tea blend, preground spice-rack versions will work. Using fresher, more whole spices and grinding them when you make the tea is better, but striking a practical balance related to expense might make sense. Using real vanilla beans adds a thick texture, in addition to a rich, pleasant flavor.
It's possible to substitute green tea or oolong when making a holiday blend, but you will lose the earthy, warm-toned black tea base that works well with such blends. Adding mint might work, or even real chocolate, but for the latter the flavor addition is offset by adding an unusual texture. Different types of fruits can also complement a blend, for example dark cherry or nectarine or any dried fruit can be added to a dry tea blend. Orange rind is easiest to prepare: Simply peel off a thin layer of the outer rind of a well-washed orange with a peeler and dry on low heat in an oven, about a half-hour or so. For an even faster version, just grate the outer surface off any citrus fruit as a ground zest to use directly in your blend. Teaberry or elderberry are nice as well, just not as easy to come by.
Chocolate-covered cherry tea blend
This tea tastes almost exactly like the holiday candies. It would match those even more closely without tea added, and using half and half instead, but that would just be a version of hot chocolate.
This recipe raises the issue of children drinking tea, or more specifically is they should consume caffeine. Per the traditional Chinese understanding, children can drink mild teas as young as 1 year old. According to some modern Western medical sources, preteen children should consume no caffeine at all. Blends not using black tea could still work, with the resulting drink more similar to cocoa or hot spiced cider.
Adjust the amounts of the ingredients to your taste.
Yield: 1 cup
3 cups water (based on using approximately one cup of milk to prepare four cups of tea)
4 teaspoons loose black tea (Assam, Ceylon or a mix of two different tea types)
4 teaspoons cacao nibs (can substitute 2 teaspoons cocoa powder)
1 vanilla bean (can substitute 1 teaspoon vanilla extract)
2 tablespoons black cherry preserves
Sugar to taste
Milk to taste
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Denny's can serve up a chocolate bacon sundae (the thought makes me a little nauseated) then anything is possible I suppose.
This corn muffin recipe began life as Ina Garten's. I liked her fairly simple and straightforward, albeit "Yankeefied" version of classic cornbread muffins. After trying the ridiculously complicated yeast version from Cook's Illustrated, I was looking for something a little more "back to basics." However, looking at Ina's recipe I felt it needed something else. There was a lot of butter in it, which is not a bad thing, but I thought I might be able to tame that a little bit by subbing in some canola oil. I also felt that if I cut a little of the cholesterol out with the canola oil I'd have room for something that was sure to give the muffins a little je ne sais quoi - bacon grease. I can hear the food nazis out there gasp, "Bacon grease, oh no!" Well, bacon grease compliments the flavors of corn bread and corn muffins beautifully. Adding a scant 2-3 tablespoons to the batter doesn't make you say "Oh, these have bacon grease!" rather, it is a very subtle flavor that lingers in the background and gives the muffins depth. A dash of cayenne pepper adds another mysterious flavor note.
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and such things, like " u r a sweet girl, wonderful person......" they r afraid of hurting the girl when they reject one or what? sounds very hypocritical
and such things, like " u r a sweet girl, wonderful person......" they r afraid of hurting the girl when they reject one or what? sounds very hypocritical
Hahahahaha ... off head, it would mean something like "tar tar, see you around" ...
something wrong with the title, ——what does it mean when guys say " you deserve something better than me", oh, btw avoid being an asshole when u comment, pls, i am a bit heartbroken now
"btw avoid being an asshole when u comment"
Sorry, but I think "you deserve better than me" usually means "I met someone else who I want to sleep with instead of you." Bummer.
it means you have had sex with an asshole
The reasons might be many, including everything mentioned above, but it doesn't necessarily mean that he found someone else. Could simply be that the spark died, something didn't match as well as first thought etc.
At least he had the decency to tell you this and even if it was a lie, he tried to say it so that you wouldn't get hurt so much. Or would you rather have him stop contacting you or answering your calls? Instead of getting an immediate answer that it's over, would you rather have spent weeks or months trying to get through the impassable wall until you would finally figure it out yourself? That would have been the easiest way out for him, simply ignoring the problem and moving on.
Well, you are still kinda trying to figure it out what he meant, but more you analyze it, worse it gets. You probably will never get better answer from him and it's pointless to ask others cause they don't know either. Some day you will probably find the answer on your own, but when that happens you've already stop caring about finding that answer.
Hahahahaha ... and as unbelievable as it might be, I have never said this once, instead, I was on the receiving end(s) ...
ummm, there is no breaking up, we were never together, i asked to date him, he refused by saying this.......but i thought he liked me, yeah, it collapsed my confidence, coz i usually feel if someone i would have a crush on would also feel i am appealing too, guess i am wrong, errrrr.......now i need some meditation and deep breath to save my heart, what should i say when i do it? something has 2 syllables :D
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we were never together
So, you two actually spent one night together?
we spent several nights together with other friends, ask something meaningful to show respect to your age, DD, but thanks for dropping the hahahahaha this time
i asked to date him, he refused by saying this.
There is a stronger 阳 side inside of you.... you should look for a 阴 guy ;)
btw, I'm so mad at you, you have never asked me for a date
Hahahahaha ... sorry, I kind of forgot that ... huh? meaningful? you are not being honest to yourself and us about this, are you?
Hahahaha ... Monkey, I am curious about what you said, as much as I might regret this ... care to explain?
Pete Mcbrostein (土豆泥)
i think u care too much about my personal life, don't u? stop carefully reading any tagline from my msn or only say hi to me when i am with someone at helen's, what is the point for u to introduce urself to guys i am with whenever u see us? jealous? wanna me to tell more?
yes, i do, but i didn't say u did, i said how curious u r about my tagline on msn and make relevant comments right away
wonderful, it's started to be amusing now, u should care about other ppl's feeling
i would love to make sure something that ppl u met that i were with r my friends, i am doing this for them
I like hear gossips and rumors \(^o^)/ feed me!!
Hahahaha ... Mini ... you forgot to say "Seymour" ...
someone asks gift advice from someone he decided not to talk to, ADMIT IT, u r lame u want me to be JEALOUS........u also made relevant comment about my age when i said i am getting tired of WDK, u saw my bday comment ,didn't u, if u don't stop, i will do some marrijuana to make this as funny as possible
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i will do some marrijuana to make this as funny as possible
huh? Mini Dude ... got any popcorns and soda there?
(continued) ...
toss him around a bit, hint he can have sex for nothing
Hahahahaha ... toss him like a salad or a pizza? ... and "have sex for nothing"? that's simply brilliant ...
"I invented 'it's not you it's me.' So nobody tells me it's not me it's them. If it's anybody – it's me!"


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My Design Approach for the Health Design Challenge – Part I
My submission to the Health Design Challenge is now publicly viewable! View it here.
What's the Health Design Challenge?
This is a challenge created by the USA Veterans Affairs medical organization, the White House and Designer Fund to rethink how we more effectively present a patient's medical history to people. Currently, the system prints out these "reports" that resembles receipts from the 90s and are difficult to read and understand. This challenge is to redesign the layout of these such that everybody, patients, family members and health professionals can quickly and easily find information they need and so they can make better health decisions.
Why do this? You're not an American!
I know that the incentive for most people is the prize money. There's a whooping $50000 in total prize money, with the 1st place best overall design receiving $16000. I am a Canadian though and thus is not eligible to win it. So people ask me, why do I bother spending so much time working on this? FYI: I've dedicated all my free time in the last 2.5 weeks on this. Clocked in 30+ hours on top of my full-time work schedule. That's $1.5+k if I were to spend it freelancing. I also don't believe in spec work. I don't ever participate in design contests.
So why this? Because I believe in the cause.
My background is in pharmacology. Even though I now do UX stuff and work as an information architect, I still have a strong interest in health related issues. I recall having discussions back in the days with my supervisors who are physicians about the inefficiencies when it comes to collecting patient details, how our aging medical record keeping systems simply doesn't cut it any more and whether we can introduce some grassroots movement within local medical units to improve this. But we never gotten very far because this is a huge problem that ultimately needs institutional support… So when I read the TechCrunch post about this challenge to improve patient medical records by redesigning the reports, I told myself I have to participate.
I've also recently attended the FITC Vancouver 2012. I was inspired by Myron Campbell (@notsosimpleton) and James White (@Signalnoise) to make time to work on personal projects, and to try something new. I've never really done information design before… that twitter infographr thing doesn't quite count… so I decided to pour my energy into learning and experimenting with this project.
My Approach
I applied my standard methodology when it came to working on this redesign, which is to say frame the question first. This is something I learnt while I was conducting scientific experiments in the lab… before you can come up with anything, you need to first do background research in the area.
User Analysis
Since we have 3 user groups: Patient, Family Caregivers, Medical Professionals, I decided to talk to people in each of those roles to get a better understanding of what is important to them when it comes to managing a patient's health.
I discovered the following:
- From Patients:
- Most tend to be elderly with visual impairment. It is important that the material is displayed in sufficiently large font size with good contrast so they can read it easily
- Have a hard time keeping track of their medications. Elderly folks are often prescribed a number of different drugs. Sometimes they have difficulties remember which one they need to take, how many, and when they should be taking them. It would be useful if this information is easy to find in the report.
- Want to know more about their current health in a non-technical way. They are interested in knowing about their current health conditions, but found the language of the current report too technical and were not sure what different things meant.
- From Family Members / Caregivers:
- Frequently need to juggle between work, their own family and taking care of the patient (their aging parents). They would like to be able to quickly scan the report to find the relevant information and do so whenever they need it. Nice to have the option to view it on a device.
- When is the patient due for a checkup? It often falls on the caregiver to drive the patient to the hospital or the clinic for routine checkups. So they need to be reminded when checkups are due and also phone in to make/confirm the appointment.
- Want to know more about the patient's current health and things that can be done to improve or maintain it. Like the patient, they would also like easy, non-technical summaries that they can readily comprehend.
- From Health Professionals (physicians, pharmacist, nurses):
- Talked to physicians and pharmacists I have contacts with (couldn't reach a nurse)
- Patient demographics and contact information is the most valuable information in the report. This should be placed at the top.
- Additional, more detailed information about the patient can frequently be accessed elsewhere. This report is good for a quick scan on the patient's medical history, but should not be used directly when determining diagnosis / treatments.
- They are super busy, being able to access patient information on their devices makes it much easier to deal with than printouts.
Field Analysis
After receiving these general comments, I examined the different fields provided by the software. I started grouping and sub-grouping fields together based on relevance.
Here's how I grouped demographic info:
- First Name, Last Name
- Everybody needs to be able to identify who this report is for
- Address, Telephone
- Highly useful for Health Professionals or anybody that needs to reach the patient
- Gender, Birthday
- Super useful for Health Professionals, but rarely for anybody else.
- Let's keep this small so it doesn't take up too much space.
- Religious Affiliation, Ethnicity, Language Spoken
- Lower level of usefulness, Language was identified as the more important field in the bunch
- Language is placed as the last item to facilitate scanning. Our eyes intuitively stops at the divider line. When our gaze halts on the line, "English" is at the edge of our reading periphery. If language was important to us, our eyes recognize the shape of the word and we automatically focus on it.
Similarly, I noticed the information given in the Encounter & Procedure section is nearly identical. The distinction between these two types of actions is purely semantics. Few users would ever care to distinguish between them. So I decided to combine these into a single section and de-emphasized the type.
After grouping the fields, I started ranking these groups based on their relative importance and obtained my group sequence…
Continue onto Design Approach – Part II…


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Pussy Riot star Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was dealt a double blow on Friday (27Sep13) when officials threw out her bid to slash her jail sentence and refused her request to be transferred to another prison. The punk activist went on hunger strike earlier this week (beg23Sep13) after alleging she has been improperly treated by staff and accusing officials of using female inmates as "slave labour".
She was moved into an isolation unit at the prison colony in Mordovia, where she is serving her two-year sentence for hooliganism, and applied to be transferred to a different jail, but authorities refused the request on Friday. They accused Tolokonnikova of blackmail after her demands for a more comfortable cell were rejected.
Hours later, Tolokonnikova was given more bad news when officials threw out her bid for freedom by ruling her sentence should not be cut.
Tolokonnikova and two Pussy Riot bandmates – Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich – were jailed for two years in 2012 amid uproar over their protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Moscow church.
Samutsevich was freed in October (12) when her sentence was commuted, and Alekhina will learn the outcome of her bid for early release next month (Oct13). If it is rejected, she and Tolokonnikova will not be eligible for release until March (14).


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Saturday 18 June, 2016 10am-4pm
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His commissions include those of past prime ministers.
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BATIK and DYEING WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS
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Saturday 21 May, 2016 10am-4pm at the Village Hall Strathnairn Arts 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt, ACT
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In step with life
By MARINA BROWN
Middle-aged women bustle back and forth carrying chips and salad. The spaghetti is on its way. Here and there men cluster, slap each other on the back, then reposition tiny tables for better conversation.
This could be the bustle of a large neighborhood house party or a church social -- if it weren't for the quiet throb of a merengue in the background. The difference is, after the spaghetti, there will be ballroom dancing until neighbors and churchgoers are long in bed.
It's Saturday night at the Suncoast Ballroom in Largo, and a palpable buzz fills the air. Everyone is dressed up. Women in black sparkly dresses, men in sports shirts and slacks. Theresa dos Santos, 63, a Connie Francis look-alike, is wearing white lace. Theresa and her husband, Manuel, owners of the Suncoast Ballroom, are assigning tables and welcoming dancers like doting relatives at a family reunion. Theresa fusses over the apple pie. "People come here because they love to dance," she says, laughing, "but after we started having spaghetti and dessert on Saturdays, business doubled!"
In a corner, Gino Moretti and Jim Lewellen, both of whom appear to be older than 60 but feel "too young to tell their age," are changing their shoes. The ballroom, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in April, boasts a 3,300-square-foot maple floor made for the soft kid of special ballroom slippers. Ladies spend upwards of $150 for delicate-looking, steel-reinforced high-heeled shoes. Men sometimes wear two pairs a night, because the leather becomes soggy and stretched.
For Gino and Jim and the 100 or so other dancers who come to the Suncoast Ballroom nearly four nights a week, dancing is a serious business -- in fact, they will tell you it's their life.
"It's warm feeling here. How do you say, we are all like family," explains Gino, slim and tanned, his Italian accent rising above the rhumba. He looks out over the crowd. Women from 30 years old to 70 are arriving.
Men of similar age -- salesmen, dentists, mechanics or retirees -- come alone or with a partner, sometimes their wives, more often a dancer they find compatible on the floor.
Lee Daigle, 56, is a regular who, along with Gino, spent a Saturday helping one of the female dancers move into a new house. "It's nice to be able to help out," he says. "We spend so much time dancing together at night, the least we can do is carry it over to daytime when somebody needs a little assist."
A lifelong love
Introduced to dancing by a former girlfriend, Lee dances most nights, at times muttering, "ONE and TWO" as he teaches a samba riff to a new partner.
At another table, Gino is leaning over two women with champagne-colored hair. "Bella!" he says, sighing. He offers his hand to one with a little bow and, glowing, she joins him in a romping quick-step -- the one Lee says could cause serious injury if anybody misses a beat. Gino shrugs when asked if he goes out for dinners or movies like nondancing single men. "No, not really," he says with a wave of his hand. "Sitting down for hours in movies is not for me. I must be active."
In the center of the floor, women have lined up on one side of the room, men on the other. In the middle, the ballroom's heart and soul, Manuel dos Santos is swaying his hips slightly and cajoling the dancers to learn a new step. With a twinkle in his eye, he twirls a heavyset woman so fast her feet do things she never dreamed possible. She squeals with delight, and Manuel takes a bow. "Okay, take a partner," Manuel says. He grabs a man next to him. "Just in case nobody wants to choose you," he says, laughing and spinning him away.
Manuel, a 63-year-old originally from Portugal, fell in love with ballroom dancing at 17. After immigrating with his parents to Canada, the teenager worked at his father's tool and die shop six months of the year. The rest of the time he spent his savings in England learning to dance from the "masters." Manuel eventually left the metal workshop and taught for more than 25 years privately and in public schools in Canada, where his weekly television dance show made him something of a celebrity.
Now, he is one of a handful of Florida dance teachers to hold a coveted International Dance School Teacher's Certification. "But I thought I was coming to Florida to retire," he says. "That was in 1983."
More people are arriving, and Theresa jokes that they'll just have to dance all night because table space is filling up. "Everybody loves Theresa," says a woman in turquoise sequins. "She used to be a preacher's wife, you know."
Theresa is the first to agree that she's surprised to be loving the life of a dance school owner. Formerly married to a pastor in a conservative denomination, she taught Sunday school and directed choirs for 36 years but never, never was allowed to dance. It was only after relocating from Michigan and divorcing that she ventured into a dance studio.
"I wasn't particularly quick. After two months on one dance, I was still tangling my feet," she says. Manuel was a patient teacher. The couple celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary in November.
Providing an escape
On the dance floor, the action has become a blur. Under a low ceiling, draped tulle bunting ripples as dancers spin by. Some partners try exotic dips, and others are content to rotate like planets in a steady circuit of the room. The one constant is the smile on every face.
Thanks to half-hourly mixers, every woman has a chance to dance with a random lineup of men. Eighty-year-old men waltz with 30-something women; towering women mambo with short men; and, often, experienced dancers pull beginners over for a quick practice of a tricky step. Democracy is the rule here, and things are done with manners that would make a cotillion teacher beam.
Sitting at a table overlooking the dance floor, a quiet couple haven't left their chairs. Nearby, Orestes Diaz, 69, who calls himself "Papa," has just spun a young woman so fast she collapsed in wide-eyed laughter at the older couple's table. Orestes wags his finger at the pretty woman, then moves on to another partner who can match his energy. The quiet couple haven't moved.
"I'm so glad that Angelo and Adele (Narvaez) continue to come," Theresa says. She explains that for 13 years the pair were regulars, until Adele developed Alzheimer's. "Now Angelo says just coming and listening to the music calms her. They drive 30 miles each way."
Adele taps her fingers, raptly watching the dancing. "She loves every minute of it," says Angelo, 85. "We come four nights a week."
Whirling, twirling workout
Across town at the Pinellas Park Crystal Blue Ballroom is Nancy Welch, a dancer for 17 years and president of the Treasure Coast Chapter of the U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancer's Association, simply known as "u-sab-da." She says the large number of social dancing venues in this part of the state led her to call Pinellas Park home.
"There are at least 15 dancing clubs in the area. Right now, I'd estimate that 400 to 500 people go out weekly to ballroom dance."
Nancy, who declines to tell her age, is a top-notch dancer noted for her long strides and smooth style. She and her partner, Sam Moses, 71, dart in and out of slower couples like Ginger and Fred.
Her week includes two lessons, three two-hour practice sessions and going out dancing three times. Her enthusiasm is contagious.
"USABDA's goal is to get more young people on college campuses interested in dancing. We already have a chapter at USF," she says. But more importantly, "We'd like to encourage people to shop around first before choosing a dance teacher. Then, call USABDA. If we've heard of any unethical practices, or know of anything even hinting at a scam, we could alert you."
Back at the Suncoast Ballroom, the music has taken on a deep, seductive beat; it's a tango, and couples are dancing closely, sometimes executing the peculiar jerks of head and torso seen in Tango Argentino. The tango is sultry and dramatic as feet and legs entwine, but when the music stops, these intensely concentrating pairs break apart, say their thank-yous and sit down, more interested in iced tea and wilted chips than each other. But do relationships develop out of this kind of social dancing? Are ballrooms places for people to come and hook up?
"Sometimes it happens," says dancer Vince Chavez, 47. "But 95 percent of the people who come here are interested in the high they get from the dancing."
Vince and his partner go out dancing "at least four nights a week." Maybe it's the endorphin rush from three to four hours of nonstop exercise. "I think what we get hooked on is the mix of friendly people and sweat," he says, smiling and wiping his brow.
Nancy, of USABDA, agrees. "It's safe to mingle here. For me, these people have become more like another family."
It's 11:30 p.m. at the Suncoast Ballroom. Most of the dancers have gone. The lights have been turned up, yet a cha-cha bleats on. Lee is running a vacuum while three women in chiffon chat over the buffet dishes. Gino is wiping tables. Out on the floor, there is but one dancer left. It's Jim Lewellen. "Jim's our most faithful," Teresa says.
Jim, who lives alone, lives to dance. He is moving by himself in a kind of happy trance. He swings this way, three little steps that way, a little stiff because his joints have been well-used. He seems reluctant to let the evening end as he moves in tiny circles, gazing at the spangles and letting the music wash over him.
And then, noticing Jim, and without a word, one of the women with a dish in her hand lays it aside and joins him on the dance floor. At first surprised, Jim takes only a moment and then, straightening himself, he sweeps her into his arms and smiles as for one last time tonight, they feel themselves being young.
- Marina Brown is a freelance writer who lives in Treasure Island.
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