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This is a very good question and one that ophthalmologists struggle with—that is, how to identify those glaucoma suspects that really will develop glaucoma. A cup to disc ratio alone of 0.5 in both eyes could certainly be normal for you. When ophthalmologists evaluate you for glaucoma, they take into consideration risk factors in addition to what they find during an examination. For example, age is a major risk factor for glaucoma, so as you get older, you may convert from a glaucoma suspect to having glaucoma. Family history is also a risk factor, which I am assuming you do not have because you did not mention it. Other factors include high eye pressure and corneal thickness, which are normal for you. However, a cup to disc ratio of 0.5 does not give the complete story. For example, there are certain features of an optic nerve that may be very suspicious for glaucoma, and the cup to disc ratio does not capture this. Overall, given your normal visual field and optic nerve imaging test (HRT), you may very well never develop glaucoma; however, it is still important to have a yearly exam to ensure that there is no progression or change.
I am sorry to hear about your mother's vision problems. It is not clear from your question whether she has scarring or damage to the cornea that requires a cornea transplant. When ophthalmologists make decisions about surgery, they try to gather as much data to understand what the visual potential is, because all surgery entails risk, and it sounds like your mother might need both cataract surgery and possibly corneal transplant surgery. While cataract and damaged corneas can be replaced and essentially made clear again simply by replacing the lens or cornea, damage to the retina is sometimes not reversible and damage to the optic nerve from glaucoma is generally irreversible. This is because the retina and optic nerve are composed of neurons, which are cells that transmit electrical information. So, I would seek the opinion of a retina and glaucoma specialist to see if they deem the potential vision good enough to recommend surgery.
Thank you for your question. I am so sorry to hear about your eye and vision problems. Not knowing how low your vision is, I would advise you to speak with your glaucoma ophthalmologist about the best resources to use. A low vision specialist can certainly be of great help in improving your vision, such as by prescribing low vision aids, optimizing your home situation, advising you on how best to optimize lighting for reading, etc. There are also contact lenses that may help reduce the glare in your left eye, but it may be more work than it is worth if sunglasses can help you. In summary, I do think you can be helped, and your glaucoma doctor should be able to advise you best. Good luck!
Thank you for your question. Without having examined your eyes personally and without reviewing the results of past exams and tests, it is nearly impossible for me to give a completely accurate answer. What I can say is that if your eye pressure was in the mid-20s in December of 2011 and March of 2012, and you continued using the same eye drop, it would be rather unusual for the pressure to drop to 10 or 11 in June of 2012 because of the drops alone. If you have been on the same drop regimen from December 2011 until now, eye pressure would not likely change that dramatically. Given that you went to a different clinic, I would wonder if the pressure was accurately taken at one or the other. I would recommend having the pressure taken again relatively soon and determine what the pressure really is. Secondly, I would ask the eye doctor to examine you for any signs of inflammation within the eye. It is always possible that there is inflammation that is decreasing the amount of fluid created in the eye (hence the lowering of the pressure). To reiterate, it is unusual to have intraocular pressure in the mid-twenties on multiple occasions, and then without changing medications have the pressure drop that much. If the readings were accurate, the doctor should be able to help you find a reason for the drop in eye pressure. I would highly advise continuing the eye drops until you can be re-examined by your eye doctor and at that point you can determine whether or not the drops should be continued. Do not stop the drops your own. I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you for your question. First, let me say that I am incredibly sorry that you have gone through all of this. Without having examined your eyes personally and without reviewing the results of past exams, tests, and procedure notes (including the laser settings used), it is nearly impossible for me to give a completely accurate answer. I don't know if it was related to the laser alone, the use of the steroid eye drops (Durezol), or a combination of both. Laser treatments, either selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) or argon laser trabeculoplasty (ALT), are both commonly used as treatments for glaucoma.
The appropriate power that needs to be used varies for each patient, and is mostly related to the amount of pigment in the trabecular meshwork (i.e., the drainage system) of the eye. The more pigment in the trabecular meshwork, typically the less power is needed. When eye doctors perform SLT they typically start at a relatively low power and increase it until they see tiny bubbles form at the trabecular meshwork after about 50% of the laser spots are created. When performing ALT, doctors should see a blanching of the trabecular meshwork to know that they have used enough power. Again, you start at a lower power and work up until you see the blanching so that you know that you are not over-treating.
Laser surgery is relatively well tolerated; however, it is a surgery. Before any surgery, your eye doctor should discuss the risks, benefits, and alternatives before you agree to have any procedure performed in the office or in the operating room. There is a small risk that the laser procedure can cause an increase in the eye pressure and that is always something I discuss with my patients. I have my patients wait approximately 20-30 minutes after the procedure and I check the pressure before they leave to make sure that it has remained stable. If the pressure goes up immediately, this can often be reversed in the office with a couple of additional pressure lowering drops and in most people the elevated pressure does not last long. It is very common to have a slight headache after the laser procedure, and patients may not feel like doing much that evening, but extreme pain is unusual. There is often a small amount of inflammation that occurs in the eye after the procedure, and it is not uncommon that doctors prescribe an anti-inflammatory eye drop for approximately one week. Unfortunately, I am not sure if you will ever really know why the pressure went up. Hopefully your eye doctor can get the pressure under control and work to preserve as much vision as possible.
No, it is not harmful if you have spaced it less than 12 hours apart. But, like any medication, the dosing is designed to maximize its effectiveness, based on how long it lasts in your system. Of course, each patient is unique and different, so I would not worry too much about the scenario that you described. It is more important that you are using the medication consistently. If you can remember to space it 12 hours apart, that is ideal, but again, it is more critical that you take both doses in a given day.
Thank you for your question. I am glad that you are seeing an ophthalmologist soon to help answer your questions. I am unclear about the light yellow excretion. If you are referring to discharge, that sometimes does build up overnight. First, it is important that you determine the cause of the excretion when you meet with the ophthalmologist and ask him/her if the following would be helpful to manage the discharge: There are steps that I have provided to my patients to improve the condition of their eyelids and manage the discharge. The process is called "lid hygiene"—I think of it like flossing your teeth—and it is a step that one should take in the morning and at night, if possible. Sometimes my patients just start once a day, while they are in the shower, for example. They can take a warm towel and place it on their eyelids, to liquefy the secretions that the glands of their eyelids are excreting. Then, they take a cotton swab, dip it in warm water, and gently clean along the eyelid margin (both the bottom and the top eyelids). Some of my patients use a 1:1 mixture of warm water and baby shampoo. There are also over the counter products (look for "lid scrubs) but I think these simple steps explained above may help you.
Thank you for your question. I would first call and speak with the prescribing ophthalmologist and discuss with him/her whether it is appropriate to stop timolol; however, it is unusual to have glare symptoms from this medication. You could ask your doctor about using the medication only in one eye, and test out if it really is causing you to have the problems with glare. Sometimes patients notice problems coincidentally when they change their routine, and the glare may be caused by a different issue altogether. Certainly this is an important issue to discuss with your ophthalmologist and glaucoma specialist, and please do not make changes to your medication regimen until you talk with your eye doctor(s).
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Sitting here all on my own;
My roommates here but still alone.
Swiftly; quietly, the shadow approaches.
I cry out in fear, but nobody notices.
An eerie chill creeps up my spine
"Are you ok?" "Oh yeah, I'm fine."
I smile big, to show I'm bold,
But then the panicking takes hold.
The shadow's hand wraps around my throat,
It holds on tight; does not let go.
I want to cry, but hold it in.
I will not let the shadow win.
It holds me down, watching me squirm,
But in the end I must hold firm.
The next day comes,
Light filters in.
I knew that in the end I'd win.
Yet still I remember the fear; the pain.
And I know the shadow shall come again
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It was another gloomy day in Mother Russia. The clouds were a dark grey, and the biting wind was piercing Orlock's long coat, turning his nips into diamond cutters. As he walked down the boardwalk back towards the city, his mind wandered off to simpler times. Back when he would wake up to the warm smile of his beloved Peggy. Back when he would walk downstairs to a piping hot cup of coffee waiting for him at the table where his two sons would be eating their breakfast before the bus came to sweep them off to another day of school. It had been three years since the incident, but lately Orlock had found his mind wandering back to those times where he was truly happy.
Just then, the wind picked up and a strong, chilled gust snapped him out of his daydream. A damp newspaper clung to his ankle, as if begging to be read. Reaching down, Orlock picked up the pieces of paper and smoothed them out. The date was February the 19th. How fitting that he should get his revenge on his and Peggy's 10-year anniversary. Scanning the front page, he saw that there had been another murder in the outer suburbs of the city. Orlock disgustedly crumpled up the paper and threw it into the freezing waters of the North Pacific. In the three years since the murder of his family, the serial killer who went by the name of, "Biscuit", had struck another fifteen times. Each time he left clues to his identity yet there had been no progress made by the police. However, the clues did not fall on deaf ears. It had taken three years, but Orlock had finally narrowed the list of possible suspects down to one Mr. Benjamin Austerlitz. Having written down "Biscuit's" home address, he tucked his Makarov PMM Pistol into his belt and set off to finally get his revenge.
It had taken four hours to reach the outer section of the suburbs where Biscuit lived. By the time Orlock stepped foot on the uneven cement streets that made up the roads of the slums, a good inch of snow had fallen. "As if it weren't already cold enough," he grumbled under his breath. He had been debating on the subway ride over whether or not to knock on the door and shoot Biscuit on the spot or try to break in and sneak up on him. In the end he decided it was better to break in since it would leave a less likely chance that a witness would see him. Although, on this street, he doubted any of the police would believe the crack whores or hobos anyways. As he cut through an alleyway and came out on the other side, he stopped to gather his surroundings. He was on a street that led to a dead end. To his right led to the stairs that would take him to the subway and get him the hell out of this dirty neighborhood. A little ways down the street on his left was a brothel and a little further down the road were a few houses. The street hit a dead end at the very end of the road and sitting directly in his path was a little rundown house that looked like it was about to collapse in on itself. It was this house that his target hid himself away in. It was no wonder the guy hadn't been caught. Who would suspect a guy crazy enough to live in a shit heap like that?
Orlock slowly opened the creaking metal gate as to make as little noise as possible. There was no light coming from any of the windows but there was a small grinding noise coming from somewhere below the house. "Most likely holed up in the basement," thought Orlock to himself. As quietly as he could Orlock snuck around to the back of the house and gently twisted the doorknob. To his surprise, the door was unlocked, and he slipped inside. Carefully, he slid the pistol out of his belt, and switching the safety off, crept towards the open door that lead to the depths of the house.
When he reached the open door, the grinding noise had intensified to a deafening screech. Getting down on his stomach, he was just able to peak between the railing and the stairs into the basement. The cement walls were decorated with pictures of what Orlock could only assume were past and future victims. On the right side were pictures marked with a giant red "X". It was on this wall that he saw a picture of his family. However, there was a part of the picture torn off. Sure enough, his suspicions were answered when he looked over to the left wall and saw himself on the missing portion of the picture. On the opposite side of the basement was the shadow of a man hunched over a spinning whetstone and sharpening a black and white checkered Katana.
Sliding back to his feet and swallowing the lump of fear that had grown in his throat, Orlock began to move down the old wooden staircase. Palm sweaty and hand shaking, he reached the end of the stairs and raised his weapon. As his foot came off of the last step, a loud creak came with it. Just then the whetstone stopped spinning and Biscuit spun himself around, an alarmed look on his face. This was it; this was the time for Orlock to get his revenge. All he had to do was pull the trigger and he would send this scumbag to the depths of hell. It would be so easy. All of this was running through Orlock's mind. So then why? Why couldn't he pull the trigger? Instead, he just stood there, staring wide-eyed at Biscuit, paralyzed with fear. "This is the moment you have been waiting for, stop being a pansy and just pull the god-damned trigger," he pleaded with himself.
Realizing that Orlock was frozen, Biscuit's alarm faded away replaced just as quickly with an eerie grin. Clutching the Katana in his right hand Biscuit got up off of his stool and began to stroll towards the paralyzed Orlock. "You know, it is rare for my prey to come seeking me," he purred. "Usually I have to take the long trip into the city in order to find them." Biscuit had covered about a third of the distance it would take to reach Orlock. Spinning the Katana in his hand, he continued to walk towards him at a snail's pace. "You have saved me the trouble of hunting you down. You were always the one that got away. You should have died with that bitch and her pups that night." At the mention of his wife and children, a fire began to rise in Orlock's stomach, slowly bringing him out of his daze. Biscuit didn't seem to notice and continued his taunting. "Look at you," he chided. "You thought you would be a big man and come take care of me yourself. Instead you are standing their pissing your pants at the mere sight of me." By this point he had made his way across two-thirds of the room.
As he reached the spot Orlock was standing, he raised the katana just under Orlock's chin and tilted his head up, opening a small cut where the point of the blade had touched. "Chin up though lad, you'll be joining your gal soon enough." Slowly, Biscuit raised the katana to an angle above his shoulder. "Now don't squirm," whispered Biscuit. "I like a clean cut."
The blade came crashing down hard in a nice clean arc. It was then that Orlock snapped back to life. Just as the blade came centimeters away from his neck, Orlock dove to the side. He felt a sharp pain in his left ear as he rolled back up onto his feet. The right side of his head felt somehow heavier though he didn't have the time to dwell on it. He quickly spun around and raised his gun towards Biscuit just in time to see the maniac lunge at him with this katana pointed straight at his heart.
BANG! The katana stopped inches from his chest. In front of him stood biscuit, frozen and wide-eyed as blood trickled down from a spot on his forehead right between his eyes. The katana fell to the floor with a loud "clang" and Biscuit shortly thereafter. Looking down, Orlock saw an ear laying a few inches away from where Biscuit had fallen. He realized that it was his own. It was no wonder he felt a warm trickle running down the left side of his neck. Though with the amount of adrenaline pumping though his veins it was a miracle that he even felt that.
Twenty minutes later Orlock found himself sitting in a daze in the back of an ambulance as paramedics held gauze tightly against the side of his head in an attempt to stop the bleeding. Apparently some of the neighbors had heard the gun shot and had called the police. "Biscuit", or Benjamin Austerlitz, had been shipped out to the local morgue and the police declared there to be enough evidence to call the case of the serial murders to a close. Orlock was treated as a local hero for ridding the city of such a danger.
A few days had passed since his confrontation. Sitting in front of the family grave, Orlock began to tell his tale to his wife and kids. Although it could not bring them back, the revenge was able to at least fill a part of the hole that had been left within him. Perhaps now things could go back to the simpler times they once were. He reached up and felt the side of his head where his ear used to be. It was sore and it had become a lot harder to hear. However, Orlock couldn't help but smile. After all, an ear was a small price to pay for happiness.
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I started walking around barefoot and it kind of became a hobbit.
Hey I'm really trying hard to get a pikachu or raichu for my white 2 version. If anybody wants to work something out I would really appreciate it. Shoot me a message and we can work something out and I'll give you my friend code.
Can anybody trade me a pikachu on white two? Pretty pretty please message me
So does anybody have a shelmet they can trade me and I'll trade you a Kerrablast? I need an Accelgor but I'd like to evolve it and not get it already evolved. My friend code is 4470 9361 2627. Pretty pretty please? Message me :)
Definitely just bought a PSA 6 (Ex-Min) 1st edition shadowless Charizard from a garage sale today for 50 cents. Holy god if today wasn't one of the luckiest days of my life!
That horrible moment when you catch up to a manga that is only published monthly Q.Q
Does the fact Chris Rodriguez is a character in the Sea Of Monsters movie mean that they are planning to do the entire series? Cause I don't remember him in the book until the 4th book. (though by all means correct me if i'm wrong). If they are doing all 5….idk whether to be happy or worried…. whatcha think?
OK guys so my current White 2 team is Growlithe, Lucario, Dewott, Elekid, and Braviary. I can't decide on a 6th Pokemon (though i don't want a legendary or an eeveelution (long story)) SO….any suggestions for the 6th member would be greatly appreciated! I'll even name it after you if I pick yours!! Pleeeease?
To all of you assholes who have been writing stuff on the Percy jackson page about MoA without putting a spoiler tag on it. I want you to know I have been keeping a list of names. And when House of Hades comes out next year, I am going to get it as soon as it comes out, stay up all night reading it and spoil the ending to each one of you individually in the form of a message. You have ben warned.
Ok look, I don't believe the whole "world is ending on december 21 2012" thing. Let's be honest, it's a load of shit. But after reading the MOA, there is a nagging "what if". It's not that I'd really care that the world ended, I mean shit it's about to happen some time. But if it happens and I don't get to finish this book series I will be SO PISSED.
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A spokesperson for the retail chain said the new store is to be located in Salt Lake City at 634 E. 400 South, a space formerly leased to clothier Old Navy and, most recently, a seasonal Halloween costume shop.
The grocery store will open in the fourth quarter of this year, though the Trader Joe's spokeswoman would not specify a date. The outlet will cover about 12,700 square feet, the average size of a Trader Joe's.
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Headquartered in the southern California town of Monrovia, the chain of neighborhood-styled grocery store carries a number of domestic and imported foods and is known for its own label of goods, including Trader José's salsas, Trader Ming's fried rice, Trader Giotto's marinara sauces.
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But due to Utah's laws requiring that spirits only be sold at state run stores, wine and other alcoholic beverages will not be stocked at the Salt Lake outlet. Alcohol is sold at most other Trader Joe's locations across the country, though some of their stores — in Massachusetts, for example — do not sell liquor.
The chain began in 1958 as a series of convenience stores in Southern California, then known as Pronto Markets. The name was changed to Trader Joe's in 1967, and at the time, only sold specialty cheeses and wine.
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The Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito Pardee Aquatics Center announced that Kathy "Gubba" Sheehy is one of six members to be inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame, class of 2010.
Sheehy is head coach of the San Dieguito SeaWolves Water Polo Team at the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Dieguito and the head coach for La Costa Canyon High School girls water polo team.
Sheehy, who was among the top women's water polo players of the 1990s, parlayed an outstanding collegiate career at San Diego State University to a berth on the Women's National Team. While playing for team USA, Sheehy was part of the first women's water polo squad to play in the Olympic Games, earning a silver medal in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. She remains devoted to the sport, competing on the club level with the New York Athletic Club and Old Mission Beach Aquatic Club. She has also served in a variety of coaching roles, most recently as head coach of the USA Women's Senior National "B" Team.
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Here's a look at population by race for each block in Allegheny County from the 2010 Census. The map below uses a "dot density" technique, which randomly draws a point for each person within the boundary of the block in which they lived last April. The points are color-coded by the race of the person as reported in the 2010 Census. The legend appears beneath the map.
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A common thought in the football world is that players will not lose money in a lockout until the regular-season games start. But offseason workout bonuses easily could be flushed away.
ESPN obtained a copy of some of the biggest workout bonuses that players have, and whom this lockout will hit in the wallet sooner rather than later. Jets offensive tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson has the biggest offseason workout bonus -- $750,000 if he participates in 85 percent of the workouts.
Quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers, Eli Manning and Jay Cutler each have $500,000 offseason workout bonuses, though Rodgers must participate in 85 percent of the workouts, and Manning and Cutler 90 percent each.
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Raise your hand if you had the Dallas Mavericks coming away with a split after two games against the San Antonio Spurs.
Actually, let me rephrase that: Raise your hand if you had Dallas coming away with a split against San Antonio with Dirk Nowitzki shooting 33 percent after two games.
Anyone? Bueller?
There's no denying that the Mavs, before Wednesday, would've gotten out of San Antonio with a split had Dirk had one of his legendary playoff performances.
But through two games, no one can explain who this Dirk is. This Dirk is shooting a combined 11-of-33 from the floor, and has made a grand total of one 3-pointer.
Yet somehow, by whomever is keeping a watchful eye on this team, Dallas went into the AT&T Center and dominated the Spurs in a way that would shock even the most casual of fan. Yes, almost half of San Antonio's 22 turnovers were unforced. And most will say that the Spurs lost that game more than the Mavs won it.
I disagree. Dallas went into that building and emphatically snapped the 10-game losing streak against the Spurs, and now have a chance to go up 2-1 in Dallas on Saturday.
If you've watched this series intently, Dallas should be up 2-0, but I digress.
Yet the Mavs have a chance to make a statement at home. We know the Spurs will come out guns blazing and won't have another performance like Wednesday. Dallas will need to play its first complete, perfect game of this series in order to take an unthinkable 2-1 lead.
In order for that to happen, someone needs to bring back Holger Geschwinder from Germany and do his wacky voodoo. Dirk needs it, and he'll need a legendary performance to give his Mavs a clear grasp of the momentum in this series.
If you're the Mavs, of course you're confident being tied 1-1 after the way Dirk has played. Devin Harris has been Dallas' MVP, and it's not even close. If not for the veteran, the Mavs probably wouldn't be in this position. He's been the reason why Dallas has, for all but seven minutes in Game 1, has dominated this series.
What's shockingly noticeable in Dirk's struggles, is Tiago Splitter has actually played decent defense against the Big German. You'd be hard-pressed to find any of Dirk's 11 makes that have come with Splitter in his face. The Brazilian center for San Antonio has played extremely well against Dirk.
Dallas' scoring balance has been on full display these first two games. That's mainly the reason why the Mavs have dominated this series. But something's got to give in Game 3. It'll either be Dirk going beast mode, or guys like Kawhi Leonard or Danny Green to make their impact.
But the way this series has gone, if Dirk can score at least 25 and grab around eight rebounds, then Dallas will go into Monday's Game 4 up 2-1. And if the Mavs can do that … no, it's too early to think about that.
Dallas needs to get through Saturday first.
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A new study calls into question whether the herb Hypericum perforatum, popularly known as St. John's wort, is effective in the treatment of depression. Researchers found no statistical difference between the herb and placebo on standardized rating scales used to assess patients with major depression.
"We can say with confidence that it calls into serious question the effectiveness in moderate to major depression," said Richard Shelton, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and lead researcher for the study. Shelton also told reporters that St. John's wort shouldn't even be recommended for treatment of mild depression without more rigorous research.
Shelton and his colleagues compared St. John's wort with placebo in nearly 200 adult outpatients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of major depressive disorder, single or recurrent, without psychotic features. Patients were primarily rated using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (17-item scale) (HAM-D) with secondary measures, including the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A), the Global Assessment of Function Scale (GAF), and the Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S), and Improvement (CGI-I) scales. The results were published in the April 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The researchers found significant effects for time, but not for treatment or time by treatment on the HAM-D, HAM-A, CGI-S, and CGI-I. No significant effects were seen with the BDI or the GAF scores.
The study, according to the authors, presents "the first large, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of St. John's wort extract in participants with major depressive disorder conducted in the United States."
In addition, the study is the first one with negative outcomes, in contrast to the more than 30 previous reports that noted positive effects of the herb.
The authors noted that their results did not support any significant antidepressant or antianxiety effects for St. John's wort; however, the herb was well tolerated. Headache was the only reported adverse effect that occurred significantly more often with St. John's wort than placebo.
Shelton acknowledged that the study was limited because it did not compare St. John's wort with any active antidepressant drug; however, such a study is currently under way through the National Institute of Mental Health.
"There was some evidence in the report that larger samples could have resulted in statistically significant differences between the St. John's wort and the placebo groups showing efficacy for the former," Darrel Regier, M.D., M.P.H., director of APA's Division of Research and executive director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, told Psychiatric News. "It should also be emphasized that the current lack of clinical efficacy is for major depression and not any clinical depression, such as dysthymia or minor depression."
Regier also noted that one aspect not addressed in the current study were the potential interactions between St. John's wort and other medications when patients self-medicate.
"Until the results of the NIMH study are in," Regier observed, "this one serves as a warning that previous unambiguous endorsements of the efficacy of St. John's wort should not be accepted."
Shelton and his coauthors called for "more methodologically rigorous studies of depression" as well as primary anxiety disorders and cautioned that any claim of effectiveness should not be made until there are strong supporting data from well-controlled clinical trials.
An abstract of the study, "Effectiveness of St. John's Wort in Major Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial," is posted on the Web at jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v285n15/abs/joc02013.html. ▪
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The Mariemont City School District has picked Steven Estepp to be its next superintendent.Estepp is the executive director of K-12 curriculum and instruction of Hilliard City Schools near Columbus. He will be formally appointed at the next Board of Education meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, at Mariemont Elementary. Click here to […]
Mariemont schools pick new superintendent
04/19/13 at 2:45pm by lwakeland | Comments
Mariemont alumni event set for April 25
04/18/13 at 8:43am by lwakeland | Comments
The Mariemont High School Alumni Association is conducting a Spring Fling from 5:30-9 p.m. Thursday, April 25. The event is at Mac's Pizza Pub, 6309 Wooster Pike in Fairfax. It's open to all alumni and is a chance to reconnect and network with fellow classmates. Learn more about the association here.
Community meetings start April 2
04/01/13 at 12:43pm by lwakeland | Comments
The Mariemont City School District is hosting three community meetings this week for its superintendent search. Superintendent Paul Imhoff will leave the school district at the end of July to become the next superintendent of Upper Arlington City School District near Columbus. Community meetings will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, at Mariemont […]
Bella Luna celebrates 11 years
03/14/13 at 8:45am by lwakeland | Comments
To celebrate its 11th anniversary, Bella Luna will host an Italian-style Carnivale from Tuesday, March 19 until Sunday, March 24. There will be street performers, live music, drink specials and a special menu with 11 dishes for $11 each. In addition to the event menu, guests can also choose dishes from the full menu along with […]
Park district sets spring bike programs
03/12/13 at 11:33am by lwakeland | Comments
The Hamilton County Park District is offering six guided bike rides this spring. Lights and helmets are recommended for all trips, and registration is required. Find more details on the Park District's website. LITTLE MIAMI SCENIC BIKE TRAIL SERIES • Noon, Saturday, March 16 The guided bike ride will start at Little Miami Golf Center […]
Work at Red Bank and Madison roads Saturday
03/08/13 at 1:46pm by lwakeland | Comments
The city of Cincinnati is warning drivers to avoid the intersection at Madison and Red Bank roads Saturday, March 9. Here's more details from the city: As a part of the City of Cincinnati's Red Bank Expressway & Madison Road Intersection Improvement project, the Department of Transportation and Engineering is currently working on the traffic […]
Mariemont committee to discuss grant options
02/04/13 at 10:41am by lwakeland | Comments
Mariemont's Safety Committee will discuss possibilities for the "Safe Routes to School" grant during a meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6. Last year village officials partnered with the Mariemont City Schools to apply for a state grant aimed at improving safety around the elementary school. They were awarded $81,345 to install missing sidewalk connections near […]
Another daytime burglary in Mariemont
01/23/13 at 9:29am by lwakeland | Comments
The Mariemont Police Department is reporting another daytime burglary in the village. This one happened Jan. 21 on Homewood Road. Police said the suspects forced open the rear door of the home and removed items from the house then headed westbound on Murray Avenue. This incident follows another daytime burglary on Hammerstone Way Jan. 15. […]
Free ballet lesson Jan. 28 – Feb. 2
01/20/13 at 11:44am by lwakeland | Comments
Ballet Theatre Midwest is kicking off its new semester with a free class for prospective students from Monday, Jan. 28 to Saturday, Feb. 2. New students can enjoy a sample class at no cost, and while reservations are not required, parents are strongly encouraged to call the studio to confirm availability, 520-2334. All students must […]
Daytime burglary in Mariemont
01/16/13 at 2:09pm by lwakeland | Comments
Mariemont police officers are seeking information about a daytime burglary Jan. 15 on the south side of the village. An alert to residents said a dark gray Mercedes with out-of-state license plates was seen in the area around the time of the burglary. The driver is described as a white male in his 50s with […]
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Client: C1000 a Dutch Supermarket Chain, owned by Schuitema
Product: C1000 Gogo's
Country: The Netherlands
The Challenge: C1000 wanted to drive it's customers to supermarkets by offering them a novel premium not based on loyalty mechanics, coupons or point collection.
The Solution: PPI Worldwide took its collectible toy Gogo's, then unknown in the Netherlands and based a brand loyalty campaign around it. A new Gogo's Crazy Bones series was created for C1000 called "Megatrip". Each 10 Euro purchase was rewarded with one free Gogo's packet - there were no points to be collected. In parallel, the Gogo's collectibles were advertised on children's channels, billboards, in-store materials and on the C1000 website.
Results: During the campaigning period, C1000's turnover increased by 9%, with more than two-thirds coming from new customer traffic. This campaign won two prizes for the best advertising campaign and the best retail promotional campaign.
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How to sense a mega-trend
A client asked us: "How should we be sensing mega-trends in our industry, tech, and politics?"
Here's the thing about mega-trends: To be one, it has to hit all of the areas you listed: economy, tech, life, politics, etc.
It may be that the mistake that we make is they look to hard for trends in one or another of these categories, but not broadly. And when we do this we end up with mini-trends, or premature investment (e.g., John Deere's turbine business).
Here's what I suggest for sniffing out mega-trends.
Ear to the ground: There's no trumping talking to people. Where I tend to learn the most interesting info on what's popping is from conversations with people who work in different fields (e.g., an NGO strategist, investment banker, and art school professor).
Also, subscribe to publications across industries: finance, museums, and journalism are a few good ones.
Non-obvious influentials: I seek out the blogs of people who are leading the conversation like designers and theorists (not business people — though I do peruse WSJ and WaPo daily).
Here are three:
Watch some social media sources: Quora streams are a wealth if you follow the right people (aside: social media channels tend to suck for innovative ideas and emerging trends): http://www.quora.com/
I would add — because I think it's really important — that to fully comprehend a mega-trend, you have to write about it. Writing enables clarity of thought. This last part pretty much sums up why I write here — to collect and catalog what I think and read so I can access it later.
Image cred: Daily Mail
Entering the era of conservation
Full disclosure: am wearing purple Birkenstocks while writing.
Economies can't expand forever, according to this Stephen King — though the dire scenario he describes might as well be the brainchild of the other Stephen King.
The great waves of global growth (e.g., trade, consumer credit, and expanded education), will subside and we will be left with economic stagnation and decline. Sounds Malthusian, right?
King says: "The end of the golden age cannot be explained by some technological reversal. From iPad apps to shale gas, technology continues to advance. The underlying reason for the stagnation is that a half-century of remarkable one-off developments in the industrialized world will not be repeated."
Yes, given current economic assumptions, we cannot replicate the growth of the last 50 years, in U.S. and elsewhere.
The biggest and most wrought of those assumptions is that of low-cost energy being the most important driver of growth. All one has to do to get a sense of its holy standing in economics and politics is watch Obama dance around the realities of fracking in his effort to cheerlead on natural gas drilling, ignoring its real costs to all of us.
We can create nothing but marginal growth if we continue to plumb the earth looking for lower and lower quality fuel sources. Tar sands excavation and fracking for shale gas mark a new level of desperation to drive growth. We are like alcoholics drinking the contents of our medicine cabinets.
The first step is admitting there's a problem with our models, with our growth assumptions. And recalling this: "The future is not shaped by people who don't really believe in the future." — John Gardner.
We need to untether ourselves from gas to grow, adopting a new outlook re: renewables, and cast off capital market models that serve the whim of giant pools of money seeking higher and higher returns, and we need to do so in favor of new investment models and expectations around social as well as financial returns — it's time for more Grameen banks and new models for reducing poverty.
What King's essay appears to be saying is that global growth is over for everyone and, as such, capital resources will be reapportioned but not expanded significantly in the coming years and decades. With this in mind, we are entering an era of global conservation, and we will be saving what we would have spent, drilled, mined, and taxed.
Beyond our basic order of needs — food and shelter and such — there is the risk of inequality. If we can control for that, we can soften the landing from previous high-growth eras. So long as we continue to be creative in how we reduce poverty and inequality around the world, a slowdown won't be apocalyptic. So, let's plan for that and stop trying to squeeze out every last drop of growth having only short-term gains in mind.
Photo: Demonstration in Angelica, NY where the landfill is trying to fast-track a permit for accepting fracking waste from Pennsylvania.
The new mega-trend is transience: adapt assumptions, policies, and business practices
I reread the Grapes of Wrath in the Great Recession, but only now am I seeing the parallels. Our country was on the move in the Depression, and that's quickly becoming the new reality for many of us.
Construction workers have long been a mobile class — moving from boom town to boom town, many in RVs as their homes. And now, even academics are viewed as disposable (or readily replaceable, to be exact).
My sister recently bemoaned her mobile life in academia, calling herself a "migrant laborer". She quickly refined the statement, saying that her life was much more comfortable than that of a fruit picker, but that the reality is academic jobs are treated more as short-term roles.
Indeed, research from Northwestern shows that non-tenure track professors are better teachers. Of course they are, the pressure to perform is much higher. Watch for schools using this as a cudgel against those seeking tenure track jobs.
We're becoming a nation of freelancers. While that may sound, um, freeing to some people, negative implications abound.
If we're all to be in business for ourselves: who insures us? Who covers for us when we are sick? What entities help us keep our transaction costs low? And, who enables our mobility.
This last point is where I'm fixated now.
Government is working on the first question via Obamacare (all politics aside). Our social networks and relationships will enable us to effectively cover our risks, for those of us lucky enough to be a part of strong professional communities. Nonprofits and professional groups will have to fill in for others, figuring out how to support those that don't have strong networks to protect against free-rider problems such as professional under-bidding, which erodes our earning capacity (but that's fodder for another post).
What truly has me worried (mostly because I've just moved twice) are the logistics of a mobile nation: 1) tax law prefers we be homeowners — even if it leaves individuals less mobile or even "under water"; 2) finance expects an enormous downpayment on a home when we may be least able to afford it (e.g., when we are moving for a new job); 3) renting has absolutely no financial benefit, and even leases can be expensive to leave, and renters are often vulnerable to horrible and abusive landlords (I've suffered through two psychos).
The rules of the game need to change in response to this new economic reality. Lawmakers need to figure out how to support those of us who move with frequency for work, and stop putting the tax emphasis on stasis, and finance executives need to figure out how to support shorter-term home ownership (if that is indeed better), with lower upfront costs that don't carry much higher down-the-road risks, particularly if it's indeed true that home ownership is truly beneficial to communities. Finally, companies that support us in our move need to be much better at helping us get from place to place (current moving and storage solutions are often very expensive and painful to manage — ahem, PODS).
There is a real shortage of support structures and businesses to support a more mobile nation of workers. Time to get on it!
Image: from HomeOwnerNut blog.
Weighing the benefits of bunking in
Many Americans are living in someone else's home for economic reasons, and these so-called missing households are hindering growth, according to a WSJ piece this week.
"The number of so-called missing households—representing adults who would be owning or renting their own home if household formation had stayed at normal rates since the recession—has increased 4% over the past year…
"There are now some 2.4 million such people, many of them living with their parents, but also seniors living with their adult offspring and people renting rooms in a home headed by an unrelated person."
It's easy to see how savings slow growth, but considering American indebtedness leading up the Great Recession, it's hard to view this as wholly problematic.
The upside of the economic instability over the past several years will probably be documented by sociologists who will have witnessed closer family and kinship ties forming during a time of increased mutual-dependency.
I've experienced this first hand. After years of solo living, I'm spending these summer months as a guest in other people's homes.
Co-habitation has been an interesting exercise. As an adult we rarely get to wrap ourselves up in the rhythms of others' lives, and we rarely open our lives to others in a meaningful way (except spouses, of course). But when we do this it can be incredible.
We can get others' advice over a morning coffee, take a late night stroll after shutting down the laptop and talk about whatever, and we can help them in their lives. We see first-hand what they need — advice on a relationship or job, or help completing a project.
We become better friends and more helpful and attuned siblings and daughters. We also conserve resources by sharing costs and making better use of space, which helps the host and the guest.
While it's more bottom-line than top-line growth, it's also important to our economy.
Photo: My old apartment in Washington, DC, which was tiny but big enough to host many friends (>50 guests in 4 years).
Protests surface business leadership lessons
I don't mean to be dismissive of political instability, but it struck me that there's something to be learned of the democratic surges happening now.
The news out of Turkey and Brazil is not wholly unexpected to international affairs experts whose job it is to apply rules of thumb to the political and economic situation in these countries. (If only solutions were as simple.)
And, it turns out, that these same rules may be applied at the micro- and macro-levels, and are thus helpful to businesses just as they are in the study of foreign affairs.
The rule of thumb I most love is the 4-4-50%, which indicates to a company or country when they are dealing with an effective monopoly (really, an oligopoly capable of collusion). If four of fewer firms or countries control more than 50% of supply, cutoff or high costs become significant risks (and companies should consider acquisition). Remember CNOOC's Unocal bid? This calculus got to the heart of that matter. (I should note: this isn't an economists definition of monopoly, but it has real-world use in terms of measuring risk.)
Now, the protests in the emerging economies of Brazil and Turkey are surfacing new lessons for company and country leaders (this was a fabulous WaPo interview with Ruchir Sharma):
Leaders can outlast their useful lives.
Countries: "In Turkey's case, for instance, the real problem there is Erdogan has been in office for a very long period of time. A rule of thumb we use is when a leader is in power for more than a decade it becomes counterproductive for the country. A decade ago, Erdogan was much more conciliatory, much more interested in economics and much less interested in social issues." — Ruchir Sharma
Companies: Drive-through CEOs don't have a great record of leadership compared to those in seat for decades, but complacency and a narrowed field of vision can drag a company down. The real challenge for boards of directors is to make sure that CEOs don't surround themselves with those who agree with them and suppress dissent.
Reinvestment is key.
Countries: "Infrastructure as a share of GDP in Brazil is two percent. That's about the lowest I know for any emerging market. The average is five percent, and China is 10 percent. Investment spending in Brazil is low, too." — Ruchir Sharma
Companies: If you're not reinvesting in R&D if you're a pharma company, or training your people if you are a services company, you are probably going to start losing to competitors. Neglecting your core business in favor of other, non-essential investments will result in slowed growth. Watch for companies that are focused on non-core M&A — they don't have their eye on the ball.
Surely, there are many more lessons to be had here as well, but these two struck me immediately.
17 Rules for a Sustainable Economy
I'm a believer in the idea that place matters, and being thoughtful about where the things we buy/support come from. I'm seeing the importance of a principled approach from my perch on a farm in upstate, NY, where smaller scale economies ensure local livelihood.
In his 17 Rules, Wendell Berry underscores the importance of cultural and ecological principles for sustaining local economies and local communities:
"1. Always ask of any proposed change or innovation: What will this do to our community? How will this affect our common wealth.
2. Always include local nature – the land, the water, the air, the native creatures – within the membership of the community.
3. Always ask how local needs might be supplied from local sources, including the mutual help of neighbors.
4. Always supply local needs first (and only then think of exporting products – first to nearby cities, then to others).
5. Understand the ultimate unsoundness of the industrial doctrine of 'labor saving' if that implies poor work, unemployment, or any kind of pollution or contamination.
6. Develop properly scaled value-adding industries for local products to ensure that the community does not become merely a colony of national or global economy.
7. Develop small-scale industries and businesses to support the local farm and/or forest economy.
8. Strive to supply as much of the community's own energy as possible.
9. Strive to increase earnings (in whatever form) within the community for as long as possible before they are paid out.
10. Make sure that money paid into the local economy circulates within the community and decrease expenditures outside the community.
11. Make the community able to invest in itself by maintaining its properties, keeping itself clean (without dirtying some other place), caring for its old people, and teaching its children.
12. See that the old and young take care of one another. The young must learn from the old, not necessarily, and not always in school. There must be no institutionalized childcare and no homes for the aged. The community knows and remembers itself by the association of old and young.
13. Account for costs now conventionally hidden or externalized. Whenever possible, these must be debited against monetary income.
14. Look into the possible uses of local currency, community-funded loan programs, systems of barter, and the like.
15. Always be aware of the economic value of neighborly acts. In our time, the costs of living are greatly increased by the loss of neighborhood, which leaves people to face their calamities alone.
16. A rural community should always be acquainted and interconnected with community-minded people in nearby towns and cities.
17. A sustainable rural economy will depend on urban consumers loyal to local products. Therefore, we are talking about an economy that will always be more cooperative than competitive."
Brown vs. Blair: Lessons from Britain's New Old Guard
I'm no Anglophile (I do love hot tea and Hot Chip), but there's no denying the oratory and intellectual gifts of British leaders.
I listened to Former Prime Minister Tony Blair speak last fall to a group of executives, and I met Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown this month at Georgetown University - different venues, different views, and a few different ideas.
Blair and Brown rose together as leaders of the New Labour movement, Blair as a true politician and Brown as a pedagogue by training and trait. Watching, comparing, and contrasting the two former prime ministers is an interesting study that holds valuable insights for business leaders.
Both spoke of the shifting economic balance of power from developed to developing economies and the new approaches it demands. Blair spoke to the role of businesses, Brown to the role of institutions and individuals. And both underscored the point that global problems require global solutions, and no country, corporation, or citizenry can truly afford to sit on the sidelines.
Lessons from Blair
Blair's focus is on companies as the engine for change, and he implores business leaders to avoid responding to change with retrenchment. He believes they face one of their finest moments to engage and collaborate with the new market players. Change demands focus on three fronts, according to the former prime minister:
1) Redefining the relationship between government and the private sector, particularly in light of pending tax reform, regulatory changes, and strengthened global oversight.
2) Balancing hard and soft power when dispelling dangerous myths, and galvanizing those around you to embrace change.
3) Embracing the rise of non‐western economies (e.g., Indonesia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, and several African economies).
Lessons from Brown
Brown is concerned about individual ideals as well as the mindset at the international-organizational level. Change demands new thinking on three fronts, according to this former prime minister:
1) Individual governments and multinational institutions (corporations and banking networks) are not set up to address the economic and social challenges we face. Even bilateral agreements are insufficient, as problems tend to seep across borders.
2) The strength of global institutions (and corporations) lies in their ethical underpinnings. Human beings share a common understanding of ethics, and we should follow our instinctive tendencies toward empathy and cooperation to create new structures.
3) Investment and development must head off a race to the bottom in terms of standards (e.g., capital requirements for banks, and pollution controls). Companies should be meeting needs beyond their bottom line.
It's always a good idea to learn from the views of leaders who've faced diverse challenges (one faced a war; the other a global economic meltdown) and have had time to reflect on their successes and failures. It provides us a framework for our own actions.
Photo: AP
Higher Labor Costs Cometh
Marx wrote that "the production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." If you watch Downton Abbey, you can see that tension playing out through the British class system of the early 20th century.
Fast forward to today, and the story is far more complex. Yes, there are too many qualified people who cannot find steady employment, but there are also many companies that can't find the talent they seek.
Fear of inflation and commodity costs abound, but should it change a company's outlook? Maybe not. But what about labor costs? For many companies, the answer is yes. I have summarized four points below to help business owners, casual economists, and investors make sense of the current business environment.
- Pricing power and profits do not always go hand-in-hand. Profits depend on relative pricing power (growth in prices relative to unit costs). Rising profits, therefore, imply that selling prices are improving relative to production costs. With high unemployment rates and unprecedented productivity, costs have been low for many companies. But they are rising alongside demand for scarce talent, as well as commodity costs.
- There is usually a temporary profit spike early in recoveries when there is a surge in productivity growth and a slowdown in compensation costs, but that doesn't tend to last as labor costs pick up. Don't assume that growth rates will be even, and watch for rising labor costs.
- The rule of thumb for developed economies is that labor costs dominate business input costs. While the costs of energy and other raw materials are significant, labor costs are the largest business costs. In the nonfinancial corporate business sector, labor costs are roughly three times more significant than non-labor costs, according to Merrill Lynch. Factor in expected pay raises and hiring costs, looking at the supply and demand for the labor you seek. For startups, this may mean that locking in full-time talent may be less costly now than in the near future, even though labor costs are often your riskiest investment.
- Rising commodity prices will not hit companies as hard as many pundits believe, but some companies may feel the pain of consumer restraint. Watch commodity prices, but know that they don't necessarily spell inflation. It may be a good time to revisit your supply chain costs and find a more efficient distribution model.
Further reading:
Planning for Change, As the World Turns from stepwise
Five misconceptions about productivity from McKinsey Quarterly
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Why Did the Yen Need an Intervention?
I have been struggling to understand the headlines over the past few days that have charted the increasing value of the yen against the U.S. Dollar and other currencies, ultimately leading to an intervention today.
Finally, I bit the bullet and called a friend at Merrill Lynch who told me that the yen's rise is due to the unwinding of the carry trade. You see, global investors have been borrowing in yen, and investing in other currencies to take advantage of Japan's low rates, and the growing value of other currencies (mostly in Asia). Now, investors are buying back their yen as instability and uncertainty mounts.
Don't worry though the giant global pool of money will likely seek a new intermediary for its currency market gambit, and the bubbles will continue to form.
Why Municipal Finances Matter to Small Businesses
The municipal bond saga poses a significant threat to small businesses, which should expect higher taxes and more aggressive tax auditing as state and local governments look to close budget shortfalls.
Many companies are located in states that are tipping dangerously toward default (check your state's status), and the likeliest and most assured way out of such a debt fix is to raise taxes and pursue tax revenues more aggressively.
So while Congress takes up the task of rationalizing the corporate tax system (to the disadvantage of many small businesses, by the way), expect unevenness at the state and local levels. Already Illinois has proposed raising the individual income tax rate by about 66% and California is considering temporary increases on income and sales taxes to plug the state's $25.4 billion budget hole. Higher property taxes (for many) are anticipated as well.
Raising individual tax rates is the go-to deficit response for many states, and such a move would impact the majority of small businesses located in those states.
Does this mean that you should consider a move if you operate in a high risk state? Not necessarily. Keep in mind that the best place to locate your small business may not be in a state with lower-than-average tax and regulatory costs. Rather, you should go where your customers and the best talent live.
Finally, it isn't too much of a stretch to foresee states pursuing taxable income earned out of state. Be sure that your books are in order so you don't face a tax double-whammy in the states where you have business operations.
As always, follow the cardinal rules of small business accounting (see above and below):
- Compile good books and records for your business activities.
- Retain required receipts and other documentation for a minimum of three years.
- Use separate bank accounts and credit cards for your business and personal finances.
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Mods for cheap FM dual band rig: Baofeng UV-3R
I've bought for less of 40eu this little handeld rtx.
It works quite well but needs some mods.
On 70cm all is ok, on 145 MHz the second harmonic is only 20dB down to the carrier…
This is due to large design of output Low Pass Filter to cover the whole band 136-174 MHz, but in my country we can only transmit on FM between 144.5 – 145.8 and the 2nd harmonic on 290MHz can't be well filtered.
I've found on Yahoo Group of UV-3R a simple mod for drop down the second harmonic by adding a single 47pF capacitor.
Another useful mod is decrease the BF audio level, too high by default also at the lowest volume step.
Spectrum before the mod on 145 and 431 MHz (click to enlarge)
Spectrum after the mod on 145 and 431 MHz
As we can see the 2nd harmonic on 145MHz is lowered by about 20dB, reaching the more convenient level of 40dBc, on 70cm no significant change.
Power measured on 145 and 430 MHz
The volume reduction is obtained simply by placing a resistor of 56k above (in parallel) the existing 100k as feedback for audio power amp
12 Responses to "Mods for cheap FM dual band rig: Baofeng UV-3R"
Ciao Marco .. visto che lo hai comprato 'sto giocattolo , mi dici dove ???
Se ti ricordi, mi mandi il link per Panorama Google Earth ?
Grazie e 73 – Pietro – I0YLI
nice setup.
thanks for the tips en mods.
it a nice handheld,hi
73, hein
Does this affect to modulation. I have done these mods and now I get low modulation. I have undone the changes but problem still persists. Thank you.
When the radio getting nearly to my GPS receiver a loud distorsion begins. Check out my video (SQL 7).
Is this modification solves my problem?
I have compared it with a non modified Baofeng and this last has better modulation. The problem is that I didn't check the audio before making the mod and now I don't know if it was done by me or if it's a factory problem.
Nice MOD, I just bought an UV-3R, I'll try to make it…
Best Regards
raga aiuto..va bene sto rtx o meglio uv-5 ? ma dicono sia meglio questo e che uv-5 e' sordo ! che faccio ?
tra altro per i vecchi antennini gommini con bnc, cosa devo prendere un adattatore bnc femmina ma sma cosa deve essere con il UV-3 maschio o femmina ?
tnx e 73


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Join Us
General Meeting
Wednesday, October 1st
Gather at 6:30 PM
Meeting at 7 PM
at the
St. Clair County Library
210 McMorran Blvd, Port Huron
Elevator available - ask at the front desk
Online Learning-for Free!
Before the meeting dinner location
Cavis Grille
401 Quay St, Port Huron
We are St. Clair County's Premiere Computer User Group, a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of, share knowledge, and educate the public about computers. (Users Helping Users)
COMP provides a place for new computer users, hobbyists, and pros to get together to share their computer related experiences.