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Because he's only 24 years old, Jon-Michael DeShazer can't really weigh in on this debate. But he knows one thing for certain: Today's radio, particularly in the Denver area, is incredibly lousy and unlikely to improve anytime soon.
"Every time I listen, it seems to get worse," DeShazer says. "And most of the people I talk to feel the same way: They think there are too many commercials, [stations] never play any of the music they listen to, and the songs they do play are played over and over again. But most of them are passive listeners, so they don't complain. And I think it's about time somebody did."
As it turns out, DeShazer's griping goes well beyond a nasty voice-mail or e-mail message left for unsuspecting general managers. He makes his living as an accountant for a wholesale flower company in Commerce City, but he's also a self-proclaimed "computer geek" who's majoring in network engineering at Red Rocks Community College. And while he hasn't completed enough credits to graduate quite yet, he's already putting his skills to good use on a protest site he oversees, memorably dubbed DenverRadioSucks.com.
The project is "my way of letting radio stations know there's a problem," DeShazer allows. "But I also want it to be a source of education about the radio industry."
He succeeds on both counts. Some of the material on the site, like a section devoted to essays by frustrated radio lovers, can be described as simple ranting. But that doesn't make the best of the submissions any less entertaining. A case in point is DeShazer's list of Denver's most overplayed songs, topped by Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" ("A repetitive, mind-numbing piece of garbage"), Staind's "It's Been a While" ("This is a prime example of a hardcore band changing its sound to make more money"), Lifehouse's "Hanging by a Moment" ("Creed wearing different clothes") and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under the Bridge" ("The song was popular 10 years ago, 10 YEARS AGO!!! They've been around for twenty years, and this is all you will play?").
In addition, DeShazer includes references to articles about the growth of radio giants such as Texas-based Clear Channel; a link to an even more extensive archive, www.ClearChannelSucks.org; contact information for assorted elected officials and commissioners with the Federal Communications Commission; and text suitable for e-mailing that decries the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which led to the current wave of radio consolidation. As a bonus, DeShazer touts music sources worth supporting, including a slew of streaming-audio Internet sites and five terrestrial broadcasters in the immediate area: public radio signals KGNU, KUVO and Colorado Public Radio's KCFR; Colorado Springs's KCME, a commercial specializer in classical sounds; and the University of Colorado's terrific entry, KVCU/Radio 1190.
DeShazer, who DJs for parties on the side, is also a supporter of KXDC, a dance-and-electro outlet at 102.1 FM ("Dialing for Differences," July 18). Because the station has not yet launched a Web site of its own, DeShazer posted its playlist on DenverRadioSucks.com, leading some of the several hundred visitors he attracts each month to conclude that he's affiliated with KXDC. To squelch this confusion, he's placed a disclaimer on his home page. "I just wanted to let people know they were worth listening to," he says.
A Denver resident since age four, DeShazer grew up with a unique perspective about radio. His father, Mike DeShazer, is "a folk musician along the lines of James Taylor or John Denver" who couldn't get the time of day from most local stations. Young Jon-Michael found himself drawn to the airwaves anyhow, first falling for KBCO in the days before it was part of the Clear Channel combine ("It was great to hear such a wide variety of music") and later being wowed by 92X, a hard-rock outlet that came and went during the '90s. "I was introduced to 92X when I was sixteen or seventeen, and for me, it really opened my eyes to what a radio station could be," he says.
When 92X perished, he turned to alternative-rocking KTCL but became increasingly disgruntled after it was brought under Clear Channel's thumb. "It used to be where it was rare to hear the same song twice in the same day," he recalls. "But a couple years ago, I heard the same Rage Against the Machine song three or four times in a five-hour period."
On that occasion, DeShazer sent a letter to KTCL management. But he discovered a splashier way of making his opinions known after stumbling upon DenverRadioSucks.com. The site was the work of Chris Lindley, whom DeShazer describes as "a graduate from CU who was really into the indie-rock movement and college radio." Lindley put together the site in early 2001, inspired in part by SanDiegoRadioSucks.com, based in the country's most Clear Channel-heavy market. As in Denver, Clear Channel owns eight stations in San Diego -- the maximum allowable under current FCC rules. But it also holds the deeds to five stations just over the Mexican border, all of which boom into San Diego. That makes thirteen Clear Channel outlets in the area, and one report says the company rakes in nearly half the market's advertising revenue.


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Local families and kids are one step closer to being ready for school thanks to the Traveling Closet.
It's put on by the Central Coast Children's Resource Network. On Sunday, workers were out at Santa Maria High School handing out school supplies, children's books, diapers, and clothing.
The idea is to help kids and families who can't afford to buy everything they need for the new school year.
"We're 92% Hispanic at this high school and 100% Title 1, and reaching out to this part of the community at this site is crucial, to be able to get into that community and do the services, provide the services," said Caren Ray, a Santa Maria High School teacher and Arroyo Grande City Councilwoman.
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My order: one cake, probably will be a 9x13 sheet but can add mini loaves if needed.
For a group b'day of 5 people *and* V day.
NO fondant can be used as it will be iced w/Frostin Pride (or Bettercreme) - UUugg :(
Just can't come up with anything coheisive (sp?).
Thinking of making 5 cookies covered in fondant for the b'days - prolly on sucker sticks to stand up and/or deviding the cake diagonally w/one section b'days and the other V day - but it just dosen't click in my mind's eye :)
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LED Hula Hoops: You Know, for Kids.
Here's something that's sure to draw crowds the next time you feel the need to draw attention to yourself. This dizzying show of colored light is produced by a rapidly spinning Hula Hoop, packed with LED lighting.
Handcrafted by Etsy contributor Schablien, the LED Hula Hoop works its magic with 18 super-bright LEDs embedded into the hoop. Half of the lights change colors, while the other half are fixed tones, producing a rainbow of hues as you swing your hips to-and-fro.
The hoop is powered by a rechargeable battery pack which should give you 8 to 10 hours of illumination before it needs a charge. You can find the light-up hoop over on Schlabein's Etsy shop for $195.
In the words of Alvin (of Chipmunk fame), "Me, I want a Hula Hoop."
[$195 too pricey for you? If you're feeling more adventurous, you can build your own basic version of the LED Hula Hoop with about $15 in parts by following this step-by-step tutorial over on Instructables.]
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fairly expensive, but it looks cool!
Your telling me it's expensive. Making it yourself is going to be way cheaper.
The instructables version is cheap but it looks nothing like the one on etsy or the one the pros use. That one is black with only a few small LEDs.
If you want to make your own good looking LED hoop you can follow the instructions on ProdMod or buy the kit of parts. It sells from $39-$59 depending on size and LED options. It takes about 2 hours to build with simple tools, and it doesnt even require any soldering.
It is also collapsable to about half its diameter which is great for traveling.
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There's been some discussion of the Hoover Floor Mate on other forums. I'm leary of using this on site-laid poly-finished hardwood flooring. It sounds convenient, but someone raised the point of water seeping between the boards and eventually damaging the flooring. I know the poly "seal" is gone with the first seasonal change -- boards expand and contract with the weather. Hoover only provides a "do what you think best" sort of answer. Maybe Consumer Report has commented? What do you think? How do you clean your hardwood flooring? |
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- Posted by sheilajoyce (My Page) on Sat, Nov 26, 05 at 16:18
Well, water can damage any wood floor. So you dust mop and spot clean any sticky mess. You do not use water to wash the floor like you would on a vinyl floor. I grew up in a house built in 1900 that had solid oak floors. We dust mopped them at least weekly. When Dad finally decided they needed refreshing, he sanded them down and revarnished them the week we were away visiting our grandmother. They were beautiful when we sold the house 60 years after it was built. |
- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Sat, Nov 26, 05 at 20:35
I use a solvent-based hardwood floor cleaner. You can damp-mop hardwood and clean up messes with a wet rag, but the Hoover Floormate dumps quite a bit of water in the process, and it can't possible get it all out of the cracks between the boards. Next thing you know, you'll have cracking and peeling poly on the floor. It CAN be used on factory-finished engineered hardwood, because that isn't as absorbent as real wood. |
Oh, fooey! I was hoping for an easier way than damp mopping, rinsing, buffing dry. I do vacuum about twice a week, and run around with the Swifter dry mop sometimes. I also use the Clorox Clean-Up now and then, but that doesn't seem adequate to "deep" clean. Guess there is no magic easy way! Thanks for the replies! |
I am having the same question run through my head. Entire house is hardwood except bathrooms/mudroom. I am considering getting a vapor steam cleaner like the Ladybug XL. Because this steam is at such a high temperature, it is a dry steam and supposedly does a great job of cleaning with minimal moisture to the floor. Still researching though. Dry vapor steam machines are not cheap either...high hundreds to $1,500 is what you'd pay for a good dry steam machine. Good luck in your quest. :) |
bbgirl66 -- Somehow I don't see "steam" and "wood" going together, except in a sauna. Nor do I understand "steam" and "dry" as a single concept. Do the makers recommend these cleaners for hardwood (not manufactured hardwood) floors? |
- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Wed, Nov 30, 05 at 13:30
er? deep clean a poly coated floor? what's the point? it's plastic. wood and water would only meet in the cracks, anyway. a dash of disinfectant in the mop water would be more than enough- and since it's not soap, there wouldn't need to be any rinsing. |
I don't see the need for "deep cleaning" either. |
- Posted by MoonShadow (My Page) on Thu, Dec 1, 05 at 12:14
I have a Hoover Floor Mate. I also have engineered oak hardwood floors. (And a side note: engineered flooring is "real" wood. It's not solid hardwood all the way through, but is composed of layers and the top layer (thickness depends on brand) is real oak with a poly finish and should be treated the same as a solid hardwood floor. As far as Floor Mate, I won't be without it! (Actually, I used the first FM version about 4 years, then a little plastic part broke and water leaked some. So I just replaced it with the purple (500 model, I belive, DH just put it together last night, so I haven't used it yet.) Anyway, I would not recommend using it on hardwood, no matter if it's engineered or solid. It does secrete enough water that it would ruin the floor if it seeped between the seams (and that is inevitable). I do, however, use Floormate religiously on: ceramic, lineoleum and commercial grade laminate. (Our laminate has a rubber backing, since it was installed below grade on top of concrete. It's actually a commercial grade laminate. If I had "residential" laminate, which we are thinking of installing in our kitchen, I would not use the Floor Mate because the underside is not rubber but wood composition and if water seeped between the seams it would ruin the underside of the flooring.) Love my Floor Mate, BTW. The gunky water that is left in the dirty water tank is unreal. I can't go back to a mop and bucket, knowing I'd be spreading that stuff right back onto the floor again. And a double bonus: if you have a bad back, it's a life saver! So I clean my hardwood this way: Sounds like a lot to do, but it's not really. I can do an entire level of hardwood flooring (3 bedrooms, hall, living room) in under 30 minutes. |
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Richard Meinertzhagen
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Richard Meinertzhagen in 1922[1]
Born | Richard Meinertzhagen 3 March 1878 London, England |
Died | 17 June 1967 London, England |
(aged 89)
Citizenship | Great Britain |
Fields | Zoology Parasitology |
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Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967)[2] was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist.
Background and youth[edit]
Meinertzhagen was born into a wealthy, socially connected British family. Richard's father, Daniel Meinertzhagen VI, was head of the Frederick Huth & Co merchant-bank dynasty, which had an international reputation, that one biographer claimed in the introduction to his book was second in importance only to the Rothschilds.[3] His mother was Georgina Potter, sister of Beatrice Webb, a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Meinertzhagen's surname derives from the town Meinerzhagen in Germany, the home of an ancestor.[4] On his mother's side (the wealthy Potter family), he was of English descent. Among his relations were "many of Britain's titled, rich and influential personages." Although he had his doubts, he was a distant descendant of Philip III of Spain.[5]
Young Richard was sent as a boarding student to Aysgarth School in the north of England, then was enrolled at Fonthill in Sussex, and finally at Harrow School, where his stay overlapped with that of Winston Churchill.[6] In 1895, at the age of eighteen, he reluctantly obeyed his father and joined the family bank as a clerk. He was assigned to offices in Cologne and Bremen. He picked up the German language but remained uninterested in banking. After he returned to the bank's home office in England in 1897, he received his father's approval to join a territorial militia of weekend soldiers called the Hampshire Yeomanry.[citation needed] He married the colonel's daughter,[who?] Armorel Le Roy-Lewis, in 1911; this marriage was dissolved in 1919.[7]
Meinertzhagen's passion for bird-watching began as a child. He and his brother Daniel (VII) were encouraged by a family friend, the philosopher Herbert Spencer, who, like another family friend, Charles Darwin, was an ardent empiricist. Spencer would take young Richard and Daniel on walks around their home in Mottisfont, urging them to observe and enquire on the habits of birds. Around 1887 they kept a pet sparrowhawk, which they would take to Hyde Park to let it prey on sparrows. Tenche first serious ornithologist that Richard met was Brian Hodgson. Daniel took an interest in bird illustration which brought them in contact with Archibald Thorburn and led to an introduction to Joseph Wolf and G. E. Lodge. In 1886, they first met Richard Bowdler Sharpe at the Natural History Museum and noted that he was very fond of encouraging children and showing them around the bird collections.[8]
Military career[edit]
Lacking the desire to make a career in merchant banking, Meinertzhagen took the examinations for a commission in the British Army, and after training at Aldershot was commissioned in 1899. He was sent to India to join a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.[9] Other than routine regimental soldiering, he participated in big-game hunting, was promoted, sent on sick leave to England, and after recovery posted to the relocated battalion at Mandalay in Burma. He then started his "zealous campaign" for a transfer to Africa, and finally, in May 1902 he arrived at Mombasa in British East Africa.[10]
Meinertzhagen was assigned as a staff officer with the King's African Rifles (KAR). Again, he participated in big-game hunting, but "regarded himself as scientist-explorer first, and only incidentally as a soldier." His maps, landscape and wildlife drawings proved him an artist of exceptional talent. In 1903 he was delegated to conduct a wild animal census in the Serengeti and Athi plains.[11]
During Meinertzhagen's assignment to Africa, frequent native 'risings' and 'rebellions' occurred. By 1903 KAR's retaliatory ventures focused on confiscation of livestock, a highly effective form of punishment, and "the KAR had become accomplished cattle-rustlers." One such punitive expedition was commanded by a Captain F. A. Dickinson of the 3rd KAR with participation by Meinertzhagen, where more than 11,000 stock were captured at the cost of 3 men killed and 33 wounded. The body count on the African side was estimated at 1,500 from the Kikuyu and Embu tribes.[12]
In the Kenya Highlands in 1905, Meinertzhagen crushed a major revolt by killing its leader, the Nandi Orkoiyot (spiritual leader) Koitalel Arap Samoei. He arranged a meeting to negotiate by Koitalel's home on 19 October 1905, at which he planned to assassinate him. Meinertzhagen shot Koitalel, while shaking his hand and his men machine-gunned two dozen Nandi tribesmen, including most of Koitalel's advisors. Initially he had been able to orchestrate a cover-up and was to be commended for the incident.[13][14][15] He claimed self-defense and eventually, after a third court of inquiry, he was cleared by the presiding officer, Brigadier William Manning.[16] Meinertzhagen collected tribal artifacts after this revolt. Some of these items, including a walking stick and baton belonging to Koitalel, were returned to Kenya in 2006.[17] Pressure from the Colonial Department on the War Office eventually brought about Meinertzhagen's removal from Africa, as "he had become a negative symbol" and on 28 May 1906 "he found himself on a ship being trundled back to England in disgrace and in disgust."[18]
Captain Meinertzhagen then spent the latter part of 1906 at "dreary administrative War Office desk jobs pushing papers." However, "... by making full use of his wide network of contacts in high places" he was able to rehabilitate himself and was assigned to his regiment's [the Fusiliers] Third Battalion in South Africa, arriving at Cape Town on 3 February 1907.[5] He served there in 1908 and 1909, then on Mauritius. By 1913 he was again in India.
At the beginning of the First World War, he was posted to the intelligence staff of the British Indian Expeditionary Force. His map-making skills were much valued and recognized; his assessments of the German Schutztruppe strength and other contributions to the conduct of the Battle of Tanga and the Battle of Kilimanjaro were a complete miss.[19] From January 1915 through August 1916 Meinertzhagen served as chief of British military intelligence for the East Africa theater at Nairobi. His diaried records of this campaign contain harsh assessments of senior officers, of the role played by the Royal Navy and of the quality of the Indian units sent to East Africa.[20] He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in February 1916.[21] In November of that year General J.C. Smuts ordered him invalided to England.[22]
Sinai Desert and the 'Haversack Ruse'[edit]
Meinertzhagen was frequently credited with a surprise attack known as the Haversack Ruse in October 1917: during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, according to his diary, he let a haversack containing false British battle plans fall into Ottoman military hands, thereby bringing about the British victory in the Battle of Beersheba and Gaza.[23] The incident and attack are depicted in the 1987 film The Lighthorsemen. "Near the end of 1917, having participated in no battles, he was ordered back to England for reassignment [and] found office duty as dreary as ever."[24] It was also the inspiration for a scene in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in which Indy is present when the briefcase with the "plans" is captured.
Though Meinertzhagen's participation in this ruse has been discounted (he may have neither planned nor executed it), his stories of the ruse themselves would have a major impact on events in the Second World War. According to Brian Garfield, author of The Meinertzhagen Mystery, it appears the idea was that of Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. Belgrave and the rider was Arthur Neate. It inspired Winston Churchill to create the London Controlling Section, which planned countless Allied deception campaigns during the war, and such operations as Mincemeat and diversions covering D-Day were influenced by the Haversack Ruse.[25]
France and beyond[edit]
From the spring of 1918 until August he commuted between England and France, delivering lectures on intelligence to groups of officers – then was assigned full-time to France at GHQ. After the armistice he attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and was Edmund Allenby's Chief Political Officer, involved in the creation of the Palestine Mandate, which eventually led to the creation of the state of Israel. In the film A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990), which depicted the Paris Peace Conference, Meinertzhagen was a major character and was played by Jim Carter. His unpublished diaries hint, among other exploits, at a successful rescue attempt of one of the Czarist-Russian Grand Duchesses, possibly Tatiana (see The Romanov Conspiracies by Michael Occleshaw).
Israeli historian Tom Segev considers Meinertzhagen both a "great anti-semite and a great Zionist," quoting from his Middle East Diary: "I am imbued with antisemitic feelings. It was indeed an accursed day that allowed Jews and not Christians to introduce to the world the principles of Zionism and that allowed Jewish brains and Jewish money to carry them out, almost unhelped by Christians save a handful of enthusiasts in England."[26]
Meinertzhagen was and is considered however a true and valued friend of Zionism. "On 3 December 1947, four days after the UN voted in favour of partition in Palestine, Dr Chaim Weizmann, the modern State of Israel's first president, cabled Col. Richard Meinertzhagen to say, "To you dear friend we owe so much that I can only express it in simple words – May God Bless You".[27]
In Weizmann's biography he wrote of Meinertzhagen,
"At our first meeting, he told me the following story of himself: he had been an anti-Semite, though all he had known about Jews had been what he picked up in a few casual, anti-Semitic books. But he had also met some of the rich Jews, who had not been particularly attractive. But then, in the Near East, he had come across Aaron Aaronsohn, a Palestinian Jew, also a man of great courage and superior intelligence, devoted to Palestine. Aaronson was a botanist, and the discoverer of wild wheat. With Aaronson, Meinertzhagen had many talks about Palestine, and was so impressed by him that he completely changed his mind and became an ardent Zionist – which he has remained till this day. And that not merely in words. Whenever he can perform a service for the Jews or Palestine he will go out of his way to do so.[28]
Meinertzhagen wrote in his book, Middle East Diary,"But thank God I have lived to see the birth of Israel. It is one of the greatest historical events of the last 2,000 years and thank God I have been privileged to assist in a small way this great event which, I am convinced, will bring benefit to mankind".[29]
He was a prolific diarist and published four books based on these diaries. However, his Middle East Diary contains entries that are in all probability fictional, including those on T. E. Lawrence and a bit of absurd slapstick concerning Adolf Hitler. In October 1934, Meinertzhagen claimed to have mocked Hitler in response to being "baffled when Hitler raised his arm in the Nazi salute and said, 'Heil Hitler.' After a moment's thought, Meinertzhagen says he raised his own arm in an identical salute and proclaimed, 'Heil Meinertzhagen'."[30] He also claimed to have carried a loaded pistol in his coat pocket at a meeting with Hitler and Ribbentrop in July 1939 and was "seriously troubled" about not shooting when he had the chance, adding "... [I]f this war breaks out, as I feel sure it will, then I shall feel very much to blame for not killing these two."[31] Authors Lockman and Garfield show that Meinertzhagen later falsified his entries. The original diaries are kept at Rhodes House (the Bodleian Library), Oxford, and contain differences in the paper used for certain entries as well as in the typewriter ribbon used, and there are oddities in the page numbering.
Dates of promotions[edit]
- Second Lieutenant in January 1899[9]
- Lieutenant in 1900
- Captain in February 1905[32]
- Major in September 1915[33]
- brevet Lieutenant Colonel in March 1918[34]
- brevet Colonel in August 1918; but he was a Major when he retired from the Army in 1925. Upon retirement British officers are granted title and pension of the highest rank held while on active duty, thus he had the right to call himself "Colonel."[35]
He was reinstated as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1939 in Military Intelligence, G.S.O.-3 (General Staff Officer, 3rd grade);[34] the nature of his duties was confined mainly to public relations work.[36]
Early biographers largely lionized him, until after his fraud was documented, but T. E. Lawrence, a sometime colleague in 1919 and again 1921, described him more ambiguously and with due attention to his violence:
Meinertzhagen knew no half measures. He was logical, an idealist of the deepest, and so possessed by his convictions that he was willing to harness evil to the chariot of good. He was a strategist, a geographer, and a silent laughing masterful man; who took as blithe a pleasure in deceiving his enemy (or his friend) by some unscrupulous jest, as in spattering the brains of a cornered mob of Germans one by one with his African knob-kerri. His instincts were abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain....
— T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926
While in India he killed one of his personal assistants in a fit of rage and had the local police officer cover it up as a death due to plague.[37][38] Salim Ali notes Meinertzhagen's special hatred for Mahatma Gandhi and his refusal to believe that Indians could govern themselves.[39] Gavin Maxwell wrote about how his parents would scare him and other children to behave themselves when Meinertzhagen visited with "... remember ... he has killed people with his bare hands..."[40]
Meinertzhagen's second wife, the ornithologist Anne Constance Jackson, died in 1928 at age 40 in a remote Scottish village in an incident that was ruled a shooting accident. The official finding was that she accidentally shot herself in the head with a revolver during target practice alone with Richard. There is speculation that the shooting was not an accident and that Meinertzhagen shot her out of fear that she would expose him and his fraudulent activities.[41]
After Anne's death his companion was Theresa "Tess" Clay, thirty-three years his junior.[42] Meinertzhagen lived at No. 17 and Theresa at No. 18 Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill, London. The buildings were originally constructed with an internal passage connecting the foyers of the two houses.[43] She was his housekeeper, nanny to his children, secretary, "confidante" and later scientific partner who studied and eventually documented the vast collections of bird lice that Meinertzhagen had gathered. He introduced her as his housekeeper or cousin or sometimes, inaccurately, as his niece. When they traveled they took sometimes separate rooms.[44][45]
The Meinertzhagen Mystery[edit]
Richard Meinertzhagen has inspired three biographies since his death in 1967 and was lauded as one of the grand elder statesman of espionage and ornithology.[46] His diaries provided source material for historians and books, for countless exploits of arms and wit against the enemies of the British Empire. He was trusted by Churchill, David Lloyd George, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, T.E. Lawrence and many more.
Brian Garfield's 2007 book The Meinertzhagen Mystery attempts to show that he bamboozled them all, that Meinertzhagen lived (as the subtitle of the book states) "[t]he Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud." Detailed in 352 pages are the many ways in which he was a liar and a charlatan. It debunks many myths and proves that previously accepted "facts" about his life and feats are untrue, including the famous haversack incident, which Meinertzhagen neither came up with nor carried out.[47] Meinertzhagen recorded in his published diaries three meetings on separate dates with Adolf Hitler. Although Meinertzhagen was in Berlin on these dates in 1934, 1935 and 1939, author Garfield found no record of any of these alleged meetings in surviving German chancellory records, British embassy files, British intelligence reports or newspapers of the day.[48] Storrs L. Olson has pointed out some errors in Garfield's research, while confirming the validity of its overall negative tone.[49]
"People's views of [Meinertzhagen] seldom coincide, but one mystery that connects the dots even while it obscures them is this: How and why did such a large number of diverse people of prominence share knowledge of his fakery — or at least suspect it — and choose not to disclose it?"[50]
"From boyhood on [Meinertzhagen] had been in tune with nature; he took photographs, made drawings and provided armchair tourists with keen descriptions of rain forests and snowy mountains ... and discovered new (previously unrecorded) species of bats, birds, and mallophaga (bird lice)."[51] He became a chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club and a recipient in 1951 of the Godman-Salvin Medal; the British Museum (Natural History) named a room after him.[52]
Meinertzhagen "first achieved a sliver of international fame when he discovered, killed, stuffed, and shipped back to London the first known to Europeans Giant African Forest Hog, soon dubbed Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, and attributed to Richard Meinertzhagen." At that time, while on active duty in 1903, he was "fearlessly exploring and mapping areas no European had seen before."[32] He later also discovered the Afghan snowfinch or Montifringilla theresae, and the Moroccan Riparia rupestris theresae and named them, and ten others, after Theresa Clay.[44][53]
He edited Nicoll's Birds of Egypt in 1930. Michael J. Nicoll was a friend and Assistant Director of the Zoological Gardens at Giza; Nicoll attempted to write a comprehensive guide to the ornithology of Egypt, but died in 1925 before it could be published. The work was finished by Meinertzhagen with contributions of his own independent research and illustrations. It was printed with the title "that seems appropriate," "Nicoll's Birds of Egypt by Col. R. Meinertzhagen."[54]
In 1948–1949, he was accompanied by Dr. Phillip Clancey on an ornithological expedition to Arabia, Yemen, Aden, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa.
As the author of numerous taxonomic and other works on birds, and possessing a vast collection of bird and bird lice specimens, Meinertzhagen was long considered one of Britain's greatest ornithologists. Yet his magnum opus, Birds of Arabia (1954), is believed to have been based on the unpublished manuscript of another naturalist, George Bates, who is not sufficiently credited in that book.[55]
In the 1990s an analysis of Meinertzhagen's bird collection at the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring, Hertfordshire, revealed large scale fraud involving theft and falsification. Alan Knox, who uncovered the fraud, said in 1993: "Meinertzhagen had stolen the best specimens of other people's collections and then proceeded to fabricate data to go with them." More recent research by Rasmussen and Prys-Jones indicates the fraud was even more extensive than first thought.[56] Many of the specimens that he submitted as his own were found to be missing samples belonging to the Natural History Museum and collected by others, such as Hugh Whistler.
Published works[edit]
Meinertzhagen wrote numerous papers for scientific journals such as the Ibis, as well as reports on intelligence work while in the army. Books authored or edited by him include:
- 1930 – Nicoll's Birds of Egypt. (Ed), (2 vols). London: Hugh Rees
- 1947 – The Life of a Boy: Daniel Meinertzhagen, 1925–1944. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
- 1954 – Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
- 1957 – Kenya Diary 1902–1906. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd.
- 1959 – Middle East Diary, 1917–1956. London: Cresset Press
- 1959 – Pirates and Predators. The piratical and predatory habits of birds. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
- 1960 – Army Diary 1899–1926. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
- 1964 – Diary of a Black Sheep. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
- ^ Caption of the same image in Garfield, The Meinertzhagen Mystery, reads: "Richard Meinertzhagen in the Highlands, 1922"
- ^ Foot, M. R. D. (May 2006) [2004]. "Meinertzhagen, Richard (1878–1967)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ Garfield, The Meinertzhagen Mystery, p. viii
- ^ During the First World War, apparently in an attempt to overcome rampant Germanophobia, Meinertzhagen invented the fiction of having Danish ancestry [Garfield, p. 7]
- ^ a b Garfield, p. 70
- ^ Garfield, p. 46
- ^ [ J. N. K. and A. L. T. (1967). "Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen C.B.E., D.S.O., 1878–1967". Ibis 109 (4): 617–620. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1967.tb00031.x.
- ^ Meinertzhagen, R. (1959). "Nineteenth century recollections". Ibis 101 (1): 46–52. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1959.tb02355.x.
- ^ a b Garfield, p. 50
- ^ Garfield, p. 56
- ^ Garfield, p. 58
- ^ Garfield, p. 59
- ^ Garfield, p. 68
- ^ Parsons, Timothy (2010). The Rule of Empires. p. 291.
- ^ Okoth, Assa (2006). A History of Africa, 1800–1915. E.A.E.P. pp. 198–199. ISBN 9789966253576.
- ^ Herbert, Edwin (2003). Small Wars and Skirmishes 1902–18. Nottingham. pp. 78–84. ISBN 1901543056.
- ^ Pflanz, Mike (15 April 2006). "Kenyans welcome home sacred relics stolen by British". The Telegraph.
- ^ Garfield, p. 69
- ^ Garfield, p. 89
- ^ Charles Miller, pages 56–71, Battle for the Bundu – the First World War in East Africa, ISBN 0-02-584930-1
- ^ Garfield, p. 116; he was nominated for the award by J.C. Smuts, the new commanding general, "who took a liking to Meinertzhagen"
- ^ Garfield, p. 119
- ^ [1] Such a strange bird, Haaretz
- ^ Garfield, p. 130
- ^ Anthony Cave Brown, Bodyguard of Lies, Harper and Row, 1975. p. 311 (2-volume edition).
- ^ Segev, Tom. One Palestine, Complete, Hold Paperbacks, 1999, p. 95
- ^ http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/mayjun04/meinertzhagen.html
- ^ Weizmann,ChaimTrial and Error, Harper Press, New York, 1949, pages 180–181
- ^ Meinertzhagen, Richard. Middle East Diary, London: Cresset Press, 1959
- ^ Garfield, p. 189
- ^ Profile of Meinertzhagen by Alan Saunders
- ^ a b Garfield, p. 60
- ^ Garfield, p. 71
- ^ a b Garfield, p. 212
- ^ Garfield, p. 255
- ^ Garfield, p. 218
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20030301024533/
- ^ http://www.africa2000.com/IMPACT/drought0611.html
- ^ Ali, The Fall of a Sparrow, p. 248-249
- ^ Ali, p. 162
- ^ Garfield, p. 172
- ^ Theresa Clay graduated from St. Paul's Girls' School, London, and was awarded a doctorate in 1955 from the University of Edinburgh
- ^ Garfield, p. 164; Theresa inherited the property from her parents, Meinertzhagen's first cousin Rachel Hobhouse Clay and Sir Felix Clay
- ^ a b Garfield, p. 193
- ^ Salim Ali in his autobiography notes Theresa as Meinertzhagen's niece
- ^ Garfield, p. vii
- ^ Garfield, p. 14-36
- ^ Garfield, p. 188-192
- ^ Olson, Storrs L (2008). "The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud". The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120 (4): 917–926. doi:10.1676/0043-5643-120.4.917.
- ^ Garfield, p. 10
- ^ Garfield, p. 161
- ^ Garfield, p. 3
- ^ Garfield, p. 312
- ^ Garfield, p. 169
- ^ Garfield, p. 209
- ^ Rasmussen P. C; Prys-Jones R. P. (2003). "History vs mystery: the reliability of museum specimen data". 66–94 in Winker, Kevin (2004). "Why Museums Matter: Avian Archives in an Age of Extinction". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 116 (4): 1–360. doi:10.1676/0043-5643(2004)116[0363:OL]2.0.CO;2.
- Ali, Salim. The Fall of a Sparrow. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1985. xv, 265 pp.
- Boxall, Peter. "The legendary Richard Meinertzhagen." The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, [October 1990] 120(4): 459–462
- Capstick, P.H. Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. 1998
- Cocker, Mark. Richard Meinertzhagen. Soldier, Scientist and Spy. London: Secker & Warburg. 1989. 292 pp.
- Dalton, R. "Ornithologists stunned by bird collector's deceit." Nature [September 2005] 437(7057): 302
- Fortey, Richard. Dry Store Room No. 1. New York: Harper Collins. 2008
- Garfield, Brian. The Meinertzhagen Mystery. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Washington. 2007
- Hindle, Edward (1967). "Obituary: Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO. 1878–1967". The Geographical Journal 133 (3): 429–430.
- Jones, Robert F. (1991). "The Kipkororor chronicles". The Quarterly Journal of Military History 3 (3): 38–47.
- Judd, Alan. "Eccentric hero." New Statesman and Society [23 June 1989] 2(55): 37–38.
- Knox, Alan G. (July 1993). "Richard Meinertzhagen – a case of fraud examined". Ibis 135 (3): 320–325. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1993.tb02851.x.
- Lockman, J. N. Meinertzhagen's Diary Ruse. 1995, 114 pp.
- Lord, John. Duty, Honour, Empire. New York: Random House. 1970
- Mangan, J. A. (October 1993). "Shorter notices". English Historical Review 108 (429): 1062.
- Occleshaw, Michael. The Romanov Conspiracies. London: Chapman Publishers. 1993
- Rankin, Nicolas (2008). A Genius for Deception: How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-538704-9.
- Vines, Gail (7 May 1994). "Bird world in a flap about species fraud". New Scientist 142 (1924): 10.
- Wijesinghe, Priyantha (11 January 1998) BirdChat List "Meinertzhagen (Was: Forest Owlet – more clarifications, etc)"[2]
- Wa Tiong'o, Ngugi. Detained: A Prison Writer's Diary. London: Heinemann Educational Books. 1981. p. 34
- Seabrook, J. "Ruffled Feathers." The New Yorker [29 May 2006, p. 59
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- http://whyfiles.org/084hoax/index_a.html
- http://www.afsi.org/OUTPOST/2001MAY/may8.htm
- http://www.nwf.org/internationalwildlife/1998/britbird.html
- http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2014/03/richard-meinertzhagen-hero-or-scoundrel.html
- http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0305mein.html
- The giant forest hog
- Biography
- Meet the Meinertzhagens at Mottisfont (National Trust)
- Lundy, Darryl. "Richard Meinertzhagen ancestry". The Peerage.; more details are available.
- Meinertzhagen family photo (image and names of sitters)
- Meinertzhagen, Georgina (1912). A Bremen family. London: Longmans, Green and Co.
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I was wondering if anybody has had to get their cat a full dental exam and cleaning and what the cost was?
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That looks about right. The only thing on your bill that I would question is the Partial day hospitalization. Would you leave him/her there until you get off work? If so then that charge is valid. |
That's not a dental exam, that's a dental procedure. I do dental exams with every physical exam, which costs $34. Preop Blood work: $60 |
I had the same response as Meghane re: the induction. My average costs have been $250-$300. |
- Posted by momof2doxies (My Page) on Wed, Oct 14, 09 at 21:50
I just got an estimate for our 2 y/o dog this week. It runs between $250-$300 also. Thankfully she is young, so we don't think she will need the x-rays which would add another $75-$100 to the total. Linda |
That's on par with what our vet charges here in California (small dif between US & CAN $$). Our bill last year went quite a bit higher because she needed so many extractions. At least she is a lot happier now without her bad teeth, so I think it was well worth it. |
- Posted by carmen_grower_2007 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 15, 09 at 15:12
I wish I had some of that 'mad money' and if I did, I sure wouldn't spend it on a dental exam for a cat or dog. I have had both cats and dogs for up to 16 years without ever having any sort of dental work. Where do rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, etc. etc. go for work on their teeth? As long as my pet's mouths look healthy and teeth look clean and bright, I sure am not going to worry. BTW, they all get all the outdoor animals they want to devour and to clean their teeth on. |
Carmen, you make a good point. I don't think of dental procedures for animals as routine, but I'm under the impression that in some areas, they are. My kitty has a mouth problem that seems to be more of an immune system disorder, so she needed her teeth pulled if at all possible. Her brother, who passed away earlier this year, had beautiful teeth all his life- I certainly would never had taken any risks associated with any surgical procedure unless it was really called for. |
Some pets don't get dental disease. I think some of it is genetics, some of it is diet. Toy sized dogs and those dogs and cats with smushy faces have more dental problems than normally sized dogs and those without smushed faces. If the teeth and gums are healthy, there is no reason to do a dental procedure. I don't recommend them unless there is a reason. |
Wow -- I am reading this with disbelief as well. My cat is almost 4 and has only been to the vet to get his shots and neuter. 15 years ago I dated a guy whose family had three cats. They used to take the cats for teeth cleaning and I remember them coming home and being sick for a few days from the anesthetic. I thought it was crazy. We had an indoor/outdoor cat for 19 years when I was a kid that never had his teeth cleaned either. I don't even think they did it in those days! So, is the bottom line that a dental cleaning is recommended for a cat? If so, how often? Or is only if needed? |
Since the OP mentioned Tooth extraction 2 premolar -- I would assume it is a needed procedure rather than a regular thing to do |
My vet does dental prophys on my cat every year for prevention of disease and tarter build up. Wild animals eat the entire animal they catch, this cleans their teeth. If the wild animal gets a tooth abscess or loose tooth - it dies. My last cat went 11 years without dental care. She died of heart disease which can be related to lack of dental care. The bacteria that builds up on their teeth can go systemic and cause a lot of internal problems (kydney, heart, lungs). Really pull back the gums on your pets and look at the very back molars, if it's yellow/grey and built up, you are past due for a dental prophy. My current cat gets her teeth brushed and her yearly prophys and she still has some tarter built up. She also gets dental chews occasionally. I brush my teeth twice a day and get a prophy twice a year and still have tarter build up. Prevention is key, yearly dental prophys mean shorter anethesia time which greatly reduces the risk, that and the pre-op bloodwork and monitoring makes it safer. If the bloodwork shows higher risk we don't do the procedure until it looks better. Dentals cost $726 regular price for cats. This includes a long list of things, I'll list them in a minute. They offer a Wellness plan that spreads the cost of the dental and vaccines out through the year. If I had to pay the full cost of the wellness plan I would be paying $335/year for dental, 2 bloodworks, urinalysis, 2 fecals, 2 dewormings, 2 comprehensive exams, all vaccines,15% discount on not covered services, and free office visits. Dental prophy: The prices just went up this year for new sign ups, so I won't know current prices until my new dog gets his dental done later this year, he needs to gain weight. |
- Posted by junebug1961 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 20, 09 at 20:31
My mom's cat has to go in this week for a cleaning and extraction, and the bill is nearly identical. My mom's cat may need antibiotics as well, which will probably tack a bit more onto the bill. |
That quote looks about right. Dental care for pets is just as critical as for humans - and for the same reason. Bacterial infections that get into your blood stream via dental inflammation can kill you and/or make you extremely ill. Our pets are not immuned to this risk just as humans are not. So, would you rather spend money on extensive medical care due to a blood infection that can also impact the heart or spend the money on preventative dental care? Due to the cost (as you are finding out...) people generally do not spend the money on this treatment. I have a new rescue kitty who's breath stinks beyond stinky due to an oral infection and will be getting her teeth cleaned/extracted for about the same cost. It sucks, but thinking of her being in pain when I can do something about it is something I feel is my responsibility as a pet owner. |
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A new injectable treatment for resolving symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion promises to help a significant number of patients avoid surgery.
Vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) is a common finding in older eyes. The vitreous is largely composed of collagen and hyaluronic acid and has a jelly-like consistency. In younger people, it is completely attached to the surface of the retina, most strongly at the optic nerve, ora serrata, around blood vessels, and in the central retina around the macula. With age, however, the vitreous slowly liquefies and cleanly separates from the retina in a process called posterior vitreous detachment.
Symptomatic VMA
In most people, a posterior vitreous detachment is uneventful and results in a clean separation of the vitreous; but in some cases the liquefaction and separation are uneven, and the result is traction on the retina at the remaining points of attachment. In the periphery of the retina this can result in a retinal tear. When the macula is involved, the vitreous pulling at the points of adhesion is called vitreomacular adhesion (VMA). VMA can be asymptomatic, but in many cases it produces symptoms, including bright flashes, decreased visual acuity, and optical distortion. In the worst cases, a full-thickness tear in the fovea—a macular hole—can occur.
Symptomatic VMA is one of the more common retinal problems seen in an ophthalmic practice, where patients present due to the sudden, sometimes alarming, visual effects. Imaging with optical coherence tomography (OCT) can clearly delineate the vitreous cortex and locate the points of adhesion on the retina. With OCT the physician can distinguish between VMA in which the retina, although distorted, has no hole and the presence of a macular hole, a distinction that can be difficult to make by clinical examination alone.
Treatment Options
Until now, clinicians have had just two options for treating symptomatic VMA: watchful waiting and vitrectomy. Typically, the patient was observed until the traction either resolved on its own or the visual acuity dropped and/or the symptoms became intolerable. At that point, patients were typically sent to a retinal specialist for vitrectomy—which involves the surgical detachment of the vitreous adhesion and removal of the vitreous cortex.
Vitrectomy is effective at relieving the adhesion, but also a technically challenging and delicate procedure that inevitably entails some risk of damage to the retina, in addition to the other risks of intraocular surgery (infection, accelerated cataract development, etc.). Because vitrectomy entails significant risk, clinicians have tended to prefer watchful waiting until the patient's condition worsened to the point where the risk/benefit ratio tilted in favor of surgery.
A New Option: JETREA®
JETREA (ocriplasmin) is a new drug that, when injected into the vitreous, dissolves the proteins that cause the vitreous to adhere to the retina. In many patients, this is enough to release the vitreous cortex from the retina and relieve the symptoms, making surgery unnecessary.
Ocriplasmin is a genetically engineered form of the protease plasmin, which is a normal component of the blood coagulation cascade. Ocriplasmin has proteolytic activity against laminin and fibronectin, extracellular matrix proteins associated with the adhesion of vitreous to retina. Gelatinase A is a metalloproteinase that resides in the vitreous in a latent state; when activated by ocriplasmin, gelatinase A digests collagen type IV and other basement membrane proteins. Activated gelatinase A also accelerates the liquefaction of the vitreous body.1
JETREA is administered by means of intravitreal injection. Under local anesthesia, 125 µg of ocriplasmin in 0.1 mL is injected over the course of a few seconds through the pars plana, about 3.5 to 4 mm posterior to the limbus. The drug starts working within seconds, and if the traction is going to release, it generally does so within a week or two. As with any intravitreal injection, patients are monitored for post-injection intraocular pressure elevation or intraocular bleeding. Mild and transient intraocular inflammation is seen with ocriplasmin in about 7% of patients.2
Clinical Trial Results
In clinical trials, JETREA resolved symptomatic VMA by 28 days after injection in 26.5% of treated eyes compared to 10.1% of placebo-treated eyes (P < 0.001); JETREA yielded complete posterior vitreous detachment in 13.4% of eyes compared to 3.7% of placebo-treated eyes (P < 0.001). Patients with an associated epiretinal membrane had release with ocriplasmin in 8.7% of cases, which, though modest, was more than the 1.5% seen with placebo treatment (P = 0.046).
Vision improved by 3 or more lines in 12.3% of ocriplasmin-treated eyes, which was about twice the rate seen with placebo (6.4%, P = 0.02). Although loss of acuity is a major problem with symptomatic VMA, the mean pretreatment best corrected visual acuity in the clinical trials was fairly good (20/50), which might have made the statistical detection of improvement difficult. A greater rate of visual acuity improvement was seen in eyes with pretreatment vision worse than 20/50, which might be more reflective of the situation in clinical use.3
The most impressive results were reported from patients who had a full-thickness macular hole less than 400 microns in width and associated VMA; in these patients nonsurgical closure of the macular hole was seen in 40.6% of ocriplasmin-treated eyes compared to 10.6% of placebo-treated eyes (P < .001). In other words, in nearly half the eyes with macular holes the holes were healed without surgery, without a gas bubble injection, and without any face-down positioning that would normally have been required following surgery.
Lower Vitrectomy Rate
Not all patients had release of the adhesions, and some patients in both the ocriplasmin and placebo groups went on to vitrectomy. In the published trials, the decision to perform vitrectomy was left to the discretion of individual patients and their physicians, and many patients in both groups elected not to have surgical procedures. Although the percentage of patients in the ocriplasmin group who went on to vitrectomy within 6 months was lower (17.7%) than that of the control group (26.6%, P = 0.02), the actual effect of ocriplasmin in obviating vitrectomy is not known because of the potential for patient selection bias in the trial.
So, while the avoidance of vitrectomy is a chief reason for using ocriplasmin, at this point clinicians should not use the published rate of vitrectomy reduction as a guide for discussion with patients. If surgery is ultimately needed, previous ocriplasmin treatment appears not to interfere with later vitrectomy—there is even a possibility that it may facilitate the surgery, although at present ocriplasmin should be considered an alternative, rather than an adjunct, to surgery.4
Few Adverse Events
Patients given ocriplasmin had a higher rate of ocular adverse events than those given placebo, but many of these events, such as an increase in the incidence of floaters and flashing lights (photopsia), were actually the result of the action of ocriplasmin as it dissolved the vitreous adhesion. Injection-related eye pain was reported in about twice as many patients in the ocriplasmin group (13.5%) as in the placebo group (5.9%). The majority of these cases were transient and mild in severity.
There was no increase in the level of serious adverse events from ocriplasmin. Patients should be told to expect some transient symptoms from the injection, consistent with the mechanism of the drug, and that the symptoms should subside within about a week.
What JETREA Means to Clinicians
On the basis of current trial results, JETREA appears to be a welcome alternative to watchful waiting and should be offered as an option to patients who present to the clinic with symptoms arising from VMA. Although patients may resist the idea of an injection into the eye, the procedure is generally painless, and less invasive and disruptive to the patient's life than surgery would be.
Because JETREA is safer than vitrectomy, we can now treat patients much earlier, hopefully before damage to the retina has occurred (eg, macular hole formation). Earlier and less disruptive treatment of symptomatic VMA promises to be a great advance for patients.
Because some vitreomacular adhesions resolve without treatment, JETREA should not be offered to asymptomatic patients in whom adhesion is noted as an incidental finding on an OCT performed for other reasons. Physicians administering this treatment should be comfortable using OCT and administering intravitreal injections. Should one injection of JETREA not resolve the condition, vitrectomy should be considered—repeated injections of JETREA are not recommended at this time.
In the future JETREA may find application in the areas of diabetic macular edema and exudative macular degeneration, conditions where vitreous adhesion is associated with poorer outcomes. Clinical trials with JETREA are under development for both those conditions. Further trials and clinical experience may also refine the characteristics of the patients who benefit most from ocriplasmin.
Jetrea® is an appropriate alternative to watchful waiting for any patient with symptomatic VMA, and offers the promise of reducing the need for vitrectomy.
Peter K. Kaiser, MD, holds the Chaney Family Endowed Chair for Ophthalmology Research and is a professor of ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He is also the Founding Director of the Digital Optical Coherence Tomography Reading Center at the Cole Eye Institute. He is a consultant for Alcon, Novartis, and Bausch+Lomb. Freelance writer Zaid Smith, PhD, assisted in the preparation of this article.
1. Tsui I, Pan CK, Rahimy E, Schwartz SD. Ocriplasmin for vitreoretinal diseases. J Biomed Biotechnol. 2012;2012:354979.
2. Jetrea prescribing information. Iselin, NJ: ThromboGenics, Inc. October, 2012.
3. Stalmans P, Benz MS, Gandorfer A, et al. Enzymatic vitreolysis with ocriplasmin for vitreomacular traction and macular holes. N Engl J Med. 2012;367:606-15.
4. Benz MS, Packo KH, Gonzalez V, et al. A placebo-controlled trial of microplasmin intravitreous injection to facilitate posterior vitreous detachment before vitrectomy. Ophthalmology. 2010;117:791-7.


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Community Energy Director
P.O. Box 648
Rockland, ME 04841