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Construction Contract Tip: Pay Attention to "Coordination and Cooperation " Clauses By Matthew DeVries on January 16, 2015 Posted in Contract Docs Busy, busy, busy! I have reviewed five new construction contracts in the past two weeks. If you are a contractor, there are a number of key provisions that you will want to be on the "look out" before you sign the agreement. Check out my series on the Top 20 Contract Issues for Contractors and… Continue Reading
Brrrrrr, It's Cold! How to Best Prepare a Delay Claim for Unusually Severe Weather By Matthew DeVries on January 9, 2015 Posted in Best Practices, Case Law, Claims and Disputes, Federal Construction, Transportation In anticipation of what could be an influx of wintry weather, the Tennessee Department of Transportation has made arrangements to ensure the state's roadways stay clear. According to the Johnson City Press, TDOT has distributed more than 200,000 tons of salt and 2 million gallons of brine to stations in each of the state's 95… Continue Reading
Paper to Paperless: Webinar on Construction Documentation and Risk Management By Matthew DeVries on September 30, 2014 Posted in Best Practices, Legal Trends, Project Management, Technology You will rarely find me advertising on this blog. However, throughout the year I regularly receive inquiries about electronic discovery, mobile apps, and the paperless project. And every couple of years I partner with the Construction Pro Network to address these issues. I am pleased to announce that I will be doing a Webinar on October… Continue Reading
Best Practices for Developing a Contractor's Request for Compensation By Matthew DeVries on September 4, 2014 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes My mentor and good friend, Cordell Parvin, has over the years shared with me some great best practices for contractors—whether talking about bid protests, accidents on the jobsite, or filing a claim. Recently, Cordell sent me a list of items that all contractors should review when developing a request for additional compensation. I have edited… Continue Reading
AIA's Updated Design-Build Documents Highlight Some Best Practices By Matthew DeVries on August 12, 2014 Posted in Best Practices, Contract Docs The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently released seven updated documents in its design-build family. According to AIA, the 2014 Design-Build documents enhance the early interaction between the Owner and the Design-Builder, calling for clearly defined and mandated Owner's Criteria for the Project and requiring submission of a Preliminary Design by the Design-Builder. AIA Documents Overview. An… Continue Reading
Bargaining Room v. False Claims: 5 Tips for Negotiation of Construction Claims By Matthew DeVries on May 7, 2014 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes, Federal Construction Earlier this week, a settlement was reached in dispute where the contractor and designer were alleged to have filed false claims with the U.S. Government on two road projects in South Carolina. The issue raises an important question: What should a contractor do during negotiations to allow for some "bargaining room" so as to avoid… Continue Reading
Infographic: Safety In Construction Industry Explained By Matthew DeVries on April 23, 2014 Posted in Regional Construction, Safety, Tennessee On June 2, 2014, the AGC of Middle Tennessee will be partnering with other construction trade associations across the state, Tennessee OSHA Outreach Training Centers, as well as TOSHA to have a statewide construction "Fall Protection Safety Stand Down." As you may be aware, fall construction accidents are one of OSHA's Focus Four Hazards. On… Continue Reading
8 Best Practice Tips for a Schedule Analysis of Construction Delays By Matthew DeVries on April 18, 2014 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes A number of families will be traveling this holiday weekend, and some are travel-savvy enough to check out travel websites like www.911.Virginia.org for real-time traffic information and identification of construction delays. When savvy contractors face delays on a project, they immediately take steps to provide notice, document, evaluate and plan for recovery from those delays.… Continue Reading
Any Problems with One Owner and Multiple Contractors? Sometimes. By Matthew DeVries on January 23, 2014 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes Increasingly, two or more contractors may each have a separate contract with the owner for different portions of the work on a single project. Interference may arise, for example, from one contractor's storage of materials on a site where the other has work to perform, or from one contractor's failure to progress with work that… Continue Reading
Can a Subcontractor Recover When Delays Are Caused by Another Subcontractor? By Matthew DeVries on July 31, 2013 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes Recovery for unreasonable delays caused by others can be based upon a breach of an implied obligation not to hinder or delay the other party's performance. Wow, that's a mouthful! Let's look at an example. In Foster & Creighton Company v. Wilson Contracting, the Tennessee Court of Appeals reviewed a case involving a project at… Continue Reading
Walking a Tightrope: EEOC Guidance to Avoid Negligent Hiring by Construction Companies By Matthew DeVries on April 10, 2013 Posted in Best Practices, Human Resources Today's guest post is from my good friend and law partner, M. Clark Spoden, who focuses on business litigation, labor and employment, environmental and construction law. The full article was published by Construction Executive. You can contact Clark at firstname.lastname@example.com. Last April, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its long-awaited Enforcement Guidance regarding… Continue Reading
Recovering Loss of Productivity Through Measured Mile Analysis By Matthew DeVries on April 2, 2013 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes, Transportation You don't need to go any further than this Washington Post article to read about a delayed construction project where the parties are passing blame back and forth. The Silver Spring Transit Center is reported to be two years behind schedule and suffering from significant cost increases. No doubt the dispute will be resolved in… Continue Reading
ConsensusDOCS Releases New Teaming Agreement By Matthew DeVries on March 28, 2013 Posted in Contract Docs ConsensusDocs released the new ConsensusDocs 498 Design-Build Teaming Agreement today, which provides a standard contract for parties desiring to form a team for the purpose of submitting a bid on a design-build project. According to the press release, this agreement has the flexibility for those team members to include design professionals, contractors and other parties.… Continue Reading
What Type of Schedule Analysis Should be Performed in Construction Delay Claims? By Matthew DeVries on January 15, 2013 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes, Project Management, Scheduling It almost goes without saying that if you have to pursue or defend a delay claim, you are going to need some evidence (whether by expert or otherwise) to establish or to challenge entitlement to the damages sought. Today's post identifies some best practices in this area.… Continue Reading
Attn Contractors: Workers' Comp Costs Likely to Increase Beginning January 1, 2013 By Matthew DeVries on November 2, 2012 Posted in Best Practices, Claims and Disputes Recently I was discussing the process for determining an employers' experience rating for workers' compensation injuries, and I was surprised to learn about some dramatic cost increases that will likely occur in 2013. Today's post reviews those changes.… Continue Reading
Mechanics Lien and Bond Claims Best Practices By Matthew DeVries on August 24, 2012 Posted in Best Practices, Case Law, Claims and Disputes While I generally limit my guest posts to my fellow law partners, I simply could not resist sharing with you today's post from my friend and construction attorney, Scott Wolfe, Jr., which focuses on Best Practices for filing mechanics liens and bond claims.… Continue Reading
No Damages for Delay: What It Means and What Can You Do By Matthew DeVries on August 16, 2012 Posted in Claims and Disputes As a construction contractor, your work can be delayed for reasons beyond your control. If this happens, you want to know that you can recover your losses for additional labor, extended overhead, and other monetary damages. Would it surprise you to learn that you may have waived that right in your contract? In the recent… Continue Reading
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Using Daily Reports to Prove Construction Claims By Matthew DeVries on May 21, 2012 Posted in Claims and Disputes One of the basic, yet most important, aspects of project documentation includes effective use of an on-going and detailed set of daily reports. Today's post is about the use of daily reports to prove construction claims.… Continue Reading
Paper to Paperless: Webinar on Construction Documentation and Legal Disputes By Matthew DeVries on May 1, 2012 Posted in Project Management You will rarely find me advertising on this blog. However, since I have received numerous inquiries about my presentation at the AGC National Conference in Honolulu last month, I am pleased to announce that I will be doing a similar Webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 1:00pm EST.… Continue Reading
Construction Contracts: New Technology for ConsensusDocs to be Released By Matthew DeVries on April 13, 2012 Posted in Contract Docs I just received an email this morning from ConsensusDocs, announcing that they will be offering a new and significantly improved new technology platform for ConsensusDocs contracts within the next two weeks that will improve the contract process.… Continue Reading
Development and Construction Contracts: What You Need to Know By Matthew DeVries on April 9, 2012 Posted in Contract Docs, Development Noted author and business attorney, Peter Siviglia, often talks about "forms of writing"... In today's post, I discuss some tips on drafting development and construction contracts.… Continue Reading
How Do You Do It All: Work? Family? Blog? Answer: Google Reader. By Matthew DeVries on April 6, 2012 Posted in Best Practices, Leadership, Scheduling A week does not go by without a friend, colleague, or new acquaintance asking me, "How do you do it all?" The short answer: "It's tough ... very tough ... but I have some help." Today's post is about use of Google Reader to help with your research.… Continue Reading


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Micro Wind Turbines
Micro Wind Turbines
What is a Micro Wind Turbine
home > windWind turbines do not have to be enormous like those found on windy hilltops and on cliffs beside the sea. In recent years mini wind turbines have become more and more popular sitting atop a 5+ meter pole at the bottom of the garden or near to farm houses and barns and generating a couple of kW of electricity power. These are most common where the national grid electricity does not reach (off grid, and so it is necessary for a building to be energy self-sufficient. The generated power is stored in battery banks, passed through inverters to make 240AC electricity, and used.
Mini wind turbine generators are not practical in built up areas because of the noise they generate, the lower average wind speed, and the fact that they are often perceived to be an eyesore. More recently however so called Micro Wind Turbines (used for decades on sailing boats) have started springing up across Urban Great Britain. These are designed to supplement national grid electricity and therefore reduce the overall electricy bill for their owners. Electricity generation is limited to just a few hundred watts at best which is enough to power energy efficient light bulbs throughout a typical home on a windy day.
Advances in engineering have resulted in much quieter wind turbines with greatly reduced vibration. These are designed to be fitted on roof tops and on the gable ends of properties where they cause no greater eye-sore (for those who are not fascinated by wind turbines) than a standard satellite dish or television aerial. Whether these new micro wind turbines are quiet enough for neighbours not to complain when the wind is gusting, whether you would want to live in a house with a vibrating wall, and whether it is environmentally benefitial to cover homes in small wind turbines generating small amount of electricity when one large turbine can power a whole town is a matter for discussion. But, there is no doubt that micro-wind turbines are here to stay, and at around £1,000 for a fully fitted small system (after grants) they will be an attractive to many people.
Micro Wind Turbines
Windsave 1000 is available from around £1,500 fully installed from B and Q. It promises to save the typical homeowner 30% of their electricity bill each year. It plugs straight into any 13A plug socket in the property and will power any electric device on the same ring main.D400 StealthGen is a cheaper lower powered micro-wind turbine which can be used to charge a battery bank with electricity. Installed turbine costs are around £800 plus you must factor in the cost of a power inverter (to convert 12V or 24V DC into 240AC for use in the home ) and a suitable bank of batteries. This is the wind turbine Conservative Party leader David Cameron planned to install on his house.
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GTslO 5pts the LSA also has 11mm head bolts and the LS9 are 12mm. The LSA are massproduced adn the LS9s are hand-built.
11secJeepSRT8 5pts Yes, the motors are different internally. The ZR1 has Titanium connecting rods, the V's are powdered metal. The ZR1 has forged pistons, the Vs are cast hypereutectic. The heads are the same, but the valves and valve springs are different. The cams are very different. The CTS-V has a puny cam. The ZR1s cam is significantly bigger, and worth 15-20hp on the V if somebody feels like swapping. The biggest difference is the supercharger and intercooler. The ZR1 has a 2.3L supercharger. The CTS-Vs is only 1.9L. The V has a better intercooler though, a large single brick. Because of the low hood line, the ZR1 has 2 smaller bricks, saddle mounted. The ZR1 runs 10.5psi of boost and the CTS-V/ZL1 run 8.5.
IBx1 5pts I haven't seen one person who is thankful that their car has a TPMS, especially because they're always subject to T-PMS.Try thrashing an E63 wagon every day like this and MB will throw your wallet and bank into purgatory! Nice to see that the Cadillac buys real reliability. Since the engine itself is detuned, you might consider it to be overbuilt for the current power levels.
CD282 5pts @GM_ZAI beleive there are some internal differences between the ZR1 engine and the CTS-V engine - titanium parts or something. 11sec might know...
11secJeepSRT8 5pts The M5 uses 23psi of boost to make basically the same power as the CTS-V does with 8.5psi. Thats what needed with a puny motor.
GM_ZA 5pts @Seva25Thing is, you can have this same engine in the Corvette ZR1 with 640 hp. I admit that you really cannot compare a CTS with a ZR1 and turning the engine down was obvious. Yet from a European perspective (I am not European as you know) you would expect such a big engine with a supercharger to have a lot more power. Look at the BMW M5 which is a CTS rival in the US. 4.4 litre V8 with twin turbo's and it makes 560 hp. Yes it's only 4 hp more but still, it's a much smaller engine
btc909 5pts If you have a high level of humidity in the tire it can trip the TPMS sensor. Run nitrogen which has non-existent humidity. I had the same problem on a 2012 Pilot. That extra 1.x mpg wasn't bad either. Also high humidity can also rust a TPMS sensor causing the sensor to eventually fail.
11secJeepSRT8 5pts Did you figure out why the Nav screen was dim Johnny? You mentioned it in the magazine, not here. You had it set for night. Press the dimmer button next to the hazards. There are 3 settings, Night, Day and Auto. I leave mine on Day all the time. Night is too dim and the car is stupid on Auto and its usually too dim set that way too. Leave it on Day and its fine.And for the rest of you, yes 556hp is underpowered. I'm running an extra 5psi of boost on mine for around 650hp. Still not quite enough, but getting closer.
Seva25 5pts GM_ZAHmm...I would think that 556hp would be more than enough for the most people. I don't think that I would ever be able to call that engine underpowered.
British_Boy_007 5pts Don't forget, its still an OHV engine. Don't expect to get 120hp/L. Plus, the engine is more about torque than peak hp.
GM_ZA 5pts I previously said that I want Cadillac to succeed outside the USA but it never seems to. Marque still seen as transport for old people who want the car equivalent of a feather mattress which the CTS-V is not even close to. Only 556 bhp from a supercharged V8 seems a bit underpowered.If only would to give Caddy a proper chance outside the US i.e. put the steering wheel on the proper side for on-LHD countires and give it the proper service backing, the brand will succeed


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Larry Hogan This Sunday!
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The event is free and open to everyone.
November Monthly Meeting Date Is The Third Wednesday!
Note: The November meeting of the Washington County Republican Club will be held on the third Wednesday, which is November 19, 2014, at 7:00 p.m.
Monday, October 27th, 5:00 p.m. at the Early Voting Center, 101 Tandy Drive, located off Western Maryland Parkway, beside the Detention Center.
LARRY HOGAN IS COMING BACK TO HAGERSTOWN FOR A HOGAN VICTORY BUS TOUR ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 27TH. HE WILL BE ROLLING INTO THE EARLY VOTING CENTER AT 5 PM. So if you didn't make it to the rally a couple weeks ago, you have another chance to meet your next Governor!
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TWO PEOPLE MISSING IN JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK SINCE SATURDAY FOUND LAST NIGHT Two people reported missing Sunday night in Joshua Tree National Park were found and rescued in good condition early this morning. Family members of Tony Nosow, 59, of Landers, and Helen Melnyk, 56, of Lakewood, reported the couple missing Sunday night. It was believed the couple intended to drive some of the back roads inside the park about 11 a.m. Saturday morning. Rangers searched all the back country roads in Joshua Tree National Park without finding Nosow, Melnyk, or the truck. The California Highway Patrol, Riverside Sheriff's Department, the Marine Corps, and the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department all sent aircraft Monday to help in the search. A Sheriff's spokesman said Nosow and Melnyk were able to get cell range shortly before midnight this morning in a rugged area in the northeast portion of the park and called in their location. Their location was triangulated from the cell phone and they were picked up by a Sheriff's helicopter and brought back to Joshua Tree and then driven home. They were in good condition with no injuries.
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SERIOUS INJURIES IN TWENTYNINE PALMS MOTORCYCLE CRASH YESTERDAY A motorcyclist sustained major injuries after the car behind crashed into him in Twentynine Palms yesterday afternoon. Sheriff's Deputies said Sean Pickard, 24, was riding his 2000 Yamaha motorcycle south on Adode Road at Amboy Road at about 3:35. Right behind him was Jared Glover, 30, of Joshua Tree in his 2010 Chevy Impala. For unknown reasons, Glover hit Pickard in a rear-end collision and pushed the motorcycle and Pickard 100 to 150 yards. Twentynine Palms Fire Captain Matt Helmkamp said the cycle's fuel tank ruptured and the motorcycle and Pickard caught on fire. Bystanders were able to extinguish the flames before fire fighters arrived. Helmkamp said the military jumpsuit Pickard was wearing protected him somewhat from the flames, but estimated that he probably suffered burns to about 30 percent of his body. Sean Pickard was taken to Desert Hospital in Palms Springs with serious injuries.
SCHOOL BOARD HONORS RETIRING BOARD MEMBER At the Morongo Unified School District regularly scheduled meeting last night, the community honored Board Member Phyllis Swinnerton for her many years of service. Reporter Kristy Lockhart was there and has more… After 16 years as a Board member for the Morongo Unified School District Phyllis Swinnerton is retiring. Parents, teachers and educators attended the board meeting to honor Swinnerton for her service and dedication. Dr. Deborah Turner is the Director of Curriculom and Instruction for the district. "Phyllis has been the guiding light for our district. She has been an advocate for student, parents, teacher and administrators. She has been the Leader for the past gazillion years on this board and it's just a privilege to know her." Swinnerton has dedicated her life to the education of children. Her retirement marks 58 years in education.
CROSSWALK AND CELLPHONE CRACKDOWN IN TWENTYNINE PALMS THIS WEEK Don't say you were not warned. Twentynine Palms police will be focusing this week on pedestrian cross-walk violations. Motorists are cautioned to watch for pedestrians crossing the roadway. Police will also be watching for drivers who are texting or talking on a cell phone without a hands-free device, which is required while driving. They remind residents that distracted driving is a major cause of collisions.
PLEA BARGAIN FOR TWENTYNINE PALMS MAN AFTER MARINE STABBING A Twentynine Palms man who was arrested in July for attempted murder agreed to a plea bargain in court Monday. Joseph Farhat, 23, was arrested July 14 after he stabbed a Marine during an early-morning brawl in the Twentynine Palms Denny's parking lot. Witnesses said the Farhat had fled. Deputies pursued and pulled over a pick-up truck driven by Farhat. Farhat agreed to a plea bargain in Joshua Tree Court Monday morning in which the charge of attempted murder was dropped in exchange for guilty pleas to participating in a criminal street gang and assault with bodily injuries. Joseph Farhat is scheduled to be sentenced December 27.
TWO ARRESTED FOR TWENTYNINE PALMS BURGLARY Two Twentynine Palms residents were arrested Sunday afternoon, suspected of burglary, after a homeowner saw them leaving her home. A resident in the 5900 block of Baileya Avenue in Twentynine Palms left her home for about an hour Sunday morning and when she returned at 10:40, she saw Retsel Alvarez, 21, driving away in a red vehicle. Deputies located Alvarez, and a search of her home located a television stolen from the other home earlier. Retsel Alvarez was arrested on suspicion of burglary, booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with her bail set at $25,000. After an investigation, Darkise Gorman, 29, was also arrested and is being held without bail at the jail on a parole hold.
JOSHUA TREE VFW FUNDRAISER SATURDAY TO KEEP DOORS OPEN The Joshua Tree VFW offers not only delicious dinners, breakfasts, and tacos, but it's also active in discussing issues with government agencies that affect veterans. And the VFW post gives veterans a place to socialize. The VFW is holding a fundraiser to raise money to help it keep its doors open. Managing editor Tami Roleff fills in the details… The Joshua Tree VFW Post 7264 will hold a fundraiser Saturday afternoon to raise funds to help keep the post's doors open. There will be $2 draft beer, food, raffle items and live music, featuring "Miss Guided" and "Rambling George and the Way Back Ramblers." The public—especially active duty military and veterans—are invited to attend to show their support for our military and veterans and for all they do. The event will be held from noon to 4 at the VFW Post, 6402 Veterans Way in Joshua Tree. For more information, call 760-366-2717.
TWENTYNINE PALMS CEMETERY DISTRICT BOARD MEETS TOMORROW Twentynine Palms Public Cemetery District Board meets in regular and closed session tomorrow at 5350 Encelia Avenue. During a closed session at 5 p.m., the directors will discuss employee performance evaluations. The regular meeting is set for 5:30 p.m. Among items of interest are: consideration of special district workshop classes for board members; notice of intent to adopt or amend a conflict-of-interest code; revisions to the employee benefit package; revisions to the policy manual; and discussion of current district status and requirements of LAFCO based on a November 11 meeting.
BIGHORN-DESERT VIEW WATER AGENCY GETS A GOOD FINANCIAL REPORT CARD FROM AUDIT The Bighorn Desert View Water Agency Board had a very busy session last night. Reporter Mike Lipsitz was there and said they got some good marks on their finances... At last night's meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency, the board received and filed the financial audit for fiscal year 2011-2012. In his report, the representative from Mayer Hoffman McCann noted that Agency's records were found to be in order, that revenue exceeded expenses by more than $300,000, that expenses were down 4 percent from the prior year, and that a healthy $880,000 is held in investments. In other business, the board approved a plan to amend the employee handbook in order to establish policy and procedure for COLA increases, holiday provisions, adjusting job descriptions and establishing organizational structure. Also last night, the board received and filed various permits and notices associated with the 15-acre Groundwater Recharge and Storage Facility destined for Pipes Canyon in the area of Winters Road and Warren Vista. And finally, the board approved a motion to continue pursuit of a revision to Agency Law as recommended by the Local Agency Formation Commission.
TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT MEETS TONIGHT The Twentynine Palms Water District holds its regularly scheduled meeting tonight. The board will discuss the financial state of the District as well as current and future staffing levels. In the Fire Department portion of the meeting the board will receive an update on the hand-over of the fire department to San Bernardino County. The meeting is held at the water district offices on Hatch Road at 6 p.m.
HI-DESERT WATER SPECIAL MEETING TONIGHT The Hi-Desert Water District has called a special meeting tonight. Reporter Kristy Lockhart tells us what's on the agenda… On the special meeting agenda, the board will vote on a proposal to purchase a geographic Information system. The board will also discuss the transfer of $500,000 from the water reserves fund to the wastewater fund to fund grants for the new wastewater treatment plant. Finally, the board will look at disinfection methods and alternatives. The meeting is tonight at the Water Districts office on 29 Palms Highway at 6 p.m.
JOSHUA BASIN WATER DISTRICT IN JOINT MEETING WITH CITIZEN ADVISORS TONIGHT There are many details that need to be seen to in case of a major disaster in the Morongo Basin. One of them is checking how the area's water reservoirs fared. Assignment reporter Mike Lipsitz says tonight's meeting of the Joshua Basin Water District Board of Directors will discuss how to check the status of the reservoirs… A joint meeting of the Joshua Basin Water District Board and the District's Citizen's Advisory Committee convenes at 7:00 tonight at District offices on Chollita Road in Joshua Tree. Tonight's joint meeting will allow both groups to hear a presentation on an emergency "phone tree" that would go into effect in the event of a major disaster where directors, committee members, and possibly others would be assigned to check the status of the District's 17 reservoirs, a task that would normally take a half day for regular staff to conduct in person. The emergency phone tree will save staff a great deal of time and allow them to concentrate on the most urgent priorities. The joint meeting will discuss all aspects of the phone tree system. And on tonight's action agenda, the Board will take up a grant proposal in connection with the Groundwater Recharge Project, as well as some human resource matters.
SINGLE PARENTS CAN REGISTER FOR CHURCH CHRISTMAS PARTY The Twentynine Palms Assembly of God Church will hold a Christmas party for children of single parents, Saturday, December 8, from 1 to 4 p.m. There will be goodies, presents from Santa, crafts, prizes, and more. The party is limited to the first 50 children, age 10 and under, who register by December 1. Parents must accompany their children. For questions, or to register, call 760-367-9973 by December 1. The church is located at 73331 Sullivan Road in Twentynine Palms.
SEE'S CANDY AT THE JOSHUA TREE LIBRARY The Joshua Tree Library is holding a fundraiser for the next few weeks. Reporter Dan Stork fills in the delicious details… See's holiday candy is available now at the Joshua Tree Library, from the Friends of the Joshua Tree library. To see the full selection, click the Events tab on the Friends website at joshuatreefol.org or drop into the library. This See's Candy fundraiser will continue through December 22 while supplies last. For more information call the Joshua Tree Branch Library at 760-366-8615.
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: SCORES AND SCHEDULES The Yucca Valley Lady Trojan basketball team overcame a cold shooting first half to steal an exciting 42-41 victory over Hemet High School in a second round game at the West Valley Mustang Tournament in Hemet last night.
Down 23-6 at halftime the Yucca Valley squad crawled back to trail 41-40 with 8 seconds left in the game when junior Alyssa Carter rebounded a missed Yucca Valley shot and put it through the basket as the final horn sounded.
Carter finished the game with 11 points while senior Savanah Spitz scored a game high 13 points and junior Hannah Hughes chipped in eight points. The team is now 1-1 on the season.
The Yucca Valley High School Girls' Soccer team started their 2012-13 campaign with a game against Garey High School on Tuesday in Trojan Stadium and came away with a 4-1 victory. The Lady Trojans outshot the visiting Vikings twenty to two as senior Chaylin Couzens led the way with 3 goals and 1 assist. Sophomore Jennifer Luersen added a goal and junior Amy Priest had an assist.
Coming up in high school sports tomorrow, the Yucca Valley girls basketball team will compete in the last day of the four-day West Valley Tournament.
Also tomorrow, the girls Trojan soccer team will participate in the Beaumont Winter Classic tournament.
Coming up in high school sports for Twentynine Palms High School, the basketball girls will be in the third day of the Mustang classic tournament.
In soccer, the Twentynine Palms High School boys and girls soccer teams will travel away to Loma Linda Academy. Girls start at 4; boys at 6 p.m.
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Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In this study, about 5% of patients given any dosage of Vyvanse had to discontinue its use because of adverse effects. 3/196 patients initially randomized to Vyvanse had serious adverse effects, and one patient died, apparently of an amphetamine overdose. Oddly, the article declared that the one death, due to methamphetamine overdose, was thought by a study investigator not to be related to treatment with another amphetamine, lisdexamfetamine. That makes little sense, given that in a randomized controlled trial, the presumption is that differences in groups given different treatments were caused by these ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 26, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: clinical trials conflicts of interest deception evidence-based medicine FDA marketing Shire stealth marketing Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 165
Welcome to the 165th LITFL Review. Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere's best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the WeekDo you re-spike IV fluid bags? The case of Ruby Chen from gravelessons.com should make us all re-think this. [SO]The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineExcellent discussion of everything you need to know about AFib from EM Cases featuring Ian Stiell. ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 19, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review #165
Welcome to the 165th LITFL Review. Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere's best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the WeekDo you re-spike IV fluid bags? The case of Ruby Chen from gravelessons.com should make us all re-think this. [SO] The Best of #FOAMed Emergency MedicineExcellent discussion of everything you need to know about AFib from EM Cases featuring Ian St...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 19, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Vaccine-Injured Child Stolen by the State and Her Caring Mother Accused of Child Abuse
For many years, I have been writing about such cases. There are now a growing number of parents who have been falsely accused of harming their vaccine-damaged children. Sadly, this case is yet another example.
Loving, caring parents are having their children taken away from them because the majority of health care professionals and social workers are burying their heads in the sand and choosing to ignore the fact that no vaccine or medication is one hundred percent safe. All vaccines have the potential to cause adverse reactions.
When you have such groups as the AAPS stating, "And yet, children under the age o...
Source: vactruth.com - November 22, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Child Protective Services (CPS) Hepatitis B vaccine Kathryn Hughes medical kidnapping Michael Belkin seizure Source Type: blogs
AdDRESSing the Causes of Rash
Conclusion: DRESS syndrome is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition with an estimated mortality rate of 10 percent. Suspicion must be high because it may present as a spectrum of nonspecific clinical and laboratory findings.Tags: rash, tox cave, DRESS, DRESS syndrome, RegiSCAR, hepatitis, myocarditis, myositisPublished: 8/7/2014 2:50:00 PM (Source: The Tox Cave)
Source: The Tox Cave - August 7, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
A Quick Lesson on Medical Terminology with 1980's Batman
Today, I'm digging back in the archive to 1994 to the Knightquest storyline in order to present a brief lesson about medical terminology.
With it's quasi-Latin and quasi-Greek, medical terms can be confusing and don't always mean what you expect. Case in point, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #59. In this comic, physician Shondra Kinsolving has been kidnapped by her evil step-brother so he can use her telepathic powers to kill from a great distance. Understandably, Shondra doesn't want to be a part of this, so he brother injects her with a drug of his own invention:
For those of you who may hav...
Source: Polite Dissent - February 9, 2014 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Source Type: blogs
A new and very interesting EMR "glitch" - no warnings on stopping a medicine that diminishes the effects of a second medication
A new and very interesting EMR "glitch" from a report I received recently:... I found a glitch with my [name redacted] EMR. It probably happens with all EMRs. I had a patient on primidone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primidone) for essential tremor. Later, his primary care put her on warfarin [a "blood thinner" - ed.] for atrial fibrillation. Some time after that, I took her off of primidone. Her INR jumped to 7 or 8. [High - ed.] What happens is that the EMRs warn a physician pretty well if you START a medicine that interacts with warfarin, but fails to warn if you STOP a medicine that interacts with warfarin. If y...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: glitch primidone healthcare IT difficulties warfarin coumadin drug interaction EHR alerts Source Type: blogs
Orexin and Insomnia
If Valium makes you groggy, and Ambien makes you sleepwalk…
A compound that blocks a brain receptor you probably have never heard of may hold the key to the next generation of sleeping pills—and there is always a next generation of sleeping pills.
A new class of hypnotic compounds that serve as antagonists for the neurotransmitter orexin may combat insomnia without the "confusional arousals" that have come to plague some users of zolpidem, otherwise known as Ambien. Sleepwalking, sleep driving, and sleep sex are common among the reports. Orexin is involved in central nervous system arousal. So-called DORAs, or...
Source: Addiction Inbox - May 7, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Medications that Increase the Risks of Patient Falls
Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older.
Alzheimer's Reading Room
"Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older, and research suggests that those taking four or more medications are at an even greater risk than those who don't – perhaps two to three times greater," said Susan Blalock, Ph.D., an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
In 2007, more than 21,700 Americans died as a result of falls and more than 7.9 million were injured by a fall including over 1.8 million older adults who had a fall-rela...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - February 14, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
What Expiration? Your Drugs May Last A Long Time
Next time you decide to toss that prescription medicine because it appears to have expired, you may want to think twice. Why? A new analysis indicates that some prescription drugs retain their potency long after the expiration date, and the finding also suggests that the healthcare system could save untold oodles of money if expiration dates were sufficiently extended.
To wit, a team of researchers analyzed 14 different medications and found that 12, or 86 percent, tested at concentrations that were at least 90 percent of the amount on the labeling. Three actually had concentrations that exceeded the labeling; just two med...
Source: Pharmalot - October 9, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Acetaminophen amphetamine Aspirin butalbital caffeine chlorpheniramine Codeine Expiration Date FDA homatropine Hydrocodone meprobamate methaqualone Pentobarbital phenacetin phenobarbital secobarbital Source Type: blogs
Many drugs are just fine years after they 'expire,' study finds - latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-expired-drugs-still-work-study-20121008,0,6591417.story?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=53001 Many drugs are just fine years after they 'expire,' study finds Chances are, your medicine cabinet contains some pills that are past their expiration date. You might even have some pain relievers, some cough syrup or some sleeping pills that were purchased back when Richard Nixon was in the...
Source: Dr Portnay - October 8, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
Dependent on Prescription Drugs, Even Before Birth - NYTimes.com
Newly Born, and Withdrawing From PainkillersABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE ZEZIMAPublished: Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 6:30 a.m. BANGOR, Me. — The mother got the call in the middle of the night: her 3-day-old baby was going through opiate withdrawal in a hospital here and had to start taking methadone, a drug best known for treating heroin addiction, to ease his suffering.The mother had abused prescription painkillers like OxyContin for the first 12 weeks of her pregnancy, buying them on the street in rural northern Maine, and then tried to quit cold turkey — a dangerous course, doctors say, that could have ended in misc...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 10, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Which Drugs Increase the Risk of Falling for the Elderly
Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries for adults sixty-five and older, and research suggests that those taking four or more medications are at an even greater risk than those who don't—perhaps two to three times greater. -- Susan Blalock, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.....
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
I am always worried that my mother might fall and injure herself -- or worse.
Research studies indicate that falling is a leading cause of injury deaths for people 65 and older -- see Falls Among Older Adults: An Overview.
More than one third of adults 65 and older fall each...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - January 9, 2011 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Drug-Drug Interactions to Watch Out For
P450 enzymes and "poor metabolizers."
The finding, published in Science, is a bit arcane to the layperson. The big secret of how the P450 enzyme family metabolizes drugs turns out to be a critical phase change, where an oxygen molecule temporarily joins the mix, forming "Compound I," a process the scientists documented by cooling the enzymes at just the right rate.
So what? Well, for starters, "cytochrome P450 enzymes are responsible for the phase I metabolism of approximately 75% of known pharmaceuticals," write Jonathan Rittle and Michael T. Green at Pennsylvania State University's Department of Ch...
Source: Addiction Inbox - November 22, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
I'm back at work, so be afraid. But not as afraid as if you'd seen that one doctor.
Just a tip from Auntie Jo to the nameless millions of future hospital patients out there: if you sustain a subdural hematoma in a fall at home, and you need that subdural hematoma evacuated, make sure it's a neurosurgeon doing the evacuating.Because if you let just any Fred Friendly into your brainbox, it's possible things could go very wrong indeed. This goes double if you're from Teenyville, that tiny town just south of Wherezat and east of Whadyasay.Grandma took a fall a couple of weeks ago at home and conked herself on the head. It wasn't a very big conk, or a very painful one, but Grandma, being the careful sort (and ...
Source: Head Nurse - November 16, 2010 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
1) functional vitamin D deficiency causing inadequate mineralization of bones and the matrix of growth plates 2) two forms – type 1 (vitamin D dependent) and type 2
Signs and Symptoms
1) type 1 – usually presents in first year of life 2) type 2 – usually presents early in life but not uncommon for first signs to appear in childhood up to puberty 3) bowed legs 4) slipped capital femoral epiphysis 5) short stature 6) patients dit in a Buddha-like posture 7) flattened skull 8) prominent forehead (frontal bossing) 9) classic rachitic rosary chest (knobs on costochondral cartilage) 10) pectus c...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 9, 2010 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Uncategorized bowed legs child Buddha hypertrophy growth plate rachitic rosary chest slipped capital femoral epiphysis Source Type: blogs
this morning…
This morning, while I was in the living room and Emma was asleep in her crib in our bedroom, I heard a faint "Mommy" followed by a very distinct "Mommy!". She was calling me to come and get her out of her bed. When I walked in to greet her, I asked her if she called for me and she smiled and nodded her head yes!
This interaction did my heart so much good!
She has repeated my name when I say it first, but this is the first time she has associated a name with a person (that wasn't even in the room!), and it just so happened to be MY name! THEN when I asked if she had actually called my name, she...
Source: Especially Heather - August 3, 2010 Category: Cancer Authors: Especially Heather Tags: Emma Emmas Eyes Go God! Thankful Working On Me Source Type: blogs
nodding off {and "nubbie" returns!}
Emma was back in the hospital last week, but it was a quick trip. She went in because she had a urinary tract infection, and while there we opted to have a G-Tube placed. On Tuesday of last week she was officially diagnosed with Cortical Vision Impairment (CVI) by her Neuro-Ophthalmologist. We {Mark, I and her doctors} feel that the G-Tube is needed because Emma has limited vision and was not allowing us put anything in her mouth because she thought everything was medicine. If you have followed my blog for the past 4 years, you will remember that she use to have a G-tube that she loving called "nubbie". She pul...
Source: Especially Heather - June 4, 2010 Category: Cancer Authors: Especially Heather Tags: Emmas Eyes God is Good Hospital/Emma Thankful Source Type: blogs
Prescription Medications that Increase the Risks of Patient Falling
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older.....By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
"Falls are the leading cause of both fatal and non-fatal injuries for adults 65 and older, and research suggests that those taking four or more medications are at an even greater risk than those who don't – perhaps two to three times greater," said Susan Blalock, Ph.D., an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
In 2007, more than 21,700 Americans died as a result of falls and m...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 27, 2010 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
status epilepticus pearls
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Source: neurologyminutiae - April 4, 2010 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
A nurse practitioner is valuable in hospice and palliative care
by Patrice Villars
Recently, a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end stage heart failure. The routine 'as needed' (PRN) orders included phenobarbital, pentobarbital, haloperidol, lorazepam, and morphine. "The hospice nurses know more about this than I do, don't they?" she said.
Yesterday, a longtime palliative care nurse told me she didn't want to put her mother with end stage heart failure in a nursing home with hospice, because "they'll just give her morphine and Ativan. I want her heart failure managed."
I worked as a ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2010 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Patient care primary care Source Type: blogs
Effexor to Cymbalta: Not So Bad
You know, if you rely on the Internet to inform you about medication side effects, you might have a panic attack before you've even got the Ativan in your system to calm you down. When I started Effexor, I read such horror stories that I was absolutely terrified, and though some of the info was true, that drug pulled me out of an unbearable abyss. I was truly losing it — the depression was becoming psychotic and I was contemplating suicide. And who knows why, because such things are mysterious, but it worked.
The thing about Effexor that I didn't like was my dependence on it. For instance, if I miss a nig...
Source: The Trouble With Spikol - February 5, 2010 Category: Mental Illness Authors: liz Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Dear Son Medical Update~Home
Photo of Dear Son's Tendercare Hospital BedWe just got home from the hospital yesterday. Since I last wrote, we made a lot of progress.For the pneumatosis, Dear Son completed the antibiotics they prescribed. They had him on a seven day course which was done as a precaution. One of the causes of the pneumatosis intestinalis can be infection and although he didn't show any signs of that, they prescribed a seven day course, just in case.In addition, they took him off of the Miralax and changed his Phenobarbital from a liquid form to a pill form. One other cause of pneumatosis can be medications. In this case, they know that t...
Source: Dream Mom - January 15, 2010 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
We just got home from the hospital yesterday. Since I last wrote, we made a lot of progress. For the pneumatosis, Dear Son completed the antibiotics they prescribed. They had him on a seven day course which was done as a precaution. One of the causes of the pneumatosis intestinalis can be infection and although he didn't show any signs of that, they prescribed a seven day course, just in case. In addition, they took him off of the Miralax and changed his Phenobarbital from a liquid form to a pill form. One other cause of pneumatosis can be medications. In this case, they know that too much Sorbitol can sometimes cause this...
Source: Dream Mom - January 15, 2010 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
Dear Son Medical Update~Progress
Dear Son remains at Big Academic Medical Center and will be there through Wednesday. GI and GI surgeons poured over the CT scan of the abdomen and have seen Dear Son. GI surgery states that he has Pneumatosis Intestinalis. Essentially, Dear Son has a significant amount of free air in the lining of the bowel wall. They are not sure how it got there however typically there are a few causes of this: 1) medication, 2) infection and 3) not enough blood flow to the area. This condition is typically seen in preemies but rarely in adults. The free air is located on the right side of the bowel lining and some on the left. In Dear S...
Source: Dream Mom - January 10, 2010 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
New concepts in status epilepticus
From a review in Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, here are a few key points: Definition of SE--- Traditional: 30 minutes of unrelenting seizure(s). New (proposed): greater than 5 minutes or two or more without intervening full return of consciousness. Why? The longer durations traditionally used to define SE were selected based on assumptions about underlying pathophysiology that are now known not to be true rather than on any kind of clinical relevance… Data from continuous electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring indicate that the average length of a benign, self-limited, adult generalized tonic-clonic se...
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - November 25, 2009 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs
Are hospice doctors relying too much on symptom scores to assess pain?
by Eric Widera, MD
A recent issue in The Lancet included an article entitled "The Death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life." This is a thought provoking article focused on the question of whether there is overuse of pharmaceuticals to treat various forms of suffering in hospice and palliative medicine.
The authors argue that a good death, as seen through their interpretation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, may include physical and existential suffering. Tolstoy's character finds redemption in his suffering; he remains conscious through the agony of a prolonged and painful death and ends up with a greater ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 29, 2009 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Diagnosis and treatment cancer drugs hospital specialist Source Type: blogs
More About Folic Acid
Deficiency of folate/folic acid is believed to be one of the most common nutritional deficiencies because only an estimated 11% of people consume the recommended 5-7 servings daily of vegetables and fruits. Here are four other causes of this deficiency.
Most members of the vitamin B-complex must be converted to a metabolically active form in the body. The active form of folates in foods and folic acid in supplements is called 5-methylenetetrahydrofolate or MTHF for short. This complex conversion requires good intestinal and liver function, adequate amounts of vitamins B2, B3, B6, C, plus zinc and serine. Produced in the l...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - September 23, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Perlmutter Tags: Heads Up Source Type: blogs
Dear Son Update
Things don't seem to be going particularly well right now. Yesterday Dear Son had a terrible seizure in the morning. I had started his feeding and went in to put in my contact lenses and when I came back, he was having a seizure. I used the magnet to activate his vagus nerve stimulator twice however the seizure escalated so fast, that I had to take immediate action. I can't remember a time when it escalated this fast and it made me quite nervous. I gave him some Diastat, an emergency rectal medicine that I keep in his nightstand. It usually works right away. When that didn't stop it, I debated whether I should call 911 or ...
Source: Dream Mom - July 24, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
Getting Off Alprazolam (Xanax): The need for Recovery
A comment on my old blog referred to a discussion about the withdrawal from Xanax, or Alprazolam, a short half-life benzodiazepine:
Clonazepam (Klonopin) actually is not the drug of choice used in benzo withdrawal, rather it is diazepam (Valium). Clonazepam It is not a very long-acting drug, with a half-life of only 18-50 hours; diazepam's half-life is 20-100 hours, with its metabolite hanging around for twice that long.
Absolutely the worst thing about benzo withdrawal (take it from me) is that it never ends. That is why I still take them.
My Response:
The 'drug of choice' for benzo withdrawal dep...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - November 30, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: SuboxDoc Tags: 12 steps addiction benzos mood recovery withdrawal AA anxiety clonazepam valium xanax xanax withdrawal Source Type: blogs
House — Episode 4 (Season 5): "Birthmarks"
An interesting mystery and clever solution weakened by a diagnosis that requires way too much coincidence and overlooking more obvious answers.
Nicole is a 25 year old Chinese woman raised in New Jersey who was given up for adoption as a young infant. She is back in China trying to find her birth parents. While in a temple there, she suffered a sudden attack of excruciating abdominal pain and started to vomit blood. By the time she has returned to the US and been admitted to Princeton Plainsboro, the Chinese surgeons have removed a foot of bowel.
The team's initial suspicion is a Meckel's diverticulum (a defec...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 15, 2008 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Chart of Commonly Abused Drugs
Commonly Abused Drugs
Substances:Category and Name
Examples of Commercialand Street Names
DEA Schedule*/How Administered**
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
euphoria, slowed thinking and reaction time, confusion, impaired balance and coordination/cough,
frequent respiratory infections; impaired memory and learning;
increased heart rate, anxiety; panic attacks; tolerance, addiction
boom, chronic, gangster, hash, hash oil, hemp
I/swallowed, smoked
blunt, dope, ganja, grass, herb, joints, Mary Jane, pot, reefer, sinsemilla, skunk, we...
Source: Dr. Jeff's and Dr. Tanya's Blog - September 25, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr. Jeff and Dr. Tanya Source Type: blogs
Prescription Drug Abuse Chart
Substances:Category and Name
Examples of Commercialand Street Names
DEA Schedule*/How Administered**
Intoxication Effects/Potential Health Consequences
pain and anxiety; feeling of well-being; lowered inhibitions; slowed
pulse and breathing; lowered blood pressure; poor concentration/confusion, fatigue; impaired coordination, memory, judgment; respiratory depression and arrest, addictionAlso, for barbiturates—sedation, drowsiness/depression, unusual excitement, fever, irritability, poor judgment, slurred speech, dizzinessfor benzodiazepines—sedation, drowsiness/dizzinessfor fluni...
Source: Dr. Jeff's and Dr. Tanya's Blog - September 25, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr. Jeff and Dr. Tanya Source Type: blogs
Understanding The Nature And Effects Of Addiction
We may not realize it but most of us have experienced certain types of addiction in our lifetime. Although some types of addiction are rather harmless, there are certain types of compulsive cravings that can have devastating to our health and our lives. What is really scary about these compulsive cravings is that it could not be appeased easily. In most cases, the cravings are so intense that the person would do just about anything to satisfy him/herself.
Drug Addiction
Some of the most destructive types of compulsive cravings are those cravings that are induced by drugs and other substances. Some of the most common types ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - May 2, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome
(AHS) was recently reviewed in Pharmacotherapy (free full text via Medscape).Key points:AHS belongs on the clinician's list of dermatologic emergencies.Phenytoin, carbamazepine, and Phenobarbital lead the list of causative agentsNot only many clinicians, but also computerized pharmacy databases, are unaware of potential cross sensitivity among several anticonvulsants.Valproic acid, benzodiazepines and other nonaromatic anticonvulsants should be safe. (Rare reports of valproic acid related AHS do exist).Look for a triad of fever, rash and internal organ involvement (usually in the form of liver function abnormalities). F...
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - February 27, 2008 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs
Educate You Self With The Drug Addiction Treatment
One of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime is selecting a drug addiction treatment for you or one of your love ones. Only few of us know about the most important drug addiction treatment center for you as they are not all the same, you want quality and trust. You will find that each drug addiction treatment program or center will have its own option, cost, effectiveness of them.
Let's face it. One of the perennial societal problems the whole world is facing right now is drug addiction. It seems like we are losing every one of our people, youth especially, to substance abuse that continuously d...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - February 15, 2008 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs
More responses to what's become an interesting discussion of suicide
From Sally:
I don't know if I've posted this before. Once I made a a suicide gesture (that's what the therapists call it). I had left my ex husband, and was suffering from heartbreak, betrayal, fear, etc. I walked into the bathroom where my mother had left a big bottle of phenobarbital on the counter, looked at myself in the mirror and decided I didn't deserve to live through such misery and I took the pills. I then went back to my Dad's office, sat down and waited to die. After a few minutes I walked back in to the bath room, looked myself in the mirror and thought, in the grand scheme of things even if I live to be 100,...
Source: The Trouble With Spikol - December 31, 2007 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs
The CYP2D6 Factor
Enzymes And Drug AbuseDifferent drugs effect different people differently.Drugs are broken down into their constituent waste products by specific sets of enzymes. A subset of the human population, variously estimated at 3% to 7%, are categorized as "poor metabolizers." For them, a drug's recommended dosage is often far too high. The culprit is a gene variant that codes for a liver enzyme called cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 2D6, known in shorthand as CYP2D6. Poor metabolizers produce less of this crucial enzyme, which means that drugs are broken down and excreted at a much slower pace. In these people, the recommended do...
Source: Addiction Inbox - November 15, 2007 Category: Addiction Tags: drug addiction CYP2D6 alcoholism drug abuse enzyme Source Type: blogs
Catching Up
It's been a busy past few weeks which has been difficult carving out some time to write.Dear Son is doing better now. Since his admission to Big Academic Medical Center in August, he's had a tough time. At that time, the Attending thought that we should try and reduce Dear Son's medicine by eliminating the Phenobarbital. The Phenobarbital can metabolize some of the other meds faster and therefore requiring you to use more of them. Theoretically, as you removed the Phenobarbital, the levels of the other meds would increase, therefore allowing you to reduce the other medications as well, since it would take less of them to m...
Source: Dream Mom - October 30, 2007 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
Highlights From Friday's Pill Counting Action.
It was 9:30 and I was worried. I had taken the usual opening flurry of phone calls, which were, in order, people checking to see if their Vicodin, Valium, Soma, Vicodin and Vicodin were ready to pick up, but none of them were from John. I checked the calendar to make sure it was Friday. Never had I worked at this store on a Friday morning and had John fail to call to check on his Vicodin by now. I briefly considered the possibility that John had finally learned that not once had any of these calls resulted in anything other than "it's a little too soon to fill that John"Briefly considered the possibility I said. I knew it ...
Source: Your Pharmacist May Hate You - October 15, 2007 Category: Pharmacists and Pharmacologists Tags: Wacky Customers And Other Work Rants Source Type: blogs
Mixing Large Doses Of Common Painkiller And Caffeine May Increase Risk Of Liver Damage
From Science Daily
Consuming large amounts of caffeine while taking acetaminophen, one of the most widely used painkillers in the United States, could potentially cause liver damage, according to a preliminary laboratory study reported in the Oct. 15 print issue of ACS' Chemical Research in Toxicology. The toxic interaction could occur not only from drinking caffeinated beverages while taking the painkiller but also from using large amounts of medications that intentionally combine caffeine and acetaminophen for the treatment of migraine headaches, menstrual discomfort and other conditions, the researchers say.Health...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - October 3, 2007 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Perlmutter Tags: Heads Up Source Type: blogs
Dear Son continued to sleep through the night on the new dose of medicine however he also began sleeping through the day as well. As a result of the increased meds, his EEG did not show any seizures, although it did show abnormal activity. Since that time, they have reviewed his seizure meds and decided to remove the Phenobarbital. The Phenobarbital, causes the other medicines to metabolize faster. Once they remove this, the drug levels of the other medicines should increase and therefore they will be able to reduce his overall number and quantity of medications since it will take less medicine to attain a therapeutic leve...
Source: Dream Mom - August 15, 2007 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
The Slippery Slope Slip-Sliding Away in Oregon
Here is an interesting--and predictable--turn of events: Two nurses are being investigated by law enforcement for engaging in assisted suicide, although the facts look more like a euthanasia. From the story:Two Portland-area nurses gave [cancer patient Wendy Melcher] massive amounts of drugs intended to cause her death. The drugs were administered in what the nurses would later call an assisted-suicide plan directed by Melcher. The nurses have admitted to the Oregon State Board of Nursing that they administered doses of morphine and phenobarbital without informing Melcher's physician. Oregon's Death With Dignity Act--t...
Source: Secondhand Smoke - July 6, 2007 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Wesley J. Smith Source Type: blogs
History Repeating?
Good ol' Donnatal.
One of my co-workers has the new Mosby drug book and was looking up a few pharmaceuticals during a spare moment the other night.
Did you know that Donnatal elixir is twenty-three percent alcohol?
Holy ETOH!
On evening shift a few decades ago (literally), I was suffering from horrible stomach pain, enough that I was unable to function. In a unit with only two RNs on duty, this was a problem.
The ER doc on duty said, "Oh, go take two teaspoons of Donnatal and that will take care of it."
I had no idea what Donnatal was, having never given it before. It was up in the cupboard (this was pre-...
Source: Emergiblog - June 6, 2007 Category: Nurses Authors: Kim Tags: Blog Source Type: blogs
Coffee and Your Heart
Recent research shows that coffee drinkers come in two flavors: "fast" metabolizers and "slow" metabolizers. People with a particular gene variant are more vulnerable to it's effects. The gene in question controls the production of a key enzyme, known as CYP1A2, responsible for metabolizing coffee in the liver. People who inherit the slow version face a greater risk of non-fatal heart attacks at high levels of caffeine intake."The association between coffee and myocardial infarction [heart attack] was found only among individuals with the slow CYP1A2 allele [gene variant], which impairs caffeine metabolismm, su...
Source: Addiction Inbox - March 4, 2007 Category: Addiction Tags: heart caffeine coffee addiction heart disease Source Type: blogs
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----> Click here to go to the beginning…Start here today.Toby's Blog Day 2-Part IWell, I thought for a moment things were looking up today. First, I got the good news that Toby was doing so well that they were going to take his tube out. I was glad. They said that once they did that and he was stable, I could see him. Finally!!! I've waited nine months and then some for this moment. They said they would bring him by shortly and the neonatalogist would stop by to answer any of my questions and to explain what happened last night.In the meantime, Tom called and said his flight was delayed. I gave him the good news that T...
Source: Dream Mom - February 26, 2007 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Dream Mom Source Type: blogs
The Vapotherm machine was a device that allowed neonatologists to give high amounts of humidified oxygen to babies through their noses, higher than we could with any other device except CPAP. I knew that some NICU's were using it in place of CPAP, so when one of my partners said, "Hey, we should get a Vapotherm," I decided to look for studies in neonates using it.I found none. In fact, I could find reports of its use in only about 5 neonates, and certainly no well done study assessing its safety or effectiveness. I, and others, had concerns that we might be giving too much oxygen and air flow to a baby, without knowing the...
Source: Neonatal Doc - February 12, 2007 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs
Some of the comments in my previous post Implants brought up the issue of evidence based medicine in the NICU. Evidence based medicine means using medical therapies that have been tested in well done studies and found to be beneficial, as opposed to practicing medicine according to the "Hey, this sounds like a good idea, let's see if it works" method. I am all in favor of using evidence based medicine and think that generally I practice it, but I have to say it's easier said than done.There are a couple of ways by which people may fail to practice evidence based medicine. Some neonatologists, and physicians in general, fai...
Source: Neonatal Doc - February 5, 2007 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs


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March 18, 2010
Sorry, ABC7, That Ain't Los Feliz
ON LAST NIGHT's evening news,
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broadcast live from
the Tam O'Shanter Inn
, 2980 Los Feliz Blvd. While it's easy to forgive hosting one of the city's biggest Irish parties at a Scottish restaurant, it's harder to overlook ABC7's geographical misplacement. The Tam is not in the neighborhood of Los Feliz, as indicated. It's in Atwater Village. Otherwise, revelers, party on!
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at least they didnt say glendale :)
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The triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs plays its home opener on Friday night.1. THE MANAGER
Iowa's revolving door of managers continued to swing this offseason with Marty Pevey becoming Iowa's seventh skipper in the last seven years.
He returned to the dugout this season for the first time since 2009 after spending the last three seasons as the Cubs' catching coordinator. In his 10 previous seasons as a minor league manager, Pevey has a 644-617 record.2. HOME SWEET HOME ...


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Offering a variety of pet training services including: dog training, cat and dog behavior consultation, day training, private lessons, and behavior workshops. Located at 184 Rivervale Road in River Vale, NJ.
To sign up, call 201-497-5999 or
e-mail: email@example.com
Not sure which class is right for you and your dog? Check out our Course and Services Descriptions tab on this website or contact Andrea by phone or e-mail.
For "Drop-In" classes and socials, you can call or e-mail the day prior so we have a student/participant count. You can also go to our Events section on our Facebook page and sign up by clicking "JOIN" on a Drop-In class or social.
All new students at OGPS receive a one-time discount of $20 off for first group obedience class (4 or 6 wk courses only).
Puppy Kindergarden
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REFUND POLICY: No refunds will be given after the first class in a session. If a student needs to withdraw, credit for the remaining classes will be given and can be applied to a future group class, private lesson or behavior consultation. Credit cannot be applied to drop-in classes, socials, workshops or toys/products.
MAKE-UP POLICY: Sometimes you just need to miss a class - life happens! We do not do individual make-up classes for students; it is simply not possible with the number of students we serve. We can e-mail you the notes on what you missed, and in some cases, we have video on our Youtube! site to illustrate some of the exercises.
Our Gang Pet Services, LLC is located at:
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Our Gang Pet Services, LLC is committed to the use of positive reinforcement. Through application of positive reinforcement and operant conditioning, we believe you can encourage your pet to engage in many desirable behaviors and eliminate problematic ones. Animals learn best when they are motivated to perform, when the expectations are clear, when learning is fun, and consistency is provided.
We use positive reinforcement techniques that are humane, easy to implement, and proven to get results. We treat your pets as if they were part of "our gang." We do not believe in force-based methods of training; they simply aren't necessary. Our own personal dogs compete in a wide variety of activities and sports, and have been trained to do incredible things using positive reinforcement.
"But will he only do it for the cookie?" This is a common question we get from owners who are new to using rewards-based training. It's a good, and valid, question. We utilize a number of rewards with our dogs, including food, toys, treats, praise, petting, play, attention, and access to preferred activities. We will show you not only how to shape the behaviors you want, but also how to fade out the reinforcement and learn how to condition your dogs to other reinforcers and a more variable schedule of reinforcement.
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Andrea Kilkenny has been an animal lover since she was a child. Over the last two decades, she has shared her home with cats and dogs. In addition, foster dogs and foster cats have come to live with Andrea and her own personal pets, gaining basic training, social skills, and/or physically healing from illness or injury.
She entered the animal welfare field as a shelter volunteer in 1996, eventually leaving a teaching career and becoming employed full time at a municipal Animal Control facility. Over the years, she has held several positions including Volunteer Coordinator, Kennel Assistant, Animal Care Technician, Shelter Manager, and Animal Control Officer at shelters in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest, and East Coast. She has helped build volunteer programs and established training and enrichment protocols for the shelters she has worked at, and has served as a consultant for other shelters, rescues, and doggie daycare facilities. Prior to working in animal welfare, she spent over a decade teaching youth and adults with disabilities in public school, group home, vocational, and clinical settings. She was a certified public school teacher and holds a Masters degree in Special Education. Applied Behavior Analysis was a focus of her graduate and post-graduate studies and research.
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She has been a member of several obedience and dog sport clubs, and she and her dogs and actively participated in Obedience, Rally Obedience, Agility, Flyball, Disc Dog, Lure Coursing, and Tracking. She and her dogs have earned several titles in multiple dog sports. Andrea and her dog Rumble were also a pet therapy team registered with the Delta Society. Her dogs have participated in demonstrations at county fairs, college sporting events, prisons, schools and neighborhood centers, and were also featured weekly in a humane education program on Public Access TV. They have presented on topics such as dog bite prevention, pet adoption, basic pet training, managing multiple pet households, and shelter volunteering.
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