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Thursday November 29, 2012
By SHAUN A. NOORDIN
Toys and big-boy toys go really well together with the Ferrari LEGO line of models from Shell.
OUR first thoughts when we saw the Shell LEGO Ferrari collection went like this: "Vroom vroom vroooom vrooooommmm whee!"
Later, when we had ... collected ourselves long enough to form proper English sentences in our head, our subsequent thought was, "This is so cool, we get to spend an evening playing with LEGO Ferraris and it's actually part of our job!" Do note the tone of absolute glee.
You could say it's pretty childish for a 29-year-old to get this excited about toys, but come on, this is LEGO AND Ferrari.
These things appeal to both our kiddish love of LEGO's imaginative bricks and our big-boy fascination for fast cars. And we prefer "childlike".
Shell has brought these exclusive Ferrari-themed LEGO sets to our shores and there are six cars and one minifigures set in the whole collection.
The cars are fantastic representations of real Ferraris, and they're the most affordable way to fill your garage with these iconic vehicles.
In the collection are the iconic F1 race car, the 150° Italia; the Scuderia Ferrari Truck (made at an optimal scale, it's a prime example of how Ferrari vehicles were transformed into LEGO models) which transports the race cars; the classic 250 GT Berlinetta; a sexy black Ferrari FXX; a yellow 458 Italia sports car; and an F40 sports car with racing decals.
Plus, of course, the minifigures set which features an F1 driver and his support crew.
The models were easy enough to build, with each set containing anywhere from 20 to 50-something parts.
Inspired by the Ferrari constructor challenge (see the iSnap video on this page), we tried to assemble the 150° Italia while timing ourselves; alas, it was one of us against three of them, so it was only logical that we took three times as long to put it together.
While most of the bricks would be familiar to LEGO fans, there are some pieces – such as the roof and bonnet of the 458 Italia – that appear to be exclusively designed to capture the Ferrari aesthetics.
The sticker decals add a lot of Ferrari flavour to the models, too. If you're a perfectionist like us, you might pop a vein trying to apply the stickers just right, but the patience and painstaking application will be worth it, trust us.
Once you've assembled your cars, you can enjoy a neat feature that these models have – the pull-back motors, which lets you send your Ferrari zipping across the coffee table with just a small pull.
You can easily spend an entire day gleefully racing these tiny sports cars, and if you'll excuse us, that's exactly what we're going to do right now.
Wait, hang on, our editor just reminded us that we're supposed to tell you more about the Shell promotion instead of just playing with the cars all day.
Here's the deal: The promotion is valid from Nov 8 to Feb 3 next year, and the six cars are available for RM12.90 each at participating outlets.
However, if you want to buy the coveted minifigures set, or if you want to get the cars at just RM10.90, make sure you either fill in at least RM40 worth of Shell V-Power first or grab four litres of Shell Helix engine oils.
For more information, head over to shell.com.my/LEGO.
Better collect them quick; these Ferraris will go very fast.
Model brick count:
250 GT Berlinetta - 24
458 Italia - 32
Ferrari 150° Italia - 33
Scuderia Ferrari Truck - 40
Minifigures - 46
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Who's Being Mentioned For Director of the National Park Service?
With Ken Salazar the pick for the Obama administration's Interior secretary, it's time to turn to the question of who will be the next director of the National Park Service.
Among the names being circulated are Mike Finley, who, among other postings, served stints as superintendent at Everglades, Yosemite and Yellowstone before deciding in 2001 he couldn't work for the Bush administration; Dan Kimball, current Everglades superintendent, and; Jon Jarvis, the Park Service's Pacific Region director.
Odds are more names will surface in the weeks ahead. Whoever gets the job, let's hope they're strong leaders interested in stewarding the parks and not afraid to speak out when politics infringes on that stewardship. And let's hope the Interior secretary let's them do their job and not tell them what decisions will be made.
Are nominations being accepted?
I nominate Gayle Hazelwood.
Editor's note: Who is Gayle? Read this article for some insights.
I like Michael Finley. But your rumor about the reason he retired is bunk. He's not that weak.
While I like these career NPS employees, I do not think that is what the NPS needs. The NPS needs someone politically connected and Washington savvy to raise the issues and needs of the bureau. The last few Directors have all been competent, experienced, park managers. That's not what the NPS needs in the top job. Let the career professionals handle that. Get a Director who has a high profile, a knack for managing the media, and a knowledge of a political insider. The most successful Directors, like Connie Wirth and George Hartzog, were masters at managing the politics of the Congress and Executive Branch to get the NPS what it needed. That is needed now, more than any time since the post-WWII period. The parks will suffer badly against all the other demands of the nation and someone who is an administrator, however competent, is not going to make things happen.
Rangertoo, I'm struck by the parallels with academia, which is full of competent drudges who run departments, institutes, programs, and even a few universities here and there. Competent drudges get down there in the trenches and do the work, but they are completely replaceable -- just cogs in the machinery -- and are quickly forgotten after they've served out their time.


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VIII. Detailed Recommendations
To the Government of Kenya
To the Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Medical Services
·Ensure equal access to health care for all children and in particular to HIV testing and treatment.
·Integrate pediatric HIV testing and treatment into regular child health care-such as Maternal and Child Health clinics-by routinely offering voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) at all points of contact between children and the health system, including at dispensaries and health centers.
·Integrate pediatric HIV testing and treatment into facilities offering adult testing and treatment, to ensure that children are able to access treatment together with adult family members.
·Implement the current policy of routinely offering testing for infants at age 6 weeks, 12 months, and 18 months. In addition, instruct health facilities to offer testing for all children under the age of five who have not had a test yet, and for all children who have HIV-related symptoms.
·Change existing testing guidelines on parental consent to:
oGive children aged 15 and older the right to seek or refuse HIV testing or treatment, regardless of parental consent;
oGive children aged 12 and older the right to seek or refuse HIV testing or treatment, depending on their cognitive and emotional maturity; and
oAllow third parties such as community health workers to take children for testing if parents or guardians agree.
·Develop a policy on disclosure of HIV diagnosis to children, aiming for disclosure starting at age six, taking into account their cognitive and emotional maturity. Establish programs that provide guidance on disclosure to parents and caregivers.
·Strengthen the role of community-based health workers, social workers, and counselors in health facilities by expanding their numbers, introducing compensation fees to pay for their services, and providing additional training, in particular on pediatric HIV and child psychology.
·Reach out to families with HIV-positive children by:
oPublicizing information about pediatric HIV services available in each local area, including information about ART and cotrimoxazole as life-saving treatment for children;
oCreating treatment literacy courses for adults administering ART to children;
oEstablishing HIV support groups for caregivers of HIV-positive children and for children themselves; and
oMaking special efforts to involve fathers in family health issues.
·Carry out an awareness-raising campaign to inform the public about the availability of free HIV treatment, encourage sick people to seek care at local health facilities, and caution against reliance on non-medical AIDS cures.
·Develop and implement guidelines on palliative care for children.
·Ensure that children under the age of five do not have to pay user fees, in accordance with the current policy.
·Ensure that user fees for health services for children over the age of five do not constitute a barrier for HIV testing or treatment.
·Carry out an awareness-raising campaign to fight stigma and discrimination, including by:
oTraining health workers on HIV-related issues, including issues affecting mothers and children living with HIV;
oUsing radio and other media to sensitize the public to the rights of people living with HIV, with particular reference to the problem of stigma within families and communities;
oUsing radio and other media to show positive examples of women and men living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral treatment;
oIncluding the topic of protection from stigma and discrimination in school curricula.
To the Kenya Food Security Steering Group
·Take measures to address endemic food security problems. This should include specific measures for children, including free school meals.
·Help set up schemes to provide adults and children on ART with key nutrients through food supplements or with funds for income-generating activities.
·Help set up programs that provide infant formula for at least six months after birth to those HIV-positive mothers who are advised to feed their babies formula, in accordance with WHO guidelines for acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable, and safe infant feeding.
To the Ministry of Special Programs, including the National Aids Control Council (NACC)
·Ensure that existing donor funds for the fight against AIDS benefit the general health system.
·Verify that internally displaced people living in transit sites, including children, have access to health care, including HIV testing and treatment.
·Ensure that internally displaced people living in camps and transit sites have adequate nutrition, clothing, housing, and protection from violence.
·Develop an emergency preparedness strategy that addresses interruption of HIV treatment.
To the Ministry of Gender and Children Affairs
·Strengthen the current child protection system by significantly increasing the number of children officers throughout the country.
·Implement the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children. As a first step, set up a task force to develop and implement a plan of action to end violence against children, including children living with HIV.
·Liaise with traditional leaders and communities in western Kenya with the aim of developing practices that provide alternatives to traditions such as widow inheritance.
·Provide access to HIV treatment for child-headed households through targeted programs to provide them with HIV-related services wherever possible.
·Provide access to HIV treatment for street children through outreach programs wherever possible.
To the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Gender and Children Affairs
·Ensure that cases of disinheritance, child neglect, and abuse are investigated and prosecuted in accordance with international legal standards.
·Ensure that sexual and gender-based violence against HIV-positive women are investigated and prosecuted in accordance with international legal standards.
·Take measures to improve access to justice for children suffering abuse or disinheritance. In particular:
oSet up schemes for free legal aid for vulnerable children;
oTrain legal professionals on children's rights, and employ them to represent children's interests, particularly in rural areas;
oDo outreach with traditional leaders on property rights issues of children;
oCarry out awareness-raising on children's rights, including on the child's right to health, protection from violence, and property;
oTrain judicial and law enforcement personnel on children's rights; and
oEnsure that inheritance cases of HIV-positive children are treated as priorities.
·Ensure that programs for orphans and vulnerable children include measures to improve access to health care and protection.
To the Attorney General
·Inform the public about the role of property rights of children and the role of the public trustee.
·Ensure public trustees proactively take up cases of orphans, as a priority.
To UNAIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States, and Other Donor Agencies Working on HIV/AIDS
·Assist the government, through technical and financial support, with the design and implementation of the public health measures outlined above.
·Strengthen the capacity of the health system by better integrating HIV/AIDS programs into existing health system structures.
To the United National Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Other Donor Agencies Working on Child Protection
·Offer the government technical and financial support with the design and implementation of child protection measures as outlined above.
To Donor Countries
·Fund research and development of drug formulations that are suitable for children in resource-poor settings, such as tablets in smaller sizes, tablets that can be divided easily, and tablets that can be sprinkled or dispersed.
·Fund research on new, more effective tuberculosis drugs that can be taken together with antiretroviral drugs, and on a test that can accurately diagnose tuberculosis in children.
To the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Social Affairs
·Ensure that efforts to implement the Abuja Call for Accelerated Action Towards Universal Access to HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Services in Africa focus on treatment access for children.
·Urge the Kenyan government to allocate 15 percent of government expenditure to the health sector, in accordance with the Abuja Declaration of African governments.


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The artistic collaboration between Larry Sultan (1946-2009), longtime member of CCA's Photography faculty, and Mike Mandel began in 1972. Over 30 years they created 20 photographic projects, including the landmark book Evidence; exhibitions; the film JPL; three public commissions; and 12 billboard series displayed throughout California and the continental U.S. They evolved a seemingly authorless style; most of their works adapted found imagery from archives or from popular media, neutralizing the intended commercial or documentary content by uncovering and emphasizing the inherent banality. This substantial overview surveys Sultan and Mandel's three-decade collaboration. Five critical essays provide valuable insights.Read the rest


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I come to notice that mesmers might be one of the most damaging classes.
Energy burn(72 dmg) (10 mana) Cast On Anything
Blackfire(119 dmg) (15 mana) On Spell Casters
Wastrel's Worry(53 dmg) (5 mana) On Anything
Seriously, these numbers are higher than elementalist spells. Forget armor penetration from lightning, all these spells have a fixed amount of damage that never changes.
Also, the health degeneration with Mantra of Persistence plus Conjure Phantasm can rival Mark of Rodgort plus any fire spell. It's just a cast and forget, on multiple enemies when stacked with Mantra of Recovery.
Mana stealing is also in the picture.
I'm only comparing the paper figures against the elementalist, but if these things are true, which I don't know if they are, might as well be a full mesmer :D


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Jet Airways and Air India statements that they have been avoiding air space over Ukraine ever since the crisis began is the hottest talking point among aviation experts.
On Friday, a day after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile over Ukraine, both Airways stated: "Jet Airways would like to assure its guests that none of the Jet Airways flights to and from Europe fly through the Ukrainian airspace ever since the conflict began and we continue to avoid the Ukrainian airspace in the prime interest of the safety of our guests".
A civil aviation ministry statement said almost the same thing about Air India. "There was no Air India flight near the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines plane at the time of the incident," it said/
Travel enthusiasts rubbish the claims, saying data from flight tracking websites clearly show a Jet Airways flight along the same route, just two hours before MH17 was shot down.
Devesh Agarwal, an aviation enthusiast who scanned satellite-based flight tracking websites like FlightAware, PlaneFinder, and FlightRadar24, found Jet Airway's statement to be false .
"Radar-tracking data shows that Jet Airways flight 9W119, which departed from London at 8:39am on July 17 for Mumbai, flew almost the same air corridor north-east of Donetsk over the village of Shakhtars'k, the crash site of MH17, just about two hours before the ill-fated airliner was blown out of the sky," he said in his blog bangaloreaviation.com.
The flight-tracking websites are based on a system, under which on-board electronic equipment sends data about an aircraft's position via the Global Positioning System (GPS).
It also informs the aircraft's identity, location, altitude, speed, etc. via radio link signals. Ground receivers pick up these data, which is then used by air traffic control and flight-tracking sites.
However, data procured from FlightPath by Live From a Lounge , a blog, shows Air India Flight 113 was only 25 km away from the crash site.
"No one should fault an airline for flying over the conflict zone, because the airspace above 32,000 feet was an open corridor for air traffic. So, no one was doing a wrong thing by flying at that altitude. But to try and distance themselves from the tragedy by lying to the public does not get my sympathy to either of the two airlines (Air India and Jet Airways)," the blogpost said.
On Sunday, a Jet Airways spokesperson said the airline did not come out with any wrong statement.
"Jet Airways ceased flying over the Notified Ukrainian airspace as per the directives received by all airlines since the beginning of the conflict. We have now, effective 17th July 2014, completely ceased flying through the entire Ukrainian airspace."
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Jessica Mack is a freelance writer and gender consultant, specialising in reproductive health and rights. She is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.
A few weeks ago, in what has become an arms race to limit reproductive freedom in the United States, North Dakota approved the country's most restrictive abortion ban. Days earlier, that repugnant title was held by Arkansas, and who knows what absurd restriction tomorrow will bring.
What US elected officials are doing to reproductive rights in the US is outrageous, but at least we have some recourse as voters and advocates. What US elected officials are doing to the reproductive rights of women in developing countries - through foreign policy that exports our own abortion hang-ups - is reproductive colonialism.
The Helms Amendment was enacted in 1973 and bars US aid recipients from using funds for abortion services, even in countries where it is legal. However, funding
The Helms Amendment was enacted in 1973 and bars US aid recipients from using funds for abortion services, even in countries where it is legal. However, funding can support abortion referrals and even the procedure itself in cases of rape and incest. But it rarely or never does.
The language of the policy is vague and confusing, prohibiting "abortion as a method of family planning" and the "motivation or coercion" of anyone to perform the procedure. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) (and one presidential administration after the next) has continually neglected to provide sufficient guidance on how to implement the policy.
This has left ample room for misinterpretation by aid recipients and USAID staff, which is further fostered by the US' long history of politicising and stigmatising abortion combined with the undue power of a wealthy donor country. The result is that Helms is being implemented as if it were a total abortion ban.
Maternal mortality
Seeds of stigma and censorship have been sewn into already-struggling health systems of poor countries, hampering meagre efforts to address unwieldy maternal mortality rates. It is poor women who suffer, unable to access the safe, legal abortion services they deserve.
It may seem incredible that a hazy global policy would have such stark real-life effects. But US-based reproductive rights groups have been diligently documenting its troubling impact in both Africa and Asia for years. This evidence has helped blow the cover off one of the most pernicious and most neglected US foreign policies.
Reproductive rights groups have raised the alarm, continuing to push the Obama administration to issue clarifying guidelines. Last year, 12 members of US Congress publicly called on President Obama to even reviewthe policy - the first time it would have received such close attention in decades.
Most recently, the European Parliament issued an open letter to President Obama on the negligence of Helms. Through its careless implementation (as effectively a total abortion ban), they rightly point out, the US is in direct violation of international humanitarian and rights agreements.
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This includes the Geneva Conventions, which ensure the right to safe abortion for women and girls raped during times of conflict, and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which obligates donor countries to support the priorities and strategies articulated by developing country aid recipients.
For most such countries, reducing the number of women dying from pregnancy- and childbirth-related causes is a priority. Unsafe abortion persists in epidemic proportions as a leading, yet preventable, cause of maternal death. Ensuring safe access to this procedure is a critical strategy for reducing deaths - it is basically that simple.
Ideally, the Helms Amendment should be repealed. It is archaic and over-reaching, a relic of paternalistic aid that we should have long moved beyond. It was authored by the late Republican Senator Jess Helms, a well-known racist and homophobe, and is shameful as global reproductive health legacy.
But barring repeal, at the very least the policy should be implemented properly. This is not about personal opinion on the morality of abortion, but rather the principles of good, fair and effective foreign policy. Abortion counselling and referral as well as services in cases of rape and incest should be fully funded, and USAID should take active steps to ensure everyone - grantees, employees and government officials - knows this is so.
Reproductive rights
For many developing country governments, abortion is not a political bugaboo so much as a public health issue requiring urgent attention. Who are we as donors to stand in their way? As human beings, women deserve the right to access health services and control their bodies and fertility. Who is anybody to stand in their way?
As the Obama administration espouses such values as "reproductive rights are human rights", strives to put women at the centre of our foreign policy agenda and unveils global health initiatives aimed at funding harmonisation and developing country ownership, shouldn't they also be honest about the skeleton in our closet?
If the Helms Amendment directly affected the lives of male US policymakers, we would have seen immediate action to address missteps years ago. Instead, Helms disproportionately affects the lives of impoverished women thousands of miles away. The onus has been on global reproductive rights advocates to help bring these distant realities to bear in up-close ways, and they have delivered on that.
Yet there has been no official or definitive action by the Obama administration on Helms yet, nor any public indication that such action is imminent. Perhaps the wheels are in motion, but they are moving far too slowly. Each day that this policy persists misapplied is one more day that the US tacitly contributes to maternal deaths and injuries around the world.
The notion of funding abortion services, whether domestically or globally, is an inordinately sticky issue in the US. Advocates appreciate that. But at a certain point, the value of the lives and rights of women around the world must trump US policymakers' squeamishness about difficult abortion discussions.
In his last term, President Obama can make a crucial mark on US foreign policy history by rectifying four decades of recklessness, and acknowledging the value of women's rights worldwide.
Jessica Mack is a freelance writer and gender consultant, specialising in reproductive health and rights. She is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.
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The New York City Council Transportation Committee met Wednesday to discuss a slate of bills designed to make life easier for New Yorkers who park.
Three bills are under consideration: Int. 762 would make it easier for vehicles to stand near a school or day care center; Int. 527 would require the DOT to post notice of permanent street sign changes that affect parking, and Int. 824 would make it expressly legal for homeowners to park in front of their own driveways -- something committee chair Jimmy Vacca called "a simple bill -- quite frankly, it should be a no-brainer."
That last idea didn't fly with Kate Slevin, the New York City Department of Transportation Assistant Commissioner testifying on behalf of the NYC DOT.
"It's unclear what issue the bill attempts to address," she said, adding it was "particularly troubling" that the bill, as written, could effectively provide 'blanket forgiveness" for a variety of parking violations.
Slevin also said the DOT wouldn't support the other two bills. The no-standing regulations near schools, she said, are necessary to protect children. And as for posting advance notice for permanent parking sign changes: Slevin said the DOT maintains over 1.3 million signs -- of which 20 percent are devoted to parking. Providing advance notice, she said, would "essentially double the workload" of staff people who change signage, which would result in increased costs.
Rather than debate if people should read signs, or signs about signs, the hearing first focused on a topic not on the agenda: prices, specifically an already-rescinded rate increase notice the DOT had sent out to people who use municipal parking facilities.
Jimmy Vacca, reading from the letter, said "Effective January 1st, the City Council has approved rate increases for all New York City DOT municipal parking facilities."
"This City Council never approved any rate increase," Vacca said, adding that the same letter had been sent out last year. "This is two years in a row that this is a mistake."
He took the occasion to argue for more Council control over parking regulations, and said he wanted the City Council to be brought in as a partner when it comes to parking rate increases -- not an afterthought. "I don't appreciate agencies telling me what they're going to do, after they've decided what they're going to do."
The often-tense hearing did deliver some choice exchanges that reveal a persistent tension in city transportation planning.
"What do people do who have cars in this city?" Vacca wanted to know.
"Well, luckily for us, we have a wonderful transportation system," said Slevin, "and less than 50 percent of the households in New York City own cars, so there's a lot of other options people use to get around town."
This did not placate Vacca.
"Some people who live in boroughs outside Manhattan do need a car," snapped Vacca. "I hate to break that to DOT. Some people who do not live in Manhattan, especially, need a car. We do not have mass transit options that you think we have, or that we should have."
Slevin told him the new municipal parking lot rates were going into effect in February 2013.
I take serious issue with the councilman's description of the car as a necessity, when less than one lifetime ago hardly anyone in New York City had one and the city had basically the same transit system it does today. Take a look at a city bus map. You'd be very hard pressed to find any area of the city that is more than a 10-minute walk from a bus line, not to mention subways, taxis, and biking as other options. Most people don't NEED cars, they just prefer them and have gotten accustomed to them. But car ownership and driving is NOT something we should be looking to encourage here. There is enough traffic and pollution already
Ridiculous. Doesn't Jimmy Vacca have anything better to do? I have a daughter who attends a local school and crossing the street is unsafe due to all of the selfish drivers double parking.
Mr. Vacca, please come with me one day as I walk my daughter to school. Maybe you'll change your focus to matters of real safety.
My son bicycled to Brooklyn Tech. The only bike crash he had was when he was doored by a student opening a car door after his rushing mother drove her car to close and too fast as my son approached the school. She deliberately cut in front the cyclist just to save herself a few seconds, guaranteeing he would be hit by the opening door.
These giant SUVs double parked in front of every school make crossing the street by kids and parents and every other pedestrian and cyclist in the neighborhood a hazard.
Neighborhood schools? Then why do all these people need to drive in? Do they all have phony addresses out of district but drive in every day?
Enforce a ban on double parking around schools, not encourage it; have any drop-off and waiting areas at least a block away from the schools.
James Vacca is intolerable. He seems to view drivers in this city as some sort of underprivileged group when in fact they enjoy huge benefits at the expense of pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. This in spite of the fact that they make up a minority of city residents. And even many of those who do own cars (myself included) only use them sparingly and not for commuting. Vacca needs to get a clue.
Every single day I drop off my kids at school, there is a school bus stuck behind double parked cars. This makes the kids on the bus late. This makes the cars behind the bus, which is now having to let kids off in the middle of the street about 100 yards away from the entrance of school honk. This puts the kids in danger, every single day.
Sometimes we have parent volunteers that can stand outside with cones waving people on so the bus can get through. But often, the double parking parents just stop and park anyway, some have even driven over the cones.
This happens every morning, and it is illegal, dangerous and unhealthy. Why should this behavior be made legal?
Let's just rename the NYC City Council's Transportation Committee the Driving Committee and then everything will make perfect sense. The rest of us can go suck an egg.
As a parent of a young child in daycare, I can assure you that the LAST thing I need is more drivers double parking near her daycare, blocking crosswalks, making it impossible for us to be seen as we try to cross the street. This is INSANITY, James Vacca. Shame on you.
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Dr. Rajabrata Sarkar, chief of vascular surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center, said that the study results were likely due to the caliber of the hospital.
"I don't think these results are reproducible community wide in America," said Dr. Sarkar, who has many patients taking warfarin. "Not everyone has access to this high quality of care, so the home testing is an excellent alternative for people who have geographic or economic barriers but still have to come into the clinic to get checked."
"So, if the quality of anticoagulation care is lower in a different hospital setting, home testing may have been shown to be a better alternative than the office visit," continued Dolor.
Usually, patients on anticoagulant medication visit their doctor at least once a month to get blood drawn. If the levels are too high or too low, the medication is adjusted.
New treatments are being researched for people on anticoagulant drugs. On Wednesday, the FDA approved dabigatran, an orally active direct thrombin inhibitor, which would not require regular blood monitoring. This could soon be the preferred medication. But, for those who will stay on warfarin, self-monitoring might lead to an easier solution for the drug.
"Effective use of home monitoring makes a whole lot of sense for warfarin," said Dr. Daniel Brotman, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. "My recommendation to patients has always been that they should not go to once-monthly check until they're on a stable regimen and their dose hasn't changed during a one or two week period of time. And some patients never get to that point, so a weekly self-check would be good."
A lot of things can affect these levels, said Brotman, including new medicines, change in diet and exercise. Self-tests would allow patients to be more involved and pro-active, much like other home kits for a variety of conditions on the market.
Home tests have become a major part of the healthcare system. Today, a person can walk into a pharmacy and pick up a test to check for pregnancy, UTIs and HIV. Kits for diabetics are available to check their blood sugar levels at home.
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