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Thank you, BigJohn! I definitely want more of these characters! I have to say, without having read the other stories, it feels like a family that has already appeared in six or seven novels. So Mr Sigler needs to write those…please?
Welcome, new Sigler Junkie! There are four stories:
- Hunter Hunterson and Sons (Short Story: Blood is Red)
- Hunter Hunterson and Sons: Home (Short Story: Bones are White)
- Hunter Hunterson and Sons: The $15 Burger (Short Story: Bones are White, podiobooks.com, cast reading on Audible version and here: http://ec.libsyn.com/p/9/c/6/9c6fa38697c25a95/29_FridayFix___SiglerFest_2011_Hunter_Hunterson__the_15_Burger.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d06cb8033d4c85f0a08&c_id=3421471)
- Hunter Hunterson and Sons: The Case of the Haunted Safeway (Short Story: Games Creatures Play)
Looks like you may have found them all. Enjoy!
James, there is a curriculum guide that is available for free right here on the site.
1. Go to the STORE link in the banner above.
2. Scroll down to the picture of THE ROOKIE
3. Click the VIEW PRODUCTS button below the picture
4. Among the available options, you'll see the PDF version of the Rookie Curriculum Guide
I think I remember someone saying something about how it LOOKS like something is going to be charged, but nothing actually is. I think it might ask you for a credit card or something, even though it is free. I think that's a limitation of the shopping cart software.
While you're on Facebook, stop on by the SiglerJunkies group!
So, I'm new to Scott Sigler. I just read the story in Games Creatures Play, and loved it. I see there are HH&S stories in Blood is Red and Bones are White. Any more?
Thanks Scott. I absolutely love that you make yourself available to your fan base. Liking Alive alot. I like that the reader is in the dark as much as Em.
Michael: By the end of 2015, but not by then end of the summer.
Is there going to be an Alive specific forum?
I am pretty sure I've heard somewhere that there is a teacher version or something of the sort available. I have a friend on Facebook that I've been wanting to suggest it to. But I can't find it anywhere.
I discovered Scott in November and when I finish with Alive next week I will have read or listened to all of his available work except Earthcore. My question is do I set out on a quest to find a print copy of the original edition or is the revised edition dropping before summer is over?
Very much appreciated, Big John. I didn't find that looking around the site.
Here's the podcasts here on scottsigler.com: http://scottsigler.com/category/podcasts/the-champion-podcasts/
The particular one you are looking for is on Page 3.
Hello all,
I was downloading the podcast and realized that episode #7 isn't in the feed. Is it available elsewhere? Was it intentionally removed?
Thanks for any helpful assistance,
Ah, well. It's not a choice I make, so I'll just leave it alone. Is he updating earthcore to fit with the universe? I mean, aren't the rocktopi the portath?
I understand where you're coming from, and you're not alone at all. That's why I encourage you to look at it not as if it's Phil instead of Scott, but rather that it's Phil instead of no audiobook at all.
If the choice between Phil or no audiobook, I'd pick Phil.
I'm just an old junkie, from the old days of serialized earthcore. It pains me to scott offloading his voice acting. Just my opinion though. I know I'm basically alone, and I'm fine with that. Phil wasn't terrible with pandemic, but I'd have loved to listen to the story with Scott's special way with his characters, that's where this stems from. Id also like to reiterate my request for a version of the old earthcore, to stave off my hunger/compare to the new version. Did that with nocturnal too.


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Penn's Lung Cancer Program features a comprehensive team of thoracic surgeons, pulmonologists, nurses, respiratory therapists, rehabilitation specialists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and pathologists. Each provides comprehensive expertise in treating lung cancer. These specialists incorporate surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy to deliver integrated medicine for complex management of lung cancer.
In addition, Penn researchers are on the forefront of testing new surgical procedures, applying new drug therapies and developing the protocols for proton therapy and other radiation therapies that incorporate cutting edge technology and are changing the way lung cancer is treated.
Small cell lung cancer, often called oat cell carcinoma and small cell undifferentiated carcinoma, makes up about 10 to 15 percent of all lung cancers.
This cancer often starts in the bronchi near the center of the chest. Although the cancer cells are small, they can divide quickly, form large tumors, and spread to lymph nodes and other organs throughout the body.
Because of these traits, surgery is rarely an option for treating small cell lung cancer and never the only treatment given. Chemotherapy, which targets cancer cells throughout the body, is an important part of treatment for all small cell lung cancers. When disease is limited to the chest, doctors often use radiation and chemotherapy together. In addition, these cells can often hide out in the brain despite successful treatment to the chest. Physicians often employ prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) as a precaution to prevent recurrence in the brain.
The most common types of lung cancer are three main sub-types of NSCLC. The cells in these sub-types differ in size, shape, and chemical make-up. Treatment for NSCLC may include surgery to remove tumors or part of the lung.
Carcinoid tumors start from cells from the neuroendocrine system, they are like nerve cells in some ways and like hormone-making endocrine cells in other ways. Neuroendocrine cells do not form an actual gland, but are scattered throughout the chest and abdomen.
Lung neuroendocrine cells sometimes grow out of control and form tumors. These are known as neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) or neuroendocrine cancers. NETs can develop anywhere in the body.
There are two other types of lung carcinoid tumors and their differences can be seen under a microscope.
Carcinoid tumors are sometimes also classified by where they form in the lung.
Very little is known about what causes lung carcinoid tumors. They probably develop from tiny clusters of neuroendocrine cells in the lung airways called carcinoid tumorlets. Researchers still do not understand how carcinoid tumorlets develop from lung neuroendocrine cells or why tumorlets sometimes grow to become carcinoid tumors, and why others materialize, but never grow.
Mesothelioma is a rare type of malignancy that affects the lining (mesothelium) around the organs in the chest and abdomen. These cells protect organs by making a special fluid that lubricates the surfaces, allowing the lungs and other organs to move during breathing.
The mesothelium has different names in different parts of the body:
There are several different subtypes of mesothelioma, including epithelioid, sarcomatoid, biphasic and desmoplastic. Epithelioid is the most common, comprising 70 to 80 percent of cases. Mesothelioma is most often attributed to exposure to airborne asbestos particles and occurs in both men and women. Asbestos is a group of naturally occurring fibrous minerals used as a fire retardant, but generally is no longer used in insulation or brake materials. The latency period between exposure and the development of mesothelioma can be as much as 40 to 50 years.
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Early diagnosis of lung cancer can be difficult. The early stages of lung cancer do not usually produce any symptoms, so only a small number of lung cancers are found early. When lung cancer is found early, it is often because of tests that were being done for something else.
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Tiger is 16 months and still only has six teeth. The last week he has been getting signs of more appearing though, he has been really grumpy and his sleep has been disturbed.
He's been staying up late after lots of failed bedtime attempts and waking up in the early hours crying.
In fact on an unrelated note but something that was so freaky I have to share: We had brought him downstairs the other night and he was really happily running around and playing when all of a sudden he stopped by the wall looking out to our front door and screamed like I have never heard before. It was the most ear piercing scream ever and he was shaking with fear. I've never seen anything like it from either of my kids and even Mr C was completely freaked out. I wish I had it on camera as it's not even possible to put into words just how freaky it was!!
Anyway, Tiger joining us in our bed has become an ordinary moment of late and I'm really enjoying the early morning cuddles. I have always brought both the kids into our bed if they are ill or upset, it's never been an issue as they always go back to sleeping in their own beds without any problems when they are better.
Obviously the fact we have a super king-size bed helps, when we had a double it wasn't quite as enjoyable!
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I attended a meeting in Washington this past Wednesday that got me to thinking about the fact that as we revolutionize cancer research and treatment, we are also going to have to revolutionize cancer care. And that may prove to be an even more daunting task than finding new treatments for the disease itself.
The meeting was sponsored by a collaboration called "Turning The Tide Against Cancer". The organizers brought together experts from a variety of disciplines ranging from insurance companies and economists to advocacy groups and highly regarded cancer specialists to discuss policy solutions to support innovation in cancer research and care. Walking in, I anticipated this was going to be another one of those sessions where we talked about funding for research, bringing research into clinical trials, and having patients get access to new drugs. But I was wrong. The discussions quickly steered into a different direction: what do we need to do to make the cancer care system work for patients?
Of course there were the continuing themes of "big data" and the impact of genomics on drug development and patient care, but a surprising amount of the discussion centered around new payment models, quality of care, and fundamental redesign of medical care to become more patient centric. And although we talked a lot about data gathering and analysis, what stuck with me was the redesign piece. I thought the discussion around redesign would focus on personalized medicine, but we spent a lot of time on changing the fundamental structure of cancer care and payment.
How are those two linked? Did we miss our focus?
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She created the look of the modern woman; she was the high priestess of couture; she inspired women to take off their bone corsets and to cut their hair. She believed in simplicity and elegance and freed women from the tyranny of fashion. She used ordinary jersey as couture fabric; elevated the waistline and created bellbottom trousers, trench coats, turtleneck sweaters, and costume jewelry. In the 1920s when she employed more than 2000 people in her work rooms, she had amassed a personal fortune of $15 million and went on to create an empire. She was autocratic; a volatile woman of fierce ambition and drive; confidante of the rich and famous, friend of royalty and nobility. At the start of the Second World War, she closed down her couture house and went across the street to live at the Ritz. She remained at the Ritz and moved on to Vichy and then Switzerland between 1945 to1954. For more than half a century, Chanel's life from 1941 to 1954 has been shrouded in vagueness and rumor; mystery and myth. Neither Chanel nor her many biographers have ever told the full story of these years. Now Hal Vaughan, in this explosive expose - part suspense thriller, part wartime portrait - fully pieces together the hidden years of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel's life, from the Nazi occupation of Paris to the aftermath of the war. Vaughan tells the story of Chanel's long-whispered collaboration with Hitler's high-ranking officials. He writes in full of her longtime affair with Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage, 'Spatz' (sparrow in English), described in most Chanel biographies as being an innocuous, English speaking tennis player, playboy, and harmless dupe - a loyal German soldier and diplomat serving his mother country who was not a member of the Nazi party, but revealed here to have been a Nazi master spy and German military intelligence agent in France, member of the military intelligence service in the Abwehr, an institution in service to the German High Command for espionage, counter-intelligence and sabotage from 1921 and that during the war, he was an agent reporting directly to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, right hand of Hitler. The book reveals for the first time how Coco Chanel became a German Intelligence operative; how and why she enlisted in a number of spy missions; how she escaped arrest in France after the war, despite her activities being known to the Gaullist clandestine French intelligence; how she fled to Switzerland for a nine-year exile with her lover Dincklage. And how, despite the French court opening a case concerning Chanel's espionage activities during the war, she was able to return to Paris at seventy and triumphantly resurrect and reinvent herself and rebuild what has become, the iconic House of Chanel.


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Sept. 19, 1967 R.T. BULLOCH 3,342,175
v CARDIAC BIOPSY INSTRUMENT Filed Nov. 23, 1964' 2 Sheets-Shet 1 INVENTOR RobertT. Bulloch M JWK ATTORNEYS Sept. 19, 1967 T. BULLOCH CARDIAC BIOPSY INSTRUMENT Filed Nov. 23, 1964 2 Sheets-Sheet V2 INVENTOR Robert T. Bulloch Ma /8 L.
ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,342,175 CARDIAC BIOPSY INSTRUMENT Robert T. Bulloch, 5518 A St., Apt. 4, Little Rock, Ark. 72205 Filed Nov. 23, 1964, Ser. No. 413,047 6 Claims. (Cl. 128-2) ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An intracardiac biopsy device including a curved stainless steel tube or sheath, a transversely extending handle at one end of the sheath aligned with the plane of the curve, and a wire extending through the sheath terminating at one end in a specimen cutter and being provided at the other end with a removable manipulating handle. The wire is longer than the sheath, the diameter of the sheath is small enough to be passed through a catheter in a jugular vein, and the length of the sheath is greater than the length of the jugular vein between the heart and the clavicle.
This invention relates to medical instruments and particularly to an instrument for safely taking a specimen of cardiac muscle in human patients.
The study and treatment of heart diseases, and particularly primary myocardial disease, has long been hampered because it has not been possible to safely and reliably obtain heart tissue specimens from intact, unanesthetized human patients. Though efforts have been made heretofore to achieve cardiac biopsy, it has not been considered practical, prior to the present invention, to obtain myocardial tissue routinely from living patients.
It is accordingly a general object of the invention to devise an instrument which can be used with dependable safety to take specimens of cardiac tissue from living patients.
Another object is to provide a simple, effective and reliable instrument for accomplishing intracardiac biopsy.
A further object is to provide a biopsy needle which can be introduced into the right ventricle of the human heart with safety and relative ease in such manner that the specimen cutting means of the biopsy needle is accurately positioned on the lower ventricular septum and extends in a specifically predetermined direction.
In order that the manner in which these and other objects are attained in accordance with the invention can be understood in detail, one particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and wherein:
FIG. 1 is a semi-diagrammatic view showing a biopsy instrument in accordance with the invention in use for obtaining a specimen of myocardial tissue;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view, partly in longitudinal cross section, of the instrument of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is aview taken on line 3-3, FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a manipulating member forming part of the instrument of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of the distal end portion of the instrument; and
FIGS. 6 and 7 are transverse cross-sectional views taken respectively on lines 6-6 and 7-7, FIG. 5.
FIGS. 3-5 being enlarged in comparison with FIG. 2.
Referring now to the drawings in detail, and first to FIGS. 25, the embodiment of the invention illustrated comprises a tubular needle sheath 1 having a handle member 2 secured rigidly to one end thereof, the other end of the sheath being in the form of a straight portion 3 of significantly larger diameter than the main body of the sheath. The needle comprises a wire 4 which extends oompletely through the main body of sheath 1, the wire being of such length that, when one end thereof is disposed at portion 3 of the sheath, the other end portion 5 of the wire projects for a substantial distance beyond the end of the sheath to which handle member 2 is secured.
At end portion 5, the wire is equipped with a detachable manipulating member indicated generally at 6 and shown in detail in FIG. 4. Member 6 comprises a rigid cylindrical body having a portion 7 of larger diameter and a portion 8 of smaller diameter. A cylindrical bore 9, of such diameter as to snugly embrace end portion 5 of wire 4, extends completely through body portion 8 and terminates short of the tip of body portion 7. A straightwalled slot 10 is provided in body portion 7 and extends longitudinally of the manipulating member, opening both into bore 9 and through the outer surface of body portion 7. A locking cam 11 is rotatably mounted in slot 10, as by pin shaft 12, and has a high point or cam nose 11a of such size and disposition as to engage wire 4 and force the same laterally against the wall of bore 9 to lock member 6 rigidly to the wire. An operating handle 13 is rigidly secured to cam 11 so that the operator can conveniently rotate the cam to lock the member 6 to the wire and also to release the member 6 for removal preparatory to withdrawal of the wire from the sheath.
At its other end, wire 4 is rigidly secured to a specimen cutting device comprising two complementary blade members 14 and 15 each cut from thin-walled steel tubing of a diameter to embrace wire 4. Each blade member is welded at one end to the end portion of wire 4 and, at its other end, is ground along line 16 to receive a generally wedge-shaped tip member 17 which is welded in place. Members 17 are identical, each presenting a specimen-retaining shoulder 18 and a flat face 18a which slants forwardly and outwardly, terminating in a peripheral cutting edge. The surfaces of shoulder 18 and face 18a intersect to form a sharp edge adapted to aid in retaining the specimen. Since faces 18a diverge, the blade members are spread apart resiliently as they are forced into the area from which the specimen is to be taken. The blade members 14 and 15 are of equal length, and the total length of the cutting device is such that the entire cutting device can be retracted within the enlarged straight portion 3 of the sheath and protected thereby, both before and after taking of the specimen.
Advantageously, the main body of sheath 1 is a thinwalled steel tubing. Surgical steel tubing of 16-l8 gauge serves admirably for this portion of the device. The straight distal end portion 3 can be of larger diameter steel tubing, such as, 1415 gauge. The thinner, smaller diameter main body portion of the sheath, when made of 18 gauge steel tubing, for example, has adequate resilient flexibility to allow easy passage through a catheter, yet has sufficient rigidity to retain a normal, predetermined configuration which assists in achieving precise control of the alignment of the specimen cutting device. The enlarged distal end portion 3, when made of 14 gauge steel tubing, for example, is stiffer than the smaller diameter main body portion, and has suificient rigidity to retain a straight condition, extending axially in a direction determined by the configuration of the adjacent end portion of the main body of the sheath, as hereinafter described. Since portion 3 is straight, and since the outer edges of the blade members 14 and 15 of the cutting device are straight and are closely confined by portion 3, the directional orientation of the specimen cutting device is determined with preciseness by the disposition of portion 3 of the sheath. The tip of portion 3 is cut at an acute angle relative to the central axis of portion 3 and is back ground to assure easy traversal of the sheath through a catheter.
Considering FIGS. 2 and 3, it will be seen that, when sheath 1 is in its normal undistorted condition, the lower portion thereof curves in two directions which are generally at right angles to each other. Thus, the sheath has a normally straight portion or shank 1a and a normally doubly curved portion 1b, the latter terminating at the enlarged, straight distal end portion 3. Port-ion 1b is curved in a first direction (to the right, as viewed in FIG. 2) to such an extent that the straight distal end portion 3 extends at an angle a of 3090 advantageously approximately 50, downwardly and away from portion 1a. As seen in FIG. 3, portion 1b also curves in a second direction (upwardly as viewed in FIG. 3 and away from the viewer as viewed in FIG. 2) to such an extent that the straight distal end portion 3 slants at an angle 1: of -l5 away from the plane of the first-mentioned direction of curvature. This doubly curved configuration of the lower portion of the sheath is of particular importance in achieving the necessary accurate placement of the specimen cutting device on the lower ventricular septum, with blades 14 and projecting in a posteriomedial direction.
Handle member 2, rigidly fixed to sheath 1, is elongated in a direction transverse to the sheath. As seen in FIG. 3, the handle member 2 is precisely oriented so that its long dimension extends in alignment with the straight distal end portion 3. Thus, if portion 3 be considered as extending at angle b relative to a plane containing straight sheath portion 1a, then the long dimension slants from that plane at the same angle b and in the same direction, so as to provide a dependable indication of the disposition of distal end portion 3, and thus of the specimen cutter, within the patient. End portion 2a can be pointed, as seen in FIG. 3, to serve more clearly as an indicating means.
The manner in which the instrument is used to take a specimen from the ventricular septum is illustrated in FIG. 1. Employing local anesthesia, a radiopaque catheter is introduced into the right external or internal jugular vein and advanced, under fluoroscopic observation, into the right ventricle of the patients heart. The instrument is prepared as seen in FIGS. 25, with manipulating member 6 securely clamped to the proximal end of wire 4 and with the specimen cut-ting device fully retracted into the enlarged distal end portion 3 of the sheath. Employing handle member 2 both as a means for manipulating the instrument and as means for indicating the position of the specimen cutting device, the distal end portion 3 of the instrument is introduced into the catheter and the instrument advanced through the catheter until portion 3 projects from the distal end of the catheter and is positioned with its tip against the lower right ventricular septum. The specimen is then taken by forcing manipulating member 6 downwardly, causing wire 4 to drive the specimen cutting device out of sheath portion 3 to cut the specimen. With member 6 held stationary, member 6 is then manipulated to drive the needle sheath 1 over wire 4 toward the distal end of the needle, so that the enlarged portion 3 moves forwardly and again completely surrounds the specimen cutting device. Forward telescopic movement of sheath portion 3 over the specimen cutting device, such forward movement causing the sharpened leading edge of portion 3 to shear away any uncut portions of the specimen, so that the specimen is easily and clearly detached as the needle is withdrawn. The entire instrument is then removed via the catheter. The instrument having been recovered, handle 13 is rotated to free member 6 and that member is removed. The combination of the specimen cutting device and wire 4 is then withdrawn from the sheath 1 via end portion 3, and the specimen removed from the cutting device, ready for analysis. All parts of the instrument can then be cleaned easily and reassembled.
Though a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention has been illustrated and described, it will be understood that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
What is claimed is:
1. An instrument for accomplishing intracardiac biopsy of the ventricular septum, comprising an elongated tubular needle sheath of a diameter such that the needle sheath can be passed through a catheter;
said sheath being resiliently distortable before entry into a body to perform the biopsy but capable of normally retaining a predetermined shape while within the body and during biopsy sampling,
the length of said sheath being adequate to allow the same to extend from an exterior point to the ventricular septum via the right external jugular vein of a patient,
said sheath having a proximal end and a distal end;
a handle member fixed to said sheath at the proximal end thereof and including indicating means projecting laterally relative to said sheath;
a flexible wire extending through said sheath and having one end portion projecting from the proximal end thereof;
a manipulating member secured to said one end portion of said wire and disposed exteriorly of said sheath, whereby said wire can be moved reotilinearly relative to said sheath; and
specimen cutting means secured to the other end portion of said wire for cleanly severing a tissue sample,
said cutting means comprising two blade portions movable toward each other to cooperatively grip and cleanly sever the tissue sample;
the length of said wire being greater than the length of said sheath by an amount such that said manipulating member can be moved between a first position spaced from the proximal end of said sheath to a position adjacent the proximal end of the sheath in order to cause said cutting means to remove a specimen of cardiac muscle without artifact,
said cutting means being retracted within the distal end portion of said sheath when said manipulating member occupies said first position;
the portion of said sheath adjacent the distal end thereof being curved, when said sheath is in its normal predetermined shape, in a lateral direction, said indicating means being aligned with the tip of said distal end portion to enable the user to accomplish remotely the accurate placement of said cutting means on the lower ventricular septum.
2. An instrument according to claim 1, wherein said sheath is curved, when in its normal predetermined shape, in two lateral directions which are generally at right angles to each other;
the tip of said distal end portion of said sheath, when in its normal predetermined position, extending at an angle of 30-90 relative to the axis of said sheath in one of said lateral directions and at an angle of 10-15 in the other of said lateral directions.
3. An instrument according to claim 2, wherein said tip extends at an angle of approximately 50 in said one lateral direction.
4. An instrument according to claim 1, and further comprising means detachably securing said manipulating member to said wire, whereby said manipulating member can be removed and said wire withdrawn from said sheath via the distal end thereof.
5 6 5. An instrument according to claim 4, wherein References Cited the tip of said distal end portion of said sheath is a UNITED STATES PATENTS straight tubular portion of significantly larger diarneter than the main body of said sheath, the length of 2839049 2 2 MacLean 128' 2 said tubular portion being such that said cutting 5 2,739,585 6 W 1282 means can be fully accommodated thereby. 2,767,703 10/1956 Nleburgs 6. An instrument according to claim 1, wherein I J said sheath is a thin-Walled stainless steel tube and said RICHARD GAUDET Puma), Exmmne" Wire is of stainless steel. SIMON BRODER, Examiner.
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International Opportunities
The CPGC offers two international post-bac fellowships to graduating seniors. Leading social justice organizations have partnered with the CPGC to offer these 6-10 month opportunities to graduating students interested in working intensively in the international NGO context.
Fellows serve as liaisons between Haverford's curriculum and the activities and daily struggles of social change activists advocating for human rights in Mexico City and the public health workers of Hyderabad, India.
- Leah Hollander '15 (Biology) - Hyderabad, India
- Marcus Levy '15 (Spanish) - Mexico City, Mexico
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2015-16 Fellow: Marcus Levy '15
2014-15 Fellow: Siena Mann '14
2013-14 Fellow: Kate Irick '13
Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII) - Hyderabad, India
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2015-16 Fellow: Leah Hollander '15
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Combination Approaches: Harm Reduction for Injecting Drug Users
HIV in Prisons: Situation and Needs Assessment Toolkit
Aimed at national governments, particularly those of low- and middle-income countries, this toolkit first explains HIV in the prison context. It then provides the necessary tools to conduct the situation and needs assessments required before HIV intervention programs can be implemented. Although it focuses on HIV and tuberculosis-related HIV, it is also relevant to STIs and hepatitis. The toolkit recommends the establishment of a multidisciplinary steering committee and lays out a stepwise assessment process. Annexes include templates for consent forms and questionnaires, checklists, and information about sampling methodology.
Good Practice Guide: HIV and Drug Use: Community Responses to Injecting Drug Use and HIV
This comprehensive guide to HIV and drug use, written in clear, accessible language, aims to support community-based harm reduction and HIV programs, with a focus on developing and transitional countries. It thoroughly explains the issues of drug use, HIV, and health, and covers programs for special populations—women, children and young people, and prisoners—in a separate section. It spells out approaches to harm reduction, including community mobilization and gender-sensitive programming, and highlights the importance of involving all stakeholders, including people who use drugs, in programming. The guide describes in detail the HIV/AIDS Alliance good practice standards and spells out the key characteristics of effective programs.
Overdose Prevention and Response: A Guide for People Who Use Drugs and Harm Reduction Staff in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Although this guide was produced with harm reduction staff and people who use drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in mind, the information it contains is useful worldwide. The guide explains the basics of overdose, such as what happens to the body during overdose and the duration, potency, and overdose risk of different drugs. It describes the risk factors associated with overdose prevention and explains how to recognize an overdose. There is a section on responding step-by-step to an overdose, including a guide to rescue breathing and instructions for administering naloxone in the case of opioid overdose. A chapter for trainers on how to use the information provided completes the guide.
Technical Guide for Countries to Set Targets for Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care for Injecting Drug Users
This guide explains the rationale for including nine different evidence-based interventions in a comprehensive package of HIV prevention, treatment, and care for IDUs. Recommended interventions include harm reduction measures, HIV testing, counseling and treatment, and prevention and treatment of STIs, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis. Frameworks are given for each recommended intervention. A checklist offers guided assessment of the availability, coverage, and quality of each intervention.
Guide to Starting and Managing Needle and Syringe Programmes
This guide is designed to assist in expanding the response to HIV among IDUs. Many more NSPs will need to be established to meet the harm reduction needs of the growing IDU population. Sections I and II of this guide describe how to foster this process. Sections III and IV discuss how existing NSPs can expand the services that they offer and greatly increase their coverage. Scale-up of such programs must include establishing more NSPs in prisons and detention centers. Section V presents the particular needs of NSPs in such "closed settings." The end of the guide provides a list of useful websites, publications, and networks.
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Opioid Treatment Programs: A Treatment Improvement Protocol TIP 43
This highly detailed but easy to use document comprehensively explains the best practice guidelines for MAT of opioid addiction. There are chapters on the pharmacology and clinical pharmacotherapy of medication, the screening and assessment of potential candidates for treatment, and how to match patients with appropriate treatment options. The practicalities of providing MAT, from phases of treatment to maximizing patient retention, are covered. There are specific guidelines on the medical problems and co-occurring disorders typically seen in opioid addicted patients, as well as chapters on treating patients with multiple substance use and treating opioid addiction during pregnancy. The guide also covers administrative considerations such as staffing and program evaluation.
Advocacy Guide: HIV/AIDS Prevention among Injecting Drug Users
This guide provides a systematic approach to advocacy for HIV prevention and care among IDUs that can be replicated and adapted to various cultural, economic, and political settings. General principles of advocacy for HIV/AIDS prevention and care for IDUs are first presented. A step-by-step process is provided to establish advocacy groups with specific goals, undertake a situation analysis, develop a strategy, and implement the strategy. It also contains descriptions of many tools and methods for achieving advocacy goals and examples of their use in various country settings. Frequently used arguments related to HIV/AIDS prevention among IDUs are also included. Most methods in the guide can be used, after adaptation, at community, district, and national levels.
Training Guide for HIV Prevention Outreach to Injecting Drug Users: Workshop Manual
This training package is for workshops orienting and training public health policymakers, program developers, program managers, implementers, and field workers on IDU outreach for preventing HIV transmission. The training package has four workshop modules. Orientation to Outreach among IDUs provides evidence for the effectiveness of outreach programs and assists decision makers in introducing and developing such programs. Developing Outreach Programs for HIV Prevention among IDUs provides assistance to individuals interested or involved in developing outreach programs. Managing Outreach Programs among IDUs is for those who have never managed an outreach program, but can also be used as additional training for current managers and outreach field supervisors. Core Skills in Outreach among IDUs is designed for initial training of outreach workers or as a resource for ongoing training and revision among experienced outreach workers.
Manual for Reducing Drug Related Harm in Asia
This comprehensive manual grew out of the combined efforts of people in Asia to stop HIV. The first section presents background information on drug use and HIV vulnerability, the rationale for harm reduction, and balancing and integrating the approaches of supply, demand, and harm reduction. Briefing papers on critical issues, such as mapping drug use in Asia and care and support of IDUs with HIV, are included for use as advocacy tools in the region. The second section contains nine chapters on program design, implementation, and maintenance, including rapid assessments, voluntary counseling and testing, and addressing the needs of specific groups. The third section contains appendices with information on hepatitis A, B, and C; HIV; illicit drugs and their characteristics; and STIs.
Injecting Risk Questionnaire
This questionnaire measures the extent and nature of sharing needles, syringes, and other injecting equipment to assess levels of injecting risk behavior. It identifies different sharing practices and can be used for different types of IDUs. It can be used to assess need and target interventions. In the context of an appropriate research design, it can be used to help assess the impact of prevention services such as needle and syringe distribution schemes, publicity campaigns, peer education, and drug treatment programs. The questionnaire covers the direct sharing of needles and syringes, as well as sharing ancillary equipment (indirect sharing). It takes about five minutes to complete.
The Global HIV Epidemics among People Who Inject Drugs
Interventions targeting people who inject drugs (PWID) are not at sufficient levels to adequately reduce HIV transmission and acquisition rates, and without addressing the needs of this group overall success in countries will be challenging. The objectives of the study were to: 1) provide the economic evidence necessary to help advocate for increased services for PWID; 2) disseminate the results of the study to influence policy makers in making changes to their current HIV response to PWID; and 3) create a knowledge base for continual advocacy. Four key interventions for PWID were focused on in the analysis. These are needle and syringe programs, medically assisted therapy, HIV counseling and testing, and antiretroviral therapy (ART). Their level of effectiveness was determined by a review of the literature and used in four different modeling exercises depicting epidemiological data from Kenya, Ukraine, Pakistan, and Thailand. Each model explored how the expansion of coverage at the four intervention areas for PWID from 2012-15 would affect their HIV incidence rates and costs. The Goals mathematical model was utilized to measure no change in coverage, increase in coverage as is currently planned in national strategies, and increased scale-up. It was found across the four countries that reductions in HIV incidence were achieved when the four intervention areas were scaled up to achievable levels compared to the status quo scenario. It was also found that when a combination of the four intervention areas was scaled up, it was more effective and cost-effective compared to scaling up ART services alone. The findings indicate a need to drastically change the course of current HIV interventions targeting PWID.
The Global State of Harm Reduction 2012: Towards an Integrated Response
One in three HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa is caused by unsafe injecting practices, which fuel HIV and other blood-borne epidemics in many regions. This biennial report, the third in a series published by Harm Reduction International, tracks developments worldwide in adoption of harm reduction policies and program implementation since 2010. The report also explores critical issues for building a comprehensive harm reduction response, such as harm reduction programs designed for women, access to programs for young people, drug use by men who have sex with men, and global progress in decriminalizing drug use. This year's report paints a bleak picture of current harm reduction activity internationally. About half of the 158 countries included in the report have no programming at all to prevent HIV transmission through injection drug use; even in countries that have programming, coverage is poor, and donor support is declining. For example, in Russia the number of needle exchange programs has dropped from 70 in 2010 to only 6 in 2012. According to the report, scale-downs of this kind are occurring worldwide, a trend made worse by insufficient government commitment to harm reduction and to the unwillingness of bilateral and multilateral donors to maintain funding levels for harm reduction. On the positive side, harm reduction networks continue to make important contributions, including advocacy and research, and civil society has become increasingly engaged in mobilizing international support for harm reduction.


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2006 As Americans pause to observe POW/MIA Recognition Day tomorrow, teams of military and civilian experts will be excavating sites in Europe, South Korea, Solomon Islands, Alaska and Hawaii, looking for remains to help identify servicemembers still missing from past wars.
Teams from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, based at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, will be on the job, working to provide the fullest possible accounting of America's missing and living up to their command's motto, "Until they are home."
Additional teams are preparing for similar missions next month in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, said Maj. Brian DeSantis, a JPAC spokesman.
POW/MIA Recognition Day honors the sacrifices America's missing servicemembers and their families have made for the country, Army Brig. Gen. Michael C. Flowers, JPAC's commander, told American Forces Press Service.
But the day also offers an important reminder that the United States is committed to bringing its fallen servicemembers home so they can be returned to their families -- and it won't give up, no matter how long it takes or how difficult it might be, Flowers said.
The joint POW/MIA command is among four military organizations committed to accounting for about 88,000 U.S. servicemembers missing from the nation's wars. They include about 78,000 missing from World War II, more than 8,100 from the Korean War, 1,801 from the Vietnam War and about 125 from the Cold War, Larry Greer, a spokesman for the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office here, said.
In addition, Navy Capt. Scott Speicher, a Gulf War pilot, remains missing since his plane was shot down in Iraq in January 1991.
Army Reserve Sgt. Keith "Matt" Maupin is the only U.S. servicemember missing in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Insurgents captured Maupin April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy came under attack at Baghdad International Airport.
In addition to JPAC, the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office here, the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Md., and the Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory in San Antonio, actively contribute to determining the fate of these servicemembers and returning them home, Greer said.
Each service also has an office that works directly with families of the missing throughout the accounting process, however long it takes, he said.
Flowers said his command is committed to a mission that dates back to World War II and is now embodied in the U.S. military Code of Conduct. While most countries around the world bury their war dead where they fall, the United States promises its servicemembers that it will do everything in its power to bring them home.
Working to fulfill that promise sends joint-service teams from JPAC to potential crash and burial sites around the world. "We go out worldwide to recover those who are missing or to find those who are missing so that families can have closure and so we can keep our promise to our soldiers and airmen and Marines and sailors that they will come home," Flowers said.
Once remains are repatriated to Hickam Air Force Base, experts at the command's Central Identification Laboratory -- the world's largest forensic anthropology lab -- use the most advanced science available to match them to a specific missing servicemember. New breakthroughs, including the use of mitochondrial DNA in investigations, is helping the staff make identifications once not considered possible.
So far, they've been able to successfully identify more than 1,000 missing from World War II, about 200 from the Korean War, 841 from the Vietnam War and 25 from the Cold War. Next week, JPAC expects to announce its first successful identification of a missing World War I servicemember, Greer said.
Flowers said the resolve demonstrated in making these identifications sends a strong message to the nation's military members. "They can rest assured that as they go out to fight our nation's conflicts, that no matter what happens to them, if they were to fall in battle and not be recovered by their comrades, that someone will continue to look for them and not rest until we can bring them home," he said.
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Students are responsible to log and get information on each new experience to their advisor, who will hold the master log for each student.
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2 (1 1/4 pound)
fully trimmed pork tenderloins, cut into 8 pieces
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 tablespoons
all-purpose flour, or as needed
eggs, beaten
3 cups
panko bread crumbs
2 tablespoons
1/3 cup
diced dill pickles
jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced
1 bunch
green onions, chopped, green tops reserved
1 pinch
cayenne pepper, or to taste
1 1/2 tablespoons
all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups
cold milk, or more as needed
1 teaspoon
Worcestershire sauce, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon
freshly ground black pepper, or more to taste
1/2 cup
vegetable oil for frying
salt to taste
Pickles in a roux - who would have thought? I was doubtful and pleasantly surprised. If you like tarter sauce you will like this sauce. The method for the pork is spot on. Try it, I think you will be pleasantly surprised. :)
Sorry Chef John! I usually love your recipes, but this cream gravy was way off the mark for my taste buds. I made it exactly as written but it had an off-putting wallpaper paste taste (I let my flour cook so not sure why it got stuck in the "raw flour" taste state) that couldn't be saved even with all the 'should-be' flavorful additions of dill pickles and jalapenos.
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Ive made this recipe over a dozen times now. I cant find the words to say how awesome it is! I dont have a meat tenderizer thing so I snagged my my mother-in-laws tiny cast iron skillet and use that. Its heavy and smooth on the bottom so it dosnt tear up the meat while thinning it out.
Delicious! I really didn't want to take a chance by adding pickles, so I left those and the jalapenos out. They might work, but I wasn't brave enough to try it, and we loved the gravy with just the green onions. I served it with mashed potatoes and roasted zucchini. I ended up needing more like 2 cups of bread crumbs. Next time, I would use less and add as needed, so the extra crumbs aren't wasted.
This was fantastic! The pork was still crispy the next day, and the gravy was delicious. I wish I'd made a double serving! Even my boyfriend, who isn't a huge fan of jalapenos (or spice in general) adored it. I will definitely be making this again.
The most interesting part of this recipe is the cream gravy. The dill pickles gave it a very unique taste and crunchy texture which I enjoy. I just don't quite get the jalapeños... It didn't add much heat to the gravy which I kind of expected because of the amount of milk involved, so is it just to add color and texture? Or did it add some taste that I am unaware of? It was a little bland to start and needed the W sauce and some salt to help it out a bit.
We loved this! I wasn't sure how the pickles were gonna go in the sauce, but it was great. This was a nice change from the usual and one that I will make again! Thanks for sharing. :)
This was pretty simple and easy to make. The meat was definitely tender and crispy! I was hoping to taste more jalapenos and pickles. I guess I was imagining the Tartar sauce with jalapeno but it was not, so I ended up putting more pickles and jalapenos. The next time I might just going to make my own usual Tartar sauce and add jalapenos. Now the pork was just like the Japanese pork cutlet, Tonkatsu, and I didn't even have to deep fry it. I give 10 stars for that. I've been making just the crispy pork since and enjoying many tonkatsu recipes. Thank you, Chef!
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Servings Per Recipe: 4
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The addiction treatment center typically will either have in-house intervention services or would work in conjunction with an interventionist in Sterling or one local to you, or a loved one, spouse, or child.
A treatment professional will get to know the addict and using a battery of questions and assessment techniques. This will enable them to determine the type of addiction treatment that is needed and whether you, or your father, mother, daughter, son or someone you love have any co-occurring disorders.
You, or a loved one, spouse, or child enter an outpatient or inpatient detox center for the detoxification and withdrawal process, likely medically-assisted with Subutex or similar prescription medication.
- Residential / Inpatient - Addict enters a live-in center. Price can range from free to tens of thousands for luxury or private addiction rehab centers in Sterling, CO that typically have executive, and celebrity clientele.
- Long Term - Compared with short term (3/7/14 day), long term typically refers to treatment over a longer period than the standard 28 days, such as 60 or 90 day programs, but can be a year or longer.
- Outpatient - Addict does not reside at the treatment center.
Heroin addiction counseling for the abuser who has stopped using heroin, opiates, or other drugs through detox and drug treatment is a vital part of recovery.
Heroin craving can persist years after drug cessation, particularly when the addict is exposed to triggers such as people or emotions, or places, and things they associate with drug use. Be sure to ask any of the Sterling opiate addiction rehabilitation facilities listed in our directory if they provide assistance with after care, sober living, recovery programs, and relapse prevention.
Heroin addiction counseling for the abuser who has stopped using heroin, opiates, or other drugs through detox and drug treatment is a vital part of recovery.
Sterling has a population of 18,211 residents, living within a total area of 6.9 square miles. That is about 3 Sterling residents per square mile!
Major airports near Sterling, Colorado: The nearest major airport is Western Nebraska Regional Airport (BFF / KBFF). This airport has domestic flights from ...
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A Brief Look at Glass Packaging
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The viability of glass packaging, notably as consumers increase their scrutiny of the environmental impact of what they purchase, continues to be affirmed.
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Price vs. Value: Packaging's Role
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A brief look at the economy's impact on retail and the subsequent impact on consumers' buying preferences and habits, but packaging can still sway them in what they buy.
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Sustainability in Plastics—Embracing New Approaches
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Les Blakebrough has given a lifetime to the development, research and promotion of Australian ceramics since starting work at the Stuart Workshops at Mittigong, New South Wales in 1959 and, from 1972, through his long association with the Tasmanian School of Art at the University of Tasmania. A Bett Gallery, Hobart Monograph produced to coincide with the artists' 80th birthday and, which continues the series of Tasmanian Monographs initiated by Arts Tasmania.


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This year, 121 Bauer College students volunteered their time with Houston's Neighborhood Tax Centers to provide free income tax preparation for families earning an average of $20,000 per year.
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With over 106 acres to explore including our largest exhibit, The Giants of the Savanna, the Dallas Zoo is the largest zoological experience in Texas!
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4a-57 of the general statutes, as amended, the Commissioner of Administrative Services may establish a pilot program to sell or dispose of surplus state property through any method determined by the commissioner.
Sec. 2. Not later than January 1, 1997, the commissioner shall submit a report to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government administration, indicating the comparable revenue benefit to the state of each method of sale or disposal of surplus state property used by the commissioner pursuant to section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3. Section 4a-66 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) The state, through the Commissioner of Administrative Services, or any political subdivision thereof, through the officer or agent legally authorized to make purchases on its behalf, may enter into any contract with the United States GOVERNMENT or any federal agency for the purchase, lease or other acquisition of any equipment, supplies, materials or other property or for the purchase, sale or exchange of, or other cooperation concerning, services related to medicine or health. No provision of the statutes or of any municipal charter concerning the inviting of competitive bids, public advertising for bids or of expenditures, the delivery of purchases before payment, or any other provision which may result in disadvantage or loss of opportunity to such state agency or subdivision in such transactions with the federal government, shall apply to transactions made under the provisions of this [section] SUBSECTION. Any municipality desiring to enter into any such contract may do so only after the acceptance of the applicable provisions of this section at a meeting of such municipality warned and held for the purpose.
(b) THE STATE, THROUGH THE COMMISSIONER OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND PURSUANT TO PUBLIC LAW 103-355, MAY PURCHASE EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, MATERIALS OR OTHER PROPERTY FROM A PERSON WHO HAS A CONTRACT TO SELL SUCH PROPERTY TO A DEPARTMENT, AGENCY OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SAID CONTRACT.
Sec. 4. Section 28 of public act 95-194, as amended by section 27 of public act 95-351, is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) For purposes of this section, "biometric identifier system" means a system which allows for the recognition of an individual through retinal scanning, fingerimaging, hand geometry or facial recognition. The Commissioner of Social Services and the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall examine available biometric identifier systems and to the greatest extent possible, select a system which is compatible with the systems of surrounding states. The Commissioner of Social Services may enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, for the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide the hardware, software, equipment maintenance, technical training and other resources deemed necessary by the commissioner to establish said system.
(b) AT THE CONCLUSION OR CANCELLATION OF THE CONTRACT ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING IN SUBSECTION (a) OF THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES MAY EXTEND THE CONTRACT FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE YEAR, PROVIDED, NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER SUCH CONCLUSION OR CANCELLATION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ISSUE A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR PROVIDING THE HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE, TECHNICAL TRAINING AND OTHER RESOURCES DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE COMMISSIONER TO MAINTAIN OR IMPROVE SAID SYSTEM. THE SUBSEQUENT CONTRACT FOR PROVIDING THE RESOURCES FOR SAID SYSTEM SHALL BE AWARDED PURSUANT TO SECTION 4a-59 AND SHALL BEGIN NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER SUCH CONCLUSION OR CANCELLATION.
[(b)] (c) Said system shall be utilized for office use only in the following programs: (1) General assistance; (2) aid to families with dependent children; and (3) any other program to be determined at the discretion of the Commissioner of Social Services.
[(c)] (d) A recipient of a program utilizing said system pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall participate in said system or be subject to disqualification from such program. The commissioner shall have the authority to exempt a recipient from participation in said system.
[(d)] (e) The implementation of said system shall begin on or before January 1, 1996. The schedule of such implementation shall be determined by the Commissioner of Social Services.
[(e)] (f) Biometric identifier information obtained pursuant to subsection (d) of this section shall be the proprietary information of the Department of Social Services and shall not be released or made available to any agency or organization and shall not be used for any purpose other than identification or fraud prevention in this or any other state, except that such information may be made available to the Office of the Chief State's Attorney if necessary for the prosecution of fraud discovered pursuant to the biometric identifier system established in subsection (a) of this section or in accordance with section 17b-90 of the general statutes. The penalty for a violation of this subsection shall be up to a five thousand dollar fine or five years imprisonment or both and the cost of prosecution.
(g) THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES SHALL REPORT TO THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HAVING COGNIZANCE OF MATTERS RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 11-4a, ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 1, 1997, AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: (1) THE NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS PARTICIPATING IN SAID SYSTEM; (2) THE NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS WHOSE BENEFITS HAVE BEEN DISCONTINUED DUE TO THEIR FAILURE TO PARTICIPATE IN SAID SYSTEM; (3) THE COST OF IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION OF SAID SYSTEM; (4) THE AMOUNT OF SAVINGS ATTRIBUTED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF SAID SYSTEM; AND (5) THE COMPATIBILITY OF SAID SYSTEM WITH BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS BEING UTILIZED IN SURROUNDING STATES.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of two Marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Lance Cpl. Kyle W. Codner, 19, of Wood River, Neb.
Cpl. Matthew C. Henderson, 25, of Lincoln, Neb.
Both Marines died May 26, due to hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. They were assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
For further information related to this release, contact the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Public Affairs Office at (760) 725-5044.


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Monthly Archive for February, 2010
Aphasia: How Caregivers Can Help with Communication
By Nancy Dunn Thompson, PhD When someone has a stroke or other brain injury, the part of the brain connected to communication may be involved and communication may be impaired. The condition is called aphasia. Aphasia affects about 25-40% of stroke survivors. Aphasia cannot be cured. There are no miracle drugs. Speech and language therapy […] [Read More]
Alcohol & Medicines
Written by Nancy Dunn Thompson, PhD The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism recommends that people who are healthy and over the age of 65 should have no more than 7 drinks a week and no more than 3 drinks in one day. While that is good information, it is not complete. Older adults […] [Read More]
Suicide and Older Adults: What Are The Warning Signs?
Written by Nancy Dunn Thompson, PhD The highest rates of suicide of any age group occur among persons 65 years and older. There is an average of one suicide among the elderly every 90 minutes. Unfortunately, many people do not know about the increased risk or recognize warning signs. Warning signs may include: statements about […] [Read More]
Suicide and Older Adults: Who Is At Risk?
Written by Nancy Dunn Thompson, PhD The highest rates of suicide of any age group occur among persons 65 years and older. There is an average of one suicide among the elderly every 90 minutes. Unfortunately many people do not know of the increased risk and may not recognize warning signs. Those at increased risk […] [Read More]
Nurture Children, Nourish Your Brain
Written by Nancy Dunn Thompson, PhD Could volunteering in an elementary school reduce your own brain drain? A study published in The Journal of Gerontology suggests it might. Six older women considered at risk for cognitive impairment completed 32 hours of training and worked 15 hours a week assisting teachers and librarians, reading to students, […] [Read More]
Remembering The Curmudgeon Couch Potato
Written by Nancy Dunn Thompson, PhD When we moved to Texas with our young children many years ago, we unknowingly purchased a home in a neighborhood with an unusually large number of retirees. It was interesting to watch them over the years. Those who walked the neighborhood once, sometimes twice, everyday. The golfers who were […] [Read More]
New Program for 2010: Ask the Geriatrician
Written by Jennifer Witt A new, interactive video series titled "Ask the Geriatrician," will be available to view online free of charge. The program was developed to address the shortage of geriatricians available to meet with older adults and their caregivers in the United States. Geriatricians specialize in the care of adults ages 65 plus, […] [Read More]


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truthsender, all will not be happy.
No one i speak to in Agawam has any use for Travis Ward.
To ensure happiness would require his removal from the planning board.
OK, this is what we have learned from previous posts:
Travis Ward goes to bed at 8:30pm and does not like outdoor dining.
Figures, wasn't Travis Ward the one who was against Wendy's in Agawam also?


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It may be 50 years since the end of the civil rights march from Montgomery to Selma, but the marching continues.
From the West Alabama Newsroom-- People who live in the small Marengo County town of Thomaston will soon be able to do their grocery shopping a lot closer to home.
It's a day every one of these students has looked forward to for years, the chance to walk across the stage and accept a diploma from Tuskegee University. The day was even more special with the addition of TV's Phylicia Rashad.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Montgomery.