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Gastro-Acid-suppressive drugs are considered effective and safe to use during pregnancy to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Recent studies reported a causal relation between prenatal exposure to acid suppressive drugs and the development of childhood asthma but unmeasured confounding could not be ruled out.
In a Letter to the Editor in The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (JACI), Mulder et al. investigated the association between prenatal exposure to acid suppressive drugs and toddler asthma with a confounding minimizing case-crossover design.
This study was performed with data from the Groningen prescription database IADB and compared 1,253 children with asthma with 1,253 of their own siblings without asthma. Children were identified as having asthma with the aid of dispensed prescriptions for asthma medication. All children could be followed in the database for at least 5.5 years from birth. Maternal exposure was defined as receiving at least one prescription for either proton pump inhibitors, histamine-2-antagonists or other drugs for GERD during pregnancy.
The authors found that the use of acid suppressive drugs during pregnancy was associated with the development of asthma in children. The validity of previous reported results are supported by this study because findings showed the minimal influence of confounding in these associations. However, more study for example of the mechanism or development of other atopic conditions in relation to acid suppressive drugs, is now warranted, and the benefit risk-balance of such drugs should be reconsidered during pregnancy.
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Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps)
Status | Taxonomy | Species Description | Habitat | Distribution |
Population Trends | Threats | Conservation Efforts | Regulatory Overview |
Key Documents | More Info
MMPA - Pygmy sperm whales, like all marine mammals, are protected under the MMPA.
CITES Appendix II - throughout its range
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cetacea
Family: Kogiidae
Genus: Kogia
Species: breviceps
|700-1,000 lbs (315-450 kg)
|up to about 11.5 ft (3.5 m)
|brownish to dark bluish-gray with a whitish to pinkish belly, they are small and compact
|up to 23 years
|cephalopods (e.g., squid and octopus), crustaceans (e.g., crabs and shrimp), and fish
|an unusual characteristic is the "squid tactic"--they can eject over 3 gallons (12 liters) of viscous, dark reddish-brown liquid when they feel threatened or when trying to evade predators
Pygmy sperm whales are small members of the toothed whale group, and one of two species in the family Kogiidae. They reach lengths of up to about 11.5 ft (3.5 m) and weigh between 700-1,000 lbs (315-450 kg). Much of the information on distribution and biology is based upon "stranding" records for this species.
This species has a small, compact body that tapers near the tail and has a small, low, rounded, "dorsal" fin. The shape of the dorsal fin varies depending on the individual. The head is sometime described as "shark-like" due to a conical, pointed snout, and a small narrow, distinctive, underslung lower jaw. Unlike dwarf sperm whales, this species does not have irregular grooves or creases on the throat. Pygmy sperm whales lack teeth in their upper jaw, but have 10-16 pairs of teeth in the lower jaw that fit into sockets in the upper jaw. Their "bulging" eyes are dark with a light circular mark above and around them. Behind the eye is a pale false gill plate, which looks similar to a fish's gill cover. Like their larger cousin the sperm whale, pygmy sperm whales have a "spermaceti" organ and single blowhole situated slightly to the left side of the body. While on the surface, they have a low profile due to the level position of the head and back. The skin is wrinkled (only when closely observed) and has a brownish to dark bluish-gray coloration on the dorsal side. The ventral side is paler with whitish to pinkish coloration that gives the animal a counter-shading effect.
This species is frequently seen at the surface either alone or in small groups of up to 6-7 animals. These groups can vary/mix based on age and sex, but little else is known about their social organization. Pygmy sperm whales are rarely active or aerial at the surface, and it is very uncommon for them to approach boats. Usually they are seen slowly swimming (3 knots) or "logging" at the surface, showing only a small portion of their body. Before diving, they will slowly roll or sink and disappear from view without displaying their flukes. This species is very difficult to observe at sea given their timid behavior, lack of a visible blow, and low profile/appearance in the water. They are usually only detected in ideal sea state (calm) and weather conditions (low wind speeds and little or no swells).
The dwarf sperm whale is another species that appears very similar to the pygmy sperm whale. The two species differ slightly in physical size (pygmy sperm whale being slightly larger), morphology, and other minor features. Compared to dwarf sperm whales, pygmy sperm whales have a flatter profile on the surface, a blunt squarish head, and a distinctive curving hump on the rear portion of the back. As the animal ages, the head becomes blunter and more squarish. The geographic distribution and range for these species may overlap in some areas. In the wild, it is very difficult to distinguish between the two species because of these similarities. Both species are poorly known and are considered "rare."
An unusual characteristic that distinguishes pygmy and dwarf sperm whales from other cetacean species is the use of the "squid tactic." In the lower portion of the intestine, each species has a sac filled with liquid. These animals are capable of ejecting over 3 gallons (12 liters) of viscous, dark reddish-brown liquid when they feel threatened or when trying to evade predators. Similar to squid and other cephalopod species, the "ink" creates a dense cloud that may discourage predators and/or functions as a confusing diversion allowing the whale to escape (Reeves et al. 2002).
Pygmy sperm whales are probably capable of diving to at least 1,000 ft (300 m) in search of food. They also probably use echolocation to locate prey. Their diet consists of cephalopods (e.g., squid and octopus), crustaceans (e.g., crabs and shrimp), and fish. Based on the structure of their lower jaw and analysis of stomach contents, these animals forage and feed in mostly mid- and deep water environments, as well as near the ocean bottom. They may feed in slightly deeper waters than dwarf sperm whales.
Pygmy sperm whales become sexually mature at 4-5 years of age. Gestation in these cetaceans is probably about 9-11 months. The mating and calving season lasts about nine months, and peaks from March-August in the Northern Hemisphere. Newborn calves are about 3.9 ft (1.2 m) in length and weigh 110 lbs (50 kg), and are probably weaned after a year. Females may also give birth to a calf in consecutive years. The estimated lifespan for this species may be up to 23 years.
Pygmy sperm whales prefer tropical, subtropical, and temperate waters in oceans and seas worldwide. They are most common along the waters seaward of the continental shelf edge and the slope; and in most areas are thought to be more "oceanic" and "anti-tropical" than dwarf sperm whales.
Pygmy Sperm Whale Range Map
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Pygmy sperm whales have a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and tropical seas worldwide. In the Southern Hemisphere, their range includes Chile, South Africa, the Tasman Sea, and Uruguay. In the Northern Hemisphere, their range includes the Netherlands, northwestern Europe, the Azores, Nova Scotia, Washington, Hawaii, and Japan. Kogia (the genus that both pygmy and dwarf sperm whales belong to) may be more common off the coasts of the southeastern United States and South Africa based on the records of higher numbers of "stranding events" in these areas. The seasonality and migration patterns of this species are unknown.
Population Trends
For management purposes, pygmy sperm whales inhabiting U.S. waters have been divided into four stocks: the California/Oregon/Washington stock, the Hawaiian stock, the Northern Gulf of Mexico stock, and the Western North Atlantic stock. The estimated abundance for Kogia sp. (pygmy and dwarf combined) is 250-400 for the Western North Atlantic stock, and 550-750 for the Northern Gulf of Mexico stock. The estimated abundance for pygmy sperm whales in the Hawaiian Islands EEZ is 4,000-7,500 and for the California/Oregon/Washington stock is 100-250 animals. There are insufficient data for this species to determine the population trends.
Pygmy sperm whales are incidentally taken as bycatch in fishing gear that includes driftnets, gillnets and purse seine operations. This species was killed occasionally by hunters targeting sperm whales during the 19 th century and have been recently taken in commercial harpoon fisheries in Indonesia, the Lesser Antilles, and Japan. Due to their behavior of logging motionless on the sea surface, they are occasionally subject to ship strikes. Some stranded whales have been documented with plastics and other garbage blocking their guts. Stranded specimens have also been documented with degenerative heart disease, immune system problems and heavy parasite infestations. This species of whale may be sensitive to underwater sounds and anthropogenic noise. Anthropogenic noise levels in the world's oceans are an increasing habitat concern, particularly for deep-diving cetaceans like pygmy sperm whales that use sound to feed, communicate, and navigate in the ocean.
Conservation Efforts
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species considers this species "Lower Risk Least Concern."
Regulatory Overview
This species is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended.
Key Documents
(All documents are in PDF format.)
|Federal Register
|Stock Assessment Reports
- NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center Dwarf & Pygmy Sperm Whales
- NMFS National Marine Mammal Laboratory Toothed Whale Information
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS-SEAMAP) Pygmy Sperm Whale Species Profile
- Jefferson, T. A, M. A. Webber, and R. L. Pitman. (2008). Marine Mammals of the World, A Comprehensive Guide to their Identification. Amsterdam, Elsevier. p. 79-81.
- Reeves, R. R., P. A. Folkens, et al. (2002). Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. New York, Alfred A. Knopf. p. 244-247.
- Shirihai, H. and B. Jarrett (2006). Whales, Dolphins and Other Marine Mammals of the World. Princeton, Princeton University Press. p.148-150.
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Helicopter training at Lavarack Barracks.
- From: Townsville Bulletin
- February 13, 2014
The Defence Force has just advised there will be helicopter training of ADF members at Lavarack Barracks.
3rd Brigade members and the 5th Aviation Regiment will be conducting airmobile operations training around Lavarack Barracks.
These operations will be periodic throughout the afternoon as 3rd Brigade members receive training for helicopter movements.
The activities are part of regular training to ensure Townsville troops remain well trained in all types of activities.
The training will involve multiple flights by the aircraft (without cargo), likely over the Douglas area and Annandale area with surrounding areas likely to hear the helicopters flying.
The ADF appreciates the community's patience and understanding during this important training.
Affected areas will be Douglas, Annandale, Rasmussen, Aitkenvale, Idalia, Wulguru.
Flights will take place today and tommorow between the hours of 1:30pm - 4pm.
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So we won't expect helicopter noise as late as 10pm like we have previously, then?


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MTV Teen Wolf season 2 premiere date finally revealed. Recently,Spoiler TV revealed that the "much awaited" season 2 of MTV's hit show Teen Wolf is scheduled to debut on June 3rd,2012 after a long,11 freaking months of waiting. What's really good about season 2,is that it's been given a whopping 24 episodes instead of just 12,so they're definitely going to make up for having us wait so damn long,which I can respect.
In the new season,we can expect for Scott to become more of a bad boy. His girlfriend Allison is going to become a more skilled,and adept hunter,which might not bode well for Scott if they encounter troubles in their relationship. They're still tight-lipped about Lydia's fate,but I think she should become a werewolf if she survives,because she was bitten by the Alpha dammit!
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The New York Rangers held an optional practice Tuesday at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, but they will use the same lineup that skated in Sunday's game in Boston.
That means Henrik Lundqvist will make his season-high 10th straight start. If coach John Tortorella had any interest in giving Lundqvist off, it's doubtful he would have done it against the Flyers, anyway -- in five games against Philadelphia this season, Lundqvist is 5-0-0 with a 1.67 goals-against average and a .947 save percentage.
Here's the rest of the lineup the Rangers likely will use against the Flyers:
Carl Hagelin - Brad Richards - Marian Gaborik
Ruslan Fedotenko - Derek Stepan - Artem Anisimov
Brandon Dubinsky - Brian Boyle - Ryan Callahan
Brandon Prust - John Mitchell - Mike Rupp
Ryan McDonagh - Dan Girardi
Marc Staal - Anton Stralman
Michael Del Zotto - Stu Bickel
Henrik Lundqvist
Martin Biron
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So many things can go wrong for Olympic planners between the starting and finish lines that it's a wonder any country is willing to host the Games anymore.
Yet they do. They begin honing their bids decades in advance, and they withstand countless defeats as possible sites are eliminated along the long road to the Summer or Winter Olympics.
That's been the story of Reno-Tahoe's bid to host another Winter Olympics, more than a half-century since the Olympians gathered at Squaw Valley in 1960. But there's no place that represents winter sports in the U.S. better than Reno and the nearby Sierra Nevada. There's no place in the U.S. that deserves the chance to host the Games again. It's just a matter of time.
That's why the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition should press on with its efforts to be the winning bidder the next time the cold-weather Olympics are awarded to a North American city.
If you've spent any time at all watching the Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia, over the past week, you can be excused for wondering why anyone in Reno-Tahoe-Northern California would want anything to do with hosting the world for athletic competitions.
Vast cost overruns, blatant corruption, politics, shoddy workmanship, security concerns and protests all were highlighted in the opening days. Even the weather has refused to cooperate. On Thursday, temperatures reached 15 degrees. That would be nice and cold - if it weren't in Celsius. In Fahrenheit, it was a balmy 60 on the slopes, where slush ruled the day.
And then there was the eye infection that befell Bob Costas, the venerable NBC sportscaster and longtime host of the network's Olympics coverage who was forced to sit for several days because he couldn't see.
It seemed as if these Olympics, Russian President Vladimir Putin's attempt to demonstrate that his country had entered the 21st century and didn't deserve the free world's scorn, were jinxed and destined to earn, well, the world's scorn.
Representatives of the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition have been there to witness the good and the bad.
What lessons might they have learned?
For one, if you're going to be late finishing any facilities, it should never be the media center and reporters' housing. There's nothing more dangerous to a community's reputation than bored early arrivers to an event looking to dish some dirt. So, while we awaited the beginning of the competitions, we were treated to stories of strange toilets, unopenable doors and missing pillows.
Second, be prepared for the fact-checkers when you try to boil down the nation's history into a three-hour pageant. If you gloss over, say, a Joseph Stalin, viewers probably will let you hear about it.
None of that should interfere with the drive to bring the Winter Games to Reno-Tahoe, however.
For all the bad moments, there have been others when the sheer beauty of the Southern Caucasus has been on high-definition display for the world to see. Viewers have seen that there's more - a lot more - to Russia than the czarist riches of St. Petersburg or the onion domes and dour apartments of Moscow. An early feature on NBC even brought Siberia to life, if a rather cold life.
In Reno-Tahoe, the games would be unforgettable. Many residents still remember the 1960 Games at Squaw Valley, where "temporary" facilities lasted well into the 1970s.
The Games have grown up since then: There were 665 athletes (144 of them women) for 27 events in 1960; there are an estimated 2,800 in Sochi for 98 events.
But Reno-Tahoe has grown up, too. Once-lonely Squaw Valley is now just one of a handful of world-class ski resorts that ring Lake Tahoe.
Equally important, the organizers of the 2002 Games in Utah showed that it can be done well, and even earn a profit.
In the years since the Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, both the CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and Utah's governor at the time, Mike Leavitt, have told the Gazette-Journal's Editorial Board that Reno-Tahoe "absolutely" should bid for the games. Among their reasons, hosting the Games, they both said, brought together the citizens of Salt Lake City and surroundings in a way that no other project could accomplish. It left the people living there better for having joined forces to meet a grand goal.
With strong, experienced management, hosting the Games (2026 appears to be the earliest possible year right now) could do the same for Reno-Tahoe. We just have to make sure the bathrooms in the media housing complex work.
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Sharon Hittman has so little confidence in the Tappan Zee Bridge that she keeps a tool in her car to punch out the windows in case the 51-year-old span collapses.
The deadly Minnesota highway bridge collapse Wednesday was just one more shocking reminder of how vulnerable Hittman feels on the 3-mile span.
"It's a tragedy waiting to happen," said Hittman, a West Nyack resident who works in Tarrytown. "This was a wake-up call for Rockland and Westchester. We need to be proactive, not reactive."
Some Lower Hudson Valley residents questioned the safety of the region's bridges a day after an interstate highway bridge fell in Minneapolis.
The Interstate 35W bridge and the Tappan Zee Bridge were among the spans rated as "structurally deficient" in the 2006 National Bridge Inventory by the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation.
In all, 2,011 of New York's 17,335 bridges shared that rating, which means they are in need of work, not that they're in danger of imminent collapse.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer yesterday ordered the state Department of Transportation, Thruway Authority, Bridge Authority and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to thoroughly inspect 49 bridges similar in design to the Minneapolis span.
The Tappan Zee bridge is not the same type of bridge. Nonetheless, a comparison of condition ratings based on National Bridge Inspection Standards can be made.
The bridge in Minnesota fared better in its June 2005 report, receiving only one "poor" condition rating in evaluations of its deck, superstructure and substructure. The Tappan Zee bridge received a "poor" rating in all three of those categories based on an inspection done in November 2004.
Numerous repairs of the Tappan Zee have been completed since then and more current inspection information was not available in the federal report that was completed in 2006.
Officials and agencies, including the Thruway Authority, yesterday sought to reassure drivers their bridges were safe.
"If we have to do some additional inspections, we will do it," said Ramesh Mehta, the Thruway Authority's division director for the Hudson Valley. "First we have to understand what happened."
Also, a delayed deck replacement project will start this month.
The state Department of Transportation was still formulating a bridge inspection strategy, which would likely be followed by the agencies in the region that operate bridges.
Meanwhile, N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine ordered state transportation officials to immediately examine more than 6,000 bridges in his state.
"This happens every few years there's a bridge collapse," said Mal McLaren, president and CEO of McLaren Engineering Group in West Nyack. "There's great clamor for bridge inspection. Politicians shake their fists. Then a few months later they all forget about it and the money doesn't come through that's promised. It's a cycle we see."
McLaren's company is conducting underwater inspections of 150 bridges in New York City and Long Island, including the Brooklyn, Throgs Neck and Triborough bridges, over two years as part of a $1.5 million state contract.
Retired bridge designer and engineer Neal Bettigole, who has worked on the Tappan Zee, said the collapse of the I-35W bridge did not necessarily spell doom for the Hudson River span.
But Bettigole said the Tappan Zee needed to be replaced because of its age, heavy traffic load, lack of shoulders and the danger posed to its wooden pilings from the shipworms that recently returned to the Hudson.
"Because of this tragedy in Minneapolis, that doesn't mean the Tappan Zee is threatened," said Bettigole, who lives in Upper Saddle River, N.J. "The Tappan Zee's problems are its own problems."
In 2005, the American Society of Civil Engineers released a report card on the nation's infrastructure that found 27.1 percent of the nation's 590,750 bridges rated structurally deficient or functionally obsolete in 2003. In New York, 38 percent of bridges fell into those two categories. The report said that it would cost $9.4 billion a year for 20 years to eliminate all of the bridge deficiencies.
Close to home, some saw the accident as an opportunity to get moving on plans to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge, which like the bridge in Minneapolis, is a major artery that carries about 140,000 cars and trucks a day.
Catherine Nowicki, co-chairwoman of the Westchester Rockland Tappan Zee Futures Task Force, said the tragedy might "galvanize everybody into action."
Officials from the state Department of Transportation, Thruway Authority and the Metro-North Railroad are studying whether to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge with some type of mass transit, replace two-thirds of the existing span or simply maintain the bridge. The costs would be in the billions.
"It was an object lesson of what can happen," said Nowicki, who lives in Nanuet. "Sometimes it takes one event to prod people into action. Perhaps this will be it."
Mehta said the Tappan Zee Bridge underwent a full inspection between May and November 2006. He said it received a general recommendation rating of 4 on a scale of 1 to 7, meaning the main load-bearing steel structures were safe but that secondary parts of the bridge, like its walkway, had some corrosion, that its pier columns were in need of repairs and the outer two lanes in both directions have major deterioration.
"We already knew that," Mehta said, noting that the agency had taken steps to address the issues.
The 2004 federal inspection report on the Tappan Zee revealed that the span's safety ratings had slipped in five of 11 categories, and it was rated "poor" in three critical categories: roadway deck, superstructure and substructure.
The biennial report also showed that design flaws, corrosion and years of neglect had damaged the span so badly that its guide rails could fail and some steel beams were rusted clear through. Some support bearings were also off-center and missing significant amounts of concrete.
A summary of the 2006 report, posted yesterday at www.nationalbridges.com - an independent, Web site that last night was offline - showed that the deck, superstructure and substructure all remained in "poor" condition.
A $147 million deck replacement of the four lanes from South Nyack to the east end of the superstructure will begin at the end of the month, he said. The project will start several months late because the contractor has not completed the prefabricated panels.
State Sen. Thomas Morahan, R-New City, yesterday called on the head of the Thruway Authority to certify that the bridge was free of serious structural defects.
"The Minnesota governor revealed that the Minnesota (Department of Transportation) had indicated that 'there were some minor things that needed attention.' That agency's assessment was obviously inaccurate," he said. "In light of the tragedy in Minnesota, New Yorkers require and are entitled to a definitive, comprehensive assessment as to the structural integrity of the 50-year-(old) Tappan Zee Bridge."
Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef said decisions about the fate of the Tappan Zee Bridge must become a high priority while the Thruway Authority makes repairs.
Julius Levine, a member of a citizens committee working with the Tappan Zee Bridge/Interstate 287 study team, cautioned against overreacting.
"Urgency is not going to be the right approach," said Levine, an electrical engineer from Chestnut Ridge. "I think the worst thing they can do is try and shortcut the process because you won't get a rational comparison if you don't complete all of the approaches."


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Rich media developer's guide
Load external assets across domains
You want to load assets (like SWFs) and data (like RSS feeds) into your creatives from your own or other non-DoubleClick servers.
Set up the correct cross-domain policy file on the server hosting the data.
A cross-domain policy file is an XML file that provides a way for the server to indicate that its data and documents are available to SWF files served from some or all domains. Any SWF file that's served from a domain specified by the server's policy file is permitted to access data or assets from that server.
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For more information about the structure of this XML file, see:
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- http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14213
- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/cross_domain_policy.html
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Below is a list of the DoubleClick domains that you can copy into your own crossdomain policy file, or you can download a policy file that contains the domains listed here.
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What you need to do is read an int from the Scanner, and then compare that to 4.
Matthew Brown wrote:Hi Adam. Welcome to the Ranch!
The compiler will have told you exactly which line the error is on. It's helpful to tell us what line that was - saves time. However, I can see what the problem is this time.
You've defined the variable x as holding a Scanner:
Scanner x = new Scanner(System.in);However, you then do this:
if (x == 4){...}Here, you're trying to compare a Scanner object with a number, and they just aren't compatible. Which is exactly what the compiler is telling you: "Incompatible operand types Scanner and int".
What you need to do is read an int from the Scanner, and then compare that to 4.
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Administrative Position (exempt)
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Position TitleProject Coordinator - Upward Bound Program - Centinela Valley Project - CLOSED TO NEW APPLICANTS
DepartmentProject Coordinator
Salary ($US) and BenefitsSalary Range: $39,200 - $42,000
Basic FunctionUnder the general direction of the Director of the Upward Bound Program-CVP, the Project Coordinator will implement the philosophy, goals and objectives of the Upward Bound Program-CVP. The Coordinator will implement and coordinate the Program's services; assist the Director in administering the budget, select, assign, train and direct the Program's staff; act as a liaison with university faculty, staff, and community relative to the Program's services; and complete administrative duties as required or directed.
Representative Duties• Under the direct supervision of the Director, the Project Coordinator will implement the day-to-day operations of UBP-CVP
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The "Straight Story" with Chris Farrell: Chris' Financial Resolutions
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It's time once again for economics editor Chris Farrell is to help you sort out what's smart, what's stupid and what's the Straight Story. Chris shares his financial resolutions.
Extended Warranties
Did you buy a big-ticket appliance for the holidays? If you did, the store clerk probably offered an extended warranty. Do you say yes or no? What's the financially smart answer? Kai finds out the answer from Kristen Van Ogtrop, the Managing Editor of Real Simple Magazine.
Best of "Educating Rico": Index Funds
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'Sound Money' Associate Producer Rico Gagliano has spent the last year or so getting educated about finance. This being the end of the year, it seems fitting to take a look back at how our protagonist has progressed. Here's the second installment of the series... It's all about index funds.
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Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Sound Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance - "January Effect." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
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This week, we air our final special mailbag full of the "Most Frequently Asked" questions from listeners. Listen to Chris' advice on 401k rollovers, managing money in a relationship, and diversifying your stock portfolio.
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In this New Year's Best of show, we take you back to June to listen to the interview that brought a slew of listener mail in 2004... Eighty-five dollars. That's the average amount spent on a wedding gift according to the association of bridal consultants. Carley Roney, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the wedding web site theknot.com, dishes the dirt on wedding gift etiquette.
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I was invited to go with a couple of friends to Range on the 19th. Good thing I'm going before anyone else leaves.
The way I read the article, he'll still be there on the 19th (presuming he typically works Sundays).
Posted 25 January 2014 - 02:27 PM
Last Sunday evening, four of us went to Range to try the Restaurant Week menu. I wasn't sure what to expect. In addition to the less than stellar reviews on this thread lately, I had been scanning Washingtonian's Very Best Restaurants issue while waiting in line at Giant a few hours prior to our dinner reservation, and noticed that Range was conspicuous in its absence. I was aware it was the last night for Chef Hill's tenure at Range as well.
We had a 6:15 reservation, and on our arrival (after scoring a great parking space across the street) we were escorted to a banquette table across from the wood-fired kitchen. Caveat: The RW menu seems to have been "disappeared" from the internet, so I have to rely on memory for the following descriptions.
I was driving, so instead of a cocktail, I had a glass of their ginger beer, which was wonderful, and seemed to be pure ginger that had gone through a juicer. One of my companions had a drink that I can't remember the name of, but it had "Oak" in the name. We all tried a sip (as we would share all of our dishes), and agreed it was tasty and complex and went down very easily.
We decided to spring for the bread basket from the regular menu that came with five different spreads, and it was worth it. My starter was the Little Gem salad, and I appreciated that the blue cheese did not dominate the dish, which is usually the case when I order a wedge salad. The tomato puree made a very nice dressing, and the lettuce was fresh and lush. Another member of our party ordered the roasted beets, which contained both golden and red beets. Someone else ordered the roasted carrots, and I really liked those too. I've never met a roasted carrot I didn't like. I regret that I can't recall the 4th appetizer.
On to the entrees. I ordered the sirloin steak with shitake mushrooms that came on a bed of grits. Loved the mushroom and grits, the steak was flavorless, despite being cooked to medium rare as requested. I didn't finish it. The person sitting next to me ordered the Hangar Steak medium. It arrived less than rare, and was sent back. When it came back to the table, it really wasn't much better than it's original state, and the diner had lost interest in it by then. Another person ordered the octopus, which seemed to be a grilled tentacle over a bed of pasta. His wife didn't like it, as she thought it was too salty, but he was fine with it. I didn't try it, but now regret that (I'm not a seafood person, especially if it's the least bit "exotic", and I have a low bar for that term).
His wife ordered the dish we declared to be the hit of the evening…the Goat Cheese Ravioli. It was absolutely delicious. When ordering, the sole male in our group sprung for a side for the table of the grilled cauliflower with olives and dates. Meh, we had consumed too much food to appreciate it by then, and I thought it the cauliflower was pretty much raw with grill marks, making it a disappointment.
For dessert, I ordered the apple tart with cinnamon ice cream. Some of us felt that the ice cream needed more cinnamon. The tart was presented on a light biscuit and was good. The guy ordered what turned out to be two cookies that were like brownies, one of which was a blondie with macadamia nuts, and it came with two different scoops of ice cream. That didn't get finished despite the aid of the entire table. I'm afraid I don't recall the other two desserts.
I did have one glass of wine with dinner, and the sommelier who came to our table was fun to talk to. The other two women had seen the movie "Som" and a lively conversation ensued. Not wanting to entirely defeat the concept of RS, we ordered a bottle that was around 33 dollars, and was pretty darn good.
Service was friendly and attentive, and we made sure to tip accordingly. All of the employees we had contact with were cordial. We enjoyed the totally unpretentious atmosphere of Range (the guy with us was in jeans…no problem).
As for the steak issues, I chalk it up to the fact that something has to be sacrificed to offer RW prices. Or perhaps beef is not their strong suit. I will have to return to explore the menu further as there were several things I wanted to try, and will be glad to go back to do so.
Loved the dim, spacy restrooms!!
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. - James Beard
Posted 03 February 2014 - 09:23 AM
I see I missed some discussion of this awhile back. I'd only had cocktails here before and never looked at the wine list until the other night. I was shocked. I don't think there's a restaurant anywhere in the area with lower wine markups (If there is, I'd like to hear about it). Even at the low end*, the markups are unheard of in DC. We ended up with a fantastic Tuscan blend recommended by the sommelier (blanking on the name right now).
*And you can go pretty low. I think I even saw a sub-$20 bottle or two. One example that caught my eye, as it was recently a wine-of-the-week at Calvert Woodley: Laura Hartwig Cabernet, which retails for about $16. Any other place, this would easily be marked up to $40. At Range: $22.
Posted 03 February 2014 - 01:42 PM
The sommelier described to us how the restaurant will buy large amounts ("palletloads") of wine if the price becomes reasonable enough to pass on to the customers. He told us what the markup was, but I can't remember. It was definitely reasonable.
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. - James Beard
Posted 03 June 2014 - 05:51 PM
Any updates on Range or Aggio? Planning on making an outing with friends in the 'hood.
Thinking now that Palena is gone I better get around to some other places....
Posted 03 June 2014 - 06:38 PM
Any updates on Range or Aggio? Planning on making an outing with friends in the 'hood.
Thinking now that Palena is gone I better get around to some other places....
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BOSTON — After playing two strong periods, Martha's Vineyard was unable to contain Latin Academy and Danielle Baldassari, who netted three goals, in the Knights' 4-2 win over the Vineyard in the MIAA girls hockey Division 2 preliminary round game at Murphy Memorial Rink on Monday.
No. 2 seed Falmouth (16-1-2) will play 15th-seeded Latin Academy (11-6-4) in the Div. 2 first round. A date and time have not been announced.
The 18th-seeded Vineyarders had reached their second MIAA tournament appearance in their 16-year history. Their first tournament bout came last year when they eventually lost to Norwood 4-3 in the first round.
"We have to remind ourselves that we have been a part of turning the program around," said Vineyarders coach John Fiorito. "It was a tough way to go out, but we have to remember how far we've come."
Sydney Davies got Martha's Vineyard on the scoreboard first when she netted an early second-period goal at the 3:22-mark assisted by Callie Jackson and Emily Hammett.
Baldassari evened it up for Latin Academy a minute later, but Aubrey Ashmun registered an unassisted score for the Vineyard at 9:26 to regain the lead.
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"The Patient Care Technician Program is fast-paced and designed for the dedicated student who is interested in working in the hospital industry," said Mary Stassi, SCC health occupations coordinator. "Once a student has completed this program, they will be certified for long-term and acute care, which will benefit them in their search for employment."
Only 10 students will be admitted into the program. Tuition for the Patient Care Technician Program is $875 plus the cost of the required textbook. The scholarship will cover $500 of the tuition and does not cover the cost of the textbook. The student will be responsible for the other $375, plus the cost of the textbook, due at the time of registration.
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Just fine for a young reluctant reader. I think pirates are over-rated and over-used, but this is mostly just funny.
Nine year old Will and his older brother Marty, travel with their two younger brothers and parents to a coastal town famous for being haunted by a pirate from long ago. Marty likes to scare Will at night with his stories of Captain Crow. One night they go to a dance together. Their parents make them promise two things: first they must go straight to and from the dance with no side stops. And second, they must agree not to go on the rocks that border the ocean. They agree and off they set. Will is among the youngest set of children at the dance and so he is rebuked by every dance partner. At the end of the night he play a game with the other younger children and wins the prize, a fake set of teeth that are supposedly Captain Crow's. Before leaving for home, Marty says he wants to give a girl a ride home on his bike, so that Marty must walk. But to make it on time, he must walk over the rocks. Will objects but Marty wins the battle of wills and Will is forced to walk over the rocks to make it home on time. But this was all an elaborate ruse by Marty to scare Will. Marty tries to scare Will but gets his foot stuck in the rocks and Will has to help him out. Marty is also scared because they see the haunted, glowing rock where Captain Crow will return. They make it home just in time.
This is book two in the "Will and Marty" series, the first being Spud Murphy. Colfer has a real gift for making humdrum reality fun and exciting. In this book he develops a kid's fear of a local superstition, then demolishes it in the face of even greater peril, his parent's displeasure. This is a delightful, funny book.
Nine year old Will is looking forward to attending a summer dance with the older children, but his older brother Marty has other plans in store for him. Marty lays the stage for fright by telling Will the story of infamous pirate Captain Crow, who spent his life searching for the nine year old cabin boy who bested him in a fight. Legend says even after his death, Crow's ghost continues to search for the cabin boy along the coast of Duncade, Ireland, and any nine year old boys in his path will be kidnapped to his ship. Luckily for Will, his parents insist that he and Marty take a route to the dance that does not travel along the rocks known as Captain Crow's Teeth. But events take a turn for the worse when Will wins a contest at the dance and gets named "Captain Crow's Official Cabin Boy". When the dance ends, Marty suddenly has an excuse not to take Will home on his bike, forcing Will to traverse alone at night the dangerous rocks haunted by Captain Crow in order to get home by curfew. When the rocks begin to glow, Will wonders if it is phosphorescence or really the evil Captain Crow. But when Will gets "haunted" by Crow's ghost, it turns out to be Marty attempting to frighten him. Ironically, Marty is the one who ends up learning a lesson in fear and humility, when he finds himself trapped in the rocks and believes himself to be in danger from the legendary ghost. Will winds up saving the day for both of them and finding unexpected courage.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was a fun and enthralling little book. I think it would be especially appealing to a young reader with older siblings, as Colfer has included a brotherly bonding aspect to the story. It has fantastical aspects to it (with the pirate "ghost") but the spookiness is eventually explained by something that happens in the real world. I can't wait to recommend this to some of my 2nd and 3rd grade students.
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After surviving a summer with the legendary ninja librarian Spud Murphy, not much can scare brothers Will and Marty Woodman. Until, that is, they travel with their family to the small seaside town famous for its resident ghost. Legend has it that when the sea glows at night, pirate Captain Augustine Crow haunts the shore searching for a new cabin boy. Of course, nine-year-old Will knows this can't be true. But one night, he is out late, and the sea is lit with an eerie glow…and, is that a ghostly voice calling his name?
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Fabrics. Patterns. Detailed specifications. These things don't concern most budget-conscious college students. That is unless the student happens to be an interior design major at Abilene Christian University. ACU is school to some of the most talented interior design students in the nation. One in particular, senior Melody Lessly from Plano, has the awards to prove it. Lessly received two prizes in a national design competition.
The Brass Ring Awards 24 competition, sponsored by Oklahoma Christian University, is designed to motivate and reward students for excellence in art and design. The 2010 competition gathered 411 entries from 60 universities. Winners were announced April 3.
Lessly won first place in the Commercial Spaces Over 2500 Square Feet category. Her design for a Japanese Sushi Bar and Restaurant, Yoί, created a branded design solution to launch a new franchise eatery, including the adjacent franchise offices. She developed a central concept for the solution, performed research to solidify her concept and illustrated the design with detailed lighting, furniture and finishes specifications.
Her entry, Great Escapes Travel, was named a Merit Award winner. This project showcased Lessly's solution for a technologically savvy travel agency. She developed a green-design solution that included environmentally friendly materials and design features to aid the health, safety and welfare of the buildings' occupants.
"Melody's top winning prize is evidence of her excellence," says Kathryn Wasemiller, interior design program director for ACU. "She serves as a good representation of the nationally acclaimed interior design program at ACU."
ACU's interior design program is in an elite group as one of 150 programs to be accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA). For further information about the ACU interior design program in the Department of Art and Design, contact Kitty Wasemiller, at email@example.com.
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RGIII injury dooms RedskinsCNNSI.com Jan 6, 2013LANDOVER, Md. -- When Robert Griffin III crumpled to the turf with 6:25 left to play in Sunday afternoon's NFC wild-card playoff game against the Seahawks, fumbling at his own 5-yard line, the outcome no longer mattered to the Redskins or the sellout cr…Share Tweet
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Divisional preview: Seattle Seahawks vs. Atlanta FalconsJan 6The Atlanta Falcons have the top seed in the NFC, but do they have the edge in next week's divisional-round game against the Seattle Seahawks? The "NFL GameDay Final" guys debate.
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The wind blew violently as the family drove up to their new house. Andrew the father of the family stepped out of the car he was tall and skinny with brown short hair and blue eyes. As he walked towards the house carrying his suitcase and bags his wife Angelina followed him up to the house. The kids sobbed as they thought about living in this new house because their mother had raised them in their old house and now she is gone.
As they walked into the house the house the floorboards creaked with a high pitch sound like a little girl screaming. The kids could tell the house was old but now how old it was. Cindy who was 14 with long blond hair and her brother Jack who was 16 with short brown hair walked upstairs. Jack walked up first as he was walking one of the stairs collapsed right under him. He almost fell over and hit his head. They were mad that they had too share a room. They started to put their clothes and items away. Cindy screamed and jumped back at what she saw, there was a dead rat with bite marks in the dresser.
The next morning Cindy got up while Jack was still asleep. She went downstairs she found a note "Me and Angelina went to the store to get some food and drinks we should be back at around 3pm , Love you guys dad." She went outside to go check it out after looking around for a couple of minutes she found a dirt path. She was very fickle of if she should go down the path and see what is there or stay back at the house. She went down the path it eventually led into the dark and terrifying woods Cindy thought. The further she went into the woods the more scared and nervous she got. It got darker the further back she went as the trees and clouds cast shadows into the woods. When she finally reached the end after walking for 20 minutes she found a little pond. She noticed that it had a odd smell to it like death almost. There was also a strange color to it instead of it being blue or green it was almost black. She looked around the pond all the flowers and trees that were blooming with life at the start of the trail are now dead. She screamed as she felt something grab her shoulder tightly.
Jack woke up and noticed that Cindy was missing. He thought she just got up and went downstairs. He went back to sleep for about 30 minutes or so. He got up freaking out so he went downstairs to find her, she was nowhere to be found. He got on his shoes and his Thick blue coat and ran outside to find Cindy. He noticed the dirt path he saw foot prints on it so he sprinted down the path.
Cindy turned around to find a creepy old man with long gray hair with knots in it and crooked teeth. She whispered "Who are you?" with a fearful voice. He said "My name is scott" with a heavy Irish accent. She said "What are you doing here? Please don't hurt me" He told her "Im here to save ye from dis pond it is very dangerous and has many secrets ye will never understand." The creepy old man turned around and walked away into the mist of the woods.
Jack finally found Cindy he yelled at her "Where the hell have you been?" She said back to him "I went out to look around what does it matter to you?" He didn't respond to that, she decided to not tell him about the old man that she had talked too. As they walked back they kept fighting and arguing. When they got back to the house it was 4pm they were worried why there dad was not back yet. She tried calling him there was no answer. They were freaking out it was about to get dark out and she was scared that man would come back. A hour later they finally arrived. Cindy started to run to the car then she noticed that Angelina's right arm was covered in blood.
They both ran over to Angelina's side of the car to help out of the car. When Jack opened the door she fell onto the cold rocky barren ground and she screamed with pain. They all rushed to help her into the house which was not easy to do because of her size. They all gently set her down on the couch and helped her as much as they could. Andrew told the kids they would talk about what happened the next day.
The next morning Andrew went and got the kids up and brought them into the kitchen to talk to them. Jack and Cindy both asked "What happened?" at the same time. Their dad said "Well we were on our way back to the house and there was this old creepy looking guy with long gray ha.." Cindy screamed and ran up the stairs and shut her door and locked it. Jack and his dad ran up the stairs after her. Their dad banged on the door over and over before she finally unlocked the door. Cindy decided to tell them that she saw that old man in the woods the other day.
Later that night when everyone was asleep Angelina got up and walked out the door into the cold and dark night. She kept walking until she got to the dirt trail. She saw an illusion of her dead sister. The illusion said to her "The pond is where you will be at bay, the pond is where you must lay for every single day." Angelina kept walking towards the pond. When she finally got to the pond she spewed out vomit all over the ground. When she got to the edge of the pond she could see reflections of her dead family members that she loved the most. They all grabbed her and dragged her into the pond killing her at the bottom of the pond.
The next day Cindy got up and noticed Angelina was gone. She went and got her dad to tell him. He freaked out when Cindy told him that she was missing. They started to search for her they couldn't find her anywhere. They eventually called 9-11. It seemed like forever before the cops arrived to the house but in reality it was only 15 minutes. Andrew told the cops about everything that had happened the cops said to him "Sorry but we can't start searching for your wife until she has been missing for at least 48 hours."
After the cops left Cindy and her dad went to the pond to check it out Cindy they both had a feeling that something had gone wrong there. As they were walking to the pond it kept getting darker the further back they went into the woods as the shadows of the trees enclosed on them. When they got close enough too see the pond they saw the old man. Andrew told her to stay there and be quiet and don't move! He started to walk towards the old man trying to be stealthy. When he was about 10 yards away from him he charged at him.
Jack finally woke up at noon. He started to hear whispers as soon as he woke up but he couldn't make up what they said. He started to head downstairs the more he went down his stomach and head started to hurt more and more. He noticed that everyone was gone so he thought they went to the doctors or something so he didn't bother to call his dad or sister. He went into the kitchen he started too make a sandwich trying to ignore the pain it kept getting worse every passing moment. He felt like he had to vomit so he ran to the door to go outside and vomit. As soon as he touched the door he passed out and slammed right onto the wooden floor, it was like something didn't want him to leave the house.
The old man punched Andrew in the stomach he yelled in pain and fell to the ground. Cindy knew that her dad couldn't take on the man by him self. She ran into the fight to help her dad, the old man drew a knife when she got close and grabbed her he was choking her. He slit her throat he could feel her warm gooey bright red blood run down his cold and bony fingers. He laughed as he watched her die in his hands. Andrew screamed but no noise came out. He walked over to the edge of the pond with Cindy's dead body. He whispered to her "I told ye to stay away from the pond what the hell is wrong with ye?" He threw her lifeless body into the pond. Arms started to wrap around her body and pulled her body underwater to be never be seen again. The old man walked over to Andrew who was crying and started to kick him. He grabbed him by the hair and started to drag him away into dark forest.
Jack woke back up he didn't feel any pain hell me didn't even remember what had happened to him. When Jack stood up he started to hear the whispers again but now he could make out what they were saying. "The cellar is where you shall find the answers." Jack was confused out of his mind he didn't even what that meant and he didn't think the house had a cellar. He started to search around the house he checked the kitchen, living room, bathrooms he couldn't find any sort of cellar anywhere. He had one last place to look he walked over to the closet he walked into he didn't see anything. He was leaving the closet when he stepped on a rug and noticed that the floor felt different that any other place in the house. He picked up the rug and he found a handle. He pulled on the handle and a piece of the floor came up.
He walked down the stairs into the cellar. It had a musty smell to it, when he turned on the light he saw spider webs, dead rats and mice, and huge bugs. All that was really in there was a table with a journal on it. He walked over to the table he picked up the journal he tried to open it but he noticed that it had a lock on it. He looked around the room for stuff to break the lock with a huge rock caught his eye. He picked up the rock and started to slam it into the journal, it finally opened. He started to flip through the book the first thing it said was "Property of scott". He continued too read a lot of the entries in the journal were useless to Jack. He found one page that stood out to him. "My whole family is dead they disappeared I don't know how. I am scared and freezing hiding in this cellar from the demon that haunts the woods and this house I hear something abo…" Dated 10/19/1902.
Andrew found him self nailed to a tree in the complete pitch black night in the middle of the woods. All of a sudden a fire springs up in front of him. He started to see the old mans face hiding behind the fire. The old man started to speak to him "Ye know there is a demon of the pond don't ye? No family has ever survived him and I will be damned if I start to let them live know!" Andrew said "What is wrong with you? You crazy bastard!" The old man started to torture Andrew first he started to stick splinters under all of his finger nails and toe nails he smiled as he watched the blood ooze from his fingers and toes. Next he pulled out a metal rod he stuck it in the fire he stuck right into Andrew's skin he screamed with agonizing pain. The more he screamed the more the old man laughed. Next the old man pulled out a knife he started to cut Andrew all over his body, the old man walked away from his body leaving him to bleed to death and leaving the crows to pick at his rotting decaying corpse.
Jack knew that something was wrong after he read the journal. All of a sudden he felt the air getting hot. He left the cellar to check it out, Jack had realized that the house had caught fire. He dashed outside not getting anything. With the flames of the house lighting up the yard and the woods he could see a figure of a man he thought it was his dad so he ran to it. When he got to the man he realized it was the old man his sister told them about and that attacked his stepmom. He yelled at him "What have you done with my family?" The old man just smiled and laughed.
The house's flames roared with anger as they got bigger. Jack ran to the car he got in it to realize there were no keys in the car. He locked all the doors and windows. The old man ran to the car he smashed the window and grabbed Jack and pulled him out of the car and threw him on the ground. The old man picked him up he snapped his arm. Jack screamed with pain as his arm broke. Jack feel to the ground he found a knife that the old man must have dropped he picked it up and he stabbed the old man. The knife went right through his flesh just like warm butter. The old man's wounds healed instantly he picked up Jack he stared right into Jack's eyes with his cold dead stare. All of a sudden the Old man started to wrinkle rapidly he fell to the ground dead.
Jack got up and couldn't control his body his legs were taking him to the pond, Jack had realized that the demon had took over his body. When he got to the edge of the pond he saw reflections of his mom, sister, and dad standing there saying "Join us in the pond of death." He jumped right in dying right away.
The demon of the pond now lingers in the woods waiting for the next hopeless family to move into the house, and to slaughter them all like the dirty little swine that they are.
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Lois Gridley of St. Clair Shores gets her blood pressure taken by nurse practitioner Indya Mitchell of Roseville at the CVS MinuteClinic in Fraser. Gridley feared she had strep throat, but could not get an appointment to see her physician. / Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press
May Hang, 39, of Fenton, the CVS state practice manager, says, "MinuteClinic is just another option where people can go for help. You don't have to go to the emergency room for a sinus infection or an earache." She is shown at the clinic in Fraser. CVS hopes to add more clinics. / Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press
Signs in the aisles advertise the CVS MinuteClinic in Fraser. / Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Press
Lois Gridley wasn't feeling well. She had just taken her 10-year-old son to the pediatrician and he had strep throat. She worried she might have it, too.
But she couldn't get an appointment with her primary-care doctor. So Gridley went online to find the nearest CVS pharmacy clinic and got an examination there.
"I didn't want to wait," Gridley, 51, of St. Clair Shores, said this month at the CVS MinuteClinic in Fraser. "My throat was hurting."
As millions of additional patients are expected to gain insurance through the Affordable Care Act in the next few years, drugstore chains are planning to add hundreds of clinics nationally. In metro Detroit, CVS Caremark and Rite Aid have clinics. Other chains may enter the market.
Since the walk-in clinics opened in 2000, an estimated 15 million people have been treated, according to Convenient Care Association, a trade group. By the group's count, there are more than 1,400 of these clinics in 35 states.
A key selling point for customers is convenience: The retail clinics are close to home, open late and on weekends and no appointment is needed. Patients are seen quickly -- and they can pick up over-the-counter and prescription medications at the same time.
A visit to a metro Detroit CVS starts at $79. Rite Aid, the other major pharmacy chain in Michigan, champions a virtual approach, offering time with nurses and doctors via a video link in the store. Nurse time is free; a 10-minute video chat with a doctor costs $45.
Retail clinics are increasing in numbers and are becoming so popular that 13 states -- including neighboring Illinois and Indiana -- have considered legislation to regulate them, according to a National Conference of State Legislatures report.
Attorney Dan Schulte, whose law firm represents the Michigan State Medical Society, said that from a legal perspective, one question is whether there is proper licensing and supervision of the medical staff.
And some doctors have expressed concerns that patients might try to replace family physician visits with trips to the clinic and that sick people might not get the full spectrum of care they need. The American Academy of Family Physicians opposes pharmacy clinics expanding beyond treating minor acute illnesses.
"We are worried about fragmentation of the health care system," said Jeffrey J. Cain, a doctor and president of the group, which represents more than 105,000 U.S. doctors.
A family physician knows his or her patient and their medical histories and can coordinate overall health care, Cain said.
He said the academy also fears health decisions could be made by people motivated by profit and not overall care.
Cain also pointed to a 2010 survey that showed family doctors changing to better compete by offering some of the same conveniences as retail clinics -- same-day scheduling (73%), extended hours (48%) and weekend appointments (31%).
But, even with those changes, there are limits.
"I can't be there 24/7 and my patients use them (retail clinics)," said Dr. Sharon Geimer, an internist and pediatrician who has a practice in Sterling Heights. "They provide quick care, but continuity can be inconsistent."
Sports physicals
The retail clinics also offer services, such as sports physicals, that might be required by schools and recreation leagues.
Earlier this month, CVS announced a deal to be the official provider of physicals for Pop Warner Little Scholars, a national nonprofit with youth football, dance and cheerleading programs.
CVS, which has 640 clinics nationally, offers a dozen clinics in metro Detroit. They are all branded under the name MinuteClinic and staffed by nurse practitioners.
"MinuteClinic is just another option where people can go for help," said May Hang, the company's state practice manager. "You don't have to go to the emergency room for a sinus infection or an earache."
Last year, Hang said, CVS added two clinics in metro Detroit and hopes to add more. Nationally, the Woonsocket, R.I., company said it aims to open 150 clinics this year and continue expanding through 2017 to hit 1,500 clinics.
Limits to care
Still, Hang acknowledged there are limits to the care the clinics can provide. The MinuteClinics don't stitch wounds or mend broken bones, for example. And Hang said patients who visit too often or have chronic illnesses are urged to visit their family doctor.
The clinic, she said, should not replace a physician's care.
Camp Hill, Pa.-based Rite Aid, the other major pharmacy chain in Michigan with clinics, has nine in metro Detroit. They operate under the NowClinic name, and have partnered with OptumHealth, which provides the doctors and nurses. Instead of in-person visits, however, the company offers a virtual clinic in a retail setting. Patients go to a private room, where they talk to a doctor or nurse for about 10 minutes via video or phone.
"It's live, real time; but no doctor or nurse is in the room with you," said Rite Aid spokeswoman Ashley Flower. "It's the first of its kind."
Rite Aid piloted the clinic concept in metro Detroit in 2011. This month, the company added 58 NowClinics in four more markets -- Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The company does not take insurance payments, but the visits can be submitted for insurance reimbursements.
Flower said the virtual clinics are not intended to replace a patient's relationship with a primary-care doctor or hospital.
She said: "If someone comes in and says: 'I have chest pains,' we're going to say: 'You need to go to an emergency room.' "
But as demands for health care grow, retail clinic operators could expand services, especially as they partner with large health systems. CVS has an affiliation with the Henry Ford Health System, which it would like to enhance.
Mike Cannon, the store manager of the Fraser CVS, said a retail clinic "doesn't necessarily translate into more retail sales."
But sometimes it does.
Gridley's strep test turned out to be negative -- and the nurse practitioner who examined her suggested she pick up some saline solution and Zyrtec to treat her symptoms.
Her bill was $116: $89 for the exam, $27 for the test. She paid a $15 insurance co-pay with a credit card.
"Since I'm here," said Gridley, seeming relieved by her diagnosis, "I'm going to shop."
More Details: Detroit-area CVS, Rite Aid clinics
CVS clinics
35300 Cherry Hill, Canton
39350 Nine Mile, Farmington Hills
33021 Garfield, Fraser
17120 Kercheval, Grosse Pointe
21777 Twenty-one Mile,
Macomb Township
720 General Motors, Milford
44300 Five Mile, Northville
3010 Walton, Rochester Hills
2115 Twenty-five Mile, Shelby Township
30920 Southfield Road,
100 W. Maple, Walled Lake
4995 Highland, Waterford
Rite Aid clinics
51341 W. Huron River Drive,
4151 S. Canton Center, Canton
42481 W. Thirteen Mile, Novi
24850 Greenfield, Oak Park
6970 N. Rochester, Rochester Hills
23201 Marter, St. Clair Shores
39000 Van Dyke, Sterling Heights
1971 W. Maple, Troy
3273 W. Huron, Waterford
How to make the most of your visit
Keep track of your health care visits, medications and test results.
Take a written list of questions and symptoms with you.
Bring your insurance card, and make sure its up-to-date.
Take notes for future reference and records.
Ask about treatment side effects, risks and benefits.
Share the information with your primary-care physician.


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Wrestling is a good sports and it also requires enough training and strength. - Nationwide Relocation Services
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The Windom/Mountain Lake Cobra wrestling program will be moving down a class in the upcoming 2012-2013 wrestling season. For many years, the Mountain Lake and Butterfield-Odin school districts were combined for all athletics, including their pairing with Windom for wrestling. That atheltic pairing between Mountain Lake and Butterfield-Odin came to an end after the last school year with Butterfield-Odin pairing with St. James for sports beginning this upcoming school year.
With the split, the combined wrestling program of Windom/Mountain Lake had dropped below the enrollment cutoff for Class AA. Last Year, Windom/MLBO was a member of Section 3AA and beginning this upcoming school year, the Cobras will wrestle in Section 4A, which includes Lake Crystal-Wellcome-Memorial, St. James, LeSueur-Henderson, Norwood-Young America, St. Agnes, Sibley East, Trinity School at River Ridge, Madelia/Truman/Martin Luther and River Valley (the combined program from Sleepy Eye and Springfield)
Wrestling is a good sports and it also requires enough training and strength. - Nationwide Relocation Services


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BetterBricks Integrated Design Lab Network
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Illinois Sustainable Schools Compact [PDF]
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Smart Energy Design Assistance Center
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