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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with free breakfast and restaurant
This family-friendly Ploiesti hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Clock Museum, Central Market Hall, and St. John the Baptist Cathedral. Ilie Oana Stadium is 0.9 mi (1.4 km) away.
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this hotel has an indoor pool and a health club. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a spa tub, and a sauna are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 24 soundproofed rooms feature free wired Internet and 24-hour room service. Other amenities available to guests include balconies, satellite TV, and minibars.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool and a children's pool, Vigo Hotel provides a health club and a spa tub. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
A business center is on site at this 4-star property. This business-friendly hotel also offers a sauna, a rooftop terrace, and spa services.
Vigo Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 24
- Babysitting or childcare
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Free breakfast
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Airport transportation
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Designated smoking areas
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Health club
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Children's pool
- Indoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare
Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Bathtub or shower
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Satellite TV service
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Climate control
- Soundproofed rooms
- Free newspaper
- Room service (24 hours)
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast each morning.
Vigo Hotel has a restaurant on site.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 11 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Pets allowed, Only dogs are allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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The 7th Annual Heights Car Show, sponsored by Crest Cadillac & Infiniti of Plano, raised more than $8,500 and collected more than half a ton of food for the Network Food Pantry of Richardson, Texas.
More than 350 cars were showcased, including everything from Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Jaguars and Porsches to classic American muscle cars and hot rods, motorcycles and even military vehicles.
We had a red and a white 1954 Corvette side by side, said show organizer Brian Ratcliff. You can go to car shows for years and never see a 1954 Vette. They only made 3600 of them, and only about half of those are left. If Id known they were coming, I wouldve brought my blue 54 and we couldve had red, white and blue together. Maybe next year.
Hundreds of spectators enjoyed the festival-style atmosphere. Ken Savage and the Best Kept Secret Band performed classic rock tunes throughout the day.
We started the show as a way to reach out to the community, said Ratcliff. Each year its grown and weve attracted more cars and a wider range of vehicles. Its become one of the largest single day car shows in Dallas-Fort Worth. And the quality of the vehicles is remarkable.
Founded in 1956, the Heights Baptist Church is located at 201 W. Renner Road at U.S. 75 (Central Expressway) in Richardson. More information at http://www.theheights.org.

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Barrow Raiders 10-24 Keighley Cougars
Barrow beaten by Keighley
Kingstone Press Championship basement side Barrow were beaten 24-10 at home by Keighley.
Max Wiper and Bradley Goulding were the Raiders try-scorers as they fell to a 20th defeat of a miserable season.
Paul Handforth (two), Paul White and James Craven did the damage for the Cougars.


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Since becoming regional mates in 2008, the Sacred Heart and Shelby County girls' golf programs have dominated the Louisville area and posted solid finishes at the state tournament. The rivalry might have reached its peak this year.
The Valkyries enter this weekend's Leachman Buick-GMC-Cadillac/KHSAA State Championships as the two-time defending champions. But it was Shelby County that won last week's Region Five Tournament, beating Sacred Heart by one shot.
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Matt Cassel proved me way wrong. I wrote back on Sep 19, that I thought Brodie Croyle was better than Cassel after I attended one Chiefs training camp session. I am here to say that I am not affiliated with NFL scouting for a reason. Cassel I'm sorry for doubting you. Just deliver in December and I will buy your Jersey the next time I fly home to KC. Seven is my favorite number anyway, so it won't be too much of a stretch.
I officially hope LeBron never wins a title. The "Decision" is the reason. I don't care that he left Cleveland it was the way he did it.
The Kansas City Chiefs are in first place!!!!!! Yes!
College Hoops is back and Duke looks like they could and should go undefeated in 2010-2011!. Coach K is the best coach in any sport. Too bad he is not the Miami Heat coach...they would be undefeated if he were.
I have a Michael Vick jersey I had made for me in Korea a few years back (Falcons), I am so glad I kept it because he will be the next black QB to win a Super Bowl. (Sorry V. Young you are proving to be nothing more than a black Jeff George at this point)
The Kansas Jayhawks show no signs of relinquishing the crown!
Matt Ryan should be the NFL MVP if Vick doesn't win it. I think a fair exchange would be Vick is the comeback player of the decade and give Matty Ice the MVP.
USA doesn't get a world cup but I think they need to focus on winning one and screw being the host. Of course the USA is a great place to host this world wide tournament. We have stadiums galore and now that we are 20+ years into the digital age...the USA will take the World Cup to levels it has never seen as far as coverage goes.
So, Randy Shannon cleans up the Miami program, wins games but not in a big way but still ends up on the positive side and gets shafted for not winning everything. Shannon had the kids long term interest at heart and wanted to win but unfortunately he is not still playing.


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A hidden problem that shouldn't be forgotten…
Homelessness is one of those issues that it is often easier for people to pretend doesn't exist than to admit that it does.
To many it is something that happens in London or Manchester, not Carlisle. However, it does exist, even here in our city. Last Friday night a group of us spent the night sleeping on the streets of the city centre to raise awareness of the issue.
Before arranging the sleep out, I approached Carlisle Key, a fantastic local charity working with homeless 16-25 year olds and asked them for advice on the way we should do the sleep-out and an offer to donate anything we raised to them.
It was a very thought-provoking and interesting experience, which provided a few surprises. When the weather was forecast to be freezing, people asked if we were going to cancel. Of course we weren't. If you are going to do something to raise awareness of homelessness, the coldest night of the year is a must.
We were lucky, we had warm beds and hot showers to return to once dawn broke and the city centre started to spring to life. We didn't have the worry or despair of knowing a long and empty day stretched out endlessly in front of us, never mind having to repeat the experience of being cold and lonely night after night. We went as far as we could to experiencing what it's like to spend a night sleeping rough without compromising safety or breaking the law.
To this avail, yes we were wrapped up in sleeping bags, and we were kindly allowed to use the toilet facilities in the local hotel (speaking to the manager he mentioned that some rough sleepers did wander in to get warm on occasion). In some ways we tailored our experience to the extreme by staying out in the open air and exposed to the elements, even while it was snowing, whereas if we had genuinely been homeless we would have done our best to stay hidden and sheltered, so would have been unlikely to position ourselves at the Town Hall Monument.
We settled ourselves down with cardboard beneath us (it makes such a difference!). Seven of us were there for the whole night, 9pm-7.30am, others for a few hours. A group our size produces a feeling of camaraderie. I knew that there was no way I could fall asleep that night, I felt too exposed and vulnerable.
We used Twitter as a way of publicising our project. We posted hourly tweets, photos and updates. We had a special 'hash tag' #CarlisleSleepout and we received pledges of donations from different areas of the country. We received great support from the Twitter-sphere, including a re-tweet by the writer Bonnie Greer to her almost 4000 followers.
At around midnight we spotted a figure walking through the snow flurries towards us with a sleeping bag under her arm. Hilary had heard me on Radio Cumbria earlier that day and come along to join us in a show of solidarity. The kindness of strangers certainly gives you a warm glow on a cold, snowy night.
On a quiet night in January there wasn't an awful lot of footfall streaming past. Earlier in the night we had a couple of people stopping to ask what we were doing. We had a few notes dropped in our collection box and we had queries from a couple of people coming home from the pub, slightly confused at the group of people huddled together in the city centre.
Any one of us could end up on the street, as a 'sofa-surfer' going from house to house, or in a hostel. It is all dependent on luck and circumstance. The aim of the sleep-out wasn't to single-handedly try to get everybody a bed or to pretend that I could say I knew exactly how it felt to be without a home of my own, it was to raise awareness, to make people realise that anybody could end up in this situation. Once in the cycle, it is hard to get out of it.
Councils are doing their best and Carlisle City Council is doing a sterling job, despite reduced resources due to the savage cuts to the budget and savings they are being forced to make. Times are hard. Austerity measures are hitting those at the poorer end of society much harder than those at the top. With food banks opening at the rate of three per week on average in this country and many people facing the prospect of redundancy often to find themselves 'underemployed' on a part-time, low-paid basis, income and outgoings are just not balancing for a lot of people.
Unfortunately, harsher measures are in the pipeline. The introduction of Bedroom Tax, the change to Universal Credit and the localisation of Council Tax Benefit in the coming months are all going to be hitting the same pockets which are already virtually empty in many cases. Labour MPs, councillors, council staff, benefits advisors, and many other professionals have voiced their concerns about these changes included in the welfare reforms. Many people who are working but on low wages will be hit as well. Families are teetering on the edge of staying afloat financially. Unfortunately, the likelihood of more and more people finding themselves in a position of being homeless is expected to increase as each change comes into force.
Homelessness is a matter of public responsibility, and social conscience. It is not something that will go away because we ignore what's often hiding in the shadows. This is why we spent a night in the cold in Carlisle City Centre in January, to force more people in Carlisle to think and talk about it . . . and it appears to have worked.
Published: January 24, 2013
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Put your money where your mouth is! The very same person voted against donations to the homeless at a recent council meeting, two faced?
This doesn't sound like our local harraby concillor is being very productive.
Agreeing with Jim - we have no excess homelessness so why is she wasting her time and no doubt council tax payers money trying to highlight this issue? - Or is this a self publicising excercise
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Ivan Braiker
Geotargeting. Is It Part of Your Plan?
Geotargeting. Is It Part of Your Plan?
But the reason SoLoMo matters is that it's unique to the mobile device; it doesn't make sense on the desktop the same way steering columns didn't fit 19th century horse-drawn carriages. It's the platypus of the mobile app ecosystem. And it's taking form in local discovery. This shuns the search paradigm that ruled the desktop web in favor of pushing things to you. Deals, suggestions or events are pushed based on your check-ins or social activity as you wander across different tiles of the Earth.
--Michael Boland, quoted in the Huffington Post
SoLoMo its a portmanteau of social, local, mobile, a single word that describes the unique convergence of social media and localization applications on a mobile device. And it makes sensemobile is truly the only medium that can marry search and localization. But that doesnt mean other media cant benefit from this marriage.
In my 2012 preview piece (2012: Mobile, Social, Local and You) I talked about how radio could utilize SMS-based loyalty programsincluding listener clubs, sports updates and traffic and weather alertsto maintain a local identity with their listeners. And in a piece last fall (Liked Is Good. Mobile Makes It Better) I talked about how mobile marketing could extend the value of stations Facebook presences through mobile marketing.
Like SoLoMo itself, today Im going to mash up these concepts and talk a bit about Facebook geotargeting, and how it can help national programs and their sponsors target local audiences.
Facebooks geotargeting is a very powerful yet oft-overlooked capability. In its simplest terms, it allows you to customize posts to a Facebook page by location. For example, if you want to post a story germane to listeners in Tulsa, you can modify it so that only users in Tulsa would see it in their Facebook feed. This sort of granularity can provide significant benefits for national broadcasters, sponsors and local stations alike.
The benefits of this seem self-evidentyoure targeting an audience with geographically-relevant content. Makes sense. But what may be most surprising is the level of engagement for this geotargeted content. Recently, the Nieman Journalism Lab published a case study of Facebook geotargeting conducted by NPR, to determine if stories focused just on Seattle would drive significant traffic from Facebook to the Web site of their Seattle affiliate, KPLU.
Last October NPR Digital Services and Digital Media used this tool to launch an experiment with member station KPLU, in which we shared selected KPLU.org content on NPRs Facebook page, but only for the eyes of the Seattle region (KPLUs market).
During the four months of this experiment, they posted around 50 geotargeted linksstories from the KPLU Web siteon the NPR Facebook page, but visible only to Facebook users in Seattle. They were able to measure the relative engagement of storiesthe number of likes, shares and comments on a Facebook post as a percentage of the number of unique people who viewed it. The results for geotargeted stories were quite impressive:
We found that during the first four months of this experiment, the average engagement rate across all geofocused posts was six times higher than all global posts.
While this particular case study was focused on driving traffic from Facebook to the mobile Web, the benefits of geotargeting can extend from Facebook to mobile marketing to the mobile Web:
·Geotargeting empowers national sponsors who can target listeners with special local offers. For example, Arbys is a key client of ours, and uses geotargeting capabilities to make certain that offers are made to listeners in regions where they are valid.
·Geotargeting empowers national broadcasters to have local relevance. A nationally syndicated broadcaster can target localized contentsay, Tom Joyner is doing a live remote from a local affiliatesolely to listeners in that market.
·Mobile marketing can extend the power of geotargeting. Stations with mobile CRM programs for listener loyalty clubs can tap into this localized, geotargeted content, too. When the Tom Joyner Morning Show geotargets content to listeners on Charlottes WQNC-FM, the station can easily add a post with a call-to-action to join their listener loyalty club.
Mobile has a proven ability to enhance the relevance of our medium. Geotargeting is helping us to ensure that radio will benefit from extending the capabilities of SoLoMo.
Ivan Braiker is the president of Hipcricket+Augme Technologies, Inc. Drop him a note at email@example.com
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By Lt. Col. Tim Donovan
32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team
With a little less than two months left in the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team's mission
in Iraq, this is an update on some of our units from their locations around the country over
the past month.
BAGHDAD - When detainees at Camp Cropper want to get under the skin of guard force soldiers
from the 829th Engineer Company, they employ a tactic that would be more at home along the St.
Croix River than inside a theater internment facility in Iraq: they needle the Wisconsin
Guard troops about Brett Favre's success as a Minnesota Viking.
It seems the Green Bay Packers logos that sprouted up all over Camp Cropper since May tipped
off detainees that Packer fans were in the house. It's a small world.
The 3,200 men and women of the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team have accomplished a lot
during their time in Iraq so far: big accomplishments like closing the largest detention
facility on Earth at Camp Bucca; small accomplishments like winning the flag football
championship at Camp Cropper.
And wherever they are serving in Iraq, Red Arrow soldiers are making a difference.
Here is what some of our units want their Wisconsin hometowns to know about their service
in Iraq - the big things, the small things, and all of the individual and organizational
accomplishments in between.
As properties changed hands during the past year, responsibility for security for the
International Zone also shifted, from U.S.-led efforts up until the end of 2008 to Iraqi
forces in the months since. These developments in Baghdad are important for the entire nation,
and 32nd Brigade soldiers from Wisconsin are at the very center of them.
Spc. Michael Vallarta, West Allis, describes the most challenging part of this mission as "dealing
with people who don't speak English, and then they get mad at you for not understanding what they
are saying." Vallarta said the language barrier can cause both sides to get frustrated with each
other, and cultural differences make it even more difficult for female soldiers who often have a
harder time getting male truck drivers to follow their instructions.
The best part of the staging lanes mission, according to Spc. Ashley Mullis, Whitewater: "It's
bonding with other soldiers." Mullis says it is much easier to get to know the other soldiers in
the unit when they work closely together every day.
"Alpha Company troops work in the most extreme conditions and with the most violent detainees at
Camp Taji and Iraq, and they are doing an outstanding job," Krueger reports. "They continue to make
me proud to be their commander and continue to do a great job in one of the most difficult and
important missions in Iraq."
"We completed the detainee air transport mission last month by providing security for the transfer
of more than 7,000 detainees from Camp Bucca to COB (Contingency Operating Base) Basra for further
transport from May to October," said Capt. Tony Klemme, Green Bay, Charlie Company's commander.
The Fond du Lac-based company continues to provide security on a combat outpost and will soon take
over a U.S. Air Force route and area security mission for more than 125 square miles in southern
"We have also driven more than 120,000 incident-free miles conducting 'Bucca to Buehring Express'
missions, driving from Iraq to Kuwait and back, escorting soldiers and civilians going home on
leave and pass," Klemme said.
"Operationally, things have been rolling along nice and steady and mundane," according to Capt.
Nathan Olson, Columbus. "In our environment (an internment facility), 'mundane' is the goal."
Olson reports no shortage of volunteers to help with customs inspections as the company prepares
its extra gear for shipment home. This is a sure sign that the deployment is nearing an end.
Another sign: with low temperatures at Taji now in the 50's, soldiers are starting to wear fleece
jackets and watch caps in the chilly evenings. A few months ago, the word "chilly" wasn't in any
of these soldiers' vocabularies.
"Both of the platoons are engaging in some friendly, semi-competitive sporting activities,
including 'Midnight Madness,' where 2nd Platoon scratches together a little four-on-four basketball
after shift at 0200 in the morning�(and) 1st Platoon stays active with a football league they
are throwing together and near daily basketball or volleyball after shift," Peplinski said.
Two soldiers, Sgts. Don Furrer, Wisconsin Rapids, and Eric Trubee, Marshfield, were recently
awarded Army Achievement Medals for outstanding work they have done to support the battery's mission.
Staff Sgt. Raymond Weaver, Spencer, Wis., was inducted into the prestigious Audie Murphy Club
after studying for months and completing three challenging boards. Audie Murphy was the most
highly decorated U.S. soldier in World War II and the club named for him admits only the very
best of the Army's NCO corps.
Alpha Battery soldiers appreciate all the care packages and phone cards they have received from
the unit's family readiness group and from the American Legion post in Marshfield.
"Our time here is quickly coming to a close and we find that� we have been doing a mission
vastly different than that which we trained for or that many within our company anticipated or
wanted," said Capt. Shawn Vele, Milwaukee. The company normally has an engineer mission, but not
in Iraq, where soldiers have been working in detainee operations at the theater internment
facility at Camp Taji. As Wisconsin National Guard troops always do, though, the engineer soldiers
adapted to their new mission.
"Our unit has done extremely well and been recognized by both military police battalions we have
fallen under during this deployment for our professionalism and ability in detainee operations,"
Vele said.
On Oct. 6, the company had a tailgate party for the first Packer-Viking game of the season.
Soldiers had a good time grilling fresh steaks sent from the states and watching the game on a
large projection screen. The downside: the Monday Night Football contest didn't start until 3 a.m.
in Iraq, and the game's outcome was more than disappointing. But more than 50 gifts from supporters
in Wisconsin were distributed to the troops to take away a little bit off the sting of the Packer
Soldiers get mail twice a week. Packages and letters have been coming in steadily, providing
soldiers with snacks, necessities and news and photos from back home.
Phelps said the detainee guard force mission on Forward Operating Base Cropper has proved to
be both challenging and rewarding. "Even though the weather has started to cooperate, the days
are still long and work is still exhausting," Phelps said.
The Kenosha-based soldiers are also helping to train a corps of Iraqi correctional officers
who will take over Cropper's internment facility when U.S. forces eventually depart. "Even though
we will turn this mission over to another unit soon, it's exciting to know our initial efforts
will help advance the Iraqi corrections system to a level consistent with our standards of dignity
and respect," Phelps said.
Bravo Company has in its ranks one of the nation's newest citizens. Sgt. Anna Duncan, Minneapolis,
was sworn in as a citizen of the United States of America during a Veterans Day naturalization
ceremony at Al-Faw Palace near Baghdad. Duncan, a native of the Caribbean island nation of St.
Lucia, was among more than 150 service members who became U.S. citizens at the event hosted
by Multi National Corps-Iraq commander, Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr.
Flag football bragging rights on Camp Cropper now belong to Bravo Company following the company's
40�26 FOB championship victory over the previous champs from Task Force 14.
"Soldiers are very excited to gain experience conducting their actual MOS during this
deployment," said Capt. Craig Jansen, Milwaukee, who is Delta Company's commander. "This is
an opportunity that not many soldiers get conducting SECFOR (security force) missions,
especially those coming from a support company," Jansen said.
Now comes the daunting task of tearing down the largest theater internment facility in Iraq, as
many Delta Company soldiers are assigned as a demolition team to start deconstruction of the TIF.
To keep in touch with home, 1st Lt. Mark Weigel's troopers in northern Iraq are corresponding
with new pen pals from Cushing Elementary School in Delafield, Wis. "The first graders there are
learning about us and Iraq," Weigel said. "They've sent us pictures they've drawn and we've sent
them Iraqi currency and a reference sheet to read Arabic numbers."
Weigel said his troops are working with the Delafield kids to collect school supplies for a
small orphanage in the mountains of northern Iraq.
Home-cooked American food is on most soldiers' lists of things they're looking forward to when
they get back to Wisconsin. According to 1st Lt. Eric Giese, his troopers are mightily bored with
Iraq's ubiquitous chicken kabobs. "We have had plenty of kabobs up here, as every restaurant has
the same menu unless you have a restaurant by a river and then you can have fish," Giese reports.
One condiment most of the troops enjoy is "Family Sauce," which is made in Iraq and tastes a little
like A.1. Sauce. "The secret to this sauce is 'intensifiers,'" Giese said. "It is on the
ingredients label but, for the love of God, no one knows what intensifiers are."
A dozen soldiers of the 32nd MP Company were recently honored by Brig. Gen. David Quantock for
their efforts in transporting 2,882 Iraqi government prisoners during one eight-day period in
September. Quantock reminded the soldiers of the importance of their mission and the vital role
it plays in turning over the last of the detainees in U.S. custody to the government of Iraq
and moving the U.S. closer to closing all of its theater internment facilities in Iraq.
By mid-November, the 32nd Military Police Company had conducted 170 missions, including
transporting more than 10,000 detainees during detainee air transport missions conducted at
all hours of the day and night.
Bensend and Hansen get around to other brigade locations whenever they can, and Balad was the
last of the brigade's major locations to get a visit.
Few Wisconsin communities have embraced their deployed hometown soldiers as warmly as Reedsburg
has. The soldiers have received several thousand cards and letters, lots of local cheese, and a
giant banner signed by hundreds of hometown supporters hangs outside the troop's operations center.
Every day these soldiers report for their duties they are reminded of the support they have at
"It may only be a one-hole course, but it is pretty nice considering the limitations they had to
work with," said 1st Sgt. Thomas Bruss, Appleton. "It only has one water hazard but it has lots
of sand traps - lots and lots of sand traps."
Bravo Troop continues to execute its base defense mission, manning entry control points and a
quick reaction force for Camp Cropper and the western portion of Victory Base Complex. The
QRF periodically conducts exterior patrols of the troop's area of operations outside Victory
Base to detect vulnerabilities and become familiar with the area in the event soldiers are
called on to respond to an outside-the-wire incident.
The troop's exterior patrols have recently been supported by an air weapons team, which the
soldiers find reassuring. "It was nice having air support for this (recent) mission since we were
dismounted," said Staff Sgt. Ryan Johnson, Eagle, Wis. "It makes you feel a little safer since
the enemy doesn't like to show themselves with Apaches flying around."
In late October, Bravo Troop received care packages from a family nobody in the unit knew. From
an enclosed letter and photographs, soldiers learned that the Leinstock family in Watertown had
an Army-themed birthday party for their 5-year-old son, and the kids then assembled a couple care
packages for the hometown National Guard unit to thank Watertown's troops for their service.
"We thought it was a very nice gesture from friendly, caring people we have never met,"
Bruss said.
Bravo Troop also received care packages of candy, snacks, magazines and DVDs from 6th and 8th
grade classes at St. Bernard's church in Watertown.
Troopers who took part in "Tailgating with the Troops" Oct. 18 say they appreciated the tireless
efforts of those back home who worked so hard to make it happen. Many of the soldiers were able
to talk to their families on webcams over the Internet. "It was a wonderful opportunity to see and
talk with my 12-year-old son, Nathan," said Sgt. 1st Class Ken Tennies of Jefferson. "(Nathan)
said he had a great time at the event in Madison and he especially enjoyed making a poster."
More than 3,200 pounds of school supplies, toys, clothes and hygiene items were donated from
Wisconsin and five other states, and by August the packages started rolling in from families,
co-workers, businesses, church groups and community organizations.
The items were divided up and delivered to each of the cities at the end of October.
"It was amazing to see the number of children lined up, their eyes all excited as they paraded
through the line receiving the items," said Maj. John Oakley, Appleton. "With the donations we
were able to help 400 families."
For engineer soldiers assigned to the company's Repairs and Utilities Section, the work is
familiar. "We are still involved in making hundreds of wooden products, pouring concrete, fixing
fences and, in general, doing what it takes to support the main mission of TIF operations," said
1st Lt. Joel Busboom, New Berlin, the section's officer in charge. "The end is in sight now,
however we know that the end of our tour doesn't mean it's time to relax."
Staff Sgt. Mark Meuer, La Crosse, is night shift lead for one of the compounds and claims "the
hardest working soldiers of the 32nd Brigade" have made the place a lot better. "The compound
improvement projects still continue, such as replacing sniper screen, painting, and everybody's
favorite, filling and replacing sandbags," Meuer said.
Some of the 829th's soldiers are using their time off after their 12-hour workdays to better
themselves. According to the company's senior medic, Sgt. 1st Class Ginger Macdonald, Muskego,
17 soldiers are enrolled in a 153-hour emergency medical technician course. These soldiers will
come home with extra skills they hope to use as they continue or pursue civilian careers in
medicine or emergency services. "(This is) not an easy task to complete with the day-to-day
responsibilities of soldiering and deployment and, oh yeah, getting ready to redeploy back to
Wisconsin," Macdonald noted.
The main job at Camp Cropper, though, is guarding detainees. Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Traaholt,
Ashland, reports the last few weeks have been a bit busier, but "detainees seemed to settle into
their zones, and the temperatures cooled off, which helped everyone."
"The compound guard force has installed new sniper screen around their compounds, along with
many other projects to make the TIF look and run better, and there are Red Arrows adorning every
compound," Traaholt said. "Whoever replaces the soldiers from the Wisconsin Army National Guard
will have a hard act to follow, as Wisconsin soldiers are some of the hardest working soldiers
in the nation."
As the 32nd Brigade's soldiers head into the final two months of their time overseas, the change
of seasons in Iraq is attempting to prepare them for their return to Wisconsin. The high
temperature in Baghdad Nov. 18 was only 62 degrees and the overnight low is forecast to be
down around 40. It's not January-in-Wisconsin weather yet, to be sure, but high temperatures
are more than 60 degrees cooler than the troops were experiencing just a few months ago.
They'll be ready for Wisconsin.
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Sgt. Anna Duncan is congratulated by Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr. after she is sworn in as
a citizen of the United States Nov. 11 at Al-Faw Palace near Baghdad. Duncan, a native of the
Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, is assigned to Kenosha-based Company B, 257th Brigade
Support Battalion.
Staff Sgt. Matthew J. Benzshawel, Appleton, drags an 80-pound duffel bag during a
portion of Camp Bucca's 3-Gun Competition Oct. 17. Benzshawel is assigned to
Company B, 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry in Green Bay. He placed first among 70
competitors, earning a prize package and an Army Achievement Medal. U.S. Army photo
by Spc. Maurice A. Galloway.
Sgt. 1st Class Ginger Macdonald, senior medic for the 829th Engineer Company,
performs "wire medicine" in Compound 3 at Camp Cropper. Macdonald is
assessing a detainee's medical status during one of her daily sick call runs. 829th
Engineer Company photo.
As close to "Miller Time" as they can get in Iraq, Spc. Cliff Cornell and Sgt.
Andrew Wagoner make a trash run through Compound 3's Main Street. Packers
logos can be seen all over Camp Cropper and detainees frequently joke about
Brett Favre's success as a Minnesota Viking to tease the 829th Engineer
Company's guard force. 829th Engineer Company photo.
Soldiers from 3rd Platoon of Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 105th Cavalry conduct a
force protection patrol near Victory Base Complex on Oct. 19. Bravo Troop is
based in Watertown. Photograph by Sgt. Stanley Doty.
Soldiers from Company D, 132nd Brigade Support Battalion dismantle the theater
internment facility at Camp Bucca after the last of the camp's detainees were
transferred to other detention facilities in Iraq.
Tailgating Iraq-style. Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry grill
steaks as they get ready to watch a football game on American Forces Television.
Game times in Iraq were eight hours later than Wisconsin before daylight saving
time ended Nov. 1. Now it's a nine-hour time difference, so Monday Night
Football doesn't start in Iraq until 4 a.m. the next morning.
A Motion W and other signs of Wisconsin mark locations where Wisconsin National
Guard troops are based in Iraq. These soldiers are from Kenosha's Company B,
257th Brigade Support Battalion.
Sgt. Ryan Van De Walker, a medic with the 829th Engineer Company, prepares a
patient for an IV at Camp Cropper. 829th Engineer Company photo.
Sgt. 1st Class Peter Grant, Staff Sgt. Mark Meuer, and Sgt. Chad Sturdevant of the 829th
Engineer Company prepare for shift change on the Camp Cropper TIF. The Iraqi corrections
officers relax while they await their teammates coming off their shift. The non-commissioned
officers are responsible for the success of each compound; they are the backbone of the entire
operation. 829th Engineer Company photo.
The 829th Engineer Company's Sgt. Dustin Vajgrt, Chippewa Falls, secures the compound sally
port gate after detainees exit for medical appointments. 829th Engineer Company photo.
Windshield's-eye view of a force protection patrol conducted by 1st Platoon of Bravo Troop,
1st Squadron, 105th Cavalry near Victory Base Complex on Nov. 9. Photograph by 1st Lt.
Christopher Szopinski.
Pfc. Kevin Sieja, Staff Sgt. Ryan Johnson, Sgt. Anthony Ross, and other Bravo Troop, 1st Squadron, 105th Cavalry Troopers conduct a dismounted force
protection patrol near Victory Base Complex Oct. 19. Photograph by Spc. Jason Wick.
Pebble Beach it is not. Bravo Troop's Staff Sgt. Casey Freeman tries out the one-hole golf course he helped install
near the unit's command post at Camp Cropper, Iraq, on Nov. 3. Photo by Spc. Craig Detert.
Pfc. Meng Xiong (left) and Spc. Justin Young, both from Alpha Company, 132nd
Brigade Support Battalion at work in the convoy staging lanes section at Camp Bucca.
Spc. Ryan Kohnke, Waukesha, receives a coin and a handshake from Brig. Gen.
David Quantock. Kohnke was one of a dozen 32nd Military Police Company
soldiers recognized for their efforts in transporting 2,882 Iraqi government
prisoners during one eight-day period in September.
Children at a school in Safwan lined up in October to receive gifts sent to them from
six U.S. states and distributed by soldiers of Appleton's 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry.
About 3,200 pounds of donated materials were collected for residents of Safwan and
nearby Umm Qasr in southern Iraq.
Col. Martin Seifer, Seymour, of the 32nd Brigade Combat Team headquarters signs
documents to turn over Forward Operating Base Blackhawk in Baghdad. In the
background is Believers Palace, formerly used by Saddam Hussein
Soldiers of the 32nd Brigade Combat Team headquarters applaud Gen. David
Petraeus (on the video screen) as Petraeus acknowledges the Wisconsin troops live
via satellite from Washington, D.C. Nov. 13. Petraeus commands United States
Central Command (CENTCOM), which includes U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 32nd Brigade represented all of CENTCOM at an awards dinner honoring
Petraeus and his troops. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michelle Gonzalez.
Spc. Adam Getgen, Wisconsin Dells, explains to Col. Steven Bensend how some of
his unit's equipment is used by Charlie Troop, 1st Squadron, 105th Cavalry at Joint
Base Balad. Bensend, commander of the 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team,
visited Charlie Troop on Oct. 30. Also on the visit were Col. Mark Greenwood,
deputy brigade commander, and brigade Command Sgt. Maj. Edgar Hansen.
Next stop: Wisconsin. The appearance of personal equipment shipping cases and
packed duffel bags are a sure sign the deployment is nearing an end. Over the next
few weeks, most soldiers will ship many of their personal belongings back to
Wisconsin. This homeward bound baggage belongs to soldiers of Alpha Troop, 1st
Squadron, 105th Cavalry from Fort Atkinson.
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March 31, 2011
By Amy Perry
FORT LEE, Va. (March 31, 2011) -- Historic re-enactors, poetry readings and the observations of a Gold Star Mother were the highlights of a Women's History Month observance here Monday in the Transportation School auditorium.
Sponsored by the 244th Quartermaster Battalion, part of the 23rd QM Brigade, and the Installation Equal Opportunity Office, the event drew a respectable crowd of nearly 200 people. They listened intently as Chief Warrant Officer 5 Candis Martin, the quartermaster personnel development warrant officer in the Office of the Quartermaster General, told a story about two women who found great strength to make a difference in other's lives.
She recognized Juliette Gordon Low, who founded Girl Scouts of America, and Grace Darling Sielbold, who founded the American Gold Star Mothers group.
"Together, those two organizations have done so much for so many, all because of the strength of a woman," said Martin. "We all know a Girl Scout - most of us wore the uniform. You may or may not know a Gold Star Mother, but if you have seen the goodness happening within our veterans homes and hospitals and the support to our returning wounded warriors, you have witnessed the spirit of the American Gold Star Mother at work."
During her presentation, Martin, a Gold Star Mother herself, spoke of the last conversation she had with her son, 1st Lt. Tom Martin, on April 17, 2007, before he returned to Iraq and was killed in action.
"Tom and I were enjoying a cup of coffee over small talk in the kitchen of our San Antonio home," she said. "I was telling him all of the reasons why I hated for him to have to return to his unit; that I knew he was experiencing things that no mother ever wanted their child to go through - the experience of the threat of combat.
"After a while of back and forth banter, he left me with a comment that truly caught me off guard and speechless," she continued. "He said, 'Mom, it's what we do.'"
Martin said she was speechless because she was speaking to him as a mother, not as a fellow Soldier.
"His words continue to haunt me, particularly in the midst of our professional arms campaign," she said. "'It's what we do.' Even before Tom was killed, I found strength in four little words - strength to be all I could be, as well as strength to continue to support the warfighter."
Martin went on to encourage the audience to live their lives with more meaning.
"Throughout life, I've come to know there are two days we have absolutely no control over - the day we are born and the day we will die," she said. "What we do between those two days has become known as the dash. How we live our dash is a choice. Will you become a part of history in a good, positive way' Will you find the strength to influence others and continue to enrich this great country with your contributions'"
Following Martin's thought-provoking presentation, members of the 244th QM Bn. impersonated famous women in America's history during a skit entitled "Who am I'" Three Soldiers also read pieces of poetry written by women veterans.
The overall significance of the observance was summed up best by Martin when she focused her thoughts specifically on the purpose of Women's History Month.
"(It) reminds us that many remarkable women have gone before us in all walks of life, which allows us to serve where we serve, work where we work, and even choose a profession such as the profession of arms," she said. "As we prepare to write the next chapter of women's history, let us carry forward the strength of women who came before us and ensure our daughters have no limits on their dreams and no obstacles to their achievements. "


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Boston Red Sox hope to have Dustin Pedroia back in the lineup on Wednesday, as they try to get back on the winning track in the middle test of a three-game set against the Chicago White Sox at U.S.
Red Sox hope to get an offensive lift vs. White Sox
Cellular Field.
Boston fell for the third straight time in Tuesday's opener, as Alexei Ramirez scored from second on shortstop Xander Bogaerts' throwing error in the bottom of the ninth to carry Chicago to a 2-1 win.
"It's cold weather, but that's no excuse for that play," Bogaerts said.
Burke Badenhop (0-2), who recorded the final out in the eighth, stayed on to start the ninth for Boston. After Alejandro De Aza was caught stealing second, Ramirez singled to left. Badenhop got Tyler Flowers to go down looking before handing the ball over to Chris Capuano, who walked Adam Eaton. Marcus Semien then hit a grounder to Bogaerts, whose errant throw to first allowed the game- winning run to score.
"There were two outs so I was going all the way with two outs, so my idea was to go ahead and get to home plate regardless of what happened," Ramirez said.
Daniel Webb (1-0) picked up his first win in the big leagues after stranding men on first and second in the top of the ninth.
Ramirez has hit safely in all 14 games this year, while Adam Dunn hit a solo homer for the White Sox, who have won two in a row.
Daniel Nava hit a solo homer for the Red Sox, who may get Pedroia back but will likely be without first baseman Mike Napoli. Napoli had to leave last night's contest in the ninth inning with a dislocated finger.
Pedroia, who has been sidelined with inflammation in his left wrist, came on to pinch-run for Napoli and hopes to start on Wednesday.
"Hopefully Pedroia is all right, and we get him back in the lineup just to kind of find our identity and who we are," Napoli said.
Getting the call for Boston on Wednesday will be righty Clay Buchholz, who is 0-1 with a 6.97 ERA on the season. Buchholz was far better than he was his first time out on Thursday in New York, but still absorbed the loss, as he allowed four runs (2 earned) and seven hits in six innings. He had been rocked for six runs in 4 1/3 innings in his first start.
"With my arm strength and everything, it got a lot better within a five-day span," Buchholz told the team's official website after his last start. "Usually, it doesn't happen that quick. I felt a lot more comfortable with each pitch out there tonight. I've got to minimize the damage a little bit more in a couple of spots. Other than that I felt like I threw the ball pretty well."
Buchholz has faced the White Sox six times and is 2-2 with a 4.29 ERA.
Chicago, meanwhile, will turn to left-handed veteran John Danks, who picked up his first win of the season his last time out. After giving up two runs in the first, Danks limited Cleveland to three overall runs on six hits and four strikeouts over six innings to improve to 1-0, while lowering his ERA to 4.05.
"I feel like third inning on, I was able to throw the ball where I wanted to," Danks said. "I kept it down a little better, was getting some ground balls. It was kind of a tale of two games, but like I said, I've never had a bad win."
In nine starts against the Red Sox, Danks has gone 3-6 with a 5.37 ERA and a WHIP of 1.44.
Boston won last season's series, 4-2, and has captured 12 of the last 17 overall matchups.


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Twenty-one student organizations on Western's campus have thirty days to get up to speed with a new fire code. After a meeting between the city fire marshall and building inspector, students must now install solid wood doors of a certain thickness.
The doors must have latches and be able to keep from burning in twenty minutes. Currently eleven organizations are not in compliance with the new changes.
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|All Clark wants to do is enjoy New Year's Eve from the comfort of his apartment. Unfortunately, the wailing coming from next door is preventing him from doing that. When he walks over to confront his neighbor, he finds himself staring at the half naked Lewis, who is babysitting his nephew, Damien. His New Year's plans get decidedly more interesting than his original plans from that moment.
Having his evening interrupted by a screaming infant turns out to be fortuitous for Clark as soon as he lays eyes on Lewis. There is an instant attraction between the two men that scorches the pages. And since Clark seems to have a magic touch when it comes to getting Damien to calm down, it doesn't take long for the men to act on their attraction. The heat sizzling between them will have readers reaching for a fan and a glass of ice water to cool down.
This is a short, quick read that is perfect for anyone looking for something with a super-hot encounter between two virtual strangers. There are also a few touches of comedic play on the characters' names to lighten up the heat and make this a fun, enjoyable read.
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Seal of Approval
I'm pleased to announce that yesterday the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Accreditation Commission renewed Lincoln Park Zoo's accreditation status for another five years. We expected this seal of approval, but it's always rewarding to see your institution meet the high standards of the group overseeing zoos throughout the United States.
Of course, the accreditation process isn't a one-day affair. While we always work to exceed the AZA's high standards in areas ranging from animal care to visitor safety, accreditation was a special focus this year.
We submitted a 1,600-page application to the AZA in February, detailing everything from education programs to funding in our endowment. In June, we welcomed a three-day inspection from animal experts, who scrutinized every inch of zoo grounds to ensure we made the grade. Finally, yesterday we answered questions and provided last details to the Accreditation Commission, who later gave us the happy news.
Everyone at the zoo contributed to this success. But I'd particularly like to recognize Vice President of Animal Care Megan Ross, Ph.D., who led us through the accreditation process with skill, commitment and care. After our hearing yesterday, several commissioners even congratulated her for doing so well in her first appearance. It was a compliment well earned.
The accreditation news comes at this year's AZA Annual Conference in Phoenix. Dozens of Lincoln Park Zoo employees have come to learn and share with peers around the country. Panels include everything from Smart Purchasing Practices to the Role of Zoos and Aquariums in the Preparation of Pre-Service Teachers. I'm contributing to a discussion of the latest data on animal lifespans—research conducted at Lincoln Park Zoo by our new Vice President of Conservation & Science, Lisa Faust, Ph.D.
Even as we celebrate accreditation, we continue to see new areas where we can improve and grow. And while many of us are in Phoenix this week, there's still plenty to see at Chicago's free zoo. Come by to visit the baby titi monkey at the Helen Brach Primate House and zebra colt Kito at the Antelope & Zebra Area.
Kevin Bell
Congratulations To Everyone at Lincoln Park Zoo!
There is no way we could NOT have passed. But it is always a welcome relief - and a great reaffirmation of what we do . WE ARE THE BEST ZOO! I am so pleased to be part of The LPZoo Family as a volunteer, donor, visitor, and Heritage Society member. I love - and am so proud of - us!!!


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Extra Credit: School Zone Safety
AAA offers seven back-to-school tips for drivers, students
Phoenix, July 30, 2013. AAA is reminding motorists who have had a summer vacation from school zones that class is back in session.
"A new school year brings a lot of excitement, so it's easy for children to become preoccupied on their way to and from school," said Linda Gorman, director of communications and public relations for AAA Arizona. "As a leader in traffic safety, AAA reminds all drivers use extra caution when traveling near schools, especially as the school year begins."
Safety advocate AAA has wants parents to keep the ABCs of safety in mind as Arizona children head back to the classroom:
Avoid distractions: Research from The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that taking your eyes off the road for just two seconds doubles your chances of crashing. Stay focused on driving and set a good example for young passengers.
By the numbers: Teach children their home phone number and address, your work phone number and how to dial 911.
Chart your course: Map out a route to school or the bus stop and walk it with your child beforehand. Choose a direct route with the fewest street crossings or with intersections that have crossing guards. Avoid walking by parks, vacant lots and other sparsely populated places.
- Don a helmet: Kids who bicycle always should wear a helmet. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety states that a helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by 85 percent.
Exemplify safety: Do not exceed 15 miles per hour in or near a school zone. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling at 15 mph is nearly two-thirds less likely to be killed as compared to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling 25 mph. Remember that fines double when "STOP WHEN CHILDREN IN CROSSWALK" signs are present. Also remember, school zones are non-passing zones. Always stop for buses that are loading or unloading students. It is illegal to pass a school bus with flashing red lights.
Forego strangers: Teach kids never to accept rides or gifts from strangers.
- Grab a buddy: Have kids walk to school with a relative, friend or neighbor.
If your child will be walking or bicycling to school, AAA advises parents and caregivers to review safety precautions with them. Children should be taught to walk only on sidewalks and cross only at crosswalks. Also, make sure they know to avoid walking in front of or between parked cars. And, remind children to always obey the crossing guard.
If your teen will be learning to drive this school year, AAA's teen driver website, Keys2Drive, provides state-specific licensing information, statistics, driver training tips and resources for parents and teens.
If you're adding your teen to your AAA Insurance, save up to 24 percent on your teen's policy with their successful completion of the teenSMART program. This computer-based driver safety program can makes your teen driver three times safer on the road. Additionally, AAA offers free, Permit Prep 101 workshops for parents and teens throughout the year.
AAA is a go-to source for traffic safety information. Visit AAA.com/trafficsafety to learn more.
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Reading "50 years pass since DefCon 2" in the Oct. 21 News-Star caused the memories to come flooding back from that troubling time. Long ago and far away I was a very young wife living with my Army captain husband off base in a tiny German town, only 30 miles from the Czechoslovakian border. One day I received a call telling me the base had been put on alert and "locked-down" and not to expect my husband home anytime soon. I was also told to prepare for "evac."
All we wives had been through evacuation instruction when first arriving in the country. As things began to heat up over Cuba, we went through more intense preparations. We were to have enough food, water and clothing for us and our children for one week, packed in easy to load bundles, along with extra cans of gasoline. We had been shown the secret signs we would follow out of Germany and into France, in case the Russians came flooding across the Czech border. This was going to be especially hard for me to accomplish, as I had a 2-year-old son and our vehicle was a sporty little Karmann Ghia convertible. Add to that the fact that I was also pregnant and was supposed to have a "special delivery" kit packed, in case I went into labor on the journey. This consisted of a bundle of newspapers (which were baked in the oven until sterile), scissors for cutting the cord, string for tying it and blankets to wrap the baby in. Oh, yes, also an instruction manual for "How to Self-Deliver Your Baby."
Needless to say, all of us were more than relieved when the "all clear, stand down" call came! My beautiful daughter was born in an Army hospital in Nuremberg a few months later.
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Pancreatic stone protein as an early biomarker predicting mortality in a prospective cohort of patients with sepsis requiring ICU management
1 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
2 Community Prevention Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Medical Center (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Route de la Corniche 10, CH-1010, Switzerland
3 Unit of Population Epidemiology, Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care, and Emergency Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil 4, CH-1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland
4 Swiss Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Center, Department of Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital, Raemistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland
5 Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital Medical Center (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Critical Care 2012, 16:R114 doi:10.1186/cc11406
See related commentary by Busani and Girardis, http://ccforum.com/content/16/4/143Published: 2 July 2012
Biomarkers, such as C-reactive protein [CRP] and procalcitonin [PCT], are insufficiently sensitive or specific to stratify patients with sepsis. We investigate the prognostic value of pancreatic stone protein/regenerating protein (PSP/reg) concentration in patients with severe infections.
PSP/reg, CRP, PCT, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin 1 beta (IL1-β), IL-6 and IL-8 were prospectively measured in cohort of patients ≥ 18 years of age with severe sepsis or septic shock within 24 hours of admission in a medico-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) of a community and referral university hospital, and the ability to predict in-hospital mortality was determined.
We evaluated 107 patients, 33 with severe sepsis and 74 with septic shock, with in-hospital mortality rates of 6% (2/33) and 25% (17/74), respectively. Plasma concentrations of PSP/reg (343.5 vs. 73.5 ng/ml, P < 0.001), PCT (39.3 vs. 12.0 ng/ml, P < 0.001), IL-8 (682 vs. 184 ng/ml, P < 0.001) and IL-6 (1955 vs. 544 pg/ml, P < 0.01) were significantly higher in patients with septic shock than with severe sepsis. Of note, median PSP/reg was 13.0 ng/ml (IQR: 4.8) in 20 severely burned patients without infection. The area under the ROC curve for PSP/reg (0.65 [95% CI: 0.51 to 0.80]) was higher than for CRP (0.44 [0.29 to 0.60]), PCT 0.46 [0.29 to 0.61]), IL-8 (0.61 [0.43 to 0.77]) or IL-6 (0.59 [0.44 to 0.75]) in predicting in-hospital mortality. In patients with septic shock, PSP/reg was the only biomarker associated with in-hospital mortality (P = 0.049). Risk of mortality increased continuously for each ascending quartile of PSP/reg.
Measurement of PSP/reg concentration within 24 hours of ICU admission may predict in-hospital mortality in patients with septic shock, identifying patients who may benefit most from tailored ICU management.


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this picture would have delighted my Mom.
Mom died June 11 this year. My family and in particular my sisters and I decided we would do everything we could to let Mom stay in her home till the end.
So the 3 of us and my Mom began a journey. It was hard at times but it also was filled with a simple joys.
The picture above reminds me of the joy we shared. During one of my trips this winter I set out birdfeeders to entertain us as we sat in the living room. I wanted something to watch besides the snowdrifts outside the window that refused to melt. we moved the wicker planters that line the porch to the living room and filled them with plants we found in the store – things like tulips and x-mas cactuses. and then as the nursery started getting more of the annuals out we filled the planters with geraniums and annuals that would be planted outside when the weather warmed. we also hung bird feeders and watched the chickadees and woodpeckers outside the windows.
as the weather warmed up I found a hummingbird feeder in the shed. Mom and Dad always had hummingbirds in their garden. but over the years the size of the garden had shrunk and they stopped putting out the feeders.
Mom didn't think the hummingbirds would come back. we put a feeder outside her bedroom window along with a basket of petunias that my sister Peg planted and with in a half an hour the first hummingbird arrived.
Mom greeted each visit with delight and everything would stop as she pointed out the hummingbird and marveled as it fed on the sweet water in the feeder. together we read up on hummingbirds and watched the visitors and quickly realized that the hummingbirds coming to the feeder were females. we rarely saw a male. I know that there must have been males in the area but at least 95% of the time it was females sucking down the sweet juice we mixed up. we never figured out why that was. but we called our hummingbird Ms Frida … because we first saw her come to the window on a Friday and since hummingbird babies are raised solely by their Mommas she is a Ms not a Mrs. That's right the Papas are MIS – missing in action. look it up if you don't believe me – in fact just google hummingbirds because these are fun birds to learn about.
right up to the end Mom still marveled and was delighted at the little things.


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How To Stop Binge Eating
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'The Challenge'-attempting to stop binging before switch to purging
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April 30, 2012 at 1:24 am #89413
Sunday April 29,
I have not wrote on this forum since Thursday. When i went home on Friday i struggled but remained okay in the end when i got back up. I had a great weekend at home with my sister, mom , and dad. me and my sister are getting along much better now a days (she is 7 years older then me and acts like my mom.) Yet on saturday my dad got into a really bad bike accident and it turned out that he fractured 3 ribs and punctured a whole in his one lung. This just set me in just an anxious state that i was constantly eating. but why does this anxiety make me much? and then i start to feel very guilty and then enter the tunnel vision of binge and purge. I cant believe this had to happen to him i feel like there is always something in my life that is going wrong at everypoint.
Tomorrow is the last day of classes, then exams, then summer.. hopefully ill have a good dayApril 30, 2012 at 7:01 am #89414
hey elizzy, so sorry to hear about your dad i am sending happy thoughts your way xxxMay 1, 2012 at 1:41 am #89415
tobe- thanks so much, he was doing okay today but he is still in critical condition. I will be seeing him tomorrow and hopefully everything at the hospital still remains going smoothly
Monday April 30, 2012
today was my 5 month anniversary with my boyfriend. Today I only had one class at 8 and then had to meet with a professor. When i got back to the apartment I was anxious and got much of my homework done because my roommates are around. I have not had much free time without them. I do no remebmer the last time i purged in my apartment which is good yet i need to work on transitioning back to my house environment which is scary to think about. TOday overall was a good day, yes filled with anxiety (but when wont it be). My dad is constantly on my mind which makes me want to binge to get away from the pain feeling, yet i know i cant. Also today was my last day at tutoring in an elementary school. I will miss my kids. Hopefully my night ends well and I have a good day tomorrow…
Does anyone have any good advice for whne i go back home (due to the fact that i frequently binge/purge there?)May 1, 2012 at 2:25 am #89416
Try to fill your cabinets back at home with healthy less "binge-worthy" foods so you aren't tempted to binge! Try to get out more & try to think of it as a fresh start… just because your going back doesn't mean you will binge. Be confident, You can do it!May 4, 2012 at 8:28 pm #89417
kimwhit- i appreciate you comment and the past two days i have been really good, my therapist told me not to count the days which i have not been doing and i think it works okay yet i hope when i get home I am able to control myself.Also it is tough to fill my cabinets with healthy food because there i do not have control over whatgoes in them; yes i can buy healthy food but my mom might buy junk too for the rest of the family and sometimes i will binge on the 'healthy' things.
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I havnt wrote here in three days because i Have been at home taking care of my dad who is recovey from fractured ribs and a punctured lung. Ihave exams coming up on Monday and Wednesday of next week, and schoolis ending so i am moving out all mystuff. I am bad with transitions which I have learned in the past and now I am moving back home for the summer. Ineed to readjust my mindset and know that i should never be bored, I should keep my anxiety low and I should always take time for myself to avoid binge situations. I am aware of the types of situations in which I will binge but I also know that If i have one scary food I say fuck it and go for the full binge which completely sucks. Does anyone have any suggestions?May 7, 2012 at 1:49 am #89418
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I had a rough day yesterday with 3 batches of cookies and ate two of them. This was the first time when I ate the same food over and over and had to give it up. EVen though i want to blame it on the stress, boredom, and conflicts with my boyfriend I will take full credit and say that I brought this on myself. Unfortunately I wanted to binge and I planned this. But today I made the situation better and had all my meals equally. Tomorrow I go home after my first exam which I studied so hard for. I am so done with this semester and want to get off to a good summer. Hopeing tomorrow will be another good day.May 8, 2012 at 3:47 am #89419
Monday May 7,
Today my exam went well ! I think I did much better then anticipated… although I did not get any sleep last night I went to be at 3 am after eating and went to bed with guilt. But today I came home for the day untill Wednesday which is my last final. I did well being home and felt the anxiety rising but I took myself out of the situation. My dad will be home with me while I am here untill tomorrow because he is still recovery from his injury. maybe he is the reason I didnt full out binge today. hm…. how can I use this to help me when I am alone?May 14, 2012 at 3:29 am #89420
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Wow today was acutally a really really good day. Now that I have been home, i was with my dad all this week taking care of him while he stayed home from work. Tomorrow I will be home alone all day while both my parents go to work. i will try to distract myself and keep me busy, hopeing it goes well. today I woke up and made breakfast for everyone in my family, my mom opened her gifts and then I went for a run while she gardened. Then we went to get our nails done which felt so relaxing. In the mornign I felt myself getting out of control but then i stopped and left the situation. later that niht i had a huge challenging meal with my whole family which actually turned out very well in the end.
I dont think i could have asked for a better mothers day. I hope tomorrow when I am home alone everything goes okay. goodnight and goodluck to everyoneMay 15, 2012 at 12:36 am #89421
Good luck to you & congrats about enjoy Mother's Day with your family Stay positive & if you feel tempted in your house tomorrow to binge try to get out and go somewhere— I've had some troubles with not staying occupied when home alone also and getting out of the house definitely helpsMay 19, 2012 at 11:41 pm #89422
Saturday May 19,
Today is day 2 of purge free I have ate so out of conrol though that I feel so guilty. I do not understand why I am not getting any sleep? Within the past 4 nights i prob have accumulated less then 18 hours. This is not okay it is making me have a constant headache and cannot concentrate, when i try to go to bed i cannot even shut my eyes!!
Does anyone have any good suggestions for how I can get more sleep? Why do you think I am always getting up all the time. And the time when I feel the most guilty is when I get up at 2 in the morning and begin to eat, then it carries over to the next day and i binge the following day.
It is still tough being home however and I dont know how to cope with the temptations for the food and feelings of wanting to be anxious.May 20, 2012 at 12:26 am #89423
Ely I'm back, how are you doing? after some "better" months I'm totally back to my old bad behaviour:( Keep on rocking girl! We don't have to lose hope! XX HaleyMay 20, 2012 at 10:56 am #89424
hi elizzy, i also have problems sleeping! there is a lot you can try and i am sure you have tried a lot of these, but here's my "list" of things i do to make sure i sleep well:
– no caffeine after 2pm
– have starchy carbs & protein at dinner
– ear plugs
– melatonin cream on the backs of my legs
– comfortable bed and room temperature
– take 1g taurine before bed (not regularly as i don't want to become reliant on it)
– go to bed at the same time every night
– no cardio in the evenings
– no electrical equipment (tv, computer etc) within an hour of bed time
– eat enough so i don't wake up hungryMay 20, 2012 at 10:57 am #89425
lizzy! you are being so strong, honestly imagine if you were going through all of this alone, and not facing up to it! and its fantastic that you have your mum to support you liek you do! i find things tough with a mum that is very supportive and tries to help but is in the process of losing weight for our family holiday at the end of june, so its great that your mum is totally understanding!
You mentioned you read Brain Over Binge a few months ago, how about if things are still tough for you, you consider re-reading it? or did it not resonate with you? i know that different approaches work for different people, and if thats not your pathway to recovery then thats totally normal. but what did you think about the book? i feel like id really hit a brick wall, my therapy wasnt working, and then a week ago after reading that book… the penny just dropped for me. but thats just me i guess!
hoep you are doing well! sarah xxMay 20, 2012 at 10:19 pm #89426
Sarah, tobe, and haley- first I want to thank you all for reading and responding; you really put a smile on my face when I know someone out there is actually following my journey. Last night I had a sleepover with my closest friend from treatment. We both talked and tried to resolve our struggles but definitely talking with people who know and are there for u help. They know what you are going through so I suggest you all to be open and ask for help when needed. Then my friend gave me very weak sleepig meds so I wouldn't get addicted and I slept so well and it was needed untill I had to get up for work at 6.
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Today is my day 3 being binge purge free. Yes I have eaten alittle out of control and yes I have felt guilty but sometimes I need to suffer the consequences of my actions. I dont even know why and how I started this behavior it only has been within the last mOnth, so I am really trying to turn it around befOre it becomes a life habit. I NEED ALL OF YOUR HONEST OPINION!!!!
There were some days within these 3 where I would start getting out of control which could have resulted in a binge but instead : I stopPed as I was chewing, started feeling guilty and asking myself,"really? Do I really wanna be eating this. Am i really craving it? Am I hungry? Or just an opus and need a calm being". So instead of swallowing and finishing the binge I spit out the food. Now I know people have this habit and do not eat meals but just chew and spit. Of course I know this is bad. But I do eat meals, a sufficient amount of food, yet when I feel myself BEGINNIG a binge ( which I can identify) I stop spit and get out of the situation. Even though it has happened a couple times I personally feel like this is better than if I were to purge. I feel like it is a way of weaning myself off of purgin. But I will ask more about it with my therapist tmw.
Let me know what u think I need opinions!May 21, 2012 at 7:52 am #89427
i think as long as you don't put the food in your mouth with the initial decision that you are going to 'chew and spit' then its nothing to worry about. since last week and being binge free since friday, i think i did that once! where i automatically put something in my mouth when i wasnt hungry and i thought: "waaaait a minute, i didnt mean to do that!" so i just spat it out, it wouldnt have been a big deal to swallow it, but im trying to break these bad habits of eating impulsively. i dont plan on making a habit out of it, and you need to make sure you dont either.
aside from that congrats on 3 days!! im with you on that! yaaaaaay! i'm not so much into counting the days personally, because as many people have said, it just makes you think about it more and adds pressure, i'm focused at the moment at when an urge does pop up, ignoring and feeling power over it! and so far its made me waaay more positive than being scared of my urges, thinking they have control over me!
hope you have a good day! and dont worry about overeating, your focus is being BINGE FREE, and so what if you are overeating a little, if you havent bingd in three days then thats all that matters. remember that and feel good about it, i do! xx
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Apparently, Phaedra's exercise video works!!!
The answer to poor, single mother Brandi… just get Ken and Lisa to adopt you! It worked for a while with Cedric!
Wretched Christine **BLEEEEECH!!** Rossi is doing her "charity" work! Wretched is sellin' a "special edition" iPad case! Wonder how much of that $45 will go to charity? AND… all these Housewives have caught on to the additional "fee" trick! Before the shipping, handling and fee is added, you must fill out all your information… including credit card info!
From last January 26, 2012… Kyle Richards stopped by TheVIEW to discuss her VERY important book… and her VERY controversial view re cheating spouses!