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It's normal for newborns to act irritable and spit up their food from time to time, but if the conditions persist your child could have a rarely known condition called Pyloric Stenosis.
It is a blockage of the stomach. It's very easily treated, that is if doctors can diagnose the problem in its early stages.
Seven-week-old Camden was a healthy baby when he was born. He weighed 10 pounds. But instead of gaining weight, he began to lose it.
His mom says as soon as he ate, it would come right back up. It's not unusual for babies to spit-up, but it is unusual for them to have projectile vomiting. When Camden had one of those type episodes, his mom knew something was wrong.
Doctors diagnosed the boy with Pyloric Stenosis, a little-known condition caused by an abnormal Pyloric valve.
Dr. Michael Taylor is a pediatric surgeon and says, "The pyloric valve is the distal end of the stomach. A little muscular tube that allows food that we swallow that comes into the stomach to be released into the small intestine in small amounts basically it's a regulator."
Dr. Taylor says Camden's Pyloric Valve wasn't working properly so he was throwing up almost everything he ate.
"It's made up of muscular tissue and for whatever reason, we don't know why, that muscle becomes thick, and when it does it closes off the intestine so that the food we eat can not go into the small intestine so it stays in the stomach."
The vomiting starts gradually, but as the Pylorus becomes tighter over time, the baby's vomiting becomes more forceful.
"It can become so severe that nothing can go through and eventually they start having usually what's described as projectile vomiting, where they throw up and it shoots across the room."
A baby with Pyloric Stenosis acts irritable and hungry even immediately after eating. They have fewer wet diapers and harder stools, and if the vomiting continues the baby can become dehydrated.
"The process usually starts when the child is two to three weeks of age and usually isn't diagnosed until they're about four weeks of age, so it takes a good week, week and a half to two weeks before we are able to make the diagnosis because the symptoms usually are common with other pathology such as cold or reflux.
Once doctors suspect Pyloric Stenosis, they can use an ultra sound to measure the thickness of the valve. A 10-minute surgery can correct the problem forever.
It certainly worked for Camden. Mom says he's finally gaining weight.


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- noun - the amount a salary is increased
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- To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise.
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Haueis, P; Greil, W; Huber, M; Grohmann, R; Kullak-Ublick, G A; Russmann, S (2011). Evaluation of drug interactions in a large sample of psychiatric inpatients: A data interface for mass analysis with clinical decision support software. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 90(4):588-596.
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In order to improve medication safety, more epidemiological data on the prevalence and clinical relevance of drug interactions are required. We developed an interface for mass analysis using the Clinical Decision Support Software (CDSS) MediQ and a multidimensional classification (Zurich Interaction System (ZHIAS)) incorporating the Operational Classification of Drug Interactions (ORCA). These were applied to 359,207 cross-sectional prescriptions from 84,607 psychiatric inpatients collected through the international AMSP program. MediQ issued 2,308 "high" and 71,112 "average" danger interaction alerts. Among these, after ORCA reclassification, there were 151 contraindicated and 4,099 provisionally contraindicated prescriptions. The ZHIAS provided further detailed categorical information on recommended management and specific increased risks (QTc prolongation being the most frequent one) associated with interactions. We developed a highly efficient solution for the identification and classification of drug interactions in large prescription data sets; this solution may help to reduce the frequency of overalerting and improve acceptance of the efficacy of CDSS in reducing the occurrence of potentially harmful drug interactions.
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New Hampshire health officials reported Saturday that four adults in the state may be infected with fungal meningitis, the first New England cases associated with a nationwide outbreak linked to contaminated steroids produced by a Framingham compounding pharmacy.
Three men and one woman, all between the ages of 40 and 60, are receiving treatment, according to a statement from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.
"All four have received injections of the apparently tainted steroid," said Dr. Michael O'Connell of Pain Care LLC, the company that treated each patient and that is believed to be the only facility in New Hampshire that received tainted serum. Pain Care has identified 741 patients who may have been exposed to the recalled product.
The outbreak is tied to New England Compounding Center of Framingham, which officials believe produced steroids contaminated with fungus. The compounding center voluntarily recalled all products it produced since the beginning of the year, and has laid off 40 of its roughly 50 workers in recent days.
Federal health officials reported Saturday that the number of infected patients had risen to 198 across 13 states, and the death toll related to the outbreak had risen to 15. The New Hampshire cases are not included in this tally.
Curtis Allen, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency has received reports of the New Hampshire cases and is investigating. He said 14,000 people across the country may have been exposed to the tainted steroids.
Dr. José Montero, public health director in New Hampshire, said officials are monitoring each of the cases there.
"They are all being clinically evaluated and they are receiving care," Montero said. "We hope that they all have a recovery."
O'Connell said there are no signs of life-threatening symptoms for the four people in New Hampshire at this time. One person has already been hospitalized, treated, and released, he said.
Two of the patients were injected with apparently tainted steroids at Pain Care LLC's Merrimack Facility, O'Connell said, and two were treated in Somersworth, all within the last two months. One patient received an injection directly into the spinal canal, he said. Two others received facet joint injections, which technically are outside the spinal canal, and the other patient received a peripheral joint injection to the ankle, he said.
O'Connell said the cases related to joint injections were particularly surprising, because fungal meningitis attacks the brain and spinal cord.
"It's surprising that one might have meningitis from an injection of the steroid outside the spinal canal," he said.
Most shots of the contaminated steroids from New England Compounding Center were given to people with lower back pain. One patient in Michigan who received an injection for joint pain developed an infection in the ankle.
New England Compounding is already facing at least one lawsuit related to the outbreak. A Minnesota patient who received an injection of a steroid called methylprednisolone acetate filed a suit and is seeking class-action status.
The number of infected patients had risen to 198 across 13 states.
In New Hampshire, it is possible that more cases will be linked to the meningitis outbreak, O'Connell and Montero said.
"I wish I could say that I don't expect more cases, but based on what we know and we are seeing, there is a chance that we may see more," Montero said.
O'Connell said, however, that some people who received injections of the contaminated steroids may not be severely affected.
"It appears that there's a subset of the population of those who have been exposed who will do OK with no treatment at all and may have in fact already gone through a flu-like symptom and are now getting better on their own," he said.
But health officials in New Hampshire are nevertheless remaining vigilant due to the breadth of the outbreak, which has called into question government oversight and licensing of compounding facilities.
"Certainly this is something that the public and the health care sector has been really worried about," Montero said. "You don't go to a health care facility and expect to get worse."Zachary T. Sampson can be reached at email@example.com.


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It's about time that at least some are waking up.
I hope the drivel about "supremacists" gets ignored, like it should. It's only natural for the French (or anyone else) to prefer their own culture, and wish to practice it in the privacy of their own country.
The Netherlands has been waking up, too, given the increasing popularity of Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party. There's a problem when gays in Amsterdam fear getting beat up – by Muslim immigrants.
Oslo has already become a de facto Muslim city, with a Muslim mayor. Jews have been fleeing for their lives.
And that's not even to mention the rise of Greece's Golden Dawn. I visited that country in 1992, and was told that there was no such thing as welfare, when I asked about all the elderly and disabled folks selling pencils and lighters on the street. From what I can figure out, the EU must have forced Greece to support all the "refugees" the EU told it it must take in. I can see Greeks being right pissed at that!
I would like to know why more Canadians are not objecting to the way the government is forcing us to accept mass immigration? If this continues we will become like France and England and every other country that won't stop this!! Where are the politicians that will stand up for the Canadians? When you have immigrants running the immigration and politicians in government that were not born in Canada we have a real problem!!! Canadians wake up before it is too late!!!
Unfortunately, we have no politicians who care about us any more. Our interests have been sold out for a new world order kind of ideology, in which everything our ancestors accomplished belongs to the third world.
The Left doesn't like us because we're white, and therefore evil, in their philosophy. The Right doesn't like us because we actually want to be paid a living wage to work, and we won't 'save money' by living 50 to a house.
The two views dovetail in the middle – businesses want to import lots and lots of cheap second and third world labour, and the Left gets their "diversity" and kitschy ethnic restaurants, and foreigners running every Mac's Milk store.
Political Correctness is designed to shut us up about it, because if we complain, we're "racists". And according to the New Philosophy, only whites can be racist, anyway.
It's a way to set up a new fascism. We're not really hive-minded enough for it to work, so the immigration allows for two things – the import of people used to dictatorial regimes, and the chaos required to break society down and rebuild it as a communist/fascist paradise.
They're bound and determined to turn all of Western society – that the Leftists hate so much – into a nightmare dystopia, like Somalia, China and Pakistan, and the various other nasty places our immigrants hail from.
It will come down to war. WWIII, when it comes, won't be a nuclear holocaust, nor will it be the massive nation vs nation war the last two were. No, it's going to be a series of civil wars all across the Western world, in which non-Europeans (unfortunately, even the decent ones) will be kicked the hell out of our countries, and the traitors of the Left strung up at the ends of ropes. Or we could just force them to go live in Africa or Pakistan, but why risk their leftist virus resurging?
It doesn't have to involve death camps, of course. In fact, I think us whites are the ones up for death cam … uhh, sorry, "re-education" camps. But It'll take a lot of boats to send third worlders back to where they bloody well belong.
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WEST HAVEN — Jessey Mueller left the crowd speechless at Devil's Bowl Speedway on Friday night, staging a spectacular comeback to win the third annual C.J. Richards Memorial presented by Carrara Masonry & Concrete. The 19-year-old from Olmstedville, N.Y., took the fourth round of the Northern Modified Challenge Series with the win, and was joined in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series victory lane during the evening by Bristol's Josh Masterson, Shawn Duquette and Bobby LaVair.
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LINCOLN/QUEBEC — Mountain biker Alison Zimmer of Lincoln said that the outcome of her race at the UCI Downhill World Cup race in Mount Saint Anne, Quebec, this past weekend was not so awesome. But she did have an awesome development in her professional biking career, nevertheless.
MIDDLEBURY — John Illig, Middlebury College's men's and women's squash coach, died Sunday evening of catastrophic injuries sustained in a fall in his Lincoln home Saturday night.
In an email to the college community, Middlebury College President Ronald D. Liebowitz called Illig "a generous, thoughtful and fun-loving man." Illig began leading Middlebury's squash programs in the fall of 2007, when he also became the school's first varsity men's coach.
LINCOLN — After a successful first year of professional mountain bike racing that brought victories in both downhill and enduro categories in 2013, Alison Zimmer of Lincoln is racing well this season and hopes for a smooth ride for the rest of the summer.
BRANDON — Otter Valley Union High School officials did not have to look far for a new varsity girls' soccer coach this summer — they picked Rick Hedding, the JV girls' soccer coach for the past four years, to take over from resigned former coach Dave Brown.
CASTLETON — At noon on Tuesday at the Castleton State College baseball diamond, everything appeared to be in place for the Addison County team at the Vermont American Legion state championship tournament.
Late that morning, left fielder Dylan Raymond's two-run, ninth-inning single gave AC a 7-5 win over Colchester that ran the county nine's record in the tournament to 4-0 and eliminated the defending champion Cannons.
CASTLETON — The Addison County American Legion baseball team started strong at the Vermont tournament, which was contested starting on Thursday, July 24, at Castleton State College and Mount St. Joseph Academy in Rutland.
AC, the Northern Division's second seed, won its first three games: on Thursday, 5-3 over South No. 3 Lakes Region; on Friday, 15-4 over North No. 4 Colchester, which had upset South No. 1 Rutland; and on Saturday, 5-4 over North No. 1 Essex.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Panthers won nine events — four by 10-year-old Thomas Denton — to finish fifth out of eight teams as they hosted the Champlain Valley Swim League championship meet in the Middlebury town pool this past Friday and Saturday.
SOUTH PLATTSBUGH, N.Y. — Brandon's Vince Quenneville Jr. was a winner as the Northern Modified Challenge Series — normally a Devil's Bowl Speedway fixture — made its first appearance at Airborne Park Speedway on Saturday with a pair of 30-lap feature races.
Quenneville and fellow veteran Leon Gonyo of New York each posted his first 2014 victory on the Northern Modified Challenge Series.
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is holding a series of free seminars covering the basics for brand new hunters and archers.
"Starting in mid-August, we are hosting a series of seminars in different aspects of hunting to properly equip inexperienced hunters with the tools to be successful in the Vermont outdoors," says John Pellegrini, hunter education training coordinator.
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Revisiting the promise of Cairo
Dahlia is a youth advocate from Cairo who was an infant when the ICPD Programme of Action was launched. Watch this video to see why the commitments made then are as important today as they were 20 years ago.
At least 28% of the world's population, an unprecedented number of young people require the same opportunities and resources as the rest of the world, and rightfully so. Sexual and reproductive health and rights, education with vocational training, and employment are top priorities amongst youth today according to research gathering by the ICPD Global Survey.
Of the estimated 197 million unemployed people reported in 2012 by the ICPD Global Review Report, nearly 40% were between the ages of 15 and 24 years. Youth unemployment rates are a global concern, and in 2012 were highest in the Middle East and North Africa, at 28% and 24%, respectively, and lowest in East Asia, at 10% and South Asia, at 9%. The youth unemployment rate for the Developed Economies and European Union in 2012 was estimated at 18% -- the highest level in this region in the past two decades.
Damjen Nikolovski, a youth advocate from Skopje, Macedonia was a just a child in 1994 when the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took place in Cairo. The issues negotiated back in 1994 continue to be relevant, and particularly for Nikolovski and his peers twenty years later in 2014.
"Not being able to be economically and socially stable and independent is the main burning issue facing the youth today," says Nikolovski. "[Governments should] invest in young people; invest in more job opportunities for them; invest in ways they can gain work experience so they can get more easily employed."
As an activist, Nikolovski is motivated to implement the goals and recommendations of the ICPD Programme of Action around the issues that relate most to his daily life. Nikolovski believes that assisting the youth will promote economic and social growth, and help mitigate problems with fertility and the aging population. His personal suggestion is that governments should focus less on raising fertility rates, and instead concentrate on younger generations which will not only grow the workforce, but help accelerate sustainable development.
When young people can claim their right to health, education and decent working conditions, they become a powerful force for economic development and positive change. See what Nikolovski has to say about population issues through his lens at home in Eastern Europe in this video.
"It is an appalling fact that in our world of modern medical advances, nearly 800 women still die from pregnancy-related complications each day," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on May 23, 2014 on International Fistula Day. "For every woman who dies, almost 20 more are injured or disabled with severe or life-shattering, long-term conditions, such as obstetric fistula."
Obstetric fistulas are all but eliminated from the developed world, yet continues to affect the world's most vulnerable: women and girls living in under-resourced regions in the world. According to the ICPD Global Review Report, an estimated 2 to3.5 million women live with obstetric fistula in the developing world. Most cases occur in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia where adolescent births are highest and access to emergency obstetric care is low, with 50,000 to 100,000 new cases developing each year.
Obstetric fistulas are a failure of the global healthcare community to protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls. When there is equity in the distribution and access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, obstetric fistulas no longer make victims out of women and young girls.
"Failures to recognize, prioritize and invest in adolescents and their sexual and reproductive health have fatal consequences: high rates of HIV that can lead to early death; unplanned and unwanted early pregnancies, with exacerbated risks for maternal mortality and morbidity, such as obstetric fistula; and higher rates of infant and child mortality," sites the report in reference to targeted youth programming.
Obstetric fistula, a largely preventable health condition leaves millions of women are shunned from their families. Fistula is an injury to a women's body during a long difficult multi-day labour. The injury is disfiguring, devastating, and life-shattering for women. Over 90% of fistula cases result in stillbirth. Further damaging is the painful reality women are left experiencing incontinence, and the uncontrollable leaking of faecal matter. These tragic outcomes often result in women being abandoned by their husbands and loved ones due to the humiliating stench the body creates from fistulas.
Preventing fistula is already possible. Surgical operations to restore a woman's continence costs $400 USD per patient. According to a UNFPA study, $65 USD an initial Caesarean section can prevent the condition from occurring. In the Global Review Reports Health chapter, it is recommended that, "states implement measures to ensure the elimination of obstetric fistula through the provision of high quality maternal health care to all women, and provide for the rehabilitation and reintegration of fistula survivors into their communities."
Additionally, The Global Campaign to End Fistula provides support for fistula prevention, as well as treatment and social reintegration for those who have suffered this severe condition.
Watch our video narrated by pop singer Natalie Imbruglia, the spokesperson for the UNFPA-led Help End the Shame campaign to learn more about this preventable condition.


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Child abuse happens every day
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It seems like there is a new story either on the local news, the World Wide Web or the local paper every day about some parent involved in some form of child abuse on their own children.
This week a local news channel had a story about a "Charlotte mother arrested in death of infant son." The sad part is that it is happening all over the place. A story on the web from Missouri stated, "A Missouri man accused of planning for his daughter to be beaten and raped was swiftly arrested by police last Friday." In West Virginia, the headline for a story published by the local Fox station on Oct. 30 was "Wallback father accused of abusing twin infant daughters."
What has the world come to when children are no longer safe from their own parent or parents — the one person or people by whom a child should always feel safe and protected?
On the website www.joyfulheartfoundation.org, "Child abuse is defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as any recent act or failure to act on that results in a child's serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, exploitation or death. An act or failure to act that presents a risk of serious harm to a child is also considered to be child abuse." Unfortunately, most child abusers are known by the children they abuse whether it is a parent, caregiver or family friend. According to the website www.everychildmatters.org, "Nearly five children die every day in America from abuse and neglect". A story from Fox8 on June 12, Family Services of the Piedmont warns that both sexual and physical abuse increases during the summer months when children are not in school where they can be protected by teachers and other authority figures.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services offers more information about abuse and neglect at its website, www.ncdhhs.gov/dss/cps/about.htm, including information about reporting abuse, recognizing abuse and neglect in both the child and the caregiver, and information for parents who need help. Most importantly the site offers:
Twelve Alternatives to Lashing out at Your Child
The next time everyday pressures build up to the point where you feel like lashing out — STOP! Try any of these simple alternatives. You'll feel better … and so will your child.
• Take a deep breath … and another. Then remember you are the adult.
• Close your eyes and imagine you're hearing what your child is about to hear.
• Press your lips together and count to 10 … or better yet, to 20.
• Put your child in a time-out chair (remember this rule: one time-out minute for each year of age.)
• Put yourself in a time-out chair. Think about why you are angry: is it your child, or is your child simply a convenient target for your anger?
• Phone a friend.
• If someone can watch the children, go outside and take a walk.
• Take a hot bath or splash cold water on your face.
• Hug a pillow.
• Turn on some music. Maybe even sing along.
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MOSCOW - The Idaho women's basketball team will host former and future Big Sky Conference rival Montana on Sunday at 2 p.m. in Memorial Gym.
The Vandals enter the game with an 0-3 record after a couple close losses against Colorado and Portland. Montana is 1-1 on the season with a win over MSU Northern and a loss to Temple.
Montana leads the overall series with Idaho 36-7, but the teams have split the last two meetings, and the Vandals were victorious the last time the two played in Moscow. Sunday's meeting will be the first of two this season between the two teams, as Idaho will visit Montana on Nov. 29 as part of the Lady Griz Classic.
The Grizzlies are led in scoring by Kenzie De Boer, who averages 12.0 points per game while shooting 47.6 percent from the field. Montana does most of its damage inside, going just 9-of-35 (25.7 percent) from beyond the 3-point line this season, despite shooting 37.0 percent from the field for the season.
Katie Baker, who is second on the team with 7.5 points per game, scored 22 points for Montana in their 64-57 win over Idaho last season.
"They have a lot of those same players back that we played last year," Idaho coach Jon Newlee said of Montana. "They are a typical Montana team. Big kids inside, big guards outside and can shoot the basketball, and I'm sure we'll see that zone coming out of Montana on Sunday."
Idaho is led by junior Alyssa Charlston's 11.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. Freshman Christina Salvatore is scoring 10.3 points per game for the Vandals while fellow freshman Ali Forde averages a team-high 7.7 rebounds per game. The Vandals are making an average of 6.7 3-pointers per game, but are shooting just 26.7 percent from long range early in the season.
After Sunday, the Vandals will host Eastern Washington on Nov. 27 before playing six straight games away from home over the course of a month. The Vandals won't play in Moscow again until opening Western Athletic Conference play against Seattle U on Dec. 29.


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PEMBROKE, Mass. —Three recent incidents lead me to believe that you, Mr. or Mrs. Dry Cleaner, are losing money at the counter.
A friend and I have breakfast every week at a coffee shop and the bill comes to $12. One week when we ate there, the waitress handed us a bill for $6.50. After trying to figure out what she did, we finally paid our bill and walked out.
At a "big box" store, I purchased an item for $11.42. I handed the clerk a $10 bill and a $5 bill and dug out of my pocket 42 cents, expecting to receive an even $4. Instead he handed me a $5, thinking that the change meant he owed me a fiver.
At a dry cleaner, I handed the counter staffer a $20 bill to pay a $14.25 invoice, and she refunded me $8.75.
Must be the new math. Maybe it's that some high school graduates never really learned basic arithmetic and can't count. Or maybe it's that these employees just don't care, and are going through the motions of doing their job. "What's the big deal? Hand out a ten, hand out a five, hand out a one—it means nothing to me. Besides, the boss is a real jerk," goes the mindset.
Whatever the reason, watch out. You might be losing money out of your front counter.
This is unfortunate, because there's no reason there should be an unwarranted outflow. You have proper procedures. You have an up-to-date, computerized register. You have checks and balances. But, you also have staffers who just aren't paying attention.
When I owned a business, often at the end of the workday, around 7 or 8 p.m., I would review my 150 invoices and wonder if and where money was trickling out unintentionally. It was all paper I was dealing with, and I made sure enough stuck so I was able to pay the bills and pay my 17 employees their salaries, but I felt that there could be leakages.
So I sat there, in the semi-darkness, thinking about leakages in the system. If an invoice was lost, money was out the window. If items weren't included in the billing, money was out the window. If there were arithmetic mistakes, money was out the window.
If an employee was taking cash out of the register, money was out the window. If a staffer was stealing stock, money was out the window. I would envision my business as a Rube Goldberg contraption from which money could be dripping out of any of a half-dozen points or more.
A year after I sold my business (and was relieved of the constant worrying), a former supplier of mine declared bankruptcy. He told me his bookkeeper had bled him dry, stealing $4 million over 10 years. While I'd like to think I would have caught that one, I understand how unwarranted outflows occur and often aren't detected until it's too late. All this was before the computer, but leakages are a fact of life in American businesses even now.
So watch out. Spot-check your staffers. Without being obvious, observe the money transactions over the counter. When you hire a newcomer, review his/her math skills. If there is some deficiency, provide a remedial course to improve skills. Never, ever assume it is being done correctly. As the examples I've described show, there will be surprises.
If you do not use a computerized system that provides complete control, be especially vigilant. There is little control that the staffer is charging correctly, taking in the money accurately, and handing out the correct change. There is little control between staffers. There is little backup documentation to make a case against pilferage. At the end of the day, you have some money in the till, a tape, and you pretty much assume accuracy.
But even if you have a fully computerized system that tells the staffer how much to give the customer, there could be mistakes. At the end of the day, if there is a $25 discrepancy between the computerized figure and the actual tally, most dry cleaners would ignore the discrepancy. This is a mistake. When you find a discrepancy, spend the time to figure out what went wrong and who did it and why. Certainly, $25 won't break the bank, but by being vigilant, it shows your staffers that you are serious about wanting to preserve the integrity of the company's cash flow. It shows that you won't tolerate leakages.
One dry cleaner employs a "shopper spy" to go to his six stores, where she makes transactions and files reports on the findings. On these visits, the mystery shopper deliberately tries to trip up the counter person by handing the staffer paper plus change, trying to make conversation, and questioning invoices.
Another dry cleaner employs cameras trained to go close up to the transaction. From his office, the dry cleaner can beam in on the transaction and see that it was done right. He can check the counter staffer anytime he is in his office, working on paperwork.
When you discover a mistake, don't rush out while the customer is there. Rather, wait until the counter person is free to explain what you saw and let him/her give his/her side of the transaction. Maybe the staffer did hand the customer a dollar bill instead of a five as you perceived. If you can do a register spot-check, do so. The first check is not to scold the counter staffer but to show that you are watching, that you are paying attention to every transaction. But if this becomes habitual practice, then you must take action.
Of course, if you find a staffer has pilfered register money, you have no option but to dismiss the person. Giving a second chance will not change human nature. Overlooking the theft because of the person's other contributions shows your too-lax management style. Setting up stronger controls will only encourage the offending employee to be clever in his deceptions. Above all, remember that dishonesty is a lack of character, and it is hard to break that weakness.
You can't tolerate theft in your business. But inattention, sloppiness, lack of focus, and carelessness are also unacceptable. Insist that your people handle each transaction accurately, and spot-check to make sure that they are doing so. It might be only five dollars a day in mistakes, but that amounts to $1,500 a year you didn't receive. That's a serious leakage.


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At World Cafe, we recently asked Stephen Bowen of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville, Tenn., to name the five most important country records of all time. The store was founded by country pioneer Ernest Tubb, who had a hit with the early honky-tonk song "Walking the Floor Over You." More than 65 years later, the shop is still known as a hub for country-music fans.
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Giuliana Rancic revealed on Wednesday that an interview with Russell Crowe was the most awkward of the numerous interviews she has given in her career.
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cabbage and lime salad with roasted peanuts
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Cabbage and Lime Salad with Roasted Peanuts
Adapted from the Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern
Right, so, about the slaw: Lime. Peanuts. Red and green cabbage. Slivers of spinach. The lime is awesome, although I really have to advise against the whole lime segments they suggest in the original recipe (which I omit here) as we lovelovelove lime around here and it was still too much lime, by far. Peanuts are wonderful, even better if you can find some of those giant Virginia peanuts I sometimes see at stores (these, sadly, were not). The spinach is definitely a little odd in the slaw department; it is not the most stable lettuce thus not the kind of thing I'd want to eat hours after it had been tossed with dressing but in this, it works. And it makes the salad even prettier, which in my book counts too.
1/2 small red cabbage, trimmed, cored, and shredded (about 6 cups)
1/2 small green cabbage, trimmed, cored, and shredded (about 6 cups)
1 tablespoon kosher salt, plus more to taste
1 bunch fresh baby spinach, stemmed and cut into 1/2-inch wide ribbons (about 4 cups loosely packed)
1/4 cup fresh lime juice (from about 2 small limes)
1 tablespoon Dijon or other salty prepared mustard
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 cup peanut oil
1/2 cup roasted unsalted peanuts, coarsely chopped
Freshly ground black pepper
In a large bowl, toss the shredded red and green cabbage with the salt. Transfer the cabbage to a colander and let it drain for two hours. (I was in a rush and did this in one. It was still nicely wilted, but of course could have been even softer.)
If you're worried about the cabbage being too salty when you're done with the salting process, taste a piece of cabbage and if it concerns you, rinse and drain the cabbage well. This is not a suggestion in the original recipe, but something I suspect might bother some people.
Put the salted, drained cabbage back into your (rinsed and dried) large bowl and add the spinach. In a medium bowl, whisk the lime juice, mustard and cumin together. Add the peanut oil in a thin stream, whisking constantly until the ingredients are thoroughly emulsified. Toss the salad with the dressing and add the roasted peanuts. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
This salad is best served immediately, but it does keep surprisingly well in the fridge for a day or two.
cabbage and lime salad with roasted peanuts was originally published on smittenkitchen.com
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am now away for a few days, just in case anyone thought I'd flounced again
am now away for a few days, just in case anyone thought I'd flounced again
You can't change the wind
but you can alter the sails
or eat less beans?
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mmm wammers in frocks.... I must resist the idea.... I must not open photoshop today...
Are we still posting our images in 'random image of the day' in the usual place then?
I Like the idea, however I can't help feeling the thread will get clogged up with comments. Even if the first post contains in massive red letters "do not post comments" there are an amazingly high number of wammers with the inability to follow simple instructions.
Do you think your public condemnation of someone you never met and don't know at all makes you a perfect role model sort of guy?
Anyway, this is not the place for an arguement. Feel free to PM me if you wish to continue the abuse. We are still waiting for an idea from the boss btw.
You can't change the wind
but you can alter the sails
or eat less beans?
I can be a bit too 'gung ho' at times, because I just like to get things done, but that wasn't the point and I have already stated I was wrong.
As Rocky has said, this is indeed not the place for an argument. I would respectfully suggest that not trying to start one would be a good idea.
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but Im not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.


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I can't wait!! Yay! Free People has offered so much inspiration to me. I've never been to one of your stores, but I'm so excited your bringing one here in Vegas. We need you… I might have to apply for a job :)
- -June 8, 2011, 10:14AM
Come to Buffalo, NY!!! Pwease!!! :))))
- -June 8, 2011, 1:01PM
Does Free People ever wonder about expanding to Miami Florida? I hope so! If it would take minimum of three years to do so I'll be 18 by that time. Free People is so lovely the people who are apart of Free People seem to be more like family than staff. It would be amazing to be apart of it<3
- -June 8, 2011, 11:51PM
AHHHH!! I just applied!! I am so excited you have no idea! I have been waiting for Free People to open here longer than I can remember..yay <3
- -June 9, 2011, 5:11PM
Finally !! I was waiting for so looooooooooooooooooong… love ya guys !!
- -June 16, 2011, 9:48PM
i love you guys! you're fill of such inspiration! i work at the fashion show mall i cant wait to see you guys!
- -June 20, 2011, 12:51AM
OMG im super excited!!!! Free People is my ultimate favorite brand!!! cant wait to shop there :D
- -January 30, 2012, 12:59AM
i just had the worst service at free people in las Vegas! Madison, the assistant store manager should get fired right on the spot for her bad behavior and negative attitude, only to discover at the end that she's no longer going to be working with the company. Which explained everything how she treated me in the store. I was misinformed about the closing hour I was told 8p. Then Madison, the assistant manager, was rushing me out the store. It was my first time in this store and very excited to check out the new store the products the people who works there, because I was also interested in getting a job there. But everytime I look at an item, Madison stood next to me and watched me, and re-folded the items I picked out. And she was irritated that I was checkin out free people's product. I started to feel unusual because I have never had anyone treated me like that in the store, and the way she was doing it did not embody what free people employees were, not in this store at least. She was very RUDE, UNPROFESSIONAL, and disrespectful. I cannot believe how she got the spot as a manager. She was awful. I'd like to speak to corporate and get this issue taken care of. This person is horrible.
She gave me such a bad experienced.
This situation happened on January 29, 2012 Sunday at 630p.
Madison and Bobby(ie) we're the associate that night.
Their store managers name is Kim.
I hope you do something about this. This is not what I thought of free people employees. I've read your blogs and expectation as an employee and how you can land a job at free people, b
But Madison, is not commited to her job, she's unhappy, and definitely not someone to get an inspirations from. I am extremely upset.
I am a loyal customer of anthropologie and urban outfitters.
And after tonight, free people in las vegas just gave me a bad vibe.
- -January 30, 2012, 1:05AM
I also said to Madison, that I hope I wasn't bothering her. Because how she would follow me around the store and re-fold all the clothes next to me. And suggested that I should try the clothes on now because she's closing the store soon, when I still got half an hour. I wasnt gonna try clothes on but bobby the sales associate offered me a room so I said why not. But Madison was literally rushing me out. How rude. I am not about to spend my money with her, free people, just lost a sale. They should really look at the people they hire.
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Pennsylvania police say two adults and three children
found dead inside a cabin had "toxic levels" of carbon monoxide in their blood.
State police say a propane heater was found inside the cabin where the five
people were found Saturday.
The Williamsport Sun-Gazette reports that the bodies
were discovered by the cabin owner just before noon Saturday in Lycoming County.
State police say they do not consider the deaths suspicious but the
investigation is ongoing.
The two adults were identified as 23-year-old Jacqueline R. Stackhouse, of
New Columbia, and 30-year-old Nathan L. Reece, of Muncy. The names of the
children - a 3-year-old boy, a 9-year-old girl and a 4-year-old girl - weren't
immediately made public.
The cabin owner says there had been a friendly gathering the night before.
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AP's earlier story is below.
Two adults and three children were found dead Saturday inside a small cabin
in north-central Pennsylvania, authorities say.
State Police Capt. David Young told the Williamsport Sun-Gazette
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16-foot cabin just before noon in rural Washington Township in Lycoming County.
Young said the preliminary investigation showed no signs of foul play and
the cause of the deaths was not considered suspicious. But state police are
looking at all possibilities, including carbon monoxide poisoning, he said. A
propane heater was found inside the cabin.
The two adults were identified as 23-year-old Jacqueline R. Stackhouse, of
New Columbia, and 30-year-old Nathan L. Reece, of Muncy. Authorities did not
release the names of the children - a 9-year-old girl, a 4-year-old girl, and
Stackhouse's 3-year-old son. Aside from the mother and son, police did not know
how the victims were related.
Authorities say the property owner, whose name was not released, hosted a
friendly get-together Friday night and slept in his truck outside the cabin
before awaking Saturday and later finding the bodies.
County Coroner Charles Kiessling pronounced all five dead at the scene.
Some relatives of the victims watched near the cabin, as authorities
"It was a hysterical scene, especially for the parents of some of the
victims," Young told the newspaper in describing the reaction from family and
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Author: Heather Graves
Modesto, CA- Police are investigating an attempted burglary where the victim detained the suspect until police arrived.
Just after 6:00 AM this morning, the owner of a business in the 3500 block of McHenry Av called police saying he had a suspect detained who had attempted to break into his business.
Officers arrived at the scene to learn the victim was notified by his alarm company of an alarm activation at his business. When he responded to determine what caused the alarm to activate, he found the inside lights off and a male standing near the doorway leading into his business. As the victim approached, the suspect ran toward the rear of the business, leaving behind a 2X4. The victim grabbed the 2X4 and chased after the suspect, corralling him behind the building. The suspect pulled out two screwdrivers during the altercation and attempted to injure the victim. Using the 2X4 he grabbed, the victim struck the suspect and was able to detain him until police arrived.
The suspect has been identified as Ildefonso Herrera, 32-years-old, of Patterson. Officers located methamphetamine on Herrera, as well as stolen checks, mail and false ID's, which he dropped during the altercation. Herrera was booked into the Stanislaus County Jail for possession of a controlled substance, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted burglary, possession of stolen property and possession of forged identification.
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The year 2002 will mark five seasons as head soccer coach on the Palouse for Dan Tobias. After guiding Washington State to the NCAA Tournament in 2000, he is looking to make the postseason an annual affair for the Cougars.
Tobias made an immediate impact on the WSU soccer program, engineering the school's best conference record in 1998, his first season. In 2000, the former Cal Poly assistant guided the Cougars to the NCAA Tournament and a 13-7-0 record overall, just one win shy of the best mark in school history. That team capped off the regular season by defeating No. 2 Washington in overtime. Tobias has recorded 33 wins in four seasons.
This is the first collegiate head coaching assignment for Tobias, 38, who has guided several professional U.S.I.S.L. men's teams. In addition to his coaching duties, the California native was a guest lecturer for a philosophy of sport class on campus.
"The soccer program at Washington State University has made tremendous strides, particularly over the last four seasons. Our growth resulted in a program-best 2000 season which culminated in a berth in the then 48-team NCAA Tournament," Tobias said. "Our goal is to establish this program as a perennial playoff team, and with the caliber of student-athletes on our roster, we know that's very achievable. With a strong nucleus returning for the 2002 season, we have great reason to be very enthusiastic and excited about this year's team and teams to come."
As a recipient of the NSCAA Distinguished National Diploma, Tobias was a masterful recruiter during his four seasons (1994-97) as an assistant women's coach at Cal Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The Mustangs boasted a combined 56-21-4 overall record while Tobias was with the program. In 1997, Cal Poly was crowned the Big West regular season champion with a 15-6 record. During Tobias' tenure, the Mustangs were ranked in the top 25 nationally and the top 10 in the region.
In the spring of 1998, Tobias was both head coach and interim general manager for the California Jaguars, a Division II professional team and Major League Soccer affiliate of the San Jose Clash. Tobias also served as head coach of the Central Coast Roadrunners of the U.S.I.S.L. during his final two years at Cal Poly. He led the 1996 and 1997 Roadrunners to consecutive national championships while garnering National Coach of the Year honors in 1996. The 1997 team was also the U.S. Open Cup Amateur Champions. Tobias is an active member of the coaching staff for the Washington State O.D.P. program for various age groups. He is also a staff coach for Region IV O.D.P.
Tobias, who grew up in the small community of Hermosa Beach, Calif., played college soccer for four seasons at Cal Poly and captained the 1987 squad that earned the school's first NCAA berth. He graduated in 1987 with a degree in business administration and received the National Collegiate Business Merit Award for academic and athletic excellence. Tobias received a master's in business administration from Hamilton University in June 2002.
Tobias was recently engaged to Gretchen Bouton, who is also an employee at Washington State University. The couple is set to be married during the summer of 2003.


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I have a question like this $y[n] - \frac 2 5y[n-1] = 2x[n]$ and $x[n] = 2u[n]$, the manual say that $y^p[n] = k u[n]$ and subtitute it into the equation will become $ k - \frac 25k = 4$. But I think that it should be $ ku[n] - \frac 25ku[n-1] = 4u[n]$, and I don't know how to solve it.
My question is why the u[n] disappear and how to solve it? If I change the input to delta, the method is the same?
Thx in advance.
x[n] is input signal and y[n] is output signal, u[n] is unit step function that u[n] = 1, n>=0, u[n] = 0, otherwise.


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Parallel Programming Patterns: Part 1
By Hardik Dave on Mar 06, 2008
Recently we released MPI Development environment for Netbeans IDE, and this series is a consolidated summary of Parallel Programming Patterns implemented in the Plugin. The first Pattern which we will see is SPMD(Single Process Multiple Data) Pattern. This is a technique used to achieve data level parallelism. One of the dominant style of parallel programming, where all processors use the same program, though each has its own data, SPMD pattern exploits data parallelism in applications where a large mass of data of a uniform type needs the same instruction performed on it. The data is divided among processes to be independently operated. The example provided in the MPI Netbeans plugin shows following:
- An array of elements is created on main process which is then distributed amongst other processes.
- All processes do independent processing of data which is sent to them.
- If the main process wants, it can collect the data from other processes for some final processing, etc.


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What is PET?
PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography. It is a procedure that adds an important new dimension to our ability to diagnose and manage disease. Instead of detecting changes in the physical size or shape of internal organs (as with CT or MRI), PET detects changes in cellular function how cells utilize nutrients like sugar and oxygen. Since these functional changes often take place before anatomical changes occur, PET can provide information that enables your physician to make an earlier diagnosis. If abnormalities have already been detected by CT or MRI, PET can often better define the extent of disease, and characterize cellular function earlier in its course. This added information often means faster initiation of the best possible treatment, while avoiding more invasive exams or exploratory surgery.
How does PET work?
PET employs a positron-emitting radioisotope, Fluorine-18, coupled to glucose, a simple sugar; the resulting radiopharmaceutical is called fluorine-18 deoxyglucose, or FDG. Fluorine-18 is produced in a cyclotron and has an extremely short half-life (110 minutes), requiring that every dose be delivered to us within a few hours of when it will be used. Following intravenous injection, FDG is taken up by cells throughout the body, just as though it were glucose. Glucose is necessary for all metabolic activity in the body, and the cells that are most metabolically active take up more FDG than other cells. Once located inside cells, the distribution of FDG within the body can be imaged with a dedicated PET scanning system that incorporates a full ring of specialized detectors surrounding the body. River Radiology has recently installed the first and only dedicated PET scanner in the Mid-Hudson region (the GE "Advance" System).
What is PET-CT?
While PET scans alone are excellent for demonstrating areas of abnormal metabolism, the lack of anatomic features in the scans sometimes makes it difficult to pinpoint the exact location of a small abnormality seen within the patient. This is important, since FDG activity within a part of the intestine can be perfectly normal, but if the increased metabolic activity is actually located within a lymph node adjacent to the intestine, it may be abnormal. This problem has now been solved by using sophisticated software to superimpose PET metabolic information directly onto a CT scan performed at the same time. This combined approach, called "PET-CT" or "Fusion" imaging, has been shown to increase the accuracy of PET scans by 20-30%.
River Radiology is currently the only facility in central New York State (between Westchester and Buffalo) to be performing routine fusion imagingPET-CTon 100% of our PET studies.
When is it used?
A PET-CT study not only helps your physician diagnose a problem, it can also help predict the likely outcome of various treatment alternatives and monitor your progress. If you're not responding as well as expected, you can be switched to a more effective therapy immediately. Today, PET is more and more frequently being used in the management of common cancers, including:
Other uses of PET-CT include the evaluation of coronary artery disease and cognitive brain disorders. As additional positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals are developed, it is expected that more uses for PET will be employed in the future.
What should I bring to the appointment?
It is important that you hand carry your most recent X-ray/CT/MRI films to your appointment. The films can be returned to you before you leave, or we can mail them back for you.
What will happen during the PET-CT examination?
After receiving an intravenous injection of FDG, you will be asked to wait in a quiet room, without talking or moving, for 45-60 minutes. You will then be asked to lie on a comfortable table that moves slowly through the ring-like PET scanner. You should not feel a thing during the entire scanning procedure, which usually takes about 60 minutes to complete. You should plan on spending a total of 2-3 hours with us, from the time that you arrive until you're ready to leave.
Are there any risks associated with PET-CT scanning?
PET is a very safe procedure. You will receive some radiation from the examination roughly equivalent to what you might receive from X-rays or CT scans. Fluorine-18 has an extremely short physical and biological half-life, and quickly disappears from the body. Intravenous injection of FDG has not been reported to cause significant allergic reactions.
Are PET-CT scans covered by insurance?
PET is covered by Medicare and most other types of insurance, for the uses described above. Additional uses are being covered every year, so please ask your physician or call us for up-to-date information about insurance coverage.
When can my physician expect a copy of my report?
In most cases, reports are provided within two business days.
PET/CT FUSION of patient with history of COLON CA, mets seen in the mesentery.
PET/CT FUSION performed on a patient with history of
ESOPHAGEAL CA, shows adrenal mets.
LUNG CA This patient has a history of breast cancer. Chest x-ray showed a spot on the left lung that could be pneumonia. PET showed the lungs to be a second primary site, not mets from the breast. There was no evidence that it had spread to the lymph nodes. CT has 65% accuracy, PET has 92% accuracy in staging lung cancer.
LYMPHOMA STAGING: Large chest mass with many small lymph nodes in the mediastinum and supraclavicular region. Nodes not appreciated on CT because they are normal in size. This proves to be stage 2 lymphoma because it involves 2 contiguous sites on one side of diaphragm.
Coronal body section images from an actual PET scan. Increased tracer activity can be seen in the heart and urinary tract (which is normal) and also in a malignant lung tumor. There is no evidence that the lung tumor has spread to other parts of the body.
PET in the News
River Radiology Will Join National PET EXAM Registry Providing Medicare Coverage for PET EXAMS
River Radiology is pleased to announce participation in the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) that is expected to be operational by mid summer. River Radiology's joining the NOPR will directly benefit many cancer patients in the Hudson Valley. "Some patients have cancers and indications that are not usually eligible for reimbursable PET scans by Medicare," said Dr. David Hall, radiologist and head of Nuclear Medicine at River Radiology, in Kingston, NY. "Our participation in NOPR means that Medicare will cover PET imaging for many of these cancer patients."
PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography and is especially effective for detecting the presence and extent of malignancies. The goal of the National Oncologic Pet Registry is to assess the effect of PET on the management of patients with particular cancers. Medicare doesn't usually cover PET scans for patients with brain, cervical, small cell lung, pancreatic, ovarian and testicular cancers. Because River Radiology is participating with the NOPR study, Medicare will soon cover the cost of these PET procedures for area patients.
This is not the first time Medicare has announced an expanded coverage of PET scans. Last year, Medicare announced it would cover PET for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease in patients with a possible diagnosis of dementia and a documented cognitive decline of at least 6 months duration. The evaluation of the patient must be conducted by a neurologist or other physician experienced in the diagnosis and assessment of dementia.
PET technology detects changes in brain metabolism that cannot be seen on CT or MRI scans. Patients undergoing PET receive an injection of a short-lived radioisotope, and are scanned one hour later. The scanning procedure is painless, and takes about 30 minutes. In addition to Alzheimer's diagnosis, PET has been widely used for the detection and evaluation of many different kinds of cancer. According to Dr. Hall, River Radiology installed the first PET scanner in the Hudson Valley in 2002. River Radiology received PET accreditation from the American College of Radiology in September, 2004 and is the only facility in Ulster County with such accreditation.
River Radiology is a full service imaging center offering high field and open MRI, CT, PET and combined PET-CT, Ultrasound, Mammography, Bone Densitometry, X-ray, and Nuclear Medicine. River Radiology is open seven days a week. For information call 845.340.4500 or visit www.riverradiology.com.
Kingston, NYNovember 8, 2004. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the expansion of coverage for PET brain scans to individuals with suspected Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias. "Our hope is that the expanded Medicare coverage will result in earlier diagnosis and treatment for patients with this debilitating disease," said Dr. David Hall, radiologist and head of Nuclear Medicine at River Radiology, in Kingston, NY.
Effective September 15, 2004, Medicare is now covering PET for the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease in patients with a recent diagnosis of dementia and a documented cognitive decline of at least 6 months. The evaluation of the patient must be conducted by a physician experienced in the diagnosis and assessment of dementia.
"Prior to PET, the clinical diagnosis in early cases of suspected Alzheimer's disease was extremely difficult. Sometimes the condition is present for months or years before the diagnosis is made. Since current medical therapy is most effective early in the disease, early diagnosis has become more important. In clinical trials, PET has been shown to be approximately 85-90% accurate in the diagnosis of Alzheimer'scompared to about 60% accuracy for clinical evaluation alone," said Dr. Hall.
Alzheimer's disease is an age-related and irreversible brain disorder that results in memory loss of gradually increasing severity. Eventually there are behavioral and personality changes, and a general decline in intellectual abilities. It is the most common cause of age-related dementia representing approximately two-thirds of cases. By age 85, approximately 30-40% of individuals show some signs of the disorder.
PET technology detects changes in brain metabolism that cannot be seen on CT or MRI scans. Patients undergoing PET receive an injection of a short-lived radioisotope, and are scanned one hour later. The scanning procedure is painless, and takes about 30 minutes. In addition to Alzheimer's diagnosis, PET has been widely used for the detection and evaluation of many different kinds of cancer. According to Dr. Hall, River Radiology installed the first PET scanner in the Hudson Valley, in 2002. River Radiology received PET accreditation from the American College of Radiology in September, 2004 and is the only facility in Ulster County to receive such accreditation.
River Radiology is a full service imaging center offering high field and open MRI, PET-CT, CT, Ultrasound, Mammography, Bone Densitometry, X-ray, and Nuclear Medicine. River Radiology is open seven days a week. For information call 845.340.4500.
On the left is a normal PET scan. On the right is a PET scan of the brain in someone with early Alzheimer's Disease. The arrows point to areas of diminished metabolism in the this patient's parietal cortex, on both sides of the brain. Decreased metabolic activity in the parietal and temporal cortex is the hallmark of Alzheimer's Disease on PET scans. This patient had a perfectly normal CT scan and MRI of the brain, because there is no gross anatomic abnormality - only a metabolic one.
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Adekoya, a forward from Seattle, Wash., came off the bench to score a goal in the 3-1 win at No. 11 Wake Forest and assisted on the game's only goal in a 1-0 victory at No. 10 North Carolina just six minutes after entering the game. The freshman was sent a long ball forward and chested it back to Leo Stolz, who caught the goalkeeper out of position and slotted a shot off the left post and into the back of the net for the game-winner in the 31st minute. Adekoya is tied for the team lead in scoring with three points off one goal and one assist.
This is Adekoya's first-career weekly honor and UCLA's 54th all-time player of the week selection.
The Bruins (2-0) will be on the road again this week, this time in Albuquerque, where they will face American University on Friday, Sept. 5 at 3:30 pm PT and New Mexico on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 5 pm.


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