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Karen Matevosyan, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department Pathology
- Medical School
- Azerbaijan Med INST, BAKU (1981)
- Internship
- Azerbaijan State Medical Institute (1982), Pediatrics
- Residency
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (HR) (2006), Pathology
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (HR) (2008), Blood Banking/transfusion Medicine
Featured Publications
- Rapid Warfarin Reversal: A Three-factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate and Recombinant Factor FVIIa Cocktail for Intracranial Hemorrhage.
- Sarode R, Matevosyan K, Bhagat R, Beshay J, Rutherford C, Madden C J Neurosurg 2011 DOI: 10.3171/2011.11.JNS11836 1-7
- Advantages of Isovolemic Hemodilution-Red Cell Exchange Therapy to Prevent Recurrent Stroke in Sickle Cell Anemia Patients.
- Sarode R, Matevosyan K, Rogers Z , Burner J, Rutherford C J Clin Apher 2011 26
- Coagulation factor levels in neurosurgical patients with mild prolongation of prothrombin time: Effect on plasma transfusion therapy.
- Matevosyan K, Madden C, Barnett SL, Beshay J, Rutherford C, Sarode R J Neurosurg 2011 114 3-7
- Prospective Monitoring of Plasma and Platelet Transfusions in a Large Teaching Hospital Results in Significant Cost Reduction.
- Sarode R, Refaai MA, Matevosyan K, Burner JD, Hampton S, Rutherford C Transfusion 2010 50 487-492
- Rinseback during red blood cell exchange with COBE Sprectra does not affect fraction of cells remaining (FCR) or post-exchange hematocrit.
- Bhagat R, Matevosyan K, Jones R, Vetus ML, Burner JD, Sarode R J Clin Apher 2010 25 347-349
- Is it quinine TTP/HUS or quinine TMA? ADAMTS13 levels and implications for therapy.
- Park YA, Hay SN, King KE, Matevosyan K, Poisson J, Powers A, Sarode R, Shaz B, Brecher M J Clin Apher 2009 24 115-119
- Prothrombin complex concentrate and fatal thrombosis: poor evidence to implicate a relatively safe drug.
- Sarode R, Matevosyan K Ann Emerg Med 2009 54 481-482
- Higher Optical Density of an Antigen Assay Predicts Thrombosis in Patients with Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia.
- F Altuntas, K Matevosyan, YM Shen, J Burner, R Sarode Eur J Hematol 2008 80 429-435
- Use (and Misuse) of Plasma in Clinical Practice.
- K. Matevosyan Check Sample: Transfusion Medicine January 2007 Vol. 50; No. TM 07-1 ISSN 1056-5949
- Delayed-Onset Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, Venous Thromboembolism, and Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Consequence of Heparin "Flushes".
- MA Refaai, TE Warkentin, M Axelson, K Matevosyan and R Sarode Thromb Haemost 2007 98 1139-1140
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Association of Blood Banks (2008)
- American Society of Hematology (2007)
- North Texas Society of Pathologists (2005)
- American Society for Apheresis (2004)
- American Society of Clinical Pathologists (2004)
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Finite State Machine Matrix-Style C Implementation
There are several implementations of finite state machines avaible, the only drawback most of them are suffering is that they are moore machines (under certain circumstances this means a large number of states) and changing the machines behaviour will change the whole code structure (this means low flexibility and the reprogramming may be a huge cause of defects).
I'd like to present an Implementation of a FSM, i've found during my student research project that is a mealy machine and does not require a reprogramming of the underlying structure.
I realized this implementation in an event-driven structure in LabVIEW (g) (file a comment if you're interested in that implementation). However i recently needed a state machine implementation in C, and tested some implementations and remebered my old implementation of that matrix-style implementation.
State Transition Table
The basic idea of this implementation is that every state machine can be directly represented as a state transition table. I'll be using a two-dimensional transition table (matrix), depending of current active state and possible events (see Table 1).
|Event 1
|Event 2
|Event 3
|State 1
|State 2, Action 2
|State 3, Action 1
|State 1, Action 4
|State 2
|State 1, Action 3
|State 2, Action 1
|State 2, Action 3
|State 3
|State 3, Action 1
|State 1, Action 4
|State 2, Action 2
e.g. the current state would be 'State 2′ and the second event has been triggered, the machine will initiate 'Action 1′ and stay in 'State 2′.
This compact representation can easily be derived from any state diagramm. Suchlike tabular structures can be transferred into programming languages without difficulty. This is the main benefit of this representation.
C Code
States, events and actions are represented by enumerator typedefinitions. All the rest will be build upon them.
/******************************* * typedefs *******************************/ typedef enum { STATE_0, STATE_1, STATE_2 } state; typedef enum { NILACTION, ACTION_1, ACTION_2, ACTION_3, ACTION_4 } action; typedef enum { NILEVENT, EVENT_1, EVENT_2 } event; typedef struct { state nextState; action actionToDo; } stateElement;
Based on these type definitions the state transition table can be developed as a 2D-Array of stateElement structs.
stateElement stateMatrix[3][3] = { { {STATE_0,NILACTION}, {STATE_1,ACTION_1}, {STATE_1,ACTION_4} }, { {STATE_1,NILACTION}, {STATE_2,ACTION_3}, {STATE_2,ACTION_2} }, { {STATE_2,NILACTION}, {STATE_0,ACTION_2}, {STATE_1,ACTION_3} } }
these definitions and constants can be stored in the header file. Getting the machine running is realized via a basic function.
/*************************************** * prototypes ***************************************/ action stateEval(event e);
This function determines what action will be occasioned depending on the triggered event and sets the new state of the machine. The mechanism behind this function is lightweight.
action stateEval(event e) { //determine the State-Matrix-Element in dependany of current state and triggered event stateElement stateEvaluation = stateMatrix[currentState][e]; //do the transition to the next state (set requestet next state to current state)... currentState = stateEvaluation.nextState; //... and fire the proper action return stateEvaluation.actionToDo; }
All that is done is indexing the stateMatrix-Array depending on current state (row) and occured event (column). All things additional needed will be a global constant currentState to store the machines state. This could be done in the main()-loop. Control of the state machine can be achieved via simple mechanism over the stateEval()-function.
// this single line is the whole FSM-Call, easy as that! actionToDo = stateEval(eventOccured);
This could be put in an event-triggered interrupt-routine, a while-loop, a for-loop over each triggered event, or whatever is reasonable. The eventOccured has to be computed by a special algorithm, for example an combination of more or less complex expressions. In the easiest imaginable way this would be an if-structure:
if ( T > T_MAX ) { eventOccured = overTemperatureEvent; }
All these little parts combined lead to a quite simple approach for a state machine implementation in programming languages.
The most convincing part is the state transition table, wich is the only thing –beneath the states und events type definition– that has to be changed, to change the whole state machine behaviour. It has a direct connection to state machine theory and the common state diagram representation. Thus making this approach tremendously customizable and understandable.

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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
not_blonde_really not_blonde_really Sep 2, 2011 22:00 Flag
our 25 man squad is...
Here: http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/squad-update-020911.html. Most interesting for me is that Dos Santos has made it on - I may have said elsewhere, but according to one of the live text coverages on Wed we had 29 senior players Wed am, so don't know if he's there to make up the numbers, but I'd like him to get a run.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
sorry about spelling...yes, he's still been named in 25
The squad as registered at the EPL (from http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2440123,00.html) :
Tottenham Hotspur - 25 squad players
Player Home Grown
1 Friedel, Bradley Howard No
2 Gomes, Heurelho Da Silva No
3 Cudicini, Carlo No
4 Assou-Ekotto, Benoit No
5 Dawson, Michael Richard Yes
6 Gallas, William No
7 King, Ledley Brenton Yes
8 Kaboul, Younes No
9 Bassong Nguena, Sebastian Aymar No
10 Corluka, Vedran No
11 Lennon, Aaron Yes
12 Livermore, Jake Cyril Yes
13 Huddlestone, Thomas Andrew Yes
14 Modric, Luka No
15 Kranjcar, Niko No
16 Bale, Gareth Frank Yes
17 Pavlyuchenko, Roman No
18 Defoe, Jermain Colin Yes
19 Van Der Vaart, Rafael No
20 Cordiero, Sandro Raniere Guimarae No
21 Adebayor, Emmanuel No
22 Pienaar, Steven No
23 Dos Santos Ramirez, Giovanni No
24 Alnwick, Ben Robert Yes
25 Parker, Scott Matthew Yes
Tottenham Hotspur - Under 21 players (Contract and Scholars)
Angol, Lee Anthony
Archer, Jordan Gideon
Ball, Dominic
Barthram, Jack Patrick
Bostock, John
Bush, Mason
Byrne, Nathan William
Carroll, Thomas James
Caulker, Steven Roy
Champion, Frederick
Coulthirst, Shaquile Tyshan
Day, Daniel
Ekong, William Paul
Falque, Yago
Fredericks, Ryan
Gardiner, Thomas James
Granger, Billy
Hawkins, Ronnie
Jansson, Oscar
Kane, Harry
Lameiras, Ruben
Lancaster, Cameron Paul
Lassen, Jesse Waller
Loungo, Massimo
Mason, Ryan Glen
McBride, Paul
McEvoy, Kenneth
McQueen, Darren
McQueen, Alexander Luke
Michael-Percil, Roman
Miles, Jonathan David
Modeste, Oliver Thomas Jack
Munns, Jack Frederick
Nicholson, Jake Charlie
Obika, Jonathan
Oyenuga, Kudus
Parrett, Dean Gary
Pritchard, Alex David
Ranieri, Mirko
Rose, Daniel Lee
Sheriff, Ramil
Smith, Adam James
Smith, Samuel Henry Tyson
Stewart, Kevin Linford
Townsend, Andros
Walker, Kyle Andrew
Ward, Grant Antony
Yeboah, James
Zapata-Caicedo, Victor Manuel
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the other 1 u could have been scrared was left out is danny rose.
but as kentish explained, he is under 21.
i agree about not needing alnwick. but can anyone think of the over 21's we left out?
Four keepers? What the hell do we need four keepers for?
2. Ben Alnwick
8. Carlo Cudicini
9. Heurelho Gomes
13. Brad Friedel
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Actually never mind... Alnwick is actually not going out on loan anywhere. First time in forever... Will he actually get a game in?
Born2Suffer Born2Suffer Sep 2, 2011 22:50 Flag
So we get rid of Hutton and Kyle Walker is omitted from the squad.......I give up.
And as for showing ambition in the window, Modric must be really glad to be here.
Prove me wrong Harry, but either you are losing it, or Levy is picking the squad and if that's the case where's your balls 'cos I would have told him to shove it.
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Kentish Maid Kentish Maid Sep 3, 2011 01:05 Flag
Panic not B2S. Walker is U21 so along with Townsend, Kane, Carroll etc doesn't count towards the 25 as we can include as many of those as we wish. That's why Livermore has been included in the 25 as he's 22 next year so I understand.
Why the hell have we named 4 goalkeeper's....surely Walker instead of Ainswick...


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upgrades can actually communicate with a Windows PC, allowing you to
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without removing the card from your device. This is very useful for
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction
Conductive polymers and
high-temperature superconductor materials represent two interesting
classes of electronic materials that have each independently received
much attention by the scientific community. Conductive polymers have
attracted much attention due to their large variability in electrical
conductivity that can be brought about through oxidation or reduction
of the polymer backbone. Similarly, the high-Tc superconductors
exhibit a number of remarkable electronic properties which are highly
influenced by the oxidation state of the electronically active copper
moieties. This dissertation describes some of the initial experiments
in which the two classes of materials are combined into functional
In Chapter 1, background
information on superconductivity, conducting polymers, self-assembled
monolayers, and intercalation is presented. Chapter 2 examines the
surface quality of high-temperature superconductors by focusing primarily
on the electrochemical response of superconductor electrodes. Chapter
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of placing a self-assembled monolayer at the interface. Chapter 4
explores hybrid assemblies of conducting polymer / high-temperature
superconductor bilayer structures that are used in the modulation of
the superconductor's transition temperature. Chapter 5 probes the
intercalation of a conducting polymer into the interior region of a
high-temperature superconductor lattice. The research described here
provides insight into the formation and application of conducting polymer
/ high-temperature superconductor assemblies. In the remainder of
this introductory chapter, superconductivity, conducting polymers,
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NBA Week 4 Fantasy Breakdown
NBA Week 4 Fantasy Sleepers, Match-ups, waivers, starts, and players to watch.
NBA Week 4 Fantasy Watch
The Knicks have a great match-up week, and they play four times. Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton are must starts this week. The Jazz match up well against the Spurs, and play them home and away this week. Both LA teams play four times this week, and in favorable match-ups. Start all Clippers and Lakers players. Chicago, Miami, and Memphis only play twice this week. In daily leagues, definitely still start your Grizzles players against the Nuggets. The Hawks play four times, but in deeper leagues consider sitting your lower caliber Hawks players because their match-ups aren't great.
NBA Week 4 Fantasy Start Em
For those of you in need of a guard, Jason Richardson is a great pick up and start this week. He is owned in only 10% of ESPN leagues, and should hit a decent amount of threes against the Suns and Raptors this week. He also plays two other games, and has shown 76ers' management that he is healthy and worthy of minutes.
NBA Week 4 Fantasy Player Watch
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Kidd-Gilchrist has a lot to prove this week, coming off a 2 point performance last week against the Timberwolves. The Bobcats squad he is on is weak, and he rebounds well for a small forward, averaging just over 7 per game. Kidd-Gilchrist wants to show he is capable of being a top option night in and night out.
NBA Week 4 Fantasy Sleepers
Mike Dunleavy SG/SF Milwaukee Bucks (%44 owned)
Dunleavy has been hard to predict this season, but the eye test suggests he is enjoying playing on the road more so far this season. The Bucks match up well at the Heat and at the Bobcats this week. When he finds his range from beyond the arc, he can have huge fantasy nights.
Harrison Barnes SG Golden State Warriors (%18.7 owned)
Barnes is flying under the radar for the time being. His increased confidence has lead to more minutes, more attempts, and more points. Barnes also mixed in 22 rebounds in two games against the Timberwolves and Hawks last week. The Warriors don't have a great match-up slate, but Barnes is a great pick up and start because he plays 4 times this week.
Bradley Beal SG Washington Wizards (%20 owned)
Hot and then cold so far this season, the 19-year old rookie should find his flow this week against the Hawks and Bobcats, who both are poor at stopping the three. Consider picking him up a couple times this week, dropping him, and then monitoring his progress from there.
Stephen Jackson SG/SF San Antonino Spurs (%1.1 owned)
Stephen Jackson should start seeing more time after a couple injures to the Spurs regulars. He has double-double potential on any given night, and his activeness on defense leads to some steals here and there.
Lance Stephenson SG Indiana Pacers (%0.7 owned)
The Pacers don't have a great match up week, but Stephenson can still be a great pick up. He started four consecutive games last week, and he has become a consistent regular in the Pacers line up. In deeper leagues, especially daily ones, players who simply get minutes can have value.
Jason Kidd PG New York Knicks (%47.8 owned)
J-Kidd's legs seem to be appreciating his back up role this season. He is shooting over %50 from three and almost %60 from the field. In a 12 team league, pick up Kidd as he plays 4 times this week.
NBA Week 3 Fantasy Deep Sleeper:
Jimmer Fredette (%0.8 owned)
For a deep league, Fredette is a waiver-wire pick up that should provide great value because Jimmer is starting in place of the injured Aaron Brooks, and the absent Isaiah Thomas, and has already had double digit games three times this season.
Drop Em
Dorell Wright had a hot hand for a little bit, but he took an injury to his chin, played just 5 minutes against the Jazz, and Jason Richardson has emerged as the new 3 point hand for the Sixers.
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OpenTK Quickstart Template.Posted Monday, 9 March, 2009 - 03:28 by Mincus
Not sure how useful this will be for people, but it only took a few minutes to make so thought I'd post it.
I've made a Visual Studio Template for the QuickStart solution that comes with OpenTK.
I made it in Visual Studio 2008, but it should work in 2005 since the XML schema for the vstemplate file points to the 2005 one.
The only modification I've made is to include the License.txt file as OpenTK License.txt inside the project itself.
Just put the attached zip file in My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates
When creating a new project, just select "Visual C#" and it should appear in the My Template section as shown in the picture.
It won't find OpenTK or OpenTK.Utilities straight off, you'll have to show it where those are. Not sure how to get round this.
If this is useful I'll look into creating a Startup Kit if people are interested.
|OpenTK QuickStart.zip
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This looks quite nice. How do you create templates like this? Is there a wizard or something like that?
This will be nice to include in the distribution, esp. if we add an installer at some point.
Edit: I guess it expects the dlls to be in the GAC, which is not possible at this point (the GAC requires a stable API).
Edit 2: What's the difference between a starter kit and a template?
Just File -> Export Template.
Follow the wizard, it's that simple.
Getting the license in there was a little harder. If I created the zip file it uses from scratch using either WinRAR or Windows' zip maker, it disappeared from Visual Studio for some reason.
However using WinRAR to add/replace files in the existing zip worked.
It just required a simple one-line addition to the .vstemplate file, which is straightforward XML.
File -> Export? Never once thought to see what that did.
I edited my previous post while you were posting (bad form, I know), repeating the edits here for the sake of continuity:
Edit: I guess it expects the dlls to be in the GAC, which is not possible at this point (the GAC requires a stable API).
Edit 2: What's the difference between a starter kit and a template?
Doesn't look like there's that much of a different actually.
I thought there was more, but starter kits just seem to be expanded project templates with more documentation and the .zip renamed to a .vsi so it can be installed easier.
I have a suspicion the zip creation not working properly may be down to me using Windows 7's zip creation or WinRAR, but I'm not 100%, I don't have another zip program lying around to test with.
Your best bet is to try http://www.7-zip.org/ and see if it works with that.
Btw, what's your impression of Windows 7? Does OpenGL work correctly? Any abnormal behavior in OpenTK? (esp with the GameWindow States test in Examples.exe)
Windows 7 is basically what Vista should have been.
It's a little lighter (although not hugely so), the UI has a few extra whistles and bells on it that add functionality (for example you can change the order of applications in the task bar, sounds small but it's something I've always wanted under Windows ;o)).
It still has its problems, the UAC is around, which I thought was a good feature in Vista, with most of the problems stemming from bad security decisions in the past rather than from UAC itself. The problem with Windows 7's is that if you have one of the mid-way settings, there's potential security issues (see here for someone who's done his homework on it).
Overall it's not bad. I'm not sure how the public will respond to it at large though. It looks and feels a lot like Vista, and I have a suspicion that one of the biggest reason people didn't like Vista is that the UI had changed too much. There was a similar cry when XP was released because of its new interface.
Anyway, other than the graphics driver crashing half a dozen times or so (it's a pre-release set of nvidia drivers and I'm using the ones supplied through Windows Update right now, which aren't GL3 compatible), I've not had any graphical problems at all. Even with the drivers crashing, the OS recovers very quickly, no BSOD, just an icon in the system tray telling you what happened.
I didn't think I'd seen any problems with OpenTK, but I just ran through the examples now, and as you predicted, the GameWindow states test seems a bit off.
Moving from Fullscreen -> Normal causes the window to go as small as possible in the top-left of the screen.
First time I was running through attempting to resize it actually caused the graphics driver to crash, but I can't seem to reproduce that now.
The rest of the examples work fine, including the sound one.


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Here's a good way to save a bundle on your bundle of joy – share a sitter with a neighbor. By dropping off her 15-month-old at a neighbor's place 4 days a week, Real Simple reader Maureen Dempsey says she saves ~$400 a month. The article doesn't specify it but I imagine babysitter watches both kids at the same time for a little bit more but not as much as hiring two separate sitters. Plus Maureen's kid also gets to interact with another kid at the same time. Surviving the recession is all about working together and splitting up costs. [via Real Simple] (Photo: Ordinary Guy)
Split A Sitter, Save A Bundle
Save even more money, live near your parents. Not an option for everyone, I know. But I have never paid for babysitting. (In case you'd like to accuse me of taking advantage of them, the wife and I only go out once a month, my folks actually wish they got my kids more often.)
@backbroken: Kids that old are usually about 25 inch-feet tall. Give or take a ounce-pound.
@tc4b: Yeah, that's worked out great for me so far also. It's been less than 2 years and we go out at about the same rate. Of course, I'm certain there still will be times we'll need or want to find a real babysitter.
@tc4b: Just be rather careful about that. My mom gets rather sick sometimes of babysitting for my sister, who's constantly taking overtime because she needs the income.
Of course, not everyone is in this kind of situation. I'm just saying sometimes it's worth it to pay for a sitter to not sour your relationship with your family. I'm not accusing tc4b of this, just offering a consideration for those who would take that advice.
@tc4b: We've never paid a sitter – we have friends and neighbours.
Great for the parents saving money.
Not so great for the babysitter and children in general. 2 kids isn't so bad. I've had people try and pull this with 4+ though and it gets absolutely ridiculous. At that point it's just probably not even safe for the kids.
@Ratty: I expect the babysitter knows about this arrangement in advance and is compensated accordingly.
When we go out with some friends, we will have a babysitter watch both our kids (1 each). She makes more money in the twofer, the kids are happier since they are as best of friends as a 2 and 3 year old can be, and we can spend an evening where we can mentally relax. Win-win-win. Plus, the baby sitter usually ends up with a bigger tip. For 5 hours, we'll normally pay about $75 + dinner after tip. Not bad cash for a couple hours worth of work (after the kids crash, it's cash to just sit around).
@nbs2: This was my first reaction: I hope the babysitter knew about this before the parents started exploiting her labor.
@nbs2: sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't come upfront to say it. When they do it's usually fine unless the extra kids you don't know come with their own undisclosed issues. Or if they fight.
I had no problem with it when it was both: disclosed completely with more contact info and kid info, and pay was raised at least a bit to compensate. Not even double pay or anything, but an extra twenty bucks to watch another little tyke for the whole evening was fine with me. That only happened about half the time and the parents who insisted on just dropping off an extra child or two of their friends with no warning or pay difference I had to try and talk with.
And hey, I was a good babysitter–when the kids went to bed it was time to do the dishes, tidy the living room or wherever else the kids played, and THEN time to relax until the parents got in!
It would be nice if I could do that. Come this summer, I will be paying $300 per week for daycare. SHIT.
@sarabadara is harboring a fetal refugee:
I feel your pain, but ours will only be $190 for both kids. We're going to try to get a multi-kid discount but we're not expecting it. At least I'll get to write off the cost on my taxes.
@Starfury: $235/week here. The annual cost rivals that of sending them to an in-state college. Unfortunately I have one of each, both just starting out.
@Starfury: My multi-kid discount is like $13 off. I guess it's better than a smack. You're right; it is a great tax write-off (only up to $5000 though, if I'm not mistaken). When my husband did our taxes he forgot to put the daycare costs in our deductions and once he went back and added it, our refund jumped more than I would have expected.
@sarabadara is harboring a fetal refugee: uh, smack in the mouth I meant to say.
What is a 15 month-year-old?
Normally I am not a fan of people nit picking grammer, but I will god damned if I didnt laugh out loud on that one. Good one sir!
@backbroken: No kidding. I had to re-read it eight five-times.
They left out the word 'oops' in between month and year, as in: '15 month-oops-year-old.'
That brings up another issue altogether: what over-protecting parent needs a sitter for a 15-year-old?
Uh, I sure hope they at least pay the sitter a little bit more for twice the work.
@rachaeljean: No they just hop the kids up on sudafed. They nap great! :)
@rachaeljean: Agreed, I don't really understand how this saves money, unless they are paying a reduced rate for sending two kids instead of one. It shouldn't be a two for one deal just because the neighbors know each other and they both have kids. I wonder, is one neighbor just bullshitting and telling the sitter that the kids are siblings? Something is awry.
@Sparerib: Usually when people were nice about it it would be something like this:
Already getting $40 to watch two children for 6 hours. Adding child 3, plus another $15 or so for the same timeframe. Not quite doubling up pay but scaling it up a bit.
@Sparerib:You don't need to pay double. The sitter might have to work a bit harder for that one night, but now has an additional night free. Otherwise the parents would either higher a different sitter for the same night or ask the same sitter to come a different night. You basically get a higher hourly rate for a little more responsibility. Depending on the kids, this is quite a good tradeoff.
@Veeber: The post doesn't make it out to be a "night out" babysitter. It's about sending a child 4 days a week. And I agree that the rate doesn't need to be double, that would be a little overzealous of the sitter. It just appeared at face value that the parents were taking advantage of the babysitter's rates. But for all I know, the sitter said "bring a friend and split the cost." I just calls 'em like I sees 'em.
And seattleperson: my sitter asks for $20 a day (awesome), but I don't get a discount because she watches other people's kids.
@Sparerib: you must have never babysat or hired a babysitter before! When I babysat I got $5 for the first kid and $2 for each additional kid.
@rachaeljean: I work as a nanny and have always been suspicious of this type of situation. The nanny share idea is great for the parents and can be nice for the kids but for the nanny it can mean a lot more work for less than they could make for a single family with two children. Plus unlike a single family with multiple children the nanny share usually has two children close to the same age which is a lot harder than an older child and a younger child.
@misokitty: Is it really harder? I would expect that 2 kids near the same age would be easier than 2 kids a couple of years apart. My assumption was it would be easier to come up with a single activity for both to do while you watch, then monitor 2 kids doing 2 different things.
@rachaeljean: It is not uncommon for daycare providers to provide a substantial discount for siblings. Working on the same theory, if you hire a sitter to watch your child at home. As others have suggested, a second child would be less. Check the rate for a second child in advance with your sitter.
From the sitters perspective. She can spend all day watching 1 child for $10/hour, or she can watch 2 children for $15/hour. While there may be some extra work, the advantage is that the kids will interact with one another and will play happily with each other for a good portion of the day, allowing the sitter to do some other activities (reading a book etc.) while keeping an eye on the kids.
@Rachacha: "will play happily with each other for a good portion of the day" Have you met many kids? My sibs and I got along really well, but I can assure you we rarely met this standard. Hell, visit any office; most adults can't manage it either.
Might wanna think again about that article title, just sayin'
I don't know what babysitter or neighbour would agree to that! You're using someone else's house and hired help. Nice if you can get away with it.
I haven't used a sitter in about 7 years, but when I did I had to pay $85 per kid per week. Times are tough for babysitters too. They need the cash also.
Sounds great for the one dropping off her child and saving $, but what about the sitter? I agree it's nice for both children to have someone with whom to interact, but sometimes 2 are a handful! I would think the one dropping off her child should return the favor!!!! (At least watching the other child so the parents can have a night out.)
An old friend of mine did this with her kid. Essentially the "babysitting" was just daycare. He was one of like 8 kids. He could quote any daytime TV show and became somewhat dull-eyed.
You get what you pay for.
@backbroken: Tears are flowing. Can't stop laughing!
@backbroken: I assume someone who can be described by squared time? My puny human mind has difficulty wrapping itself around that concept.
Reading "Split A Sitter" I immediately thought of something very very dirty.
I feel very ashamed, and my public confession will hopefully alleviate the guilt about the cliche of taking advantage of a sitter taking her home.
For what it's worth I don't have children and would never have any need for a sitter.
@backbroken: This could be a thinly veiled comment about how parents annoyingly (up to about the age of 3) state their kids' ages in months. Eg. My son is 28 months old, my daughter is 30 months old. Just say 2 and half, dammit! How'd you like if you asked my age, and I said, "around 360 months".
More likely – someone just f'd up a little.
This is great, until you realize there is absolutely no state or federal regulation that these sitters are required to meet. At least with a state certified daycare you can be sure your kids are not being watched by a pedophile / crack addict / axe murderer. Plus with daycare the kids get variety, lots more toys to play with, exposure to more culture (diverse languages) etc. Add in the laws regarding upkeep of property (e.g. lead paint removal) which daycare places have to meet but babysitters don't and that sitter option is looking pretty crappy to me. Then there's the tax benefit (i.e. proper receipts for daycare which can be used for a tax credit, versus a sitter who is probably working for cash and doesn't want to issue receipts to "keep things simple"). This is altogether not a good idea, and isn't actually that much cheaper (and no, just to clarify, I don't work for a daycare, we have a 10-month old in daycare, and pay $470/2wks).
@virgilstar: That's great for you but you're paying for daycare twice as much as a minimum wage worker makes in a month.
@BytheSea: Not sure of your math there. Minimum wage in MA (where I live) is $8/hr. At 40 hrs a week, roughly 4 weeks a month, that's 8*40*4 = $1280 that the minimum wage earner brings home each month. Yes, virgilstar is paying $940, but that's definitely not twice as much!
Granted, not all states have the same minimum wage. In Wyoming, where it's $5.15 (yes, I googled it when I realized that MA might not be the best example) the minimum wage earner is still earning more than $800 per month.
@mmmsoap: $1280 pre-tax. Give Count Porkula and his tax-dodging buds in Washington their cut, then the Peoples' Republik of Taxachussetts gets their cut.
I'm sure that will work out as a take-home pay of much, much less than $940 per month.
@torgonius: but is it 470? probably not…
I'd like to know what minimum wage jobs you are talking about that will give you 40hrs a week! I've been working minimum wage jobs for the past 5yrs and have to put up with 7-20hrs a week.
@virgilstar: I always babysat at other peoples' homes. if their places were full of lead paint and spiders that was on them, not on me.
@virgilstar: Holy crap! How did humanity ever survive this long with all those dangers around!!!
Forty years ago, a family from my church asked me to babysit for their three children from 6 am to 11 pm. Two other families dumped their kids on me, for a total of eight. Throughout the day, I consoled myself with the idea that I would be making more money for enduring this awful situation. Wrong! The two dumping families paid NOTHING. I had lost my voice by the time the adults returned home and had to miss a couple days of school. It was a nightmare. I confess to having a visceral reaction when reading the above. Unless the babysitter consents in advance, this is– at a minimum– a very dirty trick.
Wait, people still use babysitters? My restaurant and movie-going experiences say otherwise.
I do think it is a good idea, but remember that there is a point where it's just unlicensed daycare.
When my sister and I were younger, my parents traded watching us with some family friends who had children near our age. If my parents were going out, we'd go play at their house. If their parents were going out, they'd come over and play at our house.
Cost = free
Only after reading this story and the comments did I realize that my parents were doing the same thing. Fooled my younger mind!
I always figured my parents were the lamest squares in the world and NEVER went out! I guess I was having so much fun with my friends that I never cared what my folks were doing.
Am I the only one who finds some of these "Real Simple" solutions to be a little thin?
It's not like two women (or men..it's the 21st century) grousing to each other about sitter/daycare fees wouldn't come up with the same idea. But as others have written, everyone's lives are different and it's quite possible that there may be other reasons besides "not thinking of it" as to why they don't do this.
Tomorrow from Real Simple: Avoid scalding your hands by using a colander to strain your pasta!
What! And take a job away from another sitter! Wait until the union hears about this!
Split a baby, go to jail! (Unless you're King Solomon, or it's a conjoined twin)
Or just do what I do when I'm babysitting the niece/nephews. Simply leave them alone in the park long enough, and eventually someone will take them off my hands for the rest of the weekend.
(After two days, *they* will pay ME to take them back)
@Trai_Dep: I find it more effective to just mail them to myself. Put enough food and water in the box, drop them at the post office Friday afternoon, and it's a free weekend. Er, well, not free but postage is cheaper than a sitter.
Ha, good idea. Just because they are children doesn't mean that they can't contribute. We are in a recession people!
We do this. It's called a nanny share and it's common where we live. Each family is paying the nanny a little more than it would cost to place our kids in day care. The kid/caregiver ratio is so much better, and the caregiver makes far more money than she would in a day care environment as well.
I haven't read the Real Simple article, but unless the person who submitted the idea is paying FICA taxes and providing W-2s to the babysitter/nanny, she is flouting the law as I understand it.
Why would someone have a child (unless it's an oops) and decide to let someone else raise them? I'll be *amned if I'm going to let a stranger watch my kid(s) for 8-10 hours a day while I work. HELLO what is wrong with this picture. No wonder kids today are so screwed up. It's called parenting and it requires parents to do it.
Here's an idea. Work out a deal with some other couples in which Friday night (or whatever other day) is date night for the couples. If there are four couples, you do date night for 3 weeks, and the fourth you watch all of the other kids. Alternate and you get free babysitting and a night out most weeks.
That's still a huge chunk of pay going towards childcare.


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On "My Beloved Kissuiso" it's the eve of the Bonbori festival, and most of Kissuiso's staff is on edge because they're over working themselves. Also they think Ohana has turned her back on them and is taking her grandmother's side. It's a tense situation and everyone looks miserable, how will this one end?
Enishi remains a terrible leader, working harder and taking on too many things at once, will only hurt the inn's brand in the end. He doesn't understand this, so everything is chaotic, with all you can eat buffets and Tomoe overworking herself to the point of injury. Yet, Ohana is the bad guy in this episode.
They're mad at her for siding with her grandma—but I'm not sure that's even what she's doing. She just doesn't think the inn should be run a certain way. And she's correct, everyone else thinks they're doing it for the inn, but they're being selfish and have their own interests at heart. Minko is the biggest offender here.
After 24 episodes you'd think she would have had some major character development, right? Just look at how much Sui as changed over the course of this series. Well, as soon as you think Minko is changing, she goes back to her bratty ways. Honestly, the best part about this anime ending is I'll never have to see her sulk around ever again. Unless there's a second season, but hopefully they write her out. Yeah, I doubt it too… a boy can dream, can't he?
Ohana's mother coming isn't a huge surprise, but Nako speaking up is. I guess a person can only take so much bullshit. See Minko, even Nako has gone through a major metamorphoses. They kind of trolled us to think Ohana would be the one to come out and tell everyone they're nuts. But Ohana has also changed (Tohro also notices this), she has mellowed out.
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A Midnight Oil hit advocating Aboriginal land rights in the '80s is being used in the noughties to mobilise nations to combat climate change.
The band's former frontman and now [Australian] Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, helped write new lyrics to "Beds Are Burning," as part of the celebrity-led initiative.
It is driven by the former UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, who heads the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. The forum has assembled 55 singers, actors and models to rerecord protest songs with the aim of cutting carbon emissions.
Among them are British rockers Duran Duran, former Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof, French actress Marion Cotillard and Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
Where Mr Garrett once writhed to this opener: ''Out where the river broke/The blood wood and the desert oak/Holden wrecks and boiling diesels/Steam in 45 degrees'', the remake will feature a chorus of well-meaning celebrities singing: ''Down at the river bed/The earth is cracked and dry instead/Farms a failing, cities baking/Steam in 45 degrees.''
Climate change sceptics may ask why the temperature has not risen from 45 degrees in the intervening decades. But such quibbles are swept away in the tweaked refrain: ''The time has come/A fact's a fact/The heat is on/No turning back.''
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Clung to his cranial pan:
A small glob that resembles flan
Facial tics and scary seizures
Spewing crank ideology
The time has come
To say dumb's dumb
To stop this crap
Our ears are numb
The time has come
A joke's a joke
Now we're onto you
So shut it, bloke
How can we put up with warmist dreaming?
How can we see when his skull's so gleaming?
Record sales dried up, but he's still earning
Government jobs don't require much learning
The time has come
To say dumb's dumb
To stop this crap, now
Our ears are numb
His so-called dancing's funny too
A spastic trying to do kung fu
An Aussie leader who lives and breathes
The left's banalities
The time has come
Enough's enough
We've had our fill
Of warmist guff
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So go get stuffed
How can we put up with warmist dreaming?
How can we see when his skull's so gleaming?
Cadaverous jagoff, the truth he's spurning
Strangling the facts, but they keep on squirming
The time has come
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How can we put up with warmist dreaming?
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Definition of speech pathology in English:
speech pathology
Another term for speech therapy.
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A 31-year-old Vermont man is in a northern New York jail after state police say he attacked a woman and crashed her car and his own vehicle in the same night.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Novak Djokovic retained his title at the World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi on Saturday by rallying past Nicolas Almagro 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4.
The top-ranked Serb swept past David Ferrer in straight sets to reach the final, but he got a tough test from the 11th-ranked Almagro.
Almagro, a late replacement at the tournament for Rafael Nadal, rallied from 3-1 down in the tiebreaker to take the first set.
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KANSAS CITY - Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Malone have announced the engagement of their daughter, Hope Kristin, to William Samuel McPheeters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve McPheeters of Sikeston.
The future bride is the granddaughter of Ruth Penderson and Raymond Penderson of Marceline and the late Dr. and Mrs. Gene Malone. She graduated in 1996 from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor of science degree in education. A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, she is a French teacher at the Wildwood Middle School in the Rockwood School District.
The prospective bridegroom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. W.S. McMullin of Sikeston, Mrs. W.L. McPheeters of Malden and the late W.L. McPheeters. A 1993 graduate of Sikeston High School, he completed a bachelor of arts degree in communication at the University of Missouri-Columbia, graduating in 1997. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and managing partner of MCG Wireless in St. Louis.
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- U.S. Office of Personnel Management: Alcoholism in the Workplace - A Handbook for Supervisors
- USA Mobile Drug Testing: Is Alcoholism Affecting Your Company?
- Frankhorton Associates LLC: Guidance for Managers & Supervisors - When and How Do I Refer to the EAP?
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Guests will be treated to three different chili recipes prepared by celebrity chef Tony Schlarb at the Arts Council of Henderson County's second annual "Chili-in Out by the Lake" fall fundraiser on the shores of Highland Lake on Oct. 25.
The event, from 4 to 7 p.m., will unfold in a scenic autumn setting outside the rustic Lake House Lodge and Spa beside the lake.
Schlarb, whose vibrant sense of humor is an entertaining ingredient to his popular cooking presentations, will serve three recipes: White Bean Chicken Chili, Beef and Pork Chili, and Black Bean Veggie Chili. A salsa bar will be provided by the local Mexican restaurant Papas and Beer. Corn bread and dessert round out the menu and a cash bar will be available with wine, beer and sodas.
Raffle items available at Chili-In Out by the Lake include a necklace and earrings set, with imbedded pure silver, created by artist David Lookingbill of the Revolving Arts Gallery. Other raffle items include golf packages at Hendersonville Country Club and Kenmure Country Club, an original photograph by artist Walter Arnold, and restaurant packages. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the event.
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cafe eijlders and its origins
i've been going to cafe eijlders more often lately.
so what is it about that place anyway?
i know that john (johan) eijlders was born in 1899 and grew up in de pijp. but i can't find much biographical info about him online. i need to go hunt down his autobiography from 1971. he is mentioned a few times in "de borrel is schaarsch en kaal geworden", a book about cafe life during the war.
in 1940 eijlders was a board member of a union for workers in the hospitality business (waiters and bartenders etc). but early during the nazi occupation he was being driven out of that position. i'm not entirely clear why, but it seems to be due to policy disputes and personality conflicts with the national socialists. for one thing, he opposed hanging signs in cafes saying "voor joden verboden" (forbidden for jews), at least until such was required by law. some writers simply refer to eijlders as a "communist".
anyway, early in 1941 he left the union and started his own cafe just off leidseplein, at korte leidsedwarsstraat 47. it would be interesting to know what was there at that address before eijlders came. i'm always curious about that kind of stuff.
during the nazi occupation, artists were obliged to register with the official "chamber of culture", which basically made sure that only acceptable artists were visible. eijlders responded to this by encouraging artists to exhibit in his cafe. this still goes on, there's a new showing every month i think. they have an interesting way to hang artwork. there's a long track with movable eyehooks at the top of each wall, so that the hangers can slide left and right to accomodate different pieces at different times without constantly having to add nails in the wall.
cafe eijlders got a reputation as being kind of an anti-nazi hangout. in 1943 the "no jews" sign was required by law, so eijlders complied by hanging the sign on a suction cup above the heater. that way it would accidentally fall down behind the kachel and nobody was the wiser.
apparently some resistance actions were organized out of there as well. eijlders himself spent some time in prison when the authorities found weapons hidden in the cafe (under the benches?).
during and long after the war, the cafe was popular with writers and poets. i guess it still is. and sometimes i see certain really old men wandering about the place looking bit dazed. they must be poets from the 1950s stranded in a time warp. nowadays eijlders still holds a poetry afternoon every third sunday of the month, but i haven't been to one of those yet. on some wednesday evenings there's a little jazz ensemble playing in the front.
in 1952 john eijlders and his wife got out of the business and went to start a hotel in provence. there's been a whole chain of different owners since then, the latest starting last year. but somehow they don't seem to have ruined the spirit of the place. it's elegant but not oppressively so. still has kind of an artist-friendly vibe. and to me it still looks like a bar from 1941.
one thing that appeals to me is that after the rookverbod, eijlders glassed over their teras area and turned it into a smoking zoo. so people are still allowed to smoke there in the front by the street. i say "zoo" because when you sit in there, it feels like a mini habitat glassed in so observers can watch you from two sides. and vice versa. but most of the people i go there with are nonsmokers, so i usually smoke outside in the street.
next door to eijlders there's an indian restaurant, whose doorman is from bulgaria and his name is maxim. i get talking to him sometimes while i'm having a sjekkie. he met marina and micky once and thinks they are bad girls. apparently the indian restaurant used to be a russian one; on the side of the entryway there's still russian signage that nobody bothered to remove yet. maybe i'll try having dinner there sometime.


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Former Derry football captain Kevin McCloy is being treated in hospital after collapsing during a club game last night.
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Local rock bands come and go, but rock 'n' roll is here to stay.
With the hope of filling a niche that is currently unaddressed in the local music scene, Inch Of Dark will make its local debut Friday night at Finnegan's Wake in Avon.
The new group has inspirations ranging from the classic rockers of the '70s to the hair bands of the '80s up through the grunge movement of the '90s. They promote a modern sound while maintaining the spirit of bands like The Who, Metallica and Tool.
It's hard rock, not to be confused with the band member's two previous heavy metal projects, Aztec Benjamin and 2012. The group is comprised of Jerome Chawlek on vocals and guitar, Chad MacKenzie on guitar, Garret Parvin on bass and Ryan Horn on drums.
"None of us are really metal heads," Parvin said. "A lot of time with metal, it's more double-kick bass, fast, heart-pounding, heavier screaming, whereas a hard rock band is more of a groove song; the vocals are much more mellow with a sweeping guitar sound."
Inch Of Dark's well-oiled sound is complex, with skillful, precise instrumentation and the adrenaline-infused authenticity of a proper hard rock show.
"It's been a natural fit for us," Chawlek said. "Compared to my experience in 2012 and their experience in Aztec Benjamin, this group is a more cohesive unit - we're really on the same page."
Rock with a modern flair
Having written a solid catalog of original songs - at least a full show's worth - Inch Of Dark goes well beyond the generic repertoire of hard rock cover band. The group formed in May 2010 and tonight is the band member's second show. They wanted to have enough time to sufficiently compose music and dial it in for a live performance.
"We're not here to regurgitate (stuff) from the past. It's good old fashioned rock 'n' roll with a modern flair," Chawlek said. "It resembles the sound of the bikes we ride."
In addition to being a rock band, Inch Of Dark is also a local motorcycle club that organizes group rides. Anyone can join in, they say, whether you ride a Harley, a crotch rocket or a tractor.
The name Inch Of Dark comes from something that's not evil, but something that not quite right within everybody - the inch of dark in everyone's soul, Mackenzie said.
The band member's have lofty goals and high expectations. They plan on playing more shows, getting into the studio to record an album, and would like to tour regionally and nationally. Ultimately they'd like to quit their day jobs and make playing music into a career.
But first and foremost, they're here to bring hard rock back to the valley.
"With all the transient people in this town, you get people from everywhere," Parvin said. "The hip-hop and jam bands are here too, but there are people with some attitude that want to go have some fun. It's here. It's out there."
They'll be opening for Guttermouth at Sandbar on Feb. 25, and they headline tonight's show in Avon.


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