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Apex Park: Pick 'n Sledge trail plus Grubstake LoopMany paths in the area but I chose this because it ascends to the top, has lots of variety, and offers some fantastic vistas. If snow has recently melted then be aware that the north side can be very icy and dangerous. All in all, it's a great way to get exercise while getting great view of Denver.
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John Vicars is talking when his computer screen causes distraction. "Oh, it's just come through there with regards to the game tomorrow with Birmingham City," he says.
The timing is good. Vicars, the operations director at Derby County, is talking about direct ticket pricing, when the direct ticket pricing system effectively starts talking to him.
Buying a ticket for a Derby County game, you see, is not like buying a ticket for the vast majority of football clubs in this country. It's actually more like buying a flight, or a ticket to the theatre.
If you leave it late, you're taking a gamble, especially for the big games. At Pride Park, you could have bought a single ticket for the final game of the season against Millwall before a ball had been kicked in August. That is not the norm.
Traditionally, a football fan can buy a season ticket or do it game-by-game. In recent years the half-season ticket has increased in popularity.
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"Eighteen months or so ago we saw the effects of the economy on attendances, not just at pride Park but across the board," he adds. "We did a couple of experiments where we lowered drastically the price of tickets down to around £10 and we saw a tremendous pick up in sales. From that we got the view that in an ever challenging economy, there was a price point people were prepared to pay and one they weren't.
"We wanted the flexibility to alter prices for every game, but not upset the season-ticket holders who pay for they tickets in advance. I went to the States and spoke to the San Francisco Giants, who were the first sports team in the world who took the Digonex dynamic pricing model. It had been used in airlines and hotels for years. They brought Digonex's software into baseball. I spent time there and in Minnesota with the basketball team.
"It really appealed to me, in the laws of supply and demand, the ticket price fluctuates. Secondly, you inform the season-ticket holder not to think about their season ticket as dividing it by 23. We have categorised the games for years, gold and silver or whatever, so we explained all 23 games were not priced the same to start with. The pledge we made was we would never sell a ticket lower than you paid for it.
"The Tuesday night games struggle to sell to a Saturday attendance level. Most people with season-ticket packages realised they're reasonably cheap. The season-ticket holder is paying around seven or eight pounds for that seat. That gives us the ability to start prices at nine or 10 pounds.
"At Derby we put all our tickets on sale at the beginning of the season. If you want to get a cheap return ticket to Malaga, when the prices come out and you get in early they are usually cheap. If you leave it until the day before you're probably going to pay top dollar. That is the system."
The Football League has given Derby dispensation to let them trial the Digonex system (usually you can only alter the prices for four games per season) and they pay the American company an annual fee for their software.
Cardiff have followed. Bristol City are considering it. Two Premiership rugby clubs are about to use it and big European clubs, for whom the model will be better suited (last minute pricing for a big game will go up) are keen to use it. The model is used increasingly through American sport. Significantly, none who have trialled it have gone back to the old fashioned model of how to sell tickets for sports events.
"People always ask about the weather," Vicars says. "We are taking into account all factors. If we got three or four inches of snow and it was pretty unpleasant, with this system, we have the ability to adjust ticket prices downwards. I know what the local market will and won't stand.
"The system reports to us on a daily basis and recommends increases or decreases. I can override that. If it comes up at 75 quid for the Nottingham Forest game, I can override that!"
Derby are 13th in the Championship. Their average attendance is the third best in the division, but then it was last season. Impressively, no attendance has dropped beneath 20,000 for a league game this season. They expect to top 22,000 tomorrow teatime for the visit of Birmingham City.
"Birmingham on Saturday, for a televised game (that knocks attendance) in our category E, tickets are currently £16 for adults and £4 for under-18s," adds Vicars.
Twenty pounds for a dad and his son to watch a Championship derby? Sounds reasonable, but you had better be quick, it might change.
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DOL Announces It Will Not Enforce New Regulations Regarding FLSA Rights of Home Health Workers for First 6 Months of 2015
The Department of Labor's (Department) October 1, 2013, Final Rule amending regulations regarding domestic service employment, which extends the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime protections to most home care workers will become effective on January 1, 2015. However, by an announcement dated October 6, 2014, the DOL advised that it will not be enforcing the regulations for the first 6 months that the regulations are in effect.
Critically important, while the DOL will not be bringing enforcement actions—as it is able to do under the FLSA—this announcement does not effect home health workers' rights to bring private enforcement actions themselves through private lawsuits.
In a thoughtful commentary regarding the importance of the new regulation, issued on his blog on the day of the DOL's recent announcement, former Deputy Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Seth Harris, has this to say:
Home health workers are the people who care for people with disabilities and seniors so that they may live in the community rather than in nursing homes or other institutions. Their work is essential. They allow each of us to rest assured that we will be able to live in dignity in our homes if age, happenstance, or genetics result in physical, mental, or developmental disabilities. Yet, these workers have not been protected by the federal minimum wage or the requirement that workers who work more than 40 hours in a week receive overtime pay for those additional hours. These requirements are found in the Fair Labor Standards Act. Home health workers have been excluded from the FLSA. On January 1, that exclusion ends. Home health workers will be entitled to at least the federal minimum wage and time-and-one-half for overtime worked beginning New Year's Day.
While Harris went further to explain that he thought that the new regulations would likely lack teeth, in light of this delayed enforcement policy—given the relatively small sums of money individuals stand to lose from unscrupulous employers who ignore the new regulation—that may not turn out to be accurate. While many smaller home health agencies will likely feel free to skirt the new regulation, at least initially, most of the larger national home health agencies have already put the wheels in motion to make the necessary changes to comply with the new law about to go into effect. However, if you are a home health worker, who is still being denied your rightful minimum wages and/or overtime pay, after the new law goes into effect on January 1, 2015, you should contact a wage and hour lawyer to investigate whether you have a claim to recover your rightful wages.
Click DOL Announcement to read the official announcement, and Harris Blog to read Seth Harris' commentary on this issue.
Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act Would Amend the FLSA to Include Basic Labor Protections for Home Care Workers
The Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act [S. 1273/H.R. 2341] – a bill that would help create a more stable, valued direct care workforce was introduced on 6/23/2011, by Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and Sen. Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA). Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) were also original co-sponsors of the Senate bill. The House bill had twenty-one original co-sponsors. This legislation takes major steps towards ensuring the health, autonomy and well-being of more than 13 million Americans with long-term care needs today and an estimated 27 million by 2050.
The Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to include basic labor protections for home care workers. Currently, FLSA covers domestic service workers and most direct care workers in institutional settings such as nursing homes; however, the law continues to exclude home care workers from basic minimum wage and overtime protections.
In addition to extending wage and overtime protections for home care workers, The Direct Care Job Quality Improvement Act would:
- Establish data collection and reporting requirements to monitor important workforce indicators such as size, compensation levels, turnover rates and vacancies.
- Improve the recruitment and retention of direct care workers by providing grants to states to expand and support efforts aimed at recruiting, training and retaining an adequate supply of direct care workers.
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DOL Debars Seattle-Based Federal Contractor for Violating Minimum Wage, Overtime and Record-Keeping Laws
The U.S. Department of Labor has debarred HWA Inc., President John Wood and Vice President Barbara Wood from future government contracts for three years, due to significant and repeated violations of the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act and the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. Seattle-based HWA provided security services as a contractor to various federal facilities, government offices and public works projects in the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Missouri and New York.
"The Labor Department will not allow federal contractors to misuse public funds and exploit hardworking laborers by denying their rightful wages," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. "Debarring violators such as HWA from future contracts ensures a level playing field, so that honest companies are not placed at a competitive disadvantage for playing by the rules, and paying their workers full and fair prevailing wages."
According to a DOL press release:
"Most recently, in 2009, the company defaulted on seven federal contracts and failed to meet its payroll obligations, resulting in nearly $1 million in unpaid wages for 206 employees. The division ordered an emergency withholding of funds on several of the company's federal contracts and secured the full payment of these wages. All SCA contracts held by the HWA were terminated shortly thereafter."
The Service Contract Act (SCA) contract clauses, present in all Federal contracts, require contractors and subcontractors performing services under prime contracts in excess of $2,500 to pay service employees in various classes no less than the wage rates and fringe benefits found prevailing in the locality, or the rates contained in a predecessor contractor's collective bargaining agreement, including prospective increases. The Labor Department issues SCA wage determinations for contracting agencies to incorporate into covered contracts, along with the required contract clauses. The fringe benefit requirements — usually vacation and holidays, known as "health and welfare" benefits — are separate and in addition to the hourly monetary wage requirement under the SCA. In addition, employers with prime contracts in excess of $100,000 under the CWHSSA must pay workers at least one and one-half times their regular rates of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a week.
Although violations of the primary federal wage and hour law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), may be pursued by aggrieved employees in private lawsuits, alleged violations of the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act and the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, may only be pursued by the DOL. Largely due to the fact that under the prior republican leadership, the employer-friendly DOL pursued very few of these cases, such violations are commonplace on Federal worksites, despite the various laws prohibiting them. Hopefully, as the current DOL pursues these cases more frequently, workers will once again be assured of the protections of the laws that are on the books.
Florida Sued For Failing To Raise Minimum Wage, In Accordance With The Florida Constitution, Miami Herald Reports
The Miami Herald reports that:
"Two legal groups sued Florida's labor agency Monday, claiming the state failed to raise the state's minimum wage by six cents per hour this year to keep up with inflation.
The lawsuit claimed the Agency for Workforce Innovation violated the Florida Constitution by keeping it at the $7.25 federal rate, where it was last year, instead of raising it to $7.31 on Jan. 1.
About 188,000 minimum wage workers could be effected. At stake is up to $128 this year for a full-time employee working a 40-hour week. If all those the minimum-wage employees worked 40-hour weeks the extra six cents would add up to $15 million."
Go to the Miami Herald to read the entire story.
New Study Dispells The Fallacy That The Minimum Wage Is Bad For Workers, NY Times Reports
In what has turned into a hot-button issue in this year's election cycle, the NY Times discusses the myth, often profferred by conservatives, that the minimum wage hurts workers.
The Times reports that:
"An important new study exploiting this opportunity will appear this month in The Review of Economics and Statistics. The economists Arindrajit Dube of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, T. William Lester of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Michael Reich of the University of California, Berkeley, closely analyze employment trends for several categories of low-wage workers over a 16-year period in all counties sharing a common border with a county in another state where minimum wage increases followed a different trajectory.
They report that increases in minimum wages had no negative effects on low-wage employment and successfully increased the income of workers in food services and retail employment, as well as the narrower category of workers in restaurants.
The study successfully addresses a number of criticisms previously leveled at the case-study approach and points to flaws in all previous studies that have found negative employment effects.
The level of technical discussion is daunting, but if you don't want to grapple with concepts like "spatially correlated fictitious placebo minimum wages" you can watch a video instead — Arindrajit Dube clearly explains the issues in a 12-minute interview. He emphasizes that higher minimum wages tend to reduce worker turnover, benefiting both workers and employers."
Go to the New York Times website to read the entire article.
Pennsylvania Laborers Like New Law That Defines "Employees," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reports
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a new law defining who is an employee (versue independent contractor) is being greated enthusiastically by Pennsylvania workers:
"Union laborers are claiming victory now that Gov. Ed Rendell has signed a law aimed at curtailing construction companies' ability to skirt taxes — and cut its own costs and liability — by labeling its workers independent contractors.
By classifying their workers as "independent contractors" instead of employees, companies can avoid paying unemployment compensation and workers' compensation taxes.
Avoiding those taxes, according to labor groups, reduces employer costs and allows such companies to underbid contracting companies that are following the letter of the law.
The new law — formerly House Bill 400 and now Act 72 — is called the Construction Workplace Misclassification Act. Contracting companies that violate the act could be subject to fines and criminal prosecution. There's also an "acting in concert" provision, which would penalize anyone who knowingly hires a contractor that is in violation of the act.
"It really will start to separate responsible contractors from irresponsible contractors," said Jason Fincke, executive director of the Builders Guild of Western Pennsylvania, a labor management and contractor association group.
The point of the law isn't to eliminate the use of independent contractors in the construction industry, he said.
"If there's a service that you need that you don't normally provide, you would get someone to do that for you," Mr. Fincke said. "That's a legitimate independent contractor."
The law applies to the construction field only, to the regret of the Teamsters, who had hoped the law would be expanded to include truck drivers (and other kinds of workers) as well. The Teamsters have been fighting with Moon-based FedEx Ground, which classifies its drivers independent contractors. FedEx says its drivers are "small business owners" because they own their own equipment."
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"Oregon's minimum wage will rise to $8.50 per hour on Jan. 1, State Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian said Monday.
The 10-cent increase mirrors a 1.15 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index since August 2009. Oregon's minimum wage rate has been $8.40 per hour since January 2009.
Washington, where the minimum wage is currently $8.55 per hour, will announce its adjustment on Sept. 30."
According to the story, "Ballot Measure 25, enacted by Oregon voters in 2002, requires a minimum wage adjustment annually based on changes in inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index. The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries is directed to adjust the minimum wage for inflation every September, rounded to the nearest five cents."
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"Two Boca Raton business owners accused of pressing Filipino workers into slavery pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced today.
Sophia Manuel, 41, and Alfonso Baldonado Jr., 45, owners of Quality Staffing Services Corporation, pleaded guilty to conspiring to hold 39 Filipino nationals in compelled service at country clubs and hotels in South Florida, a Justice Department news release stated. A sentencing date is pending.
Manuel also pleaded guilty to making false statements to the U.S. Department of Labor in an application to obtain foreign labor certifications and visas, the release stated.
Manuel and Baldonado pressed the Filipino nationals into work for little or no pay, forced them to sleep on kitchen and garage floors, fed them rotten vegetables and chicken innards, and threatened to have them deported, according to court documents."
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CareGroup, Staffers Settle Pay Lawsuit For Up to $8.5 Million, Boston Globe Reports
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"Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and other CareGroup Inc. affiliates have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit against the hospital chain that alleges workers were not paid for working through lunch breaks or beyond their scheduled shifts. The settlement, if given court approval, will cover as many as 9,000 current and former CareGroup employees.
CareGroup Inc. and its affiliates — Beth Israel, Beth Israel Deaconess-Needham, Mount Auburn Hospital, and New England Baptist Hospital — will pay up to $8.5 million. The settlement will include payments to cover back wages. CareGroup and its affiliates deny any wrongdoing."
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Poliomyelitis antibodies in sera from the Netherlands, Curaçao, Suriname, St. Eustatius and Netherlands New-Guinea
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Poliomyelitis antibodies were determined in 4155 sera from the Netherlands, Curaçao, Suriname, St. Eustatius and New-Guinea.
The results showed that in the Netherlands the serological pattern for poliomyelitis was different from that in the tropical areas Curaçao, Suriname, St. Eustatius and New-Guinea, which points to infection with poliomyelitis virus at an earlier age in these latter parts of the world.
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A child is classed as ages 3-14yrs. 2 years and under (Under 3s) are free of charge. 15 years and older is classed an adult.
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Anzac Day (Monday 25th of April) Trading will be as follows: 1.30pm to 5pm (last entry 4pm)
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There are 6 designated accessible parking spaces available for your use. Our car park is council owned and maintained and services other businesses as well. Please be aware that availability may be restricted in peak times.
The aquarium is wheelchair accessible throughout the attraction. There are ramps connecting each level so care should always be taken. There is a medical assistance button at the bottom of the ramps if required.
Wheelchairs may be borrowed from the admissions area if required. Please note that wheelchairs are on a first come, first served basis, and cannot be booked or reserved ahead of time.
You will be required to leave your ID behind while you use the wheelchair.
If you would prefer your visit to be less crowded and loud, we recommend you visit during the week (outside of school holidays), or any day after 1pm. With the attraction being open until 5pm this allow you plenty of time to enjoy the full benefits the attraction has to offer.
For your information, there will be varying levels of lighting and music throughout the attraction to enhance the visit - please be prepared if this is a concern.
There are accessible toilets available for your convenience which are located on the first level in between the male and female bathrooms.
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There are changing facilities located in both the ladies bathroom and the accessible bathroom.
Bench seating (without back or armrests) is available at intervals throughout the aquarium.
Emergency Exits
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More than a quarter of a million children are being taught in schools which failed to meet the Government's minimum GCSE targets this year, according to newly-published official figures.
Exam results for England's secondary schools revealed that 312 schools had fewer than 40 per cent of pupils achieving five good GCSE passes, including English and maths. A further 17 schools failed a new performance measure, due to be introduced this summer.
This figure is almost identical to last year's, when 330 schools failed to meet the target, but is more than twice the number in 2013 when only 154 fell short.
The dramatic rise follows a Government clamp down which aimed to prevent schools "gaming" the system by entering pupils for multiple resits until they achieved the C grade required for the target.
Schools that are judged to be underperforming face intervention, such as being turned into an academy or given a new sponsor. Three free schools – a key element of Conservative education reforms – failed to meet the target this year.
A total of 188 underperforming schools were academies, while 50 are council-run, 45 are foundation schools, 14 are voluntary-aided and the others include university technical colleges, studio schools and further education colleges for to 14- to 16-year-olds.
In total, 250,955 youngsters are being taught in underperforming state secondaries – around 7.3 per cent of secondary pupils, the data reveals. This is down from last year, when the figure was 274,351.
There was also a marked difference between the performance of disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier classmates, with just 36.7 per cent of poorer pupils getting five good GCSEs including maths and English, compared to 64.7 per cent of wealthier students.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Union of Head Teachers, said: "There has been so much change that the national statistics generated by the Government are increasingly dubious."
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The 29-year-old, who lost the battle for the £100,000 job to Michelle Dewberry, 27, in the second series, described this year's contestants as a "weird bunch".
Badger launched an attack on current Essex boy contestant Tre Azam, 27, saying she would "crush him" and "smack him" if he worked with her.
The former Apprentice star told New! magazine: "I hate watching myself on television.
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She said of the contestants on this year's third series: "They're a weird bunch.
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The former Apprentice star, who has landed a Sky One series Badger or Bust, said Sir Alan Sugar told her he was excluding her when he criticised the calibre of last year's intake.
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I have been taking Allegra- D for years now. I suffer from chronic Sinusitis and have done so for several years now. The sinus infections almost lasts all year long. My first sinus...Read complete review
I have been taking Allegra- D for years now. I suffer from chronic Sinusitis and have done so for several years now. The sinus infections almost lasts all year long. My first sinus infection of the year usually hits me around late December or January. After that I usually have them off and on until summer.I have been treated with antibiotics and antihistamine and surgery! It seems that after trying many different antihistamines and decongestants the road always leads back to Allegra D. It does very well for me.
Allegra D has both, antihistamine and Decongestant and it works wonders for me. I was very happy to find last week that Allegra D is now **available without a prescription ! **This is a blessing in itself. Allegra D stops runny nose, watery eyes and itchy eyes.It also opens up my nasal passenges so I can breathe again.
My son's ear,nose and throat doctor prescribed it for an ear infection. The doctor said it will dry up fluid in inner ear. It did just that!
I would defenitely recommend Allegra D to anyone who suffers from alergies or sinus infections. Allegra D is a wonderful medication that does exactly what it says it can do.
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I have taken the 24 hour and the 12 hour and I much prefer the 24 hour pill.The 12 hour is an oval caplet with 2 colors. One on the top and one on...Read complete review
I have taken the 24 hour and the 12 hour and I much prefer the 24 hour pill.The 12 hour is an oval caplet with 2 colors. One on the top and one on the bottom. I suppose this is some sort of time release method; however it is VERY hard on my stomach. Typically a portion of the pill never even gets broken down, so I can assume that I am not getting the full effects either.I find that; although it is the decongestant formula, the antihistimine portion takes over and causes me to have very dry nasal passages and throat. It makes my throat audibly dry and scratchy. The advantage is that I do seem to not sneeze as much when I use it. Overall, I will take it when I have nothing else, but I don't find that it offers me any type of amazing result. I'm still looking for that "miracle" drug that will allow me to breathe AND not sneeze!
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This stuff is great! I used to get a prescription for it but you can buy the prescription strength over the counter. This will clear you your sinuses and stop your sneezing. I use it in the spring during the time of high pollen and all of my symptoms clear up, even the red itchy eyes, I would it a 10 but it is expensive and you have to jump through hoops to buy it in Ohio. I definitely notice when I need to take it again but once I take it starts working within 20-30 minutes. It is the fastest acting allergy medicine on the market. It doesn't have the down side some other allergy medicines have, it doesn't dry me out. But you have to be sure to get the Allegra with the decongestant. The regular Allegra doesn't do anything for my allergies. It is like taking a sugar pill. Even though they are more expensive than the regular Allegra and you have to jump through hoops the get them in Ohio they are worth it.
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At one time this was only available by prescription. This one came out for over the counter sales and claims it is the same strength as the prescription. Unlike normal Allegra, this one also helps with nasal congestion and sinus issues. I bought this because I not only have allergies certain times of the year but horrible sinus problems. I liked that it was only one pill taken every twenty four hours and that I did not need a doctor's prescription to buy it. It really did help with my congested nose, sinus pressure, itchy watery eyes, and sinus headaches. It really did not help much with my sore throat or sneezing though. This medicine is labeled as non-drowsy and non-drowsy is what you will get. For the first few hours after taking this I felt like I had just drank ten gallons of coffee at one time. I was shaky, had cold sweats, and felt nauseous. If they could fix that I would take this more often.
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I have really bad allergies when the seasons change and have to start taking an allergy pill again. I ran out of my prescription and the doctor was not able to see me for a few weeks so I had to buy something that was over the counter. I got this because it stated that it lasted the full 24 hours and that was important to me because many other pills I have taken in the past fell short and would only last half the day or so. I started taking them and found that they actually do work pretty well, my allergies were reduced greatly and I was not sniffling and sneezing all day with runny eyes, I felt better. It kept working all throughout my day and I was hopeful that it would last all night, well unfortunately it didn't. I tried to go to sleep and well it all came back, everything hit me again like a ton of bricks and all of my symptoms were back. So in reality this pill only lasted me about 15 hours in total, so far less than the 24, but it does work really well and help reduced your symptoms dramatically.
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A couple summers my allergies have been bad enough that I needed a prescription strength allergy medication instead of over-the-counter medications. My doctor prescribed this Allegra D, and it worked very well for me. Typically my eyes get a bit swollen, bloodshot, and gooey, my nose gets stuffed up, and my throat gets very itchy. But when I have used this Allegra, it has worked very well for me. It is very easy to take, and I have not suffered from any side effects (other than perhaps the occasional extra sleepiness, but not too bad). It doesn't work absolutely immediately, but it does work pretty fast. It helps the itchy throat and itchy eyes quickest, and it practically eliminates those symptoms. It also helps cut down on the runny nose and gooey eyes a great deal, even if it does not eliminate them completely. Overall, I would recommend this Allegra for someone who suffers from bad allergies.
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I had always seen commercials for this medication advertising how great their product was. I decided to try it this year since my allergies have been out of control. They are definitely telling the truth in their commercials. This medicine worked wonders for me. My allergies have been out of control this year. This medicine truly has worked to stop my itching eyes and runny nose. I am a teacher so I am outside at recess almost every day. I have started taking one of these daily and it has really helped me feel much better. My eyes are not itching as much and my nose has stopped running for the most part. The medicine is a little expensive. However, the quality is great. It is absolutely worth the money. I would highly recommend this product to anyone struggling with allergies. I plan to continue and use it all summer. It will help you be able to enjoy being outside again without all the horrible allergy symptoms!
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After insurance stopped paying for Allegra-D, I tried using Zyrtec, Claritin, Alavert, Benadryl both OTC and prescription. Of all of the different allergy meds, Allegra-D was the first and the best of all of the meds I tried. It always cleared my nasal congestion and headache. It was given to me initially with an antibiotic for a sinus infection. It works without causing any drowsiness. The only con is that it is expensive but it truly does work well for allergies and sinus problems. If want to take something for sinuses that allows you to be functional, then Allegra is the drug to use.
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I find that allegra is about as effective as all other allergy medicines if you take it when/after you are exposed to the allergen or start exhibiting symptoms. However if you take it an hour or more in advance, I find that when I encounter the allergen I have almost no reaction. I have only so far tested this with my cat and dog allergies, not my seasonal ones. One of the more effective allergy medicines I have tried.
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I used to be on a prescription allergy medicine. They took of the market and said this was the same thing. This does not work as good as the prescription I took. It works good for an over the counter medicine, but it is definitely not as good as the prescription it was supposed to replace. I have allergies year round. This just eases them a little but does not make them go away. I pay as much or more than I did for my prescription, so I am disappointed in the price vs. effectiveness.
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I suffer from sinusitis/allergies. I live in coastal Texas...the two do not mix. I went to so many specialists throughout my youth up until I was 19 (32 now). The major problem I have with sinus problems, is the pressure that builds, it develops into almost sinus migraines which prevent me from doing a lot. I have four kids, 3 dogs, and a disabled husband, so I need to do A LOT. Allegra is the only medication that I've tried, and I've tried a lot, that relieves not only the respiratory part of sinsusitis/allergies, but the pressure problem associated with it. This part of the problem causes headaches, inability to function due to the severity of headaches, nausea a lot of times or just a gagging reflex because there is just so much pressure built up everywhere. I take the 24 hour dose of Allegra-D. One downside is that it usually takes a while to start working once taken. Another downside is that although it clears up sinus problems, it also dries out the sinus cavity. But, drinking a little more water while under its effects will help to even that out. I don't take it every day, but even when I have to take it more often, it doesn't' lose its potency like other sinus medications I know of ...Claritin-D. Overall, best sinus medication I've tried yet...although I won't be trying anymore any time soon either because it works so well.
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I took Allegra D for several years. I have always suffered from congestion. My sinus glands are always sore and feel like they have hot needles sticking them over and over. I was prescribed Allegra D when I was sick with an ear infection. The first days it did give me very bad headaches. After a few days, they subsided and I was fine. It brought me long-lasting relief from my congestion. I could breathe easily and my sinus glands were no longer painful. I did not notice any other side-effects from this medication. I took it with two anti-depressants. The only reason I stopped taking Allegra D was because I lost my insurance and could no longer afford to use it.
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This morning, I saw two articles in the paper about exciting new treatments using stem cells. The first is entitled "Stem cells help dogs with dystrophy". According to the article:
In promising new research, stem cells worked remarkably well at easing symptoms of muscular dystrophy in dogs, an experiment that experts call a significant step toward treating people.
"It's a great breakthrough for all of us working on stem cells for muscular dystrophy," said researcher Johnny Huard of the University of Pittsburgh, who wasn't involved in the work.
The second article is entitled "Scientists grow heart valves from stem cells" talks about using stem cells from amniotic fluid to grow replacement heart valves.
Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb - a revolutionary approach that may be used to repair defective hearts in the future.
The idea is to create these new valves in the lab while the pregnancy progresses and have them ready to implant in a baby with heart defects after birth.
The Swiss experiment follows successes at growing bladders and blood vessels and suggests that people may one day be able to grow their own replacement heart parts - in some cases before they are born. And it is one of several radical tissue engineering advances that could lead to homegrown heart valves for infants and adults that are more durable and effective than artificial or cadaver valves.
"This may open a whole new therapy concept to the treatment of congenital heart defects," said Simon Hoerstrup, a University of Zurich scientist who led the work. It was presented yesterday at an American Heart Association meeting.
Both of these articles are excellent news for people who suffer from either muscular dystrophy or heart valve problems. It says a great deal about the skill, knowledge and dedication of the scientists who are working diligently to try to find new medical treatements for problems that have long plagued humanity. With additional time and effort the stem cell research in these cases may present treatments. But here's what equally important to note: in neither of these articles were embryonic stem cells used in the treatments. In the muscular dystrophy story, the article notes:
The study was published online Wednesday by the journal Nature. It used stem cells taken from the affected dogs or other dogs, rather than from embryos. For human use, the idea of using such "adult" stem cells from humans would avoid the controversial method of destroying human embryos to obtain stem cells.
The heart valve story, meanwhile, reports that the process is done as follows:
Amniotic fluid was obtained through a needle inserted into the womb during amniocentesis, a common prenatal test.
Fetal stem cells were isolated from the fluid, cultured in a lab dish, then placed on a mold shaped like a small pen and made of biodegradable plastic. It took only four to six weeks to grow each of the 12 valves created in the experiment.
Fetal stem cells from amniotic fluid are not embryonic stem cells, and no human being is killed in the process of the treatment. According to an article about this type of research in ScienceDaily from 2003 entitled Scientists Find Potential Stem Cells In Amniotic Fluid A New Source?
Research by Austrian geneticists has raised the possibility that stem cells[1] could be isolated from amniotic fluid the protective 'bath water' that surrounds the unborn baby.
Geneticist Professor Markus Hengstschläger and his team at the University of Vienna have isolated a subgroup of cells from amniotic fluid that express a protein called Oct-4 known to be a key marker for human pluripotent stem cells.
Reporting the findings today (Monday 30 June) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[2], Professor Hengstschläger stressed that the investigation was at an early stage. A lot more work had to be done to verify the finding, and tests were now under way to establish in which direction the cells could be differentiated. However, preliminary experiments have already provided evidence that they can be differentiated into nerve cells.
If, after extensive research these stem cells do prove to have similar potential to embryonic stem cells, ultimately it could reduce the need to use human embryos as a source, thus easing the tensions in this ethically controversial area.
Thus, once again treatments are being developed that seem to circumvent the need to use embryonic stem cells. The muscular dystrophy treatment seems to strongly suggest that the adult stem cells would serve the same purpose as embryonic stem cells are hoped to serve in this area. The heart valve treatment seems to show that one of the proposed alternatives to the use of embryonic stem cells, fetal stem cells extracted from amniotic fluid, will serve the role that embryonic stem cells were slated by the press to play.
In fact, as I have noted before, there are three things that need to be kept in mind about stem cell research whenever this issue is discussed.
1. As far as I know, no one has a problem with stem cell research in general. It's only embryonic stem cell research that is ethically problematic. Stem cell research using adult stem cells, fetal stem cells from amniotic fluid or one of the other alternative sources of stem cells are largely seen as completely unobjectionable.
2. Embryonic stem cell research, at minimum, offers ethical challenges. If the opponents of embryonic stem cell research (of which I am one) are correct, the only way to get the embryonic stem cells is to kill a human being. Sure, the human being is only in its embryonic stage of development, but it is scientifically and ontologically speaking a human being. Thus, it seems that if other alternatives can be developed, they should, at minimum, be explored fully before undertaking this type of research which every fair-minded individual should recognize causes serious ethical concerns in the eyes of many people.
3. While the research into embryonic stem cells is admittedly in its infancy, there have been absolutely no treatments developed using embryonic stem cells. Moreover, such treatments are years away with no promise of every actually arising. I recall that my fellow blogger, Layman, once analogized the search for cures with embryonic stem cells to the search for the fountain of youth, and he was right. Meanwhile, many treatments using stem cells from non-embryonic sources that serve the same function that embryonic stem cells are hoped to provide are popping up every few weeks. Thus, as research develops it appears more and more like embryonic stem cell treatments are phantoms while the real progress can be found in the non-controversial research into adult stem cells and embryonic stem cell alternatives.
So, I have to ask: what is the obsession with embryonic stem cells? Why are we pushing so hard to put money into this single line of morally questionable research? I don't know, but I have a couple of suspicions.
First, when I was in college, one of my professors told me that when you are talking politics to always follow the money. So, who is receiving the lion's share of the billions of dollars being funneled into embryonic stem cell research? Well, in California, the people behind Proposition 71 where the people voted to fund this type of research were apparently the people who most benefited. According to Rich Deem at in an essay entitled "Arguments Against Proposition 71: The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative" at the excellent Evidence for God from Science website (footnotes omitted):
Individuals and special interest groups (from real estate and biotechnology companies) that stand to gain financially from Proposition 71 have contributed large sums of cash to the campaign. Robert Klein, president of real-estate development company Klein Financial, has since donated more than $1,000,000. Joseph Lacob, John Doerr, Joe Lacob and Brook Byers, partners with the firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (which funds several healthcare and biotech-related companies), contributed $500,000, $974,649, $500,017 and $460,000, respectively. William Unger of Mayfield Venture Capital (which also funds biotech companies) contributed $50,000, according to campaign finance records. George Rathmann, co-founder of Amgen and is now chairman of biotechnology company Nuvelo, has contributed $50,000. William Rutter, co-founder and chairman of Chiron, contributed $50,000. Another biotechnology executive, Gilead Science vice president James Rooney, has contributed $10,000.
Unbelievably, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative provides up to 300 million dollars for real estate development and facilities construction. In, fact "four real estate specialists" are called for in the initiative. This provision is virtually unheard of in funding of medical research grants. Established investigators already have research laboratories. These facilities are provided by the institution (usually provided by a university or biotech company). In the case of universities, these buildings are usually funded through donations. Therefore, any scientist worthy of funding for medical research already has a research lab. This provision of the initiative will probably be lining somebody's pockets, instead of funding medical research.
Second, I have to believe that the pro-abortion crowd has some hand in this somewhere. After all, the same arguments are being made that embryos are not human beings and their sacrifice is no big deal in both the abortion and embryonic stem cell arenas. If the proponents of embryonic stem cell research are able to convince the people to back this research, abortion-rights advocates can piggy-back on their victories to argue that the people don't see embryos as human beings worthy of protection. Certainly, the two are often tied together in discussions, and it seems pretty obvious that the loosening of restrictions on either are done only where people see the embryo as less than human.
Are there other reasons for this obsession that I'm missing?
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