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Staff Report - Feb 15, 2007
National Signing Day for high school athletes was held on Feb. 7 at the St. Charles Parish School Board offices in Luling and was attended by family, friends, school administrators, coaches and central office workers.
Felicia Gomez, assistant superintendent of secondary schools, addressed the athletes with a special message.
Hahnville High Schools Jordan Stephany made his choice Tulane Univeristy in New Orleans, and Destrehan High Schools Josh Victorian signed with Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
Congratulations, guys. We know well be hearing great things about you. - Heather R. Breaux
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There's a new show coming to Lifetime called Born In The Wild that chronicles pregnant women who have chosen to give birth outdoors, completely unassisted. No hospital or birthing center, no doctor, no nurse, no midwife. Just a lady having a baby in the woods.
Ok, listen...to each his own. If this is what you want to do, more power to ya. But we live in a day and age where we have access to incredible medical knowledge and technology. Why would you choose to put yourself and your baby at risk by giving birth in the woods? Plenty of couples choose not to have their babies in a hospital, but most at least hire a midwife to assist in the process.
And then there's the question of who is actually going to watch this?!? And where are the mothers that are signing up to participate? This is nuts. Check out a clip at the link below (it's NSFW-ish because of the mature content).


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SUMMERSIDE – A Prince County farmer and a company were ordered Tuesday to pay fines for breaching the province's Crop Rotation Act.
Avard Robert Smallman, 61, of O'Leary, was found guilty of one charge under the act and Urbainville Farms Ltd. of Wellington, also facing one charge, changed its plea to guilty.
Both parties had been charged with planting a regulated crop in the same field more than once in a three-year period. The act requires regulated crops to be planted on a three-year rotation in order to prevent soil degradation.
Smallman, who was originally charged in May of 2013, was ordered to pay a fine of $15,180, while Urbainville, charged in July of the same year, must pay $12,600 in fines.
Initially, Smallman fought his charge using a Charter of Rights application, claiming that Section 7.2 of the Act infringed on his rights because of "grammatical errors" and that it is "ambiguous, which makes it unconstitutionally vague or overly broad."
That application was dismissed in December of 2013 and his trial went ahead in January.
A third party, Sweet Farms Inc., which is also facing the same charge, was set over until April 15 for sentencing.
Charges under the Crop Rotation Act are relatively rare.
Wade MacKinnon, head of enforcement for the Department of Environment, Labour and Justice, said that his section does not have the resources to ensure complete compliance. However, if a complaint is issued or if there's an environmental emergency, the department will investigate and has the option to lay charges or issue warnings.
MacKinnon also noted that he's observed more awareness regarding the Act and environmental protection in general over the last couple of years.
"There's been a big uptake in management plans, compliance and working within the legislation," he said.
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Sweet summer dress for little girls. No zippers or buttons, just pull over the head.
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Jul 15, 2017, 05.51 PMby crisdi
HOW MUCH fabric is required for the skirt? No one knows, or no one wants to tell? Minimal information, I guess that is why this is a free pattern. Those of you who have made this dress, would you be so kind and please let the rest of us know?
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Jul 16, 2017, 05.09 AMby crisdi
Here are my answers to my own questions and some questions that others have asked. I am making the smallest size for my 2 year old granddaughter.
I decided on 1/4" seam allowance since it is mentioned on two pages (8 and 10), but not on the first page where you are starting to sew.
I measured the width of a pillow case, to get some idea of the width, almost 20" or 40" doubled. I would use a full width of fabric 44". However, I am using a Liberty of London cotton, which is only 36" wide, so I am using two widths of that. Since she is tall for her age, I will be making the skirt at least 14" with 3" extra for the hem. That way I can let it down if needed.
One more thing that isn't mentioned except by commenter efratn, make sure you clip the seams, but just half way, at the curved areas. Makes it much easier to turn and press.
Jul 10, 2017, 06.13 PMby KPerkins
I have the bodice completed but I need help with the skirt. I'm not using a pillow case like pictured in the instructions. I'm just using fabric. I'm not sure where to go from here can someone help me please. I'm making this dress for my daughter and I was hoping to finish today but that probably won't happen now. :(
Jun 22, 2017, 03.32 PMby beaglt6
Thank you so much for this simple pattern! I have made about 12 of these dresses total for my twin girls. I added ruffles, sash and hook closure for the back. I just love this dress!!
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Jul 10, 2017, 06.06 PMby KPerkins
Do you also use a pillow case or how do you do the skirt? I'm in the middle of making this dress and I have no idea where to go from here. I have the bodice completed and was getting ready to start on the skirt but I have no pattern.
Apr 27, 2017, 09.27 PMby RuthinFrance
HI, could anyone please tell me what size to cut the skirt material please? I want to make a dress for a 2 year old. Thank you! Ruth
Apr 10, 2017, 02.33 AMby rosrut
The instructions include the length for the skirt, but not the width. What should the width be? (I'm making a size 2T).
Feb 14, 2016, 11.46 PMby bbush
Does anyone know if the sizes are true to RTW? I can't find a size chart. Also, what is the seam allowance?
May 29, 2015, 11.25 AMby Glyn Edge
I can't seem to print the pattern pieces, it comes up as one page with just a bodice piece on. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Have got the step-by-step instructions ok. Thanks x
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Jun 6, 2015, 03.51 AMby Nancy Walton
That's all there is to the pattern — you measure out the skirt separately. :)
Mar 11, 2015, 03.37 PMby dancinmomma
I didn't know what the seam allowance was either. I used a 1/4 in. for the 4T size. I think I will use a 1/2 in. next time. It pulls on fine, but the neck and armholes are slightly too big. She'll have to wear a T-shirt under. I hope that by doing a 1/2 in. it'll still be easily pulled over and have a better fit. If I size down to a 3T I'm afraid it will be too small.
Jun 2, 2014, 04.54 AMby teachged
Does the pattern include seam allowances or must the be added to the drawing?
Jul 1, 2013, 12.00 PMby Jeanette Lundström
What type of fabric have you used? Would a woven cotton work or does it have to be stretchy since there is no zipper? Thanks!
Aug 6, 2011, 01.02 AMby MyScrapbookStudio
This looks so cute. Bummer that my daughter is a 7/8 now :( Thank you for sharing though! :)
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Jun 15, 2011, 03.56 PMby Laura Seale
I've made 4 full size dresses, I'm about to make a practice one for a rag doll I've made so that I can make another matching one to go with the dress I made for my friends little girl- I altered it to have a front and a back and cut it out larger to try and embroider on it, forgot so had to make another one, now she has one to grow into, so the dress for the doll will last too! I added sequins to the necklin and around the bottom. I absolutly love the pattern and if you make it longer in fancier material it can be a bridesmaid dress too. Have worked out how to add a net layer on it. Thank you for posting it :)
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Sep 16, 2013, 08.56 PMby Laura Seale
Dolls dress still going strong, dress completely grown out of, even as a top. :-)
Jan 10, 2011, 06.02 AMby efratn
Thank you! I followed your tutorial and created a dress for my little one last night – your instructions are clear and the dress is beautiful! I love the bodice lining, and the fact that no seams are exposed so it is soft against the body. I would just add a small step of clipping the curves after stitching the neckline and the armholes. Thank you!!
Aug 6, 2010, 03.30 PMby reumswicht
I have the same problem like tmcquire and I would love to make this wonderful dress for my niece. If there's a way to get the instructions please help me. Thank you very much!!!
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Sep 25, 2010, 02.44 AMby nessys
Hey Darl – refer to my reply to tmcquire below – click the "Instruction" tab above the photo – hope it works for you! I hope I can sew this for my friend's little girl! It is so sweet! All the best xx
Aug 4, 2010, 11.06 PMby tmcguire
Hi! The link for the instructions to the tutorial is giving me an error message. Is there any way you can send me the directions or point me in the right direction? Thanks!
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Sep 25, 2010, 02.43 AMby nessys
Hey Darl – I just worked this out – what you need to do is NOT click the "Get all Instructions (PDF)" thing under neath the photo – you need to click the "Instructions" tab ABOVE the photo! Hope this works for you Honey and the dress is a hit! I'm going to have a crack at it myself!
Aug 2, 2010, 02.19 AMby suezpetersen
thanks everyone!
Jul 30, 2010, 02.13 PMby feetyjammies
Very cute and so many possibilities.
Jul 29, 2010, 08.02 PMby nehmah
Congratulations on the best tutorial/instruction download I have seen in a very long time. Your steps are easy-to-read; you press the seams (bless you to pieces!); your final garment looks so professional. She looks quite pleased with her new summer frock. Cordially, Nehmah
Jul 29, 2010, 07.22 PMby tmcguire
Love this dress. Your little one's adorable! A perfect model.
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I was just sitting on the ski area in Telluride watching the leaves change today in a drizzly meadow. I love living in the mountains in the fall. There is snow on the ground in the high country and looking west to the desert a blanket of clouds peter out and lead to splitter cracks baking in sunshine. Transitions between seasons are always so dynamic here—you can see from mountaintops to arid sandstone plateaus, summer's orange alpenglow fades into blazing Aspens and ominous grey clouds. I'm glad to slow things down, return to the desert and rope up for a little while, this year has been a fast ride with speedy ascents and a lot of great downhill filled with giggles and whoops.
This time last year, I was gearing up for a trip with friends that challenged me in many ways but brought the team a rewarding lesson that I wanted to share. One that gave me the best winter of my life after that expedition and a lesson that I hope inspires others in how we approach back country avalanche terrain. Leading into ski season, I hope you'll view the Ski the Himalayas Season 3 episodes here over the next 13 weeks and learn a little bit about the culture, terrain and risks that make ski mountaineering so important to us. A trailer is below, I'll be posting each week and I look forward to sharing the adventure!


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'Emily Owens, M.D.' Stars Mamie Gummer, Justin Hartley and Michael Rady Diagnose the Romantic Tension (VIDEO)
Luckily for Emily (Mamie Gummer) herself, though, she's at the center of this story. So, she's bound to get at least one of the guys, right?
What does Gummer, Justin Hartley, and Michael Rady want you to know about Emily Owens, M.D.?
Emily is a new first-year surgical resident at Denver Memorial Hospital. Kind of an awkward girl in her younger days but successful even if not quite witty in college, she is eager to finally come into her own by starting her profession. If only the world were so simple, right?
According to Gummer, Emily is still awkward and at times very neurotic. No one can change overnight, after all. And Emily is so much so that in a pivotal upcoming episode, she goes on a "rampage" before her new friends come to her apartment for the first time.
"She has to hide all of the things that are potentially embarrassing like childhood photos of glasses and braces, and some romance novels get shoved in the back," Gummer laughed when Celebuzz caught up with her on the Vancouver set of Emily Owens, M.D.
Emily's confidence problems stir anew when she is confronted by her old high school nemesis, the uber-competitive Cassandra Kopelson (Aja Naomi King) and when her current crush Will (Justin Hartley) rejects her.
"Emily's got a big heart," she continued. "She doesn't take it as competitive as Cassandra does. They're working together, and they're potentially sharing this very important person in their lives, so they're playing nice."
Things can't be completely conflict-free or there would be no story to withstand episodes after the pilot, though. The fact that Will and Cassandra have a thing going when the show starts is bound to get under one's skin eventually. Even if Emily is too oblivious to notice what's going on her around her at first — and she is — those around her aren't.
"A lot of the things that they know about each other were found out in high pressure situations in med school," Hartley noted.
"Now it's real. Now you're operating on real people, and it's life or death situations, and he starts to see her differently professionally, but also personally. I think sometimes when something is presented to you that you weren't aware of, I think there's a knee-jerk reaction, and then after you've had time to sort of slow down and take a breath, you start to look at it differently, and I think that's what Will's going through right now."
Will also can't ignore Emily catching the eye of the Chief Surgical Resident (Michael Rady), because it creates a kind of "love square" that will be a slow burn to play out.
"You get a glimpse in the pilot of Micah's affection for Emily Owens," Rady pointed out. "But we're on Episode 6 right now, and Micah's still testing the waters."
Emily Owens, M.D. is told through Emily's point of view, but Micah is a very close second in terms of someone who is pushed and pulled and asked to play a wide variety of emotions. On the pilot episode, he has to tell his own mother she has cancer, and Rady shared that this storyline is one that actually serves to bring him closer to Emily.
"When he's not leaning on himself, he's leaning on Emily," Rady explained. "I think Micah tries to kind of collect himself and plow ahead. He's not phased; he can handle it all. I think Emily's kind of a light in this world that he can go to and open up and be honest about how he feels," Rady previewed.
Emily Owens, M.D. premieres on The CW on Oct. 16 at 9 PM, but you can watch the pilot online above.
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Country Music Reacts To The Death Of George Jones
After being in the hospital for over a week, country music has lost a legend in George Jones. Artists and fans have been lighting up Twitter with messages of condolences and mourning, as well as inspiration. If you'd like to send a message to his wife Nancy, you can email firstname.lastname@example.com. Here's what the country music community is saying about the recent passing of 'The Possum'.


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The mountain is certainly significant for the Aborigines. Kalkajaka is what they call it, the name meaning the place of the spear or more loosely translated as mountains of death. The Aboriginal stories of how it evolved certainly add to mystery of this incredible mountain range. The Aboriginal belief is that the mountain originated in the dreamtime with a man, being similar to a medicine man and also a chameleon, who had the taste for human flesh. He killed and ate a young chief and so was banished and fled to the mountains, occasionally surfacing to eat a human or two from his own tribe. On his last venture out of the mountains he turned into a goanna to escape his angry fellow tribe members and had the misfortune of being struck by lightening. Being no ordinary goanna he exploded and left large piles of charred rock everywhere. Another belief of how the mountain became is that two brothers were fighting over a girl and were attempting to kill each other by rolling these black rocks down from the hills. The rocks eventually piled up as more and more were thrown, creating the Black Mountain A ravine located near the Black Mountain was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people by European settlers, maybe the ghost of the murdered Aborigines haunts it, taking revenge on the white man for his atrocities upon them. Many unexplained and mysterious disappearances have been attributed to these black mountains. Both humans and cattle have wandered into the vicinity of the black mountains and disappeared without a trace never to return. The first record of a mysterious disappearance was In 1877. A carrier, along with his horse, was out searching for some bullocks that had strayed into the boulders. He, his bullocks and his horse were never seen again. Thirteen years later, Constable Ryan, stationed at Cooktown, tracked a wanted criminal to the scrub at the edge of the mountains. He ventured into one of the caves and along with the criminal both disappeared.
A Prospector named Renn went in - never came out.
Harry Owens, a local station owner of Oakey Creek rode over towards black Mountain early one morning looking for stray cattle. When he did not return his partner went looking for him, first informing the local native Police Sergeant. Both men failed to return and the police set out to comb the mountain in an attempt to find them. Two of the native police entered one of the caves, one of them came out and was so unnerved by his experience that he could not give a clear account of what had actually happened to him. In 1932 a packer by the name of Harry Page disappeared and was found dead after a search by a black tracker. Two young men set out to solve the mystery behind the disappearances, they also were never seen again. Black trackers went in after them but even they succumbed to the great black mountains. All disappeared without a trace. All disappearances were thoroughly investigated by local police who combed the mountain in search of the missing persons. No bodies or even evidence that they were ever there has ever been found. The general thought is that they fell into one of the many deep cervices amongst the boulders, or became disorientated and got lost in the maze of caverns beneath. One man, however, did go in and come out. Being an experienced bushman he entered the caves armed with a loaded revolver and an electric torch.
His chilling story follows. I stepped into the opening, like other Black Mountain caves it dipped steeply downwards, narrowing as it went. Suddenly I found myself facing a solid wall of rock, but the the right there was a passageway just large enough for me to enter in a stooping position. I moved along it carefully for several yards. The floor was fairly level, the walls of very smooth granite. The passage twisted and turned this way and tat, always sloping deeper into the earth. Presently I began to feel uneasy. A huge bat beat it's wings against me as it passed, however I forced myself on, to push further. Soon my nostrils were filled with a sickly musty stench. Then my torch went out. I was in total darkness. From somewhere, that seemed the bowels of the earth I could hear a faint moaning which was then followed by the flapping of wings of thousands of bats. I began to panic as I groped and floundered back the way I thought I had come. My arms and legs were bleeding from bumps with unseen rocks. My outstretched hands clawed at space, I expected solid walls and floors, but could not find it. At one stage where I had wandered into a side passage, I came to the brink of what was undoubtedly a precipice-judging by the echoes. The air was foul and I felt increasing dizziness. Terrifying thoughts were racing through my mind about giant rock-pythons I have seen around this mountain. As I crawled along, getting weaker and loosing hope of ever coming out alive, I saw a tiny streak of light. It gave me super strength to worm my way towards a small cave mouth half a mile from the one I had entered. Reaching the open air I gulped in lung fulls of it and fell down exhausted. I later found that I had been underground for five hours, most of the time on my hands and knees. A Kings ransom would not induce me to enter those caves again. Another strange thing about the black mountains is that a creature is said to be lurking within. Described as being cat-like it has been spotted clambering over the boulders on quite a few occasions. Now dubbed the Queensland Tiger this beast is attributed to the cattle mauling and disappearances within the vicinity.
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Of all the outcrops of granite seen in this district, there is perhaps none which equals in interest that of which the well named Black Mountain is composed. The range is situated 16 miles (25km) south of Cooktown. When viewed from a distance this mountain has a very black appearance, due to the deposit of a very thin coating of iron and manganese oxides on the huge boulders of grey granite, of which the elevated area is formed. From a distance Black Mountain gives the appearance of a huge dyke of basic rock, and not until the hills are actually examined is one aware of the fact that they are of granite composition. The outstanding feature of this extraordinary occurrance is the entire absence of soil on the surface, the mountain being composed of cyclpean boulders perched on top of one another, commencing at a point 400ft above sea level and continuing to the summit at 1400ft. Huge holes are abundant over the surface of the mountain, representing space between groups of boulders leaning against each other. The very severe task of scaling this range was accomplished by my assistant, Mr. Graff and myself, but I have no desire to renew the visit to the summit. The granite boulders maintain about the size throughout, and not vestige of solid remain over many acres of these piled up boulders. The absence of soil causes the rock to give off a peculiar metallic ring when struck. Towards the summit of the ridge we heard a deafening noise set up by countless frogs: this fact indicated the existence of water among the boulders at no great depth below the surface. A prominent landmark is a rock on top of the summit, which is locally known as the Pillar Box. The road between Cooktown and Cairns crosses this ridge at a low gap some 500ft above sea level.
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House Speaker John Boehner wrote President Obama today seeking a list of all planned federal regulations with an economic impact of more than $1 billion.
It's the same request Boehner made of Obama a year ago -- to no avail. And it signals what could be a bruising legislative battle this fall over government regulations.
What it boils down to is this: The White House is on a tear to remove old, unnecessary regulations from the books, while Republicans in Congress and the business community are much more concerned about new and proposed rules with higher price tags.
In his letter, Boehner says the number of planned regulations with a cost of $100 million or more has spiked since last year, from 191 to 219.
"That's almost a 15% increase over last year and appears to contradict public suggestions by the administration this week that the regulatory burden on American job creators is being scaled back," Boehner says. He goes on:
I was startled to learn that the EPA estimates that at least one of its proposed rules will cost our economy as much as $90 billion per year. The administration has not disclosed how many of the other 218 planned rules will cost more than $1 billion, nor identified these rules. This information is of great relevance to the American people, who face so much uncertainty about these new regulatory costs, and to the Congress, where we continue to aim to work with you in relieving unnecessary burdens and helping employers move forward to create jobs.
I am again asking that your administration provide a list of all pending and planned rulemakings with a projected impact on our economy in excess of $1 billion. I ask that you provide this information by the time Congress reconvenes, so that the information will be available as the House considers legislation requiring a congressional review and approval of any proposed federal government regulation that will have a significant impact on the economy as we continue our efforts to remove impediments to job creation and economic growth for the American people.
The White House earlier this week released a list of more than 500 possible changes to existing rules that it said could save businesses $10 billion over five years.
Examples included allowing doctors to practice tele-medicine in rural areas, speeding up Pentagon payments to 60,000 small businesses, and changing export rules and visa practices at the State Department.
Those plans were panned by Republicans and business leaders as inadequate in light of new regulations that are costlier than those being wiped off the books.
Boehner's deputy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, called the list "underwhelming," and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., leader of the Senate GOP's regulatory rollback effort, called the potential savings "a drop in the bucket."
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WULLWEBER, Christian
Wullweber entered the Dane Law School at Harvard College where he graduated in 1859. He returned to Dubuque and entered the practice of law. In 1864, he was elected Vice President of the Board of Education. In 1870, he was again elected a member of the Board and, in 1874, was elected its president. He performed them so well and so important were they to the city that he was offered, but refused, compensation for his time. (2)
Wullweber was appointed minister to Ecuador in July 1875. (3) Upon his return to Dubuque, he presented a stuffed South American condor to the high school. (4)
1. "At Rest," Dubuque Herald, September 23, 1877, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18770923&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
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4. "Board of Education," Dubuque Herald, December 29, 1876, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18761229&printsec=frontpage&hl=en


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Domestic violence episode (and arrest) on Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Denver
Update below: Over the years, we've written about plenty of strange things that happened on planes, including the ex-priest arrested for pleasuring himself and the guy accused of groping a pregnant woman.
But what happened last night on a Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Denver is a first for us -- an alleged domestic-violence incident involving a man and a woman that led to the former's being arrested.
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"Regularly scheduled Southwest flight 382 arrived safely in Denver from Las Vegas at around midnight," says Laura Coale, a spokeswoman for Denver International Airport -- at which point "we were notified of a possible report of domestic violence."
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Update: Moments after the publication of this post, a DPD spokesman provided us with a few more details. He tells us that Denver police "had limited involvement" in the matter, but he says the man was wanted on an outstanding warrant and was taken into custody as a result. The spokesman added that he does not yet have a name for the man.
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LEBANON -- Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, March 3 at the Immanuel Baptist Church for Mrs. Hill, 43, of Lebanon.
She passed away Monday, Feb. 28, 2011.
Services were conducted by Brother John Hunn and Brother Carl Jones.
Interment followed at Wilson County Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include: her husband of 19 years Billy Hill; children Christopher Castleberry, Michael Castleberry, Chris Hill, Samantha Hill, Amber Hill, Brandy Hill and Shelly Hill; mother Minnie Lathrope; siblings Lou Anne (Brad) Corcoran and Mark (Donna) Lathrope; grandchildren Trevor Parsley, Landon Daniels and Jordan Bonner.
Pallbearers: Christopher Castleberry, Michael Castleberry, Brad Corcoran, Kevin Lathrope, Mark Lathrope, Chris Hill, Dustin Yates and Tyler Hill.
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Five-year-old took wrong medication for two months
By Kevin McCoy and Erik Brady, USA TODAY
When Tabitha Jones picked up her stepson's medicine at a Walgreens store near Nashville in 2004, she had no way to know the pharmacy was so busy that its manager had asked for more staffing months earlier to "decrease the pharmacist's stress."
She also had no idea the drug Walgreens gave her that day was a steroid never intended for children and not the blood pressure drug prescribed to treat Trey Jones' hand tremors and hyperactivity. Walgreens refilled the prescription four times, eventually at double the adult dosage, before the error was caught. The 5-year-old not only went into premature puberty but also erupted in rages.
Trey's parents sued Walgreens, fearing the steroid could stunt the boy's growth or cause liver damage. "We don't know what could happen later on down the road," his father, Robert Jones Jr., said in a 2006 pretrial deposition.
Pharmacy chains say they've spent billions of dollars on safety technology and other improvements that have cut their prescription-error rates to a fraction of 1%. As aging baby boomers and other Americans increasingly rely on prescription drugs, an Auburn University pharmacy study in 2003 projected the odds of getting a prescription with a serious, health-threatening error at about 1 in 1,000. That could amount to 3.7 million such errors a year, based on 2006 national prescription volume.
A USA TODAY investigation found evidence that corporate policies — such as allowing or encouraging pharmacists to fill hundreds of prescriptions daily and rewarding fast work — can contribute to errors like the one that befell Trey Jones.
CORPORATE POLICIES CAN FOSTER ERRORS: "There is a correlation between workload and errors," retired pharmacist says.
CORPORATE POLICIES REDUCE ERRORS: Recent advances have made "the pharmacist much more accurate," current pharmacist says.
The investigation reviewed policies and alleged errors at rivals Walgreens (WAG) and CVS (CVS), the nation's two largest drugstore chains, which fill nearly one-third of all retail prescriptions nationwide. It included a review of scores of lawsuits, as well as pharmacy board disciplinary actions in 10 states. Some common factors emerged:
•Too many prescriptions, too few pharmacists. Some stores fill so many prescriptions that pharmacists work long shifts with few breaks. In the case of Benjamin Goldberg, a North Carolina baby whose parents were given an antibiotic with instructions for five times the prescribed dosage, the state pharmacy board reprimanded a CVS pharmacy for filling prescriptions "at such a rate as to pose a danger to the public health or safety."
• An emphasis on speed. American consumers expect fast pharmacy service, and the chains try to meet that expectation. Walgreens guidelines obtained by USA TODAY say pharmacists need as little as two minutes to fill a prescription. That doesn't leave enough time to counsel patients about a new prescription, says William Kennedy, a former Walgreens pharmacist and union leader.
CVS monitors whether pharmacists meet goals for filling prescriptions by promised times and ensuring phones are answered swiftly. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices urged CVS to review whether the policies place "speed above safety" after a Massachusetts investigation substantiated 62 drug errors or other concerns.
• A reliance on technicians. Walgreens and CVS rely on lower-paid, lesser-trained technicians to help pharmacists by processing and packaging prescriptions. Although pharmacists by law must verify that each medication contains the right drug, dosage and directions, they don't always catch technicians' errors. In Jacksonville, roofing contractor Terry Paul Smith died of a methadone overdose in 2001 about 36 hours after getting a prescription for which a dosage error by a Walgreens technician went unnoticed by a pharmacist.
•Pharmacist incentive awards. At Walgreens, bonuses paid to pharmacists and pharmacy managers are based in part on increases in prescription volume. Until this year, CVS partly based pharmacists' bonuses on their success in meeting company goals for filling prescriptions by the times promised to patients and for ensuring phones are answered promptly.
• Counseling gaps. All but two states require pharmacies to offer face-to-face counseling to most customers who pick up new prescriptions. But state records show CVS was cited at least once by the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy for failing to offer or provide counseling, and Walgreens was disciplined at least five times since 2002 for similar infractions in Oregon.
Walgreens provided a demonstration of the high-tech safety systems used in the chain's pharmacies but declined to make executives available for USA TODAY interviews. In written responses, the chain said it has spent nearly $1 billion in the last 10 years on safety training and technology. "That investment shows how seriously we take our responsibility to be error-free," Walgreens said, adding that its goal "is to take out the possibility of human error as much as possible and have a zero error rate."
CVS also provided a demonstration of its computer and safety systems. Papatya Tankut, CVS' vice president for pharmacy professional affairs, said in an interview that improvements have cut errors to "a small fraction of 1%," a rate she said is "continuing to decline."
Daniel Hussar, a pharmacy professor at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, offers a more critical view. He says staffing policies have made pharmacy chains stressful workplaces. "The emphasis on speed is counterproductive. It's an invitation for error," says Hussar, editor of The Pharmacist Activist, an online newsletter.
The Trey Jones case
Trey Jones ate three meals a day like a typical 5-year-old until he started taking Methitest, a synthetic hormone for older males whose bodies aren't producing enough testosterone. Afterward, he "would eat a plate full of food and come back and get seconds, and 10 minutes later, he would want thirds," his father, Robert, said in his deposition. The boy's wall-kicking rages made it difficult for him to focus on schoolwork. "You couldn't tell him to do anything," his father said.
Trey's hands continued to shake, so his doctor doubled the initial 10-milligram dose of Inderal. Walgreens again misfilled the prescription, this time with a higher dosage of the steroid. Trey began experiencing genital pain, his father said.
When Walgreens caught the error, the pharmacist told Tabitha Jones only to contact Trey's doctor, court records show. Trey's parents halted the steroid use soon afterward. Trey, now 8, gets regular growth and liver tests. Natasha Leibel, a Columbia University pediatric endocrinologist not involved with the case, says steroid use by a child "could, in theory, … compromise adult height." Liver disease is a rarer effect of long-term use, she says.
Trey's parents filed a complaint with the Tennessee pharmacy board and sued Walgreens. Robert Jones knew the challenges would be hard but says keeping drug errors "from happening to someone else" was reason enough to fight.
Pretrial discovery in the Jones case showed the Springfield, Tenn., pharmacy where the errors began was busy: Trey's prescription was among 477 filled by two pharmacists on Sept. 30, 2004.
Months earlier, pharmacy manager Jill Brown had written in an internal report that the store had surpassed its goal of averaging 350 prescriptions a day and "could use a third pharmacist to … decrease the pharmacist's stress." But she said in a pretrial deposition that Walgreens guidelines say a store must average 550 prescriptions a day to get a third pharmacist.
David Work, a former North Carolina Board of Pharmacy executive director tapped as an expert witness by the Jones family, wrote in a report filed in court that the store's prescription volume and staffing represented "a breach of Walgreens' (safety) obligation."
In its responses to USA TODAY, Walgreens said, "Errors don't occur more often at a busy pharmacy than a slow pharmacy."
Philip Burgess, national director of pharmacy affairs for Walgreens, testified in a 2007 deposition for a different case that he saw no link between pharmacist workload and errors. He said mistakes were "more related to lack of focus."
Both Walgreens and CVS have cited a University of Cincinnati study that found workload was just one factor in drug errors. The study, partly funded by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, found pharmacists were most at risk for mistakes when less busy, or during a drop in drug volume. The study examined 36 chain pharmacy sites.
U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger, who presided over the Jones case, saw it differently. "Although the defendant denies that there is any connection between number of prescriptions processed per day and mistakes, common sense and at least one purported expert argue in favor of the opposite conclusion," she wrote in a 2007 pretrial ruling. Trauger said she would let a jury decide whether the prescription volume amounted to recklessness, a finding that could have exposed Walgreens to punitive damages.
But the case never went to trial. Walgreens acknowledged in a pretrial conference last March that it had violated the standard of care owed to Trey. The parties reached a late-December settlement that includes a confidentiality order barring Walgreens and Trey's family and attorneys from discussing the financial terms and other details.
Tennessee's pharmacy board conducted its own investigation. In 2005, it imposed a $500 fine on Walgreens pharmacist Avani Sindhal for violating state rules that require pharmacists to keep health and safety as their top concern. She said in a 2006 deposition that she thought Trey's prescription called for the steroid. Sindhal, who still works for Walgreens, also said she didn't recall seeing Trey's birth date on the prescription.
Catastrophic consequences
Most prescription errors don't cause major health problems, but the outcomes occasionally can be catastrophic. Walgreens has lost three trials involving deaths caused by drug mistakes since September 2006. Verdicts in the cases totaled more than $61 million.
The cases include the 2002 death of Eric Warren, a 31-year-old Arizona high school wrestling coach. He died from an interaction between Tramadol and methadone, painkillers dispensed at different times by a Walgreens pharmacy in Flagstaff, Ariz. A jury awarded his family $6 million in October after hearing evidence that Walgreens pharmacist Al Salembier neither warned Warren about the potential drug interaction nor double-checked the second prescription with his doctor. Walgreens is appealing the case.
In August, a Florida jury awarded $25.8 million to the family of Beth Hippely, 42, a mother of three who died in 2002 after Walgreens mistakenly gave her a blood thinner 10 times stronger than prescribed. The chain is seeking a new trial.
Walgreens also faced a Florida trial last year over the 2001 death of Smith, the Jacksonville roofing contractor who received a methadone prescription with incorrect dosage instructions. But the chain reached a confidential settlement with Smith's family in December.
Prescription volume is rising nationwide. The 3.7 billion prescriptions filled in 2006 represented a 12% increase from 2002, according to data from IMS Health, a pharmaceutical and health care consultant.
But the number of pharmacists — about 240,000 nationwide, including about 110,000 in chain drugstores — hasn't kept pace. Parts of 42 states were identified as pharmacist shortage areas in a 2007 survey by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
Some pharmacists say the busy working conditions that have resulted raise the risk of errors. "It isn't uncommon to walk in for your shift at 8 a.m. and find 100 scripts (prescriptions) … to fill before you even get started. Imagine the pressure," says Kennedy, the retired Walgreens pharmacist from Illinois and former head of a union for Walgreens pharmacists. "There is a correlation between workload and errors. … I can tell you that from my own experience."
Walgreens said Kennedy, who retired in 2006, isn't current on today's pharmacy conditions.
After a Walgreens pharmacist in Bullhead City, Ariz., mistakenly dispensed a heart drug instead of a pancreas medicine to David Morris in 2004, the state pharmacy board questioned whether the store had sufficient staffing. "Our current pharmacists feel we are constantly understaffed when we are asked to keep within our 'budget,' " Pamela Huntoon, the pharmacy manager, wrote, state records show. Morris' wife caught the error before any harm occurred.
"No pharmacist ever has to fill a single prescription more during the workday than they feel is safe," Walgreens told USA TODAY.
There are few standards within the industry for determining how much volume is too much.
The North Carolina Board of Pharmacy, the only state board that requires all major drug errors to be reported, has a rule of thumb: It weighs workload when it investigates mistakes at any pharmacy that filled more than 150 prescriptions per pharmacist per day. Those that fill more than 150 don't automatically violate state rules. But the board has questioned or reprimanded about 12 pharmacies since 2002 for letting pharmacists work at rates that could "pose a danger to the public health or safety," state records show.
James DeVita, CVS' director of quality assurance, says that before taking action, the board should assess other factors, including whether a pharmacy has technology that lets it handle higher volumes safely.
Baby would 'writhe in pain'
Typical of the North Carolina reprimand cases was the 2001 injury of 16-day-old Benjamin Goldberg. Born prematurely, he had an infection that required hospital care with intravenous antibiotics, says his father, Richard Goldberg, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina.
After 10 days, Goldberg and his wife, Edie Kahn, an occupational therapist, brought Benjamin home with a prescription for oral amoxicillin, a common antibiotic. They filled the prescription at a CVS pharmacy. "We noticed just a lot of discomfort from that first dose. He cried for many hours," says Goldberg. And he would "writhe in pain" after new doses, says Kahn.
Checking with the hospital after two days, Goldberg says he learned Benjamin's dosage was "way over what he should be getting." The dosage on the CVS label was five times what had been prescribed.
Although the infant suffered no lasting injuries, Goldberg complained to the state pharmacy board. The panel found that CVS pharmacist David Rogers and a second pharmacist dispensed more than 400 prescriptions on the date of the error. The board reprimanded Rogers and CVS for filling prescriptions at a dangerous rate.
Work, the state board's executive director at the time of the Goldberg case, says error risk increases with high workload. He likens the danger to a tachometer warning: "You can run that car up past that red line for a while. But sooner or later, you know bad things are going to happen."
CVS said it could not discuss the Goldberg case for privacy reasons.
Tying pay to volume
USA TODAY found Walgreens and CVS have policies that seem to stress speed in filling prescriptions.
Walgreens' budget guidelines for work hours, never previously publicized, say a pharmacist at a typical store might have as little as two minutes to verify the accuracy of a drug, its dosage and directions.
"That's not enough. They allow no time for counseling" patients about their medications, checking the work of technicians and fulfilling other duties, says Kennedy.
"We have never dictated the time a pharmacist spends on a prescription," Walgreens said. "Pharmacists are licensed professionals; we expect them to exercise good professional judgment." Stores may adjust the guidelines "as needed," the chain said.
Kennedy challenges that assertion: "Walgreens corporate (executives) will tell you … that there is no pressure to increase speed, and that pharmacists are supposed to use their professional judgment and go at a pace where they're not going to make errors. … What filters down to middle management is completely opposite. They're in the stores pushing the volumes."
CVS tracks how often its pharmacists meet three corporate goals: no more than a 15-minute wait for most patients who opt to wait in a store while prescriptions are filled, filling prescriptions promised to other patients on time, and ensuring that phones are answered within 20 seconds. Computer screens highlight prescriptions for in-store patients in yellow. For other patients, computers mark in red those prescriptions that aren't ready when promised.
CVS says it historically based a small percentage of pharmacist bonuses on how well the goals were met. The incentives came into question when a 2005-06 Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy investigation substantiated 62 of 80 complaints of errors and other concerns against CVS.
In a settlement, CVS agreed to have the Institute for Safe Medication Practices review the chain's pharmacy practices in Massachusetts for two years. The institute recommended that CVS "examine (the) appropriateness of current elements of (the) pharmacist incentive plan" and eliminate practices that "create pressures that place speed above safety."
Michael Cohen, president of the institute, says the policies were questioned out of concern pharmacists would feel "they were getting incentivized … or disincentivized" if the goals weren't met.
DeVita, CVS' quality-assurance director, says the phone-answering goal was instituted as a courtesy for patients and doctors. Tankut, the chain's pharmacy vice president, says the policy for in-store patients was designed to ensure the fastest reasonable service time for those with urgent medical needs, such as newly discharged hospital patients.
Saying the system helps pharmacists prioritize their work, Tankut adds, "We never compromise safety for speed." She also says pharmacists can extend waits if a pharmacy is busy. "It is not necessary or required for the pharmacy staff to work faster," Tankut says.
Starting in January, CVS dropped the measures from the incentive plan used to decide pharmacist bonuses, although the chain still tracks the goals. CVS spokesman Michael DeAngelis says the move wasn't a direct response to the safety institute.
Walgreens pharmacy managers are eligible for a bonus up to 10% of their income based in part on prescription-volume increases, James Schmid, national director of pharmacy operations for Walgreens, said in a 2003 deposition.
Burgess, in a 2007 deposition, was asked whether bonus decisions should take into account drug errors. He disagreed, saying, "Errors, as unfortunate as they are, are human errors."
Walgreens said, "It's inconceivable that a health care professional making more than $100,000 a year would jeopardize their license to practice in order to influence their bonus by a few hundred dollars."
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Each Friday, we here at "The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show" replace our regular "back-with" music with songs from our own music collection.
They can be anything, from corny mash-ups, rock, country, mid-Michigan '70s butt rock or anything in between.
Here's the list of Music Friday songs from this week:
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The Milk Carton Kids — "New York."
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Mark Cohn — "29 Ways."
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Grinderman – "Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars)."
Paul Simon – "Late in the Evening."
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Influential outside advisers to the Bush Administration who support the one-time Pentagon favourite Ahmad Chalabi are pressing the White House to stop what one has called a "smear campaign" against Chalabi, whose Baghdad home and offices were ransacked this month week in a US-supported raid.
On May 22 a small delegation of Chalabi supporters marched into the office of Condoleezza Rice, the US National Security Adviser, to complain about the Administration's abrupt change of heart about Chalabi and to register their concerns about the course of the war in Iraq. The right-wingers included Richard Perle, a former chairman of a Pentagon advisory group, and James Woolsey, a former CIA director.
Members of the group told Dr Rice that they were incensed at what they called the vilification of Chalabi, who is now central to an FBI investigation into who in the US Government might have given him highly classified information that he is suspected of turning over to Iran. Chalabi has denied giving Iran any classified information.
"There is a smear campaign under way, and it is being perpetrated by . . . intelligence officers who have succeeded in planting these stories which are accepted with hardly any scrutiny," Mr Perle said in an interview.
Mr Perle said the campaign against Chalabi was "an outrageous abuse of power" by US Government officials.
In 1992 a Jordanian court sentenced Chalabi in absentia to 22 years in jail for the embezzlement of millions of dollars from a bank.
When Iraqi police raided Chalabi's home and offices, US officials hurried to distance themselves, saying the operation was an Iraqi affair.
But eight armed American contractors went on the raid, directing and encouraging the Iraqi policemen who, witnesses said, ripped out computers, turned over furniture and smashed photographs. Some Americans helped themselves to baklava and soft drinks from Chalabi's refrigerator, sitting in a garden outside to enjoy their looted snacks.
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Nissan reveals new London black taxi cab
The car manufacturer Nissan has unveiled its new Taxi for London on Monday, having adapted an existing van to look more like the city's traditional black cabs.
The new petrol-engine taxi will allow the Japanese group to challenge the London taxi cab market's current duopoly.
Nissan, which already supplies taxis in New York, Barcelona and Tokyo, said the vehicle should be on the streets by the end of the year.
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Arizona State University researchers have discovered for the first time that temperature determines where key soil microbes can thrive - microbes that are critical to forming topsoil crusts in arid lands.
And of concern, the scientists predict that in as little as 50 years, global warming may push some of these microbes out of their present stronghold in colder U.S. deserts, with unknown consequences to soil fertility and erosion.
The findings are featured as the cover story of the June 28 edition of the journal Science.
An international research team led by Ferran Garcia-Pichel, microbiologist and professor with ASU's School of Life Sciences, conducted continental-scale surveys of the microbial communities that live in soil crusts. The scientists collected crust samples from Oregon to New Mexico, and Utah to California and studied them by sequencing their microbial DNA.
While there are thousands of microbe species in just one pinch of crust, two cyanobacteria -bacteria capable of photosynthesis - were found to be the most common. Without cyanobacteria, the other microbes in the crust could not exist, as every other species depends on them for food and energy.
"We wanted to know which microbes are where in the crust and whether they displayed geographic distribution patterns at the continental scale," said Garcia-Pichel, also dean of natural sciences in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"To our surprise, where we thought a single cyanobacterium would dominate, we found that two had neatly split the territory between themselves. We used to think that one, called Microcoleus vaginatus, was the most important and dominant, but now we know that Microcoleus steenstrupii, the other one, is just as important, particularly in warmer climates," he added.
While the two look very much alike, M. vaginatus and M. steenstrupii are not even closely related. They have evolved to appear alike because their shape and behavior help them stabilize soil and form soil crusts.
Crusts are crucial to the ecological health of arid lands, as they protect the soil from erosion and contribute to land fertility by fixing carbon and nitrogen into the soil and by extracting other nutrients from trapped dust.
Temperature affects microbial communities
"But this was just a correlation," Garcia-Pichel explained. "To prove the role temperature plays, we tested cultivated forms of the microbes and confirmed that it does indeed make a difference - temperature is what keeps them apart. The point now is that temperature is no longer stable because of global warming."
In the U.S. Southwest, where the study took place, climate models predict about one degree of warming per decade.
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Should microbe distribution indeed change due to increasing temperatures, scientists do not know what effect that will have on soil fertility and erosion.
These microbes are hundreds of millions of years old and can be found in many places around the globe. No matter where individuals of M. vaginatus are found in the world, they are very closely related and practically indistinguishable genetically.
By contrast, individual variation within M. steenstrupii is greater, and this more genetically diverse species is thought to be much older in evolutionary terms.
Garcia-Pichel believes the pattern of temperature segregation detected in the U.S. is likely to be similar worldwide, and that it will not be easy for M. vaginatus to evolve quickly enough to tolerate higher temperatures.
The team is calling for climate researchers to include the study of microbes when considering global warming.
"Our study is relevant beyond desert ecology. It exemplifies that microbial distributions and the partitioning of their habitats can be affected by global change, something we've long known for plants and animals. This study tells us clearly that we can no longer neglect microbes in our considerations," added Garcia-Pichel.
The ASU research team includes Yevgeniy Marusenko, School of Life Sciences graduate student, and ASU research technician Ruth Potrafka. Professor Pilar Mateo and graduate student Virginia Loza, both with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, contributed to the project as visiting scholars. The research project is funded by a National Science Foundation grant, #0717164.
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