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3 Bedroom Apartment in Wan Chai!
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- Internet/WiFi
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- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
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|Hennessy Rd, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
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This apartment is located at the central business district, Wan Chai, with many good restaurants, pubs & bars nearby. It locates at one of the most convenient area in Hong Kong!!! You may easily access to public transport with several minutes. For example:
5 mins walk to Exit B, Wan Chai MTR
10 mins walk to Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre ( HKECE)
2 mins MTR (1 station) to Causeway Bay
4 mins MTR (2 stations) to Central
10 mins MTR (2 stations) to Tsim Sha Tsui
5 mins to tram station, accessing from Kennedy Town to Shau Kei Wan
2 mins to bus stops to most area in Hong Kong
This flat is featured comfortably furnished. Branded sanitary and kitchen ware are equipped. All with fresh clean beddings & bath towels just before your arrival. There are two lifts from the Ground Floor to our apartment, no struggling of luggage up the stairs.
Free high speed internet
Gas stove
Washing machine (with detergent provided)
Basic cooking utensils
Hair dryer
Instant gas water heater (no waiting time for nice hot shower)
Shower gel & 2 in 1 shampoo
This offer is for 6 people to stay. There is a double bed in each room. A sofa bed is available to accommodate 2 more people. As extra utility, each additional guest should pay extra USD$30 per night.
This is a new listing accommodation. We offer in promotional price in this month. Hope we can meet in Hong Kong!!
Wendy ;]
House rulesSecurity deposit: US$269, to be returned when check out.
Enjoy and take care of my lovely home.
Strictly NO SMOKING & NO pets allowed.
NO illegal or immoral activities.
Be considerate and respect our neighbours, try to keep the noise down whenever possible, please
And please be environmental friendly, switch off the electric appliance when you leave my home for exploration in HK.
It is essential to have yourself covered by travel insurance before your trip.
Finally do welcome to ask for more information for traveling around Hong Kong
|Weekly rate for up to 6 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 6 guests
|Price for > 6 guests
|$ 27 US per guest/night extra
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For Hong Kong, the hotel OK.
Für Hong Kong ist die Unterkunft OK.
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Small apartment indeed, actually only one room with integrated shower/toilet area, but space is precious in Hongkong and the apartment is really very new and nicely furnished. In addition, the location is great, in plain center of the traditional quarter of Wan Chai close to many shops, transportation possibilities and the Southern Playground which is good for relaxation in the middle of a bustling city. So we enjoyed our stay once we got used to the smallness of the place.
Wendy was good host, her staff were all friendly and helped a lot
Had a little confusion on apartments, a Then Wendy put me up in large apartment for the night, whilst I viewed other places of hers to rent long term
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
A last minute change of the contact telephonenumber, caused to some difficulties to get access to the appartement. After I arrived in Hon Kong - I tried to get in contact with Wendy at the phonenumber that I was given after booking - but without any luck. I had to go to the nearest bar to get free WiFi - and then I found out that Wendy had sent me a new contact number - to her caretaker for the appartment. This was not a very good start after a 17 hrs. airtravel. Please take notice of this Wndy for future guests. Having said that, the room was OK and the standard was to my requirements. Great service by caretaker Asia. Helge - Norway
I had a very comfortable stay in the apartment.
As stated, the apartments are totally renovated, and in good taste.
Since the other apartments were vacant, I was able to see each of them
Apartment #2 is quite small, but totally sufficient for my needs. Plenty of storage drawer and shelf space.
Apartment is a bit bigger, and the feel of it is much more comfortable that #2.
Apartment 3 and 4 each have a large window, and are vert bright and sunny.
In the future, I would suggest paying a bit more, to be able to rent 3 or 4.
Location is terrific. It is a ten minute walk to the Admiralty MTR station.
From there, you can access all of HK.
I would stay there again, without hesitation.
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The teaching staff of the gymnasia was quite varied. Each one was different than the next in temperament, external appearance, origin, behavior and relationship to the students. Even with the passage of time from the first years of the gymnasia, we shall attempt nevertheless to present some descriptions of the images of some of the teachers as we remember them.
|Gymnasia teachers upon the departure from teaching of Mr. Dubrow.
|1. Gregory Mironescu (Romanian) 2. Vingradov (Math) 3. Alexandra Ivanovna 4. Bakunsky (Physics) 5. Tushinsky-Bahy (The German) 6. Bahy (The Frenchman) 7. Stayanov (Latin) 8. Kasher (Superintendent) 9. Greenberg (Inspector, History) 10. Gregory Wilensky (Director) 11. Hillel Dubrow 12. Mrs. Wilensky (Clerk) 13. Mrs. Maria Mikhailovna Spiney.
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|Departure of Teacher Gandelman.
|1. Mogolnik 2. David Littman (Chernovitz) 3. David Lerner 4. Zalman Zissman (Belc) 5. ---- 6.----- 7. Yisrael Steiff 8. Yosef Shitz-Magen (Tel Aviv) 9. Rashkovsky 10. Yosef Snitcovsky (Venezuela) 11. Moshe Kupit (New York) 12. Yankel Liebman (USSR) 13. Hillel Dubrow 14. Chaim Horvitz (Haifa) 15. Meshulam Bronstein 16. ------- 17. Esther Gandelman 18. Rosa Teman 19. Mr. Gandelman 20. Breina Parnes (South America) 21. Lyuba Solter 22. Krishkutsky, a student from Rishkan.
And now about our Jewish teachers. First of all, the assistant director, Solomon Davidovich Greenberg, who taught history and some other subjects, was of average height, thin, relatively young among the teachers, well-dressed with a dark coat in winter and a white one in summer, clean-shaven. A real Odessite.
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The harsh economic conditions in Yedinitz starting in the 1930s was reflected in the gymnasia. The number of students fell, and in addition the gymnasia encountered the jealousy of the government schools. I remember that right after the start of the academic year in 1936, a so-called government commission headed by an inspector visited the gymnasia. The committee visited every class, and after their departure, the school was closed. As far as I remember, this was right after the holidays. This commission traveled to all the towns in the Khotin district.
Let me take this opportunity to briefly describe the state of the Hebrew schools in Yedinitz following the emigration of Hillel Dubrow to Palestine in 1936. First of all, the Talmud Torah public school continued to operate in the Sha'arei Zion synagogue building. The head teacher there was the veteran teacher Baruch Yashchikman. The public school of the veteran teacher, my father, Hirsh Kuzminer who died on the day of the massacre, right after the Romanians returned to town in 1941 (see the section on the Holocaust) also continued to operate, as did Mr. Gurvitz's school.
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Standing: Etty Gutman (died in Paris), Devorah Baron-Schwartz (Israel).
Children: Standing, from right to left: Levitas, son of Leib Bard (Israel), Dina, daughter of Yitzchak Borotstein (died in Israel), Steinwartz, son of Itsik-Yonah Vinokur, Dinale Pintchevsky, Sioma Gutman.
Seated, from right to left: Surkis, grandson of Speier, Borog, grandson of Gutman, Yanik Sheindelman (today an officer in the IDF).
On the ground: Boria Roit, daughter of Lerner-Varnotchka, Katz.
The first kindergarten teacher in town was Zippora Dubrow (daughter of Shmuel Zelig Kaufman). She arrived in town with her husband Hillel Dubrow after graduating the famous Alterman teacher's seminary in Odessa. They organized singing, dancing and playgroups. Zippora died in 1923. Various kindergartens opened after that by graduates of the kindergarten teachers' seminary called Safa Bruria in Chernovitz.
Etty Gutman, who graduated the seminary, also opened her own kindergarten. She later became attracted to Communism and moved to France. During the war she was in the resistance, was captured and sent to Auschwitz. She survived, returned to Paris after the war, and died in the late 1960s of a severe illness.
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After the preliminary design review was completed on schedule in April 2003, every subsequent milestone in the F-35 program was missed by at least one year. Yet Lockheed Martin continued to exude optimism, rejecting criticism that production was being ramped up before development and producibility issues were solved. The company's credibility having been dented, its predictions that the ultimate unit cost of the first stealthy international fighter jet could still be $60 million (F-35A CTOL version, 2010 dollars) are raising eyebrows–especially when the cost has been contradicted by various U.S. government reports.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) talks of a "near doubling" in average unit prices since the program began. When the F-35 program breached the Nunn-McCurdy Act 12 months ago, the Pentagon predicted to Congress an average unit production cost of $133 million in current dollars.
But the unit cost of an F-35 will vary greatly depending on sub-type, and whether it is contracted within the low-rate initial production (LRIP) Lots or the supposedly much more efficient multi-year buys (MYBs) that will follow. As things stand, however, the MYBs will not begin until fiscal year 2018, two years later than previously planned. So there will now be 11 LRIP buys.
Lockheed Martin said the ramp-up rate is the key to affordability. It is still planning for a peak production rate of 20 aircraft per month. But as the GAO noted, the F-35 program places unprecedented demands for funding–an average $11 billion per year for the next two decades–on a shrinking defense budget. The implication is that the U.S. will not be able to afford anything like the 2,443 aircraft that it currently plans to buy.
The 30 LRIP Lot 4 jets are the first to be contracted on a fixed-price-incentive-fee basis. When the separately contracted cost of the F135 engine is added ($15 million for the F-35A CTOL and F-35C CV engine, and $32 million for the F-35B STOVL engine), the unit cost comes to $126.6 million each for the 11 F-35As, S141.4 million each for the 17 F-35Bs and $157.9 million for the four F-35Cs.
Lockheed Martin will receive another $511 million for the logistics and sustainment of these aircraft, on a cost-reimbursable, not-to-exceed basis. The F-35 Joint Program Office said it cannot yet adequately identify and price risk to negotiate fixed-price contracts for support. Further, Lockheed Martin received a contract worth $820 million to prepare for increased production rates in future years, again on a cost-reimbursable, not-to-exceed basis.
Negotiations on logistics and sustainment packages continue and are a major focus for the JPO this year. The GAO now says "current F-35 life-cycle cost estimates are considerably higher than the legacy aircraft it will replace."
Last year, the U.S. Navy predicted that total life-cycle costs for the F-35 program would exceed one trillion dollars.
How does Lockheed Martin react to that startling statistic? "That figure is based on all 2,443 planned aircraft for the U.S. flying for 52 years from more than 50 bases, using cost data derived from legacy aircraft in then-year dollars," O'Bryan said.
"The F-35 is subject to more key performance parameters (KPPs) relating to sustainment than any other fighter jet," he said. "For instance, after 200,000 fleet hours it must be twice as reliable as an F-16 or an F-18."
F-35s Unit Cost Not the Whole Story
According to some observers, there is unquantifiable value in some of the avionics advances in the Lockheed-Martin F-35.
In a presentation at the Mitchell Centre for Airpower Studies last year, Barry Watts, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, said, "If you look at F-117 and B-2 missions, low observability doesn't give you [total] invisibility to air defenses, particularly to radar-guided SAMs.
"Those routes [to the target], relative to the defenses that we were aware of, had to be carefully planned prior to the mission," Watts continued. "This airplane's going to be able to do that in real time [thanks to] the huge amount of computational power that's available."
In another presentation given at the same event, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, former U.S. Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, A-2, stated, "With the ability to rapidly collect, analyze, transmit, display and share decision-quality information across a wide battlespace rapidly...we create...a value that becomes more important than individual unit cost.
"The F-35 can take a SAR [synthetic aperture radar] map down to a very fine degree, add that SAR image to its ground moving target indicator and display the difference between fixed and moving, land or maritime," said Deptula. "This is something we have to do today with several separate aircraft and a ground station."


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Cardiff have called for League Managers' Association chief executive Richard Bevan to resign after the Malky Mackay scandal descended into a day of apologies and accusations.
Mackay's former club called for Bevan to quit in the wake of what they called an "entirely reprehensible" LMA statement on Thursday night which described racist texts sent by Mackay as "friendly banter".
The Welsh club also strongly refuted the LMA's criticism of the timing of the release of the dossier regarding Mackay and former head of recruitment Iain Moody to the Football Association as "preposterous".
Cardiff say the LMA had known about the existence of the offensive messages involving Moody and Mackay for months and had therefore been "complicit in the attempt to conceal these messages". The club statement added that there were "many more" than the two messages from Mackay contained within their dossier.
Earlier on Friday, the LMA had apologised for some of the wording in the initial statement issued on Thursday night, saying it had been "inappropriate" and "has been perceived to trivialise matters of a racist, sexist or homophobic nature".
In a forceful response to the LMA's original statement, a statement issued on behalf of Cardiff by law firm Mishcon de Reya read: "We.. find it entirely reprehensible that the LMA should itself put out a statement which seeks to dismiss deeply offensive racist comments as 'friendly banter'.
"If that is the view held by the LMA, as appears from its statement, we consider that Richard Bevan's position is untenable and we call for his resignation."
Cardiff also took particular issue with an implication in the LMA's original statement that the club had timed the release of the text messages dossier to scupper Mackay's expected appointment as manager of Crystal Palace.
"That the LMA has sought to criticise the club for the timing of the report to the FA is preposterous, because the offensive communications have been in the knowledge and possession of the LMA for many months," Cardiff's statement added.
"When the messages came to light, over three months ago, the club strongly encouraged and advised Mr Moody and Mr Mackay to deal with the issue directly with the FA.
"It was made clear to them, and their LMA-appointed lawyers, that the nature of the communications meant the club was under a duty to report their findings to the FA if they did not take appropriate action themselves.
"Nevertheless, with the backing of the LMA, Mr Moody and Mr Mackay chose to do nothing. The LMA were therefore complicit in the attempt to conceal these messages (of which there were many more than the two isolated texts acknowledged by Mr Mackay)."
No one at the LMA was available for comment in the wake of the Cardiff statement, but the organisation had felt compelled to apologise for the statement it released on Mackay's behalf on Thursday evening.
" The LMA apologises for some of its wording, in its release yesterday, which was inappropriate and has been perceived to trivialise matters of a racist, sexist or homophobic nature. That was certainly not our intention," its statement said.
On the same day as a new report revealed reports of discrimination in the game had risen by 269 per cent in the 2013-14 season compared to the previous campaign, anti-discrimination campaign group Kick It Out said the damage had already been done.
The organisation's education and development manager Troy Townsend described the episode as "deflating" and added: "Incidents such as this make our job much more difficult."
QPR boss Harry Redknapp waded into the controversy by launching a bizarre defence of Mackay in which he said: ''He hasn't murdered anyone, he hasn't raped anyone and he is not a paedophile.''
Redknapp added: "I'm not condoning what he has done but show me someone who has never made a mistake and I will show you a liar."
Townsend was quick to dismiss Redknapp's comments, saying: "What (Redknapp) has said has no benefit at all. I don't know what is in Harry's head when he is saying that.
''What Harry has said shows a lack of understanding about the situation. These are really sensitive issues and you have to respect the reasons behind them. He's almost saying 'it ain't that bad is it?', but unfortunately for some people, it is.''


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The plan for my return, which I haven't entirely given up on yet, was to try to establish some kind of existence in Bellingham, in the state of Washington, where I lived before my ordination more than twenty years ago. I knew there was a meditation society professing Theravada Buddhism in town, and I naturally assumed that they would welcome a trained senior monk, and probably offer me enough support to live; after all, the necessary requirements amounted essentially to little more than a roof, a bowl of food more or less every day, and access to a bathroom. How difficult could that be? Besides, America seems to be in need of Dharma, and there must be many spiritual seekers here who are not satisfied with the cultural status quo.
At the very beginning, however, there were complications. A senior member of the meditation society, who for many years had been a kind of spokesperson for the group, didn't answer my emails introducing myself. Shortly after my arrival I was courteously invited to a teachers' meeting, and immediately afterward this same person came straight over to me from across the room with a very intense look in his eyes and suggested that I ought to live at a monastery. This of course would necessitate my leaving town, as there are no Theravada Buddhist monasteries in Bellingham. A few days later I received an email from the same person with no hello, no goodbye at the end, nothing in fact but a list of monastic organizations I perhaps should consider going away to. (This is not to imply that he or anyone else in the group is a bad person, or any such thing: he has been friendly with me, or at least very polite, on numerous occasions also.) I was met with politeness from many, enthusiastic friendliness from a few, and was pretty much ignored by the rest. I eventually realized that although Theravada is scripturally very monk-oriented, overwhelmingly so in fact, most members of the insight meditation society in Bellingham seemed to have little use for a monk in town, and to see little or no reason why they should support one. This was difficult for me to understand at first. ...
ciprian wrote:I think western world still has to learn the value of giving.
David N. Snyder wrote:I am generalizing here because there are some exceptions, but what I have noticed is that the Ajahn Chah based monasteries / Ajahn Brahm monasteries and the bhikkhuni monasteries seem to be doing a good job at propagation and developing a sense of community among Western-convert Buddhists and the Asian descent Buddhists. At other temples the community tends to be dominated by one ethnic group, for example; Sri Lankan, Burmese, Thai, etc.
Western-convert Buddhists do not have a history of having a [Buddhist] community and are not very familiar with the norms of providing lunch dana, etc. but perhaps through the Ajahn Chah monasteries and the development of a better community atmosphere, this might change. Even in the temples where there is a nice mix of different ethnicities, it seems the Asian-descent Buddhists are still primarily the only ones providing lunch-dana to the monks. The Western convert Buddhists will attend Dhamma talks, meditation, retreats and put money in the donation box, but still have not gotten used to the other forms of community which are important such as the lunch for the monastics or simply welcoming a new monk.
pilgrim wrote:Reviving an old thread to update it with recently established western monasteries ( or those being established).
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On Monday, October 27, at 3 p.m., Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA's Virginia Insight show to discuss health care reform.
Timothy S. Jost holds the Robert L. Willett Family Professorship of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is a co-author of the casebook Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in teaching health law, and of a treatise and hornbook by the same name. He is also the author of Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study; Disentitlement? The Threats Facing our Public Health Care Programs and a Rights-Based Response; and Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics. His most recent book is Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement from Duke University Press.
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Students in Solano, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties may be eligible for internships with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The application deadline is today.
Applicants must:
* Live and go to school in the county in which the student is applying.
* Have completed the 10th grade.
* Be at least 16 by June 19.
For information, call (510) 817-5807, email email@example.com or visit www.mtc.ca.gov/jobs/high_school.


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Haemocomplettan® P During Elective Complex Cardiac Surgery
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|Fibrinogen Deficiency in Complex Cardiac Surgery
|Drug: Haemocomplettan® P Drug: Human albumin (Placebo)
|Phase 2 Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Efficacy and Safety of Haemocomplettan® P in Patients Experiencing Microvascular Bleeding While Undergoing Elective Complex Cardiac Surgery
- To determine whether fibrinogen concentrate infusion reduces perioperative blood loss. [ Time Frame: within 12 hours. ]Perioperative blood loss measured as blood loss in ml between infusion of study medication and closure of chest.
- To determine whether fibrinogen concentrate infusion reduces postoperative blood loss. [ Time Frame: within 24 hours after infusion of study medication. ]Postoperative blood loss, measured as blood loss at the ICU between closure of chest and 1st hour, 6th hour and after 24 hours.
- To determine whether fibrinogen concentrate infusion reduces postoperative transfusion of blood products during elective complex cardiac surgery. [ Time Frame: within 24 hours after infusion of study medication. ]Number of units red blood cell concentrate, fresh frozen plasma and platelet concentrate administered within 24 hours after closure of chest.
- To determine whether fibrinogen concentrate infusion is safe and well-tolerated. [ Time Frame: 30 days ]Major clinical events: Mortality at 30 days post-surgery, MACE (major adverse cardiac event), cerebrovascular accident/ transient ischemic attack, renal insufficiency or failure, venous thromboembolism/ pulmonary embolism, allergic or other systemic reaction to study medication
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Placebo Comparator: Albumin
Drug: Human albumin (Placebo)
Human albumin with concentration 200g/L. The study bottles of 50 mL will be diluted with saline and will contain 2g in total. This concentration resembles the total protein load in the bottles with Haemocomplettan® P.
Other Name: Albumin
|Experimental: Haemocomplettan® P
Drug: Haemocomplettan® P
Dosing of study medication will be individually determined based on plasma fibrinogen concentrations (measured with Clauss method during the reperfusion period on CPB) and body weight. Intravenous infusion within 10 minutes.
Other Name: Fibrinogen concentrate
Detailed Description:
Fibrinogen concentrate is increasingly used in surgical patients suffering excessive bleeding refractory to conventional hemostasis treatment. However, these studies published so far comprise small study groups with questionable study designs.
The aim of this study is to determine whether fibrinogen concentrate reduces blood loss and transfusion in patients undergoing elective complex cardiac surgery.
By choosing the domain of complex cardiac surgery which is prone for excessive blood loss and transfusion, we will focus on subjects undergoing high risk procedures. Hereby we hypothesize that administration of fibrinogen concentrate improves hemostasis in patients experiencing microvascular bleeding during complex cardiac surgery. This improvement of the hemostasis is measured by reduced blood loss and transfusion of blood products during surgery and the postoperative period.
Furthermore, we hypothesize that fibrinogen concentrate is safe and well tolerated in patients undergoing complex cardiac surgery. This hypothesis will be investigated by a detailed study of clinical outcomes.
Update regarding interim-analysis:
On 09 August 2013 an interim-analysis was performed as described in the protocol. The outcome was discussed during the Steering Committe of 09 October 2013. During that meeting, based on the results of the interim-analysis, the continuation of the current study was ordered.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Eighteen years of age or older.
- Undergoing elective complex cardiac surgery.
- Understood and willingly given written informed consent.
- Experience clinically relevant non-surgical microvascular bleeding following removal of cardiopulmonary bypass.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Positive pregnancy test, pregnancy or lactation.
- Undergoing an emergency operation.
- Proof or suspicion of a congenital or acquired coagulation disorder.
- Clopidogrel use in the 5 days preceding surgery.
- INR >1.4 if on coumadin.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01124981
|Department Anesthesiology & Intensive Care
|Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands, 8011 JW
|Department of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Isala Klinieken
|Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands, 8011 JW
|Principal Investigator:
|Arno P Nierich, MD, PhD.
|Isala Klinieken, Zwolle
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Arno P. Nierich, MD, PhD, Isala
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01124981 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 10, 2010
|Last Updated:
|December 15, 2014
Keywords provided by Arno P. Nierich, Isala:
Fibrinogen concentrate
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Blood Coagulation Disorders, Inherited
Blood Coagulation Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Coagulation Protein Disorders
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
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DUDLEY and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has been awarded a gold star rating for its work on equality and inclusion.
The Trust won the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion Award for ensuring equality, diversity and human rights were embedded throughout the organisation and for its engagement with people across all cultures and communities to help tackle the stigma of mental health problems.
Paul Singh, equality and diversity lead said: "This is a fantastic achievement and highlights the good practice embedded throughout all of our services.
"The work that we have done in this area has been of particular benefit for many people who would previously have been too fearful to come forward and receive treatment for mental health issues.
"Tackling stigma and breaking down barriers so people can access our mental health services is something that we will continue to work on. Talking about mental health is the first step to people understanding that it is not something to be ashamed of."


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Sacramento Neighborhood Center to Host Annual Community Day
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to Host Annual Community Day
The Sacramento Neighborhood Center is celebrating its Third Annual Sacramento Community Day — "Celebrating Diversity" — on Saturday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sacramento Neighborhood Center located at 8792E Sacramento Drive, Alexandria. The community event promises to provide food, fun and entertainment and is sponsored by the Sacramento Neighborhood Center, United Community Ministries and the Fairfax County Department of Community and Recreation Services.
Among the highlights of the day is a child safety seat inspection performed by the Fairfax County Police Department, Mt. Vernon Police Station. Other activities include a karate demonstration, Brazilian martial arts demonstration, hula dancers and live bands. The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department will also have a fire truck on site for viewing.
Numerous community and county agencies will participate in this year's event, including the county's Office of Partnerships, Coordinated Services Planning, Department of Community and Recreation Services, South County Teen Center, Gum Springs Community Center, Department of Family Services' Early Head Start program, Alcohol and Drug Services and the Department of Systems Management for Human Services.
The Sacramento Neighborhood Center community day event began in 2001 as a way to focus community members on three elements — school, family and community. The SNC, the only Fairfax County center managed by a nonprofit organization, is located less than one mile north of Fort Belvoir in the southwest corner of the county. The Sacramento neighborhood includes over 1,000 families.
For additional information on the event, contact Florence Foster or Camille Ortiz at 703-619-2965, TTY 711.
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Last edited by Trader Joe; 01-08-2013 at 04:24 PM.
He will not miss next season
From ESPN News Schefter: Dr. James Andrews determined Griffin has complete tear of the patella graft that was used to repair his torn ACL in 2009, Andreews likely will usa a patella graft from Griffins other knee to repair the most recent tear. Stay tuned for more updates
The Associated Press, citing a source, reported that Wednesday's surgery is expected to last two hours.
Griffin's recovery is projected at six to eight months, barring any setbacks, sources said. The rehabilitation plan will focus primarily on strengthening Griffin's quadriceps to help protect and help stabilize the knee, according to sources. The reconstruction of the LCL is considered a complication, but sources said Andrews informed the Redskins it should rehab well during the same six-to-eight-month time frame as the ACL injury.
Under this projected time frame of surgery, recovery and rehab, Griffin should be able to participate at some level during training camp in August and be ready to open the season in September, according to the sources.
Griffin thanked his fans for their support in a tweet Wednesday morning.
"Thank you for your prayers and support. I love God, my family, my team, the fans, & I love this game. See you guys next season," he wrote.
The NFL Network reported that, after looking at the game file, coach Mike Shanahan believes Griffin suffered his knee injury on the play before the errant snap where his knee gave out as he tried to plant his leg. On that penultimate play, Griffin was sacked by Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin.
He may miss a few games though, depends on how he recovers. If he recovers like Adrian Peterson, he'll be fine.
Smothered Chicken!
I will always question if the injury was properly diagnosed and treated when the leg went 'rag doll' back in week 14... but I'm not a doctor, I just have eyes.The NFL Network reported that, after looking at the game file, coach Mike Shanahan believes Griffin suffered his knee injury on the play before the errant snap where his knee gave out as he tried to plant his leg. On that penultimate play, Griffin was sacked by Seahawks defensive end Bruce Irvin.
But regardless, RG3 was dragging that leg around for so long in the game Sunday that I'm doubting Shanahan's view that it happened the play before the errant snap is very accurate. IOW, I might be wrong but I think the odds are that Shanahan is wrong.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
2 ACL tears to the same knee....not ideal. My understanding is that they cannot graft from the same patella twice so they will hve to get the new ligament from somewhere else.
The crazy thing is both injuries came on a scramble. No clue if his injury at Baylor came on a QB scramble. Yet we still have idiots here blabbing all over sports radio blaming the option
From ESPN News Schefter: Dr. James Andrews determined Griffin has complete tear of the patella graft that was used to repair his torn ACL in 2009, Andreews likely will usa a patella graft from Griffins other knee to repair the most recent tear. Stay tuned for more updates
Difference is that its the same knee as the previous ACL tear and he's not AP. If they want to keep the same style of offense and be effective early on then I don't think he should start the season. Why risk it?
I am just going to go out on a limb here and say a person who runs an option style offense will take unnecessary risks on scramble as well.
IT goes back to doing too much in unnecessary situations which gets you hurt in the NFL. If I was a redskins fan I would want to keep him in the pocket and have him throw it away more than trying to make something at out nothing.
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I actually agree with taking their time. Especially if he has ANY setbacks.
That said, medicine advances so quickly. When I was all messed up in 04 I was shocked how quickly athletes recovered (and I was a bum HS track runner). Working with friends who ran track in college, I was shocked how far medicine advanced in 4-6 years. ANd again, none of them were pro athletes
I think his age will help but the difference is that AP has legs like a rhino which can protect him and strengthen his knee from instability. Thats the difference I see. OF course RG3 is used less than a RB but I would wait since muscle fatigue can play a roll in tearing it again.
Thats why NOT running the option is a good idea since muscle fatigue and knee ligament injuries are somewhat related. The other thing I would do is get rid of the grass field and have him run on turf.
Cousins is not a bad option so why force a guy back from his second ACL tear in less than 5 years?
2. I agree, see point 1.
3. I would love him in the pocket, but I am ok with him taking off, and even the ocoasional option play (which he suffered one injury from, and then he learned to slide or get the hell out of bounds).
4. It is great to say throw the ball away more, but running QB's are never going to do that when they have a wide open lane they can easily run through for big yardage. Again, he just needs to learn to slide..
Drafting Captain Kirk looks brilliant right about now
Andrews basically thinks Peterson is a freak. I hope RGIII is too but I wouldn't bank on his recovery based on what Peterson did.Originally Posted by Dr. James Andrews
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
Does it?
Why wouldnt it? He has looked good (granted limited) and if he comes out looking good he either created a QB controversy (good) or he is trade bait (also good). Worst case RG3 cant come back, we suck, and we get a good pick.
I dont see get your question
Tough to give the management of a team that just trotted their franchise QB out to be lion food credit for anything IMO. Saying Cousins looks like a brilliant decision because RGIII just tore up his knee is a bit like saying thank God I overpaid for auto insurance on my Kia Sephia after you total somebody's Ferrari while you are valet parking it.
Why cant it be your Ferrari?
I actually blame Shanny less then I blame RG3 the more I have time to think about it.
But regardless my point is still the same.
I am glad we have Cousins and not sexy Rexy......
Which goes back to the point of why certain Colt fans believed that Luck was the safer pick.
If I am a Redskins fan right now I would be concerned that the Redskins FO hasn't learned their lesson here. Even the Dr. gave a pretty unbelievable time table for his return so now there is an expectation that RG3 will be ready come next fall.
Really, I thought it was because Luck was smarter and better at everything?
Something tells me all learned their lesson here. Snyder may be impatient, but he is not stupid. Its also not like RG3 is the first athlete to play through a major injury. Like I said, the Redskins FO (and coaches) are going to have a different approach. Or they will have a new job.
Also, who are you to say the expectation in unbelievable. I will take a doctors word (especially one who is considered in such high regard as Dr. D) on the recovery. Especially since RG3 will be getting world class rehab and treatment.
It is possible to be both the safer pick and the better player.
I disagree that I blame RG3 over Shanahan. He had to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see that RG3 shouldn't have been out there, arguably 2-3 games ago. RG3 was a competitive athlete, you don't trust an athlete to diagnose himself. Shanny had all the information and visual evidence he needed to pull the plug on RG3 and he didn't. Shanahan is the boss, not RG3.
I do agree though that drafting Cousins was a smart decision. I've been hinting at this all year, but I think Cousins is a better long-term solution than RG3. Most people still think I'm crazy, but I think more than a few might be starting to realize what I'm getting at there.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
He may be an excellent businessman, but when it comes to running a football team, well, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Just look back on all the FA signings he wrote the checks for.
He might be right up there with Al Davis for FA fiascos.
I dont think anyone would deny he thought he was playing fantasy football.
Thank God he finally woke up and hired Bruce Allen
Similar to when Jimmy realized he couldn't run a team and brought in Polian. Now, if Jerry Jones would figure it out ............
NO!!!!!!!!!!!! You take that back!!!!!!
jerry is doing a great job!!!!!


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I'm never brand loyal when it comes to household products and often buy some from my local pound world shop. Recently whilst looking around there I spotted they had small boxes of Finish Dishwasher tablets obviously being sold for £1.00, although there were only 10 tablets in the box I decided it would be a good way of trying some I hadn't used before without forking out a lot of cash.
The Packaging
Finish Classic Dishwasher Tablets are sold in a small blue box which displays the Finish logo across the front along with the image of a gleaming glass. The front of the pack also states these are Powerball Tablets.
The back of the pack tells you a bit about the tablets and how to use them. The tablets have a small red ball stuck in the middle of them this is the powerball which will soak and soften tough food stains, the rest of the tablet contains powerful detergents to lift of and remove all traces of food. The back of the pack also informs the customer that these should be used along with dishwasher salt and rinse aid.
The Tablets
Inside the box all the tablets are individually wrapped in foil which needs to be removed, personally I prefer this type of wrapping rather than the plastic that dissolves in the water. The tablets are pretty much the same size as most other dishwasher tablets and consist of a white layer, blue layer and a red powerball.
Price and Availability
As I mentioned I bought my Finish Classic Dishwasher Tablets from my local Pound world but they are available in most major supermarkets. Tesco are currently selling these at £12.00 for 90 tablets and at Waitrose and Sainsburys a box of 30 will cost £4.50.
My Opinion
I've used the box of tablets up now and on the whole they weren't bad, most of the items came out of the dishwasher clean but I did have quite a few things that still had baked on food stuck to them. Cereal bowls too occasionally had bits of Weetabix welded to them after being washed with these. I know occasionally you do sometimes get something that hasn't cleaned perfectly but these were things, especially the cereal, that all the other dishwasher tablets I've tried have cleaned.
All in all these are not bad, I would buy them again for £1.00 for a small box ad use them only when I've got a load of washing up that isn't very dirty however I wouldn't pay full price for a larger box.
A dishwasher is something that I'd never be without - ever again. Even my husband agrees, years ago before we had a dishwasher I cooked the dinner, and he did the washing up. He always used to say, and still does, that I have the ability to use virtually every single pot, pan, and piece of cutlery just to make beans on toast. I think that I probably agree with him, as we have a full size dishwasher, there's only the two of us, and the dishwasher is on every single night. In fact some days it's on two or even three times if I've been baking that day.
Although having a dishwasher makes life easier i.e. no washing the pots, a dishwasher does require all sorts of products to go along with it; tablets powder or liquid, rinse aid, special salt, fresheners, cleaners, and protectors. Granted you don't need all of these products to run a dishwasher, but you do obviously need some sort of tablets, powder or liquid to actually clean your dishes - the dishwashers version of washing up liquid I guess!
I always buy Finish Dishwasher Tablets, I've tried cheaper brands in the past, but they just don't give the same results that the Finish tabs do. Finish Dishwasher tablets are available in 3 different varieties; Finish Classic - the most basic and the cheapest of the 3 (these are the ones that I buy), Finish All-In-One - middle of the road in both performance and price, and Finish Quantum - the all singing all dancing tabs and the most expensive of the 3.
Dishwasher products aren't exactly cheap, which is why I have tried cheaper versions of dishwasher tablets. However I always come back to Finish tabs for the superior results that they give. One of the major supermarkets will normally have the Finish products on offer though, so you can normally pick them up for less than full price.
The Finish Classic dishwasher tablets claim to have 2 'power actions'; a powerful clean, and tea stain removal. No-one drinks black tea in our house so I can't comment on whether they remove tea stains, but they do remove every other stain you could think of. I can even have the dishwasher on a gentle 35 degree wash and everything will come up nice and clean. I've found that when I've tried cheaper dishwasher tablets that they can sometimes strip away any logos on glasses or plates, this isn't the case with the Finish tabs.
Unlike the two more expensive Finish tabs which claim to have the salt function and the rinse aid function built in, the Classic tabs don't, and Finish do recommend that you supplement the Classic tabs with both the Finish Rinse Aid and the Finish Special Salt. I do this and to be honest I've found that I also need to supplement the more expensive Finish tabs with both the rinse aid and the special salt too. So that's why I buy the cheapest Classic tabs. I will buy one of the more expensive Finish tabs if they work out to be cheaper than the Classic tabs if they're on offer though. More often than not it's the Classic tabs that are the cheapest, so these are what I use probably 90% of the time.
I'd definitely recommend Finish Classic dishwasher tablets, but I would advise shopping around to get them that little bit cheaper. I have a Siemens dishwasher, and Siemens do recommend Finish products. I suspect that you can use Finish dishwasher tablets in any brand of dishwasher though.
I have tried Supermarket Dishwasher tablets and have never found them to be all that good for me. They do clean alright but I just felt that the Glasses end up a bit squeaky feeling so it is normally Finish Tablets that I use but a different one than these ones. The reason I have ended up changing to these ones is that my local Poundland has been salling a box of 15 of these for - you guessed it £1. I stocked up on a few boxes of these as they were good value and although I don't know how much these cost in a Supermarket but they will be more expensive than £1. In the chain of Dishwasher Tablets these are more "basic" and although they do the job they are obviously meant to do they aren't like the Quantum ones which do 4 different things.
The box for these is pretty simple. Just a cardboard box which doesn't have anything fancy or that on it. The tablets are individually wrapped in a simple white wrapper and when you unwrap these the Tablets are quite chunky and just seem to made of compressed powder. There is a little red ball in the middle of the tablet.
So how do I find these perform? They are just fine. They clean the dishes and there is a sheen to the dishes. When I drag my finger down the Plate it does squeak but not in a kind of sticky, residue kind of way, but in a deep down clean way.
Although these tablets may not claim to do this, that or the next thing these clean just fine and when I was in my local Poundland last week they still had a bit of a stack of these and although I perhaps have around 10 tablets left I may just buy a couple of more boxes as it is a good buy.
Good buy and worth £1 definitely.
==Finish Classic Powerball==
Many of us are fortunate enough to have a dishwasher, which means there is no need to wash up hardly anything by hand (unless it's absolutely greasy of course!). But there a some people who are not so lucky, now, let's take a couple of minutes of silence for them...2 minutes later...anyway, now with the review! Our dishwasher at home is a 7 year old Hotpoint Aquarius (in graphite) & mostly the programme we use is the quick wash at 40c. I have persuaded my dad to regularly use a dishwasher cleaner every month because ours has a half load function which enables us to do so & whenever we use the dishasher cleaner we use the intensive 65c cycle which gives good results in the dishwasher.
One brand we use all the time is Finish. The Finish Classic Powerball (Mainly Original, sometimes Citrus) in a box of 90 which my dad gets from his workplace to be precise. They cost him £6 that's all! A box of 90 lasts us a good couple of months but whilst in Poundland last week I spotted a box of 15 Finish Classic Powerball Original for guess what? Only £1! I immediately picked up a box & plonked them in my basket along with other several bits & bobs I picked up. I had seen in Morrisons that a box of 15 were £3! This meant you could have 45 tablets for the price of 15!
==The Box==
These Finish Dishwasher tablets come in a square box similar to that of a little 5 wash box of Surf. The box is dark blue with light blue on the top of the box all the way around. The Finish logo in in front of a Sparkling glass which shows they are dishwasher tablets. The variety which in this case, is 'Classic' is in the top left hand corner. Under the Finish logo is the '#1 recommended' sign. The number 15 is displayed in the bottom right hand corner.
The sides have directions for use, cautions & the dishwasher cleaners available. Also Finish are the No.1 recommended brand of dishwasher detergent.
They are recommended by:
As you can see that is a LOT of brands. The back of the box displays a lot of information. The Classic variations have a soaking action with x2 power actions: a Powerful Clean & Tea Stain Removal. Apparently the powerball soaks away food stains & lift off traces of food during the wash. Apparently for the best results use with Finish Rinse-Aid & Special Salt. On the back too their is a list of all the varieties & what jobs they do. They compare the powerful clean, tea stain removal, salt, rinse-aid & anti-limescale functions along with cutting grease, wrapper free & amazing shine.
Quantum: Do all of the above which is good as they're wrapper free
All in 1: Do all except wrapper free & amazing shine.
Classic: Do only 2 of the jobs & don't do salt, rinse-aid & anti-limescale functions along with cutting grease, wrapper free & amazing shine. That is quite dissapointing but they still do a good job without rinse aid but rinse aid does help.
==My Experiences with Finish Classic==
Last night it was my duty to load the dishwasher & instead of the usual dishwasher tablets I tried one of these without asking! I unwrapped the tablets & all they are is a white layer on the bottom with a blue layer at the top, with a red, plastic looking ball sitting on top. I unwrapped one of these, put them in the dispenser, & decided not to use rinse-aid for the first time. I then switched the program to Quick Wash, 40c & pressed start. As the machine purred into life, I looked closer at the box & read all the machine they are recommended by. I did see that Hotpoint was on the list too.
When the machine had finished I took out the plates & began to put them back onto the plate rack to see they were clean, but not just clean, SQUEAKY CLEAN! I was instantly impressed by the fact I did'nt either add rinse aid to the cycle! I looked a the glasses & cutlery to see they had no smear marks or no streaks, spots or stains either! I was really impressed by the cleaning power by these, especially since they only had 2 cleaning actions!
For £1 for 15 these are an EXCELLENT buy! They are also good for when you go on holiday if you know a dishwasher will be there! No need for Rinse Aids or even special salt unless you live in a hard water area. I will be stocking up on these! That's all for now, I'm off to watch My Parents Are Aliens!
Thanks for Reading! :)
Bf99 xx
Date: 11/4/12
Finish PowerBall Dishwasher Tablets are expensive but I have used them quite a few times when they have been on a special offer. I paid £3.15 for sixteen tablets but I have seen them a lot cheaper since. The classic variety are the ones which I personally prefer.
They are individually wrapped and a little bit fiddly and awkward to open up the cellophane packaging on each one I sometimes find.
They are advertised as being a three in one tablet so you have no need to have to use additional rinse aid or salt, which is cost saving and less time consuming in my opinion. Simply pop in the little tablet into your dishwasher and let it get to work.
Dishes come out fine some days, sparkly other days and then not so great on the odd day.
They tend to leave my glasses and cutlery quite clean and sparkling but it is obvious they do struggle sometimes with the greasier dishes we put in there as sometimes food remnant on greasy dishes have not been washed off properly and there are marks left behind - this is depite the washer being set on a very hot cycle, as I do with all my pots and pans.
As they are so expensive, I think I was expecting better results from this product and we were perhaps a bit disappointed. They are good but not great and would not be my first choice if I am completely honest, especially as they are heavily marketed and not the cheapest you can find.
I would recommend but not their number one fan.
Review also posted on Ciao as sorehead
Living in an area with super hard water, our dishwasher is my mortal enemy - its one thing after another....spewing out water, breaking pots, worst of all STAINING my glasses with yucky white marks and actually baking on tiny remnants of food so no one can scrub them off...with all this in mind I decided to try out Powerball!!!
A dishwasher tablet with rather impressive televisual advertising, the viewing of which led me to buy a box. It promised me extra cleaning power and removal of food stains....
An interesting product - I've not quite worked out what the purpose of the red ball is, but apparently it plays a vital part in the overall cleaning task. It seems to work ok - my plates are a lot cleaner, and the glasses have stopped getting quite such bad white marks- yay!!
However, there's still remnants of food left on some of my crocs - mainly items such as mugs and cups. I don't quite understand why however, as the stains that are left on (and subsequently STEAMED on by the rebellious white good) as they're always from liquids like tea, or milk, which I'd have thought would come off quite easily.
Average. They do smell good as dishwasher tablets go (this is important!), however don't seem to do exactly what was promised on all the adverts. They have improved my dishwashing experience somewhat, but they're in no way the answer to my problems! Ah well!
I love my dishwasher as it saves me so much time and effort when it comes to washing up and I have tried and tested lots of dishwasher tablets and powders since I bought it, as there are so many to chose from and they vary in price too.
I bought Finish Powerball the last time I needed dishwasher tablets as they were on offer at morrisons for £4 a box and there was 28 in the box, but when they are not on offer expect to pay more around the £6 mark per box or more depending on where you buy them from.
The powerball has a fizzing action that disolves quickly in the diswasher to clean your dishes, pots and pans. Each tablet is layered blue and white and has a little red ball in the middle of the tablet, it doesn't really matter which way round you pop them into the dishwasher compartmant as they get catapulted out into the water when the machine is washing the dishes.
They are individually wrapped so that they stay fresh and don't get wet and you only need one per wash. The powerball releases bubbles to clean the dishes and has strong ingredients to cut through grease so it does clean well on dirty dishes.
It can remove tea stains and helps reduce limescale in your dishwasher. It also contains salt to help shine the glasses and dishes. These have to be kept out of reach of children as they are an irritant.
There is a web site to look at if you have any questions that need answering about the products www.finish.co.uk where you can find out about their ranges of liquids and tablets.
These tablets are recommended for numerous dishwasher machines like Hoover, Beko, Zanussi, Smeg, Hotpoint and most other dishwashers. I have a Indesit and they work fine in it.
The results are quite good, the glasses come out shiney and the plates clean, the pans look clean and other cutlery and dishes clean well too.
Having said that, there are powders I have bought that are cheaper brands and they give the same result.
I will only buy this if it is on offer as I get better value for my money from the powders that are for sale in the supermarkets and why pay more than you should just beacause something has a well known name.
All in all these do the job well, but the price when not on offer is too much to keep buying when other brands are cheaper.
I have used other dishwashing tablets over the years....not only trying to find the best product, but also the cheapest product that will provide me with the quality I demand. And I do continually come back to Finish Powerball - because, in my experience, it stands head and shoulders above the other dishwashing products on the market. Cost wise its not too bad either. Usually I pick up a box of 15 powerballs from Boots for £3.99 - which equates to 27 pence per dishwashing cycle. I probably could get them for a lot cheaper if I bought them in bulk, but I simply never seem to be organised enough for this!
The Finish Powerball comes individually wrapped which means that the Powerball remains fresh and dry. The Powercall is white and blue and then has a pinkish (power) ball on the top centre.
Using it is easy. I simply pop the little Powerball tablet inside the powder compartment of my dishwasher - and then set my dishwasher appropriately. The tablet does fit inside the compartment easily - both in terms of width and height.
The results are good. China, plastic and cutlery comes out clean, even those items which were more encaked with food. As long as I scrape off the tougher residues from baking trays etc. these also come out clean and sparkling - although occasionally I need to finish these off by hand (although that's rare). I have never found any greasy residues on any items once the cycle is finished. In addition to this, everything smells fresh and it doesn't have that chemical dishwasher smell that some dishwashing products can leave.
The manufacturers explain why using Finish Powerball is recommended.
I concur to an extent....although sometimes baking trays need some extra manual help!
I concur. Even glasses come out sparkly clean and streak free. None of my glassware seems to have been unduly affected by being put in the dishwasher with this product.
I can't really comment on this - except to say that I haven't had a problem with limescale deposits...but then I haven't with other dishwashing products either.
Overall, I would recommend this product for anyone who uses a dishwasher. There are cheaper products out there on the market, but in my experience, purchasing them is a false economy.
Everyone hates washing up, which is why we bought ourselves a dishwasher. We tend to buy Finish powerball classic dishwasher tablets, they cost around £3.30 in most supermarkets for 15 tablets.
They come in a blue cardboard box, the background colour is mainily blue and it has a picture of a sparkling wine glass on the front. The box is fairly easy to open which is always handy!
Each tablet is individually wrapped in a foil wrapper which means they can easily be stored under the sink without getting damp. When you open up the package you are hit by a very strong fresh smell, at first I thought the smell would somehow rub onto the dishes, but it doesn't at all, and after you use them it leaves the dishwasher smelling nice and fresh. Each tablet is split into three sections, there is a white base, a blue stripe and a red ball stuck in the centre, I guess this is the power ball.
To use these all you do is put them in the small draw on the inside of the door of the washer, We always do an intensive wash with ours, which is about 70degrees and washes for around two hours. Our dishwasher does have shorter cycles but we always find putting it onto intensive gives the best results.
Whilst in the cycle, the red ball is supposed to be released first to soak on to the plates etc... then the white layer does all the work giving them a good clean. Finally, the blue layer gives everything a good shine.
We always rinse stuff before we put it into the dishwasher, but we have used it without rinsing and the finish tablets still leave everything very clean and smelling fresh. We put all sorts in the dishwasher, pots, pans, plates etc... Everything always comes out spotless.
The price tag does seem a bit expensive for these tablets, but when you look at the time saved standing at a sink washing up; it is well worth having a dishwasher and buying these tablets.
As well as pots and pans, we also put our scrubbing brush and scourers into the dishwasher too, they come out like new!
Well recommended product
I have an Ariston dishwasher and have to break up the tablet in order to get it into the door dispenser. This is a messy procedure. I also find that I am having to bleach the inside of mugs and cups as they are not cleaned properly. Will not be buying this product again.
It's only when I am housesitting for friends & relatives that I tend to get to use a dishwasher and these seem to be the tablets of choice at my friends house.
The tablets come within a thick cardboard box and are easy enough to store under the sink so that I can just remove a tablet when needed.
Each tablet is around an inch and fairly thick and come individually wrapped for easy use, however, these tablets no longer require unwrapping as they have a wrapper which is 100% water soluble and these tablets are suitable for use in the eco cycle of your dishwasher (if you have one).
I am a fairly keen cook and have been known to use many pots & pans in my quest for delicious dinners and desserts and therefore the dishwasher gets a lot of use whenever I have access to one. I usually wash things quickly beforehand, load up the dishwasher, throw in a tablet and then just forget about it until the cycle is finished.
I have found these Powerball Classic tablets to be very good at cleaning off baked on dirt & grease which making sure cutlery & glassware are kept lovely and shiny & smear free which is great as I don't have to re-wash things after emptying the dishwasher or scrub things to remove water marks.
These tablets work very well and 28 tablets currently cost £7.50 from Tesco stores or www.tesco.co.uk and I do think this price is quite steep so would advise stocking up on these if you were them on offer as they are great tablets just a little overpriced when compared with cheaper alternatives which may not work quite as well but would give you a considerable saving each month.
I am rating these tablets 4/5 as they work very well and I would definitely use them if I had a dishwasher, however, the price would be a little prohibitive to some people and I'd only want to purchase these if they are on offer.
Although there are only 3 of us at home now the washing up never seems to diminish & although I do a fair bit by hand the dishwasher still runs once a day in our house.
I've tried cheaper dishwasher tablets but none, in my opinion, are of the same high standard as the Finish Powerball ones which ave given us consistently good results.
Hubby buys them in the large 1680g (90 tablets) boxes from Makro which cost around £12 which may sound a lot but lasts about 3 months (not including Christmas) & they save me a lot of time & energy.
Each tablet is individually contained in a white & blue foiled wrapper which helps them keep solid & preventing crumbling. On opening one the nice fresh smell hits you - initially it seems a bit strong but once used although the dishwasher smells nice & clean the scent doesn't linger of crockery, pans, glassware or cutlery.
They are the perfect size for our dishwasher drawer , have a thickish white base, a thinner blue top & & good sized pinkish red ball in the centre. All you need do is open the packaking & pop in the drawer, close & off you go - our cycle takes around 40 minutes & these Classic Powerballs work their magic on everyday items.
I've found that they don't work as well on oven & baking trays or on some well-used pans which is when I have to get my scouring pads out & do the job by hand but I doubt whether any dishwashing tablets would give a great result on these.
The Classic Finish Powerball has a pre-soaking action included which claims to 'soak & soften tough food residues' whilst the powerful dtergent 'lifts off & washes away all traces of food'. I'd say these claims were true as items come out fresh, clean & no 'bits' are visible & it seems to rinse just as well as it cleans.
Greasy plates, bitty cereal bowls, glasses & cutlery, serving bowls etc are all ready to be used & very rarely have I ever had to pop anything back for a 2nd wash.
All the directions for use plus cautions are clearly marked on the reverse of the pack in words & clear diagrams. On the bottom of the carton it lists the ingredients which include enzymes, phosphates, oxygen-based bleaching agents, perfume etc & there is a warning that the tablets 'may cause allergic reaction' (rather vague don't you think?)
There's plenty of positive information provided which encourages you to use the product - eg it's claimed to be more hygienic & more economical than washing by hand & it states on the box that 'over the course of a year a dishwasher could save you up to 3 weeks of time!' ( it doesn't, however. give any examples of this claim).
There's also a useful website www.saveenergyandwater.com.
- in my opinion these are the best dishwasher tablets I've used.
- dishes, plates, glasses, cutlery, serving bowls etc all come out clean, rinsed & smelling fresh but leaving no residue.
- they don't crumble or fall to bits.
- easy to use.
- recommended for all dishwasher-users.
I have used Finish Powerball product for the last two washings. The glasses are filmed; the blue glasses are a total disaster and required cleaning with vinegar to remove it. I called the 800 number and was told the water most likely was not hot enough. I checked my manual it is 140 for all cycles. I used the very dirty plus power scrub and it made no difference. This product does not measure up to the old powder products which validates the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it." Save your money, why pay for frustration! ("a word to the wise.) Actually, it is not worth a half a star rating in my opinion!!!
I recenly bought these as a change from my normal ones as they were on special offer - these now currently cost £4.69 in Tesco for 32 tablets.
On the front of the packaging is a picture of a sparkling glass besides some lemons - so I was looking forward to some nice fresh smelling dishes.
How to use
Each tablet is individually wrapped and once you have removed the wrapper, simply place in your dishwasher drawer as usual and turn it on.
What are the claims
The tablet has two layers two it. The blue layer is supposed to break down and lift dried food , while the white layer cleans the dirt away and the powerball is there to remove those stubborn tough residues and soak - such as scrambled egg.
Is it any good?
With a few exceptions it does a very good job. Most of my dishes came out extremely clean and all glasses were indeed sparkling. However, despite the powerball, I was a little disapointed to find it did not remove the dried on scrambled egg from my pots, though in fairness I have yet to find a tablet that is successful on this. There was a faint smell of lemons upon opening the dishwasher when the cycle had finished which was quite nice. I would say these are very good but don't expect miracles -
some items simply always need to be handwashed or soaked for a while before hand.
We recently had a dishwasher fitted in our kitchen in preparation for the holiday period. We gained advice from the mother in law as too what dishwasher tablets we should use and was told these are the best. So off we went and purchased a box.
The finish Powerball tablets we got were packaged in a mainly blue coloured cardboard box. We chose the Classic cleaning tablets. On the front there is a picture of a shiny glass and lemons cut in half. The pack contained 30 of the tablets and was called Lemon sparkle.
The tablets are individually wrapped and are very easy to open. The tablet itself is very pretty. The tablet is white and blue with a red ball in the middle. The Powerball claims to soak and soften tough food residues.
To be economical we always make sure our dishwasher is full to the brim before we doo a wash. This ultimately results in many of the plates having dried on food. I have been very impressed with the Powerball. We have never had a problem with plates or cutlery being left dirty. Even baking trays come out spotless. Stains have been removed from cups and spoons. The glasses that we put in have come out clean smear free and shining. Baby bottles come out fresh and clean too. The dishwasher always smells fresh and clean when we open the door. I cannot say I can really detect a lemon scent but it does smell fresh.We will continue to use these tablets as they do seem to be very powerful and effective.
They are a bit more expensive than supermarkets own brands but are often on special offers. For the box of 30 tablets we paid £4.69. Finish do make other powerball tablets as well as the classic ones.
The Powerball contains Stain Soakers which dissolve instantly to soften really dried on food residues such as baked on egg and cheese sauces / The blue layer then works to break down and lift off food remains while the while layer cleans all traces of dirt away for a spotless and brilliant finish.


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SAN DIEGO -- If a pitcher makes a mistake, Justin Ruggiano is more than capable of belting the ball out of the park.
The center fielder showed that in the Marlins' 14-2 win over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday. Ruggiano enjoyed a two-home run game in the series finale.
Defensively, Ruggiano also is showing the ability to cover plenty of ground. He made one of Miami's top defensive plays of the season when he tracked down Chase Utley's deep drive on Sunday.
"I'm not going to blow anyone away with my speed," Ruggiano said.
He's quick to note he will not be confused with speedsters like Philadelphia's Ben Revere.
"I always make sure in BP that I take one group seriously and work on my jumps," Ruggiano said. "I make sure I take the right angles. For me, that's key to everything I do in center, as well as communication with the other outfielders."
Another advance for Ruggiano is playing quality defense in one of the most spacious stadiums in the big leagues -- Marlins Park. At home, he's adapted to playing deeper than in other places. So when he plays at smaller places like Philadephia, he feels more on top of the action.
"It's weird," he said. "Every time on the road lately, I'm playing center and I feel like I'm so shallow. It's such a big difference.
"I can see the catcher's signs. I know what pitches are coming if no one is on second base. It's just funny. That's just how big our ballpark is. If I play back in no doubles [defense] at our ballpark, I feel like I'm a mile from home plate. Whereas, if I play no doubles [in Philadelphia], I feel like I'm at normal depth at our ballpark."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - For many residents of Jacksonville, it has become easy to criticize and never give a second thought to our city's ability to be a place of culture. For some, it is more convenient to bow out and find some other established metropolis.
I would ask you to consider that the reason Jacksonville seems so depressed as a cultural hub is not because there isn't anything good happening downtown or because downtown "sucks." And, it's not because there isn't rail or an easy way to get downtown (who wants to go someplace where its cultural integrity has been lost?)
The reason we've lost our cultural vigor is because we have so few artists and cultural advocates in the River City. They've either been run out or they gave up trying.
I've met several people over the years who look at the place in which they live only to find what they can get from it. It is disheartening that we are the ones killing our city while at the same time blindly pointing a finger at everybody else for our city's issues.
But there is hope. I've lived in Jacksonville since 1996. There has been progress made. There are people who are making a difference. I believe that Jacksonville is moving forward (however slow it is).
The reason for this column is to convince you that you can be an advocate for change in this city, your home. You can come alongside others who love this city and hope for its economic and cultural betterment. Jacksonville needs artists and culture makers who are committed to staying around for a long time to make things happen.
So, what can I do about it? What can you do about it? Here's some practical things that can be done so Jacksonville can become the city it was created to be.
- Be an artist, making the best art you can, in Jacksonville.
- Be an art supporter in Jacksonville. Get to know artists and their work and go to their shows. Additionally, go to MOCA (downtown) and the Cummer Museum (Riverside).
- Become a patron of Jacksonville artists. You don't need to be rich to do this. This is the most immediate impact that you can have in the art community.
- Be hospitable to artists in Jacksonville (There is an ever-growing population in the Riverside and Springfield communities.) Get to know them personally and invite them into your home.
- Get involved to help the arts grow in your community. This includes doing things such as voting individuals into office who are for promoting the arts. Elected officials are the ones who determine where funds go.
By no means am I suggesting that these are easy steps to take. It takes commitment and perseverance to stay with something for a long time. To see this happen you must dig your hands into the dirt and do the hard labor so that, in time, good fruit will come to bear. If you desire to "make it" as an artist, Jacksonville may not be the place for you. Feel free to venture elsewhere. However, if you have a heart for the city, if you desire to see and cultivate growth for the long term, then Jacksonville needs you more than ever. Right now. For the city.
Editorial by Thony Aiuppy
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A Poisoned Season (Hardcover)
William Morrow, 9780061174148, 320pp.
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
London's social season is in full swing, and Victorian aristocracy is atwitter over a certain gentleman who claims to be the direct descendant of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Adding to their fascination with all things French, an audacious cat burglar is systematically stealing valuable items that once belonged to the ill-fated queen.
But things take a dark turn. The owner of one of the pilfered treasures is found murdered after the theft is reported in the newspapers, and the mysterious thief develops a twisted obsession with Lady Emily Ashton. It takes all of Lady Emily's wit and perseverance to unmask her stalker and ferret out the murderer, while faced with a brewing scandal that threatens both her reputation and her romance with the dashing Colin Hargreaves.
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"Readers looking for a lighter version of Anne Perry will be well rewarded."
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At the Denver factory of Hammond's Candies, two weeks before Christmas means one thing: It's candy cane crunch time.
The 93-year-old business isn't just the oldest handmade candy maker in America -- it's also the nation's largest producer of handmade candy canes. "December is a crazy time in our factory," said Andrew Schuman, owner and CEO of Hammond's Candies.
Hammond's churns out nearly 7 million candy canes every year, each rolled, shaped and cut by hand. They're almost all produced in the second half of the year.
Candy canes are 50% of the company's business, but it also makes all-natural lollipops, ribbon candy, taffy and a signature confection called Mitchell Sweet -- a bite-sized marshmallow covered in caramel -- which has been produced since 1920.
All of this is done in a single 35,000-square-foot facility where 120 people, including 10 cooks, work year-round making the sweets. The employees ramp up to 200 when production peaks in November.
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Budweiser ShareLunker: Amistad, Richland-Chambers, Waco, Fork
ATHENS, Texas — Three lakes produced Budweiser ShareLunkers March 9: Lakes Amistad, Richland-Chambers and Waco. Lake Fork sent its first fish of the season to Athens March 10.
The Lake Waco fish was the first ShareLunker from that lake and the heaviest largemouth bass reported from there. Caught by Ricky Culverhouse of Waco while fishing in a Robinson Bass Club tournament, the fish weighed 13.87 pounds, and measured 25.5 inches long and 21.5 inches in girth.
Since 1971, TPWD has stocked 400,000 largemouth bass and 543,496 Florida largemouth bass into Lake Waco. The previous Lake Waco record largemouth bass weighed 12.89 pounds and was caught in 1996.
Culverhouse caught the fish on a black-and-red flake Baby Brushhog in about six feet of water. He had cast to the same area half a dozen times before he felt a tick on the line and set the hook. "She took off like a bull," he said. "I told my partner, 'I don't know what kind of fish I have, but it's a FISH.' When I got her in she came to the top and rolled, and then I knew it was a bass."
While dealing with that fish, ShareLunker program manager David Campbell got a call from Chris McEntyre of Devine, who had landed a 13.39-pounder from Lake Amistad. McEntyre's fish was 26 inches long and 20 inches in girth. A truck was dispatched from the A.E. Wood Fish Hatchery in San Marcos to pick up that fish. Catch details are not available at this time.
Campbell's phone rang again a short time later. Jeremy Bruton of Blooming Grove had landed a 13.05-pounder from Richland-Chambers Reservoir. The fish was 25.25 inches long and 22 inches in girth. Bruton was using a Stanley Wedge spinner bait in three to four feet of water. He was fishing in a Richland-Chambers Bass Club tournament.
Bruton's fish was the fourth Budweiser ShareLunker entry from Richland-Chambers. TPWD has stocked 3,992,469 Florida largemouth bass fingerlings in the lake since 1988.
Monday evening Cal Lamb of Forney pulled a 13.02-pounder from Lake Fork, the 237th Budweiser ShareLunker from that lake. Lamb was fishing about 8 feet deep among stumps when the fish took his jig. The fish was 25 inches long and 21 inches in girth.
Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or larger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between Oct. 1 and April 30 may loan or donate the fish to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for use in a selective breeding program. To enter a fish, page program manager David Campbell at (888) 784-0600 and call him at (903) 681-0550. Keep trying until you speak to Campbell personally. Fish will be picked up anywhere in Texas.
The Budweiser ShareLunker program is made possible through support from Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Since 1991, Anheuser-Busch, in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, has contributed millions of dollars in funding to support conservation causes and fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation programs in Texas.
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