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Bullpen limited for Wednesday's contest
NEW YORK -- With Jon Niese not expected to miss any time after leaving Tuesday night's game early with a leg injury, the biggest concern stemming from that early exit may be its effect on the bullpen on Wednesday.
Niese pitched just 2 1/3 innings before departing, leaving 6 2/3 frames to the bullpen. Five relievers combined to throw 138 pitches in the 7-2 loss, with left-hander Robert Carson tossing 38 pitches over 2 1/3 frames.
Manager Terry Collins plans to stay away from Carson on Wednesday, as well as righty Brandon Lyon, who threw 32 pitches in his one inning. Collins also needs to be careful with Jeurys Familia, who pitched 1 2/3 innings on Tuesday, leaving Josh Edgin, Scott Rice, Scott Atchison, LaTroy Hawkins and closer Bobby Parnell available.
"Our bullpen is in good shape," Collins said. "Edgin is still out there, Rice is fine, Bobby's fine, Hawk's out there and he's fine. We'll be OK, but if [starter Matt Harvey] takes one off his shin, we're going to have some issues."
Despite the remaining relief options, it doesn't hurt to have Harvey toeing the rubber on Wednesday. The right-hander has pitched at least seven innings in each of his first four outings on his way to compiling a 4-0 record and 0.93 ERA.
Collins, however, doesn't want Harvey placing any added pressure on himself after Niese's short start, and that's something pitching coach Dan Warthen will cover with Harvey during their pregame meeting.
"One of the things that's going to be brought up is, 'You've got to just be yourself. Go out and pitch, throw strikes, change speeds, do your thing, but don't try to do too much,'" Collins said. "Like I said, with his quality of stuff, if he's around the strike zone, he's going to be out there later in the game."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Florida men's golf team put together one of its finest rounds of the season to propel them into first place after the first day at the NCAA South Regional in Baton Rouge, La. on Thursday.
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Florida men's golf team put together one of its finest rounds of the season to propel them into first place after the first day at the NCAA South Regional in Baton Rouge, La. on Thursday. As a team, the Gators recorded a 286-minus 2 for the opening round at the University Club.
"We have been waiting for a day like today," head coach Buddy Alexander said. "Today was solid from the get-go."
UF was the only team in the field to record a score under par on the first day of competition and holds a 10-stroke advantage over second place Alabama. Seniors Tyler McCumber and T.J. Vogel share the top spot after Thursday's round. In total, three Gators are in the top-10 after the first day.
McCumber and Vogel each fired an opening round 70-minus 2 to lead the team on the first day in Baton Rouge. Fueled by three birdies against one bogey, McCumber was able to collect his third consecutive round under par. Vogel recorded four birdies against two bogeys for his best round since the opening round at the Chris Schenkel Invitational on March 15. The All-SEC duo currently shares the lead with Alabama's Scott Strohmeyer.
"T.J. had a solid round and never was in trouble," said Alexander.
After recording a double bogey on the par-five 17th hole, sophomore Eric Banks recorded his sixth birdie of the day on the final hole en route to a even 72 at the par-72, 7,436 yard course.
It marked his seventh round at or under par this season, which is tied for fourth on the squad. Banks is currently tied for sixth place.
Senior Tommy Mou scored a 74-plus 2 for the first round of the regional tournament. He is in a tie for 13th place after the first 18 holes of play.
Oak Hall graduate J.D. Tomlinson was the final Gator to compete at the University Club. Tomlinson tallied a 77-plus 5 for the first day.

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Ever wonder what's on your favorite driver's phone?
What apps they use and how they use them?
MensHealth.com decided to find out and has revealed what is on the iPhone home screens for some of its favorite athletes and celebrities. NASCAR stars Danica Patrick, boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson all made the list, which reveals some interesting secrets about their phone habits. Johnson tweeted a link to the story Wednesday.
Patrick's home screen, for instance, features a photo of her giving Stenhouse, her new boyfriend, a kiss. Her favorite apps: ESPN, Yelp, Zagat, Pinterest and a dictionary.
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Here's what MensHealth.com had to say about Patrick's phone:
"Yes, we scored dueling smartphones from the hottest couple in auto racing. … Like her BF, she's deep into sports apps and social media. She's a huge Bears fan, hence the ESPN app, and she uses Frametastic to make collages for her Twitter feed. She's also a foodie — so Yelp and Zagat. Patrick digs Pinterest, but says she's 'new to it, so still a bit of a beginner.' News and celeb dirt come via USA Today and US Weekly."
The website presented an award to each celebrity featured. Patrick's: "Most perfectly balanced collection of girl stuff/guy stuff."
Stenhouse's home screen features a photo of Danica (of course), with such apps as: the Bible, Race Monitor and his sponsor, Best Buy.
Stenhouse told MensHealth about his phone.
"Safari — gotta be able to look up anything. Camera — love to document everything. Bible — read it and use it for our small group Bible study we do at the track. Music/iPod — mostly country. Word games — love to win, but need to be able to spell better. Social — gotta keep everyone informed on what's going on, at least the ones that want to know. Zillow — Love looking at houses and land. I'm looking for a place now. Best Buy — look at it to see what's new. Fifth Third — mobile banking. Race monitor — keep up on races when my sprint car team is out racing the dirt cars. Phone — rarely call people. Mail — all the time. Text — way too much. Photo: sent to me by my wonderful GF, wearing my favorite shirt."
Stenhouse's award: "Best all-around celebrity smartphone user. Period."
Johnson's phone features several social media apps as well as apps to help with his fitness training. But it also features Donut Maker and Dora Ballet, presumably for his daughter, Genevieve.
Says MensHealth: "He's hugely active on social media, and has a slew of photo apps and assorted social-media tools at his beck and call. But his iPhone comes in just as handy helping him stay in shape for both the triathlons he's begun competing in as well as the constant strain of muscling racecars through turns at 200 mph.
"… By the way, Savant is a home security, lighting control, and energy monitor system, so Johnson can turn off his living-room lights from the back straight at Daytona if he wants to."
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Lacunar infarction
my father is 61 years old .he had renal failure and on haemodialysis since 3 years . one week ago he started to have unvoluntary movement in his body ( mouth , hands, legs, ..... )he is a little bit hyperactive even he cant sleep . A brain C.T. Scan showed ( lacunar infarctions one in left thalamus and one in right basal ganglia ) . what is the cause of these infarctions , how are they treated? are they the cause of these unvoluntary movements ?
Lacunar infarcts are small strokes within the deep brain structures. They are highly associated with risk factors like hypertension and/or diabetes, especially if these risk factors have been present for a long time. The best way to prevent future lacunar stroke is to try and modify these risk factors (lower blood pressure, optimal treatment of diabetes, etc.).
I cannot advise you about the relationship between these imaging findings and the unwanted movements. To do so, a physician must perform a full history and exam, then review the imaging findings, and then correlate them. The short answer is that these lacunar infarcts could be related to the movements. If they are only on one side, these could be related to injury to the subthalamic nucleus, causing movements called hemiballismus. Your father should be seen by a neurologist for a full evaluation if he has not already done so.
Brett Kissela, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Director, Neurology Residency Program
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati


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Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he attended Fox Point School and Country Day School (now University School of Milwaukee), and graduated from Yale University in 1953 with a degree in economics.
He attended Officer Candidate School and served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander. He was supply officer on a tanker for a year in the Mediterranean, later remaining active in the Naval Reserves until 1991.
After earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1959, Mr. Blume was drawn to California, where he found work at Fairchild Semiconductor, seedbed for the semiconductor industry. He would design microchips at companies, including Intel Corp, for the rest of his career.
He led the team developing the 8748 and 8048 microcontrollers, which were among Intel's "hottest products" in the late 1970s. In 1970 he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Always an athlete, whether skiing, playing football, tennis or rugby, Mr. Blume went on to become a tennis official with the U.S. Tennis Association, refereeing matches on both coasts, the family said. For 40 years, he rarely missed his Saturday tennis doubles game at Alpine Hills Tennis Club. In addition, in high school, he won the state chess championship and, as an adult, became a life master in bridge.
Mr. Blume is survived by his second wife, Mary Burt; daughters Ann Blume and Frances Richards; and two grandsons.
Donations in his memory may be made to the Infusion Center, Stanford Cancer Center, 875 Blake Wilbur Drive, Palo Alto.
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Safety of and Immune Response to an HIV DNA Plasmid Vaccine Followed by HIV Adenoviral Vector Vaccine in Healthy African Adults
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|HIV Infections
|Biological: VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP Biological: VRC-HIVADV014-00-VP Biological: Vaccine placebo
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|A Phase II, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of a Multiclade HIV-1 DNA Plasmid Vaccine Followed by Recombinant, Multiclade HIV-1 Adenoviral Vector Vaccine in Healthy Adult Volunteers at Risk for HIV Infection
- Safety and tolerability, as assessed by local and systemic reactogenicity signs and symptoms, laboratory measures of safety, and adverse and serious adverse events [ Time Frame: throughout study ]
- immunogenicity as assessed by the proportion of participants who develop HIV-specific T-cell responses and/or to ENV A-, B-, or C-specific antibodies and magnitude of those responses [ Time Frame: throughout study ]
- Recruitment, enrollment, and retention rates by gender and risk category for participating trial sites [ Time Frame: throughout study ]
- safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity endpoints in participants with varying pre-existing immunity to adenovirus [ Time Frame: throughout study ]
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: A
DNA vaccine at baseline, Month 1, and Month 2, and the adenoviral vector vaccine at Month 6.
|Biological: VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP Biological: VRC-HIVADV014-00-VP
Placebo Comparator: B
Placebo vaccine
Biological: Vaccine placebo
Placebo comparator
Detailed Description:
Due to the availability of antiretroviral therapy, AIDS-related deaths have lessened in the United States. However, these therapies are widely inaccessible to the developing world. The need for a safe and affordable vaccine that will prevent HIV infection is of utmost importance. To generate a broadly protective vaccine, it is necessary to develop a multivalent vaccine containing a defined combination of immunogens from the most globally prevalent HIV subtypes. This study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a multiclade HIV-1 DNA plasmid vaccine,VRC-HIVDNA016-00-VP, followed by a multiclade recombinant HIV-1 adenoviral vector vaccine, HIVADV014-00-VP.
This study will last about 27 months. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. Group A will receive the DNA vaccine at baseline, Month 1, and Month 2, and the adenoviral vector vaccine at Month 6; Group B will receive placebo. There will be 20 study visits over 2 years. Physical exams, vital signs measurements, adverse event evaluation, and medical and medication history will occur at each visit. HIV testing and counseling and blood and urine collection will occur at selected visits.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 50 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- At risk for HIV
- Have had sexual intercourse with an HIV infected partner OR have had sexual intercourse with more than one person within the 3 months prior to study entry OR infected with a sexually transmitted disease within the 3 months prior to study entry
- Willing to comply with the protocol
- Willing to undergo HIV testing and HIV counseling and receive HIV test results
- Willing to use acceptable forms of contraception
Exclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 or HIV-2 infected
- History of immunodeficiency or autoimmune disease
- Use of corticosteroids or immunosuppressive, antiviral, anticancer, or other medications considered significant by investigator within 6 months prior to study entry
- Certain abnormal laboratory values
- Acute or chronic medical condition considered progressive
- Hepatitis B or hepatitis C virus infection or untreated syphilis
- Live attenuated vaccine within 30 days prior to study
- Planned receipt of investigational product within 30 days after first vaccination
- Other medically indicated subunit or killed vaccine within 14 days prior to study entry
- Planned receipt of other medically killed vaccine investigational product within 14 days after first vaccination
- Blood transfusion within 120 days of study entry
- Immunoglobulin within 60 days of study entry
- Participation within the last 3 months, or planned participation in another clinical study of investigational product currently or during the course of this study
- Another investigational HIV vaccine at any time
- History of severe local or systemic reactogenicity to vaccines
- History of severe allergic reactions
- History of recurrent urticaria
- Major psychiatric illness, including any history of schizophrenia or severe psychosis, bipolar disorder requiring therapy, or suicide attempt or ideation in the 3 years prior to study entry
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant within 4 months following last study vaccination
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00415649
|Study Chair:
|Pontiano Kaleebu, MD, PhD
|Medical Research Council/Uganda Viral Research Institute (UVRI) Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, UVRI/International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00415649 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
10419 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|Study First Received:
|December 21, 2006
|Last Updated:
|March 20, 2012
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
HIV Preventive Vaccine
HIV Seronegativity
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Does a Systematic Treatment Improve the Calcium and Bone Metabolism After Surgery?
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified March 2016 by Philipp Riss, Medical University of Vienna
Medical University of Vienna
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Philipp Riss, Medical University of Vienna
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 8, 2009
Last updated: March 14, 2016
Last verified: March 2016
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Primary Hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) increases bone turnover and resorption and thus calcium efflux out of bone. After successful surgical treatment of pHPT, bone takes up calcium again which may result in secondary hyperparathyroidism or even "hungry bone syndrome". Until today there are no studies about this problem helping to develop recommendations or guidelines how to prevent these symptoms.
Study hypothesis: Calcium and vitamin D intake after surgery for PHPT protects the bone by keeping PTH in the normal range (less secondary, reactive hyperparathyroidism), prevents hungry bone- syndrome and improve bone-turnover markers (osteoporosis protection).
|Primary Hyperparathyroidism Bone Metabolism
|Drug: Calcium and vitamin D
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Does a Systematic Treatment Improve the Calcium and Bone Metabolism After Successful Surgery in Patients Without Osteoporosis?
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: familial isolated hyperparathyroidism hyperparathyroidism-jaw tumor syndrome
MedlinePlus related topics: Calcium Vitamin D
Drug Information available for: Calcium Gluconate Vitamin DU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Philipp Riss, Medical University of Vienna:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Parathyroid hormone [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- BMD of lumbar spine, femoral neck and radius [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Adverse effects calcium or vitamin D [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Other biochemical markers of bone metabolism [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Calcium and vitamin D
Drug: Calcium and vitamin D
1000mg calcium per day 800 IE vitamin D per day
|No Intervention: No treatment (control)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Postmenopausal women
- Male patients
- Biochemically proven PHPT, PTX planned
- No evidence for osteoporosis
Exclusion Criteria:
- Postoperative hypocalcemia needing substitution with calcium and vitamin D/ 1-25-OH-Vitamin D
- Cancer (lung, breast, prostatic, parathyroid cancer and thyroid carcinoma >1cm)
- Persisting or recurrent PHPT (postoperative hypercalcemia)
- Four-gland hyperplasia
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) or hereditary PHPT
- Familial hypercalciuric hypercalcaemia (Ca/creatinine ratio < 0.01)
- Phenylketonuria
- Renal impairment (creatinine clearance <30ml/h)
- Severe hepatic disorder
- Severe systemic disorder
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Immobilisation
- Intake of drugs with potential effects on BMD like glucocorticoids, lithium, estrogen-replacement therapy, selective Estrogen-receptor modulators (sERMs), bisphosphonates in the last three months
- Intake of drugs containing digoxin or digitoxin
- Known allergy against any component of the study medication
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00973336
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00973336
|Contact: Philipp Riss, MD
|+43140400 ext 5621
|Contact: Bruno Niederle, Professor, MD
|+43140400 ext 6943
|Medical University of Vienna
|Vienna, Austria, 1090
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|Sub-Investigator: Philipp Riss, MD
|Principal Investigator: Bruno Niederle, Prof., MD
|Sub-Investigator: Reza Asari, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Christian Scheuba, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Katharina Kerschan-Schindl, Prof., MD
|Sub-Investigator: Peter Pietschmann, Prof., MD
|Sub-Investigator: Christian Bieglmayer, Prof., PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Martin B Niederle, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Medical University of Vienna
|Principal Investigator:
|Bruno Niederle, Prof., MD
|Medical University of Vienna, Department of Surgery
More Information
Keywords provided by Philipp Riss, Medical University of Vienna:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Philipp Riss, Assistent Professor, Medical University of Vienna
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00973336 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 8, 2009
|Last Updated:
|March 14, 2016
Keywords provided by Philipp Riss, Medical University of Vienna:
postoperative follow-up
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hyperparathyroidism, Primary
Parathyroid Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Vitamin D
Calcium, Dietary
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Bone Density Conservation Agents
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Bariatric surgeon Dr. Aviv Ben-Meir stands in an operating room newly configured for the minimally invasive procedure at Lake Health TriPoint Medical Center in Concord Township.
Surgery for weight loss is a last resort, says Dr. Aviv Ben-Meir, medical director of the new Lake Health Bariatric Surgery Center.
It's a life-changing and potentially life-saving treatment, one that can reverse obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes and sleep apnea, he said.
But, he said, it should be considered only after diets, exercise and other medical interventions have failed.
While working at the University of Virginia and St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Ben-Meir performed more than 4,000 laparoscopic bariatric procedures, and people came from all over the country to have him do their surgery.
Now he's heading a new surgery center created from a former operating room at Lake Health TriPoint Medical Center and leading a multidisciplinary bariatric surgery team that includes a physician assistant, a psychologist, dietitian and exercise physiologists with expertise in weight-loss surgery.
"Within months, the vast majority of bariatric surgery patients no longer need their insulin or blood pressure medication," Ben-Meir said. "By then their blood levels are within normal range -- a true measure of our success."
He does three types of procedures, all done laparoscopically, by using a tiny, high-quality camera inserted into a half-inch incision. The surgeon is guided by the image on a flat-screen monitor.
"I can see every thread in the stitch much better than I could by eye," he said.
In each of the procedures, the stomach is altered to hold a significantly smaller amount of food, causing the patient to feel full faster. (See accompanying images for more detailed descriptions of the procedures.)
Potential candidates must be 21 or older and more than 100 pounds overweight or afflicted with an obesity-related health problem.
"I like my patients to decide which of the three procedures they want done," he said. "It is, after all, their body."
He gives two-hour information sessions that detail the surgical options, qualifications for surgery, recovery and after care. Patients meeting the criteria are then evaluated individually and undergo diagnostic testing, he said.
"It's a big lifestyle change, and candidates must be committed to the changes needed to achieve and maintain successful results," he said. "We don't say goodbye to our patients once the surgery is over."
He considers them patients for a lifetime and has built his medical team with that in mind.
"We have exercise classes, and a psychologist who can help people get rid the of the intimidation of working out at a gym. We have a dietitian to teach new eating behaviors."
Because he wants every patient to make an informed decision and understand the commitment being made, a psychological evaluation is done before the surgery.
His staff also works with insurance carriers to get the surgery approved by them.
"Most carriers have pre-operative requirements that must be documented within the medical record before the surgery is approved," he said. "We will help you through the process."
Even those who don't have insurance coverage sometimes elect to have the surgery, which can cost about $20,000, he said, More women than men are bariatric surgery candidates, and the average age is from the late 30s to the early 40s.
"But I've done this surgery on people in their 70s," said Ben-Meir.
Because the procedure involves very small incisions, there's less pain, and healing takes place quickly. Most patients spend a day or two in a hospital nursing unit specifically designed for bariatric patients and their families. Most return to normal activities, including work, in about two weeks.
Weight loss begins right away, with one-third of the excess weight typically lost in three to six months and up to 80 percent of the excess lost within a year to 18 months.
"Complications are rare," he said. "And with all the surgeries I've done, not a single patient has expressed regret about having the surgery."
He's seen patients doing things they've never been able to do before. "I've even seen them become athletes and marathon runners -- doing all sorts of things they couldn't physically do before their surgery."
It's very rewarding as a doctor, Ben-Meir said.
"It's a privilege to be able to restore patients' health in such a dramatic way," he said. "There's nothing more rewarding in medicine than to have such profound, positive impact on patients, improving their quality of life and making it possible for them to live healthier, longer lives."
Dr. Aviv Ben-Meir
34600 Chardon Road Suite 7
Willoughby Hills
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Be nice because it promotes better discussion. When people feel attacked they get defensive. The topic gets derailed onto personal issues, and productive discussion ends. Nobody wins here.
If you were sending a friend or family member to the forums, how would you want them to be treated?
Stick to the topic. Criticize the argument but not the individual. If you have a strong case, there's no need to attack the other person's character to make your point.*
And let me be clear, personal attacks aren't just direct namecalling. These are all attacks to the intelligence and character of the poster and not acceptable:
- "Even you can understand this."
- "Let me put this in simple terms you can understand."
- "Only an idiot would think that."
- "I think I lost IQ points just reading that."
- "I will not dignify that nonsense with a response."
Be respectful and bring value to the conversation. Explain your criticism. Differences of opinion are great! ...if both sides take the time to explain themselves. Don't just have a duck season/rabbit season argument.
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- "Good price, but mine broke after a week"
- "Found it cheaper here: Link"
- "Rebate kills this deal. Company XYZ is notorious for not honoring their rebates."
- "I'll have to disagree. In my experience..."
- "Really? I was just reading this article that says the exact opposite..."
Want to avoid the drama and running afoul the moderation team? I'll let you in on this simple, time-tested strategy:
Be more polite than you think is necessary.
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This page is about the slang term bugger (1)
Meaning: a disliked or pitiful person, usually a man
For example:
- That stupid bugger who lives upstairs has stolen my newspaper again!
- How the hell did a silly bugger like that bloke get a management position?
Variety: This is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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MARIN'S WINTER shelter program for the homeless, which is operated by local churches and synagogues with funding from the Marin Community Foundation, is facing new challenges this year.
The program, which began Thursday, has had to adjust to the city of San Rafael's new "quality of life" initiative, which was developed largely in reaction to complaints from downtown businesses about misbehavior by homeless individuals.
In past years, people seeking emergency shelter for the night have gathered at the St. Vincent de Paul Society's Free Dining Room at 820 B St. in San Rafael for transport to whichever church or synagogue was welcoming them that night. The participating houses of worship provide housing on a rotating basis.
The "quality of life" initiative, however, includes an edict that participants no longer gather there.
San Rafael City Manager Nancy Mackle has said its "too much for the downtown to handle."
In addition to this new wrinkle, the program's organizers have been unable so far to find a church or synagogue willing to provide housing on Thursday nights on a regular basis.
The Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church in San Anselmo housed the male participants when the program kicked off last Thursday and will do so again for the next two weeks; but the church is too small to meet the needs of the program on an ongoing basis.
Jilliane Robinson, a Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian elder, said her small church is only large enough for 20 people to sleep on its floor. The program is designed to accommodate a maximum of 40 men and 20 women per night; for the second year running women will be housed at the county of Marin's Health and Wellness Campus at 3240 Kerner Blvd. in San Rafael.
Stephen "Walker" Bonspille, who helps oversee administration of the winter shelter program, said, "I haven't exhausted my list of people to call yet, although I'm getting on toward the bottom. I still have some places to turn. I'm pretty confident we'll find someone to take that Thursday night slot."
Bonspille, who was once homeless himself, said the prohibition against picking up participants at the St. Vincent De Paul dining room "has made it a little tricky for us."
Under the new plan, people seeking shelter must come to the dining room between noon and 2 p.m. to register. They will be told then where the pick-up spots will be that night. Bonspille said the locations will vary to prevent large groups of homeless individuals from congregating, which might result in complaints from neighbors.
The effort to minimize the visibility of the homeless to the general public is not entirely new to the program. This year, 30 Marin houses of worship will participate in the program, providing an evening meal for participants and other volunteer assistance; only eight, however, will house homeless men in their facilities, and program organizers shy away from identifying them for fear that neighbors will object.
"We've been doing this for five years now without a problem and still some people will complain," said Christine Paquette, director of development at St. Vincent de Paul.
Keeping Marin's homeless out of sight is an increasingly difficult task, however, given the numbers involved.
When the last government-mandated count was conducted in January 2011, there were 1,220 homeless people in Marin and another 4,103 individuals classified as "precariously housed" — people who are facing eviction, living in severely overcrowded housing with no other options or who are "couch surfing."
Last year, the winter shelter program served 416 people, up from 220 the year before.
Mary Kay Sweeney, Homeward Bound's executive director, said, "We're always relieved when the winter program opens because it takes the pressure off of Mill Street."
Homeward Bound is the nonprofit that supplies the county's only permanent housing for the homeless. It has 55 beds for single adults at its Mill Street Center in San Rafael and another 80 beds at its New Beginnings Center in Novato. It also has accommodations for 14 families. To get a bed at New Beginnings, people seeking shelter must first gain entry to Mill Street.
Sweeney said Homeward Bound lacks the space to house all of the county's homeless and regularly has to turn people away.
Davina Jeffrey, 61, who took advantage of the winter shelter program Thursday night, said, "Mill Street is always full, especially when the weather is bad."
Jeffrey said she has been sleeping outdoors since a friend who was letting her sleep on his couch moved away.
"I've been camping wherever I can," Jeffrey said. "You have to be sneaky and find a place that is out of the way."
Jeffrey said a homeless friend of hers was recently issued a ticket for camping after he fell asleep laying on his sleeping bag in the park.
A key component of San Rafael's "quality of life" initiative has been increased police patrols and enforcement of minor infractions such as jaywalking, drinking alcohol from open containers and urinating in public in the downtown area.
John Cefalu, 52, who slept at Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian on Thursday night, said often police question him because he is carrying a backpack.
"It's embarrassing when people are walking by and you have two police officers next to you when you never had a police officer next to you in your entire 52 years of being alive," Cafalu said. "You're not causing harm. You're just homeless."
Cefalu, a tax accountant who has lived in Marin since 2000, said he has been sleeping outdoors without even a sleeping bag or a warm coat for the last two weeks after being discharged from a recovery program for alcoholics.
"I can't live outside in this weather at my age," Cefalu said. He has Type 1 diabetes and is in the late stages of hepatitis C. He has recently weathered several bouts of bronchitis and pneumonia and spent five weeks in the intensive care unit at Marin General Hospital.
Another program participant Thursday, Jim Fox, said he was recently issued a citation for drinking in public.
Fox said he has been homeless since the building in Sleepy Hollow where he rented a room for $500 was foreclosed on a year ago.
He said he relied on the county's emergency winter shelter program last year.
"It's a life saver," Fox said. "The people care about you."
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I am curious what phone operating system you have and if this chart is correct.
I know Android has a larger # of devices & is available on more carriers than Apple iOS but when I am out in the Chicago suburbs I tend to see more iPhones than Android devices 2x1.
Also interesting to see in 2011 RIM had 22%, I remember when they owned the market too. What cell phone do you carry and what do you like about it?


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Pre-judging and Judging days
Pre-judging and Judging day!
Last Monday was a stressful day! After spending the night finishing to knit my collar, I had a 45 minutes nap before getting in a cab and heading to school. We all put our our outfits on dress forms and waited for our critic Reiko to pre-judge our looks. We left the classroom for an hour, the time she needed to carefully look at every-one's work and choose a critic award winner, and eventually deselect some looks for the judging day.
We all came back, dead tired, waiting to quickly pack up our things and have a little nap.
Reiko said she was very impressed with our class and our designs. We went much further than the expected. She would have liked to give many of us an award and added that it was very hard to pick a single one.
The winner was announced, and to a big surprise, it was me! So kudos for that. I am very happy to be the winner – as I have never won any fashion prize or award before. She added that the reason she picked me was that everytime I met her, I had developed my ideas. Also, I seriously listened to all her advices, stepping back from my original ideas and design, looking at my work from an objective point of view, and changing what needed to be changed. Indeed, at the beginning of the process, I was experimenting with plastic very much. I wanted to "glue" plastic bags directly onto my fabrics with latex. The idea was interesting, but not looking as attractive as it may sound. I had many ideas, but eventually, they were all over the place. A few weeks before I started knitting the final fabrics, I decided to change the colors and leave behind anything that looked too "crafty". I still used the plastic, but knitting black garbage bags.
On Tuesday night, we set up all of our pre-selected outfits in the great hall at school. They were judged for the fashion show (May 4th) and a cotton award was chosen for each specialization track. My roomie and friend Elin got the knitwear cotton award with her amazing cotton paper handknit jacket.
Now it's spring break and we are looking forward for some chill time! Take care and enjoy the pictures!
Category: Fashion Show, Knitwear, Olga
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A funny thing happened on Tony winner Jerry Zak's way to med school: he became a Broadway director.
He has won four Tony Awards as the best director on Broadway. The New York Times has called him the outstanding director of comedy in the American theater today. He is Jerry Zaks, and he is sitting in his Manhattan office on West 44th Street above the St. James Theater, home (until January) of his long-running hit revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, talking about why he loves what he does.
"Something happens to me in the theater when what's happening on-stage is really good," he says, leaning forward in his chair to emphasize his point. "It's a kind of communal, shared ecstatic experience--whether we all scream when the bad guy leaps out of the darkness and we think it's murder, or we all laugh so hard we don't know if we can stop, or we get so involved with someone's loss, we fall in love with the character and what they're going through hurts us so much that we cry. It's a kind of magic, and I love when magic happens. And I love it even more when I'm the one at least partly responsible for weaving that spell, for making the audience laugh or scream or cry. I love being the magician."
The 51-year-old Zaks is an accomplished theater magician. Nathan Lane, who has starred for him on Broadway in Forum, Guys and Dolls and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23d Floor, calls Zaks "the best there is," a director in the supremely talented tradition of all the great Broadway directors of the past.
In Zaks' office are four visible manifestations of that talent: statuettes representing Tonys, Broadway's highest honor, awarded him in 1986 for directing John Guare's tragicomic The House of Blue Leaves at Lincoln Center Theater, in 1989 for Ken Ludwig's delightful farce Lend Me a Tenor, in 1991 for Guare's acclaimed comedy-drama Six Degrees of Separation and in 1992 for his critically hailed revival of Frank Loesser's classic musical Guys and Dolls.
Zaks has three other Tony nominations to his credit, for the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes in 1988, for Forum in 1996 and for another long-running smash, Smokey Joe's Cafe, a smart and sassy 1995 revue of the 1950s and '60s rock-and-roll songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (among them "Hound Dog," "Yakety Yak," "Love Potion No. 9" and "Stand By Me").
Since 1990, Zaks has held a salaried but untitled position with a major theater owner, Jujamcyn Theaters, developing plays and musicals for the company's five Broadway stages. In 1996 he directed his first movie, the critically praised Marvin's Room, starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton and Robert DeNiro.
Zaks is nothing if not intense. He approaches everything he does--most especially his craft, gathering together and assembling the many complex and varied components that make up a play or a musical--with the likable enthusiasm of a young boy gluing together a model airplane. Indeed, his smiling face and the cheerful, twinkling eyes under his dark, thin oval glasses reveal the youthful joy and excitement of a man happy with his life and the choices he has made. He is thin and trim for his age, and as he sits and talks about his career it takes only a little imagination to change his carefully combed curly salt and pepper hair--with the emphasis on the salt--back to pure pepper to see the teenager from which the successful adult grew.
"It's impossible to overstate the pleasure I get when an audience is driven crazy by a show I've directed," he says. "I love being in control of all the pieces. I love orchestrating the pieces with my collaborators. When the play works in the way it was intended to work, so that when the lights go down at the end you hear a roar of approval from the audience, there's a satisfaction beyond words."
To get to that point, he says, is both hard work and great fun.
"I love working with the actors, right from the beginning," he says. "My job is real basic. On the first day of rehearsal, what I'm presented with is the acting equivalent of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippin and a nut like Dennis Rodman. I've got all those highly talented individuals, and now they have to become a team. And making them a team is what I do."
Becoming an ensemble is "a very delicate process," he says. "Everyone gives great lip service to it. But doing it is another thing." He gives actors great leeway, he says--up to a point. "I tell them when something's not working, when it could be working better and why it's not working. Maybe it's the tone, maybe it's in the actors' attitude to each other. And I could be wrong. I'm wrong many times. But the actors have to be willing to trust me. What I do is I throw out ideas--good ones, bad ones, indifferent ones. They'll adopt the good ones and discard the bad ones and the indifferent ones. And they will come up with things on their own, amazing things, that I never would have expected. And together we'll make our way to opening night."
Zaks' own opening night was on Sept. 7, 1946, in Stuttgart, Germany. "My parents were Polish," he says. "They had come through the war. My mother was in Auschwitz for a year; my father had changed his identity and managed to escape. And then they were reunited."
The family emigrated to the United States in 1948, settling first in the Bronx and soon after in East Paterson, New Jersey, where Zaks grew up with no interest in the theater.
"My father opened a kosher butcher shop, just as his father before him," Zaks recalls. "I went to Paterson East Side High School, and I basically didn't know that theater existed. I was the first-born son, precious, overprotected, encouraged to excel in school. I was smart, I was nonathletic. My only vice was '50s music, which I would steal away and perform by myself in the basement, singing into a mirror over my father's bar, all the songs in Smokey Joe's Cafe. I was Ben E. King. I was the Coasters. That was my joy."
His pain, he says, was the pain of many other children of parents who survived Hitler. "My parents didn't talk about their Holocaust experiences, so the mystery of it was huge in my mind," says Zaks. "But I was made to believe that the world was an incredibly hostile place, that people are essentially out to get you. The message was to be careful whom you trust, if you trust anyone. And that you as a Jewish person have reason to be afraid. I don't know if there's a direct connection between that and the fact that my greatest terror is fear of boring an audience, that they'll get up en masse and ask who is responsible for this, but I suspect there's a connection between my upbringing and the fact that I have an incredible need to be liked by everyone. The feeling is I need to please people to protect myself, so they won't attack me. And that kind of perception, from the earliest days of childhood, dies very hard."
College changed his life. "I went to Dartmouth, which is really where everything in my life began," he says. "I divide my life pre-Dartmouth and post-Dartmouth. I finally left the family, went out into the larger world. And I discovered theater. Two things happened in my sophomore year. I was asked to act in an intrafraternity play, and I found that I loved performing. I was scared by it, but I loved it. And then shortly after that I saw the college's winter carnival student musical. It was Wonderful Town. It was the first musical I had ever seen. And I couldn't believe it--the lights, the music, the joy that was being spread. From then on I was hooked. I gave up the notion of being a premed student. I tried out for every play I possibly could. I got parts in all of them and started acting."
Zaks wound up getting a master of fine arts degree in theater at Smith College, where he lost 40 pounds, began dancing and met a theater director named Curt Dempster. He moved to New York, became a founding member with Dempster of the Off Off Broadway Ensemble Studio Theater and spent most of the next decade acting on and off Broadway and in commercials. He appeared in the Broadway revue Tintypes, in a score of children's productions for Theaterworks U.S.A. and as Kenickie in the long-running original Broadway production of the musical Grease. The more he performed, the more he wanted to direct.
"I was an OK actor," he says, "good but nowhere near great. And in directing, I could work with actors who could do things I could never imagine. Even in Grease, the wanna-be director in me was starting to come to the surface. I would start giving notes to replacements on their performance--something I would fire myself for today. Any director would consider it unacceptable behavior for an actor--but I couldn't help taking that responsibility for myself."
In the late 1970s, a fellow member of Ensemble Studio Theater suggested he direct a play, unknown then and unknown now--The Soft Touch, by Neil Cuthbert. "We did four performances. It wasn't even publicized. But the place was packed--and the sound of laughter was huge. I was hooked."
Soon after, as part of Ensemble Studio's marathon of new plays, Zaks read a one-act play called Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, a comedy about an aging religion teacher conducting an assembly in the auditorium of Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows School. The author was Christopher Durang, a young playwright he had met several years earlier at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. "I remember finishing it and wanting to burn all the other copies so no one else could get it before me," Zaks says. He directed the play at Ensemble Studio, then at the Off Broadway Playwrights Horizons and finally for a long and successful off-Broadway run. Slowly, he was becoming noticed.
Zaks directed several other Durang plays at Playwrights Horizons--and then in 1985 a call came from Gregory Mosher and Bernard Gersten, who were bringing Lincoln Center Theater back to life after several years of darkness. "They asked me to direct John Guare's House of Blue Leaves, " Zaks recalls. The play--set in Sunnyside, Queens, in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York, and featuring a zookeeper and his wife, Bananas--had first been performed in 1971, and by coincidence Zaks had directed it a couple of summers earlier as a guest artist at Dartmouth. "I had fallen in love with the play," he says. "I said 'yes' right away."
The tragi-comedy starred Swoosie Kurtz and John Mahoney (better known now as Frasier's father on the television sit-com of the same name), and it was an immediate hit. The play moved from Lincoln Center to Broadway, and provided Zaks with his first Tony. Then came a successful revival of The Front Page and, also at Lincoln Center, his acclaimed production of Anything Goes, starring Patti LuPone. And the successes kept on coming--both revivals and original plays: Lend Me a Tenor. Six Degrees. Guys and Dolls. Smokey Joe's and Forum.
Such a scorecard is not easy to obtain, especially when many of the entries are revivals of shows whose originals are legends in theatergoers' minds. The pressure of mounting new productions of shows like Guys and Dolls and Forum, with the natural and automatic comparisons to the classic performances of Sam Levene and Zero Mostel, are enormous. But Zaks has done it.
"I try not to think about it," he says. "I guess it's a case on my part of arrogance of the first order, but it's the only way I can do it. I just assume that if I really love what I'm working on, there's no reason I can't make it work. Of course, sometimes I've been proven wrong, but if you don't feel that way you can't attack the work with the kind of gusto it demands."
The difficulties of working with actors are also well known, and theatrical tales of director-actor flare-ups are legion. But, with a few exceptions, Zaks says he has been lucky. With some actors, notably Nathan Lane, the trust and teamwork have been palpable from the start, he says. "I think we have great respect for each other's ability to think funny, to make funny, to craft funny," Zaks says. "We depend on each other and love each other's sensibility and company. Nathan can take a moment and run with it and turn it into a whole comic interlude. He can come in and do something you never expected that's twice as funny as you ever imagined it could be."
Lane's replacement in Forum, Whoopi Goldberg, is the same kind of performer, Zaks says. "First of all, she's the best in terms of her approach to the work, how seriously she takes things, how willing she was to trust me. The audience loves her, and it's easy to understand why. When she came aboard, she would try new things. Some I loved, but some I wasn't sure of. But she really proved me wrong."
With some performers, however, things have not been so pleasurable. Such was the case, he says, in the making of Marvin's Room, his first movie. "I thought I was going to die," he says. "It was really difficult. I was coming from a world where I'm supremely confident, where I can do what I need to do and get it done, and where I feel the trust of practically everyone I work with--or if I'm not getting it right away I get it very quickly. But on Marvin's Room I was thrust into a situation that was brand new, where the vocabulary, the entire language, the process of translating what was on the page into its final form was very different.
"If you are rehearsing a play, the actors and I begin work, we go home, we think about it, you come in the next day, you try something new. Maybe something I said the day before sinks in and works, it's a great idea, and we work on it and make it even better, or we find out it's a terrible idea, and we laugh and throw it out, and we continue in that way until opening night, and we present this finished thing. In the theater, the actors are together all the time, building this team I was talking about. In film, the actors are rarely together at the same time. They come in in the morning, we more or less rehearse the scene, you use stand-ins for lighting, the actors go away to get made up or fitted for costumes, and then you shoot and it's already opening night. The scene is filmed, and that's that. It took a while to get used to that."
It also took a while, he says, "to get used to having to persuade the actors to make adjustments, to letting them do it their way for take after take--and if it was perfect, not saying anything, but if it was not even close to perfect dealing with the fact that sometimes they didn't believe me. And I take it all very personally."
It was particularly hard, he says, with Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, the co-stars of the movie based on the 1991 off-Broadway play by Scott McPherson about two estranged sisters who are reunited when one finds out she is very sick. "I think it took a while for them to trust me," Zaks says. "I don't blame them. I was not feeling very confident. They're very smart. They're very talented. They're very perceptive. They could feel my uncertainty, and they must have felt, Why should they trust me? It was, after all, my first film. And I guess that made sense--except when it came down to specific decisions about how a scene was being played, when if I didn't have the cooperation of one of them, it made the going really tough. I had to figure out how to get their cooperation, and I did. But I had to do uncharacteristic things, like telling everybody to leave, emptying the set and saying to whoever it was: 'What are we going to do? I will not move on from this unless you do it my way. If you cannot make this scene be about reassuring your sister, in spite of the fact that you just heard the worst news of your life, then we will not cry. And the audience must cry.' That's not the way I usually deal with actors. And that was not the rule on the set. That was just every other day."
He laughs. Enough criticism. "On the other hand," he says, "there were actors on the set, Robert DeNiro and Gwen Verdon and Leonardo DiCaprio, who would have done anything, who would have tried anything, who worked as a team from the start--who didn't have a vested interest in being smarter than me."
In the end, though, he says, the family became a happy one. "I think everyone in the movie was proud of it and proud of their performances. Diane was grateful for the collaboration, and Meryl was, too."
He says he would like to do another movie--"as long as the material is good and I get a chance to get better at it. Though I must admit that when I was in the middle of Marvin's Room, if you had asked me that question I would have laughed in your face."
When he is not in a theater or on a movie set, Zaks can often be found on a golf course. He is an inveterate duffer. "Golf is a little like directing," he says. "Every situation is different. You think your experience with the first 15 minutes of a play or the first 15 holes on the course has prepared you for the next one. But it hasn't. And you have to deal with it. You have to ask yourself if you're a big fraud for even thinking you ever knew anything about it--the theater or the game. And you say, 'Why am I wasting my time hitting this stupid little ball?' But you go on."
Just as he loves the collaboration of the theater, he says, he loves the camaraderie on the golf course. "When I play with friends the laughs are so intense. I love the idea, the challenge, of having to stay focused, of playing a game that punishes you over and over for working much harder than you need to work. I shoot in the 90s, with the feeling that with a little bit more finesse or concentration I should be shooting in the 80s. It's such a hard game. Like directing."
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Cases of 190-proof Everclear bottles line the shelves inside Len Goodman's marijuana edibles kitchen. The nearly pure ethanol isn't used as an ingredient in his family's marijuana cheese doodle recipes, brownies or chocolate chip cookies. It's used instead to extract potent tetrahydroncannabiol and cannabidiol (THC/CBD) oils from plant trim that has been set aside from a recent harvest to make medicinal candies, tinctures and concentrates.
Goodman, who manages NewMexicann Natural Medicine in Santa Fe with his wife and extended family, used to send the oils to CG Higgins candy company across town and buy back tasty truffles, peanut brittle and lollipops. But New Mexico banned the use of commercial kitchens to make cannabis food and beverage products this year. It's another case of the complicated chemistry between state and federal laws.
The letter came just a few months after New Mexico Environment Department's Health Bureau Chief Jack King notified the Department of Health that US Department of Agriculture regulations prohibit commercial kitchens from making anything with marijuana.
"As long as marijuana/cannabis continues to be federally listed as a Schedule One controlled substance, medical cannabis is not a US Food and Drug Administration-approved food additive under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act," wrote King.
Federal regulators consider marijuana to be a food adulterant, and facility inspectors wanted to make sure there was no cross-contamination where retail shoppers might end up with the medication in their food.
"By using extracts and cannabis butter, we also get rid of the nasty plant parts and awful alfalfa taste"
The state's Medical Cannabis Program Manager Ken Groggel sent letters last May ordering 23 licensed producers to stop outsourcing their edibles manufacturing effective in January.
Since the state Environment Department has no authority to regulate medical marijuana products, King offered Groggel an alternative. His inspectors would not take enforcement actions as long as production of the edibles in NMED-permitted facilities ceased.
The Department of Health quickly agreed to the proposal and alerted the nonprofit producers to build their own stand-alone kitchens to conform with consumer standards for food processing, package labels and sanitation by the beginning of the year. Producers were instructed to amend their business plans and not use the kitchens to produce non-cannabis food products for the public.
Edibles are a popular method of cannabis ingestion for patients, according to Groggel, and the program intends to continue their manufacturing and distribution.
That solution worked for Goodman. He invested thousands of dollars and constructed a new workspace and registered two candy makers with the state.
Even though edibles make up less than a fifth of his sales revenue, they're an important corner of the medicine market.
Goodman's employees call the oils that leave rings of greenish-yellow stains around their fingers "the goo." Liquid samples from each batch are sent to a lab 60 miles away in Albuquerque to measure the potency of THC/CBD in each milligram of extract.
Once the percentage of psychoactive THC/CBD is determined, candy makers can use precise formulas to get consistent product servings. That's something you can't do just crushing up bud and mixing it into cookie batter.
"By using extracts and cannabis butter, we also get rid of the nasty plant parts and awful alfalfa taste," says Goodman.
Albuquerque chocolatier Tim Van Rixel says he takes testing one step further. His Bhang Bars are tested for bacteria, salmonella, E coli, mold, fungus and other impurities.
Heather Manus, the medical director for Santa Fe-based Sacred Garden, used to make organic lemon bars under the brand name Nature's Power before the new kitchen regulations took effect. She says edibles are the best alternative for patients who don't want to inhale carcinogens with their medication.
"Brownies sell well," says Manus.
Her patients eat their medicine just before bedtime because the pain relief, they say, lasts longer.
"They don't wake up in the middle night and have to smoke another bowl," say Manus.
Even parents of children who suffer from epileptic seizures favor edibles.
"They don't want their kids smoking dope," says Goodman.
Still, concerns about marijuana edible use are being raised around the country.
Colorado has formed a group of industry leaders, government officials and health professionals to consider ways to reduce the risks of overdoses and implement new safety regulations.
The task force plans to determine safe levels of active THC/CBD in medical products in proportion to serving sizes and educate the public that ingesting too much can be harmful.
"Our patients know it takes a while for the medicine to take effect," says Goodman. "We tell them to eat a little and wait 90 minutes. After that they can eat a little more if they need it."
Safety discussions in Colorado follow the recent death of a 19-year-old college student, who leaped to his death from a Denver hotel balcony after he ate cookies reportedly infused with hashish oil equivalent to six medical-grade joints.
SFR discovered that even drug legalization advocates aren't opposed to responsible edible guidelines, even though the New Mexico Department of Health doesn't limit the amount of THC in any consumable products.
"We need to create responsible regulations for manufacturing and accurate guidelines, including dosage recommendations for marijuana edibles," writes Drug Policy Alliance of New Mexico Policy Coordinator Jessica Gelay in an email. "We also need to invest and educate adults on how to use marijuana products safely. The same way adults learn to use alcohol responsively, the vast majority can and will use marijuana products in the same responsible manner."
A registered patient in Rio Rancho may learn that lesson the hard way. Police there want to know if the man acted negligently last week after his teenage son shared cannabis-laced candies he'd brought to campus from home with other students. After ingesting the infused sweet, one boy reported to the school's nurse office feeling ill.
Rio Rancho Public Schools communication director Kim Vesely tells SFR the patient's son said he didn't know the candy was infused with cannabis.
Similar to prescription and over-the-counter medications, the Department of Health wants patients to take measures to keep products out of children's reach.
"All edibles are required to be packaged and labeled at the time licensed nonprofit producers distribute them," writes spokesman Kenny Vigil.
Vesely says students should treat any candy they get like Halloween.
"Be careful opening candy from others," she adds.
Patients even need to make sure their cats and dogs can't get to it, or they may incur expensive bills from their veterinarians.
In Santa Fe, police spokeswoman Celina Westervelt tells SFR, officers haven't responded to any marijuana intoxication, nor have they arrested any adults for negligently leaving cookies and candy in the reach of children. Even the University of New Mexico says it hasn't recorded any marijuana poisonings. Alcohol overdoses are more


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This doesn't affect most of us, but there is some evidence that in some people with epilepsy, meditation can trigger seizures. My understanding is that meditation tends to produce hypersynchronous brain waves, which precede seizures in some people. This is a matter of current controversy among epileptologists, but I have seen references to NIH funding of studies to explore this connection. So here's one case where meditation is possibly physically dangerous for some people.
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"It's been a labor of love," she said. "I want families to know they had a soldier in the Civil War, and, because of what they did, we still are the United States."
Hobson is taking orders now for the 400-page, hardback book, which contains a short biography of each of the 2,012 men who served in the 44th Indiana regiment and about 20 pages of color charts and graphs about the unit. She is ordering only about 200 copies printed. Cost is $30 each. The book won't be available online or at a bookstore.
Hobson, a retired math teacher, became interested in the 44th while doing genealogy research on her mother's side of the family. A distant relative, Lewis W. Griffith, served with the regiment after enlisting in August 1861. He survived the war, and had risen to the rank of captain by the time of his discharge in September 1865.
She found his story so fascinating, she started researching all of the men in the unit, nearly all of whom came from northeast Indiana.
Interesting things she learned about the men and unit include:
•The 44th marched about 850 miles in a 10-month period during the war; part of that time the soldiers were barefoot and without tents.
•Among the eight northeast Indiana counties sending men to the regiment, Allen County had the highest percentage who were foreign-born. Allen County also sent only about half as many men as the other counties, and a greater number of Allen County men deserted the unit than residents of other counties.
Hobson believes Allen County residents didn't support the war as strongly as people in other counties. It also appears more men from other counties enlisted as family groups rather than as individuals, the latter of which was more common in Allen County.
•She discovered 80 boys younger than age 18 — the minimum age for Civil War enlistment — served with the 44th. The youngest likely was 13-year-old drummer William Mendham from Noble County, who joined in April 1864 and served through the end of the war.
•Of the 951 soldiers in the unit at the start of the war, only 216 remained at the end of the war. Hobson learned 103 soldiers mustered out after serving their initial duty tour of three years; 227 died; 337 were discharged for disability, disease or wounds; 58 deserted; and 10 received a dishonorable discharge.
•The last member of the regiment died in 1943.
Hobson said she has so much information, she has two or three more books planned on the 44th.
The next book will focus on the organization of the regiment and how men were recruited. She hopes to include photos of men in the unit. Anyone with a photo to share can contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 238-4645.
The third book will recount the "trials and tribulations" the 44th faced during the war. A fourth book could look at men's courts martials and the regimental reunions held after the war.
She also hopes to continue updating her just-published book, which lacks burial information for more than 100 of the men. She invites people who have information about those men to contact her.
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My 10-yr-old son (fraternal twin of genetically normal girl and older brother of genetically normal boy) was diagnosed in utero with 45X/46XY chromosomal mosaic. He was born and continues to appear a completely normal male. His last doctor visit on the topic was to geneticist at 1 yr of age. Physically, he is tall; normal appearance. Mentally, he is gifted, perhaps highly gifted. My understanding is that his biggest risks are gonadal tumors and infertility. My questions are: given his completely normal appearance and lack of symptoms, should we, based on the diagnosis, be seeing a geneticist? If so, when? Is the chance of a problem highest upon onset of puberty? Should we be vigilant about checking for testicular tumors? Is he very likely to be infertile, and is that something we can find out at his age? Thank you in advance for any advice.
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