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BWW Interviews: Dorothy Stanley of Denver Center's WHITE CHRISTMAS - Broadway Beginnings and More
MM: On behalf of BroadwayWorld, I just have to say how excited we are to have you and this wonderful award winning show coming to Denver!
DS: It's absolute heaven for me. If there's one word to describe my experience here, it's that. And, let's see, I had another word, too. It's heaven and very rewarding for those of us who are in the show and working at the DCPA. It's been great. My first experience here in Denver was in the Denver Center Attractions performance of Swingtime Canteen during the millennium. We started singing and performing in the latter part of '99, and I was here when it turned 2000. Although, my husband was doing Fosse in Chicago, so I flew to Chicago and we actually had our millennium dinner in Chicago, and the two of us were just keeping United busy flying back and forth seeing each other, but that's when I first came to Denver, and five years ago, of course, we did the White Christmas, and I came here with the Billy Elliot tour a year and a half ago.
MM: What do you think of our fine city?
DS: At one point I thought about moving here. I just love it. But I sort of have a bit of Colorado back in my life on the East Coast because I have a house in Vermont. So I've got the mountains back there, but I just love it. And we can't believe how blessed we've been with the weather since we got here. I got here on October 14, and other than one evening of a dusting of snow, as you know, we've had just glorious weather. Although I know that Denver would love to see some snow because, like Vermont, that's really good business for everybody. If you don't have snow, it's unfortunate.
MM: We are literally dreaming of a white Christmas.
DS: Exactly, and I hope it comes true.
MM: Me, too. You have quite a fun role as Martha Watson in White Christmas, why is this role significant for you?
DS: Oh, well, it's significant in many ways. It's just fun. The writing is great, so I don't do anything but go out there and just say the words. And luckily, Patti Colombo put me in, my number is usually just done in a tiny little scrim or a wrap of costumes, and she did this number that I get to play the whole stage with everybody on it watching, and it's a really fun number to do, 'Let Me Sing' is really fun. The show means a lot to me because, of course, I was raised watching every year we watchEd White Christmas, and my dad was a general in the Air Force. My mother bought a farm in Vermont when my dad retired he said he wanted to go south of the border, and she said "George, I was raised in Connecticut, so I want to stay in New England." So, she bought a farm and my folks spend seven months in Florida and five months in Vermont, and I sweat that's the reason they outlived their siblings and friends. Best of both worlds. But we had our farm, and my father was a general, and we never had a division come sing We'll Follow the Man, but we certainly vicariously enjoyed what could have happened because my dad was a general. So Martha's just so much fun and Kent Thompson's direction is great. He allowed me to do the one thing that I didn't do last time, which was to break the fourth wall on that one line about having dated 23 horn players and then dump every last one of them. I mean, it may be good for us time, but it works the audience a lot, and it's just fun to get that reaction every night, as you can imagine.
MM: The choreography was thoroughly impressive in this production, do you feel that the choreography has enhanced your character?
DS: Oh, of course, because I know that in the Randy Skinner - the fellow who directed the original - and Walter Bobbie. In the Walter Bobbie/Rander Skinner production, she's not in' I Love A Piano,' but because I'm a hoofer from years ago, Patti decided to put me in a section of 'I Love A Piano,' so that's a lot of fun. And of course I enjoy the applause and the reaction that we get when we do it. And I think she made the call and let me sing - very palatable for what I can do. And you have to sing at the same time. To do a lot of singing and dancing moves, especially in the Mile High City, can be a little tough. I so respect Kate and Nick for doing 'Best Things,' because that's quite the dance. And actually when Kent Thompson asked me back via an email about 10 months ago, he asked me about Patti Colombo. He asked "What do you think about bringing her back?" And I said "You've gotta do it" because all her numbers were such crowd pleasers last time. And so he did and so she came back and we had time because there were so many people that came back from the previous production, Kent and Patti both had time to really hone the musical numbers even more this time. So I think in many ways, the production was much improved this time around.
MM: You also have quite an extensive career on Broadway debuting in Sugar Babies, tell us a little about your history and love of Broadway.
DS: Oh, my love of Broadway started when I was a little girl. My mom put me in dancing school at the age of 4 and my parents had an extensive collection of musical theatre albums, so I still have the original record jackets and records of My Fair Lady and Guys and Dolls and Man of La Mancha, and Ed Sullivan put out a whole series of records with Kiss Me, Kate, and Carnival and Carousel, and I still have the original Oklahoma! and Carousel with Shirley Jones, who I actually had the good fortune to work with not too long ago in the revival of 42nd Street. But Broadway was my dream from a very early age and I danced but I also played the piano and the viola. I started playing the piano when I was 6 and a half and the viola when I was 8, and because I didn't have an extension, my leg, I couldn't give you 6 o'clock, but I could give you a quarter after. I didn't think I was a good enough dancer to be on Broadway, so I pursued a musical career. I was either gonna choose viola or piano and I chose the viola because I knew I wouldn't have as much competition. But I studied at Park College of Music with both viola and piano until I left high school, and then I went to Ithaca College, which had a good Drama Department. But I started out as a Bachelor of Music degree, and I changed after the first semester to Bachelor of Fine Arts and started taking all of my electives in the Drama Department. And all through high school, I did musicals. God, I did Bye, Bye, Birdie, Carousel, Sound of Music, Kismet in high school. And then at Ithaca College, I only worked backstage in Gypsy and I was Mustardseed in a production of Midsummer Nights Dream. But in the summer, The Farm that my mother bought was 18 minutes from the Weston Playhouse, and I started doing summer stock at the Weston Playhouse. So basically, I played my viola - I was in school with the viola from September to May, and would perform at the Weston Playhouse in the summer. And then I went to Carnegie Melon for grad work, where I actually did two productions. I was still majoring in viola, but Robert Page, who was Minati's grandfather, was the new dean of the department of music, and he asked the dean of the Drama Department to do a combined musical, and wouldn't you know the first musical they chose was Follies, and I just wanted to audition to be in the ensemble. But I auditioned early, before Thanksgiving, and when I came back from the Thanksgiving vacation, my roommate said that I had gotten one of the leads, which was Sally Plummer. So I did Sally Plummer in Follies at Carnegie Melon, followed by Bianca in Kiss Me, Kate my second year. And I auditioned, while I was in Pittsburgh, I auditioned for the summer season at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and got hired as a dancer who sang in the ensemble, and therefore got my equity card. So, I had my equity card before I moved to then New York City right from Pittsburgh. Then my 30th audition in the city, I landed Kiss Me, Kate, and I went to NY City to actually study viola - my viola teacher was a principal of the Pittsburgh Symphony, and his teacher was Mr. Lindsor at Julliard, and he said, "Now the only thing for you to do is go study with my teacher," so I did. And while I was in New York, studying viola, I started auditioning. And I actually dovetailed playing the viola in various orchestras around the city with auditioning and getting jobs in the theatre. And I started getting jobs at the Darien Dinner Theatre, which is now defunct. So I did Promises, Promises, and Paint Your Wagon, which were both directed by Morton DaCosta, who was the director for Music Man. So I thought, you know, I'm just gonna take any job I can get in the theatre, because you never know who you're going to meet. And it was in that first job with Kiss Me, Kate, when I met a fellow in the ensemble who was a very good dancer and was an assistant to Donald Sadler, and actually, I ended up calling him, his name was Bobby Heath, my fairy godfather, because he was basically, he was responsible for my getting a number of shows early on in my career in the city, one of which was my first production contract - a revival of Annie. This is all extraneous - we could talk for 5 hours. But yeah, my love for Broadway started when I was a young kid, to answer your question.
MM: Is there a role that you love to perform that you can go back to over and over again?
DS: Well, certainly Martha is one of them, and I hope he asks me to do it in another 5 years. But another role that I loved and I'm too old to do it now, of course, was Billy Dawn in the play Born Yesterday, but that was a coup, because I was working with a director in the musical 1940's Radio Hour, and the role I played in 1940's Radio Hour at Syracuse Rep - and actually Robby Marshall was the choreographer - the director was Jack Billing, asked me what role I'd like to do. And I'd always liked the movie Born Yesterday, and I knew the play was out there, and I said I'd love to do the play Born Yesterday. And for someone with a musical theatre background like mine, it's a coup to be able to be cast in a play, but sure enough, he called me and asked me if I wanted to play it, and I said sure. And, like that, when I did George Abbott's Symposium at Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Gerald Friedman directed the musical Boys from Syracuse and George Abbot was 100 years old and directed a play called Broadway. So I was cast in that play, and we did those two shows, and Hal Finch happened to come see me do both roles, and fast forward - I was meeting a friend in an equity lounge one day to go for lunch, and I hear "Anyone else for Cabaret?" And I thought, Cabaret? I wondered who they were looking for, and so I said, "by the way, who are you looking for," and they said Fräulein Kost, and I said "okay, if you can wait, I'll go home, change, and get my material and come back and audition." And this was for the post-Broadway tour of Hal Finch's Cabaret, so I went in for the audition and auditioned for Hal, in a theatre, which doesn't happen anymore, but this was in the 80's, and he said "Oh, wonderful, we'll call you tomorrow." So, my first job with Hal Finch was the post- Broadway tour of Cabaret. I really enjoy playing Fräulein Kost. Of course, I love playing Lily St. Regis in Annie, but I'm too old to play those anymore. I can't go back to some of these roles, but the roles I really enjoyed were those. And also, I've played both Charlotte and Desiree in A Little Night Music, but I prefer Charlotte. I got an award, actually for playing Charlotte. I love the character - she's just so sympathetic. And of course, I love Sondheim, so I've been very lucky to have been able to play the Witch in Into the Woods, which I played at the Pioneer Theatre. I played both Charlotte and Desiree at different theatres, and I played JoAnn in Company at Connecticut Rep, and then I've played 7 roles in Follies at any given time. My three favorite Sondheims are - oh, and I played Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd - but my three favorite Sondheims are Follies, Sweeney Todd, and Night Music. I just think they're all perfection, and they're so different. But, yes, Follies I played Sally, and then when they did the revival on Broadway, I auditioned because when I played Sally I actually wanted to understudy Phyllis. So when I auditioned, I sang 'Could I Leave You?' And they called and said "We don't know what to do with you yet." And they ended up casting me covering Blythe Danner as Phyllis, Polly Bergen as Carlotta, Marge Champion as Emily, of course I played my own roll as Bebe West, but I also covered Carol Wood as Stella. So, I covered four people, played my own role, and went on for all of them. And it was a challenge but it was fun. And now I could play other roles in Follies, so I look forward to doing Follies again because I just love it. And I think you probably know that I covered and went on for Patti in Sweeney, with the instrument. And then they asked if I wanted to cover her and the three strippers in Gypsy, the revival, and I said no one in the business would do that. I said you can find someone to cover her, and you can find someone to cover the three strippers. I'll cover the three strippers. So, I auditioned and got that job, which was fun. But to cover both her and the three strippers would have been impossible. Nobody could have done it. Nobody would have wanted to do that. But covering Patti is not an easy gig, I'll tell you that.
MM: If you were not in theater, what job do you think that you would be doing in a parrallel universe?
DS: Oh, jeeze. At one point, when I had a bit of a down time, I took a real estate course, and I thought, well, maybe I'll go into real estate, like two of my other friends have done. Real estate always interested me. But now, since I have a dog and a farm and a place in Vermont, I thought about raising Alpacas and doing dog rescue like Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. As a matter of fact, being friends with Billy from doing Annie so many years ago, I've been to Broadway Barks while I was doing shows on Broadway, every year. And finally, I said to Billy one day, he said "What are you looking for?" And I said, I want a small dog that I can travel with that's hypoallergenic that's not a puppy. I don't have the wherewithal to train a puppy. And two weeks later he called me and he said, this never happens, but we have a little Havanese that a gal has to get rid of because she's moving to a place that doesn't allow dogs. So I adopted this little dog. Her name is Millie. She travels everywhere with me. She's got a huge fan base and every show that I've done since I've had her, which has been 7 shows, the directors have allowed her in rehearsal. And actually, they've allowed her in the dressing room here, too, because when I did the Billy Elliot tour, I registered her - when I got her, she was a therapy dog, but I registered her as a service dog so I could take her everywhere with me. I would probably be dealing with animals in some way. My husband is one of one of the production members on Once on Broadway. I actually married the production carpenter of Showboat, when I did Showboat. We met in Canada. And now we have our own house in Vermont, and we still are working with my mother's farm, and we're going to be busy turning the farm back into a farm, with cattle and animals and things. That's what I'd be doing. The real estate idea sort of bypassed me. I'd say I'd be working with animals in any way, shape, or form.
MM: Any projects in the works after this show in finished?
DS: I don't have anything coming up. I did do a taping of Sense and Sensibility yesterday, but I wasn't happy with it, and I don't think...they auditioned me for a woman who plays two roles in the show and also understudies a role that Mary Testa did in a reading, but she's not going to be doing it actually. So, I don't know. But I don't feel I did well, so I don't feel I'm going to be doing Sense and Sensibility. But that's okay, so I'll be heading home. And I miss my husband and my house in Vermont. So, I'll see what comes up. I'm at that point now where I kindof like the unknowing...there's always hope involved. People who make it in our business, they live off of hope, and a lot of people say "Oh my God, I'll never work again," you know, after the show closes. But I seem to be very lucky. I was wondering what was going to happen after Billy Elliot closed early, because I thought that was going to be both my husband's and my retirement, because he was working Billy Elliot on Broadway, and I was working the second national tour. But they closed before we thought they would, and of course, the seated tour is out, but I didn't want to do that. And I was actually cast in a Flashdance tour, which would have conflicted with White Christmas, and it was a seated tour, so I thought, you know what...Beth Bauer did the reading, and she was promised the Broadway show, so why would I go out and do a seated production of Flashdance when I have this offer for White Christmas, and I thought if I turn White Christmas down with a two-week notice, I'll certainly burn a bridge. So, I turned Flashdance down; I chose White Christmas, and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Well, we're glad you chose us. Oh my God. I mean, I love the show so much, and Kent Thompson offered me Dotty in Noises Off, he just offered it to me after I did this show the last time. And then, fortunately I couldn't do it. I was slitting my wrists because I got the Patti LuPone Gypsy, so of course that was gonna last longer and keep me in New York, so I kindof had to do that. But I'm just hoping he offers me a play again someday out here and I just cross my fingers, because I love working here. Any opportunity to play in Denver, I'll come back.
MM: Well we love having you here. Now here's a fun question for you - What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
DS: Probably when I'm in town, I mean besides decorating Christmas trees, of course, but my husband's from Prince Edward Island and he used to decorate Charlottetown, the town of Charlottetown for Christmas. So my husband is very into decorating. But, aside from having fun decorating...Oh, this is funny. We live in Vermont and we have a 9-foot fake tree that we bought and it's so difficult putting it up and decorating it that we leave it up year-round. But other than that, I absolutely have to go to Rockefeller Center, see the tree. I have to go up and down 5th Avenue and look in the windows. I just...I love New York at Christmas. I mean, New York is kindof crazy, and I love Rockefeller Center. So I have to do that. I would say those are my favorite traditions. And, of course, it's not on Christmas, but watching the Macy's Day Parade. We always watch the parade, followed by Miracle on 34th Street, followed by the dog show. We always have to watch those movies and It's A Wonderful Life. You know, like everybody else. You've got to watch the classics. But, yes, I love walking around New York.
MM: Again - thank you so much for speaking with me and BroadwayWorld today!!! You are absolutely wonderful in White Christmas at the Denver Center and we wish you an enchanting Holidays!!!
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Steve: We've been hearing from lots of people about 3D. They've seen 3D movies at the theater, like Avatar, and they want to be able to watch 3D at home on their TVs. So in this video I'm going to cover the basics of how 3D TV works and then I'll tell you exactly what you need to get it at home. Now right now there's not a lot of 3D content available, but 3D TVs also give you an excellent picture with everything you watch, non-3D stuff too. So if you're shopping for a new TV, you might want to consider a 3D TV because you'll get a fantastic picture now and then you'll be ready when there's more 3D content available.
3D movies are actually filmed using two cameras to simulate what we see with both of our eyes and our brains combine those two perspectives and that's what creates the 3D effect. What's tricky is making sure that you have precisely the right perspective for each eye. Different TV manufacturers are using slightly different approaches, but most 3D TVs use a special screen that can display two versions of an image at the same time. And it does that by alternating video frames very quickly so that the left eye and the right eye have slightly different versions. And because of that if you're watching a 3D TV and you're not wearing special glasses the image is going to look blurry.
Now if you've seen a 3D movie in a theater, you're used to the idea of 3D glasses, but active 3D glasses are quite different from the theater experience. These are wireless, battery powered liquid-crystal "shutter" glasses, and that sounds complicated, but it's really not. The 3D TV sends out infrared signals to control the timing of the glasses, so either the left or the right lenses darken and block out the image in sync with what's on the TV screen. So your right and left eyes each see the correct version at the correct time. Our brains are wired for 3D. That's how the world looks to us every day. So our brains interpret the two images from a 3D TV screen the same way it does the perspectives from our two eyes.
A newer technology to home 3D entertainment is passive 3D TV. With passive TVs and glasses the experience is similar to how you watch 3D in the theater. The TV and glasses use polarizing filters so each eye sees a different image. The advantages of this technology are that the glasses are much lighter, much less expensive, and they don't need batteries. And also the viewing range is wider. But there is a loss of resolution which may be noticeable to viewers who are particular about picture quality, especially on larger size screens.
If you want 3D TV at home, here's what you'll need. First, you need a TV that's designed for 3D and that can be an LCD, including an LED illuminated LCD, or a plasma TV. You'll also need 3D glasses for everyone who is going to be watching. And you want to be sure that the glasses are compatible with your TV which will usually mean buying glasses that are the same brand as the TV. Then you'll need a 3D video signal. Now most 3D TVs will be able to convert 2D video to 3D, but for 3D video that looks best you want something that was originally shot in 3D. And your options there are 3D Blu-ray players and movies, and then we've also heard that there'll be more and more channels offering 3D content as it becomes more established.
To connect a 3D video source component to your 3D TV, you're going to need an HDMI cable, and most recent good quality HDMI cables should work fine, especially if they're two meters or shorter. Now for longer lengths, you should look for a cable that's designed to handle higher data speeds because sending 3D video to a 3D TV is almost like sending two 1080p video signals simultaneously. You can visit crutchfield.com/HDMIinfo for more details on HDMI cables.
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The goal = 3 distinct approaches to the thesis that all are valid and can result in a successful project.
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This of is only one example but the goal is to develop 3 approaches like this that I can then apply to the scale and site of the project.
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Back in Majors, Paredes showing more confidence
HOUSTON -- The early returns have been good for right fielder Jimmy Paredes, who entered Thursday hitting .375 (3-for-8) in two games since he was called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City. All three of his hits have been doubles, and Paredes said following Wednesday's game he feels more comfortable than he did when he was called up last year.
"It's amazing how [being] comfortable and confidence go hand in hand," manager Bo Porter said. "You're talking about a guy that's part of the reason we decided to bring him up here, because he was playing with a lot of confidence at Triple-A. I wanted to keep that confidence rolling, and he's done a tremendous job in the short period of time he's been here."
Paredes, who has been tried out at second base, third base and shortstop by the Astros in recent years before being moved to the outfield last year, hit .366 at Oklahoma City. Paredes had a strong debut in 2011 with Houston when he hit .286 with two homers and 18 RBIs in 46 games, but he struggled when he was called up late last year, hitting .189 in 24 games.
General manager Jeff Luhnow even senses a different level of confidence this year in Paredes.
"Confidence was the one theme I heard from everybody I spoke to who had been to Oklahoma City, and just watching his at-bats closely over the last couple of days, he's almost daring the pitcher to try to get something by him and fouling off bad pitches and waiting for his pitch," Luhnow said. "His pitch isn't necessarily in the strike zone -- it might be down by his feet -- but he's still going to hit a double. It makes for a pretty exciting ballplayer. He's got tremendous tools, and I think he's better than he was last year when he got here. He deserved the promotion last year, and I'm hoping this one is permanent."
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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MARTINEZ — A Southern California couple pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other felony charges in connection with the Oct. 5 killing of retired schoolteacher Susie Ko at her Hercules home.
Tania Washington, 25, quietly cried in her hands as defense attorneys entered the pleas for her and her 24-year-old husband, Darnell Washington.
Authorities say the West Covina residents fatally stabbed Ko, 55, during a crime spree that started with Tania Washington helping her husband break out of a San Bernardino County jail on Aug. 28 as he was awaiting trial on robbery charges.
It was while on the run for the jail break, authorities say, that Darnell Washington shot and wounded a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy on Sept. 2.
Police in SeaTac, Wash., apprehended the couple Oct. 10 after they allegedly led officers on a high-speed chase in KO's stolen Subaru Outback and rammed a patrol car.
The nine-count felony complaint filed against the Washingtons in Contra Costa County Superior Court alleges that they murdered Ko in the course of a robbery, burglary and a carjacking — special circumstances that make the couple candidates for a death penalty prosecution. The Contra Costa District Attorney's Office has not announced whether it will pursue capital punishment.
After the Contra Costa County case is resolved, the Washingtons are expected to return to Los Angeles County for prosecution on charges that include attempted murder of a peace officer, carjacking and attempted carjacking.
Court documents indicate that the Washingtons went to KO's house after ditching the stolen truck they used to flee a robbery at the Pinole Kmart, located just one freeway exit from the Ko family's neighborhood.
"There is an active investigation into other possible criminal activity that took place between the time Mr. Washington escaped in San Bernardino and their capture in Washington (state)," deputy district attorney Molly Manoukian said.
The Washingtons return to court March 1 to schedule a preliminary hearing. In the meantime, they are being jailed without bail.
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College baseball gearing for 'Classic at The K'
MILWAUKEE -- Kauffman Stadium will go college on April 22 with a Missouri-Kansas border clash.
The University of Missouri Tigers will take on the Wichita State Shockers from Kansas at 7 p.m. CT on Tuesday, April 22, in a game that will benefit the National College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock, Texas.
Farmland Foods will sponsor the event, "The National College Baseball Hall of Fame Classic at The K."
"We are so honored that David and Dan Glass and the Royals organization have chosen to host this game," said Hall of Fame executive vice president of development Jana Howser, daughter of late Royals Hall of Fame manager Dick Howser. "We look forward to a wonderful night of college baseball."
The teams have played 10 times with Wichita State winning six games. The Shockers won, 3-0, in the last meeting in 2004.
Tickets in the BATS Crown Club, which will include a special menu offered at a reduced price, will be available for $25 for adults and $14 for youth ages 14 and under.
Fans also may purchase tickets in the KIA Diamond Club for $15 for adults and $10 for youth. Royals Crown Club and Diamond Club seat holders will be given a special opportunity to purchase tickets in these two areas and will receive an email with information on how to purchase tickets within the next week.
General admission seating in the lower seating bowl will be available for purchase at $10 for adults and $5 for youth.
Tickets are available online at www.royals.com/hofgame, in person at the Kauffman Stadium box office or by calling 1-800-6-ROYALS.
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|Behavioral: Standard Referral Behavioral: Project Bridge
|Phase 2
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
|Official Title:
|Finding, Testing and Treating High-Risk Probationers and Parolees With HIV
- Log10 viral load [ Time Frame: Every 3 months for 2 years ]Changes in viral load over time will be compared between the standard referral and Project Bridge Groups
- Engagement in HIV Care [ Time Frame: Every 3 months for 2 years ]The proportion of participants entering HIV care will be compared between the standard referral and Project Bridge groups
- Initiation of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) [ Time Frame: Every 3 months for 2 years ]The proportion of participants initiating HAART will be compared between the standard referral and Project Bridge groups
|Study Start Date:
|August 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Standard Referral
Participants randomized to this arm will be referred to local HIV care resources
Behavioral: Standard Referral
Participants randomized to this arm will be referred to local HIV care resources
Experimental: Project Bridge
Participants randomized to this arm will be given the Project Bridge intervention
Behavioral: Project Bridge
Arm 2
Detailed Description:
The study has two research objectives: (1) to expand access and options for HIV testing with individuals in the criminal justice system, by focusing on high-risk intravenous drug users (IDUs) and crack cocaine smokers in community settings; and (2) to improve access and maintenance of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) among HIV-positive persons in this population, by implementing a promising intervention focused on continuity of HIV care, and evaluating it using a rigorous experimental design.
HIV-positive persons will be identified through the testing activities described in Objective 1. They will then be offered enrollment in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an intervention designed to engage and maintain HIV-positive people with criminal justice involvement in medical care. The intervention, Project Bridge, has shown great promise but has not yet been rigorously evaluated. The RCT will assess the efficacy of Project Bridge compared with a Usual Care arm. Our hypotheses are that, at quarterly data collection visits: (1) Intervention participants will have lower HIV viral load than usual care participants 2b: (2) Intervention participants will be more likely to be in HIV care than usual care participants (3) Intervention participants will be more likely to be on HAART than usual care participants.
The study design was changed from a randomized controlled trial to a quasi-experimental comparison group design. This change was approved by the NIMH Program Officer and the RTI IRB in June, 2012.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 or older
- HIV antibody positive
- not currently receiving HIV care
Exclusion Criteria:
- already in care
- unable to provide informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01402466
|United States, California
|RTI International Urban Health Program
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94104
|Principal Investigator:
|Alex H Kral, PhD
|RTI International
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01402466 History of Changes
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R01MH094090 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|June 28, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 25, 2016
Keywords provided by RTI International:
Drug users
criminal justice
HIV care
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FLORENCE, AL -- With Steven Schechner of Capital Vending at its helm, the National Bulk Vendors Association enters into a new phase of its 62-year history. Elected president on March 16 during the NBVA convention, Schechner takes on the job of moving the association to the next level.
Assuming the presidency following a three-year stretch in the top spot by Bernie Schwarzli, Beaver Machine Corp., Schechner's leadership role may prove to be a defining one for the association. While Schwarzli was instrumental in guiding the NBVA through a critical transition period during a difficult economy, it's now up to Schechner to build on that solid base.
An NBVA member since 1996, Schechner has served the association in a variety of positions, starting as seminar chairman, which he held for three years, and then chairing the membership committee for two years. It was during his tenure as membership chairman that the association reached a milestone, surpassing 600 registered members.
In 2009, he was elected secretary, just as the association was entering a turbulent period -- the U.S. economy was tanking on a failing mortgage market and at the same time, in late 2008, NBVA parted company with its longtime director and counsel, Morrie Much of Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein P.C., and began a reorganization. And Randy Chilton of Coinstar resigned as NBVA president following Cointar's exit from the coin machine industry.
If defining and addressing the needs of the small and midsize operators are keys to the association's success, then the Alabama-based operator considers himself well qualified. Schechner's Alabama-based Capital Vending, a small operation itself, serves three southern states and boasts four divisions or machine categories. His equipment mix includes coin-op amusements, traditional bulk vending, ATMs and charity candy. Founded in 1988 with just 25 bulk machines, he grew the route quickly and within its first year it had topped 50 machines. He later purchased another route, which brought his machine assets to more than 400 units. "We expanded fairly quickly, but all I ever did was candy until 1998," Schechner said.
Indeed, 1998 would prove a watershed year for the young southern operator. That was the year he attended an NBVA convention and ran into a New Jersey operator. While Schechner was operating mostly candy, the New Jersey vendor specialized in, and thrived on, toys and stickers. Hitting it off at the trade show, the two decided to visit each other's routes and exchange critiques.
"It just came about by networking at the NBVA show," Schechner remembers. "That experience really worked for us. We learned much, we did it twice and within a year my vending route offered toys and stickers alonside candy. And we were doing them right. He had maybe 10 years in bulk vending capsules and stickers, and I had just as many years in candy."
Listing his priorities, Schechner underscored the need to increase membership. While the NBVA is now seeing former members beginning to return, his ultimate goal is to attract new members.
"In the next few years we want to become more proactive about membership," he explained. "We want to meet the members where they're at. We'd like our officers to mentor the members, and for each member to have the opportunity to learn and work within the NBVA in a way that will help them make more money for their business."
According to Schechner, increased networking and a greater emphasis on education will drive membership growth. This is the same kind of peer-to-peer sharing that helped him launch into new categories of bulk vending more than a decade ago.
"The association is entirely independent and solid now," he explained. "A lot of us had this dream 10 years ago. And now the organization is run with the passion and experience of longtime, committed members. We've come a long way and we're not done yet."
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The first time I saw Zoolander I didn't like it, but it grew on me after multiple viewings, so after I saw Zoolander 2 and did not like it, I actually went back the next day and tried it again. Maybe it just needed to grow on me so I could properly appreciate its absurdity, but no. Zoolander 2 isn't secretly brilliant like its predecessor, nor does it have the kind of absurd humor it takes time to unpack. Full Story
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For the second night in a row, Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen walked the carpet in Cannes together as a couple. They are super, super cute together. I like the way he looks at her. Anyway, apparently her figure skating dress from the night before was Marchesa. Of course. Last night though she threw on some pants. Full Story
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Seriously. Tourism Vancouver should hire Owen Wilson. He loves it here. Owen Wilson was spotted in town yesterday, bike riding with friends, shopping, making the most of a rain-free Vancouver afternoon. He was also seen shopping on Robson at Lululemon with a woman, and later at night at the Opus. I'm told it was not his baby mother. Full Story
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http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/46923Dan (Indy)
Does Granger have ANY trade value? Will he help really even help that much when he comes back?
Chad Ford (1:21 PM)
All depends on how he checks out medically. If he's going to be 100 percent soon, he has a lot of value. If he's going to take the rest of the season to get back to 100 percent, his value drops for the Pacers.
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If Granger was 100% today, what kind of 4 or 1 could/would Indy target?
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I think Eric Bledsoe of the Clippers would be their top target. Ed Davis, who the Pacers seriously considered drafting over Paul George, would be another option.


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Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, on November 4, 1935, Shirley succumbed to the effects of Parkinson's on October 1, 2013.
Always eager to learn everything and to assist others, Shirley Swintek McCauley conducted her life as many others only wish they could.
After moving to California with her mother and two brothers, she lived with them in Los Angeles and Long Beach, putting herself through college by working full time and earning her BA Degree in Business Administration. She applied these skills at IBM in Long Beach and Los Angeles, serving as a Systems Service Representative.
Upon marriage and moving to the Bay Area, Shirley continued many activities with the American Association of University Women, Los Madres, the Career Action Center in Palo Alto, as a teachers aide at both the Los Altos and Palo Alto Elementary School Districts, as board member at the Mountain View and Los Altos Cooperative Nursery schools, and participating in the development of the Mountain View Parent Preschool. As a member of Foothills Congregational Church in Los Altos, Shirley served in numerous capacities for many years, including Deaconesses and Wedding Coordinator.
Further, she expanded her interests and activities to the English In Action Program for foreign students and their families at Stanford and to volunteering at Filoli, and then to establishing and operating her own business, Extra Time.
Shirley's trademarks were her optimism, delightful nature, intelligence and sterling character traits. She is survived by her son Scott and daughter Alison, grandchildren Wyatt & Eleanor, and her loving husband of 52 years, Donald, all of whom dearly loved and revered her.
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The University of Rochester envisions itself as a community that welcomes, encourages, and supports individuals who desire to contribute to and benefit from the institution's missions of teaching, research, patient care, performance, and community service. In a pluralistic culture, that community includes faculty, students, and staff who represent important differences. The University is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all employees, without regard to race, color, sex, gender, religion, age, national origin, disability, or sexual orientation.
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LGBTQI patients are welcomed and cared for through University Health Services and the University Counseling Center, and just this year transition-related health care services were added to the student health care plan at the University.
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Full-time students participate in the Student Health Program, which covers primary care visits to the University Health Service (UHS), time-limited therapy at the University Counseling Center (UCC), and health promotion services. Employees and other members of the University community can choose a UHS physician as their primary care provider and come to UHS for their personal health care. UHS also provides occupational health care services for employees. All visits to UHS are confidential. UHS has offices on the River Campus, in the Medical Center, and at the Eastman School of Music.
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The support staff working with the Office for Residential Life and Housing Services coordinate educational, cultural, and social programs; help in dealing with personal issues and problems; supervise the student staff members (RAs, CAs, GHAs, and GHRs); provide modern computer and video access systems; and direct all cleaning, physical improvements, and repairs in the buildings.
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The Pride Alliance at the University of Rochester is an employee resource group dedicated to creating and sustaining a positive work environment which values and supports all individuals regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression.
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Pride Network's mission is to provide and support an open and secure environment to discuss issues of sexuality and identity, provide information and resources concerning sexuality to all University members, and provide social and academic activities that are in compliance to the University of Rochester Students' Association.
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LGBTQ & Allies Special Interest Group at Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) & Allies graduate student interest group at Warner works to create an inclusive environment for all students, faculty and staff, and supports the educational achievement and personal growth of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex students, and their allies. The group strives to bring awareness to LGBTQ issues in our communities, schools, higher education institutions, and social programs and be a resource for individuals who would like to learn more about current research, topics of debate, and critiques of heteronormativity. The group also aims to develop a safe and supportive space for students to share ideas and pursue academic interests and to work with other LGBTQ groups at the University and in the community.
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The SPECTRUM group at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) seeks to support, educate, and offer targeted resources to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community training at URMC. Members include nursing students, URMC graduate students, medical residents, dental residents, and medical students.
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LGBTQI Awareness Month
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The month's programming annually features the Rainbow Lecture, where the keynote addresses LGBTQI issues from a scholarly perspective, and the Out in Reel Film Series featuring films focused on LGBTQI-related issues. Other events are slightly different year to year, they have included workshops, drag shows, lectures from visiting scholars and/or artists, public debates, film screenings, and more. For complete schedules of past LGBTQI Awareness Month activities, visit the Diversity at the University's LGBTQI Awareness month page.
Rocxxy Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership
The Susan B. Anthony Institute used to host Rocxxy: Summer Internship in Feminist Activism and Leadership for undergraduate students at the University. We are currenty not offering Rocxxy, but hope to offer it in the future. Be in touch with SBAI for updates. Rocxxy was developed by SBAI Program Manager Angela Clark-Taylor, and was launched in the summer of 2013. The program combines a professional internship experience with guest speakers, field trips to historic sites, and readings and reflections on feminist activism and leadership. This combination of academic, experiential, and professional experiences is meant to inspire and equip students to become stronger, more prepared leaders for social change. Some of the internship sites we include in the program are organizations that deal specifically with LGBTQI issues, such as the Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley, and the program's curriculum spends time reading about and discussing LGBTQI issues and activism. To learn more about the program and take a look at last year's sample syllabus, click here.
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how can I rate an instructable ? I can not find anything to click on!?
Here are a few backdoor solutions that work for me... more often than not. :-)
First: Refresh the page a time or 2... or 10. ;-) Didn't work? Try this-->
Click directly on the the Author's username. This will take you to his/her list of Instructables. From there, click on the Ible you want to rate. If you still don't see the Star Rating feature, try this -->
If you're using the "View all steps on one page" feature, go to your profile and disable it. Then go back to the Ible you want to rate. Click the box that says "View all steps on one page". It's the first box under the title.
I've found that refreshing the page is the least reliable fix, but the other two methods are fairly reliable, although temporary.
If you feel compelled to rate a project, but none-of-the-above solutions work, save the Ible to your favs and try another time.
Good luck to you... I know how frustrating this can be. ;-)
I just heard from a reliable source. She uses Internet Explorer and has NO problem with the Star-rating feature whatsoever! ;-O)
Isn't that just priceless???
In my opinion, on a PC, Internet Explorer is an AMAZING tool...
for downloading Firefox. ;)
Laugh out loud is "lol", whereas LMBO translates as: Laughing my butt off
;-D is a laughing/grinning face when you look at it with your head tilted sideways to the left.
See? Now you got a 2fer... which translates to "2 answers for the price of 1" except it didn't cost you anything!
But my question is: What's a "crapper"? lol... jk. (just kidding, of course!;-)
Also, you didn't mention your "second method" (or the first). o_0 ;-)
Now you know there are at least 3 ways to skin the Star Rating Cat. ;-D
At least we're resourceful on finding a way to skin that star rating cat! ;)
I just rated an Ible using the second method I listed below.
The Star-rating feature may be fickle or "borked", (whatever that means. ;-) but it sure isn't dead.
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More will be known about how many local police officers will be based in Maldon district in the next two months.
Essex chief constable Stephen Kavanagh announced last month that 500 officers across Essex will be moved out of the centrally controlled response team and some specialist roles to work locally.
District commander Chief Insp Alan Cook has yet to be told how many will cover Maldon and Chelmsford, his areas of responsibility.
Postings are expected to be known by mid August.
Speaking at a public meeting organised by police and crime commissioner Nick Alston at Maldon Town Hall on Wednesday he said: "The real challenge for me will be making sure the split I have across the whole of the district recognises the uniqueness of the area I am responsible for.
"On one side I have got a city, on the other I have got a very rural area."
Mr Cook said it will mean he can move officers around to attend incidents anywhere in the district.


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June 1-7 is AED/CPR Awareness Week
June 1, 2009
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Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is one of the leading causes of death among adults in the U.S. Every year, close to 95 percent of SCA victims die due to the lack of access to easily administered lifesaving measures, such as automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
An AED is a self-contained, computerized medical device used to deliver an electrical shock to a person whose heart is fibrillating. An AED allows anyone ? regardless of their level of training ? to easily administer lifesaving first aid to a person experiencing SCA. It provides spoken instructions to the operator, reads the status of the patient's heart and determines whether or not a shock is needed.
If a person collapses, will not wake up when gently shaken and is not breathing normally, direct someone to immediately call 9-1-1 and to locate the nearest AED. While waiting for the AED to arrive, begin CPR. Once the AED arrives, turn it on and follow the instructions. 9-1-1 call takers also can provide instructions for administering CPR and AEDs.
Any public gathering place, such as a house of worship, a fitness center, a retirement home or a golf course, is a possible location for an AED. The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department Training Division can help private organizations, nonprofits and faith communities establish their own public access defibrillation (PAD) programs. This free service includes:
- Assessment of how many AEDs are needed and where to place them.
- Development of a budget for equipment, training and promotion.
- Demonstration of different AED models and selection of the vendor.
- Arrangement for the prescription required to purchase an AED.
- Development of a response team plan for deployment.
If the AED vendor does not provide AED/CPR training, the Fire and Rescue Training Division can arrange it for a nominal fee.For more information about AEDs and the PAD program, visit the Fire and Rescue Department Training Division Web page or contact Captain Charles C. Henderson Jr., at 703-803-3860, TTY 711.
Fairfax County Public Schools Office of Adult and Community Education (ACE) also offers CPR/AED classes to the public for a fee. More information about the CPR/AED training classes offered by ACE can be found online.
In 2007, Fairfax County started a PAD program and installed AEDs in various county government and public schools facilities. For more information on the county government PAD program, contact Teri Flynn, risk manager, or Linda Buczek, health and safety coordinator/AED program manager, Fairfax County Risk Management Division, at 703-324-3040, TTY 711. For more information on the public schools PAD program, contact Jon Almquist, athletic training program administrator, Fairfax County Public Schools, at 571-423-1264, TTY 711.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
To request this information in an alternate format, call 703-324-3187, TTY 711


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Overview of Birth Defects
What is a birth defect?
A birth defect is a health problem or physical change that is present when a baby is born. Birth defects can be very mild, where the baby looks and acts like any other baby. Or birth defects can be very serious. You can tell right away that the baby has a health problem. Some of the severe birth defects can be life-threatening. A baby may only live a few months. Or the child may die at a young age—when he or she is a teen, for example.
Birth defects are also called congenital anomalies or congenital abnormalities. The word congenital means present at birth. The words anomalies and abnormalities mean that the baby has a problem.
What causes birth defects?
Birth defects can happen for many reasons. They can happen because of the mother's exposure to certain things while she is pregnant. Or they can happen because of certain genes or changes in genes (mutations). But often the cause isn't known.
Who is affected by birth defects?
Birth defects are found in babies all over the world, in families of from all countries and backgrounds. Anytime a couple becomes pregnant, there is a chance that their baby will have a birth defect. Most babies are born healthy. In fact, 97 out of every 100 babies are born healthy.
What are the genetic and environmental causes of birth defects?
When a baby is born with a birth defect, the first question usually asked by the parents is "how did this happen?" Sometimes, this question can't be answered. This can be very upsetting for parents because it's normal to want to know why your baby has a health problem. But for some birth defects, the cause is known. It may have to do with exposure to certain things during pregnancy. Or it may have to do with genes or gene changes (mutations). It could also be a combination of these two things.
Here is some general information about the different causes of birth defects:
Inheritance. Inheritance is a word used to describe a trait given to you or passed on to you from one of your parents. Examples of inherited traits would be your eye color or blood type.
Chromosome abnormalities. Chromosomes are stick-like structures in the center (nucleus) of each cell that contain your genes.
Single gene defects. Genes are what give you your traits. Sometimes a child can inherit not only those genes for their normal traits such as the color of their eyes, but also disease-causing genes that cause a birth defect.
Multifactorial inheritance. Multifactorial inheritance means that many things are involved in causing a birth defect. The factors are usually both genetic and environmental.
Teratogens. A teratogen is a substance that can cause a birth defect. It is usually something in the environment that the mother may be exposed to during her pregnancy. It could be a prescribed medicine, a street drug, alcohol use, or a disease that the mother has. Any of these could increase the chance for the baby to be born with a birth defect.
Why are birth defects a concern?
Some birth defects cause a single problem, but others cause problems in more than one body system or organ. Birth defects may cause lifelong disability and illness. Some mean that the baby will not survive.
Some birth defects can't be treated. These include defects that cause learning or thinking problems. But many physical birth defects can be treated with surgery. Repair is possible for many birth defects, including cleft lip or palate, and certain heart defects.
How are birth defects diagnosed?
Many birth defects can be diagnosed before birth with special tests. Chromosome problems such as Down syndrome can be diagnosed before birth by looking at cells in the amniotic fluid or from the placenta. Or they can be found by looking at the fetal DNA in the mother's blood (noninvasive prenatal screening).
Fetal ultrasound during pregnancy can also show the possibility of certain birth defects. But ultrasound is not 100% accurate. Some babies with birth defects may look the same on ultrasound as those without problems. The chromosome analysis done on a blood sample or on cells from the amniotic fluid or placenta is very accurate.
Tests that help screen for birth defects include:
Alpha-fetoprotein. This blood test measures the levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). This is a protein released by the developing baby's liver and found in the mother's blood. AFP is sometimes called MSAFP (maternal serum AFP). AFP screening may be one part of a 2-, 3-, or 4-part screening, often called a multiple marker screen. The other parts are:
HCG. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is a hormone released by the early cells in the placenta. High hCG levels may mean that the fetus has Down syndrome. This condition is a chromosome problem includes learning problems and certain facial features.
Estriol. Estriol is a hormone made by the placenta and by the fetal liver and adrenal glands. Low levels may mean the fetus has Down syndrome.
Inhibin. This is a hormone made by the placenta.
Nuchal translucency screening. This is an ultrasound test usually done late in the first trimester. Thickening of the area at the back of the fetal neck may mean an increased risk for Down syndrome or other chromosome problems.
Chorionic villus sampling (CVS). This is a prenatal test that takes a sample of some of the placental tissue. This tissue has the same genetic material as the fetus. It can be tested for chromosome problems and some other genetic problems. Testing can be done for other genetic defects and disorders, depending on family history and lab testing available at the time of the test. Unlike amniocentesis, CVS does not give information on neural tube defects such as spina bifida. Women who have the CVS test also need a follow-up blood test between 16 and 18 weeks of their pregnancy to screen for neural tube defects.
Amniocentesis. This test takes a small sample of the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus. The sample is used to diagnose chromosome problems and open neural tube defects such as spina bifida. Testing can be done for other genetic defects and disorders, depending on family history and lab testing available at the time of the test.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends amniocentesis around 15 to 20 weeks of pregnancy for those women who are at higher risk for chromosome problems. These include women who are over age 35 at delivery. It also includes women who have had an abnormal blood test that means they are at higher risk for a chromosome problem or neural tube defect. In some cases, amniocentesis may be done as early as 14 weeks.
Ultrasound. This is a test that uses high-frequency sound waves to create an image of the internal organs. Many birth defects can be found with ultrasound.
Noninvasive prenatal screening. This is a test that looks at the mother's blood. The lab looks for genetic material called DNA that comes from the placenta. This DNA is the same as the fetus' DNA. The lab looks for chromosome problems such as trisomy 13, trisomy 18, and trisomy 21.
Sometimes, birth defects are not diagnosed until after birth. To confirm the physical findings, the healthcare provider will take a small blood sample so the chromosomes can be looked at. This information is important in knowing the risk for that birth defect in future pregnancies.
Preventing birth defects
Research is ongoing to find and treat the causes of many birth defects. Getting vaccinated against certain infections such as rubella can prevent birth defects caused by that infection. Not drinking during pregnancy can prevent birth defects caused by alcohol. Taking a prenatal vitamin that includes folic acid can help prevent neural tube defects such as spina bifida.


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Back-to-back playoff rematches for the Green Bay Packers (12-5) couldn't measure any further apart in familiarity.
In earning a spot in the NFC Divisional Round, the Packers had to beat the Minnesota Vikings just six days after losing to Minnesota in Week 17.
To earn a trip to the NFC Championship Game, Green Bay will have to beat the San Francisco 49ers—a team the Packers lost to 125 days earlier in the season opener, 30-22.
Football teams rarely change much in six days, although the Vikings did lose their starting quarterback between Week 17 and the Wild Card Round. With four months and three days in between, however, both Green Bay and San Francisco couldn't be any more different than the versions that faced off in Week 1.
Can the Packers avenge another regular-season loss despite the time gap? Or will the same script play out Saturday?
Below, we run down some things you could watch in the Divisional Round and a prediction.
Kaepernick vs. extra pressure
The Packers increased their sack total to a very respectable 47 this season, up 18 from 2011's disappointing 29. At least part of that bump can be attributed to Dom Capers' use of the blitz, which the Packers defensive coordinator called at a higher rate than just three teams this season. According to ESPN Stats and Information, Green Bay brought five or more rushers on 40 percent of the defensive snaps this season, good for fourth-most in the NFL.
Facing Colin Kaepernick instead of Alex Smith at quarterback likely means more blitzing from Capers. Whereas Smith completed almost 73 percent of his passes against the blitz this season (best in the NFL), Kaepernick finished under 57 percent and saw his total QBR drop by over 17 points when facing five or more rushers. With a young quarterback making his first playoff start, expect Capers to send even more blitzes than usual Saturday.
Old or new approach?
In the first meeting, Green Bay ended with just nine called running plays—a trend that almost certainly won't be replicated Saturday. But the idea of spreading out the 49ers and winning the game through the air—which Adam Czech at AllGreenBayPackers.com also wrote about this week—has a statistical foundation. Over the 31 plays in the opener in which the Packers had no running backs on the field, quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed 21-of-28 passes for 229 yards and a touchdown. With one or two backs in the formation, Rodgers was just nine-of-16 for 74 yards and an interception.
Green Bay has become a much more physical offense since Week 1, and Mike McCarthy isn't likely to abandon the running game like he did in the first meeting. But getting Patrick Willis off the field (he played just 68 percent of the snaps in Week 1) by using the spread offense produced much better results in the opener that most realized.
Crabtree's emergence
Few teams are more physical in the run game as the 49ers, but don't count out San Francisco's ability to get the football into the hands of its top receiver, Michael Crabtree. Selected one pick after the Packers took B.J. Raji in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft, Crabtree recorded his first 1,000-yard receiving season in 2012 and finally looked like the No. 1 option he was drafted to be.
Kaepernick has leaned heavily on the fourth-year receiver since taking over, and especially so over the last five games. Since the start of December, Crabtree averaged seven receptions on 11.2 targets and added 538 of his 1,105 total yards. With an emphasis on stopping the run, Packers cornerback Tramon Williams is likely going to draw a lot of man-to-man coverage on Crabtree Saturday. Green Bay needs their top cornerback to win a majority of those single coverages.
Matchup to Watch: Packers LT Marshall Newhouse vs. 49ers OLB Aldon Smith
With an undrafted rookie likely to have his hands full with Ahmad Brooks on the right side, Packers left tackle Marshall Newhouse will be expected to take on the NFC's sack leader one-on-one for a high number of snaps Saturday. Smith, who finished with 19.5 sacks, beat Newhouse for one in the season opener.
However, it's the 49ers' stunt pressures that both Newhouse and left guard T.J. Lang must be aware of Saturday. 49ers defensive end Justin Smith, who is expected to play despite a partially torn triceps, is one of the best in the business at pushing the left guard into the left tackle and creating an open lane for the outside linebacker. It's no coincidence that Aldon Smith didn't record a sack without Justin Smith in the lineup late this season. Facing two All-Pro-caliber players, Newhouse and Lang have to play a near perfect game on the left side to keep Rodgers upright Saturday.
The Packers have the highest-rated passer in NFL playoff history, while the 49ers are starting a second-year quarterback with zero playoff experience. That reality alone is enough to justify picking Green Bay on the road, where the Packers have blazed Super Bowl trips before. However, the 49ers are as physical as they come on both the offensive and defensive lines, and there's no substitute for being able to control a football game in the trenches. Rodgers should be terrific, but the Packers probably can't beat the 49ers in San Francisco without Kaepernick giving the ball away two or three times.
49ers 33, Packers 27 (Season record: 11-6)
Zach Kruse is a 24-year-old sports writer who contributes to Cheesehead TV, Bleacher Report and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He also covers prep sports for the Dunn Co. News. You can reach him on Twitter @zachkruse2 or by email at [email protected].
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YOUNG police cadets are being put through their paces as part of a pilot scheme being trialled in North Swindon.
A group of pupils aged between 13 and 17 have embarked upon a 10-week training session, and will go into their communities with policing teams to forge better links between children and the police.
The scheme was proposed by police officers, and it is hoped to be rolled out across the county.
Angus MacPherson, police and crime commissioner for Wiltshire, said: "This is about engaging with young people on the ground. Over time a modern cadet force will become established, which will have a very different purpose to the cadets in the 1980s. It is about addressing the lack of activities for young people and giving them a bit of purpose.
"Over time we will be able to integrate more challenging behaviours into the organisation. We want to engage people on the cusp of going down the wrong road.
"This is very much a pilot, but I would like to see it rolled out across the county as appropriate.
"I would have thought over the next few years there would be no reason why there would not be a cadet scheme in every market town in Wiltshire."
Chief Supt Paul Mills, head of operations at Wiltshire Police, said he wanted to recruit young people who may be in difficulty to put them on the right track.
"The benefit for officers on the ground is they will be able to build relationships with young people in their communities," he said.
"We have a very diverse group of young people who will be learning some law and basic policing skills. We will give them the opportunity to work with their neighbourhood policing teams, and if we have any major events they will be working alongside our colleagues.
"We want different people from different backgrounds. Getting people to join is about selling the benefits to them. We are going to equip them with skills for a competitive job market.
"The starting point of this is for young people to look to volunteer, and a by-product of that is looking to actively join the police service. I was in a similar position to these children when I had police officers visit my school, and that ignited something in me. Seventeen years later I find myself in this position. We want to show them the impotance of young people acting as role models."
George Mason, 13, from Isambard Community School, said: "I want to be a policeman when I am older, and I think this could be a good opportunity to learn how to do it and improve my chances.
"I could patrol around the school at break times and make sure no one gets into trouble. A lot of young people now are getting into trouble, and it is good that they will have someone their own age to talk to.
"I just want a better understanding of law."
Elizabeth Yeates, 14, from Isambard Community School, added: "This helps the community a lot because we can get out there and support people.
"I want to help stop people getting on the streets and causing trouble. I could help by talking to young people my own age."
Amelia Mountford, 15, of Kingsdown School, was one who did not want to join the force.
"I just thought it would be something to put on my CV," she said. "I really want to be a dance teacher.
"I suppose we could relate to people's problems our own age better than other people could."
PC Sandra Higgins-Hughes, beat manager for Highworth, said: "We need to keep in touch with children who can bring in some ideas about how best to engage with them in the future."


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Although I keep yammering about how we should stick with the trend and avoid calling tops I'm finding it increasingly difficult to stay bullish.
The problem isn't the indices, but the action in individual stocks. There are still things acting well like Netflix (NFLX), Amazon.com (AMZN) and LinkedIn (LNKD), but I see too many stocks being jerked around in random fashion.
The question I keep asking myself is whether I am being truly objective in the way I view the market. I have a strong preference for some downside action and I have to guard against confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look at data in a way that supports particular hypotheses.
Many pundits use this approach to the market. They will form an opinion about market direction and then cherry pick the information that best supports that view. Data that supports a different conclusion are simply ignored.
No matter how hard you try, it isn't possible to be totally objective about the market. If you trade or invest you will have some bias. I know I am rooting for a pullback because I believe we would have better trading if things weakened and charts had time to set up again.
I find the best way to battle bias is to simply focus on the price action. In the end, that is all that matters and if you are fighting what the market is doing you aren't going to make much money.
Lately the market action had been muted, but still on the positive side. I've been trying not to read too much into that, but the action I'm seeing in individual stocks makes me feel much less positive.
We are hitting intraday lows as I write, which is not a positive development after a strong start this morning. It still isn't terrible action, but there is a shift in the way the market is acting and the price action is starting to tell us to be more careful.


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Seems like Ecuador's president, Correa, wants to "protect" the Galapagos Islands limiting tourism and residency permits. Here is a link to the article that was posted on CNN:
Remains to be seen if this government will be any better than the previous ones - ah the corruption.
Having been there in 2003 and 2005 I was SHOCKED by the amount of taxis, trash, and unfinished / run down buildings there were in Puerto Ayora. Not to mention the declining population of sharks. In 03 we visited a spot where there were about 20 Galapagos sharks, two years later we did not see any.
Thanks to Claudio for sending the article.


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Hyakki Yumehina: Master Puppeteer Michika Iida performs Manjushaka or Equinox Flower
Born in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, Michika Iida is considered one of the leading lights in contemporary puppetry. Her use of life-sized puppets as well as masks to tell sophisticated stories has been called nothing short of mesmerizing. Iida makes a rare U.S. appearance to perform Manjushaka, or Equinox Flower, which links the ephemeral and piteous life of a prostitute to that of a equinox flower. Through stylized movements and dance, her self-made puppets beautifully convey the universal longing for happiness and fulfillment.
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Eurocontrol appears to be close to finally approving the funding and development of its ETS Support Facility, which would give business aircraft operators a relatively cost-effective way of meeting their obligations to monitor, report and verify carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions under Europe's emissions trading scheme (ETS). A May 6 meeting of the air traffic management agency's air navigation services board expressed support for the plan but deferred a final decision pending further negotiations to allay the concerns of Eurocontrol member state Ukraine. According to the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), these negotiations could be completed within a few weeks and it expects the ETS Support Facility to get the final go-ahead.
A spokesperson for Eurocontrol confirmed that a board proposal to extend the agency's responsibilities into support for environmental policy was approved at the meeting. She added that a so-called "scrutiny reserve" by one Eurocontrol member state would be "clarified in the next few weeks."
EBAA had indicated that if the ETS Support Facility is blocked it would be completely unworkable for so-called small emitters like bizav operators to comply with the complex requirements of ETS. In these circumstances, EBAA had said it could advise operators to withdraw cooperation from the program and, effectively, refuse to comply.
EBAA had been concerned that airlines would undermine Eurocontrol's commitment to provide financial support for developing the facility on the grounds that they will not benefit from it. However, the airline opposition appears not to have been influential at the Eurocontrol board meeting.
The ETS Support Facility is effectively a tool that provides an easy way to calculate CO2 emissions and, since the data is drawn from Eurocontrol's flight plan database, there should be no need to pay to have it independently verified. However, according to some emissions trading specialists, the facility alone may not meet all operators' needs.
For example, ETS Aviation founder David Carlisle pointed out that the tool will not provide the data on the metric tons of CO2 emitted per kilometer flown that is required for operators to be able to claim their free allocation of carbon credits based on calculations made this year. Furthermore, he added that corporate accounting departments might not be content to approve payments for carbon credits based purely on Eurocontrol data on what their aircraft's activity is without checking this information for themselves against the actual amount of fuel burned.
However, EBAA has indicated that many business aircraft operators emit such small volumes of CO2 that they will simply be looking for the least costly and quickest means of meeting their ETS obligations.
Currently operators emitting fewer than 10,000 metric tons of CO2 per year will be permitted to use the ETS Support Facility. EBAA is pushing for this threshold to be raised to 50,000 tons, or even 500,000 tons, on the grounds that the margin of error with the Eurocontrol data is sufficiently accurate to ensure a correct accounting of emissions on this scale. The association is arguing that unless the threshold is raised, operators will resort to registering aircraft on multiple air operator's certificates to avoid exceeding the limit.
Meanwhile, Universal Weather & Aviation is looking at introducing a new service to help operators to administer their ETS compliance. The company's regulatory services supervisor, Adam Hartley, urged operators not to delay compliance with the ETS process despite the continuing uncertainty about exactly how some aspects of the system will be enforced.
The European Commission is due to publish next month yet another revised list of operators subject to ETS and the national authorities to which they have been assigned for compliance purposes. The revised list published earlier this year was still far from complete and riddled with errors, such as aircraft being assigned to flight-support companies such as Universal instead of their actual operator.


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Wednesday's Market Review
The broad averages finished Wednesday's session generally higher (with the Russell 2000 being the lone loser), but the auction's tone was almost entirely devoid of energy and momentum. The session's early morning green arrows were the result of opening gaps, and said gaps were triggered by explosive (earnings related) moves in both Google (GOOG) and IBM (IBM). However, if one looks past the few earnings related winners, there simply wasn't all that much to be excited about. And before anyone starts throwing around Apple's' (AAPL) earnings call to justify the generally dull futures action, let me be clear: The broad averages were acting lethargic well before Apple stunk up the pit with its earnings report and forward guidance....642 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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