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- GCHQ: change your passwords now even if Uber says it contained the breach
- Christmas rush brings great deals to online shoppers – and new risks for their employers
- Dell, Lenovo, HP will patch hundreds of devices affected by Intel's buggy embedded CPU
- As unencrypted data becomes "negligence", business leaders are taking encryption strategy away from IT
- Uber, ABC cloud data breaches put Australian companies on notice about cloud security
Open Government, how ready is Australia?
Open Government fundamentally aims to build and maintain a systematic approach to improving transparency, accountability and responsiveness to citizens.28 Nov / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
The demographic disaster facing public sector budgets
Providing services in remote regions of Australia is likely to become even more problematic as the population ages. Government needs to go through the same transition that banking did in the 80s and 90s, which saw the large scale closure of branches, and the shift to ATMs and online transactions. But it will be interesting to see whether politicians compromise their desire to improve public sector efficiency, when faced with the prospect of government job cuts within their own electorates.28 Feb / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
Taking the lead on customer service
Leaders need to visibly walk the talk, and show they are serious about customer satisfaction.21 Jan / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
Finding the right balance in public sector workplace reform
Developing programs to encourage service delivery innovation, update workforce skills, and adopt more teleworking should be high on the agenda for public sector leaders. While political wrangling is likely to make the task harder, budget realities will soon force stark choices for public sector leaders and politicians alike.28 Nov / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
Productivity Champions
By focusing on productivity rather than wages, leaders can improve their visibility of the business, and deliver results that really matter.16 Aug / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
Making problems disappear
The next time you carry out a risk management audit, it is worth examining what mechanisms your organisation has in place to detect corruption and guide employees on appropriate behaviour.15 Jul / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
Planning Innovation
The business of running government is always complicated, with multiple stakeholders to satisfy, conflicting priorities, and intense scrutiny of spending. Make any innovation in service delivery, and you can be sure lobby groups will pressure opposition hopefuls into promises to neuter the changes6 Jul / Written by Rory Gregg / Leadership
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two former Boise State University students are suing the school because they say athletic officials ignored their reports of sexual assault and harassment by a star athlete.
The women are represented by nationally known attorney Gloria Allred, who has handled similar lawsuits in several other states. They contend Boise State University athletic officials knew the athlete who abused them had a record of serially harassing and assaulting fellow students, and that the school's failure to take action spurred the athlete to continue the behavior. The Associated Press typically does not identify victims of sexual assault. The lawsuit doesn't identify the athlete the women say committed the assaults other than to call him a "men's star track and field athlete." BSU officials did not respond to requests for comment.

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For the last several months, I've been poking along on the book-in-progress in a very constrained manner– basically, I get to work on it in three-hour chunks on Tuesdays when I don't have class (and this term, Thursdays as well). This is, as you might imagine, incredibly frustrating, though I do get some book-related stuff done in the evenings, mostly reading history of science books and the occasional textbook after the kids go to bed.
Other stuff ate up a lot of this week's meager writing time, and next week's going to be a dead loss, as I'll be at DAMOP in Quebec City, then my 20th college reunion. The week after that, though, is our finals week, and after that, I have the summer, when I'll have much more time to devote to writing. So this is a reasonably good time to take stock of what I've got to this point.
This has been a bit different than the other two books I've written, because it's more compartmentalized. The structure calls for four sections, one for each of the four steps of the scientific process, and 3-4 short chapters in each section about everyday activities that demonstrate that aspect of scientific thinking. I've been writing these in more or less random order, because they should be mostly independent, not building on each other the way the dog books did (as they explained a single area of science in detail). My mental target for the chapter length was around 3,000 words, though I haven't been all that good at stick to that, as you'll see.
Here's the current state of things, with word counts from MS Word (yeah, yeah, yeah. It sucks, but it's a publishing industry standard…). Numbers are for the latest complete draft, asterisks indicate chapters that are still actively being revised:
- Introduction*: 6560
- Section 1: Looking
- Collecting: 5008
- Cooking: 6639
- Waldo: 3298
- Section 2: Thinking
- Sorting: 4503
- Bridge: 2701
- Mystery: 3772
- Section 3: Testing
- Crosswords: 2990
- Sports: 6007
- Baking*: 3432
- Section 4: Telling
- Story*: 4449
That's a total of 49,359 words, where my contract calls for… I think 70,000, but I'm not sure. That's farther along than it often feels, which makes me happier. Which was, after all, the whole point of this exercise…


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Krakatoa ("Gunung Krakatau) is a volcanic island between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was the largest volcanic event on record, a huge explosion as seawater hit hot magma and turned instantly to steam. It has been estimated as 150 megatons. The tsunami was 40 meters high in places. The blast was heard over 4000 km (2500 miles) away (Australia and India) and the dust it blew into the stratosphere affected weather worldwide for several years.
Only about a third of the pre-1883 island survived the blast.
From 1927 to 1930, there were several underwater eruptions on the site of the old Krakatoa volcano. On August 11, 1930, a new active volcano and island appeared. This new volcano is called "Anak Krakatau" ( Child of Krakatoa).
You can reach Anak Krakatoa island by chartering boat from Anyer beach or Carita beach (Banten). Bring your own live vest. The trip takes up to 2 hours.


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This learning object is one of a set of exercises and activities taken from the book 'Modern Social Work Practice' written by Mark Doel and Steven Shardlow. This resource introduces an activity which can be used to evaluate work with service users. Users are encouraged to evaluate the outcome of work and their own practice.
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A bonnet hair dryer is similar to what you will find at a professional salon. The only difference is the intensity of heat that is sent through a salon dryer compared to a home version. The salon's version is much hotter and should only be used by professionals. But even when you use a home bonnet hair dryer, there are still a few steps and precautions that you should consider for safety and effectiveness.
Unlike a hand-held hair dryer, a bonnet dryer has a hard hood that you can pull over your head to get your hair dry, especially if you have a roller set. They come in large and extra large hood sizes to accommodate various roller sizes and the wattage (amount of heat that is generated) varies from 1,200 to 2,000 watts. The most common for use at home are 1,875-watt dryers.
Remember that there will be a surge of heat that is released from inside the bonnet and possibly from the back stand where there are air openings. So for safety's sake, choose a location that is free from flammable objects, things that can melt, papers and cloths. Keep it away from water sources. Place the bonnet dryer on a clean, hard surface to ensure that when you sit underneath it, the front of the bonnet is level with the top of your forehead. This will allow the heat to circulate around and through the rollers on top of your hair. A table that is about 3 feet high will be an ideal place for using your hair bonnet.
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Bonnet hair dryers use up a significant amount of energy in the home. The higher the wattage, the more energy it is utilizing when it is turned on. If you turn on the dryer while many other items are draining electricity from your home, you could blow a fuse and cause the electricity in that area of the house to shut off. Before you run your bonnet dryer, turn off electrical items that you don't need, including lights, heaters and air conditioners.
Open the bonnet dryer and click it into place. (Do not turn on the dryer when it is closed.) Lay a pillow behind your back to get comfortable and add pillows underneath yourself to lift your body up to the correct height, if necessary. Once you are in a cozy spot that allows the bonnet top to cover your hair from the crown to the nape of your neck, turn on the unit.
Do not sit under the bonnet dryer for more than 45 minutes. Any longer than that is overdrying your hair. This could make your hair dry and brittle. In many cases, 20 to 30 minutes will be sufficient to thoroughly dry your hair. Do not make the mistake of falling asleep under the dryer unless it is equipped with an automatic shut-off timer. Unplug the unit promptly after use and let it cool down before folding it up and storing it away.


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I wanted to blog this deal for you 1) because it is a hot deal and 2) because this product has amazing reviews. Get the Maman Kangourou wrap for $34.99, with a regular price of $65 or more from Baby Steals.
If you are pregnant or have a baby, you might know how great having a baby carrier or wrap is. I've had three babies and I religiously used my carrier while my kids were little. It came in even more handy once my second and third babies came because I really needed my hands! With my first, I would put him in the carrier to get housework and shopping done and he loved being in there and I could get what I needed done while still holding him. Sometimes I would put him in there just to walk around until he fell asleep and then I put him right into his crib. With my subsequent babies, just holding my oldest one's hands while crossing the street was made easy with a carrier.
What's unique about this wrap is that it is made in Canada, but also that you can wear it for as long as you'd like. There are different ways to wrap your baby and you'll find the one that is most comfortable for you and babe. I can tell you that I paid a lot more than $35 for the wrap I had.
There is a small catch to this deal. Baby Steals is American so all prices are in USD and they will ship from the U.S. The shipping cost for this wrap is about $10, but even with that cost and the cost of duty, which came to $4 and is shown right at checkout, this deal still beats any prices in Canada.
Just to show you some comparisons, the Amerigo wrap comes in a variety of colours on Baby Steals for $34.99. I found it at Toys R Us for $69.99. Even with the $15 in extra charges, Baby Steals beats their price by $20 (plus Canadian taxes).
It was at Toys R Us, I found the wonderful reviews. Out of 43 reviews, it has a 4.3 star rating. Check this one out:
This wrap is absolutely great. I have a 6 week old who is very fussy and is colicky. She falls asleep in this wrap right away and stays asleep. It is quite difficult to put her in the wrap when she is having a colic episode but once she's in she's fine. I also own a baby bjorn and this is easier on the back and shoulders. It's a little difficult to learn how to use, the instructions provided and on their website are very difficult to follow I found, but once you figure it out, it's very easy to throw on. Sometimes I am lazy and the baby bjorn is just easier to put on and leave the house.
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A new update from Jessica and her journey on the Pacific Crest Trail.
1,000 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT)
A little after 4 in the afternoon, I reached a pile of rocks on the Pacific Crest Trail that spelled out one-zero-zero-zero. The first thing I did: pulled out my cell phone and took a selfie the best I could that included my victorious, smiling face, and the pile of rocks. The second thing: I pulled out a protein bar that tasted vaguely like a beach ball.
Then, I contemplated what it means to have walked 1,000 miles of the PCT in a little under three months. It didn't feel much different than walking 999 miles, or 1,001 miles. But I figured I should sit and enjoy it and bask in the glory of this rare lifetime achievement.
That's when an old Asian man came along the trail, nearly missing the 1,000-mile-mark. I called out to him.
"No," he said. "This is 998. That's not right. Not 1,000 miles yet."
Oh. Okay. Well that's disappointing. So I hoisted my backpack onto my shoulders for the 10-billionth time since I started this thing in April, and I kept walking. A few miles later, I hit another pile of rocks that also spelled out 1,000. There, the old man told me I had now walked 1,000 miles of the PCT. He barely spoke English, and we struggled to understand each other, but congratulations were in order.
He wanted me to take his picture. He wanted us to take our picture together. He wanted to stay and smoke a cigarette and bask in the glory that I had just basked in with my beach-ball-tasting-protein-bar an hour or so earlier.
The Sierras are behind me now. That means: no more struggling to breathe at high altitude, no more miles-and-miles of post-holing through slushy snowfields, no more steep and endless switchbacks to the top of mountain passes, no more terrifyingly swift creeks to cross, swelled from snow runoff.
The moment I passed the boundary of Yosemite National Park, the scenery started to change. Craggy, granite peaks and still, blue lakes have been replaced by red hills and fields of purple, yellow, pink and white wildflowers. The trail has become a little more gentle, following the crest of the hills and mountainsides. The sun of Northern California has become hot, reminiscent of my days in the desert.
One day on the trail near Sonora Pass, I came up to a girl digging through her bear canister and scrounging to make enough food last her until South Lake Tahoe. I pulled out my own bear canister and gave her what I could spare–a few granola bars, a packet or two of oatmeal. Then, one of the best treat of all: a packet of Idahoan Fully Loaded Peppered Bacon and Cheddar Mashed Potatoes and a bag of bacon bits to throw on top.
I ran into her a few days later and asked how she liked it.
"I ate the bacon bits for breakfast and I poured cold water right into the bag the potatoes came in," she said. "I loved it."
I've made a habit of always carrying an extra bag or two of the Idahoan instant potatoes and handing them out to hikers along the way. I've noticed that the grocery stores in trail towns always have plenty of flavors stocked. If there's one thing almost all hikers have figured out by Mile 1,000, it's that Idahoan instant potatoes make great trail food.
Now I am at Mile 1,065.5, taking some time off trail in South Lake Tahoe. I'm still contemplating that whole reaching-1,000-miles thing. I think about all the steps I took through the desert and the forests, over the high mountain peaks and along countless creeks, rivers and lakes. I always thought reaching such a monumental milestone would feel more exciting, but the truth is: this has just become my way of life. It's not a trip anymore, a vacation from work or a weekend getaway. It's a lifestyle. It's a hot, buggy, sometimes-miserable, mosquito-bitten, majestic, fun and joyful lifestyle.


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Inadvertent recordings of undercover FBI agents celebrating during debriefings took center stage in an Oregon terrorism suspect's trial.
A federal judge on Thursday didn't allow the airing of the audio, some of which was made after the agents wondered aloud whether they were being recorded. At least one recorder was indeed still running.
An undercover agent identified only as "Hussein" was posing as a radical Islamic jihadi during the FBI investigation into Mohamed Mohamud of suburban Portland.
"Hussein" confirmed under cross examination Thursday that he said it was "fantastic" after Mohamud asked for explosives, a crucial step in the sting operation that culminated with Mohamud's arrest in November 2010.
Mohamud has been charged with attempting to blow up Portland's 2010 Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The bomb was a fake provided by the FBI.


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Florida's Medicaid Reform
November 21, 2011
During its five years of operations, Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot has been a decided success, improving the health of enrolled patients, achieving high patient satisfaction and keeping cost increases below average. Since then, Florida has passed its Statewide Reform, which promises to extend these benefits throughout the state. If Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot experience were replicated nationwide, the outcomes in almost every facet of the program would be significantly improved and would offer participants meaningful reforms to a system that has been falling into decay, says Tarren Bragdon, of the Heritage Foundation.
- The pilot program, which was isolated to five counties in Florida, saved an estimated $118 million per year, with an aggregate estimated annual savings of $901 million when the reform is put in place statewide.
- Researchers suggest that if a similar program were to be put in place nationwide, it would save $28.6 billion annually.
- The pilot program's results can be fairly projected on the nation as a whole because the program served a diverse population of 2.93 million, which includes 290,000 Medicaid recipients.
The program's success is not only fiscal -- it has exceeded expectations in almost every one of the six objectives that were established to measure its performance.
- First, the program drastically increased the number of options with meaningful distinctions, with enrollees sometimes having as many as 16 plans to choose from.
- Second, the pilot ensured greater access to services that are often ignored.
- Third, pilot patients are obtaining better health outcomes, with Reform Pilot counties outperforming non-Reform Pilot counties and the national average in 64 percent and 53 percent of health measures, respectively.
- In its fourth objective to ensure the ability to opt-out of Medicaid, the program performed poorly with little participation or interest.
- Fifth, enrollee satisfaction was promoted, with 83 percent of satisfaction measures for Health Maintenance Organizations and 100 percent for Provider Service Networks above national averages.
- Sixth, the program achieved these broad gains while holding costs far below national averages.
Source: Tarren Bragdon, "Florida's Medicaid Reform Shows the Way to Improve Health, Increase Satisfaction, and Control Costs," Heritage Foundation, November 9, 2011.
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A reader writes: We're a group of women who've been getting together on trips for years. One of us, who gets very emotional when drinking, recently said some unforgivable things to one of the group. Now some of us want to exclude her permanently, and others say no. No one sees her often enough to confront her about her drinking. Advice?
Reduce the booze
Maybe your group would work better if the overall level of alcohol consumption was trimmed back. It sounds as if it could help your wayward friend. You're not teenagers any more. As for the things she said, blame it on the drink and move on.
Michael Moore, Toronto
Confront her
Why doesn't the strongest-minded of your group confront her ahead of the trip? This can be done in a diplomatic way, but if she gets angry and doesn't come with the group, at least you know you were fair to her.
Heather Drope, Halifax
Try to understand
A drinker may not know when they have overstepped the boundaries. In a group setting possibly each woman could relate an incident that they were embarrassed about. These indiscretions may elicit an apology for the unforgivable things said.
Alan Strid, Calgary
The final word
I got this, people! Tell your friend you've all finally seen the light, become Muslims and you're heading for Mecca on your next vacay. And since your new faith forbids alcohol or being around anyone who drinks, she won't have any fun, so she needn't come.
But before you all thunder off to the mosque, hold on a sec. Heather's right; you're going to have to talk to your friend. You can't exclude her without telling her why.
Imagine the scenario: You all run off to Sin City and sin without her, then she finds out and wonders why she was dumped. Which brings you back to the same problem. See what's happening here? You're in a ruinous circle of hell. Alcohol is a disinhibitor and she needs to know that when she partakes, her oversharing affects her friendships. Then she can make the decision, as Michael suggests, to cut back her alcohol consumption so she won't reach that point.
Alan's idea of sitting around the campfire recounting embarrassing incidents may not work because she doesn't know she said something unforgivable (no one told her). You gals may be acting as enablers. It's possible alcohol may be affecting other aspects of her life as well. She may need this information more than you realize.
And for the love of Allah, do not send an e-mail. This sort of delicate conversation requires human contact. There's an invention called the phone and people use it to exchange all sorts of useful information. Once an aunt from Pakistan called to tell us Grandma died. This contraption works even when there's an ocean between you – never mind cities. So ladies, stop eyeing those hijabs and grow a pair (breasts don't count). Tell your friend the truth. Trust me, it'll be easier than praying five times a day.
Regina-based Zarqa Nawaz is the creator of the CBC-TV sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie.
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Dramatic advances affecting all aspects of people's lives—from transportation to health care to education—will, in as little as ten years, have a significant impact on the built environment, compelling land use professionals to "accept and adapt to change or be left out," according to Vivek Wadhwa, an internationally renowned futurist and entrepreneur. Wadhwa, who teaches at Stamford, Duke, and Emory universities, delivered the keynote presentation at ULI's recent Midwinter Trustee Meeting in Washington, D.C., in January.
With so many technological breakthroughs on the brink of becoming mainstream, "We are entering the most innovative period in human history," said Wadhwa, who serves as vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University in Moffett Field, California. The lightning-quick speed with which smartphones, for example, provide access to information from around the globe is "just the beginning," he said. "With entrepreneurs doing what only governments could do before, we can solve the grand challenges of humanity," which he listed as access to high-quality education; adequate food, water, and shelter; improving health; and security.
The following are some of Wadhwa's observations on what's "in the works" that will affect how people live, work, learn, get around, and age:
- Health care: The development of self-administered health tests such as echocardiograms; broad availability of localized medicine that affects only the area requiring treatment, causing no side effects; bionic enhancements, including "super-power" sight and hearing capability; and error-free robotic surgery will contribute to significantly longer life expectancies—well over 100 years—for both men and women.
- Transportation: Driverless cars (now being made by Google and tested in the western United States), by eliminating human error, could help reduce traffic congestion and accidents. The prevalence of car ownership—already waning in urban areas with the rise of car sharing—will evolve further into a "use-as-needed" form of urban mobility, as driverless vehicles chauffeur humans from one place to another. Drones will be used to deliver packages to both businesses and consumers, expediting delivery times and reducing the need for street delivery vehicles.
- Production of goods and materials: Manufacturing will once again be a major economic engine for the United States, with robots performing tasks ranging from clerical work to assembly. Three-dimensional printing of products ranging from dresses to building construction materials will become mainstream.
- Energy: The cost of producing solar- and wind-powered energy is dropping quickly, making these energy sources a viable, reliable alternative to electricity generated by coal-fired power plants.
- Water and food: Technology is being developed to cost-effectively purify saltwater, which will help greatly in eradicating water-borne diseases and increasing the supply of usable water in developing countries. Meat will be grown through in-vitro fertilization, eliminating the need to slaughter animals for food. Vertical farms will reduce the need for large amounts of acreage for agriculture.
- Education: The rapidly increasing availability of inexpensive tablets is changing education around the world; courses from the world's top professors will be accessible regardless of where people are located.
The trustees' take on the changing times: the nature of built space must adapt—sooner rather than later—to the new needs of people who are living far longer; who are healthier, better educated, and driving less; and who have ample free time because they are working less.
Rising use of driverless cars will have one of the most significant impacts on city building, the trustees concluded, as the automated vehicles could significantly reduce the need for parking garages, parking lots, and on-street parking. "The question is how to convert the space that is no longer needed to another use. . . . This will impact every aspect of our cities," said Harriet Tregoning, ULI trustee and director of the office of planning for the District of Columbia.
Other factors curbing traditional uses of space include the following: online purchasing and telecommuting, both of which are already changing retail and office development; and online education, which is starting to change the development of education institutions. However, as day-to-day activities become more automated, and more tasks are completed virtually, the desire for space in which to physically interact, share experiences, and collaborate will increase rather than decrease, the trustees predicted.
"In an increasingly impersonal world, there is a tremendous need for people to be physically connected to each other, to be part of a community," said former ULI Chairman James Chaffin, chairman of Chaffin Light Management LLC in Okatie, South Carolina.
Noted A. Eugene Kohn, chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York City: "What all this boils down to is that in spite of the enormous societal and economic changes happening as a result of technology, it is still about the quality of what we build and how it affects people emotionally."


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REperfusion Facilitated by LOcal Adjunctive Therapy in ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction (REFLO-STEMI)
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|ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)
|Drug: IC Adenosine Drug: IC Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) Procedure: Standard PCI
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Intracoronary Administration of Adenosine or Sodium Nitroprusside to Control for Attenuation of Microvascular Obstruction During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- CMR measured infarct size (% LV mass) [ Time Frame: 48-72 hours post procedure ]
- CMR incidence and extent of MVO (% LV mass) [ Time Frame: 48-72 hours post procedure ]
- CMR measured myocardial salvage index, haemorrhage, LV EF and volumes [ Time Frame: 48-72 hours post procedure ]
- Myocardial Blush Grade assessed by validated computer software 'Quantitative Blush Evaluator' (QuBE [ Time Frame: During P-PCI ]
- Incidence pre- and post- procedure angiographic true "no-reflow" [ Time Frame: During P-PCI ]
- Any in-patient clinical events [ Time Frame: Within 6 months from presentation with, and PCI for, STEMI ]Includes: coronary artery re-occlusion, need for repeat PCI, recurrent chest pain with new ECG changes, incidence of clinical heart failure (symptoms plus basal crackles plus X-ray evidence of pulmonary congestion) and proven cerebrovascular accident (CVA).
- Overall MACE [ Time Frame: 1 month ]MACE: composite of death, need for target lesion revascularization, recurrent MI, severe heart failure, and CVA.
- Degree of ST segment resolution on ECG [ Time Frame: Assessed immediately following P-PCI (expected on average 1 hour) ]
- Echocardiographic assessment of LV [ Time Frame: 6-8 weeks post-procedure/MI ]To include end systolic/diastolic volumes, EF +/- wall motion index
- Corrected TIMI Frame Count [ Time Frame: During procedure ]TIMI frame count or TFC is defined as the number of cineframes required for contrast to reach a standardized distal coronary landmark in the culprit vessel.
|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Std PCI + Intra-coronary (IC) Adenosine
IC Adenosine in to IRA (following thrombus aspiration) with further dose via guide catheter following coronary stent deployment.
Drug: IC Adenosine
IC Adenosine 1mg injected distally via micro-catheter in to IRA following thrombus aspiration with further dose (1mg if IRA is RCA otherwise 2mg) via guide catheter following coronary stent deployment.
Other Name: AdenocorProcedure: Standard PCI
PCI procedure with thrombectomy (via aspiration catheter) and bivalirudin given as standard.
Experimental: Std PCI + IC Sodium Nitroprusside (SNP)
IC SNP in to IRA (following thrombus aspiration) with further dose via guide catheter following coronary stent deployment.
Drug: IC Sodium nitroprusside (SNP)
IC SNP 250mcg injected distally via micro-catheter distally in to IRA following thrombus aspiration with further 250 mcg dose delivered via guide catheter following coronary stent deployment.
Other Names:Procedure: Standard PCI
PCI procedure with thrombectomy (via aspiration catheter) and bivalirudin given as standard.
Active Comparator: Std PCI
Standard PCI only
Procedure: Standard PCI
PCI procedure with thrombectomy (via aspiration catheter) and bivalirudin given as standard.
Detailed Description:
>100,000 patients suffering STEMI present in the UK each year. P-PCI in the UK is increasing exponentially. In 2004 there were <1500 P-PCI and in 2007 and 2008 these figures had increased to 5902 and 9224 respectively (BCIS database).
Although P-PCI delivered quickly is more effective than thrombolysis, the efficacy of this, essentially mechanical, technique is limited by the unpredictable phenomenon of no-reflow and the under-stated lesser degrees of MVO. As more UK centres adopt P-PCI the dilemma of how to attenuate MVO will remain. Currently there is no consensus on the optimal management to prevent or attenuate MVO particularly when thrombus laden lesions are treated with P-PCI.
There is divergent clinical practice, even within institutions, in the UK and worldwide. This is because there is no solid evidence base to inform clinicians. The current options for interventional cardiologists are:
- Routinely aspirate thrombus and give IC vasodilator during the intervention but only in high burden thrombus formation lesions.
- Perform a standard P-PCI only and then give IV vasodilator if angiographic no-reflow develops.
- Routinely consider that angiographically silent MVO (i.e a grade below true "no-reflow") may have important impact on infarct size and clinical outcome and treat prophylactically.
Few if any clinicians follow this thinking. Indeed, it appears impossible to predict the incidence of (no-reflow/MVO) from the presenting angiogram (pre- or post- wire or balloon) and it can be argued that irrespective of thrombus burden it would be better to undertake prophylactic treatment in all patients, following the use of aspiration catheter, with delivery of agents able, in theory at least, to reduce (angiographically undetectable) MVO. Several studies of IC adenosine or SNP have shown favourable effects in attenuating MVO. However, the size of effect with either drug and whether indeed there is a difference between them in reducing MVO and infarct size is undetermined.
The objectives of our proposed study are to determine:
- Whether adjunctive pharmaco-therapy at time of P-PCI and following thrombus aspiration, reduces CMR-determined MVO and infarct size.
- Whether there is a difference between adenosine and SNP in reducing CMR-detected MVO and infarct size, both given selectively and distally via a thrombus aspiration catheter or a coronary microcatheter.
- The correlation of angiographic, including the recently designed computer-assisted myocardial blush quantification 'Quantitative Blush Evaluator'(QuBE), and other myocardial perfusion markers, with CMR detected MVO and infarct size, as well as with clinical outcome (MACE) at 30 days.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- ≥ 18 years age.
- Informed ASSENT (verbal consent) prior to angiography.
- STEMI ≤ 6 hrs of symptom onset, requiring primary reperfusion by PCI.
- Single-vessel coronary artery disease (non culprit disease ≤70% stenosis at angiography)
- TIMI flow 0/I at angiography.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Contraindications to: P-PCI *, CMR**, contrast agents, or study medications: Adenosine***, SNP****, Aspirin, Thienopyridine and Bivalirudin.
- SBP ≤ 90mmHg
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Previous Q wave myocardial infarction
- Culprit lesion not identified or located in a by-pass graft
- Stent thrombosis.
- Left main disease.
- Known severe asthma.
- Known stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease (eGFR<30ml/min).
- Pregnancy.
- * Exclusion criteria for P-PCI (presentation timing, inadequate arterial access etc); patient unable to tolerate "prolonged" PCI procedure (in operators' opinion).
- ** Absolute contra-indication to CMR (Pacemaker, ICD, intra-cranial metal clips).
- *** Contraindications to Adenosine (known hypersensitivity to Adenosine, sick sinus syndrome, second or third degree atrio-ventricular block - except in patients with functioning artificial pacemaker, long QT syndrome has been defined as QTc > 450 ms at baseline). ECG will be undertaken just after the first dose of the study drug and QT/QTc will be recorded and compared to the baseline. If the QTc recorded after the first dose of the study drug exceeds 450ms or there is an increase in the QT/QTc of > 60 ms from baseline, the second dose will be abandoned and this will be recorded.
- **** Contraindications to SNP (known hypersensitivity to SNP, compensatory hypertension - as may be seen in arteriovenous shunts or coarctation of the aorta, high output failure, congenital optic atrophy or tobacco amblyopia).
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01747174
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01747174
|United Kingdom
|Glenfield Hospital
|Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, LE3 9QP
|Freeman Hospital
|Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, NE7 7DN
|University Hospital
|Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom, CV2 2DX
|Leeds General Infirmary
|Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS1 3EX
|Principal Investigator:
|Anthony H Gershlick, MBBS, FRCP
|University of Leicester
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|University Hospitals, Leicester
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01747174 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2010-023211-34 ( EudraCT Number )
09/150/28 ( Other Grant/Funding Number: NIHR EME )
|First Submitted:
|November 20, 2012
|First Posted:
|December 11, 2012
|Last Update Posted:
|June 16, 2015
|Last Verified:
|June 2015
Keywords provided by University Hospitals, Leicester:
Microvascular Obstruction
Sodium Nitroprusside
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Myocardial Infarction
ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Pathologic Processes
Myocardial Ischemia
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Arrhythmia Agents
Vasodilator Agents
Purinergic P1 Receptor Agonists
Purinergic Agonists
Purinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antihypertensive Agents
Nitric Oxide Donors


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The NHS Lincolnshire PCT Cluster Board will meet next week - and you can go along and have your say.
The regular Performance and Finance Reports will be considered by the board, in addition to the clinical governance annual report for 2011/12 and the recent GP patient survey.
Richard Childs, chairman for NHS Lincolnshire, said: "Our board meetings provide the public with an opportunity to find out more about the organisation and the work we do to improve health and improve services in Lincolnshire. The public are very welcome to attend and listen to the discussions."
The meeting will be held on Wednesday 24th October at 1.30pm at the Showroom, YMCA Conference Centre, Tritton Road, Lincoln. Full agenda and papers will be available to view at www.lincolnshire.nhs.uk before the meeting.


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Don't you hate it when your Viagra salesman of-choice turns out to be a secret South Korean spy? Apparently that's the premise for writer/director Woo Min-ho's upcoming thriller, appropriately entitled "Spy." Although I don't think anyone is currently in the market for yet another spy-oriented suspense flick, I am willing to toss my entertainment budget at a motion picture which boldly incorporates Viagra sales into its plotline. That is all sorts of awesome.
Here's what the official synopsis says about the plot:
Kim Myeong-min is Agent Kim, a family man who lives a happy and contented life with his wife and two children. He is disguised as a manager in a company that sells fake viagra imported from China. Together with his three comrades, Agent Kang, Agent Woo and Adviser Yoon, Agent Kim was sent to South Korea 10 years ago for a special mission.
"Spy" also features the cinematic talents of Yeom Jeong-ah, Yoo Hae-jin, Byeon Hee-bong, Jeong Kyeo-woon, and Jeong Man-sik. The film is currently scheduled to open in South Korea theaters sometime this September. Pencil in a screening if you're going to be in the area. To help whet your appetite, have a look at the poster and trailer embedded below. And beware of Viagra salesman. They could be covert operatives in disguise.
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W.H. SAYS 'NOTHING NEW' ON LaHOOD: We couldn't help but notice our Twitter feeds have been all jammed up with people speculating on what an AP story on three cabinet members staying on into President Barack Obama's second term means for Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Most of the people we reached out to on the topic didn't know either, most notably the White House. A spox there told us, "Don't have anything new today" on a timeline for LaHood to step down or for his replacement to be named.
MT EXCLUSIVE — IBTTA launches tolling campaign: The bridge, tunnel and turnpike group will announce today that it's launching "an aggressive 2013 public awareness campaign to highlight the benefits of tolling," titled Moving America Forward. The new campaign, designed to increase awareness and improve knowledge about tolling, includes policy documents and events held throughout the year that IBTTA hopes will affect the public, lawmakers and media. The group also hopes to "aggressively" combat "misleading information about tolling." IBTTA head Patrick Jones summed it up this way: "IBTTA's Moving America Forward public awareness campaign will make the case for the tolling industry's permanent seat at the table when future transportation funding options are being considered." Jones also sent a letter to T&I Chairman Bill Shuster last month on tolling ( http://bit.ly/Wu7gz3). The campaign launch comes at 9 a.m. — while that might be in the past for some of you, Pros get a three-hour jump on the news.
THE REASON FOR THE SEASON: The Reason Foundation put out a report yesterday that calls for a drastic rethinking of how transportation projects are paid for and who exactly is paying. Amongst the ideas from author Bob Poole: End transit's share of Highway Trust Fund dollars, remove the cap on passenger charges that fund airport improvements, kill the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund so that ports can compete for dollars and strike Davis-Bacon wage requirements from highway and transit projects. There's something in there for everybody to love — or hate. Some of the ideas, like cutting transit from the HTF, have already been rejected on the Hill. But Poole says it is time for lawmakers to face the music. Congress is reluctant to increase gasoline taxes, and appetite is waning for the general fund transfers that have become crucial to keeping the highway fund afloat. Burgess and Adam cover it for Pros: http://politico.pro/10fBYnv
VIRGINIA IS FOR TAX LOVERS? Bob McDonnell's revenue raising plan for transportation has drawn a whole lot of media coverage in the past two days, from right here at MT to the Washington Post to the AJC. But if he sought to reassure Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform, who knocked the potential for an increase in the gas tax, well, the Virginia governor still has work to do. ATR says his plan "fails in its goal to prioritize transportation spending while avoiding tax increases." The progressive Greater Greater Washington blog called it "insane" and said the governor "has somehow managed to come up with one of the worst transportation funding plans conceivable. It's even worse than doing nothing." Important to note: Those critics don't have a vote and it's up to legislators, whom McDonnell spokesman Jeff Caldwell said "respect the fact that the governor has proposed a bold and innovative plan," adding: "We are optimistic that legislators from both parties will work with the governor during this session to enact meaningful, sustainable, and long-term transportation funding reforms." Virginia kicked off its 90-day state house session yesterday. Burgess has more on the reactions: http://politico.pro/10gDhme
More on mileage fees: RAND has a handy primer on per-mile user fees and what they mean for transportation. Check it out: http://bit.ly/VLyfd9
THIRSTY FOR THURSDAY. Thanks for reading POLITICO's Morning Transportation, your daily tipsheet on trains, planes, automobiles and fancy pamphlets. If it moves, it's news. Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com. Twitter: @ AdamKSnider and @ BurgessEv. More news: @ POLITICOPro and @ Morning_Transpo.
"A train that has left the station, all destinations unknown …" http://youtu.be/5iyqJ51mYf8
FINE WITH TOYOTA: The heftiest car recall fine in NHTSA history amounted to little more than a gentle nudge, or as former Administrator Joan Claybrook told Jessica: "A fly speck." That $17.4 million penalty is half a day's profit for Toyota, and though the new transportation bill upped the maximum fine, it didn't go as far as some lawmakers wanted. The Senate version raised the cap on fines to $250 million, but the House omitted that provision and the conference committee compromised on a $35 million fine. Even without a fine that will affect Toyota's bottom line, some of the damage has already been done. Toyota estimated that recall costs and lost sales would cost it $2 billion. "The market place is pretty good about penalizing bad behavior," said Jeremy Anwyl, vice chairman of industry analyst Edmunds.com. Pros know where to go: http://politico.pro/VTwG9W
BAD NEWS IN NEW YORK: NTSB representatives, including board member Robert Sumwalt, arrived in New York yesterday afternoon to start investigating a ferry accident that injured 57 people, two of which were critically hurt. The safety agency aims to "gather perishable evidence," Sumwalt said, and plans to be in New York for five days to interview witnesses and gather evidence. The New York Times has a comprehensive look at the accident: http://nyti.ms/10gJ1wi
But a bit of good news: While the interstate ferry industry assesses what that crash means, some New York area commuters will be relieved to know that limited 24-hour service has returned to the PATH tubes between New Jersey and New York. More info: http://bit.ly/onuxo
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OFFICIALLY ADMINISTRATING: After navigating the arcanity of the Senate, Michael Huerta was finally sworn in by LaHood for his 5-year term as FAA administrator yesterday. LaHood played the journalist at the swearing-in, quoting Huerta as saying: "I want to see us eliminate every vestige of risk in our aviation system and raise the bar even higher as the safest aviation system in the world." The Fast Lane: http://1.usa.gov/VLtlg4
PAC SHIFTING: Bloomberg has an interesting take on how corporate PACs sometimes just go along with whoever wins the House race. One example is Chip Cravaack, the recipient of thousands of dollars from GE's PAC. But after he was defeated by Rick Nolan, GE's PAC gave him $1,000. Same thing happened in New York, where CSX's PAC gave money to Kathy Hochul during the campaign and then donated to Chris Collins just nine days after Collins beat Hochul. http://bloom.bg/U2WpxX
SHUSTER SUPPORTED La. WINNER: Six days after Charles Boustany won reelection, Bill Shuster's campaign put in $2,000 and his PAC another $5,000 for the veteran Louisiana congressman's reelection campaign in 2014. The money came on Dec. 14, less than a week after Boustany defeated Shuster's former T&I mate Jeff Landry. (h/t Alex Guillen)
- New ranking member David Vitter purges EPW staffers. Natty J: http://bit.ly/XOibdk
- London's Tube turned 150 yesterday. A look back, via the AP: http://huff.to/WyUSxs (h/t Tal Kopan)
- West Virginia University gets $182,000 DOT grant to study distracted driving. WCHS: http://bit.ly/WAhuNS
- Nissan to sell cheaper version of the electric Leaf. Reuters: http://trib.in/ZIQYJi
- N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to flood-proof subways, instal statewide EV charging system. Transpo Nation: http://wny.cc/SkWvE3
- FAA warns on prepackaged coffee filters in the air. CNN: http://bit.ly/10fVG2q (h/t Kathryn A. Wolfe)
MT POLL — Last-minute surprises: There were a few big last-minute stories that capped off the crazy year for transpo that was 2012. We're curious what was most surprising to you, MT readers. Was it the boost in transit benefits in the cliff deal or Michael Huerta finally being confirmed as FAA head? Maybe it was the House pulling the Sandy supplemental or John Thune's moving up to the top GOP spot on Commerce after Jim DeMint resigned. Vote or offer you own suggestion before Sunday at noon: http://bit.ly/TTZkZG
TREAD TECHNICALLY: NHTSA has made some technical corrections to a 2003 rule on pneumatic tires for heavy vehicles and motorcycles. It appears in today's Federal Register but you can read it right here now: http://bit.ly/13itgmf
THE COUNTDOWN: DOT funding runs out and the new sequestration deadline is in 77 days. Passenger rail policy runs out in 264 days, surface transportation policy in 632 days and FAA policy in 994 days. The mid-term elections are in 663 days.
CABOOSE — Stunt driving: Hugh O'Brien, a Hollywood stuntman whose credits include Pirates of the Caribbean and Twilight, says jumping off buildings and being set on fire isn't the most dangerous part of his job — it's driving to work. From an interview in The Credits: "It's more dangerous on the way to and from work than at our actual jobs." The Credits: http://bit.ly/VfGqyD
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WASHINGTON -- Mike Sweeney, Shane Victorino and nine other Phillies are headed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Tuesday to visit injured soldiers.
Sweeney visited the medical center in May, when he played for the Mariners.
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Coinstar Inc. (CSTR) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31. Coinstar Inc. has a market cap of $1.77 billion; its shares were traded at around $57.31 with a P/E ratio of 17.4 and P/S ratio of 1.3. Coinstar Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 17% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Coinstar Inc. the business predictability rank of 4-star.
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We do a substantial amount of our business with certain retailers. For example, we have significant relationships with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Walgreen Co., and The Kroger Company, which accounted for approximately 17.5%, 16.0%, and 11.2% of our consolidated revenue from continuing operations, respectively, during 2011. Although we have had, and expect to continue to have, a successful relationship with these retailers, changes to these relationships will continue to occur both in the long- and short-term, some of which could adversely affect our business and reputation. For example, our Coin and Redbox relationship with Walmart is governed by contracts that provide either party the right to terminate the contracts in their entirety, or as to any store serviced by the contracts, with or without cause, on as little as 90 days notice. Cancellation, adverse renegotiation of or other changes to these relationships could seriously harm our business and reputation.
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It turns out that Robert has a pen name, R. Tirrell Leonard, Jr. and he has self-published a book of poems that he penned. The book, In the Murmuring Trees is shown here, with the page turned to his favorite poem, "A Cloud".
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perlmeditation princepawn 1 day ago my boss said that some text files could not be integrated with a search engine because the characters with a cedille on them were causing it to barf.
 When I looked at this file in Emacs, I saw this \347 I did a bit of reading on how emacs sees a buffer as a sequence of 8-bit bytes unless you turn on various interpretation modes, and then went on about my business.
 Next I went to AsciiTable.com and saw the offending character. Somehow the C with a cedille was being displayed by the Windows command window as a greek "tau". Which has ascii value 231. And sure enough the when I ran my file thru this program  use strict; my $file = shift or die 'must supply filename'; open my $fh, $file or die "couldnt open $file: $!"; $\="\n"; while (<$fh>) { # print $.,$/; my $char; while (/\G(.)/g) { ++$char; my $c=$1; if ($c =~ /[[:^print:]]/) { print "plain_text test failed on row $. with char # $char: <$c>\n" . "Unicode Value: " . unpack('C', $c); print "context: " . substr($_, 0, $char+5); } } }  It said that the bad character was 231. But it also flagged a lot of other things in the file... possibly because one "wide bit" character was being interpreted as several 8-bit chars. And then I read on the utf8 pragma in the Perl standard docs. And I put use utf8 at the top of the program. And the presto-chango, only the cedille was detected.
 What happened was that Perl saw my file as a sequence of Unicode characters instead of as a sequence of 8-bit bytes. So how does one decide Unicode characters are appropriate for their application? One takes a look at the Unicode Code Charts. So, after looking at these, I was certain of which Unicode values I wanted to accept but I was only fairly sure that the Perl POSIX :print: character class equivalent. So, I took the low road (or is that the high road?) and wrote this to determine whether to accept a string of text:  use utf8; my $U; while ($column =~ /\G(.)/g) { # WRONG! Thanks John M. Dlugosz $U = unpack('C', $1); $U = unpack('U', $1); # Now that's the ticket $U < 127 and $U > 31 or return; } return 1;


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Subject: Re: [PATZKOWSKI] January Roll Call
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:02:40 EST
to let you know I am trying to do research on the lineage of Anna Scharping
Patzkowski the wife of Michael Patzkowksi. They are our common
Great-Great-Great Grandparents.
my line from them: Michael----John (who took 'y' at end of his
name)----Sam, Sr.---Arlo---Jana D. Patzkowsky Schultz--Bruce W. Schultz
I had onetime read some information that Anna was from the Von Scharping
Family who were part of the Roman Catholic Nobility in Germany and the Holy
Roman Empire. Her father or grandfather was said to have fought alongside
Napoleon in his conquests of the late 1700's and early 1800's. I had also
read (and am attempting to find the source) that the Von Scharpings held
considerable power in the Holy Roman Empire and might have at one time held
title to one of the 7 Electors of the HRE. These were the seven princes who
elected the HR Emperor who was in turn crowned by the pope. This makes sense
as Anna was a Catholic as was Michael Sr. before their late conversion to
Lutheranism and then their later conversion to Mennonite Brethren.
I continue my search.
In passing my grandfather Arlo Patzkowsky read an article in his newspaper
about 7 mos ago (was AP article newswire) that quoted the German Defense
Minister who's name I believe was Gerhard Von Scharping.
A long lost relative?
We'll try to find out. :)
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N.C. 49 in southern Alamance County was blocked Friday night following a single-vehicle accident that resulted in serious injuries to the car�s only occupant.
The driver of the late-model Chevrolet Camaro was airlifted to Duke University Medical Center after his car overturned several times. Emergency responders and law enforcement officers said the driver was ejected.
�He was traveling at a high rate of speed and ran off the road,� said Trooper N.D. Satterfield of the N.C. Highway Patrol.
The accident happened between Oakdale Road and Way Road, about three miles north of the Randolph County line. The site is about 1.5 miles south of Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road.
The Camaro was traveling south when it ran off the road to the right. It continued several hundred feet along the shoulder, throwing a fair of dirt and debris onto the road. The car then went just right of a road sign that reads �Liberty 5, Asheboro 23� before overturning in an open field.
The first calls for help indicated a child may have been ejected. Emergency workers said those reports were in error.
The accident was reported shortly after 8 p.m. Workers with Alamance County Emergency Medical Services treated the victim on a stretcher before he was airlifted about 9 p.m., the helicopter landing in the field beyond his wrecked car.
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