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I spent last Thursday night setting up and registering the Garmin eTrex Venture GPS unit the boyfriend bought me for Christmas. The Garmin site led me to the OpenCaching site, where I read their beginner's guide to geocaching. While exploring their maps, I found a cache at the park where I regularly go walking! All excited Friday, I headed out with the coordinates downloaded into the GPS and their app downloaded to my phone.
My first geocaching attempt was a failure. In that I did not find the cache. However, I spent more than an hour out in the fresh air, clambered all over the hillside, got my heart rate up, broke a sweat, and found muscles I had not used in quite some time. I had a ball. And I'm pretty sure I circled the cache several times. Unfortunately, the light and my ankle finally gave up, and I headed down to the lake path to finish my walking.


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NBA Saturday: Are the Owners Divided?
Throughout the course of the NBA's labor negotiations, many have wondered how long the players can remain united. At the end of the day, the number of players living from paycheck to paycheck on minimum contracts outnumbers the stars that warrant maximum deals.
JaVale McGee's recent comments that some players are "ready to fold" showed that there are some individuals who would give in to the owners' demands in order to get back on the court as soon as possible. The bench warmer has different opinions and needs than the superstar, which is why there will always be talk of division among the players.
With that said, the owners sitting across the table are just as, if not more, divided than the players. The small-market owners and large-market owners don't see eye to eye and have very different goals and ideas when it comes to the next collective bargaining agreement.
"The likes of Jerry Buss, Jim Dolan, Mickey Arison and Mark Cuban, I think those are folks who want a deal," Billy Hunter told reporters on Thursday. "They were open to all kinds of proposals and suggestions, anything that could move the ball. But I think there are a group of owners, the small markets in particular, who are dug in and carrying the day. There are more of them than there are big markets. The bigger market guys, the ones anxious to cut a deal, don't have the votes."
The owners have an even wider spectrum than the players when it comes to each individual's net worth. Leslie Alexander and Peter Holt are each worth $80 million whereas Paul Allen and Mikhail Prokhorov are each worth over $13 billion.
Also, every owner sees the world in a different light. Holt in San Antonio won't want the same collective bargaining agreement as Buss in Los Angeles. The system changes being proposed by the owners would even the playing field between the successful large-market teams and the struggling small-market teams.
Why would the deep pocketed owners in large markets want competitive balance, which is designed to take away the advantage they hold over their peers?
The small market versus large market battle has played out behind closed doors and it's one of the biggest reasons that progress hasn't been made despite all of the hours spent at the negotiating table. For every large-market owner, there are several small-market owners who aren't willing to budge.
"Paul Allen, Peter Holt, Wyc Grousbeck, Robert Sarver and Dan Gilbert are all hard-liners," said one NBPA source. "They are stopping the progress."
While the predominant storyline has been about the players budging come November 16, when they miss their first check, there is just as much division among the owners. Unfortunately, the small-market owners are the majority, and the large-market owners likely won't be able to sway their peers.
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However, there were some positives to take out of last week's meetings. Progress was made on a number of fronts. While they were only minor issues, the two sides reached tentative agreements on three concepts. Howard Beck of The New York Times reports:
• There will be a one-time "amnesty" provision that will allow each team to waive a player (with pay) without his salary counting against the salary cap.
• There will be a "stretch" exception, available every year, allowing teams to waive players and stretch out their remaining salary over a number of seasons, thus reducing the annual salary-cap hit.
• The midlevel exception will be set around $5 million, a decrease of $800,000, but more than double what the owners were seeking.
Knowing that the two sides were making progress and finally gaining some momentum on system changes, it doesn't make sense that the owners came to Thursday's meeting with a "take it or leave it" ultimatum related to the 50-50 revenue split.
While those three issues are a start, there are still a number of hurdles for future bargaining sessions. The two sides have yet to agree on contract lengths or annual raises, and they remain far apart on the luxury-tax system as well.
Hickson Signs Abroad: J.J. Hickson is the latest player to sign overseas after inking a deal with Bnei Hasharon in Israel. For several weeks, Hickson was undecided about signing abroad, but decided to take the deal after last week's bargaining sessions didn't yield progress.
Hickson will join LaceDarius Dunn and Tweety Carter on Bnei Hasharon, who both had excellent college basketball careers at Baylor University.
The power forward's contract includes an NBA opt-out clause that would allow Hickson to return to the Sacramento Kings whenever the lockout comes to an end.
Hickson will be replacing Trevor Booker of the Washington Wizards, whose stint in Israel ended after he suffered a bruise thigh. Andy Miller is the agent for both Booker and Hickson.
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08/27/13 - Miami Herald - Teacher gets $4.7K tab after catching cholera Cuba-born New York high school teacher Alfredo Gómez says it was bad enough that he contracted cholera during a family visit to Havana this summer. Then he got a bill from the government hospital -- $4,700. Gómez' complaint came as Havana reported that a total of 12 foreign tourists and 151 Cubans have come down with cholera in recent months - though Gómez says his hospital ward alone had six to 15 foreigners on every one of the six days that he spent there. The Havana report on cholera, the second in August alone, seemed to hint at a growing transparency by Cuban officials who previously kept quiet about the disease in a bid to avoid damaging the island's $2.5 billion-a-year tourism industry, experts said. A bulletin Friday by the Pan American Health Organization said Cuba that same day had reported 163 cases in the provinces of Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. PAHO, the hemispheric branch of the World Health Organization, indicated that those cases took place this year but gave no specific time frame. Among those cases were 12 persons who had travelled to Cuba from other countries - three from Italy, two each from Germany, Spain, Chile and Venezuela and one from the Netherlands, PAHO noted. Cuba had reported six of those cases to PAHO earlier this month. Independent journalists and visitors like Gómez have been reporting hundreds more cases never confirmed by Cuba, where the state-run news media virtually never uses the word "cholera" and instead refers to cases of "acute diarrheic diseases." Gómez, 49, who left Cuba in 1997 and now teaches math at the William Nottingham High School in Syracuse, N.Y., said he and two relatives were hit by intense diarrheas two days after they ate together at a state-run restaurant in Havana in late July. Doctors at the Manuel Fajardo Hospital told them they had cholera, Gómez said, and transferred him to the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine, where the fourth floor of the hospital is reserved for foreigners who contract the disease. Gómez said at least six and up to 15 foreigners were on the floor each of the six days he spent there, Aug. 4-10, receiving antibiotics and intravenous fluids for the disease, which is easily transmitted through water and can kill through dehydration. That same week more than 60 Cubans were being treated in Kouri hospital wards reserved for island residents with cholera, he said, and a nephew told him that a large number of people had been struck by the disease in the Havana suburb of Mantilla. The treatment fore foreigners at the hospital was very good and much better than the treatment for island residents, he added, but problems started when the foreign patients received huge bills as they were about the leave the hospital. He heard two Spaniards on the phone with their insurance companies in Madrid trying to figure out how and what to pay, Gómez said. And he was pressured strongly to pay his own bill with his credit cards or through his U.S. health insurance policy. "They really want to charge me, and they tried by all means that I should pay," he said in a phone interview from Syracuse. "It was a rude, abusive attitude. They would not let met leave without paying." The bill he was shown was for $4,700 but he left without paying, he added, arguing that the U.S. embargo banned him from paying and that in any case his bill should be paid by the government-run restaurant where he contracted cholera. Original Source / Fuente Original: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/26/3587434/cuba-reports-more-cholera-among.html
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It was incredibly inspiring and touching to attend the 15th Annual "Surviving with Style" cancer survivorship luncheon hosted by Gilda's Club! Cynthia Nixon, the Emmy award winning star of "Sex & the City" and current acclaimed star of "Wit" on Broadway, was the celebrity guest speaker and gave an amazing speech.
The fashion show featured our very own, Cameron Levin, along with other local Seattle desigers! The models were all cancer survivors and looked stunning! It was beautifully touching to hear their stories!
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Visionary architect, inventor and author Buckminster Fuller famously challenged the world's artists, designers, architects and engineers to create a world that "works for 100% of humanity." On October 7, the MFA Design for Social Innovation Department (DSI) hosted the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) jury deliberations for the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which annually awards a prize of $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a design strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems. Following the deliberations, DSI, along with BFI and Marfa Dialogues/NY hosted a public discussion with members of the jury at the SVA Theatre (watch the video here). Hila Mehr, DSI's director of operations, filed this report.
The panel brought together International Living Future Institute CEO Jason McLennan, The New York Times "Dot Earth" blogger Andrew Revkin, eco-activist and writer Linda Weintraub, and Slow Money Founder and Chairman Woody Tasch. Cultural leader Dorothy Dunn moderated.
Fuller's daughter, Allegra Fuller Snyder, opened the program by suggesting her father never judged others' work, but rather their integrity and experience. The jurors on the panel reported that the applicants for the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge were taking systems approaches, and emphasized how innovation will come not through technology but through behavioral and social change. Fuller's observation that there's no "food crisis" or "climate crisis," just a crisis of ignorance, prompted a discussion of how to communicate change. The Times's Revkin noted that a lot of innovation is not about communicating the science, but about limiting people's perception of risk.
The panelists also discussed the role of beauty and "stickiness" in design. While Fuller was quoted as saying, "when the solution is not beautiful, I know it's wrong," Weintraub challenged the audience and designers to broaden their definition of beauty to consider function and not just appearance. McLennan, a past winner of the Buckminster Fuller Prize, argued that while design is sometimes messy, it matters, and the solutions that stick are the ones that we are attracted to.
In her introduction to the evening's discussion, DSI Chair Cheryl Heller noted there are many young people who want to lead the transformation that Fuller envisioned. Her program at SVA equips leaders to use the power of design to solve human and business problems through immersion in the context, tools and skills of design for social innovation. In closing, the panelists echoed her program's goals by urging those in the audience to consider the need for innovation around systems, not just by designers, but also by lawyers, accountants, biologists, and others. To make a difference in the world through design, they seemed to say, you don't need to be an inventor, you just need to be collaborative and creative, determined and flexible.
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We took our out of town guests here for lunch before going to the Chihuly Museum together. We called ahead for reservations and they seated us promptly. The menu had something to offer all 5 in our party, the food was delicious, and the service was friendly. We ate inside because it was a cool day but think it would be delightful to eat outside next to the Chihuly Garden if the weather permits. We enjoyed the tables of various "collections" built into the tables. I recommend this for future diners and this is so very convenient for Museum visitors.
I love the setting of Collections, at the base of the Space Needle and right next door to the Chihuly Gardens. Parking is easy. We enjoy meeting up with friends before the opera or plays at one of the nearby theaters. The food is excellent, fresh, and innovative. You can get an expensive meal or moderately priced one depending on your preference. Wait staff are accommodating. Each table is unique in that it contains one of Chihuly's collections (therefor the name).
Took my mother who uses a walker/wheelchair and we arrived early (with reservations). The reception desk was so helpful and made sure that we were seated in a reasonable period of time even though the restaurant was very busy. The service did not have the usual Seattle edge. The servers were pleasant and helpful. It was refreshing.
Innovative menu. Excellent octopus, king mushrooms, goat cheese gnocchi. Other plates looked great.
Next to Chihuly's Glass Garden, we thought it would be one of those overpriced museum restaurant. To our surprised, it was fun to eat here and the food was good though still pricy. Embedded under each glass top tables are collections of old stuff that brings back childhood memories. I had a tough time choosing which table to sit. We went to Chihuly's Garden in late afternoon, looked around, ate at the Café until it is time they lit up the garden, then went back into the garden for a evening stroll before we called it a day. All together- an enchanted experience.
Collections Café is a very relaxing and pleasant place to dine while visiting the Seattle Center (of course especially convenient to the Chihuly Museum, which I found to be a very pleasant surprise.) The food is good, the ambience pleasant, "adult beverages" are available. A far cry from the Food Court! The wine (white at least) list seemed to be needing a little help.
Delightful setting -- colorful, airy -- and unique with the Chihuly collections, which appeal to all age groups. Food was way beyond ordinary -- service really cheerful and efficient. We liked seeing families with children enjoying themselves. Our only reservation is that the music was so loud as to seriously compromise the evening. We will return often when we attend the theatre and opera at Seattle Center provided we can again prevail upon the staff to tone down the noise level. The night we were there, the other patrons did not seem to mind a bit.
We were served promptly, sitting outside by the Chihuly exhibit was lovely.
Located adjacent to the Chihuly exhibit in Seattle Center, the food at Collections is worthy of the setting. The menu is fairly small, but everything we tried was delicious. It was a lovely café experience.
Restaurant has great location for Chihuly Museum and the Space Needle. Everyone was friendly and accommodating. Food was good. Did not like the "block" of pork for the sandwich. Needs to be "pulled" apart. Also a little salty. Second time at restaurant. Will recommend to all.
Dining room was very nice, clean and well decorated. Wall of old radios and a ceiling full of accordions! Our table had an inlay of old toy trucks. Food was good (chicken salad) and with generous portions. I would not classify it as "a bargain", but priced according to the location. Service was good, again not great but didn't detract from the meal. Desert was very tasty. Door to outside was open and this led to some noise distraction but not constant, just off and on. Overall, good place for lunch while visiting the Chihuly Exhibit.
I met two friends for dinner the evening of the big rain, August 29. The entry to the restaurant was flooded but the staff was already on top of that. They were gracious, professional and very welcoming. My dinner was fantastic and since it was my birthday celebration, I received a fabulous dessertl Loved the bourbon ice cream and the warm cookies were spectacular!
Took my grandchildren and we loved it. We had a starter - cheese balls and bourbon tomato sauce - and shared for three. Then one took the child's grilled cheese, one took the hamburger and I took a salad. All were very nice...and filling. then dessert topped it off....ice cream with bourbon caramel sauce and a warm snickerdoodle. We loved the collections all around. Service was excellent. I recommend this restaurant to anyone. However, we made reservations online, and were glad, since it was filling up by 1230p.
Since this was located at a prominent tourist spot, the space needle, I was not expecting much. But it was very good. Service was good. I would go here even if not doing the tourist thing. Collections of accordions, church keys, and others are displayed really nice.
So nice to find such great food inside Seattle Center!
We went to the Eagles concert next door. Collections was a perfect pre-show dinner -- delicious food, good service, timely preparation, completely unique. What a good choice; we'll be back, even though we live in TEXAS !
Collections Café houses many of Dale Chihuily's small collections. They are displayed on the ceiling, walls and under the glass of each table top. The food was above par, so was the wine list. Excellent service too.. Located next to the Chihuily Glass and Gardens at Seattle Center. It is fun.
We had a great time at the Collections Cafe! The food & service was wonderful! We highly recommend the restaurant!
Collections Cafe is aptly named - as a continuation of the museum it's a perfect place to highlight the many (and sometimes really bizarre) collections of Chihuly. Lots to look at - even in the tables. I wouldn't want to sit at the table with the creepy heads displayed in it, but the others were really fun to look at. Love the accordions hanging from the ceiling. We were there for lunch after touring the museum. Lunch was light and lovely.
We had a short stay in Seattle and wanted to make the most of it. Reviews convinced us the Chihuli Gardens and Collections Cafe were what we were looking for. Both exceeded our expectations. Complete delight in both taste and visual sensation!
Great location for fresh wonderful food combinations. We had a variety of small bites and entree's and loved them all. Surroundings are very interesting with each table containing a "collection" under the table top to view....ours was old Christmas ornaments, but the others were interesting too! We had a fantastic dinner. The only complaint is that the last reservation is at 7pm, and they are not open later for dining. We closed the place down and would have liked to have stayed longer.
We enjoyed our salads and brunch at the Collections Cafe'. We ate outside and found the environment pleasant (within Seattle Center grounds). One of the people in our party opted for the three course brunch. Two of us ordered the chopped salad and split it, which was enough for two light lunches. Service was very good, but the price seemed high.
Great unique brunch options, variety but not too heavy and I prefer plated to a buffet. Add on a mimosa for $3. Will definitely be back.
I've been here twice now and found both the food & service to be very nice. It's a convenient location and option when attending something at the Seattle Center.
A dining and food experience that went way beyond my expectations!
My friend and I enjoyed a very pleasant lunch. We enjoyed Chiuly's collections. We were given a small booklet of the collection by the staff. Very comfortable atmosphere.
Got the Livingsocial deal of a lifetime! 2 admissions to Chihuly Glass & Garden, $60 credit @ Collections Cafe, plus 1st edition catalogue AND valet parking included, thank you. Because we had $60 at the cafe, we ordered several small plates and were treated to many flavors that we normally wouldn't try. No bad choices here! Faves are watermelon salad & pear and Brie ravioli (though the ravioli was a regular entree). Kudos to the well-versed servers who helped us choose from a huge variety for a lunch menu.
There is not much press on Collections but the menu/food - prices - service were all really good. Great date place or option for bringing out of town visitors. I would go back.
Best burger I've ever had. Seriously. Great eclectic funk factor. Fantastic waitress. Hostesses who had personality & cheer. Will go again when back in town.
Did the Sunday brunch Prix Fixe. Overall the food was good but not outstanding (the steak with my eggs was somewhat tough, but the deserts were excellent). Love the décor, in keeping with the early 60s vibe of the expo era, with every table highlighted by quirky collectables, and the setting in the glass sculpture garden, is lovely. Felt set menu was somewhat overpriced at $29, though, with coffee/tea not included.
A delightful neighborhood gem and/or great finish to a tour of the wondrous glass museum in Seattle. Delicious food, fun, conversation-sparking decor, excellent, attentive service, and we could actually hear ourselves converse. Winner!
We came for Seattle Restaurant week and were impressed by the food! I had fried oyster salad for a starter and porchetta for my main. The porchetta was definitely worth coming for! Cooked until the meat fell apart and bursting with flavor. Cool collections of stuff in every direction and great service. Fun!
We booked a reservation at Collections because we were in Seattle to see the Chihuly exhibit. It sounded great on their website and the food descriptions certainly lived up to our lunch. The menu changes weekly I think and they do local sourced food. Porchetta stew was excellent, rich thin broth with a healthy sized portion of pork belly as the center piece. Hamburger was perfectly cooked and served on buns from a local bakery, the best bun I have ever had. We all wanted a cup of hot tea and they did not have any in stock; we though that was odd and a bit off putting. Overall the experience was very good and I would return.
At the opposite edge of Seattle Center, Collections is the perfect place for an early dinner and then a nice walk across to the opera house. There is a varied menu, the food is prepared and presented well, and there is good value for the moderate prices. The server was perfect!
I love the collections! It's a wonderfully stylish experience! It's not a large place, so definitely make reservations! Excellent northwest food!!
My mother and I had a wonderful lunch. The waitress suggested the new cabernet that was just added to the menu and we were not disappointed! I had the burger and mom had the pork sandwich. We gave each other half of our sandwich. The burger was delicious and the pork was pretty good. The pork needed a bit more moisture of some sort (maybe aioli?) We then capped the meal off with a brownie sundae that we split. The brownies should have been warmed because they were hard...but tasty. Having worked at restaurants in my 20s I know that heating the brownie up is typically done. Other than that, we had a wonderful time. We loved looking at all the collections. A real gem of a restaurant.
The service was very prompt and friendly. My husband & I ordered small plates like octopus, oysters,salmon cake,cheese curds( a must have). The entree of rigatoni was delicious although the first time around the pasta was way undercooked( stick to your molars undercooked) but happily exchanged for a new bowl of al dente pasta the second time around. Our server was very apologetic and comped us a cheese curd appetizer. Prices are a little on the high side, but that's expected for a tourist restaurant. Chihuly has collecitions of fun things to look at in the middle of the glass enclosed dining table. The utensils were not user friendly and we shifted our hands often to get comfortable using them. Overall, we rate Collection's Cafe an 8.
We enjoyed having dinner here before the Opera -- it was not crowded and only a 5 min walk to McCaw Hall. The chicken dinner was excellent. The Chihuly collection of common household items is interesting -- like radios, wine openers, knives etc.
The food was great. Flavorful, fresh, and plenty of it for much large appetites than our. The ambiance wasn't quite as expected, the downside being that we apparently were seated next to an (assumed by the overheard conversations) employee on off time bent on introducing the 'date' to everyone else who was working....so we had a steady stream of other employees, from wait staff to the chef standing right next to us and enthusing loudly how nice it was to meet the 'date'. Even some (presumably) regulars of the employee came by as well. We felt our otherwise nice meal was hijacked.
this restaurant sits at the chiluly musuem at space center in seattle...of course the musuem was no 1, but so was this restaurant...we are foodies had lunch there last week...the service from anastasia was perfect and quiet and sweet...the food was amazing and different...so not miss the gambas with paprika,the grilled octopus, and the wonderful cheddar and beer soup...this resto gets an 11 on a 1-10 scale
4 of us ate here before a wonderful Seattle Shakespeare show. The pulled pork sandwhich was cleverly toped with tart, colorful slaw, in not too thick a bun. It was served with a mountain of think crisp fires we all munched. Our first course green salad was well dressed but nothing special. My husband and feind had a pasta with special chanterelle mushrooms. We all felt it was light on the mushrooms - and not quite speasoned enough. the special wine of the week was excellent and a bargain (a Walla Walla name, for $40/bottle of cabernet). We could vist well in our cozy booth. Service was excellent- actually perfect. We were in and out in 75 minutes and didn't feel a bit hurried. Really just an idel spot before a show at the center
Nice place to visit while going to the glass exhibit. We have done that twice and it was perfect compliment to the exhibit experience.
Reserve for an early dinner and catch a bit of the Chihuly exhibit prior to dining and then linger through the great glass hall and gardens following.
Interesting venue, with notable collections of ordinary objects. Food good. No surprises.
Dined with friends and all four of us enjoyed our appetizers and main courses. Specials were creative as were the regular menu items. You can get a full entre, several salads or sandwiches which allows for a range of price points. Porchetta as part of a winter stew with vegetables was excellent as was the pear and brief ravioli. Salads were different combinations of kale and roasted mushrooms or apples, cabbage and nuts. Good for pre-theatre dining.
It was a very enjoyable evening. The collections were lots of fun - and added interest. The food was good - but not too fancy. Just a delicious meal, an interesting and pleasant setting,
we like the size of the restaurant and they are always very helpful. the menu is limited, but the food is good. Portions are small, however. we would love to go there after the ballet and opera, but they actually close early- so it would not be a late-night find.
Collections Cafe is a museum in itself. Lots to see! My meal surprised me as being mediocre. Most museum food is really good. I had a chopped salad. For 2/3rd the price there are plenty of restaurants where you can get a far superior chopped salad, but not as convenient to the museum. I would go back, but would order something different.
Collections is an excellent choice for something other than fast food at Seattle Center if you're not up for the cost of dining atop the needle.


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Test ID: TLB
Thallium, Blood
Secondary ID A test code used for billing and in test definitions created prior to November 2011
NY State Approved Indicates the status of NY State approval and if the test is orderable for NY State clients.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Detecting toxic thallium exposure
Special Instructions and Forms Describes specimen collection and preparation information, test algorithms, and other information pertinent to test. Also includes pertinent information and consent forms to be used when requesting a particular test
Method Name A short description of the method used to perform the test
Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Reporting Name A shorter/abbreviated version of the Published Name for a test; an abbreviated test name
Aliases Lists additional common names for a test, as an aid in searching
Specimen Type Describes the specimen type needed for testing
Specimen Required Defines the optimal specimen. This field describes the type of specimen required to perform the test and the preferred volume to complete testing. The volume allows automated processing, fastest throughput and, when indicated, repeat or reflex testing.
Container/Tube: Royal blue-top (EDTA) Vacutainer plastic trace element blood collection tube, catalog #368381 (Supply T183)
Specimen Volume: Full tube
Collection Instructions:
1. See Metals Analysis-Collection and Transport in Special Instructions for complete instructions.
2. Send specimen in original tube.
Additional Information: High concentrations of gadolinium and iodine are known to interfere with most metals tests. If either gadolinium- or iodine-containing contrast media has been administered, a specimen should not be collected for 96 hours.
Specimen Minimum Volume Defines the amount of specimen required to perform an assay once, including instrument and container dead space. Submitting the minimum specimen volume makes it impossible to repeat the test or perform confirmatory or perform reflex testing. In some situations, a minimum specimen volume may result in a QNS (quantity not sufficient) result, requiring a second specimen to be collected.
Reject Due To Identifies specimen types and conditions that may cause the specimen to be rejected
Hemolysis | Mild OK; Gross OK |
Lipemia | Mild OK; Gross OK |
Icterus | Mild OK; Gross reject |
Other | Green-top (heparin) tube |
Specimen Stability Information Provides a description of the temperatures required to transport a specimen to the laboratory. Alternate acceptable temperature(s) are also included.
Specimen Type | Temperature | Time |
Whole blood | Refrigerated (preferred) | 21 days |
Ambient | 21 days | |
Frozen | 21 days |
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Thallium is a by-product of lead smelting. The clinical interest in thallium derives primarily from its use as a rodenticide since this is the most frequent route of human exposure.
Thallium is rapidly absorbed via ingestion, inhalation, skin contact, and through the mucous membranes of the mouth, gastrointestinal tract, and lungs. It is considered to be as toxic as lead and mercury, with similar sites of action.
The mechanism of action of thallium is:
-Competition with potassium at cell receptors to affect ion pumps
-Inhibition of DNA synthesis
-Binds to sulfhydryl groups on proteins in neural axons
-Concentrates in renal tubular cells and reacts with protein to cause necrosis
Patients exposed to high doses of thallium (>1 g) present with alopecia (hair loss), peripheral neuropathy and seizures, and renal failure.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
0-1 ng/mL
Reference values apply to all ages.
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Normal blood concentrations are <1 ng/mL.
Significant exposure is associated with thallium in blood >10 ng/mL, and blood concentrations as high as 50 ng/mL. The long-term sequelae from such an exposure is poor.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
High concentrations of gadolinium and iodine are known to interfere with most metals tests. If either gadolinium- or iodine-containing contrast media has been administered, a specimen should not be collected for 96 hours.
Clinical Reference Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Pelcloval D, Urbanl, P, Ridsonl P, et al: Two-year follow-up of two patients after severe thallium intoxication. Hum Exper Toxicol 2009;28:263-272
2. Zhao G, Ding M, Zhang B, et al: Clinical manifestations and management of acute thallium poisoning. Eur Neurol 2008;60:292-297
Method Description Describes how the test is performed and provides a method-specific reference
This assay is performed on an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer. Calibrating standards and blanks are diluted with an aqueous acidic diluent containing internal standards. Quality control specimens and patient samples are diluted in an identical manner. In turn, all diluted blanks, calibrating standards, quality control specimens, and patient specimens are aspirated into a pneumatic nebulizer and the resulting aerosol directed to the hot plasma discharge by a flow of argon. In the annular plasma the aerosol is vaporized, atomized, then ionized. The ionized gases plus neutral species formed in the annular plasma space are aspirated from the plasma through an orifice into a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The mass range from 1 to 263 amu is rapidly scanned multiple times and ion counts tabulated for each mass of interest. Instrument response is defined by the linear relationship of analyte concentration vs. ion count ratio (analyte ion count/internal standard ion count). Analyte concentrations are derived by reading the ion count ratio for each mass of interest and determining the concentration from the response line.(Unpublished Mayo method)
Day(s) and Time(s) Test Performed Outlines the days and times the test is performed. This field reflects the day and time the sample must be in the testing laboratory to begin the testing process and includes any specimen preparation and processing time required before the test is performed. Some tests are listed as continuously performed, which means assays are performed several times during the day.
Tuesday, Friday; 3 p.m.
Analytic Time Defines the amount of time it takes the laboratory to setup and perform the test. This is defined in number of days. The shortest interval of time expressed is "same day/1 day," which means the results may be available the same day that the sample is received in the testing laboratory. One day means results are available 1 day after the sample is received in the laboratory.
Maximum Laboratory Time Defines the maximum time from specimen receipt at Mayo Medical Laboratories until the release of the test result
Specimen Retention Time Outlines the length of time after testing that a specimen is kept in the laboratory before it is discarded
Performing Laboratory Location The location of the laboratory that performs the test
Test Classification Provides information regarding the medical device classification for laboratory test kits and reagents. Tests may be classified as cleared or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and used per manufacturer's instructions, or as products that do not undergo full FDA review and approval, and are then labeled as an Analyte Specific Reagent (ASR), Investigation Use Only (IUO) product, or a Research Use Only (RUO) product.
CPT Code Information Provides guidance in determining the appropriate Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code(s) information for each test or profile. The listed CPT codes reflect Mayo Medical Laboratories interpretation of CPT coding requirements. It is the responsibility of each laboratory to determine correct CPT codes to use for billing.
LOINC® Code Information Provides guidance in determining the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) values for the result codes returned for this test or profile.
Result ID | Reporting Name | LOINC Code |
8149 | Thallium, B | 5744-8 |


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Code wrote:The Disney MEP Award - This award goes to the person that best used unintentional "symbols" in their work, something that disney is famous for getting screwed on.
Who says they're unintentional?
Sadly, I won't able to watch any of this until Saturday since I'm on the road going north right now. I look forward to seeing it when I get back!


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In the field, they portray fierce enemies.
Some Confederate re-enactors taunt, "Piss on a Yankee." Union re-enactors shout back about the "uncouth" Rebels.
But in camp, they fall easily into the role of an extended family.
So it was unsurprising when re-enactors portraying soldiers in the Army of Northern Virginia donated money to replace a saber and pistol stolen Saturday from a Union tent at Gettysburg.
"We spend so much time traveling together that our two units are like a family," said William Coe, a Confederate re-enactor. "When one of us is in trouble, everybody steps up to help."
A replica Civil War saber and rare Colt revolver were stolen out of the tent of Bob Hutchison, an Altoona re-enactor who portrayed a Union officer at the Annual Gettysburg Civil War Battle Re-enactment.
The revolver, worth several hundred dollars, was a replica of an 1850s model and crafted in Italy. It's unique for the octagonal barrel, Hutchison said. Most pistols have a round barrel.
Re-enactors say they witnessed a civilian man in a floppy-brimmed hat leaving the campsite with the items. Re-enactors fanned out, they searched the grounds, but the thief was lost in the crowd.
Hutchison said he was dismayed and couldn't afford to replace the items, which are worth nearly $800.
Hours after the theft, Coe and other re-enactors organized efforts to collect money to replace the missing items. They raised about $400 and one anonymous re-enactor donated a replica Civil War pistol to Hutchison. The donations were made by members of Lee's Lieutenants, a troop of re-enactors that portray Southern officers in the Army of Northern Virginia. Members of the Federal Generals Corps, a Pennsylvania-based re-enactment troop that portrays Union officers, also contributed to the cause.
Replica Civil War gear is expensive and re-enactors spend years collecting pieces to appear authentic.
Still, thefts are rare. The campsites are almost always occupied and re-enactors protect each other's belongings. The theft occurred after the re-enactment of a cavalry battle Saturday at 11 a.m. at the at the Redding farm, located north of Gettysburg at 1085 Table Rock Road. The re-enactment, held last Friday through Sunday, drew thousands of spectators and re-enactors to the Gettysburg area.


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We've allowed these mass murderers to be called "evil". That's an easy explanation but not a viable one. When I look at the photos of these guys, I know them. They are the kids who were shunned, humiliated, ignored and emotionally battered at school, home, everywhere they went. The only place they could find refuge was in video games, movies, computers. So they withdraw from human contact and really, lose all connections to human interaction and empathy. Sometimes, they can channel their anger and intelligence into building a better mousetrap. Other times, this rage finds release in planning, plotting and executing an intricately imagined scenario of slaughter.
Until we stop bullying and emotional turmoil (is this even possible in the adolescent world?) nothing will change. We can, however, make the weapons of choice (guns with large capacity clips or mags) more difficult for the potential perps to access.
Maybe we should legalize prostitution, also, so these frustrated guys can at least find some release to all of their pent up anger. You don't have to agree with this last statement but any guy understands how testosterone makes us crazy, sometimes. And I think we can all agree crazy and guns don't go together.
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When Spooks Disagree
According to The New York Times, intelligence services in the United States, Israel and Western Europe are divided over the current status of Iran's nuclear program.
Depending on who you choose to believe, Tehran is (A) in the final stages of weaponization, the last step before mounting a nuke on a delivery platform; (B) has never resumed work on weaponization, after suspending that portion of its program in 2003; (C) never stopped work on weaponization, but the exact status of the effort is unclear, or (D) may be further along in its nuclear work than the IAEA is willing to admit.
If you haven't read the Times account, you might be interested to know that those assessments came from intelligence experts in Germany, Israel, the United States and France. If you'd like to take today's intelligence quiz, try to match the assessment with the country that offered it. If not, simply skip ahead; you'll find the answers in the next paragraph.
A France
B Germany
C Israel
D United States
As you might have guessed, the nation that believes Iran is nearing the end of the weaponization is Israel. Germany is the country which assesses that Tehran has never abandoned its weaponization efforts, although progress is difficult to ascertain. Meanwhile, French intelligence services think the IAEA knows more about Iran's nuclear ambitions than its has admitted, suggesting that Paris has its own suspicions about weaponization.
Finally, the U.S. is the only country that still maintains that Iran suspended its weaponization efforts in 2003. That was the central thesis of that controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Tehran's nuclear efforts, an assessment better known for its political implications, rather than its intel judgments.
Stating that Iran had halted the weaponization process, elements within the intelligence community effectively removed the military option as a means for dealing with the problem in the last year of the Bush presidency. Never mind that the NIE conceded that Iran was continuing other, critical elements of its nuclear program, such as uranium enrichment and development of medium and long-range delivery platforms.
In other words, Tehran was pressing ahead with material for a bomb and a means for putting it on target. All that was missing was a weaponization program, an effort that could be restarted relatively easily, with assistance from such partners as North Korea and Pakistan. Indeed, Pyongyang's recent nuclear test suggests that Kim Jong-il's scientists have developed at least a crude weapon design, one that can be downsized for delivery by medium and long-range missiles. Once North Korea has that technology, Tehran will have it in short order, since Iran is providing technical and financial support for Pyongyang's nuclear program.
Judging from the leaked assessments--and their clear divergence--a few facts seem painfully clear. First, western intelligence agencies lack reliable HUMINT reporting on Iran's nuclear efforts. Developing sources inside the theocratic regime has always been difficult, and there has been a significant counter-intelligence crackdown since the defection of a key IRGC general last year. With his departure, we're guessing the flow of new HUMINT data on Tehran's nuclear program has declined. In fact, Iranian exile groups remain one of our most important sources of information, although portions of their reporting is sometimes suspect.
Secondly, Iran is becoming increasingly proficient at concealing its nuclear activities. Not long after President Obama revealed that Tehran has built a second enrichment plant, Iranian officials invited the IAEA to inspect the facility. That offer suggests a certain degree of confidence in its ability to hide (or remove) sensitive functions before the inspectors arrive. "Open" inspections by the U.N. agency will reveal only what the Iranians want us to see. Key activities--including uranium enrichment--can be moved to buildings with no apparent "nuclear" signature. There is still ample reason to believe that Tehran has a parallel, covert program which has remained undetected.
In fact, the Germany's primary intelligence service (the BND) have maintained that position for years. One of my former colleagues, who spent years working with the agency, says the Germans became suspicious when Iran launched a massive railway expansion program in the early 1990s. A decade into the effort, more than 3300 km of new, standard-gauge line was under construction. Interestingly, one of those projects was designed to "by-pass" the holy city of Qom. It would be instructive to know how close that "belt line" lies to the recently-discovered nuclear facility. As a German analyst told my colleague, some of the new rail lines served areas that were relatively unpopulated, and almost devoid of significant economic activity.
Unfortunately, the lack of an intelligence consensus on Iran will make it more difficult for the west to choose a course of action. It is rather telling that French President Sarkozy has been much more forceful on the issue that President Obama. He clearly understands that Iran will soon have a nuclear bomb--and perhaps much sooner than anyone realizes. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama has (apparently) put his hopes in the power of diplomacy and a largely discredited NIE. From his perspective, we still have time to talk to Tehran and achieve some sort of solution, or cobble together "tougher" sanctions that everyone can support.
It's a risky gamble and unfortunately for Mr. Obama, the weight of the available intelligence is not on his side.


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Russell identified the victim as Patricia Moon, 63, of Odenville.
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Hummingbirds Are Popping Up in the Strangest Places
Two master bird banders are at the forefront of finding out why the rufous hummingbird's migration has changed
- By Eric Wagner
- Smithsonian.com, November 08, 2012, Subscribe
It is a little past 6:30 in the morning on Whidbey Island, in Washington's Puget Sound, and despite the earliness of the hour and wretchedness of the weather, Dan Harville is admiring the torch lilies in Al Lunemann's garden. Hummingbirds flurry about the tall red plants, drinking, hovering and chasing each other.
"Okay," Harville says, shaking himself from his reverie. "Let's set up the trap." He arranges a homemade, remote-controlled net over one of the feeders Lunemann keeps on the front porch. He waits until three or four hummingbirds are working the feeder's spigots and then, with a push of a button, drops the net, trapping the birds inside. They flutter against the fine mesh, mildly befuddled. "Now," Harville says, "you can just stick your hand in and get them." Which he does, plucking them out one by one and placing each in its own small cloth bag so it will stay calm.
In Lunemann's garage, Harville withdraws a small tuft of feathers—a female rufous hummingbird. He works quickly. "I only want to keep her for two minutes at most," he says. He swaddles the bird in a scrap of fabric, clips it closed so she can't fly away, and weighs her—"3.17 grams," he tells his wife, Jan, who records the data. He measures the length of the bird's needle bill, wing and tail feathers. He blows in the bird's chest to measure her subcutaneous fat and determine whether she is plump and healthy. Then he picks up a speck of aluminum—the band—and deftly fits it around the bird's tiny leg, tightening it ever so carefully with a pair of pliers. He dabs a dot of pink paint on the top of the hummingbird's head so he will know she has already been processed should he catch her again. Finished, he holds her out in the palm of his hand. "Off you go," he says. The hummingbird, which has until now been still and passive, zips away. Harville watches for a moment, and then reaches for the next twitching bag.
Harville, recently retired as a computer programmer at the University of Washington, is one of fewer than 100 master hummingbird banders in the United States. In 12 years of banding, he has caught 9,986 hummingbirds from five species (plus one hybrid); over the course of a single year, he will rotate his trap among six or seven sites throughout Washington. His aim is to help sketch migratory patterns, which are for the most part only vaguely known. But he hopes to help answer a larger question. In the last 20 years, rufous hummingbirds, along with some other species, have started to show up more and more in places they are not supposed to be. No one knows why, but Harville and his ilk would like to find out.
There are more than 320 species of hummingbirds, all restricted to the Western Hemisphere, and most found only in Central or South America. The rufous is one of 8 species that reliably breeds more than a few miles north of Mexico. It is a creature of extremes. Even though it is only three inches long and weighs an eighth of an ounce, it has the widest range of any hummingbird, spending the winter as far south as southern Mexico and breeding as far north as southeast Alaska. Some will migrate as much as 4,000 miles between their breeding and non-breeding grounds; in terms of body-length, the migration is the longest of any bird.
For much of the past century, central hummingbird dogma had it that, save for the ruby-throated, U.S. hummingbirds like the rufous were restricted to the western states in the summer; in autumn, to a bird, they all headed south of the border. "Any hummingbird seen in the U.S. in winter was a vagrant that was lost and was going to die," says James Remsen, a biologist at Louisiana State University who studies hummingbirds. But the rufous hummingbird has of late shown a tendency to wander. One of Harville's birds even spent the winter in Louisiana a couple of years ago. "A bander and I actually exchanged birds," he says. "She caught one of mine, and I caught one of hers."
The person who recaptured Harville's bird was Nancy Newfield. Newfield is something a celebrity in the small world of hummingbird banders. In the late 1970s, she had started to see rufous hummingbirds in the winter around her Louisiana home. Not at every feeder, mind you, but regularly enough that she suspected something might be afoot. At the time, rufous hummingbirds were assumed to be rare in the Southeast. The first was seen in Louisiana in 1932; a second was seen three years later, in 1935. Sightings in the years following were intermittent, and between 1900 and 1990, fewer than 30 were seen per year. While the odd rufous was exciting for local birders, it was not thought indicative of any particular trend.
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We noticed, starting last year, that the hummer's were arriving in April. Prior to that they did not start showing up until late June or July and they have been staying around through October and sometimes November depending on the weather. It's such a delight to have those little jewels around! I like to sit out under my mimosa tree with my parrot or cockatoo and the hummingbird's are fascinated with these strange birds.
Posted by Beth Hyder on November 12,2012 | 10:15 AM
We had 2 rufus hummingbirds winter over in Westerly RI last year! Did they somehow know it was going to be an historically warm winter? Anyway, they were captured and lived in a hummingbird sanctuary in Jamestown RI for the remainder of the winter to assure their survival but was that necessary?
Posted by david turco on November 11,2012 | 08:40 PM
I just LOVE hummingbirds! I saw one flitting about in the evergreen pear tree just this morning. Thank you, Smithsonian, for the great article!
Posted by Odyssey8 on November 8,2012 | 01:45 PM