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I have a passion for helping those in need and make it a priority to organize and/or collaborate with a local not for profits on a quarterly basis every single year because I truly enjoy empowering and supporting individuals in need of a helping hand. For my birthday this November I am supporting Feeding the Homeless Project, Inc here in Atlanta by asking for volunteer and community assistance in collecting hygiene products and kits rather than spending money on me, the birthday girl, since ther... Read More
The NAPW Mission National Association of Professional Women Rolling Carry-on Luggage/Suitcase $25 Target and Walmart Gift Cards $10 McDonalds or Burger King Gift Cards Watches Journals/Pens Travel Umbrellas Ponchos New Women's Underwear (sizes 5-14) Sweaters/Sweatshirts (Women's Small – Women's 3XL) Women's Socks Bath and Body Works Gift Sets NIV or NLT Study Bibles Make up (Eye Shadow, Lip Gloss, Mascara, Nail Polish) Reusable Water Bottle Fleece Blanket Gift Wrap, Ribbons, and Bows We look forward to seeing you! Information about the North Atlanta Chapter:
NAPW defines success as "owning your own power." As the largest, most-recognized networking organization of professional women in the country, spanning virtually every industry and profession, the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) is a powerfully vibrant networking community with over 600,000 members and nearly 300 Local Chapters. NAPW members have diverse backgrounds, beliefs, perspectives and lifestyles with one common bond – their ability to succeed. NAPW's mission is to provide an exclusive, highly advanced networking forum to successful women executives, professionals and entrepreneurs where they can aspire, connect and achieve. Through innovative resources, unique tools and progressive benefits, professional women interact, exchange ideas, advance their knowledge and empower each other.
Welcome to the North Perimeter Chapter!
Please join us for our last meeting of the year on Thursday, November 20th for our monthly meeting. It will be held at B's Bistro in Sandy Springs. The meeting is from 6pm-8pm.
As we each prepare for Thanksgiving and the upcoming holidays, we are reminded that many women are less fortunate and have less to be thankful for. We have worked with Atlanta Mission to determine what items are needed for women in shelters this holiday season. As a way of giving back, we ask that each attendee to this November meeting bring one or more of the items on the list below to donate to this needed cause.
We ask that the items be new and unwrapped. All items donated will be taken to the Atlanta Mission to be disseminated to women in shelters this holiday season.
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New Report Shows Medicaid Costs Increase, Fewer People Receiving Employer Health Insurance
Tuesday, March 13, 2012Joe Brenckle 202-224-2465
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said a new estimate today from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the new health care law will dramatically increase Medicaid spending and result in up to 4 million fewer people receiving health insurance through an employer.
"This new estimate shows that the new law is rapidly increasing Medicaid spending, because it is forcing many more Americans into this mismanaged, government run health program," said Senator Enzi. "The CBO analysis is one more example of the President breaking his promise that Americans can keep their insurance if they like it. According to CBO, under this new law, 4 million fewer people will have access to employer health insurance."
Enzi also noted that the new estimate of the gross cost of the new entitlement program is $1.7 trillion and that by 2022, the average subsidy paid in the new insurance exchanges will increase by 52 percent and that an additional 4 million people will lose their employer-based insurance. The CBO estimates the average exchange subsidy will increase 52 percent by 2022 – starting at $4,780 in 2014, and escalating to $7,270 in 2022. For the first time in estimating the new health care law, CBO contends the costs of forcing more Americans on government programs like Medicaid and CHIP ($931 billion) will cost more than the new exchange entitlement program ($808 billion).
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Adult golfers ages 18 and older who want to improve their game are invited to sign up for Rockford Park District golf specialty clinics scheduled in April, May and June.
The 90-minute individual sessions meet Friday evenings or Saturday mornings from April 13 through June 23 at Aldeen Practice Centre, and cover various aspects of the game.
Attend all, some or one — each clinic will focus on a specific type of shot or skill: Putt/Chip, Pitch/Sand, Pitch/Bunker, Irons, Woods, Trouble Shots and Full Swing.
Fees are $20 per clinic ($23 non-resident). Register at least one week prior to each clinic, either online at www.rockfordparkdistrict.org (click Register Now) or by mail, fax (with credit card), or at either Park District Customer Service location (downtown Rockford or Carlson Ice Arena, Loves Park). Registration will close as capacities are reached.
A schedule of all clinics and topics, as well as a registration form, are included in the Spring/Summer 2012 Program Guide available on the Park District website, at Park District offices and facilities, or by calling Customer Service at (815) 987-8800.
For information about support or adapted golf programs for golfers with disabilities or special needs, call (815) 987-8800.
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Join us as we celebrate a week of St. Patrick's Day themed activities! The green theme will encompass the week as we celebrate the Irish. Come enjoy activities such as Gaelic crafts, exploding rainbows, Irish food, and a search for a pot o' gold! Lads and Lassies who show off their Irish pride in green clothing will receive a lucky treasure from the front desk.
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Date: 1913-05-28
Description: Completed east portion of the first story of the generator room of the power house. Forms are in place at the west end.
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Description: View from the inner track of harness racing at a local fair. The horses and their drivers can be seen racing around a tree-lined curve in the track and pas...
Description: View of the Willimantic river from a foot bridge with waterfront buildings in the distance. Published by Hiram N. Fenn.
Date: 1959-05-19
Description: Two men pose in front of a new Piggly Wiggly grocery store. The new store was located in Middleton at the intersection of Gateway Street and University Ave...
Date: 1935 ca.
Description: Roof of the Johnson Wax Administration Building during construction. The skylight domes have been installed. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wrigh...
Date: 1963
Description: A woman and three children watch from the sidewalk as a parade of circus wagons carried on the beds of International trucks proceeds down a commercial stre...
Date: 1930-10-24
Description: Man sitting in driver's seat of a Skelly Truck promoting itself with banners and streamers. In the background on the right is a church.
Description: A Spaulding Wagon parked inside of a brick building, possibly the first Spaulding Wagon built in Black River Falls.
Date: 1950-02-27
Description: Wally Horvatich (#18) of Northwestern drives against Wisconsin players Don Rehfeldt (#23), Fred Schneider (#40), and Don Page (#20) during the Big Ten bask...
Date: 1994-08
Description: "When the wall below the Juneau House was redone, a rededication ceremony was held. Village President, Mike Weymier, is at the right."
Description: Workmen on temporary walkways among reinforcing bars on the roof of the power house.
Date: 1942-08-15
Description: Three women at a Civilian Defense Rally, one of whom is sitting on a bicycle. Children and adults are standing in the street and on the curb in the backgro...
Description: Workers paraffining cheese at the Sheboygan County Farmers' Coop cheese factory.
Description: Street side view of Holland Manufacturing Company's West Mill, silk producers.
Date: 1911
Description: A view of the creamery and a residence on its second floor. A woman and two children at the foot of the stairs. A one lane road winding up the hill.
Description: View of First Methodist Church, the third building.
Date: 1913 ca.
Description: Side view of right side of an International bus used by the Smith Transfer Co. The front of the bus is open and a person can be partially seen sitting in t...
Description: View down an unpaved street lined with homes.
Description: View looking north down Ohio Street. Pedestrians walk by storefronts as a man rides on horseback. Published by Dunlap's.
Date: 1928-04-03
Description: East High School girls glee club, 2222 East Washington Avenue.
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I'm a long time brewer, this is my first swing at a mead. SO a lot of my expectations with mead fermentation are based off of what I know about ale yeast and beer fermentation.
My mead seems to be stuck at 1.040. It's been in primary for approx. 3 weeks. The fermentation never really "took off" like my beers do. I use a blow off tube and i think the fastest bubbling rate I saw was about 2/ second (my beers are usually like a constant rapid stream of bubbles)
My recipe is a pretty basic 5-gallon mead;
14 lbs Orange Blossom Honey
1 Tsp DAP
1/2 Tsp Wyeast nutrient1 5g pkg 71B-1122
2 vanilla beans (secondary)
6 cardomom pods (Secondary)
Desired FG: < 1.015
specific gravity a week ago was about 1.050 and now seems to have stalled at about 1.040. There is still activity in the airlock; about 1 bubble/8-10 seconds. I haven't really messed with it until yesterday afternoon. I checked the pH which seemed good at about 3.5. So I added another dose of DAP and nutrient, thinking that this may have been the issue. I gave it a day to see, and there is no appreciable difference in bubble production.
Other info/ variables/ preemptive questions I can think of:
- Yeast was pitched with must about 80 degrees F.
- Fermentation temps have been 65-75 degrees.
- I did NOT rehydrate the yeast; just pitched in right in (I know a lot of people say to hydrate. I never do with my beers and their always fine, 'Im not sure if wine yeast acts differently???)So my questions are:
Did I pitch enough yeast/ energizer/ nutrient?
Am I just being impatient and let it sit in primary until its "done"?
OR should I just rack it to secondary, add the spices, and see if jostling the yeast starts the fermentation back up??
Any and all advice appreciated! Thanks
The difference in the numbers, is something "beer people" can't always get a handle on. Likewise some of the differences in fermentation technique.
Honey musts are rather different, inasfaras, its routine to hydrate the yeast with GoFerm, then pitch into the must, then not adding the first half of the nutrient/energiser combo, until after the lag. Then they frown on opening the fermenter to aerate 1,2 or even 3 times daily, up to the 1/3rd sugar break, when it would be aerated to get the air/O2 into it, then adding the 2nd part.of.the nutrient/energiser combo and stirring it on, the airlocking off and leaving it too finish.
At the stage you describe, I'd add some boiled yeast pt yeast hulls and then give it a good.stir and then leave.it until .it starts too clear.
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Thanks for the reply.
I added about 1/2 Tsp of the nutrient yesterday, which is mostly dead yeast and some other junk yeast like to eat (as I understand it). Wyeast website says to use 1/2 teaspoon per 5 gallons of must. Are you thinking it still needs more?
GoFerm isn't available to me locally. I'd have to order it and it's like $9 just for shipping on a $2 product though Amazon... kind of hard to swallow, IMO. Any alternatives? Is the DAP/ Wyeast nutrient an inappropriate combo by itself?


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2014 marks the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, D-Day, on June 6 1944. This most important battle of WW II in Europe between the Western Allies and German forces, was the "beginning of the end" of the war in Europe.
The names of Lemont men who served in WW II are inscribed on the war memorial in the 200 block of Main Street. The "Lemont 22" are those from our community who lost their lives in that war.
Lemont Historical Society and Veterans from VFW Lemont 22 Honor Post 5819 will combine to commemorate the 70th anniversary and will present firsthand accounts of WW II events. The public is encouraged to attend this event to pay tribute to those who have served our country and given their all to the cause of freedom.
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The Lemont Area Historical Society Board of Directors wants to thank all our volunteers, Mr. Abe Ordman, vendors, and those who came to enjoy the Lemont Street Fair. We hope you enjoyed the day and look forward to next year!
The Lemont Area Historical Society would like to thank the girl scouts and especially the Birthday Girl who decided to have a "Weed Pulling Birthday Party" at the LAHS Museum gardens. Really appreciate their hard work along with Donna Holous from the Friendship Garden and the birthday girl's mom for pitching in and helping. THANK YOU!
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Atypical antipsychotics and metabolic testing.cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease
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In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration imposed a label change on the drug class, warning of the risk of hyperglycemia hyperglycemia: see diabetes. and requiring those with pre-existing diabetes or risks to be monitored.
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see boophilusannulatus. Association for the Study of Obesity issued consensus guidelines recommending a schedule of metabolic testing (see chart) and suggesting consideration of a change in agent if weight gain rises more than 5% above baseline during treatment.
For patients with serious psychiatric illness, the risks are even more profound, said Dr. John W. Newcomer, professor of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, and the chair of an APA working group that is creating a White Paper on atypical antipsychotic drugs Antipsychotic Drugs, Atypical Definition
The atypical antipsychotic agents, sometimes called the "novel" antipsychotic agents are a group of drugs which are different chemically from the older drugs used to treat psychosis. and metabolic risk.
Patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder bipolar disorder, formerly manic-depressive disorder or manic-depression, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression. often lead unhealthy lifestyles, independent of being prescribed an atypical antipsychotic drug: Some smoke, eat poorly, and fail to get enough exercise. The life expectancy Life Expectancy
1. The age until which a person is expected to live.
2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. of seriously mentally ill patients is about 25-30 years less than mentally healthy adults, with the primary drivers of excess mortality medical causes, especially cardiovascular disease, rather than suicide.
The role of atypical antipsychotic drugs in perpetuating weight gain in this at-risk patient group has been characterized as a class-wide effect, although certain agents have been disproportionately associated with the problem. Guidelines and warnings alike stress the importance of monitoring all patients taking any second-generation antipsychotic antipsychotic /an·ti·psy·chot·ic/ (-si-kot´ik) effective in the treatment of psychotic disorders; also, an agent that so acts. Antipsychotics are a chemically diverse but pharmacologically similar class of drugs; besides psychotic drug, and following more closely those with risk factors or changes in metabolic parameters.
"Numerous surveys of psychiatrists show a high level of awareness of the risks, a recognition of the importance of these metabolic risks, and the intention to screen. But what we see when we look at actual billing claims for the lab testing tells a different story," said Elaine H. Morrato, Dr. P. H., primary author of several studies evaluating metabolic testing rates in psychiatric patients. She holds academic appointments in the schools of public health, medicine, and pharmacy at the University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to:
- University of Colorado at Boulder (flagship campus)
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In one representative example from her research, an analysis of laboratory claims data for 18,876 commercially insured adults initiating atypical antipsychotic drugs found that 23% and 8% received baseline glucose testing and lipid testing, respectively. Annual testing rates were 38% (glucose) and 23% (lipids). There were slight increases in testing compliance in the years before the 2004 consensus statement, but "the ADA statement was not associated with an increase in screening rates," the study found (Diabetes Care 2009;32:1037-42).
Patient-related barriers, clinical issues, and systemic shortfalls are all to blame, said Dr. Jayendra K. Patel, director of schizophrenia research and bipolar disorder at the Center for Psychopharmocologic Research and Treatment at the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. , Worcester, in an interview.
Psychiatrists may understand the metabolic risks of atypical antipsychotics in a vulnerable population and want to avoid those risks, but they have to work in a system that doesn't make it easy for them to ensure that monitoring gets done.
One shortfall is the reliance on individual psychiatrists, many of whom are unaccustomed to routinely conducting physical examinations on patients, to take patients' blood pressures, measure weights and heights, calculate BMIs, and write and follow up on laboratory orders.
In many cases, "offices are not set up that way," lacking a blood pressure cuff, a scale, or a nurse, said Dr. Morrato.
"Relying on the physician to remember when someone is due for an assessment has variable success rates,'' said Dr. Robert Marvin, medical director for the Psychosis Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. For other uses, see University of Illinois at Chicago (disambiguation).
UIC participates in NCAA Division I Horizon League competition as the UIC Flames in several sports, most notably Basketball. . "We have found in our clinic that it takes a systems-level approach to be successful." His team includes a psychiatric pharmacist and clinical nurse specialists who share responsibility for ensuring that patients are regularly monitored and receive appropriate referrals and care if they show signs of weight gain or altered metabolic parameters.
Ideally, such local system solutions make it easy to remember to perform or order periodic screenings, with chart checklists and tracking of results, system-wide, Dr. Morrato added.
Institutions are also taking the lead in coordinating care between psychiatrists and primary care specialists and/or pertinent specialists such as endocrinologists and cardiologists, who can either facilitate screening in conjunction with the prescribing psychiatrist, or who can serve as referral sources who can be relied upon to provide sensitive interventions to a difficult patient population.
Another core issue is the delicate risk-benefit analysis risk-benefit analysis,
n the consideration as to whether a medical or surgical procedure, particuarly a radical approach, is worth the risk to the patient compared with the possible benefits if the procedure is successful. that accompanies treating profoundly mentally ill patients: the target group for receipt of atypical antipsychotic medications.
Schizophrenia is a complex, chronic, debilitating mental illness that has no easy fix, Dr. Patel said. "The treatment for each patient has to be individualized, with respect to where this patient is, what he has been through, his ethnic/racial background and family medical history, and how serious his psychosis is."
Given a patient with very severe psychosis, a history of suicide Suicide has been committed by people from all walks of life since the beginning of known history. Among the famous who have taken their own lives are Socrates, Boudicca, Brutus, Mark Antony, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Judas Iscariot, Hannibal, Nero, Virginia Woolf, Sadeq Hedayat, Sigmund attempts, and who also has a family history of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, he said he would consider prescribing clozapine clozapine /clo·za·pine/ (klo´zah-pen) a sedative and antipsychotic agent; used in the treatment of schizophrenia.
n. , the atypical antipsychotic drug most closely linked to metabolic alterations. "We are always balancing competing values: the value of aggressively, successfully treating a patient to the best possible outcome [versus] avoiding side effects that might affect long-term outcome."
The question comes back to monitoring and ensuring that the risk-benefit analysis adapts to physiologic changes in the patient, he said. If a patient gains weight, it's evident, but "what a patient doesn't see is the cholesterol, the triglycerides Triglycerides
Fatty compounds synthesized from carbohydrates during the process of digestion and stored in the body's adipose (fat) tissues. High levels of triglycerides in the blood are associated with insulin resistance. , the glucose level, the blood pressure, and these are what really hurt the patient but are not so obvious."
These silent contributors can escape the attention of a busy practitioner, particularly one who isn't in the habit of ordering screening tests and doesn't work in a system designed to facilitate that.
Even when screening is implemented, the system can fail. Not all psychiatrists have a close working relationship with a primary care physician who can follow up on laboratory values and competently treat mentally ill patients. And not all patients have the means or motivation to get to a lab and an internist's office after they've been to the psychiatrist.
Finally, there is the issue of discussing the side effects, Dr. Patel said.
The notion of avoiding certain agents to skirt the issue has become, apparently, the de facto alternative to screening for many psychiatrists. Prescribing patterns suggest "doctors made a clinical judgment that they would not need to monitor much or at all if the patient was taking a low-risk drug,'' said Dr. Newcomer.
Although it is true that there is a "huge spectrum of weight gain liability" among drugs in the class, it remains "disappointing" that physicians have failed to heed well-publicized warnings about risk in a vulnerable patient population prescribed polypharmacy, he said.
Data analyses by Dr. Morrato and Dr. Newcomer show that about 80% of the patients at the highest risk get screened, compared with about 20% of those with no risk factors cited in claims data.
However, physicians' preferential screening decisions ignore the gradation gradation: see ablaut. effect associated with escalating risk and miss the opportunity to prevent disease by catching problems early, especially in young patients, said Dr. Morrato.
One possible solution is to carefully switch a patient from a higher- to a lower-risk alternative within the class, which-has been found to be less disruptive to the clinical course of most patients than once believed. Another is to begin with a less risky alternative, while still monitoring according to ADA guidelines.
Dr. Morrato has received research funding from Pfizer. Dr. Newcomer has received grant support and/or was a consultant to numerous pharmaceutical companies, including the makers of several drugs within the atypical antipsychotic class. Dr. Marvin said he did not have any relevant financial disclosures. Dr. Patel receives research grant support from Johnson 8c Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Forest Pharmaceuticals.
Metabolic Workup Guidelines, Atypical Antipsychotics Measurement Baseline 4 Weeks 8 Weeks 12 Weeks Quarterly Personal/Family X history Height/Weight/BMI * X X X X X Waist circumference X Fasting blood glucose X X Fasting lipid profile X X Blood pressure X X Measurement Annually Every 5 years Personal/Family history X Height/Weight/BMI * Waist circumference X Fasting blood glucose X ** Fasting lipid profile X ** (If normal in year 1) Blood pressure X ** * If a patient gains 5% or more of his/her initial weight at any time during therapy, a switch in the second-generation antipsychotic should be considered. BMI should be reassessed at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after switching, and quarterly thereafter. ** More frequently if clinically indicated, or in those with higher baseline risk for developing diabetes or hypertension. Source: Consensus Development Conference on Antipsychotic Drugs and Obesity and Diabetes, Diabetes Care
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