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Context: Although patient safety is a major problem, most health care organizations rely on spontaneous reporting, which detects only a small minority of adverse events. As a result, problems with safety have remained hidden. Chart review can detect adverse events in research settings, but it is too expensive for routine use. Information technology techniques can detect some adverse events in a timely and cost-effective way, in some cases early enough to prevent patient harm.
Objective: To review methodologies of detecting adverse events using information technology, reports of studies that used these techniques to detect adverse events, and study results for specific types of adverse events.
Design: Structured review.
Methodology: English-language studies that reported using information technology to detect adverse events were identified using standard techniques. Only studies that contained original data were included.
Main Outcome Measures: Adverse events, with specific focus on nosocomial infections, adverse drug events, and injurious falls.
Results: Tools such as event monitoring and natural language processing can inexpensively detect certain types of adverse events in clinical databases. These approaches already work well for some types of adverse events, including adverse drug events and nosocomial infections, and are in routine use in a few hospitals. In addition, it appears likely that these techniques will be adaptable in ways that allow detection of a broad array of adverse events, especially as more medical information becomes computerized.
Conclusion: Computerized detection of adverse events will soon be practical on a widespread basis.
Patient safety is an important issue and has received substantial national attention since the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, "To Err is Human."1 A subsequent IOM report, "Crossing the Quaity Chasm," underscored the importance of patient safety as a key dimension of quality and identified information technology as a critical means of achieving this goal.2 These reports suggest that 44,000–98,000 deaths annually in the U.S. may be due to medical errors.
Although the "To Err is Human" report brought patient safety into the public eye, the principal research demonstrating this major problem was reported years ago, with much of the data coming from the 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study.3,4 The most frequent types of adverse events affecting hospitalized patients were adverse drug events, nosocomial infections, and surgical complications.4 Earlier studies identified similar issues,5,6 although their methodology was less rigorous.
Hospitals routinely underreport the number of events with potential or actual adverse impact on patient safety. The main reason is that hospitals historically have relied on spontaneous reporting to detect adverse events. This approach systematically underestimates the frequency of adverse events, typically by a factor of about 20.7–9 Although manual chart review is effective in identifying adverse events in the research setting,10 it is too costly for routine use.
Another approach to finding events in general and adverse events in particular is computerized detection. This method generally uses computerized data to identify a signal that suggests the possible presence of an adverse event, which can then be investigated by human intervention. Although this approach still typically involves going to the chart to verify the event, it is much less costly than review of unscreened charts,11 because only a small proportion of charts need to be reviewed and the review can be highly focused.
This paper reviews the evidence regarding the use of electronic tools to detect adverse events, first based on the type of data, including ICD-9 codes, drug and laboratory data, and free text, and then on the type of tool, including keyword and term searches and natural language processing. We then discuss the evidence regarding the use of these tools to identify nosocomial infections, adverse drug events in both the inpatient and outpatient setting, falls, and other types of adverse events. The focus of this discussion is to detect the events after they occur, although such tools can also be used to prevent or ameliorate many events.
Developing and maintaining a computerized screening system generally involve several steps. The first and most challenging step is to collect patient data in electronic form. The second step is to apply queries, rules, or algorithms to the data to find cases with data that are consistent with an adverse event. The third step is to determine the predictive value of the queries, usually by manual review.
The data source most often applied to patient safety work is the administrative coding of diagnoses and procedures, usually in the form of ICD-9-CM and CPT codes. This coding represents one of the few ubiquitous sources of clinically relevant data. The usefulness of this coding—if it is accurate and timely—is clear. The codes provide direct and indirect evidence of the clinical state of the patient, comorbid conditions, and the progress of the patient during the hospitalization or visit. For example, administrative data have been used to screen for complications that occur during the course of hospitalization.12,13
However, because administrative coding is generated for reimbursement and legal documentation rather than for clinical care, its accuracy and appropriateness for clinical studies are variable at best. The coding suffers from errors, lack of temporal information, lack of clinical content,15 and "code creep"—a bias toward higher-paying diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).16 Coding is usually done after discharge or completion of the visit; thus its use in real-time intervention is limited. Adverse events are poorly represented in the ICD-9-CM coding scheme, although some events are present (for example, 39.41 "control of hemorrhage following vascular surgery"). Unfortunately, the adverse event codes are rarely used in practice.17
Despite these limitations, administrative data are useful in detecting adverse events. Such events may often be inferred from conflicts in the record. For example, a patient whose primary discharge diagnosis is myocardial infarction but whose admission diagnosis is not related to cardiac disease (e.g., urinary tract infection) may have suffered an adverse event.
Pharmacy data and clinical laboratory data represent two other common sources of coded data. These sources supply direct evidence for medication and laboratory adverse events (e.g., dosing errors, clinical values out of range). For example, applications have screened for adverse drug reactions by finding all of the orders for medications that are used to rescue or treat adverse drug reactions—such as epinephrine, steroids, and antihistamines.18–20 Anticoagulation studies can utilize activated partial thromboplastin times, a laboratory test reflecting adequacy of anticoagulation. In addition, these sources supply information about the patient's clinical state (a medication or laboratory value may imply a particular disease), corroborating or even superseding the administrative coding. Unlike administrative coding, pharmacy and laboratory data are available in real time, making it possible to intervene in the care of the patient.
With increasing frequency, hospitals and practices are installing workflow-based systems such as inpatient order entry systems and ambulatory care systems. These systems supply clinically rich data, often in coded form, which can support sophisticated detection of adverse events. If providers use the systems in real time, it becomes possible to intervene and prevent or ameliorate patient harm.
The detailed clinical history, the evolution of the clinical plan, and the rationale for the diagnosis are critical to identifying adverse events and to sorting out their causes. Yet this information is rarely available in coded form, even with the growing popularity of workflow-based systems. Visit notes, admission notes, progress notes, consultation notes, and nursing notes contain important information and are increasingly available in electronic form. However, they are usually available in uncontrolled, free-text narratives. Furthermore, reports from ancillary departments such as radiology and pathology are commonly available in electronic narrative form. If the clinical information contained in these narrative documents can be turned into a standardized format, then automated systems will have a much greater chance of identifying adverse events and even classifying them by cause.
A study by Kossovsky et al.22 found that distinguishing planned from unplanned readmissions required narrative data from discharge summaries and concluded that natural language processing would be necessary to separate such cases automatically. Roos et al.23 used claims data from Manitoba to identify complications leading to readmission and found reasonable predictive value, but similar attempts to identify whether or not a diagnosis represented an in-hospital complication of care based on claims data met with difficulties resolved only through narrative data (discharge abstracts).
A range of approaches is available to unlock coded clinical information from narrative reports. The simplest is to use lexical techniques to match queries to words or phrases in the document. A simple keyword search, similar to what is available on Web search engines and MEDLINE, can be used to find relevant documents.12,25–27 This approach works especially well when the concepts in question are rare and unlikely to be mentioned unless they are present.26 A range of improvements can be made, including stemming prefixes and suffixes to improve the lexical match, mapping to a thesaurus such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus to associate synonyms and concepts, and simple syntactic approaches to handle negation. A simple key-word search was fruitful in one study of adverse drug events based on text from outpatient encounters.17 The technique uncovered a large number of adverse drug events, but its positive predictive value was low (0.072). Negative and ambiguous terms had the most detrimental effect on performance, even after the authors employed simple techniques to avoid the problem (for example, avoid sentences with any mention of negation).
Natural language processing28.29 promises improved performance by better characterizing the information in clinical reports. Two independent groups have demonstrated that natural language processing can be as accurate as expert human coders for coding radiographic reports as well as more accurate than simple keyword methods.30–32 A number of natural language processing systems are based on symbolic methods such as pattern matching or rule-based techniques and have been applied to health care.30–45 These systems have varied in approach: pure pattern matching, syntactic grammar, semantic grammar, or probabilistic methods, with different tradeoffs in accuracy, robustness, scalability, and maintainability. These systems have done well in domains, such as radiology, in which the narrative text is focused, and the results for more complex narrative such as discharge summaries are promising.36,41,46–50
With the availability of narrative reports in real time, automated systems can intervene in the care of the patient in complex ways. In one study, a natural language processor was used to detect patients at high risk for active tuberculosis infection based on chest radiographic reports.45 If such patients were in shared rooms, respiratory isolation was recommended. This system cut the missed respiratory isolation rate approximately in half.
Given clinical data sources, which may include medication, laboratory, and microbiology information as well as narrative data, the computer must be programmed to select cases in which an adverse event may have occurred. In most patient safety studies, someone with knowledge of patient safety and database structure writes queries or rules to address a particular clinical area. For example, a series of rules to address adverse drug events can be written.17 One can broaden the approach by searching for general terms relevant to patient safety or look for an explicit mention of an adverse drug event or reaction in the record. Automated methods to produce algorithms may also be possible. For example, one can create a training set of cases in which some proportion is known to have suffered an adverse event. A machine learning algorithm, such as a decision tree generator, a neural network, or a nearest neighbor algorithm, can be used to categorize new cases based on what is learned from the training set.
Finally, the computer-generated signals must be assessed for the presence of adverse events. Given the relatively low sensitivity and specificity that may occur in computer based screening,17,51 it is critical to verify the accuracy of the system. Both internal and external validations are important. Manual review of charts can be used to estimate sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value. Comparison with previous studies at other institutions also can serve to calibrate the system.
To identify studies assessing the use of information technology to detect adverse events, we performed an extensive search of the literature. English-language studies involving adverse event detection were identified by searching 1966–2001 MEDLINE records with two Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Iatrogenic Disease and Adverse Drug Reporting Systems; with the MeSH Entry Term, Nosocomial Infection; and with key words (adverse event, adverse drug event, fall, and computerized detection). In addition, the bibliographies of original and review articles were hand-searched, and relevant references were cross-checked with those identified through the computer search. Two of the authors (HJM and PDS) initially screened titles and abstracts of the search results and then independently reviewed and abstracted data from articles identified as relevant.
Studies were included in the review if they contained original data about computerized methods to detect nosocomial infections, adverse drug events, adverse drug reactions, adverse events, or falls. We excluded studies that focused on adverse event prevention strategies, such as physician order entry or clinical decision support systems, and did not include detailed information regarding methods for adverse event detection. We also excluded studies of computer programs designed to detect drug-drug interactions.
Included studies evaluated the performance of a diagnostic test (an adverse event monitor). The methodologic quality of each study was determined using previously described criteria for assessing diagnostic tests.52 Studies were evaluated for the inclusion of a "gold standard." For the purpose of this review the gold standard was manual chart review, with the ultimate judgment of an adverse event performed by a clinician trained in adverse event evaluation. Furthermore, the gold standard had to be a blinded comparison applied to charts independently of the application of the study tool. Only studies that evaluated their screening tool against a manual chart review of records without alerts were considered to have properly utilized the gold standard.
Reviewers abstracted information concerning the patients included, the type of event monitor implemented, the outcome assessed, the signals used for detection, the performance of the monitor, and any barriers to implementation described by the authors. The degree of manual review necessary to perform the initial screening for an adverse event was assessed to determine the level of automation associated with each monitor. An event monitor using signals from multiple data sources that generated an alert that was then directly reviewed by the clinician making the final adverse event judgements was considered "high-end" automation. An event monitor that relied on manual entry of specific information into the monitor for an alert to be generated was considered "low-end." All disagreements were settled by consensus of the two reviewers.
Twenty-five studies were initially identified for review (Table 1). Of these studies, seven included a gold standard in the assessment of the screening tool (Table 2).
Frequent types of adverse events include nosocomial infections, adverse drug events (ADEs), and falls. Substantial work has been done to detect each by using information technology techniques.
For more than 20 years before the recent interest in adverse events, nosocomial or hospital-acquired infection surveillance and reporting have been required for hospital accreditation.53In 1970, the Centers for Disease Control set up national guidelines and provided courses to train infection control practitioners to report infection rates using a standard method.54However, the actual detection of the nosocomial infections was based mainly on manual methods, and this process consumed most of infection control practitioners' time.
A number of groups have since developed tools to assist providers in detecting nosocomial infections, using computerized detection approaches.55,56These tools typically work by searching clinical databases of microbiology and other data (Figure 1) and producing a report that infection control practitioners can use to assess whether a nosocomial infection is present (Figure 2). This approach has been highly effective. In a comparison between computerized surveillance and manual surveillance, the sensitivities were 90% and 76%, respectively.55Analysis revealed that shifting to computerized detection followed by practitioner verification saved more than 65% of the infection control practitioners' time and identified infections much more rapidly than manual surveillance. Most infections that were missed by computer surveillance could have been identified with additions or corrections to the medical logic modules.
Hospital information systems can be used to identify adverse drug events (ADEs) by looking for signals that an ADE may have occurred and then directing them to someone—usually a clinical pharmacist—who can investigate.19Examples of signals include laboratory test results, such as a doubling in creatinine, high serum drug levels, use of drugs often used to treat the symptoms associated with ADEs, and use of antidotes.
Before developing its computerized ADE surveillance program, LDS Hospital had only ten ADEs reported annually from approximately 25,000 discharged patients. The computerized suveillance identified 373 verified ADEs in the first year and 560 in the second year.20A number of additional signals or flags were added to improve the computerized surveillance during the second year.
Others have developed similar programs.11,57,58For example, Jha et al. used the LDS rule base as a starting point, assessed the use of 52 rules for identifying ADEs, and compared the performance of the ADE monitor with chart review and voluntary reporting. In 21,964 patient-days, the ADE monitor found 275 ADEs (rate: 9.6 per 1000 patient-days), compared with 398 (rate: 13.3 per 1000 patient-days) using chart review. Voluntary reporting identified only 23 ADEs. Surprisingly, only 67 ADEs were detected by both the computer monitor and chart review. The computer monitor performed better than chart review for events that were associated with a change in a specific parameter (such as a change in creatinine), whereas chart review did better for events associated with symptom changes, such as altered mental status. If more clinical data—in particular, nursing and physician notes—had been available in machine-readable form, the sensitivity of the computer monitor could have been improved. The time required for the computerized monitor was approximately one-sixth that required for chart review.
A problem with broader application of these methods has been that computer monitors use both drug and laboratory data and in many hospitals the drug and laboratory databases are not integrated. Nonetheless, this approach can be successful in institutions with less sophisticated information systems.58In a hospital that did not have a linkage between the drug and laboratory databases, Senst et al. downloaded information from both to create a separate database that was used to detect ADEs. Not all of the rules could be applied to this separate database, but a high proportion could be, and the resulting application successfully identified a large number of ADEs. Furthermore, the epidemiology of the events found differed from prior reports—in particular, admissions caused by ADEs in psychiatric patients were frequent—and this information proved useful in targeting improvement strategies.
Although many studies address the incidence of ADEs in inpatients, fewer data are available regarding ADE rates in the outpatient setting. Honigman et al. hypothesized that it would be possible with electronic medical records to detect may ADEs using techniques analogous to the inpatient setting. They used four approaches: ICD-9 codes, allergy records, computer event monitoring, and free-text searching of patient notes for drug–symptom pairs (e.g., cough and ACE inhibitor) to detect ADEs. In an evaluation including one year's data of electronic medical records for 23,064 patients, including 15,665 patients that came for care, 864 ADEs were identified. Altogether, 91% of the ADEs were identified using text searching, 6% with allergy records, 3% with the computerized event monitor, and only 0.3% with ICD-9 coding. The dominance of text searching was a surprise and emphasizes the importance of having clinical information in the electronic medical record, even if it is not coded.
Inpatient falls are relatively common and are widely recognized as causing significant patient morbidity and increased costs. Several interventions have been found to decrease fall rates.59Hripcsak, Wilcox, and Stetson used this domain as a test area for natural language processing. They began by looking for any radiology reports (e.g., x-ray, head CT, MRI) indicating that a patient fall was the reason for the exam (e.g., R/O fall, S/P fall) and occurred after the second day of hospitalization. They also counted the number of radiology reports in which a fracture was found (thus exploiting the ability of natural language processing to handle negation). They found that 1447 of 553,011 inpatient visits had at least one report to rule out a fall (2.6 falls per thousand admissions), and 14% of those involved a fracture (overall rate of injurious falls: 0.35 per thousand). The number of reports was within the range found in the literature using chart review.60
The "holy grail" in computerized adverse event detection has been a tool to detect a large fraction of all adverse events, including not only the types of events mentioned in this report, but also other frequent adverse events such as surgical events, diagnostic failures, and complications of procedures. Such a tool could be used by hospitals for routine detection of adverse events on an ongoing basis and in real time. Preliminary studies suggest that techniques such as term searching and natural language processing in reviewing electronic information hold substantial promise for detecting a large number of diverse adverse events affecting inpatients.61 The tools would search discharge summaries, progress notes, and computerized sign-outs as well as other types of electronic data to look for signals that suggest the presence of an adverse event.
The current approach used by most organizations to detect adverse events—spontaneous reporting—is clearly insufficient. Computerized techniques for identifying adverse drug events and nosocomial infections are sufficiently developed for broad use. They are much more accurate than spontaneous reporting and more timely and cost-effective than manual chart review. Research will probably allow development of techniques that use tools such as natural language processing to mine electronic medical records for other types of adverse events. We believe that a key benefit of electronic medical records will be that they can be used to detect the frequency of adverse events and to develop methods to reduce the number of such events.
The authors thank Adam Wilcox, PhD, for his role in acquiring the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center falls data. This work was supported in part by grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (U18 HS11046-03), Rockville, MD, and from the National Library of Medicine (R01 LM06910), Bethesda, MD.
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software companie here in Madison that has its own build-your-own flash game player.
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If you haven't heard yet, the folks at Mojang AB (the makers of Minecraft), are now being brought under suit by Uniloc USA, Inc.
The funny part is, it's not for the PC desktop version, it's the Android Minecraft PE. For something that the particular edition doesn't do!
In particular, section 12 is where the "infringement" is laid out.
12. Mojang is directly infringing one or more claims of the '067 patent in this judicial district and elsewhere in Texas, including at least claim 107, without the consent or authorization of Uniloc, by or through making, using, offering for sale, selling and/or importing Android based applications for use on cellular phones and/or tablet devices that require communication with a server to perform a license check to prevent the unauthorized use of said application, including,but not limited to, Mindcraft.
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A Time And A SeasonFor everything there is a season and a time for every matter. Peace of mind cannot come from weeping and wailing. On the contrary, this will lead to more suffering and greater pain. The man who cannot leave his sorrow behind him only travels further into pain and travels alone.
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The Lake Superior Binational Forum has scheduled on open public meeting called "Mysteries of Lake Superior, from Top to Bottom" from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 28 at Barkers Island Inn, 300 Marina Drive, Superior. A separate arts reception starts at 5:30 p.m. called "Lake Superior, Mysteries, and the Arts."
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How does a rise in temperature makes the stomatal pores open?
Stomates are located in the leaf and stem epidermis of plants. They are the sites of gas exchange--carbon dioxide enters and is used for photosynthesis, oxygen and water vapor then exit. And for respiration, oxygen enters and carbon dioxide and water vapor can exit the stomates. Guard cells are responsible for regulating the size of the stoma or pore. It seems that light intensity and high humidity trigger the electrical potential of the cells to become negative. This opens potassium channels and potassium uptake increases. This causes a higher solute concentration, and causes diffusion of water into the cell by osmosis. This leads to an increase in turgor pressure which in turn elongates the guard cells and this creates an opening for gases to move in or out of a leaf. This opening is called the stomate. In dry conditions, abscisic acid is released, which in turn causes chloride ions to exit the cells. This allows a gradient to exist and water to move out of the cells by osmosis, which causes the guard cells to shrink and the stomates to close. This is an adaptation to conserve water during dry periods.


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Former Bradford City assistant manager Bobby Davison will be in charge of Eccleshill United for the first time on Saturday when the Eagles travel to Appleby Frodingham.
It was a major coup for the Plumpton Park outfit when they named the ex-Leeds United striker as their new head coach.
That was late yesterday evening after a final round of negotiations, so Davison will be in the dugout but will not have selected the team for Saturday's game.
This task falls to director of football Mark Ellis, who has been in temporary charge of team affairs since Ian Banks left the hot seat.
It should be a gentle introduction to the Baris Northern Counties East League Division One for Davison.
Appleby are second from bottom with a goal difference of minus 42, while the Eagles are 16th with an average of just one point per game but improving rapidly with a very young squad of players.
Neighbours Albion Sports are in a much better position in the table and are challenging for promotion but they face a difficult game on the road this weekend.
Kulwinder Sandhu's side are second but they travel to Pontefract Collieries, who have promotion ambitions of their own in eighth place.
Albion would not reach the summit even with a win as they trail leaders Athersley Recreation by six points but they do have a game in hand.
Silsden will be looking to bounce back from a defeat last weekend which left them in the lower reaches of the North West Counties League Premier Division.
Following a frustrating period of enforced inactivity due to three consecutive postponements, the Cobbydalers went down 3-1 to ten men at Stockport Sports.
Saturday sees them hosting high-flying Bootle and they will most likely be without Andy Lee.
The attacking midfielder had his hand trodden on during the first half of the defeat at Stockport and was driven back to Airedale hospital for treatment.
Bootle will be tough opponents. They are fourth in the table but have played fewer matches than any other club in the division and have six games in hand on leaders Maine Road, who are six points clear.


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This is the final outcome of my students' hard work for a whole year. They have written collaboratively this short story so as to give an idea to our European partners about some famous Tunisian towns. I haven't interfered but to correct some grammatical mistakes.The spirit of the task is that they choose heroes from the ancient history of our country and give them new roles. The towns they have picked are their own choice. I am so proud of their devotion and commitment. Special thanks to Nour for her hard work and utter engagement in the process. It is true that only few of them have been fully engaged. Some of them were more worried about their final exam than being part of an invaluable project. But what is heart-warming is that during the project itself, much has been learned and a lot of interaction has happened.
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Calhoun said his agency reviewed 15 sites for the latest report, and it's planning similar reviews of impoundments in six other states â¿¿ Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Completing that will take about three years.Critics of the coal industry have long complained that operators and regulators are ignoring stricter construction standards that could prevent future impoundment failures. For at least a decade, they say, state and federal regulators have allowed coal companies to build or expand the massive ponds of gray liquid and silt atop loose and wet coal waste â¿¿ an unstable base that creates hazards for people and the environment downstream. The industry, however, argues impoundments are the best-engineered, most-scrutinized earthen structures in the world. The West Virginia Coal Association said it has cooperated with regulators "to improve the technical analysis" of impoundments. But Vice President Jason Bostic said Thursday it's disappointed with the current OSM review, "which has been conducted largely behind closed doors with little or no outreach or communication" with operators. "The agency never requested any information from the industry that may have satisfied their concerns, nor did they contact the industry to make them aware of the pending release of these reports," Bostic complained. "Sensationalism has never advanced meaningful dialogue and progress with respect to developing a path forward." In all, there are nearly 600 coal slurry impoundments in 21 states, including 104 in Kentucky. Slurry is a byproduct of washing coal to help it burn more cleanly. Companies have disposed of the dirty water and solids in various ways over the years, injecting it into abandoned mines, damming it in huge ponds and, less commonly, disposing of it with a costly dry filter-press process. OSM laid out several continuing concerns about West Virginia's regulatory system, including the practice of allowing smaller ponds or "slurry cells" to be built on top of larger ponds once they're capped with solid material. The contents under the cap could still be loose or liquid, and the increasing pressure from the smaller cells could increase the likelihood of a breakthrough, it said.
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Jerusalem (Apr. 24)
The harbor works at Haifa Bay are proceeding rapidly it was officially reported today. About 50,000 cubic metres of earth have already been deposited on the breakwater which is now 350 metres out from the shore. Calm water conditions are beginning to prevail and a number of vessels are taking advantage of this. Works at the Athlit quarries are in full swing and 1,000 tons of stone are being produced daily.


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Sarah Briggs, a 2012 graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, is currently attending the University of Mount Union in Alliance. She has received the Presidential Scholarship, which is a full-tuition scholarship and is only offered to six students each year. She also was on the dean's list for the fall semester.
Briggs is pursuing a degree in elementary education with a minor in music. She is the daughter of Mike and Sue Briggs of Franklin Township. At Mount Union, she is in the honors program, is involved in The Edge Bible study and is a member of Inspirational Voices of Praise gospel choir.
In order to make the dean's list, students must have a grade point average of 3.55 or higher. Briggs had a 4.0.


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BC is bowl eligible but still has work to do.
A renewed work ethic has paid off for Clemson receiver Sammy Watkins.
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Here is a post that I wrote about cruising with children with Autism.
While each child's needs are as individual as the children themselves...you can use it as a general guide.
I believe the most important thing for parents like us to do is be realistic. Not only with Camp Carnival, but with our children.
As their parents, we know what they are (or are not) able to handle.
While Camp Carnival has consistantly done a remarkable job with our special needs son, I have always been realistic in understanding there are limits to what they can handle.
Here is the post....hope it is helpful.
Cruising with a Special Needs Child
As the mother of a son with AS ( a form of autism), we have cruised for over 10 years (starting when he was 5, almost 6 years old).
When we first started cruising with him, there was not much known about autism and the wide spectrum it contains.
There are some recommendations that I, as a Mom, would give any parent considering cruising for the first time with a child with Autism.
First and foremost, know your child! Know what they can and can not handle and keep these limitations in mind when planning this vacation.
The planning starts when you book your cruise. Contact the special needs department of your cruise line. With Carnival, it is
Think about all the considerations your child will need. Again, (and I will say this many times) we (as parents) must be realistic. No cruise line is going to provide one on one care.
No cruise lines Childrens Camp can keep a child that is violent or aggressive towards the other children. The cruise line must take the safety and well being of the other children into consideration. However, fortunately, that is just about the only limitations.
Again, all references from now on will be about Camp Carnival, since this is the only cruise line we have cruised on with him.
Some considerations are as follows:
For us, our son can not sleep in an Upper. So it is important that we book a cabin that has a couch/bed (along with the two twins) or book a ship where a cot is allowed. Some of the newer Carnival ships do not allow cots to be brought in.
Another consideration for us is our table in the formal dining room. Our son is not comfortable eating around a lot of strangers. We get a table for four (for our family) to accommodate him. We always get the early dinner seating. Try to keep your routine as close to home as possible.
If eating with others is not a problem, then simply let the folks know the first night that your child has a form of autism and what to expect. That makes everyone comfortable right from the start.
Another consideration may be the age group your child is placed in. If your child is 9 and you know they are not ready for that age group, you can request they be placed in the 6 -8 age group. However, make sure you get this in writing from the special needs department.
Whatever accommodations need to be made for your child, be sure to list them completely.
Unless you live very near a port, travel to the cruise will require a tiring drive or an airline flight. Both can take its toll.
I always recommend driving or flying in a day ahead. This way, your child has a chance to rest up before boarding the ship. Embarkation can be a very stressful time for a child that does not deal with chaos well. Some cruise lines (like RCCL ) may offer a disability check in like they do with older folks in wheelchairs. We have never had to ask for this, because we are Platinum and get VIP Check In automatically. Generally, they will allow the disabled person (or child) and one attendant (parent or guardian) to go through VIP with them. If VIP is going to be necessary for your child, I would make sure I have it IN WRITING from the Special Needs Department. That will mean less confusion on Embarkation Day.
Once you are on the ship, the cabins are generally ready by 1:30pm. This is an excellent time to familiarize your child with their new living arrangements for the next week. If your child is tired, a nice nap may be in order. Our son always takes a nap for about an hour after we arrive. Once he has done that, then he is ready to leisurely walk around the ship and get familiar with it. I can not stress enough how important it is for the parents not to get overly excited during this time. My husband and I take a very low key approach and keep a very calm manner.
Your next hurdle will be the Muster Drill around 4PM. Again, any time there are a large crowd of people and chaos, this may trigger some anxiety. RCCL has a special location for children with Autism. I do not know if Carnival does. We have always just handled it ourselves. I look and see where our Muster Station is. If it is where we are simply going to be seated like a large lounge or theater then we arrive early to get a spot near the door. Our son prefers being by the door. If it is where we are going to be standing outside against a wall, then we wait to the very last minute.
Our son usually wants to go back to the cabin after the Muster Drill to relax and calm down. We always have the early dinner seating, so going back to the cabin gives him a chance to get ready for dinner.
Depending on the age of your child, Camp Carnival orientation is usually around 7pm.
Club O2 (15-17) generally meets up around 5:00pm.
If your child is in Camp Carnival, I recommend that the parent attend the orientation and fill out the one page information sheet. This is where you reiterate the needs your child will have. These counselors do not know your child, so you must be specific. The more you tell them about your child, the better equipped the counselors will be to handle whatever situation may occur. These orientations are generally full of kids and can be chaotic, so I used to attend and have my husband stay outside the door with our son until it was over. Then I would bring our son in and introduce him to his counselor.
Again, this is where parents must be realistic. For example: when our son was Camp Carnival age, he LOVED the Swim Parties they would have. The water was over his head and he could not swim. The counselors offered to take him, but I felt that was putting an undue burden on them with so many other children to watch. So, I would go with him. That way, he got to attend these Swim Parties he loved so much and the counselors did not have the added burden of watching a special needs child that could not swim. I was there to watch him.
Over the years, the counselors and I have worked together to provide the best and safest cruising environment that we could. Again, they can not provide one on one care. And they can not care of a child that will harm other children. But, other than those two restrictions, Camp Carnival has exceeded our expectations time and time again.
Later on during the evening on Embarkation Day, generally around 8:30pm, Camp Carnival has a Sail Away Party. This is for children AND their parents. And it gives a wonderful opportunity for parents and children to get to know their counselors a little better. However, there is loud music and a lot of chaos as parties for kids can be so we always hung out by the door. Depending on your childs level of tolerance for chaos you can decide how involved you want them to be in this celebration. However, afterward, do take one more opportunity to have your child talk with the counselor they will have.
Camp Carnival starts at 9AM the next morning. And this first day is really a matter of playing it by ear. Camp Carnival (and I am sure other cruise lines) have the beepers so that the parents can be reached at any time. There is a deposit that is fully refunded when the beeper is returned and no charge (at least on Carnival) for this service.
I can only relate the experience our son has had. The counselors have always been attentive. Our son has panic attacks around mascots and after Funship Freddie was introduced in 2003, we thought we would have to stop cruising. But the counselors worked with us to assure as little exposure to FF as possible and they still do. We have actually been able to use this cruising experience as a learning tool to teach our son how to remove himself SAFELY when a mascot appears. And now he has learned that he can be on the same ship as Funship Freddie and still have a good time. Each cruise has our son watching FF more and more. He still wont get near him, but now he can view him from a distance without panicking.
Usually by the first day, we are on a good schedule that allows for our son and ourselves to have a wonderful cruise. Now he is 16 and goes to Club O2 and I can not praise those directors enough. This is an awkward age for any child, much less one with special needs and these directors have performed nothing short of miracles. On more than one cruise, our special needs son has gotten to be a normal kid for an entire week thanks to the hard work of the Club O2 director, the entertainment staff, the Camp Carnival staff and the Cruise Director.
It has been a few years since our son was in Camp Carnival and I know there are probably some additional tips and hints that I have forgotten so if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at
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You can make your own tombstones using simple tools and
materials such as sheets of foam
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The basic tools and materials needed to construct these
tombstones are:
Sheets of
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Latex paint & black tint
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Don't try to hold down the spray button down for long periods of time
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non-gloss sealant. This can only be done to already painted
tombstones or the spray paint will melt the foam.
Epitaphs and Decorating
Imprinting the epitaphs and decorative designs onto your
tombstones can be accomplished in several ways.
Method #1 - The simplest way is to use standard craft acrylic
paint and brushes to paint on an epitaph and any other designs
you want onto the face of the painted tombstone. Lettering stencils can
make this easier, but the lettering will be flat on the surface
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is sharp enough that you can carve the foam without tearing it
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can be
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Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:32:08 GMT —
onday night Amarillo Police responded the a wreck in the 400 block of North Pierce Street.
When police arrived at the location, they found that a 4-door Mitsubishi struck the Second Baptist Church sign.
According to a news release from Amarillo Police Department, the vehicle had two occupants at the time of the crash.
19-year-old Christy Denise Gomez was driving the vehicle, she was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her passenger Cory Dominic Espinoza, 24, died at the scene due to injuries from the accident.
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Has anyone else had their partner being extremely nervous to find out if its a girl or boy. But mainly stressing incase its a girl
My partner is being really odd if we talk about if its a baby girl but he is really relaxed about if its a boy. This is our first child and i know he would be a brill dad but does anyone have any advice. We find out the gender next friday but i dont want him stressing cause of his heart condition.


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The Seminoles need one win in their final two conference games to clinch
the Atlantic Division and a berth in the ACC's inaugural championship
game. FSU faces North Carolina State on Saturday, then closes its conference
schedule at Clemson on Nov. 12. 'Noles coach Bobby Bowden said his team needs to
take care of its business against the Wolfpack at Doak Campbell Stadium. "You
better get it done on your field," Bowden said. "You never know what's going to
happen on the other guy's field. There's more risk in our conference now than
there's ever been." FSU is down to three healthy cornerbacks after freshman
starter Tony Carter suffered a partially dislocated shoulder in the 35-27 win
against Maryland. Carter is listed as questionable for the NC State game. If Carter
can't play, senior Gerard Ross likely would start. After holding each of
their first four opponents to 17 or fewer points, the Seminoles have given up at
least 24 points in their last four games. Quarterback Wyatt Sexton, who left the
team after a bizarre summer incident and was diagnosed with Lyme disease, might be close to returning to practice. Bowden said this week that Sexton has sat
in on some team meetings recently. "I think everybody enjoyed having him back
out there, and I think everyone enjoyed seeing him out there," Bowden said. "What he's got to do is try to wean himself back in there."
Boston College
Boston College lost pretty much any chance of landing in the ACC championship
game in Jacksonville with its 30-10 loss to Virginia Tech. The Seminoles would
have to lose their last two conference games and BC would need to win its
remaining three. But coach Tom O'Brien said he isn't worried about his team
bogging down. "I haven't thought that would be the case. There's still so much for
us to accomplish this year. I'm sure there's disappointment that we're out of
the ACC race right now, but we know there are still bowl games to accomplish,
winning seasons and all those types of things." Linebacker/fullback Brian Toal has gotten a lot of attention this season for his contributions in BC's goal-line offense, but he's contributing plenty on defense, as well. Against
Virginia Tech, Toal tied for the team high with 11 tackles. He has run for six
touchdowns and nine first downs on 20 carries.
Coach Tommy Bowden hinted that quarterback Charlie Whitehurst, the school
record holder with 27 consecutive starts, might not start against Duke because
of soreness in his right arm. Whitehurst missed two practices last week
because of the problem and struggled during the 10-9 loss to Georgia Tech. He needed
to take cortisone shots to get through the Tech game. If Whitehurst doesn't
start, junior Will Proctor likely will replace him. Proctor, a former receiver,
has played in three games this season and thrown 10 passes. For the second
time this season, the Tigers held an opponent to 10 points and lost. The
secondary did a stellar job on Georgia Tech's Calvin Johnson, holding the standout
receiver to four catches for 47 yards. Last season, Johnson caught three
touchdowns against the Tigers. Freshman tailback James Davis played two snaps
against Tech, a little more than two weeks after fracturing his left wrist and undergoing
surgery. Davis carried once for a 1-yard gain while playing with a cast to
protect the injury. Clemson remains the only Division I-A team not to have lost a
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[quote]GWYNETH PALTROW may be the "World's Most Beautiful Woman," but she sure doesn't smell like it! The Oscar winner had terrible body odor at New York's Met Ball on May 6, an eyewitness told The ENQUIRER – but no one at the swanky red-carpet event had the guts to tell her. Poor Gwyneth looked picture-perfect, but it must have been the hot lights that caused her to be a little strong on the nose," said a source, who got a little too close to the blonde beauty. "It was pretty pungent, and I don't think she had a clue. I saw at least two people wave their hands in front of their noses after passing her."
The article goes on to say GP doesn't trust antiperspirants because they contain aluminum (or, as she probably would say, "aluminium").


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Pakistani Nuke Security in Question After Assassination
The United States' relationship with Pakistan and its insistence that the nuclear-armed state is a key ally in the fight against terrorism is being called into question following considerable public support for the man accused of assassinating a high-profile Pakistani politician last week, the New York Times reported (see GSN, Jan. 6).
Pakistani police officer and bodyguard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri is charged with the gun slaying of Punjab state Governor Salman Taseer, evidently for the politician's outspoken stance against Islamabad's blasphemy law. Qadri has been showered with support in the wake of the killing, which demonstrated that the battle with militants is not restricted to the nation's fringes.
"Everything about what's happened in the past few days is a reminder of how we're still losing ground in Pakistan," said an unidentified Obama official with considerable experience dealing with the South Asian state. "It's trouble on many different levels."
Central to the Obama administration's stance on Pakistan is its stated belief that the South Asian nation's growing nuclear arsenal could never be compromised by a member of the military establishment with ties to extremist groups such as the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
Pakistani officials routinely insist that security surrounding their nuclear arsenal is foolproof and Washington has publicly accepted these assurances. However, Taseer's assassination has once again thrown doubt on Islamabad's assertions.
As a bodyguard for a senior public official, Qadri would reportedly have been evaluated by the government's Personnel Reliability Program, which also vets personnel with access to the nation's nuclear weapons program. That Qadri passed inspection has raised questions over whether other extremists might have obtained nuclear clearance.
In the past, Islamabad officials had said the screening process used for the security detail of government officials was akin to that used for scrutinizing the personnel charged with guarding the nation's nuclear sites. The background checks are intended to ensure the loyalty of guards in these key positions.
When Qadri allegedly opened fire on Taseer in a populated marketplace -- firing off more than 20 shots -- not one of the other security personnel in the vicinity moved to shoot him to stop the attack, according to the Times. It is not known how the elite police officer passed the screening process.
"It's one more reason to give pause" when contemplating what might occur should a Pakistani scientist or a guard with a similar mindset seek to appropriate nuclear assets, a U.S. official said.
Nearly two years ago, then-U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson expressed reservations about the security of nuclear materials in the country in a diplomatic dispatch leaked by the transparency group Wikileaks: "Our major concern is ... the chance someone working in GOP [government of Pakistan] facilities could gradually smuggle enough material out to eventually make a weapon."
Following the cable's publication, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry asserted that U.S. nuclear security fears were "misplaced and doubtless fall in the realm of condescension" (see GSN, Dec. 1, 2010).
Officials in Islamabad speculated the leak was part of a scheme by Washington to build a case for grabbing the nation's nuclear weapons in the event the Pakistani government collapses. The officials pointed to the strength of the nation's Personnel Reliability Program and its screening of nuclear workers and security personnel to underline their argument that the arsenal was safe from infiltration.
Since 2003, when chief Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was exposed for running a black market proliferation ring, Islamabad's vetting system has appeared to function appropriately.
"This assassination raises further questions about the vetting process in the Pakistani security system," ex-CIA official Bruce Riedel said. "And it's worth remembering that on their list of potential threats to their nuclear assets, the United States is No. 1, and terrorists and religious fundamentalists are further down the line" (David Sanger, New York Times, Jan. 8).
The United States' relationship with Pakistan and its insistence that the nuclear-armed state is a key ally in the fight against terrorism is being called into question following considerable public support for the man accused of assassinating a high-profile Pakistani politician last week, the New York Times reported (see GSN, Jan. 6).


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Leftover notes on Cameron and more
Sifting through some random notes, quotes and gloats (as one of my journalism heroes, Bob Verdi, used to write):
- We'll start you off with a trivia question, courtesy of Red Sox researcher Mark Simon:
New Red Sox outfielder Mike Cameron was a .250/150 player last season, meaning he had a batting average of .250 or less with at least 150 strikeouts; Cameron hit .250 on the nose with 156 Ks.
Only one Red Sox player in history was a .250/150 guy. Can you name him?
(Answer at bottom. Hint: 1966.)
- When Cameron played in Seattle, his agent Mike Nicotera said, at the first game of every homestand he would spend an hour sitting on top of the dugout, signing autographs. During his stint with the Mets in New York, he played Santa at the team's charity Christmas party.
The Negro Leagues Museum selected Cameron as the 2009 recipient of the John Henry "Pop" Lloyd Legacy Award , given annually in recognition of "Baseball and Community Leadership." The award recognizes the work Cameron has done with urban youths in the Milwaukee area. Cameron is to receive his award at the museum's annual awards dinner Jan. 30 in Kansas City.
"We've discussed that Mike will be the only African-American player on the Red Sox,'' Nicotera said. "I think he sees that as a opportunity to get very involved in the community.''
- I learned a few things about Cameron from reading the prospectus Nicotera put together to present to teams interested in his client.
First, this testimonial from former Mariners teammate Jay Buhner:
"He comes in every day with a smile on his face, grinning from ear to ear. His overall love and joy for the game rubs off on everyone. He has a unique way of loosening up guys and keeping things in perspective. He's a great kid, and I love him to death. I tried to keep him going through his strikeout streak. Everyone was making such a stink about it. I told him to remember, 'You'll get your moment.' A thing he did that made me feel special was after his big game in New York, he remembered me during his TV interview. He always recognizes his teammates. When he's in the middle of the spotlight and he steals the show, he always gives credit to his teammates."
Now, some numbers:
In his 11 seasons with the Reds, Mariners, Mets, Padres and Brewers, his teams have averaged 90 wins a season.
Cameron led all National League center fielders in a number of defensive categories last season, including total chances and putouts, and ranked second in Ultimate Zone Rating/150 at 10.3. By contrast, Jacoby Ellsbury scored a -18.3 in UZR/150, and the Red Sox were last in the majors in center field at -19.6.
Cameron compares favorably to center fielders in a number of offensive categories. He is the only center fielder in baseball to have hit 25 or more doubles and 20 or more home runs in each of the last four seasons. He and Torii Hunter are the only center fielders to have hit 20 or more home runs in each of the last four seasons; the same pair are the only center fielders to have knocked in 70 or more runs in that span. Cameron and Curtis Granderson, newly acquired by the Yankees, are the only center fielders to have 50 or more extra base hits in each of the last four seasons.
- Between a $3 million signing bonus and his $18.5 million salary in 2010, John Lackey will be paid $21.5 million in 2010. At the moment, according to the indefatigable Mr. Simon, only A-Rod ($33 million) and CC Sabathia ($23 million) will be paid more. Johan Santana of the Mets will make a tick less, $21 million.
- The last time the Red Sox opened a season at home against the Yankees was 1985, when they blasted the Bombers, 9-2,.Jim Rice, Tony Armas and Dwight Evans hit home runs, and Oil Can Boyd went seven innings for the win. In case you missed it during all the fandango this week, the Sox-Yankees game will open the 2010 season April 4, a Sunday night, at Fenway Park . The game will be aired on ESPN2 and NESN at 8 p.m.
The Red Sox announced Thursday afternoon that the second and third games of that series will now be played April 6 and 7, a day earlier than originally scheduled.
- The Can wore No. 23, the same number new outfielder Mike Cameron will wear next season. The last player to wear No. 23 for the Sox was outfielder Joey Gathright, who inherited it from Adam LaRoche. Dave Morehead wore the number when he threw his no-hitter in 1965, Dick Williams had it on when he managed the Impossible Dream Team, El Tiante showed it to opposing hitters when he turned his back on the plate, and the Belleville Basher, Brian Daubach also wore No. 23.
We're lucky to have http://www.redsoxdiehard.com/players/unifnums.html to look up the numbers worn by Sox players, which is how I was reminded why we should hope that John Lackey fares better than the last stud Angels starter who came to the Sox, Bartolo (Bailout) Colon.
- Small world department: Terry Francona was Cameron's hitting coach in rookie ball for the Chicago White Sox, and managed him in Double-A. Lackey, meanwhile, was recruited to play at Oklahoma State by John Farrell, now the Sox pitching coach. Cameron's hitting coach in Seattle was Gerald Perry, now the new hitting coach in Triple-A Pawtucket.
- Here's hoping Andre Dawson follows Jim Rice into the Hall of Fame.
The Hawk underwent a dozen knee operations in his 17 seasons in the big leagues, yet still produced these numbers: 438 home runs, 2,774 hits, 1,591 RBIs and 314 stolen bases, He is one of three players to have 400 home runs and 300 stolen bases. The other two? Willie Mays and Barry Bonds.
- Check this out: Jewish Major Leaguers, Inc. ("JML"), the Boston-based not-for-profit baseball history organization that produces Jewish baseball cards and Hall of Fame programs honoring Jews in the game, is currently
conducting online balloting for Jewish Major Leaguer of the Decade. The winning player will be announced in January. And check out the card sets: Pretty unique, with Kevin Youkilis, the organization's player of the year in 2008, prominently featured. Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun was '09 player of the year, with Scott Feldman of the Rangers pitcher of the year.
- Trivia answer. George Scott, in 1966. The Boomer, a rookie that season, batted .245 with 152 whiffs.
Cameron has had three seasons of .250 or worse, 150+K. The only players with more are Rob Deer (5) and Adam Dunn (4).
"Mike takes his walks, and I know he strikes out a lot but that doesn't scare us,'' Sox GM Theo Epstein said at his introductory press conference. "We have a lot of productive hitters here who have struck out a lot. Strikeouts are OK as long as they come, as they often do, with walks and home runs. And in Mike's case, they certainly do.''


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Before you chemical treat, you should try making a homemade sea salt spray to get some curls back in your hair.
I suffered from a similar fate last summer when I did keratin treatments back to back on the front portion of my hair, leaving me with stick straight hair in front and curls all through the rest of my hair.
After soooo much trial and error, washing my hair with sea salt and the harshest shampoos almost daily, even using malibu crystals (a product used to strip color from hair), I finally came up with a solution.
I made a home made flax seed gel from a recipe on this site, then added one and a half teaspoons of sea salt to every 1/4 cup of gel. I diluted this solution enough to spray out of a spray bottle, and then voila...
I had curls back in my hair!!!!
Try this. You may not have to cut/process your hair.
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I think you'll find you're suffering from other effects of the bug described here: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/psqlodbc/bugs/bugupdate.php?996 The latest snapshot (8.00.0004) contains the fix. It worked for me, as long as you don't use Memo field types. If the installer doesn't seem to be removing/repairing/upgrading the ODBC driver, check the version by inspecting the properties of psqlodbc.dll in WINNT\system32. Just delete it or overwrite it with the new version. Regards David Marco Tamanti wrote: >Before installing version 8.0.1 of postgresql on windows 2000 SP4, I was >in this situation: > >postgresql 7.3.4 on a linux machine >pgsqlodbc-07_03_0100 >Borland C++Builder 4 updated Pack 1. > >After installing postgresql-8.0.1 on the same machine where I run >C++Builder, I've had a problem with varchar (or character varying): >When I run applications built with c++builder I get the error >"<ComponentName>: field '<fieldName>' not found.", where <ComponentName> >and <fieldName> are appropriate values. >With Database Explorer, I can see that all the information on the tables >are correct and that the fields are there. >If I enter an SQL statement "select * from tablename" the result does >not contain varchar fields. >If I do "select fieldname from tablename" where fieldname is a varchar >field, I get the column with all empty values. > >Using pgadmin none of these problems appear. All queries are ok. > > >The same problem appears even if I connect to the old postgres 7.3.4 on >linux. This, after the installation of the 8.0.1 version. >I've tried to reinstall Windows 2000, C++Builder (now version 5), >pgsqlodbc-07_03_0200 and the old database 7.3.4 on linux was perfectly >responding. After installing postgres 8.0.1 on windows the problem came >out again. > >Even when I remove postgres 8.0.1 the problem persist. >I suppose there's a problem on odbc driver, but I tried to install it >again with no result. I tried to reinstall C++Builder and no result >again. > >Anyone with the same problem? Any solution? > >I'm using SQL_ASCII coding. Most of testing has been done on a >varchar(50) field, not null, storage extended. > >
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BROOKSVILLE — This time last year, Tiffany Reynolds woke up in the cab of an 18-wheeler parked at a truck stop somewhere along Interstate 10 in New Mexico.
The rig that had taken her to 48 states, Canada and Mexico had plenty of creature comforts: TV, DVD player, microwave.
But no Christmas tree. No gifts. And no family.
Reynolds, 27, lost her job hauling orange juice and produce a few months later after five years under circumstances she'd rather not talk about. That started a journey that brought her to Brooksville, to this Christmas Day, when she'll wake up among new friends — she calls them family — at Mary's House, Jericho Road Ministry's shelter for women.
"To be very frank and honest, it is the hardest and most worthwhile struggle of my life," she said.
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This time last year, Jack Tocco woke up at a drug detox facility in Tampa.
The New Port Richey resident been laid off a few months earlier from his job doing electrical work. He started collecting unemployment. The more frustrated he got in his search for a new job, the easier he found it to hang with old friends and continue popping pills.
His family drove him to the detox center on Christmas Eve.
"We didn't talk the whole way," Tocco, now 22, recalls. "Both of them started crying. It was tough. It was really tough."
He would get out and relapse, prompting his family to threaten to cut him off if he didn't check into another program and make it work this time. Tough love, they said.
Tocco made it through a treatment program and a halfway house. Today, he'll wake up among friends — he calls them family — at Jericho Road's men's shelter in Brooksville.
"Now I believe I've been saved as a Christian," he said.
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Reynolds, a native of tiny Ahoskie, N.C., was living in Winter Haven when she lost her job.
She thought about heading back to her family. Her mother died when Reynolds was a teen, but her dad, the one who taught her how to drive a rig at the age of 13, still lived in the Tarheel State.
But she chose another road.
"I would much rather just make my own way," she said. "It's much more rewarding when you come through struggles, just you and God."
An acquaintance lived in this area and Reynolds found Jericho Road on the Internet. The faith-based ministry offers an 11-month residential program to men and women, some battling drug or alcohol addiction, to give them stability as they find a job and work toward independence.
Reynolds didn't have a drug problem, but she is undergoing a transformation. Living in a house with five other women is much different than the solitarily life crisscrossing the country in her steel home on wheels.
"I was so used to being secluded. I could deal with people when I chose to," she said. "Now I have to come out of that box."
Reynolds is working at Jericho's thrift stores, sorting through the toys and housewares and slapping on price tags. She is in the first phase of the program now, looking for a part-time job. Clients usually graduate about three months after landing full-time work.
But the bond between her and the housemates is already cemented.
"I don't think I've made friends," she said. "The girls are my sisters."
• • •
After Tocco got out of rehab for the second time, he wasn't sure he wanted to head to Jericho. But he had no money, and he needed to show his family he was ready to make a change.
He's now one of 12 men in the Jericho's men's shelter off Mondon Hill Road — a full house, with six men per room. He just celebrated six months clean.
"It's tough, but it's good," he said. "I feel like I've been looking for this all my life."
Tocco spends five days a week working in Jericho's food bank, taking in food, organizing the shelves, watching them go from empty to full and feeling good about that.
"It's a wonderful thing to watch something grow," he said.
Tocco had a job interview with a Spring Hill nursing home. A full-time gig in the kitchen. The bottom rung, sure, but it just might be the perfect starting point for a man considering culinary school.
Tocco says his parents visit him regularly, and his relationship with his three sisters is the best it has been in a long time.
"They're seeing I'm actually starting to help myself and want to do good in life and not be a moocher, not just some guy looking for the next high," he said. "They're glad to have their brother back."
• • •
Thursday, Reynolds and Tocco were among 50 volunteers for Jericho's annual Christmas Eve luncheon for the needy at First United Methodist Church in downtown Brooksville.
Local churches, businesses and clubs come together to feed hundreds of people and provide toys to help make Christmas for dozens of children. Jericho clients are part of the day's workforce.
Reynolds greeted diners with her high-wattage smile. Tocco, whose goatee belies a baby face, donned a blue tie and handed out food and loaded up toys.
As chatter and laughter bounced off the church's soaring ceiling, Jericho's pastor, Bruce Gimbel, watched his two charges and explained the secret of their success to this point.
"They're sincere," he said. "If clients aren't sincere about changing their lives, they won't realize that change."
Before the church hall filled up Thursday, Tocco told a reporter to be sure to mention she's thankful for Jericho. She hopes to go back to finish college and become a counselor for women in need.
Women like her.
"If you've been there, it's that much easier to help," she said.
As people filed in for dinner, Tocco marveled at the difference a year can make.
"This is the first Christmas I've been able to have with the Lord and know what Christmas is all about," he said. "It's not about getting gifts. It's about giving and helping others."
Tony Marrero can be reached at email@example.com or (352) 848-1431.


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Geotagging: O Reader, Where Art Thou?
On Micropersuasion, there is an interesting post on Geotagging, very good to understand what geotagging is if you're not familiar with it, and you'd like to start discovering its marketing potentials.
To see geotagging in action, I've decided to setup an Adverblog's readers map on Frappr. I'm curious to see where my readers are from (even if Google Analytics is already my best friend for this
If you'd like to post your pin, this is the link to follow: a test for me, and a test for you
Update: don't be shy! Over 55 friends have already shown where they're from!


text: My background is in Sociology, I have redirected my focus to economics and finance. I followed conventional wisdom led by Gurus and professionals that made their living off of selling advice. After being completely wiped out, and realizing family is the most important aspect of life. I'm using my background to build wealth over the long term. I want to help others with low income and the working class to realize wealth is not an overnight phenomenon, but takes time and patience. That even a small amount of money invested today in stable companies that are the foundations of our society can grow over time. That wealth is not something exclusive to a select few; but a goal anyone can achieve, ultimately shaping their legacy.


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A Dark and Stormy Afternoon: Round 7
(Previously on the Young and the Nerdy.)
Given another choice of category, I suggested we try Movies, but my Brave New Partner shamed me by saying, "I feel like 'movies' is cheating."
Category: Novels, 1950-Present
In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. "To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of The Comics Journal.
With a knowing look at one another, Ian and I added a black book to our stack and leveled the game. Now it was our turn to choose a category for our competitors. Letting his finger rest on Non-Fiction, Ian raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure?" I asked. "For these guys, yeah," he replied.
Category: Non-Fiction
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Winners groaned. They gnashed their teeth and beat their breasts. And the Losers guessed correctly. And took the lead again.
Score: The Winners 5, The Losers 6
A) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon, 2000
B) The U.S. Constitution, 1787