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Island Queen, a film produced by Emma Hughes, head of fashion photography at Falmouth University, has been nominated for Best British Short Film in the British Academy Film Awards 2014.
Island Queen has already collected the El Rey Award for Excellence in Short Film-making at the Barcelona Film Festival, 2013; Best Comedy at the European Independent Film Festival, 2013; and made numerous official selections, including the Van d'Or Independent Film Award, 2012; Renderyard Short Film Festival, 2012; and ASFF Aesthetica Short Film Festival, 2012.
Created on a budget of just £1,000 and shot on location in Cornwall over three days, the team were delighted with the latest accolade.
"It's like an oxygen blast to the head. Island Queen is the second film Ben and I have made together, so we're just thrilled," explained Emma.
Directed by Ben Mallaby, senior lecturer at Ravensbourne, the film featured significant involvement from Falmouth staff and students. Kirsty Smith, lecturer in fashion photography, and Georg Finch, senior lecturer in animation, were directors of photography while students assisted as runners and extras.
Written by and starring Nat Luurtsema, comic, author and member of the Jigsaw comedy trio, the film offers an irreverent take on the life of Miriam - a woman who visits a sperm bank with unexpected consequences. The 16-minute short also features comics Sam Pamphilon and Toby Williams.
According to Kirsty, co-director of photography, it was a real collaboration between industry and community. "It was very exciting to work with members of the University, industry figures and Cornish venues. We couldn't have done it without everybody's efforts and what really stood out was the backing we received from the region. People were genuinely engaged and excited about the film, they opened their spaces to us for free with real warmth and support."
The film features exterior and interior shots from around the Falmouth region, including the St Mawes ferry, Falmouth's Merlin Cinema, Chainlocker pub and Courtyard Deli, as well as scenes around Durgan and the Helford River.
Shooting in Cornwall wasn't without its challenges though. "With just three days to film we pulled 18-hour days and it wasn't unheard of for us to be lighting a fishing boat in gale forces," adds Kirsty.
Island Queen marks the second film collaboration for Ben and Emma, who enjoy a long professional partnership having become friends while studying at university.
"It felt like a film made between friends - we worked with colleagues, students and the community. What's particularly nice is that it reflects what we say to our students. Ben and I first met at University together and have worked together on projects ever since. It really shows that it's the creative collaborations and networks that you make in education which continue on into industry and lead to some of your greatest achievements."
The EE British Academy Film Awards takes place on Sunday 16 February at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Hosted by Stephen Fry, it will be broadcast on BBC One, BBC One HD and in all major territories around the world.
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As Bill and Giuliana Rancic celebrate the arrival of their healthy baby boy, Edward Duke Rancic, their A-list pals are coming out in full force to offer their best wishes to the family.
"Congrats you two! See you in 18 years," Giuliana's E! News cohost, Ryan Seacrest, tweeted Thursday, less than 24 hours after baby Edward was born via gestational surrogate in Denver.
Seacrest's kind words weren't the only ones from Giuliana's E! family. "THRILLED for Giuliana Rancic and Bill Rancic on the birth of their baby boy! She is my extended family and I can't be more excited for them!" Fashion Police's Joan Rivers tweeted. Asked Kelly Osbourne: "When can I see Duke?"
Both present in the delivery room during their surrogate's four-hour labor, Bill, 41, and Giuliana, 37, are already over-the-moon about their new arrival. "Bill and I are blessed beyond words to welcome Edward into our lives," Giuliana said after officially becoming a first-time mom. "We are so in love with the little guy already!"
Announcing that they were expecting in April, the couple of five years can't say enough about the woman who carried their son to term. "She's great. She's a very caring woman," Bill tells Us Weekly of their surrogate.
As for his son, Bill credits the baby with saving his wife's life. "Technically this baby saved her life because had she not gone through IVF -- the doctor made it mandatory that she get a mammogram -- they would have never found what they found so we owe this little guy debt of gratitude and I'm sure he'll never let you forget it!"


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UMCC 9609 Tretinoin in Preventing Cancer of the Cervix in Patients With Cervical Neoplasia (IRB 1996-0189)
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RATIONALE: Tretinoin may help cervical neoplasia cells develop into normal cervical cells. It is not yet known whether tretinoin is more effective than a placebo in preventing cervical cancer in patients with cervical neoplasia.
PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trial to study the effectiveness of tretinoin in preventing cervical neoplasia from developing into cervical cancer.
|Cervical Cancer Precancerous/Nonmalignant Condition
|Drug: tretinoin
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Retinoids and Intermediate Biomarkers for CIN II and III: Pilot Trial
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|Study Start Date:
|January 1999
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2001 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
OBJECTIVES: I. Determine whether topical tretinoin reduces the number of viral genome copies of human papilloma virus (HPV) per cell and inhibits HPV E6/E7 gene expression in patients with cervical dysplasia. II. Determine the dose of tretinoin for use in a definitive trial that produces the best overall modulation of these biomarkers.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia classification (II vs III). Patients are randomized to 1 of 4 arms. Arm I: Patients receive low-dose tretinoin topically via cervical cap and polyurethane ether foam sponge changed daily for 4 days. Arm II: Patients receive intermediate-dose tretinoin as in arm I. Arm III: Patients receive high-dose tretinoin as in arm I. Arm IV: Patients receive placebo topically as in arm I therapy. Patients are followed for 6 months.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 180 patients (45 per arm) will be accrued for this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|14 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
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DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven cervical dysplasia (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia II or III) Lesions must be delineated after colposcopic biopsy No pap smears suspicious for invasive carcinoma No positive endocervical curettage
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Over 14 Performance status: Karnofsky 80-100% Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified Immunologic: No proliferative skin disorder (e.g., psoriasis) No diagnosed autoimmune disorders No allergy to tretinoin or latex Other: Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception (except intrauterine device) during and for 3 months after study Normal diet with adequate protein and carbohydrate intake No in-utero exposure to diethylstilbesterol No prior malignancy No prior toxic shock syndrome
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: Not specified Chemotherapy: At least 1 week since prior tretinoin No prior retinoids (greater than 25,000 IU vitamin A or equivalent for at least 3 months) No other tretinoin during or for 3 months after study Endocrine therapy: No concurrent regular steroids Radiotherapy: Not specified Surgery: See Disease Characteristics Other: No concurrent regular anticoagulant medication No concurrent nutritional supplements other than 2 multivitamins per day
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00003598
|United States, Michigan
|University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109-0752
|Study Chair:
|Mack T. Ruffin, MD, MPH
|University of Michigan Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Mack Ruffin, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00003598 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P30CA046592 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|November 1, 1999
|Last Updated:
|September 20, 2010
Keywords provided by University of Michigan Cancer Center:
cervical cancer
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2
cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Precancerous Conditions
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Uterine Cervical Diseases
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Antineoplastic Agents
Keratolytic Agents
Dermatologic Agents
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Bruins games with Montreal just got a little more interesting, not that the NHL's oldest and most bitter rivalry really needed any more storylines.
Tomas Kaberle, last seen in these parts hoisting the Cup last June after frustrating fans with his penchant for coughing up pucks at inopportune times, was traded from Carolina to Montreal on Friday. Officially, the Hurricanes got veteran defenseman Jaroslav Spacek in return. In reality, Carolina got a much bigger return. Namely, they no longer have Kaberle clogging up their cap for the foreseeable future.
This is good news for the Bruins, who now get to enjoy Kaberle's largesse with the puck six times a year in Montreal. The steadily declining play of the former All-Star has a bigger impact on Montreal than just how his defensive gaffes will further weaken their injury-depleted blue line.
Kaberle is also the gift that keeps on giving to Montreal's rivals as his $4.25-million cap hit through 2014 further hampers the Canadiens' ability to improve their team in the coming years. The Habs are already burdened with a $7.357-million cap hit through 2013-14 for Scott Gomez, who has no goals in 13 games this season and is currently on injured reserve with a groin injury.
Then there's defenseman Andrei Markov, who was signed to a three-year deal this summer at a $5.75-million annual hit despite being limited to just seven games last year and 45 games in 2009-10 because of knee injuries. He's yet to play this season and just underwent yet another surgery on his knee.
Actually, when looking at those deals, you can almost see how Montreal general manager Pierre Gauthier could think that Kaberle is on a reasonable deal. Carolina counterpart Jim Rutherford knows better. After seeing Kaberle on his blue line for just 29 games, Rutherford realized what a horrible mistake he made in signing the veteran defenseman this summer.
"I should have known better," Rutherford told the Raleigh News & Observer on Friday. "Tomas is a player who has had a very good career but I should have known better in the sense of where he was in his career. He won the Stanley Cup, he had a short summer and at the start of training camp and the start of the season was not where he needed to be [physically]."
Bruins fans might recognize that refrain, as Kaberle's fitness upon his arrival in Boston also raised concerns. Having won a Cup and cashed in with a lucrative deal with Carolina, did anyone really expect him to be anything but fat and happy with the Hurricanes?
Apparently Rutherford did. He ignored Kaberle's struggles in Boston and anticipated a revival to the form he showed earlier in his career in Toronto. That was not to be. In 29 games in Carolina, Kaberle had 0-9-9 totals and was a minus-12 with 0-4-4 totals on the power play. That's eerily similar to his numbers in Boston, where he had 1-8-9 totals, including 0-3-3 on the power play, in 24 regular season games and was 0-11-11 (0-5-5 on power play) in 25 playoff games.
Kaberle was acquired in part to help spark Boston's struggling power play. Instead, the Bruins got worse on the man advantage, going 7 for 66 (10.6 percent) in the regular season after Kaberle joined the team and 10 for 88 (11.4 percent) in the playoffs. The Habs will be repeating the Bruins' mistake if they think Kaberle will help Montreal's 28th-ranked power play (11.4 percent), though he could help them get to be good a Carolina has been this year. The 'Canes are all the way up in 26th at 12.7 percent.
"He has not done as well as expected, just as the team has not done as well as expected," Rutherford said. "He has played better the last couple of weeks. But to have flexibility next year without his contract is important to us."
The News and Observer added that Rutherford would have preferred to trade Kaberle for a forward, but the GM said "there was not a deal out there that could be made for Kaberle."
No deal to be made except for the one with the only man in the NHL who still seems blissfully unaware that the league implemented a salary cap back in 2005. It was kind of a big deal, coming out of an owners' lockout that shut down the league for a full season and all. But Gauthier doesn't care about no stinkin' cap hits. He learned no lesson from predecessor Bob Gainey's taking on Gomez's crippling cap hit in a deal with the Rangers in 2009 or his own ill-advised commitment to the chronically hobbled Markov.
That may be the only negative out of this deal from a Bruins perspective. This trade may finally be the move that costs Gauthier his job, and competing with the Habs could be even more difficult with a competent GM in place in Montreal.
Rutherford is happy that's not the case now, as he admitted that shedding Kaberle's cap hit was the goal of this deal. The Hurricanes got back 37-year-old Spacek, no picture of health himself as he's currently on injured reserve and played just 12 games this season. But he's also on an expiring contract that frees up cap space after this season.
Spacek has ties to new Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller, who played with Spacek in Florida and coached him as an assistant in Montreal. But getting rid of Kaberle was far more important than whatever Carolina could get back in return. "The bottom line was moving Kaberle's contract," Rutherford told the News & Observer.
The Bruins paid a heavy price when they acquired Kaberle, giving up top prospect Joe Colborne and a first- and second-round picks, and for all his faults Kaberle did contribute to the Cup run, playing better as the postseason wore on. And the Bruins didn't compound the error by giving him the huge contract he sought.
That's now Montreal's problem, and Bruins fans wouldn't want it any other way.
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Panopto is a presentation capture application that lets you record, capture PowerPoint presentations; audio and video lectures and share these recordings in a Blackboard course.
Note: if you are having students to create presentations using Panopto make sure that you set up an "Assignment Folder" (see Student Presentations tab below)
Panopto must be initially configured within Blackboard linking it to a Blackboard course. Select Course Tools, Panopto Content, Configure, and Add Course to Panopto Content. Click OK on the Provisioning Results Screen and click Submit.
Configure and Provision Panopto in Blackboard (PDF)
How do I?
Download Recorder/Install on PC
- The Panopto Recorder can be downloaded from within Blackboard or by using the following link Download for Panopto Recorder for PC. Note this is an executable file so on the dialog box select the Save File option)
- When the file downloads to the browser's download folder, double-click the to begin installation
- Continue through the by clicking Next. When installation is complete, click Close then open the recorder
Sign In and configure recorder:
- Server: Type in: vcapture.campus.ltu.edu in text box
- Providers: Click the down arrow and select Blackboard
- At the Blackboard login type in your Blackboard username; tab and type in your Blackboard password
- Check "Save Login" to have Panopto remember your login
On the "Create New Recording" tab select the following configuration
- Verify correct folder displays in Folder option
- Change the "generic" recording name to one that identifies both recording and who recorded in the Name option
- Select correct Video / Audio inputs
- Select the PowerPoint tab. Open PowerPoint presentation and minimize it
- Click Start Recording
Bring up your presentation, select Slide Show View and when your are ready to begin recording Use the following Hot Keys to:
- Start the recorder: F8 key
- End the recorder: F10 key
- Pause/Resume the recorder: F9 key
Download/Install on MAC
- Download and install the Panopto Recorder for Mac from Download for Panopto Recorder for MAC (zip file)
- When the file downloads, click the downloaded zip file to begin the installation
Once installed, click the Panopto Recorder icon to open and select Sign In. On the recorder options dialog box, select the following options:
- Server Information: vcapture.campus.ltu.edu
- Providers: Blackboard (note: if Provider shows Panopto, click the down arrows and select)
- Type in your Blackboard username; tab and type in your Blackboard password and check option "Save Login"
- Click Log In
Select "Create New Recording" and select the following configuration
- Verify correct folder displays in Folder option
- Change the "generic" recording name to one that identifies both recording and who recorded in the Session option
- Select correct Video / Audio inputs
- Verify that Record PowerPoint is selected under Slides
- Open the PowerPoint presentation in Slide Show view
- Click Start Recording
You can use the MAC Hot Key combinations to:
- Start and End the recorder: CMD+Option+R
- Pause and Resume the recorder: CMD+Option+P
Record and upload lectures to Blackboard
If you use lecture recordings in other courses; if you plan to use recordings in other semesters or if you want students to be able to access the recordings without any problems - download and review the above (link) PDF "Panopto Best Practices"
Sharing Panopto recordings
You must share your recording for students to be able to access them.
If students are having issues accessing your Panopto recordings, please check that your recordings are set to "Shared"
To make the lectures available:
- Log into the Panopto Recorder.
- Select the tab for Recording Status, then select the option "Manage My Recordings" located to the right of the screen.
- Locate the name of lecture(s) and hover the cursor to the right of the name. The set of icons will appear. The "sharing" option is the first icon, click to select.
- The next screen will open and you need to select "Make Public."
- You will have choose the Make Public option for each recording that you wish your students to be able to access.
- You can then close the window and the recorder.
Watch the video, Sharing Recordings or download the PDF Instructions (see Page 4).
Disable automatically generated emails
You can disable the emails generated when Panopto videos are made. Please note that the setting is an "all or nothing" option however.
To disable Panopto email notifications:
- Access vcapture2.campus.ltu.edu
- Log in BB9 Production System then log in with your Campus credentials
- On the Panopto screen, click the bb9\username (top right corner), select User Settings
- Uncheck the option "Send me notifications"
Student Presentations
Creating a Panopto's "Assignment Folder" allows students to record and upload course presentations (student instructions available here.
Create a Panopto "Assignment" folder for student recordings
As an instructor, you must first set up and configure your Blackboard course for Panopto. Directions on how to configure a Blackboard course for Panopto Lecture can be found here.
Once the course is "provisioned" for Panopto, you then create an "Assignment Folder" for student's to record and upload their lectures/presentations.
To create an Assignment Folder:
- Select Course Tools menu tab
- Select Panopto Content
- On the Panopto screen select Folder Settings (appears as a "cog" icon near top right)
- Click to select "Create Assignment Folder"
- Click Close (X)
Make Panopto Recorder available to students
You also need to make the Panopto recorder download links available. There is no direct link for students in Blackboard, so you need to provide the download/installation information.
Below is sample text that can be used:
You (student) will need to download and install the appropriate Panopto recorder on your computer (either PC or MAC).
- From a web browser go to vcapture.campus.ltu.edu.
- On the User Login pane, click the down arrow to select Blackboard, click Login.
- Type in your Campus username and password, click Login.
- On the Panopto session screen, click the "Record" icon (located at top right) then select the download icon for either PC or MAC.
You may download and review the PDF instructions located at ltu.edu/ehelp on the Panopto for Students webpage or directly here.


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MARSEILLE, France, June 30 (Reuters) - Olympique Lyon and Olympique Marseille have become involved in a dispute over the transfer of France forward Hatem Ben Arfa, with Lyon saying that his move to Marseille was not valid.
Marseille said last week the 21-year-old Ben Arfa was joining them from the French champions. However, Lyon said the deal had not been finalised because they had not received all the required financial guarantees from Marseille.
Lyon said in a statement they expected Ben Arfa to return in order to resume training on Monday but the player said he considered himself a Marseille player and would stay at Marseille.
'I'm here (in Marseille) and I won't go there (to Lyon),' Ben Arfa told Monday's issue of regional newspaper La Provence. 'Whatever happens, I won't go back.'
Marseille chairman Pape Diouf said in a statement he had sent all the required documents and asked the French Professional Soccer League (LFP) to settle the issue. A ruling was expected on Tuesday.
Ben Arfa has won six caps for France but was not a member of the Euro 2008 squad eliminated from the tournament in the group stage.
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Furth SL, Hwang W, Yang C, Neu AM, Fivush BA, Powe NR. Relation Between Pediatric Experience and Treatment Recommendations for Children and Adolescents With Kidney Failure. JAMA. 2001;285(8):1027–1033. doi:10.1001/jama.285.8.1027
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Author Affiliations: Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics (Drs Furth, Neu, and Fivush and Ms Yang), Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research (Drs Furth and Powe), Departments of Health Policy and Management (Drs Hwang and Powe), Epidemiology (Dr Powe), and Medicine (Dr Powe), The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md.
Context Children and adolescent patients with renal failure are frequently cared
for by adult subspecialists. While peritoneal dialysis is used in less than
17% of adults with kidney failure, it is the preferred dialysis treatment
for children. National data show that 45% of children receiving dialysis are
treated with peritoneal dialysis and pediatric nephrologists report its use
in 65% of patients receiving dialysis. Whether differences in peritoneal dialysis
use among children are due to the pediatric experience of the clinician has
not been examined.
Objective To assess whether the pediatric experience of nephrologists directly
affects treatment recommendations for children with kidney failure.
Design Cross-sectional survey using 10 case vignettes per survey based on random
combinations of 8 patient characteristics (age, sex, race, distance from facility,
cause of renal failure, family structure, education, and compliance).
Setting and Participants National random sample of office-, hospital-, and academic medical center–based
adult and pediatric nephrologists, stratified by geographic region and conducted
June to November 1999. Of 519 eligible physicians, 316 (61%) responded, including
191 adult and 125 pediatric nephrologists.
Main Outcome Measure Treatment recommendations for peritoneal dialysis vs hemodialysis, compared
based on nephrologists' pediatric experience.
Results After controlling for patient characteristics, pediatric nephrologists
were 60% more likely than adult nephrologists to recommend peritoneal dialysis
for identical patients (odds ratio, 1.61; 95% confidence interval, 1.35-1.92).
This was true regardless of dialysis training, years in practice, practice
setting, geography, or patient characteristics.
Conclusions Our data indicate that pediatric specialization of clinicians influences
treatment recommendations for children and adolescents with end-stage renal
disease. Referring children to adult subspecialists may lead to differences
in treatment choices and processes of care.
Marked variations in the utilization of selected health care services
and subsequent health care costs exist in the United States.1,2
Even after taking into account the underlying health and diagnosis of the
patient, variations in the use of selected services, particularly those whose
benefits are less well established, cannot be explained fully. Variations
in referral rates to subspecialists,3 treatment
recommendations by internists, family physicians, gynecologists, surgeons,
and psychiatrists,4,5 and use
of invasive procedures6 have been described
repeatedly in the care of adult patients. The extent to which variation exists
in the care of children with chronic illness, and examination of the potential
sources of this variation have been studied infrequently.7
In studies of adults, several potentially mutable factors have been
shown to influence variation, including provider specialty and training, professional
socialization, organization of physician services, and payment.8
To examine whether specialty training or experience with children influences
treatment recommendations in pediatric chronic illness, we examined whether
a nephrologist's experience treating children directly influences dialysis
treatment recommendations for adolescents with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).
The study of children with ESRD allows examination of variation in practice
patterns where the confounding issue of variable physician payment is lessened
because nearly all children with ESRD are eligible for Medicare insurance.
More than 5000 children and adolescents in the United States are currently
living with ESRD.9 Approximately 1000 children
(aged ≤19 years) develop ESRD each year.9
If a kidney donor is not available for renal transplantation, hemodialysis
(HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) are the treatment options. Use rates of HD
or PD for patients with ESRD vary remarkably among institutions and across
national boundaries.10 While only 13% to 17%
of adult patients receiving dialysis in the United States are treated with
PD, 45% of pediatric patients receiving dialysis in national registries9 and 65% in voluntary pediatric nephrology groups11 are managed with this therapy. Although debate persists
over the relative benefits of PD vs HD in terms of mortality and morbidity,
most studies have shown that survival of those receiving the 2 therapies is
comparable.12- 14
However, PD is widely believed to be the treatment of choice for children
and adolescents if transplantation is not immediately available.15
Although no prospective, randomized trials comparing PD and HD have been performed,
PD has multiple advantages for children.16
These include steady state fluid and biochemical control, freedom from dietary
and fluid restrictions, relative technical ease in infants and small children,
absence of needle sticks, independence and relative normalization of daily
routine because PD is a home modality, decreased dependence on antihypertensive
medications to control blood pressure, and less anemia than with HD. Additionally,
costs are lower with PD than with HD in children.17
Also, quality of life when receiving PD rather than HD may be better for adults
and children,18,19 and PD may
be a more cost-effective treatment because of lower fixed costs than those
associated with in-center HD.20
Because of the relatively low incidence of ESRD in children and the
small number and wide geographic distribution of pediatric nephrologists,
many children and adolescents with kidney disease may be treated by nephrologists
who have little experience with pediatric patients. A recent cross-sectional
study demonstrated a strongly positive association between the use of PD and
the volume of pediatric patients treated at a dialysis facility,21
thus suggesting that pediatric experience may influence dialysis treatment
choice. The percentage of pediatric patients dialyzed at a facility was associated
with a greater probability that an individual pediatric patient would be treated
with PD. This study did not, however, measure whether a pediatric nephrologist
was involved in the care.
To address the possible biases and problems of case-mix inherent in
a facility level, cross-sectional study, we used an experimental design to
test whether the pediatric specialization of the treating physician independently
influences treatment recommendations for children and adolescents with ESRD.
Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that adult and pediatric nephrologists
(in this article, "adult nephrologists" refers to nephrologists trained in
internal medicine and nephrology and "pediatric nephrologists" to those trained
in pediatric medicine and pediatric nephrology) make different dialysis treatment
recommendations for pediatric patients.
In a national study, we randomly selected adult and pediatric nephrologists
to receive clinically representative case vignettes for which we elicited
treatment recommendations. The study protocol was approved by the institutional
review board of Johns Hopkins University.
Nephrologists were surveyed by a mailed questionnaire containing 10
randomly generated case vignettes. No department affiliation was listed on
the university letterhead, and the cover letter was personally signed by both
an internist and a pediatric nephrologist. Each case vignette represented
a hypothetical patient. Characteristics in the case vignettes included patient
age (5-19 years), race (black or white), sex (male or female), cause of ESRD
(acquired glomerular or congenital urologic disease), parental education (<high
school, some high school, or some college), distance from a dialysis facility
(<1 hour drive, 1-2 hours, or >2 hours), compliance (compliant, not compliant,
or questionably compliant), and number of parents in the home (1 or 2). After
clinical and social characteristics thought to potentially influence dialysis
treatment recommendations were selected and categorized, characteristics were
shuffled and combined by a computer-generated randomization procedure. Random
combinations of these characteristics produced 1000 unique case vignettes
that were sorted randomly by computer, and groups of 10 were printed onto
100 different surveys. After the vignettes were assembled, a covariance matrix
was used to ensure that clinical characteristics in the vignettes were randomly
assigned and were not collinear. The questionnaire was pretested for practicality
and content validity by a panel of adult and pediatric nephrologists.
Nephrologists were asked to recommend an initial treatment modality
(HD or PD, both were listed as treatment options) for each hypothetical case.
We asked surveyed nephrologists to assume that theirs was the closest dialysis
faculty, that the patient had recently presented with renal failure, had never
had a transplant, and had no other comorbid conditions.
In addition to the case vignettes, information was collected regarding
physician demographics (race, sex, and years since fellowship), nephrology
training, and practice. We asked physicians to estimate the percentage of
their patients in the pediatric age group and to describe their exposure to
pediatric patients and to PD and HD during nephrology training.
The nephrologists surveyed were drawn from the American Medical Association
Physician Masterfile and from the mailing list of the American Society of
Pediatric Nephrology. Four hundred adult and 200 pediatric nephrologists in
all practice settings were randomly selected from the 10 geographic jurisdictions
of the Health Care Financing Administration. After stratification by geographic
region, nephrologists were chosen by simple random sampling with replacement
using a computer program. The determination of pediatric vs adult nephrology
was based on the physician's self-reported specialization. Pediatric nephrologists
were oversampled to obtain a large enough sample for valid comparison with
adult nephrologists. Our sample size of 400 adult and 200 pediatric nephrologists
ensured that a 50% response rate would yield 80% power to detect a 20% difference
with α = .05. The first mailing of the survey was done in June 1999,
follow-up reminders and surveys were sent out in September 1999, and telephone
and fax follow-up was done in November of the same year.
Surveys returned as undeliverable were replaced by random selection
of another pediatric or adult nephrologist from the same geographic region.
Nonrespondents after the second mailing were telephoned to verify that the
selected nephrologists remained active in clinical practice at that address
and had received the survey. A duplicate survey was faxed to those participants
whose address was verified, and telephone follow-up was done within 2 weeks.
Univariate analyses of the preferred strategies for dialysis management
of patients described in the case vignettes were performed. We explored the
geographic distribution, practice characteristics, and pediatric experience
of respondents and nonrespondents to assess the possibility of nonresponse
bias. In bivariate analyses testing, we explored how the treatment recommendations
of the provider varied according to a nephrologist's pediatric experience
and according to patient characteristics in the vignettes. Dose-response effects
were tested with a χ2 test for linear trend.
Multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the
independent associations between physicians' experience with children and
their dialysis treatment recommendations, controlling for patient's age, race,
sex, and case of ESRD. We additionally adjusted for patient compliance, distance
from a facility, number of parents in the home, and parental education. Possible
correlations among nephrologists' responses to the 10 separate case vignettes
included in each questionnaire were accounted for using techniques for handling
clustered data (generalized estimation equation).22
Pediatric experience was measured in 3 ways: by self-identification
of pediatric nephrology as a subspecialty, by self-report of whether a respondent's
nephrology training included making treatment recommendations for patients
aged 19 years and younger, and by whether a physician estimated that at least
5% of the patients he or she cared for in the last 5 years were aged 19 years
and younger. Stratified analyses were performed to determine whether pediatric
nephrologists were more likely than adult nephrologists to recommend PD vs
HD regardless of practice setting, geographic region, years in practice, or
proportion of nephrology training devoted to PD. Separate models were used
to compare pediatric and adult nephrologists in different practice settings.
Finally, stratified analyses of adult nephrologists were performed to examine
whether increased exposure to PD or increased exposure to pediatric patients
in training or practice was associated with an increased likelihood to recommend
PD rather than HD.
Of 600 nephrologists selected in our national random sample, 81 were
excluded because surveys were undeliverable (n = 21), the surveyed physician
had moved out of the region (n = 29) or was no longer in practice (n = 18),
or the surveyed physician described himself or herself as never seeing patients
in the pediatric age group and declined to make treatment recommendations
in the survey (n = 13). Of the 519 remaining nephrologists, 316 (61%) responded,
including 191 of 351 (54%) adult nephrologists and 125 of 168 (74%) pediatric
The demographic, training, and practice characteristics of the responding
and nonresponding adult and pediatric nephrologists are presented in Table 1. Among respondents, a higher percentage
of pediatric than adult nephrologists were women. There were no differences
in the racial distribution or years in practice. Nineteen percent of pediatric
nephrologists compared with only 1% of adult nephrologists described their
dialysis training as "mostly peritoneal dialysis." Additionally, there were
marked differences between responding adult and pediatric nephrologists in
practice setting, with 93% of pediatric nephrologists based in academic medical
centers vs 9% of nephrologists treating adults (Table 1).
Forty-eight percent of nephrologists stated that their training included
seeing patients aged 19 years and younger. Thirty-three percent of responding
adult nephrologists stated that their training included making dialysis treatment
recommendations for patients aged 19 years and younger. Additionally, 66%
of responding adult nephrologists described themselves as the primary nephrologist
caring for at least 1 patient aged 15 to 19 years in the past 5 years, and
6% claimed to have been the primary nephrologist caring for patients aged
1 to 9 years during the previous 5 years. Twenty-six percent of adult nephrologists
described patients aged 19 years and younger as comprising at least 5% of
their practice in the last 5 years.
There were significant differences in response rates according to pediatric
vs adult nephrology training, years in practice, and practice setting (Table 1). Pediatric nephrologists were
more likely to respond than adult nephrologists. Physicians with more than
10 years in practice were less likely to respond than those who had finished
nephrology training more recently. Nephrologists practicing in university
settings were more likely than those practicing in independent dialysis centers
to respond to the survey. There were no statistically significant differences
in the response rates among nephrologists by geographic region (Table 1).
Physicians with greater exposure to pediatric patients recommended PD
rather than HD for a higher percentage of patients. This was true whether
exposure to pediatric patients was measured as membership in a society of
pediatric subspecialists (75% vs 71%; P = .01, χ2 test), exposure to pediatric patients during nephrology training (74%
vs 70%; P = .02, χ2 test), or if more
than 5% of a physician's current practice was composed of pediatric patients
(74.2% vs 70.8%; P = .04, χ2 test).
Practice setting (university hospital vs independent center, P = .06), years in practice (≤10 years vs >10 years, P = .44), and dialysis training that was mostly PD (P = .65) were not significantly associated with the recommendation
for PD.
Multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the odds
of pediatric nephrologists recommending PD rather than HD were 60% greater
than that of similar recommendations by adult nephrologists, even when patient
age, race, sex, cause of ESRD, parental education, distance from the dialysis
facility, compliance, and number of parents in the home were held constant
(odds ratio [OR], 1.61; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.35-1.92) (Table 2). When statistical techniques accounting
for similarities of responses by individual nephrologists were used, the results
were robust (OR, 1.57; 95% CI, 1.19-2.08).22
The increased odds of recommending PD vs HD persisted whether pediatric
experience was measured as membership in a pediatric subspecialty society,
nephrology training that included exposure to children (adjusted OR, 1.3;
95% CI, 1.09-1.56), or patient population at least 5% pediatric (adjusted
When the description of dialysis training as "mostly peritoneal dialysis"
was substituted for pediatric experience in the multivariate regression analysis,
the adjusted odds of recommendations for PD vs HD were 1.52 (95% CI, 1.09-2.12).
However, separate stratified analyses of adult and pediatric nephrologists
did not show that training with PD explained the difference in treatment recommendations
between the 2 specialties. Adult nephrologists whose training focused on PD
(OR, 0.7; 95% CI, 0.3-1.9) or equally on PD and HD (OR, 1.1; 95% CI, 0.9-1.4)
were no more likely to recommend PD than were nephrologists whose training
was predominantly HD (OR, 1.0; reference).
Additionally, secondary analyses in which subspecialty and practice
setting were combined demonstrated that university-based pediatric nephrologists
were more likely to recommend PD vs HD (adjusted OR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.21-1.77)
compared with adult nephrologists at independent centers. University-based
adult nephrologists did not demonstrate an increased odds of prescribing PD
vs HD (adjusted OR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.60-1.28) when compared with adult nephrologists
at independent centers.
Several patient factors included in the case vignettes influenced nephrologists'
recommendations for dialysis treatment (Table 2). Patients living further from the dialysis treatment facility
were more likely to be recommended for PD, with those patients more than a
2-hour drive from the dialysis facility 4.8 times as likely as those less
than 1 hour from the facility to be recommended for PD (OR, 4.8; 95% CI, 3.83-5.60).
Additionally, younger patients were more likely than children and adolescents
older than 10 years to be recommended for PD. The level of parental education
also influenced dialysis recommendations, with children of college-educated
parents more likely to be recommended for PD than children of parents with
less than a high school education (OR, 1.57; 95% CI 1.27-1.93). Descriptions
of patient compliance strongly influenced recommendations for PD. Patients
described as "not compliant"(OR, 0.16; 95% CI, 0.13-0.20) or "questionably
compliant" (OR, 0.48; 95% CI, 0.38-0.61) were much less likely than those
described as "compliant" (OR, 1.0; reference group) to be recommended for
Stratified analyses by physician characteristics revealed that regardless
of geographic region, practice setting, years in practice, or exposure to
PD during training, pediatric nephrologists were more likely to recommend
PD vs HD (Table 3). Comparisons
of adult and pediatric nephrologists in each strata of geographic region,
practice setting, years in practice, or dialysis training consistently yielded
ORs for the recommendation of PD of more than 1.0, suggesting that pediatric
experience was robustly associated with PD recommendations.
More than one third of the children and adolescents with ESRD requiring
dialysis in the United States are cared for in facilities that primarily serve
adults.21 This is likely due to the uneven
geographic distribution and small number of physicians who report a primary
or secondary specialty of pediatric nephrology in the United States. Pediatric
nephrologists, like most other pediatric subspecialists, are largely concentrated
in urban academic medical centers and medical schools.23
Therefore, many children with unusual chronic illnesses, including ESRD, may
be evaluated and treated by adult specialists who may have little experience
with children. Since the causes, associated morbidities, and clinical outcomes
of chronic illness differ dramatically between children and adults with similar
diagnoses, adult- and pediatric-trained subspecialists may make different
diagnostic and treatment recommendations. Additionally, social and developmental
issues such as growth, sexual development, and school attendance may factor
more heavily into the treatment recommendations made by practitioners with
more exposure to children.24- 26
Rates of PD use among adult ESRD patients in the United States are low
(13%-17% of all adult dialysis patients)9 compared
with rates ranging from 37% in Canada to 51% for adults with ESRD in England.10 In contrast, estimates of PD use among pediatric
patients in the United States ranges from 45%9
to 65%.11 Peritoneal dialysis is widely believed
to be the preferred dialysis modality for children15
because it has been associated with improved quality of life and better growth
and school attendance.24- 26
Our study demonstrates that when caring for patients with identical clinical
and social characteristics, nephrologists with greater pediatric experience
are significantly more likely than their adult-trained counterparts to recommend
PD, a therapy that is more cost-effective and has demonstrated clinical benefits
for children.16,17,20
The association between pediatric experience and the recommendation for PD
persisted when pediatric experience was measured by pediatric subspecialization,
experience with treating children, or as increased exposure to pediatric patients
during nephrology fellowship. Additionally, the association of pediatric experience
and recommendations for PD persisted regardless of geographic region, practice
setting, years in practice, or dialysis training. These findings suggest that
optimal clinical decision making for children with chronic illness should
include consultation with practitioners with expertise in managing the clinical
problems and considering the unique problems, such as growth and developmental
issues, of pediatric patients.
One possible explanation for these findings would be that internal medicine
nephrologists do not consider PD as therapeutic a treatment modality as HD.
Although HD is the predominant modality used in adult patients with ESRD in
the United States, most studies show that PD and HD are equivalent therapies
in terms of morbidity and mortality in adults.27
Most recent studies of prospective data in large cohorts of adult patients
receiving HD and PD demonstrate that previously reported survival advantages
for one modality vs the other are likely due to lower comorbidity and lower
burden of acute onset ESRD.28 Despite published
studies documenting equivalence of the 2 therapies, the lower rates of recommendation
of PD by adult nephrologists may reflect differences in attitudes toward this
therapy. Respondents were not asked about their acceptance of PD.
Additionally, we did not address the availability of PD at a respondent's
facility. Our survey stated that all treatment options were available to each
patient. Although our intent was to isolate how pediatric experience affects
treatment recommendations, it is possible that the availability of PD as a
treatment option at a respondent's facility might explain the differential
recommendations for PD reported. Additionally, we did not address the issue
of physician payment and how this might affect recommendations for PD or HD.
Reimbursement by Medicare for dialysis is divided into facility payment with
the composite rate and physician payment with the monthly capitation payment.
The monthly capitation payment to the physician is roughly the same whether
a patient is treated with PD or HD. Our study goal was to isolate the physician
recommendation. We therefore stated that all treatment options were hypothetically
available to each patient and did not address facility issues or financial
The dose-response effect associated with descriptions of patient compliance
and increasing distance from a dialysis facility demonstrate the validity
of the physician responses to our survey. In a step-wise fashion, patients
described as "questionably compliant" or "noncompliant" were much less likely
than those described as "compliant" to be recommended for PD, a therapy requiring
the patient to perform dialysis at home 7 days a week. Additionally, patients
living at successively greater distances from the dialysis facility where
HD would be performed for 3 hours a day, 3 times a week, were also more likely
to be recommended for PD.
Low response rates to physician surveys frequently hamper the generalizability
of results. Our 61% response rate surpasses the mean response rate of 54%
for published physician surveys.29 Furthermore,
bivariate analysis comparing responders with nonresponders demonstrated no
differences in response rate by geographic region or race. Although pediatric
nephrologists were more likely to respond than the adult nephrologists surveyed,
adult nephrologists who encounter children or adolescents in their practices
may have been more likely to respond to our questionnaire. The fact that 66%
of adult nephrologists responding to our survey described themselves as having
been the primary nephrologists for at least 1 patient aged 15 to 19 years
lends credence to this supposition. Because this group of adult nephrologists
would be the relevant comparison group to pediatric nephrologists, the differential
response rate would be unlikely to influence the internal validity of our
study results.
Much of the increased response among university-based physicians may
be explained by the much higher response rate among pediatric nephrologists,
almost all of whom are based in academic medical centers. Although the signature
of a pediatric nephrologist on the cover letter of the survey in the small
community of pediatric nephrologists may have made pediatric nephrologists
more likely to respond, it would be unlikely to introduce bias in the treatment
recommendation for PD or HD in the vignettes included in the survey.
Finally, the use of case vignettes to isolate and define the effect
of physician practice from other effects of the health care system on treatment
decisions is a unique strength of our study. Case vignettes have been shown
to approximate the gold standard of standardized patient interviews in studies
focusing on the process of care provided in actual clinical practice.30 The use of clinical vignettes in which social factors
and clinical characteristics can be randomly combined avoids the potential
confounding effects of selection bias in observational studies. In actual
practice, comorbid conditions, socioeconomic determinants, and geographic
constraints may dictate which patients visit generalists or pediatric or adult
In this study we removed these potential confounding factors by using
a survey with randomized case vignettes. We demonstrated that the pediatric
specialization of the provider independently influences dialysis treatment
decisions. These conclusions are strengthened by the national representation
of nephrologists in our sample. Stratified sampling by geographic location
ensured that we sampled nephrologists from both urban and rural areas because
geography may influence treatment recommendations. The design of the questionnaire,
including random combinations of patient characteristics in the clinical vignettes,
ensured that we measured the independent effects of patient and provider characteristics
on physician recommendations. When caring for patients with identical characteristics,
physicians with greater experience with pediatric ESRD were more likely to
recommend PD. The recommendation of PD may translate to lower costs and improved
outcomes for adolescents with kidney failure. Our study suggests that physicians
making treatment plans for children and adolescents with renal disease should
consider consultation with nephrologists with experience in treating children.
Additionally, increased awareness of the unique clinical problems facing pediatric
patients during the training of all nephrologists should be encouraged.


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In each of them the text is good, but the visual element is crucial. Without extraordinary art, there would be no reason to supersize a book — or pore over it like a museum artifact along with visitors discovering it for the first time.
While exploring this season's new large-format books with gift-giving in mind, I've pinpointed a few I believe might offer lasting value in these recessionary times.
Topping the list is "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns (Knopf, 432 pp., list price $50), the companion to the recent 12-hour public-television series. Burns was its director/producer, Duncan its writer/producer.
With 440 handsome illustrations, the book is a perfect sampler for reviewing — or discovering — how the parks came to be. It celebrates not just the wonders in the 400 sites and 84 million acres included, but also the democratic vision and willingness of so many individuals to fight passionately for preserving the land and making it accessible to the public — without destroying its assets in the process.
Wallace Stegner was probably first to call the park system "the best idea we've ever had." The book interweaves the complex story of how the parks were created and the roles played by the famous (John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Frederick Law Olmsted) and the little known. The story and photos will keep you turning pages.
The most compelling new Tinseltown entry is "Bette Davis: Larger Than Life" by Richard Schickel and George Perry (Running Press, 264 pp., list price $35). Longtime critic/filmmaker Schickel supplies an insightful 20-page essay, and London Sunday Times critic Perry tracks the phases of Davis's career, from ingénue to spitfire to gorgon, and gives a detailed rundown on each of her (more than 100) films.
But what makes the book impossible to put down are the photos — gorgeous period images beautifully integrated into the text. My favorite is the brooding, fur-draped Davis pictured with the section on "Dark Victory." The caption: "I think I'll have a large dose of prognosis negative."
No need to fasten your seat belt; this ride has no bumps.
Picture bios
Though the recent Mira Nair film "Amelia," has been a box-office disappointment, interest endures in aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her disappearance in the Pacific on a 1937 around-the-world flight. Was she killed in a crash? Taken prisoner by the Japanese? Did she survive after World War II, living under an assumed name to keep her role as a civilian spy for FDR secret? Those mysteries are addressed in the lavishly illustrated "Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It" by Susan Wels (Running Press, 208 pp., list price $35). But the book's real focus is on the thrill Earhart experienced defying limits, breaking barriers and following her own path. This may be the perfect book for preteen or teenage girls with similar goals.
Genius inspires both awe and curiosity. Though much has been written about Albert Einstein and his iconic equation, the museum-like tidbits found between the covers of "Einstein: The Life of a Genius" by Walter Isaacson (Collins Design/HarperCollins, 97 pp., list price $40) make for a fun approach to the physicist's accomplishments. The most unusual feature is the book's removable facsimile documents — notes, letters, manuscript excerpts, etc.
Of the several photo books recently published by National Geographic the one likely to attract the most interest is the "National Geographic Image Collection" by Michelle Delaney (Focal Point/National Geographic, 512 pp., $50). Drawn from the organization's 11.5 million-photo archive, it's the largest single volume of images (450) so far published by the society.
The magazine was launched in 1888; the first photograph appeared two years later. By 1900, the society's then-president, Alexander Graham Bell, was urging his son-in-law, its first full-time editor, to publish "more dynamical pictures — pictures of life and action — pictures that tell a story." They've been doing that ever since.
A few of this book's images predate the magazine. You'll see everything from an 1871 view of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone to several decades' worth of scenes from all the continents on Earth to a 2008 moonrise on Mars.
Those enthusiasts for biology who never get bored with dinosaur lore could spend countless hours delving into "Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth" (DK Publishing, 512 pp., list price $40). With brief but plentiful contributions from more than 20 scholars around the world, the book is organized in three broad sections with the illustrations taking center stage — "Young Earth" "Life on Earth" and "The Rise of the Humans." The photos, charts, drawings and text boxes invite readers to jump to topics of particular interest — key fossil sites, geological time scale, microscopic life through prehistory, human ancestors or the origins of modern humans.
For fans of social/political satire, how about two decades of collected sarcasm and roasts? That's what you get in "The Onion Presents Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude From America's Finest News Source, 1988-2008" (Scribner, 304 pp., list price $28).
The wits behind this sendup, which got its start in Madison, Wis., are equal-opportunity offenders of both right and left, male and female, gay and straight, religious and agnostic. Samples: "Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'"; "Gay Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance of Gays Back 50 Years"; "Pope Forgives Molested Children."
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Cryptotomus roseus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Cryptotomus roseus Cope, 1871
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Cyptotomus crassiceps Bean, 1906
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Westneat and Alfaro (2005) recognize the Scarini as a tribe within the family Labridae.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Bertoncini, A.A., Sampaio, C.L.S., Rocha, L.A., Ferreira, C.E., Francini-Filho, R., Moura, R., Gaspar, A.L. & Feitosa, C.
|McIlwain, J. & Craig, M.T.
This species is relatively widespread in the Caribbean and Brazil, but is naturally uncommon. There are no major threats known for this species. It is listed as Least Concern. However, more research is needed on population and habitat status and harvest levels.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This species is found from Bermuda, South Carolina (Smith 1997) to southern Florida (USA), Bahamas, Antilles to Santa Catarina, Brazil, including Atoll das Rocas and Fernando de Noronha.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; Nicaragua; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|This species is naturally uncommon. Densities in shallow rocky reefs in Southeast Brazil obtained with Underwater Visual Census are in the order of 0.3 to 0.56 individuals per 40 m2 (Floeter et al. 2007), 0.33 individuals per 40 m2 Baixo-sul baiano. Lower densities occur along its southern limit, South Brazil (Santa Catarina) 0.1 individuals per 40 m2 (Bertoncini and Sampaio pers comm 2008). Along the Brazilian coast, it is more common from Bahia to São Paulo and is considered rare in Santa Catarina state (Smith 1997, Hostim-Silva et al. 2006).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species occurs in seagrass beds, macroalgae, coral rubble or around stands of gorgonians and soft coral, or on coral and rocky reefs to depths of 30 m (Carvalho-Filho 1999).
|Use and Trade:
|This species is occasionally collected for the aquarium trade, but there is no information on harvest levels.
|Major Threat(s):
There are no major threats to this species.
Parrotfishes show varying degrees of habitat preference and utilization of coral reef habitats, with some species spending the majority of their life stages on coral reefs, while others primarily utilize seagrass beds, mangroves, algal beds, and /or rocky reefs. Although the majority of the parrotfishes occur in mixed habitat (primarily inhabiting seagrass beds, mangroves, and rocky reefs) approximately 78% of these mixed habitat species are experiencing greater than 30% loss of coral reef area and habitat quality across their distributions. Of those species that occur exclusively in coral reef habitat, more than 80% are experiencing a greater than 30% of coral reef loss and degradation across their distributions. However, more research is needed to understand the long-term effects of habitat loss and degradation on these species populations. Widespread coral reef loss and declining habitat conditions are particularly worrying for species that depend on live coral reefs for food and shelter especially as studies have shown that protection of pristine habitats facilitate the persistence of adult populations in species that have spatially separated adult and juvenile habitats. Furthermore, coral reef loss and declining habitat conditions are particularly worrying for some corallivorous excavating parrotfishes that play major roles in reef dynamics and sedimentation (Comeros-Raynal et al. 2012).
|Conservation Actions:
|There are no species-specific conservation measures in place for this species. However, its distribution includes a number of Marine Protected Areas within its range.
|Bertoncini, A.A., Sampaio, C.L.S., Rocha, L.A., Ferreira, C.E., Francini-Filho, R., Moura, R., Gaspar, A.L. & Feitosa, C. 2012. Cryptotomus roseus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T190757A17778589. . Downloaded on 20 September 2017.
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2013: A 'Wasted' Year for City Corporation
By Express News Service | Published: 31st December 2013 09:38 AM |
Last Updated: 31st December 2013 09:38 AM | A+A A- |
While the year 2013 bids adieu, stocktaking throws up the same old stinking stories of the previous year with a few new additions.
The month of January 2013 opened with the City Corporation launching a new weapon from its arsenal to beat the 'plastic monster.' Mayor K Chandrika and team, irrespective of party and politics, unleashed a blitzkrieg in markets and shopping centres alike, seizing bulks of plastic carrybags to be transported away. The campaign brought about a sea change, with a lion's share of vendors in the city switching to cloth bags. But it did not take much time for the initiative to sing the swan song. The campaign ended and things are now back to square one.
Giving new promises to tackle solid waste, as Vilappilsala gates remained padlocked for the second consecutive year, the government offered to set up decentralised waste treatment plants in the city. In place of the sole waste plant at Vilappilsala, four plants were announced, in every Assembly constituency in the city - Nemom, Vattiyoorkavu, Chalai and Kazhakkoottam.
Meetings were convened by Ministers in the presence of MLAs and representatives of local people and though the concern ''Not in My Backyard'' was aired by many, the Ministers promised that the plants would come up. Now, when the year is coming to a close, this decentralised waste management move tops the list of non-starters.
The 'much-promising' mobile incinerator that came all the way from Gujarat said goodbye to the city in 2013. It ended up being a fuel-guzzling machine burning a hole in the pocket of the civic body. For months, it lay idle near the World Market at Anayara and the City Corporation that offered a red carpet welcome to the machine symbolically wrote its elegy also by placing wreaths on it.
The mobile incinerator was later rolled to Malappuram.
Taking a cue from the 'successful' landfilling done at Murukkumpuzha by constructing a railway platform, the Corporation tried to repeat the act at Chirayinkeezhu with people's support.
However, the ground water pollution at Murukkumpuzha allegedly caused by the leakage from the garbage landfill brought the garbage transportation to Chirayinkeezhu to a standstill.
The hopes of setting up a waste treatment at Chalai ended when the government pleader told the High Court that the government did not wish to proceed with the plan further. The City Corporation's announcement of setting up biogas plants and windrow composts in select locations also remains on paper.


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These are the five chicken stocks we tasted:
*Homemade Stock* (Zuni Café Cookbook recipe, below): Full-bodied, pure chicken flavor, well-seasoned. The standard-bearer.
*Swanson Natural Goodness:* Good chicken flavor and no off-flavors. Salty. Not bad at all.
*Imagine Organic Free-Range Chicken Broth:* Underseasoned and practically devoid of flavor. Don't bother.
*Better Than Bouillon:* Good as far as reconstituted products go: tastes like chicken with a lot of celery. Chicken meat is first ingredient. Great when you need just a small amount of broth for a recipe.
*Knorr bouillon cubes:* Smells horrifying, but brews up into a reassuringly salty and MSG-laden broth. Remember vending machine chicken soup? This is the stuff.
Loosely adapted from The Zuni Café Cookbook, by Judy Rodgers
One whole chicken (about 5 pounds)
About 4 quarts cold water
1 large carrot, peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks
1 stalk celery, cut into 2-inch chunks
1 large yellow onion, peeled and quartered
1 to 1½ teaspoons salt, or more if using kosher
Remove the giblets from the chicken, if included. If you have time and a sharp boning knife, remove the breast meat for another use. If not, don't worry about it. Slash the thigh and leg muscles to encourage the release of flavor during cooking. Place the chicken in a deep 8- to 10-quart stockpot that holds it snugly. Add the cold water. It should cover the chicken. Bring to a simmer over high heat, and skim the foam. Stir the chicken under once to allow the foam to rise, then reduce the heat and skim the foam carefully, taking care to leave behind the bright yellow fat that may be starting to appear on the surface. Add the vegetables and salt and stir them under. Simmer very gently until the stock has a rich, chickeny flavor, about 4 hours. While the stock cooks, don't cover the pot, don't stir, and don't skim the fat; just let it do its thing.
When the stock is ready, use a wide ladle or bamboo skimmer to fish out the carcass and vegetables. Nibble at them if you want, or discard them. Then carefully pour the stock through a strainer to remove any remaining solids. If any small solids remain, you can filter them out by pouring the stock through dampened cheesecloth, or through a clean cotton dishtowel moistened with water.
Cool the stock to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate. Before using, scrape away the cap of solidified fat.
Yield: 8 to 10 cups


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I've always found it interesting reading the answers people come up with to a list of questions. How do you answer . . .
1] How many keys do you have on your key-chain?
2] Who prepares most of your meals?
3] What's your favorite time of the year?
4] What are your favorite sports to play?
5] What did you have for breakfast?
6] When is the last time you got drunk?
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Miss Loraine Felty, J. L. Conley and Don Barrett Killed and Miss Winnie
Comer, Miss Cleon Felty, and Robert Prater Injured Near Leonard Tuesday
Miss Loraine Felty, J. L. Conley and Don Barrett Killed and Miss Winnie
Comer, Miss Cleon Felty, and Robert Prater Injured Near Leonard Tuesday
One of the most terrible accidents ever happening
in this immediate section occurred near Leonard Tuesday night when a car
occupied by six young people of Celeste and surrounding territory was struck
by the northbound Katy train near Leonard and three of the occupants killed
The dead are Miss Loraine Felty, aged sixteen years;
J. L. Conley, aged nineteen; and Don Barrett, aged twenty-one.
Miss Winnie Comer, aged eighteen and driver of the
car, was badly injured in the lower limbs, Miss Cleon Felty, aged eighteen,
was injured about the chest, and Robert Prater, aged about twenty, was
also injured about the chest.
The Misses Felty, daughters of James Felty of Hickory
Creek were attending school at Celeste, Miss Comer lived at Celeste, and
also Robert Prater lived at Celeste.
J. E. Conley and Don Barrett, both lived at Trenton,
just over the Hunt County line in Fannin.
Many students of Wesley College went from this city
to see the game and a long string of cars were immediately behind the ill-fated
A Celeste man expressed the opinion that the headlight
of the train was mistaken for lights from some of the string of cars following
and thus failed to notice the train, their car going on the track directly
in front of the fast going train.
The Pike road runs parallel with the Katy road and
make a sharp turn at the crossing near the Leonard pool where the unfortunate
accident occurred.
Parties who viewed the bodies of those killed report
that they were terribly mangled and those injured were cut and bruised
in a severe manner. Physicians reported the day following however
that the injured had a good chance for recovery.
Celeste, Trenton, and Hickory Creek, wherever these
young people lived and were loved and admired, are beneath a great cloud
of sorrow as a result of this fatal accident to those happy, spirited youngsters
who meant so much to the life of their respective home communities.
The train picked up the injured and carried them
to Trenton for hospital treatment where they were given every possible
The large number going from Greenville to see this
game cause great solicitude here as the first news merely told of the serious
accident and gave no names and naturally many homes feared for their own
until details came in.
At Wesley College, excitement ran high as many students
and some of the teachers had gone to see their team battle with the Texas
Military College of Terrell in a championship game and the same was true
at other points no doubt as a number attended from Celeste, Trenton, and
other points.
This city and the people generally feel keenly the
shock this terrible accident and sympathy is universal for those who grieve
the death of these young people who in happy moments filled with bright
anticipation were suddenly cut down, leaving loved ones shocked and grieved
beyond measure for those that were the light of home and in whom the hopes
of the household were filled with the bright prospects.
(February 22, 1924, The Greenville Messenger)
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