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Becker, Dusti, Massey, Greg, Groombridge, Jim J., Hammond, Ruby L. (2010) Moving I`iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) as a Surrogate for Future Translocations of Endangered `Akohekohe (Palmeria dolei). .
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Translocations often play an important role in the recovery of endangered species. To assess feasibility for translocation of endangered `Akohekohe (Palmeria dolei), we conducted an experimental translocation of I`iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) from east to west Maui. Mist-netting, veterinary screening of candidate birds, and helicopter transport of healthy I`iwi were successful, resulting in no injuries or mortalities. Translocated birds were assigned to two types of release. Hard release birds were radio tagged and released on the day of translocation. In contrast, soft release birds were held in large cages for 7 days and fed artificial nectar. During holding soft release I`iwi feeding rates, fecal production, and mass were monitored. Soft release birds suffered 33% mortality during the holding period. At the end of the holding period, soft release survivors were outfitted with a radio transmitter and released. All translocated I`iwi were followed by radio telemetry for an average of 21 days. Once released, soft release birds showed higher rates of movement, possibly reflecting conflict with established hard released I`iwi. Our results suggest that translocation efforts for wild `Akohekohe will be successful if hard release protocols are followed.
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With the time without hockey drawing to a close, this is the perfect time for perhaps the most radical change to increase scoring. In the past each NHL rink was unique, different sizes, different angles, and board heights that varied widely. Unfortunately those days are no more, and you an hardly tell where a game is being played unless you can see the log at center ice. While I would be the first to cheer the return to unique arenas like the Old Boston Garden, the Aud, and the Montreal Forum, it just isn't practical.
Instead, I propose moving all faceoffs not following a penalty to the home team in the third period be moved to the offensive blueline of the home team. When it comes to driving ticket sales, and viewership in each city, nothing works like winning. Supercharging the ability of the home team to score goals by giving them sixty feet of ice will make teams that struggle to draw a bit more attractive to casual fans
There are two types of teams that struggle to score goals. Teams like the Edmonton Oilers have been in recent years that have a great deal of difficulty getting the puck out of their own defensive zone, and teams like the Saint Louis Blues or Nashville Predators who either aren't in the top half of the league in offensive depth, or who play a system that doesn't lend itself to aggressive offensive pushes.
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At the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in June, the ALA Council passed a resolution encouraging ALA to advocate for school libraries and school librarians. Areas of focus include securing better funding and recognition of school libraries and school librarians in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
For more information including a link to the full text of the resolution, please see the article in American Libraries.


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Are Hot Flashes Heating You Up? Here Are Some Ways To Cool Down
Hot flashes are one of the most common symptoms of menopause, but they affect everyone differently. Some women never experience hot flashes. Others have them occasionally, and some unlucky women have them several times each day. If you're one of the unlucky ones, there are a few different ways you can manage your condition. Here are some things you can try.
Hormone Replacement Therapy
If you have frequent hot flashes, you should let your gynecologist know, so you can find at least partial relief. Hot flashes are not only annoying, they can severely disrupt your sleep. Since hot flashes can last for many months or years, you could end up with a serious case of insomnia that puts your health at risk.
One type of treatment for hot flashes is hormone replacement therapy with estrogen and progesterone. Since this therapy might cause an increased risk of cancer or heart disease, you need to weigh the benefit against the risks. Your gynecologist will likely give you the lowest dose needed for the shortest time possible. Besides eliminating hot flashes and night sweats, hormone replacement therapy can also protect your bones from osteoporosis, and help with vaginal dryness caused by menopause.
Lifestyle Changes
Since hot flashes often happen at night, try sleeping in a very cool bedroom. When you feel a hot flash coming on, you can throw back the covers and cool off in a hurry. You might even point a fan towards your bed, and alternate putting the covers on and off to keep comfortable.
When your hot flashes are frequent, you'll often notice a pattern of when they occur. Try to find out what triggers yours, so you can avoid whatever it is that causes them. It might be strenuous exercise, stress, or even spicy foods. You can also try dressing in layers, so you stay comfortable when you're at work, and when a hot flash strikes, you can peel off a sweater or jacket to cool down.
Herbs For Hot Flashes
There are herbal products marketed to women to help ease the symptoms of menopause, but you may have to try different things until you find something that works for you. Remember that herbs are not necessarily safe just because they are natural products. You should ask your gynecologist, like those at Central Iowa OB/Gyn Specialists, PLC, or pharmacist if a particular herb will interact negatively with medications you take. Some herbs and foods you may want to try include pycnogenol, black cohosh, flaxseed, and soy in the form of tofu.
If your hot flashes are particularly bothersome, you may want to try relaxation techniques, yoga, or meditation. These practices can help you deal with the stress caused by lack of sleep and the disruptions to your day caused by hot flashes that strike out of the blue.


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More Easter ideas for this 80 degree weekend in Asheville, NC!
Posted On Monday, March 29, 2010
I've never really been a play-by-the-book kinda gal, so I wanted to offer some ideas for celebrating Spring that don't involve the standard Easter egg hunt. Plus, this weekend is gonna hit 80 degrees!!- something we haven't seen in awhile!
I'll throw in another word about the Biltmore Festival of Flowers which begins this weekend on April 3, and add again that they do offer an egg hunt and children's activities on the 4th in Easter celebration. At Carolina Mornings we do have NC vacation packages that offer FREE tickets to Biltmore!
Hickory Nut Gap Farm, one of our favorite local sources for delicious, friendly meat and eggs, is having their 10th Anniversary celebration on April 3 from 1-5pm there in Fairview. Come and share a tour with your family, see some beautiful Asheville- area back-country as well as many happy farm animals and other happy people. There are children's activities in addition to the fun of enjoying a day at the farm. Carolina Mornings does have beautiful vacation cabins in the Fairview area as well!
My favorite thing to do around here on a beautiful day is to get out in the woods!! There are so many great places to take a hike in the area and get to see NC wilderness: Bent Creek (15 min. outside of Asheville); the trails on the Blue Ridge Parkway (be sure to check ahead for closures); and Pisgah National Forest are a few of your options in this area that provide great space to get out and play.
Come and enjoy the beginnings of Spring here in Asheville, NC!! Check out what we have to offer for our SPRING SPECIALS at Carolina Mornings! And remember, we have great options for FREE FUN AND GAMES with our Mountain Discovery Pass- another great way to celebrate Spring!


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Makenzie slept ALL night! I laid her down at 7pm and she did not wake up one time until 7am this morning! Yeah!!!! Thanks for the prayers!
I remember 3 years ago very clearly after a night light last night.
When I walked up stairs to start Makenzie's water and found her wide awake I sighed and set the water down. (she doesn't do well with water while she is awake but has no issues with is at a very high rate while she is asleep... I don't get it but oh well!) When I climbed in bed with her I had no intention of falling asleep but that is just what happened. Then when I woken up I was in a panic. I hadn't started her water! Then I rolled over and she was awake. I asked myself if she had slept at all. I was concerned. What the heck was going on. This wasn't like my girl.
As I rocked he to sleep I began to think about these kinds of nights 3 years ago. There were MANY of them. Probably more then there were not. I remember calling the doctor, calling the hospital, praying, and loosing so much sleep.
So much has changed. Yes, I was curious about what was going on with Makenzie. I was a little panicked about the water issue but there is no utter fear anymore. I took it in stride. I know now the sun will rise and our day may look different then I had planned but in the end Makenzie will be ok.
So today Makenzie slept in until almost 10:00am. I was not about to wake her up! We played hooky from school which made me giggle after what happened on Friday. She got ALL of her water and most of her food. She has been super happy all day and I so feel good about the fact we have both come so far! I am so happy the day's of yesterday are just that, yesterday. Even though I am still an over paranoid, over protective mommy I do not live in constant debilitating fear! This is such a gift!
Together we cleaned up a bit. Had Speech therapy and OT, rocked out to some Train, and had our first nanny interview!
I am getting ready to do the bedtime thing with Makenzie. She just finished dinner and has been sitting in her chair yawning. I think that is a good sign! I hope! Please pray for rest. Pray that lask night was just a fluke and for a better night tonight!
Tomorrow we will be back at school. Makenzie's OT will be joining us to give everyone there some extra ideas. I will also be meeting with the principle to form a transition plan. Lets just say I am not looking forward to this at all! At least I can be prepared unlike the last conversation I had on this topic. Oh, and please pray for the poor principle who has to deal with me in the morning! He will need ALL the prayers he can get! LOL
On a side not here is a short clip of how spoiled Auntie Pam has made little Morgan! He is growing up so fast! Sorry about the sideways action but I have yet to figure out how to mount my phone to the computer to flip it.
Believe... Prayer Works!
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The Taite Music Prize 2013: Nominations about to close!
The Taite Music Prize 2013: Nominations about to close!
The nominations for the Taite Music Prize 2013 close on MONDAY 21 JANUARY.
Any New
Zealand album released during 2012 is eligible for
nomination for the Taite Music Prize 2013.
Non-IMNZ members will be invoiced a $50 nomination fee per album, and each label/distributor can nominate up to 5 albums.
Also required are x 1 CD copy of the album supplied to IMNZ.
Further details about the nomination criteria can be
found here:
And the nomination form is here: http://www.indies.co.nz/imnz/taite-music-prize-in-search-of-the-years-finest-new-zealand-album/nomination-form/
For more detail on eligibility and criteria please visit http://www.indies.co.nz
Taite Music Prize 2013:
Named after the late Dylan Taite, one of the country's most highly respected music journalists, this will be the fourth year for the award. In a similar vein
to several international awards, The Taite Music Prize's purpose is to recognise outstanding creativity for an entire collection of music contained on one album. The winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000, to be spent as they wish. The cash prize is kindly supplied by PPNZ Music Licensing.
Acknowledging originality,
creativity and musicianship regardless of
sales figures or genre, The Taite Music Prize was
established to champion the finest
release by a New Zealand artist or group – the previous winners have all been excellent albums that demonstrate these criteria well.
The nominated finalist albums will be selected by votes from all IMNZ members and a thirty person judging group - comprising musicians, record label representatives, music journalists and radio staff. There will then be a secondary group of ten music judges that will decide the overall winner.
The judges will make their decision based
entirely on the music on the finalist albums. Sales,
genres, artist recognition or popularity are not
Factors in their decision making process. The winner will then be announced at a presentation in Auckland on 17th April 2013.
The event will be live-streamed to the public via the NZ Herald Online.
The Taite Music
Presented by:
Independent Music New Zealand (IMNZ)
Official Partners:
PPNZ Music Licensing / NZ On Air (NZOA) / the Taite Family
Supporting Partners:
NZ Music Commission / The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) / Native Tongue Music Publishing / Jagermeister / Red Bull / MOA Beer
Media Partners:
NZ Herald Online
Previous winners
2010 - Lawrence Arabia 'Chant Darling' (Honorary Bedouin Records)
2011 - Ladi6 - The Liberation Of (What? Music)
2012 - Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Seeing Records)


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Re: The Plan At WorkWednesday, June 17th, 2009
I have to admit that I'm slightly jealous of Kaizoku. In today's comic he has his plan in motion, approaching his goal swimmingly. I could learn a lesson from this crocheted panda.
My plans tend to go as follows:
STEP 1: Formulate AWESOME IDEA
STEP 2: Imagine how AWESOME it would be to HAPPEN
STEP 3: Realize I'd need to do A LOT OF WORK
STEP 4: Remember the idea as something I'll GET TO SOMETIME
That said, I've got some IDEAS and PLANS for the comic that I hope to get done. There's going to be a special one-shot spinoff thing I want to put together for dedicated readers and by the end of the year I hope to have some stuff for sale.
Also, I want to welcome anyone coming in from Johnny Wander. It seems their link to us from back in January is giving us quite the boost in traffic. I'm a huge fan of JW. If you're visiting from Johnny Wander via the guest comic from Questionable Content, HOWDY! Thanks for letting your curiosity lead you this way. I'm a big QC fan also.
If anyone checking us out for the first time likes what they see please keep coming back. New comics every Wednesday and a Photo every Friday. Sometime this summer I hope to speed things up and have some more regularly scheduled updates a bit more frequently.
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Join us on for this important workshop to review progress with the AWS Asia-Pacific – Council of Textile & Fashion partnership to improve water stewardship in the Australian apparel industry supply chain. Hear speakers from Cotton On Group, Better Cotton Initiative, Alliance for Water Stewardship and the Council of Textile & Fashion. Speakers will share their experience of the journey so far and the opportunities ahead. The Australian industry has an amazing opportunity to leapfrog some of the world's biggest brands into world's best practice water management in their supply chain.
The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne,Wednesday 22 November from 2.30pm, followed by refreshments and networking
AWS members and Council of Textile & Fashion members $20, Others $40.
RSVP is essential to the event.
Adam Lloyd, Sustainability Manager, Cotton On Group
Russell Rollason, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
David Giles-Kay, CEO, Council of Textile and Fashion
Michael Spencer, CEO, Alliance for Water Stewardship, Asia-Pacific
Allan Williams, Cotton Research and Development Corporation & Better Cotton Initiative


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NCI Drug Dictionary
The NCI Drug Dictionary contains technical definitions and synonyms for drugs/agents used to treat patients with cancer or conditions related to cancer. Each drug entry includes links to check for clinical trials listed in NCI's List of Cancer Clinical Trials.
- A second generation ATP-competitive anthrapyrazolone c-Jun N terminal kinase (JNK) inhibitor with potential antineoplastic activity. Based on the chemistry of SP600125, another anthrapyrazolone inhibitor of JNK, CC-401 competitively binds the ATP binding site of JNK, resulting in inhibition of the phosphorylation of the N-terminal activation domain of transcription factor c-Jun; decreased transcription activity of c-Jun; and a variety of cellular effects including decreased cellular proliferation. Check for active clinical trials using this agent. (NCI Thesaurus)


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The strangest man on TV
As a young actor, James Spader was too pretty for gritty roles, but he found his niche as the devastatingly despicable villain. He tells Andrew Goldman how he found a flair for comedy in his 40s, how he makes a positive of his OCD, and how life can never be weird enough for him
For anyone hoping that James Spader, in real life, may share any traits with any of the endearing, but oddball, James Spader characters that James Spader has become famous for, James Spader does not disappoint. "It can never, ever, ever get weird enough for me," he likes to say. Indeed, his work reflects him, and, at first glance, the Spader who strides through the doors of New York's 8th Street Stumptown cafe might actually be The Blacklist's criminal mastermind, Raymond "Red" Reddington.
Spader wears a Reddington-esque forest green felt fedora that matches his forest green scarf, which matches the lenses of his sunglasses. "It's a fine hat, it's not a great hat," Spader corrects me when I note the similarity. "Red wears finer hats than that.
"It's an everyday hat for me. I've got a lot of hats." (In fact, between his summer-straw and winter collections, divided between New York and his home in Los Angeles, he reckons he owns around 30.) He's also wearing a black wool overcoat, which, a bit later, I learn conceals a heavy cowhide motorcycle jacket, which itself covers a down vest, which he wears over a cashmere cardigan. True, it's a cold winter day, the morning after a big snowstorm, but the sheer bulk of his outerwear suggests how your mom might dress you for [Alaskan sled-dog race] the Iditarod. "Incredibly wind-resistant," Spader says of his outfit, thumping his midsection proudly, only the faintest hint of a smile on his face. "All elements, this is impervious to." We drop by his Greenwich Village carriage house, which he shares with his girlfriend of more than a decade, actress Leslie Stefanson. The couple have a five-year-old son, Nathanael, who, in addition to two sons in their 20s from his previous marriage, will be Spader's final offspring. "I believe in a negative population growth," he says. "The other two were with another mother, so we have three boys that will replace all three of us."
Until you understand one thing about Spader, there's an oddness about him that is difficult to put a finger on – how intent he seems to be in depositing each of the American Spirits he finishes directly into garbage cans, how seriously he takes the task of providing a walking tour of his neighbourhood, trotting around and showing the mews where E E Cummings once lived ("He changed the energy of poetry, but there were some anti-Semitic problems that bothered me").
"I'm obsessive-compulsive," he admits later. "I have very, very strong obsessive-compulsive issues. I'm very particular." There are rituals common to obsessive-compulsives Spader must do – step-on-a-crack-break-Mother's-back-type stuff – but it's even more pervasive than that. "I rely on a certain routine," he says. "It's very hard for me, you know? It makes you very addictive in behaviour, because routine and ritual become entrenched. But, in work, it manifests in obsessive attention to detail, and fixation. It serves my work very well: things don't slip by. But I'm not very easygoing."
His co-stars agree with this assessment. "He has all his own idiosyncrasies," says William Shatner, Spader's former Boston Legal co-star. "I really love him. And when you love someone, that's part of why you love them. Of course, if you fall out of love, they become beyond annoyances."
Spader couldn't watch people eating on set. "Our craft-service table was located near the stage entrance, so he had to avoid walking by and watching people licking their fingers or spreading butter on a bagel," Shatner recalls, noting that, for kicks, he would occasionally smear Vaseline on Spader's prop glass. "He'd react with horror."
In light of these revelations, everything makes sense. Why, after agreeing to do the interview, it took months for Spader to come up with a good day to sit down, and why, at 11am on a Tuesday, we are descending the staircase into the subterranean darkness and chill of the Village Vanguard, the legendary jazz club he frequents.
Spader had decreed he wanted to conduct the interview at the Vanguard. Being a night club, the Vanguard isn't open during the day, but, rather than deviate from Spader's plan and choose from one of the tens of thousands of establishments in Manhattan that are, NBC arranged for the club to open up. "I didn't know where else to go," I overhear him explaining to Deborah Gordon, the daughter of Vanguard founder, Max Gordon, who greets him with a hug. Spader removes his many layers, reveals his head (shorn for The Blacklist of its trademark Caucasian 'fro) and sits at his regular seat (Table Four) on the red banquette to the right of the stage.
"This is a great seat," he says. He's put a lot of thought into why this is. "First of all, it's low profile," he says, pointing out that whoever's sitting at tables One and Two, which, though closer to the musicians, are illuminated by the light of the stage, while good old Four is always in shadow. From Four, he can always see the pianist's hands, "as long as there's not someone too big in that chair there." Then Spader hops up and demonstrates the perfection of Table Four's location vis-a-vis egress, how he has a direct path between tables to anywhere he might ever want to go, be it the bathroom, the bar or the exit, so he can smoke on the street.
"Deborah," Spader calls out into the darkness. "You don't have any cold beer yet, do you?" The first Stella of the day is cracked, just before noon. In person, Spader shares the patrician bearing that comes through in many of his roles. It's not his fault; all he knew growing up were the kinds of prep schools favoured by Boston Brahmins.
He grew up in faculty housing at the Brooks School, a prep school where his father taught English (his mother was a teacher nearby), and then went to high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. There, he thrived doing stage plays so much that he decided it was a waste to continue attending, and dropped out when he was 17 to seek his fortune in New York, where, while waiting to be discovered in the theatre, he did odd jobs, like shovelling horse manure out of the Upper West Side's Claremont Stables and sleeping through yoga classes he was, ostensibly, teaching. "The lights were turned down, the heat was turned up," he explains.
Being gorgeous and young, as he was then, at first prevented him from being the kind of actor he felt himself to be. "I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play," he says. "If you were a character actor, who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys." He excelled at it, and spent much of the Eighties trailing slime through Brat Pack vehicles, like the scummy coke dealer, Rip, in Less Than Zero.
So convincingly despicable was Spader in his audition for Steff, Pretty in Pink's rich, sneering high-schooler, with those linen suits and the dangling cigarette, that the film's casting director had to overcome a visceral dislike of Spader to even get in the mind frame to hire him.
The late Eighties and the Nineties ushered in a period of leading-man roles – but kinky, weirdo ones. There was the bedroom-eyes voyeur with a camera in Sex, Lies, and Videotape; the guy who did it to – yes, actually put it in! – Rosanna Arquette's leg wound in Crash; and the insatiable cunnilingus enthusiast of White Palace, who spent much of the movie with his head buried in Susan Sarandon's lap. It wasn't an accident, he says, an admitted "early . . . voracious . . . masturbator" who acknowledges, cryptically, that he'd always had an experimental sexual side.
"You know, I had two older sisters, and everybody seemed to be naked all the time, my parents and my sisters," he says. "Our household was very comfortable with sexuality. There was just a lot of girls around. And guys. I played doctor with both."
Then, after he hit 40, when show business can resemble a cruel tundra, something wonderful happened to Spader. He was never the most driven guy in the world; he took every summer off when his sons were small, and, when he undertook a role, it was inevitably "because I'm out of money and I need to pay my bills." But he started to get a lot of truly great parts.
A watershed moment came with 2002's Secretary, in which Spader played E Edward Grey, Maggie Gyllenhaal's sadomasochistic boss, who also, it should be noted, was obsessive-compulsive. For Gyllenhaal, the oddness began the moment she met Spader at a script reading. "He was always Mr Grey," she says. "There was no small talk. He just sat down and started staring at me. I was both taken and taken aback." Gyllenhaal never had Spader's phone number, never knew the first thing about his life off set, but, midway through the shoot, Spader took her aside, and said, very slowly, as though there were periods between each word, "I always have an ally on every project I do. And, this time, my ally is you."
Not long after, he began his ritual of sending a production assistant to fetch her, though their dressing rooms were in the same trailer and shared a flimsy wall. "Literally, he could have called to me and I would have heard him," Gyllenhaal says. "But I left my room and walked two feet to his, knocked on his door, and he invited me in and offered me a chocolate. That became a sort of S&M-type ritual between us."
Hollywood realised that this kind of chilling affectlessness might be best played for comedy. His portrayal of charming sleazeball lawyer, Alan Shore, on The Practice, and its spinoff, Boston Legal, saw him beating out the likes of James Gandolfini for two consecutive Best Actor Emmys, and then came The Office's skanky Robert California. (Those plum gigs keep coming, and he will soon be donning one of those ridiculous motion-capture suits to play the titular robot character in Joss Whedon's The Avengers: Age of Ultron.)
But it is The Blacklist and its antihero, Reddington, that allows Spader to incorporate all of his best gifts – the kink, the unfathomable darkness, the suggested violence and the ability to deadpan his way through the campy bon mots in the script. "Janice, my sincerest apologies," Reddington chirps to a woman he's just stuffed into her own closet, a moment after shooting her husband's knee. "I'll take a rain check on the stroganoff. It smells delicious!"
When screenwriter, Jon Bokencamp, conceived his pilot for The Blacklist, he pictured Gary Oldman or Kevin Spacey as Reddington, who is referred to in the show as the "concierge of crime" for his mystifying desire to give himself up to the FBI and then assist a junior agent – who may or may not be his daughter – in capturing his criminal associates. Before the script made it to Spader, several actors passed on the part, which, Bokencamp says, turned into an unexpected bit of luck. "Now I can't see anyone else in this role," he tells me. Not that it's been easy. These days, Bokencamp and fellow executive producer, John Eisendrath, spend a good chunk of their time ministering to Spader, a tradition that will continue for at least another year, since NBC picked up the show for a second season. Bokencamp knew nothing of his star's obsessive qualities.
"Oh, God, no," he says. "But we learned very quickly." Spader says they speak to each other seven days a week. No topic is too small. "I haven't talked to him today yet," says Bokencamp, "but, last weekend, on his birthday, we were on the phone for two and a half hours, and, on Thanksgiving, when I was in Colorado, I was out pacing on the phone for two hours. This stuff keeps him up at night. He can dig his heels in. The conversations can be frustrating."
The shit hit the fan when Spader got a two-part script, in which the secret FBI black site, where Reddington meets his handlers, is invaded by assassins aiming to kill him. "I called up the writers, and I said, 'You understand the collateral damage of this, correct?'" Spader says grimly. "'You understand this is a game-changer. You're burning down this house! This means there's a terrible security issue for Reddington. How do I go back there? How do I trust anyone moving forward?'"
Maybe it has something to do with the fact we've killed three beers each in the past 90 minutes, but Spader seems genuinely worked up, like a fictional character's safety is literally a life-and-death issue. He's collecting a paycheck, so why on earth would he care so much? "Because I have to perform it," he says, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world. Though the writers had other ideas, Spader insisted, and so episodes were rewritten, schedules rejigged, network executives inconvenienced – all so that Red could don a yarmulke and hide out in a synagogue for a few episodes, until he could smoke out his betrayer.
"I have a plan," says Spader, stubbing out his cigarette in a bowl, sounding as buzzed as I feel. "We're going to bus our table, I'm going to take a piss, and then, if you don't mind, there's a place I like to go and grab a slice of pizza. Is that good by you?"
Before we go, Spader spends a few minutes war-gaming pianist Gerald Clayton's show he'll be coming to with friends in a few days. He slides back and forth along the red leather banquette, eyes fixed on the stage. "Piano will be there, horns in front, bass back there, drums here?" he asks Deborah. She nods patiently.
We blink as we ascend the stairs and hit the bright sunlight of Seventh Avenue. Spader is buoyant now. As luck will have it, Spader saves my life – wrenching me out of the way of a speeding car as I step out against the light on Perry Street – then, afterwards, holds his hands up to the sky, marvelling at the snowcapped trees. "God Almighty," he says. "It's lovely." We stroll downtown and end up at Joe's Pizza, a dumpy hole in the wall and Village landmark, where you must stand to eat your piping-hot, delicious New York slice.
Spader is a regular. "I take this little walk with great frequency late at night," he says, "sort of stumbling out of the Vanguard, as you can imagine, at one in the morning, leaning on the person you're with. Usually, it's been quite some time, at that point, since dinner, so I come down here and I grab a slice." The thought crosses my mind that he might have made this trek hundreds of times in the dark – it suddenly seems possible that Joe's might be the only restaurant he has ever been to in the city.
"I'm going to have a plain cheese and a pepperoni as well, please," he says to the guy behind the counter. "And I'll have a root beer." Of course, it's his usual.
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To those who most need to hear this right now,
The last twenty-four hours have been jarring on a number of levels, both personally and politically. To say that I am shocked would be an understatement.
As a CIS white male living in the state of California, having the privilege to attend a university that seeks to exemplify those qualities that we would find in a just, compassionate, and equal-voiced and ubiquitously enfranchised society, and having the privilege of privilege itself I believed that the world and my country were not capable of doing what they did last night. That is to say, I believed that we were making progress as a society.
It is both infuriating and heart-breaking to know that the values that I have are shared by a majority of the people of this country, but not by an electorate that has used fear of the Other and hatred of the innocent and voiceless to push an agenda that will undermine all we have accomplished.
As a country, we have lost something precious — a piece of ourselves, of our identity — that we cannot yet fully comprehend or appreciate; as individuals, we have lost what little moral credibility we have. As a society, we are no longer allowed to claim that we stand for freedom and justice and equality, that we welcome the poor and huddled masses with open arms and compassion in our hearts. As a society, we must now accept that we have learned nothing, that we have chosen to abandon our friends and families, our neighbors and those who would be our fellow citizens, our identity as a nation of immigrants and the Others who made us into the power that we are. We may no longer ignorantly claim our embrace of minorities or our respect for those who are not like me, and we are morally obliged to renounce our claims of freedom to be whoever you are. We must accept that (too) many citizens of this country believe in the values that America ostensibly stands for only insofar as they are benefitted by them. We must accept that they believe those values to be merely suggestions, open to interpretation given the whims they may feel right now, and that the apparent respect they hold for their country — their patriotism and love for America — is no more than a proxy of their love for themselves.
I was not raised this way. I did not grow up in a family that put individual members or even the family unit before the good of the society within which we lived. I was raised to give everything I have to anyone who needed my help. No limit was placed on the degree to which that help might be engendered, and it was understood and actively embraced that our community — with all of its beautiful, wonderful, perspective-altering diversity — was more important than we were.
I have spent the last twenty-six years learning from and embracing all around me, and I am so fortunate and privileged to be able to say that many of my closest friends are minorities, women, POC, LGBTQ-identifying, and citizens of other nations. They have taught me more than I can ever possibly describe here, and they are my family, my community, my moral compass. These are not our enemies; these are people like you and me. They have dreams, fears, desires, rich cultural traditions, and stories that make us stop and say, "wow, I never thought about it that way before." They are our best friends, our relatives, our coworkers, our countrymen, and members of our society. America is them. America is us.
This letter was written and rewritten a hundred times since the news broke late last night. I have struggled with what I might say, what I might be able to add to the narrative that is sweeping our social media sites and news outlets. And I must admit, I do not know if even this will do what I am hoping it will do: help those who need hope know they are loved and not alone.
To all of my fellow human beings, no matter what color you are, who you love, what gender you identify with, what you believe in, who you worship, or what country you call home I want you to know that I will do everything I can as human being to help you, love you, and make you feel welcome in my community. I want you to know that I will listen to what you have to say, that I will defend you if you want or need me to, and that I will not allow fear or ignorance to keep you from being a part of my country and from having a voice equal to my own. In what capacities I have, I will do my best to follow these ideals each and every day.
You are loved for all of your diversity and uniqueness. No matter what is said or done by the political machine over these next several years, we will never stop fighting for you. We will never stop.


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Gulf Oil Spill Grinds Local Seafood Business to a Halt (Video)
As the effort to cleanup the still-growing oil spill continues, many fishermen who can no longer fish are being employed in the short term by BP. For the time being, helping position oil-absorbent boom and skimming the waters, they have a means to put food on the table. But what about the business operators who buy the fish from those fishermen? With nothing to buy or sell, their businesses. I spoke to Kai, a local shrimp wholesaler and owner of a small fishing operation in Venice, Louisiana, about the impact the spill was having on his trade--and he told me his business has ground to a standstill. More video after the jump."There's no business," he says, "we don't know what the future holds for us." He's frustrated and anxious, and rightfully so. He has no idea when, how, and if BP will compensate him for his loss of livelihood. He was kind enough to do a quick video interview, where he discussed the plight he faces, the first installment of which is above.
When I asked him if he was angry at BP, however, he said that he wasn't:
And even though the fishermen can find some employment helping to clean the spill, there's still much that's unclear -- here, Kai helps touches on the challenges faced by the fishermen he works with:
And on the lingering question: what happens when the cleanup is done, and BP no longer needs their boats?
It's certainly a sad, difficult situation -- we can only wish Kai, his family, and his fishermen friends the best of luck.
More Reportage from the Gulf Coast
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If you are a web developer working on a Mac, you probably have an XAMPP stack installed, along with a source code manager like SVN (or git, for the intrepid). You may also have the SVN browser WebSVN. If you don't, I highly recommend it. If you already had WebSVN and MySQL (as part of the XAMPP stack), you may have found that they didn't work on some versions of Mac OSX (probably only on Yosemite). This is all due to a silly environment setting. If you still have the problem, here is how to fix it.
For WebSVN
Add this to
include/config.php in the second line, right after the opening
php tag.
For MySQL
Look for:
$XAMPP_ROOT/bin/mysql.server start > /dev/null &
in the function
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unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH on top of it. It should look like:
unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
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So You're Picking Up Kenzaburo Oe from the Airport…
|May 13, 2014
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The latest in my every-other-week series for the blog section of The Missouri Review wherein I curate & comment on the "perfect playlist" for picking up various literary figures from the airport.
Your passenger this week is Japanese novelist, social commentator, and Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe. In a career spanning more than 50 years Oe has returned again and again to topics such as the atomic bomb attacks on Japan in WWII, the modernization/democratization of Japanese society in the 20th century, human dignity, and his relationship with his oldest son (the composer Hikari Oe). A major force in the revitalization of Japanese literature after the war Oe continues to be vital & prolific well into the 21st century.
I just hope he's into Simple Minds, Compton hip-hop, & the Hyperdub label….


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Wait. I did mention she's a newspaper reporter, right?
Close on its heels at Raleigh Little Theatre is Tracey Scott Wilson's play, in which at least three of the six major characters are ultimately revealed to be smug, smarmy, opportunistic ... well, you get the point.
Nor is this the last. Next month, Playmakers Rep presents The Front Page, about the extremely smug, smarmy, opportunistic and so on. Which, the theater's Web site assures us, will explore "themes as relevant today as they were in 1928."
(Insert heavy, resigned sigh here.)
I mean, where's the love, people?
All ribbing aside, the surreal experience of watching Wilson's trendy issue play commit more or less the same crime it condemns in its central character redefines irony.
The Story is loosely based on the "Jimmy's World" affair, in which Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke was stripped of a Pulitzer Prize and fired in 1980 after her gripping story on childhood drug abuse was proven to have been fabricated. In that case, the issue at hand was not the existence of childhood drug abuse, which no one denies as an unfortunate part of inner-city life in our nation's capital. Instead, the question was did these specific people--an 8-year-old heroin addict named Jimmy, and his mother's live-in boyfriend who turned him on to drugs--actually exist?
But shouldn't the same question be put to the straw--or is it paper?--men and women who populate this glib but deeply problematic play? As opposed to the folks we meet in Permanent Collection or works like Jane Martin's Keely and Du, it's impossible to imagine any of Wilson's one-dimensional characters having a life off-stage. That's because they're all too busy Illustrating a Problem.
African-American editor Pat (given gratifying intensity by Jackie Marriott) exists only to provide an absurdly oversimplified indictment of the newsroom politics of racial uplift, slanting her section toward good or neutral news while burying coverage of any substantive problems in her community. Reporter Neil (which George Hill portrays with oleaginous charm) ostensibly warns with his black update of the "good old boy." And central character Yvonne (whose thankless role is played with grace by Chaunesti Lyon) has no internal integrity--either as a journalist or as a dramatic character. What motivates her remains a mystery until three closing lines or so "explain" her behavior--whereupon it's roundly condemned again.
Tabloid journalism, meet tabloid theater: similarly reductive, similarly exploitational, and focused more on lurid acts than on understanding the human foibles that precipitate them.
We now gratefully move from Wilson's staccato emotional shorthand to its inverse, the long form, mastered by Eugene O'Neill in his posthumous work, Long Day's Journey into Night. O'Neill's most overtly autobiographical play probes, at times in excruciating detail, the double-binds of the family in which he grew up. It's hard to imagine a series of relationships more efficiently designed to keep all parties in perpetual checkmate than the ones evinced here by mother Mary, father James, and brothers Edmund and Jamie Tyrone.
Under Rachel Klem's direction in this Ghost and Spice production, Lenore Lee Field, John Murphy, newcomer Josh Long and Jeff Alguire locate the love, the pain--and above all, the unmerciful, unsparing critical eyes--that all members in this family possess. Though we questioned Alguire's character at the beginning of Saturday's performance, all doubts were erased by the end of Jamie's self-indictment in Act IV. The result is a family as car crash--one that unfolds slowly and horribly, even though it's punctuated by generous laughter at points.
****The Miser , Streetsigns Center--With a show like this, who can be stingy with praise? Elizabeth Corley's deft adaptation presents Moliere without the starch, satirizing selected commedia dell'arte conventions along with 18th-century society. Intentionally awkward double- and triple-castings pay increasing comic dividends among this strong septet of actors on Rob Hamilton's curdling créme-colored set.
Jordan Smith defines the title character, while Sarah Kocz plays his daughter, Elise--and two added roles occasioned by schizophrenic servant Master Jacques--to a comic (and aerobic) turn. Chris Chiron acquits himself well as foppish son Cleante, and newcomer Stephen LaFerriere gives savor to Valere, Elise's love interest, while Mariette Booth demonstrates significant growth here as Cleante's intended, Mariane. Sharlene Thomas is redoubtable as always in supporting roles, while Gabriel Graetz raised blanching to the level of fine art as hapless servant Stockfish. Don't miss a suave George Spelvin's turn in the role of Anselme. (Closes Sept. 18.)
****Permanent Collection , Deep Dish Theater--Loosely based upon the Barnes Foundation's controversial moving of its art museum from the suburbs to inner-city Philadelphia, this polemical drama deftly explores issues involving aesthetics, economics and control when it pointedly inquires how race factors into each of these issues in the worlds of American philanthropy and high culture. Who decides--or is permitted to decide--what is "beautiful" and what has value? Who gets to see such items and under what conditions? How available--or answerable--are they to contemporary culture?
After Sterling North, an African-American businessman with no training in modern art, assumes control of a museum filled with it from art historian Paul Barrow, conflict arises when North tries to display African art buried for decades in the foundation's basement.
The pair, admirably played Byron Jennings II and John Paul Middlesworth, ultimately become position people in this debate of a play which critiques the limits of its characters' artistic and cultural visions. David Ring is enjoyable as the curmudgeonly founder, while Angela Ray's executive assistant, Kanika, probes the stiffness in the positions that surround her. (Closes Sept. 17.)
***The Donkey Show , Qat Productions, Ringside--Yes, the characters are slapdash; the dialogue (when audible) decidedly sub-Shakespearean. But are these really the best benchmarks to apply to this rough and ready burlesque on the Bard? Randy Weiner's improbable adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream transplants the Faerie King and Queen from their enchanted Athenian wood to an early-'80s disco on the Lower East Side, where Oberon's a nightclub kingpin and pop singer Tytania takes costume tips from Cher.
Actors jettison the original text, hijacking lyrics from disco laureates Anita Ward, Peter Brown and Amii Stewart to unevenly advance the plot. Those and costumer Thomas Mauney's advanced reminiscences in 1980s leisure suits and lounge-wear (including a pitch-perfect tribute to David Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" phase) constitute the guiltiest pleasures on display here.
The technical term for all this is "a hoot." But the single joke has pretty well played out by the end of its single hour on stage. The admittedly thin adaptation dismisses almost all minor characters, simultaneously reducing the plot to its essentials and lowest sexual denominators.
Still, this trippy little sideshow's not without its charms. Just leave the Riverside Shakespeare home. And keep an eye on your drinks. (Closes Sept. 17.)
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"He could sell ice to an Eskimo."
Why do we think that the propensity to talk equates to the ability to sell? By the very virtue of the process, the ability to listen is the natural gift that transcends the good to the great. Without that basic skill, the sales person has no foundation upon which to build his presentation.
In my years spent on the customer side of the table, I have had only one sales person meet my expectations of great. We'll call him Mark. Before we get to meet Mark, let's talk about the twenty years of sales interactions before he walked into my office.
If you manage sales people, no matter your title, Manager, Director or VP, you're tasked with setting sales goals, coaching your team to excellence and assessing progress. That is why I am still amazed at the number of sales people who miss the mark.
There is the initial contact, usually by phone or letter. Eventually it became a sort of game for me, in which I would become an unwilling participant. The phone rings; it's an outside line; a good clue it's a sales person. "Good afternoon. Mrs. Fogelman?" Yes. "My name is Neeta Closs. I'm with ABC Company and we are doing a survey. Do you have a few minutes to answer some questions?" No. Or my personal favorites, "Hi, Veronica, Dave here. I understand you are the woman in charge." Really? "Yes, and I'm the one who will help you save the day." click. I wasn't aware my day needed to be saved.
The unsolicited mailing can be equally offensive because it makes assumptions. Even though they may be true, I was perturbed that I had no input into the decision about what I needed. It usually went in the trash.
However, the most regrettable was when the person actually gained the appointment and had an opportunity to sell to me. They were so often ill-prepared and tried to wing a sales call. This usually led to me asking all the questions and ended in frustration for both of us. Even worse was the over-confident person who came with the problem identified and solved. This usually ended with me creating the next blog in my head while they pompously displayed full color service brochures in which I had no interest.
Then one day, I received a phone call that went like this:
Ann (my secretary): "Roni, there is a man calling who would like to speak to you when you have a few minutes. He is from Strategy Inc.; he talked to me for a few minutes to see if I thought you might be interested. I like his style; he is genuine. Want to talk to him or shall I schedule a better time?" (He went through the most trusted confidant-my secretary)
Me: "Put him through, Ann."
Mark: "Mrs. Fogelman, thank you for taking my call. My name is Mark Smith from Strategy Inc. Ann said you have a few minutes; I promise to only take 5 minutes. Is that OK?" (He thanked me, identified himself and promised a timeline)
Me: "That's fine Mark. What can I do for you?"
Mark: "I understand that in your role at XYZ Company you have implemented a new sales training and a new hiring system that has been fully integrated throughout the company. At my company that is exactly who we want to work with…successful sales teams that have the support of operations." (flattery will get you everywhere)
Probably no need to go on…you get the point.
When Mark came in for his sales appointment he asked me so many questions, that I felt he was a part of our team. Not insignificant questions; questions that were built on my answers. In that way he swiftly developed a picture of our culture, our successes and our challenges. He never pulled out anything other than a small pad to take notes, for which he asked my permission. In what seemed like ten minutes, he asked if he could make a few suggestions, pulled out his small pad and began to draw. Only now did he begin to talk as he drew his simple diagram. It clearly depicted our challenges with structure and he introduced his services to create how their team could help us solve the problem. I have never forgotten how skillfully he directed the questions, did not over sell or over promise. The science of a skilled sales system moved him through the process and the art of a talented communicator created a memorable sales experience.
I have moved on from that company but still carry Marks card with me and when the opportunity arises, I will call him and hope I handle it as well.


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"Avenging Spider-Man Annual " #1 from Rob Williams and Brad Walker strikes readers instantly with its humor. The script for this story is dense on dialogue and each page offers an opportunity to smirk or outright audibly guffaw. The tale itself is simple: two goons dig up an alien artifact in Central Park and it causes violent mayhem to spread across the city, which causes a pre-team-up set of fisticuffs with the Thing and a relatively forgettable villain for the ending. Through it all is great tongue-in-cheek look at the superhero side of a situation when it actually isn't too serious.
This is the sort of story that is completely dispensable. It doesn't serve continuity, it doesn't build from or toward any bigger aspects of story or character, and it's not entirely large enough to be remembered in its entirety. It's a generic story that requires Spider-Man to some degree. While it's not built on a high concept, this story is dependant on its execution and Williams and Walker bring a very memorable game. Williams gives Spidey a plethora of great lines and manages to weave them through the dialogue in a very snarky yet accessible manner. Kids and adults alike will marvel at Spidey's witty lines and quick thinking. Williams impressively keeps the story trucking through each set up and tear down of good back-and-forth banter.
The crossover with the Thing isn't weighted in grave importance. Grimm is caught up in the angry feelings of the narrative, which allows him to vent about money Spidey owes him. The fighting is more in fun than anything else and the Thing's presence allows Williams the chance to write some great dialogue from Franklin and Valeria Richards. Reading these two as marble-mouthed as Williams writes wouldn't work for me every month, but in a one-shot this hyperstylized version of their intellect adds to the humor of the issue. There is one scene with the Thing that seems like it could outrage or offend fans that might want to blow it out of proportion -- when the alien artifact is broken, everyone suddenly becomes more lovestruck and Spidey and the Thing amorously grapple -- but hopefully most will take it in the fun context it is presented.
Brad Walker's artwork, with John Livesay on inks, is incredibly detailed which brings an air of authenticity to this otherwise whimsical tale. The world is accurate and fully realized, making the large ramifications of the plot felt with images as well as words. Their rendition of the Thing is especially intriguing -- the character comes across as an alarming figure of might and strength with just a possible touch of menace. There is liveliness in these pages that demonstrate Walker and Livesay are ready to take on a more high-profile book. It also helps when Chris Sotomayor brings expressive and moody colors over the top.
"Avenging Spider-Man Annual" #1 isn't the most important comic to hit the stands, but it is guaranteed to please. This is the sort of Spider-Man comic that transcends time. Anyone in any place at any time can enjoy it for what it is: hilarious. Don't expect revelations to drop from the sky or Spidey's world to be irrevocably changed. Come in, laugh and keep it up until the last page. This issue knows exactly how to bring the fun you want from a Spidey comic.


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Things to note before consuming Protein shakes for everyday
"The idea behind using protein shakes is to change one or two meals, to avoid overeating," said Professor Tim Crowe, diet and nutrition researcher. "Protein shakes may be the best choice for people with poor time skills and interests in cooking." At Deakin University.
According to Prof Crowe, excess protein shakes are easy to make and practical. With a high enough protein content, protein shake can make you easily satiated. However, as the impact of reducing food intake, certainly hunger could still be felt.
Prof Crowe said overall there is evidence that the consumption of protein shakes can help weight loss. However, when this protein shake is used as a continuation of the diet program, Prof Crowe said it is possible to actually gain weight.
To that end, he asserted that the use of protein shakes should remain under professional supervision such as dietitians or nutrition doctors. Prof Crowe also reminded to look again at the label of the composition of protein shakes to be purchased. Make sure the product contains enough vitamins and minerals then do not get, the sugar content in the product is just too high.
"For starters, replacements like this may make you comfortable, but remember, getting used to it does not make you have a handle on how to eat healthy so that weight loss can be done in the long term," said Prof Crowe.
He also argues that protein shakes must be balanced with the consumption of fruits and vegetables and other nutrients. Therefore, protein shake does not contain enough fiber and phytonutrients as contained in fruits or vegetables. Moreover, on some occasions, consuming 'real food' is also mentioned Prof. Crowe is better for a person's psychological condition, for example when there is a family event and there are various dishes that can be eaten together.


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Are you worried about the recent dengue fever epidemic affecting children? You may be taking a lot of precautions to make sure that your children are safe, but sometimes, they just fall sick. Are you worried?, If yes, then check for the symptoms of dengue in children.
If you have witnessed the sudden outbreak of dengue fever in children and want to make sure your children are safe and protected, read on to learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of dengue fever in children.
What Is Dengue Fever?
Dengue fever is also called breakbone fever in the medical world. The fever occurs when an infected mosquito bites your child and often results in rashes. Dengue is a type of tropical disease that is caused by the dengue virus. In some cases, dengue fever can also become severe and lead to more complicated health concerns, which may even turn fatal. One of the biggest risks that a person suffering from the dengue fever has is dengue hemorrhagic fever or DHF. It is a life threatening condition that needs immediate medical attention (1).
The dengue virus is found in five different types. In most cases, once a person gets the infection, there is lifelong immunity against that particular virus and short term immunity against the other types.
Causes Of Dengue In Children:
The dengue fever can show up in your child if your child has been bitten by an infected mosquito that is carrying the dengue virus. The most common type of mosquito that helps to spread dengue fever further is the female tiger mosquito. It is a type of mosquito found in the tropical and subtropical areas in South East Asia and is also known by the name of Asian tiger mosquito. The main differentiating mark on the female tiger mosquito is the black and white stripes all over its legs and body (2).
[ Read: Mosquito Bites In Children ]
Symptoms Of Dengue In Children:
In many cases, your child may not exhibit any symptoms that point towards the dengue fever. Some children may show mild symptoms that usually appear anytime within four days to two weeks after they first get the bite from the dengue-carrying infected mosquito. The symptoms, once they appear, will stay for about two to seven days.
In case your child does contract dengue fever, you should watch out for the following signs and symptoms. Also, remember that not all children will have all the symptoms and may have either one or more of the following. In the event that you do notice the symptoms mentioned below, make sure to speak to your child's doctor and schedule an appointment:
In case of infants or toddlers, the symptoms will be as follows:
- A runny nose.
- A small skin rash or a few skin rashes.
- A slight cough.
- A sudden temperature that can shoot up to a high fever very fast.
In case of older children, the symptoms will be as follows:
- A dull and continuous pain behind the eyes and in the various joints in the body.
- A sudden temperature that can shoot up to a high fever very fast.
- Pain in the back and headaches.
- Your child may seem to get bruised easily and may show a bruised patch on the skin from even a minor bump.
- Sudden bleeding from various parts of the body, like the gums or the nose. The reason this could happen is that your child will experience a low platelet count due to dengue fever. The platelets are important components of your child's blood and help the blood to clot, thus preventing excessive bleeding. In a normal case, the platelet levels are usually between 150000 and 450000 per ml.
- Moreover, your child will most likely also develop a skin rash that will look like a red and white patch on the skin. The rash can also be itchy and may show up after a few days when the fever first begins.
Once the patchy rash appears on the skin, you will be able to spot more signs and symptoms of dengue fever in children such as the following:
- Nausea and vomiting.
- A constant feeling of itching on the soles of the feet.
- Decrease in or complete loss of appetite (3).
[ Read: Reasons For Loss Of Appetite In Children ]
Apart from all the above symptoms, if your child has dengue fever, you will notice that your child is constantly feeling tired and exhausted, despite resting and sleeping well. The same feeling can continue for some time even after your child has completely recovered from dengue fever.
Symptoms Of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) In Children:
In some cases that are serious, a regular case of dengue fever can turn to a more serious condition that is known as the dengue hemorrhagic fever or the DHF. Another serious condition that can occur when the regular dengue fever becomes severe is known as the Dengue Shock Syndrome, or the DSS. Both the conditions are life-threatening conditions and have the following dengue symptoms in child:
- Sudden and continuous bleeding from any part of the body.
- A quick dip in the levels of blood pressure.
- A sudden shock that is caused due to excessive and sudden bleeding or due to a leakage in the blood vessels.
- Failure of different organs.
[ Read: Low Blood Pressure In Children ]
Diagnosing Dengue Fever In Kids:
In case, you notice any of the symptoms we mention above, speak to your child's doctor immediately. If your child has recently traveled somewhere and is complaining of a headache or pain in the body, make sure to speak to your child' doctor and take an appointment. Your child's doctor will use the following methods to diagnose whether or not it is a case of dengue fever:
- The doctor will first physically examine your child to check for the various signs and symptoms.
- The doctor will also ask you about any previous medical conditions that your child has had and if your child has traveled anywhere in the recent past.
- Once the doctor has performed the initial physical examination and has got all the required medical details, you will have to send a sample of your child's blood to test for the disease.
Treatment For Dengue Fever In Children:
As of now, there is no specific treatment available for the dengue fever. Here are a few things you can keep in mind when it comes to treating dengue fever in child:
- If your child has a mild fever and very mild symptoms that are a result of the dengue fever, the doctor will first ask you to give your child lots of fluids. Taking lots of fluids will help your child from getting dehydrated. In addition to giving lots of fluids, your child's doctor will also recommend a lot of rest and sleep.
[ Read: Dehydration In Children ]
- In some cases, if your child complains of a lot of headache or pain in the joints or other parts of the body, and if it actually is distressing for your child, the doctor may also recommend some pain killers. One of the most common painkillers that your child's doctor may prescribe is acetaminophen, which is known to help relieve a headache and the aches that occur as a result of the dengue fever. Make sure that you do not give your child any pain killer that has aspirin or ibuprofen, as it can increase your child's chances of bleeding.
- In most of the cases, the symptoms of the dengue fever will subside and go away within one to two weeks, without causing any further complications. In case, your child's symptoms have turned severe or if the symptoms do not seem to get any better, even with the use of medication and rest, you should immediately inform the doctor about the same. It could point towards a case of dengue hemorrhagic fever which can soon turn into a life-threatening condition if it is not treated on time.
- In case your child is suffering from a severe case of dengue fever, the doctor will keep your child in the hospital for immediate further treatment and monitoring. Your child will be given intravenous (IV) fluids as well as salts known as electrolytes. Both the IV treatment and the electrolytes will help to keep your child hydrated and will prevent dehydration that can be caused when your child loses body fluids due to vomiting or even diarrhea. Such treatment is known as fluid therapy.
- In the event that your child has immediately been placed on fluid therapy, the symptoms will soon get better and will not escalate to any further medical complication. Also, once your child starts to get better, there will be no need of any further special treatment.
- However, if your child's condition has deteriorated and if the doctor feels that the fluid therapy is not enough, your child may require a transfusion. The doctor will use the transfusion procedure to help replace the blood that your child may have lost (4)
Preventing Dengue Fever In Children:
As there is no specific treatment that can help to treat dengue fever, it is important that you take necessary precautions in time. Doing so will not only help to keep your child safe and healthy but in case your child does have dengue fever, it will help to prevent the situation from worsening further.
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Here are a few other things you should try and take care of to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes and to help your child from being bitten by one:
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- Make sure that you use special anti-mosquito screens and nets on your door and window frames. Always look for any signs of tear or cuts and repair or replace any damaged screens as mosquitoes can use the limited space to enter through the cut and come in your child's vicinity. Close the screens shut as soon as it is afternoon, and if you have a large number of mosquitoes in your area, keep the screens shut at all times of the day as well as the night.
- Make your children wear clothes that will keep almost all parts of their bodies covered. Help them to dress up in clothes that have long sleeves, long trouser pants or leggings as well as ask them to wear proper socks and shoes every time they step out of the house.
- Use a mosquito net over your child's bed to prevent any accidental appearance of mosquitoes that can bite your children while they are asleep.
- You can check with your child's doctor about a mosquito repellent that you can safely use around your children. Use it at home and also ask about a cream or lotion that you can apply for your child to keep the mosquitoes from biting your child. Make sure that before your children go out of the house each time, they first apply the mosquito repellent cream or lotion and only then step out.
- Ask your children to spend less time outdoors and instead do something more creative and fun inside the house. If your children do go out to play, make sure that they are back inside the house a good amount of time before the sun sets. Also, make sure they do not play in an area where the grass is tall and where there is stagnant water around. Such spots can be dangerous sites where mosquitoes breed, and your child will have a high chance of getting a mosquito bite.
- Take care that you try and remove as many potential breeding grounds for mosquitoes as possible. Mosquitoes breed fast and well in places where there is stagnant water. Check for stagnant water in areas in and around your home such as a bird bath, a pet water bowl, under the flower vases and so on. Keep your house and the area around it as dry and clean as possible.
The dengue epidemic is something that can affect your child, and as there is no medical cure, it is important to be careful and take the necessary steps. Watch out for any symptoms and make sure you get your child the required medical attention.
Moms, do you know of any child who was diagnosed with dengue fever? What was the treatment procedure? Do share your knowledge with other moms here as it can help someone.
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