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The Youngest Victims of War and Conflict
Full video and powerpoint presentations from "Interventions, Part II: The Youngest Victims of War and Conflict: Helping the hardest hit and hardest to reach"; June 29, 2018.
Full video and powerpoint presentations from "Interventions, Part II: The Youngest Victims of War and Conflict: Helping the hardest hit and hardest to reach"; June 29, 2018.
Full video and powerpoint presentation from "Early Childhood Matters 2018: Reflecting back, looking forward"; June 30, 2018.
Full video and powerpoint presentation from "The Economics of ECD: Why It's Important to Pay Less Now, Not More Later"; June 30, 2018.
ECD databases and other resources assembled by Esther Goh, ECD specialist from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, and a speaker at the Dart Center's Early Childhood Reporting Institute: Covering Trauma, Resilience and the Developing Brain; June 28 - July 2, 2018; New York City.
The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies has released a special issue on refugee children and their families, featuring articles and resources available at no cost through the end of September.
A deeply humane and riveting piece that follows the Marin family through the arrest and deportation of their mother. Judges called "Losing Gloria" a "beautifully written," "crucial story" that shows how people "metabolize the trauma of a singular moment." Originally published in The California Sunday Magazine in June, 2017.
This meticulously reported series offers a ground level, panoramic view of the devastating and profound impact of gun violence on children's lives. The results, at once harrowing and revelatory, provide a fresh and compelling look at one of the most pressing issues of our time. Judges called this package a "remarkable series spanning multiple events of violence, each examined with unflinching clarity and emotional rawness." Originally published by The Washington Post between April - December, 2017.
For journalists around the world, children are often at the forefront of reporting, on beats ranging from education and crime to refugees, conflict and international public health. Quite simply, children are the news - whether as the subjects of stories, the targets of social policies, or the victims of family violence, natural disaster, or war. Yet too often, reporting overlooks crucial innovations in the scientific understanding of early childhood, the impact of trauma on developing minds and the policies that promote resilience and growth in the face of violence, stress and upheaval.
Seventeen students and teachers were killed by a gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Please consult our resources in covering this tragedy and its aftermath.


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Lindsay Lohan (pronounced /ˈloʊ.ən/; born July 2, 1986) is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11. Lohan gained further fame between 2003 and 2005 with leading roles in the films Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie: Fully Loaded, subsequently appearing in independent films including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion and Emilio Estevez's Bobby.
Her career was interrupted in 2007 as two driving under the influence (DUI) incidents and three visits to rehabilitation facilities led to the loss of several movie deals. Resuming her career, she guest starred in the TV series Ugly Betty in 2008, starred in the 2009 comedy Labor Pains, and appeared in Robert Rodriguez's Machete in 2010. Lohan launched a second career in pop music in 2004 with the album Speak and followed up with A Little More Personal (Raw) in 2005. She has attracted significant publicity, particularly surrounding her personal life.
Lohan was born on July 2, 1986, in New York City and grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, New York. She is the eldest child of Donata "Dina" (née Sullivan) and Michael Lohan. Lindsay has three younger siblings, all of whom have been models or actors: Michael Jr. (who appeared with Lindsay in The Parent Trap), Aliana ("Ali"), and Dakota ("Cody"), the youngest Lohan child. Lohan is of Irish and Italian heritage and was raised as a Catholic. Her maternal family were "well known Irish Catholic stalwarts" and her great-grandfather, John L. Sullivan, was a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in Long Island. Lohan attended Cold Spring Harbor High School, where she did well in science and mathematics until grade 11 when she started homeschooling.

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Danielle Green (L) and Marien Rodriguez (R), HPMSA president, present Dr. Southerland a check for $550 to help with the Yucatan project's mission.
Barry Students Donate to Yucatan Crippled Children's Project
The Hispanic Podiatric Medical Student Association (HPMSA) donated $550 to help support the mission of Barry University's Yucatan Crippled Children's Project (YCCP). The YCCP was established in 1996 to provide surgical and medical treatment to crippled children in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. For the past 14 years, physicians and surgeons from Barry University's School of Podiatric Medicine have helped thousands of children who suffer from disabilities get back on their feet.
Marien Rodriguez, president of HPMSA and a member of the class of 2012 indicated that "HPMSA raised funds by selling lab coats and gloves, Spanish dictionaries and cards with medical phrases translated into Spanish, as well as holding a fundraising potluck dinner." The HPMSA is a multicultural club that enables students from diverse ethnic backgrounds to learn about issues that affect practicing podiatric minority members and to help advance recognition of the podiatric profession. In addition, HPMSA advocates for awareness about health issues that affect minorities in the community.
Donations of $8,000 Made to Yucatan Crippled Children's Project Commemorate 15 Years of Service
Barry University's School of Podiatric Medicine (BUSPM) recently received a $5,000 donation from the International Foot & Ankle Foundation for Education and Research, (IFAF) formerly known as the Northwest Podiatric Foundation. The money will support the ongoing charitable medical missions of the Barry's Yucatan Crippled Children's Project (YCCP). Thanks to the YCCP, which is approaching its 15th anniversary, more than 6,700 crippled and indigent children of Yucatan, Mexico have been treated with the help of podiatric physicians and surgeons from the Barry's School of Podiatric Medicine as well as podiatric physicians and surgeons from IFAF. The IFAF funds will be used by the YCCP to help buy supplies and equipment for future humanitarian trips.
Dr. G. Dock Dockery, chairman of IFAF, along with Dr. Byron Hutchinson, and the Board of Directors, recently traveled to the Yucatan as part of the medical team for the YCCP. Dr. Dockery presented Dr. Keith Kashuk, co-director of the YCCP, with the gift from IFAF. The donations were contributed by 31 friends and colleagues of Dr. Dockery, in his name, specifically for the YCCP.
In addition, Magdalena Rosol, of Bako Pathology Services, presented Dr. Gary "Dock" Dockery, Chairman of IFAF, with a donation check for $3,000 for the Yucatan Crippled Children Project. The IFAF has been a long-time supporter of the Barry University Yucatan Crippled Children Project and Bako Pathology Laboratories is a major supporter of IFAF.
These generous gifts help commemorate the 15th Anniversary of the Project, which will be celebrated in Mexico July 13-17, 2011. This trip will be the 70th mercy mission that Dr. Charles Southerland and his team have made to the Yucatan to assist indigent crippled children in that region. According to Dr. Southerland, "We began this Project as a onetime trip in 1988 after Hurricane Gilbert ripped through the Yucatan. Fifteen years later, we are still helping one child at a time become whole again. This Project could not carry on without the support of our generous sponsors." If you are interested in supporting the Yucatan Crippled Children's Project, please contact Bob McKinlay at 305-899-3283.
Yucatan Crippled Children's Project Receives $10,000 Grant from Lewis Foundation
The Barry University Yucatan Crippled Children's Project has recently received a generous donation of $10,000 from the Frank J. Lewis Foundation of Riviera Beach, Florida.
The Yucatan Project, now in its ninth year of operation has rendered treatment to more than 4,500 crippled children in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico by podiatric physicians and surgeons affiliated with Barry University School of Graduate Medical Sciences.
The grant from the Lewis Foundation will support travel costs, medical equipment, and prosthetic devices for the crippled children.
Previously, the Lewis Foundation has provided Barry University with $115,000 to support the Project. According to Dr. Charles Southerland, founder and director of the Yucatan Crippled Children's Project (YCCP), "as we near the 10th anniversary of the Yucatan Project I am reminded why I chose a career as a doctor. It is through the kindness of donors like the Frank J. Lewis Foundation, among others that we will be able to continue our mission to help poor crippled children to walk worldwide."
To help the Yucatan Crippled Children's Project please send your check made out to: Barry University SGMS, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida, 33161, to the attention of the Office of Program Development. On the notation line please specify Yucatan Crippled Children's Project..
Yucatan Project Receives Gifts from Lewis, Abraham, and Milagro Foundations
The Barry University Crippled Children's Project (YCCP) has recently received $39,000 in grant support from generous donations from the Frank J. Lewis Foundation of Riveira Beach, Florida ($25,000), and the Milagro Foundation of San Rafael, California ($4,000), and the International Foundation, Fairfield, New Jersey ($10,000).
The Yucatan Project, now in its seventh year of operation has rendered treatment to more than 3,500 crippled children in the Yucatan, Mexico by podiatric physicians and surgeons affiliated with Barry University.
The grant from the Lewis Foundation will support travel costs, medical equipment, and medication to help the crippled children. Previously, the Lewis Foundation provided Barry with $90,000 to support the Project.
The grant from the Milagro Foundation will support costs of medical supplies and equipment for the Project. Last year, the Foundation provided $2,500 to support the YCCP.
The Milagro Foundation is a public foundation supported by the Deborah and Carlos Santana Family and its musical organization through funds generated by concerts, donations, revenues from Santana licensing fees, and generous individual and corporate donors.
The International Foundation grant of $10,000 will be used to support costs of medical equipment, surgical instruments, and medicines.
According to Dr. Charles Southerland, Director of the YCCP, "These magnanimous gifts have changed the lives of thousands of young, underprivileged crippled children."
To help the Yucatan Crippled Children's Project, send your check made out to Barry University SGMS, 11300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida, 33161, attention Office of Program Development with a notation to the Yucatan Crippled Children's Project.
Barry University Yucatan Crippled Children's Project Receives Award
Barry University Yucatan Crippled Children's Project Receives Award Dr. Chet Evans, Associate Vice President and Dean, Barry University School of Graduate Medical Sciences (left) with Dr. Charles "Chip" Southerland, who received an award of, "Recognition for his altruistic and distinguished contribution to the field of Podiatric Medicine and especially the citizens of Progreso, based on his 7 years of dedicated service to Barry's Yucatan Crippled Children's Program," presented by the Mayor of Progreso, Mexico - Jose Luis Blanco Pajon.
Yucatan Project Seeks Funding Support
Yucatan Project Seeks Funding SupportSince July 4, 1996, Dr. Charles Southerland has led a team of physicians on a mercy mission to the Yucatan, Mexico to provide surgery for crippled indigent children. Now, Dr. Southerland needs your support.
More than 3,500 crippled children have received treatment and care from the flying doctors. The Project is in need of financial assistance to purchase vital medical equipment, medicine, other medical supplies, and travel. Without assistance the Project is in danger of postponing these life altering mercy flights.
Every other month two attending physicians and two residents volunteer their own time to conduct this humanitarian endeavor. With each trip the lines get longer and longer to see the doctors. The physicians spend 12 to 15 hours in surgery under grueling circumstances including lack of air conditioning, limited equipment, and other problems and issues.


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WOLFEBORO — A motion to continue a suppression of evidence hearing was presented in Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee on Tuesday, where a man indicted for attempted murder and assault claims statements he made to the police were illegally obtained.
David Ford, 31, who goes by his middle name "Conor," is currently being housed in the Carroll County House of Corrections following a gruesome attack this past April. Ford awaits his final preliminary trial conference this November, after moving past the deadline to apply for a "speedy trial."
A motion to suppress evidence in this case, where Ford allegedly beat his girlfriend with a rock and held her into an active fire pit, was received sometime over the summer. Ford's public defender claims Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro police illegally obtained statements from Ford during a confusing interview process. Ford's last known address was 15 Zaleda Farm Lane in Tuftonboro, where he was reportedly staying with others.
Wolfeboro police allege Ford attacked his 28-year-old girlfriend on April 24, after the two went behind the victim's family's home on Middleton Road. They reported he punched her in the face with his fists and a rock, about 10 times, attempted to strangle her and held her down into an active fire pit. The victim received several injuries, including a nasal fracture, a right orbital head fracture and second-degree burns on her arm.
Charges against Ford include one count of attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault, five counts of second degree assault and two counts of criminal restraint, all felony-level charges. The other charges, misdemeanors, are three counts of criminal threatening and one count of criminal trespass.
Police allege Ford kept his girlfriend from leaving when the fight ensued and verbally threatened her, saying he would kill her, throw her into the backyard fire and cut off some parts of her body. The criminal trespass charges stem from Ford allegedly following the victim into her family's home on Middleton Road, according to court documents.
On Tuesday, Ford's defense attorney and the county attorney's office representatives agreed to continue the suppression hearing, and the court clerk's office anticipates another hearing will be scheduled soon, before Ford's Nov. 8 final pre-trial court date.
According to court filings, Ford's public defender, John Brensaw, has submitted documentation to the court, claiming the Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro police departments did not follow correct policy when they led their suspect to believe he was being brought in for questioning for a separate incident.
Tuftonboro police had been investigating reports that Ford stole a laptop computer from his father. According to transcripts of interrogation provided by Brensaw, Ford answered the police officers' questions following his arrest, thinking it only had to do with the computer incident. In the transcript, he asks police if other charges are being brought against him, noting he returned the laptop.
When Wolfeboro Police Detective Guy Maloney directed Ford to "man up" and admit to his wrongdoing, Ford declined to answer anymore questions, saying he did not remember the other incident and was confused as to what charges he was actually facing.
According to documentation submitted by Brensaw, police continued to interrogate Ford for at least another 30 minutes, even after he requested the questioning stop and stated he couldn't say anything further.
Ford, according to the police interview transcript, told Maloney he was considering jumping in front of a truck on the night of April 24, and was "black out" drunk.
"…I think you know what I'm talking about. And … it has to do with the other night. And it probably has to do with why you want to throw yourself in front of a truck," Maloney said, according to the transcript provided by Brensaw. "And I'm glad you didn't … You made a mistake and you can probably work on correcting that mistake, but like what you said a couple minutes ago, you want to man up. Now's the time to man up. You weren't a man the other night. You should be a man today and you should tell me exactly what happened off of Middleton Road."
Ford told Maloney he walked to Huggins Hospital, where he received emergency room treatment for alcohol poisoning and suicidal thoughts, adding he was suicidal only because he felt "shameful" for stealing the laptop. He told officials he hadn't seen his girlfriend since his birthday on April 20.
"At this point, I don't remember and I don't remember where I was so I don't know what to say," Ford said, according to the provided transcript. "I came to, and went to, the hospital. That's all I'm going to say right now."
The county attorney's office submitted a rebuttal to the request for suppression, citing that law enforcement officials are not required to repeat the reading of a suspect's Miranda rights — which relate to a suspect's right to remain silent and to have an attorney present — when an interrogation shifts officers. In the transcript, Tuftonboro's police officer Karl Koch asked questions about the laptop before Maloney stepped in and shifted the line of questioning. The county attorney's office also insists Ford was aware of both crimes he was brought in for.
Deputy County Attorney Susan Boone declined a reporter's request to comment on the case.
Ford continues to be held without bail due to the "unusual circumstances" surrounding the "violent" crime. According to documents, authorities believe if Ford were to be released, he would be a threat to himself or another person in the community.
Wolfeboro attempted murder suspect claims illegal police interrogation
WOLFEBORO — A motion to continue a suppression of evidence hearing was presented in Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee on Tuesday, where a man indicted for attempted murder and assault claims statements he made to the police were illegally obtained.


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Brian Holden will direct the musical, featuring a score by A.J. Holmes and Kaley McMahon and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Eric Kahn Gale. James Tolbert will choreograph, and music direction is by Justin Fischer with orchestrations by Andrew Fox.
The cast of StarKid veterans includes Dylan Saunders, Jeff Blim, Joe Walker, Jim Povolo, Lauren Lopez, Meredith Stepien, Denise Donovan, Nick Gage and Jaime Lyn Beatty as well as three new additions to the StarKid acting company — Rachael Soglin, Alex Grace Paul and Robert Manion.
In Twisted, according to press notes, "Team StarKid turns its satirical eye on the classic story of Aladdin, doing for its much maligned Royal Vizier what Wicked did for the Witch of the West."
Performances will be offered July 4–7, July 11–14, July 18–21 and July 25–28 at 7:30 PM.
Formed at the University of Michigan in 2009, StarKid represents an ensemble of writers, directors, actors and designers. Now based in Chicago, StarKid has garnered over 150 million views and 329,000 subscribers on YouTube; 200,000 Facebook fans; and over 132,000 Twitter followers worldwide. The team has had its albums chart on iTunes and Billboard. Their musicals include A Very Potter Musical, Me and My Dick, A Very Potter Sequel, Starship, Holy Musical B@man and Second City's Airport For Birds.
The Greenhouse Theater is located at 2257 N. Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, IL. For tickets, call (773) 404-7336 or visit GreenhouseTheater.org. For more information, visit TeamStarKid.com.


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Volunteers fight blight near 2 Detroit schools
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DETROIT >> Dozens of volunteers have taken part in a blight-elimination program near two Detroit schools.
Volunteers on Saturday removed debris and other trash from properties near Dixon Educational Learning Academy and Cody High School on the city's west side.
Detroit Public Schools officials say the goal is to improve safety for students.
Cody student Jhonae Williams tells The Detroit News she fears for her life when she walks through her own neighborhood. She says she "could get snatched up any time."
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NEW YORK - Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is back on Twitter with a new account as he eyes a political comeback and bid for New York City mayor 2 years after he resigned in disgrace for posting a sexually suggestive image of himself on the social website.
The account, @AnthonyWeiner, gives Weiner a new slate on which to promote his public policy ideas as he publicly weighs entering the mayor's race less than five months ahead of the city's Democratic primary.
Once seen as a rising star among Democrats, Weiner, 48, established himself as a leading liberal voice in the U.S. House of Representatives and was considered a front-runner for mayor until his fall from grace. Weiner, who resigned from Congress in June 2011 before completing his seventh term, made an unsuccessful run for mayor in 2005.
After keeping a low profile, he burst back onto the political scene this month when The New York Times Magazine published a lengthy article about Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Last week, an NBC New York-Marist poll found that Weiner would enter the mayor's race in second place, behind City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
Weiner's rehatched Twitter presence also means that he must re-build his following. While the old account, zrepweiner, has 67,758 followers, the new account had fewer than 4,000 followers by late Monday afternoon, though that number was growing rapidly.
In June 2011, Weiner was ensnared in a scandal after he used Twitter to share a sexually suggestive photograph of himself with a woman, but accidentally posted it to all his "followers" on the website instead. He initially insisted that he was not behind the tweet, but admitted the mistake in a tearful news conference after other women said they had also exchanged sexually charged messages with the Congressman.
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By Rachel A. Sisson of Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation: The San Ramon office of Aon eSolutions and Aon Fire Protection Engineering volunteered with the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano on June 12, 2014 as part of their Global Service Day. Global Service Day is Aon's annual day of volunteerism where colleagues across the world unite in service to strengthen the diverse communities in which we live and work. This year, Aon's efforts once again focused on empowering people and strengthening communities at risk through a wide variety of service projects, in support of hundreds of wonderful charitable partners. Approximately 9,000 Aon colleagues in 50 countries donated more than 30,000 hours of service on Global Service Day.
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With every passing day, new rumors and more information about the Samsung Galaxy S III pops up on the Internet. Until now, we have seen a couple of image leaks, which in my opinion are fake. There have also been numerous rumors that the Galaxy S III will be announced sometime in March or April. The latest rumors pegs the announcement date of the handset to 22nd May.
Now, an unnamed Samsung executive revealed in an interview with Korean Times that the company would be using its own in-house quad-core chip on the Samsung Galaxy S III. Even though the unnamed executive did not mention the exact name of the chipset, there is a strong possibility that the Galaxy S III will be using the Exynos 4412 SoC from Samsung.
The Exynos 4412 SoC from Samsung consists of four Cortex-A9 chips clocked anywhere between 1.5-18GHz, and will be accompanied by an ARM Mali-T608GPU. It will be interesting to see how the Galaxy S III competes with the HTC One X that uses a Tegra 3 SoC, and the One S, which is powered by a faster but dual-core Snapdragon S4 SoC. In the GPU performance department, I expect the Samsung Galaxy S III to trump every other SoC available in the market, except for the A5X chip used inside the new iPad.


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In 2009 the specialized casino police unit IIGET was disbanded weeks after it warned then Solicitor-General Rich Coleman that organized crime had infiltrated the gambling industry and was actively laundering money and loan sharking in casinos (see Appendix A).
By 2011 cash monitoring had deteriorated so severely that the BC Lottery Corporation was fined almost $700,000 by the federal agency FINTRAC for failure to control suspicious transactions at casinos.
"This is a complete systemic collapse of governance," says Sandy Garossino, spokesperson for Vancouver Not Vegas. "There's been no specialized policing presence in casinos for 5 years and organized crime has been brazenly active the whole time. BCLC has completely failed to control casino criminal activity."
Vancouver Not Vegas renews its calls for former BCLC CEO Michael Graydon to be deemed unsuitable for employment with Paragon Gaming. "Did Graydon know about this report when he jumped without warning from BCLC?" asks Garossino. "For at least 5 years Graydon knew organized crime was active in BC casinos, and completely failed to rein them in. Now he's going to head a casino of his own?"
During the casino fight in 2011, 18 senior organized crime policing specialists submitted a letter which warned Vancouver City Council about rampant criminal activity of gangs and organized crime in casinos.
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Excerpted quotes from 2009 IIGET report on criminal activity in casinos (p 22):
"Canadian casinos are extremely vulnerable to money-laundering because they deal in cash and handle tens of millions of dollars every day.
Many investigations… have shown that members of organized crime use casinos for criminal purposes (e.g. loan sharking and money laundering) and that some of these criminal elements have successfully infiltrated the industry.
Since 2003 FINTRAC has sent several disclosure reports to the RCMP on suspicious transactions involving casinos… Anecdotally, police managers have suggested… nothing is being done to investigate these situations."
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Cough suppressants may be used only when the cough is dry. Cough is useful because brings up extra mucus and irritants from the lungs and this way stops the mucus to accumulate in the airways and producing pneumonia bacteria. Tetracycline or ampicillin are used in the treatment of
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, but good results have been obtained with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim or Septra) and azithromycin (Zithromax) and clarithromycin (Biaxin). In children acute
amoxicillin (Amoxil, Pentamox, Sumox, Trimox)is recommended, inhaler sprays to dilatate the bronchis and clear aut the mucus are also good. It is important to rest sufficiently, to eat well, avoid air pollution and irritants. Childrens wash their hands regularly and as a preventive measure they are artificially immunized against pneumonia.
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persist for two weeks or longer or if your fever persists for several days you should see a doctor. He or she will check for signs of pneumonia. You should immediately see a doctor if at any time you cough up blood or see any signs of blood in your phlegm such as a rusty color. If your doctor diagnoses a virus there is little you can do because antibiotics do not fight viruses. In fact, misuse of antibiotics contributes to the development of drug resistant bacteria. You simply need to rest and wait for your body's own defenses to defeat the infection naturally. However you can take medications to relieve the symptoms of
such as cough and fever.
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will most commonly begin to be manifest following a bout of the flu or the common cold. The body can't manage to heal itself fully, and symptoms such as heavy coughing will begin to be manifest, this coughing could be dry, or phlegmy. The cough produced by
can potentially last for several weeks, also bringing with it the possibility of pain in the chest and abdomen, as well as difficulty breathing to the point of wheezing.
??? For treating bronchitis, heat little bit castor oil planet leaves on a pan. Cool and then spread them on the chest of the affected person. This is to be done overnight. One should be cautious as castor oil planet is poisonous and therefore, should not be taken internally.
Bronchitis refers to the inflammation of the bronchial tree, an important organ of respiratory track in the human body. Since the organ is related to the respiratory track, any adverse condition affecting the organ will affect the breathing too and therefore, in
, there will be difficulty in breathing. The condition occurs when the inner-wall that lines the main air passage of the lungs gets infected and then becomes inflamed.
affects predominantly pre-school and school age children, especially during winter time. Cause and symptoms Bronchitis begins with the symptoms of a cold, running nose, coughing, sneezing, fever of 102??F (38.8??C), greenish yellow sputum. In three to five days most of the symptoms disappear, but coughing may continue for some time. If the acute
is complicated with bacterial infection the fever and a general feeling of illness persists. The bacterial infection should be treated with antibiotics, if the cough doesn't get away it may be asthma or pneumonia. In direct proportion with the stage of the disease acute
has those symptoms: dry, hacking, unproductive cough, runny nose, sore throat, back and other muscle pains, general malaise, headache, fever, chills.
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is closely related to another health ailment called bronchiolitis in which, there will be inflammation of bronchi. In both the conditions, the symptoms will remain almost same such as difficulty in breathing, coughing and wheezing sound may be heard by stethoscope or if they are severe, by distance too.
There are many causes for
; one of the most common is infection. The infection can be due to virus or bacteria. Whatever the cause is, generally the condition may subside within couple of days without any great efforts except giving some proper antibiotic but if it is severe, it may turn to a worse condition in which, the breathing, sometimes gets difficult.
Sputum culture is indicated to be performed to put a correct diagnosis of the infection and to identify the most appropriate antibiotic. The patient is asked to spit in a cup and than the sample is grown in the laboratory to see which organisms are present. Sometimes the sputum may be collected using bronchoscopy, the patient is given a local anesthetic and the tube is passed through the airways to collect a sputum sample. Blood tests and x-rays are also recommended, the measuring of the oxygen and carbon dioxide are also important.
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may be treated by home care if it's not complicated, resting, not smocking and drinking plenty of fluids, for fever you may take Tylenol, Panadol, Datril.
??? Another great home remedies for bronchitis is usage of the wonder drug ginger. This wonderful herb serves as the anti inflammatory and mucolytic. For this, take about ?? teaspoon each of ginger powder, pepper and cloves. One can either prepare tea by using that mixture or else one can simply lick that mixture powder with honey. This will help in boosting the immunity of a patient.
??? Drinking fresh cabbage juice every day is good for bronchitis. ??? One can pour a cup of boiling water into a cup with grind or cut horseradish root. Let it be for about five minutes and then drink it. Repeat three times a day for about 7 days.
??? Onion has great value as remedy in bronchitis. One should take one teaspoon of raw onion juice in the morning for at least 4 months. ??? One of the best home remedies for bronchitis is take 50 gm of fresh spinach leaves and 250 ml of water. Add a bit of ammonium chloride and one teaspoon of honey to it. Take this mixture works wonderfully in curing
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For those with chronic disease and very young children preventive measures have a high importance so immunizations are highly recommended. If you are unsure about what type of medications are in over-the-counter cough syrups you should ask the pharmacist for an explanation. If you have these symptoms you are likely to develop
acute bronchitis
: dry, hacking unproductive cough that may change to a loose cough with increased mucus, runny nose, sore throat, back and other muscle pains, chills and low grade fever, headache and general malaise (feeling unwell). Wheezing after coughing is common.
Eating honey is also heplfull because it may soothe the throat. For acute
you do not need antibiotics so the infection will disappear in one week, if you have fever you may take aspirin, do not smoke. For a secondary bacterial infection antibiotics are prescribed and maybe an inhaler and an expectorant. Theraflu and tea with lemon and honey, hot toddies with bourbon are helpfully. For some people with bronchitis hot baths instead of steam are better.
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Diagnosis The doctor will listen to the child's chest, if he hears moist rales, crackling, wheezing it means that the lung are inflammated and the airway is narrowing. Moist rales are caused by the fluid secretions in the bronchial tubes.
Codeine is the most wanted ingredient when you have
acute bronchitis
. It has been explained why cough suppressants are not useful, you drown with your own secretions that can't be eliminated.
Description Acute
appears mostly in the winter, more often caused by viral infection. Although the cough may persist longer
acute bronchitis
is solved in two weeks, acute
complication is pneumonia in children.
If you have trouble breathing in the Emergency Room you may be given an albuterol breathing treatment, an inhaler, and some prednasone.
may complicate with pneumonia and that is quite severe, especially in children which are not supervized by parents and they do not treat well or at whole their
. That's why important to have rest and warm. Sometimes only the rest and the home care won't help so try to visit your doctor and buy your drugs, even more important is to take them. If you notice that your health is not improved in one week than you may suspect a complication, the most probable one is pneumonia. A cough may continue for several more weeks, the progression of chronic
, on the other hand, may be slowed, but an initial improvement in symptoms may be achieved.
??? One can also mix a mustard powder with equal amount of flour and water. Smear the mixture on the chest area of an affected person. One thing is to be noticed that some people might be sensitive to the mustard as it might sting and therefore, test on a small area first.
Advil, Tylenol, and aspirin are three of the most often used medications to treat
symptoms. However, aspirin is not advised for anyone eighteen years old or younger. A complication known as Reye's Syndrome can occur which could be fatal. Drinking a lot of liquids can help to avoid the dehydration normally associated with fever. It can also relieve an irritated throat from constant coughing. Another treatment for the cough is over the counter cough suppressants.
is the inflammation (acute or cronic )of the trachea, bronchi. Acute bronchitis is caused by viral or bacterial infection and heal without complications. Adults that smoke develop chronic
that cannot be cured.
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Risk Factors of Chronic Bronchitis - Are You at Risk?
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DWTS Tony Dovolani Takes Part In AT&T National And Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournaments
Such a sweet picture of Tony Dovolani and his wife Lina!! The Dancing With The Stars pro and his wife took part in the Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament and festivities at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas this week. According to Tony's twitter account, his team (which included Jack Wagner) won. You can view a whole slew of pics at facebook (thanks to @DWTSGossip for the heads up).
Also, the Morning Blend interviewed Tony about the AT&T golf tournament that took place in Washington D.C. for what he also took part in. You can listen to it here.
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Successful Wichita Sit-In Is Subject of Black History Program
Fifty-two years ago the indignities of segregation brought Ronald Walters and Carole Watson together in a common cause that helped launch the civil rights movement. The Kansas college students were on the front lines of the protests over race relations when they participated in sit-ins at the Dockum Drug Store lunch counter in Wichita, Kan, in 1958. Yesterday the two non-violent revolutionaries met again in Washington.
Walters led the 40 college and high school students who desegregated a popular Wichita eating establishment in one of the earliest civil rights sit-ins in the country. The Wichita protests began nearly two years before the famous lunch counter demonstrations in Greensboro, N.C., precipitated a wave of sit-ins, kneel-ins, wade-ins, and stand-ins that gradually integrated public facilities across America.
The Wichita protests, Walters told a Black History Month* program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts on March 3, have remained largely unknown because many Northern editors downplayed the race friction occurring in their own back yards. Sit-ins occurred in at least 15 cities between 1957 and 1960 before the Greensboro protests attracted national attention, he said.
Walters, the recently retired director of the African American Leadership Institute and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, and Watson, deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, were young college students when they joined a group of protesters who took turns sitting-in at the eight-stool lunch counter in downtown Wichita starting on on July 12, 1958. Walters, author of more than 100 articles and ten books including The Price of Racial Reconciliation (2008) and Watson, author of Prologue (1985), had seen each other only once in passing during the last half century.
When the drug store manager abruptly ordered his waitresses on August 7 to "serve them," and the sit-in ended without fanfare, Walters and Watson returned to their studies, both eventually earning Ph.D.s and building careers in Washington.
Their protests, Walters said yesterday, eventually led to the desegregation of the entire Rexall drug chain to which the Dockum store belonged, and helped to inspire young people to stand up for their rights across the nation. Watson remembers her part: She sat on her counter stool when a white bully held up a coat hanger as if to rip her face. She didn't move. And until yesterday, she never talked about it.
* - The program, originally scheduled in February, Black History Month, was rescheduled because of a snowstorm that closed government offices.


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Don't miss the opportunity to rent one of our beautiful and exclusive, luxury 'Class A' motorcoach rv lots in Florida. Top lots rent quickly, do not delay to avoid disappointment. Huge areas between all sites, and beautiful natural landscaping. Top notch 50 or 100 amp service. Also included are the hook-ups for city water and sewer along with wi-fi which is accessible throughout the resort. Every lot has access to the stunning clubhouse, pool and 100+ foot dock on the Myakka River. Lots of onsite activities and a great community. What are you waiting for?
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Lot Dimensions – Approx 84 ft x 50 ft (3825 sq ft total)
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The FAQ's of Ownership and Renting at Myakka River Motorcoach Resort
What exactly is Myakka River Motorcoach Resort (MRMR)?
What exactly is Myakka River Motorcoach Resort (MRMR)?
It is a luxury motorcoach resort consisting of 30 acres of waterfront property, accented by boardwalks along the river and tropical landscaping, as well as a 6500 square foot clubhouse with Olympic size pool, spa, fitness room, indoor and outdoor kitchens, and entertainment area. The property was designed for the convenience and enjoyment of Class A motorcoaches exclusively.
Any guidelines to the styles, colors and construction for casitas?
Are there any guidelines to the styles and colors that can be used in the constructions of casitas?
To maintain the aesthetic qualities of the Resort, a design can be selected from the existing casita plans or a design of your own can be submitted for pre-approval. The architectural style of all buildings and structures will be of or harmonize with a "Mediterranean" style. There are several color options for the exterior and roofing materials.
What is allowed in the interior of casitas?
What is allowed in the interior of casitas?
A casita can be constructed up to 10% of the plated square footage of a site but under no circumstances can it be intended for occupancy. Several acceptable facilities include: storage, laundry, kitchen, bathroom, sitting area or extra room for guests. The placement of a casita on your property must be approved by the Architectural Control Committee (ACC) to protect the views from neighboring lots and the general aesthetics of the property. An additional 10% of the lot size can be outfitted with a pergola.
Are there fees associated with lot ownership?
Are there fees associated with lot ownership?
There is a monthly maintenance fee which is currently $250 per month. This provides for maintenance and upkeep of the common facilities and roadways. It also includes the following for the resort as well as individual lots: city water and sewer, wireless internet access, seasonal garbage pick-up, lawn maintenance, and landscaping (limited to the original landscape design). Property taxes are the responsibility of the Site Owner and currently range from $1000 - $2300 annually depending on lot size, location, and the improvements to the site.
Do you offer a rental program?
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If you are not using your site, you may include it in our rental program. The site owner receives 75% and the Management Company receives 25% the of the rental charges.
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We are less than an hour south of Sarasota, located halfway between Tampa and Naples on the Southwest Florida Gulf Coast. Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf Islands are a charming collection of nine coastal communities surrounding the state's second largest harbor. We're 15-20 minutes from Englewood's world-renowned beaches, Boca Grande, and the amazing Myakka and Charlotte Harbor State Parks.
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UCSC opened in 1965 with 650 students. Forty-five years later, the campus is home to nearly 15,000 undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students. Computer science is the study of the theoretical and practical aspects of computer technology and computer usage. The department offers courses on a wide range of topics, many of which include a mathematical component. UC Santa Cruz offers both the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees, as well as the master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees, in computer science. Besides offering instructional courses, the Computer Science Department engages in a substantial research program in which both advanced undergraduates and graduate students participate.


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Step into the boots of action stars Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone, and Jason Statham, in an 8-bit Facebook action game based off of their upcoming movie,
Contra The Expendables.
You have to like a movie that brings together some of the greatest action heroes of all time into one testosterone-coma-inducing parade of shooting, punching, and kicking, and you have to like The Expendables: The Video Game.
No really, you HAVE to like it, or else you won't be able to play the Facebook application, and while I would say you could just go play Contra instead to get the same vibe, you'd be missing out on a few cute tweaks on the theme and possibly a chance to win movie swag.
I've played the game with Statham and Jet Li so far. Statham throws knives, with a power-up that lets him scatter the knives in three directions. Li gets a bit more complicated, kicking, spinning in the air, and throwing shurikens like there was a sale at Shurikens R' Us.
It's very Contra. Perhaps not as complicated. There are only three levels, and two of those end with you having to kill a trio of guys standing on exploding gas cans, which seems like a silly place to stand. The third ends with a boss fight against some guy who hops around and looks terribly out of place.
Winning the game with all three characters unlocks some sort of special, The Expendables-related thing, and getting a high score on the leaderboards could win you movie swag.
But first, you have to like The Expendables. If you don't, nothing I have to say about the game matters.
The movie will be out in theaters next month.
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K-Rod injured while stepping on cactus
Spring training debut will be delayed
Francisco Rodriguez's spring training debut for the Milwaukee Brewers could be delayed after the pitcher injured a foot by stepping on a cactus.
"He took out a lot of the thorns, but there some more in there," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said Wednesday. "I don't think it's that big of a setback, but I imagine he's pretty sore today."
Rodriguez reported late because of a visa problem and was expected to make his first appearance Thursday against San Diego in Peoria.
"He may come in today and say, 'I'm pitching.'" Roenicke said. "The way he is. It's tough to keep him back, so he may end up pitching tomorrow. I just have to talk to him and see how he's doing."
The 32-year-old, who agreed to a $3.25 million, one-year contract last month, was acquired during the 2011 All-Star break and went 4-0 with a 1.86 ERA in 31 appearances. He was 2-7 with a 4.38 ERA the following season, then had a 2.70 ERA with 54 strikeouts in 46 2-3 innings last year. Rodriguez got his 300th save on June 22, then was traded to Baltimore a month later.
Milwaukee has history with unusual injuries. Pitcher Zack Greinke began the 2011 season on the disabled list after getting hurt during a pickup basketball game, and general manager Doug Melvin was bit by a scorpion last year. In 1994, pitcher Steve Sparks separated a shoulder trying to tear a phone book in half.


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Nirvana's Krist Novoselic Reflects on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Performances
At the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the surviving members of Nirvana put on a performance for the ages. Drummer Dave Grohl, bassist Krist Novoselic and guitarist Pat Smear pounded out a four-song set of Nirvana tunes with a rotation of female vocalists taking on each song. Joan Jett, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, St. Vincent and pop superstar Lorde all took part, and in a new blog post by Novoselic, the musician reminisces about the hallmark night.
Not only did this star-powered union take over the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction at Brooklyn's Barclays Center arena, but the majority of Nirvana's cohorts joined Grohl, Novoselic and Smear at Brooklyn's small St. Vitus club for a full, once-in-a-lifetime gig after the ceremony. It was a monumental day for the legacy of Nirvana, and Krist Novoselic puts it all into perspective in a new blog post.
Novoselic writes:
I am so happy about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame event and how it went so well. Earlier that week there were three long days of rehearsals in NYC. I feel we conjured the spirit of the band, and we could not have done that alone. This, for me, is a bittersweet notion as we all miss Kurt so much. But considering we were inducted, the show had to go on. Joan Jett was first on my list to be out front. I spoke to Dave about it and he ran with the idea of having all women lead. We felt that would be a good tribute to Kurt and what Nirvana was about.
It was a good balance of females as Joan Jett and Kim Gordon are matriarchs of Punk Rock, while St. Vincent and Lorde represent the powerful up-and-coming women in Rock. Every one of these performances nailed a Nirvana tune in their own way. Joan - Smells Like Teem Spirit, Kim - Aneurism, St. Vincent - Lithium and Lorde - All Apologies. I had fun on the last song because I got to play accordion and all of our guests were on stage for a gala closing! Our set will be broadcast in high quality television in May so check it out.
We also did a club gig afterward that was a lot of fun. I will have more on that soon but thank you to J Mascis and John McCauley for your great contributions!!!!
Our "all female" Hall of Fame set also had me thinking about the political realm (Imagine that!) At FairVote we have done a report regarding the state of women's representation. I will have more to say about this, especially how at-large districts tend to put more women in office, at another time. Until then, enjoy this short and engaging video about the study narrated by Marie Wilson.
Further blowing the minds of Nirvana fans, the surviving band members and Courtney Love seemed to have buried their longtime feud, which hit its peak during legal battles over the rights to Nirvana's music.


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Ma Kiley Works the Line, 2001
In 1950, Railroad Magazine published a four-part series entitled "The Bug and I," an autobiographical account of Mattie Collins Brite, known as "Ma Kiley." Born in 1880, in Atacosa County, Texas, Ma Kiley worked as a telegraph operator for 40 years in remote locales that ranged from northern Mexico to Saskatchewan, Canada. Featured in the exhibition The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet, "The Bug and I" told the story of Ma Kiley's life in telegraphy-her joys and hardships as a "boomer."
Samuel F. B. Morse: In His Own Words, 2001
The American painter and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) is credited with designing and developing the first electromagnetic telegraph system. Morse conceived the idea for a telegraph in 1832, but faced many challenges before he was able to transmit his first message in 1844. This audio recording featured in the exhibition The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet captures Morse's words, read from various letters and diaries describing his journey.
Jack Geiger: Campaigning for Change, 2008
Jack Geiger, MD, M.Sci.Hyg. is a well-respected physician and activist who has devoted most of his professional career to health care, human rights, and efforts to alleviate poverty. Dr. Geiger's established an innovative, community health center in Mound Bayou, Mississippi during the 1960s, whose story is featured in the exhibition Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health. In this audio recording from the opening program for the exhibition, Dr. Geiger draws on a lifetime of experiences to encourage an audience of high school students that they can make a difference in their community by being an advocate for change.
Jeanne White-Ginder: Speaking Out, 2008
Since the loss of her son Ryan White to AIDS in 1990, Jeanne White-Ginder has become an advocate for people with HIV/AIDS. In this audio recording from the opening program for the exhibition, Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health, which featured a profile of Ryan and the discrimination he faced because of his illness, Ms. White-Ginder describes to an audience of high school students how her son's journey inspired her to take action.
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Protocol Memory Deficit in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00464659
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 23, 2007
Last Update Posted : December 30, 2015
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The main objective of this study is to evaluate the evolution of memory deficit (verbal episodic memory, procedural memory, working memory, short-term memory) in Sleep Apnea Obstructive Syndrome (SAOS) patients after treatment by Continuous Positive Airway Pressure treatment (CPAP). For thus, we will compare memory tests in two separate groups of SAOS patients with "effective " versus "ineffective" ( or sham) CPAP, before and 6 weeks after the beginning of the treatment. Thus we will assess the evolution of memory deficit, the effectiveness of the treatment on the evolution of memory deficit before and 6 weeks after the beginning of the treatment by "effective " versus "ineffective" CPAP.
We feel the results of the tests of memory will show greater memory disorders in patients with SAOS before beginning the treatment rather than six weeks afterwards. Thus we hypothesise that, after the treatment by "effective" CPAP, the patients with SAOS will have greater improvement of their memory disorders than those treated by "sham CPAP".
|Condition or disease
|Memory Deficit
|Device: Effective CPAP Device: Sham CPAP
|Not Applicable
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|40 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
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|Official Title:
|Comparison of the Evolution of Memory Deficit in Patients With Sleep Apnea Obstructive Syndrome (SAOS) Before and After "Effective" Versus Sham Treatment by Positive Pression Continues (PPC)
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|April 2007
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|June 2013
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|June 2013
Experimental: Effective CPAP treatment
Effective Continuous Positive Airway Pressure treatment (CPAP) applied for 6 weeks
Device: Effective CPAP
Auto-titrating CPAP machines (Remstar Auto; Philips Respironics, Murrysville, PA) provided by a home care company (Bastide Medical, France). Pressure was set between 6 and 14 cm of water
Sham Comparator: Sham CPAP treatment
Ineffective Continuous Positive Airway Pressure treatment (sham CPAP) applied for 6 weeks
Device: Sham CPAP
Similar CPAP machine delivering a 4 cm of water pressure that was too low to suppress sleep respiratory events.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Major patients,
- agreeing,
- diagnosed suffering from the SAOS,
- regulation by the specialist in a treatment by CPAP,
- patients do not begin the treatment
- affiliated to the social security,
- fluent in French.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients presenting severe depressive disorders (HADS score>19),
- intellectual deterioration (MMS< 28),
- a functional failure of the dominant arm upper limb inhibiting realization of graphic tasks,
- an associated oxygen treatment,
- suffering from cancer,
- cerebro-vascular accident,
- pregnant or nursing women,
- adult under supervision or trusteeship,
- patients already included in another research protocol or in period of exclusion,
- antidepressant and anxiolytic treatment.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00464659
|Laboratoire EFCR-Functional Cardio-Respiratory Exploration Laboratory
|Grenoble, Isere, France
|Principal Investigator:
|Jean-Louis JP Pépin, ProfessorPhD
|University Hospital, Grenoble
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|Responsible Party:
|University Hospital, Grenoble
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 23, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 30, 2015
|Last Verified:
|December 2015
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
|Plan Description:
|All individual patient data are anonymized
Sleep apnea obstructive syndrome (SAOS)
memory deficit
Continuous Positive Airway Pression (CPAP)
Sham CPAP
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Memory Disorders
Respiration Disorders
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations


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Last month I noted that London had been withholding summer weather from us, and I asked for your help in appealing to the weather-makers. Well, I don't know exactly who you all are and where you get your influence, but all I can say is thank you very much and I may be in touch again in the event of future difficulties. Do you have any pull with Saturday morning gymnastics class wait lists?
It's been sprinkler-on-the-trampoline weather for a full two weeks now, and that's why I have a thing or two to say about cherries at the moment. Maybe only one thing, really, which is that eating as many of them as possible right now is an excellent idea.
This smoothie blitzes two cups of cherries into a drink that's equally good for breakfast or dessert, despite using only fruit for sweetness. It's vegan, if you're into that sort of thing, but tastes like it might be packing a scoop of ice cream because of the vanilla and the slight creaminess that homemade almond milk contributes. My nine-year-old taste tester said, "I could drink this all day." And given what's in it—and the fact that summer weather makes me a little bit giddy—I just might let her.
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04 Sep, 2012
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Midtown Bloggerinos! Raph here, with some words about something special to me. For a while, the Midtown Comics Exclusives were comic covers (like Muppet Show #1, where the Muppets are all hanging outside of our Times Square store), which are definitely fun to have, but about 2 years ago, the store jumped into something I think is terrific: T-SHIRTS!


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"Oxymoron? I think I wash my clothes with that"
Chemical Formula:
Oxymoron is a compound produced as a by-product when a moron is oxidized. When inhaled in large quantities, oxymoron causes idiocy in a large group of people, which spreads quickly. This tends to happen during elections, scientific conventions, or on nightclub dance floors.
Oxymoron is a covalent molecule. It has strong intramolecular forces by which the affected moron resists change. In contrast, "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."
Oxymorons come in various strengths. Oxy-5 and Oxy-10 are the best for persistent skin problems. Industrial-strength oxymorons exist in abundance.
Industrial uses[edit]
Corporations arrange morons in large farms named offices. A large ventilation system provides an abundance of oxygen and induces the production of oxymorons. The resulting oxymorons can be made into software, marketing, political propaganda, and other bullshit.
The quality of oxymoron is directly proportional to the quantity of morons processed. This is especially true during meetings and brainstorms. By-products of these reactions are buzzwords and slogans.
Homemade oxymoron[edit]
Although not as potent as oxymorons obtained through industrial refinement, one can create the compound with amateur equipment including the following:
Simply place your person of lower than average intelligence (pictured) in a well-ventilated room with a toilet, food and one or more of the above ingredients. Lock the door to prevent any contaminants such as culture or opinions. Leave for a week. Be careful when handling your freshly baked oxymoron and enjoy.
Billy Mays invented the oxymoron. Determined to get every person to use Oxyclean, Mays used his utter genius to make the new product overnight. Now everyone uses it, without even knowing it.
There have been many heroic efforts by individuals and groups to clean up the many spills of oxymorons but these have been largely unsuccessful and led, indirectly, to the Darwin Awards.
Scientologists make use of the substance to attract converts (and, in some cases, convicts).
Oxymorons in poetry[edit]
- Late one morning, in the middle of the night
- Two dead boys got up to fight.
- Back to back they faced each other,
- Drew their swords and shot each other.
- The deaf policeman heard the noise
- And arrested them two dead boys.
- If you don't believe this lie is true,
- Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
Other meanings[edit]
"Oxymoron" is also a word for a scrapyard worker who has enough intelligence to light an oxyacetylene torch and to cut up metal objects with it, and no more.
Well-known oxymorons[edit]
- Microsoft Works
- Great Britain
- Military Intelligence
- Compassionate Conservative
- Vacation Bible school
They say that Federal Screw Works is an oxymoron and a redundancy at the same time.


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[Video below.] Soldiers in Israel's Navy who set sail last week on a mission to stop an alleged Iranian weapons shipment from reaching Gaza terrorists celebrated Shabbos together by singing Shalom Aleichem and then making Kiddush and having a seudah.
"As Shabbat began last week, these soldiers had already set sail to stop Iran's weapons shipment from reaching Gaza terrorists. In the middle of the sea, they all sang 'Shalom Aleichem' – a Shabbat song meaning 'peace be upon you,'" the IDF said. "Days later, their successful mission brought peace upon the entire nation of Israel."
The members of elite naval commando unit Shayetet 13 gathered below deck to sing together. The soldiers, who mostly wore yarmulkas, put their arms around each other's shoulders and swayed back and forth as they prayed. After the song was over, one soldier stepped forward and made Kiddush.
Days later, the unit successfully intercepted the arms shipment in the Red Sea. The boat, named KLOSC, was headed to Sudan, 1,500 miles from Israel.
One of the weapons captured, the M-302 missile, is made in Syria and is based on Iranian technology, Israel's Walla reported. IDF Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, oversaw the operation and gave the order to Major General Ram Rothberg, head of the Israeli Navy, to seize the KLOSC, the IDF said earlier this week.
Watch the video of Israeli commandos celebrating Shabbos below:
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{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau/The Algemeiner}


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In my April 3 blog (See "What Morningstar's FeeCheck Tells Us About AUM Fees," AdvisorOne.com), I wrote that because FeeCheck is based primarily on data from brokers, the high AUM fee levels it references and recommends—from 1.6% to 2.5% on a vanilla portfolio—don't reflect what's currently being charged in the fiduciary investment advisor market. With that said, the one takeaway in the FeeCheck data for independent advisors is this: There may be room in the retail market to raise their fees.
Dan Inveen of FA Insight recently echoed this sentiment when he told me, "A close examination of pricing practices from across the [independent advisory] industry reveals great opportunity to better leverage pricing as a means for creating more sustainable growth and profitability." Inveen and his partner at FA Insight, Eliza De Pardo, are possibly the only two consultants today who have the data to back up this claim. They recently published a paper, "Pricing Strategies to Create Growth: An Independent Advisor's Guide," based on data from their 2011 advisor survey and created the Pricing Your Advice tool for Pershing Advisor Services. In their work, Inveen and De Pardo provide an intriguing solution to the question that has dogged independent advisors since the creation of financial planning in the early 1970s: How much should they charge their clients? Their answer—value-based pricing—may be the best calculator yet. Whether clients will go along with it is still up in the air.
About 25 years ago, an advisor wrote a letter to me in which he described what he called "the dirty little secret" of financial planning: Retail clients won't pay directly for planning. He is as right today as he was then. Over the years, advisors have gotten paid for financial planning through nearly every means possible, except directly: selling mutual funds, tax shelters, limited partnerships, annuities and, starting around 1990 or so, fees for managing assets.
AUM fees have revolutionized the business of financial advisors: According to FA Insight data, in 2010, 90% of independent advisory clients were charged using an AUM fee only. Of course, AUM fees are far from a perfect compensation model. To start with, as Morningstar data shows, there's a built-in incentive to overcharge trusting clients.
For independent advisors, the larger issues with AUM fees are two-fold: As became painfully clear in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 market meltdown, revenues tied to assets create substantial challenges when the value of those assets falls dramatically. Both advisors and their clients would like to believe those are isolated incidents. But the reality is that we've seen major market declines four times in the past 25 years—'87, '91, '01 and '07—suggesting that these dips in assets and revenues should be treated as business cycle-as-usual.
The advisory business is already in the first stages of a long-term trend toward depleting asset bases as growing numbers of clients transition into the retirement phase of their lives. As this phenomenon continues to gain momentum, advisors will increasingly have to wrestle with declining revenues per client, while those clients become ever more costly to service.
With these revenue pressures in mind, Inveen and De Pardo made a couple of interesting discoveries while analyzing the data from their most recent advisor survey. First, they noticed that fully 50% of the most successful advisory firms, which they call "standout innovators" (the top 33% of firms with more than $3 million in annual revenues), actively review their pricing structures at least once a year and adjust their fees accordingly. "This is a key practice in supporting dramatically stronger profitability per client," says Inveen. "We don't know what adjustments they make, but we do know they use either the cost or the value of their services to make those adjustments. What's more, only 19% of all the firms we surveyed determine pricing levels primarily on the costs associated with their services. Clearly, firms can and should pay closer attention to firm profitability [and] value when pricing."
To help advisors get a handle on service profitability, Inveen and De Pardo recommend that firms calculate the "break-even point" for each client. This can be a complex and timely exercise, but they've created a system to greatly simplify the process. First, they suggest making two firm-wide calculations: the average overhead per client and the average labor costs per client (the total compensation of all advisors and all staff divided by the number of clients). Combining those two figures gives the average cost per client. Then they suggest including an additional "projected profit" figure: 25% in their examples. The total figure creates a baseline service cost per client.
Inveen and De Pardo then segment clients into high, average and low groups based on the complexity of service they require. By multiplying the firm's average cost of service per client by either 150% (high), 100% (average), or 50% (low), firms can compare the actual costs of the services they provide to each client, which can be compared with what each client actually pays, to determine whether their fees should be adjusted.
This brings us to FA Insight's second observation: "In 2010, 56% of all firms reported employing some form of a value-based pricing structure. Use of value-based pricing increases to 70% when we examine the practices of the largest and most successful firms," they wrote.
Yet, they weren't entirely comfortable with simply using averages in their calculations. "A true value-based pricing model requires a firm to determine the level of value delivered to each client," says De Pardo, "and an appropriate fee level based on this value. We think the calculation should be broadened to include both tangible and intangible value outcomes: the financial benefits of lower debt, savings on insurance [and] taxes, investment performance, etc., and softer benefits like peace of mind and trust in one's advisor."
Now, they are truly headed into uncharted territory. Their idea is to calculate—on a client-by-client basis—the actual dollars a firm has saved its clients, those gained by prudent investment management, and an estimate of the value of the intangibles. Then, compare that figure to the fee that each client is already paying, and if the "value added" is indeed higher, increase the client's fee through higher percentage, an additional flat fee or both.
There are myriad problems with quantifying even tangible values added: Should clients really pay for lower insurance costs every year, forever? What's the value of restructuring debt? What's excessively good investment performance? (Do clients get a rebate if their portfolios underperform in a given year?) And, what firms, other than the very largest, have the resources to make these calculations every year?
But the biggest problem with value-based pricing isn't how to make the calculations—it's how to explain them to clients. To their credit, Inveen and De Pardo don't recommend sharing their calculations with clients: This would obviously raise more questions than it would answer.
History tells us that effectively communicating the added value of comprehensive advice is an uphill battle—and getting clients to pay for it is a losing one. I'm guessing that the ultimate solution will be for advisors to use a system like FA Insight's to calculate their "added value" and increase their AUM fees accordingly. That way, advisors can feel justified in what they charge, and clients won't have to bend their minds around a new comp structure.
That begs one last question: Has it really been long enough since the Great Recession to start talking about raising fees?
"The environment is increasingly conducive to advisors talking to clients about fee changes," answers Inveen. "And, given today's challenges, something certainly has to give on the advisor side of equation." Adds De Pardo: "We've had robust discussions with clients on fee models. At the end of the day, they weren't concerned as long as they understood it and they felt that they are receiving value." Probably wouldn't hurt to have a list of answers to overcome client objections, just in case.


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I've never had to take time in the middle of a season to try and get myself back to pitching the way I can and trying to build up strength. Even though I made it back and I got the win, when I was actually doing my training during those months, I was not always sure if I could ever get back though I tried my best to believe that one day I would come back.So far, so good. It was a fabulous return. Now -- can he do it again on Sunday against the Orioles?
But more than anything, I think that the pitcher you saw [last night] was clearly different from the pitcher you saw at the beginning of the season. I think the time that I spent over the past three months was definitely worthwhile. ...
On the road back, I've been a burden on my teammates more than anything and I feel that I owe them. There's not much left in the season, but in the limited time, in the limited opportunity that I do have, I want to show my appreciation to my teammates and to the fans by contributing in a positive way.
SoSHer Sprowl (with p/fx data):
Matsuzaka was mostly a fastball pitcher today, and its movement was all over the map. ... the clusters are so diffuse that I can't tell how much of that is intended movement and how much of it is just plain wild. ...Dice was also throwing with a lower arm angle.
But under pressure, DiceK all of a sudden can command his fastball. I have no idea what turns the switch from complete scattershot to dart thrower. Losing velocity, oddly enough, seems to help ...
Matsuzaka's most effective pitch was the cutter, which generated plenty of feeble fly balls from lunging batters: 6 balls in play for outs. The slurve wasn't the out pitch of 2008, producing no swinging strikes. The offspeed pitches were mostly thrown out of the zone: 8 slurves, 4 changeups and 1 slow curve. Another pattern was the conspicuous avoidance of the low strike zone: most pitches were belt-high or above. ...
But most of all: he still leaves me wondering how a pitcher throwing 90-92 with fastball command that disappears for innings at a time can produce such delightful results. My best guess is that if even the pitcher doesn't know how his fastball will move, the batter hasn't a snowflake's chance in hell.
Terry Francona:
I thought he was terrific. He stayed in his delivery the entire night. It looked like he had some life on his fastball without a lot of effort. He threw a real good cutter. He had three walks and two of them, he had guys 0-2. It's a huge short in the arm for us.Dice:
In the last start, I left amidst some boos. So to be able to come back and experience that today was something very special as a ballplayer. If I could say one thing, I didn't want to leave in the middle of an inning, but I'm very grateful for the fans' response today.When NESN came back from commercial in the top of the second, Matsuzaka was throwing some warm-up pitches from the grass behind the mound.
It's something that I used to do in Japan. During my rehab assignments in the minors, that's when I started it back up. I think it's just another way that helps me get warmed up. The temperature is only going to go down from here on out, so I think I'm just going to try to incorporate that as part of my warm-up.Jason Varitek:
Don't ask me. That's new. Three from back there, five on the rubber. He got his eight. That was a surprise.John Farrell:
That's a little bit different. Daisuke is Daisuke for a number of reasons. To have that freedom to do some things, it's well within the rules. And if he chooses to do that, there's nothing to say. Most pitchers like to stretch it out a little bit. Beckett stands in front of the rubber and throws two or three. [Matsuzaka] chooses to stand behind it.Kevin Youkilis missed last night's game with back spams. He first thought he had a kidney stone. His status for tonight is unclear. ... Victor Martinez is in Cleveland because of a family matter and is expected back on Thursday. ... Jacoby Ellsbury had two singles in his 53rd multi-hit game of the season -- tops on the Sox.
David Ortiz set a major league record last night, with his 270th home run hit as a designated hitter.
When Ortiz goes deep, the Red Sox are 21-2. ... Pitchers for the weekend series against the Orioles: Clay Buchholz, Jon Lester and Matsuzaka. ... Starters ERA in the current six-game winning streak: 0.95 ERA.Dude Dongs
David Ortiz 270
Frank Thomas 269
Edgar Martinez 243
Harold Baines 236
Don Baylor 219
Jose Canseco 208
Chili Davis 200
The Red Sox will begin and end the 2010 season at home against the Yankees -- maybe. ... Speaking of the MFY, Posada is not called Dumbo only because of his ears.


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Snohomish County authorities raised the death toll to 24 in the mudslide that buried about a square mile on the Stillaguamish River last week.
As of Monday morning, officials had identified 17 of the 24 victims.
Search crews believe 22 people are still missing in the mud, up to 4 feet deep in spots, that blocked a highway and dammed a river.
Meanwhile, volunteers searching the mud are encountering toxic sewage, household solvents, gas, oil and other hazardous substances, said Steve Harris, division supervisor for the eastern incident management team in Darrington, Wash.
At the end of each day, search crew members and any personal affects they find in the debris must be decontaminated. Officials are concerned about possible incidents of dysentery and tetanus.
[Snohomish, Wash., County] [Seattle Times] [KIRO-TV, Seattle]


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OP grandma seeks help in Adopt-A-Family program
Phone bank open Wednesday
An Overland Park grandmother is asking for help, something she said she never thought she'd have to do.
Pamela Mitchell takes care of her three grandsons, ages 10, 6 and 17 months.
"It's been very difficult because I've always been independent. I've never had to ask anybody for anything," she said.
Mitchell, 59, said she was always able to help out her single grown daughters financially until she suffered a stroke last year. She said child care is too costly and it's become too hard for her.
She's been watching the children while her daughters get back on their feet.
"My family means everything to me," she said. "I'm the backbone for my family and I live and breathe for these kids. There's nothing I wouldn't do for them."
Mitchell said she has no health insurance, doesn't qualify for Medicaid, and Medicare doesn't kick in for another year. She said she has some income coming in, but it's not enough.
She has reached out to the Salvation Army's Adopt-A-Family program to make certain her grandsons have Christmas.
"I would like for the children to get at least one nice thing for Christmas," she said.
The KMBC 9 Salvation Army Adopt-A-Family campaign starts Wednesday, with a goal of helping 500 families get adopted. People wanting to help can call 816-760-9314 between 6 a.m. and 10:30 p.m.


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Investors are wary of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who appears to be giving ground to European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi and his plan to purchase Spanish and Italian bonds to help quell the financial crisis in the eurozone. As a result, they are pulling money out of Bunds and seeking what they see as safer investments.
Bloomberg reported Monday that Merkel (left), who had been strongly opposed to the ECB buying bonds, has been pushed not only abroad but at home by the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the main opposition party to her own. The Social Democrats have called for Germany to shoulder more of the expense in a rescue to prevent the breakup of the euro.
Even a potential challenger to Merkel has voiced support for closer fiscal integration in the form of joint eurozone bonds. Peer Steinbrueck, a former German finance minister who may oppose Merkel in the 2013 election, said Saturday that he supported SPD Chairman Sigmar Gabriel's recent call for issuance of common eurozone debt and greater fiscal integration.
Steinbrueck dismissed Merkel's own party's characterization of common debt issuance as "debt socialism." He said in the report, "They're being featherbrained," and went on to say that the eurozone crisis has already eliminated all but two options for the European Union (EU): surrender of more sovereignty to Europe or regression toward "renationalization." The latter, he said, "would be a fatal way to go" for export-based Germany.
The pressure has taken its toll; on Aug. 6, Merkel's deputy spokesman Georg Streiter said she now supports Draghi's bond buying plan in order to help lower borrowing costs in Spain and Italy. As a result, German Bunds, which have had yields below zero as investors sought them out as a safe haven from the fiscal troubles of the bloc, are now being sold off.
"The risk that Germany will have to issue more debt to finance the bailout is real," Johannes Jooste said in the report. Jooste, a senior strategist in London at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, which oversees $1.8 trillion globally and has cut bund holdings since last year, added, "I'm skeptical of investing in zero-yielding paper. I'm not convinced the current yields are justified."
He is not alone. Rose Ouahba, head of fixed income at Paris-based Carmignac Gestion, which manages about $60 billion, said in the report, "I don't have a lot of confidence about what is going to happen in Germany." She divested of Bunds in June and is now relying on Treasuries.
Other firms have headed for the exits as well. Fidelity Investments and PIMCO, as well as Ignis Asset Management in Glasgow, Scotland, and banks such as BNP Paribas, Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Barclays have all sold Bunds or are paring their holdings of them. All are concerned over the potential cost to Germany if Spain and Italy have to be bailed out. In such an eventuality, research firm Graham Fisher & Co. estimates that the cost to Germany of could run as high as 500 billion euros ($614 billion).
PIMCO is of the opinion that Bunds are overvalued; in fact, a bubble could be taking shape. Myles Bradshaw, executive vice president and money manager at PIMCO in London, was quoted saying, "If you are confined to Europe, then you would prefer to get into more attractive alternatives than Bunds. Globally there are much better alternatives to Bunds. The euro is facing an existential crisis and Bund valuations are expensive."
Josh Rosner, a banking analyst at New York-based Graham Fisher, said in the report that Germany must either accept the costs of greater fiscal integration among the nations of the eurozone or face the loss of its position as a safe haven.
Among the steps that should be taken to achieve that integration, Rosner said, were empowerment of the ECB to rescue banks, creation of a deposit insurance program and permission for the ECB to print money the way the Federal Reserve does so that it can push growth.
"As the ultimate costs to Germany become understood, we will see a flight to havens outside of the eurozone," he was quoted saying. "The best-case scenario is that Germany's government finally tells its people, 'Look, there are the costs associated with each of these solutions.' It's either full integration or full dissolution."
"Germany is facing a no-win situation," according to Brett Wander, chief investment officer for fixed income in San Francisco at Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. Wander said in the report, "They could either step up and do a disproportionate amount of work and pay a disproportionate price to keep the system afloat, or if they choose not to, then they will suffer in the long run. It's not fair, but they have no other choice. They all sink or swim together."