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The Case of the Drug-Dealing Doctor
Prescription for Disaster
The Case of the Drug-Dealing Doctor
"A doctor who illegally prescribes narcotics is no different than a drug dealer selling from a street corner."
A good point, made last month by Mark Trouville, DEA's top agent in Miami.
He was referring specifically to a doctor in Panama City, Florida, who was indicted on December 13 along with his office manager on a laundry list of fraud and drug charges—a whopping 124 counts in all.
Among the alleged crimes:
...Prescribing controlled substances—powerful narcotics like morphine, Percocet, and OxyContin—to drug addicts and abusers who were patients that just wanted to support their drug habits;
...Faking health care claims for patients who were never seen;
...And most grievous of all: killing two people who overdosed on the illegally prescribed drugs.
On some days, the doctor doled out as many as a thousand pills. And, according to the charges, he knew full well he was giving them to addicts who were misusing them.
The multi-agency investigation. In this case, many hands made effective work. The investigation was the product of the North Florida Health Care Fraud Task Force, created in 2001 by FBI Special Agent Victoria Harker of our four-person office in Fort Walton Beach. The task force—which handles cases across the Florida panhandle, stretching from Panama City to Pensacola—includes representatives from nearly a dozen law enforcement, criminal justice, regulatory, and healthcare agencies.
"The FBI has a small office here, and when it comes to investigating these complex health care frauds, we can't do it alone," said Harker. "With a bunch of agencies chipping in, it gives us a strong lineup in terms of both resources and jurisdictional reach. We can complete one of these investigations a lot more quickly."
And they have, scoring two major successes already. Convicted on similar charges were doctors Freddy Williams and Thomas Merrill.
"Everyone on the task force is an equal player and essentially a case agent, and I think that's why we're so successful," Harker said. "It's really a tight-knit team." And a perfect antidote to health care crime in an age of tight budgets.
So how did the task force go about making the case? With a lot of painstaking work. Specifically, the team members:
- Got the name of the doctor from pharmacists suspicious about the doctor's many prescriptions for narcotics;
- After some initial legwork, obtained a search warrant, seized key records, then gleaned relevant bits of data that were handed off to experts;
- Collected some 25,000 original prescriptions written by the doctor and created a database of them all;
- Put together a patient list that was analyzed and sent to experts for follow up;
- Conducted hundreds of interviews and identified the best witnesses; and
- Confirmed with a medical examiner that two patients died directly because of overdoses of narcotics prescribed by the doctor.
"It's time-consuming work, but worth every minute," explained Harker. "How would you feel if a friend or family member died from an overdose of drugs that should have never been available in the first place? Knowing that we can save lives keeps us going."
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Breathtaking Double Rainbow Proposal
How we met: Noel & I grew up in the same home town in Long Island, New York. We first met in junior high school, when my cousin (who was also in our grade and was friends with Noel), suggested that a group of us go to see "I Know What You Did Last Summer". Thirteen years old and awkward as can be, I remember thinking Noel was reeeally cute. So as you can imagine, I was extremely excited to be sitting next to him during a scary teen movie where I could hide my head in his arm (wink wink). Well, nothing romantic ensued but we remained good friends from that point on. We would always find each other at Sweet 16's to dance salsa and merengue together (specifically to the popular song at the time, "Suavemente"). After we graduated, Noel & I both went to off to college and naturally, we lost touch. One day, about 10 years later, a notification popped up on Facebook that Noel had changed his profile picture. It was a picture of him looking out over Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, where I had heard he moved to years before. I decided to comment on his new profile pic, while hinting at the fact that I would love to visit San Diego sometime soon! Noel responded to my comment, saying he had actually moved back to New York and suggested we grab a drink together sometime. So we did!! And well… the rest is history.
how they asked: Noel asked me to marry him at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego. Its beauty was two-fold. Besides being a picture perfect location, it was also symbolic as this was the place where our relationship, in a way, really began. Every moment with him is a gift for me, it really is. And this moment was no different.
As we looked out onto the water, he reminded me that this was the place where it all began, and said many other beautiful things about who we are as a couple (as Noel does every day). He said that his life was always great, but had become that much more special ever since we started our journey together. He then added, that if there were ever a place to propose to me, this would be it.
The next I knew, he was down on one knee, opening a box with a beautiful ring inside of it, and said….. "will you marry me?". I could not believe my eyes – here was my best friend, and the love of my life, asking me to spend the rest of my life with him. So as you can imagine, I said YES YES YES!!!
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Nobody is a bigger champion of the emerging online lending industry than venture capitalist Charles Moldow.
A general partner at Silicon Valley firm Foundation Capital, Moldow was an early backer of LendingClub and OnDeck Capital, which both held initial public offerings in December. And last year, he published a white paper that's been widely cited on the trillion-dollar market opportunity in what he termed marketplace lending.
So when an entrepreneur who wants to crack the fast-growing online debt market gets a dinner invite from Moldow, attendance is a no-brainer—especially when many of the industry's biggest names will also be at the table.
Read MoreA holiday treat for tech investors: IPOs
That's the setting Monday night for Moldow's second annual dinner tied to the burgeoning LendIt conference. In addition to the top execs from LendingClub and OnDeck, joining Moldow in New York will be the CEOs of start-ups including SoFi, LendingHome, Funding Circle, Orchard, RateSetter out of the U.K. and Germany's auxmoney.
"Last year, the conversation was intense for three-and-a-half straight hours," said Moldow, who's also an investor in LendingHome, auxmoney and a personal backer of Chinese online lender Dianrong. "There was a lot of energy around—when LendingClub goes public, this industry is going to explode."
Now LendingClub, which primarily facilitates consumer loans, is public with a market capitalization of about $7 billion, and business lender OnDeck is valued at $1.4 billion. Additionally, LendingClub rival Prosper Marketplace just raised private capital at a $1.87 billion valuation.


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Writing Wedding Invitations- How To Approach It!
You are engaged, planning your wedding and deciding how to word your invitations. Mind gone blank? It's a common thing to hear you didn't know what your invites should say.
You don't want your invites to sound formal/unfriendly and put your friends and family in a panic. You want them to be at ease and look forward to your wedding! Here are some writing tips to help you get the word out- We're getting married and we want to party with you!
- Simplicity, sound like yourself. Bringing out the thesaurus to ask someone to attend your day is a little odd. Keep it light and well written.
- Formality is allowed, as long as your wedding is too. Your invites shouldn't read smart-casual if your wedding is black-tie.
- It's nice to include the parents. They needn't be named, although if they are paying for the wedding they should be.
- Open with a poem or verse from the Bible if it is a religious ceremony.
- Don't forget the checklist!
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I want to begin by wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! This Thursday is a national holiday set aside for affirming harvest blessings and offering thanksgiving to God. I am glad to join our faculty, staff, and student colleagues at Georgetown in expressing thanks for bountiful blessings. I thank God every day for his many blessings, and Thanksgiving Day provides even more focus for that dimension of my life.
In this Perspective, I want to go even further to offer a suggestion that you should feel free to place in whatever category you think it deserves. My suggestion is that we discontinue Halloween, and replace it with Thanksgiving. You may find this to be a rather radical idea, but I think that I have been heading in this direction for sixty years. As a child, candy treats with trick-or-treating were fun, but the ghoulish, haunted, horror dimensions of Halloween have never appealed to me. In fact, I believe that the commercial and entertainment enterprises connected to Halloween's macabre elements distract from its religious connections to All Hallows' Eve.
On the other hand, it seems that Thanksgiving is treated almost as if it gets in the way of Christmas. Christmas decorations, advertisements, and sales run all through November, much to the expense of joyous Thanksgivings. In my opinion, Thanksgiving deserves far better treatment that it has been receiving in recent decades.
My suggestion is to do away with Halloween celebrations, and replace them with Thanksgiving celebrations. That would actually seem quite logical, based on sheer timing. The fourth Thursday of November seems somewhat late to celebrate a good harvest. Growing up on a farm, I participated in a lot of harvesting, almost all of which was finished by the end of September, and certainly by the end of October. My proposal would also provide Thanksgiving a more established place that would not be a detour leading up to Christmas. Just thinking!
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Waltz time for Bernd/Lenny
|Happy 15h Birthday to Bernd's new name!
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Today on this Whirled, Dear Ones, we are celebrating! We are here to celebrate the momentous Quinceañera -- fifteenth birthday -- of the former Bernd Klein's new legal name: Leonard Coldwell. Bernd was apparently using this moniker as an "artist's name," or Künstlername, for years in his homeland of Germany, but he became "known legally only as Leonard Coldwell" by order of a court in the great state of Virginia, USA, on June 25, 1998.
It was perhaps symbolic of the beginning of a new life in his adopted country. He moved from Virginia to South Carolina in the summer of 2000, and a few years later -- I don't know the exact date, and am too lazy to research it, but I believe it had to have been some time between 2002 and 2007 -- he became a naturalized US citizen, reportedly with the help of a few notorious South Carolina Republican politicians such as Joe Wilson and Lindsey Graham. (I've said it before and will say it again: the fact that Coldwell was able to become a US citizen shows that the US is definitely in need of immigration reform. For one thing, Coldwell the proud American citizen has actually spent a great deal of time undermining the US by telling people they don't have to obey laws, and preaching that if they vote or participate at all in the political process, they're fools. See, for instance, this post, and this one (scroll down to "And let's not even get into the fear-mongering...").)
At any rate, Coldwell has boasted numerous times about being friends with, and loved and endorsed by, both Wilson and Graham. More recently, however, he has kind of thrown Graham under the bus, by copying and pasting a SHTFplan.com article that is critical of Graham's apparent police-state leanings.
I've never really learned the exact reason that Bernd Klein became Leonard Coldwell -- or for that matter, exactly why he left Germany -- though I have heard several stories. What does seem clear is that Bernd Klein is not the only other name Lenny has used. He also used the name Bernd Witchner on his German passport; I'm told he borrowed that name from a former wife. I have no idea if that is true, or if he still uses the name Witchner on his passport or on any other records in the US or abroad. But he did use it at one time, according to this document, which was initiated in September of 1998, when Bernd's new legal name was a mere infant of three months. Germany is kind of weird about names and name changes, so back when he was still Bernd, he may have been within his legal rights to use the name Witchner if he was married to a Witchner. But you do have to sort of wonder why he didn't use the name consistently in his everyday life.
Anyway. We are observing this occasion, the fifteenth anniversary of Bernd's legal name change, with a lovely Latin American tradition because, alas, the Fatherland appears to have no special celebration for fifteenth birthdays or anniversaries. I realize we are mixing cultures here, but isn't that, after all, what Bernd/Leonard's adopted homeland is all about? The US is a melting pot, or so I've heard. So a Quinceañera it is!
The Quinceañera -- pronounced KEEN-say-ahn-YEH-ra -- is a lovely tradition, usually held for girls on their fifteenth birthday. It's kind of like a Sweet Sixteen party, but a year early. Marking a young girl's passage into womanhood, it is a time when the honoree is truly a princess-for-a-day. Done properly, a Quinceañera is nearly as elaborate (and expensive) as a wedding, and some girls do choose a white wedding-ish gown for their special day.
In fact, a few months ago at my favorite country auction, there was a Quinceañera doll on the block. More than likely she was intended as a table centerpiece for a Quinceañera party. (Yes, I know I've told this story before on Facebook and possibly here as well, but I'm afraid you'll have to hear it again.) At first I thought the little figure to be a bride doll, because she was decked in a gorgeous white gown. But then I looked at the sash the doll was wearing, which read, "Mis Quince Años." (Mis Quince años (pr. MEES KEEN-say AHN-yos) literally translates to "My Fifteen Years," and is of course a reference to one's fifteenth birthday.)
I thought nothing more about it till much later on when, half asleep, I heard the twangy, Texas-accented voice of the obviously Spanish-impaired auction floor assistant holler out:
"Miss Quint's anus!"
Startled into full wakefulness, I looked up and saw that he was holding the Mis Quince Años doll high up in the air. There were a few shocked faces in the audience; no one who was paying attention knew quite what to make of it. But others, like me, were trying heroically to suppress their mirth. Said the dapper British auctioneer, who was clearly trying to stifle his laughter, "Um, what was that again?"
"Miss Quint's anus!"
A few in the audience tittered. Confused, the poor floor guy said, "Hey, don't blame me. That's what it says on the doll's ribbon!"
Once the confusion was cleared up, the proceedings continued, but alas, there were no buyers for Miss Quint or her anus. I kind of felt sorry for both of them.
But I digress. It's time to party, amigos! I've earned the right to do so because I have to tell you, it has not been easy being a Quinceañera planner. Shopping for the gown, for instance, was no easy task. There were so many breathtaking varieties from which to choose! White seemed dreadfully inappropriate, so that was out, but I couldn't decide between two of Bernd/Leonard's favorite colors, pink and aqua. After long minutes of agonized mulling, I chose a lovely number that is pink and aqua, set off by a glitzy little tiara. I think it really brings out the shine in Lenny's forehead.
But my trials were not over once the gown and tiara were chosen. When I was creating the cheesy commemorative graphic, my graphics app, CorelDraw (I know, I'm a rebel) crashed several times. Each time it did, I could hear my computer making little puking noises, kind of like the ones Gollum makes in Lord of the Rings, but with something that sounded more like, "Bernd! It Bernd us, Precious!" I think the problem was that the textured pink-striped bitmap in the frame takes up a lot of memory, for some reason. (Also, you should see the way I work when I am creating something; I clutter my Corel desktop with all sorts of miscellaneous memory-hogging elements. It drives Ron nuts, but that's the way I roll.)
But I soldiered on. I wasn't going to disappoint Bernd's new name by not having a virtual party in its honor. (Never mind that a name can't actually wear a gown; the face of a little Teutonic twerp who owns the name can be crudely Corel Photo-Painted into a pic of the gown.) I overcame the technical challenges, knowing that you simply cannot have a virtual party on my Whirled without a cheesy commemorative graphic. A video would possibly be better, but I don't do vids, so this will have to suffice. (By the way, I redacted Bernd's mommy's maiden name from the graphic, because, as Bernie O'Mahony mentioned on GINtruth.com recently, Lenny's alter ego Rudi Kauder gets really, really mad and tends to threaten me with violence when I mention Mommy.)
What about refrescos? Well, I can't bake worth a darn, and Ron is busy, so I decided to skip the cake. I hope y'all don't mind. You are certainly welcome to bake your own cake, or pies, or Very Special Brownies, or other sweetmeats as you wish. And I know some of you will be popping some popcorn and pouring yourself a few cold cervezas. It's up to you. After all, it's your party too!
I didn't bother with balloons and decorations either because I am lazy, but here are some good ideas, with lots and lots of pink:
I knew we needed music for our celebration, and that was easy. For the traditional choreographed Quinceañera waltz, I chose a contemporary favorite.
The song that is playing is Tiempo de Vals (Waltz Time) by Chayanne.
If you want the English translation to the lyrics, try this link: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/tiempo-de-vals-waltz-time.html
Like so many things, the song's lyrics lose something in the translation... just like this German document, when it gets translated into English by Google. But the meaning is fairly clear. You should, of course, feel free to go surfing all over the Tubes for more Quinceañera waltzes. But don't get carried away, lest you become burned out on "Tiempo de Vals."
I leave you for now, Dear Ones, with yet another waltz (since we're already en tiempo de vals anyway): an oldie but goody, Joan Baez' "Brand New Tennessee Waltz," which at least is culturally closer to the former Bernd's adopted region than all of those lovely Latino themes above.
I have been a fan of this song for years, and the last verse never fails to choke me up.
So let all of your passionate violinsMaybe I messed up a little on some of those lyrics. But it's quite a lovely tune anyway, don't you think?
Play a tune for a Germany kid
Who's feeling like leaving another land
With no place to go if he did
'Cause they'll catch you wherever you're hid
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Carrick is a south neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is served by two zip codes, 15210 and 15227, and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by the council member for District 4 (South Neighborhoods) with a part in District 3.
Located between the suburbs of the South Hills and downtown, Carrick is well-served by public transportation. Once home to prominent mansions and wealthy families, the neighborhood currently has an affordable, solid housing stock and remains family-oriented.
Carrick is located on the southeastern edge of the City of Pittsburgh. It is situated atop a crest west of the Monongahela River. It is surrounded by (clockwise from the north) Knoxville, Mt. Oliver Borough, Mt. Oliver, St. Clair, Baldwin Borough, Brentwood Borough, Overbrook, Brookline, Bon Air.
Brownsville Road runs across the top of the crest and is the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood. The Carrick section of Brownsville Road is approximately 2.2 miles long; it generally comprises three discrete business districts with residential areas in between.
Carrick was originally part of the land grant to Major John Ormsby from King George III in 1763 for his service during the French and Indian War. It became known for coal mines and a glassworks in the Crailo area, also known as Spiketown, near the Presbyterian Church and Volunteers Field.
In 1853, Dr. John H. O'Brien received permission from the United States Postal Service to establish a post office in the area; for his hard work he was given the honor of naming it, and he chose "Carrick" after his home town, Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland. Carrick became a Borough in 1904 and in 1926 voted to become part of the City of Pittsburgh. In 1927 it officially became known as the 29th Ward.
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The neighborhood boasts of numerous parklet playgrounds, the Carnegie Library of Carrick, historic Phillips Park (comprising walking paths, a disc golf course, a recreation center and swimming pool) and Volunteers Field (comprising a baseball-only field and a multipurpose athletic field).
In 1997, Carrick was named the first "Cool Community in the northern United States by the U.S. Department of Energy. "Cool Community" is a national recognition program for strategic treeplanting for energy conservation purposes. Partnering with conservation organizations, community groups worked to weatherize homes and businesses, plant trees and flowers, and add elements of "green building" to the renovation of Carrick High School.


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One day, two great ladies.
On May 3, 1415, Lady Cecylee Neville was born at Raby Castle to Ralph, First Earl of Westmorland and his second wife, Lady Joan de Beaufort.
On May 3, 1446, on her 31st birthday, Lady Cecylee, now Duchess of York, gave birth to Lady Margaret Plantagenet, later the Duchess of Burgundy. Mother and daughter were close and I always like to imagine them enjoying their shared birthday together.
If you would like to help celebrate Lady Cecylee's 598th birthday, or Lady Margaret's 567th birthday, please stop by Lady C's Chateau on Facebook, and hit the "Like" button!


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A winner was selected from 158 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Use a program such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to create your design. Make sure to create your art at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and to the approximate size that the design should be printed. You can submit either your art file (800 pixels wide by 640 pixels tall) and should be a good representation of the artwork or your submission image (900 pixels wide x 500 pixels tall). We do require you show placement of your design in this submission image.
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Lifestyle quiz to secure a mortgage
Mortgage applicants face tougher questions about their lifestyle, under new rules that take effect on Saturday.
The changes are designed to "hardwire common sense" into the mortgage application process, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.
Questions from lenders about customers' regular outgoings - including childcare costs and even haircuts - could be included in affordability checks.
Brokers say the changes could lead to delays and rejections of applications.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said the transition to the new rules would be smooth, despite it being the biggest change to the mortgage market for more than a decade.
And many lenders have already changed their systems so they comply with the new rules.
'Sensible' move
The rules - known as the Mortgage Market Review (MMR) - are designed to protect consumers from the kind of reckless mortgage lending that would leave them unable to make repayments.
They were drawn up during the financial crisis and originally planned to come into force last summer but changes were made following consultation with lenders.
At their heart is a new affordability check, that will see applicants interviewed by a lender and asked about their income and outgoings.
Martin Wheatley, the chief executive of the FCA, told the BBC: "The core principle is a very sensible one - lend to people what they can afford to repay.
"We've come out of a period, particularly in 2008-09, when there was no attempt to verify people's ability to pay, and we've ended up with lots of payment problems, lots of people in mortgages that are problematic for them, and if we had a different interest rate environment we'd see a lot of foreclosures."
'Stress test'
Previously, many mortgage offers were based on a multiple of the buyer or homeowner's income. Now, more consideration will be given to the household budget and how much spare money is available to them.
That is likely to mean more detailed checks, with questions asked about anything from subscriptions to childcare costs.
Applicants will be expected to explain if they are predicting any significant change in their income or spending.
Lenders will also have to "stress test" an applicant's ability to repay if interest rates increased over a five-year period. This is expected to lead to some applications being rejected.
However, the Building Societies Association (BSA) said this did not mean that those on lower incomes or those only able to offer a small deposit would be frozen out of the property market.
Paul Broadhead, head of mortgage policy at the BSA, said: "It is understandable that people are concerned about the changes to the mortgage application process - however, it is vital that this new regime does not dent consumer confidence or sentiment in the housing market.
"It is highly unlikely that a single purchase or category of expenditure will make the difference between yes or no decisions."
However, mortgage customer Claire Bhandhukravi said that a loan that she had taken out to buy a car had "thrown a spanner in the works" when applying for a mortgage.
"It resulted in me getting less money, and the whole process took even longer," she said.
Peter Hill, the chief executive of the Leeds Building Society, told the BBC that research carried out when the changes were being drawn up indicated that in a normal mortgage market the new rules would probably affect about 2.5% of borrowers.
"In a more buoyant market, possibly a market that's starting to overheat, that could be as much as 11%, so I think the impact's going to be much smaller than some people fear," he added.
Mortgage lenders have had to train staff in the new rules, but the extra pressure on time could mean the process of securing a mortgage to buy a home could take longer.
Ray Boulger, from mortgage advisers John Charcol, told the BBC that while some of the checks were common sense, he thought some were unnecessary.
"When it gets down to asking for detail on non-essential expenditure, which we know in practice that people tend to cut back on if they need to, that's where I think some lenders are going too far - but it does vary considerably from lender to lender."


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Ketogenic dietary therapy for Doose syndrome
Written by:
Elizabeth Neal MSc PhD RD
Research Dietitian, Matthew's Friends Clinics
Honorary Research Associate, UCL – Institute of Child Health
Doose syndrome, also known as myoclonic astatic epilepsy (MAE) or epilepsy with myoclonic-atonic seizures, is a rare type of generalised epilepsy that was first described in 1970 (1). Onset is usually before the age of five years and multiple different seizure types develop including periods of non-convulsive status epilepticus in some children (2). Appropriate anti-epileptic drug (AED) therapy is usually used as an initial treatment for MAE, however failure of a first medication to control seizures will significantly reduce the likelihood of subsequent seizure freedom (3). International consensus recommendations suggest that ketogenic dietary therapy should be strongly considered in a child with epilepsy which has failed to respond to two or three AEDs (4). Updated NICE guidelines on management of the epilepsies in adults and children also suggest that children and young people with epilepsy whose seizures have not responded to appropriate AEDs are referred to a tertiary paediatric epilepsy specialist for consideration of the use of a ketogenic diet (CG137, nice.org.uk).
The ketogenic diet is a high fat, restricted carbohydrate dietary regime that has been used as a treatment for epilepsy since the 1920s; efficacy has been demonstrated in many prospective studies and a randomised controlled trial (5). This dietary therapy has been shown to be particularly beneficial in MAE where seizures are often resistant to AEDs. One centre reported on 11 children with this syndrome: of six who remained on the ketogenic diet after 18 months, all had over 50% seizure reduction including two who became seizure free and discontinued AEDs (6). A long term follow up study by the same investigators included 38 children with MAE of whom 11 (29%) were seizure free on the ketogenic diet (7).
An alternative more liberal type of ketogenic diet is the modified Atkins diet (MAD). A review of nine children with MAE on dietary therapy reported that seven became seizure free within several weeks of starting a diet and were able to discontinue all AEDs: four were on MAD, 2 on traditional ketogenic diet, and one started on MAD but needed to transition to the ketogenic diet to achieve full seizure freedom (8). An earlier review of 27 children with epilepsy, of whom nine had a MAE diagnosis, also found that some patients saw additional seizure benefits by switching from MAD to the stricter ketogenic diet (9).
Two studies have examined outcomes following different treatments for MAE including diet and medications, although the ketogenic diet was generally only used after failure of many AEDs. The first study reviewed 81 children of whom 26 were treated with the ketogenic diet, 15 (58%) of whom became seizure free (10). The second reviewed 23 children of whom 10 received the ketogenic diet, 3 (30%) became seizure free (11). The authors of both studies concluded that the diet was the most effective of the treatment options in controlling seizures.
The ketogenic diet is increasingly being recognised as one of the most efficacious treatments for MAE (12, 13). As children with this syndrome may be particularly receptive to diet therapy (2), they should be given the chance to try © Matthew's Friends 2017 this treatment option as early as possible in the course of their epilepsy. We propose that children with MAE who have failed appropriate AED therapy are funded for an initial assessment of suitability for ketogenic dietary therapy. Children who start a diet will require a minimum of three months on treatment to allow adequate assessment of benefit and appropriate fine-tuning of the prescription to a child's individual needs. If seizure control is improved, it is likely that AEDs would be reduced or discontinued after that time. The ketogenic diet is usually continued for least two years if successful.
- Doose H, Gerken H, Leonhardt R, et al (1970) Centrencephalic myoclonic-astatic petit mal. Clinical and genetic investigation. Neuropadiatrie 2(1):59-78.
- Bergqvist AG (2012) Myoclonic astatic epilepsy and the use of the ketogenic diet. Epilepsy Res. 100(3):258-60.
- Kwan P, Brodie MJ (2000) Early identification of refractory epilepsy. N Engl J Med. 342 (5):314-9.
- Kossoff EH, Zupec-Kania BA, Amark PE, et al (2009) Optimal clinical management of children receiving the ketogenic diet: recommendations of the international ketogenic diet study group. Epilepsia 50:304-17.
- Neal EG, Chaffe HM, Schwartz R, et al (2008) The ketogenic diet in the treatment of epilepsy: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 7:500-6.
- Caraballo RH, Cersósimo RO, Sakr D, et al (2006) Ketogenic diet in patients with myoclonic-astatic epilepsy. Epileptic Disord. 8(2):151-5.
- Caraballo R, Vaccarezza M, Cersósimo R, et al (2011) Long-term follow-up of the ketogenic diet for refractory epilepsy: multicenter Argentinean experience in 216 pediatric patients. Seizure 20(8):640-5.
- Simard-TremblayE, Berry P, Owens A, et al (2015) High-fat diets and seizure control in myoclonic-astatic epilepsy: A single center's experience. Seizure 25:184-6.
- Kossoff EH, Bosarge JL, Miranda MJ, et al (2010) Will seizure control improve by switching from the modified Atkins diet to the traditional ketogenic diet? Epilepsia 51 2496–9.
- Oguni H, Tanaka T, Hayashi K, et al (2002) Treatment and long-term prognosis of myoclonic-astatic epilepsy of early childhood. Neuropediatrics 33(3):122-32.
- Kilaru S, Bergqvist AG (2007) Current treatment of myoclonic astatic epilepsy: clinical experience at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Epilepsia 48(9):1703-7.
- Kelley SA, Kossoff EH (2010) Doose syndrome (myoclonic-astatic epilepsy): 40 years of progress. Dev Med Child Neurol. 52(11):988-93.
- Mulligan JE, Mandelbaum DE (2011) Myoclonic astatic epilepsy and the role of the ketogenic diet. Med Health R I. 94(5):127-30.


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Friday, March 21, 2014
SCT Spring issue is here + give-away!
The spring issue is here and best of all, it's free! Just click here and enjoy 80 pages of inspiration, techniques, how-tos and so much more ... all in the Spring 2014 issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today!
Would you like to win a print copy of this issue? Just leave a comment on this post and tell us what your favorite spring flower is. We'll draw a random winner on Wednesday.
Good luck!
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Video: Usher Remembers Heavy D
Heavy D was laid to rest this Friday in Mount Vernon, New York. Funeral attendees included Jay-Z, Diddy, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Will Smith. President Obama and the 1st lady also sent their thoughts and prayers in a letter. In the video above, Usher remembers his late friend. Heavy D died on November 8th, due to complications from pneumonia.
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Raw banana fry | Vazhaikkai varuval is a spicy, tasty side dish which goes well with sambar, rasam, curd as well as with any Variety rice. Though I prepare raw banana fry in different methods, this recipe is quite simple with minimum ingredients. This dish comes handy during busy week days. I make this varuval often and our favourite combo is vazhaikkai varuval with lemon rice.
Recipe for Raw banana fry | Vazhaikkai varuval
Cuisine : Indian| South Indian
Recipe Category – Side Dish/Vegetarian
Preparation Time: 10 Minutes
Cooking time : 15-20 Minutes
Serves – 2
- Raw banana | Vazhaikkai – 1 No.
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
- Salt to taste
For seasoning:
- Oil – 2 to 3 tbsp
- Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
- Garlic (crushed) – 4 pods
- Curry leaves – few
- Peel the skin from vazhaikkai, slit into two, cut them to thin discs and keep in water.
- In a non-stick pan, heat oil and season with fennel seeds and curry leaves.
- Add crushed garlic and sauté till it gets slightly browned.
- Then add required salt, turmeric powder and red chilli powder, give a quick stir to mix all ingredients evenly with oil.
- Immediately, add the raw banana pieces and mix everything well.
- Cook covered with a lid in medium fire, for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, open the lid and just turn around the pieces. Cook covered for 5 minutes.
- Open the lid and fry in simmer for about 10 minutes, gently turning the pieces in between & switch off.
Spicy Vazhaikkai Fry is ready to serve! It goes well with sambar, dhal, rasam,curd or with any Variety rice.
- Adding garlic gives a nice flavour to the recipe as well as aids digestion. If you don't like garlic flavour, add a pinch of asafoetida.
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Nike. ID Cube. In Store Object.
For Nike's "BE TRUE." campaign, I came up with the idea for a shoe customizing toy based on the infamous Rubik's Cube. The toy redefines the original use, because in stead of solving the puzzle, someone can now create his own favorite shoe by playing with the toy.
The original (award winning) idea was to give people the opportunity to have their creations produced, but unfortunately this was not possible due to time restraints. The ability to interact with the brand and get creative on the other hand is very much possible.


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18 at last, wow, and I feel no different whatsoever. Well, at least now I can vote and maybe sneak a sherry or two. I've received excellent presents coming in the forms of books of historical tweets, pretty scarves, alcohol, vouchers, a new fangled phone and money. Which I shall no doubt be spending on some lovely new clothes.
Anyway, France was exquisite.
The boy who's a friend and his family were kind enough to let me stay with them there for a few days. On my last day they made me a fabulous breakfast with bucks fizz and pancakes, fig 1&2. Image 3 is the result of cheap fire lanterns as featured in the final picture. France was nearly set to go up in flames.
Apologies for the very self related post, I'll be back on track with the clothing posts soon enough!
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Friday, October 10, 2014
The Turtleneck
autumn is here and it brought one trend back i waited for all summer - the turtleneck!
with hairs plugged in and neutral colors this look is just right up my street. heavy knits or smooth cashmere, i don't care as long as it is cozy and keeps me warm!
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Amazing illustration! You are talented girl, would love to see more of these here!ReplyDelete
And this turtleneck trend, well, nothing for me. Just can't stand the feeling of having something that tight around my neck. But anyway, looks great!
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*Depending on one's point of view, the following could be seen as distressing or encouraging.
According to the NY Times, a large federal study of whether diet and weight loss can prevent heart attacks and strokes in overweight and obese people with Type 2 diabetes has ended two years ahead of schedule because the intensive program did not help.
"I was surprised," said Rena Wing, the study's chairwoman and a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's medical school.
Like many, she had assumed diet and exercise would help, in part because short-term studies had found that those strategies lowered blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
But, Dr. Wing added, "You do a study because you don't know the answer."
Still, medical experts said there were many benefits to diet and exercise even if they did not reduce cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes.
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Christmas Carols as Opportunities for Teaching Great Truths
I don't know about you, but all the children I know love to sing Christian Christmas carols. The familiar tunes and the special events surrounding the Christmas season give these carols a special place in their hearts. Most children are able to memorize the verses with amazing ease. But let's not miss a great opportunity when we teach children these carols. Many carols (and the kind I would recommend) convey big truths—truths that we should take the time to carefully, yet as simply as possible, explain.
Singing hymns about the coming of Jesus Christ is one means of education. Children are made aware of the weighty dignity of great themes, learning the meaning of words in their context. And it doesn't matter if these things take time to absorb. It was T. S. Eliot who argued that fine language can communicate before it is understood. You can explore the rhythm and workings of the language through Christian hymns.
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Niles' versatile, custom installation-specific home theater loudspeaker line meets and exceeds highest standards of excellence established by Sound & Vision
MIAMI, FLORIDA - January 7, 2008 - Niles Audio Corporation, The First Name in Custom Installation®, announced today that Sound & Vision magazine, whose reviews are the most authoritative in the home entertainment industry, has selected the company's StageFront Home Theater Solutions™ loudspeaker line as a "Sound & Vision Certified and Recommended product." Designed specifically for home theater applications, the StageFront line includes both in -wall and cabinet models that are voice -matched to deliver exceptional sound quality in custom installed home theaters, regardless of loudspeaker type. The Sound & Vision Certified and Recommended status endorses StageFront loudspeakers and tells consumers that the product stands out in its class and that they can purchase it with confidence.
"StageFront Home Theater Solutions has been a true labor of love for Niles," said Frank Sterns, president and chief loudspeaker designer of Niles Audio Corporation. "The line was created by custom installers for custom installers, with their home theater needs and design challenges in mind. We are very proud that this effort has been recognized by such a widely read and respected magazine," Sterns added.
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Our hearts go out to all those affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. All proceeds this week will go to the Philippine Red Cross.
NEW! Double Bloom Headband
Gorgeous for the holidays! These soft fabric flowers are sewn together with netting and a sweet pearl in the center. They are attached to a comfortable, soft elastic headband.
What else is happening this week?
Tuesday Tips: Heat Protectants
Win it Wednesday: Announce winners of the set of personalized hand stamped necklace from Miss Ashley Jewelry (you can still enter!) and the start of a new giveaway from Tiffiny Designs!
Thursday Theater: Hairstyle Video
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A classic picture from the archives. Jon's Blood Ravens take cover in overgrown ruins.
#ThrowBackThursday – because there's nothing like a blast from the past!
A classic picture from the archives. Jon's Blood Ravens take cover in overgrown ruins.
Gaz is making himself a Thunderhawk, here's what it looked like back in 2011. One day it'll be finished!
April 2012, it's Splishy Boats (read: Uncharted Seas).
Here's a mid roll shot, the question is; Will it be a 6?
Back in 2009 Matt's Imperial Guard were proving a tough nut to crack, so for the Christmas game we had All vs Imperial Guard.
What Matt didn't expect was a Paperhammer Titan that Gaz had made dubbed BESSIE. The look on Matt's face and the following 10 minutes of speechlessness was beautiful.
Salute 2015 is only just around the corner so here's a picture from 2012. Matt joined the Crooked Dice team for a day of 7TV Gaming.
Here is Hugo Solomon and Pandora King taking on a living scarecrow…
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Here's our Matt with Black Libraries Dan Abnett back at the SFX Weekender in February 2012
The White Eagles Wargames Club Christmas game from 2011, good times!
A long time ago (in a galaxy far away…) before the White Eagles there was Swarmm…
Here are a few of the old members at Games Day 2002 doing an Inquisitor display game.
The terrain was all custom built and took a lot of putting together, the 8 by 4 board was fully tiled from old cereal boxes. Some of the members still can't look at a box of Frosties without having 'Nam style flashbacks!
#ThrowBackThursday – July 2012
It's Star Wars year so this seems rather appropriate!
#ThrowBackThursday – April 2012
Holden Island – Matt's home away from home.


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Setting Appropriate Child Support Orders, a Report from the National Judicial-Child Support Task Force
TO: State and Tribal IV-D Directors
RE: Setting Appropriate Child Support Orders, a Report from the National Judicial-Child Support Task Force
Dear Colleague:
I am pleased to provide the attached Setting Appropriate Child Support Orders: Practical Techniques Used in Child Support Agencies and Judicial Systems in 14 States, a work product of the National Judicial-Child Support Task Force's Subcommittee on Avoiding Inappropriate Orders. The Task Force is a group of professionals representing State and Tribal child support enforcement agencies, State courts, State court administrators, national court and judicial associations, and the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement.
An overriding goal of the Task Force is to promote and enhance child support program-judicial collaboration in order to better fulfill our commitment to children and families. This report is intended to provide ideas for child support program-judicial collaboration efforts aimed at setting appropriate, realistic, enforceable support orders. It contains practical input from a variety of jurisdictions and projects already doing just that.
I hope you will find this report useful in reviewing your own practices and identifying opportunities to influence the setting of more appropriate child support orders.
For additional information on the Task Force or this Guide, please contact Judge Larry Holtz at email@example.com or (202) 401-5376.
Donna J. Bonar
Acting Commissioner
Office of Child Support Enforcement
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This grad didn't have the 'normal' high school experience, but it's inspired her to help others
Caroline Rutland is graduating from St. Patrick High School with honors. Her achievement is even more impressive considering she developed an eating disorder in 10th grade. She plans to attend William Carey University and major in psychology.


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My First Rocksbox!!!
It seems like everyone has tried this subscription box and I'm just now learning about it, ha! I've never been a jewelry person hence the fact that I barely have any jewelry especially in pictures but I think it's about time that I get more into it! As they say, Jewelry really makes an outfit stand out. So I decided that I wanted to test this theory out with Rocksbox!
*This is sponsored but of course I'm gonna give you my personal and honest opinion*
What I got in my box!
I loved the simple look of this box. The ribbon reminded me of a Forever 21 Top I had just bought so of course you know I had to match a little bit!
When I opened the box I was greeted with chevron paper that was so cute! Then 4 different pieces of cards describing what was Rocksbox was, giving feedback, benefits, and what I got. I love the Quotes cards, which reminds me can I keep these? I even had my name on one of them which I thought was such a sweet touch(I'm definitely keeping this) and on the inside of the cheveron was what I got this month in sweet bags!
There was 3 adorable bags. One black velvet and 2 white smaller bags with the words Live, Love, Layer by Gorjana.com.
Dazzle Me with Jewelry!
I'll be honest I didn't know what the heck it was at first lol! I knew it was beautiful though! I decided to look it up to figure it out and you know I'm a jewelry newbie when I realized that it was a hand chain. I've never had one! This gorgeous gold handchain is undeniably beautiful. However, I don't know if it's supposed to hang so awkwardly off your hand but I didn't quite like the fit of it. Let me know in the comments if it's supposed to hang or actually fit the hand lol.
Another piece of jewelry I had no idea how to put on,ha! You would think a fashion lover would no what a dang ear climber was haha! So I took to google to find out what it was! It really is a beautiful piece of jewelry. I've always loved simple and minimal type jewelry. I rarely have my hair up so I probably wouldn't get much use from an ear climber, however!
Over all I enjoyed my first experience with Rocksbox! Everything came so quickly. As soon as I got the email that it shipped it was there basically the next day! When I took the quiz for personalized jewelry I wanted simple delicate pieces and that's what I got! I love all of them, really, but my favorite was the necklace for sure. I actually wouldn't mind buying this necklace because it is so gorgeous!
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REMEMBER: You simply do not send back a piece of item that you want and then its charged to your debit or credit card.
I'm going to try this out for 3 months and share with you all the jewelry I get, what I decide to keep, and if I want to keep going after the 3 months. This is a learning experience for me because I really want to take my fashion up to new levels, so I'm really excited to see how my style changes!
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The stuff of New England nightmares… but with a happy ending
Written on February 25, 2015 by Sommer Aweidah Hospital: IVG Hospitals, Inc.
With the amount of snow we've been receiving in and around the Natick, Framingham, Boston area, many responsible dog owners with fenced-in yards are dealing with the same problem: The snow has piled up so high, that our fences no longer serve as protection for our dogs, or as a barrier from nearby roads, rivers, or other dangers.
On Tuesday, February 24, Guinness and Bo, a St. Bernard and a Golden Retriever were playing in their yard when a running squirrel lured them over the buried 3-foot fence and down the banks of the nearby Sudbury River. Their owner, Valerie Jewell, of Framingham, MA was alerted to the fact that something was wrong, when she heard Bo sounding the alarm outside.
Guinness and Bo had chased the squirrel onto the not-quite frozen Sudbury River, and while Bo had been able to return to safety, Guinness, fell through the ice. Bo refused to leave his side and began barking in earnest. When Valerie realized what was happening she immediately called the Framingham fire department.
By the time the fire department was able to rescue Guinness, he had been in the freezing water for 15 to 20 minutes. Enough time for a person to lose consciousness. The fast-acting fire department brought Guinness to IVG MetroWest in Natick, MA for emergency medical attention. When all of his vitals were stable following some supportive care, and treatment for the abrasions on his paws, he was sent home to rest, with recommendations to return for x-rays if his coughing continued or worsened.
"Guinness is a very lucky dog to have had such a quick thinking, loyal friend, a fast acting owner and an outstanding and responsive local fire department. Falling into a frozen river is a terrifying experience, but everyone involved responded quickly and appropriately and the result is that Guinness was saved" said Dr. Suzanne Rovan, Assistant Medical Director at IVG MetroWest, and emergency practitioner who treated him. "Everything could have turned out so much worse than it did, and it bears remembering that our pets rely on us to keep them safe. If your fence is buried, keep a closer eye on your pets than usual if they are outside. Accidents happen, but a quick response can make a real difference to the outcome in emergency medicine."
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Dems Feeling A Bit Defensive About Hillary
So Reince Priebus mentions on my show Wednesday that the RNC is gearing up to focus some attention on Hillary's less-than-stellar years at State, and HuffPo front pages the story and 3000+ angry commentators chime in.
Just a bit defensive, no?
Hey, read the NYT's Mark Leibovich's ringing defense of Hill's State years…or Politico's Maggie Haberman's. (Pete Dominick flunked the "Hillary for $100" Double Jeopardy as well.)
Hard to extoll a record that doesn't exist. Amassing frequent flyer miles doesn't count unless you are George Clooney in Up In The Air.
Hillary flopped at State. Did zip in the Senate. And is the grandmother of Obamacare. And three folks told me during my two day D.C. stay this week that the new DH book is devastating. No wonder many Ds want Elizabeth Warren to run.
(The complete Preisbus transcript is here.)
Others commenting: Talking Points Memo, Politico, RealClearPolitics,


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Trade Mission to Canada to Feature Virtual, Traditional Components
The International Trade Administration is organizing a two-prong virtual and traditional trade mission to Canada that will include the Aboriginal Entrepreneurs Conference and Trade Show 2014 in the northern Canadian region. This mission is open to U.S. companies and trade associations from a cross-section of industries with the potential to provided needed and appropriate services in the more remote regions of Canada, including energy (both new and renewable), environmental technologies and services, remote healthcare related technology and services, distance education and infrastructure (including architecture/engineering, master planning, and construction management).
In January ground was broken on the construction of a highway that will provide the first year-round land link between the Arctic Ocean coast and the rest of Canada. The ITA states that this road is the beginning of expanding economic activity that is set to take place across Canada's north and that billions of dollars' worth of projects are already in the pre-planning, planning and implementation phases, covering business sectors such as mining (iron ore, uranium, heavy rare earth elements, diamonds, etc.), infrastructure (roads, ports, airports, buildings), water and sewer, and energy.
The virtual trade mission is designed for a minimum of three and a maximum of five participants, while the traditional mission is designed for a minimum of seven and a maximum of ten. Each applicant must submit no later than Aug. 15 a completed and signed mission application and supplemental application materials, including adequate information on its products and/or services, primary market objectives and goals for participation. Each applicant must also certify that the products and services it seeks to export through the mission are either produced in the U.S. or, if not, marketed under the name of a U.S. firm and have at least 51 % U.S. content of the value of the finished product or service.


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Riccardo Slavik expands on his last Flaunt shoot with Lorenzo Marcucci with a bonus series of Brandon Wilson, Danny Arter, Harald Salin, James Smith, Kaan Tilki, Marshall Brockley and Taras Koltun. Styled and photographed by Slavik, the boys dare to be in bold looks that are hot on the sales racks.
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, decoration by William Morris, Kelmscott Press, 1896
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Our students span a diverse cultural mix of women and men with a wide range of ages and backgrounds. We are seeking an energetic group of students who look forward to a rigorous program of broad exposure and intellectual growth.
Applicants must have
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- a minimum 3.0 GPA from the student's undergraduate institution (the admissions committee also gives consideration to postgraduate experiences and recent accomplishments)
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- International applicants: please note that as a part-time program, the MLA program is not able to sponsor student visas
Admissions Criteria
Admission to the MLA program is highly selective. In addition to the eligibility requirements listed above, applicants must demonstrate graduate-level writing facility and critical thinking skills. The admissions committee is looking for a candidate's intellectual proclivity towards a deep and focused understanding of ideas, events, and phenomena. The committee bases its decision on the candidate's total application; no single factor from the application is decisive. The committee takes into account an applicant's background, GPA, and professional experience, and pays particular attention to the applicant's writing and letters of recommendation.
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Subject: Public Health
Public health science is a multidisciplinary subject focusing on the relation between society and health. These relations are studied on both societal, group and individual level, but relations between these levels are also central. Public health science focus on links between macro and micro, where the endpoints consists of the structure of society and individual biological processes, as well as processes over the life cycle.
CHESS (Centre for Health Equity Studies) provide the Master programme "Population health: Societal and individual perspectives" 120 ECTS. With a basis in current international research, the Master programme provide a broad knowledge in Public health and a deepend understanding for how health is related to individual characteristics and the structuring of society. From a life course perspective and with a focus on international health the programme deals with the whole chain from biological processes to welfare policy, where connections to inequality in health is put forward.
Area of interest: Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Law
Are you interested in human beings and society? How we function individually and together, what drives us, our learning processes, how rules and laws have been established, and how we interact with each other? If that is the case we have a lot to offer.
This area of interest covers anything from Pedagogy, Psychology and Gender Studies, to Statistics, Political Science, Law and many other subjects. Their common denominator is the relation between human beings and society, independent analytical thinking and often an international perspective.


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Athletic Standard Test- Sec 1F
We're coming to the end of Term 1 and our Sec 1F boys have been running, jumping and throwing their way through the various PE lessons!
Like all boys, they can be really mischievous-- Just take a look at Maverick in his High Jump attempt today:
But their class spirit and enthusiasim is contagious- you can see how they cheer each other on to reach greater heights!
They also constantly surpise me with their never say die attitude when even the heavier boys give their 110% and successfully clear heights that other Sec 1 classes can't. Here we see Qi Long proving that size does not matter, rather it's the never-say-die spirit that conquers all:
Inspired by Qi Long's success, even our smaller boys were determined to challenge themselves. Here we see Leonard proving this height is no obstacle for him too!


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This section provides training videos to help you fully understand the Jolt Software.
To access these videos please do the following:
1. Select Training from the Menu Bar.
2. Select the section you want to become proficient in.
a. You will have access to all training videos within Jolt.
3. Depending on the section you can have Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced Videos.
a. Ensure you watch all of them to understand the full functionality of Jolt.
b. As you finish videos it will track your progress.


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To drive your car (or other light vehicle) safely and legally on the road it must have the right equipment (in good working order) and have a current warrant of fitness (WoF). This section explains what your vehicle must have.
Privately operated cars, utes, vans and four-wheel drives must have a current WoF. Commercial vehicles and heavy vehicles must have a current certificate of fitness (CoF).
A current WoF shows the vehicle has been inspected by an approved WoF inspector and was roadworthy at the time of the last WoF inspection.
In addition to the warrant of fitness (WoF), the vehicle must display a current licence label, a road user charges (RUC) licence if required (such as if your car runs on diesel) and a registration plate (commonly known as a number plate) on the front and back that can be clearly seen. See About driver responsibility for more information about these requirements.
Warrant of fitness label
The WoF label must be attached to the inside of the windscreen, on the same side as the steering wheel, and must be clearly visible from outside the vehicle. The recommended position is in the top corner of the windscreen.
The WoF inspector will give you a copy of the check sheet. This is a receipt of payment for the inspection and is not a warrant of fitness. If your vehicle failed its WoF inspection, the receipt gives you 28 days to have the vehicle fixed and brought back for re-inspection without any additional payment. During that time you are only allowed to drive the vehicle to get it repaired and re-inspected.
|When the vehicle was first registered (anywhere in the world)
|WoF issued for
New vehicle that's never been registered
WoF is issued for three years
Less than two years ago
WoF is issued to the vehicles third 'birthday' (third anniversary of when it was first registered)
More than two years ago, but less than three years ago
WoF is issued for 12 months
On or after 1 January 2000, but more than three years ago
WoF is issued for 12 months
Before 1 January 2000
WoF is issued for six months
You can be fined if you drive any vehicle that is not up to WoF standard on a road. A police officer can require you to stop for a roadside vehicle check at any time.
To meet the WoF standard, your car must be in good condition (for example, no rust around safety areas) and it must have the following equipment in good working order:
Features your car must have
Note: this checklist is a guide only. When inspecting your vehicle, the inspector will use the criteria in the Vehicle inspection requirements manual. For further information regarding vehicle requirements, go to In-service certification (WoF and CoF).
Before making modifications, including the fitting of extra lights to your vehicle, check with an approved WoF inspector that the modifications are legal.
Illegal load
Illegal load
Note: if a load extends more than 1 metre beyond the back of your vehicle, you must tie on a white flag, or a red, orange or yellow fluorescent flag. The flag must be at least 40 centimetres by 30 centimetres in size. The load must be tied on firmly and must not touch the ground.
Approved safety belts must be fitted in all light passenger vehicles: cars, vans, utes and four-wheel drives.
The safety belts must be in good condition. You should have safety belts checked immediately if:
They may need replacing.
Legal requirements for safety belts have changed over the years and are different depending on the age of the vehicle. The type of belt has also changed from static belts to retractor belts.
Three-point (lap and diagonal) belts must be fitted in the outer seating positions (including the driver's seat) in most cars, vans, utes and four-wheel drives. Two-point (lap) belts are legally allowed in centre seating positions, but three-point belts provide better safety.
You must wear your safety belt when driving. Children must also be belted-in, using approved child restraints. See About driver responsibility for more information.
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My family always goes big when it comes to weddings. At the wedding we always have some traditional food. Sometimes the people getting married would allow children at their wedding. We always make sure that the food is out to the people in time, so that there are no complaints. Some of the food we have at weddings are traditional tongan foods like pig, roast lamb, roast pork, we also have otai (Fruit Drink).
Whenever we have a wedding my family always makes sure that we have otai. I like the way my nana makes it, because she adds in mango, pineapple, watermelon. She makes it in a big container, so that there would be enough for everyone. A lot of people always love my nana's otai. One of the other traditional foods we have is, puaka (Pig).
Pig is a traditional food we have at special events. My dad, grandpa, uncle, and some family friends, always cook the pig by hand. Whenever we have a big wedding, everyone asks "Where is the pig?", it is that important. While people are getting their food, there is always someone cutting the pig at the same time. Sometimes when the children are allowed at the wedding they have food that the little kids can eat.
Since children are allowed at the wedding, there would always be food that little kids can eat. They would say "Kids that are 12 and over, pass as an adult, and if you are under that you are a kid". Some of the foods they have are, Chop Suey, Chinese Food, Finger Food, and things like that. They love having kids over, but sometimes they only allow the family kids.
My Family always makes sure that every wedding we go to or host is the best wedding that anyone has been to. These are some of the foods that we always have at a wedding. My Favourite is the Otai. My Family always goes big when it comes to our family weddings.


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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I absolutely loved this memoir! I laughed, I cried, and then I laughed and cried some more. Anh Do and his beautiful family touched my heart. Their harrowing journey, as refugees, on an old boat to Australia certainly put a human face to a very real issue even in current times. Those against boat people would do well to read this book.
Anh speaks from his heart as he tells of the hardships and triumphs he and his family experienced in getting to Australia and how they managed to survive once here. Ahn's mother is an amazing lady who clearly adored her children and only wanted the best for them. She worked so very hard to meet her children's needs after their father left them when Ahn was only thirteen. Life was tough and they struggled financially but the love they had for one another was priceless and saw them through a lot of difficult times. There were many happy, fun moments too and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the plans Anh orchestrated that didn't necessarily have desired outcomes. Well worth reading!
I found this book hard to put down and I would definitely read it again.
One For The Money by Janet Evanovich
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
After losing her job, Stephanie Plum becomes a bounty hunter out of desperate need to earn some money. Her main mission is to find and apprehend Joe Morelli; a cop in hiding who is facing murder charges. Unfortunately for Stephanie, she also finds herself pursued by Benito Ramirez, a boxer and a madman with a brutal and dangerous lust for women. Stephanie Plum is a likeable character who finds herself in quite a few precarious situations. Some are laughable; others highly dangerous.
In truth, I wasn't overly impressed through the first couple of chapters but, to be fair, this is not the usual genre I like to read. As I progressed further into the book, I found myself hooked. It was a light, intriguing, and fun read. I plan to read more of Janet Evanovich's books so I guess that also means that I can add a new genre to my reading preferences.
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As White as Snow: Amazing minimalistic house has clean lines and an abundance of white features
This minimalistic piece of architecture has some wonderful elements that seem to captivate the imagination. From the front of the house it is clean to see the many volumes of the house, with balconies and terraces residing on the top floor and beautiful white geometric lines. The exterior of the house is a simple combination of white painted concrete and shiny chrome which seems to give it a high-class ship look. As you walk into the house, you are greeted with a fresh and open feeling thanks to the abundance of white within the interior. With such a blank canvas, this house is far from complicated and looks tranquil and very spacious. One of the most stunning features of this house is the roof top garden/terrace, you can look at the colourful flowers growing through the full length windows in the hallway on the upper floor; what an mesmerizing beautiful house. Project of Christ.Christ Associated Architects.
- Mesmerising Motion Of The Ocean: Sleek house situated next to the sea has fantastic views
- Minimalist house with a unique design in Portugal
- 7×7 = Modernity: Japanese built house is 7×7 meter squared and is packed full of space
- A Box from the Future: A minimalistic house that outshines its neighbours
- Geometric Meets Monochromatic: Modern home in Spain oozes contemporary styling
- Modernity on the Streets: Vertical Street House stands out amongst the crowd
- Modernism meets Nature: Stunning modern home harmoniously blends into the surroundings
- Seamless Minimalism: Amazing modern house is Barcelona has a seamless finish and impeccable design style
- White Walls of Wonder: Gorgeous white house located in Portugal is a bright and clean home
- The White House: Bright white house with a backdrop of verdant green vegetation