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Swine Flu Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Vaccination
Medical Author: Benjamin C. Wedro, MD, FAAEM
Medical Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
The pressure to manufacture and distribute the H1N1 vaccine before the H1N1 (swine) influenza virusbegins its autumn spread is ongoing, but so far it seems that the virus may be winning. The race, though, is far from over, but in more than 40 states, the number of people being diagnosed clinically with the "swine" flu is growing.
"Clinically" is the key word, since testing for the influenza virus is no longer recommended. Instead, health care practitioners are using history as the guide to whether H1N1 is the likely diagnosis. The most frequent symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. These are pretty non-specific complaints, but in today's setting of widespread influenza it is enough to be relatively certain that influenza is the cause? Less commonly, there may be chills, muscle aches, runny nose, sore throat, and headache. Interestingly, H1N1 also may present with vomitingand diarrhea, two symptoms that tend not to be associated with the usual influenza pattern.


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The Alfred Browning Parker Collection contains the papers and drawings of Alfred Browning Parker. Establishing his practice in the 1940s, Parker quickly gained fame for his visionary architecture and craftsmanship. Renowned for his environmentally friendly designs in the Modernist style, he has designed and built over 6,400 projects throughout his lifetime and won numerous awards. House Beautiful, the primary architecture magazine during the 1950s and 60s, named four of Parker's residences as "Pace Setter" houses, more than any other architect. In 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright recommended Parker as an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Fellow. An AIA Fellowship recognizes architects who have made a significant contribution to both architecture and the greater society, achieving a standard of excellence in architecture at both a local and national level. Parker was the only architect Wright recommended for the Fellowship.
Alfred Browning Parker Architecture Archives Endowment
We are pleased to announce the creation of the Alfred Browning Parker Architecture Archives Endowment, a new initiative intended to support and strengthen the Architecture Archives in the Libraries. The endowment is named in honor of Professor Emeritus Alfred Browning Parker, the distinguished Florida architect and UF alumnus. Additional information is available on the Parker Endowment home page.
For further information on the diverse Architecture Archives collections, please contact: John Nemmers, Archivist in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections, or Martha Kohen, professor in the School of Architecture.

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I have slowly been working my way through the Tongerlo collection; a fact made more noticeable by the recent re-marketing of the beers and adaptation of styles. I first tried the very average Tripel Blonde (#30) where I was able to introduce the brewing at the Abbey. I then followed up with the slightly better Dubbel Bruin (#137); and a look at the Norbertine monks. The latest offering is the Tongerlo Christmas beer, and now a closer look at the history of the Abbey.
The religious community at Tongerlo was formed in 1133 by a group of monks from the Norbertine Abbey of St Michael of Antwerp, who had been invited by the wealthy landowner Giselbert Castelre to settle on his Tongerlo estate. The monks were characterised by the Norbertine traditions which was a popular and modern movement at the time. The Abbey grew in power through the 13th Century as a papal bull placed Tongerlo at the centre of a number of parish churches in the region. Numbers soon grew on the estate and the community began to spread itself wider. The remit of the Abbey steadily became more powerful, and the buildings grew in size with the best local architects enhancing the beauty of the place.
The rise to prominence was only checked in the 16th Century when the Abbey fell under the strongly Catholic stronghold of 's-Hertogenbosch.Rome began to increase taxes and salaries from Tongerlo considerably, and it was only in 1629 under the Calvinist revolt that Tongerlo was spared. It was probably a case of 'better the devil you know' however as the Calvinists banned all Catholic worship and many monks were exiled away from their parishes. Things became even worse in 1796 when the French Revolution swept into town and the Abbey came under private ownership. It was as late as 1838 when the Belgian state came into being, that a religious community found its way back to Tongerlo. The brothers have largely remained ever since; with just a brief sojourn at the Abbey of Leffe when a huge fire swept through and destroyed many of the buildings in 1929.
The Tongerlo Christmas is not your traditional dark Christmas fayre. It pours a rusty copper colour with a small and unassuming head. The hint of vanilla on the nose wasn't completely lost on me, although I struggled to reach the same conclusion once it hit my tastebuds. It was a fairly fruity and enjoyable beer which just lacked any unique characteristics which might have led me to recommend it any further. Essentially if Father Christmas was buying you a sack full of Christmas beers this yuletide you might be a bit disappointed with too many of these.


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The race for supremacy in Section 1, Class AA-North could get a lot more interesting this Saturday, when the Arlington Admirals travel to Wappingers Falls to take on league rival Roy C. Ketcham for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff.
Ketcham head coach Pat Keevins (seen here) brings a Ketcham team into the game that is 1-2 overall and 0-1 in league play. The Indians are coming off a one-point loss in overtime at Carmel last week. Click on this video to watch an interview with Keevins, in which the coach talks about his team, the game against rival Arlington and what it means to both teams in regards to the league standings.
On the other sideline, the defending league champs are coming off a big victory against another Wappingers Central School District rival last week.
Arlington (2-1 overall, 1-1 league) beat John Jay in Freedom Plains last week, 42-6, scoring six straight touchdowns after the Patriots took an early lead. Click this video to listen to Arlington head coach Dominick DeMatteo talk about this weekend's showdown against Ketcham, as well as how last week's win motivated his team heading into Saturday's road game.
We'll have a reporter and photographer at the game on Saturday, so look for a full story in Sunday's edition of the Poughkeepsie Journal, as well as on our website!


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Piggley's Plant Update
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Been a few weeks since I removed all Piggley's plant's to recover them in plant tank outside. He played hell with them this year. It's slow with all those fronts coming down. Moved the hyacinth and water lettuce indoors to speed it up in a separate container. Only the hornwort is doing fare. Piggley's poor tank looks so bare without all his plants.


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A Plainfield school bus was involved this afternoon in a crash with two other vehicles, police reported.
Albert Brunsdon, 86, and Heidi Dugas, 52, both of Plainfield, the drivers of the other two vehicles, were taken to the Backus Emergency Care Center to treat injuries received in the crash. Bus driver Jodi Cameron and two students, ages 14 and 16, aboard the bus, refused medical treatment at the scene.
According to police, at 2:59 p.m., the bus was stopped at a red light on Cemetery Road at its intersection with Route 12. Brunsdon, who was heading north on Route 12, tried to make a left turn onto Cemetery Road, and was hit by Dugas, who was driving south, and his vehicle was pushed into the front bumper of the bus, police said.
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Currently in theaters is the movie "Safe Haven," based on the book by Nicholas Sparks. In the book, the bad guy goes around quoting Scripture.
Is quoting Bible verses indicative of a mental imbalance? To some of our cultural elites it would seem so.
By way of full disclosure, I have neither read the book nor seen the movie. (Nor do I want to vote with my money by buying a ticket for it, saying, "Yes, Hollywood, make more Christian-bashing movies.") However, my wife read the book and said it's a great story about an abused wife, fleeing from her mentally imbalanced, Scripture-quoting husband, who is a bullying cop. I have no idea if the movie has mollified the anti-Christian aspect of the novel; hopefully, it has.
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My wife said, "It's such a good story. Why should the horrible husband quote the Bible and base his irrational behavior on what he believes it to say. I'm so upset."
Why is the bad guy – in many a movie and TV show – quoting the Bible? In the vast majority of cases of a character quoting the Scriptures, is that a cue that he or she is a good character or a bad one, or even just comic relief?
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I remember on "Sanford and Son" from the 1970s a crazy aunt who would tote her Bible around and quote different verses, like, "The truth shall set you free!" She was a whack job.
Do you know anyone like that personally?
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One man I used to know who went around quoting Scripture was among the nicest people I've ever known in my whole life. Charlie used to memorize Bible verses and quote them all the time. He was also one of the happiest people I've ever known. He had the most irrepressible smile.
Charlie used to go to prisons six days a week for ministry, from the time he retired in 1964 until he died in 1994. By the end of his life, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) so disabled him that the prison authorities said he couldn't visit anymore unless he had a volunteer to wheel him around.
Every single day he found a volunteer. I was that volunteer on Jan. 1, 1994. It was the first time in my life I had been in a prison.
Charlie gave out 8-by-10 certificates to inmates for having memorized key Bible verses – 1 John 1:9 on the forgiveness of sins or John 3:16 on God's gift of Jesus to the world, etc. Yes, he went around quoting the Bible all the time. And no, he didn't go around killing people the way Hollywood's Bible-quoters do. He only helped people – everyone, without discrimination.
Hollywood and our popular culture have brainwashed millions to think that if someone quotes the Holy Book, then we know he's certifiably insane or worse.
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You'd think if someone was filled with Bible references, then he must be mentally unbalanced.
And yet Shakespeare's writings are replete with some 1,300 biblical quotes and references.
Even the world's leading atheist, Richard Dawkins, professor at Oxford and author of the best-selling book "The God Delusion," essentially says you're culturally illiterate if you are not familiar with the Bible. In page after page of blasting the Christian faith (and Islam), after saying terrible things about the Scriptures, suddenly, he says positive things about the Bible – as literature.
Dawkins states, "The King James Bible of 1611 – the Authorized Version – includes passages of outstanding literary merit in its own right, for example the Song of Songs and the sublime Ecclesiastes (which I am told is pretty good in the original Hebrew too). But the main reason the English Bible needs to be part of our education is that is a major source book for literary culture."
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Dawkins goes on to cite scores and scores of phrases from the Bible that are common in our parlance, such as "Be fruitful and multiply," "East of Eden," "Adam's rib," etc.
This does not mean he in any way respects the Bible as holy writ or anything close. He concludes this section: "We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage." That strikes me as a fruitless venture – but I quote it because he refers to the Bible in general, and the 400-year-old King James in particular, as a "treasured heritage."
For those who have never taken the time to read it, the Bible contains a great deal of wisdom – teaching such concepts as: As a man thinks in his heart so is he; you reap what you sow; do unto others as you would have them do unto you; love your neighbor as yourself, and so on.
Several years ago, David Van Biema wrote a cover story for Time magazine (April 2, 2007), wherein he said: "Should the Holy Book be on the public menu? Yes. It's the bedrock of Western culture. And it's constitutional – as long as we teach but don't preach it."
He even implies life would be boring without it: "Without the Bible and a few imposing secular sources, we face a numbing horizontality in our culture – blogs, political announcements, ads. The world is flat, sure. But Scripture is among our few means to make it deep."
Sadly, when you see a character on the big screen, if he or she is quoting the Bible, it's almost a sure sign that he's crazy or evil or both. The other characters need to hold on to their wallets and get ready to defend themselves. Thankfully, reality is far different.


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Armstrong admits to doping in Oprah interview
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US cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs in an interview with talk show host Oprah Winfrey aired in the United States late on Thursday.
Incredulous, attentive and direct, Oprah Winfrey dug into the psyche of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong on Thursday, calling him out as a bully and a brazen liar after he admitted to years of systematic doping.
Casting aside her trademark warmth and brimming eyes, Winfrey wasted no time on niceties, plunging straight into short, direct questions that saw the seven-times Tour de France winner end years of denials.
"Were you a bully?" Winfrey challenged Armstrong, referring to the pressure he put on cycling team mates to join him in taking performance enhancing substances.
"Tell me, how were you a bully?" she persisted at one point in the first 90-minute televised interview on her OWN cable channel.
Winfrey, 58, pioneered the art of confessional TV during her 25-year-long reign on her daytime chat show, making her comfortable couches the go-to place for celebrities wanting to apologize for indiscretions or unburden their darkest secrets.
But on Thursday's broadcast, bright sofas were replaced with two hard-backed chairs, and Armstrong was made to watch video of his past victory speeches and interviews.
"You didn't just deny it. You brazenly and defiantly denied it," she told Armstrong over his years of repeated lies.
"This is too late. It is too late for probably most people and that is my fault," he conceded. "I view this situation as one big lie."
"You are suing people, and knowing they are telling the truth. What is that?" she later asked of Armstrong's legal actions against journalists, friends and fellow team members who spoke out over the years.
Armstrong, 41, dressed in an open-necked blue shirt and dark jacket, may have been expecting a different reception when he chose Winfrey as his confessor, rather than holding a news conference or issuing a statement.
"Oprah is so overbrimming with humanity that the person being interviewed hopes that a bit of it will rub off on them," said Robert Thompson, professor of pop culture at Syracuse University, before the broadcast.
"Part of sitting down and doing an interview and confessing to another person and being asked questions is almost like you are starting to pay a penalty.
"The idea is that Oprah will do that, not necessarily in a softball way, but in a gentle way. Oprah is not going to hit you on the head," Thompson told Reuters.
What were you thinking?
The smiles were few and far between on Thursday, as Winfrey dug deep for answers without ever raising her voice.
"I can't reconcile what you were thinking when you did this?" she said, after playing video of Armstrong's 2005 Tour de France victory speech in which he dismissed critics as cynics.
A second hour of the interview, taped earlier this week in Texas, will be shown on Friday.
"Was it just you being your cocky, arrogant, jerk self?" Winfrey asks Armstrong in an excerpt of Friday's one-hour session.it
Although Winfrey's influence has waned since she ended "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011 to launch her OWN cable channel, she has proved she can still pull in the big names, if not the huge audiences she enjoyed when her show was broadcast in 140 nations.
Landing Armstrong was arguably Oprah's finest moment since she coaxed pop singer Michael Jackson out of 14 years of TV interview silence for a 1993 broadcast watched by an estimated 90 million people worldwide.
For much of Thursday, the OWN cable channel ran a countdown clock during regular programming ahead of "Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive."
The interview was also watched online by viewers from as far afield as Britain, Singapore, South Korea and Brazil, according to comments on Oprah.com.
Winfrey herself termed the sit-down with Armstrong "certainly the biggest interview I have ever done in terms of exposure."
What may prove a huge PR boost to Oprah and her OWN TV ratings, may not be so clear-cut for Armstrong.
"I'm not sure what he expects, or what he can achieve by fessing up after so many years. But if Armstrong wants to be talked about, you couldn't do better than doing it with Oprah," said Thompson.
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