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Why you should use online project management software
Small Business Guides
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If you're relying on paper or spreadsheets, managing your projects can be a real nightmare. But it doesn't have to be that way. We talked to WorkflowMax, an online project management tool provider, to find out what an online system could offer your company.
Is your manual project management system working?
Many businesses put their project management system together in response to immediate needs, adding in new steps as and when they are required. Often a tool like Excel is chosen simply because people are familiar with it – not necessarily because it's the best one for the job. As Gavin George from WorkflowMax explains, when a company grows, this type of system can struggle with the increasing demands placed on it.
Four common project management issues
Projects managed using paper or spreadsheets can suffer from a number of issues. Here are four of the most common:
- Updates and changes being lost
From Post-It notes to desks piled high with paperwork, without a streamlined project management system, important data can be lost. But if you work online or in the cloud, everything you do is tracked and recorded, so there's no chance of it going astray.
- Incomplete time tracking
Few employees enjoy filling in timesheets and this can cause problems when trying to accurately track time spent on a project. Online project management means that timesheets and job details can be completed as you go, no matter where you are.
- Entering the same information several times
This is where the same details – such as client contact information or tasks associated with a job – are filled out again and again. It's a waste of time and resources for information to be input multiple times: on the quote, on the timesheet, on the job tracking system and in the invoice. Online or cloud-based systems will store these details the first time they are entered, so they can be automatically recalled whenever they're needed. This can save your business hours of work every week.
- Lack of visibility
Because the different stages of an offline project management system don't talk to each other, it's hard to get a sense of the overall status of your company. What jobs are due this week? Which types of jobs bring in the most income? Are you turning a profit? These questions are hard to answer. Regular status meetings can help, but online project management systems offer a faster, less intrusive alternative.
10 ways in which online project management is better for your business
- Capture all the costs
If you're tracking costs online, it's easy to enter and automate your data. You can capture everything – from an extra box of nails to the cost of printing the final proofs. Everything is stored in one easy-to-use system.
- Schedule and keep track of staff
Staff can place their name next to a job in the system. This way you can see exactly what each team member has on their plate, when everything is due and how the project is progressing.
- Keep it all together
You can store everything relating to a job online – notes, images, documents, contracts and emails. If you need to look anything up, it's right there in one system, not buried under paperwork on someone's desk. It's much easier to find the information you need this way.
- Improve your cashflow
All costs associated with a job can be accurately recorded and you can see exactly where all your money is going. The system can alert you when invoices aren't paid, so you'll never forget a payment again.
- Eliminate admin tasks
Press a button and all the data from one stage of the project moves on to the next, from the beginning of a project right through to sending the invoice at the end. This can dramatically reduce the time taken to do project admin, leaving you with more time to grow your business.
- Gain visibility in your business
Which type of work brings in the most profit? Have you lost money on a particular job? Which clients haven't paid their invoices? With an online system you can quickly and easily run reports on your data, to get an immediate snapshot of your projects – and your business.
- Appear more professional to your clients
Clients can be given login details to check the status of their jobs online. This lets them collaborate and approve work, and even pay invoices online. It looks much more professional than constantly shuffling pieces of paper back and forth or trying to run a project via email.
- Stay connected
No matter where you are in the world, you can log in at any time to approve projects, check up on your team and stay in the loop.
- Always be up to date
With online project management, you're always working on the most up-to-date version of the software. You don't have to wait for your IT department to roll out a new version. This keeps you up to date and also keeps your IT costs low.
- Easy disaster recovery
What if your premises were destroyed in a fire, flood or other disaster? If your business data is stored online, you can still log in from anywhere in the world and manage your projects.
If you need to look anything up, it's right there in one system, not buried under paperwork on someone's desk.
Why online project management is better for your team
Moving to an online project management system could be good for your employees as well as for your business. If implemented properly, they should see the following changes:
More time for actual work
Simpler admin and less time spent on timesheets means that there will be more time for your staff to work on their projects – giving them greater job satisfaction.
Easy to use
Good online project management software is designed to be easy to use. That means reduced training and less confusion or hesitation when your team members need to do something new. And because it's all managed remotely, there should be fewer IT problems.
Ability to work from anywhere
Sometimes your employees may need to work from home, perhaps due to having a sick child or waiting for a delivery. Or they might be attending a conference somewhere yet have free time during the day. With an online project management system they can still work, wherever they are.
Collect data from the field
If your staff often work in the field or in clients' offices, they can still log into the system and update their project. This saves time because they don't have to do it once they're back in the office.
How to get started with project management online
Once you've decided that online project management is suitable for your business, here are some practical steps to help you make the move:
Map your project management process
In order to find the right online project management system for your company, you need to understand exactly what you need. Sit down and write out your entire job process, from lead right through to invoice. Highlight the areas that are giving you particular trouble.
Get unstuck
Start your hunt for online software by focusing on the areas you're stuck on – for example, invoicing, cost-tracking or progress reporting. Focus on those areas first and build your project management requirements around them.
Single solution or multiple tools?
You could pick and choose different cloud-based tools to handle different parts of your project management process. But this might cause more problems than it solves, because you'll then have to join the different systems together. It makes more sense to look for single, integrated solutions.
Business applications improve the experience
You can further customise your new system with business applications. For example, with the right applications you can feed data from your CRM into your project management system; use it to update your payroll software; or add document storage and collaboration tools when you need them.
Ask for recommendations
If you're not sure of your exact requirements, ask around. Talk to your in-house project managers and consultants to find out what online systems they might recommend. As your business partners and suppliers too. Take the time to research this carefully. It's important to choose an online project management tool that will work best for your business.
Project management doesn't have to be hard work
Whether you're managing leads, quoting jobs, overseeing staff and job costs or invoicing, online project management software can make life easier for you. It can streamline almost every aspect of the project management process – and potentially save you money too.
If you incorporate it into your existing workflow, you can significantly reduce the time you spend duplicating data or transferring information from one system to another. Most important of all, online software gives you the ability to manage your projects at any time – wherever you happen to be.


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I am so happy the weekend is here. Our plans involve scraping thick paint and ugly tile off of walls, and yes, this is exciting to me. So far I have stayed home with the girls while Husband has done all of the work renovating our house, but we got a babysitter so I can help do my part. I have been craving the satisfaction of getting my hands dirty and working side by side with him, so I am looking forward to it. I'll give you an update on what we've accomplished in the house so far next week. Have a great weekend!
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We've kicked around a series of questions in this space during the past several weeks, and now that the MLS Cup playoffs are narrowing down to their final two teams, some of our answers are being tucked into the back of the net — confirmed by the events of one of the great stretch runs in MLS history.
Let's take a look, starting with the weirdest postseason series in league history, the Eastern Conference semifinal between New York and D.C.
Q: Are the Red Bulls better with or without Rafa Márquez?
A: After New York's painful (and painfully typical for the franchise) 1-0 defeat in the second leg this past Thursday, the jury has returned a verdict.
WATCH: Márquez sent off
Sure, Thierry Henry led the stampede of Red Bulls into the box that forced referee Mark Geiger to call encroachment on Kenny Cooper's successful spot kick, and yes, Cooper failed to convert the re-take.
Also, Henry passed the buck to Roy Miller on that crucial late free kick ...
But the main culprit in New York's loss was Rafa Márquez.
READ: Despite bitter ending, Rafa wants to return
Even after Cooper's botched second penalty, the Red Bulls were still in control of the match. The score was tied 0-0 and New York had a man advantage with 20 minutes to find a game-winner.
Cue Márquez for a reckless lunge at the feet of Chris Pontius to earn his second yellow of the game and strip New York of the man advantage just six minutes after they received it. With that, the Red Bulls lost their grip on the game, and the 2012 season.
It's official: The Mexican international has done more harm than good for New York.
Q: Did San Jose lean too heavily on the last-minute magic?
A: All season long, the Earthquakes laughed in the face of defeat. They practically thrived on falling behind, as evidenced by their roughly 57 stoppage-time goals (OK, 15) this season.
They were like the kid in your dorm who blew off his coursework till the night before the midterm, then stayed up all night cramming — and aced the test. Yeah, that dude.
But then the final exam came and there was too much to cover in one night. For San Jose, that exam arrived last Wednesday in the form of the defending champion LA Galaxy.
READ: Injuries catch up with Quakes at the wrong time
The Quakes took a 1-0 aggregate lead (on a 94th-minute winner, naturally) into the Home Depot Center, but they lost center back Víctor Bernárdez early in the second leg and were blitzed by an LA attack that has found its fifth gear this postseason.
Three goals in 18 minutes of the first half staked the Galaxy to a 3-1 aggregate lead, and though the Quakes got a customary late strike from Alan Gordon to pull within one, the clock struck midnight on their Supporters' Shield–winning season just minutes later.
Q: What do the Sounders need to succeed in the playoffs?
A: Thanks to another three-goal barrage from LA in the first leg of the Western Conference Championship, postseason success continues to elude Seattle, and the missing ingredients remain the same as in years past: game-management skills and goals.
Seattle did get the first playoff series win in their history last Thursday, edging Real Salt Lake 1-0 to advance to the Western Conference Championship. But their big guns, Fredy Montero and Eddie Johnson, remain scoreless all-time in the MLS playoffs.
WATCH: Sounders react to loss
Those two were blanked again by LA in the first leg of the Western Conference Championship on Sunday, and the Sounders unraveled, pushing forward when they should have sat back and failing to contain the margin for the second leg.
The Galaxy got two goals and an assist from Robbie Keane, two assists to Christian Wilhelmsson and a goal from Mike Magee to take a commanding 3-0 lead into the second leg at CenturyLink Field.
If the Sounders are going to reach their first MLS Cup, they'll need their top scorers to strike early and often next Saturday.
Q: Is this the most wide-open postseason ever?
A: The top seeds are out, the four semifinalists with home-field advantage have all been eliminated and two Knockout Round teams are the odds-on favorites to reach the MLS Cup final.
Even for MLS, that's pretty wide open.
Q: Who deserves to be Coach of the Year?
A: They don't count postseason performance in the official balloting for this honor, but if they did, Houston coach Dominic Kinnear would be a frontrunner. After a merely adequate regular season, he has his team peaking and poised for a return to the MLS Cup final.
The Dynamo unquestionably caught a huge break against D.C. in the blown non-call on Andre Hainault, but Kinnear's men did the business in the second half to win 3-1 with a patchwork, injury-hit group. His canny switch from a 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3 launched the second half surge.
READ: Olsen says Hainault no-call a clear red card
Of course, if D.C., who were hit even harder by injuries on Sunday, somehow rally in the second leg of the Eastern Conference Championship, forget Coach of the Year — Ben Olsen would deserve a statue of some kind.
Already missing Dwayne DeRosario (knee), Andy Najar and Bill Hamid (both suspended), Olsen's team lost Chris Pontius (groin), Marcelo Saragosa (hamstring) and Brandon McDonald (calf) during the Houston game.
Q: Who is this year's team of destiny?
A: All signs are pointing to an LA-Houston rematch of last year's MLS Cup final, and fate has been with those clubs for a while now: The Dynamo are playing in their fifth conference championship in the past seven years, while LA — who've looked increasingly deadly in the postseason — are in their 12th in 17 years.


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PyMongo's New Default: Safe Writes!
I joyfully announce that we are changing all of 10gen's MongoDB drivers to do "safe writes" by default. In the process we're renaming all the connection classes to MongoClient, so all the drivers now use the same term for the central class.
PyMongo 2.4, released today, has new classes called
MongoClient and
MongoReplicaSetClient that have the new default setting, and a new API for configuring write-acknowledgement called "write concerns". PyMongo's old
Connection and
ReplicaSetConnection classes remain untouched for backward compatibility, but they are now considered deprecated and will disappear in some future release. The changes were implemented by PyMongo's maintainer (and my favorite colleague) Bernie Hackett.
- Background
- The New Defaults
- Write Concerns
- auto_start_request
- What About Motor?
- The Uplifting Conclusion
MongoDB's writes happen in two phases. First the driver sends the server an
update, or
remove message. The MongoDB server executes the operation and notes the outcome: it records whether there was an error, how many documents were updated or removed, and whether an upsert resulted in an update or an insert.
In the next phase, the driver runs the
getLastError command on the server and awaits the response:
getLastError call can be omitted for speed, in which case the driver just sends all its write messages without awaiting acknowledgment. "Fire-and-forget" mode is obviously very high-performance, because it can take advantage of network throughput without being affected by network latency. But this mode doesn't report errors to your application, and it doesn't guarantee that a write has completed before you do a query. It's not the right mode to use by default, so we're changing it now.
In the past we haven't been particularly consistent in our terms for these modes, sometimes talking about "safe" and "unsafe" writes, at other times "blocking" and "non-blocking", etc. From now on we're trying to stick to "acknowledged" and "unacknowledged," since that goes to the heart of the difference. I'll stick to these terms here.
(In 10gen's ancient history, before my time, the plan was to make a full platform-as-a-service stack with MongoDB as the data layer. It made sense then for
getLastError to be a separate operation that was run explicitly, and to not call
getLastError automatically by default. But MongoDB is a standalone product and it's clear that the default needs to change.)
The New Defaults
In earlier versions of PyMongo you would create a connection like this:
from pymongo import Connection connection = Connection('localhost', 27017)
By default,
Connection did unacknowledged writes—it didn't call
getLastError at all. You could change that with the
safe option like:
connection = Connection('localhost', 27017, safe=True)
You could also configure arguments that were passed to every
getLastError call that made it wait for specific events, e.g. to wait for the primary and two secondaries to replicate the write, you could pass
w=3, and to wait for the primary to commit the write to its journal, you could pass
connection = Connection('localhost', 27017, w=3, j=True)
(The "w" terminology comes from the Dynamo whitepaper that's foundational to the NoSQL movement.)
Connection hasn't changed in PyMongo 2.4, but we've added a
MongoClient which does acknowledged writes by default:
from pymongo import MongoClient client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017)
MongoClient lets you pass arguments to
getLastError just like
Connection did:
from pymongo import MongoClient client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017, w=3, j=True)
Instead of an odd overlap between the
safe and
w options, we've now standardized on using
w only. So you can get the old behavior of unacknowledged writes with the new classes using
client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017, w=0)
w=0 is the new way to say
w=1 is the new
safe=True and it's now the default. Other options like
j=True or
w=3 work the same as before. You can still set options per-operation:
client.db.collection.insert({'foo': 'bar'}, w=1)
ReplicaSetConnection is also obsolete, of course, and succeeded by
Write Concerns
The old
Connection class let you set the
safe attribute to
True or
False, or call
set_lasterror_options() for more complex configuration. These are deprecated, and you should now use the
MongoClient.write_concern attribute.
write_concern is a dict whose keys may include
j, and
>>> client = MongoClient() >>> # default empty dict means "w=1" >>> client.write_concern {} >>> client.write_concern = {'w': 2, 'wtimeout': 1000} >>> client.write_concern {'wtimeout': 1000, 'w': 2} >>> client.write_concern['j'] = True >>> client.write_concern {'wtimeout': 1000, 'j': True, 'w': 2} >>> client.write_concern['w'] = 0 # disable write acknowledgement
You can see that the default
write_concern is an empty dictionary. It's equivalent to
w=1, meaning "do regular acknowledged writes".
This is very nerdy, but my personal favorite. The default value for
auto_start_request is changing from
True to
The short explanation is this: with the old
Connection, you could write some data to the server without acknowledgment, and then read that data back immediately afterward, provided there wasn't an error and that you used the same socket for the write and the read. If you used a different socket for the two operations then there was no guarantee of "read your writes consistency," because the write could still be enqueued on one socket while you completed the read on the other.
You could pin the current thread to a single socket with
Connection.start_request(), and in fact the default was for
Connection to start a request for you with every operation. That's
auto_start_request. It offers some consistency guarantees but requires the driver to open extra sockets.
Now that
MongoClient waits for acknowledgment of every write,
auto_start_request is no longer needed. If you do this:
>>> collection = MongoClient().db.collection >>> collection.insert({'foo': 'bar'}) >>> print collection.find_one({'foo': 'bar'})
... then the
find_one won't run until the
insert is acknowledged, which means your document has definitely been inserted and you can query for it confidently on any socket. We turned off
auto_start_request for improved performance and fewer sockets. If you're doing unacknowledged writes with
w=0 followed by reads, you should consider whether to call
MongoClient.start_request(). See the details (with charts!) in my blog post on requests from April.
Connection and
ReplicaSetConnection will remain for a while (not forever), so your existing code will work the same and you have time to migrate. We are working to update all documentation and example code to use the new classes. In time we'll add deprecation warnings to the old classes and methods before removing them completely.
If you maintain a library built on PyMongo, you can check for the new classes with code like:
try: from pymongo import MongoClient has_mongo_client = True except ImportError: has_mongo_client = False
What About Motor?
Motor's in beta, so I'll break backwards compatibility ruthlessly for the sake of cleanliness. In the next week or two I'll merge the official PyMongo changes into my fork, and I'll nuke
MotorConnection and
MotorReplicaSetConnection, to be replaced with
MotorClient and
The Uplifting Conclusion
We've known for a while that unacknowledged writes were the wrong default. Now it's finally time to fix it. The new
MongoClient class lets you migrate from the old default to the new one at your leisure, and brings a bonus: all the drivers agree on the name of the main entry-point. For programmers new to MongoDB, turning on write-acknowledgment by default is a huge win, and makes it much more intuitive to write applications on MongoDB.


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Fly your Thesis! - An Astronaut Experience
Calling all European students! ESA's Education Office is offering the flights of a lifetime with the launch of a new programme called "Fly your Thesis! – An Astronaut Experience".
This exciting programme will enable university students to fly their experiments in microgravity by participating in a series of parabolic flights on an Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft.
"Fly your Thesis!" requires each team of students to design a scientific experiment to be performed in microgravity, as part of their masters or PhD thesis or research programme. Teams should register on ESA Education's projects and upload their outline proposals using the letter of intent template, by the deadline of 31 August 2008.
A review board will select up to 20 teams who will be invited to elaborate a detailed scientific proposal, with the support of a scientific mentor. As a conclusion to this phase, the teams will present their projects to a review board during a dedicated workshop to be held at ESA's European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. The members of those teams will also be given the opportunity to visit the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Germany, where Europe's astronauts are trained.
After this initial workshop, three or four teams will be selected to further develop and perform their experiment on an ESA Microgravity Research Campaign that will take place in Bordeaux, France, during the autumn of 2009. There, the student teams will work in close contact with renowned European scientists carrying out their own research. During the campaign, the students will accompany their experiments on board for three flights of 30 parabolas, experiencing about 20 seconds of microgravity during each parabola.
Some of the other teams attending the ESTEC workshop may be selected to have their experiments performed in another gravity research facility.
During the "Fly your Thesis!" project, the participating teams will be supported by ESA's Education Office, ESA microgravity experts and members of the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA). ESA will offer financial support to cover part of the cost of the experiments, necessary travel and accommodation, and participation in a conference.
For more information:
Dr. Javier Ventura-Traveset
Head of ESAC Communications & Education Office
Phone: +34 91 813 1181
E-mail: flyyourthesis @ esa.int


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by J.B. Hyppolite
Germantown resident Ian Tornay, 48, was educated as an architect at the Cooper Union, New York City, but he always maintained an interest in drawing and painting, so after getting his architecture degree, "I decided to go to graduate school and study fine arts." Ian earned a Masters of Fine Art in Painting from Queens College, a senior college of the City University of New York.
For the past 15 years Tornay has painted landscapes in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, often returning to the same view for years at a time. Most recently he has been painting in Vermont. His paintings, created from direct observation, emphasize fluid and energetic brushwork. Tornay's longtime studio is a carriage house in Germantown. The studio itself becomes a central character in many still-life paintings. Also an accomplished woodworker, Ian constructs bas relief sculptures in wood and plaster. The subject matter for these includes landscape, still-life and portraiture.
Ian is currently in the midst of the seventh exhibit of his work at Bowery Gallery, 530 West 25th St., 4th floor, in New York City. It will run through Sept. 28. (For more information, call 1-646-230-6655, or visit bowerygallery.org)
The show includes natural landscapes completed while Ian was an artist resident at the Heliker-Lahotan Foundation on Cranberry Island, Maine; also Philadelphia-area cityscapes and still-lifes painted at his Germantown studio. Tornay's work has been discussed in The New Republic and the Philadelphia Inquirer, which praised his "spontaneous, appealing, often color-rich neighborhood scenes."
The neighborhoods highlighted in those paintings include Nicetown, Kensington and West Oak Lane.
In his landscapes, variations of green and blue dominate the palette. A loose paint application in darker tones establishes a romantic mood. The Philadelphia scenes highlight the cityscape and the interaction of manmade and natural forms.
In a series of still-lifes painted in his studio, the artist features domestic objects, fruit, tools, geometric solids and blocks of wood laid out on home-made wooden tables. Some bring to mind works by Cezanne. If there is any one word to describe the creative impulse for Ian's work, it would be "intense."
"I really love to try to just use art to connect to the world around me," he explained. "When I'm doing a painting, I'm really trying to get into a rhythm, and that rhythm has to do with feeling the colors and feeling the spacial movements of what I'm looking at. It really is kind of a way to become connected with the world around me and with nature. When I am painting, I am fully engaged for five or six straight hours."
Ian is a native of New York, but he views Philadelphia as "an awesome place to be an artist." He sees the city as having an alluring marriage between buildings and landscapes, nature and man-made forms.
"The parks here are incredible, and so are the histories of the buildings. I really enjoy some of the sort-of ramshackle neighborhoods where things aren't so pristine and perfect looking; I find a real kind of charm in that … "
As mentioned earlier, Tornay is also a seasoned woodworker. His works in wood have been exhibited at New York's National Academy of Design, and he has lectured at numerous colleges and museums and garnered many awards at juried exhibitions. He pays the bills, you might say, by teaching at Delaware College of Art and Design, where he is an Area Coordinator for Interior Design. Ian is married and has two children, Sophia and Paul.
More information on his work and about upcoming shows can be found at iantornaystudio.com.


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Michael Park and Maura West of "As the World Turns" were named best actor and actress in a soap opera at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday, an emotional send-off for a show that is going off the air in three months.
West brought her sobbing daughter onstage at the Las Vegas Hilton to celebrate the sweep in acting awards for the show, which was canceled by CBS. Its last episode will air in September.
"I can't think of a better way to say goodbye to a 13-year run on a 53-year-old show," said Park, who plays Jack Snyder on the series.
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CBS' "The Bold & The Beautiful" won the Emmy for best soap opera for the second year in a row. "As the World Turns" wasn't nominated in that category.
Until the twin wins for Park and West, it was a muted goodbye for the soap opera on an awards show aired by the network that axed it. Jon and Kelley Menighan Hensley, a husband-and-wife team that acts on "As the World Turns," introduced a short reel of show highlights through the years.
Park noted the emotional scene when the show's team recently filmed its final episode last week. "I pray that you never have to endure what we endured on Wednesday," he said.
Another "As the World Turns" cast member, Julie Pinson, was named best supporting actress in a drama.
It was a big night for Discovery's "Cash Cab." The show filmed in the back of a New York City taxi was named best game show for the third time in a row, and host Ben Bailey won for the first time as best game show host.
"I want to share this with all my fellow cab drivers and standup comedians," Bailey said as he held his trophy. "Those are both very difficult jobs."
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was named best entertainment talk show. Both DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey did not submit their names for best talk show host, an award won by Winfrey protege Dr. Mehmet Oz for the first year of "The Dr. Oz Show."
Son beat dad in the category of best informative talk show, won by "The Doctors." The show's executive producer is Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil McGraw, whose "Dr. Phil" was another nominee in the category.
"Looks like fun to win something around here," said Daytime Emmy host Regis Philbin, whose "Live with Regis & Kelly" has never been named best talk show.
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Since 1997 I've been helping people learn to live more effective lives using a combination of Eastern and Western techniques. I've lectured at The Learning Annex, spoken at Tibet House in New York City, and have written an online newsletter/blog through my Website: http://www.east-westpsychotherapy.com. My skills involve coaching and counseling adults individually and in couples and groups.
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Brian Lamb
After graduating from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he joined the U.S. Navy. Lamb went to Washington in 1967 to become Senate press secretary and a White House telecommunications policy staffer.[1] In 1974 he began publishing a biweekly newsletter, The Media Report. By 1977, he launched the not-for-profit C-SPAN. On March 19, 1979 they covered the first televised session of the U.S. House of Representatives and Lamb held his first call-in show in 1980. C-Span now has three cable-TV channels and C-Span Radio is carried nationwide on the XM network. Lamb has hosted C-Span programs such as Washington Journal and Booknotes, and has interviewed every U.S. President since Lyndon Johnson.[2] He is an Independent who has never said his own name on television.[3]
In January 2010, Lamb sent a letter to lawmakers asking them to air health care negotiations after President Obama repeatedly stated it would be aired on C-span during the 2008 Presidential Election.[4]
Brian Lamb is the author of three books and currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.
On November 5, 2007, President George W. Bush presented Lamb with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[5]
- "C-Span is not television. It's the antithesis of everything else on the air."
- "This is the only place where the public has a leading role. We're the voice of the nation." [6]
- ↑ http://www.trumanaward.org/web/LambBio.html
- ↑ https://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051022/22lamb.htm
- ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-17369821.html
- ↑ http://www.sphere.com/article/opinion-obama-finds-few-friends-in-his-c-span-fight/19307887
- ↑ President Bush Honors Medal of Freedom Recipients. Retrieved on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/6189.html


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Doane has received an $80,000 grant from the Sunderland Foundation in Overland Park, Kan., toward completion of the Education and Hixson Lied Art Building now under construction.
The $11 million, 55,500 gross square-foot building between Perry Campus Center and Miller Pond will open for classes in the fall of 2007. It will house Doane's Education and Art programs, as well as a Welcome Center that includes Doane's Admission and Financial Aid Offices, an outdoor plaza, and historic memorabilia.
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Dept. of Word Lists
An Appetizing Story
Once again award-winning writer and educator Bob Greenman takes us on a journey through words selected from More Words That Make a Difference, a delightful book illustrating word usage with passages from the Atlantic Monthly. Here Bob introduces us to a dextrous slicer of lox and the world of "appetizing."
Mr. Tejada's knife moved gracefully, slowly, deliberately as he cut away almost transparent leaves of salmon flesh and laid the lustrous slices on heavy paper. Every few slices, he would trim away the less premium flesh. At one point, after a trimming, he picked up a needle point pliers and pulled out a row of ten tiny, slender bones before slicing again.
lustrous LUS truhs
having a sheen or gloss
Kalamata are the best-known Greek olives, and are unmistakable for their elegant almond shape that comes to a sharp point, like a comma, and their lustrous eggplant color. — Corby Kummer, June 1993
"What's the most popular lox for bagels and cream cheese," I had asked Mr. Tejada, using lox as a general term for all smoked salmon, for there are many kinds, among them Nova Scotia, double-smoked, Norwegian, Scotch and peppered nova. The name lox, itself, should be reserved for salmon that's cured in brine, not smoked.
"Zabar's Nova Salmon," he replied. And so, to go with the bagels and cream cheese already at home, I bought a half pound of Zabar's nova for the four people who would be at Sunday breakfast.
Lamenting that my wife wasn't with me to experience this Nirvana, I left the store, in that pre-cell phone era, called her from a pay phone on the street to share my thrilling discovery, then went back inside and walked around in a dreamlike state. Go there and I promise you the same. That first visit was in the 1970's, when Zabar's was two narrow, side-by-side stores. Now it's four combined stores, and cheese alone fills one of them.
lament luh MENT
an expression of regret or disappointment
The common lament on our campuses is the dearth of "major poets," and the critics are scuttling to find one. If they cannot find him, surely they can invent him: study someone until he turns out to be major by simply dominating the course catalogues. The distinction between major and minor in poetry has not often been useful except when discriminating between a Homer, a Dante, a Shakespeare, a Goethe — and the others. Yet today critics pick over the contemporary and near contemporary crops of poetry with all the concentration of cannery workers sorting and grading fruit. — Peter Davison, October 1967
Russ & Daughters' appetizing store stands six miles south of Zabar's, on Houston Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where, at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, hundreds of thousands of European Jews lived in crowded tenements.
Appetizing stores abounded on those streets, providing the smoked fish and dairy in the immigrants' kosher diets, while the meat part of that kosher diet came from butcher shops and the delicatessens that served kosher-style corned beef, pastrami, salami and tongue. Partnered with appetizing was the bagel, sold in every appetizing store from time immemorial. Russ & Daughters' Web site explains appetizing (the noun) simply as "the foods one eats with bagels." But although, traditionally, appetizing has never included meat, the global popularity of the bagel today makes that iconic staple of meatless dining the vehicle for just about anything it can carry. Meatloaf on a bagel? I don't want to know about it. BLT on a bagel? Please!
(By the way, the pronunciation of Houston, the Manhattan street, is a shibboleth. Pronounce it like the name of the Texas city, and you're immediately branded "not from here" by New Yorkers, who will be happy to inform that it's HOWS tin.)
shibboleth SHI buh lith
a catchword or formula adopted by a party or sect, by which their adherents or followers may be discerned, or those not their followers may be excluded
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line; the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War; and however much they who marched south and north in 1861 may have fixed on the technical points of union and local autonomy as a shibboleth, all nevertheless knew, as we know, that the question of Negro slavery was the deeper cause of the conflict. — W. E. B. Du Bois, March 1901
connoisseur kah nuh SER
a person who has expert knowledge and taste in some field, especially the arts
No reasonable theory will every be able to explain how or why it was that so many Dutchmen were painters, and all during one, or at the most two, human generations. It is not enough to say that hard-won national independence made them take up their brushes. In seventeenth-century Holland the number of artists was entirely incredible; and down to today, connoisseurs of painting with some pretension to knowledge often have the experience of entering a picture gallery to find some beautiful painting of supreme handling and technical merit by a Dutchman whose name they never remember having heard before. — Sacheverell Sitwell, April 1954
Niki's life plan, following her graduation from Amherst College with a major in political science, had not been to run her family business. Neither had Josh's, who left a career in chemical engineering for the store. "It's in our blood," he says.
It took Niki three weeks to become adept at slicing lox. "When I had finally gotten it down and had become somewhat skillful at it," she said on a store blog, "my father came in one day, and as he was watching me slice he was kvelling, he was just so proud of me. That I, his daughter, fourth generation Russ, could slice and slice well, you'd think I had won the Nobel Prize. All of my accomplishments and higher learning paled in comparison to a nice slice that you could read the paper through. That's the ultimate test."
kvell kvel
to burst with pride over someone else's accomplishment: Yiddish
Good families have a chief, or a heroine, or a founder — someone around whom others cluster, whose achievements, as the Yiddish word has it, let them kvell, and whose example spurs them on to like feats. — Jane Howard, May 1978
Niki's dad's delight is partly explained by the fact that, traditionally, the appetizing counter has been a male realm, as it currently is at Zabar's. Niki's place as counterwoman ("I slice fish every day," she told me) as well as co-owner should put to rest, however, the myth that only males possess the fish-slicing gene. But Niki is not the only female counterperson at Russ & Daughters: Alina Sheffi has worked behind the counter for nearly 20 years. Let's give her a kvell as well.
The name of Russ & Daughters' blog is kvell-worthy, too. Lox Populi (a play on vox populi) was the winning entry in a 2008 blog-naming contest run by the store and won by Andy Fisher, a Russ & Daughters regular who owns Astor Wines, in Greenwich Village.
vox populi VAHKS PAH pyuh ligh
the voice of the people; popular opinion or sentiment
There is no democracy in culture and the arts. In other words, the vox populi is usually worth nothing. With rare exceptions, the artists and cultural voices that caught the public's fancy did not survive. For the occasional genius recognized in his lifetime, such as Dickens, there are always scores who are ridiculed, if they are noticed at all. — John Simon December 1978
"He needed a fix," said a woman in line ahead of me who had been watching him, too, and had just paid for her purchases. Mortals whose mouths are unacquainted with the ambrosial taste, aroma and feel of a piece of Russ & Daughters' creamed herring with onions cannot appreciate the bliss it brings — or the rapture.
Leaving this Houston Street sanctum sanctorum a few minutes later, I noticed that same woman leaning against a car at the curb in front of the store. She had opened a container and was eating a piece of creamed herring.
"Couldn't wait," she said to me between chews.
"Good?" I asked.
She closed her eyes softly.
"Heavenly," she replied.
sanctum sanctorum SANGK tuhm sangk TOH ruhm
the holiest of holy places
Across the emerald pool fell a shimmering image of lotus-shaped cupolas and copper-gilt walls. Dhoti-clad men lowered themselves on chains into the water to perform ablutions; women in saris murmured prayers in Punjabi. Such a domain of peace and piety — the Golden Temple, the sanctum sanctorum of Sikhism — had been impossible to imagine while navigating the clamorous lanes of Amritsar outside. The temple was orderly, efficient, with gurus on duty in shrines around its sides, and with Sikh bookstores and a museum of Sikh history at its entrance. Sikh guards, dressed in robes of alabaster white and turbans of royal blue, patrolled the chalk-soft marble walkways with spears, enforcing a discipline and solemnity foreign to places of worship elsewhere in India. — Jeffrey Tayler, November 1999


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Gediminas Grinius has just finished up the 2015 Ultra Trail World Tour (UTWT) in second place. It's a gruelling tour in which he took part in 11 ultras of which he won two and placed 4th in another. "I'm still human," he says. We're not so sure: his efforts are truly super-human.
Many congratulations
Thank you very much!
You must be feeling like a champ?
Well, my expectations were a bit high this season, which were to compete well in all UTWT 100 milers. My body and mind betrayed me and I wasn't able to finish the UTMB and Grand Raid Reunion.
The lesson there?
I learnt that I am still a human like everyone else. One more lesson is that I must dream responsibly, but ambition and adventurism make me move forward.
"I also get to suffer in various ways, which is what I like!"
Was any race particularly special?
All races are kind of beautiful in their own way. I know that probably sounds a bit of a politically correct answer but it is totally true. I really enjoy the diversity of the races. The Western States 100-mile Endurance Run [where he placed 4th] for example was extremely hot while during the Ultra Trail of Mt Fuji [which he won] it was raining all the time. I was very happy and excited to finish first during the Transgrancanaria, but absolutely disappointed with my Ultra Trail de Mont Blanc performance. The Grand Raid Reunion was very technical. So, all these things and the diversity makes the races attractive to me, because I have to train and improve different skills as a runner. I also get to suffer in various ways, which is what I like!
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Gediminas (third from left) at the Ultra-Trail World Tour award ceremony. © Ultra-Trail World Tour
What was the hardest race?
The most painful was the UTMB, as I ran about 100 km with these huge blisters on the soles of my feet and then had killer quads for another 30 km, but it wasn't the hardest. The most challenging was Grand Raid Reunion (GRR) which is the last race of the series and I was pretty much drained after all the season. In addition to that the GRR is the most technical race, my weakest point in trail running. Also, the first place of Ultra Trail World Tour was at stake and that put some additional psychological pressure on me, which it seems I wasn't ready to take!
Same again for next year?
Absolutely. I will be back for the 2016 world tour events. My goals will not differ from the last year, because I believe that I was on the right course, so my training cycle will remain the same. I will focus on proper recovery, building up strength to prepare for the upcoming season.


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SCCA Pro Racing strikes multi-year deal with Hankook Tire
INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 30, 2018) -- SCCA Pro Racing, the sanctioning body behind the successful Formula 4 United States Championship Powered by Honda and the new F3 Americas Championship Powered by Honda, announced today that Hankook Tire America will be its exclusive tire supplier for its formula championship ladder starting in 2019.
Hankook Tire's experience in other F4 Championships around the world and the F3 European Championship means their products have exhibited the durability and performance demanded of a highly competitive series. Plus, Hankook Tire meshes well with other series technical partners Honda, HPD, Onroak and Liger.
In a multi-year agreement with an option to extend, Hankook Tire will not only deliver Hankook-branded slick and rain tires to F4 U.S. and F3 Americas competitors, but also provide marketing services to drivers and teams. Per FIA guidelines, a maximum of two sets will be available for purchase at each event with no limitations on tires at official series tests. Hankook Tire will provide trackside mounting service and tire engineering support at each race and test.
"Hankook is thrilled to support F3 and F4 as the primary tire supplier," said Hankook Tire's Sooman Choi, Vice President of Marketing. "We are excited and eager to provide our state-of-the-art racing tires to a series that is designed to develop young American racing talent."
As part of the F4 U.S. Championship scholarship, Hankook will also present the F4 title winner with two full sets of tires per event for the season to progress into the F3 Americas Championship, starting with the 2018 F4 U.S. champion Dakota Dickerson.
"We put extra effort into securing this sponsorship because we believe in the future of Formula racing in the United States," says Danny van Dongen, the founder of the motorsports division. "We have a full range of competition sizes from 13 to 19 inches, but we have previously only sponsored GT and prototype cars. Formula 3 and 4 really help us showcase everything our brand can do."
Hankook Tire America Corp. is a growing leader in the U.S. tire market, leveraging investments in technology, manufacturing and marketing to deliver high-quality, reliable products that are safer for consumers and the environment. With all F4 U.S. and F3 Americas Championship cars designed and assembled in North America, parts availability and quality are assured. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Hankook America aligns with SCCA Pro Racing's commitment to deliver an attainable and very affordable entry level into professional motorsport.
Fans can view and snap photos with the newly outfitted Hankook Tire F4 U.S. and F3 Americas cars starting at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in the Honda booth (#24887) and in the Acumatica booth (#52019).
About Hankook Tire America Corp.
Hankook Tire America Corp. is a growing leader in the U.S. tire market, leveraging investments in technology, manufacturing and marketing to deliver high-quality, reliable products that are safer for consumers and the environment. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Hankook America markets and distributes a complete line of high-performance and ultra-high-performance passenger tires, light truck and SUV tires as well as medium truck and bus tires in the United States. Hankook Tire America is a subsidiary of Hankook Tire Co., Ltd., a Forbes Global 2000 company headquartered in Seoul, Korea, and led by President and CEO Hyun Bum Cho.
About SCCA Pro Racing
SCCA Pro Racing is a division of the Sports Car Club of America, Inc. -- a 65,000-member organization dedicated to motorsports. SCCA Pro Racing provides full-service organization, operation and sanctioning for numerous professional racing series such as Trans Am® and Formula E.
About the SCCA Pro Racing F4 U.S. Championship
FIA F4 is designed as entry-level open-wheel racing for participants, around a contemporary, modern, cost conscious formula. SCCA Pro Racing and its chosen partners that embrace these ideals and support this vision with appropriate technology and products. The selected F4 powerplant is a production-based engine powering the Honda Civic® Type R®, tuned to meet FIA-mandated output of approximately 160 Hp. The engine and the ECU are sealed to provide parity and compliance. The Ligier JS F4 16 carbon fiber chassis is manufactured in the United States by Onroak Automotive North America. From the Hankook Tires, the Honda engine to the Ligier chassis, the F4 U.S. car is assembled and made in the United States.


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How does this medication work? What will it do for me?
Fluconazole belongs to a group of medications known as antifungals. It is most commonly used to treat fungal infections of the mouth (thrush), esophagus (the tube that takes food from the throat to the stomach), lungs, urinary tract, and vagina (yeast infection). It works by preventing the fungi that are causing infection from reproducing and the infection from continuing. The fungi then die off, causing the infection to clear.
It is also used to treat cryptopcoccal meningitis and prevent the recurrence of cryptococcal meningitis in people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and to decrease the risk of candidiasis infection in people undergoing bone marrow transplants who are treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
This medication may be available under multiple brand names and/or in several different forms. Any specific brand name of this medication may not be available in all of the forms or approved for all of the conditions discussed here. As well, some forms of this medication may not be used for all of the conditions discussed here.
Your doctor may have suggested this medication for conditions other than those listed in these drug information articles. If you have not discussed this with your doctor or are not sure why you are taking this medication, speak to your doctor. Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor.
Do not give this medication to anyone else, even if they have the same symptoms as you do. It can be harmful for people to take this medication if their doctor has not prescribed it.
What form(s) does this medication come in?
50 mg
Each pink rectangular tablet with rounded edges, engraved with "FL50" on one side and "TARO" on the other, contains 50 mg fluconazole. Nonmedicinal ingredients: silicon dioxide, dibasic calcium phosphate, D&C Red No. 6 Lake, FD&C Red No. 40 Lake, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium lauryl sulfate, and sodium starch glycolate.
100 mg
Each pink rectangular tablet with rounded edges, engraved with "FL100" on one side and "TARO" on the other, contains 100 mg fluconazole. Nonmedicinal ingredients: silicon dioxide, dibasic calcium phosphate, D&C Red No. 6 Lake, FD&C Red No. 40 Lake, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium starch glycolate.
How should I use this medication?
To treat thrush (yeast infection of the mouth and throat), the recommended adult dose is 100 mg taken by mouth once daily for at least 2 weeks.
To treat esophageal candidiasis (yeast infection of the tube leading to the stomach), the recommended adult dose ranges from 100 mg to 200 mg taken daily for at least 3 weeks. Fluconazole must be taken for at least 2 weeks after the symptoms of the infection resolve to prevent the infection from returning.
To treat yeast infection that has spread throughout the body (disseminated yeast infection), the recommended adult dose of fluconazole is 200 mg to 400 mg once daily, for at least 4 weeks. Again, this medication must be taken for at least 2 weeks after the symptoms of the infection resolve to prevent the infection from returning.
To treat cryptococcal meningitis, the recommended dose of fluconazole is 200 mg to 400 mg once daily. Fluconazole should be taken for at least 10 weeks when treating this condition. To prevent cryptococcal meningitis, 200 mg taken once daily is recommended.
Children's doses are based on the child's body weight and will be calculated by the prescriber. A child's dose should not exceed 12 mg per kilogram of body weight.
Doses greater than 600 mg daily are not recommended for adults or children.
Many things can affect the dose of medication that a person needs, such as body weight, other medical conditions, and other medications. If your doctor has recommended a dose different from the ones listed here, do not change the way that you are taking the medication without consulting your doctor.
It is very important to take this medication on a regular schedule as prescribed by the doctor. Continue to take the full course of this medication even if you start to feel better. If you miss a dose of this medication, take it as soon as you remember it. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and continue with your regular schedule. Do not take a double dose to make up for a missed one. If you are not sure what to do after missing a dose, contact your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
Store this medication at room temperature and keep it out of the reach of children. The reconstituted liquid is stable for two weeks at room temperature.
Do not dispose of medications in wastewater (e.g. down the sink or in the toilet) or in household garbage. Ask your pharmacist how to dispose of medications that are no longer needed or have expired.
Who should NOT take this medication?
Do not take this medication if you:
- are allergic to fluconazole or to any of the ingredients of the medication
- are taking cisapride, terfendine, erythromycin, pimozide, or quinidine
What side effects are possible with this medication?
Many medications can cause side effects. A side effect is an unwanted response to a medication when it is taken in normal doses. Side effects can be mild or severe, temporary or permanent. The side effects listed below are not experienced by everyone who takes this medication. If you are concerned about side effects, discuss the risks and benefits of this medication with your doctor.
The following side effects have been reported by at least 1% of people taking this medication. Many of these side effects can be managed, and some may go away on their own over time.
Contact your doctor if you experience these side effects and they are severe or bothersome. Your pharmacist may be able to advise you on managing side effects.
- diarrhea
- headache
- nausea
- skin rash
- stomach pain
- vomiting
Although most of these side effects listed below don't happen very often, they could lead to serious problems if you do not check with your doctor or seek medical attention.
Check with your doctor as soon as possible if any of the following side effects occur:
- fever and chills
- irregular heartbeat
- loss of appetite
- signs of bleeding (e.g., bloody nose, blood in urine, coughing blood, cuts that don't stop bleeding)
- signs of liver problems (e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, dark urine, pale stools)
- skin rash or itching
Stop taking the medication and seek immediate medical attention if any of the following occur:
- seizures
- signs of a severe allergic reaction (hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of the face, tongue, or throat)
- symptoms of a severe skin rash (such as blistering, peeling, a rash covering a large area of the body, a rash that spreads quickly, or a rash combined with fever or discomfort)
Some people may experience side effects other than those listed. Check with your doctor if you notice any symptom that worries you while you are taking this medication.
Are there any other precautions or warnings for this medication?
Before you begin using a medication, be sure to inform your doctor of any medical conditions or allergies you may have, any medications you are taking, whether you are pregnant or breast-feeding, and any other significant facts about your health. These factors may affect how you should use this medication.
Allergies: Be cautious in taking fluconazole if you are allergic to other "azoles" such as ketoconazole or itraconazole. If you develop symptoms of an allergic reaction, such as skin rash, hives, difficulty breathing, or swelling of the face, tongue, or throat, seek immediate medical attention.
Driving and operating heavy machinery: Fluconazole may occasionally cause dizziness. Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how this medication affects you.
Kidney function: People with kidney disease or reduced kidney function should discuss with their doctor how this medication may affect their medical condition, how their medical condition may affect the dosing and effectiveness of this medication, and whether any special monitoring is needed.
Liver damage: In rare cases, this medication may cause liver damage in people with serious medical conditions. Your doctor may monitor you with regular blood tests to check for side effects while you are taking fluconazole. If you notice signs of liver damage such as abdominal pain, yellowing of the skin or eyes, dark or amber urine, or pale stools, contact your doctor right away.
QT prolongation: In rare cases, this medication can affect the electrical activity of the heart and cause a condition known as QT prolongation. Your doctor will monitor your heart rhythm regularly while you are taking this medication with a test called an electrocardiogram (ECG). You should not take this medication if your ECG already shows that you have QT prolongation or if you are taking a medication that can cause QT prolongation.
Pregnancy: This medication should not be used during pregnancy unless the benefits outweigh the risks. If you become pregnant while taking this medication, contact your doctor immediately. Women who take fluconazole for vaginal yeast infections and who may become pregnant should consider using adequate birth control.
Breast-feeding: This medication passes into breast milk. If you are a breast-feeding mother and are taking fluconazole, it may affect your baby. Talk to your doctor about whether you should continue breast-feeding.
Children: This medication has been shown to be safe and effective for children over 6 months of age.
What other drugs could interact with this medication?
There may be an interaction between fluconazole and any of the following:
- alfentanil
- alfuzosin
- amiodarone
- amphotericin B
- anagrelide
- anti-psychotics (e.g., chlorpromazine, clozapine, haloperidol, olanzepine, quetiapine, risperidone)
- apixaban
- aprepitant
- other "azole" antifungals (ketoconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole)
- asenapine
- barbiturates (e.g., butalbital, pentobarbital phenobarbital)
- benzodiazepines (e.g., alprazolam, chlordiazepoxide, clonazepam, clorazepate, diazepam, flurazepam, midazolam)
- bisoprolol
- birth control pills
- bosentan
- bromocriptine
- buspirone
- calcitriol
- calcium channel blockers (e.g., amlodipine, diltiazem, nifedipine, nisoldipine, verapamil)
- cancer medications (e.g., busulfan, docetaxel, etoposide, irinotecan, vinblastine, vincristine)
- carvedilol
- celecoxib
- clopidogrel
- colchicines
- conivaptan
- cyclosporine
- dapsone
- darifenacin
- diabetes medications (e.g., glyburide, tolbutamide, repaglinide)
- didanosine
- disopyramide
- dofetilide
- domperidone
- dronedarone
- eplerenone
- ergot alkaloids (e.g., ergotamine, dihydroergotamine)
- everolimus
- flutamide
- HIV non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs; e.g., delaviridine, efavirenz, etravirine, nevirapine)
- HIV protease inhibitors (e.g., darunavir, indinavir, lopinavir, saquinavir, tipranavir)
- indapamide
- inhaled corticosteroids (e.g., budesonide, ciclesonide, fluticasone)
- isosorbide dinitrate
- ivacaftor
- lidocaine
- lomitapide
- losartan
- macrolide antiobiotics (e.g., azithromycin, clarithromycin, erythromycin)
- maraviroc
- mefloquine
- methadone
- mifepristone
- moclobemide
- montelukast
- naloxegol
- narcotic pain relievers (e.g., codeine, fentanyl, morphine, oxycodone)
- oral corticosteroids (e.g., methylprednisolone, prednisone)
- phenytoin
- phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors (e.g., sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil)
- pimecrolimus
- pimozide
- primaquine
- procainamide
- propafenone
- proton pump inhibitors (e.g., omeprazole, esomeprazole, lansoprazole)
- quinidine
- quinine
- quinolone antibiotics (e.g., levofloxacin, norfloxacin, moxifloxacin)
- rifabutin
- rifampin
- saccharomyces boulardii
- salmeterol
- seizure medications (e.g., carbamazepine, gabapentin, levetiracetam, phenytoin, topiramate)
- silodosin
- simeprevir
- sirolimus
- sotalol
- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs; e.g., citalopram, fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline)
- serotonin antagonists (anti-emetic medications; e.g., granisetron, ondansetron)
- "statin" cholesterol medications (e.g., atorvastatin, lovastatin, simvastatin)
- stiripentol
- sulfonamide antibiotics (e.g., sulfadiazine, sulfamethoxazole)
- tacrolimus
- tamoxifen
- telaprevir
- temsirolimus
- tetrabenzine
- theophylline
- tolterodine
- tolvaptan
- trabectedin
- tretinoin
- tricyclic antidepressants (e.g., amitriptyline, desipramine, imipramine, nortriptyline)
- trimethoprim
- "triptan" migraine medications (e.g., eletriptan, sumatriptan)
- tyrosine kinase inhibitors (e.g., crizotinib, dasatinib, imatinib, nilotinib)
- ulipristal
- vandetanib
- venlafaxine
- warfarin
- zafirlukast
- zidovudine
- zolpidem
- zopiclone
If you are taking any of these medications, speak with your doctor or pharmacist. Depending on your specific circumstances, your doctor may want you to:
- stop taking one of the medications,
- change one of the medications to another,
- change how you are taking one or both of the medications, or
- leave everything as is.
An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of them. Speak to your doctor about how any drug interactions are being managed or should be managed.
Medications other than those listed above may interact with this medication. Tell your doctor or prescriber about all prescription, over-the-counter (non-prescription), and herbal medications that you are taking. Also tell them about any supplements you take. Since caffeine, decongestants, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the action of many medications, you should let your prescriber know if you use them.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2020. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/drug/getdrug/Taro-Fluconazole


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(CNN) -- Leading golfers Rory McIlroy, Bubba Watson, Luke Donald, Dustin Johnson, Brandt Snedeker and Keegan Bradley are all "Dufnering".
So it was entirely appropriate that D.A. Points celebrated his win at the Houston Open by posing for the cameras with his best impression of the trend that has gone viral on the internet -- the American golfer slouched on the green with a slightly vacant expression on his face with the tournament trophy by his side.
Before Points' win, which earned him a place at the Masters and a winner's check of $1.16 million, the U.S. PGA Tour event had been buzzing with laughter after the likes of McIlroy et al posted pictures of themselves on Twitter mimicking Jason Dufner's unfortunate photograph of himself looking rather disinterested in a Texas classroom surrounded by children, while performing a charity visit last week.
"What can I say, I was tired, my back hurt from sitting on the floor, and we were talking about relaxation and focusing," tweeted Dufner, explaining his lackadaisical posture and the less than animated expression on his face.
Too late -- #Dufnering was quickly trending after a succession of leading golfers gently poked fun at their sporting colleague on Twitter.
Sitting in front of the General Lee car from the Dukes of Hazard television series that he owns, Watson tweeted: "Just #Dufnering in the garage!!"
Other sports starts quickly got in on the act, peppering Dufner's Twitter timeline with their own version of the online phenomenon -- former tennis player Andy Roddick even tweeted a picture of his dog "Dufnering".
Given Points had made just two cuts in nine starts this year, the 36-year-old was not surprisingly only too happy to oblige the photographers with his own take on golf's new craze after his win on Sunday at the Redstone Club.
"You know, again, I want to win," Points told the PGA Tour website as he more seriously outlined his future ambitions.
"I want to win more than once. I want to have the opportunity to win majors, I want to play in Ryder Cups and Presidents Cups. These are things I want to do and I know I'm capable of doing.
"So I never doubt that I can do it. I certainly get down and frustrated when I make two of nine cuts. That's not making you feel real great about yourself.''
Remarkably Points earned his place at the Masters thanks to some help from his mother's putter as he finished one shot ahead of compatriot Billy Horschel and Sweden's Henrik Stenson.
"I've been hitting it better and better, and I saw Brian White for a putting lesson,'' added Points, who holed a 13-foot par putt at the 72nd hole to to clinch victory after thunderstorms had halted play in the closing stretch.
"Gave me a couple things, changed the putter, boom, felt great, and here I am.
"So, the thing about it, is I never count myself out. I never just chalk it up, like, 'Oh, this year is over with.' I've never ever felt like that. I was just grinding, just trying to wait and try to find that one thing that was like, boom, there it is and there I go.
"Fortunately, it was this week and I capitalized on it."
McIlroy, who announced during the tournament that he would postpone a UNICEF charity trip to Haiti in order to add this week's Texas Open to his schedule, finished tied for 45th -- 12 shots behind Points.
He is still seeking his first victory this season, having fallen to No. 2 in the world rankings behind Tiger Woods.
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PHP "Profiling" as a debugging tool for Joomla!
Posted by metamodguy in PHP , development
Over the last couple of days I have been doing final testing on an update to MetaMod Pro, introducing compatibility with JoomlArt's wonderful T3v2 template framework. Something I noticed was that pages were taking 5-10 seconds longer to load in the T3v2 template than they were with any of the other templates I have installed.
If this was Java I'd be reaching for the Java profiler in NetBeans. But Joomla is in PHP... I'd never come across that kind of profiler for PHP before...
This is how I tackled the problem and found a great new tool for site diagnostics in Joomla.Read More...


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Margaret R. McDowell, ChFC, AIF, a syndicated economic columnist, Chartered Financial Consultant and Accredited Investment Fiduciary, is the founder of Arbor Wealth Management, LLC, (850-608-6121~www.arborwealth.net), a �Fee-Only� Registered Investment Advisory Firm located near Sandestin. Arbor Wealth specializes in portfolio management for clients with $250,000 or more of investable assets.
�Earthquake insurance is something I�m keen to take a whack at�collect premiums for a gazillion years, and if the big one ever does hit, declare bankruptcy and retire.�
Woody Harrelson as Hank Gordon in �Doc Hollywood�
Filmed near Micanopy, Fla., �Doc Hollywood� starred Michael J. Fox as Ben Stone, a young plastic surgeon who wrecks his Porsche in Grady, S.C., en route to an interview for a lucrative position in California. At fault in the accident, Ben is sentenced to serve 30 days as a resident general practitioner at Grady�s hospital.
Dr. Stone falls in love with an ambulance driver named Lou (short for �Vialula�), strolls about town with a pet pig on a leash, reads letters from relatives to illiterate patients, saves the life of the town�s venerable and singular physician and dances at the annual Grady Squash Festival. Ben eventually arrives in California, but pines for the pleasures of small town life in Grady and returns to woo Lou.
Lou�s affections are divided between insurance salesman Hank Gordon (Woody Harrelson) and Doc Hollywood. Harrelson�s above quoted line is intended to amuse, but for Floridians reeling with the rising cost of property insurance, it�s no laughing matter. Like Harrelson�s mythical earthquake insurance agency, large companies indeed collected premiums from Floridians for decades. When storms actually struck and companies were required to pay justified claims, many companies very quickly stopped offering coverage.
Additionally, corralling surging medical insurance premiums is vital if we are to maintain a sustainable middle class, one that contributes to Social Security, Medicare and GDP. Medical premiums have increased by 60 percent in the last two years for many Floridians, whether they�ve experienced serious illness or not. A middle class that cannot afford health care insurance is not the America most of us envision.
Businesses are reeling with prohibitive insurance costs. Many firms incur costs for liability insurance, wind and flood insurance, errors and omissions insurance, key man life insurance, life and work disability insurance, business interruption insurance, group health care plans and an assortment of other coverages.
For non-business owners, life insurance and long term care insurance are staples for many consumers/investors. And few of us wish to risk going without health care insurance. The U.S. has the distinction of spending the highest amount on health care among the world�s industrialized countries, about 16 percent of GDP. The remarkable rise in private insurance premiums is but one contributing factor. Every industry has the right to make a profit, but at what price?
One way to recoup some of those ever-increasing co-pay dollars, based on your investment objectives, may be to invest in health care plan providers, medical device manufacturers and biotech companies.