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This is a guest post by Emma Buck.
These are dark times. The refugee crisis in Europe and the attacks in Paris and Beirut sent a shock throughout the world, where before, some U.S. Americans may have been challenged to find Syria on a map, now key players in Syria and the diaspora have become household names in the United States and around the internet- from the Assad regime, the dictator being overthrown in Syria, to the island of Lesvos, a small vacation Greek island being rocked by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees by boat. So, you know there's a war going on in Syria and a refugee crisis as a result, and you want to do something about it? I have three organisations that I wish to highlight and link to ways to supporting them, because they are doing some of the best work on the ground here, because they need your support in continuing to do it, and because they bring me hope that light can emerge out of this darkness.
I'm in Southern Turkey living with displaced Syrian revolutionary activists, volunteering and collaborating with many local organisations that have sprung up in this crisis. Amidst the many challenges they must face and I struggle to even comprehend, I have found my hope in meeting the ordinary people, mostly women, who are confronting impossible problems, starting as grassroots activists and formalizing into organizations and, really, changing the world. These people work in and around Syria, every day, where and when everyone else fails. If you believe in a world where ordinary people help each other in need, where refugees are welcome and peace can be built from the ground up, here's where to send your money and support. Invest in the world you believe in. If you're thinking about where to give before the end of the year, please consider supporting them. If you are not able to financially support them, please consider learning more about them and sharing this post on your Facebook or other social media.
In Lebanon, where Syrian refugees make up 1 in every 4 people, SAWA for Development and Aid was one of the first organizations on the ground in 2011 when Syrian refugees first started coming in. They were "founded in reaction to the dire gap of fulfilling the needs for Syrian refugees in Lebanon"- such gaps include, for instance, when weather conditions in winter get bad enough, the NGOs managing the camps abandon them to their fates. Really. SAWA are holding a supply drive called #beforethestorm, and every cent donated goes to coats, heating supplies, and shelter for refugees in Bekaa. Donate below, $10 buys a winter kit for a child, $25 buys blankets, and more can go towards tents, firewood, and more.
In Greece, where Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and other refugees arrive by rubber dinghy on the vacation island of Lesvos, the formidable local restaurant owner Melinda McRostie had to do something to help the wet and desperate people arriving by the hundreds every day (read more about them here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/captain-table-restaurant-helping-refugees-151012133022206.html). Her organization, Starfish, until recently only an informal yet highly organized group of volunteers and now a Greece-based nonprofit, has since it begun helped shelter, feed and house more than 90,000 refugees, and counting. These were the folks I volunteered with back in October, and I cannot stress enough how much Starfish is holding up that side of the island, connecting refugees, locals, volunteers and the UN to get the job done. Just 1.60 euros buys a meal for a tired refugee. More info here, including links to the paypal donation page:
All throughout Syria (Da'esh, Liberated Areas, Rojava, Regime-held areas, and the diaspora), multiple networks of over 25 peace circles led by Syrian women are negotiating ceasefires, opening schools in besieged areas, advocating for political prisoners, bringing together ethnic and religious communities to reduce tension, and so much more. These women are remarkable, sowing the seeds of peace amidst such a terrible war, and their stories need to be told. There are links to donate and also other ways to support below for their parent organization the Centre for Civil Society and Democracy- just put WFFS in the memo line. Added bonus, if you're looking for donations to ease your tax burden, CCSD is also registered as a 501(c)3 in the United States, so can count towards your charitable donations. See below:
Will you make a donation to one of these organizations? They are doing urgent, important work, and they need our support. Sometimes, what makes the world brighter is also what makes it easier to bear the darkness: taking action to make it better.


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Portland committee approves ordinance that would restrict panhandling
City council vote could keep panhandlers off medians
The Portland Public Safety, Health and Human Services Committee voted 4-0 in favor of an amendment to the Portland city code that would ban people from standing on traffic medians.
If passed by the city council, the measure would prevent people from panhandling on medians in the city.
Of the 20 people who spoke in the Tuesday night meeting, only one person was opposed, said Portland City Councilor John Coyne. The Preble Street Resource Center and Homeless Voices for Justice had no opposition to the proposal because of the focus on safety.
The language to the amendment says "No person shall stand, sit, stay, drive or park on a median ... Except pedestrians in the course of crossing one side of the street to another."
Business owners, neighborhood associations and residents spoke in favor of the proposal, Coyne said. A Lyman Moore Middle School student who did a project about panhandling also spoke in favor of the amendment.
The Portland City Council will discuss it in its next meeting, which is June 17, for a first reading, Coyne said. A July meeting will have public comment and a vote.
The two-hour meeting dealt with the discussion and vote on the amendment, Coyne said. About 100 people attended the meeting in Portland City Council chambers.

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|Sms2Cri's Story
|Saturday, 26 February 2011 23:04
The first time I played The Sims 2 was at the start of 2005... it seems yesterday when I started to search contents and tutorial to customize my game...
nothing of strange... I think you've seen it before... but Do you ever seen the first button version? I've found them on my pc and I think they are very bad...
at the end of 2005 perhaps, or in 2006, I've changed them to this version
I've no more info about past layouts... I've only images of the graphic used since summer 2006, or 2007 (I'm not sure) to be honest I've only the header image, but the rest is not changed so much, so I've pasted together the pictures :P
We changed the header images so many times in 2007, until the election of Miss and Mister Sims2Cri, the couple Giorgio-Isabella represents the face of Sims2Cri from September 2007 until December 2007
December... It's Christmas Time! for the first time Sims2Cri changed its color from pink to red-green, but only for Christmas 2007!
then, we must come back to pink! Sims2Cri is grow up so much, so we need some space for navigation... we introduced a new navbar at the left of contents, we have changes all titles and some other little things...
What does it mean this cover? Actors are the same of header, Isabella and Giorgio.
The Carnival was coming, so we changed another time our cover with one carnival-love themed, with our Miriam with Hisachi and Isabella watching at Giorgio....
29-31 March 2008 Sims2Cri is turning 3 years... this year was born Sims3Cri too... so we decided to change completely our look. We searched something to represent our growth and our maturity, with elegance. We hope to reach this target and that you like this new style!
And now the final look, pretty similar to our other sites, such as Sims3Cri and our SimsCri.net. We moved to a more dynamic structrure, so we hope to update more often. In 2011 it's time to change after 6 years of activities!
Talking about other projects... Dreamvision, the movie section, had a different layout in past years...
since october 2007 with the publish of 'A New Sunrise' we have totally re-style it:
In 2011 the dreamvision section has been integrated in our SimsCri.net portal, with the same layout.
I've talk so much!!! Now it's time for your comment and suggestion!! Leave a message and tell us what you think about our layouts and story!!
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Hudson's ambulance service will now handle the billing for the Morenci Area EMS to save on costs. The change was approved by the EMS board Monday night.
Morenci has used the AccuMed billing service for several year, currently at a charge of $18 for each ambulance run.
"AccuMed has provided a valuable service over the years to bring stability to our billing process," said Morenci Area EMS administrator Larry Weeks. "However, recently they proposed a dramatic increase in their fees that could be crippling to our operations."
The proposed increase could cost up to$9,000 a year, Weeks said. He obtained bids from six other billing firms and he also spoke with other ambulance services about their operations. During the course of his conversations, he received an offer from Hudson EMS to provide the service for $15 a run.
Morenci Area EMS currently makes about 500 ambulance runs a year, Weeks said, and 360 to 380 of those are considered billable runs.
Weeks said Morenci Area EMS does not handle billing on its own due to the training demands needed for working with insurance companies.
"It's a very complicated process," he said, to keep up with current insurance codes.


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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
I've Got to Say This Sooner or Later
Saw a neurotic LOL(little old lady, not laugh out loud)today who was just neurotic about having a pacer put in 4 mos ago and still having chest pain, blah, blah..Took me, oh, 2 minutes to figure out this was no cardiac problem and we go on and have a "non satisfying" encounter. She wants a cardiologist to come see her, etc..I tell her I'm the cardiologist dejur and I'll figure it out,etc..We've all been there..She wants a new doc and luckily we're triple covered so I pass it off to 1 of my colleagues (who just to have been one of my ex-residents!)...
Anyway, she doesn't like this doc, a female by the way for you gals out there, but my bud does her thing and after about 6 hours all is proven benign and she goes home...
There was much wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth..Many accusations of I'm mean (actually called my friend "evil" because she talked too fast)... God I wanted to stop them as they left and tell them I was right in the first 2 minutes and she was a little old POS.. But I somehow refrained...
Where is it written that we, ER docs, have to take this kind of abuse? That any other doc would tell them to take a hike as soon as they asked for another doc... Why do we put up with this crap? Yes, it's because we don't want another complaint, I know, I know. Why do we let that decide on many of our courses of action?
Further, why would I, as old and experienced as I am, let this bother me so much?? Why did we let the passengers start driving the bus? And would I be such a bad guy if I just started telling all of my pts what they didn't have wrong with them in the first 5 minutes and kicking their ass out the door? Should I cause my group, who I dearly love, that hassle purely for self gratification? Would I be mentally more healthy?(I think so) I don't know the answer, just seeking your intelligent input..
.Thanks, OF
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There's a lot of shades of gray -- when a patient tells me they're unhappy and want a new doc, they are almost always unhappy with the proposed course of treatment, which is a polite way of saying that they wanted narcotics and I declinded to provide.ReplyDelete
In those cases, I tend to tell them that they do not have an emergency condition, and having satisfied EMTALA, I discharge them, with the assistance of security, if needed.
It's harder when the issue is medical/anxiety-driven. Sometimes you can start over and win their trust (or at least their acceptance), soemtimes you sort of realize they don't believe a word you are saying but gloss it over by talking fast. Doesn't matter -- it most always ruins my day.
Good luck with residency.
- Anonymous12:23 AM, September 05, 2007
Ah, we have one of these too. But she is only 1 wk post pacer implant. And we have to follow her chronically.ReplyDelete
I made sure she wasn't in my clinic for her f/u wound check!
I think that if we had the luxury of spending more time with the pt, then we could alleviate the anxiety without having to do the million dollar work up. In clinic I have been able to do this and have the pt agree to clinical f/u to reassess sx and not do a bunch of unnecessary tests. Certainly in the ER there is not that luxury.
Don't have any answers for you.
But bet it would be fun to adopt the tell 'em where to go behavior the last week that you worked.
I know I would feel a lot better if i could just say what I really feel like. I am pretty blunt in real life, but can't be in proffessional life and that SUCKS! I feel for you. I feel for all of us this way.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:05 AM, September 05, 2007
I think that it is very hard to work through a difficult patient like that. Obviously, she is frustrated with other factors that have nothing to do with her heart, and while it's unfair for her to take it out on you most certainly, it is difficult to tell a patient with that kind of chip on their shoulder what is/isn't wrong with her. You do have 2 choices, 1. is to gloss over everything in a hurry regardless of whether she listens or not and 2. is to try and hit a 'human' factor with her so she doesn't think you're some cold doc who thinks she's just a pain in the ass- regardless of whether she is or not. Getting your patients to believe that you care about them, regardless of whether they are sick or not- goes a long way in diffusing the cantankerous or hostile patientReplyDelete
Old fart,ReplyDelete
Haven't done this as long as you, but after over 47,000 patient encounters, it does build up. On my last day of work (in 12 years or when I hit the lottery whichever comes first) I am going to let it fly. I hope I have each of the following:
Nervous ninny, with hovering family: Get a f**king grip and get the f**k out.
16 year old with 3 kids by 3 dads (actually had this this week): Shut your f**king legs.
Drug seeker: For the last time, you POS, no drugs from the ED.
Gang banger with crooked hat and saggy pants: you are not cool, you sack of shit, straighten your hat and pull up your pants, and sell that grill to buy some soap for your kid.
There are more, but I thinks that is a good start.
- Anonymous11:01 AM, September 05, 2007
Kick her ass to the curb. The EMERGENCY room is for, yes, you guessed it, EMERGENCIES! If we let patients treat our ERs as a psych clinic / drug distributor then that's exactly what patients will use it for.ReplyDelete
I really don't think the ER is the place to indulge patient's neuroses. "Ma'am, you have chest pain that is non-emergent... GET THE FUCK OUT."
I'm semi-kidding. We can be polite and humane and "compassionate" without being a doormat. Now when people come in for TRUE emergent care, more time will be available to them. Everyone wins, except the annoying old bag.
- Anonymous11:02 AM, September 05, 2007
Cat, just saw your post...ReplyDelete
As always, more elegantly said than me.
Having experienced a "neurotic LOL" for the past several weeks, I think nothing you could have done would have made her feel better.ReplyDelete
How hard is it to get a psych consult and tranquilizers?
it's been two years since i have been able to get a psychiatrist into the ER and that was only a fluke.
it's not so hard to get a 'psychiatric extender' (someone with special training in basic psychiatric diagnosis) to see someone.
we can easily give 'tranquilizers' but not to this patient. first, she would take offense. second, she had real problems with her heart, and even though Oldfart was next to certain her problems were not cardiac she still succeeded in getting what she wanted, a million dollar workup, and still was unhappy.
- Anonymous6:41 PM, September 05, 2007
I think alot of doctors are incompetent; so do many other people. I have a girlfriend who was having ocular migrain headaches. She had them for over a course of a year without diagnosis, no help, and 3 different doctors. Finnaly the fourth doctor correctly diagnosed it, within 6 months of treatment she only gets one headache every 6 months now. Her problem was almost terminal, no eating, crashing and sleeping on floors etc.ReplyDelete
Too many textbook dumb doctors. If you don't fit the textbook or the flow chart no treatment for you. Oh, so you do have some fungus on your toe? Here take this medicine that has a 1 in 20 chance of destroying your liver. Then we can makes some big bucks finding you a another liver. Nevermind its better just to use some bleach or just live with the toe fungus.
- Anonymous6:57 PM, September 05, 2007
I am a premedical student with absolutely no experience from which to speak, so feel free to rightfully ignore the following text, but I'd think that you have to find some way to say what you mean, even if you have to tone it down a bit for the sake of not racking up a complaint count as high as your patient count.ReplyDelete
I don't speak for the others, but I am incompetant and just do this for the cash. I know for sure I would have misdiagnosed your "I have a girlfriend" (? you have more than one? How about "my girlfriend") and I would also have missed her fibromyalgia, sciatica, chronic fatigue, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, phantom penis pain and who knows what else. But as long as she pays the bill, I'm happy.
I'm so imcompetent I typed "incompetant".
You tell him, Cat. I'm all for a lively discussion, but to come into someone's "house" and be insulting just violates my sense of decorum. I was raised in a gentler time.ReplyDelete
you know, I think some people actually NEED a dose of reality now and then. If your partners are as sick of ED abuse as you are, maybe they wouldn't mind as much as you think they would if you gave some abusive patients that "Reality Check" during your time left. Can't hurt to ask 'em.
Then again, I could be full of it.
dear anonymous,ReplyDelete
i know who you are and i know your blog. here it is right here and i've linked your page on my site.
keep rockin' dude!
Maybe I could get a psych consult for my LOL and the tranquilizers for me. I don't have a heart condition, yet.ReplyDelete
Love the blog guys!
- Anonymous2:28 PM, September 06, 2007
That's a good idea! Why not put only phsychologists in the ER?ReplyDelete
Only patients that are comatose or rational enough can get past them to treatement.
A great triage solution.


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Picture-book pathos: Artists deliver bitter pill
In India there is a small green fruit called the amla that tastes sour and bitter upon first bite, but which turns deliciously sweet when followed by a swallow of water. This effect is the opposite of what happens when viewing the exhibition, "Illustration Bitter & Sweet," currently at the University of Virginia's Ruffin Gallery.
Curated by UVA studio art prof Dean Dass, the show focuses on four artists who use friendly styles of illustration to create images with ominous implications. Case in point, Randy Bolton, whose colorful screen prints mimic the kind of illustrations found in children's picture books. In "Early Spring," a cheerful snowman's head sits in a puddle on a tree stump as cartoon-like flowers dot the surrounding white landscape, portending the death of our carrot-nosed friend.
Bolton also contributes two triptychs to the show that cleverly observe how we junk up and limit the world with materialism and negative thinking. Each set of prints progresses from left to right. In the orange and blue-dominated, "No Where, No Way, No How," a path through the woods, with fenced-off fields beckoning in the distance, runs into obstacles. In the final frame, the road abruptly ends at a tree with a sign reading, "No How," tacked to its trunk. An abandoned wagon sits broken and wheel-less nearby.
Russian Leonid Tishkov's work is more overtly political. His four pencil-and-watercolor illustrations focus on surreal creatures called Dabloids- giant, red, foot-like beings. Tishkov presents the creatures as precious things around which human life revolves, worthy of both love and military protection. Though humorous, the images are uncomfortable. But Tishkov's flat style includes surprising details, such as attention to fabrics, which provide lovely side notes to the heavy emotional content.
The exhibition also includes Tishkov's large "Anatomical Map of Russia A-H," a diagram constructed from eight framed lithographs that imagines Russia's topography as male and female sexual organs interspersed with digestive viscera. At the bottom Tishkov provides a wry account of the piece's creation written in the style of state propaganda.
Finnish-born Marja Ruta also laments the individual's relationship to the state. There is nothing humorous or sweet, though, about her crude drypoint illustrations that recall life during wartime. In contrast, Michael Krueger's flat pencil-drawn landscapes, reminiscent of high-school notebook doodles, are pleasantly cryptic with regard to their message.
Unlike the amla, these illustrations deceive with a sweet approachability that disguises bitter content.
The exhibition, "Illustration Bitter & Sweet," featuring work by Randy Bolton, Michael Krueger, Leonid Tishkov, and Marja Ruta, is on view through December 6 at UVA's Ruffin Gallery. 179 Culbreth Road. 924-6123.


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Clermont resort open as engineers test sinkhole
100-foot wide sinkhole swallows much of three-story resort building
CLERMONT, Fla. – The president of the Clermont resort where a sinkhole opened up and engulfed a building says the resort is still open for business as engineers determine if the depression has grown.
Summer Bay Resort President Paul Caldwell said at a news conference on Tuesday that gas is back on and power has been restored to most units after the two-floor-deep and 100 feet across sinkhole opened up Sunday night at around 10:30 p.m.
"We are open for business taking care of our guests," Caldwell said. "There are some inconveniences for their vacation which sickens us but believe us we are doing everything to make this be a special vacation."
Caldwell said the resort was providing those who lost their belongings cash advances and taking claims for any valuables.
Families in building 104 reported hearing cracking and popping sounds, and some people's windows began to break.
Richard Shanley, the security guard who went door to door ushering guests out of the collapsing building, said on Tuesday seeing the destruction is still unbelievable.
Resort managers say they'll decide to let guests back into the surrounding buildings based on the advice of engineers, but they don't expect to have that information until Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a 911 call was released on Monday night made from the Summer Bay Resort.
The resort is located about 10 miles west of Disney World on U.S. 192.
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According to ESCARDÓ-LAWSON-SIMPSON paper 'Comparing cartesian closed categories of (core) compactly generated spaces' The following four propositions are true:
A topological space $X$ is exponentiable iff $X$ is core-compact.
The category of core-compact topological spaces is not cartesian closed, because even though when $X$ and $Y$ are core-compact, we can build the exponential object $Y^X$, but $Y^X$ will not necessarily be itself core-compact.
The category of Core-compactly generated spaces is cartesian closed.
The category of Core-compactly generated spaces contains the category of core-compact spaces.
It seems that there is a contradiction if the four propositions are all true. A sub-category of the category of topological spaces cannot be cartesian closed if it is not strictly included in the sub-category of core-compact spaces. What Am i getting wrong here ?


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The new iPhone 5s' fingerprint ID sensor can be used to unlock your phone- even by your cat.
In a video posted by TechCrunch on Thursday morning, writer Darrell Etherington uses his cat's paw to unlock the new iPhone 5s using the device's new Touch ID sensor.
Although he clearly reports that the paw failed to register more times than it succeeded, it was ultimately able to unlock the phone when positioned properly on the phone's Touch ID sensor.
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The town of Longboat Key has serious employee pension problems — and they're not just the $25 million in unfunded liabilities hanging over the town's taxpayers.
It became vividly clear last week at a firefighter pension board meeting that the town has structural problems with its pension boards and the oversight of the town employees' pension plans.
Tensions erupted into visible conflict last week between Town Manager Bruce St. Denis and Keith Tanner, chairman of the firefighter pension board and district vice president of the firefighters' union. Tanner triggered the conflict when he questioned how the firefighter pension plan accumulated its $12 million unfunded liability; called for an audit of the plan's actuary; and said: "I think the town is trying to shortchange us."
Talk about fighting words.
St. Denis bristled, in effect saying Tanner's positions as district union chief and chairman of the firefighter pension board are a conflict of interest. "What I see is you folks as the union asking you folks as the board the questions you want addressed," St. Denis said. "Now the questions have been answered and because you don't like the answers, you want to spend a lot more money to find different answers."
With that, tensions became so inflamed the pension board attorney called for a five-minute recess of the meeting to reduce the boiling.
St. Denis has a point. Although legally permissible, there's a sour smell to the fact the vice president of the firefighter union is the presiding officer over the board that governs the town firefighters' pension plans — to which taxpayers contribute most of the money and over which taxpayers have little control. Indeed, to make matters worse, firefighter union members control the board with three of the five seats. As they say, the deck is stacked.
Even this is a contentious issue. When one of the three firefighters' term on the board expired, board members were to vote to fill his seat. Predictably, the two citizen representatives voted to add a third citizen-taxpayer to the board; likewise the two firefighters voted to retain the third firefighter. Because the vote was split 2-2, the third firefighter remains on the board. This, too, is problematic.
Understandably, the Town Commission and town manager have been preoccupied over the past several months with higher priorities — the Longboat Key Club and Resort's redevelopment application; erosion on north Longboat Key; and, oh yeah, the Town Commission elections.
But those matters aside, the town's pension plans are quite similar to the town's comprehensive plan. All are in need of major rewriting and reform.
Let's hope, come April 5, at the first regular meeting of the newly seated Town Commission that the commission members unanimously commit to making pension-plan reform one of their top three priorities. Millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars and the retirement lives of more than 100 past and current town employees are at stake.
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Lucky Barack Obama. The New Orleans Saints and the Winter Olympics will divert the mainstream media's attention away from Obama's proposed massive tax increases and gargantuan federal deficit (see table below).
But that is not going to make Obama's cataclysmic ideology go away. And, in fact, even as the U.S. economy in the fourth quarter of 2009 and first quarter of 2010 are going to show increasing gross domestic product and an end to the recession, there is a growing body of economic watchers and experts who are predicting with certainty more serious trouble for America's economy.
Arthur Laffer, of Laffer Curve fame, is forecasting that we'll experience a worse recession in 2011 than we did in 2009 if the Bush tax cuts are repealed and Congress adopts Obama's $1.3 trillion deficit spending plans.
Read the excerpts below from a 1991 article by Professor Robert Higgs. He explained 20 years ago what government deficits really are — morally wrong and symptoms of a system that is corrupt to the core.
Why deficits are so pernicious
By Robert Higgs
Editor's Note: The following are excerpts from a 1991 article authored by Robert Higgs, the Thomas F. Gleed Professor in the Albers School of Business and the director of the Center for the Study of Social Dynamics at Seattle University.
The deficits of the past three decades can be viewed as pernicious for many reasons. Consider just three of the more important ones.
1. The economic case against deficits.
When the government borrows money, it diverts private savings to uses that have a smaller component of investment and a larger component of consumption.
By bidding up interest rates, government borrowing "crowds out" borrowers who would have made investments in the private economy, while the funds the government borrows are used overwhelmingly for consumption. The result is that the nation's capital stock, the aggregate of all durable resources that enhance the economy's productive capacity, grows less rapidly.
As a consequence, future standards of living will be lower than they otherwise would have been. Our children and grandchildren will reap smaller harvests because our own generation is feasting on some of the seed corn.
2. The moral case against deficits.
When the service charges on the debt come due in the future, the obligation to make these payments, by suffering some form of taxation, will fall on persons who will have had absolutely no choice about entering into the debt contract and will have received no benefit from it.
Unless the government defaults, which would be morally reprehensible and economically harmful in itself, individuals in the future will be stuck with higher taxes, either directly or via inflation, than they otherwise would have had to bear.
The fact that in the future some individuals will receive the interest and principal on bonds they inherited in no way diminishes the force of the argument. The good fortune of the legatees does not cancel the injustice done to others. And justice has to do with individuals, not classes or generations. The soothing apology for the debt, that "we owe it to ourselves," is a fallacy. The persons who will owe it are not identical to the persons to whom it will be owed.
To impose financial obligations on our children and grandchildren gratuitously for the sake of our own present enjoyment is moral arrogance at best. It bespeaks a contempt for others well captured by the famous remark attributed to Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV: apres nous le dêluge ("after us, the flood"), or in today's terms, the future be damned.
3. Symptoms of a political system gone corrupt to the core.
Notwithstanding all the political rhetoric to the contrary, the government runs chronic deficits because the members of Congress want to run them. They make this choice because they value their re-election more than they value the interests of the public. Even a cursory examination of the evidence shows unmistakably that the emergence of chronic deficits since 1960 has resulted from federal spending growth, not from decreased government revenues.
Politicians are afraid to rein in the runaway spending so that it will match revenues because they don't want to offend those who receive the benefits financed by the government — goodies paid for sooner or later by taxpayers.
Much of the government's spending is channeled to well-organized political pressure groups whose support is viewed as essential by incumbents seeking re-election.
The deficits reflect a political system responsive to special interests at the expense of the general interest of the public now, as well as the general interest of future generations …
Unfortunately, given our political system as presently constituted, individual citizens acting on their own can do virtually nothing to remedy these ills. Because people rarely organize for political action except on behalf of some narrow interest, no one is likely to create an effective movement in opposition to continuing massive deficits.
So far as the government's fiscal irresponsibility is concerned, the immediate future probably will be no different from the immediate past.
The Obama deficits
Dollars in billions
2009 2010 2011 2012
Revenues $2,105 $2,165 $2,567 $2,926
Spending 3,518 3,721 3,834 3,755
Deficits 1,413 1,556 1,267 828
Debt held 7,545 9,298 10,498 11,472
by public
As a percentage of GDP
Revenues 14.8% 14.8% 16.8% 18.1%
Spending 24.7% 25.4% 25.1% 23.2%
Deficits 9.9% 10.6% 8.3% 5.1%
Source: Pete G. Peterson Foundation


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Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide
This Guide seeks to provide assistance to educational practitioners in evaluating whether an educational intervention is backed by rigorous evidence of effectiveness, and in implementing evidence-based interventions in their schools or classrooms. By intervention, we mean an educational practice, strategy, curriculum, or program. The Guide is organized in four parts:
I. A description of the randomized controlled trial, and why it is a critical factor in establishing "strong" evidence of an intervention's effectiveness;
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week by a surprisingly large 16,000, a sign there is still gas in the tank for the labor market's recovery despite signs of slower growth.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday.
"The trend suggests a very slow improvement in the labor market," said Gary Thayer, a macro strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis.
The report runs counter to several weeks of signals that economic activity softened in March and early April, a phenomenon economists have dubbed the spring swoon because it also happened in the previous two years.
The four-week moving average for new claims, a less volatile measure of labor market trends, fell 4,500 to 357,500.
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The data eased concerns of a deterioration in labor market conditions after nonfarm payrolls posted their smallest increase in nine months in March. "The downtrend in unemployment remains on track," said Jim O'Sullivan, an economist at High frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
Still, claims have been difficult to adjust for seasonal swings in recent weeks because of the Easter holiday and spring breaks that are staggered across the nation's schools, so analysts were cautious about too firm a conclusion about what the data might signal. "Claims are a poor guide to payrolls right now," said Ian Shepherdson, an economist at Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisors in White Plains, New York.
Labor Department analysts said there was nothing unusual in the data and no states had estimated their claims, but the data were still affected by holidays in some regions.
The report helped propel U.S. stock prices higher. Yields on U.S. government debt also rose, with investors preparing for an upcoming $29 billion auction of seven-year notes. The dollar weakened against the euro and the yen, with traders citing a recent slew of soft economic data that has raised concerns about the pace of the U.S. economic recovery.
Even the housing market, until recently a bright spot in the economy, has shown signs of slowing. Mortgage rates, however, have come close to record lows, leading to a spurt in mortgage applications in recent weeks. In the week through Thursday, the average interest rate on 30-year fixed rate mortgages hit 3.4 percent, the lowest since January and near the lowest on record, mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac said.
Analysts had expected 351,000 new jobless claims last week. The prior week's number was revised to show 3,000 more applications than previously reported.
Economists expect the government next week will report that employers hired 145,000 people in April. Employers added only 88,000 workers to their payrolls last month after a solid 268,000 increase in February.
The slowdown has been blamed on government belt-tightening, although analysts also think a mild winter followed by an unusually cold March may have led some employers and consumers to bring forward hiring and purchases.
It was unclear whether there was any impact in the claims data from a brief shutdown of offices in Boston area last week as police hunted for a man suspected of helping plant bombs at the Boston Marathon. State authorities asked hundreds of thousands of Boston-area workers to stay in their homes on April 19.
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The UC Santa Barbara softball team put up a fight on Saturday as it took on No. 16 UCLA in a single game at Campus Diamond. The Gauchos battled back twice from multiple-run deficits before finally succumbing to the Bruins, 10-6.
With the loss, UCSB falls to 12-20 on the season. UCLA improves to 21-6 overall.
In the top of the first, freshman pitcher Shelby Wisdom was able to grab the first two outs quickly before she hit Andrea Harrison with a pitch. B.B. Bates followed with a home run hit over the center field fence to give UCLA an early 2-0 lead.
Jessica Soria got the Gauchos out to a good start in the bottom of the same inning when she hit a single to third base and then stole second. McKenzie Kane followed with a base hit of her own, which extended her current hitting streak to a career-best 10 games and put runners on the corners. Kane was caught stealing and an ensuing ground out brought the Gauchos to two outs. It looked like the Bruins were going to get out of the inning unscathed when Keilani Jennings hit a soft grounder to the pitcher, but she botched the pick-up and then the second baseman overthrew to first allowing Jennings to reach and Soria to come home.
Kathryn Pilpil then drew the first of her two walks during the game before Lainey DePompa hit a single through the right side, sending Jennings dashing home for the game-tying run.
In the third, Stephany LaRosa was hit by a pitch with one out and then driven home by Harrison's double hit to the fence in center field, regaining the lead for the Bruins.
In the fifth, following a leadoff double by La Rosa, Harrison hit a single to right field and then moved to second on the throw. Andriana Collins came in to relieve Wisdom at that point, but Bates quickly loaded the bases with an infield single. The Gauchos were able to grab the first out of the inning at home plate when Dani Yudin hit into a fielder's choice, but Kellie Fox followed with a grounder hit deep down the right field line. Two runs came home on the play as UCLA went up, 5-2.
Down, but not out, the Gauchos came roaring back in the bottom of the same inning. With two outs and Kane at second base, Jennings hit an RBI double to right field. Pilpil then drove Jennings home with a double of her own hit to left center field. The Bruins made a pitching change, but that didn't calm down the UCSB rally as DePompa blasted her fourth home run of the season over the center field fence to grab a 6-5 lead for the Gauchos.
UCLA countered in the sixth when they loaded the bases on a double by Talee Snow, a single from Katie Schroeder, and a Gaucho error. One out later, Bates hit a single off of the shin of Collins to send Snow home and once again tie the game.
Yudin proved to be the hero for the Bruins during the next at-bat when she singled to center field, sending Schroeder home for what would prove to be the game-winning run. DeJanee Moore was unable to field Soria's throw from center field during the play and two more unearned runs came home. The Bruins tacked on one more run off of an RBI single by Ally Carda to gain a 10-6 advantage, which it held onto for the win.
Collins (5-11) suffered the loss after tossing 1.2 innings and allowing five runs, only two of which were earned, on six hits. Wisdom tossed 5.1 innings and allowed five runs on seven hits. She walked three and struck out two.
Soria, Kane and DePompa all had two hits in the loss. DePompa was a standout as she went 2-for-3 with her homer and three RBI.
UCSB will head to Sacramento State on Monday for a doubleheader against the Hornets. The first game of the twin bill is scheduled for a 1:30 pm first pitch.


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A gleaming, bright day has left me sun-drunk and woozy, but for those who missed the pre-season workout at Citi today, I'm pleased to tell you there are Metsy goodies there waiting just for you!
For pics of Work Out Day and many of the Metsy new changes to Citi Field, check out the full album here.
What a joy it was to marvel at the new Hall of Fame Museum. Some of the best goodies you can imagine are now displayed for all to see. Gil Hodges contract, Casey Stengel's own informative notes, 60s memorabilia, Tommy Agee's 1969 World Series Game 3 glove, the famous 1969 shoe polish ball, Tom Seaver's 1966 minor league contract, Daryl Strawberry's scouting report, Gary Carter's first game, home run game-winning bat, one of Keith Hernandez'a Gold Gloves, the original Mr. Met, the World Series Championship trophies and rings, rows of commemorative plaques, and more. Please don't miss it!
Also notice the lineup cards now positioned exactly where they should be, prominently over the escalators at the top of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
And oh, there were players too! Our actual Mets, working out on the field. Jeff Francoeur is officially one of my favorite Mets now, if not my very favorite in 2010. Not only does he play all out, but he's just so joyful! He's a joy to watch, to have around (it seems), and just the best addition to that clubhouse since Johan Santana. He threw ball caps to the fans, and he was one of the few to make eye contact with us.


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Edythe L. Shewfelt (?Nana?) was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on July 31, 1914. Her family relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia where she married Edgar Ronald ?Ron? Shewfelt on Oct. 26, 1938. They began their married life as immigrants to the United States, moving to Berkeley, California where Ron worked as a pharmacist. They were extremely proud to become American citizens and they were grateful for the opportunity to pursue the American dream. Together they opened their own pharmacy and Edythe helped run the store, including working the soda fountain. Later in life they often recounted that all the money they had in the world was in the till the day they opened.
Edythe and Ron raised their two children, Muriel and Larry, in Oakland. They lived there until Ron went to work for the Northern California Pharmaceutical Association, taking them to Sacramento in 1972. Ron?s work with the NCPA gave them the opportunity to travel the world. Ron and Edythe were married for 53 years before he passed away in 1991. Edythe continued to reside in Sacramento until 2006 when she moved to Pleasanton to be nearer to her extended family.
Edythe was also preceded in death by her son Larry. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Muriel and Frank Capilla, her three grandchildren and their spouses, and her eight great grandchildren. She was proud of her great grandkids and was delighted when they would come to visit and she could introduce them to everyone around. She enjoyed attending their sporting events and she loved to be surrounded by all of her family on holidays and birthdays. She enjoyed lunches out, playing bunco and spending time with her friends at Parkview Retirement Community. She especially adored her outings with her daughter Muriel. She will be remembered for her kindness, her warm smile, her quick wit and her beautiful spirit. She loved to chat with everyone she met, striking up conversations and encouraging all those around her. She was generous and loving and she touched the lives of many, many people in her 99 years. The family is comforted by their wonderful memories and the knowledge that Nana and Papa spent their 75th wedding anniversary dancing together again and celebrating the deep love that they shared and modeled for all of their family.
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1. Load Cells, Pressure, and Torque Transducers—Overview of Operating Principles
A load cell is a transducer that converts mechanical force into electrical signals. There are many different types of load cells that operate in different ways, but the most commonly used load cell today is the strain gage (or strain gauge) load cell. As their name implies, strain gage load cells use an array of strain gages to measure the deformation of a structural member and convert it into an electrical signal.
Pressure transducers operate under the same principle. Strain gages, mounted on a diaphragm where the pressure is applied, measure the deformation of the diaphragm that is proportional to the pressure.
Torque sensors are composed of strain gages that are affixed to a torsion bar. As the bar turns, the gages respond to the bars sheer stress, which is proportional to the torque.
The following sections describe the principle of operation of bridge-based load cells and how to make a measurement from them, although the same applies for bridge-based pressure and bridge-based torque sensors.
How to Make a Bridge Measurement
Most strain gage measuring solutions provide an option to measure quarter-, half-, and full-bridge configurations.
Consider an example, shown below in Figure 1, of an NI CompactDAQ system with an NI 9237 four-channel simultaneous bridge module.
Figure 1. NI CompactDAQ and NI 9237 Bridge Module
Included in the Section
- Locating Your DAQ Device Pinout
- Configuring a Measurement
- Wiring a Sensor to Your Device
- Testing the Signal
Before You Begin
This document provides step-by-step instructions for wiring and configuring your NI data acquisition device for strain gage measurements. Before you begin using your NI data acquisition hardware, you must install your application development environment (ADE) and NI-DAQmx driver software. Refer to the Installing NI LabVIEW and NI-DAQmx document for more information.
Locating Your DAQ Device Pinout
Before connecting any signals, locate your device pinout.
- Open NI Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) and expand Devices and Interfaces.
- Right-click on your device name, and select "Device Pinouts."
Figure 2. Device Terminals Help
Configuring a Bridge Measurement
You can use MAX to quickly verify the accuracy of your measurement system setup. Using an NI-DAQmx global virtual channel, you can configure a bridge measurement without any programming. A virtual channel is a concept of the NI-DAQmx driver architecture used to represent a collection of device property settings that can include a name, a physical channel, input terminal connections, the type of measurement or generation, and scaling information.
Follow these steps to begin:
1. With MAX open, select Data Neighborhood and click Create New.
2. Select NI-DAQmx Global Virtual Channel and click Next.
3. Select Acquire Signals»Analog Input»Force»Force (Bridge).
Figure 3. Creating an NI-DAQmx Virtual Channel
4. Select ai0 or whichever physical channel you intend to connect to your sensor. A physical channel is a terminal or pin at which you can measure or generate an analog or digital signal. A single physical channel can include more than one terminal or pin, as in the case of a differential input channel.
Figure 4. Selecting Channel Connected to Sensor
5. Click Next and enter a name for the global virtual channel or leave the default.
6. Click Finish and you should see the following screen in MAX:
Figure 5. Setting Up a Force Channel in MAX
7. On the Settings tab, type in the minimum and maximum values you expect to read from your sensor.
8. Configure the Bridge Type and configure a scale to map physical values to electrical values. There are options for Two-Point Linear, Table, and Polynomial. The information for these scales can be found in the data sheet for the sensor. The excitation and bridge resistance also need to be verified.
Wiring a Sensor to Your Device
The next step is to physically connect the sensor to your DAQ device.
9. Click the Connection Diagram tab in MAX to continue.
Figure 6. Sensor Connection Diagram
The connection diagram in Figure 5 indicates which pins on your DAQ device should be wired according to the physical channel you selected. In this example, a full-bridge type I configuration uses pins 2, 3, 6, and 7, corresponding to AI+, AI-, EX+, and EX- on an NI 9237 C Series module.
Testing the Signal
With NI-DAQmx global virtual channels, you can preview your measurements.
10. With MAX still open, click back on the NI-DAQmx Global Channel tab and click on the Run button. You see the value of your measurement displayed at the top of the screen.
Figure 7. Previewing a Force Measurement in MAX
You can choose to view the signal in tabular form or as a graph by selecting Graph from the Display Type pull-down menu. You also have the option of saving your NI-DAQmx global virtual channel should you wish to refer to this configuration screen again in the future.
LabVIEW Examples for a Bridge Measurement
Now that you have configured your measurement device, connected the sensor, and tested the signal, you are ready to make a measurement using LabVIEW. Included in the attachments section are two VIs for measuring bridge-based sensors continuously. You can find these in LabVIEW by going to Help»Find Examples... to open the NI Example Finder. The settings on the front panel are configured in the same way that you set up the global virtual channel above.
- Bridge - Continuous Input for NI LabVIEW 2012
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Figure 8. NI Example Finder for Measuring Bridge-Based Sensors
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A Shift in Presbyopia Management
A new study compares two methods of managing this common condition.
By Lee E. Rigel, OD, FAAO, Rob Davis, OD, FAAO, John Schachet, OD, FAAO and Paul Klein, OD, FAAO
The emerging presbyope in today's society is markedly different than that of 20 years ago. Many of today's patients are long-time soft lens wearers and expect to continue to experience the comfort and convenience of soft lens wear as their vision needs evolve over time. These same patients are busy, active adults who have high expectations for their vision and low tolerance for discomfort or inconvenience.
Unfortunately, as presbyopia evolves, the surface of the eye becomes dryer. To aggravate this situation, many presbyopes also take medications that have dry eye symptoms as side effects. Meeting the complex needs of this patient demographic presents a challenge that requires attention.
While monovision has been successful in meeting the needs of many presbyopic patients, this solution contains many flaws and isn't the most academic approach for addressing the visual needs of presbyopes. "Monovision has been successful, but is still lacking in a few important areas," says John Schachet, OD, FAAO. This article will look at the multifocal approach to managing presbyopia.
Multifocal Musings
"We have just one eye to meet distance vision needs. With a multifocal lens, we get some near vision from the distance eye and some distance vision for the near eye. That can make a critical difference for a patient," says Dr. Schachet.
Safety is one example he cites. "Let's say a monovision patient is driving down the road with the sunroof down and something flies into his distance lens. He's in real trouble for at least a moment, and that momentary disturbance is just long enough for something bad to happen. With a multifocal lens, at least the patient still has some distance vision from his other eye during that critical moment."
Rob Davis, OD, FAAO, concurs. "Everyone in our practice uses the bifocal design as their lens of choice," he says. "I find that there's just too much separation with monovision. The prescription differences with bifocal lenses aren't as drastic between the eyes, which makes it easier for patients to adapt."
Two Multifocals Go Head to Head
A recent evaluation of two leading multifocal lenses revealed strong success rates and further supports the idea that practitioners and patients no longer view monovision as the standard for managing presbyopic patients. To help practitioners narrow the field of which multifocal lens to reach for first, Foresight Regulatory, with the help of four leading optometrists (Lee E. Rigel, OD, FAAO; Rob Davis, OD, FAAO; John Schachet OD, FAAO; and Paul Klein OD, FAAO) recently conducted a multi-site comparative evaluation of the Frequency 55 Multifocal (CooperVision) and the SofLens Multifocal (Bausch & Lomb).
The randomized, open-label, two-week dispensing crossover study compared distance and near visual acuity, ocular physiology, fitting ease, subjective comfort when worn for daily wear and overall success. None of the evaluators knew of the sponsor (CooperVision) and the patients had no previous experience with either contact lens brand.
Investigators completed study evaluations for each subject at the initial/dispensing visit, one-week and two-week visits and at 48- to 72-hour post-dispensing fitting evaluations for each of the two lens brands. If the subject couldn't achieve a good fit with the first pair of lenses, then an investigator trial fit and dispensed a second pair. If the subject couldn't be fit with either the first or the second brand of lenses, then he was discontinued from the study.
Study Specifics
This study evaluated the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the two multifocal lens brands mentioned above. Four investigators from geographically diverse sites recruited 60 presbyopic subjects who had normal eyes and were generally successful soft contact lens wearers for the study. In all, 51 subjects completed the study, three exited during enrollment and six discontinued during the evaluation.
Of the 60 subjects recruited for the evaluation, 11 were male and 49 were female, all ranging in age from from 43 to 71, with an average age of 52.2 years. Overall, these were experienced contact lens wearers, with an average of 17.7 years of contact lens wearing experience (Figure 1). An average pupil size of 4.17mm was reported with a range of 2mm to 6mm.
Investigators randomly trial fit each subject with one of the multifocal lens brands. They dispensed the lenses to subjects at the initial/dispensing visit and evaluated them again after 48 to 72 hours to assess lens fit, vision and comfort. The investigators scheduled follow-up visits six to nine days after the initial fitting and evaluation and collected quantitative data to measure visual acuity and ocular physiology. Additionally, subjects answered a series of qualitative questions about the lenses. Subjects went through the same process for the second (randomly chosen) brand of lenses.
Figure 1. Length of time the
60 subjects had worn lenses.
Results and Discussion
While both lenses performed well in this study, clinical investigators identified many characteristics of Balanced Progressive Technology (Frequency 55 Multifocal) that provide an advantage in managing presbyopia, particularly in regard to the range of add powers available and the flexibility of the lens design while fine-tuning the fit. Dr. Rigel said, "The fitting system of the Frequency 55 Multifocal is simple and straightforward. Perhaps the best feature of this lens is that the practitioner can make small incremental changes in vision." He continued, "We tend to like this because this option provides control of the direction of the fit and with minor tweaks, adjustments and modifications, we can enhance and improve our patients' fits."
The simplicity of the Frequency 55 Multifocal fitting system mainly results in the large number of lens parameters available (+4.00D to �6.00D spheres in 0.25D steps, with each sphere power available in four add powers and either a "distance" or "near" design). Therefore, for each sphere power, the Frequency 55 Multifocal effectively has four times as many power designs compared to the SofLens Multifocal. For example, for a �3.00D sphere power, the Frequency 55 Multifocal has +1.00D, +1.50D, +2.00D and +2.50D adds with each available in a "D" or "N" add. By way of comparison, the SofLens Multifocal has only a "low" and a "high" add in the �3.00D sphere power.
Snellen distance acuity was similar between the two lens brands. However, when compared by eye and binocularly, Jaeger near visual acuity was better with the Frequency 55 Multifocal lens. A by-eye comparison revealed that 60.2 percent obtained J2 or better with the Frequency 55 Multifocal, vs. 48 percent with the SofLens Multifocal. Binocular near visual acuity with the Frequency 55 Multifocal lenses was J2 or better in 79.6 percent of the subjects as compared to 74 percent of the SofLens wearers.
Patient questionnaires further demonstrated a preference for the Frequency 55 Multifocal when attempting close-up tasks such as makeup application and reading a watch (Figure 2). "We shouldn't overlook the slightly better performance of the Frequency 55 Multifocal lens in near visual acuity," stated Dr. Rigel. "After all, most emerging presbyopes come into our practices complaining of difficulty with near vision. Our challenge is to always improve near vision without degrading the excellent distance vision to which our emerging presbyopic patients are accustomed."
The stereopsis with the Frequency 55 Multifocal's Balanced Progressive Technology is better (lower value) at both baseline and at follow up (61.3 and 54, respectively) compared to the baseline and follow-up values of the SofLens (67.2 and 83, respectively). With a measurement of 54 seconds of arc, the Frequency 55 Multifocal is much closer to the ideal stereopsis measurement of 40 seconds of arc, as compared to the SofLens measurement of 88 seconds of arc.
"The Frequency 55 Multifocal lens provides advantages in stereopsis and contrast sensitivity," reported Dr. Rigel. "This lens is also excellent for monovision wearers who are reaching a point where too much disparity exists between near and distance vision. The full range of vision from the Frequency 55 Multifocal lens makes this lens an excellent solution to a common problem."
Subjects successfully fit quickly adapted to the test lenses and as many as 86.2 percent of subjects wore their contact lenses seven days each week, many for as long as 19 hours each day. Comfort is critical to successfully supporting these wearing schedules. The aggregate questionnaire responses related to "overall comfort" demonstrated a preference for the CooperVision Frequency 55 Multifocal lens by a small margin.
2. Patient evaluation of near vision in a variety of
A Clear Preference
Practitioners and patients welcome a multifocal lens that can provide ease of fit, comfort and a range of crisp visual acuities. The clinical evaluation previously summarized reveals that while the visual performance between the two lenses was comparable in terms of distance vision, the Frequency 55 Multifocal provided better near vision when compared to the SofLens Multifocal as demonstrated by the Jaeger visual acuity measurements and supported by the questionnaire responses.
Further, the Frequency 55 Multifocal provided superior stereopsis as compared to the SofLens Multifocal. Also, a key advantage reported was the availability of the Frequency 55 Multifocal in a wider range of add powers and the flexibility of its design and fitting system as far as fine tuning the final fit.
In the course of this evaluation, certain advantages came to light with regard to the Balanced Progressive Technology in the Frequency 55 Multifocal lens. "Of all the lenses on the market, the Frequency 55 Multifocal is my initial lens of choice," said Dr. Davis. "I have opportunities with this lens to fit patients I couldn't help with other designs. The wide range of add powers, combined with a fitting system that allows me to address each eye independently, gives me the flexibility to meet my patients' needs that I just can't find anywhere else."
"Academically speaking, the core advantage of the Frequency 55 Multifocal is the flexible design with a distance-sighted lens and a near-sighted lens," said Dr. Davis. "Initially, I fit a D lens on the dominant eye and the N center lens for the nondominant eye. But if I wish to further refine acuity in a small percentage of my patients, I do have the option to mix two D or two N lenses, which is something unique to the Frequency 55 Multifocal lens. I have the flexibility to tailor the design to the individual needs of my patients."
This multi-center clinical evaluation revealed that the Frequency 55 Multifocal's extensive range of add powers is attractive to practitioners and is therefore an advantage over the SofLens Multifocal system, which offers only a "low add" and a "high add" profile. Said Dr. Schachet, "There's an advantage with the Balance Progressive Technology. Multiple add powers and different N and D lenses allow me to tailor near and distance vision while keeping the core prescription the same. A nice advantage over the SofLens Multifocal is its superior performance for patients who have higher add powers," he continued. "Now we don't have a concern when the patient comes in two years later needing additional correction. We can keep him in the same lens and just change the add power. This design keeps me from wasting my valuable chair time, and I don't have to start over every time a patient comes in."
Excellent Design, Enhanced Material
Recent enhancements to the lens material have integrated the lens dryness and discomfort combative material of CooperVision's Proclear line of contact lenses (omafilcon A, 62 percent water content). Given the tendency of the presbyopic patient demographic to experience dry eye symptoms, practitioners are eager to finally have the technology of the Proclear material together with the Balanced Progressive Technology design of the Frequency 55 Multifocal. "My nonpresbyopic Proclear wearing patients love this material," said Dr. Schachet. "I'm excited to be able to offer the Balanced Progressive Technology design in the Proclear material. Now I'm confident that patients who were already successful in the Frequency 55 Multifocal design will become even more successful with the comfort enhancements of the Proclear material."
Embrace the Best Presbyopic Option
Multifocal lenses are swiftly emerging as a lens of choice for managing presbyopia. Results from this evaluation, together with anecdotal experience from our respective practices, point to new support for the Balanced Progressive Technology available in both the Frequency 55 Multifocal and the Proclear Multifocal as the multifocal lens of choice for all presbyopic patients from emerging to advanced.
One thing is certainly clear: New materials and wider options are paving the way for happy patients with longer lens-wearing cycles. The time has come to raise the bar, abandon monovision and provide our patients with the binocular and full range of vision that they deserve.
Dr. Rigel is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and is a diplomate of the Academy's Cornea and Contact Lens Section. He's also presently chairman of the Foresight Optometric Meeting and the American Society of Corneal Refractive Technologies.
Dr. Davis has worked extensively in the management of eye care for more than 20 years. He has developed many contact lens designs and is a Fellow and Diplomate in the American Academy of Optometry.
Dr. Schachet has a large, private contact lens practice in Englewood, CO, where he specializes in dry eye, allergy and CRT.
Dr. Klein is in private group practice specializing in contact lens care, therapeutic optometry and laser vision correction in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He's also an adjunct professor of optometry at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry and has published and lectured internationally.


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Humana provides Medicare Advantage Plans, prescription drug plans and supplement insurance plans for Medicare recipients in both Southern and Northern California. Further information is available at: http://www.humana-medicare.com/humana-medicare-plans.asp.
"We are pleased to announce this important new contract with an exceptional health care partner noted for their strong commitment to delivering quality health care," said Robert Landis , Comprehensive Care Corporation Chief Financial Officer.
About Humana
Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a leading health care company that offers a wide range of insurance products and health and wellness services that incorporate an integrated approach to lifelong well-being. By leveraging the strengths of its core businesses, Humana believes it can better explore opportunities for existing and emerging adjacencies in health care that can further enhance wellness opportunities for the millions of people across the nation with whom the company has relationships. More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company's website at www.humana.com.
About CompCare
Established in 1969, CompCare provides behavioral health, substance abuse and pharmacy management services for managed care companies throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, CompCare focuses on personalized attention, flexibility, a commitment to high-quality services and innovative approaches to behavioral health that address both the specific needs of clients and changing healthcare industry demands. For more information, please call 813-288-4808 or visit our website at www.compcare.com.
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Except for statements of historical fact, the matters discussed in this press release are forward looking and made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond CompCare's control that may cause actual results to differ materially from stated expectations. These risk factors include, among others, the ability of CompCare to maximize its market share with new pharmacy initiatives, the ability of CompCare and its staff to execute its business plan, the ability of CompCare to offer and sell any of its products at a profit, changes in local, regional, and national economic and political conditions, the effect of governmental regulation, competitive market conditions, varying trends in member utilization, our ability to manage healthcare operating expenses, our ability to achieve expected results from new business, the profitability, if any, of our capitated contracts or other products, increases or variations in cost of care, seasonality, CompCare's ability to obtain additional financing, increased outsourcing of behavioral health services, and additional risk factors as discussed in the reports filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available on its website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statement in this release speaks only as of the date on which it is made. CompCare assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.
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Pair of school buses collide; 1 driver dies
The early birth of a grandson had finally encouraged school bus driver Dolores Martinez, 63, to consider retirement, something relatives had urged her to do for years.
But before that could happen, Martinez, a widow who drove for San Antonio Independent School District for 12 years, was killed Monday morning after her bus hit another school bus and crashed into a fence in front of Wagner High School.
None of the children on the buses was seriously injured.
Martinez's sudden loss of control of the wheel might have been caused by a medical emergency. She had passed the required annual physical exam for drivers in August.
"We've been trying to get her to retire for years, so she could stay home with her grandkids," said Martinez's daughter Andrea Hinojosa. "Now with her new grandson, she was really thinking about staying home. But I guess it just wasn't supposed to be that way."
Martinez was headed north with five students on Foster Road around 7:30 a.m., when she lost control and drove onto the median near Candlemeadow.
The bus entered the southbound lanes, collided with a Judson Independent School District bus carrying 59 elementary school students and then jumped a curb.
Martinez wasn't wearing a safety belt and was flung onto the steps near the bus door, said Lt. Jose Trevino of the Bexar County Sheriff's Office. With nobody at the wheel, the bus came to a stop only after running into the backyard fence of a house.
Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials were awaiting the results of an autopsy, expected to take place today, to determine if Martinez had a medical emergency or died of injuries suffered in the crash.
Martinez's death shocked relatives.
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April 27, 2012: An 18-wheeler clipped a Chrysler PT Cruiser, hurling it head-on into a northbound school bus from Seguin ISD. Nine students and the bus driver received non-life threatening injuries.
April 3, 2012: Harlandale ISD school bus involved in collision with a passenger vehicle. Seven special-needs students aboard the bus were checked by paramedics and were unhurt, two women in other vehicle were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Dec. 5, 2011: A speeding driver clipped a Jourdanton ISD school bus as he tried to pass it, causing both vehicles to collide with a pickup. The driver was killed and two men in the pickup were seriously injured but the 44 students on the bus were not. The bus driver was commended for maintaining control of the bus.
Nov. 8, 2010: A school bus from East Central ISD rear-ended an SUV. None of the 39 students were injured, but the SUV's driver sustained neck injuries and was hospitalized.
Oct. 26, 2010: A man was killed in a head-on collision with a school bus in Kendall County, about 5 miles west of Boerne. The bus from Uvalde Consolidated ISD was en route to a football game. About 15 of the 27 students on the bus were taken to an area hospital with minor injuries.
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"We saw the crash on the news this morning," said Toni Martinez, "and never in our wildest dreams would we have thought that it was my sister-in-law."
Hinojosa called her after she saw the news.
Martinez was first hired as a bus driver assistant by SAISD in 1999.
"It's been a sad day here in the district to have lost one of ours," district spokeswoman Leslie Price said. "It's very traumatic, of course, for her colleagues; very tough on transportation staff."
Of the five students on Martinez's bus, two were hospitalized briefly for observation and then released. Relatives picked up the other three, Price said.
The bus was headed to meet another bus that would take the students to various Judson campuses, she said. The students were living in SAISD's area but previously attended Judson schools and had been given the option to remain at their home campuses.
Judson ISD spokesman Steven Linscomb said none of the students on the district's bus, who attend Masters Elementary School, was seriously injured.
"The Judson ISD bus was driven by 48-year-old John Warren, who was able to avoid what could have been a much bigger tragedy," Linscomb said in a statement. "The district is relieved that no students were seriously hurt in the crash, but are saddened at the death of the SAISD bus driver."
Elaine King examined the wreckage Monday morning with her young daughter as officials took her two sons off the Judson bus. One of the boys bumped his head and complained of pain, but he was believed to be OK, King said.
"It's really tragic," she said of the driver's death. "It makes us grateful for every day that we live."
Trevino, the sheriff's lieutenant, said it is unclear exactly what caused the crash. Had Martinez been wearing her seat belt, which Price said is required of bus drivers, she likely wouldn't have been thrown, Trevino said.
Most school buses do not have seatbelts for students, but the state is gradually adding them as new buses are bought.
Price said district drivers are required to undergo an annual physical examination, including a medical history check.
"I don't know what may have occurred," she said. "There's still a lot to look into."
News researcher Mike Knoop contributed to this report.


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