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Developing a “Culture of Safety” A year ago we wrote about the complex process involved in identifying, categorizing, and assessing medical error in health care in the United States (”Assessing Medical Error in Health Care,” Health Progress, November– December 2001, pp. 14-17). That article discussed the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on medical error, “To Err Is Human,” and the erosion of public trust in U.S. health care.
Health Alliance Medical Plans last month announced its coverage of two over-the-counter drugs formerly available by prescription only: Wyeths Alavert and Procter Gambles Prilosec OTC. Health Alliance will require members who have prescription drug benefits to obtain a written prescription from their physicians for the new over-the-counter drugs in order to receive coverage. The news at Health Alliance follows Medco Health Solutions expansion of its Generics First program in June to include Wyeths analgesic Advil and allergy remedy Alavert.
“There are [more than] 30 million Americans who have no health insurance and another 20 million who have inadequate health insurance,” says Rep. Louis Stokes (D0Ohio), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust. “It is mandatory that we begin to try and give Americans–particularly minorities–adequate health care as a right.” The Bush plan would give people not covered by Medicaid tax credits, and families making less than $80,000 a year tax deductions to pay for medical costs. He would also pass laws to ensure that even chronically ill patients could receive health insurance. The plan has received a cool reception on Capitol Hill, and alternate proposals, including a full-scale, government-paid national health insurance plan, are under development. But what does America really want for its health care system? The views are many.

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Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).
Ads Highlight Ricohs Ability to Provide New Solutions for Production Printing Industry WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricohs Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBGs ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBGs core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts. The new campaign features visuals of customers pondering various printing needs, with creative that touts the products quality and affordability. In order to encourage customers to consider Ricoh and the Pro C900 when choosing a production device, the campaigns Think Production. Think Ricoh slogan positions the RICOH Pro C900 as the solution for critical printing needs such as web-to-print, variable data printing, and document design and production. The affordability message is supported by the printers superior performance combined with its extremely low maintenance and ability to co-exist within the current production printing environment. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU), which allows customers to replace necessary parts, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
MALVERN, Pa. — Stream Companies, one of the Philadelphia regions fastest growing marketing, advertising and promotions agencies, recently hired advertising industry veteran Marc Crusemire as the companys Director of Business Development. Crusemire joins the team at Stream Companies from his most recent position with Comcast Spotlight (Exton, PA). Previously, he was Advertising Director for The Trentonian (NJ) and Daily Local News (West Chester, PA) at the Journal Register Company. Earlier, Crusemire was the Business Development Coordinator, Major Accounts Manager and Display Advertising Manager for The Calkins Newspaper Group. He is a 1991 graduate of Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, and a concentration in Advertising. Crusemire, his wife and two daughters reside in Chester County.

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Swathed from top to toe in bandages, a young woman looks up at the sky. True to her prediction, the plane she is waiting to observe crashes shortly after take-off, killing 127 people. The boyfriend accused of causing her dreadful burns should have been on that flight, but his remains cant be found in the wreckage. Instead, the play discovers him in the middle of the desert in the company of a figure wearing an identical suit. The missing mans skin is baked. He has lost all sense of identity. What, this drama asks, would it be like to go through a gradual dream-like process of rediscovering the horror of who you were and to realise that, through the fluke of survival, you have been punished by not being punished? A metaphysical mystery story; an existential memory play; a psychological study of blank indifference; a pitch-black jest - Tear From A Glass Eye manages, beguilingly, to be all of these things and in Erica Whymans splendid production at The Gate, these various elements achieve a brilliant artistic unity. Runway lights flash forebodingly along Soutra Gilmores zig-zag wing-like set, which has just the right denuded, abstract feel and pointedly offers no hiding place for Ian Drysdales terminally perplexed Titus, who is drawn back into his past by an enigmatic alter ego (Darrell DSilva). The mixed tone of the play suggests that life is both an ineffable nightmare and a down-to-earth practical joke. The drama is haunted by the eponymous symbol whose significance we learn from flashbacks. Returning from the War, Tituss amputated father (a superbly anarchic James Hayes) tries, counterproductively, to rush intimacy with his young son. As a curiosity, he gives the boy a glass eye he found next to a dead body in the desert. Made of sand, this object, with its changeless unconcerned stare, comes to represent a different kind of desert - that state of emotional indifference which is Tituss hell. It is a poetic image of which the young T.S. Eliot might not have been ashamed.
A nurse dropped a false eye in a glass of cola to play a practical joke on a colleague, a tribunal has heard. Christine Mitchelson, 53, is also accused of drawing a face on a patients hernia, subjecting patients to degrading treatment and making racist comments about foreign hospital staff. She faces being struck off if the allegations are upheld.
A nurse dropped a false eye in a glass of cola to play a joke on a colleague, a tribunal was told. Christine Mitchelson, 53, is also accused of drawing a face on a patients hernia, subjecting patients to degrading treatment and making racist comments about foreign hospital staff. The nurse, from Newcastle upon Tyne, who denies 12 allegations of misconduct, was unable to attend yesterdays tribunal in London because of ill- health. In one allegation, Ms Mitchelson is accused of giving Pauline Stanton, the ward sister, a cup of cola containing a patients glass eye. Ms Mitchelson is also accused of giving a patient twice the prescribed dose of insulin and of roughly treating five patients.

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BRITS have always had a soft spot for Majorca. The largest of the Balearics has rarely been knocked off the top spot in the holiday chart since we discovered it as a package destination in the 1960s. Forty years on, this charming island has become a big hit with the stars too. Celebrities such as Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones have villa hideaways there. Although its best known for its sand and sea holidays, Majorca has so much to offer at this time of year too. With temperatures at a comfortable 50-60F its a perfect time for a leisurely walk in the islands rugged mountains or for exploring the quiet roads in a hire car.

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Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).
The What It Takes television spot focuses on how it takes a person with truly special and unique qualities — from patience and dedication to a sense of humor — to handle the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Recognizing small business owners are stretched for time and lack the resources of large corporations, the MasterCard ad captures real-life small business moments such as working odd hours and dealing with faulty office equipment. MasterCards What It Takes commercial salutes people in business for themselves, while also demonstrating why MasterCard business cards are the most effective way to pay for all the things a small business needs. A corresponding print ad is slated to break later this summer in publications such as Fortune, New York Times Magazine, TIME and The Wall Street Journal. The creative used in the print versions will follow the What It Takes theme leveraged in the new television commercial. Both the television and print ads are designed to build awareness of MasterCards suite of solutions created specifically for small business owners. To address the needs of this target market, MasterCard developed MasterCard Working for Small Business, a comprehensive global program that provides small businesses with payment cards, online tools and other resources that deliver financial control, data management, analysis and reporting, along with rewards and benefits.

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A nurse dropped a false eye in a glass of cola to play a practical joke on a colleague, a tribunal has heard. Christine Mitchelson, 53, is also accused of drawing a face on a patients hernia, subjecting patients to degrading treatment and making racist comments about foreign hospital staff. She faces being struck off if the allegations are upheld.
Swathed from top to toe in bandages, a young woman looks up at the sky. True to her prediction, the plane she is waiting to observe crashes shortly after take-off, killing 127 people. The boyfriend accused of causing her dreadful burns should have been on that flight, but his remains cant be found in the wreckage. Instead, the play discovers him in the middle of the desert in the company of a figure wearing an identical suit. The missing mans skin is baked. He has lost all sense of identity. What, this drama asks, would it be like to go through a gradual dream-like process of rediscovering the horror of who you were and to realise that, through the fluke of survival, you have been punished by not being punished? A metaphysical mystery story; an existential memory play; a psychological study of blank indifference; a pitch-black jest - Tear From A Glass Eye manages, beguilingly, to be all of these things and in Erica Whymans splendid production at The Gate, these various elements achieve a brilliant artistic unity. Runway lights flash forebodingly along Soutra Gilmores zig-zag wing-like set, which has just the right denuded, abstract feel and pointedly offers no hiding place for Ian Drysdales terminally perplexed Titus, who is drawn back into his past by an enigmatic alter ego (Darrell DSilva). The mixed tone of the play suggests that life is both an ineffable nightmare and a down-to-earth practical joke. The drama is haunted by the eponymous symbol whose significance we learn from flashbacks. Returning from the War, Tituss amputated father (a superbly anarchic James Hayes) tries, counterproductively, to rush intimacy with his young son. As a curiosity, he gives the boy a glass eye he found next to a dead body in the desert. Made of sand, this object, with its changeless unconcerned stare, comes to represent a different kind of desert - that state of emotional indifference which is Tituss hell. It is a poetic image of which the young T.S. Eliot might not have been ashamed.
A nurse accused of putting a patients glass eye in a drink at a hospital says she was only having a joke. Christine Mitchelson, above, 52, of Denton Burn, Newcastle, is facing a complaints panel over her conduct while at Newcastles Royal Victoria Infirmary. Today Mrs Mitchelson, who denies acting improperly, said the claims have caused her so much stress she rarely leaves home.

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THERE are two places of pilgrimage in Palma,” said Ferran, the hotelier. “The cathedral and Zara. It is sad, but some people come to our city and only go to the shops. “But I am sure you ladies have been to the cathedral.” It had been suggested to me that Palma could be the perfect destination for a mum-and-daughter break. To investigate, I enlisted the help of my mother and we set off for a long weekend of indulging our shared enthusiasms of sun, shopping, food and, of course, Gothic churches of the 13th Century.
Majorca is now officially the most popular holiday destination. A survey of the top 10 North East holiday destinations included Austria, Florida and Majorca, but missed out some of the regions former favourites. Resorts like the Costa del Sol and Benidorm are replaced by destinations in Malta, Greece, Turkey and Italy. And while package holidays are still top of the Geordie wish-list, more people are travelling to countries further afield. A spokesman from Newcastle International Airport said: People are starting to create their own ( booking their own flights and finding a hotel when theyre there.
THE sadistic killer of Yvonne OBrien, the wealthy British divorcee brutally murdered in her Majorca villa, shows all the signs of a psychopath who will strike again if not caught, a leading psychiatrist called in as an adviser on the case said yesterday. He warned that the man who stabbed Yvonne, 44, from High Wycombe, Bucks, and watched her die before mutilating her body and scrawling on a wall with her blood, was likely to become a serial killer if not found quickly.

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Growers in Holland and Israel have separately launched cherry tomato plants for the window sill. Producers believe the plants will appeal to people who buy potted herbs in supermarkets. Dutch growers look set to be first to the market with their Pick-a-Tom product. The first plants will be available from May until the end of August. The variety, is grown from a seed bred by the Japan-based breeder Sakata. Average yield is 40 fruit over three weeks.
Greenstone Holdings, Inc (PINKSHEETS: GSHN)
announced today that the Company introduced a new GreenShield(TM) product,
“Sillpro(TM),” which can be brushed onto wooden windows, door sills, and
other components to protect them from moisture and water penetration. Once
it is applied it can be painted or stained.

Sal Miwa, CEO of Greenstone, said, “Sillpro creates a composite-like shield
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quick and easy. Sillpro is ideal for protecting north-facing windows and
doors that dont get enough sun.”

It was on 24 October 1929 - 70 years ago today - that the roof began to cave in on the New York Stock Exchange. It was the start of the crash that lowered the curtain on the “Roaring Twenties” and ushered in the misery years of the Depression. By the end of that Thursday, $4bn had been wiped off the value of shares. The stories of pavements being knee-deep in the bodies of those who jumped have always been madly exaggerated. Only a handful took their lives this way. But the extent to which Americas confidence was damaged cannot be exaggerated. It was not a disaster that came and went away again. The stock market slide continued, with occasional breaks, for nearly three years. When the Dow Jones reached its low point in the summer of 1932, stocks were worth one tenth of what they had been at its height. By then the Depression was taking its cruellest toll. While it may be wrong to suggest that the 1929 crash caused the Depression, the two events are inextricable. No wonder Wall Street is less than keen to commemorate this particular anniversary.

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Business Editors TRUMBULL, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 21, 2002 Imagistics International Inc. (NYSE: IGI), formerly Pitney Bowes Office Systems, today announced the launch of its first nationwide advertising campaign to build brand awareness and national recognition for its office document equipment and solutions.
Ads Highlight Ricohs Ability to Provide New Solutions for Production Printing Industry WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricohs Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBGs ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBGs core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts. The new campaign features visuals of customers pondering various printing needs, with creative that touts the products quality and affordability. In order to encourage customers to consider Ricoh and the Pro C900 when choosing a production device, the campaigns Think Production. Think Ricoh slogan positions the RICOH Pro C900 as the solution for critical printing needs such as web-to-print, variable data printing, and document design and production. The affordability message is supported by the printers superior performance combined with its extremely low maintenance and ability to co-exist within the current production printing environment. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU), which allows customers to replace necessary parts, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.

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THE big four banks lag far behind their Internet competition in service and value for money, say their customers. More than half think the big four - Natwest, Lloyds TSB, HSBC and Barclays - run accounts for their own advantage and almost half think the banks make excessive profits. Independent market researchers Taylor Nelson Sofres found that just under half those surveyed feel that the banks rip them off.
AND ITS JUST WAITING FOR ENTREPRENEURS TO SHOW UP WITH LOAN APPLICATIONS - BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE TO GO. CHECK OUT THE TOP 186 ENTREPRENEUR-FRIENDLY BANKS. Thats the word from Jere Glover, chief counsel for the SBAs Office of Advocacy, who shared with us results from the offices Micro=Business-Friendly Banks in the United States 1999 Edition report. The thing that stands out most about this sixth annual survey of loans of $100,000 or less, says Glover, is that although business lending as a whole has continued an upward climb, the rate of actual dollar amount lent to entrepreneurs has slowed. This is not [as bad as it seems] for business, he says, because weve had rather robust growth through the year [3, 4 and 5 percent]. But now, [with this years 2.5 percent increase], its not growing as fast. Also, the surveys data doesnt indicate how many companies actually tried to get microloans. Consequently, Glover says its difficult to determine if this decrease portends a looming credit crunch.
Superior alternatives are readily available. In particular, metals such as gold and silver can be produced on purely free-market terms, that is, without requiring any form of legal privilege, and their quantities depend far less on any human beings arbitrary whims. No special reform measures are required to set up a metallic currency system, because gold and silver coins are likely to emerge spontaneously on a truly free market. The main element of a libertarian monetary reform is therefore to immediately abolish all forms of currency control (such as legal-tender laws, taxes on metals, and so forth). Moreover, all governments should give back the gold and silver that they stole from their citizens when they established their national fiat monies. On one vital point, however, Austrian economists have reached no consensus, and this disagreement has resulted in a lively debate in recent years. This debate does not relate to problems of money production and currency, but refers more narrowly to the production of money titles by financial service providers such as commercial banks. To understand the issue, it is useful to distinguish three types of financial services or banking.

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Histologic examination revealed an extensive tumor, involving the entire breast, measuring 150 mm in maximum size, and extending to the medial and lateral margins, the dermis of the nipple skin, and within 1 mm of the deep margin. The tumor was composed of single files of large cells with focal targetoid growth around the normal breast structures (Figure, A). The neoplastic cells contained abundant foamy or finely granular pale pink cytoplasm (Figure, A, inset, and Figure, B), with occasional intracytoplasmic lumina identified (Figure, B, inset). The nuclei were uniform and round to oval; they had a fine chromatin pattern and a single prominent nucleolus. Mitotic figures were 4 per 10 high-power fields. Neoplastic cells were seen diffusely infiltrating through adipose tissue in scattered areas, mimicking the appearances of fat necrosis (Figure, C). Foci of lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) (Figure, A, arrows, and Figure, D, inset) admixed with the invasive tumor and in surrounding breast parenchyma were observed. No lymphovascular invasion was seen. Three of 12 lymph nodes examined contained metastatic carcinoma with morphologic findings similar to the primary tumor. Immunostaining for estrogen and progesterone receptors was negative. Immunostaining for HER-2 was strongly and diffusely (3+) positive. Gross cystic disease fluid protein 15 (GCDFP-15) (Figure, C, inset) and androgen receptor were positive, whereas E-cadherin (Figure, D, and D inset), S100 protein, calretinin, a-inhibin, and CD68 were negative in neoplastic cells.Pathologic Diagnosis: Histiocytoid Variant of Lobular Breast Carcinoma
In 70% of boys, however, it disappears within a year; in less than 8% does it persist for more than two years. Gynecomastia does not indicate disease in most boys, and there is no link between gynecomastia and breast cancer in males.

Cause

It is not clear what causes gynecomastia, but most likely it is related to normal hormonal changes that occur during puberty . Levels of both male and female hormones increase in boys and girls during puberty. As the levels of these hormones adjust, some female characteristics (such as gynecomastia) may appear in boys, and some male characteristics (such as increased body hair) may appear in girls.

In some cases, gynecomastia is related to medication. If an adolescent boy with gynecomastia is taking medication, or if gynecomastia appears before puberty begins or after it has been completed, a doctor should be consulted.

In some relatively rare instances, gynecomastia may be the result of a chromosomal abnormality, where the male has one or more extra X chromosomes. This condition is known as Klinefelters syndrome.

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• McCoy, Kathy, and Charles Wibbelsman. The New Teenage Body Book . New York: The Body Press (Putnam), 1992.

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Although Tanzanias standard of care recommends that children receive a dose of vitamin A every six months, trial results showed that maternal vitamin A supplementation increased HIV transmission to children. The studys data and safety monitoring board recommended that vitamin A be discontinued from the trial regimen in September 2000. The researchers note in their article, Among HIV-infected US men, the relationship between vitamin A intake and HIV disease progression and mortality was U-shaped, suggesting that both low and high levels of intake are potentially harmful. The group that received multivitamins had higher CD4+ levels and significantly lower viral loads than those on placebo. (Vitamin A combined with the multivitamin was less effective.) Women taking the multivitamin had less fatigue, fewer acute upper respiratory tract infections, fewer rashes, and fewer oral and gastrointestinal problems associated with HIV/AIDS. These women were also less likely to reach WHO stage 4 or die of AIDS-related illness than those taking a placebo. I wonder if the inclusion of minerals known to support the immune system (i.e., selenium, zinc) in the multivitamin formula would increase this benefit. Retail prices for a years supply of the multivitamins used in the trial average about $15 per person. Fawzi WW, Msamanga GI, Spiegelman D et al. A randomized trial of multivitamin supplements and HIV disease progression and mortality. NEJM. 2004; 351(1): 23-32. Available at http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/351/1/23. Accessed on February 28, 2006.
Blood samples were taken from 50 veiled and 22 unveiled Kuwaiti volunteers between the ages of 14 and 45 (mean 35.5 years). All of the women had been pregnant no more than three times, were from the middle or high socioeconomic classes, did not have black skin, and included milk and milk products in their diets. Plasma levels of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (vitamin D) were found to be significantly lower in the veiled than in the unveiled women (mean 14.4 vs. 30.2 pmol/L). Serum inorganic phosphorus was also significantly lower in the veiled women, but no significant differences were observed in serum calcium or alkaline phosphatase levels. Forty-three (86%) of the veiled women, but none of the unveiled women, had below-normal levels of 25-hydroxy vitamin D. Sixteen (320A) of the veiled women and two (9.1%) of the unveiled women had high serum alkaline phosphatase levels. Two previously unsuspected cases of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia were identified in the veiled group. These two women, like the four previously identified cases, responded well to the administration of vitamin D, thus confirming that vitamin D deficiency was the cause of their osteomalacia.
A total of 91 women, aged 30-69 years, participated in the study; 50 were nonsmokers and 41 were smokers. The subjects completed questionnaires on smoking status and dietary habits and provided blood samples for nutrient analysis. Serum levels of [alpha]-carotene, [beta]-carotene, cryptoxanthin, and lycopene in smokers averaged only 71-79% of the concentrations found in nonsmokers. Dietary differences could not account for this effect. Mean serum concentrations of vitamins C and E and lutein/zeaxanthin were only slightly, and not significantly, lower among smokers, and concentrations of vitamin A were actually higher. The results for carotenoids are generally consistent with those of other studies. The lack of an association between smoking and serum vitamin C levels may reflect the relatively high vitamin C intake of this study population. The authors observe that the negative effect of smoking on serum concentrations of antioxidant carotenoids may pose a serious health risk in low-income populations already at higher risk for many chronic diseases.

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Q Should flashing be used beneath rowlock brick window sills? If through-wall flashing is installed beneath these rowlocks, how are the sills anchored? If the anchors penetrate the flashing, does this lead to deterioration of the masonry below in freeze-thaw environments? A Rowlock brick sills contain many joints and are particularly susceptible to water penetration. For this reason, I do not recommend their use in freeze-thaw environments. When rowlock sills are used, they can be anchored using galvanized corrugated wall ties in the head joint between every fourth to sixth brick unit. When possible, I prefer that these anchors be attached to the backup wall on the vertical face, behind the sill, as shown in the drawing.
Greenstone Holdings, Inc (PINKSHEETS: GSHN)
announced today that the Company introduced a new GreenShield(TM) product,
“Sillpro(TM),” which can be brushed onto wooden windows, door sills, and
other components to protect them from moisture and water penetration. Once
it is applied it can be painted or stained.

Sal Miwa, CEO of Greenstone, said, “Sillpro creates a composite-like shield
that repels water and moisture.” Mr. Miwa added, “Its application is very
quick and easy. Sillpro is ideal for protecting north-facing windows and
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Paw-Print Software has launched Adbin, its new tool that integrates with Microsofts Internet Explorer browser to remove advertising from web pages as they are downloaded. Adbin uses an extensible set of rules to identify ads during page downloading. When it finds an image that it suspects is an ad it replaces the it with another one directly from the PCs local drive.
The What It Takes television spot focuses on how it takes a person with truly special and unique qualities — from patience and dedication to a sense of humor — to handle the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Recognizing small business owners are stretched for time and lack the resources of large corporations, the MasterCard ad captures real-life small business moments such as working odd hours and dealing with faulty office equipment. MasterCards What It Takes commercial salutes people in business for themselves, while also demonstrating why MasterCard business cards are the most effective way to pay for all the things a small business needs. A corresponding print ad is slated to break later this summer in publications such as Fortune, New York Times Magazine, TIME and The Wall Street Journal. The creative used in the print versions will follow the What It Takes theme leveraged in the new television commercial. Both the television and print ads are designed to build awareness of MasterCards suite of solutions created specifically for small business owners. To address the needs of this target market, MasterCard developed MasterCard Working for Small Business, a comprehensive global program that provides small businesses with payment cards, online tools and other resources that deliver financial control, data management, analysis and reporting, along with rewards and benefits.
Ads Highlight Ricohs Ability to Provide New Solutions for Production Printing Industry WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation announced today the launch of a new print and online advertising campaign for the RICOH Pro C900, the newest product from Ricohs Production Printing Business Group (PPBG). Created by Gigante Vaz Partners, Inc., the campaign highlights PPBGs ability to provide a new approach to production printing based on understanding and addressing customers specific printing needs. The ads are designed to reach key audiences within PPBGs core business segments: In-Plants, Data Centers and Graphic Arts. The new campaign features visuals of customers pondering various printing needs, with creative that touts the products quality and affordability. In order to encourage customers to consider Ricoh and the Pro C900 when choosing a production device, the campaigns Think Production. Think Ricoh slogan positions the RICOH Pro C900 as the solution for critical printing needs such as web-to-print, variable data printing, and document design and production. The affordability message is supported by the printers superior performance combined with its extremely low maintenance and ability to co-exist within the current production printing environment. In addition, the RICOH Pro C900 incorporates Trained Customer Replaceable Units (TCRU), which allows customers to replace necessary parts, minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.

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THE big four banks lag far behind their Internet competition in service and value for money, say their customers. More than half think the big four - Natwest, Lloyds TSB, HSBC and Barclays - run accounts for their own advantage and almost half think the banks make excessive profits. Independent market researchers Taylor Nelson Sofres found that just under half those surveyed feel that the banks rip them off.
Q:ON DEC. 25, 2006, my wife and I gave our daughter and A: I called the Bank of America media relations in Charlotte, N.C., the banks headquarters, and was referred to San Francisco. When I called San Francisco, I was referred back to Charlotte and after three days of phone-tag with a spokeswoman (not totally her fault), she referred me to a Web site covering the Uniform Commercial Code, which supposedly explains the now-famous rules and regulations. The spokeswoman didnt seem to know how to access the Web site, so told me to call Google.
A small and powerful group of Arab American financiers have learned that helping others make money is very profitable for the bankers themselves “Banking was too boring and slow,” says Ziad Abdelnour, president and CEO of Blackhawk Partners in New York and the founder and president of the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon. These Arab American financiers have the commonality of heritage, but the diversity of every ethnic and minority group in America. Some have moved up the corporate ladder; others have gained fortune-if not fame-building their own financial empires. Some came from

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A nurse dropped a false eye in a glass of cola to play a practical joke on a colleague, a tribunal has heard. Christine Mitchelson, 53, is also accused of drawing a face on a patients hernia, subjecting patients to degrading treatment and making racist comments about foreign hospital staff. She faces being struck off if the allegations are upheld.
A nurse accused of putting a patients glass eye in a drink at a hospital says she was only having a joke. Christine Mitchelson, above, 52, of Denton Burn, Newcastle, is facing a complaints panel over her conduct while at Newcastles Royal Victoria Infirmary. Today Mrs Mitchelson, who denies acting improperly, said the claims have caused her so much stress she rarely leaves home.
Swathed from top to toe in bandages, a young woman looks up at the sky. True to her prediction, the plane she is waiting to observe crashes shortly after take-off, killing 127 people. The boyfriend accused of causing her dreadful burns should have been on that flight, but his remains cant be found in the wreckage. Instead, the play discovers him in the middle of the desert in the company of a figure wearing an identical suit. The missing mans skin is baked. He has lost all sense of identity. What, this drama asks, would it be like to go through a gradual dream-like process of rediscovering the horror of who you were and to realise that, through the fluke of survival, you have been punished by not being punished? A metaphysical mystery story; an existential memory play; a psychological study of blank indifference; a pitch-black jest - Tear From A Glass Eye manages, beguilingly, to be all of these things and in Erica Whymans splendid production at The Gate, these various elements achieve a brilliant artistic unity. Runway lights flash forebodingly along Soutra Gilmores zig-zag wing-like set, which has just the right denuded, abstract feel and pointedly offers no hiding place for Ian Drysdales terminally perplexed Titus, who is drawn back into his past by an enigmatic alter ego (Darrell DSilva). The mixed tone of the play suggests that life is both an ineffable nightmare and a down-to-earth practical joke. The drama is haunted by the eponymous symbol whose significance we learn from flashbacks. Returning from the War, Tituss amputated father (a superbly anarchic James Hayes) tries, counterproductively, to rush intimacy with his young son. As a curiosity, he gives the boy a glass eye he found next to a dead body in the desert. Made of sand, this object, with its changeless unconcerned stare, comes to represent a different kind of desert - that state of emotional indifference which is Tituss hell. It is a poetic image of which the young T.S. Eliot might not have been ashamed.

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Histologic examination revealed an extensive tumor, involving the entire breast, measuring 150 mm in maximum size, and extending to the medial and lateral margins, the dermis of the nipple skin, and within 1 mm of the deep margin. The tumor was composed of single files of large cells with focal targetoid growth around the normal breast structures (Figure, A). The neoplastic cells contained abundant foamy or finely granular pale pink cytoplasm (Figure, A, inset, and Figure, B), with occasional intracytoplasmic lumina identified (Figure, B, inset). The nuclei were uniform and round to oval; they had a fine chromatin pattern and a single prominent nucleolus. Mitotic figures were 4 per 10 high-power fields. Neoplastic cells were seen diffusely infiltrating through adipose tissue in scattered areas, mimicking the appearances of fat necrosis (Figure, C). Foci of lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) (Figure, A, arrows, and Figure, D, inset) admixed with the invasive tumor and in surrounding breast parenchyma were observed. No lymphovascular invasion was seen. Three of 12 lymph nodes examined contained metastatic carcinoma with morphologic findings similar to the primary tumor. Immunostaining for estrogen and progesterone receptors was negative. Immunostaining for HER-2 was strongly and diffusely (3+) positive. Gross cystic disease fluid protein 15 (GCDFP-15) (Figure, C, inset) and androgen receptor were positive, whereas E-cadherin (Figure, D, and D inset), S100 protein, calretinin, a-inhibin, and CD68 were negative in neoplastic cells.Pathologic Diagnosis: Histiocytoid Variant of Lobular Breast Carcinoma

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They argue that, if marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs were legalized, several positive things would probably occur: (1) drug prices would fall; (2) users would obtain their drugs at low, government-regulated prices, and they would no longer be forced to resort to crime in order to support their habits, (3) levels of drug-related crime, and particularly violent crime, would significantly decline, resulting in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons (this would allow law-enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the “real criminals” in society); and the drug production, distribution, and sale would no longer be controlled by organized crime, and thus such criminal syndicates as the Colombian cocaine “cartels,” the Jamaican “posses,” and the various “mafias” around the country and the world would be decapitalized, and the violence associated with drug distribution rivalries would be eliminated. By contrast, the anti-legalization camp argues that violent crime would not necessarily decline in a legalized drug market. In fact, there are three reasons why it might actually increase. First, removing the criminal sanctions against the possession and distribution of illegal drugs would make them more available and attractive and, hence, would create large numbers of new users. Second, an increase in use would lead to a greater number of dysfunctional addicts who could not support themselves, their habits, or their lifestyles through legitimate means. Hence crime would be their only alternative. Third, more users would mean more of the violence associated with the ingestion of drugs. These divergent points of view tend to persist because the relationships between drugs and crime are quite complex and because the possible outcomes of a legalized drug market are based primarily on speculation. However, it is possible, from a careful review of the existing empirical literature on drugs and violence, to make some educated inferences.
A room full of lawyers had the potential to become as hospitable as an aquarium full of piranhas. But conversation was polite when the managing partners, chairmen, and presidents of 21 Utah firms gathered in the boardroom of the Salt Lake Chamber for Utah Business magazines fifth Industry Outlook round table. Attendees included Robert Anderson, VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall McCarthy; Dennis Astill, Strong Hanni; Peter Billings, Fabian Clendenin; Lou Callister, Callister, Nebeker McCullough; Blaine Carlton, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews Ingersoll; Paul Durham, Durham, Jones Pinegar; James Duzan, Trask Britt; Ray Etcheverry, Parsons, Behle Latimer; Russell Fericks, Richards, Brandt, Miller Nelson; David Gee, Parr, Waddoups Brown, Gee Loveless; James Jardine, Ray, Quinney Nebeker; John Kirkham, Stoel Rives; John Lund, Snow, Christensen Martineau; Ralph Mabey, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene MacRae; Thomas Mecham, Kirton McConkie; Robert OConnor, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich Rosati; Jonathan Richards, Workman, Nydegger Seeley; Steven Snarr, the Williams Companies; Alan Sullivan, Snell Wilmer; Glen Watkins, Jones, Waldo, Holbrook McDonough; Gary Weston, Nielsen Senior. Special thanks to Scott Matheson, Jr., dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, for serving as panel moderator.
Outstanding Lawyer award by the association. Judges John C. Ward and David B. Bogard received Lawyer Citizen awards. Ward has served as a Pulaski County Circuit Court judge since 1990. Bogard has served as a Pulaski County Circuit Court judge since 1983. Gregory S. Kitterman, Jeffrey Ellis and Heather R. Callaway received the Presidents Award from the association. Kitterman is in private practice in Little Rock. Ellis is an attorney at the Allen Law Firm in Little Rock. Callaway serves as executive director of the association.

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The risk of rectal cancer, especially in older women, may be linked to a low intake of vitamin E, according to a report published in the American Journal of Epidemiology (2004;159:32-41). Antioxidant vitamins such as vitamin E are believe to neutralize free radicals in the digestive tract and prevent cellular damage. Women showed the largest association between antioxidants and rectal cancer risk. Women with the lowest vitamin E levels were found to be more than twice as likely to have rectal cancer than women with the highest levels. Women with the lowest intakes of lycopene, and antioxidant carotenoid, were also found to be 70 percent more likely to have rectal cancer.
The authors conclude that poor antioxidant vitamin status may be harmful to the health of obese/overweight women because it may further increase their alreadyhigh risk of serum lipid disturbances and cardiovascular disease. Suboptimal amounts of certain vitamins may also decrease metabolic rate and energy expenditure. A Moor de Burgos, M Wartanowicz, and S Ziemlanski, Blood Vitamin and Lipid Levels in Overweight and Obese Women, European J Clinical Nutrition 46(11):803-808 (Nov 1992) [Correspondence: M Wartanowicz, Department of Nutrition Physiology and Biochemistry, National Institute of Food and Nutrition, 02-903 Warsaw, Powsinska 61/63, Poland]

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Unity PrintingOwner: John Wilkerson Address: 2024 W. 2nd St., Little Rock, 664-2223 Start-up date: June With 19 years of printing experience, John Wilkerson decided to open his own printing and typesetting business, Unity Printing.
Eight of the 12 categories showed an ad spending increase in June compared to last year, including Automotive (+34.2%), Services/Direct Response (+22.6), Retail (+22.3) and Horticulture/Farming (+15.3). The Travel (-26.6%), Computers (-14.9), Software (-7.0) and Telecom (0.3) categories showed spending declines. Half of the categories showed an ad page increase, led by Horticulture/Farming (+87.9%), and half showed an ad page decline.
MALVERN, Pa. — Stream Companies, one of the Philadelphia regions fastest growing marketing, advertising and promotions agencies, recently hired advertising industry veteran Marc Crusemire as the companys Director of Business Development. Crusemire joins the team at Stream Companies from his most recent position with Comcast Spotlight (Exton, PA). Previously, he was Advertising Director for The Trentonian (NJ) and Daily Local News (West Chester, PA) at the Journal Register Company. Earlier, Crusemire was the Business Development Coordinator, Major Accounts Manager and Display Advertising Manager for The Calkins Newspaper Group. He is a 1991 graduate of Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, and a concentration in Advertising. Crusemire, his wife and two daughters reside in Chester County.

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A nurse dropped a false eye in a glass of cola to play a practical joke on a colleague, a tribunal has heard. Christine Mitchelson, 53, is also accused of drawing a face on a patients hernia, subjecting patients to degrading treatment and making racist comments about foreign hospital staff. She faces being struck off if the allegations are upheld.
Richard Edlow, is the need for reading glasses among an aging population.Of people ages 45 and above - a large slice of Baltimoreans, as baby boomers age - 98 percent require reading glasses, Edlow said. And no one is more likely to forget their spectacles while rushing out of the house than someone who needs them only for reading, he added.We run into instances with patients we see, they come in and say, I forget my reading glasses all the time. Its a problem especially when Im in a new restaurant trying to read the menu, Edlow explained. And as a consumer, I see people all the time borrowing somebodys glasses. We thought, wouldnt it be a neat idea to join together with a number of restaurants and provide it for the public?About a month ago Katzen launched its MenuMates program, providing to each restaurant four pairs of reading glasses contained in a wooden recipe box. The glasses represent the four most common lens strengths, and the box includes a chart with different sizes of print to help patrons select the prescription they need.Five restaurants are on board with the program so far - Liberatores Ristorante, with locations throughout the area, Cosmopolitan Bar Grill in Canton, Cafe Troia in Towson, Vaccaros Italian Pastry Shop in Little Italy and the Brass Elephant on North Charles Street. Jack Elsby, co-owner of the Brass Elephant, said his establishment has seen so many squinting diners he has kept glasses on hand to offer them in the past. Were the kind of restaurant - upscale - where the lighting can be dark and ambient and romantic, Elsby said. And our clientele tends to be 35 and above, those who might [need reading glasses]. We have customers asking all the time.Katzen provides the glasses to restaurants free of charge, and will replenish them if guests wander off with them - a habit that quickly depleted the Brass Elephants supply when Elsby purchased the glasses himself. The cost to Katzen is minimal, according to Edlow.Its a nice touch, he said of the program. Its a community service that helps both our patients and others.And, of course, theres the prospect of increased name recognition for Katzen, he acknowledged.MenuMates targets upscale restaurants, the COO added, as those are most likely to have attentive waitstaff who would notice when a guest is struggling with the menu. Katzen hopes to have 25 or 35 participating restaurants within the next six months, and maybe as many as 100 in a year. The program could even expand nationally if it proves popular, Edlow said, or even to other establishments like golf courses. For Elsby and the other restaurateurs, MenuMates gives them another opportunity to enhance their guests dining experience. A quality atmosphere is all about the details, Elsby explained.I think it just gives them bit more comfort, which makes evening go better, he said.

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Our panel of industry experts covered the gamut of topics in our seventh annual legal roundtable. As the economy dips, firms are adjusting to meet the needs of industry, while also focusing on ways to better serve the large corporate client. The panel also discussed recruiting and mentoring trends for young associates, supporting the states startup businesses and the changing role of technology in the legal field.
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They argue that, if marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs were legalized, several positive things would probably occur: (1) drug prices would fall; (2) users would obtain their drugs at low, government-regulated prices, and they would no longer be forced to resort to crime in order to support their habits, (3) levels of drug-related crime, and particularly violent crime, would significantly decline, resulting in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons (this would allow law-enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the “real criminals” in society); and the drug production, distribution, and sale would no longer be controlled by organized crime, and thus such criminal syndicates as the Colombian cocaine “cartels,” the Jamaican “posses,” and the various “mafias” around the country and the world would be decapitalized, and the violence associated with drug distribution rivalries would be eliminated. By contrast, the anti-legalization camp argues that violent crime would not necessarily decline in a legalized drug market. In fact, there are three reasons why it might actually increase. First, removing the criminal sanctions against the possession and distribution of illegal drugs would make them more available and attractive and, hence, would create large numbers of new users. Second, an increase in use would lead to a greater number of dysfunctional addicts who could not support themselves, their habits, or their lifestyles through legitimate means. Hence crime would be their only alternative. Third, more users would mean more of the violence associated with the ingestion of drugs. These divergent points of view tend to persist because the relationships between drugs and crime are quite complex and because the possible outcomes of a legalized drug market are based primarily on speculation. However, it is possible, from a careful review of the existing empirical literature on drugs and violence, to make some educated inferences.

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This study, conducted in the Netherlands, compared the vitamin C status of three groups of elderly women aged 65 years or older: 54 nursing home residents, 29 women living in service flats where meal service was provided by the nursing-home kitchen, and 52 women living independently in the community. Food consumption data were obtained using a modified dietary history; for the nursing home residents, all foods served for one day and the returned leftovers were weighed, and amounts of food served and returned for an additional nine days were estimated by the dietitians. Blood samples were collected for nutrient analysis. Dietary vitamin C intake was significantly lower among the nursing home residents than in the other two groups. The nursing home residents also had significantly lower plasma vitamin C levels, and the proportion of subjects with vitamin C levels in the deficient or marginal ranges was much higher in the nursing home residents than in either of the other two groups. Thirty-five percent of the women living in nursing homes had deficient plasma vitamin C levels, and an additional 23% had levels in the marginal range. Four percent of the women living in service flats had deficient levels and 4% had marginal levels. None of the women living independently had deficient levels; 2% had marginal levels. The nursing home residents had lower vitamin C intakes than the other women because they ate less and because they selectively avoided some foods that are important sources of vitamin C, particularly fresh fruit. The food preparation and distribution practices used in the nursing home also caused a substantial loss of vitamin C, but the loss was not much greater than that which is assumed to occur in home food preparation.
TUCSON, ARIZ. — Customary vitamin D supplementation and springtime sun exposure in the southern United States are inadequate to protect elderly African American women from vitamin D deficiency, data from a prospective cohort study show. Darker skin pigmentation and aging are known to decrease the bodys ability to synthesize vitamin D. But it has generally been assumed that sun exposure in southern latitudes is either sufficient to provide adequate vitamin D levels or would reduce the need for supplementation. The study has huge clinical implications and supports the belief of a growing number of clinicians that the recommended daily allowance of 400 IU vitamin D supplement is too low, Dr. Weaver said in an interview. The study included 44 African American women living in central Texas who were given 1,000 mg of calcium with 400-IU vitamin D tablets daily for 6 weeks, and told not to make any changes in diet or sun exposure. Clinical evaluations were made at baseline in April and 6 weeks later in June.

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The What It Takes television spot focuses on how it takes a person with truly special and unique qualities — from patience and dedication to a sense of humor — to handle the day-to-day challenges of running a small business. Recognizing small business owners are stretched for time and lack the resources of large corporations, the MasterCard ad captures real-life small business moments such as working odd hours and dealing with faulty office equipment. MasterCards What It Takes commercial salutes people in business for themselves, while also demonstrating why MasterCard business cards are the most effective way to pay for all the things a small business needs. A corresponding print ad is slated to break later this summer in publications such as Fortune, New York Times Magazine, TIME and The Wall Street Journal. The creative used in the print versions will follow the What It Takes theme leveraged in the new television commercial. Both the television and print ads are designed to build awareness of MasterCards suite of solutions created specifically for small business owners. To address the needs of this target market, MasterCard developed MasterCard Working for Small Business, a comprehensive global program that provides small businesses with payment cards, online tools and other resources that deliver financial control, data management, analysis and reporting, along with rewards and benefits.
Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).
Eight of the 12 categories showed an ad spending increase in June compared to last year, including Automotive (+34.2%), Services/Direct Response (+22.6), Retail (+22.3) and Horticulture/Farming (+15.3). The Travel (-26.6%), Computers (-14.9), Software (-7.0) and Telecom (0.3) categories showed spending declines. Half of the categories showed an ad page increase, led by Horticulture/Farming (+87.9%), and half showed an ad page decline.

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THE saying boys dont make passes at girls who wear glasses is no longer true - just look at the impact of designer spectacles on todays fashion scene. If you wear glasses, you can use them to make a fashion statement, even if you cant afford Calvin Klein or Donna Karan frames. The most important things to keep in mind when choosing spectacles are the shape of your face, and your facial features. Choose a pair that will accentuate your good points, and minimise your bad ones.
There are many ways to look at things around us. You can look at flowers with your eyes and see beautiful colors and patterns.You might see this orb weaver spider spinning its web in your garden.A magnifying glass makes the flower look bigger.

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Participants included: John A. Adams from Ray, Quinney Nebeker; Robert M. Anderson from VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall McCarthy; Ted Barnes from Clyde, Snow, Sessions Swenson; Peter W. Billings, Jr. from Fabian Clendenin; David Connors from LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene MacRae; Denise A. Dragoo from Snell Wilmer; Paul M. Durham from Durham, Jones Pinegar; Blame L. Carlton from Ballard, Spahr, Andrews Ingersoll; Raymondi. Etcheverry from Parsons Behle Latimer; David E. Gee from Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee Loveless; James S. Jardine from Ray, Quinney Nebeker; John S. Kirkham from Stoel Rives; Debra J. Moore, president-elect of the Utah State Bar, from the Utah Attorney Generals office, R Keith Nelson from Richards, Brandt, Miller Nelson; and Keven M. Rowe from Jones Waldo. Special Thanks to Scott M. Matheson, Jr., dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, for moderating this months Utah Business roundtable. What are the challenges that youre facing individually right now and that you think lawyers are facing generally in representing your business clients?
Scott Lauck and Nina Samuel have joined Wilson Associates PLLC as attorneys. Skipper Ray has been promoted to supervising attorney in the eviction department for the firm. Causley Edwards was recognized by the Center for Arkansas Legal Services for exemplary volunteerism. Edwards is an associate with the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.
Our panel of industry experts covered the gamut of topics in our seventh annual legal roundtable. As the economy dips, firms are adjusting to meet the needs of industry, while also focusing on ways to better serve the large corporate client. The panel also discussed recruiting and mentoring trends for young associates, supporting the states startup businesses and the changing role of technology in the legal field.

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Business Editors TRUMBULL, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 21, 2002 Imagistics International Inc. (NYSE: IGI), formerly Pitney Bowes Office Systems, today announced the launch of its first nationwide advertising campaign to build brand awareness and national recognition for its office document equipment and solutions.
Eight of the 12 categories showed an ad spending increase in June compared to last year, including Automotive (+34.2%), Services/Direct Response (+22.6), Retail (+22.3) and Horticulture/Farming (+15.3). The Travel (-26.6%), Computers (-14.9), Software (-7.0) and Telecom (0.3) categories showed spending declines. Half of the categories showed an ad page increase, led by Horticulture/Farming (+87.9%), and half showed an ad page decline.
Paw-Print Software has launched Adbin, its new tool that integrates with Microsofts Internet Explorer browser to remove advertising from web pages as they are downloaded. Adbin uses an extensible set of rules to identify ads during page downloading. When it finds an image that it suspects is an ad it replaces the it with another one directly from the PCs local drive.

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Byline: By Jane Picken A nurse who dropped a patients glass eye in a colleagues cola claimed her victim was in hysterics after the practical joke, a hearing heard. Newcastle nurse Christine Mitchelson, 53, is accused of a string of misconduct charges, including drawing a smiley face on an MRSA patients hernia, while on duty at Newcastles Royal Victoria Infirmary between 2001 and 2003.
A nurse dropped a false eye in a glass of cola to play a joke on a colleague, a tribunal was told. Christine Mitchelson, 53, is also accused of drawing a face on a patients hernia, subjecting patients to degrading treatment and making racist comments about foreign hospital staff. The nurse, from Newcastle upon Tyne, who denies 12 allegations of misconduct, was unable to attend yesterdays tribunal in London because of ill- health. In one allegation, Ms Mitchelson is accused of giving Pauline Stanton, the ward sister, a cup of cola containing a patients glass eye. Ms Mitchelson is also accused of giving a patient twice the prescribed dose of insulin and of roughly treating five patients.

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Our panel of industry experts covered the gamut of topics in our seventh annual legal roundtable. As the economy dips, firms are adjusting to meet the needs of industry, while also focusing on ways to better serve the large corporate client. The panel also discussed recruiting and mentoring trends for young associates, supporting the states startup businesses and the changing role of technology in the legal field.
Participants included: Steve Trayner from Strong Hanni; Robert Clark from Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee Loveless; Jan Smith from Ray, Quinney Nebeker; Steve Swindle from Vancott, Bagley; Stephen Tyler from Callister, Nebeker McCullough; David Evans from Snell Wilmer; Carl Barton from Holland Hart; Ralph Mabey from LeBoeuf Lamb; Dickson Burton from Trask Britt; Peter Billings from Fabian Clendinin; Tom Taylor from Holme, Roberts Owen; Kevin Rowe from Jones Waldo; C.J. Veverka from Workman Nydegger; Ron Moffitt from Stoel Rives; Paul Durham from Durham, Jones Pinegar; John Lund from Snow Christensen; Hal Pos from Parsons, Behle Latimer; and Blaine Carlton from Ballard, Spahr, Andrews Ingersoll.

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Outstanding Lawyer award by the association. Judges John C. Ward and David B. Bogard received Lawyer Citizen awards. Ward has served as a Pulaski County Circuit Court judge since 1990. Bogard has served as a Pulaski County Circuit Court judge since 1983. Gregory S. Kitterman, Jeffrey Ellis and Heather R. Callaway received the Presidents Award from the association. Kitterman is in private practice in Little Rock. Ellis is an attorney at the Allen Law Firm in Little Rock. Callaway serves as executive director of the association.
They argue that, if marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs were legalized, several positive things would probably occur: (1) drug prices would fall; (2) users would obtain their drugs at low, government-regulated prices, and they would no longer be forced to resort to crime in order to support their habits, (3) levels of drug-related crime, and particularly violent crime, would significantly decline, resulting in less crowded courts, jails, and prisons (this would allow law-enforcement personnel to focus their energies on the “real criminals” in society); and the drug production, distribution, and sale would no longer be controlled by organized crime, and thus such criminal syndicates as the Colombian cocaine “cartels,” the Jamaican “posses,” and the various “mafias” around the country and the world would be decapitalized, and the violence associated with drug distribution rivalries would be eliminated. By contrast, the anti-legalization camp argues that violent crime would not necessarily decline in a legalized drug market. In fact, there are three reasons why it might actually increase. First, removing the criminal sanctions against the possession and distribution of illegal drugs would make them more available and attractive and, hence, would create large numbers of new users. Second, an increase in use would lead to a greater number of dysfunctional addicts who could not support themselves, their habits, or their lifestyles through legitimate means. Hence crime would be their only alternative. Third, more users would mean more of the violence associated with the ingestion of drugs. These divergent points of view tend to persist because the relationships between drugs and crime are quite complex and because the possible outcomes of a legalized drug market are based primarily on speculation. However, it is possible, from a careful review of the existing empirical literature on drugs and violence, to make some educated inferences.

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Paw-Print Software has launched Adbin, its new tool that integrates with Microsofts Internet Explorer browser to remove advertising from web pages as they are downloaded. Adbin uses an extensible set of rules to identify ads during page downloading. When it finds an image that it suspects is an ad it replaces the it with another one directly from the PCs local drive.
MALVERN, Pa. — Stream Companies, one of the Philadelphia regions fastest growing marketing, advertising and promotions agencies, recently hired advertising industry veteran Marc Crusemire as the companys Director of Business Development. Crusemire joins the team at Stream Companies from his most recent position with Comcast Spotlight (Exton, PA). Previously, he was Advertising Director for The Trentonian (NJ) and Daily Local News (West Chester, PA) at the Journal Register Company. Earlier, Crusemire was the Business Development Coordinator, Major Accounts Manager and Display Advertising Manager for The Calkins Newspaper Group. He is a 1991 graduate of Temple University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, and a concentration in Advertising. Crusemire, his wife and two daughters reside in Chester County.
Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 19, 2000 Genuity Inc. (NASDAQ:GENU) today launches a $20 million global marketing campaign — including the companys first-ever television advertising — to support the introduction of its innovative new Network Services Platform (NSP), Black Rocket(TM).

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announced today that the Company introduced a new GreenShield(TM) product,
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other components to protect them from moisture and water penetration. Once
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Sal Miwa, CEO of Greenstone, said, “Sillpro creates a composite-like shield
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A small and powerful group of Arab American financiers have learned that helping others make money is very profitable for the bankers themselves “Banking was too boring and slow,” says Ziad Abdelnour, president and CEO of Blackhawk Partners in New York and the founder and president of the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon. These Arab American financiers have the commonality of heritage, but the diversity of every ethnic and minority group in America. Some have moved up the corporate ladder; others have gained fortune-if not fame-building their own financial empires. Some came from
Like Mike Christopherson (Readers Forum, Dec. 1), I wondered why the state of Utah was accumulating such a big sum of money when the roads around the state badly need fixing and schoolteachers are underpaid. I read his letter to my husband. He said, “I know the reason. Theyre just like me. I would rather have the money in the bank than buy a new suit.” Spanish Fork
Clean living is money in this bank Going beyond the usual corporate white paper and aluminum can recycling programs, First California Bank plans to put its money where its garbage is. The La Mesa-based institution will place $5 per customer check order and reorder and 10 cents for each automated teller transaction in its new Environmental Series Fund. The bank established the fund to finance local environmental programs, said Rich Turner, vice president and marketing director for the bank.

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Repeated topical exposure to lavender and tea tree oils may result in prepubertal gynaecomastia (enlarged breasts) in young boys, endocrinologists have concluded. Henley D et al. Prepubertal Gynecomastia Linked to Lavender and Tea Tree Oils. New England Journal of Medicine 2007; 356: 479-85.
Big breasts are a nice place to visit, but you wouldnt want to live with them. Gynecomastia, which translates literally as “womans breast,” is the benign enlargement of male breast tissue. Its an age-old problem. Aristotle wrote about it, and accounts of surgery to correct gynecomastia date back to the early Christian era. Then and now, its the leading breast disorder in men. Natural or drug-induced hormonal imbalances cause a flat pad of glandular tissue to grow for a short time beneath the nipple, resulting in swollen and sensitive breasts (or breast; the condition can be one-sided).
In 70% of boys, however, it disappears within a year; in less than 8% does it persist for more than two years. Gynecomastia does not indicate disease in most boys, and there is no link between gynecomastia and breast cancer in males.

Cause

It is not clear what causes gynecomastia, but most likely it is related to normal hormonal changes that occur during puberty . Levels of both male and female hormones increase in boys and girls during puberty. As the levels of these hormones adjust, some female characteristics (such as gynecomastia) may appear in boys, and some male characteristics (such as increased body hair) may appear in girls.

In some cases, gynecomastia is related to medication. If an adolescent boy with gynecomastia is taking medication, or if gynecomastia appears before puberty begins or after it has been completed, a doctor should be consulted.

In some relatively rare instances, gynecomastia may be the result of a chromosomal abnormality, where the male has one or more extra X chromosomes. This condition is known as Klinefelters syndrome.

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• McCoy, Kathy, and Charles Wibbelsman. The New Teenage Body Book . New York: The Body Press (Putnam), 1992.

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Low blood levels of antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin E and the carotenoids have been observed in some older people. It has been suggested that the lack of these protective factors may increase the risk of chronic diseases in this age group. It is uncertain, however, whether low levels of circulating antioxidant nutrients are an inevitable accompaniment to aging. Plasma levels of vitamin E and most carotenoids in the elderly nuns were similar to those reported in middle-aged populations; lycopene levels, however, were lower. Plasma levels of most antioxidants did not decrease with age in the nuns; lycopene was an exception. These data suggest that, with the exception of lycopene, plasma levels of antioxidant nutrients do not inevitably decrease with aging. The relatively high antioxidant status seen in this population may reflect the fact that the sisters had regular access to a nutritious diet, with assistance in eating provided for those who needed it, and the fact that they did not smoke and seldom drank alcohol. It is possible that the low antioxidant levels reported in some other elderly population groups may reflect poor diets and/or the presence of factors which deplete antioxidants, such as cigarette smoking.
Some epidemiologic studies have associated higher intakes of the antioxidant nutrients, especially vitamin E, with reduced risks of coronary heart disease. In some studies, this association has been observed for dietary vitamin E, but in other instances, the relationship was seen only in persons taking high doses of vitamin E as supplements. Protective effects of the other antioxidant nutrients - vitamin C and carotenoids - have also been observed in some epidemiological studies, but not in others.In the study population as a whole, there appeared to be a trend toward reduced coronary risk with higher vitamin E intake, but it was not statistically significant. Among women who did not take vitamin supplements, dietary vitamin E intake did show a significant inverse association with coronary heart disease risk. Women in the highest quintile of vitamin E intake had less than half the risk of death from coronary heart disease of women in the lowest quintile. Foods associated with reduced risk included margarine, nuts and seeds, and mayonnaise and creamy salad dressings. Intakes of vitamin A, vitamin C, and supplementary vitamin E did not appear to be associated with the risk of death from coronary disease.These findings suggest that vitamin E intake may be protective against coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women and that such women can lower their risk without using vitamin supplements. However, the authors could not rule out the possibility that vitamin E consumed in food might be a marker for other dietary factors associated with coronary risk. The lack of effect of vitamin E in supplements should be interpreted with caution because information on the duration of supplement use was not available for this cohort and because relatively few women used high-dose supplements of vitamin E.

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A nurse accused of putting a patients glass eye in a drink at a hospital says she was only having a joke. Christine Mitchelson, above, 52, of Denton Burn, Newcastle, is facing a complaints panel over her conduct while at Newcastles Royal Victoria Infirmary. Today Mrs Mitchelson, who denies acting improperly, said the claims have caused her so much stress she rarely leaves home.
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Participants included: Steve Trayner from Strong Hanni; Robert Clark from Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee Loveless; Jan Smith from Ray, Quinney Nebeker; Steve Swindle from Vancott, Bagley; Stephen Tyler from Callister, Nebeker McCullough; David Evans from Snell Wilmer; Carl Barton from Holland Hart; Ralph Mabey from LeBoeuf Lamb; Dickson Burton from Trask Britt; Peter Billings from Fabian Clendinin; Tom Taylor from Holme, Roberts Owen; Kevin Rowe from Jones Waldo; C.J. Veverka from Workman Nydegger; Ron Moffitt from Stoel Rives; Paul Durham from Durham, Jones Pinegar; John Lund from Snow Christensen; Hal Pos from Parsons, Behle Latimer; and Blaine Carlton from Ballard, Spahr, Andrews Ingersoll.
Participants included: John A. Adams from Ray, Quinney Nebeker; Robert M. Anderson from VanCott, Bagley, Cornwall McCarthy; Ted Barnes from Clyde, Snow, Sessions Swenson; Peter W. Billings, Jr. from Fabian Clendenin; David Connors from LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene MacRae; Denise A. Dragoo from Snell Wilmer; Paul M. Durham from Durham, Jones Pinegar; Blame L. Carlton from Ballard, Spahr, Andrews Ingersoll; Raymondi. Etcheverry from Parsons Behle Latimer; David E. Gee from Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Gee Loveless; James S. Jardine from Ray, Quinney Nebeker; John S. Kirkham from Stoel Rives; Debra J. Moore, president-elect of the Utah State Bar, from the Utah Attorney Generals office, R Keith Nelson from Richards, Brandt, Miller Nelson; and Keven M. Rowe from Jones Waldo. Special Thanks to Scott M. Matheson, Jr., dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, for moderating this months Utah Business roundtable. What are the challenges that youre facing individually right now and that you think lawyers are facing generally in representing your business clients?

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Some epidemiologic studies have associated higher intakes of the antioxidant nutrients, especially vitamin E, with reduced risks of coronary heart disease. In some studies, this association has been observed for dietary vitamin E, but in other instances, the relationship was seen only in persons taking high doses of vitamin E as supplements. Protective effects of the other antioxidant nutrients - vitamin C and carotenoids - have also been observed in some epidemiological studies, but not in others.In the study population as a whole, there appeared to be a trend toward reduced coronary risk with higher vitamin E intake, but it was not statistically significant. Among women who did not take vitamin supplements, dietary vitamin E intake did show a significant inverse association with coronary heart disease risk. Women in the highest quintile of vitamin E intake had less than half the risk of death from coronary heart disease of women in the lowest quintile. Foods associated with reduced risk included margarine, nuts and seeds, and mayonnaise and creamy salad dressings. Intakes of vitamin A, vitamin C, and supplementary vitamin E did not appear to be associated with the risk of death from coronary disease.These findings suggest that vitamin E intake may be protective against coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women and that such women can lower their risk without using vitamin supplements. However, the authors could not rule out the possibility that vitamin E consumed in food might be a marker for other dietary factors associated with coronary risk. The lack of effect of vitamin E in supplements should be interpreted with caution because information on the duration of supplement use was not available for this cohort and because relatively few women used high-dose supplements of vitamin E.
Low blood levels of antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin E and the carotenoids have been observed in some older people. It has been suggested that the lack of these protective factors may increase the risk of chronic diseases in this age group. It is uncertain, however, whether low levels of circulating antioxidant nutrients are an inevitable accompaniment to aging. Plasma levels of vitamin E and most carotenoids in the elderly nuns were similar to those reported in middle-aged populations; lycopene levels, however, were lower. Plasma levels of most antioxidants did not decrease with age in the nuns; lycopene was an exception. These data suggest that, with the exception of lycopene, plasma levels of antioxidant nutrients do not inevitably decrease with aging. The relatively high antioxidant status seen in this population may reflect the fact that the sisters had regular access to a nutritious diet, with assistance in eating provided for those who needed it, and the fact that they did not smoke and seldom drank alcohol. It is possible that the low antioxidant levels reported in some other elderly population groups may re