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International Pet Travel Consultancy Services in Sri Lanka
To begin with, we are experts when it comes to finding the safest, most direct route for your pets. We stay up to date on all import and transportation requirements for your pets. We have excellent relationships with all the pet friendly airlines that serve Colombo airport.
Our mission is to help anyone who requires international pet relocation in any way we can. If you decide to use our services, we will consult you free of charge and advise you before we proceed. We go in to detail, and our specialist team will discuss and explain each and every stage of the pet’s relocation process with you. By doing so, we will ensure that you have made the correct choice and guarantee that your beloved pet will have the safest and most comfortable journey up to the required destination.
Each pet shipment is quoted based on your specific needs. Furthermore, our relocation team will review your pet’s vaccination records and medical history with you before we give any pricing or quotations for the pet’s travel.
We are also updated with the latest import regulations / health requirements for pets flying to your preferred destination country.
Some of the countries simply require an international health certificate and vaccination records, whereas other countries have specific requirements which would include various complex blood tests. Accordingly, your pet travel process must begin months in advance of the shipment.
What Happens Usually…
Inexperienced pet shippers will always fall in to trouble due to complicated and ever changing regulations. International pet travel is heavily regulated by respective governments, government agencies, customs, quarantine agencies and transit countries. Each of these policy setting agencies frequently amend the rules and regulations and generally these regulations are not notified to the general public. This means, even the airlines are not required to share updated rules & regulations to ensure a smooth relocation process for your beloved pet.
Furthermore, Pets shipped without complying with ALL requirements set by respective destination governments are subject to being;
- Denied flying on the scheduled flights
- Refused entry at the destination airport and return back to the origin country
- Not released from the Airport authorities or quarantine departments after arrival at the destination country
- Put in to unnecessary quarantine stations for a certain time period
If any of the above happens, it will definitely upset the pet owner and the whole family. These pet shipments can consequently become difficult or impossible to correct and sometimes the correction process could be very costly.
Pet Express has unsurpassed experience in shipping pets to & from Sri Lanka, in to many different countries, and our specialist team will ensure you that all of your Pet’s international travel requirements are met accordingly and your Pet’s journey will be planned smoothly and stress-free. Our pet relocation specialists are constantly updated on the ever changing international rules & regulations as we constantly communicate with all respective agencies around the world. We always go the extra mile to ensure that your beloved pet travels in a stress free condition without any hiccups.
We keep a close relationship with all the major airlines and their regulations. By doing so, we also know the best route to take your pet to the required destination. Moreover, our pet relocation specialists track the travel of your pet and will ensure that the pet will arrive at the destination safely without any hiccups. In rare cases of unforeseen situations, our team will know exactly what to do and will keep you informed at all times.
By working closely with the pets’ owners, our team offers personalized attention to each pet’s individual needs and wants. We extensively discuss the relocation process with the pet owners in order to avoid any surprises half way through.
At Pet Express, we are professionals in the international Pet relocation industry. We can be the international travel agent for your beloved pet and we strive to provide efficient, and premium service…Always and all the time!
When you first contact Pet Express, either by telephone or email, you are put in touch with an experienced Pet Relocation Consultant familiar with your destination region who will obtain all of the necessary details to provide you with an accurate quotation and answer any questions you might have about the move.
Once you provide us all the required information about the pet travel, we will provide a precise estimate / quotation which covers all required services, including the airlines we will be using, flight routing, and other necessary details. This ensures you know what to expect before our services begin. Your precious pets’ relocation process will be handled by someone who is very familiar and experienced with the latest import/export requirements for your destination. This experience is invaluable to our customers, providing assurance and confidence in a stressful situation.
We at Pet Express, always plan your pet’s relocation process carefully and meticulously. Our pet relocation specialists have helped hundreds of clients to relocate their beloved pets to reach their new homes.

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text: I chose to go with a theme that explored how photographers covered war from WW2 to the Vietnam War. I chose WW2 and the Vietnam War because they are like black and white when it comes to how photographers were allowed to cover and how they were covered. The main theme of photographs from WW2 were to boost the moral back home and keep the general public happy. Photographers were not allowed to show very many pictures that showed how truly awful war was. The Vietnam War was a completely different story because the government allowed photographers to show more gruesome photos which was a main reason as to why there were so many protests during the war.

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The Chancellor, who said earlier this month that the financing scheme is not a “weapon of mass destruction”, has asked the central bank’s Financial Policy Committee to review the Help to Buy programme every year.
The FPC was originally told to advise on the plan every three years.
The BoE will also be able to recommend to the Treasury that the cap on properties eligible under the scheme is cut from the current £600,000, reducing the impact of any price boom. A similar bubble was widely blamed for the recession.
The fees the Government charges lenders for mortage guarantees could also be raised, inflating the cost of loans and cutting demand as a result.
A Treasury spokesman said: “The Help to Buy scheme is designed to back the home-owning aspirations of the British people while avoiding the mistakes the past.
“Now that the Financial Policy Committee has set out their latest assessment of the housing market, the final such assessment before the launch of the Help to Buy scheme, we are setting out more detail on how its role will work.”
The FPC said on Wednesday that the UK housing market needs to be monitored closely.
The Treasury added: “The FPC’s assessment this week – in line with that of the Chancellor and the Governor – is that recent developments in the housing market represent a broadening recovery from low levels of activity, but that we must remain vigilant as that recovery progresses.
“The Chancellor has asked the FPC to work with him every September, starting next year, to assess the ongoing impact of the Help to Buy scheme.
“Following that annual assessment he has proposed that the FPC advise him on whether the key parameters of the scheme – the price cap and the fees charged to lenders – remain appropriate.
“At the end of the scheme’s three-year life, if a future Government proposes to extend the scheme, the FPC will have to give its agreement.”
Mr Osborne is believed to have suggested the changes to BoE Governor Mark Carney earlier this month.
Help to Buy, launched in the Chancellor’s Budget earlier this year, assists buyers with a 5pc deposit to buy a house worth up to £600,000.
The first part of the scheme began in April and sees the Government provide buyers with a 20pc initially interest-free loan.
The Chancellor has insisted that a second stage of the programme will begin in January. That will provide an indemnity on up to 15pc of a mortgage.
However, some critics, including Business Secretary Vince Cable, have voiced concerns the scheme could cause another housing bubble.
“We should certainly think about how it should come into effect, indeed whether it should come into effect in the light of changing market conditions. We don’t want a new bubble,” Mr Cable has said.


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Event to 'breathe life' into local community
North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health (NCACCH) will host a free family fun day called "Ngaiya -- Breathe Life" on Saturday 12 March at Kawana, to highlight the high smoking rates amongst the Sunshine Coast's indigenous communities as part of their Indigenous Smoking Cessation Pilot Program 'No Durri for this Murri' campaign, and provide much needed education and support.
With over 4000 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders living on the Sunshine Coast, smoking rates among Australia's indigenous population are around 50% - double the national rate. In 2008 nearly half (47%) of indigenous Australians over the age of 15 smoked cigarettes daily. This means that indigenous people are almost three times more likely to smoke than other Australians.
"Indigenous Australians make fewer quitting attempts and are less successful in quitting than other Australian smokers which is why we have not only a dedicated smoking cessation program to do everything we can for them, but also events such as this to raise general awareness in the community," says Kim Helmore, Operations Manager, of the NCACCH.
Helmore says indigenous Australians die at a younger age compared to non-indigenous Australians and a large percentage of these will be tobacco related. On average in Australia Indigenous men only live to 67.2 years compared to 78.7 for non-indigenous men and Indigenous women live to the age of 72.9 years compared to 82.6 years for non-indigenous women. "These are unacceptable statistics that we must work together as a community to change. This why the Australian Government's Department of Health & Ageing (DoHA) has funded NCACCH to develop and pilot an Indigenous Smoking Cessation program which if successful may be run out across the nation.
"We hope that the event will provide a fun day for both indigenous local people and the wider community alike to come together and enjoy free food, free health checks and information stalls whilst raising the awareness of our local culture and health issues," says Helmore.
Ngaiya 'Breathe Life' will also feature a diverse range of entertainment, workshops and stalls. Local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders including the Black Swans; an Indigenous program for youth aged 12 to 25 that assists with nutrition, self-esteem, cultural awareness and sexual health; with breathe life into the event through story-telling, traditional games and touch football workshops. Kids and active types can enjoy basketball, hip hop and zumba dance sessions and drumming workshops.
Live music from popular multi-cultural group The Chocolate Strings, a Dub/Funk/Reggae band heralding from Brisbane, who have shared stages with artists such as Fat Freddy's Drop, Charli Tuna and Katchafire as well as being billed on such festivals as Shine On Festival, Woodford Folk Festival and Kuranda Roots will also be enjoyed.
The event will take place on Saturday 12 March from 11am until 5pm, Coopers Lookout Park, Pacific Blvd, Buddina (next to Kawana Surf Club). Some transport is available for indigenous people who want to travel down from Gympie. Contact NCAACH on 07 5443 3599 to book the bus and for more information about the event or see: http://www.budurl.com/ngaiya
downloadable: "Just the Facts: A fact sheet about tobacco use among Indigenous Australians" pdf
"Ngaiya -- Breathe Life" free family fun day
Saturday 12 March from 11am until 5pm
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Buddina (next to Kawana Surf Club)
Coopers Lookout Park, Buddina
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Despite the fact that Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak publicly shut down the notion that All-Star center Dwight Howard could be traded before Thursday's deadline, a Tuesday report may indicate otherwise.
FS-OH claims that if Kupchack were to change his mind about dealing the big man out of Los Angeles, he would "have Bryant's full support," their sources say.
There are also plenty of indications that Bryant isn't the only player in Purple and Gold that doubts Howard's commitment to this team.
It is reported that Steve Nash, Pau Gasol and several others are also very skeptical about how serious D12 is about the game, this team, and weather he "wants it" enough to help them overcome the pickle they finds themselves in.
The Lakers come out of the 2013 All-Star break with an underachieving 25-29 record, sitting 3½ games outside of the eight and final playoff spot in the Western Conference, and with more questions than answers.
Coming up, Bryant & Co. will embark on a 29-game stretch that will determine whether this team will pull off one of the most improbable comebacks in NBA history, or go down as one of, if not the biggest, catastrophes ever.
For what it's worth, if it's true that the "Black Mamba" and so many Lakers don't believe Howard has the "right approach, mental toughness and overall willingness to help the Lakers flourish in what has become their most important stretch," a trade could be imminent.
Brooklyn and Dallas are said to be among the teams with which Howard could agree to a contract extension this summer, which would also facilitate the move.
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Never knew I will see such a strong blog calling a spade a spade on “Times of India” website. Muslims must be the only people in the world who, wherever they are in a minority, keep threatening the majority with annihilation.
An Indian conundrum: A nincompoop Hindu versus an aggressive Muslim
05 February 2013, 09:04 PM IST
Events as they occur in quick succession beget the generic search to find the least common denominator in the sequence of such an occurrence. So begins the quest to find the weakest link in the chain before it snaps.
The recent episodic ban on screening Kamal Haasan’s film ‘Vishwaroopam’ in Tamil Nadu theatres; the putative blacklisting of redoubtable author Salman Rushdie at Jaipur and Kolkata litfests; and the war-mongering by Owaisi brothers in Hyderabad, threatening 80 per cent Hindus with decimation by 20 per cent Muslims in a matter of hours if the police were not to intervene, unambiguously point to the least common denominator in the chain of events.
That the aggressive Muslim is the least common denominator in the chain of which the Hindu is the weakest link.
This very indoctrinated Muslim has been the highest common factor — of blood and gore — at places such as Kashmir from where they have succeeded in hounding out Hindus, threatening extermination.
Like ‘Vande Matram’ the title ‘Vishwaroopam’ is per se ‘un-Islamic’ for the Muslim bigot who loathes the very nomenclature of both words for they are sanskritised in etymology. The bigot fails to comprehend Vishwaroopam (the cosmic beauty) is universal to humankind just as Vande Matram (bow to motherland) is a manifestation of ‘Madre Watan’ (the Urdu equivalent of ‘motherland’).
In essence the objection is semantic than substantial. The protests by Islamic protagonists and bolstered by political demagogues under the pretext that the film has an incidental reference to the Quran and portrays Muslims in a bad light is a travesty of justice, to say the least.
The portrayal of violence by Islamic zealots on the celluloid is as real as it gets on the ground; why grudge reality when the religious zealots have wreaked havoc on the earth from Kashmir to Kabul, from the far east to the Middle East to Europe, America and Africa?
Litfests at Jaipur and Kolkata, declaring Salman Rushdie persona non grata, speak volumes of forsaking the genuine pursuit of the arts, literature and culture for political expediency. The captive Muslim votebank is the mantra to an electoral victory, be it Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajasthan or for that matter any state in India.
What an irony! ‘Firebrand’ Mamata Banerjee caters to the Muslim clergy, announcing a handsome ‘wazifa’ (scholarship) for imams of mosques in West Bengal, ensuring the Ummah (Muslim citizenry) votes en masse for the Trinamool.
On the contrary, the leftist Hindu Bengali always cries wolf when it comes to political alignment with the nationalist Hindus, saying the ‘communal forces’ must be kept at bay.
The state projects the Hindu as an enemy of the nation from within as made expilicit by his ‘Hindu terror’ remark recently by no less a person than Sushil Kumar Shinde in his official capacity as the country’s home minister, not as a private individual.
So it seems the state is on a warpath with the nation.
The aggressive Indian Muslim has thus been emboldened by the state to the bizarre yet ominous extent that Hyderabad-based MLA Owaisi makes no bones in threatening on a public platform the mass annihilation of majority Hindus by minority Muslims if the state were to play deaf-mute. Earlier, sundry Muslim politicians from Uttar Pradesh, too, had threatened majority Hindus with dire consequences if the latter dared them.
Of late, an all-girl rock band in Kashmir has been handed a fatwa by the valley’s ‘grand Mufti’ a la Saudi Arabian decree, forbiding music as ‘haraam’ (taboo) under the Sharia. The band has reportedly been disbanded following life-threatening calls by Kashmiri Muslims to the singer trio.
Is Indian Muslim following the footsteps of his aggressive Kashmiri counterpart?
Will the meek Hindu Indian meet the fate of Kashmiri Pandits? The answer is not too far to seek. God save the nation if the weakest link in the chain gives way under state patronage.


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Things to do in Halton West, North Yorkshire
Halton West is a wonderful, peaceful, quite village on the Yorkshire Lancashire border, home to around 50 people with 7 farms and plenty of animals.
Halton west is between Hellifeild and Bolton by Bowland very close to Skipton and Settle. Halton west is also a popular place for Walkers, Cyclists and Horse riders with a village green for you to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea and the countryside. We are always friendly and welcome for you to come and explore the village.
Running through the village is the River Ribble. There are plenty of footpaths running around the village and across fields for you to walk or ride around exploring the countryside as you find it.
In the village we have a church, a feed centre, a letter box and red telephone box that doesn't work! There is a road going through the centre of the village and places where you can park your car and go for a walk or just take a rest. You are also welcome to walk your dogs as long as you watch out for the animals!
Halton west is a great place and hope to see you soon when you are driving through, walking, biking or horse riding.
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West popped the question at Kardashian's 33rd birthday party in San Francisco Monday night with a 15-carat diamond ring.
West rented out the entire AT&T Park stadium, home of the Giants, for the occasion and proposed in front of friends and family members.
He also arranged for a 50-piece orchestra and a fireworks display.
The couple has a daughter named North West who was born in June.
A photo posted on Instagram shows a screen at the stadium that reads "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!" - in typical West font - above a black-clad orchestra. Another shows Kardashian showing off a diamond ring with a smiling West behind her.
The Kardashian clan has a series of reality shows on E!, but the network said Tuesday it did not have cameras at the stadium to capture the moment.
Khloe Kardashian seemed to celebrate on Twitter when she wrote: "Tears of JOY!!!!!!! Wow!!!!!!" She also tweeted: "Wow!!!!! Am I dreaming-!?!" Kimye were quiet on Twitter.
Kardashian was previously married to NBA player Kris Humphries. Their divorce was finalized in June after they were married for 72 days in 2011. Her first marriage was to music producer Damon Thomas in 2000.
West is currently on a tour with Kendrick Lamar. "The Yeezus Tour" will visit the SAP Center in San Jose on Tuesday night. Earlier Monday, he attended the Hollywood Film Awards in Beverly Hills, presenting Steve McQueen with the Hollywood Breakout Director Award.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Uterine leiomyomata, or fibroids, are very common, affecting up to 70% or even 80% of women at some point in their lives.1,2 Despite this lifetime prevalence, many cases go undiagnosed, increasing the probable incidence,1 while clinical guidelines appear to lack consensus on optimal evidence-based treatment strategies.3
In general, uterine fibroids are known to be estrogen responsive,4 and both genetics and ovarian hormone exposure are likely antecedents for the development of fibroids.2 Studies have shown a notable difference in the prevalence and presentation of fibroids based on race, with Black women experiencing larger fibroids more often and at a younger age than some other racial populations.1,2,5 The heavy bleeding associated with fibroids can cause anemia, fatigue, and pain.1 Women with uterine fibroids report a decreased quality of life, difficulty getting diagnosed, and concerns about available treatment options.6,7
Often, women with fibroids want to avoid hysterectomy.6,7 However, in the United States, uterine fibroids are one of the most common reasons for a hysterectomy,8 yet it is well known that even when the ovaries are conserved, hysterectomies can greatly increase risks for other health issues like cardiovascular and metabolic conditions, including congestive heart failure.9 What risk factors may play a role in the development of uterine fibroids, and what options other than hysterectomy are available for patients?
The underlying cause of uterine fibroids and the mechanisms of their growth are not fully known, and the factors that predispose women to fibroid development continue to be studied. Age, race, genetic predisposition, and family history are a few of the noted risk factors that are not modifiable; however, certain modifiable lifestyle factors may also play a role in fibroid development.5,10-12 Increased blood pressure correlates with the increased risk of fibroids.2,5 Obesity, high serum lipids, and metabolic syndrome also increase the risk of fibroids, suggesting a cardiometabolic connection.13-15 Low vitamin D levels may also increase risk for fibroids.16,17 In addition, chronic inflammation may also play a role in fibroid formation.18
As mentioned, Black women are much more likely to develop fibroids, and they are also more likely to report more severe symptoms.5,19 Adding to this connection, central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (which primarily affects Black women) is highly correlated with uterine fibroids, suggesting a similar underlying pathophysiological mechanism.20
Either as part of an inflammatory milieu or otherwise, environmental toxicants also likely play a role in the development of fibroids, including exposures to cosmetic or beauty-product-related chemicals,21,22 polluted drinking water,23 and air pollution. One large-scale, longitudinal study demonstrated that exposure to high amounts of air pollution [particulate matter (PM) 2.5] correlated with an increased risk of fibroids.24 Heavy metals25 and endocrine-disrupting chemicals26 such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs)25,27 and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)27 have also been correlated with uterine fibroid development. Critical windows of exposure may affect long-term hormonal patterns, especially pre-menarche exposures.28
Healthy lifestyle factors may not only play a preventative role in fibroid risk but may also be part of an effective treatment plan. As part of a personalized therapeutic strategy to decrease uterine fibroids, the following are all components of a foundational functional medicine approach:
- Addressing hormonal imbalances that may include estrogen dominance.
- Supporting gut health and decreasing overall inflammation.
- Improving detoxification and waste elimination to help remove excess estrogen.
- Stabilizing blood sugar and insulin.
- Reducing exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
- Implementing the most effective exercise and nutritional plan for an individual patient.
In addition, one of the emerging non-surgical treatments for fibroids is modulating progesterone.11 In one study, perioperative treatment with the progesterone receptor modulator ulipristal acetate (or UPA) resulted in 61% of women electing not to continue with surgery, as their symptoms were adequately managed.29 Fibroids themselves alter the expression patterns of estrogen and androgen receptors.30 For that reason, it’s important to help patients restore hormonal balance even after their fibroids and the resulting symptoms are adequately treated.
Best practices for treating fibroids have not yet been established;31 however, from a functional medicine perspective, interventions that prioritize hormonal balance and reduced systemic inflammation, improve modifiable lifestyle factors, and reduce exposure to environmental toxicants are treatment approaches that should be considered. For the many women who suffer from fibroids but wish to avoid hysterectomy, these low-harm therapies may provide the relief they seek.
- Stewart EA, Cookson CL, Gandolfo RA, Schulze-Rath R. Epidemiology of uterine fibroids: a systematic review.2017;124(10):1501-1512. doi:10.1111/1471-0528.14640
- Giuliani E, As-Sanie S, Marsh EE. Epidemiology and management of uterine fibroids. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2020;149(1):3-9. doi:1002/ijgo.13102
- Amoah A, Joseph N, Reap S, Quinn SD. Appraisal of national and international uterine fibroid management guidelines: a systematic review. BJOG. 2022;129(3):356-364. doi:1111/1471-0528.16928
- Ulin M, Ali M, Chaudhry ZT, Al-Hendy A, Yang Q. Uterine fibroids in menopause and perimenopause. Menopause. 2020;27(2):238-242. doi:1097/GME.0000000000001438
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. What are the risk factors for uterine fibroids? National Institutes of Health. Reviewed November 2, 2018. Accessed April 5, 2023. https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/uterine/conditioninfo/people-affected
- Borah BJ, Nicholson WK, Bradley L, Stewart EA. The impact of uterine leiomyomas: a national survey of affected women. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2013;209(4):319.e1-319.e20. doi:1016/j.ajog.2013.07.017
- Marsh EE, Al-Hendy A, Kappus D, Galitsky A, Stewart EA, Kerolous M. Burden, prevalence, and treatment of uterine fibroids: a survey of U.S. women. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2018;27(11):1359-1367. doi:1089/jwh.2018.7076
- Morgan DM, Kamdar NS, Swenson CW, Kobernik EK, Sammarco AG, Nallamothu B. Nationwide trends in the utilization of and payments for hysterectomy in the United States among commercially insured women. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018;218(4):425.e1-425.e18. doi:1016/j.ajog.2017.12.218
- Laughlin-Tommaso SK, Khan Z, Weaver AL, Smith CY, Rocca WA, Stewart EA. Cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity after hysterectomy with ovarian conservation: a cohort study. Menopause. 2018;25(5):483-492. doi:1097/GME.0000000000001043
- Pavone D, Clemenza S, Sorbi F, Fambrini M, Petraglia F. Epidemiology and risk factors of uterine fibroids. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2018;46:3-11. doi:1016/j.bpobgyn.2017.09.004
- MacLean JA 2nd, Hayashi K. Progesterone actions and resistance in gynecological disorders. Cells. 2022;11(4):647. doi:3390/cells11040647
- Szydlowska I, Nawrocka-Rutkowska J, Brodowska A, Marciniak A, Starczewski A, Szczuko M. Dietary natural compounds and vitamins as potential cofactors in uterine fibroids growth and development. Nutrients. 2022;14(4):734. doi:3390/nu14040734
- Uimari O, Auvinen J, Jokelainen J, et al. Uterine fibroids and cardiovascular risk. Hum Reprod. 2016;31(12):2689-2703. doi:1093/humrep/dew249
- Qin H, Lin Z, Vásquez E, Luan X, Guo F, Xu L. Association between obesity and the risk of uterine fibroids: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2021;75(2):197-204. doi:1136/jech-2019-213364
- Brewster LM, Haan Y, van Montfrans GA. Cardiometabolic risk and cardiovascular disease in young women with uterine fibroids. Cureus. 2022;14(10):e30740. doi:7759/cureus.30740
- Vahdat M, Allahqoli L, Mirzaei H, et al. The effect of vitamin D on recurrence of uterine fibroids: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study. Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2022;46:101536. doi:1016/j.ctcp.2022.101536
- Mohammadi R, Tabrizi R, Hessami K, et al. Correlation of low serum vitamin-D with uterine leiomyoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2020;18(1):85. doi:1186/s12958-020-00644-6
- AlAshqar A, Reschke L, Kirschen GW, Borahay MA. Role of inflammation in benign gynecologic disorders: from pathogenesis to novel therapies†. Biol Reprod. 2021;105(1):7-31. doi:1093/biolre/ioab054
- Katon JG, Plowden TC, Marsh EE. Racial disparities in uterine fibroids and endometriosis: a systematic review and application of social, structural, and political context. Fertil Steril. 2023;119(3):355-363. doi:1016/j.fertnstert.2023.01.022
- Dina Y, Okoye GA, Aguh C. Association of uterine leiomyomas with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia. JAMA Dermatol.2018;154(2):213-214. doi:1001/jamadermatol.2017.5163
- Wise LA, Palmer JR, Reich D, Cozier YC, Rosenberg L. Hair relaxer use and risk of uterine leiomyomata in African-American women. Am J Epidemiol. 2012;175(5):432-440. doi:1093/aje/kwr351
- Gaston SA, James-Todd T, Harmon Q, Taylor KW, Baird D, Jackson CL. Chemical/straightening and other hair product usage during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood among African-American women: potential implications for health. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2020;30(1):86-96. doi:1038/s41370-019-0186-6
- Hammarstrand S, Jakobsson K, Andersson E, et al. Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water and risk for polycystic ovarian syndrome, uterine leiomyoma, and endometriosis: a Swedish cohort study. Environ Int. 2021;157:106819. doi:1016/j.envint.2021.106819
- Mahalingaiah S, Hart JE, Laden F, et al. Air pollution and risk of uterine leiomyomata. Epidemiology. 2014;25(5):682-688. doi:1097/EDE.0000000000000126
- Qin YY, Leung CK, Leung AO, Wu SC, Zheng JS, Wong MH. Persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in adipose tissues of patients with uterine leiomyomas and the association of these pollutants with seafood diet, BMI, and age. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2010;17(1):229-240.
- Bariani MV, Rangaswamy R, Siblini H, Yang Q, Al-Hendy A, Zota AR. The role of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in uterine fibroid pathogenesis. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2020;27(6):380-387. doi:1097/MED.0000000000000578
- Trabert B, Chen Z, Kannan K, et al. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and fibroids: results from the ENDO study. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2015;25(3):278-285. doi:1038/jes.2014.31
- Mahalingaiah S, Missmer SE, Cheng JJ, Chavarro J, Laden F, Hart JE. Perimenarchal air pollution exposure and menstrual disorders. Hum Reprod. 2018;33(3):512-519. doi:1093/humrep/dey005
- Fernandez H, Schmidt T, Powell M, Costa AP, Arriagada P, Thaler C. Real world data of 1473 patients treated with ulipristal acetate for uterine fibroids: Premya study results. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2017;208:91-96. doi:1016/j.ejogrb.2016.11.003
- Wong JY, Gold EB, Johnson WO, Lee JS. Circulating sex hormones and risk of uterine fibroids: Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN). J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016;101(1):123-130. doi:1210/jc.2015-2935
- Al-Hendy A, Myers ER, Stewart E. Uterine fibroids: burden and unmet medical need. Semin Reprod Med. 2017;35(6):473-480. doi:1055/s-0037-1607264

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Microwave Chocolate Mousse
by Nina Warber
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Here is an easy mousse to whip up for dessert for the kids.
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 cup of whipped cream
1 bar of chocolate (milk or dark)
Small mixing bowl
Melt the chocolate in the microwave (most microwaves have a “melt” setting for chocolate). Then add the 1/2 cup of whipped cream and mix it together with a spoon. Then stir the 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon in to the mix. Refrigerate the mousse for about 1 1/2 hours or until it is thick.

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Some specific components of your Honda Odyssey are fundamental, if for your security or that of other users, making sure that all these components are operating properly is part of your legal and moral obligations. In this article , we are going to talk about one of these components, your vehicle’s blinkers, the turn signals. Indeed, you may have a blinker problem on Honda Odyssey, whether it’s because they’re burned out, they generate an unusual noise, or whatever, we’re going to try to resolve your concerns today so that you can get back on the road with assurance. To accomplish this, we will discover one at a time several blinker concerns on Honda Odyssey and the solutions to remedy them.
The various blinker problems on Honda Odyssey and their solutions
We will therefore produce our guideline depending to the sort of blinker issue you are struggling with on your Honda Odyssey. You should know that the turn signals are the only components that allow other road users to know your changes in direction, so it is necessary that they are in good working order.
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If you are in the case where, when you turn on your blinkers on the left or right side of your Honda Odyssey they do not light up while on the other side everything works properly. In this situation it may be that both of your blinker bulbs are burnt out, first step for you to examine the condition of your blinker bulbs, take a look at our guideline on changing the indicator bulb on Honda Odyssey if you don’t know how to do this operation. Remember to examine the condition of the bulb socket, it may be oxidized and the electrical contact may be bad. If after examining the bulbs of the blinkers of your Honda Odyssey are not burnt out, you will have to take off the comodo of your turn indicators to examine that there is no false contact when you switch it on the problematic side.
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Second blinker problem you may encounter on Honda Odyssey, none of your flashers light up. If you are in this situation there is a good chance that it is an electrical issue that is the trigger of the turn signal troubles. You will have to examine the turn signal fuse on your Honda Odyssey, please read our guideline to locate it very easily. In most instances your fuse is blown, in any other case it could be the fuse relay that is generating the issue. At last, if your fuses and relays are in good condition, examine that the flasher comodo is well powered.
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Now the most common case of blinker problems on Honda Odyssey, only one of your blinkers doesn’t work. In this situation, the issue is usually easy to correct and a change of a burnt-out bulb will be enough to solve it. If this is not enough, bear in mind to check the condition of the bulb socket which could provoke a bad electrical contact and thus prevent the bulb from lighting up.
Blinker problem that lights up uncommonly on Honda Odyssey
To conclude, the last issue you may encounter is that the turn indicators of your Honda Odyssey make a different noise when you turn them on or that they work randomly. Two situations, or you have a short circuit somewhere in your electrical installation or, your turn indicator unit is faulty.
As seen earlier in this article, flashing lights are important security components on your Honda Odyssey, you must constantly ensure that that they are operating effectively. No matter what the cause of the flasher issue is, it must be cured as soon as possible because accidents happen quickly and whether it’s a simple fender bender or something more significant, you are bound to be at fault.
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Retirement Accounts When You Change Your Job
This video discusses issues related to your retirement accounts when you move on from your job.
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Do the undead know love? Or do they, as they pass into the evermore, unknow love? According to these The Walking Dead Valentine’s Day card, we ought not forget about the living dead on this day devoted to matters of the heart. Besides, isn’t Valentine’s Day just a Hallmark holiday marketed toward a bunch of zombies, anyway? (Sorry, we had to.)
Over on Instagram, the creators of the bloody AMC show have created a handful of loving, if disturbing, Valentine’s cards for the zombies, or zombie-lovers in your life.
But of course, for the sake of your own safety, we recommend sticking with the latter, rather than the former.
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You want to talk about needs?
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Who says Valentine’s Day can’t celebrate risen corpses? Little is known of St. Valentine, other than that he was martyred and buried at a cemetery on the Via Flaminia to the north of Rome, maybe on February 14, 269, or 270…or 273…or 280. The fact that his legend has lived on forever leads us to believe that he himself is walking among us. Not “undead,” per se, but continuing to give all those with beating hearts a new life. And perhaps those whose sustenance includes beating hearts are included in his everlasting legacy.


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The Perks and Perils of Recruiting Academic Superstars
Imagine having to jump on 10 planes to get to six cities in five days, fulfilling commitments that include — among other things — giving an interview to ABC’s 20/20, and consulting with HBO producers on an upcoming program about actor Charles Dutton.
For DePaul University professor Michael Eric Dyson, it’s all in a week’s work. Not bad for a teenage father who didn’t start college until he was 21. Since then, 41-year-old Dyson has finished his doctoral degree, written five books and become one of the most sought after public intellectuals in the country.
Formerly a communications professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dyson decided to accept an offer earlier this year to become the Ida B. Wells Barnett University Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. The move was considered a major coup for DePaul.
“At a lot of institutions, a high-profile intellectual would be a source of consternation and controversy,” Dyson says in an interview from the road. “But DePaul saw the bigger picture. They understood that I was intellectually provocative and I would raise their profile.”
Universities around the country are looking to Dyson and other Black academic superstars these days to serve as ambassadors for their institutions. The comings and goings of these public intellectuals provide grist for the gossip mill as colleagues constantly speculate about how much money universities pay to recruit them and grouse about the little work they do compared to other scholars. But this speculation shows no signs of abating as universities embark on a shopping spree for Black academic stars to increase their national reputations.
Administrators say, the reason senior Black faculty members have become hot commodities in the academic marketplace is because universities realize that they must do more to try to diversify their faculty ranks as more of their students are Black, Latino or Asian.
Vanderbilt University also was interested in Dyson’s services. But Dyson says DePaul made him a very generous offer, letting him teach two classes a year so he has the flexibility to lecture and write. Still, Dyson’s move caused a lot of raised eyebrows.
“It’s player-hating,” he says, adding that it is business as usual for universities to raid each other’s faculties. “Nobody ever complains about the White scientists, law professors and economists who are getting paid enormous sums of money.”
DePaul officials say they hired Dyson because they hope he will bring the university more national attention.
“We’re not looking for him to teach a load similar to our other professors,” says Dr. Richard Meister, vice president for academic affairs at DePaul. “We’re looking for the influence and impact he can bring us in terms of national visibility.”
Meister says the university first approached Dyson after he gave a speech at the university last year. Dyson was finishing up a visiting professorship at Columbia University and wasn’t looking forward to returning to Chapel Hill. Meister says the university was interested because Dyson’s work cuts across many disciplines including philosophy and religion.
“This is not an ordinary university professorship position. [Dyson] doesn’t fit into any category. [He] bridges theory and practice, he can talk about hip-hop and Jacques Derrida in the same breath,” Meister says.
But critics warn that universities are creating a two-tier system for Black faculty members — one for “stars” and the other for the rest of Black faculty members.
“Universities are playing musical chairs,” says Dr. Walter Allen, professor of sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. “They’re recycling academic superstars and not doing anything to address the problem of the small number of faculty of color in the academy.”
Nevertheless, administrators say senior Black faculty members in demand can benefit by moving to a more prestigious university with more perks, including bigger offices, more graduate assistants, more equipment, reduced teaching loads and more time to conduct scholarship.
In return, universities get publicity about such scholars and their work. That can make the universities look more attractive to other faculty of color who may not have considered teaching there before.
The Wages of Success
Despite appearances, celebrity Black scholars say it is not as easy to move from one university to another as people believe. Because the universe of senior Black faculty is so small, professors say it doesn’t take long for word to get around when a university begins courting a prospect.
The intricate dance between scholars and the universities that want them can take years to consummate. Deals frequently fall apart because of jealous faculty members in the affected departments, the need to find jobs for the scholars’ spouses and the high cost of living in some cities.
“African American scholars inhabit this tiny world and we are highly visible,” says Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, professor of history and director of the African American studies program at Princeton University. “When people find out a Black scholar has an offer, it’s a source of anxiety. Graduate students become nervous because they think you will abandon them. Colleagues get antsy and ask, ‘Why are you leaving us?’ You spend all your time trying to manage the rumor mill. And if it doesn’t work out, you’re perceived as a failure.”
The process often inspires envy and resentment among colleagues. Meister says the university had Dyson visit the university twice. Then he asked the faculty if they were willing to make the sacrifices to bring Dyson to campus.
“I said, you know this person is different. Are you willing to do what it takes to bring him here? The vote was unanimous.”
That was not the case for the Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech. In the beginning, hardly anyone in the English department there wanted to hire her. It didn’t matter that she was a world-famous African American poet. Most of the professors didn’t want to give her tenure.
“There was a lot of resistance,” says Dr. Virginia Fowler, an English professor at the university who originally asked Giovanni to come to the school as a visiting professor. “It was fine as long as she was a visiting professor. They had no problems with her credentials. They just didn’t want to tenure her. They were jealous, resentful. Even when you’re a star of color, you’ll have to deal with the entrenched White scholars who control the committee.”
When it became clear the department wasn’t going to hire Giovanni, Fowler called the president and asked him to intervene. Giovanni says she wasn’t worried because she enjoyed the support of the president and the provost.
“This is a difficulty not just at Virginia Tech,” she says. “This is not an interest to White professors. They want to talk the talk but not walk the walk.”
Jealousy is not an emotion exclusive to White professors either. Some Black scholars say Black professors will sabotage the appointment of other Black professors.
“Some of us want to be the HNIC [Head Negro in Charge], the one that White administrators refer to and seek counsel,” Dyson says. There have been several cases, where “the White professors are ready to recommend an appointment and the sole Black person has been allowed to scrap that person. It’s just horrible.”
High-profile scholars like these say that when they move to another institution they take great pains to maintain a cordial relationship with their colleagues.
“You don’t want your colleagues to hate you and make your life miserable,” says Dr. Vivian Gadsden, professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. “You get the best deal you can get without making your colleagues upset.”
When scholars move, they often ask for two graduate assistants, or they may get quarter-time or half-time buy-outs where they don’t have to teach the two classes they were expected to teach in an academic year.
Families play a huge role in deciding whether a scholar is willing to move to another university. This was the case when Duke University was able to lure Houston Baker and his wife Charlotte Pierce- Baker from the University of Pennsylvania.
Baker had made it clear that he would only move to an institution that would give his wife a position to pursue her research. Pierce–Baker is now an associate research professor in Duke’s women’s studies department.
“This is a very long process,” says Karla Holloway, dean of humanities and social sciences at Duke. “You have to develop patience because people want to move to a place where they can do work, exchange ideas and reinvigorate their scholarship.”
It took six years for Stanford to hire Dr. Linda Darling Hammond from Teachers College in New York.
“It was not easy; from agreeing in principle that she would come to Stanford, to working out the logistics,” says Dr. Richard Shavelson, dean of Stanford’s School of Education. In addition to Darling Hammond’s major research grants, her husband, Allen, was a law professor at the New York School of Law and her children were in high school.
But Shavelson says he wanted to bring Hammond to the university because she was a leading expert on teacher education reform. In addition to the grants, Darling Hammond also has responsibility for rebuilding the teacher education program at Stanford. “People want to work with Linda,” Shavelson says.
Sometimes the push to diversify the faculty comes from administrators. For 10 years, the University of Illinois at Chicago has been giving academic departments $20,000 a year for each professor of color they want to hire for as long as the professor remains at the University.
Under that program, the university has been able to hire professors like Kerry James Marshall, associate professor of art and design who won a MacArthur award two years ago. The university also hired Darnell Hawkins, a prominent professor of criminal justice. When Hawkins came to the university he said he wanted to have time to teach at historically Black Arkansas State University.
Creative scheduling arrangements coupled with the financial incentive for the recruiting academic unit have helped the university hire 33 tenure-track Black faculty members in the past 10 years.
“We’re gaining attention even though we’re not a high-profile university,” says John Wanat, vice provost at the university.
Guarding Against Prospectors
With all this attention being paid to high-profile Black faculty, administrators say they have to do everything they can to retain the Black professors they already have.
“Our associate professors are easy pickings,” says Dr. Lester Monts, associate provost for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. “They’re easily lured away because someone will make them full professor right away.
“We’re trying to build programs here, so we have to fight to keep these people.”
Monts says Michigan has matched salary offers, offered additional research money and accelerated the decision to make some faculty full professors to keep them from leaving.
“When a professor leaves, you’re not just losing a faculty member, your graduate students are losing an adviser, your students are losing an excellent teacher and there is a down turn in the university’s reputation,” he says.
Indeed, the reputations of departments can rise and fall because professors are lured away to other universities, says Princeton’s Painter. Because Princeton’s Afro-American Studies is a program rather than a department, she says she cannot hire professors directly. Rather, she must do it in conjunction with a department. That presents a problem because departments want someone to satisfy particular slots.
“We’ve been losing people because Princeton is a place with attractive faculty,” Painter says. “And it’s easier to lose than to gain.” Painter says she must conduct an intricate, exhaustive dance to hire a senior faculty member who will satisfy her colleagues.
“I finally understand what they mean when they say ‘small numbers of people.’ This is not much of an issue when you talk about White faculty. You can mess over some of them and still have some left over … [If] you spit in [their] face and they go off in a snit, there’s another one. But if you do that to a Black historian, it fouls the pool.”
Other faculty members say that it also very difficult to hire Black professors if their White colleagues do not consider them to be superstar material.
“You have to be a super Black person to be hired in many of these departments,” says UCLA’s Allen. “There are incredibly high standards, and everybody wants to hire the same three people. You’d have to be a Nobel laureate to get some of these positions.”
But most scholars agree that there is a place for stars on university campuses.
“Some people get upset because they feel these these people don’t work as hard as they do,” Gadsden says. Scholars like Princeton University’s Toni Morrison do a different kind of work, she says.
“Universities want to give people freedom to do free thinking. Do you want Toni encumbered? No, we want her incredible presence to expand our sensibilities.
“In some cases, we say we do want the name. This person has produced enough and is so important in the intellectual arena. They’ve been in the right places. They wrote and took stances like Derrick Bell. And they have changed the way we conduct discourse in the academy.
“Their presence is important to us.”
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I keep trying to post, and get interupted..
It looks like i will, so I will be able to do some expanding in July, so i will be able to organize my classes a little better...
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Here are a few new pieces I have painted, maybe you should stop by and say hi!
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Jan 28, 2021
The Wall Streets Bets traders are targeting heavily shorted value stocks in 2021. What if you own one that has suddenly soared?
(0:45) - Value Investing Stocks Get A Boost
(6:20) - Should You Be Selling If You Were Invested In These High Flyers?
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Jan 21, 2021
Value investors have screened for stocks using a low P/E ratio for decades. But does that still work in 2021?
(0:45) - How Does P/E Impact A Stock?
(5:20) - Finding Value Within A Specific Industry: Tracey’s Top Picks
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Jan 14, 2021
Energy stocks haven’t yet returned to pre-pandemic highs. Is this a buying opportunity with the vaccine on the way?
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, so I thought I would write a blog about it! I’d love to know what you think 🙂
Being part of a healthcare team for a patient is an honor and a privilege. A patient invites you into their lives and shares their most intimate health information with you. Sometimes they share personal conflicts, family and financial troubles, fears, and failures. They not only trust you with that information, but they rely on you to help them make decisions in their best interest.
The four pillars of medical ethics are beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and autonomy. Beneficence is the commitment we all share as medical providers to “do good”. Non-malefience is the age old oath from Hippocrates we take to “do no harm”. Justice is to treat all patients fairly and with the same consideration you give to everyone regardless of race, religion, age, financial status, or even your personal opinion of the patient. Justice stands for equality in treatment. I struggle with this one because so much of the medical system is unjust. You get better healthcare when you have insurance, when you live in a developed country, etc.
Autonomy is the ethical principle that each patient has the right to make their own medical decisions. Medicine has a long history of being quite paternalistic. You do what the doctor says without question. I am a STRONG advocate of patient autonomy. I truly believe that a patient should be able to make their own medical decisions and do what they want. It’s their body, their life, and they have to live with the consequences of the medical decisions they make. I should not be the one to make those decisions, because in spite of my medical knowledge and experience, I know nothing about an individual patient’s life and what each medical decision might mean specifically for them.
We had a practice session with standardized patients during orientation last month, and one scenario involved talking about code status with a patient. Code status means whether the patient would like to be fully resuscitated in the event of cardiac arrest (Full Code) or whether they would like to let nature take it’s course should their heart stop or should they stop breathing (Do Not Resucitate/Do Not Intubate). Clearly, the code status differs greatly between patients depending on their age and health.
If I were to suddenly drop dead from cardiac arrest, I would want everything done- CPR, cardioversion (shocking my heart), and even putting a breathing tube down my throat. I’m 26 years old and the likelihood of me recovering from a catastrophic event like that is fairly high.
If a 90 year old with end-stage lung cancer were to be found without a pulse, the likelihood of them surviving a code is extremely low.
In fact, studies have shown that only between 10 and 20% of patients who code in the hospital end up leaving the hospital alive. An even lower number leave without any long term neurologic deficits.
When I had the conversation with the standardized patient about code status, she had metastatic breast cancer. It was my personal opinion that she should be DNR/DNI because the probability of her surviving a code is so low. It’s possible that if she were “full code” she could die in an ICU with a breathing tube down her throat, heavily sedated and unaware of her surroundings.
But when she asked me, “What would YOU do?” I told her, “I can’t answer that for you. That is your decision to make”. I told her that because I believe so strongly in patient autonomy. I don’t know her background and I shouldn’t make that decision for her. Throughout all of medical school I always believed it was wrong to tell the patient your opinion.
Well, I have completely changed my mind. I have come to believe that now that I am a doctor, I have medical knowledge and clinical experience that make my opinion worthwhile to patients. While I would never try to coerce a patient into what I thought, I think there is value in what I would do. I think patients come to their doctors for medical advice and I now realize that you can respect patient autonomy while still telling the patient what you think or what you would do.
For every new admission to the hospital, I ask them about code status. I now find myself having different conversations depending on what I think clinically would be best for the patient. I’ve had a few healthy patients in their sixties ask about DNR/DNI. They tell me they don’t want to “be a vegetable.” I explain to them that sometimes there are reversible causes of cardiac arrest or reversible things necessitating intubation. I’ve seen patients come in septic and need to be intubated. After a few days of antibiotics they are extubated and go home. Had that person been DNR/DNI, that would have been it for them.
I’ve also found myself comforting patients who decide to be DNR/DNI by telling them that in my experience I think that is a good decision for them. I recently had a patient who was originally ‘Full code’ but suffered a devastating stroke. We had a family discussion in the hospital and changed them to DNR/DNI.
I think that having these discussions can help patients chose a plan of care that is right for them. It can help decrease the number of people who die in the ICU (did you know that 1 in 6 people in the USA will die in the ICU?). It can help decrease costs spent prolonging life that the patient might not have even wanted. It can also help comfort patients and their families.
I’m glad that I’m learning how to respect patient autonomy while still giving advice. Counseling patients truly is an honor and even though I’m a brand new doctor, I hope I can contribute to their care.
What do you think? Do you want your doctors to tell you what they think?
Have you ever had to discuss code status with family members or friends?

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- Does gabapentin cause weight gain?
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Gabapentin (Neurontin, Gralise) is a medication used to help manage certain epileptic seizures and relieve pain for some conditions, such as shingles (postherpetic neuralgia).
Dizziness and drowsiness are common gabapentin side effects.
Weight gain and uncoordinated movement are possible side effects..
Does gabapentin make you pee a lot?
frequent urination. higher sensitivity to pain and touch. impaired vision. increased appetite.
Can I take 600 mg of gabapentin at once?
Administer NEURONTIN three times a day using 300 mg or 400 mg capsules, or 600 mg or 800 mg tablets. The maximum time between doses should not exceed 12 hours.
How much gabapentin should I take to sleep?
Gabapentin-treated patients were started on 300 mg by mouth at bedtime, and increased as needed by 300 mg each night to a maximum of 1800 mg as a single bedtime dose.
Does gabapentin relieve pain immediately?
You should notice that your pain starts to improve over one to two weeks after starting gabapentin, but it may take longer in some people. However, some feel benefit straight away.
Can gabapentin make you angry?
This medicine may cause some people to be agitated, irritable, or display other abnormal behaviors, such as feeling sad or hopeless, getting upset easily, or feeling nervous, restless, or hostile. It may also cause some people to have suicidal thoughts and tendencies or to become more depressed.
Is gabapentin good for lower back pain?
Gabapentin is prescribed frequently for chronic back pain syndromes in both primary care and specialty pain clinics, particularly when there is a ‘radicular’ or neuropathic component with pain radiating into the upper or lower legs .
Why is gabapentin bad?
Even when used for legitimate reasons, gabapentin taken in combination with opioids increases the risk of respiratory depression and death.
How effective is gabapentin for nerve pain?
Authors’ conclusions: Gabapentin at doses of 1800 mg to 3600 mg daily (1200 mg to 3600 mg gabapentin encarbil) can provide good levels of pain relief to some people with postherpetic neuralgia and peripheral diabetic neuropathy. Evidence for other types of neuropathic pain is very limited.
Is gabapentin OK for long term use?
There was no evidence to suggest dosing difficulties due to tolerance over the 3-year period. Sedation, dizziness, and forgetfulness were the most common side effects. Conclusions: Gabapentin may be an effective treatment of pain after spinal cord injury among those able to tolerate initial and long-term side effects.
Does gabapentin cause brain fog?
While higher doses of opioids are known to reduce mental clarity, other medications, such as the neuropathic agents, gabapentin, pregabalin, amitriptyline, and nortriptyline can have the same effect. If a medication is suspected of contributing to brain fog, reducing the dosage or trying an alternative may help.
Can you take 2 gabapentin at once?
For immediate-release gabapentin (Neurontin), dosing may be initiated with 300 mg on day 1, doubled on day 2 (300 mg twice a day), and tripled on day 3 (300 mg 3 times a day). The dose can then be titrated up as needed for pain relief to a maximum dose of 1,800 mg daily (divided into 3 daily doses).
Why do you gain weight on gabapentin?
The cause of weight gain with gabapentin is likely due to increased appetite. You may be hungry more often. In some cases, weight gain may be due to fluid retention, another side effect of gabapentin. Another possible cause is not getting enough exercise if gabapentin is causing fatigue.
How long can you stay on gabapentin?
If we consider that the average half-life of gabapentin is around seven hours in most people, it would take about 48 hours for the drug to be totally eliminated from the system; however, there other factors that can affect this process.
Can you drink coffee with gabapentin?
Basic and clinical studies have shown that gabapentin’s anticonvulsant properties can be modified because of the interaction with other drugs. For instance, the combination with caffeine can reduce gabapentin’s anticonvulsant effects.
Does gabapentin help you sleep?
Conclusions: Gabapentin enhances slow-wave sleep in patients with primary insomnia. It also improves sleep quality by elevating sleep efficiency and decreasing spontaneous arousal. The results suggest that gabapentin may be beneficial in the treatment of primary insomnia.
How does Gabapentin make you feel?
Gabapentin can produce feelings of relaxation, calmness and euphoria. Some users have reported that the high from snorted gabapentin can be similar to taking a stimulant.
Can I take 2 gabapentin at night?
A single bedtime dose of 300 mg of gabapentin for 2 nights can be followed by 300 mg given twice daily for an additional 2 days.
Can gabapentin cause insomnia?
Adverse reactions following the abrupt discontinuation of gabapentin have also been reported. The most frequently reported reactions were anxiety, insomnia, nausea, pain, and sweating.
How long before bed should I take gabapentin?
Gabapentin at 400mg about two hours before bed is perfect for me, get a much better quality of sleep and wake up with no side effects.
What is the best time of day to take gabapentin?
The Horizant brand of gabapentin should not be taken during the day. For best results, take Horizant with food at about 5:00 in the evening. Both Gralise and Horizant should be taken with food. Neurontin can be taken with or without food.


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Borage is an ancient, annual herb with many uses. It grows well in sandy or clay soils and tends to elbow out its competition. The leaves are hairy but can be used as a salad green when they are young and tender. They have a flavor similar to cucumbers. They can also be chopped and put into soups.
Best of all, the flowers are edible and can be used in salads, frozen in ice cubes to decorate punch or crystalized.
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Survey Results: Future of Accountancy - September 2009
ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION CALL FOR NEW MEASURES TO ATTRACT GRADUATES
BIG 4 APPEAL: PWC and KPMG top of league but nearly two thirds want in-house positions
Nearly half of the today’s accountants (44%) do not believe enough is being done to attract graduates to the profession or to study accountancy, according to latest research conducted by CareersinAudit.com.
The research “Future of Accountancy” was conducted amongst 477 UK accountants during August 2009. Top solutions to attracting more to the profession included the industry embarking on a campaign to change the perception (14%), offering better training programmes (14%) or making more effort to visit universities (13%). Others believe the profession could be doing more to convey the breadth of benefits (9%).
Part of the problem may also lie at entry level; over a quarter of UK accountants (26%) say the application process could be improved. Many of these believe the current application process fails to provide a clear explanation of the role, the online process needs to be simplified and more user friendly and that recruiters should put more emphasis on a person’s innate qualities and their experience.
For those that haven’t been put off entering the profession, the top two choices for first job were PWC (14%) and KPMG (13%).
Other key highlights of the research include:
- Just over one in ten accountants (13%) were lucky enough to get offered their first job after their internship, however 10% admitted to applying to more than 20 firms before getting their first job in accountancy. The current climate is clearly taking its toll with 11% still trying to find a job.
- 24% of all accountants believe their family was the greatest influence in their to enter the profession
- 70% of accountants already work abroad or would consider working abroad
- 27% would choose to work in Western Europe, 20% in North America and 13% in the Middle East
- 60% would prefer to work in-house compared to just 28% in practice
- Nearly a quarter of accountants (24%) were not aware of an increase in accounting regulations this year
- Nearly half (46%) believe accountancy is a job for life
- 27% believe men are better paid than women but do not deserve it
Max Williamson, Director of CareersinAudit.com added:
“I believe attracting more people to the industry isn’t about image alone or glamourising the profession with a series of slick advertisements. But it wouldn’t hurt recruiters to take heed of the research and to invest greater time in explaining the long terms benefits and variety that come from being a qualified accountant, particularly at graduate level.“
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LOS ANGELES — D’Angelo Russell got traded away by the Lakers, who were chasing stars. He’ll come back to face them Friday as just that.
The All-Star guard has the Nets on pace to make the playoffs. He’ll return to face the Lakers having a breakout season, and if Jazz beat the Hawks on Thursday, he’ll get the chance to have his new team eliminate his old one from playoff contention.
Russell is averaging 20.7 points and 6.9 assists. And if there were any questions about his stardom, he answered them with Tuesday’s master class while beating the Kings.
His 44 points were the most by a Net since the team moved to Brooklyn for the 2012-13 season. His 27 points were the most by one player in an NBA fourth quarter all season. And his ability to carry the Nets to just the fourth 25-point fourth-quarter comeback in NBA history was the kind of star turn another Laker guard used to put on, one Russell learned from as a rookie.
“D’Lo went Kobe out there,” said Jared Dudley, referring to Lakers legend Kobe Bryant.
“When he locks in and he’s on fire, there aren’t many people who can stop him,” Rondae Hollis-Jefferson said. “I’m proud of him. I played against him in college when he was saying ‘zero people can guard me.’ Just to see that transition, to see him keep getting better, it’s amazing.”
It was Hollis-Jefferson spacing the floor as a small-ball five, and Dudley setting high screens that gave Russell room to score 16 straight Nets points at one juncture.
“Once you get in that groove it’s hard to get you out of it. No matter what defense a team throws at you, you’ll find a way to get it done,” Russell said. “We were struggling earlier. Towards crunch time, we started to figure it out.”
The same could be said of Russell’s career. He’s figuring it out. As the No. 2-overall pick in 2015, much was expected of him. Perhaps too much was expected too soon.
“I like D’Angelo Russell because he can shoot, he’s explosive and he makes his teammates better,” Magic Johnson tweeted on draft night. But after Russell spent two tumultuous seasons in LA, Johnson — then the Lakers’ president — shipped him out of town in June 2017 to get cap space and make room for Lonzo Ball.
After Russell had 32 points and 10 assists against the Clippers on Sunday, it was implied the team down the hall had been too quick to give up on the 23-year-old.
“I was disappointed early on, because I just thought he was really good. Sometimes you’ve just got to wait on a kid,” Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.
“Maybe the Lakers thing didn’t work out, but he’s found a home in Brooklyn,” Clippers guard Lou Williams said. “He’s playing happy and free and doing his thing. I don’t think he’s a late bloomer. He’s right on time.”
That’s because Russell is accepting coaching. He admits he didn’t know how to be a pro when he got to Brooklyn, but he’s let Kenny Atkinson teach him.
“The great thing about D’Angelo is you can coach him,” Atkinson said. “I was hard on him [Tuesday] in the beginning. A couple bad shots, I called a timeout. A rogue defensive possession, I called another timeout to yell at him.
“He responds. He never comes back at you. He says, ‘OK, coach,’ and he gets better. That’s a pleasure when you have your All-Star that you can coach and accepts coaching and doesn’t cop an attitude and accepts it. It’s huge. That’s leadership.”
Russell is averaging 22.2 points and 7.5 assists since Dec. 6, with the Nets going 29-18 to climb to seventh in the East. And his maturation is the key.
“I told coach from Day 1, I wanted to be coached, and he hasn’t took his foot off the gas since,” Russell said. That’s where my success has come personally — just the coaching staff being on me, no matter All-Star accolades, no matter what it is. They coach me, and I know that’s what’s going to help me thrive.”


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No card to clock in
And I could swear somebody’s watchin’
Where I go and where I’ve been
Brother I could see Moses
And all the things he did for you
Oh brother I’ve been hearin’ voices
That I’m probably not supposed to
How will I walk steady
If the ground should come alive?
And how will I be ready
For the world another time?
So am I another slave now
To the screamin’ in my head?
Or is it a little strange now
How the moment’s gone and fled?
Bother I gotta tell you
That something here is wrong
Oh brother I gotta tell ya
This place ain’t what I thought
I know I ain’t gonna live forever
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On June 2, 2010, the Appellate Division issued its first published decision on the issue of what constitutes “excessive” corporal punishment. In DYFS v. K.A., the Court noted the “general proposition that a parent may inflict moderate correction such as is reasonable under the circumstances”. In determining what is reasonable, the Appellate Division cited to the definitions of what constitutes abuse in the Administrative Code, specifically N.J.A.C. 10:129-2.2. That list includes death, head injuries, burns, wounds, and other serious physical injuries.
The focus is on the harm to the child, not the mental state of the parent. The Court acknowledges that “a situation where the child suffers a fracture of a limb, or a serious laceration, or any other event where medical intervention proves necessary, may be sufficient to sustain a finding of excessive corporal punishment.” Thus, even where medical attention is necessary, we do not have per se excessive corporal punishment “provided that the parent or caregiver could have foreseen, under all of the attendant circumstances, that such harm could result from the punishment inflicted.”
In K.A., the Court noted that the only visible injury to the child was a bruise, which “never exposed [the child] to any further harm if left untreated”. Thus, the Court held, that in the absence of per se excessive corporal punishment, the Court must examine the circumstances facing the parent.
The parent in K.A. notably acted out of frustration – an “ill-advised impulse”. However, in viewing the totality of the circumstances, the Court noted that “[t]hese blows, though undoubtedly painful, did not cause the child any permanent harm, did not require medical intervention of any kind, and were not a part of a pattern of abuse.”
Defense counsel is now armed with well-reasoned, binding authority which clearly demonstrates that an isolated incident of bruising a child does not a child abuser make. Common sense codified in case law.
There are some real cases of abuse and neglect of children that really need the attention of a child welfare agency. Having said that, I think it is time that DYFS is investigated by the proper authorities. Let’s clean out all these representatives who have nothing better to do than harass parents and ruin lives. As obvious by the 7-0 ruling in the New Jersey Supreme Court, DYFS needs to re-evaluate their definition of abuse and neglect. This case is a clear example of personal bias and overzealous reaction.
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We need a DYFS to protect us “parents” from our kids! DYFS steps into ur life & turns it upside down, then ur kid thinks they can do anything now, to you the school, the teachers…..thats bcuz DYFS dont want you to whip ur kids thts why the kids today dont care about nothing …bcuz they know that DYFS has their backs. And yes I agree that they (DYFS) should re-evaluate their definition of abuse & neglect.

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