California public health officials warned state residents Wednesday against eating Daniella-brand mangoes imported from Mexico, saying that investigators believe the fruit may be contaminated with salmonella.
The warning follows an outbreak of a strain of salmonella infection that has grown to more than 100 cases nationwide, with 80 of those cases in California, authorities said.
No deaths have been reported, although 26 people have been hospitalized.
A preliminary investigation has indicated that mango consumption is linked to the infections, officials said. In its warning, the California Department of Public Health said the Daniella mangoes were packed in Mexico and distributed by a Burlingame, Calif.-based firm, Splendid Products, which voluntarily recalled the fruit this week.
The mangoes were sold individually at stores nationwide between July 12 and Aug. 29 and bear various numeric codes: 4051, 4959, 4311, 4584 or 3114.
Although the fruit is no longer being sold, officials urged consumers who may still have Daniella mangoes to discard them or return them to the place of purchase.
Lola Russell, a spokeswoman with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said the genetic fingerprint of the salmonella strain involved in the U.S. cases has been matched to a recent outbreak of the illness in Canada. Canadian authorities have also warned people not to eat Daniella brand mangoes.
Infection with salmonella can cause diarrhea, fever and cramping and is typically most serious for the very young, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems.
ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) ? A new statistical review calls into question studies that have been taken as proof that antibiotic retreatment for chronic Lyme disease is futile. That misunderstanding has led to medical guidance that discourages retreatment and insurance coverage for it. Instead, the authors of the review suggest, the proper reading of the studies and their data is that they prove nothing.
Most doctors treat Lyme disease with antibiotics for two to four weeks after diagnosis, but if symptoms persist after that, medical guidelines recommend against antibiotic retreatment. That recommendation may not be warranted. A newly published statistical review of the four studies upon which those guidelines are based reports flaws in design, analysis, and interpretation that call into question the strength of the evidence against retreatment.
Allison DeLong, a biostatistician at Brown University's Center for Statistical Sciences and lead author of the study published online Aug. 19, 2012, in Contemporary Clinical Trials, said the four studies do not prove that retreatment does not work. That questionable interpretation, however, has led doctors to forgo treatment and insurance companies to withhold reimbursement.
"The goal of the paper is to clarify what was actually found from these clinical trials and what could be said and what couldn't be said," DeLong said. "A lack of evidence should not be used to deny treatment when the studies have serious flaws."
Evidence in the trials is most often inconclusive, she and three co-authors found. Two studies even found some statistically significant benefits from antibiotics.
DeLong has been curious about Lyme disease retreatment for more than a decade since a friend of hers seemed to benefit from therapy. Her friend paid for the treatment out-of-pocket. Statisticians would call that anecdote an "n of 1," but the example stuck with DeLong as more people, including journalists, began to question whether retreatment really was ineffective.
In 2009 and 2010, DeLong and her colleagues decided to look into the matter with full statistical rigor. Their analysis started by scanning the medical literature for any randomized clinical trials offering evidence of the efficacy of antibiotic retreatment for Lyme disease. Careful review of more than 100 studies ultimately whittled the field down to the four studies on which the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Academy of Neurology are based their guidelines.
The most influential studies were conducted by Klempner et al., and published together in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2001. The multicenter trials enrolled chronic Lyme sufferers with positive or negative blood serum results for Immunoglobulin G, an antibody that might indicate active infection. In each of the IgG positive and negative groups, patients either received IV antibiotics followed by oral antibiotics or IV placebo followed by oral placebo. Their symptoms were measured along the way using a subjective set of health quality-of-life measures called the SF-36.
Although Klempner et al. found no significant benefit to retreatment, findings from subsequent SF-36 studies in chronic illnesses provide evidence that the Klempner study was looking for unrealistically large differences.
"The trials, as designed, called for treatment effects considerably larger than the minimum clinically important differences (MCID) identified in other chronic illnesses, suggesting that the sample sizes were inadequate and the trials were very likely underpowered to detect the true underlying MCIDs," DeLong and her co-authors wrote in the journal.
Klempner's statistics showed that treatment might or might not have been effective given the broad range of a statistical measure known as the confidence interval, DeLong said.
In another of the four trials conducted by Krupp et al., researchers found that retreatment produced a significant benefit for fatigue, but the authors of the study mistakenly discounted that result, DeLong said.
The authors became concerned that their results were tainted by too many subjects realizing that they were receiving real treatment instead of the placebo. The measure of fatigue is subjective and could be influenced by that realization. But DeLong found that the subjects weren't likely to have realized anything. Here's why: If the members of each group have a blindly optimistic seven in 10 chance of believing that they received real medicine, then the people who really were would be right seven out of 10 times and the people receiving the placebo would only be right 3 out of 10 times. The people receiving the medicine would seem like they had discovered their status, but in reality they were only making a lucky, optimistic guess.
While the Krupp study was adequately powered to measure a significant benefit from fatigue, it had less power to measure the two other treatment effects it considered: improvements in cognitive processing and clearance of a potential Lyme disease biomarker, DeLong said.
The last of the four studies, by Fallon et al., had a very small sample size. It found hints of some benefits from retreatment but nothing definitive either positively or negatively.
Ultimately, DeLong said, the best evidence to support or refute antibiotic retreatment will come when scientists develop a definitive test for active Lyme disease infection. In the interim, it is possible that chronic Lyme disease patients harbor an ongoing infection that antibiotics could treat.
"The interpretation of the trials goes too far," she said. "You can't say it's been shown that retreatment is not beneficial. You can't then jump to the conclusion that this shows there is no persistence of infection."
In addition to DeLong, the paper's other authors are statistics graduate student Barbara Blossom of Colorado State University, Dr. Elizabeth Maloney of Wyoming, Minn., and Dr. Steven Phillips of Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut.
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RAYONG, Thailand (AP) ? Ford Motor Co. says its Focus small car is on track to become the best-selling car in the world this year, trumping the Toyota Corolla.
Ford sold 489,616 Focus sedans and hatchbacks worldwide in the first half of 2012. That was almost 27,000 more than the perennial best-seller, the Toyota Corolla.
Ford made the announcement at its assembly plant in Rayong, which opened in May to build the Focus. The Thailand plant, which is one of Ford's most advanced, has the capacity to produce 150,000 cars per year for sale in Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and other countries in the region.
Ford's recently revamped Focus is sold in more than 100 countries worldwide. It's a strong seller in the U.S., where Focus sales were up 31 percent in the first half of the year compared with 2011. But the Corolla is still king in the U.S., where it outsold the Focus by nearly 27,500 in the first half of the year.
The Corolla could still top the Focus worldwide, too. Last year at this time the Focus was ahead of the Corolla, but the Corolla pulled through in the end, outselling the Focus by around 100,000 vehicles, according to IHS Global Insight, an industry consulting firm.
At the plant Friday, Ford executives were also celebrating the production of the 350 millionth vehicle Ford has made since its founding 109 years ago.
In our current business climate it would almost be irresponsible to dismiss the impact Video Marketing has brought to the playing field. One?s internet presence is equally as important as any advertising campaign or merchandising strategy. And, as time progresses internet search driven video marketing may very well become the only marketing tool that matters. Let?s face it as the world moves online, those that haven?t as yet may find themselves offline, sidelined and out of line with the wants and needs of their prospective clientele.
I think it would be fair to say that Google has established themselves as THE power house of ?internet marketing with no signs of slowing down. So, it would only stand to reason that such a company would serve as the perfect template to apply to any business looking to exploit the web for the purposes of ?getting the word out? though video marketing. As detailed in the rather informative post?5 Video Marketing Lessons We Can Learn from Google, such a venture can be broken down into 5 simple applications:
1. Target Your Audience By Broadening Your Net
A common mistake a lot of video marketers make is that they focus solely on their core audience, creating videos aimed at one language, cultural and geographical demographic. Google instead creates different channels for users specific to region and language that promote their niche interests.
2. Understand When Your Marketing For the Marketer or the User
Corporation and customers serve distinct purposes therefore it is understandable that the have different needs. Google recognizes this and as a result has different services, ads, communications and YouTube channels for marketers and advertisers, or major businesses.
3. Don?t Ignore The Cry From Your Public
The formula is simple and the first thing one needs to understand is that your first draft of any idea my not always come out as planned. Put it out, listen to feedback from your customers, tweak it and be patient. You may end up with a polished product or scraps but, what is important is understanding your public?s needs.
4. Generate A Buzz!
If you are not excited about your product, how do expect anyone else to be? Get out there on all social media platforms and get the word out!
5. Take A Risk (Calculated Risk, that is)
If ?Google folded their cards the second their risks didn?t pay off, there would be no need to write this post. You have to take a a chance, a well calculated, methodical, strategic chance. But, a chance none the less. Remember your willingness to what your competitors won?t, will ultimately define and enhance you business.
Jabra is following in Jawbone's footsteps and expanding from Bluetooth headsets to wireless speakers. The Jabra Solemate ($199.99 list)?is very similar to the Jawbone Jambox? in looks and price, but it offers much clearer audio quality, though it doesn't handle speakerphone calls as well.?
Design The Solemate looks like a cross between the Jawbone Jambox and a shoe. Its rounded rectangular form measures a portable 2.8 by 6.8 by 2.5 inches (HWD) and it weighs 1.3 pounds, with a sturdy rubber and metal body.? The top and bottom are impact-resistant rubber, and the bottom is textured to look like the sole of a boot, keeping the Solemate from skidding or shaking when playing heavy bass on a flat surface. A nice touch: The bottom has a long notch and two holes that securely store the included 13-inch 3.5mm audio cable, which allows you to use the speaker with non-Bluetooth sound sources. Adding to the sneaker aesthetic, a fabric loop on one end provides a way to carry the speaker on a carabineer or clip.
Ports and buttons are sparse, but intuitively placed. A microUSB port and 3.5mm audio input sits on the end of the speaker opposite the carry strap, with an on-off toggle above that doubles as a Bluetooth pairing switch. Above that, Bluetooth and battery lights show that the speaker is connected and charged. Three buttons line the top of the Solemate for adjusting the volume and answering and hanging up hands-free speakerphone calls.
Pairing the Solemate with a smartphone or tablet is easy, with a helpful voice that tells you when the speaker is ready and when it connects. The voice can't be turned off, though, and its?flirtatious tone is borderline unnerving. You can also connect the Solemate to any audio device with a 3.5mm cable, and it works as a PC speaker through a USB connection.
Performance As a wireless speaker, the Solemate sounds great in the midrange and high end, but falters at the low end. Non-bass sounds are impeccable, with Freddy Mercury's voice in Queen's "Killer Queen" and the opening guitar notes from Cage the Elephant's "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" sounding as if they were right there. Sharp brass notes from horns in Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" also sounded very good with no distortion. If you have a small apartment or just want to fill your bedroom or home office with sound, the Solemate can get loud enough to satisfy. Don't expect it to power your next big party, though. It eclipses the Jawbone Jambox on audio quality, and even puts out comparable sound to the Big Jambox?, while remaining very clear.
When playing our bass test track, The Knife's "Silent Shout," the heavy bass notes distorted heavily on the speaker. That weakness only appeared in "Silent Shout" and a few Lester Young jazz tracks (very old transfers with recording artifacts to begin with), and the speaker handled hard metal from both Slayer and Maximum the Hormone easily.
As a speakerphone, the Solemate works well for the caller, but not so well for whomever you call. Voices come through the speaker clearly, and are easily heard from ten feet away. However, the microphone picks up a lot of buzzing when you talk, making your voice sound fuzzy to anyone you're talking to. Words can be distinguished, but it sounds as if you're talking through a tube. The Jambox sounds better than the Solemate when taking calls, but it doesn't fare as well when playing music.
The Jabra Solemate is excellent for music but only mediocre for speakerphone calls. Its $200 price keeps it from replacing the $100 Logitech Mini Boombox??as our Editors' Choice for portable Bluetooth speakers. It isn't quite as powerful as the Solemate, but its superior call quality and half-size price tag seal the deal. Still, the Solemate's?design is top-notch, and the integrated audio cable keeps the speaker connected even if you don't have a Bluetooth device handy. If you want to fill your room with sound, it's one of the best portable Bluetooth speakers we've heard, but if you want to take conference calls, you should try the Jambox or the Mini Boombox.
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Facebook users are adding a stunning 300 million new photos each and every day. So Bing just added a new way to search and browse your friends? photos ? without all the clutter of status updates and friend requests.
The new feature is part of Bing?s ongoing evolution to make search more visual. Friends? photos already show up in search sidebars when relevant, but now interested users can go straight to bing.com/friendsphotos to browse and search all their Facebook friends? images.
I tried it, and it?s actually better at browsing than searching, but that could be your friends? fault, not Bing?s. Many Facebook users upload images with little or no metadata, making them difficult to index for search. (Perhaps Bing could license Google?s newest technology for knowing what pictures and video contain.)
Connect Bing to Facebook, and your friends? photos show up in a Pinterest-like stream:
Search did not work well for me ? repeated attempts with ?dog,? ?baby,? and ?beach,? among others, brought up no results. So either I am the biggest loser in the world with no friends, or my friends don?t tag their photos very well:
What I did find very useful was friend search, which allowed me to view each friend?s photos in a stream, and the default stream of all my friends? pictures, which is a great way to get visually updated in a hurry on where your friends are and what they?re doing.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives for a dinner at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, at Grand Teton National Park near Jackson Hole, Wyo. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives for a dinner at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, at Grand Teton National Park near Jackson Hole, Wyo. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, left, walks with a member of his security detail, center, and Michelle Smith, right, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as they arrive for a dinner at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium with his wife Anna, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, at Grand Teton National Park near Jackson Hole, Wyo. The world's financial markets will shift their attentions from the centers of global commerce on Friday to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where Bernanke will deliver a speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The sun sets behind the Teton Mountains as viewed from the Jackson Lake Lodge, where Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is attending the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012, at Grand Teton National Park near Jackson Hole, Wyo. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Few expect Chairman Ben Bernanke to signal at a Federal Reserve conference Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo., that the Fed is about to take major new action to boost the economy.
No one is sure, though.
Three years after the end of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy is still struggling to break out of a slog that's kept unemployment at a painfully high 8.3 percent.
After its last policy meeting, the Fed repeated a pledge to try to boost growth if hiring remains weak. And minutes of that meeting showed that some Fed officials felt the economy would need more support "fairly soon "unless it improved significantly.
Still, many analysts think slightly brighter economic news since then has diminished the need for the Fed to act soon. Bernanke may want to review the U.S. jobs report for August, due on Sept. 7, and perhaps other forthcoming economic reports, before seeking any policy changes.
In the meantime, investors will still be primed for any hint in Bernanke's speech Friday that Fed action might be coming soon.
Among the possibilities:
? BOND BUYING
The most dramatic tool the Fed has left in its arsenal would be another round of bond buying, to try to lower long-term interest rates. This is known as quantitative easing, or QE. In two rounds of QE, the Fed has bought more than $2 trillion of Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. Its second round of purchases ended in June 2011.
Those purchases were followed in September by a program called "Operation Twist." Under this program, the Fed has been selling short-term Treasurys and buying longer-term Treasurys. Like QE, Twist aims to encourage borrowing and spending by reducing long-term rates.
There's a difference, though: QE expands the Fed's investment portfolio ? a portfolio that stands at $2.9 trillion and will eventually have to be reduced significantly. Operation Twist does not expand the Fed's portfolio; it just reorders it.
Many analysts think a third round of bond purchases ? QEIII, in short hand ? would include both Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities.
Some Fed officials have also argued that if the Fed does launch a new bond buying program, it shouldn't set a target amount as in the past. Rather, it could keep a new program open-ended so it could continue to buy bonds until it saw significant economic improvement.
? INTEREST-RATE TIMETABLE
The Fed has kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low since December 2008. And for more than two years, it pledged to keep rates at exceptionally low levels for "an extended period." Then, a year ago, the Fed put a date on that plan: It said it expected to keep rates at record lows through at least mid-2013. In January, it pushed the target date to at least late 2014.
The Fed could try, by extending that timetable even beyond late 2014, to encourage investors to keep rates low. The minutes of the Fed's last policy meeting said many officials favored extending the date but chose to delay any change until at least the September meeting. By then, Fed officials will have been able to review their updated economic forecasts.
Many analysts think a timetable change is likely in September given the level of support for the move within the Fed.
? RESERVE INTEREST
The Fed has discussed the possibility of trimming the scant 0.25 percent interest it pays banks on their excess reserves. The idea would be that if banks earned less interest, or none, on this money, they'd be more inclined to step up lending and boost the economy.
But the minutes of the last meeting indicated that only "a couple" of Fed officials favored this move. Others expressed concern that trimming this small interest payment could disrupt the operation of money market funds.
? OTHER OPTIONS
One other possibility that appears under discussion would be linking the Fed's decisions on any rate increases not to a specific date but to the economy's health.
Charles Evans, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, has said the Fed should consider pledging to keep rates at record lows until the unemployment rate drops to 7 percent. And the minutes of the last meeting indicated that Fed officials are pondering whether to drop any timetable and instead link any rate change to the economy's performance.
Other Fed officials oppose this idea. They say it could raise the likelihood of higher inflation later.
? NO HINTS
Many analysts say that on Friday, Bernanke may merely review the economy's performance to date and repeat his pledge that the Fed is ready to act if growth doesn't improve. He might repeat the options available, without any hints of what the Fed might do in September.
Those who think Bernanke will take such an approach argue that the Fed remains divided and that Bernanke doesn't want to be seen as dictating a choice before the policy committee meets in September.
Analysts differ on whether the Fed will act before the November election, given its long-held preference for keeping a low profile close to presidential elections.
"The Fed doesn't like to move right before an election because they get accused of being partisan and favoring one candidate over the other," said David Wyss, a former Fed economist and now a professor at Brown University.
But David Jones, who has written four books on the Fed, said he expects some form of Fed action in September.
"Bernanke has already given us his criteria," Jones said. "''If economic growth remains so slow that he can't count on an improvement in labor market conditions in a sustainable way, then he will push for more Fed support."
Marlene Shealey was always a healthy woman. She was in the navy for four years and in the marines for more than 11 years. At 46, she was running miles daily and even doing push ups.
But her life changed in 2010. After exiting the Marine Corps and taking a physical to enter into the army for a program, she was told she had enlarged lymphnoids and needed further testing. While waiting for further results she got sick and it was confirmed in December 2010 that Shealey had the blood cancer Lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. And in January of 2011 she began her first treatment of chemotherapy.
LIFE SAVING PLEA?Hill District Consensus Group listens to Marlene Shealey?s plea about the need to find a bone marrow donor to save her life in July. Shealey is undergoing treatment for Lymphoma. (Photo by J.L. Martello)
Now 49, the married mother of two is on her fourth type of chemotherapy, which she takes every 28 days, and is waiting to find a match for a bone marrow transplant. The woman who could once run three miles with ease, now finds it hard to even go shopping with her daughters.
Shealey?s story is all too familiar. According to Facts 2012, a brochure produced by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, an estimated 1,012,533 people in the United States are living with, or are in remission from, blood cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. And approximately every four minutes one person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
According to the American Society of Hematology, blood cancer is a condition that affects the production and function of one?s blood cells. Most of them start in the bone marrow. Stem cells in the bone marrow mature and develop into three types: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. In most situations the normal blood cell development process is interrupted by uncontrolled growth of the type of blood cell. The abnormal cells, which are cancerous, prevent the blood from performing its functions, such as fighting off infections or preventing serious bleeding.
There are three main types of blood cancers, which are myeloma (also known as multiple myeloma), lymphoma and leukemia.
Myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells, which are found in the marrow. The myeloma cells amass in the marrow, causing a disruption of normal blood production and destruction in normal bone tissue. Since the healthy cells usually produce antibodies that protect one from infections, individuals with myeloma are more susceptible to infections. Lymphoma is the cancer of the lymphocytes, which is a type of cell that forms part of the immune system and usually appears in the form of a tumor of lymphoid cells and leukemia is the abnormal increase of white blood cells. There are four major types of leukemia: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. While it most likely to occur in older adults, it is the least diagnosed blood cancer amongst African-Americans.
Out of all the types of blood cancers, African-Americans have the greatest incidences of myeloma than any other ethnic group. According to Facts 2012, the incidence of myeloma in Black males and females was 146 percent greater than myeloma incidences in White males and females in 2008 and is now seen twice as often in Blacks than Whites.
Dr. James Rossetti, of West Penn Allegheny Health Systems, said, ?While some improvement is being seen, incidence and survival rates for African-Americans are indeed worse than those of any other group for most cancers in the United States. For most cancers, African-Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival. ?
He said many of the contributing factors to the disparities are wealth, income, education and general standard of living. ?These differences for a multitude of very unfortunate reasons can result in higher tobacco use, less physical activity and poorer dietary habits in African-Americans. Outcomes include higher overweight and obesity rates, which can increase the risk of multiple myeloma and some lymphomas.?
According to the American Cancer Society?s 2011-2012 Cancer Facts and Figures for African Americans, blood cancers were estimated to be the seventh leading cause of cancer deaths among African-Americans.
Rossetti, along with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Western Pennsylvania (LLS) has been working to reach the African-American community through partnerships with several community based organizations in order to promote awareness of these diseases.
?In our chapter we have two populations we consider under represented, African-Americans and rural counties. We have been trying to partner with community based organization because we are very interested in trying to promote awareness,? said Francine Morrison, Patient Services Manager of the LLS of Western Pennsylvania. Morrison said in May the organization held a program at West Penn on the importance of awareness, the disparities of the disease and the services offered by the organization, which are funding for research, information and support services, financial assistance with medical bills and much more.
Morrison said the organization plans to hold more seminars and is always willing to partner with community organizations for health fairs.
Marian Dawson, 72, is a volunteer of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Western Pennsylvania who speaks about her journey and was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in January 2007 and since then has been in remission for four years.
?I speak because I know how much it helped me to talk to people who were going through it, especially with multiple myeloma. Also I have always volunteered in some capacity.?
Symptoms for blood cancers can vary depending on the type. Sometimes there can be little symptoms and some can be as visible as slow healing cuts and frequent bruising. Regular physicals and visits to the doctor are always emphasized.
Treatments for blood cancers include chemotherapy, radiation, several prescription drug therapies and marrow/stem cell transplantations. But for African-Americans, marrow and stem cell transplants are the hardest treatments to receive because of the lack of donors.
Rossetti said, not only are there barriers to less preventative care and screening, but also appropriate treatment services. ?As it relates to blood cancers, far fewer African-Americans are able to find marrow/stem cell donors in large parts due to fewer African-Americans being signed up as donors. Even when a donor is identified, African-Americans have poorer survival after such transplants for various leukemias.?
Shealey said her life has changed drastically. She said her taste buds are ruined, so she does not eat right, her weight is higher than it ever was before and she cannot do the same activities she did before.
?They (her family) used to try and keep up with me, but now I try to keep up with them. I love the outdoors, now I cannot be in the sun. I get exhausted easily and I do not do what I used to. My whole life has changed. I am depressed when I think about it, but I know it could be worse. Everything I am now, I did not want to be.?
Although Shealey is currently on an intense chemotherapy treatment, she is also looking for a bone marrow donor, but is finding it difficult. A donor has to be African-American, in good health and between the ages of 18-60, but most importantly, they need to take the time to take the test, which includes just a swab. According to Shealey there are only 7 percent of African-American donors in the registry.
For those who always thought about getting tested and never have because they do not have the time or are afraid, Shealey said, ?You?re saving a life if you do. It is a swab. People are not aware how easy it is to be a donor. I know I need a donor, but you could be saving someone else. You just need to get involved. Money cannot buy a life.?
Shealey said her family has started the Marlene A. Shealey Foundation and plans to hold a bone marrow testing event in the near future.
(For more information on blood cancers or support services, visit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at www.LLS.org/wpa or call 412-395-2882.)
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Professional Profile Self-motivated business management and operations professional with relevant years distinguished military experience in supervisory-level positions. Organized and detail oriented individual who exemplifies professionalism, and an ability to manage multiple projects and tasks at any given moment. Demonstrated history of process management, procurement, and operations execution, while providing high-quality personnel oversight and effective issue resolution. Highlighted leadership qualities and the ability to work with and manage individuals from varying backgrounds, while implementing team values. Experienced supervisor with desire for professional growth, increased responsibility, and significant senior-level challenges that leverage my military leadership and collaborative successes.
Skills Summary ? Management Development ? Project Guidance ? Personnel Training ? Workflow Organization ? Operations Administration ? Team Leader ? Issue Resolution ? Relationship Management ? Professional Attitude
Executive Management Duties & Responsibilities ? Identify and develop talent among team members with targeted recruitment, focused training efforts, and the promotion of a performance-based work environment, providing valuable and relevant monitoring and feedback ? Provide effective solutions to complex issues such as budgeting, operational strategies, vendor relationships, implementation oversight, administration, business development tactics, and industry competition ? Develop leadership team and support staff to aid in efficient business operations, sales and marketing efforts, and client service execution, delegating important tasks and assignments while monitoring for effective resolution ? Lead through example with consistent work ethic, attitude, and professionalism, while overseeing market operation, business development, and the management of vendor and client relationships ? Collaborate in all phases of strategic planning with senior-level management, while furnishing oversight and guidance regarding effective staff and business administration techniques, market trends, and operational structure ? Assess key markets and potential business ventures while ensuring operational efficiency and solid execution ? Utilize and install marketing and sales strategies while tracking progress versus established internal and external benchmarks, focusing on both revenue generation as well as cost control ? Maintain a strong working knowledge of the products/services and respective marketplace, including pricing and regulatory trends, competitor strategies, general economic conditions, and other business metrics ? Act as a liaison between staff, clients, and other management members to resolve issues in a timely manner
Professional Experience ? United States Navy, Retired 11/1983 ? 10/2009 > Court Magistrate E-8 ? Naval Base Kitsap (Bremerton, WA ? 6/08 to 10/09) > Command Sr. Enlisted Leader, Emergency Mgmt. Officer, Asst. Security Officer E-8 ? Joint Maritime Facility (Cornwall, England ? 11/04 to 6/08) > Auxiliary Division Leading Chief Petty Officer (LCPO), Engineering Officer of the Watch (EOOW) E-7 ? USS Bunker Hill CG-52 (San Diego, CA ? 3/01 to 10/04) > Division Officer, Fleet Valve Repair E-7 ? Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (Everett, WA ? 12/97 to 3/01) > Chief Engineer on Landing Craft Utility (LCU) E-6 ? Assault Craft Unit One (San Diego, CA ? 12/93 to 9/97) > Chief Engineer on Research Vessel IX-508 Orca E-6 ? Naval Research & Development Center (Point Loma, CA ? 4/91 to 10/93) > Outside Repair Crew Leader E-6 ? Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity (SIMA) (San Diego, CA ? 1/88 to 4/91) > Work Center Supervisor E-5 ? USS Texas CGN-39 (San Diego, CA ? 3/84 to 12/87) > Seaman Recruit E-1 ? Recruit Training Center/Naval Training Center (San Diego, CA ? 11/83 to 2/84)
Education ? Coastline Community College (Fountain Valley, CA) [Insert Dates Attended] Associate?s Degree ? Applied Marine Engineering; Associate?s Degree ? Management ? Emergency Management Institute (Ft. Leonard Wood, MO) [Insert Dates Attended] Disaster Preparedness Operations Specialist
Awards, Honors, and Designations Presidential Meritorious Service Medal for Meritorious Service as a Command Senior Enlisted Officer ? Navy Commendation Medal (2 Gold Stars) for exemplary performance ? Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (3 Gold Stars) for superior performance ? Rose to rank of Engineman Senior Chief Petty Officer ? Designated Surface Warfare Specialist and Fleet Marine Force ? Active US Government security clearance
Higlighted Achievements Training Specialist ? Conducted in-depth CBRNE training with departmental representatives, ensuring department personnel ability to utilize the Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology (JLIST) and MCU2P gas mask ? Developed a comprehensive public awareness training for over 200 active duty and 500 family members, covering fire safety, flood-prone area preparedness, earthquake frequency/strength, and inclement weather/shelter-in-place procedures
Administrator ? Authored the Command Noncombatant Evacuation procedures and Emergency Management Instruction ? Established and implemented a Planned Maintenance System for the care of 7000+ pieces of CBRNE equipment
Liaison and Collaboration ? Conducted numerous noncombatant evacuation exercises with the United Kingdom Royal Air Force with subsequent increases in difficulty, ensuring the ability to safely evacuate all personnel ? Planned and exercises annual large Field Training Exercise with United Kingdom Royal Air Force for flight line recertification, activating the Command Emergency Operation Center (EOC) and coordinating with both the Royal Air Force Crises Management Center (CMC) and Royal Cornwall Fire Brigade
Emergency Management ? Served as emergency management officer for bi-national, tri-service, military installation in Cornwall, UK, which advised command on defense and recovery from major accidents and natural/man-made disasters ? Assisted in the coordination with local host nation civic authorities on disaster response operations ? Conducted training for chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) warfare defense to include hazard awareness, individual protection, decontamination, and mission restoration
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Shedding new light on one of diabetes' most dangerous complicationsPublic release date: 30-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
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New optical instrument helps diagnose, monitor peripheral arterial disease
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2012For many diabetics, monitoring their condition involves much more than adhering to a routine of glucose sensing and insulin injections. It also entails carefully monitoring the ongoing toll this disease takes on their body.
An innovative new optical diagnostic tool created by Columbia University researchers and reported today in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Biomedical Optics Express may soon make it easier to diagnose and monitor one of the most serious complications of diabetes, peripheral arterial disease (PAD). PAD, which is marked by a narrowing of the arteries caused by plaque accumulation, frequently results in insufficient blood flow to the body's extremities and increases a person's risk for heart attack and stroke.
This new noninvasive imaging technique known as dynamic diffuse optical tomography imaging (DDOT) uses near-infrared light to map the concentration of hemoglobin in the body's tissue. This mapping can reveal how effectively blood is flowing to patients' hands and feet.
"Currently, there are no good methods to assess and monitor PAD in diabetic patients," explains Andreas Hielscher, Ph.D., professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and Radiology, and director of the Biophotonics and Optical Radiology Laboratory at Columbia University.
"Patients with PAD experience foot pain, called 'claudication,' while walking," adds Gautam Shrikhande, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, and director of the Vascular Laboratory at Columbia's Medical Center. "This pain continues, even at rest, as the disease progresses. In more advanced stages, PAD patients develop sores or ulcers that won't heal. Then, cell death, a.k.a. 'gangrene,' occurs and amputation is often the only solution. It's extremely important to diagnose PAD early, because medication and lifestyle changes can alleviate the disease."
This is where DDOT can help. "We've successfully used DDOT to detect PAD in the lower extremities," says Michael Khalil, a Ph.D. candidate working with Hielscher at Columbia. "One key reason why DDOT shows so much promise as a diagnostic and monitoring tool is that, unlike other methods, it can provide maps of oxy, deoxy and total hemoglobin concentration throughout the foot and identify problematic regions that require intervention."
"Using instrumentation for fast image acquisition lets us observe blood volume over time in response to stimulus such as a pressure cuff occlusion or blockage," said Hielscher.
To map and monitor the presence of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the blood, red and near-infrared light is shone at different angles around areas that are susceptible to arterial disease. These specific wavelengths of light are then absorbed or scattered, depending on the concentration of hemoglobin.
"In the case of tissue, light is absorbed by hemoglobin. Since hemoglobin is the main protein in blood, we can image blood concentrations within the foot without using a contrast agent," Hielscher points out. Contrast agents pose the risk of renal failure in some cases, so the ability to monitor PAD without using a contrast agent is a great advantage.
Since more than 25 million people or 8 percent of the population in the United States are diabetic, this diagnostic tool has the potential to make it significantly simpler to diagnose and monitor diabetics with PAD in the future.
Khalil, Hielscher, and colleagues hope to bring their diagnostic tool to market and into clinics within the next 3 years.
EDITOR'S NOTE: High-resolution images and a brief video clip are available to members of the media upon request. Contact Angela Stark, astark@osa.org.
About Biomedical Optics Express
Biomedical Optics Express is OSA's principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with rapid, open-access, peer-reviewed papers related to optics, photonics and imaging in the life sciences. The journal scope encompasses theoretical modeling and simulations, technology development, and biomedical studies and clinical applications. It is published by the Optical Society and edited by Joseph A. Izatt of Duke University. Biomedical Optics Express is an open-access journal and is available at no cost to readers online at http://www.OpticsInfoBase.org/BOE.
About OSA
Uniting more than 130,000 professionals from 175 countries, the Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics community through its programs and initiatives. Since 1916 OSA has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing educational resources to the scientists, engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an interest in optics and photonics. For more information, visit www.osa.org.
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Shedding new light on one of diabetes' most dangerous complicationsPublic release date: 30-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Angela Stark astark@osa.org 202-416-1443 Optical Society of America
New optical instrument helps diagnose, monitor peripheral arterial disease
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2012For many diabetics, monitoring their condition involves much more than adhering to a routine of glucose sensing and insulin injections. It also entails carefully monitoring the ongoing toll this disease takes on their body.
An innovative new optical diagnostic tool created by Columbia University researchers and reported today in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Biomedical Optics Express may soon make it easier to diagnose and monitor one of the most serious complications of diabetes, peripheral arterial disease (PAD). PAD, which is marked by a narrowing of the arteries caused by plaque accumulation, frequently results in insufficient blood flow to the body's extremities and increases a person's risk for heart attack and stroke.
This new noninvasive imaging technique known as dynamic diffuse optical tomography imaging (DDOT) uses near-infrared light to map the concentration of hemoglobin in the body's tissue. This mapping can reveal how effectively blood is flowing to patients' hands and feet.
"Currently, there are no good methods to assess and monitor PAD in diabetic patients," explains Andreas Hielscher, Ph.D., professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering and Radiology, and director of the Biophotonics and Optical Radiology Laboratory at Columbia University.
"Patients with PAD experience foot pain, called 'claudication,' while walking," adds Gautam Shrikhande, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, and director of the Vascular Laboratory at Columbia's Medical Center. "This pain continues, even at rest, as the disease progresses. In more advanced stages, PAD patients develop sores or ulcers that won't heal. Then, cell death, a.k.a. 'gangrene,' occurs and amputation is often the only solution. It's extremely important to diagnose PAD early, because medication and lifestyle changes can alleviate the disease."
This is where DDOT can help. "We've successfully used DDOT to detect PAD in the lower extremities," says Michael Khalil, a Ph.D. candidate working with Hielscher at Columbia. "One key reason why DDOT shows so much promise as a diagnostic and monitoring tool is that, unlike other methods, it can provide maps of oxy, deoxy and total hemoglobin concentration throughout the foot and identify problematic regions that require intervention."
"Using instrumentation for fast image acquisition lets us observe blood volume over time in response to stimulus such as a pressure cuff occlusion or blockage," said Hielscher.
To map and monitor the presence of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in the blood, red and near-infrared light is shone at different angles around areas that are susceptible to arterial disease. These specific wavelengths of light are then absorbed or scattered, depending on the concentration of hemoglobin.
"In the case of tissue, light is absorbed by hemoglobin. Since hemoglobin is the main protein in blood, we can image blood concentrations within the foot without using a contrast agent," Hielscher points out. Contrast agents pose the risk of renal failure in some cases, so the ability to monitor PAD without using a contrast agent is a great advantage.
Since more than 25 million people or 8 percent of the population in the United States are diabetic, this diagnostic tool has the potential to make it significantly simpler to diagnose and monitor diabetics with PAD in the future.
Khalil, Hielscher, and colleagues hope to bring their diagnostic tool to market and into clinics within the next 3 years.
EDITOR'S NOTE: High-resolution images and a brief video clip are available to members of the media upon request. Contact Angela Stark, astark@osa.org.
About Biomedical Optics Express
Biomedical Optics Express is OSA's principal outlet for serving the biomedical optics community with rapid, open-access, peer-reviewed papers related to optics, photonics and imaging in the life sciences. The journal scope encompasses theoretical modeling and simulations, technology development, and biomedical studies and clinical applications. It is published by the Optical Society and edited by Joseph A. Izatt of Duke University. Biomedical Optics Express is an open-access journal and is available at no cost to readers online at http://www.OpticsInfoBase.org/BOE.
About OSA
Uniting more than 130,000 professionals from 175 countries, the Optical Society (OSA) brings together the global optics community through its programs and initiatives. Since 1916 OSA has worked to advance the common interests of the field, providing educational resources to the scientists, engineers and business leaders who work in the field by promoting the science of light and the advanced technologies made possible by optics and photonics. OSA publications, events, technical groups and programs foster optics knowledge and scientific collaboration among all those with an interest in optics and photonics. For more information, visit www.osa.org.
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) ? NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to become the first probe to orbit and study two distant solar system destinations, to help scientists answer questions about the formation of our solar system. The spacecraft is scheduled to leave the giant asteroid Vesta on Sept. 4 PDT (Sept. 5 EDT) to start its two-and-a-half-year journey to the dwarf planet Ceres.
Dawn began its 3-billion-mile (5-billion kilometer) odyssey to explore the two most massive objects in the main asteroid belt in 2007. Dawn arrived at Vesta in July 2011 and will reach Ceres in early 2015. Dawn's targets represent two icons of the asteroid belt that have been witness to much of our solar system's history.
To make its escape from Vesta, the spacecraft will spiral away as gently as it arrived, using a special, hyper-efficient system called ion propulsion. Dawn's ion propulsion system uses electricity to ionize xenon to generate thrust. The 12-inch-wide ion thrusters provide less power than conventional engines, but can maintain thrust for months at a time.
"Thrust is engaged, and we are now climbing away from Vesta atop a blue-green pillar of xenon ions," said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We are feeling somewhat wistful about concluding a fantastically productive and exciting exploration of Vesta, but now have our sights set on dwarf planet Ceres.
Dawn's orbit provided close-up views of Vesta, revealing unprecedented detail about the giant asteroid. The mission revealed that Vesta completely melted in the past, forming a layered body with an iron core. The spacecraft also revealed the scarring from titanic collisions Vesta suffered in its southern hemisphere, surviving not one but two colossal impacts in the last two billion years. Without Dawn, scientists would not have known about the dramatic troughs sculpted around Vesta, which are ripples from the two south polar impacts.
"We went to Vesta to fill in the blanks of our knowledge about the early history of our solar system," said Christopher Russell, Dawn's principal investigator, based at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). "Dawn has filled in those pages, and more, revealing to us how special Vesta is as a survivor from the earliest days of the solar system. We can now say with certainty that Vesta resembles a small planet more closely than a typical asteroid."
The mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
UCLA is responsible for the overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft. The German Aerospace Center, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Astrophysical Institute are part of the mission's team. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
For information about the Dawn mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov .
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Learning how to get web site traffic is a skill every internet marketer must master.
If you are into internet marketing, everyone knows that dream of every online business owner is to be able to occupy the top position in the major search engine results such as Google & Yahoo.
Have you got the faintest idea what it means to get the number 1 "spot" in the search engine results?
The answer is pretty obvious right? A tsunami of traffic, that's what.
Besides, how can anyone expect to achieve long term online success without a steady stream of visitors or should I say, "potential customers", especially those who are eager to visit your website with their credit cards in hand. It is essential that your website ranks high in the search engine results otherwise you will never get enough visitors and not enough visitors means less or even no sales at all.
In my book, its imperative that you rank in the top 10 results if you want want to get in front of a massive online crowd eager to find out what you have to offer. And in order to do that, you need to utilize seo web site promotion tactics to increase traffic website hits.
According to Wikipedia, Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.
In the words of a computer geek, it means you need to "attract the spiders" to come visit your website so that you get higher rankings.
To the layman, search engines are computer programs that use "spiders" or "robots" to "crawl" the World Wide Web in order to index or record the contents of each web page they come across.
Their main purpose is to provide the most relevant search results to online visitors using the search engines. However, no matter how the search engines modify their algorithms, which they do modify regularly, there are still a handful of time tested and proven methodologies you can use that will ensure high search rankings results.
In a nutshell, these include the following :
1. Optimize your website with your top ranking keywords. SEO positioning refers to positioning your top searched keywords in strategic places on your web pages to make it easier for the spiders to index. Strategic positions includes your domain name, your title tag, your description meta tag, within your site content, especially in the first and last paragraphs.
2. Attract the search engine spiders to visit your website using proven linking and directory submission strategies. Boost your site's ranking in the search results by building up a whole network of relevant, one-way inbound links that point from other high-ranking sites, preferably PR 4 & above back to yours, however that is easier said than done.
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Unfortunately, sometimes life doesn't always work accordingly to plan. Patiently waiting for the spiders to come index your website is definitely not the way to go.
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In fact, there are a number of ways you should take to speed up this process of getting search engine optimization traffic. These include structuring a site map of your website and then submitting it to the major free and paid web directories.
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If visitors can't even find your website, how do you expect them to buy your product, use your service, or learn more about your online business?
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Derrick C.K Lee is an experienced entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in marketing both offline & online.
He has written many articles on marketing with a flair for internet marketing.
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