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Dr. Beda John Mwang'onde
Beda John Mwang'onde (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Parasitology and Head of Department at the Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students. Beda has broad research experience on medical and veterinary disease vectors control, ecosystem, population health, and food security and safety. Currently, his research focus is on the epidemiology of taeniasis cysticercosis; antimicrobial resistance, and animal source food safety. He has published widely ranging from medical entomology to zoonotic cestodes. He is broadly knowledgeable of transmission dynamics and management of zoonotic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Beda holds a PhD degree in Applied Zoology focussing on the "Epidemiology of Human Cysticercosis" from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Prof. Yasinta Charles Muzanila
Yasinta Charles Muzanila is an Associate Professor in Food Science and Technology in the Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. She has taught at the University for over 30 years. She has been involved in teaching and supervision of students (undergraduates and postgraduates). Apart from teaching, she is actively involved in research. She has researched and published extensively on post-harvest processing of root crops (cassava and sweet potatoes), cereals, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Yasinta studied her MSc. Food Science and Technology, as well as a PhD at the University of Reading in United Kingdom (UK).
Prof. Allen Lewis Mallisa
Allen's research works focus on the use of molecular/biotechnological approaches for the identification of species and/or drug resistant parasites. The emergence and spread of drug resistance is a major threat to effective malaria treatment and there is a growing interest in the development of strategic drug-use policy which might 'manage' the process of resistance evolution, and so prolonging the useful life of drugs. Allen's research group investigates the molecular genetic basis of drug resistance using population genetic approaches. The group aims to determine which factors are most important in determining the rate of emergence and the rate of spread of resistance. The works include the evaluation of combination therapy and its potential for slowing resistance evolution, and evaluating the selective pressure applied by intermittent preventive treatment. The group further maps the dispersal of resistance mutations in Africa.
Dr. Anthony Funga
Anthony is a Lecturer at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) Tanzania. He holds a PhD in Life Sciences and Bioengineering. His research interest has spanned numerous topics in sustainable agriculture, but a common theme has been post-harvest technology, sustainable food and nutrition security, rural development and innovations systems for pro-poor.
Anthony has managed and co-managed several research projects to promote sustainable agriculture. The projects are such as adoption of food quality and safety in horticultural sector in Tanzania "funded by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH); Evaluation of the Up-scaling of interactive information and communication technologies to increase uptake of agricultural innovations in Tanzania funded by IFAD via Farm Africa international.
Dr. Cyrus Rumisha
Cyrus Rumisha is a Senior Lecturer in Zoology at the Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science & Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). He obtained his Ph.D. in Sciences on the ecotoxicological effects of trace metal pollutants on the genetic stock structure of crustaceans at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2017 and a master's degree from the same university in 2011. Rumisha was first appointed by SUA immediately after completion of his undergraduate studies in 2008, and he has since then risen through the academic ranks from a tutorial assistant to a Senior Lecturer. Besides teaching and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students, he is also involved in research.
Dr. Alex Nehemiah
Alex Nehemia is a senior lecturer at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Department of Biosciences. He attained his PhD studies at the Vrieje Universtait Brussel (VUB) in Belgium. He studied master's and bachelor's degrees at the university of Dar es salaam. He has also attended several national and international workshops and conferences. Alex does research in Molecular Biology, Marine and fresh water Biology, and Ecology. He has published several articles in international peer reviewed journals. Alex is currently working with other researchers on the project intended to facilitate multi-stakeholder partnerships to foster sustainable shark fisheries in Tanzania (funded by VLIR-UOS). He is also working with other researchers on the project focusing on delineation of the genetic stock structure of the Queen Mackerel to enhance fisheries management in Tanzania (DGS-Fish) (funded by Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Tanzania).
Dr. Prisila A. Mkenda
Prisila A. Mkenda is a Lecturer in Biosciences department, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro Tanzania. She pursued her PhD at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) Arusha Tanzania, on potential predators and parasitoids for conservation biological control in smallholder beans farming tropical ecosystem. She holds a master's in Life Sciences and Bioengineering (Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management) from the NM-AIST and BSc. with Education (Chemistry and Biology) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She has been a fellow in African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), which is a career development programme that equips top women agricultural scientists across Sub-Saharan Africa by strengthening their research and leadership skills since 2014. Prisila is a reviewer in more than ten international journals, which can be accessed in the link https://publons.com/dashboard/records/review/.
Dr. Justine Daudi Maganira
Justine Daudi Maganira (PhD) is a Lecturer in Parasitology at the Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. Maganira received his doctoral education at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden) in 2020. He obtained his Master of Science degree from the University of Dar es Salaam. Maganira is responsible for teaching, researching and conducting outreach activities on various neglected tropical diseases caused by animal parasites in livestock. Specific research interests and expertise include diagnosis, epidemiology and integrated control of neglected tropical parasitic diseases such as Taenia solium taeniasis and cysticercosis and helminthiases in livestock including zoonotic agents. Recent research projects have included the epidemiology of Taenia solium porcine cysticercosis in Tanzania with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and collaboration between the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Currently, Maganira is teaching Parasitology and Invertebrate Zoology related courses at the Department of Biosciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture. He is also involved in supervising Master of Science students, as well as undergraduate students in their Special Projects. Maganira has published various scientific papers in refereed journals, as well as conference papers.
Dr. Elly Josephat Ligate
Elly Ligate is a senior lecturer, researcher, and consultant in the Department of Biosciences of the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Morogoro Tanzania. Elly holds a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Ecology offered by Fujian Agriculture and Forest University in China. He has a Master of Science in Natural Resources Assessment and Management from the University of Dar es Salaam-Tanzania. He has worked as an academician at higher learning institutions for over 13 years by teaching Ecology, Botany, and Environmental Health and Ecosystem Restorations. He has researched and published in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, carbon stocking, ecosystem service and management, land cover and use changes, together with coastal forests ecosystem management. His areas of research interest include ecosystem disturbances and restorations, biodiversity conservation, environment, and climate change, sustainable agriculture, and natural resources management.
Dr. Dino Andrew Woiso
Dr. Dino Andrew Woiso (Senior Lecturer) has expertise in natural resources utilization and conservation, integrated ecosystem management and community forestry. He has conducted research, consultancy and outreach activities on subjects related to sustainable management and utilization of natural resources in Tanzania and East Africa. Dr. Dino has a PhD from Bangor University, UK (2011) where he assessed domestication and commercialization potential of Sclerocaryabirrea (Marula) tree resources in Tanzania. He has also researched on commercial export potential of Prunusafricana barks which are used in pharmaceutical production of prostate cancer drugs in Europe and America. His research areas of interest are climate change, transboundary waters, conservation and integrated ecosystem management. Dr. Dino currently is a senior lecturer. Since 2005, at Sokoine University of Agriculture, he has been working as an academician, researcher and consultant . He teaches ecology, plant anatomy and physiology, biodiversity, and phytogeography to various undergraduate and postgraduate students. More details about academic and professional background for Dr. Dino can be seen below.
Dr. Douglas Mushi
Douglas Mushi (PhD, MSc., and BSc.) is an Environmental Microbiologist currently employed by the Sokoine University of Agriculture as a Lecturer in Environmental Microbiology at the College of Science and Education, Department of Biosciences. His interest is in understanding the role of water in the spread and control of water-related diseases. In this case, his area of research focuses in Microbial Ecology, Health-Related Water Microbiology and Microbial Source Tracking whose outputs will enable formulation of relevant policies that will protect human health and aquatic environments.
Ms. Clara Yona Mwasota
Clara Yona holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences (2015) and Master of Philosophy (MPhil. Molecular Virology) (2017) from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). She is an academic staff at the Department of Biosciences at the Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, SUA.
In the past years, Clara had been involved in the viral epidemics of African swine fever in the region. She has studied the epidemiology and socio-economic impact of ASF to the small holder farmers. She has attended various internship and training in Molecular Biology (Belgium, Sweden), Bioinformatics (Sweden), Virology (Belgium), Biotechnology and Ecohydrology (Poland) since her BSc. Program completion. She is also currently affiliated with the UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Transboundary Water Management at SUA, where she researches on the "biotechnological interventions for water ecosystem management, resilient and ecological sustainability". At SUA Clara is involved in teaching researching and supervising undergraduate students.
Mr. Filbert Thadeo Sogomba
Filbert Thadeo Sogomba is a Principal Laboratory Technologist, Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania. He graduated Full Technician Certificate (FTC) in Laboratory Technology from Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) in November 1991. In August 2004, he joined the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, and he graduated 2007. Later in 2014, Mr. Sogomba graduated MSc. in Public Health and Food Safety at SUA. From June 1993 to October 2000, he worked at Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre Dar Es Salaam, Department of Food Science and Nutrition as a Chemical Laboratory Technician. From November 2000 to date, Mr. Sogomba has been employed at the Department of Biosciences, Solomon Mahlangu College of Science and Education, SUA. Currently Mr. Sogomba is involved in the teaching and conducting practical sessions to the undergraduate students taking chemistry and biochemistry . He also assists researchers and students in their research activities especially in food analysis, water quality analysis and any aspects of laboratory activity.
Mr. James Mwesongo Mnhonya
James Mnhonya was born in 1968 in Morogoro region- Tanzania. He is senior Laboratory Technologist with over 25 years experience in laboratory accomplishments. James ensures that laboratory quality data is obtained so as to get reliable information for diagnostic guidance and services. He is so efficient at his job that he considers himself a 'quality data generator leader'. James has the ability to design, analyse and present reliable experimental data in microbiology and parasitology using various techniques such as bioassay, PCR, ELISA, binding assays and many other serological techniques, just to mention a few.
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The Lair of the Silver Fox.
If you think I'm old NOW, you should have seen me when I was younger!
The Game Is Afoot!
Robert Downey, Jr., in the role of super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes
Nope, today's post isn't about feet, fellow babies... nor is it quite as scatter-shot as my last post!
Let me start off by saying that I was interested in seeing the latest filmed version of Sherlock Holmes, as portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. in the 2009 movie directed by Guy Ritchie. Downey is one of my favorite modern actors. Hell, if he'd done nothing but Chaplin I'd probably still say that! Unfortunately, as most of you are aware, by the time of the flick's Christmas release I was concerned with much more important things than a trip to the cinema.
In fact, the last time I even went to a movie theater was in 2008, when Downey starred in the first Iron Man film. (Can it really be two years since that came out?!?)
It's no secret that I'm a long-time comic book fan, but that doesn't necessarily carry over into the film world. There are a lot of comic book concepts adapted for the "big screen" that I've never bothered to see. A list of what I've neglected to watch from just the last fifteen years or so would probably amaze you.
Besides, this was "my" Iron Man, from when I was a kid. The "golden era" of the "Golden Avenger," in my mind. That ignores most of the last forty years, with a few multi-issue exceptions here and there.
So I didn't have much interest in seeing the Iron Man movie, either, until I heard that Robert Downey, Jr. had been cast as Tony Stark, a/k/a Iron Man. That made me decide to see it. And I certainly wasn't disappointed, although I must admit that I didn't go as "ga-ga" over it as did many others who saw it.
But enough about Iron Man! I've digressed, obviously, but not completely, because predictably (for me), a lot of my early exposures to the character of Sherlock Holmes came via comic books, too! I won't bore you with the details (for a change), so I'm going to throw a few visual examples at you. That way, if you're one of the many comic book fans who read this site, you should get a kick out of them, but if you're not a comic book fan, you can look at some purty pictures and not get bogged down slogging through a lot of my usual text. On the other hand, if you care to read two of them -- the MAD parody and the DC Comics version from 1975, I've provided links in the appropriate photo captions. (Both stories are under copyright protection, so I have not reprinted them here!)
My earliest exposure to Mr. Holmes may have
been "Shermlock Shomes," one of several features
in a MAD paperback which reprinted classic stories
from that magazine's early comic book incarnation.
This edition of Classics Illustrated was published
several years before it found its way into my
eleven-year-old hands!
I never got hold of this one, but I thought
that the cover was too cool not to include!
This was a 1975 one-shot from DC Comics.
Read it here, if you like!
Twelve years later, in 1987, DC Comics celebrated
the 50th anniversary of Detective Comics with a multi-parter
that included a Holmes story presumably intended for the
never-published second issue of their ill-fated Sherlock Holmes title.
The historic meeting of Batman and Mr. Holmes!
So, now that the comic book cover gallery is done, what's my freakin' point (assuming I have one)?
Well, I do, and it's this:
I own most of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan O'Brien -- Oops! Sorry, that's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, silly me! -- but typically, I haven't gotten around to reading a whole heckuva lot of them. And admittedly, even my tally as far as having seen any or all of the previous movie and TV versions of the character is relatively limited.
Therefore, my pre-conceived notions of the way Holmes "should" be portrayed are rather nebulous, so I don't have any of the objections some raised when news of the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie hit the press. (You know, those people who hate something before they've even seen it?)
So, fellow babies, since the only "review" I got of Sherlock Holmes was from a friend who didn't even like it enough to watch it until the end... Did you see it? And should I bother?
Yup, believe it or not... I'm asking for advice!
Thanks for your time... and your hoped-for input.
Posted by The Silver Fox at 7:25 PM 15 comments:
Labels: comic books, Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
EQUALS, Or Just Apples and Oranges? -- A "Theme Thursday" Post
A funny thing happened on my way to Theme Thursday. I didn't even know about this week's theme until Wednesday evening!
I'd planned to write an article all on my own about both Sherlock Holmes, and Marvel Comics' Iron Man -- and I'm sure you can think of at least one thing the two characters have in common, eh? -- and got another idea Wednesday morning, for the post after that. My new idea was a goofy post presenting a faux comparison asking the question, "Which are better? Films & TV shows, or comic books?" Truly a case of apples and oranges, and certainly not an argument which I planned to take seriously, but when I read that today's Theme Thursday topic was "Equals," I thought, "Hey! I can make this work!"
As a long-time comic book fan, albeit a serious movie buff as well, I had originally planned to "prove" that comic books had the edge on movies and television programs, and was going to list just one admittedly-ludicrous example as that "proof":
In the original, so-called "Classic Trek" Star Trek show and its filmed sequels, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy was quite well-known for examining some unfortunate crew member who'd contracted an unknown ailment, or been attacked by a rubber-suited actor playing an alien beastie, or whatever... and gruffly pronouncing, "He's dead, Jim." Just like that. Some "doctor."
On the other hand, we have Professor Charles Xavier -- better known as Professor X -- of Marvel Comics' X-Men title and its literally dozens of spin-offs. (And let's ignore the successful franchise of X-Men movies at the moment. I'm just talking about the comics. The movies were based on them.)
Several years ago, in a somewhat forced and silly -- but best-selling! -- mini-series called Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars, Professor X was quoted as saying (although I'm quoting from memory) "It appears that, at some point, true death becomes irrevocable." Well! Look at all the indecisive words in that sentence (with my smart-ass comments added, below)!
"It appears [but may not be true] that at some point [possibly, beyond an apparent death?], true death [not some faked death, or misleading deathlike state] becomes [like, it isn't right away?] irrevocable."
That's a great way of saying that any character killed in a comic book isn't really dead and gone, unless no one ever wants to bring him/her/it back!
Now. If you were going to be medically treated by someone, which character's attitude would you want your doctor to have? A guy who barely looks at you and says, "Ah, screw it... Next?" or someone who'd work to bring you back even after you were buried?!?
So. Comic books are "better" than movies. A shoddy resolution based on one kooky example, I know.
And in that vein, I present the following stream-of-consciousness series of photos:
One weird trait in comic books (as opposed to movies... usually) is that certain things "work" only because the writers say that they work. Listing just one example: In real life, severe radiation poisoning kills you, generally. In comic books, it gives us -- to name only three heroes -- super-powered entities such as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Daredevil.
Another thing in comics that's worked for 72 years is that when mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent takes off his eyeglasses and changes his hairstyle, no one recognizes him! (Funny, I take off my own reading glasses, and no one ever says, "Hey! Where did David disappear to?")
But in films? To my mind, it took the underrated acting ability of Christopher Reeve to make us "believe" that "The Big Blue Boy Scout" and Clark Kent were two different people.
By the way, that's Christopher Reeve, not Reeves. I suppose people were confused because the actor who portrayed both Clark and Supie in the 1950s TV offering The Adventures of Superman was George Reeves. (And by the way, as much as I enjoyed that TV classic, I never bought the idea that his identity switches would fool anyone.)
Of course, the fact that another Reeves, actor & bodybuilder Steve Reeves (no relation to George), played Hercules and similar "strongman" characters in movies made during the 1950s and 1960s no doubt added to the confusion.
So. Back to "Bones" McCoy.
In terms of this entry, it is kinda cool that Patrick Stewart, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek: The Next Generation (shown above with DeForest "Dr. McCoy" Kelley himself) was later chosen to play the part of Professor X in the X-Men motion pictures!
And hey, as long as I'm messing with Star Trek, has anyone ever noticed that three of the four guys who comprise The Wiggles...
Hey! I said "The Wiggles!" Those guys look more like The Beatles!
Anyway, here are three of The Wiggles.
And in my eyes, they look like they would have fit right in with the cast of the original Star Trek program!
So, "Which are better? Films & TV shows, or comic books?" I guess they're equal.
(And if I had to hang around with pointy-eared aliens, I'd prefer a Vulcan like this one!)
Okay, fellow babies, we're done. Maybe you want to cuddle, but I'm just going to have a cigarette, and then go to sleep!
Good night, and thanks for your time.
Posted by The Silver Fox at 10:45 PM 19 comments:
Labels: Beatles, Bettie Page, Christopher Reeve, comic books, George Reeves, Star Trek, Steve Reeves, Superman, Theme Thursday, Wiggles, X-Men
Greatest. Invention. Ever.
Supposedly, when Louis Armstrong was asked "What is jazz?" he replied, "Man, if you gotta ask, you'll never know."
And if you "gotta" ask why I think this is the greatest invention ever, you'll never understand the answer.
I suppose a lot of you were already aware of it, but I wasn't. So there.
(UPDATE, since I seem to have confused some of you! It's a sponge for cleaning drinking glasses, with a "scrubby thing" on the tip. It gets the very bottom of the glass clean, which is hard to do!)
And okay, I'll admit that it isn't really "the greatest invention ever," but at least my title got your attention, dinnit?
Labels: Greatest Invention Ever
Another Award-Winning Post!
Award drawn and "donated" by Skip Simpson,
based on a poster he found on the internet.
What "The Silver Fox's THRUST HOME Award" is (edited from my January 8th post , which originally announced it):
Bloggers like to give each other awards. One of the drawbacks to these awards is that they're usually given with a set of conditions. Quite often, one of these conditions is that the awardee must "pass on" the award to a pre-ordained number of other bloggers, which has the unfortunate effect of turning the award itself into more of an internet chain letter than a true honor.
So I've created my own blasted award.
One of my all-time favorite stories is Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. Cyrano constantly used the expression "Thrust home!" when fatally piercing an opponent during a sword fight. I've appropriated that phrase for... The Silver Fox's Thrust Home Award! -- Given to the Author of a Single Outstanding Blog Post.
And my rules for the award... and the rules for its recipients, are:
This award will be given by me, and no one else, and generally to only one recipient at a time.
I'll only give the award to those whose posts have truly "thrust home" with me, so even my best friends on the 'net might never get one.
The award will usually go to a post of what I deem to be of general import and interest, but that may be fudged once in a while to reflect my own biases. (My award, my stupid rules. Deal with it.)
There will be no set frequency for the giving of the award.
Theoretically, a recipient of The Silver Fox's Thrust Home Award! may win once, twice... or 47 times! This is an award for individual blog posts, not for blogs!
Recipients would be asked to mention their receipt of said award on their own sites, along with a corresponding link to my own. And a little blurb on your sidebar -- feel free to copy and paste the graphic, of course! -- would be greatly appreciated.
Winners are not allowed to give this award to others.
Other than that, awardees are not asked to do anything else. You've already done it!
And the latest recipient is (Clicking on the blog's bold-faced title will bring you to its latest post, while, as you've probably surmised, clicking on the title of the "winning" post will bring you to that post itself.):
1. waystationone, "55 - 1:45, McDonalds, east side," August 19, 2010
Brian Miller has a knack for poetry, as well as for intriguing short stories which begin one way and end in another way that makes you wonder how he got there from where he started! (What I call leading you from point 1... to point 2... to point C.) He's won TSFTHA for a poem which tells a powerful story. In only fifty-five words -- fifty-five words, fellow babies! -- Brian makes a grim statement about an equally grim subject, that of domestic violence. If I were to go on and on about it, I'd only be gilding the proverbial lily; this post of mine is already a lot longer than the one I'm recommending! Go read it. Congratulations, Brian!
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Labels: "Thrust Home" Award
ELVID [sic] Has Left the Building! ~~ Another BRUSH with Fame, for "Theme Thursday"
Image by Free-StockPhotos.com
It's sometime during 2002, or maybe 2003. You sit there in the audience of a low-budget talk show. The cheap set design approximates that of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson as it existed roughly thirty years earlier. (The only difference would have been if the set designer's original idea had been incorporated; his idea was to fill the space behind the host with 8"x10" black & white photos of television and motion picture personalities whom the host greatly admired, including Ernie Kovacs, Orson Welles, Jack Benny, and Johnny Carson himself. But then he discovered that Conan O'Brien had done the same thing ten years or so earlier when he first took over Late Night from David Letterman.)
The studio lights come up, revealing the talk show's Host, who looks much like -- make that exactly like -- the writer of this blog looked seven or eight years ago. The Host looks into the camera, smiles, clears his throat and says:
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pride that I introduce our next guest. Listing all of his accomplishments would fill the rest of our time remaining tonight, and you'd never even get to see him perform! So suffice it to say that here, doing his new hit medley entitled "Another American Trilogy," is... ELVID!"
The studio goes black. Then the on-stage lights come up just enough to show a microphone in its stand. From out of the darkness comes a man's left hand. He grabs the microphone and brings it to his lips as an unseen band begins to play. The stage lights continue to brighten, but only slightly. You wait for a spotlight to illuminate this "Elvid's" face, but that doesn't happen.
In a voice you've heard countless times before... somewhere... Elvid begins singing a song you've never heard covered quite this way: the Paul Simon composition, "Homeward Bound." Lines like "on a tour of one-night stands, my suitcase and guitar in hand" and "each town looks the same to me" strike you with unusual poignancy, like the singer indeed knows whereof he speaks.
The musical arrangement drifts away from the Paul Simon tune and Elvid, his face still maddeningly obscured by the dim and selective lighting, begins singing a song which was also in the original "An American Trilogy" piece: "Dixie." As in that other, earlier version, the song is sung slowly, almost mournfully. You feel that this is indeed a man removed from his home in the South, whether "the South" refers to Tupelo, Mississippi... or Memphis, Tennessee... or southern Massachusetts. A pleasant-sounding choir of background singers, presumably off-stage, adds to the power of this segment.
After Elvid's brief rendition of the "Dixie" portion of his performance, the unseen band kicks into an up-tempo arrangement of Neil Diamond's "America," introduced in the third filmed version of The Jazz Singer (in which Diamond starred in 1980). By now, you notice, the lights are finally bright enough to make out Elvid's on-stage movements, but his face, as always, remains largely unseen. Elvid's characterization of himself as a wandering musician seems to have finally realized that he's been where he belongs all along.
At the conclusion of the song, Elvid raises his right arm toward the sky -- or to the heavens? -- even as Neil Diamond's character did at the conclusion of his version of the song. You still can't clearly see his face, but somehow... it no longer matters.
Photo "borrowed" from 1980's
The Jazz Singer, and subsequently
"muddied" via Ubuntu's F-Stop feature!
The already-dim stage lights go out completely as the woefully-small studio audience bursts into applause. The lights come up once again and the camera focuses on the Host once more, seated behind his desk. He makes a lame joke about how they had "tried to cut down the electric bill to afford Elvid's performance fee" before dramatically (but facetiously) intoning, "And as for Elvid himself? Elvid... has left the building!"
Well, fellow babies, it almost happened. No, really.
One of the few good things about my former Crappy Day Job as it stood seven or eight years ago was that it gave me every weekend off, something which no other job of mine since I entered the work force in 1973 had done. It also gave me enough money so that I could easily afford to quit the Sunday flea markets I'd been doing steadily since 1988.
Foolishly -- that is, incorrectly -- assuming that I'd have a lot more time on my hands, I planned something rather ambitious. "I want my own TV show!" I announced to anyone who'd listen. My plan was to have a weekly "talk show" spoof, closely modeled after that of my idol, Johnny Carson, using the facilities of my home town's cable access station. (This would be easy enough, seeing as how I actually worked for the cable company at the time.) I'd heard of two or three programs during the 1990s that had started out as cable access shows, but had been "discovered" and bought by "real" TV channels. Ah, the lure of money! This was to be the "brush with fame" I mentioned in my title, in order to justify this post's tenuous inclusion among this week's Theme Thursday entries.
Several names for the show itself occurred to me, but I'll be damned if I can remember even one of them right now!
I planned to have real guests from the local area. Politicians, rock bands, blues bands, jazz bands, country & western bands, strippers... you name it. I'd do real interviews, as well as put-on interviews with characters invented for the show itself. And once in a while, I'd have really special features... like this "Elvid" guy I came up with one day.
Of course, through the magic of videotape, I would be both the host and this "Elvid guy." I can talk somewhat like Elvis, and as a singer, I can actually imitate him pretty well, too. I was doing that as early as 1976, when I used to sing Boston's "Peace of Mind" as if it had been arranged by whoever it was who wrote the arrangement for Elvis Presley's "Burnin' Love." (If you know both songs, give it some thought. Kinda cool, innit?)
The only "problem," such as it was, was that there was no way I was gonna shave off my mustache and beard for a seven-minute spot! So I couldn't show Elvid's (my) face when I performed as him. I can sound like Elvis, sure, but I certainly don't look like him. (I can approximate the famous "Elvis sneer," but I think Megan does it even better!)
So, you ask, what happened to this wonderful TV show? Well, even before I realized how much time this would really entail, I realized that such an endeavor would quickly eat up a lot of written material, whether this was a half hour show, or even a fifteen-minute thing! More than I could handle, considering the mental burn-out I often suffered because of my Crappy Day Job. And on a budget of $47 or so I could hardly afford to hire a writing staff! And I refused to seek out qualified, talented people just to say, "I can't pay you anything now for all of your hard work, of course, but if this thing ever takes off... "
No. No way. I've been approached by far too many people who don't understand that a professional writer can't pay the bills with "maybes" and "somedays." It's always been very, very easy for me to politely refuse such offers. "Writing on spec," as it's called, is an industry no-no.
Thus, my "dream TV show" was -- and will remain -- just that: A dream. Not even a dream, really, just another idea for my mental files. But since David M. Lynch's First Rule of Writing is "Never Throw Anything Away," I know I'll do something with the story of The Show That Never Was someday... like, say, today?
So as far as your chances go of ever hearing -- never mind seeing -- an actual performance by Elvid, whom I hereby dub "The King of Blog'n'Roll"... it ain't gonna happen, sorry. And as for my story about him? Ummm... Haven't you been paying attention? Heh.
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Thirty-Three Years Ago Today...
Thirty-three years ago today, he died.
He was -- arguably -- one of the greatest entertainers ever.
He has been -- inarguably -- one of the biggest influences on music and musicians for over fifty years.
His legion of fans is still increasing. People who weren't even born yet when he died love the man and his legacy of music.
He is one of the most well-known people who ever lived. Worldwide.
And if you doubt that, explain to me why you know whom I'm writing about, although I haven't said his name, and the images above don't show his face.
Thanks for your time... or, rather, "Thankyuhverramuch!"
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"Couldn't ACT?" (Updated)
Heh. I couldn't resist this quick piece to generate a little controversy... although it's not my opinion that'll be controversial... this time.
Actress Emma Thompson is writing a "feminist" remake of My Fair Lady. (So far, no problem... although I generally dislike remakes.) Unfortunately (for Ms. Thompson), she was quoted here and elsewhere as saying that Audrey Hepburn "couldn't sing and couldn't act." (emphasis mine)
Couldn't sing? Well... maybe not. It's no secret that Ms. Hepburn's singing in My Fair Lady was dubbed by Marni Nixon.
But... couldn't act?
Most -- okay, all -- of Hepburn's fans, as well as a lot of people in Hollywood and the entertainment field, didn't or don't share that opinion. Either that, or I suppose Ms. Hepburn is holding a borrowed Oscar in that photo above?
What say you, fellow babies?
Update: Screenwriter Frederic Raphael had this to say in rebuttal to Ms. Thompson's unfortunate remarks.
Labels: "My Fair Lady", Audrey Hepburn, Emma Thompson
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Happy Birthday, "Hermie!"
Happy birthday, Herman Melville! You're lookin' mighty good for a guy who's 191 years old! (Kinda "Silver Fox-y," even, if I do say so myself.)
I've written about "The Divine Mister M" -- Catch that reference, Bette Midler fans? -- thrice before: In my previous post... one of my earliest "Foxyblog" posts (a post which I linked to last time)... and here, describing a story I still plan to write... some-freakin'-day.
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Jazz Kerouac and the Jazz Men of Seoul
Before I started my photography business, I got lost in books. I still do, but not like I used to. I wasn't always a fan of reading until college. It was then that my friend Dennis turned me on to the Beat Generation. Up to that point, my literate life basically consisted of Cliff Notes and tattoo magazines.
But thanks to my mate Burns, my late teens and early twenties were filled with the likes of Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg and Kesey. However, it was the stack of Jack Kerouac novels that I loved most.
Kerouac's staccato verse instantly produced mental images of cigarette wrinkled men blowing their horns with air as fast as their lifestyles. Just reading about it made me want to be a character in the book. I could visualize the scene, hear the jumpy beats and see the beatniks swaying and dancing.
Though, I didn't feel the need to patron the jazz clubs of North Carolina (Are there any?) to prove my visions correct. I perceived to know what jazz clubs were like simply by reading the prose of Beat Master Jack.
Fast forward a decade. No longer do I read Kerouac (Nor do I have the desire to jump in boxcar heading across the country). I have traded my love of Beat literature for a love of Canon and Fuji manuals.
Though I must admit, when a client sent me out for a look at Seoul's thriving jazz scene, I realized that I had the opportunity to again flirt with the scenes Kerouac once set for me. As a portrait photographer, Kerouac fan and musician (the later is debatable), photographing some of Seoul's jazz men was a welcomed editorial commission.
Spending several evenings in Seoul's jazz clubs, I did not find cramped, smoke filled basements and leathered jazz masters. There were no beatniks screaming, "Blow!" I couldn't find a trace of Charlie Parker or Dean Moriarity passed out under a table (Seriously, you must read On the Road no matter how cliche it may now seem). In fact, I found the exact opposite of what I had expected.
In Itaewon's All That Jazz, middle-aged Koreans sat nibbling on lavish cheese and fruit plates. Hongdae's Club Palm hosted lovers more interested in batting eyelashes at one another than the stand-up bass being plucked. Likewise, Once In a Blue Moon's dress code was surprising for even Apgujeong. I was almost turned away because I didn't have a sport's coat. Seriously, it just felt stuffy.
The closest my formative, Kerouac visions came to reality was in a small venue a stone's throw from Hongkik University in the hipster enclave of Hongdae. Without the pomp and circumstance of the other haunts, Club Evan serves bottled beers and crams youthful jazz fans as close to the stage as possible. While there is no blue smoke, there is a lively atmosphere that, I suspect, would make Kerouac proud.
With the editorial assignment finished, I found myself both satisfied with the images and the fact that I had actually been inside a jazz club. In fact, I had been in every jazz club in Seoul. Now, I am dealing with my desire to rummage through a sealed box or two to find some Kerouac novels.
"He starts the first chorus, then lines up his ideas, people, yeah, yeah, but get it, and then rises to his fate and has to blow equal to it. All of a sudden somewhere in the middle of the chorus he gets IT- everybody looks up and knows; they listen; he picks it up and carries. Time stops. He's filling empty space with the substance of our lives, confessions of his bellybottom strain, remembrance of ideas, rehashes of old blowing. He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the moment that everybody knows its not the tune that counts but IT."
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The inaugural Tattersalls Ireland yearling sale, held at Ascot Racecourse, ironically in England, took place in September 2017. On viewing the 126 lots on offer, we concluded that they were a solid enough bunch of horses with decent pedigrees. Generally, the individuals on offer were of the lower end of the market types, the average for the sale proved to be £9000 and the median was £7000 which sits in line with our opinion. Generally, the horses on offer were horses that has not been granted a place in one of the more senior/established sales such as Doncaster or Arqana.
However, we are of the opinion at MPR, that at virtually every sale where there are in excess of 100 horses, there really there ought to be present, a nice horse or two. To be frank, we only found two in this Sale, which ticked enough boxes for us. Unfortunately, however, our bloodstock team weren't happy enough with the conformation of one of these horses so we were down to one horse that fulfilled our "nice horse" criteria.
It was indeed this filly. In talking to the vendor prior to deciding to bid on this filly, he told us that she had been granted a place at The Goffs Uk Premier Sale last month but he has decided to bring her to this sale instead. His reasoning being that she would stand out from the crowd at this Sale and we agreed that his philosophy had been proven correct, or at least in our opinion.
The two main Bloodstock agents we use are Peter/Ross Doyle and Federico Barberini. Ross was very keen on this filly and we decided to bid. We were delighted to secure her for £24,000 (before sales house and agent's commissions) and she goes into training with Richard Hannon. We think the filly will be really suited by the way the Everleigh maestro trains his horses. She looks every inch a sharp and punchy 2yo. She looks very much like a colt which we think is a great advantage when competing against her contemporaries and she looks perfect for all the big fillies races in the first half of the 2018 2yo season, should she be good enough, including all the big sales races given her auction and median auction price tags. She will have plenty of options of where and when to run from March/April time 2018 onwards. Ironically, although we were not aware during the actual auction of the horse amongst the plethora of people around the small ring and just outside the ring at Ascot, but Federico Barberini was in fact the underbidder on this filly for a client of his. We see this a huge positive, in that of the two most respected Bloodstock agents that we like to use, both were really keen to secure this filly's services for their clients. It's further affirmation that this Dandy Man filly was the right horse to bring home from the sale.
You couldn't fail to be impressed by her physique, evidenced by the photos here, and she has a fantastic way of going about her business when asked to walk (please see the video on this page). She has strength, power and a super movement too, covering plenty of ground. She's out of a mare by that hugely successful and influential brood mare sire PIVOTAL, whose brood mare progeny includes Just The Judge, Harbour Law, Rhododendron, Zonderland, Hydrangea and Miss Work Of Art to name but a few.
The dam has already produced a dual winner rated 74 which was by Stimulation and having cost £2000 when sold as a yearling. Her 2nd foal to race is by Sayif and was led out unsold at £4000 as a yearling. We know this second horse, because it is trained by Ben Haslam for some friends of ours; the horse is called Time For Treacle. Time For Treadle, despite not raising a bid as a yearling has been really unlucky not to win so far as a 2yo. There's been a couple of occasions when the horse has deserved to get its head in front. The mare can clearly produce racehorses, (even when they are reasonably poor specimens £2000 and unsold £4000) and even when by un renowned sires such as Stimulation and Sayif. Insert the stallion DANDY MAN as with this filly, Dandy Man who is a serious provider of classy 2yo talent, combined with the fact that this filly stands head and shoulders above her siblings on looks and prowess (lest we forget she was given a place in the Goffs Premier Catalogue) and add a hint of the Hannon 2yo magic and we could be in real business here with this fantastic filly.
As we say, she was our pick of the day's 126 lots on offer. Federico and Ross both wanted her, Goffs UK wanted her; and fortunately, we got her!
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A uniform classification system for grading subcutaneous immunotherapy systemic reactions, some grades which fulfill the criteria for anaphylaxis as defined by the Second Symposium on the Definition and Management of Anaphylaxis, should be helpful to assess more accurately when epinephrine ideally should be administered. After ingestion, there can be a longer time interval between exposure to the culpable agent and the onset of the reaction. However, with a rapid and severe onset of anaphylaxis, especially if the causative agent has been injected, loss of consciousness and shock can occur suddenly in the absence of any other sign or symptom. Fatalities can be due to respiratory tract obstruction and/or shock, with collapse of the cardiovascular system and arrhythmias. Cutaneous: Urticaria (hives) and Angioedema (localized swellings beneath the skin, most commonly on the lips and eyes) Flush Pruritus (itch) without rash Respiratory: Dyspnea (shortness of breath), Wheeze, Cough Upper airway angioedema. Percentages are approximations 30-35 25-30 5-8 4-6 1-2 Evidence Basis for Treatment of Anaphylaxis Anaphylaxis treatment recommendations are primarily based on expert consensus and anecdotal evidence. Assessment and maintenance of the airway, breathing, circulation, and cognitive function are necessary and patients should be monitored continuously until the problem resolves. Patients should be placed in the recumbent position with lower extremities elevated because sudden sitting or standing may be associated with fatal outcomes12,15. Patients with respiratory distress or vomiting should be placed in a position of comfort. Maintain oxygen (O2) saturation For bronchospasm (asthma) intramuscular or subcutaneous delivery of epinephrine; however, absorption is more rapid and plasma levels higher in asymptomatic adults and children given epinephrine intramuscularly into the thigh18,19. The a-adrenergic effect of epinephrine reverses peripheral vasodilation, alleviates mucosal edema and upper airway obstruction as well as hypotension and reduces urticaria/ angioedema. Its -adrenergic properties increase myocardial contractility and output, cause bronchodilation and suppress mediator release from mast cells and basophils7. Oxygen should be administered to patients with progressive Oxygen (O2) Albuterol sulfate solution (different concentrations and doses) Antihistamines. Hypotensive patients should receive intravenous isotonic solutions and those not responding to treatment may require a vasopressor15. For 402 patients, three work days or classroom days were lost per patient with anaphylaxis. There are few studies, all suboptimal, of the long-term costs of anaphylaxis prevention. Krasnick et al demonstrated that Rigorous comparative studies are lacking, but there is strong expert consensus that epinephrine should be administered as early as possible to treat anaphylaxis7,16. In vitro findings of the effect of epinephrine on platelet activating factorsimulated human vascular smooth muscle cells are consistent with the clinical observations which demonstrate that epinephrine is most effective when administered early in anaphylaxis and less effective with the passage of time. There is no absolute contraindication for epinephrine administration to treat anaphylaxis even though it has a relatively narrow therapeutic window7. Subsequent therapeutic interventions depend on the initial response to this medication7. H1 and H2 antihistamines are commonly prescribed for treatment even though they have a slower onset of action than epinephrine and only minimally affect blood pressure. Using cohort simulations, Shaker reported that the incremental costs for prophylactic epinephrine auto-injectors for childhood venom anaphylaxis was $469,459 per year of life saved and $6,882,470 per death prevented and concluded that this was not cost-effective if the annual venom-associated fatality rate was less than 2 per 100,000 persons at risk. Considering the 28 · · Identification of socio-economic and psychological problems that occur because of anaphylaxis. Better education of emergency room and other physicians in the appropriate treatment and follow-up of anaphylaxis and the need for urgent referral to an allergist. Diagnosis, Avoidance, Education, SelfAdministered Epinephrine and Allergen Immuotherapy Diagnostic tests for IgE-mediated anaphylaxis include skin and in vitro tests to the appropriate allergen. Open and double-blind controlled challenges to the suspected allergen, particularly for certain medications and foods, are sometimes indicated but only by experts trained to do so in an appropriate medical facility. Individualized written instructions and education about avoidance (drug, food, additive, occupational allergen, insect, and others) and instructions how and when to self-administer prescribed epinephrine in the case of the inadvertent encounter with the putative allergen are indicated. Unmet Needs and Research · Studies demonstrating the earliest signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis in both children and adults and correlating symptoms with progression to more serious anaphylaxis.
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This has meant that most recommendations have tended to concentrate on a rather dictatorial approach to delivering the information and providing training28 medicine you can order online purchase flutamide 250 mg online. Patients at risk of an anaphylactic reaction need to know exactly which allergen is responsible and how to avoid it symptoms quitting smoking generic 250mg flutamide with amex. It requires the input of a dietician to help identify food products likely to contain the allergen and where to search for those that are safe to use 340b medications purchase flutamide 250mg with amex. They need to be given guidance on recognizing the early symptoms of anaphylaxis so that they can prepare themselves to use emergency medication and call for help. Patients, relatives, friends and those close to them need to fully understand the problem and have training in how to use rescue treatment, including the auto-injector. An action plan must be outlined verbally as well as in graphical form as to how they manage an emergency. However, an observational study from a large tertiary allergy clinic has shown that an appropriate individualized action plan for self-management can decrease the risk of further reactions30,31. Assessments of parental knowledge about allergen avoidance and the use of auto-injectors show that there are still major problems. The conclusion of a systematic review was that more studies were required, particularly to examine cost effectiveness and suitability in different health systems. The program was modified for different age groups and consisted of two-hour sessions once a week provided by a multi-disciplinary team. Many preferred the option of going for natural or complementary therapeutic approaches. Additional concerns related to the time- consuming nature of the treatment and, as far as children were concerned, difficulties in maintaining co-operation 25,26. The Copyright 2013 World Allergy Organization 136 Pawankar, Canonica, Holgate, Lockey and Blaiss that in reality there is no difference32. In relation to the autoinjectors, it is clear that despite appropriate demonstration of use and information about the need to have it available at all times, availability of the emergency kits left a great deal to be desired both in daily life and for instance in schools33. The lack of knowledge about the appropriate use of epinephrine in autoinjectors extends to doctors. A study of medical staff in Australia showed that only 2% of doctors were able to demonstrate the correct steps in the administration of an epinephrine autoinjector perfectly. Thus it is not surprising that there are still major problems with the home management of patients with anaphylaxis. There is an urgent need in relation to food allergy and anaphylaxis to develop more effective education programmes both for professionals and then for patients and families, and subsequently schools and other environments in which the patients find themselves, to ensure safe management34. Future research studies should focus on individual education and training programs, added to standard managemen,t in properly controlled trials with monitoring of quality of life and health outcomes. Unmet Needs · There is presently little evidence base for education and training of patients and their families with food induced enteropathies, allergic rhinitis, latex and drug allergies, recurrent and chronic urticaria and angioedema. Education is fundamental to this process, but unless it facilitates understanding and an appropriate behaviour it will not succeed. New information technology is enhancing the quality of programs but cannot replace face to face discussion addressing the specific needs of individual patients. Written and agreed management plans have consistently been shown to achieve the best outcomes. Efficacy of a selfmanagement programme for childhood asthma  a prospective controlled study. Educating children about asthma: comparing the effectiveness of a developmentally appropriate asthma education videotape and picture book. Psychoeducational interventions for adults with severe or difficult asthma: a systematic review. Self-management, education and regular practitioner review for adults with asthma (Cochrane Review) in: Cochrane Library Issue 1 2003; London: John Wiley and Sons Ltd. A randomised trial of selfmanagement planning for adult patients admitted to hospital with acute asthma. Current and Future Needs Education improves knowledge, but has rather less impact on behavior. The most pressing need is to develop strategies which help patients and their families to change their behavior to benefit the management of their allergic problems. Significant investment is required in order to provide educational tools addressing the needs of different populations and providing a multi-faceted approach. Reducing hospital admission through computer supported education for asthma patients.
Cardiac imaging patients may be asked to ask to drink glucose prior to the radionuclide injection 7mm kidney stone treatment purchase flutamide with a visa. Instruct the patient to resume pretest diet bad medicine cheap flutamide 250mg free shipping, fluids symptoms zollinger ellison syndrome flutamide 250 mg online, medications, and activity Observe for delayed allergic reactions, such as rash, urticaria, tachycardia, hyperpnea, hypertension, palpitations, nausea, or vomiting. Instruct the patient to immediately report symptoms such as fast heart rate, difficulty breathing, skin rash, itching, or decreased urinary output. Instruct the patient in the care and assessment of the injection site; have him or her observe for bleeding, hematoma formation, and inflammation. Instruct the patient to drink increased amounts of fluids for 24 to 48 hr to eliminate the radionuclide from the body, unless contraindicated. If a woman who is breastfeeding must have a nuclear scan, she should not breastfeed the infant until the radionuclide has been eliminated, about 3 days. Refer to the Cardiovascular, Hematopoietic, Musculoskeletal, or Reproductive System tables at the back of the book for related tests by body system. The laboratory analysis of feces includes macroscopic examination (volume, odor, shape, color, consistency, presence of mucus), microscopic examination (leukocytes, epithelial cells, meat fibers), and chemical tests for specific substances (occult blood, trypsin, estimation of carbohydrate). The prevalence of colorectal adenoma is greater than 30% in people aged 60 and older. Progression from adenoma to carcinoma occurs over a period of 5 to 12 yr; from carcinoma to metastatic disease in 2 to 3 yr. The American Cancer Society recommends one of several screening protocols beginning at age 50 to include: annual fecal occult blood, flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 yr, double contrast barium enema every 5 yr, colonoscopy every 10 yr. Inform the patient that the test is used to assist in the diagnosis of intestinal disorders. Inform the patient of the procedure for collecting a stool sample, including the importance of good handwashing techniques. Instruct the patient not to contaminate the specimen with urine, water, or toilet tissue. Instruct the patient not to use laxatives, enemas, or suppositories for 3 days before the test. If the test is being performed to identify blood instruct the patient to follow a special diet that includes small amounts of chicken, turkey, and tuna (no red meats), raw and cooked vegetables and fruits, and bran cereal for several days before the test. Foods to avoid with the special diet include beets, turnips, cauliflower, broccoli, bananas, parsnips, and cantaloupe, since these foods can interfere with the occult blood test. Positively identify the patient, and label the appropriate collection container with the corresponding patient demographics, date and time of collection, and suspected cause of enteritis; note any current or recent antibiotic therapy. Collect a stool specimen in a half-pint waterproof container with a tight-fitting lid; if the patient is not ambulatory, collect it in a clean, dry bedpan. Use a tongue blade to transfer the specimen to the container, and include any mucoid and bloody portions. The specimen should be refrigerated if it will not be transported to the laboratory within 4 hr after collection. To collect specimen by rectal swab, insert the swab past the anal sphincter, rotate gently, and withdraw. Refer to the Gastrointestinal System table at the end of the book for related tests by body system. Treatment with ethanol identifies neutral fats; treatment with acetic acid identifies fatty acids. Through microscopic examination, the number and size of fat droplets can be determined as well as the type of fat present. Excretion of more than 7 g of fecal fat in a 24-hr period is abnormal but nonspecific for disease. Increases in excretion of neutral fats are associated with pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, whereas decreases are related to small bowel disease. An increase in triglycerides indicates that insufficient pancreatic enzymes are available to convert the triglycerides into fatty acids. Patients with malabsorption conditions have normal amounts of triglycerides but an increase in total fecal fat because the fats are not absorbed through the intestine. The appearance and odor of stool from patients with steatorrhea is typically foamy, greasy, soft, and foul-smelling.
Coronaviruses & Infections with coronaviruses are widespread in humans and animals medications gabapentin buy flutamide 250mg low cost. The Coronaviridae family includes several viral species that can infect vertebrates such as dogs treatment 02 bournemouth generic flutamide 250mg on-line, cats medicine doctor cheap 250 mg flutamide overnight delivery, cattle, pigs, rodents, and poultry. The name (corona, as in wreath or crown) refers to the appearance of the viruses (Fig. Viral maturation takes place in the rough endoplasmic reticulum after replacement of cellular proteins by viral proteins in the membranes. Common cold-coronaviruses cause an everyday variety of respiratory infections, which are restricted to the ciliated epithelia of the nose and trachea. Reinfections are therefore frequent, whereby the antigenic variability of the virus may be a contributing factor. Various enteral coronaviruses with morphologies similar to the respiratory types have also been described in humans. Their pathogenicity, and hence their contribution to diarrhea, has not been clarified. Clinically, fever and a marked shortness of breath is noted, developing into a severe atypical pneumonia with new pulmonary infiltrates on chest radiography. Whether the virus present in other body fluids and excreta plays a decisive role for virus transmission is not yet clear. The common-cold coronavirus can be grown in organ cultures of human tracheal tissue or in human diploid cells. Serodiagnosis (complement-binding reaction, immunofluorescence or enzyme immunoassay) and electron microscopy are feasible methods. Only in February of 2003, the world was alerted about the lung disease, shortly before it escaped China, when a Guangdong resident in a Hong Kong hotel transmitted it to other guests who spread it to Toronto, Hanoi, Singapore, and elsewhere. Transmission of the virus is by droplets, but close contact ("household transmission") 8 Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved. Transmission is by sexual intercourse, blood and blood products, as well as prenatal and perinatal infections. Prevention: exposure prophylaxis when contact with blood is involved (drug addicts, healthcare staff) and sexual intercourse. This virus family includes seven genera, three of which play significant roles in human medicine: Kayser, Medical Microbiology © 2005 Thieme All rights reserved. A human pathogen retrovirus was isolated for the first time in 1980 from adults suffering from T-cell leukemias. Genes not essential to viral replication: - Virus infection factor (vif): makes the virus more infectious. A number of other coreceptors are also active depending on the viral strain involved. The rest of the viral replication process basically corresponds to the description of retroviral replication on p. The interaction of the many different contributing control genes is responsible for the long latency period and subsequent viral replication (see also Fig. It must also be noted that the cell destruction mechanism has not been completely explained. The primary infection either remains inapparent or manifests as "acute retroviral syndrome" with conjunctivitis, pharyngitis, exanthem, and lymphadenopathy, as well as a transitory meningoencephalitis in some cases. This stage is followed by a long period of clinical latency (the incubation period is described as 10 years), during which the carrier is clinically normal but may be infectious. Apparently, viral replication continues throughout this period, especially in lymphoid organs. Every positive result requires confirmation by an alternative test (Western blot, see p. The p24 antigen is detectable in serum as early as two weeks after infection and disappears again after eight to 12 weeks. Antibody-based tests are available for rapid diagnosis in medical practices, hospitals, and health centers. If the test result is positive, a second serum specimen should be tested to confirm the result and exclude confusion of sera.
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Intravenous infusion administration: a comparative study of practices and errors between the United States and England and their implications for patient safety. Get Citation
Blandford A, Dykes PC, Franklin BD, et al. Drug Saf. 2019 Jun 13; [Epub ahead of print].
Intravenous medication infusions are an important target for safety interventions. Many infused medications, such as opioids and chemotherapy, require vigilant adherence to protocol to prevent harm. Technical solutions to infusion errors such as computerized provider order entry, barcode medication administration, and smart infusion pumps have been implemented with some success. Investigators compared infusion errors in the United States, where all three technical interventions are common, to the United Kingdom, where those technical interventions are rare. Minor errors were common in each country, but only 0.8% of infusions placed patients at serious risk of harm. Although the details of errors in both countries differed in detail, rates of error and harm were similar. A WebM&M commentary described a chemotherapy infusion error that caused renal failure.
Intensive care medicine in 2050: preventing harm. Get Citation
Beet C, Benoit D, Bion J. Intensive Care Med. 2019;45:505-507.
This commentary discusses current challenges to safety in critical care, such as underperforming decision support, poor organizational learning, and clinician burnout. The authors envision safety improvements due to innovations in processes like wearable monitoring technology that enables rapid response activation, workflow-embedded reflective learning, and patient–clinician collaboration.
Strategies for optimizing OR drug safety.
Meyer TA, McAllister RK. Pharmacy Practice News. March 19, 2018.
Perioperative adverse drug events are common and understudied. Reporting on the complexity of medication administration during surgery, this news article reviews strategies to reduce risks of surgical adverse drug events. Specific tactics discussed include proactive problem identification, medication reconciliation, high-alert medication process vigilance, verbal order reduction, and information technology optimization.
Problems with health information technology and their effects on care delivery and patient outcomes: a systematic review. Get Citation
Kim MO, Coiera E, Magrabi F. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017;24:246-250.
This systematic review of studies describing safety problems associated with health information technology identified mostly qualitative data and case reports. The authors suggest that their framework, an information value chain which extends from the interaction with technology to the patient outcome, could be used to enhance the literature on health information technology and safety.
Microanalysis of video from the operating room: an underused approach to patient safety research. Get Citation
Bezemer J, Cope A, Korkiakangas T, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017;26:583-587.
Increased use of video technology in the health care setting may represent an opportunity to improve patient safety. The authors introduce a framework for using video data in patient safety research, present insights from numerous studies, and outline opportunities for further study.
The promise of big data: improving patient safety and nursing practice. Get Citation
Linnen D. Nursing. May 2016;46:28-34.
Big data is gaining attention as a way to improve quality and safety. This commentary discusses how outcomes data can be applied to enhance safety of nursing care and reviews limitations to successfully using analytics, including insufficient interoperability and inadequate funding to design effective tools.
Creating a web-based incident analysis and communication system. Get Citation
Marsal S, Heffner JE. J Hosp Med. 2012;7:142-147.
This study reports on the development of a system for standardizing root cause analysis of sentinel events.
Preventable adverse drug events and their causes and contributing factors: the analysis of register data. Get Citation
Jylhä V, Saranto K, Bates DW. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:187-197.
This study found that information management processes are a key area for improving medication safety.
Potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions among cancer patients. Get Citation
Riechelmann RP, Tannock IF, Wang L, Saad ED, Taback NA, Krzyzanowska MK. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007;99:592-600.
Medication safety efforts continue to focus on minimizing drug interactions. Furthermore, an aging population and greater use of chronic medications may increase the risk of such events. This study surveyed more than 400 cancer patients and discovered that more than 25% of them were at risk for a potential drug interaction. Most cases involved non-cancer agents such as warfarin and antihypertensives. In a small number of cases, patients received duplicate prescriptions. While the authors discuss the role of clinical decision support systems in preventing these events, their findings noted only potential drug interactions and not true adverse events. A similar study reported on potential drug interactions in hospitalized cancer patients.
Expected and unanticipated consequences of the quality and information technology revolutions. Get Citation
Wachter RM. JAMA. 2006;295:2780-2783.
Burgeoning efforts to improve health care quality and to wire the health care system provide the backdrop for this reflective commentary on expected and unexpected consequences of these twin revolutions. The author uses several case examples to illustrate how focusing on individual quality measures (eg, Pneumovax administration rates or timing of antibiotics) can distract providers from more relevant patient care issues. The author uses other examples to highlight the side effects of information technology, emphasizing that these innovations are tools, not solutions, to improve patient care and safety. The author advocates for better systems that not only provide improved patient outcomes but also support providers in their efforts to deliver safe, high-quality, and effective care. The author, who edits this site, also coauthored two past influential patient safety pieces, a book entitled Internal Bleeding, and an influential Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality (AHRQ)–supported evidence-based analysis of nearly 80 patient safety practices.
Systematic review: impact of health information technology on quality, efficiency, and costs of medical care. Get Citation
Chaudhry B, Wang J, Wu S, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:742-752.
This AHRQ–funded study evaluated more than 250 publications in determining the major studied benefits of health information technology (HIT). The benefits reported include improved adherence to guideline-based care, enhanced surveillance and monitoring, and decreased medication errors. In addition, although decreased utilization of care was noted, specific time utilization measures and empirical cost data were either mixed or limited. The authors caution that translating the benefits reported in these high-quality studies may be limited, owing to their evaluation in four benchmark research institutions. The authors discuss the implications of their findings in the context of existing political and financial drivers. This systematic review builds on past studies that focused on specific aspects of HIT, such as computerized provider order entry (CPOE).
A web-based tool for the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). Get Citation
Pronovost PJ, King J, Holzmueller CG, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32:119-129.
The authors discuss a project management tracking program to help promote a safety culture through sharing of stories and knowledge.
Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error, Second Edition.
Casey SM. Santa Barbara, CA: Aegean Publishing Company; 1998. ISBN 13: 9780963617880.
This book introduces important human factors issues using a series of real cases and incidents from health care and a variety of other industries. The title refers to the disastrous death of a patient due to a design flaw in the radiotherapy accelerator, Therac-25. A plausible but unanticipated series of keystrokes by the operator resulted in the delivery of more than 100 times the intended dose of radiation. Other chapters discuss events as diverse as the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India, an incorrect stock trade that nearly caused a market collapse, a variety of military and industrial examples, as well other cases from health care. The book provides numerous real-world examples of misadventures in human–system interactions.
Cranky comments: detecting clinical decision support malfunctions through free-text override reasons. Get Citation
Aaron S, McEvoy DS, Ray S, Hickman TT, Wright A. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019;26:37-43.
Although clinical decision support is an important safety tool, unintended consequences include frequent alerts with resultant alert fatigue and overrides. This observational study investigated whether override comments for clinical decision rules could be used to determine if a rule was broken. Investigators discovered that malfunctions were prevalent in clinical decision support. While the frequency of comments did not predict the presence of a rule malfunction, strongly negative comments were associated with erroneous decision support. The authors recommend routine monitoring of alert override comments to identify errors related to clinical decision support. A past WebM&M commentary recommended employing human factors engineering to make clinical decision support more effective.
Dissecting communication barriers in healthcare: a path to enhancing communication resiliency, reliability, and patient safety. Get Citation
Guttman OT, Lazzara EH, Keebler JR, Webster KLW, Gisick LM, Baker AL. J Patient Saf. 2018 Nov 9; [Epub ahead of print].
Communication errors in health care are a persistent challenge to patient safety. This commentary advocates for studying behavioral, cognitive, linguistic, environmental, and technological factors to help understand barriers to effective information exchange in health care. The authors suggest that approaches targeting each set of barriers be developed and embedded into learning activities to generate lasting improvements.
Physician burnout in the electronic health record era: are we ignoring the real cause? Get Citation
Downing NL, Bates DW, Longhurst CA. Ann Intern Med. 2018;169:50-51.
Professional burnout is a pervasive problem among health care workers that can have serious effects on patient safety. Despite the recent focus on how poor design of information technology contributes to burnout, this commentary advocates for a broader approach to addressing the problem. The authors suggest that regulation and the associated billing requirements are the root causes of the documentation burden and offer recommendations to address them.
Errors in electronic health record–based data query of statin prescriptions in patients with coronary artery disease in a large, academic, multispecialty clinic practice. Get Citation
Shin EY, Ochuko P, Bhatt K, et al. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018;7:e007762.
Though electronic health record (EHR) data is not always accurate, federal pay-for-performance programs rely on that data to determine reimbursement. The authors evaluated how their institution's EHR measured a common quality metric—statin prescription for coronary artery disease. Manual chart review determined that most EHR-detected prescribing failures were clinically correct care.
Smart pumps in practice: survey results reveal widespread use, but optimization is challenging.
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 5, 2018;23:1-5.
Smart pumps are considered an important tool to improve medication safety in the hospital environment. This newsletter article summarizes the results of two national surveys on smart infusion pump use to highlight current concerns and challenges to generating improvements. Irrelevant alarms and out-of-date drug libraries were among the problems identified by survey participants.
Examining the relationship of an all-cause harm patient safety measure and critical performance measures at the frontline of care. Get Citation
Sammer C, Hauck LD, Jones C, Zaiback-Aldinger J, Li M, Classen D. J Patient Saf. 2018 Feb 7; [Epub ahead of print].
Trigger tools harness electronic health record data to detect and ameliorate safety hazards. Triggers can identify errors in a specific area or more globally measure an organization's safety. Researchers at a large community hospital developed a robust trigger tool to measure all-cause patient harm and assessed what predicted lower all-cause harm at the unit level. Units with increased employee engagement, stronger safety culture, and better patient experience were all correlated with lower rates of all-cause harm. The authors suggest that their tool could serve as a composite measure of patient safety, replacing the hundreds of safety metrics institutions are required to report. A PSNet perspective reinforced the value of a strong safety culture and discussed techniques for bringing about culture change.
The Weekend Effect
with commentary by Sumant Ranji, MD, 2017
A considerable body of evidence demonstrates worsened clinical outcomes for patients admitted to the hospital on weekends compared to those admitted on weekdays. This Annual Perspective summarizes innovative studies published in 2017 that helped clarify the magnitude of this effect and identify possible mechanisms by which it occurs.