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Re: Do not vaccinate your children!
RichMauro wrote:
Since this article in July it's plummeted to 17% efficacy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta- ... vents-severe-illness.html
Look into it.
A few months ago they were at the top of the list for vaccinations.
So what's your point in regards to vaccinating kids to protect them from serious consequences of Covid?
If it's to vaccinate children and adults with Moderna if that's an option, I agree with you.
Also re: Pfeizer vaccine, the study cited hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, and if the findings are accurate, it's still "high on the list."
Please vaccinate your children!
Ignore the dangerous anti-vax misinformation contained in this topic. The lives of your children, and your neighbors depend on it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kids-covi ... ay-theyre-getting-sicker/
Kids make up 15% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and some doctors say they're getting sicker
BY CAITLIN O'KANE
UPDATED ON: AUGUST 10, 2021 / 7:03 PM / CBS NEWS
More and more children are testing positive for COVID-19, and some doctors are not only reporting an uptick in cases but more severe illness for kids who contract the virus.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 93,824 child COVID-19 cases were reported between July 29 and August 5, with children representing 15% of the weekly reported cases in the U.S. Since July 22, the total number of child COVID-19 cases has jumped 4%. As of August 5, nearly 4.3 million children in the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
And while severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children, "there is an urgent need to collect more data on longer-term impacts of the pandemic on children, including ways the virus may harm the long-term physical health of infected children, as well as its emotional and mental health effects," the academy says.
Some doctors in Seattle have reported an increase of children with serious illness from COVID-19, urgent care nurse practitioner Justin Gill told CBSN last week. Gill said kids are not as susceptible to serious illness as adults, but with more cases come more hospitalizations.
"With Delta variant, we are seeing some younger people, even vaccinated and unvaccinated, but the vast majority of cases who get hospitalized tend to be unvaccinated individuals," Gill said. Kids under 12 cannot yet receive COVID-19 vaccines, which are still undergoing testing in younger age groups.
"Many of the people admitted here at Seattle Children's, as mentioned by multiple articles here, are unvaccinated people over the age of 12 and unvaccinated under the age of 12," Gill said. He added that vaccine approval for children under 12, which could come this fall, will be a big step in reducing those numbers.
Health experts believe the Delta variant is behind the uptick in cases. Dr. John McGuire, who works in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Seattle Children's, told local Seattle station KOMO-TV that he hopes to get through this latest wave of the pandemic "as quickly as possible."
McGuire said a vast majority of child COVID-19 cases are in kids who are too young to get the shot — or whose families are unvaccinated.
"That's worrisome," he told the station. "We had hoped that with increased vaccine in the general population, we would see fewer cases."
"One way to protect [kids], because they're not yet eligible, is to have the people that they're around be vaccinated," he added.
Gill said masks are also important to reduce the spread of COVID-19, including for vaccinated people who may be exposed to high loads of the virus.
"Mask use, specifically in schools where you have a large number of unvaccinated children potentially, is a common sense step to help us get over the pandemic," he said.
Seattle isn't the only U.S. city seeing a surge in children's cases. CBS News correspondent David Begnaud reported Sunday night that Children's Hospital New Orleans currently has 18 children hospitalized with COVID-19, including six in the ICU and three who were on ventilators.
Begnaud visited Children's Hospital New Orleans on July 29, when the hospital reported 20 children hospitalized with COVID-19. "A lot of these kids are very sick with respiratory symptoms. Literally starved for oxygen," Dr. Mark Kline told Begnaud.
Jacquez Lee, a 17-year-old high school football player, was in the emergency room experiencing difficulty breathing, headaches and coughing.
"If he wouldn't have gotten the first dose of the vaccination, his sickness would've been way worse than what it is now," his mother, Fatina Watkins, said.
Louisiana has one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates, and over just two weeks 1% of the state's entire population has caught the virus, CBS News' Mark Strassmann reported on "Face the Nation."
"We have more children sick with COVID-19 than at any other time during the pandemic," Governor John Bel Edwards said.
Texas and Florida now make up about one-third of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., and governors of both states oppose universal mask rules as schools open. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that all children over the age of 2 wear masks when they go back to school.
Among adolescents and teens who are old enough to get vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 51% of 16-17-year-olds and 40% of 12-15-year-olds have gotten at least one dose. About 7.7 million are fully vaccinated.
The CDC said that while children are generally at lower risk for serious illness from COVID-19 than adults, those with preexisting conditions may face more severe symptoms. And even some previously healthy kids are ending up hospitalized.
A study published in April that observed a cohort of more than 20,000 pediatric COVID-19 patients found that 2,430 — 11.7% — were hospitalized, and about 31% of those hospitalized experienced severe illness.
Several studies also show that some children may experience lingering symptoms, or "long COVID."
A study out of Gemelli University in Rome followed 129 children ages 18 or under who were diagnosed with COVID-19, and found that about a third of them had one or two lingering symptoms four months or more after infection, and a quarter had three or more symptoms, including insomnia, fatigue, muscle pain and persistent cold-like complaints, according to the study, published in Acta Paediatrica journal.
First published on August 9, 2021 / 4:07 PM
Re: Worst traffic ever
JC_Man wrote:
Snowstorm brought to you by Mother Nature.
Ensuing chaos and cluster-eff brought to you by Murphy, Fulop and the rest of the social, liberal Dems!!
Go NJ Voters!!
BTW - Murphy obviously didn't learn from the March snowstorms - oh well.
Yes Comrade it is fact! But why you leave out Soros, Hillary and Obama? You getting soft?
Re: Sessions out, Gov Christie in?
Breaking!
Chris Christie at White House, being considered to replace Jeff Sessions as AG: reports
https://www.app.com/story/news/new-jer ... lsq0uclKWw8O1Zs42NFquLE5g
"Chris did such a great job shutting down the (George Washington) bridge to Manhattan, he can surely shut down the Mueller investigation"
Re: Menendez ahead by a wee bit!
Menendez declared the winner.
Posted on: 2018/11/7 1:56
Re: JCBOE - who are you voting for and why?
I'm voting 4-5-6. Terrible idea to vote for candidates bought and paid for by the NJEA - teacher's union. Children and taxpayers come first!
James Solomon and others have endorced 4-5-6.
ecinjc wrote:
The union supports 1,2 and3.
Joshua I?m speaking for myself not the candidates. They have run a totally positive campaign and good for them. If I had been writing their campaign messaging you would know it.
However the question posed was who do people support and why? I support 4,5 and 6, because the other side has aligned themselves with the Board President.
I don?t think Sudhan Thomas has been a good Board President, for a lot of reasons. First and foremost I think it was unethical to fire Dr. Lyles staff without notice and opened the district up to legal action.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... cials_signal_lawsuit.html
Also his own personal financial problems make him unfit to hold the role as Board President.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... rd_president_lawsuit.html
And if that weren?t enough I hold him at least partially responsible for the teachers strike. He had ample opportunity to send the teachers contract to mediation and didn?t.
So those are my reasons. I?m sure you will have a rebuttal and yes I was a part of Parents for Progress but have nothing to do with Jersey City United so you are wrong again there.
Latest poll shows Menendez pulling away from Hugin.
https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... _before_election_day.html
People dislike Hugin. He's as big a liar at the president -
Hugin's TV ads set a new standard for sleaze | Moran
Updated Oct 31; Posted Oct 31
By Tom Moran tmoran@starledger.com
Columnist, The Star-Ledger
When Bob Menendez was indicted on corruption charges in 2015, I wrote an editorial calling on him to resign. It was awkward, because his office is across the hall from ours in downtown Newark, and we share the same bathroom. Relations have been a bit tense.
So, I'm surprised to be writing that it's his opponent in this race, Republican Bob Hugin, who is running the sleazier campaign.
Hugin is running TV spots that suggest Menendez patronized child prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, a charge that's been debunked as a vicious lie by every fact-checker on earth. I'll break that down shortly.
But the low road seems to be helping Hugin close the gap. Public polls still show Menendez with a lead of about six points, on average. But campaigns conduct private polls much more frequently, so they can detect changes more quickly.
I keep hearing from Democrats who are terrified that the gap is closing. And the Cook Political Report, probably the most respected oddsmakers in American politics, now calls the race a tossup.
"It's not like Bob Hugin's campaign fed me a line," says Jennifer Duffy, who handles Senate races for Cook. "It's hand-wringing Democrats who are saying it's not as good as people think. I made that call on the basis of Democratic data."
So, given that the prostitution charge could flip the race, let's take a look.
The latest ad opens with a young mother cradling her infant daughter as images of Harvey Weinstein flash on a TV screen in the background. We hear the mother's voice, as she pulls her baby close.
"Reading this sworn FBI affidavit containing allegations that Menendez traveled abroad to have sex with underage prostitutes, one thing became clear: I'll never be able to explain a vote for him, to her."
That affidavit she refers to was presented in support of the FBI's request for a search warrant of the offices of Dr. Salomon Melgen, which was granted. He was later convicted of Medicare fraud, and it now in federal prison.
But the affidavit does not charge that Menendez patronized under-aged prostitutes. It says only that an anonymous tipster made the claim.
That informant, we learned later, was a liar. You may remember that the first charge of prostitution surfaced in 2013, when three adult women in the Dominican Republic charged on video that Menendez paid them for sex. They later recanted, saying they were paid to make bogus claims.
Who would have paid those women to lie? We never found out.
But it was the same anonymous tipster who told the FBI that Menendez patronized child prostitutes. He refused to reveal himself to the FBI or sit down with agents to discuss the charge, which kills any surviving scrap of his credibility. The FBI sent agents to the Dominican Republic to be thorough, anyway, and found no good evidence to support the charge.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... ard_for_sleaze_moran.html
Re: Property Taxes - Delinquency Notice - How to get help from City Hall?
Remember property taxes are due today, November 1, 2018.
Re: Drunk driver hits cars on 5th st.
GrovePath wrote:
jc_dweller wrote:
Saturday night (well, technically sunday) around 12:30am drunk driver hits several parked cars on 5th between Coles and Monmouth. Possibly farther east as well. If anyone has camera footage of incident, or of erratic car (to see license plate or car make/model), please advise!
They need to increase DUI stings Friday & Saturday night downtown - with all the bars it is an obvious problem - perhaps a good place to start is Newark Ave as it heads up the hill.
Why not attend a Capain's meeting and tell the how to do their job in person?
http://njjcpd.org/captains-meetings
TheBigGuy wrote: Can't wait to hear Hillary's endorsement of Senator Bob. Especially after the bangup job she she did defending her husband against the 22 year old intern grown woman who abused her free access to the President and used her feminine Delilah like charms to seduce him in the Oval Office. "Bob is especially proud of his record working with young women. His fatherly like mentoring abilities transcend borders, ethnicity and age. And Bob is willing to go that extra mile to provide the kind of support.... that well, shucks... money just can't buy." Quote:
Hillary Clinton stumps for Menendez at Jersey City fundraiser
Hillary Clinton came out to Jersey City to help raise money for embattled New Jersey U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on Monday.
Clinton was the featured guest at the event to raise money for Menendez, his leadership political action committee, and the New Jersey State Democratic Committee. at the Liberty Prime Steakhouse in Jersey City on Oct. 15. Tickets ranged from $500 to $5,400, according to an invitation.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _bob_menendez_at_jer.html
Menendez is pulling ahead in the polls. Hugin is too closely associated with Trump, and NJ voters think that Trump is gross. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2 ... recast/senate/new-jersey/
Re: Chicago Church, Father Paul and Jersey City
Screenshot taken for posterity.
Ye shall reap what you sow
HeightsNative wrote:
Wow. So you guys would rather vote for a confirmed pedophile and corrupt asswipe in menendez, than a reasonably good GOP moderate candidate simply because he's a Republican. And spare me, I'm not a republican. And I rarely vote for them. But this is beyond the pale.
My bad. You all are the same dopes who gave Booker a seat at the table too. My bad. I forgot who I was dealing with.
So going forward, you tits have no right to complain about anything that goes awry in this state.
I'm not a huge fan of Menendez, but those accusations have been thoroughly discredited by legitimate news organizations. Not worth arguing with people that don't care about the truth.
Re: Our Lady of Czestochowa Downtown Sex Abuse...
The Catholic Church Is Sick With Sex
Outside of condemning adulterous behavior, Christ never said anything about whom you could love.
Timothy Egan
By Timothy Egan
One pope was a father of 10 through multiple mistresses, a man who purchased the papacy with mule-loads of silver. It is said that Alexander VI, the most debauched of the Borgia pontiffs, elected in 1492, even had an affair with one of his daughters.
Another pope contracted syphilis during his reign ? a ?disease very fond of priests, especially rich priests,? as the saying went in Renaissance times. That was Julius II, known as ?Il terrible.?
A third pope, Pius IX, added Flaubert?s ?Madame Bovary? and John Stuart Mill?s book on the free market economy to the Vatican?s List of Prohibited Books during his long reign in the 19th century. He also formalized the doctrine of papal infallibility.
What these Holy Fathers had in common was not just that they were badly flawed men putting forth badly flawed ideas: At the root of their moral failings is Catholicism?s centuries-old inability to come to grips with sex...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/31/opi ... smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Re: JC Street Sweep and Parking Petition!
SOS wrote:
i'm ok with once weekly street sweeping but i am TOTALLY AGAINST the idea of giving amnesty to people with unpaid parking tickets. WTH. People break the law and you want to give them a break? He must be a big fan of Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez.
It's better for the city to get some revenue instead of zero from unpaid tickets. It's a way to clear old debts difficult to collect. Most people that far behind in their tickets must be having a tough time. I'd be inclined to hear the specifics of the plan.
They offered the program in Philly:
https://whyy.org/articles/nearly-10-mi ... y-parking-ticket-amnesty/
i'd rather car registrations be revoked for unpaid parking tickets
I'd rather they keep their car so they can keep their job.
Haggis wrote:
UHM....No
From what I read there are six initiatives. Which ones are you opposed to and why?
Re: JC Public Schools is short $70 million
Today was the final vote on the budget, it is now $1.488 as the rate.
Thanks for that information.
Re: Donald Trump Solidifies World Peace
Comrades, finally Trump turns world right side up! Trump good buddies with dear leader Kim and also put that fking a-hole Canadian Trudeau in his Place. Trump knows who our real friends are unlike democrat liberal progressive Barak HUSSAIN Obama!
President Donald Trump is still angry at Justin Trudeau for a perceived slight during a speech by the Canadian prime minister following the G-7 meeting.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/t ... ney/ar-AAyxq5G?li=BBnb7Kz
Re: Am I allowed to put up fliers informing neighbors about a felon who has moved into the neighborh
This is from Curtis Thrower's fb profile -
I'm a fun loving, caring person until u cross me. I love my family with all my heart. My nephews and nieces are what keeps me focused. I adore the ppl who adore me. I love to read, write short stories, and old school R&B. And I love to laugh. So all and all. I'm a happy person.
And this - https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20110720090
ActionDan wrote:
This is not about me nicky, although I do have a great deal of respect for the Polish people. I actually remember reading about St. Maximum Kolbe who gave his life for a Jewish man about to be executed by the Nazi. Kolbe was a Catholic priest who wrote articles condemning Nazis for rounding up Jewish people. When someone escaped from a Nazi camp, ten people was chosen to be executed, a Jewish man was in that list and cried because he had a wife and children. So Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to take his place. The Nazis went after the Jews but the Polish people did not fare well during the war. According to wikianswers, 3 million Catholic Polish people died under the Nazis regime.
How do you even post something like this?
And this for example - " There is a Holocaust memorial in Liberty State Park, also a prime location. If the park were to relocate this memorial, I am sure there would be outrage."
On Fulop's twitter feed the nazis and white power contingent used the same argument.
Yvonne feeds off anger, racism, fear, and misery. She's toxic.
FULOP>>>>making it RAIN for the NEXT THREE DAYS!!! And no respect for HIGH QUALITY VINYL SIDING!
Looking forward to the gruesome statue being replaced by a park. The Star-Ledger Editorial Board agrees that it should be moved.
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... the_man_being_impale.html
How to talk to your kid about the man being impaled on Jersey City's waterfront
Updated May 7; Posted May 7
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board eletters@starledger.com
We don't need to be our kids' best friends, but it's nice to ask your little one about his or her day while strolling along Jersey City's scenic waterfront.
The "man being stabbed in the back," though, is one subject many parents prefer to put off while their child is still in preschool. What do you say when it inevitably comes up?
No. The answer is, you shouldn't have to talk about a 34-foot-high man getting impaled on Jersey City's waterfront.
The statue was unveiled at Exchange Place in 1991.
On this, reasonable people can agree: The soldier with an enormous bayoneted rifle sticking out of his back is perhaps the most gruesome statue we have ever seen.
It memorializes the massacre of 22,000 Poles by the Soviets in 1940, some buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest.
This, we should never forget. We memorialize atrocities so they are never repeated. We are horrified by this, just as we are by the people shot at Tiananmen Square.
But we don't necessarily want to see a statue of a man with his head being blown off along the Jersey City waterfront, either.
Still, prominent Poles were offended when a developer renovating the waterfront suggested the statue find a new home, because it's "a little gruesome."
This has since blown up into an international incident, Terrence McDonald of the Jersey Journal reports, and a top story in Poland.
The Polish artist who created the statue, Andrzej Pitynski, called the developer a "schmuck."
"After 30 years some businessman with big money comes and he tries to dictate," Pitynski told the Journal. "Who this f***ing guy is? The hell with him."
The speaker of Poland's Senate, Stanislaw Karczewski, said the idea of relocating the statue is "scandalous," and "a very unpleasant situation for us."
Jersey City's mayor, Steve Fulop, hasn't said whether it will be moved permanently - his preference - but fired back on Twitter that Karczewski is a "joke," a "known anti-Semite, white nationalist + holocaust denier" with "no credibility."
He added: "The only unpleasant thing is Senator Stanislaw. Period."
Back to the statue. The head of the group that commissioned it, Krzysztof Nowak, thinks we should design the entire waterfront park around it.
"You want to put a couple of benches around the monument? Put a couple of benches around the monument," he said.
Another option would be not to design a major city park around a man being impaled, and instead, move the statue to a museum. Anyone?
Poland's ambassador, Piotr Wilczek, also thinks the statue should stay where it is. Bayonne's mayor, seeking re-election in a city with a sizable number of Poles, offered to take it.
Here's where we stand: Respect the Polish and teach your kids about Katyn - but please, don't put a man being impaled in front of the New York City skyline.
Steve Fulop on radio 101.5 this morning discussing Katyn memorial -
https://youtu.be/uZvPhKl1wFs
There was one self professed HUGE winner -
?I dodged a bullet?
Yvonne Balcer, a longtime critic of the city?s tax abatement policies, said one of the homes that saw the largest increase downtown had formerly been hers.
?I dodged a bullet,? she said. ?I sold my home six years ago.?
She said her former home saw taxes rise by 300 percent, from $16,000 to $41,000 per year. The assessed value went from $210,000 to just over $2.5 million.
?That could have been me,? she said.
user1111 wrote:
The assessment company predicts that the biggest impacts will be felt downtown, while residents elsewhere in the city ? in particular the Greenville and the southernmost part of the city ? will actually see sharp declines.
Greenville, the West Side and The Heights, including areas such as County Village and Society Hill, may see decreases when the final numbers are released.
Community activists have long complained that residents in poorer neighborhoods have been paying too much in taxes, artificially subsidizing lower taxes for residences downtown.
Although the numbers throughout the city have yet to be fully released, Councilman Michael Yun predicts that Jersey City Heights ? which was hit hard in the last revaluation in 1988 ? will not be as negatively impacted as downtown was.
?The Heights are still an attractive place to move,? he said, suggesting that a trend that started well before the revaluation of residents moving from downtown to The Heights might increase as the results of the revaluation push people out downtown.
The problem is that downtown residents may not be able to sell their properties as easily as they might have before the revaluation.
In some cases, pending sales of properties were held up in order to see what the new taxes would be.
?This is bad news for everybody,? said one local real estate agent. ?People looking to buy here don?t look at neighborhood by neighborhood, they?re thinking Jersey City, and this revaluation is saying Jersey City is too expensive.?
Read more: Hudson Reporter - Bad news for downtown Residents stunned when reval results mean more taxes
Dinger wrote:
ASI won't be mailing value letters until the end of March. Most of the assessments are still "in progress."
At the HCA meeting with Fulop and Solomon on Monday the 12th, it was mentioned that all value letters will be sent by February 19.
Perhaps Terrance McDonald can confirm this date?
Azul_the_Cat wrote:
biggoron wrote:
Looks like an excel file was posted by the assessment company:
http://www.asinj.com/revaluation/docs ... oposed%20Assessments.xlsx
It has over 13,000 properties listed so far... Any idea what the total number should be around once it is all said and done?
Sure is taking them a while to post Ogden Ave LOL. Unless I missed it.
This looks like the same spread sheet that was posted earlier.
No, Biggoron converted the PDF to xls, and the PDF had fewer listings.
I love the xls, great for analyzing the data, but I reckon most homeowners, at least the ones that post on these forums, don't know how to use a spreadsheet. Too bad the appraisal company doesn't offer PDF and xls formats.
By: ARTHUR CHI'EN
POSTED: FEB 12 2018 09:53PM EST
VIDEO POSTED: FEB 12 2018 10:42PM EST
UPDATED: FEB 13 2018 08:10AM EST
NEW JERSEY (FOX5NY.COM) - Municipal officials in Jersey City, New Jersey, haven't taken a look at property values in 30 years. It means some have been paying more in taxes than they should and others have been paying less. And trying to fix the problem has created another mess.
Dolores Renner, a resident of 74 years, is so afraid for her future that she was speechless. She learned that her taxes
are doubling to more than $20,000 a year. She said she can't pay that much and now worries
They got the spelling of the last name wrong, correct spelling is Rennar.
Her property is -
-3 family
-Acreage .0574 - 25' x 100' which is large.
I have no idea what her financial situation is, but she owns a 3 family house downtown...
Updated FEB 5 PDF -
http://www.asinj.com/revaluation/docs ... d%20as%20of%20Feb%205.pdf
File as promised:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VkmP6vQEiNs2LGm58Cl3V96xnVgvlyBP
I'd recommend downloading it and opening it in Excel if you have it.
Thanks biggoron! Excellent to have this in Excel format.
PDF of current letters/assessments that have gone out -
http://www.asinj.com/revaluation.asp?p=current&id=359
Click on "Assessment Lists" lower left of page.
My property is not listed. In fact only about 6000 are listed in the PDF (39 per page times 153 pages = 5967). Looks like it is a slowish rollout to get everyone their new assessment.
At the top of the PDF - "released as of 1/24/2018"
Since 1/24 more letters have gone out. For example, the property of the person that started this thread is not included in the spreadsheet, and has received the letter.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Drugs and Alcohol have always been a part of our society. Decades ago, alcohol was used as an anesthesia in many medical procedures, THC or marijuana was used for medical treatments, and cocaine was used in experiment by Sigmund Freud. Drugs and Alcohol, and our understanding of them as addictive substances, have evolved over the years. So, my question remains. Have drugs and alcohol impacted you or your loved one's life? Do you have a loved one with a problem? If your answer is yes, it is likely that you have heard the following comments. "Not my child!", "They can't be using heroin!", "My friend only drinks at parties!", or "My spouse drinks, but they always go to work!" Drugs and alcohol can have many painful consequences for families. Alcohol and drug problems tend to cause extended periods of high stress for the entire family.
What does it mean when 'those professionals' talk about addiction as a family disease? An individual can say, "I am drinking and only hurting myself." And yet, alcohol and drug use permeates a family system, making addiction "The Family Disease." Often what occurs is a lack of trust, loss of communication, loss of sharing of precious moments, loss of self-esteem, in addition to many more things that the alcohol and drugs can rob from a family. It is common to deny that there is a problem, and it has been said that 'a family member may be in as much denial as the person who has an addiction.' Even with saying that, a family member (maybe you who are reading this article), still want things to be different. So then, what do you do as a family member to help your loved one? I have asked several members in recovery from drugs and alcohol, and here are the top six responses.
"Do confront me and show me that you care." The recovering alcoholic/addict talks about, frequently, the importance of a family member or loved one confronting their use and 'clues' such as needle or 'track marks.' This does not mean arguing with an individual when they are drunk or high. BUT, when the person with the drinking or drug problem is sober, "...speak to me about the reality of what happened and show me that you care." Keeping "secrets" is not helpful.
Do "set boundaries and ultimatums" with the alcoholic/addict and for yourself.
Do "educate yourself" about alcoholism or addiction.
"Seek support" for yourself, and guidance.
Remember: you didn't cause the addiction, you cannot control the addition, and you cannot cure the addiction. It is not your fault! Alcoholism/addiction can be a long and difficult path, and the above suggestions may help to quicken the alcoholic's/addict's seeking help. But remember to always to stay safe. Safety is a number one priority!
If you want to reach out for help, here are some suggestions.
Contact your local Al-Anon or Nar-Anon for support. These self-help groups are for families of loved ones with alcohol and drug problems. Many families find relief, support and insight through attending such groups.
Seek Outpatient Counseling to learn how to better manage the situation.
If your loved one is open to an evaluation, check your insurance card for outpatient treatment centers in your area. We strongly encourage the family member to attend the session so that the therapist could speak briefly with the family member along with the individual.
Don't give up! Patience and persistence is needed to work through addiction. There is support for you!


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AACC.org // ... // Merit Awards // Hall of Fame // Kary B. Mullis
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith. Mullis was honored for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method andSmithwas recognized for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonuleoitide-based, site directed mutagnensis and its development for protein studies.
The following award announcement appeared in Clinical Chemistry for AACC's award to Mullis:
1993 Outstanding Contributions in a Selected Area of Research
Kary B. Mullis will receive the 21st annual award, sponsored by Roche Diagnostic Systems. He sent the following biographical sketch to AACC:
I have failed to embrace any particular scientific discipline for very long and consider myself a generalist with a chemical prejudice.
My first summer after high school I had the good fortune of working for a remarkable storyteller, Max Gergel, who made and sold research chemicals at his company, Columbia Organic Chemicals, and eventually wrote a sort of autobiography, which he called "Excuse Me, Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?" I learned a lot about organic chemicals that summer.
At Georgia Tech I studied chemistry and physics, wrote fiction for the humor magazine, and married Richards, who soon bore Louise.In the summer, with my friend Al Montgomery, I learned to synthesize organic chemicals at Kings Laboratories, which, with encouragement from Max, we had founded in a chicken house belonging to Al's brother-in-law. In 1966 I left our fledging business, which survived, for graduate school and the cultural revolution in progress at the University of California–Berkeley.
I had more fun at Berkeley than anyone on an NIH stipend deserves, and learned a number of things, in addition to the biochemistry of iron, from the gentle wisdom of Professor J. B. Neilands.After 6 years I reluctantly took my Ph.D. and left, following my second wife back to her home and medical school in Kansas, where, after failing for 3 months to write a best-selling novel, I returned to science. I found a research position in the Pediatric Cardiology Department at Kansas University with Leone Mattioli and Richard Zakheim. We collaborated with pathologist Agostino Molteni, and the four of us had a cordial and productive 2 years working on idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome. They were all three good doctors and equally nice men.I returned to California in 1975 with fond memories, the rudiments of medicine, and a distaste for the experimental killing of rodents. Cynthia, my third wife-to-be, was with me.
I left science temporarily and we took a job together washing dishes in a Berkeley restaurant owned by my first wife Richards. I wanted to take up writing seriously. We lived in a cottage across the fence from where my daughter Louise, now 10, lived with Richards and her new husband. First and third wives usually get along, and life at the restaurant was very social. It was nice being back in Berkeley. Cynthia encouraged me to write. Our marriage produced Christopher and then Jeremy. I published a short story in Medical Dimensions but, deciding that I was too young to write good fiction, I went back to killing rats, this time in the name of neurochemistry with Wolfgang Sadee at the University of California–San Francisco.
From there in 1979 I went to Cetus, returning to synthetic chemistry, which I had always enjoyed. My lab made oligonucleotides for use in the heady new business of molecular cloning. Finally that got easier and more boring and I started thinking up things to do with them. I invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). It was the first day of the rest of my life. Things happened slowly at first but with an accelerating pace. I left Cetus in the fall of 1986.
At Cold Spring Harbor, where I had presented PCR to Jim Watson's Symposium on the Molecular Biology of Homo sapiens in June 1986, I had met Tom Caskey, whose lab at Baylor would take a leading role in the development of PCR as a clinical diagnostic tool. Neither of us realized until several months later that we had attended the same high school in Columbia, SC. That fall, Tom introduced me to Peter Baram in San Diego, who had started a small biotech company called Xytronyx, and I took a job as his director of molecular biology.
San Diego was a good move. Biotechnology companies and research institutions are abundant, the weather is nice, and the people are friendly, but Xytronyx was too limited to hold my interest long. With PCR becoming widespread, I discovered I could make a living as a consultant. Invitations to speak at meetings started coming in rapidly, and the more I traveled, the more clients I found. So things have worked out.
My first scientific paper, while a graduate student in biochemistry at Berkeley, was an amateurish cosmological theory entitled "The cosmological significance of time reversal," which I persuaded Nature to publish in 1968.Ironically, in 1985, Nature was not persuaded to publish my original manuscript on PCR, noting that "it might be more appropriately published in a more specialized journal." A month later, Science was equally unimpressed with my invention of PCR, lamenting that "the paper could not compete for our limited space."It was a good paper though, and Ray Wu accepted it for Methods in Enzymology.
Photography, computers, surfing, and a house and garden in rural Mendocino County are my major nonscientific distractions today, although writing is still on my mind and a science fiction novel is cooking slowly on my back burner. None of my three marriages is current; but my children, now 12, 16, and 28, are a big part of my life, and I am on good terms with my former wives. I live in a beachfront apartment in La Jolla with Heidi.


These chocolate dipped apricot bites are the perfect simple, healthy snack that can be prepped in advance and eaten all week!
When we asked what questions you all had about meal prep on Instagram a while back, one of the topics that came up over and over again was meal prep snacks. We've got your dinners covered with Cook Once, Eat All Week, and plenty of batch cook-friendly breakfasts, so now it's time to tackle snacks! These chocolate dipped apricot bites are first up in our meal prep snack series and can easily double as a dessert too.
For these chocolate dipped apricot bites, we simply melted our favorite dark chocolate chips, dipped the dried apricots in, and then laid them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and sprinkled them with a little bit of coarse sea salt. In each bite, you'll get the sweet tangyness of the apricot, the slight bitterness and richness of the dark chocolate, and a little bit of crunchy salt for the perfect flavor combination. If you'd like, you can take the chocolate dipped apricot bites to the next level with additional toppings – slivered almonds, pecan pieces, and shredded coconut would all be delicious!
5-Ingredient Paleo Ranch Dressing – for dipping veggies throughout the week!
There you have it, over 25 healthy meal prep snack recipes to help fuel your workouts and keep you satisfied any time hunger strikes!
A delightfully easy sweet treat that's make ahead friendly for when your sweet tooth strikes!
Double-boiler method: place the chocolate in a medium-sized glass bowl that can rest on top of a pot without falling in. Fill the pot with a couple inches of water, place the bowl of chocolate over top, and bring the water to a boil. Use a spatula to constantly stir the chocolate until it's melted and smooth.
Microwave method: place the chocolate in a medium-sized glass bowl and microwave it in 20-second increments, stirring well between each spell, until it's melted and smooth.