Following the expiry of the notice period given to the chemist who sold a used cannula to a heart patient, the shop was locked down on Thursday.
It was in April this year when the chemist had sold off a used cannula to the family of Surjit Singh who was to undergo heart surgery at PGI’s advanced Cardiac Centre.
However a notice outside the shop put up by the chemist read that the shop would remain closed for a day on account of a family function. Sources in PGI revealed that a decision in this regard was taken last month, the chemist was served a notice to vacate the shop within 30 days. As the deadline ended on Thursday, the chemist shut the shop and approached the court against the decision of PGI.
On April 18, one of the doctors caught hold of the used cannula before the cardiac thoracic surgery of 69-year-old Surjit Singh. There was a bloodstain on the cannula indicating that it had been already used. The family members had purchased the cannula from Aditya Medicos, a chemist in PGI’s market complex and they also had the bill in their possession.
A three-member inquiry committee was then constituted which indicted the chemist for selling the used surgical item. The findings of the committee were put before PGI’s estate committee on June 22, which recommended cancellation of the shop and debarred him from participating in the tendering process of the institute for two years.
2011年8月11日星期四
2011年8月10日星期三
Lin is survived by her husband
Lin Janson-Will, 64, of Red Cliff, passed away Sunday at her residence of pancreatic cancer.
She was born Oct. 18, 1946 to George Janson and Marian (Maslak) Janson in New York. Lin was married to Bob Will. She had a career in retail and interior design and moved to the Vail Valley in 1990, discovering her passion for landscape oil painting and semi-precious stone jewelry making. She had a great love for wildlife and all creatures big and small. She was an avid supporter of many animal charities, in addition to other local organizations. She will be greatly missed by family and friends.
Lin is survived by her husband, Bob Will, of Red Cliff; son San Guyer, of Denver; daughter Leyla and husband Timur Erimhan of York, England; sister Caroline Kavetas of Westport, Conn.,; and grandson Evren Erimhan of York, England.
Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make a donation in Lin's name to HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley, P.O. Box 1474, Edwards, CO 81632 or to Leadville/Lake County Animal Shelter, 800 Harrison Ave., Leadville, CO 80461. Bailey-Kent Funeral Home of Leadville is assisting the family with arrangements.
She was born Oct. 18, 1946 to George Janson and Marian (Maslak) Janson in New York. Lin was married to Bob Will. She had a career in retail and interior design and moved to the Vail Valley in 1990, discovering her passion for landscape oil painting and semi-precious stone jewelry making. She had a great love for wildlife and all creatures big and small. She was an avid supporter of many animal charities, in addition to other local organizations. She will be greatly missed by family and friends.
Lin is survived by her husband, Bob Will, of Red Cliff; son San Guyer, of Denver; daughter Leyla and husband Timur Erimhan of York, England; sister Caroline Kavetas of Westport, Conn.,; and grandson Evren Erimhan of York, England.
Services will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make a donation in Lin's name to HomeCare & Hospice of the Valley, P.O. Box 1474, Edwards, CO 81632 or to Leadville/Lake County Animal Shelter, 800 Harrison Ave., Leadville, CO 80461. Bailey-Kent Funeral Home of Leadville is assisting the family with arrangements.
2011年8月9日星期二
The Needle: Headgear Edition
Capital Helmetshare: The rides used by Capital Bikeshare are sturdy and slow as a tank, but that doesn't mean they can't crash—and if they do, your head's just as vulnerable as it would be if you crashed Adrian Fenty's Colnago. So DDOT is giving out helmets to go along with the bikes. Like the bicycles and the Circulator buses, they'll be bright red. Also like the bikes, chances are they'll be snatched up already when you go looking for them; officials are only ordering a batch of 500 to start.
Turn The Page: The population of vaguely clueless teenagers wandering around the vicinity of the Capitol South Metro station will soon be declining; the House of Representatives has decided to close down the page program, eliminating the fleet of blue blazer-clad kids who tote press releases and other piles of paper around the Capitol complex, on the theory that email does that just as well. The $5 million tab for the program probably doomed the program, which the occasional affairs various lawmakers have had with pages over the years never quite managed to do.
Cash Rules Everything Around D.C.: Sure, the economy is in the process of completely falling apart again. But before the last few weeks, we had it pretty good here; personal income in the Washington area was up 3.7 percent from 2009 to 2010, with people making $323.5 billion, the fourth-highest income in the nation. New York-area residents made $1 trillion last year, but if it's any schadenfreude consolation, they probably also lost about that much in Monday's stock market crash.
Skating USA: Since the Washington Redskins moved to Maryland, RFK Stadium's been sort of a lonely place; the Nationals moved to their own ballpark a few years after making their debut, leaving D.C. United as the only permanent tenant in the old facility. Now a skate park will be part of the mix, too. The Maloof Money Cup, a pro skateboarding tournament, will alight on East Capitol Street the first weekend in September, and afterwards the skate course will be open to the public. No word on whether crumbling pieces of the stadium that happen to fall during the tournament will be official parts of the course.
Turn The Page: The population of vaguely clueless teenagers wandering around the vicinity of the Capitol South Metro station will soon be declining; the House of Representatives has decided to close down the page program, eliminating the fleet of blue blazer-clad kids who tote press releases and other piles of paper around the Capitol complex, on the theory that email does that just as well. The $5 million tab for the program probably doomed the program, which the occasional affairs various lawmakers have had with pages over the years never quite managed to do.
Cash Rules Everything Around D.C.: Sure, the economy is in the process of completely falling apart again. But before the last few weeks, we had it pretty good here; personal income in the Washington area was up 3.7 percent from 2009 to 2010, with people making $323.5 billion, the fourth-highest income in the nation. New York-area residents made $1 trillion last year, but if it's any schadenfreude consolation, they probably also lost about that much in Monday's stock market crash.
Skating USA: Since the Washington Redskins moved to Maryland, RFK Stadium's been sort of a lonely place; the Nationals moved to their own ballpark a few years after making their debut, leaving D.C. United as the only permanent tenant in the old facility. Now a skate park will be part of the mix, too. The Maloof Money Cup, a pro skateboarding tournament, will alight on East Capitol Street the first weekend in September, and afterwards the skate course will be open to the public. No word on whether crumbling pieces of the stadium that happen to fall during the tournament will be official parts of the course.
2011年8月8日星期一
Once the concerns are heard
Michelle Stevens said she plans to attend the meeting and do whatever is necessary to help get this C.O.P. off the ground.
Stevens, who has lived in the neighborhood 10 years, said the area has seen a rash of car break-ins and more obvious signs of drug use.
At the end of July, she found a used hypodermic needle on the ground.
"I think the dynamics of the neighborhood change a lot, depending on renters and how the housing market is doing," said Stevens, 37. "We have trending problems. The drug activity, I didn't realize we had."
The neighborhood is a victim of geography.
The line that separates city from county runs through the neighborhood, often making it difficult for police to determine if an incident is within their jurisdiction, Christian said.
To make sure the communication channel is clear, Christian contacted Baltimore County and city police for next week's meeting, in addition to 1st District Councilman Tom Quirk, from the county; and 8th District Councilwoman Helen Holton, from the city.
"Nobody knows if we're city or county," said Christian, who lives on Medwick Garth East. "Both parties need to be helpful here. It can't be just one or the other."
Christian admitted he is at the head of this project despite knowing that he and his wife, Michelle, may not be residents of the community much longer.
A student in the College of Notre Dame of Maryland's Leadership in Teaching master's degree program, Christian is unsure of where he will end up next.
Once the C.O.P. gets off the ground, Christian said he wants to hear the concerns of his neighbors.
"We know more or less what the problems are, but I know there are people in this community that want to say something," said Christian, a Spanish teacher at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Baltimore.
Once the concerns are heard, Christian said the group will begin assigning roles and assigning areas of responsibility.
"It's an immediate demand for the community," Christian said.
"We feel like our neighborhood is something worth defending."
Stevens, who has lived in the neighborhood 10 years, said the area has seen a rash of car break-ins and more obvious signs of drug use.
At the end of July, she found a used hypodermic needle on the ground.
"I think the dynamics of the neighborhood change a lot, depending on renters and how the housing market is doing," said Stevens, 37. "We have trending problems. The drug activity, I didn't realize we had."
The neighborhood is a victim of geography.
The line that separates city from county runs through the neighborhood, often making it difficult for police to determine if an incident is within their jurisdiction, Christian said.
To make sure the communication channel is clear, Christian contacted Baltimore County and city police for next week's meeting, in addition to 1st District Councilman Tom Quirk, from the county; and 8th District Councilwoman Helen Holton, from the city.
"Nobody knows if we're city or county," said Christian, who lives on Medwick Garth East. "Both parties need to be helpful here. It can't be just one or the other."
Christian admitted he is at the head of this project despite knowing that he and his wife, Michelle, may not be residents of the community much longer.
A student in the College of Notre Dame of Maryland's Leadership in Teaching master's degree program, Christian is unsure of where he will end up next.
Once the C.O.P. gets off the ground, Christian said he wants to hear the concerns of his neighbors.
"We know more or less what the problems are, but I know there are people in this community that want to say something," said Christian, a Spanish teacher at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Baltimore.
Once the concerns are heard, Christian said the group will begin assigning roles and assigning areas of responsibility.
"It's an immediate demand for the community," Christian said.
"We feel like our neighborhood is something worth defending."
2011年8月7日星期日
Heroin user discovered sleeping in doorway
Police allegedly found a hypodermic needle, 10 empty baggies and a glass pipe in a woman’s purse after she was found sleeping in front of Ace Bail Bonds, 1317 Capouse Ave, Scranton, on Aug. 1.
Lauren Rae Yun, 18, listed as homeless, faces one charge of possession of a controlled substance and three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia for the alleged incident.
According to the affidavit:
A police officer arrived to the office Monday morning following a report of a woman sleeping in front of the doorway. After the officer woke her up and asked her why she was sleeping there, Yun allegedly told him that she was waiting for a ride.
The young woman told police she had no identification. When she was asked to look in her purse for something with her name on it, the officer spotted a hypodermic needle. Yun allegedly told the officer that the needle was for a heroin. She then confessed to having empty baggies of the drug. Officers also discovered a glass pipe in her purse.
Yun told the officer that she was trying to get help for her addictions, and she allegedly confessed to prostituting herself to support her drug habit.
Yun was arraigned on Aug. 1, and held for $1,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 8.
Lauren Rae Yun, 18, listed as homeless, faces one charge of possession of a controlled substance and three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia for the alleged incident.
According to the affidavit:
A police officer arrived to the office Monday morning following a report of a woman sleeping in front of the doorway. After the officer woke her up and asked her why she was sleeping there, Yun allegedly told him that she was waiting for a ride.
The young woman told police she had no identification. When she was asked to look in her purse for something with her name on it, the officer spotted a hypodermic needle. Yun allegedly told the officer that the needle was for a heroin. She then confessed to having empty baggies of the drug. Officers also discovered a glass pipe in her purse.
Yun told the officer that she was trying to get help for her addictions, and she allegedly confessed to prostituting herself to support her drug habit.
Yun was arraigned on Aug. 1, and held for $1,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 8.
2011年8月3日星期三
Fishing for an Asian Carp Needle in a Haystack
The state and federal agencies who collectively participate in the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee have all gone fishin’ this week. It may be August, but this isn’t a pleasure trip: they are looking for live Asian carp in Lake Calumet after recent environmental DNA (“eDNA”) sampling has shown that some of the fish are likely present in the area.
Ramping up the conventional monitoring (fishing and netting) in Lake Calumet is a logical response to these positive eDNA results. Short of poisoning every fish in Lake Calumet, there is not much else that the agencies could be doing at this point… and I can understand the agencies’ not wanting to undertake (and spend money on) another fish poisoning operation at this stage.
The problem, though, is that the Regional Coordinating Committee once again talking about this fishing operation like it is somehow going to prove whether live Asian carp are present in the area. As I’ve blogged about in the past, the Army Corps and other agencies have frequently downplayed, or written off entirely, the significance of positive eDNA results in an apparent effort to convince the public that they have the invasion under control.
These agencies should know better, though, because both Government experts (such as Duane Chapman of USGS) and outside experts (such as University of Notre Dame Professor David Lodge) have said that the conventional monitoring techniques are unlikely to succeed in catching Asian carp in the Chicago waterway system when they are present only in small numbers – and that eDNA is a better tool for determining whether carp are present.
As John Dettmers of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently pointed out in a live chat sponsored by the Detroit Free Press (I imagine John was typing fast, which explains the two typos):
I think that the Asian carp that have been caught in Lake Erie were caught essentially by luck. We know that conventional fishing gear is very ineifficeint [sic] when trying to colelct [sic] Asian carp when only a few are present. Nevertheless, fishing gear does capture Asian carp now and then, as happen[ed] last July in Lake Calumet.
In other words, fishing for Asian carp in the Chicago waterway system is kind of like using a pitchfork to search for a needle in a haystack.
It’s true that the eDNA results, without more, cannot tell you exact number or location of carp that are being detected, but the only plausible explanation for explaining the positive eDNA hits is the presence of some live Asian carp in the Chicago waterway system. Although a number of other possible explanations have been offered to explain the positive eDNA results, I agree with David Lodge’s view: none of those alternative explanations seem plausible, much less likely, given the overall pattern of positive results that has been detected.
Ramping up the conventional monitoring (fishing and netting) in Lake Calumet is a logical response to these positive eDNA results. Short of poisoning every fish in Lake Calumet, there is not much else that the agencies could be doing at this point… and I can understand the agencies’ not wanting to undertake (and spend money on) another fish poisoning operation at this stage.
The problem, though, is that the Regional Coordinating Committee once again talking about this fishing operation like it is somehow going to prove whether live Asian carp are present in the area. As I’ve blogged about in the past, the Army Corps and other agencies have frequently downplayed, or written off entirely, the significance of positive eDNA results in an apparent effort to convince the public that they have the invasion under control.
These agencies should know better, though, because both Government experts (such as Duane Chapman of USGS) and outside experts (such as University of Notre Dame Professor David Lodge) have said that the conventional monitoring techniques are unlikely to succeed in catching Asian carp in the Chicago waterway system when they are present only in small numbers – and that eDNA is a better tool for determining whether carp are present.
As John Dettmers of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission recently pointed out in a live chat sponsored by the Detroit Free Press (I imagine John was typing fast, which explains the two typos):
I think that the Asian carp that have been caught in Lake Erie were caught essentially by luck. We know that conventional fishing gear is very ineifficeint [sic] when trying to colelct [sic] Asian carp when only a few are present. Nevertheless, fishing gear does capture Asian carp now and then, as happen[ed] last July in Lake Calumet.
In other words, fishing for Asian carp in the Chicago waterway system is kind of like using a pitchfork to search for a needle in a haystack.
It’s true that the eDNA results, without more, cannot tell you exact number or location of carp that are being detected, but the only plausible explanation for explaining the positive eDNA hits is the presence of some live Asian carp in the Chicago waterway system. Although a number of other possible explanations have been offered to explain the positive eDNA results, I agree with David Lodge’s view: none of those alternative explanations seem plausible, much less likely, given the overall pattern of positive results that has been detected.
2011年8月1日星期一
Red Bluff woman arrested on drug charges after traffic stop
A 51-year-old Red Bluff woman was arrested after deputies allegedly found drug paraphernalia in her pants and crystal methamphetamine in her bra, the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office reported today.
Connie Louise Damon was booked into the Tehama County Jail and charged with possession of a controlled substance, transportation of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of hypodermic syringes, and concealing evidence.
Her bail is $37,000.
Early Saturday, Damon was driving a gray Dodge pickup at Baker and Monocito roads when sheriff’s deputies stopped the truck.
Damon’s passenger, 48-year-old Andrew Jewel Fitzwater of Red Bluff, was wanted for a parole violation and arrested, the sheriff’s office reported.
Deputies then spoke to Damon before searching the truck. During the search, they allegedly located two glass methamphetamine pipes and several hypodermic syringes.
According to deputies who made the stop, Damon said she also had a glass methamphetamine pipe in her pants and methamphetamine in her bra.
The pipe and two baggies containing 0.8 grams of crystal meth also were found, deputies said.
Fitzwater is being held in jail without bail.
Connie Louise Damon was booked into the Tehama County Jail and charged with possession of a controlled substance, transportation of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of hypodermic syringes, and concealing evidence.
Her bail is $37,000.
Early Saturday, Damon was driving a gray Dodge pickup at Baker and Monocito roads when sheriff’s deputies stopped the truck.
Damon’s passenger, 48-year-old Andrew Jewel Fitzwater of Red Bluff, was wanted for a parole violation and arrested, the sheriff’s office reported.
Deputies then spoke to Damon before searching the truck. During the search, they allegedly located two glass methamphetamine pipes and several hypodermic syringes.
According to deputies who made the stop, Damon said she also had a glass methamphetamine pipe in her pants and methamphetamine in her bra.
The pipe and two baggies containing 0.8 grams of crystal meth also were found, deputies said.
Fitzwater is being held in jail without bail.
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