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The folks at Pet Poison Helpline share this report that details the top-selling human medications and the potential dangers these drugs pose to pets.
The IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics recently released a report that included the top five human prescription drugs dispensed in the United States: Lipitor, Nexium, Plavix, Advair Diskus and Abilify.
Because Pet Poison Helpline’s call volume is high for dogs and cats that have ingested human medications harmful to pets, the veterinarians explain how these drugs typically affect pets that swallow them. Some drugs cause only minor symptoms, while some can be potentially life-threatening.
No. 1:  Lipitor (atorvastatin)
Used to reduce cholesterol levels.Generally when pets get into Lipitor, only mild side effects are seen, such as vomiting and diarrhea. Therefore, Lipitor is not considered to have high toxicity levels for pets. Although some human drugs are utilized in veterinary medicine, Lipitor is not.
No. 2: Nexium (esomeprazole)
An anti-ulcer medication and proton-pump inhibitor that results in decreased gastric-acid secretion. Although it is used in veterinary medicine for some pets, mild side effects can include vomiting and diarrhea. Owners of dogs or cats that get into this drug should watch their pet closely, but not be alarmed because symptoms will generally subside on their own.
No. 3: Plavix (clopidogrel)
Affects platelets in humans, inhibiting clot formation and reducing the risk of stroke. When pets get into Plavix, it has a wide margin of safety and generally is not considered to be acutely toxic. Only mild vomiting or diarrhea may be seen.
No. 4: Advair Diskus® (fluticasone propionate and salmeterol)
Often used for treating asthma and administered through an inhaler, Advair Diskus contains beta-agonist drugs that expand the lungs and steroids that decrease inflammation in the lungs. Because inhalers contain many doses, dogs that chew into them are exposed to massive amounts of the drug all at once. This often results in heart arrhythmias, an elevated heart rate, agitation, vomiting and even acute collapse. Severe electrolyte abnormalities such as very low potassium levels are likely and can be life-threatening without immediate veterinary treatment.
No. 5: Abilify (aripiprazole)
Contains aripiprazole, an atypical antipsychotic agent that is used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and clinical depression. Keep this drug out of the reach of pets, because ingestion can result in profound lethargy, vomiting, hyperthermia, significant changes in heart rate and blood pressure, and seizures. If a pet ingests this drug, immediate veterinary attention is needed.
To keep pets safe from ingesting these and other dangerous human medications, the veterinarians at Pet Poison Helpline offer these recommendations.
 Store human medications in a different location from pet medications.
Weekly pill holders are irresistible to some dogs, becaues they resemble chew toys and rattle. The danger is that a dog could ingest a full seven days’ worth of medications, significantly increasing the risk for poisoning.
Avoid putting medications into plastic storage bags before traveling. The bags are not pet-proof and can easily be chewed into.
 Hang your purse out of your pets reach. Inhalers, medications, sugar-free gum and other items that are dangerous to pets can be easily snatched out of a purse by a curious dog or cat.
Pet Poison Helpline recently produced a video titled “Handbag Hazards.” Take a look.   

If you think your pet has ingested something poisonous, it is always better (and less expensive) to get help immediately. Contact your veterinarian or Pet Poison Helpline at 1-800-213-6680 for lifesaving help.  Pet Poison Helpline charges$35 per call but the price includes unlimited follow-up consultations.

GURGAON: Sitting on more than Rs 130,000 crore worth of foreign and domestic investment, Haryana has emerged as the hot destination for entrepreneurs. Propounding this view, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry ( ASSOCHAM) organized a seminar for prospective investors and entrepreneurs from India and abroad, who might be considering to put their money in Haryana.

The summit, Advantage Haryana – Land of Opportunities, was held in New Delhi on Saturday, and was attended by government officials, and industry representatives, who made the case for Haryana to woo potential investors.

The chief minister of Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was present at the event, talked about the high points of Haryana as an investor-friendly state. In the next ten years, Haryanas economy will grow from Rs 138,000 crore to Rs 598,000 crore, he said.

PENRYN, CA – For more than a decade A Chance for Bliss animal sanctuary has cared for animals considered unadoptable.

Owners said a financial crisis may force the facility toshutdown.

David Bartley runs the Penryn sanctuary thats home to almost 100 animals.

2005 is literally when our sanctuary (numbers) exploded, Bartley said. A lot of our animals come to us from people who have lost their homes (to foreclosure), gone to assisted living or they passed away.

The animals including dogs, birds, rabbits, goats, horses, sheep, cats, cattle and fish are not adopted out because they have special needs.Theysuffer fromdiabetes, cataracts, deafness and missing limbs.

But Bartley explained most of the animalsare just old.

Our oldest dog is 17.Our oldest horse is 36 and our oldest pot-bellied pig is 18, he said.

For years Bartley, a real estate agent, has used his own money to pay for veterinary care and food. The dogs get a special blend of vegetables and meat that he cooks.

We cook it because it allows us to control their nutritional needs and it cheaper than buying commercial food, he explained.

According to Bartley, the monthly bill to care for the animals has risen to $20,000 a month. Without a helping hand, he fears hell have to shut the sanctuary down in two weeks.

People can always donate, but weve also created a great sponsorship program and its as little as $10 a month. You can select a category of animals to sponsor and then every month well send out updates, Bartley explained.

Bartleyinvites the public to come take a look at the facility. He holds tours for schools, developmentally disabled students and senior citizens.And every second Saturday of the month he has an open house.

Bartley said hes worriedabout what will happen tothe animals if his facility closes.

The problem is theres no place for these animals to go.

If you would like to sponsor a pet or make a donation, please click here.

By Karen Massie kmassie@news10.net

News10/KXTV

3:07 PM Saturday, May 28, 2011

What/when/where: The Man Woman of the Year Grand Finale Celebration will be held from 6 to 10 pm June 2 at the Schuster Performing Arts Center in Dayton.

Why are they celebrating: The 10-week fund raising competition pits four women and four men from the Dayton area who compete to raise funds for The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. The tally is kept completely secret so no one knows what the competition is raising until the announcement is made at the gala.

Funds raised support the organizations mission to cure leukemia, Hodgkins disease and myeloma and improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

Whats in store? The evening includes food, entertainment, dancing, live and silent auction and special guests. Heavy hors doeuvres will include a carving station, pasta and sushi station and more. The fund raising continues the night of the event with candidates generating funds from silent and live auction items theyve brought with them, and the guests they recruit to attend.

The night culminates in the announcement of the top male and female fund raiser or the Man Woman of the Year. The 2011 Honored Hero, Ally Barnett, is young blood cancer survivor who will also be honored.

Making a difference? LLS was founded in 1949 by parents who lost their son to leukemia and recognized a need for an independent organization dedicated to finding cures for blood cancers through research. Since then, the organization has grown to 64 chapters in the United States and Canada. In fiscal year 2010, LLS contributed more than $70.1 million to cancer research and over $133 million to an array of services for patients, caregivers, families and medical professionals. In Ohio, funding is funneled to local projects at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University and The Ohio State University, as well as toward clinical trials program at the Cleveland Clinic.

Hoping to clear? $200,000

Dress: Cocktail attire.

Tickets: $50 per person, a table for 10 is $1,000

More information: Contact Lisa Beam at (937) 428-6161 or lisa.beam@lls.org or visit  www.mwoy.org/dayton 

Meredith Moss, ?Staff Writer

Expectations for this years Showcase for Commerce remain high despite a sluggish economy being blamed for a fewer number of businesses attending the expo, to be held in Johnstown June 6-8.

As of last week, Johnstown Area Regional Industries President Linda Thomson said 137 exhibitors were confirmed for the event down from 172 last year.

The office manager of a Santa Ana law firm was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for embezzling more than half a million dollars to spend on such things as pet spas and jewelry from a home shopping channel, the Orange County district attorneys office said.

Donna Joy Henderson, 68, of Orange pleaded guilty to a felony count of grand theft by embezzlement for skimming $502,000 from the law firm she managed — Tustin, Rinos and Martin — as well as falsifying financial records.

Over six years, prosecutors said, Henderson wrote 122 company checks payable to herself, cash, personal credit cards, relatives or fictitious businesses. She started working at the law firm in 2000; the checks were written between 2003 and 2009.

Henderson used the money to live what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle that included timeshare properties, vacations, home improvements, jewelry and collectibles from the Home Shopping Network, gambling and pampering both herself and her pet.

Beyond the prison sentence, Henderson has been ordered to repay the $502,000.

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Enjoying a girls night out, Ashley Tisdale and fellow Hellcats stars Aly Michalka and Heather Hemmens were spotted at Beso restaurant in Hollywood, California last night (May 27).

The talented trio were looking quite fashionable for their week-ending adventure (and show-ending, as Hellcats wont be returning next season) – with Ashley sporting a black leather jacket, gray mini-dress, and slate-colored Louis Vuitton booties.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — TheFind, a leading facilitator of online, mobile, and offline commerce and partner to thousands of stores and brands, today launched CATALOGUE the only app that re-imagines the $100 billion catalog shopping experience for iPad and Android tablets. At launch, CATALOGUE includes the spring collections from national retailers, catalogs and brands that include Crate and Barrel, Williams-Sonoma, Sephora, eBags, Stella amp; Dot, Sundance, Tea Collection, Uggs, and many others. Currently, CATALOGUE is focused on the brands and catalogs that match the early demographics of tablet ownership. As of the initial release, 30 catalogs are included in CATALOGUE, while TheFind is actively working with more than 70 titles, all of which are expected to appear in CATALOGUE within the next 30-60 days.

Many retailers report that already half of what they consider to be mobile traffic is coming through tablet devices, wrote Sucharita Mulpuru, vice president, principal analyst with Forrester Research, Inc. in the January 2011 report, Five Retail eCommerce Trends To Watch In 2011. This is likely to lead to a new subset of mobile commerce: tablet commerce (you read it here first: T-commerce)…enabling easy browsing in a living room, during a bus commute to work, or at an airport.

We are very excited to partner with TheFind on creating a unique tablet shopping experience that leverages our strengths in merchandising with TheFinds demonstrated capabilities in mobile and tablet commerce, said John Seebeck, vice president of eCommerce for Crate and Barrel. Were impressed with how TheFind re-imagines the catalog shopping experience for the new and promising tablet medium.

Backed by a patented and searchable index of some 500,000 stores and 450 million products, and buoyed by the success of its highly rated and popular mobile apps, which have been downloaded more than one million times, TheFind is uniquely positioned to deliver a tablet shopping experience that stimulates consumer demand across hundreds of stores with the sort of tactile discovery and inspiration that drives retailers existing paper catalog businesses.

Even today, catalog shopping is a $100 billion business, with more than 20 billion catalogs being printed and delivered via the postal service to peoples homes, said Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind. Retailers continue to invest in this business because they stimulate demand and inspire consumers in a way that no other medium has matched; but the emergence of tablets with their tactile approach and high resolution screens presents an opportunity to revolutionize and reinvent a massive retail channel.

Beyond tablet shopping, Kumar noted that TheFind is also investing in a similar application for Facebook, recognizing a parallel opportunity to create a socially-curated shopping experience on tablet computers that leverages Likes from Facebook and the deep index of TheFinds CATALOGUE app for tablets.

CATALOGUE is available for free download at here: http://www.thefind.com/tablet as well as in the iTunes App Store, Android Market and Amazon app store.

About TheFind

TheFind makes it easy to shop, for anything you like, in every store, all at once. Made possible by patented search and discovery technology, TheFind is the fastest growing top-tier shopping engine and the one people return to more than any other according to comScores measure of comparison shopping engines. Ranked number 12 on the 2010 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies, TheFind was founded in 2005, has been profitable since late 2008, and was venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures. TheFind is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

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TheFind
415-493-8349
usher@thefind.com

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If youve seen the look of someone who is drowning, youve seen terror in the making, from confusion to panic to utter fear. If youve had the experience, you know.

Picture yourself strapped to an inclined board, your head lower than your feet, while someone pours water onto your face, into your mouth. As water fills your lungs, you begin to suffocate. You are terrified.

This is waterboarding, a slow, deliberate, and, according to Malcolm Nance, former training chief at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School, controlled drowning in which we will do anything, say anything, to stop it.

A rising chorus of voices claims that Osama bin Ladens discovery and death vindicate the earlier use of waterboarding of top al-Qaida detainees like Khalid Sheik Mohammed. But sanitizing enhanced interrogation in this way is twisted reasoning. Its ill-logic mistakes correlation for cause, attributing a factor (waterboarding detainees) within a complex sequence of events as a necessary condition.

Moreover, such reasoning presumes the flawed argument that if waterboarding sometimes works, and if all that matters is effectiveness, then waterboarding is justified.

However — and heres a hard pill to swallow in our society that thrives on the altar of efficiency — whether waterboarding and other forms of enhanced interrogation are effective is not the issue.

Moral justifiability does not rest on efficacy. Chemical warfare is effective. So is frontal lobotomy. So was the guillotine. That hardly makes them morally legitimate.

Instead of listening to pundits and Monday-morning experts, we need to listen more to those on the front lines: interrogators and victims.

As to effectiveness, professional interrogators like those surveyed in the National Defense Intelligence Colleges 2006 report Educing Information clearly favor rapport-building techniques over harsh interrogation (http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/educing.pdf).

We must listen especially to victims like Elie Wiesel, Nelson Mandela, John McCain, former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and Jean Amery.

I challenge you to read Amerys poignant memoir, At the Minds Limits. In recounting his torture by the Nazis, Amery highlights how it invokes in the victim the supreme agony for any human — absolute helplessness so that one feels totally forsaken: Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world … Trust in the world, which already collapsed in part at the first blow, but in the end, under torture, fully, will not be regained.

For Amery, who committed suicide in 1978, trust in the world was never reclaimed. His Auschwitz number is engraved on his tombstone in Vienna.

Yet Amerys voice and those of other victims live on to remind us of why we must never torture, which has to do with who we are as humane persons, persons of moral fiber. Whats at stake is character, personal and social. When we torture — and waterboarding is torture — we debase our character.

Torture aims to break a person by breaking his will through breaking his body. Torture terrorizes.

According to Nance, Most people cannot stand to watch a high intensity kinetic interrogation. One has to overcome basic human decency to endure watching or causing the effects. What kind of society sanctions terrorizing to defeat terrorism? Or does the end justify any means? If you believe this, remember that the means we use affect not only our ends, but who we are.

Ultimately, what kind of person do I wish to be? What must I avoid to maintain my dignity, integrity and honor?

As for a societys character, in the long run, a decent society cannot be one that sanctions torture. Even in the hell of war, in fact, all the more so, just as a true warrior maintains his honor, so does a decent society.

Michael Brannigan is the Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Values at the College of Saint Rose. His email address is michael.brannigan@strose.edu.

RI Commerce Digest: Marandola property sells

01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

REAL ESTATE

Marandola property sells

PROVIDENCE A South Providence property, among the holdings of a prominent jewelry-industry businessman whose finances have fallen apart, sold in late April for $1.2 million.

The property at 1200 Eddy St. is listed in state records as the home to a number of related businesses owned by Edward Marandola Jr., whose businesses fell into state receivership a form of bankruptcy more than a year ago.

Marandola also was linked to a controversy involving the administration of then-Mayor David N. Cicilline in 2009 when then-city Tax Collector Robert P. Ceprano claimed he had been pressured to give tax favors to Marandola and four other Cicilline friends and campaign contributors. At the time, Marandola owed more than $45,000 in property taxes. An audit reached no conclusions on the alleged favors. The Eddy Street property is listed as the home to Diversified Products Inc., Wyndham Properties LLC and Poisitano Realty Co. Inc. Diversified is an offshoot of Marandolas Victory Finishing Technologies Inc.

Victory Finishing, founded by Marandolas father after World War II, foundered in recent years with the advance of foreign competition. In its heyday, the company had hundreds of employees. It was the Victory Finishing property at 145 Globe St. that was the subject of the tax controversy.

Until recently, state records listed Wyndham Properties as the owner of Wyndham, an 1891 stone mansion in Newport that was Marandolas home. The mansion sold for $2.55 million at a foreclosure auction in September 2010.

Property listings for 1200 Eddy St. show the one-story, 55,000-square-foot building as appropriate for industrial and warehouse uses.

City records show it was purchased on April 27 by 1200 Eddy Properties Inc. State incorporation records show no listing for an entity by that name.

Paul Grimaldi

Expansion

Mill Creek Marine opens larger facility

Mill Creek Marine, in North Kingstown, opened its new sales, service and boat-storage facility at Quonset Business Park over the weekend.

Since the company acquired Johnsons Boatyard in 2004, business has increased by 52 percent at whats now Mill Creek Marine, according company president Jim Shriner, and the company built a larger facility in Quonsets Allens Harbor area. The facility includes the states first enclosed dry stack marina, a type of indoor, insulated garage that will initially house 72 boats.

On Saturday, Mill Creek invited the public for a day of events including boat rides, a raffle and product and service presentations.

Mill Creek Marine is one of about 170 companies in Quonset Business Park, where 8,800 people work.

Paul Grimaldi

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FM Global opens office in Madrid

FM Global, the business property insurer based in Johnston, has opened an insurance office in Spain and is now able to write policies through its Madrid office.

The company has provided loss-prevention engineering services to clients in Spain for nearly 30 years.

FM Global provides products and services in more than 130 countries.

Journal Staff

small business

Auburn business owners look to improve sales

Business owners in the Auburn section of Cranston will meet Tuesday night to consider forming an association to promote the area around Pontiac Avenue to people looking for shopping destinations and professional services.

Mayor Allan W. Fung is expected to address the audience at the meeting scheduled for 7 pm in the American Legion Auburn post, located behind City Hall at 7 Legion Way. Also attending the meeting will be a city economic official and representatives of the citys Chamber of Commerce, all of whom will advise business owners on how they can work together to attract visitors to Auburn and improve sales.

The meeting is open to the public. For more information, contact Diana C. Gordon, owner of Antiques in the Attic, 363 Pontiac Ave., at (401) 461-0916.

Paul Grimaldi

Hospitals

Rite Aid fundraiser benefits Hasbro hospital

Hasbro Childrens Hospital is among the beneficiaries of a fundraising campaign created by Rite Aid Corp., the drugstore chain headquartered in Camp Hill, Pa.

Hasbro has received more than $195,000 from the Childrens Miracle Network Hospitals campaign, which has generated $50 million since 1994.

Rite Aid raises much of the money by selling $1 paper balloon shapes at its drugstores around the country. Sales of the paper balloons for this years campaign end May 28.

Paul Grimaldi

Commodities

Dollar: In trading against major currencies Monday in New York, the dollar ended at 81.97 Japanese yen, from Fridays close of 81.57 yen. The euro closed at 3:30 pm at $1.4060 from $1.4201.

Metals: Gold for current delivery closed at $1,515.30 a troy ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange, from Fridays close of $1,508.80. Silver closed at $34.901 from $35.082 an ounce.

Fuels: June light, sweet crude oil fell $2.40 to $97.70 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. June heating oil fell 7.12 cents to $2.8471 a gallon.

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