02.7
09
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Gastritis is not a fix disease, but several different conditions that all have inflammation of the stomach lining. Gastritis can be caused by drinking too much alcohol, prolonged use of non-steroidal anti-insurgent drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin or ibuprofen, or infection with bacteria such as Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Sometimes gastritis develops after grave surgery, traumatic injury, burns, or severe infections. Certain diseases, such as pernicious anemia, autoimmune disorders, and long-standing bile reflux, can cause gastritis as well.
Gastritis can be caused by drinking too much alcohol, prolonged use of non-steroidal anti-incendiary drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin or ibuprofen, or infection with bacteria such as Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Sometimes gastritis develops after larger surgery, traumatic injury, burns, or severe infections. Certain diseases, such as pernicious anemia, autoimmune disorders, and lasting bile reflux, can cause gastritis as well.
Gastritis, an inflammation or irritation of the lining of the stomach, is not a fasten on disease. Rather, gastritis is a condition that has many causes. Common to all people with gastritis is pain or discomfort in the upper part of the belly (abdomen), sometimes called dyspepsia.
Gastritis may come about suddenly (acute gastritis), or it can occur slowly over time (chronic gastritis). In spite of the many conditions associated with gastritis, the signs and symptoms of the contagion are very similar: a burning pain in your upper abdomen and, occasionally, bloating, belching, nausea or vomiting.
Gastritis is an redness of the stomach lining. While the lining of the stomach is quite strong and can withstand strong acid, drinking too much the cup that cheers, eating spicy foods, or smoking can cause the lining to become inflamed and irritated.
SymptomsAs a ruleThe symptoms of gastritis depend on how acute it is and how long it has been present. In the acute phase, there may be pain or gnawing in the upland abdomen, nausea and vomiting. In the chronic phase, the pain may be dull and there may be loss of appetite with a feeling of fullness after several bites of prog. Very often, there are no symptoms at all. If the pain is severe, there may be an ulcer as well as gastritis.
Acute stress gastritis, actually a protocol of erosive gastritis, is caused by a sudden illness or injury. The injury may not even be to the stomach. For example, extensive pelt burns and injuries involving major bleeding are typical causes. Exactly why serious illness can lead to gastritis is not known but may be mutual to decreased blood flow to the stomach or to impairment of the stomach lining’s ability to protect and renew itself.
Violent gastritis occurs suddenly and is more likely to cause nausea and burning pain or discomfort in your upper abdomen. Hardened gastritis develops gradually and is more likely to cause a dull pain and a feeling of fullness or loss of desire after a few bites of food. For many people, though, chronic gastritis causes no signs or symptoms at all.
Gastritis can be caused by irritation due to immoderate alcohol use, chronic vomiting, stress or the use of certain medications such as aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs.
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01.16
09
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Acetaminophen is one of the most stock ingredients in most household medicines. This aspirin-free ingredient is more commonly found in: Tylenol, Excedrin, Midol, Pamprin or Nyquil, to name a few.
It may seem a accepted thought to administer the same pain medicines that work on you when you have a sick cat but such action could seriously harm or even kill your cat. Due to the cats bulk size and the lower enzyme levels in their liver, cats cannot metabolize this medicine like humans or even like other animals such as dogs.
Some signs that you cat may have ingested and been poisoned by acetaminophen are: labored breathing, discolored (brownish-gray) gums, low viscosity temperature, uncoordinated when trying to walk, jaundice, swelling, unconsciousness or coma. If your cat shows these signs, take your cat and the physic that may have been ingested to the vet immediately. More than likely, the vet will, as with most poisons, try to flush it out of the body as fast as possible to prevent further damage.
Some household over the disc medicines (such as aspirin) are sometimes prescribed to cats for various illnesses but should always be done so by a licensed veterinarian. As with children, keep all medicines up away from your pets. They may ruminate over they look like fun little toys or some sort of yummy new treat.
If you think your cat has been poisoned always keep your vet and the toxin control phone numbers close at hand.
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12.14
08
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As the recession devastates the banking, brokerage, retail and automobile industries, landlords and commercial real estate brokers in lower Fairfield County ponder when and if the office market will be the next victim.
The region could be vulnerable because financial service companies rent much of the office space in Greenwich and Stamford. Greenwich has been called the nation’s unofficial hedge fund capital.
“We are still in a very good market. However, a lot of our clients are financial services companies,” said Jim Fagan, senior managing director of the Westchester County, N.Y., and Connecticut operations of New York City-based Cushman & Wakefield Inc. commercial real estate. “They include everything from hedge funds to reinsurance companies to investment banks, not to mention advertising agencies and other professional services companies.”
Those former mainstays in the office market will be shrinking, he said.
“As tenants try to lower their fixed costs, they are slimming down their commercial real estate exposure, where it is practical and pragmatic,” Fagan said. “The market is going through an adjustment. While it was white hot in July of 2007. It certainly is less than that now.”
John Hannigan, principal of Choyce Peterson commercial real estate in Stamford, said, “The quantity of tenants looking to grow has decreased precipitously.”
Reported office vacancies are not really bad - yet.
In the third quarter, 17 percent of the 14.5 million square feet of office space in Stamford was available for lease or sublease, up slightly from 16.4 percent at the same time last year, according to an average taken from five real estate firms. Available space are locations that are empty or slated to become vacant soon.
The numbers do not include large, single-occupant buildings such as the main UBS AG investment bank and trading floor in downtown Stamford.
But vacancy reports might not tell the whole story, said Jeff Gage, executive managing director at the Stamford office of Chicago-based Jones Lang LaSalle commercial real estate. Some companies have space they are not using but will not admit it unless a broker approached them about subleasing, Gage said.
Sublease space, that which is leased but currently unused, is rising in Fairfield County, he said.
“We are going to see vacancy rates going up to 25 percent or higher (countywide),” Gage said. “My guess is that 40 percent of that will be sublease space.”
The big subleases include 112,000 square feet that UBS put on the market at 201 Tresser Blvd. in Stamford at Purdue Pharma’s headquarters. Others in the city are 50,000 square feet from Legg Mason at First Stamford Place and 120,000 square feet at 290 Harbor Drive.
Greenwich has smaller office vacancies, but its 4.8 million square feet of office space depends largely on financial services, hedge funds and private equity firms. About 9.3 percent of the town’s office space was available in the third quarter, which was unchanged from the same time last year.
“Greenwich and Stamford are not immune from the downsizing and reorganization from a new model of doing business,” said John Goodkind, managing principal at the Greenwich office of New York City-based Newmark Knight Frank commercial real estate. “The days of abundance are gone.”
“Large users are unlikely to make decisions on space unless they have to,” he said, referring to lease expirations.
On the positive side, Goodkind said many people who had worked for hedge funds, financial institutions and banks will be looking for office space in which to start their own companies.
“We have already seen significant numbers of new companies looking for smaller spaces,” he said. “That will be the mode for the next 12 to 18 months.”
But Gerald Celente, a trends forecaster known for gloomy predictions, said the downturn in the retail sector will affect office space because fewer customers will exist for service firms such as ad agencies.
“In 2009, the focus will broaden to include a range of calamities that will leave no sector unscathed,” Celente said in a report issued by his Rhinebeck, N.Y.-based Trends Research Institute. “Next in line is retail, which accounts for some 70 percent of consumer spending, 26 percent of which is holiday sales.”
“Add to the (retail) empties the commercial space vacated by defunct financial firms and an array of troubled businesses from restaurants to architectural firms, to high-tech operations, to offset printers, etc.,” the report said. “The inescapable result (that we predicted over a year ago and is only now being discussed in the business media) is a commercial real estate bust that will be costlier, wreak greater havoc and prove more intractable than the residential market decline.”
Local landords, by contrast, are more optimistic.
“We have been here before (in a recession), and we will get through it,” said Jo Ann McGrath, director of leasing for the Merritt 7 Corporate Park in Norwalk. “We just have to stay positive.”
She said the 1.4 million square feet of office space in Merritt 7’s six buildings is 95 percent occupied.
A 51,000 square feet sublease might occur in the complex’s 301 Merritt 7 building. Applied Biosystems is moving out of 301 Merritt 7 in July because it merged with Invitrogen Corp.
Applied Biosystems’s lease expires in 2011, and it has an option to sublet the space, McGrath said.
Margaret Carlson, director of leasing for New York City-based RFR Realty’s seven office buildings in downtown Stamford, said the market is slowing, but not to a crisis stage.
“We are still continuing to sign deals, and we are starting to see concessions for tenants creep in,” Carlson said. “Velocity is slowing down, but we remain optimistic. There are a lot of deals out in the marketplace, and we do not have a lot of sublease space in our portfolio.”
RFR’s Stamford buildings are 90 percent leased, she said.
Another landlord representative, Jeff Newman of W&M Properties, said the recession offers a chance to recruit new tenants. W&M manages First Stamford Place and Metro Center office complexes in Stamford and the MerrittView office building in Norwalk.
“We are well-positioned to ride out a down market,” Newman said. “We always have more than enough cash flow to cover debt service and operating needs.”
Gage of Jones Lang LaSalle predicted rents will drop 20 percent to 30 percent during the recession, which offers local companies a chance to move into better buildings.
In March, Stamford-based Choyce Peterson began telling its clients to pursue renovation subsidies and lower rent from landlords.
The average asking rent for Class A office space in downtown Stamford is $48 per square foot per year, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
“We have been out there ahead of this (recession) news and have been meeting with many area companies to help them navigate these tough economic times, with regard to their office space,” said Hannigan of Choyce Peterson.
“The smart landlord are the ones who will lead the market in (lower) pricing,” Gage said. “If you follow the market, you are already too late.”
- Staff Writer Peter Healy can be reached at peter.healy@scni.com or at 964-227
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12.9
08
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By J.W. ELPHINSTONE and ADRIAN SAINZ – 1 day ago
When mortgage rates dropped to the lowest levels in almost a year, Warren Zeger seized the opportunity to slash $720 off his monthly mortgage payment by refinancing his home in Potomac, Md.
Just don’t expect him to spend the savings.
“I’d love to tell you I’m going to spend it to help prop up the economy, but we’ve tightened our belts,” said Zeger, 61, a retired attorney. “I plan on holding on to it.”
Zeger echoed homeowners The Associated Press interviewed nationwide who have taken advantage of lower rates since Nov. 25th. They planned to stuff the money they saved under the mattress or pay off bills. Refinance activity has surged as interest rates tumbled about 1 percentage point to around 5.5 percent in response to the Federal Reserve’s plan to scoop up $600 billion of mortgage-related securities.
“We’ve had a lot homeowners waiting for some time” for this drop in rates, said Ritch Workman, co-owner of Workman Mortgage in Melbourne, Fla.
The Fed’s move was the latest in an unprecedented series of actions to help stabilize the housing and credit markets as well as the broader economy. However, pushing down mortgage rates may only have a muted effect on the economy. That’s because more than a quarter of homeowners with a mortgage can’t qualify for a new loan, and many who can are so financially stretched that little of the money they save will end up in store cash registers.
“If you’re worried about making it month to month and your mortgage is your biggest payment you’re not going out to buy a car and a lot of Christmas gifts,” said Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication in Bethesda, Md.
Stuart Cassell in Sarasota, Fla., is putting his $80 monthly refinance savings into his nest egg, while product development manager Subash Ramnani in Chicago is using the extra $300 a month from his refinancing to pay for graduate school. Jennifer Burke and her husband in Bel Air, Md., are saving the additional $240 a month as they wait out the recession and raise a one-year-old daughter.
Marcus Leef’s $150 monthly savings is going to daycare costs and personal savings. Leef, a consultant in Hartford County, Conn., has seen his stock portfolio plummet 40 percent, his retirement savings plunge by half and his corporate stock tumble by 60 percent this year. He’s not optimistic.
“My view is the economy is in the toilet. It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” he said. “If rates drop another point tomorrow, I’ll (refinance) again the day after.”
Those are the luckiest homeowners. Les Berman, a mortgage broker in Encino, Calif., said most borrowers contacting him have interest-only mortgages and they want to lock into a fixed-rate loan. They’re not saving any money each month if they do that; instead, they’re taking higher payments to get out of riskier loans.
“They want that security. They want to protect themselves against the future,” he said, even if it means shelling out more each month.
Other borrowers, like Eric Dudek in Grand Rapids, Mich., are waiting to see if rates drop further after hearing reports that the government is considering a proposal to lower the rate on 30-year home loans to 4.5 percent by buying more mortgage-backed securities.
“I’m thinking maybe I should hold off, you know?” said Dudek, who would use the savings from a refinancing to pay off student loans.
But he could be waiting in vain because the plan is only expected to apply to purchase loans, not refinance loans. Either way, most borrowers will need more than just lower interest rates to solve their problems.
Brokers are turning away thousands of borrowers because they just won’t qualify for a refinancing. Pava Leyrer, president of Heritage National Mortgage in Michigan, said about 40 percent of the homeowners calling her likely won’t get a refinance because of falling home values, credit issues and job loss.
Likewise, Brad Cohen, vice president of Mason Dixon Funding in Rockville, Md., said as many as two-thirds of borrowers he’s talked to don’t qualify because they owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth.
An estimated 12 million U.S. homeowners are in that situation and declining home prices only exacerbate their situations. Low interest rates won’t be enough and if they fall into default or foreclosure, that will only make the current financial crisis worse.
“There’s no plan in place to help them right now,” Cohen said.
AP Real Estate Writer Alan Zibel in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.
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12.5
08
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– Wireless Device Sold Every 12 Seconds–
RESTON, Va., Dec 02, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Simplexity, the leading online seller of wireless phones and service plans, today announced record sales for wireless purchases on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Even with the uncertainty of the current US economy, traffic to its sites, including leading wireless comparison shopping site www.wirefly.com, was at an all time high.
Traditionally, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is best known as the day that consumers flock to shopping malls and retail stores looking for deep discounts and sales. However, according to industry analyst ComScore Networks, Black Friday saw $534 million in online spending, up 1 percent from last year, thus proving that while consumers may be watching their budgets this year; they are still willing to spend, if the price is right. Simplexity’s performance on Black Friday support ComScore’s assertion with sales up 145% from the same day last year.
Cyber Monday, the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday, has become known as the Web shopping equivalent to retailers’ Black Friday, and Simplexity has consistently seen a considerable rise in year-over-year traffic to its site on this day, with 2008 being no exception. Online traffic to its site was up 96% from 2007.
“Black Friday and Cyber Monday were by far our strongest days this year,” said Andy Zeinfeld, CEO. “On average, we sold a wireless phone every 12 seconds for both days. While we had expected sales to be high on Cyber Monday, we were extremely pleased to have exceeded our goals and objectives for Black Friday, a day typically reserved for high sales volumes at the bricks and mortar stores. In fact, our sales volume on Black Friday was equivalent to those on Cyber Monday.”
Zeinfeld continued, “It appears as though consumers are opting to use the internet to shop this holiday season rather than deal with the crowds at the stores. Shoppers can find the great savings online in addition to an expanded selection without dealing with the hassles and the headaches at the shopping malls. At Wirefly.com, we have always offered amazing discounts on wireless products and services throughout the entire year. We provide a fast, easy, convenient, and cost-effective way to purchase cell phones and accessories.”
Wirefly.com’s Top 5 Best Selling Phones for Black Friday & Cyber Monday
LG Vu CU920 - The LG Vu has dominated our best-seller list since its arrival. A sleek touchscreen phone with high-speed data and expandable memory, the Vu is specifically tailored for live TV and Video Share services.
Samsung Behold T919 - This beautiful candy bar style cell phone with touch screen also comes loaded with a best-in-class 5-MP camera, video capture capabilities, and runs on Samsung’s new TouchWiz user interface.
Motorola Krave ZN4 - Motorola’s first touch phone is also a remarkably unique one. The Krave includes a large main display with finger-touch technology, and a clear flip cover with a touch surface of its own. GPS, mobile TV, and a 2-MP camera round out the features.
Blackberry Curve 8330 - This CDMA version of the BlackBerry Curve adds high-speed connectivity on EVDO networks, while retaining the other features that make the Curve so popular - including a 2-MP camera, GPS, push email, and memory card slot.
Samsung Eternity A867 - With a sleek black and chrome exterior, this 3.2- inch touch screen phone has a full-touch QWERTY keypad with haptic support, providing subtle vibrations that confirm selections. The Eternity also has an integrated 3.0-megapixel camera with video capture, Video Share calling, advanced messaging capabilities and supports streaming TV.
About Simplexity
Simplexity is the leading online retailer of cell phones and wireless plans. Simplexity’s technology solutions include merchandising, procurement, customer service, billing, customer relationship marketing, order processing and cell phone activations for the largest carriers in the U.S. We operate private label websites for some of the largest names in retail using unrivaled, proprietary systems. Simplexity also operates the popular website Wirefly ( www.wirefly.com), the leading one-stop cell phone and wireless plan comparison shopping site that has been awarded “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine and “Best in Overall Customer Experience” by Keynote Systems. For more information about the company, its products and services, visit the Simplexity corporate website at www.simplexity.com.
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