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Schwarz has been the president of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission for over ten years. He has over thirty years of experience in the film and television industries, working predominantly as a location manager and producer. His work includes “Wild At Heart,” “My Name Is Earl,” “Entourage,” “The Comeback,” “From the Earth to the Moon” and Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s “Band of Brothers,” for which Ivan won a Golden Globe.
The Film Commission is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing jobs and economic impact to Northeast Ohio through the growth of a sustainable media production industry. Since passing the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit in 2009, more than 110 productions have shot in Cleveland, including “The Avengers,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” and most recently, Matthew McConaughey’s “White Boy Rick” and Helen Hunt’s “I See You”. |
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It’s kind of hard to tell from the picture, but Miss Fancy Nancy is sitting in a chair that is upholstered with children’s b ook covers (well, not literally I hope, but with fabric that has children’s book covers on it). From where I sit I can see The Giving Tree, The Story of Ferdinand, The Hobbit, and one of the Narnia books. It is much better if you go look at the real cover of Fancy Nancy and the Dazzling Book Report.
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There’s no doubt in my thoughts that the most popular weight loss device in Bellshill Scotland today is Garcinia Cambogia. It has actually been in everyone’s perspective for a year approximately. Last autumn Dr. Oz presented it to be one of the latest revolutionary findings in the field of weight loss.
Since then, garcinia’s road to fame started. After a year the globe went crazy and now you see it anywhere. Everyone in Bellshill Scotland is discussing it. Personalities have confessed to utilizing it to enhance their weight loss initiatives.
The short answer is no. Due to its appeal opportunist, deceitful individuals in Bellshill Scotland try to make a fast buck on the innocent public. There have been a number of suppliers shut down since they were selling fake garcinia items.
I really wish you have not fallen for their methods. There are a couple of ways to discover if the capsules that you are thinking about getting cost the cash or not.
First of all you need to check the country origins. I personally stay away from items made in Asia. The manufacturing and safety and security setting is a joke. I considerably instead pay a little bit more if I understand that the garcinia that I’m buying was made in an FDA-approved research laboratory.
Next you have to check out the components selection. The most convenient method for scams artist to reduce edges is by adding fillers and binders into the mix, and naturally omitting the essential things that assists you burn fat.
Additionally, fillers and binders could have major side effects. What you have to understand is that during the professional trial the doctors made use of Pure Garcinia Cambogia and the volunteers handled to lose weight without any sort of side effects whatsoever. This is why it is very important to simply take pure and high quality products in Bellshill Scotland.
Whether you’re a veteran audience, an individual that simply delicately turns in, or even if you have not ever watched his show, opportunities are you‘ve familiarized by this factor that Dr. Oz suggests garcinia cambogia.
Considering that he first recommended the procedure in autumn of in 2012, the procedure has actually risen from loved one obscurity to turned into one of the best commodities on the diet plan and physical exercise market in Bellshill Scotland.
Lastly take a look at the HCA content. It ought to be at the very least 60 %. If it’s less than that you will certainly be having a hard time to see significant results. In the research they utilized FIFTY % HCA Garcinia Cambogia extract.
The HCA, as in Hydroxycitric Acid, is the component that in fact helps you lose weight. This is the substance which informs your brain to feel fuller and instead of saving the fat deposits, to start burning it.
Also Dr. Oz stressed on his show that you ought to take pure items. If you locate the video you could see it for yourself.
I do not advise you buy it from the street edge. There are way far better means, such as the internet.
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Garcinia cambogia is the scientific name for a fruit which is referred to as Gambooge. The fruit has either a yellowish-green or much deeper green color to it and is formed like a cross in between a squash and a fruit.
Used in a number of recipes– including curry– the fruit can be located in Africa, India, and the Far East and has actually been revealed to contribute to healthy and balanced red blood cells, among other points. Furthermore, the higher HCA material of the fruit, when effectively drawn out, could also give a dietary improve.
The marketplace today is swamped with items which are laboratory-tested and refined, which is all well and good, but also for some, especially those with a perspective of medicine and physical fitness which is much more all natural and green in nature, this can be off-putting.
Hence, the fact that Dr. Oz recommends garcinia cambogia could be viewed as both an indicator of and a response to the growth in the all-natural movement in nutritional and nourishment circles. As an extract from a fruit, garcinia cambogia is as all-natural as it gets, and can consequently both help you reduce weight and stay with a natural or green diet regimen and way of life.
In addition to all this, garcinia cambogia extract is a reliable fat buster. The supplement, appropriately ready, manages to metabolize cells in such a way concerning aid burn excess fat cells.
On top of that, the supplement talkings to diet programs from a different vantage point, working as a diet supplement. Garcinia cambogia works as a hunger suppressant, implying that you’ll be able to really feel complete while eating less.
Needless to say, this could show to be a great advantage when looking to successfully start a diet regimen.
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My stepson decided he wanted a Pokemon birthday this year. The Pokemon figures are pretty hard to make into a cake so I decided to make the Pokeball, which is just a round ball, half red & half white.
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at decorating a cake with fondant after washing billions of hours of Charm City Cakes’ amazing creations and ‘the Cake Boss’. Obviously this would not be anywhere in the same league as the cakes they create, but you have to start somewhere, right?
I have to say that even after making the fondant, I was still surprised at how heavy it was when it came down to decorating the cake. It’s not like pie dough where you can roll it onto itself and move it. You actually need to decide ahead of time to bring the cake closer to you. I found this out after having finally kneaded the fondant so it was just right and then rolling it to just the right thickness and then trying to get it to my cake… And having it rip apart and fall on the floor… Thus having to start all over with a new piece. And I did this TWICE before moving the cake. Ugh. Sometimes my brain doesn’t work!
Anyway, once I moved the cake and got a feel for the fondant, it went pretty smoothly.
Then I went to add the final touches, which I thought would be the easiest part… I had that icing in a can with the writing tips. That’s what I used for the black lines I needed. It came out in globs and made a mess. Then I tried to ‘fix’ it by making another line so maybe it would look like it was supposed to be thicker. It looked awful! Oh well. It was black, it’s not like I could take it back off and start over (the fondant instantly took on the color!). I decided to just be happy the fondant worked.
But then, because I can’t just leave well enough alone, I had to write on the cake. I used that same icing in a can, this time in blue. Maybe it’s just me. I don’t think I can write on cakes. The writing was awful and I was very upset about it. I do have a really nice set of cake decorating tips so next time I’ll see if I can do any better with the decorations using homemade icing.
The actual cake was just a white box cake, I made a blue and a green layer and then I cut each layer in two so it would be a 4-layer cake. I made a delicious vanilla buttercream to frost it. I also added a layer of sprinkles :). I wish I could post a pic of the inside but it was so late after trick-or-treating last night, it never got cut!
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I really don't know how many times I have sworn myself off the "allure" or lack of it from Caitlin Jenner.
Of course I know the non negotiables. Without a doubt she is the biggest public relation's splash ever in the transgender community. Now we have a former Olympic hero along with Navy Seal Kristin Beck as recent "coming out" stories. In fact, Kristin is running for US Congress.
I am sure Jenner's life will ever allow her to ever experience the everyday lives we live as transgender women. Can you imagine the paparazzi crowding into a women's restroom with her?
After watching her last show rater intently (and knowing it's a glossy over produced Kartrashian show) I couldn't see the emotion in Jenner. Again, I don't know all the facts about her, except she went out and bought the best plastic surgery money could buy. Again, maybe that's why I can't see any emotion in her face-she can't move it!!!!
Plus, I have no idea how long she has been back on HRT. It took me three years on hormones to begin to see the world in a different way. When I watch Jenner, I wonder if she has passed over (no pun intended) to the feminine side much at all. She tries to overtalk most people and doesn't want to listen for the real problems-typical male.
Then again, maybe I am just watching the true quandary of a Mtf gender transition play out with Jenner. I don't question the pure persistence and strength it takes to jump the gender fence. It will be interesting to see in the years to come what happens with Jenner. Will a "softer-gentler" Caitlin truly begin to enjoy a life in the girls sandbox? Or, will the ego trip of doing it still be more important? |
This class and 5 others are now available in a playtested, balanced, edited, layouted and illustrated version in my 13th Age expansion book Dark Pacts & Ancient Secrets.
At its height, the Dragon Empire was able to drive back the nomads and savage tribes at its borders, but its defenses have weakened. The Orc Lord raids the northern reaches every summer, the High Druid keeps attacking settlements near her forests, and the Three have established a permanent stronghold of the savage races in Drakkenhall. These tribes are your people. You were born with them, you fight with them, and one day they will scatter your ashes in the wind. Your people are free. The city dwellers are nothing but caged animals, toothless and weak. Your blood still boils. When the swords start clashing, feel the rush of battle in your veins. With every strike you sink into the heart of your enemy, you grow stronger, more ferocious, more deadly.
Play Style: Your place in battle is the front line. You get into your enemy’s face and then proceed to smash it.
If you like to charge in and bash skulls, this is your class. You don’t just dish out damage in large heaps, you’ll also be able to take quite a bit. However, don’t underestimate how quickly your enemies can cut you down if they gang up on you.
With your Frenzy Dice class feature, your damage increases with every hit. During battle, there are two things to keep track of: the number of dice in your frenzy pool and which frenzy powers you have already used this battle.
You can also make yourself useful in social situations. While you won’t impress anyone with table manners or polite conversation, your free spirit can cut through the complications and get to the core of matters quickly. If diplomacy fails, the threat of ripping someone’s arm out is quite credible if it comes from you.
Ability Scores: You gain a +2 bonus to Strength or Constitution, as long as it is not the same as your racial bonus. Those two abilities are your mainstays. A good Wisdom or Dexterity is important for your armor class.
Races: Members of any race can pick up a big stick and bash their opponents to a bloody pulp. Half-Orc is a top pick. Dwarf, dragonspawn, dark elf, wood elf, or dwarf-forged are also great choices.
Backgrounds: The disgraced daughter of the tribal shaman channels the power of the spirits in a vengeful fury. The bloodthirsty mercenary wants to make a fortune before he returns to the north to his loving wife. The freed gladiator has sworn to travel every known land. The hell-hole scavenger feels an inner anger that is not all natural. The fallen paladin is on a quest to atone, but instead of peace, he has found new strength in channeling his inner anger. The gruff bounty hunter was once a celebrated painter, before the dragons came and it all went to hell.
Icons: For humans, elves, and dwarves, the savage life means they have left their civilized home behind, and the relationship to their emperor, king, or queen will be distant at best. Hailing from outside the civilized areas of the Empire, your main allegiances are the outsider icons; in particular, the High Druid for humans and elves, the Orc Lord for half-orcs, and The Three for dragonspawn. Your close relationship to nature makes the Diabolist or the Lich King, the despoilers of life and nature, natural enemies.
Most Savages hail from tribal societies, and carry with them what they need to survive in the wild. The clothes they wear are simple and sturdy, often made from the tanned furs and hides of animals they hunted. Many decorate their skin with paints, tattoos or ritual scars to appear more fearsome to their enemies. Mercenary types will wear the civilized military clothing of their region, with light armor such as a chain shirt or breast plate, and the usual travelling gear.
You can choose to start with either 25 gp, or 1d6 x 10 gp. If you don't hail from civilization, this is most likely furs, gems, or small pieces of art like carved animal teeth that your people use for trading.
Savages usually wear light armor in battle, as they find heavy armor too restrictive for their fierce, untamed fighting style.
Savages favor melee weapons. The most common style is a single heavy weapon, but there is a variety of styles that depend on your choice of talents.
Note: Although not listed on the table, Savages get three talents. They do not gain more at higher levels.
Multiclass Savages start with 2 powers known at level 1. See the Multiclass information at the bottom for more details.
With each hit you score in a battle, you build up a pool of frenzy dice. You add these dice to damage, but you can also expend them to fuel your powers or heal yourself.
You start each battle with zero frenzy dice. Whenever you hit with a melee attack or a thrown weapon ranged attack, you gain frenzy dice at the end of that turn. Only the first hit counts, multiple hits in one turn still only grant you frenzy dice once.
At rst level, you gain a single d4. The die increases by one step each level, as per the level progression table. At 5th level, you gain two dice, and at 8th level, four.
The frenzy dice you gain are added to your frenzy pool. You can keep adding frenzy dice until you reach the maximum, which is three times the dice you gain per hit. When an attack or power uses your current frenzy dice, the pool is referred to as FRENZY (similar to WEAPON for your weapon damage dice). Most importantly, you add FRENZY to damage when you hit with a basic melee attack. Using FRENZY does not expend the dice; they remain in your pool.
However, there are two uses that expend your frenzy dice. One is to pay the cost of your frenzy powers, the other is your Frenzied Healing class feature below.
Your frenzy powers are stronger melee attacks and furious battlecries. They can be used once per battle. You start with three at first level, and you can switch them out when you gain a level. Many of your powers come with a cost entry. After you use the power, remove frenzy dice equal to the cost from your frenzy pool. That way, dice expended to pay for the cost are still counted for its FRENZY effect.
At the end of your turn, you can expend frenzy dice to heal yourself. Roll the dice you discard to determine how many hit points you heal. If you have to discard frenzy dice because you have reached your maximum frenzy, or the battle has ended, you can use them to heal with this ability.
Champion Feat: When an attack reduces you below zero hit points, you can use Frenzied Healing as an interrupt action to heal back up from zero hit points. You have to expend your entire frenzy pool if you do so.
Whenever you roll a natural even failure on a skill check related to animals, you can reroll the check once. This includes combat control checks. See the mounted combat rules in 13th Age Monthly #20 for details. When you succeed at a mounted combat control check, don’t increase the DC of the next check by 5.
When you score a critical hit with a melee attack or thrown weapon ranged attack during your turn, gain double frenzy dice at the end of your turn.
Champion feat: When your frenzy dice pool is at maximum, gain a +2 bonus to your critical threat range with melee attacks.
Adventurer feat: You can use your melee attack frenzy powers as thrown weapon ranged attacks instead.
Champion feat: Once per battle, when an enemy successfully disengages from you, make a thrown weapon attack against that enemy as an interrupt action.
When you use the Frenzied Healing class feature while staggered, gain extra hit points equal to your Constitution modifier. Double this bonus at 5th level, triple it at 8th.
Epic Feat: You can heal above your maximum hit points with Frenzied Healing. Any excess hit points vanish at the end of the battle.
Warriors of your tribe use leather and hides for protection in battle, but you earned a set of heavy armor in your spoils of war and you’ve been wearing it proudly ever since.
For a hulking brute like you, a normal sword is a better toothpick. You’d rather wield a sword that’s taller than most of your enemies, or an axe with a blade that’s twice the size of their heads.
Adventurer feat: When wielding a two-handed melee weapon, gain a +1 bonus to hit against large and huge monsters.
Champion feat: When wielding a two-handed melee weapon, gain a +2 bonus to your critical threat range against large and huge monsters.
Epic feat: When wielding a two-handed melee weapon, deal triple damage on a critical hit against large and huge monsters.
Whenever you take an attack penalty from a condition, halve that penalty. For example, if you are dazed, reduce the attack penalty from -4 to -2.
Champion feat: Once per battle, when you are unable to take actions during your turn (such as when stunned or unconscious), you can take a standard action.
Epic feat: While staggered, you can choose to ignore the effects of any other condition. Note that when your hp drop to zero, you are no longer staggered, so the effect ends and you fall unconscious.
The spirits of your ancestral lands, and heroes of past ages, whose deeds are passed on in legends, watch over you. In the rush of battle, you can feel them guide your blade.
You gain a bonus frenzy power. You can choose a power that is two levels higher than your current level. Note that there are no powers higher than 9th level.
When members of your tribe reach maturity, they perform a vision quest to discover their totem animal. You have successfully completed this quest, and were accepted as an adult. You can call upon the strength of your totem spirit in battle.
You gain a beast aspect from the druid’s Shifter talent as a daily power. As a quick action, you can gain the initiate effect of the aspect until the end of the battle. You can take the feats of that aspect. Ignore other rules of the Shifter talent.
When waves of enemies crash against you, you are the rock that splits the tide, with a weapon in each hand for double the slashing.
Champion feat: When wielding two melee weapons, gain a +2 bonus to your critical threat range against mooks.
If your enemies think that just because you are a hulking mass of muscle, your mind is weak and can be easily swayed, they are in for a nasty surprise.
You gain a +2 bonus to MD. If you are hit by an attack against MD with an effect other than damage, immediately make a saving throw against that effect. If the save succeeds, ignore the effect.
Adventurer feat: Once per battle, if an attack against MD misses you, gain a frenzy die (2 at 5th level; 4 at 8th).
Hit: Psychic damage equal to your Constitution modifier + FRENZY. Gain frenzy dice as if you had hit with a melee attack at the end of your turn.
Champion feat: You can spend a frenzy die to give all nearby allies a +2 bonus to their next melee attack.
Effect: Pop free from all enemies and jump to a nearby location. For a long or risky jump, the GM can require a Strength-based skill check.
Always: Engage a nearby enemy as part of the attack. You take a -4 penalty to AC until the start of your next turn.
Adventurer feat: Until the start of your next turn, you gain a +4 bonus to opportunity attacks against the target.
Natural even hit: The target is hampered (can only make basic attacks) until the start of your next turn.
Hit: WEAPON + Strength damage. Spend a recovery to heal and add FRENZY to the amount of hp you heal.
Champion feat: You can spend up to three frenzy dice on this power to use one recovery per die spent.
Champion feat: If this attack kills the target, immediately make another melee attack against a nearby enemy.
Effect: You take half damage from the attack. If the attack had a type of damage associated to it, such as fire, you gain resist that type 16+ until the end of the battle.
Natural even hit: Spend 1 frenzy die and make another melee attack. Keep attacking until you roll odd or run out of frenzy dice. You can pop free and engage other nearby enemies between attacks.
Effect: You shout out a challenge to an icon, and gain a negative relationship die with that icon until your next full heal-up.
Effect: Increase your critical threat range by 2 until you roll a critical hit, or until the end of battle.
Epic feat: You can use this power as a free action, at no frenzy die cost, after killing a non-mook enemy.
Champion Feat: You can use this power against a nearby enemy you are not engaged with. Make a basic ranged attack with a thrown weapon instead.
You only gain frenzy dice for hits with savage basic melee attacks and savage power melee attacks. You would not, for example, gain frenzy dice for a hit with the Paladin's Smite Evil.
Use the barbarian entry for key ability modifiers. A Savage / Barbarian has Str / Con as key abilities.
Savages count as "skillful warriors" and do not suffer from a weapon damage penalty (if the other class is also from that list)
You are one level behind on frenzy powers. At 1st level, you know 2 savage powers, and your frenzy die on hit is 1d3. Your maximum frenzy is 3d3. |
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The decline of the nation-state is really a decline of the specifically national content of the state and an opportunity to create a cosmopolitan state system that is better able to deal with the problems that all nations face in the world today. Economic globalisation, transnational terrorism, global warming: the litany is familiar and daunting. There are a host of problems that are clearly beyond the power of the old order of nation-states to cope with. The answer to global problems that are gathering ominously all around and that refuse to yield to nation-state solutions is for politics to take a quantum leap from the nation-state system to the cosmopolitan state system. Politics needs to regain credibility in order to craft real solutions.
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Mahatma Gandhi1 once said, “The world provides enough for every man’s need but not for every man’s greed.” Sometimes it’s easy to agree with proclamations of world peace and say things like, “The rich should really give to the poor and solve world hunger!” However, when the giving strikes closer to home, it can be tougher than we think.
I once had a watch that I thought was seriously cool. It was a boy’s watch, but I didn’t mind; it had all the dials and gadgets you could want. I visited my family and my younger brother was crazy about my watch and asked if he could have it. I told him I couldn’t possibly part with such amazingness and sadly left it at that. Shortly after getting home, my treasured watch met with an accident and broke. It was then that I realized how stupid it was that I’d missed the opportunity to give it to my little brother, who was so much more important to me than that watch ever could be. It might not have lasted him forever either, but at least he would have been happy for a while. And more than the watch, the meaning behind my giving him something special would have stuck with him so much longer.
I try to remember that incident whenever I’m tempted to be selfish with my things or start to prize them too highly. It’s great to have nice things and groovy gadgets. (Don’t tell anyone, but I’m fairly addicted to my phone, which contains all my appointments, mail, reminders, to-do lists, Facebook, Twitter, Messenger, Google, and favorite games.) These days, the “must-have” gadgets are endless—from smartphones, iPads, laptops, and gaming equipment right down to 3D home TVs! If you’re able to have some of these nice things and enjoy them and they help you with your work and studies, or are also a fun source of entertainment, technology can be great. But it’s good to step back sometimes and imagine what it would be like if one day all those things instantly disappeared. After your initial withdrawal symptoms, you’d realize that life goes on without material things. What matters most are our loved ones—our friends and family members. Sometimes we can forget this truth, and that’s when we tend to act selfishly.
The act of giving not only helps those we give to, but us as well. Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you.”2 Sometimes what you get back will be something tangible, such as the Lord supplying things you need or someone giving to you, but more often than not what you receive in return is the satisfaction that you did something good. Have you ever given someone something they really needed or wanted and watched their face light up? It’s an amazing feeling!
An old American movie from the 1930s called The Man Who Played God is about a concert pianist who lost his hearing in a bomb explosion. He finally got through his depression when he learned how to read lips. He’d watch people in Central Park (New York City), where they’d talk about their problems and troubles, and he would do what he could to solve their problems anonymously. I think it would be amazing to do something like that, to know what other people need and be able to secretly give it to them.
There is a cute kids’ song that one or two of you may have heard when you were knee high to a grasshopper, called, “I’d Like to Be Invisible.” The singer wishes he was invisible so that he could “spread love everywhere, and help in secret ways without you knowing he was there.” (Yup, it even rhymed!) The truest part of the song, though, is where it concludes that you don’t have to be invisible, because you can do things to make a difference all around you. You can make it a point to look for where the need is and do what you can to fill it.
It’s a funny story but it rings true. It’s easy for me to think that if I had a million dollars, I’d love to give it away to help people, or to ponder all the great things I’d do for my family with money like that; but when it comes to giving away a small portion of my free time to parents who could use a break from their kids, or doing a favor that costs me in the here and now, that’s where the true essence of giving really kicks in.
I know a lot of missionaries who do great works of evangelism and charity, and it’s inspiring to read about the orphanages they help and the seminars they host, and all the other great projects they do. However, I have a very personal description of what makes a missionary: it’s someone with a giving heart. That means not only do they do big, impressive (and usually well-advertised) works to help the poor or disadvantaged, but they’re also always there to lend a helping hand whenever there is a need. They give to their own hurt; and they don’t ask for or expect favors in return. They don’t have a personal agenda. They just give. And you can feel their love and kindness in their actions. They’re the ones you only ask for help when you really need it, because you know they’ll do everything in their power to help you. In return, you want to do anything you can to help them. Their lives are examples of cheerful and selfless giving.
I would love to be remembered as someone like that! Sure, we all have bouts of selfishness, and human nature tends to take the path of least resistance, but it’s something to strive for, don’t you think? Sometimes giving can be as simple as a sincere compliment, a hug, or a word of appreciation. It can also be giving your favorite gizmo to your little brother or sister when it would mean the world to them.
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Yet the more monumental retail push occurred last summer, when Amazon purchased grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and proved, yet again, that Bezos is willing and able to buy his way into a new market when it’s unfavorable to start from scratch. Amazon now uses Whole Foods’ grocery pick-up and delivery perks and in-store discounts as a way to reward its Prime subscribers. It’s also using its massive resources to lower Whole Foods prices, making it more competitive with Kroger, Target, and Walmart. In response, Walmart has begun investing heavily in e-commerce and grocery delivery to protect its turf from Amazon, setting the stage for an unprecedented retail war.
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Bezos and those he’s hired over the years have been prescient about a vast number of shifts in how people spend money, buy products, and use the internet. But none of their predictions may have panned out quite as lucratively as Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud computing division that loans server space and other computing resources at massive profit margins.
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Plans are developing nicely for our forthcoming ‘BLOODHOUND 500’ test session later this year. BLOODHOUND’s Chief Exec, Richard Noble, has just returned from a hugely busy week of meetings in South Africa. Richard met with the South African Govt, the British High Commission team, a whole list of companies (who all want to help) and a range of national media. No surprise that everyone is getting excited about BLOODHOUND going to South Africa this Autumn.
While we’re busy planning the event schedule for our test runs (lots of you keep asking for more details, I promise we’ll update everyone soon!), there’s plenty of research still going on to understand how the Car will behave. One of the key things we are looking at is noise. How much noise will the Car generate? How will this noise affect the structure of the Car, the driver (me!) and the watching crowds?
The noise will come from 2 main sources. The jet engine and the rocket motor will create a lot (and I mean A LOT) of noise at the back end of the Car, with a bit of jet intake jet noise over the cockpit as well.
At supersonic speeds, I don’t have to worry about the jet intake noise any more, as I’ll be travelling faster than the sound the jet engine is making. However, at that point, the supersonic shockwaves start to generate some fairly large ‘acoustic energy effects’. In other words, they will probably create even more noise than the jet intake, so it’s going to be noisy whatever speed we’re doing.
You may be surprised to hear that I’m not that worried about the noise levels in the cockpit. During our ‘slow speed’ (200 mph) tests at Cornwall Airport Newquay last year, we found that the cockpit was not as noisy as we had first thought. If we find it’s getting too noisy when we go faster (like supersonic fast), then we can fit a lot more sound proofing. We’ve already got a big box of something called ‘Basotech’ (the same sound-absorbing foam that Ariane rockets use), ready to fit in the cockpit if required.
We’re not too worried about the effects on the crowd either, as there are some easy solutions. First, we’ll be monitoring the noise levels at the edge of the track, when the Car runs. If it gets too noisy, then we’ll simply move the crowd line back further (don’t worry if you’re coming to see us, it won’t be too far and you’ll still get a fabulous view!). In fact, the main problem may come when we get round to timing our final runs, to set a new World Land Speed Record. At this point we need FIA timekeepers, who traditionally use a few hundred metres of cable to record their timing light signals. We’ve already warned them that they are probably going to need wireless timing equipment, as they are likely to be a kilometre of more back from the track.
The real thing we’re concerned about is the noise effects on the Car. Back in 1997, when we set the current World Land Speed Record, we saw quite a lot of acoustic damage to the Car. This included cracking of the titanium panels at the rear of the Car, due to shattering noise of the jet engine exhaust. The supersonic shockwaves also did their fair share of damage. We had to replace one of the body panels under the Car, which was cracked by shockwave vibrations.
Things like rocket motors can produce so much energy that they risk destroying the vehicle (usually a space craft) that they are attached to. For example, the Space Shuttle had to use massive water sprays to damp down the acoustic energy at launch. And I do mean ‘massive’ – they sprayed over one million litres of water onto the launch pad in just over half a minute, to prevent acoustic damage to the payload and crew. That’s a lot of water and a lot of noise.
BLOODHOUND is not going to be using anything the size of the Shuttle main engines, which is just as well, as there’s nowhere on the Car to keep a million litres of water. We can’t just ignore the problem though. Between them, the Rolls-Royce jet engine and the Nammo hybrid rocket will make BLOODHOUND SSC the loudest (as well as the fastest) Car in history. We need to make sure that all this noise is not going to damage the back end of the Car.
This is where our new best friend Nick Eaton of ‘Space Acoustics’ comes in. Nick is developing an ‘advanced numerical solution to noise from turbulent mixing’ for BLOODHOUND. In short, that means he’s modelling the noise. His first model is for a speed of Mach 0.8, in other words 80% of the speed of sound, or around 600 mph. That’s comfortably above our ‘BLOODHOUND 500’ target for this year of 500+ mph, to give us some worst-case noise figures to look at for this year’s testing.
This year’s test runs will be with our EJ200 jet engine only, as the rocket development will not be completed until next year. For the test programme, that makes things simpler, as we can focus on 2 cases, jet engine at full power (measuring the total noise exposure of the Car) and jet engine off (measuring the noise from the airflow only, as the Car slows down). That will give us accurate figures for the airflow noise and, by measuring the difference with power on, for the jet engine noise. Nick can then use these figures to improve the accuracy of his model (if required), before we fit the rocket and start doing supersonic runs.
Before I talk about the expected noise levels, I have to touch on the difficult subject of noise measurement. Nick’s figures are looking at the something called the Sound Pressure Level, which is a measure of the pressure caused by the sound waves. This is ideal for BLOODHOUND’s requirements, as we want to understand how the sound might affect the structure of the Car, so it’s the pressure that we’re interested in. Slightly confusingly, the sound pressure is different to the power or energy of the sound wave, for reasons I won’t attempt to explain – just take my word for it.
The Sound Pressure Level (SPL) is measured relative to a reference pressure, which is the quietest sound that you can hear. To make things a bit more complicated, it’s measured on a logarithmic scale, in units called decibels, or dB. The quietest sound your ear can detect is reference pressure at 0 dB(SPL). On this scale, 20 dB(SPL) is 10 times the sound intensity of 0 dB, and 40 dB(SPL) is 100 times the intensity. Confused? Yes, me too. Let’s stick to some simple examples.
If 0 dB(SPL) is the quietest sound you can hear, then the ‘pain threshold’ of sound, where the noise start to cause you injury, is around 120-130 dB(SPL). The variation is because the pain threshold is slightly subjective: a really loud (130 dB(SPL)) rock concert may well be ‘great music’ to a 20-year old and ‘painful noise’ to someone over 40...
With 130 dB(SPL) as a ‘painfully loud’ reference (at least for me – I’m over 40), the sound levels around BLOODHOUND may make a bit more sense. The predicted noise level (SPL) at the cockpit is 135 dB, so it may not be comfortable, but it’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll be wearing a full-face helmet and ‘Ultimate Ear’ moulded ear plugs (like you see the F1 drivers using), so I’m well protected against this level of noise.
Of more interest is the prediction for noise at the back on the Car, where the SPL figure is 150 dB. This is really quite loud. Unhelpfully, most of the examples of this kind of noise level are things like ‘military jet engine’ or ‘heavy artillery gunfire’. Unless you work with military jets or heavy artillery, this doesn’t mean much. More exciting is the sort of effects that it has on the human body, which are variously quoted as ‘chest cavity vibrates’, ‘giddiness’ and ‘choking’.
This noise level will damage more than just your hearing. OK, we’ll make sure that we all keep well back. Question is, what’s it going to do to the Car itself? Now that we have this data, our engineering team can start to look at exactly this question. Better still, we can measure the effects on the Car when we start testing it later this year. If you want to see how we get on, come along and join us for our first high-speed test session this autumn in South Africa, we’d love to see you there. Don’t forget to bring your ear plugs.
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Ever the drama queen, GOP super-strategist Grover Norquist is vewy vewy upset about this breathtaking photo of the sunset on Mars:
George Bush’s vendetta war in Iraq is costing us $3 trillion, or 1,200 times the cost of “that picture of Mars” (the Curiosity mission cost only $2.5bn). So, actually, had the Republicans not invaded Iraq on a lie we could have afforded both Mars and Rembrandt.
This is something that bothered me way back in 2001. I remember when George Bush was proposing the huge $1.6 trillion tax cut, and when Democrats, led by Tom Daschle, immediately caved and countered with a $1.3 trillion tax cut (that’ll show ’em). At the time I thought, yeah we have a surplus thanks to Bill Clinton, but shouldn’t we save this for a rainy day rather than run out and spend it like a drunken Reagan? Yet that’s what the Republicans did, and it’s what they always do.
The Republicans never met a surplus they didn’t spend. They wasted America’s rainy day fund on tax cuts for the rich and wars of convenience, and now we’re all paying for it.
Of course, it gets even funnier. Had Norquist taken a few more science and math classes he might have had the smarts to Google the photo before sending it out to the world as a new photo from Mars. It’s not a new photo at all. It’s a photo from 2005, and has nothing to do with Curiosity’s current mission to Mars.
And Grover, there’s one more difference between the Mission to Mars and the $3 trillion Republican war of convenience in Iraq.
PS Oh, and Grover, the pic you’re complaining about was from the Bush administration. But funny you didn’t complain about the cost of the Mars mission, or Bush’s various wars, then.
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Well here we are again in the age old struggle of God and Science. Actually, scratch that, it's the age old struggle of stubborn people and even more stubborn people.
Am I the only one who doesn't see compromise possible here? Can we include - as one of the lynchpins in almost all current biological research - a thorough teaching of Evolution in schools, yet still leave enough time for at least one vigorous discussion on its merits and deficiencies? After all, teaching Evolution without at least mentioning the doubt and debate swirling around it almost makes its teaching seem incomplete. Also, since when is it unconstitutional to expose school children to views they or their parents don't agree with? No one is saying that students need to believe Evolution, just that they need learn about it. Not talking about it at all isn't going to make it go away, no matter how much the students' or their parents disagree with it.
As the great Gordon Gekko would say, this is just "a dog with different fleas." Critics have been calling Intelligent Design "Creationism Lite," but it's not even that. Intelligent Design, in its most pure form, is simply an argument that has been employed against Evolution for the past 100 years, namely: life is simply too complex to have arisen spontaneously. Calling it a Theory in its own right is laughable because its core dependency is a non-provable Creator. Intelligent Design is an argument against Evolution, nothing more.
As a Christian, it would be pretty hard for me to believe in a God who had no control over the devlopment of his own universe. As someone familiar with biochemistry (one of my majors in college), I find the prospect that the plethora of evidence supporting Evolution is simply a practical joke played by God on Earth's scientists very unlikely. My personal view is that God Created the Heavens and the Earth... and that he did so by employing the Big Bang and Evolution.
I find the statement that life could not have arisen spontaneously obvious. After all, the weak point of the Theory of Evolution is the Beginning of Life. Thermodynamics simply doesn't allow for the spontaneous generation of amino acids in large enough quantities to form a sustainable population. Once amino acids have been formed, it's an even larger leap of faith to believe they somehow formed enough peptide bonds to form a functional and self reproducing protein complex, I don't care how many billions of years you give it. An equally large leap of faith would be for these self-reproducing proteins to spontaneously differentiate and congeal to form an actual one celled organism. None of this could have happened.... without a little push.
So again, I'm a heretic on both sides. Scores of "pure" Darwinists would label me a traitor to the cause. Any hint of a "push" makes it Creationism. To the opposite camp, I'm endorsing Evolution as truth. No matter how much influence I believe God has had in Evolutionary development (I honestly don't know if it was just a little "push" to get the ball rolling and a few more to steer a favorable mutation every now and again, or a hands-on approach to every development in Evolutionary behavior), I'm still ceding some control over human development to Nature. I'm also endorsing the fact that we have a family tree that traverses apes, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, one celled organisms, and chemicals. Let's not even discuss how disgusted the "six-day" fanatics are with me!
But despite the mounds of criticism each side has heaped upon me, I have a pretty clear picture in my mind of what seems likely to have happened, and I think that this idea can be reconciled with both the availiable scientific evidence, and with the Bible. In any case, if anyone ends up reading this far, I am very interested in what all of you think about this.
I think you've really captured what a lot of people probably think about the situation. Most people are religious and, as you stated, it's a little hard to be religious without believing that God had a significant role in the creation of life. But that belief in no way invalidates evolution. I mean, when you see a house, you know someone built it. But you also know it didn't show up fully formed--there are bricks and concrete and wiring, etc. that each also had to be created. In my mind, the study of evolution is the study of how God did it, how he built our world, ourselves. In fact, I think God gave us the ability to reason and discover so that we can better understand His creation and His meaning. Those who find evolution heretical are, I think, rejecting our purpose. If we aren't here to discover, to explore, to understand, what are we here for?
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NFL Racial Slurs: Fallout from the Richie Incognito/Jonathan Martin fiasco could manifest in a new penalty during play–a game-changing 15 yard one at that.
The world is changing. No longer is it considered acceptable to say certain things to or about certain people. An argument could be made that it has never been ‘acceptable’ of course, but that doing so has never been so openly opposed to as it is in the world today. As a result, workplace rules are becoming more stringent and people are being forced to clean up their act–whether they mean it in jest, malice, or as a sign of familiarity.
When the league’s competition committee meets it is expected to seriously consider approving a new penalty for players that use the N-word on the field. A first offense will warrant a 15-yard penalty and a second an ejection.
“I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we’re trying to do,” John Wooten, head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance that monitors diversity in the NFL, said (via CBS Sports). “We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room. Secretaries, PR people, whoever, we want it eliminated completely and want it policed everywhere.”
The NFL has not made any official comment on penalizing player for using any racial slur, but it does have plans to discuss devising a set of rules in regards to workplace conduct. Ask any person that has ever played organized sports in high school, college, or on a professional level and they will tell you that a locker room is like no place you will ever ‘work.’ It’s a place where players can be who they are or want to be whether that’s the quiet guy that sits in the corner and listens to music before practice or the crude, vulgar type that tells one raunchy joke after another (and every type or personality in between).
Individual teams have been left to police their own locker rooms in the past which meant that the players were pretty much left to police themselves. Some would say that is how it should be, but the Martin/Incognito fiasco has shown that it is time for their to be at least some kind of guideline.
Should that include conduct on the field? That will be for the NFL to decide and as nice as the idea is erasing the n-word and/or any other racial slur is going to be quite difficult. Will the league differentiate between malicious intent and familiarity? Will black players be allowed to use certain words and white players not?
How will the NFL enforce the rule? Will everyone have to be mic’d up? Every time a players get called he is going to claim he didn’t say it so how can it be proven? Do we want to affect the outcome of a game because someone said an offensive word more than once?
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Anna Rispoli is an artist, she carries out plastic and performative work on the issues of shared property, town planning, collective identity and civic engagement. Her projects come about as a result of field observations and, in particular, zones of urban conflict where she meets inhabitants to draw on their experiences and stories. These encounters aren’t as straightforward as all that, they involve a reflection on the ways we approach strangeness but also, sometimes, associating with adversity. How can we speak with what we have identified as the language of the enemy? How can we cross the border between apparently opposing positions, not to reconcile them in the fantasised about myth of the consensual community, but to enrich the ways we apprehend adversity and our methods of conflictual interaction which, don’t forget, are the basis of all democracy. Anna Rispoli invents a mechanism which enables us to make these questions, often repressed by our contemporary societies, something which can be experienced by everyone. |
A pet insurance policy can make it much easier to afford veterinary bills, but policies may offer substantially different levels of coverage. Before you buy a policy, compare:
It's important to determine what services are covered by the policy. Some policies only cover accidents and illnesses, not annual exams and vaccinations. Many policies do not cover pre-existing conditions.
Find out how much you will pay in deductibles each year. Policies with low deductibles may seem more attractive initially, but they are not such a good deal if they exclude too many services or treatments. Ask how much yearly premiums will cost now and when your pet is older. Some companies charge higher premiums when your pet reaches a certain age.
Most pet insurance policies require you to pay the vet the full amount due and submit receipts for reimbursement. Find out how long it will take to receive a reimbursement and what percentage of your bill will be covered.
Read insurance policy information carefully before you buy. Some important information may be hiding in the small print. Make sure you read every word of the policy to avoid unpleasant surprises.
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If you have ever returned home from a vet visit and realized that you forgot to ask an important question, you are not alone. It's easy to become distracted during the appointment, particularly if your pet is frightened or anxious. Preparation is the key to ensuring that all of your questions and concerns are addressed during the visit.
Bring any records you received if your pet visited another veterinarian or received treatment from an emergency clinic since your last appointment. These records provide important information about your pet's health and will help your vet prepare a treatment plan if there is an ongoing or chronic problem.
If this is your first visit with a new veterinarian, ask your previous vet to transfer your pet's records a few weeks before your appointment. Records offer details about your pet's medical history, previous illnesses, surgeries and illnesses, and provide other information that your new vet will find helpful.
Your vet needs to hear about any changes in your pet's health or daily routine. Tell him or her if you have recently changed the brand of food your pet eats or if another veterinarian prescribed a new medication. Changes in your pet’s habits can be a sign of illness or injury. Make a list of any recent changes and bring it to your pet's appointment. The following types of changes should be discussed:
Changes in bathroom habits. Does your pet urinate more or less frequently than normal or have trouble urinating? Have you noticed diarrhea or constipation?
Water intake. Do you have to fill your pet's water bowl more often lately, or is your pet suddenly uninterested in drinking?
Physical signs. Note any symptoms that concern you. These might include lumps or bumps, frequent vomiting or difficulty walking or jumping.
Avoid a return trip to the office by asking if the vet wants you to bring a stool sample with you when you visit. If a sample is needed, find out how large the sample must be and how it should be collected and stored. In some cases, your vet may request a urine sample. If you have a dog, getting the sample may be as easy as placing a container under the urine stream when your pet urinates. Getting a sample from a cat can be a little more difficult. Your vet may suggest that you use a special type of cat litter. Because this litter isn't absorbent, you can simply pour the urine from the litter box into a container.
Even the best-behaved dog or cat can become overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells at the vet's office. If your pet is frightened or feels threatened, it may try to escape or might become aggressive toward another animal. Maintain control by using a leash, crate or carrier.
If the only time you use a leash or carrier is when you visit the vet, your pet's stress level may rise the minute it spots these items. Walk your dog on a leash occasionally before your visit, even if he or she usually roams your property without one. Make your pet's crate or carrier a tempting place to rest by placing a soft cushion and toys inside.
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Everyone who loves travel, has had that first trip that solidified the passion they have for travel, the new experiences gained by travelling and the friendships they make. For me that trip was Ireland in 2005. I had been on a few all-inclusive trips before going to Ireland on a Contiki tour with my best […]
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I hope you, your kitties, family, friends and loved ones have plenty of blessings to share this holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from my family to yours!
If you follow us on Facebook or if you have followed us for years, then chances are you have already seen this photo. It is my all time favorite cat Christmas photo, so I share it yearly.
Poinsettias are poisonous if cats eat them, so it’s not the best photo to share because of that. However, my mom has never had a cat bother a poinsettia – so she always left them out. My sister took this photo of my Rags when he was 18 years old.
Christmas ALWAYS reminds me of my childhood and of Rags. We were gifted with Rags as a Christmas present (I am holding him in the photo below and my brother, Marsh, is holding Cosby who passed at 10 months from FIP).
The day we got rags. I am holding Rags. My older brother, Marsh, is holding Cosby, my little brother, Spencer, is in the box and Snickers is the GSD.
Christmas also reminds me of Rags because I always had him help me unwrap my presents – even his last Christmas at 19 years old, I lugged him over to my parents’ house to help me undo my stocking. He laid on the couch as an old man and just bitchy meowed at me, while we undid the stocking.
My fondest memories are of him playing in all the wrapping paper before my mom would scoop it up and put it in the garbage bag. Or how he would help me play with new toys or set up new doll houses. Murphy, my parents’ 14-year old Ragdoll, still loves to play with wrapping paper – and he’s a sucker for curling ribbon – gotta be careful with that (Murphy had surgery at 18 months old from eating and swallowing curling ribbon).
Yeowww! Catnip bananas also always remind me of Christmas and Rags because Santa left one in Rags stocking when he was 15 years old – and he went nutzo for it….not only that, but continued to play with it over and over again – something he had never done with a toy.
Do you have any cats and Christmas stories to share?
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HOW do we explain why 5.5m French voters in the first round of the presidential elections voted for far-right parties that are xenophobic, anti-semitic, racist and ultra-nationalist? Sounding off about the wrongness of the vote will not help understand the reasons underlying their choice. Everybody in politics needs to begin an urgent, thorough and much-needed self-criticism.
The vote may have been a valuable wake-up call for France if it opens the eyes of party leaders and revives the debate on how to build a nation based on justice and solidarity. What vanished in April was the comforting thought that although everything was changing in the world outside, in French politics everything could stay the same; that two ageing parties, the Gaullists and the Socialists, could share power as they had done for 30 years.
People have sensed for some time that these two political forces are worn out. Their historic mission seems to have ended. Each in its own way gives the impression of an organisation going nowhere, with crumbling infrastructures, no organisation or programme, no ideology, no identity and no compass for the journey ahead.
Previous elections had already shown that neither party was capable of addressing the needs of millions of people who are genuinely frightened by the new realities of the post-industrial world that has emerged after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war. The disposable workers, the underclasses of the banlieues, the long-term unemployed, the excluded, the many people pushed into early retirement, the young people in precarious jobs, the families on the brink of poverty. For all these, the recent past has brought years of fear and anxiety, with many familiar landmarks apparently gone forever.
The Socialist party in particular, with almost no working-class people in its local organisations and several leaders in the supertax bracket, gives the impression that it lives on another planet, light years from the experiences of ordinary people. It has shown itself remarkably insensitive to what Daniel Mermet describes as “the sufferings of under-France”.
What about the right? Some conservative politicians see the far right as untouchable, but others have been happy to do electoral deals with it. The former liberal leader, Michel Poniatowski, recently wondered in public whether it was “any more immoral to accept the votes of communists, who murdered millions of people in Europe, than those of the National Front” (1). This perverse logic allowed Christian Democrat leaders of the Union pour la démocratie française (UDF) to accept National Front votes in 1998 to be elected to the presidency of five French regions.
While this plague infected the inner workings of France’s political institutions, was it reasonable to imagine that France would remain immune to the upsurge of far-right politics in its immediate neighbours (see Fascism isn’t what it used to be, by Jean-Yves Camus, in this issue)? Or likely that France would be the exception when, like other European countries, its social fabric has been violently rent in the name of modernity: by liberalism and globalisation, European unification, the decline in national sovereignty, the abandonment of the franc, the disappearance of national borders, the hegemony of the United States, multiculturalism, loss of identity and the crisis of the welfare state?
All this happened in the context of the end of the industrial era and technological transformations that led to widespread economic insecurity and terrible social malaise. In such a context, with competition raised to the status of a natural imperative, an increase in violence and criminality was inevitable. The abruptness and brutality of these changes meant that uncertainties are accumulating as horizons have been lost, the world seems less clear, and history appears to defy logic and understanding. Ordinary people have felt abandoned by governments of both right and left; unsurprisingly, since the press describes them as corrupt, as liars and cheats.
Many people feel lost and panicky; as Tocqueville put it,"since the past no longer illuminates the present, the human spirit walks in darkness". Old magicians have returned to conjure with this new obscurantism, this breeding-ground of fear, confusion and resentment. Their rhetoric is demagogic, authoritarian and racist; they talk of a return to the old values (work, family, motherland) and blame foreigners, Arabs and Jews for all the disorders, social problems and insecurities. Immigrants are an easy target, always available, because they symbolise social upheavals, and among the lowest-income earners they are seen as unwanted competition.
Although it is absurd, hateful and even criminal, the rhetoric of the National Front has long appealed to more than one in four French people according to the opinion polls (2). On 21 April it gained the electoral approval of millions (30% of the unemployed, 24% of workers, 20% of young people and 17% of employers).
The Republican awakening expressed in street demonstrations all over France translated into anti-Le Pen votes on 5 May. Neo-fascism will not be voted in during the parliamentary elections in June either. But once the moment of fear has passed, if the parties carry on as before, with privatisation, dismantling public services, creating pension funds and accepting sackings to keep shareholders happy, if they continue to deny people’s desires for a society that is fairer, more fraternal, more based on solidarity — then there is no guarantee that fascism, in alliance with the usual collaborators, will not win next time.
(1) Libération, 20 March 1998.
(2) Le Monde, 13 April 1996. |
According to some resources, the Holy Trinity Church in Malatya was built in the 13th century during the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Currently the church plan and the construction projects are in Aleppo. The church was renovated in the 18th century. It is located in the district of Chavushoghlu in the Malatya Province, where was born the famous intellectual Hrant Dink. The church, where reconstruction work has started from 2013, occupies an area of 1335 square meters. The restoration works are scheduled to end in spring 2017.
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I love the summer bounty! The fresh vegetables and fruit are so colorful and succulent, who can resist eating these vibrant beauties? Our bodies thrive on raw plant-based foods. I think this is why our creator made fruits and vegetables look soo enticing! Asking yourself “How can I get this more of these beauties into my diet?” Then follow me over the next few weeks because I will be preparing raw plant-based recipes. Summer is the best time to set started – you’ll beat the heat (in and out of the kitchen) and eat seasonally at the same time!
This beautiful summer salad will brighten up any meal. Great with peaches or try cherries, nectarines or plums!
Over the years, I have been trying to incorporate more raw foods into my diet and here’s why: I want to stay feeling and looking young, and free of disease. Plant-based foods are the best sources of disease-fighting antioxidants, inflammation-fighting polyphenols, and a host of nourishing vitamins and minerals and I want to load my body up with that protective goodness!
But a completely raw diet can be complicated and expensive. And I am a busy, working mom who’s a foodie, to boot. My goal is to find ways to easily prepare and enjoy more live raw food as a way of adding more healing nourishment into my diet. You don’t have to eat 100% raw to feel the energizing benefits. But it does take a shift in how and what foods you prepare. All you need is a little know-how to get started. Here are the steps that I took to get started.
It’s tempting to make a drastic dietary change because we just want to feel better NOW. I commend your enthusiasm but remember, it is better to start small and follow through, then go big and get overwhelmed and give up. Choose one thing and stick with it. Try adding a green smoothie to your morning routine or swapping out your regular lunch for a big, raw salad. Once you’ve made this first step a part of your routine, add something else. These little steps will lead to big health changes over time.
When starting a new way of eating, it’s common to focus on what you are losing. Instead, concentrate on what power foods you can add to enhance the nutritional value of each meal. Eating more plant-based foods may encourage you to experiment with different cuisines, along with new herbs and spices. Yum, yum! Don’t worry about what you’ll need to give up. Focus on what you’re gaining: flavor, nutrition and energy.
No need to over-complicate and feel stressed out! Start by sticking to the basics: smoothies, soups, salads, slaws. Over time, you will expand your collection of delicious, healthful, amazing raw plant-based recipes.
Find a day that works for you and take 30-40 minutes to prepare your fruits and veggies for the week ahead. Grate veggies (carrots, radishes, zucchini) for salads. Cut and freeze fruit for smoothies. Make staples to keep on hand (salad dressings, hummus, cooked grains). A little work today will help you make healthier choices all week long!
Ideally, every Sunday you have all of your meals planned and veggies prepped. Sound too hard? Start by planning two or three recipes for the week. I like to keep a folder of “recipes to try” in my kitchen for inspiration. Save time with leftovers and always keep raw snacks like nuts and apples with you. A little planning does the trick!
Here is a salad to get you started: it can be used for a side at dinner or bring it the next day for lunch by adding it to a wrap with hummus. It will keep nicely and actually tastes better the next day!
So try adding some raw, plant-based dishes to your meal plan this week! I’ll be back next week with some more ideas and delicious recipes to help you moving forward towards a healthier, plant-based, deliciously raw table! |
There is no doubt that the antique market is alive and thriving with various highly rated shows on television’s History Channel. You can see some of the same quality antiques at the Heritage Antique Market at Cloverdale Mall.
The Heritage Antique Market is held once a month at Cloverdale Mall which is located at 250 The East Mall at Dundas and 427. Dealers come in from local towns just outside of Toronto but also across Ontario as well as Quebec. You’ll find everything dating back as far as the 19th century. You’ll find great art pieces, pottery, collectibles, flatware and more. Looking at some vintage high quality clothing at reasonable prices? Come on down. The organizers have several shows across the GTA but the Cloverdale Mall show is the only one in the West end.
Our personal favourite items are the various furniture pieces on display. Stopping in at a friend’s we had asked where she bought her fabulous kitchen table and she mentioned she found it through a dealer at the Heritage Antique Market. Shopping for antiques can be a time-consuming process with having to travel to places like Niagara on the Lake and other little towns outside the GTA. Having an antique show come to our neck of the woods once a month makes things much, much easier.
So head down to Cloverdale Mall in Etobicoke and have lunch or a coffee before looking at all the great stuff that the monthly Heritage Antique Market has to offer.
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Getting older isn't what it used to be. There was a time when senior members of the community lived amongst their extended family, relying on their children or grandchildren for support. But as the Baby Boomer generation pushes the population's media age higher and higher, and as each generation seems to move farther and farther from its geographical roots, the act of younger generations caring for their elderly relatives is becoming less common. Nowadays, the elderly must find alternative ways to receive the type of care they need, though many seniors are reluctant to move into retirement homes or assisted living facilities.
"The negative psychological effects of caring for someone with dementia linger long after that person has died. Previous research on caregivers shows that they have higher levels of depression than non-caregivers, especially if they are looking after someone with dementia. When the person dies, there is grief - naturally - but one might expect some psychological improvement once the burden of caregiving has been lifted." - from HealthandAge.com
This demographic shift and the elderly's general aversion to retirement homes point to the need for something called geriatric care management. Once the unpaid job of a relative, neighbor, or community member with a heart of gold, this emerging profession serves a growing population of seniors with a blend of social work, psychology, gerontology and advocacy. When younger family members are too distant or busy to help their elders adapt to declining health or ability, someone has to do the job. That person must have a case-by-case understanding of what options are practical, what resources are available, and how to connect clients with the services they need. He or she must have the personality to invite confidence and the resilience to be there for minor or major emergencies.
If you're considering a career as a geriatric care manager (GCM), you should be proficient in six areas:
* Assessing your client means evaluating his or her medical, social and economic situation. Does this person show signs of dementia? Is there a support network, and is it reliable? Is home care an affordable option over a move to assisted living? Many of the decisions facing your client's family members will be the basis of your assessment.
* Planning involves setting goals that are both optimal and realistic for your client, and that will maximize available resources. As a case manager working for a family, you must respect your clients' wishes and ideas.
* For implementation of these goals, be available and ready to intervene, whether dealing with current crises or preventing them from happening.
* Through coordination, you connect your client to any appropriate services, such as medical care or home assistance programs.
* Monitoring your client's ongoing care means that you're the liaison between all members of the team you've assembled.
* Evaluation is similar to your first assessment, but as an ongoing view from an insider's perspective. Now that your client is on track toward a specific goal, it's your job to determine his or her progress and whether those goals might need to change.
This can be a demanding workload, especially if you're handling anywhere from five to 30 simultaneous cases. But when you consider that GCMs' average hourly rate is $74, with some established professionals charging up to $200 and billing in 15-minute increments, it's easy to see the advantages of entering this growing profession.
While there are no legal requirements for establishing a GCM practice, at the minimum you should have an understanding of gerontology, whether through previous professional background or extensive self-study. You should also be familiar with the legal and financial realities of the elderly, and know how to best focus your motivational and conflict resolution techniques. There are many ways to build your skill set, although a comprehensive approach will save time and money.
Consider, for instance, the online certificate program in Geriatric Care Management from Kaplan University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, which is recommended for health and human services professionals actively interested in this evolving sector of the health care industry. During Kaplan's 12-month, non-credit program, you'll work through seven courses that should provide all the information you'll need.
Introduction to Geriatric Care Management begins with a professional overview of what this market demands and what you'll require to succeed in it.
Aging as a Reality approaches the science of gerontology Here you'll learn about age's physical and mental effects on the human system, along with medical intervention, cultural perceptions and public policy.
Psychosocial Issues in Aging examines how elderly people handle grief, isolation, family dynamics, sexuality, change and hope.
Balancing Age and Independence addresses how, as a GCM, you can build the support systems that will allow seniors to continue living on their own or to transition with comfort and dignity into an assisted living situation.
Financial Considerations of the Elderly explores the world of investments, pensions and retirement plans, the maze of Medicare and other public assistance programs, and practical concerns such as housing and long-term care.
Legal and Ethical Issues in Geriatric Care Management discusses elder abuse or neglect, and end-of-life decisions. GCMs will also learn about mandatory reporting laws in the states where they intend to practice.
Successful Aging introduces health and wellness strategies, empowerment, adjustment to change, and the positive trends among an aging population in a youth-oriented culture.
Kaplan University, headquartered in Davenport, IA, operates 69 campuses in 16 states and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The GCM certificate program, launched in December 2004, is the latest addition to Kaplan's Health Care Pathways series. You can participate from anywhere in the world with a personal computer, email and web access, and the ability to handle MS Word documents. During the recommended 8 to 12 hours of weekly study time, online message board discussions will put you on equal footing with your fellow students. Instructors can easily monitor your progress through the coursework, and you'll have access to faculty members and academic advisers throughout the program.
With the American population living longer and the elderly requiring a more integrated approach to their care than ever before, certificate programs like Kaplan University's Geriatric Care Management program play a large role in preparing the workforce to handle this growing need. At the same time, it empowers its graduates to jumpstart a great career while making a big difference in the lives of elderly persons who can use a helping hand.
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Altair, a 3D design and simulation software developer based in Michigan, has acquired SIMSOLID, a CAD software company developing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and simulation analysts.
“We believe SIMSOLID is a revolutionary technological breakthrough which will have a profound impact for product design. It’s incredibly fast, accurate, and robust and we believe a game changer for our industry,” explained James Scapa, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Altair.
SIMSOLID is structural analysis software which can be used to simulate complex additively manufactured lattice structures. The technology is said to “eliminate geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time-consuming and expertise extensive, and error-prone tasks done in traditional Finite Element Analysis (FEA).”
“Others have tried to accelerate the interface between CAD and simulation by degrading the mathematical robustness,” said Dr. Uwe Schramm, Chief Technical Officer of Altair.
“It is our feeling that by rapidly moving forward with the methods in SIMSOLID and expanding them across applications we can have a real effect on how design gets done while maintaining our high standards for computational excellence.”
Earlier this year, Altair launched a start-up program to allow business’ access to its suite of solutions for digital design simulation, computer-aided engineering (CAE), cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Following this, Altair entered into a partnership with Renishaw, to operate a line of projects aimed at introducing additive manufacturing to serial end-use production.
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When it comes to divorce in Salt Lake City, each party has a lot to lose–especially if you have children or significant assets. One of the most complex issues is the division of assets and property. Utah law requires the distribution to be equitable. In many divorce cases, both parties are unable to agree how to divide property and assets. It can often create an acrimonious situation. An experienced and knowledgeable Salt Lake City divorce lawyer can often make the difference between getting the settlement you deserve to losing everything you have rightfully earned.
In most Utah divorces, there are three major assets that are usually involved–the home, personal property and retirement plans/investments. Here is a brief rundown on how Utah courts determine equitable asset and property division.
Home & Property: Many of the most heated divorce cases in Salt Lake City involve which party is entitled to receive the home. The court can use several different methods of determination. Here are the most common depending on the circumstances of each case. First, the court may order the house to be sold and equity divided among the two parties. The court may also allow one party to buy out the other person’s interest in the real property. Another common ruling is to have the property awarded to one party and the remaining assets of equal value given to the other.
Personal Property: Personal property is classified as the ownership of any material possessions that can be moved. It includes cars, furniture, and clothing. While most people do not share clothes, the determination of vehicles and furniture can sometimes become complex–especially if they are co-owned by each party. Utah courts place a priority on dividing personal property equitably.
Retirement Plans & Investments: The division of retirement and investment accounts can sometimes get complicated under Utah family law. If only one party has a pension or retirement plan, in most cases the other party is entitled to half of the amount earned during the time of the marriage. Any money earned before the marriage will not be divided. If both parties have their names on investment or retirement plans, the court can rule either two ways. Both individuals can retain the full value of their own plans or the court will order an equitable distribution of all accounts.
In a perfect world, divorcing couples can agree to divide assets and property on their own. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. But there are some solutions to come up with a reasonable agreement. One viable option is mediation. Many Salt Lake City divorce attorneys offer mediation services to help couples find common ground on some of the most difficult family law issues. Under Utah family law, both parties are required to undergo at least one mediation session to attempt to resolve their differences. A mediator is an independent arbitrator who can listen to both sides explain their issues and concerns. It is often a less stressful alternative to court is also far less expensive than going through the conventional divorce process.
To learn more about your options concerning the division of assets and property, contact Salt Lake City divorce attorney Emy A. Cordano for a consultation today. |
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All entries are in for this year’s AMASA Awards and we are absolutely delighted with the exceptionally high standard of this year’s entries. AMASA Awards celebrate successful innovative ‘all round’ media campaigns focused on work that observes innovation, executions, trends and strategy within the media and advertising industry between 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2017.
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Short Sales in Newtown, CT - as of 10/22/10. Back in September 2008, we posted a blog titled "Short Sale - What is It?". We think this is useful information as we frequently explain what a short sale is to both buyers and sellers. Our intention is to update you every 2 months about the short sale activity in Newtown, CT.
The price range of the actively listed short sales in Newtown range from $159,000 to $875,000. As you can see, short sales in Newtown, CT have been selling, despite being difficult transactions.
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The Eastern Playoff race has been decided. The Carolina Hurricanes have drawn the first wildcard spot and will face the Metropolitan Division-leading Washington Capitals in the first round of the playoffs. The New York Islanders will be the second seed in the Metro and will have to square off against the Pittsburgh Penguins. In the Atlantic Division, the Columbus Blue Jackets end up with a tough match-up as they will face the Tampa Bay Lightning, while the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs will meet once again, as everyone has known about for quite some time. The final results of the night will determine how the Western Conference Shakes out.
The Colorado Avalanche’s Mikko Rantanen was spotted on the ice Saturday in San Jose wearing a non-contact jersey, according to The Athletic’s Ryan S. Clark. The injured forward, who hasn’t seen action since March 21st with an undisclosed injury, traveled with the team but will sit out once again. While that doesn’t sound like great news, considering the playoffs are right around the corner it is better to have him skating than not. If Colorado has any chance of advancing out of the first round, they will need their young scorer. The 22-year-old will have played eight less games than last year, but has a career high 31 goals and 87 points in his sophomore season. Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said later today that he is hopeful that Rantanen will be available for the playoffs, according to BSN’s Adrian Dater.
Speaking of injuries, the Pittsburgh Penguins got some good news as defenseman Brian Dumoulin skated on his own after missing the past three games with a lower-body injury, according to Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dumoulin, who normally skates alongside Kris Letang, would make a big impact on a lineup that is preparing for the playoffs and could use the player tied for fifth in the NHL with a +31 rating. “The fact that Dumo is on the ice is really encouraging from our standpoint,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. He added that the injury isn’t considered major and Doumolin remains day-to-day.
The St. Louis Blues expect to get back defenseman Colton Parayko, who has sat out the past two games with an undisclosed injury. The 25-year-old defender is expected to play in the playoffs, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Jim Thomas. Thomas added that Tyler Bozak was just held out for precautionary reasons Saturday after he was in a car accident getting to the game. The veteran center was rear-ended, but wasn’t seriously hurt. He too is expected back for the playoff opener.
As the Blackhawks pass through another disappointing season, the team must continue to focus on development. The team has a nice group of prospects coming up the pipeline, but there are many that are starting to worry about whether the Blackhawks are doing the right thing with defenseman Henri Jokiharju, their 2017 first-rounder.
The Blackhawks, not known for developing defensemen recently, loaned Jokiharju out to Finland for the World Junior Championships, against the youngster’s wishes even though they eventually won the gold medal. Since his return, the team has changed course in his development, moving him over to the left side, his off-side which will help make room next season for right-hand shot Adam Boqvist, and has had his ice-time cut, according to The Athletic’s Scott Powers (subscription required). He even was a healthy scratch recently.
Head coach Jeremy Colliton said the changes are being made to make sure the youngster won’t burn out like many rookies do during their first season.
The Colorado Avalanche suffered a key loss Saturday as the team will be without defenseman Erik Johnson, who suffered a concussion during their game against Los Angeles. The veteran defenseman is expected to be out for the next two games and head coach Jared Bednar hopes he’ll be back after the All-Star break, according to The Athletic’s Ryan S. Clark. The defensive-minded blueliner averages 21:42 of ATOI and is a key figure on the team’s defense.
The Avalanche also had good news in practice as defensive prospect Conor Timmins, who has missed all of the 2018-19 season so far with a concussion, practiced today with the team even if it was in a non-contact jersey, according to BSN’s AJ Haefele. Bednar said after the practice that Timmins will begin ramping up activities over the next couple of weeks and they will see if he’s ready to go when the team returns after the All-Star break. Timmins, the team’s second-round pick in 2017, could help the team down the stretch if he’s deemed ready.
Ted Wyman of the Winnipeg Sun looks back at the first half of the season now that the team hits their bye and All-Star week, suggesting that while many things have gone right for the Jets, perhaps the most disappointing part of the season has been the play of star forward Patrik Laine. The scribe writes that the third-year winger is having a miserable season despite having 25 goals at this point. Despite an 18-goal November, Laine has tallied just seven goals combined in the other three months and often looks like a rookie on the ice. Of course, he’s only 20 years old still, so patience is needed.
After struggling for much of the season and recently seeing his ice time dwindle, Tyson Jost is headed back to the AHL. The Colorado Avalanche today assigned Jost and Ryan Graves to the Colorado Eagles, giving them just 21 players on the roster.
Jost, 20, was the tenth overall pick in 2016 but has yet to really establish himself in the NHL. After a great freshmen season at the University of North Dakota, the offensive center signed his entry-level contract and made his debut down the stretch for the Avalanche. Last year he returned to the lineup full-time and recorded 22 points in 65 games, but has failed to really take a step forward in 2018-19. Jost hasn’t been asked to play center on a regular basis this season given his struggles in the faceoff circle, and it’s not clear exactly where he fits into the lineup in a perfect scenario.
That fit will have to be determined through his play in the minor leagues, as the young forward was clearly not progressing in the NHL. In 43 games he has just 15 points, despite being given ample opportunities on the powerplay for much of the year. Given that he does not penalty kill and is seeing fewer than ten minutes of even-strength ice time in recent weeks, playing in a top-six role for the Eagles is probably the best for his development. Jost can obviously be recalled at a moment’s notice given the proximity of the AHL team, and currently does not require waivers.
Graves meanwhile could be back up before the Avalanche hit the ice on Saturday against the Los Angeles Kings, but he too had been used extremely sparingly by head coach Jared Bednar during his time in the NHL. The 23-year old defenseman has logged fewer than 12 minutes of ice time in each of his eight appearances, though he does have two goals already to show for his short NHL career.
Poll: Should Colorado Move Semyon Varlamov?
The Colorado Avalanche returned third-string goalie Pavel Francouz to the AHL today. Yet, at this point in their season, it is fair to ask whether that move actually makes the team better. The Avs finally snapped a six-game win-less streak on Friday night against the New York Rangers and have fallen out of the once-competitive Central Division race over the past month. Colorado’s struggles are not singular in nature – a lack of secondary scoring and a struggling penalty kill have played a part – but poor performance in net has been the most pressing issue facing the team. After a hot start to the season, Semyon Varlamov has regressed to a .912 save percentage and 2.80 GAA and has missed the team’s past two games with a lower-body injury. Off-season acquisition Philipp Grubauer has yet to settle in with Colorado, holding a career-worst .902 save percentage and 3.13 GAA thus far.
Considering that Varlamov’s play is not currently winning games for the Avalanche, the team could opt to move on from the veteran keeper. Despite Varlamov’s recent slump, the impending unrestricted free agent would still be a valued name on the trade market as the NHL Trade Deadline grows closer. Several teams will be looking for a rental for the stretch run and postseason and Varlamov could potentially be the closest thing to a bona fide starter that could hit the market. Why then would the playoff-bound Avalanche want to move Varlamov if he’s still a top NHL option? The return would be substantial and could – either directly or by flipping part of the return – result in Colorado adding the forward depth they so desperately need. It was recently reported that the Avs are hesitant to move their top prospects and young roster players for help, which could force them to move an established veteran like Varlamov.
The Avalanche could benefit from some addition by subtraction when it comes to Varlamov as well. The aforementioned Francouz, in his first season in North America after an illustrious European career, has made the transition look easy this season. Recently named an AHL All-Star, Francouz, 28, has a .919 save percentage and 2.65 GAA through 23 games with the Colorado Eagles. Perhaps more impressively, Francouz has made two NHL relief appearances and has saved 33 of the 35 shots that he faced (.943 SV%). The Denver Post’s Sean Keeler writes that head coach Jared Bednar considered making Francouz the starter over Grubauer last night and opined that the current third-string could be the X-factor for the Avs this season. Francouz is also an impending UFA and the team should take a longer look at him this season to determine if he could be a long-term option alongside Gruabauer. An extended stay in Denver this season would certainly help convince Francouz to stick around as well.
Of course, if the Avalanche were to trade Varlamov this season, it would very likely hurt their chances at a Stanley Cup title. Despite his struggles, Varlamov has outplayed Grubauer and has years of success to fall back on, as opposed to his young backup and Francouz, an unproven import. Colorado would likely have to turn around and add another option in net if they were to trade Varlamov. However, given that the Avs face a probable playoff route through the Nashville Predators and Winnipeg Jets this season, it could be that they favor improving the team for the future rather than clinging to slim title chances. The team could also feel that addressing their needs at forward is a priority compared to maintaining depth in net.
What do you think? Should the Avalanche change things up by trading Varlamov for young pieces or forward help and hand the reins to Grubauer and Francouz? Or should they hold on to their established starter in hopes that it is their best chance at a Cup run this season?
The Colorado Avalanche announced they have recalled goaltender Pavel Francouz from the Colorado Eagles of the AHL. Head coach Jared Bednar said that Semyon Varlamov was a little banged up and Francouz was recalled as a precaution. The 28-year-old was up earlier this month and was impressive in a relief stint on Dec. 22 when he saved 21 of 22 shots against Arizona in 29 minutes of work. Francouz, who signed as a free agent with Colorado in the offseason out of the KHL has performed well in the AHL as well, posting a 13-7-1 record and a .919 save percentage. With Varlamov expected to hit free agency at the end of the season, Francouz could be a strong candidate to fill the backup role next season.
The Carolina Hurricanes have assigned forward Janne Kuokkanen to the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL, according to CapFriendly. The 20-year-old prospect has had trouble finding a positive role with the Hurricanes, despite being dominant in the AHL. Kuokkanen has yet to score in seven games and has seen his playing time dwindle to under 10 minutes in the past three games. He will return to Charlotte where he has already equaled his goal output from last year and can continue working on his game. The team followed that up announcing the promotion of Saku Maenalanen from Charlotte to fill Kuokkanen’s shoes. Maenalanen has appeared in just one game for the Hurricanes, but has scored seven goals and 14 points in 31 games for the Checkers.
While it’s already been reported that the Chicago Blackhawks’ recent trade acquisition Jason Garrison cleared waivers earlier today, NBC Sports Charlie Roumeliotis reports that Blackhawks’ general manager Stan Bowman said Garrison will be assigned to the Rockford Ice Hogs of the AHL. Garrison, picked up in Sunday’s trade with Drake Caggulia for Brandon Manning, has played in 17 games with the Oilers this year. He did play 58 games with the Chicago Wolves last season when playing for the Vegas franchise.
After two years in the Swiss League, former NHLer Bobby Sanguinetti has returned to North America, as the Charlotte Checkers of the AHL announced they have signed the 30-year-old veteran to an AHL deal. The defenseman, who played 45 games with the New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes, played with the Checkers for three years before spending the last two years in Switzerland. Sanguinetti, a former first-round pick in 2006, will hope to resurrect his career there.
The Nashville Predators announced they have assigned Nicholas Baptiste to the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL. The team recalled him Monday to serve as an emergency player for their game against Washington, but now have returned the 23-year-old without getting him into a game. Baptiste has played 34 games for Milwaukee and has six goals and 14 points.
The Minnesota Wild have recalled defenseman Ryan Murphy from AHL Iowa per a team release. This will be the 25-year-old’s first stint in the NHL this season but he has 172 games of NHL experience between Carolina and Minnesota over the past six seasons. Murphy has played in 27 games in the minors this season with three goals and 10 assists.
The Colorado Avalanche went out of its way to bring in goaltender Philipp Grubauer via trade during the offseason to be their heir apparent in goal, but with Semyon Varlamov playing well throughout this season, Grubauer hasn’t had much of a chance to claim that role. However, that might be changing.
With the team having lost five of their last seven games and Varlamov struggling, the team got a brilliant performance from Grubauer on Tuesday as he saved 35 shots in a 2-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens. After that performance, The Athletic’s Ryan S. Clark (subscription required) wonders if this is the turning point where Grubauer takes over as the team’s No. 1 goaltender. With Varlamov slated to hit unrestricted free agency this summer, the team needs for Grubauer to take that next step and that looks to be the case. In the last six starts (not including Friday’s 2-1 loss to Chicago), the 27-year-old is 5-0-1 with a 2.29 GAA and a .936 save percentage.
“(Grubauer) gives us a chance. He gives us a real good chance,” head coach Jared Bednar said. “He keeps it at 1-0 and guys are saying the right things on the bench. … I just felt like he looked really solid in the net. Like he was in control tonight. I haven’t felt that way about our goaltending for the last little bit and that’s what we need.
The Athletic’s Scott Powers (subscription required) writes that when winger Brendan Perlini was traded from the Arizona Coyotes to Chicago Blackhawks, he had high hopes that a change of scenery would jumpstart his career as he has struggled to put up points. However, while the Blackhawks liked what they have seen from center Dylan Strome, Perlini quickly found himself on the team’s fourth line and even found himself a healthy scratch early on. “To be honest, you never like to sit, but it’s good because I can watch the game and say, OK, here’s certain spots where maybe I can get the puck or things like that or realize watching I can settle down there, there’s a lot more time than I actually think. Like I said, you never like watching, but you can take good things from it. I think I’ve done that and just try to build off it and learn every day.” Perlini since then has looked much more comfortable and has picked up a couple of goals in the past four games. The hope is he continues to make adjustments in Chicago’s lineup.
Ken Wiebe of the Winnipeg Sun writes that with the impressive play shown by Winnipeg Jets’ goaltender Laurent Brossoit can be attributed back to last year when the back-up lost his job in Edmonton to Al Montoya and he found himself in the AHL for the remainder of the season. That experience made him work harder to get back to the NHL. “Now I’m more aware of who I am as a goalie and as a professional, if that makes any sense,” said Brossoit. “It was unfortunate I had to go through those growing pains during my biggest opportunity with that club. I wouldn’t say that I performed at the level I normally do.” Brossoit was offered to return to Edmonton, but instead opted to start fresh in Winnipeg.
The NHL has issued a $2,000 fine to Colorado Avalanche forward Mikko Rantanen, citing two instances in which he broke Rule 64 for Diving/Embellishment this season. Fines will increase for Rantanen for any subsequent instances, and eventually include financial punishment to head coach Jared Bednar as well. The first incident, which garnered just a warning, was on October 16th against the New York Rangers, while the latest was during a November 14th game against the Boston Bruins.
Rantanen has been one of the league’s brightest stars this season and still leads the entire NHL in scoring with 32 points. His play alongside Nathan MacKinnon has been a revelation, and has the Avalanche poised to become one of the league’s most dangerous offensive teams. Unfortunately with this history, he’ll now be watched even more closely by the officials and may not get the benefit of the doubt on close calls. He also could very well draw the ire of his coaching staff if he causes them to be fined, or costs his team with an ill-timed penalty.
With a dominant top line that includes Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen, the Colorado Avalanche can’t be happier as they have combined for 75 points so far this season. However, the biggest concern for the team has been their secondary scoring, which most recently seems to have improved when the team re-inserted center Tyson Jost together with wingers Alex Kerfoot and Colin Wilson, according to Kyle Newman of the Denver Post.
Jost had spent some time with that line earlier this year, but between a demotion to the team’s fourth line and an injury that kept him out for four games, Jost finally got a chance to center the two wingers and has made the most of his opportunity with a pair of goals in the past week as well as improved play from both Wilson and Kerfoot. |
Boston is such a fun city. Honestly, my perfect day in Boston would be spent at the Boston Calling Music Festival, listening to awesome bands all day and all night! Other things I love: running around the Charles on a breezy morning, hanging out in Davis Square at the Five Horses for some great craft beer, hitting up Silvertone for delicious comfort food and seeing live shows at the Orpheum or the House of Blues.
So many, but none that are SFW! Just kidding – working in radio was great fun. It was amazing to see your favorite bands play live or every once in a while getting to meet them when they came to the studio.
One time Joe Perry from Aerosmith came to the studio at WBCN to do an interview and afterward, he hung out and played the new Aerosmith album for us. While the sound engineer was cueing it up, I was asked to show him where the restrooms were. As we walked through the studio he pointed at this ancient leather couch and chuckled, “You don’t even want to know the things that have happened on that couch…”
Voice overs are really fun, especially if you’re working with other voice actors because then you can play off each other. It’s really weird to hear them afterwards though – audio engineers are like photoshop artists. They take your voice and add effects to make it sound a lot richer and smoother. Sometimes my own family didn’t recognize me in a spot!
Search marketing is constantly changing. But unlike other specialties, there is one major figurehead making the rules – Google. Do you think this will ever change? What do you foresee for the future of search marketing?
Lots of people think that Google is the end-all, be-all. For now, that may be the case, but the only certainty in the digital world – and technology in general – is that it’s always changing. It seemed like just yesterday when Yahoo was the biggest search engine around and MySpace was THE social media platform.
As for the future of digital marketing, I see tons of opportunity for smart brands to capitalize on their digital marketing efforts. Technology is becoming smarter and more adaptive every day. In the future, we’ll have software that can predict user patterns and behaviors and change your digital strategy and messaging in real time to accommodate. And with tracking evolving quickly as well, smart data analysis is more critical than ever.
Luckily at 451, we’ve got a really smart and talented team who are able to adapt as quickly as the technology.
The biggest challenge in my career was making the decision to leave radio. I’m passionate about music, and I absolutely loved working in radio, but things were changing so quickly in the industry. I knew I needed to find something else I was passionate about that offered a bit more stability and longevity.
One of the things I love about digital marketing is that it is always evolving and is still a very young industry with a long life ahead of it. It’s exciting to work on the cutting edge!
The most valuable advice that I ever received was from my father. He said “Take pride in your work no matter how small the task. You shouldn’t deliver anything you’re not proud to put your name on.” I follow that advice to this day and it has served me well.
For those looking to make a mark in the digital world I think being proactive is the single most important thing you can do. This industry never stops and is in a constant state of flux. Keeping up with industry trends and news and being able to react quickly is imperative, as well as constantly looking for creative ways to optimize your client’s accounts. |
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Justice studies is an interdisciplinary area that blends topics from humanities departments (e.g., philosophy), social science departments (e.g., psychology, sociology, women’s studies), departments that include both humanities and social science faculty (e.g., history, political science), and professionally-oriented departments (education, family studies, social work). Some of the topics studied include courts, family violence, rights, substance abuse, juvenile justice, school law, children as witnesses, hate crimes, and community policing. The goal is to produce graduates who have a higher level of knowledge about law and justice in American society and in the world so that they will mature into more knowledgeable and effective citizens.
The program offers a dual major and a minor in Justice Studies and an interdisciplinary minor in forensics. |
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Now we have introduced several improvements, which specify the role of FZB42 as model for gram-positive plant-growth-promoting and biocontrol bacteria. Especially, a list of genes involved in plant-bacteria interactions and a list of genes occurring in FZB42 but not in B. subtilis 168 were added to the data bank. A genomic context graph in which you are informed about genes adjacent to the target gene is now available. Any ideas to improve the data bank and also to correct mistakes are highly welcomed. We are very interested to obtain hints about genes involved in plant bacteria interactions and about laboratories working with FZB42. Contact us, please. |
Considering last fall’s wet weather and the soggy fields this spring, farmers wonder about using inoculants on soybean seed in 2010. Should you use a rhizobium inoculant? Or, is there enough of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Bradyrhizobia japonicum, remaining in the soil?
True, rhizobial bacteria don’t survive wet conditions very well. But whether it will pay to use an inoculant depends largely on whether soybeans were grown in the field sometime during the last five years or if the field has been flooded for more than a week, says Aaron Saeugling, Iowa State University Extension field agronomist in southwest Iowa.
The presence of rhizobia in the soil is necessary for a legume such as soybeans to be able to convert nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form usable by the plant, he says. This process, nitrogen fixation, is critical for producing high soybean yields. For nitrogen fixation to occur, the nitrogen-fixing bacteria need to be readily available in the soil or must be applied to the seed.
When soybean seed germinates, the rhizobia bacteria invade the root hairs of the seedling and begin to multiply. Nodules, the structures that house the bacteria, form on the roots. Under field conditions, nodule formation can be seen shortly after emergence, but active nodule fixation of N from the air doesn’t begin until about the V2 to V3 growth stage of beans. After that point, the number of nodules formed and amount of nitrogen fixed increase with time until about midway between the R5 and R6 growth stages; then N fixation decreases sharply.
Applying nitrogen fertilizer for soybeans isn’t recommended because it typically doesn’t increase bean yields in Iowa production systems. The total number of nodules that form decreases with increasing amounts of applied N.
Today, most fields in the Midwest have had soybeans grown on them in the crop rotation, likely increasing population density of Bradyrhizobia bacteria in the soil, notes Saeugling. Improved inoculant technology, coupled with higher commodity prices, ease of application and relatively low-cost inoculant products, have many growers reconsidering the use of inoculants.
Since 2003, ISU agronomists have conducted trials each year to assess new inoculants on the market. Overall, the ISU studies haven’t shown a consistent yield response to use of soybean inoculants in fields in Iowa with a history of having soybeans grown on them.
Current recommendations for Iowa are to inoculate the seed if a field has never been planted to soybeans, or if beans haven’t been grown in the field for the past three to five years. Other situations where it’s recommended to inoculate are if soil pH is below 6.0, or if a field has sandy soil, or if a field has been flooded for more than a week, creating anaerobic conditions.
Rising cost of production and volatile commodity prices are driving the need for soybean growers to improve profits. But the use of inoculants to increase yield may not be the answer, especially if beans have been grown in the field recently. In fact, using inoculants on soybeans without an active on-farm testing program could be costing you money. But if a field hasn’t produced soybeans in the past three to five years or has never produced soybeans, an inoculant is needed for nitrogen fixation to occur. |
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT... WE WORK FOR THE CITY -- ERASING GRAFFITIS.
We are a company created by Professional Tour Guide/ Sommelier/Graff Artist/ Local Tattooed Street Thug* Al Ramirez, founder of Al Ramirez Wine Tours / Valparaiso Wine Tours, who arrived back to Valpo from NYC in '06.
VSA tours was co-founded by Jekse and Cines, a couple of local graffiti artists who are doing some great things lately, helping Valparaiso become one of South America's most painted town... the guys can't stop painting! they go by "La UKD Crew"; they been painting graffiti and tagging South America since they can remember. Why? ask them when you meet them!
Our guides are "Perf" Amboy Chris, Seba, Diego "Pes", all experts in local graffiti and street art. They're in charge of making sure you have a great experience.
Al Ramirez AKA "MR. Al RAMIREZ" at Work!
He also paints (not great, but don't tell him that).
He likes to walk around like he's the boss because he "created the Idea", "The first ever Street Art Tour Guide in Chile", and "everyone copies him"... but no one here is trying to hear it.
If he gives you a tour, act like you liked it (nod and chuckle, while looking away)... then come back and take a real tour with the other guides.
A comedian once said "this world we live in is unbelieveable! I went in to rob a liquor store and when I came out someone had stolen my car!"
That car thief could very well be Jake1 (see the pic/evidence above).
He's the type of person who would boil a Frappucino/Iced Coffee just to rebel against the system.
We've seen him go into a vegan restaurant, and ask for a lamb chop. Come on, Joaquin. This needs to stop.
This is El Seba or Sebastian. Just look at the picture and the bio will speak for itself.
He is the one who gets yelled at the most at the office, and asks waaaay too many questions. We dislike him. Very much.
He's the type of person who will be telling a story, such as, "So, I told the stupid police officer not to dare talk to me like that", and the police officer will be standing behind him without him knowing it. Then he'll spend the night in jail, and come out the next morning only to pee in the street and get thrown back in within minutes.
Eddie is a comic book nerd, and a lover of Japanese culture. He is also a graff writer who goes under the name Rone, which comes from "Ronin" -- we looked up the word and it means Wanderer... and that's exactly where his mind is, wandering away from this planet. Don't be surprised if he starts talking about R2 D2 on the tour. Nerd.
"UnKolorDistinto" as they are known around the globe, are a couple that paint together (all day, every day).
- No, they are not siamese twins.
- If you sit and listen to one of their mixtapes, you'll most likely fall asleep.
- They work as workshop tour instructors here and there.
El Pollo is our Hype Man. He's in charge of putting our flyers in your hotel or hostel or B&B, etc.
El Pollo is a specialist.
At the tender age of 36 (He looks young because he eats tons of garlic), El Pollo sold his entire school raffle tickets, and he won all of the prizes!
We'll keep him around for a long time.
Unknown Real Name AKA "Mr. Molly & Sally"
Mr. M&S is a criminal... a thug who mugged one of our guides, and now works for us (Yes, he mugged a job from someone).
He doesn't speak english, but he understands it from his travels through Ritoque, where everyone says "Sorry, Hermano" instead of "Disculpa, Bro" or "Esto es super cool" instad of "oh que piola la wax"... so when we tried to talk smack about him he understood us, and mugged us all.
Anyway, now he's our guide in Spanish. Does the tours on Saturday, and when he feels like it on Sunday. He always shows up late or last minute.
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The Hawaii man who was fired after issuing the false ballistic missile alert in mid-January told reporters Friday that he was very upset over the incident but remained adamant that it appeared, at the time, to be a real-life attack.
The former state employee – a man in his 50s who asked to remain anonymous for his safety – said that he was “100 percent sure” that the drill on Jan. 13 was real, even though several other employees heard the word “exercise” repeated throughout the message, according to officials.
Once the man realized what had happened, he said he felt like he’d sustained a “body blow.” Since then, he’s reportedly been distressed to the point that he has had trouble eating and sleeping.
During a news conference on Tuesday, investigating officer Brig. Gen. Bruce Oliveira shared details of the state’s probe and said when the mistake was realized, the employee “froze” and “seemed confused.” Another employee had to resume his duties and send a correction message, Oliveira said.
The employee also reportedly had at least two previous incidents in which he mistook drills for real-world events, including for tsunami and fire warnings. But Oliveira said the employee was previously counseled and allowed to resume his duties.
Following the event, the employee was fired and Vern Miyagi, who oversaw the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, took responsibility and resigned.
Toby Clairmont, the agency’s executive officer, also resigned before disciplinary action could be taken, and authorities are in the process of suspending another worker without pay.
By 8:20 a.m., Hawaii EMA tweeted there was “NO missile threat” to the state, but failed to send a phone alert for another 38 minutes, causing mass panic among people who weren’t able to check social media. |
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Shania Twain expected to break the charts with new album NOW!
Even after a 15-year hiatus, she’s still the one! Shania Twain is on pace to top the charts with her new album NOW. The 16-song LP was released on Sept. 29 and is set to shoot past Demi Lovato and Miley Cyrus to claim the number one spot on Billboard’s Top 200. The Timmins native hopped on Twitter on Wednesday to announce that her album is already platinum in Canada!
Shortly after the release of the lead single “Life’s About to Get Good,” it hit number one on the Billboard 200. Of course, fans were simply dying to see how their favourite country icon was doing, so the new single rocked its way to the top of Billboard + Twitter Trending 140, too! So far, the song’s video has over four million views on YouTube and the number continues to ride the wave of Now’s release.
The 52-year-old country star, still clad in her iconic leopard print, insists that Now is not a break up album but another coming-of-age collection of tunes bound to make listeners laugh, cry and rock out.
This is one country powerhouse that just doesn’t quit. Despite originally declaring her 2015 Rock This Country tour as her final encore, Shania is ready to hit the road again. “I look forward to everyone getting familiar with the album – and then getting out there and performing live!” she exclaimed to Hello!.
The Shania Now tour kicks off on May 3 in Tacoma, Washington, and will see the singer make stops in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Hamilton, Ottawa, London and Quebec City. Tickets to see the Canadian musician are on sale now. |
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George Wales visits The Good Earth Chinese Restaurant in Wandsworth Common.
Situated next to the picturesque expanse of Wandsworth Common, Bellevue Road is already well known to those of a foodie inclination, having been home to Michelin-starred French restaurant Chez Bruce for the best part of 20 years.
However, it would seem that Bruce Poole’s celebrated brasserie is not the only gastro-string to the area’s bow, with newcomer The Good Earth serving up excellent Chinese food just two minutes up the road.
A family-run establishment, it is the latest opening in a group of London-based eateries under the Good Earth banner, with another restaurant in Knightsbridge and a number of take-away outlets dotted around South West London. However, this is a significant cut above your average chain restaurant.
Having been seated in a sleek, modern dining room, all polished wood and crisp white tablecloths, we opted for two set dinners, assured by the helpful Maître D’ that the fixed price menu was made up of the restaurant’s finest dishes.
A selection of starters was dominated by a pair of eye-catching Dragon’s Whisker Prawns, succulent king prawns encased in a cocoon of fine shredded pastry. Another highlight was a portion of Honey-Glazed Ribs, a sticky treat, the meat falling pleasingly away from the bone.
Next up was that traditional takeaway staple, Aromatic Duck, served with the obligatory pancakes, hoisin sauce and spring onions. Done well, it’s a thing of beauty, and happily, The Good Earth does it very well indeed, the duck beautifully tender, its skin crisp and tacky. Delicious.
Finally, the mains. Chicken with Cashew nuts was another traditional dish done well, but Fillet of Beef in Claypot was the star performer, arriving still sizzling at the table, the flavour of the meat more than living up to the spectacle.
At just under £40 per person, without wine, this Chinese banquet comes in a shade more expensive than your typical neighbourhood restaurant, but given the quality (and quantity) of the food on offer, it’s well worth the extra outlay.
If you are looking for another reason to check out the area, visit The Ship pub in Wandsworth, which is ideal for summer drinks on the large terrace. |
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Far Left Van Jones Admits that Trump Can Win and Gives Major Warning to Democrats - Video - Stumpin' For Trump!
CNN contributor and former Obama aide Van Jones put out a warning to his fellow Democrats on Friday: Donald Trump is probably going to win the White House.
In the Facebook video, Jones credited Trump’s ability to understand and use social media and reality television as well as his appeal to black voters as reasons he will likely win the White House in November.
Jones likened Trump to Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama in the sense that they all excelled in a new medium that no other politician could easily master.
“Just like FDR changed the rules of the game because he mastered radio, he was able to take radio and just completely master that — then you had JFK and JFK was able to master television — new medium, new master, new president,” Jones said.
He continued to detail how Trump has been able to use his celebrity to appeal to parts of the Democratic base, especially black voters.
“If only 70 percent don’t like Donald Trump, that means 30 percent are open to his argument, if he gets half of those, he’s president,” Jones said.
A Public Policy Polling report released on Monday showed Jones might be correct in his opinion that Trump is winning over large segments of the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc. The poll showed that in the swing state of Ohio, Trump would garner 15 percent of the African American vote against Clinton, with another 11 percent undecided.
That is huge increase from the 4 percent of the black vote Mitt Romney received in Ohio during the last presidential election.
Well, well, well, even the ex-Obama-Czar-self-proclaimed communist understands and sees how Trump can win and be our next President! Wow! I’m a bit impressed, but I wouldn’t trust Van Jones with a lollipop either! Trump is pulling in some of the more modest democrats over to vote for him, and with the help of these two infamous Internet sensations, Diamond and Silk, created a place for them to do just that, called “Ditch and Switch”, for anyone who either voted democrat all these horrible years and now sees the “light” in voting Trump, or whom never voted before and wants to sign up as soon as possible to exercise their constitutional right to vote, they can go to Diamond and Silk’s website, and sign up. They can help direct you to the right place. Thanks, Van Jones, for your analysis of a Trump win, and he can do this, if every ethnic group would just open their eyes to see what the last 7 years have really done to them; not for the “freebies” they get, for as long as they are listed poor, they can get the freebies, but is that what you really want? Just the freebies that this administration “gives” you? And where do you think that money comes from? Thin air? The upper clouds? Take heed, people, realize, that in history, in other parts of the world, where “freebies” were a given because the people were poor and destitute, they were “controlled” by that government as long as they did the government’s bidding, they got the freebies, so they just didn’t work or even try looking. Then the government puts them to work, moves them to high rise buildings, stuffs other families with them in small apartments, and makes them go to work in plants, day in day out, but they get free housing, free food (which is rationed out periodically), and free stuff, but then it gets pulled because the government can’t afford any more free stuff (phones, ipads, ect.). Take heed, this has happened, and it can happen again. Trump will get you back to a job you want and be proud of working because he’ll limit the regulations of businesses who hire workers who want to work, and not hire out to foreigners either. You deserve a job, you’ll get a job. Get off the freebie stuff because it’s not going to last you a lifetime. Socialism only lasts long enough before the gov’t runs out of money to sustain it.
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It’s the Capital’s first 24-hour Television Channel and it is on air!
London Live says during its broadcasts it will be offering fresh and new content devoted exclusively to an estimated 9 million diverse viewers.
However, its the 18 – 34 age group it is targeting. It hopes they will pick up their remote controls, press 8 on Freeview, 117 on Sky or 159 on Virgin to view their new channel.
The new 24 hour TV channel promises it will be smart, fun and “inside London” making a big difference to Londoners lives. It is backed by the Russian owner of the Evening Standard and The Independent, Evgeny Lebedev. He believes it will succeed even though previous attempts failed.
London Live won a licence last year. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport awarded 19 new local TV channels at the same time.
Some critics have no doubt that London Live will fit in with the TV landscape but there’s lots of competition out there for people’s attention. But there are some who believe that local TV broadcast through the television screen is not going to have a long life.
But I’m afraid that in the end it’s going to be about advertising and sponsor revenue and not the current BBC model – if they DO NOT get to the correct target market for the London area then when their ‘free funding’ dries up they will then be out in the real World????
Well, unless the Russian puts his own money in there of course, otherwise it could be history repeating itself???
Already you can see the presenters have lost some of their ‘happy ‘ style. Many of them are looking tired and overworked.
But what is unfortunate about its output is that it cuts off everyone over 34 years of age. |
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* Postgraduate Research Fellow, † Consultant, ∥ Senior Lecturer and Head, Pediatric Anesthesia Unit, Geneva Children's Hospital. ‡ Associate Professor, § Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary.
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RESPIRATORY adverse events are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality during pediatric anesthesia.1,2 Among the risk factors that increase perioperative respiratory complications, bronchial hyperreactivity (BHR) is the most frequent underlying pathophysiologic condition encountered in pediatric anesthesia. BHR is the common denominator of many pulmonary conditions in children, such as asthma, upper respiratory tract infection,2–4 cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and passive smoking.5 These diseases have a high prevalence in routine pediatric anesthesia practice,6,7 and all lead to high airway susceptibility (AS) to different stimuli. Therefore, it is crucial for the pediatric anesthesiologist to optimize the anesthetic management for these children to improve their perioperative safety.
During the past decade, halothane has been gradually replaced by sevoflurane and desflurane because of their lower coefficients of blood solubility and decreased side effects. Nevertheless, there are conflicting data regarding the potential beneficial effect of these agents to prevent and/or reverse lung constriction.8–14 While the majority of previous studies demonstrate that sevoflurane exerts a protecting effect against bronchoconstriction,9,11–15 respiratory resistance also increases under sevoflurane after induction of anesthesia16 and after tracheal intubation.17 Desflurane is more controversial: It reduces bronchoconstriction8,14,18–21 and has no effect on basal22 and elevated airway tone,9 but it does irritate the airways as manifested by an elevated respiratory resistance.8,10 Analysis of previous investigations suggests that sevoflurane elicits beneficial changes in lung function in patients or experimental animals with normal airways,11–13,17,23 whereas desflurane9,18–21,23 seems to elicit the most severe detrimental effects in allergically sensitized animals10 and in patients with BHR.9,17 The aim of the current study was to compare the effects of sevoflurane and desflurane on respiratory mechanics in children with normal and susceptible airways by evaluating airway resistance and respiratory tissue mechanics.
After approval by our institutional ethics committee (University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland) and obtaining parental written informed consent, 40 children aged 1–6 yr with and without AS who were undergoing elective surgery with tracheal intubation were enrolled in the study. The control group of children (n = 20) had healthy lungs with no history of cardiopulmonary disease, including respiratory tract infections in the past 4 weeks before surgery. The children of the AS group (n = 20) were categorized as having AS defined by doctor-diagnosed asthma (n = 10) or a recent upper respiratory tract infection (n = 10) in the past 2 weeks before anesthesia. Among the 10 asthmatic-diagnosed children, 4 received daily salbutamol treatment that was administered the morning of surgery. The 6 remaining asthmatic children had only intermittent salbutamol therapy and did not receive any preoperative bronchodilators. In addition, none of them were treated with routine inhalation steroid therapy. The two main groups of children were similar in age, body weight, and height.
According to our routine clinical practice, all patients received oral midazolam (0.35 mg/kg) for premedication 10–15 min before anesthesia. Anesthesia was induced via inhalation of sevoflurane (incremental doses up to 8%). As soon as intravenous access was achieved, sevoflurane was discontinued, and a bolus of 2 mg/kg intravenous propofol was administered, followed by a propofol infusion (12 mg · kg−1· h−1for the first 10 min of general anesthesia, 9 mg · kg−1· h−1for another 10 min, and then 6 mg · kg−1· h−1).24 Before tracheal intubation with a cuffed endotracheal tube (Mircocuff- Heidelberg, Weinheim, Germany), all patients received atracurium (0.5 mg/kg) and were manually ventilated for 3–4 min with 100% oxygen. All patients received sufentanil or fentanyl as an analgesic agent in a dose suitable to the surgery performed.
After tracheal intubation, patients were mechanically ventilated (Draeger Primus; Luebeck, Germany) using a pressure-controlled mode with an end-expiratory pressure of 5 cm H2O, targeting an end-tidal carbon dioxide of 5.5 kPa while the fraction of inspired oxygen was set to 0.5 in a mixture of air. These ventilatory parameters were maintained throughout the study period. Heart rate, oxygen saturation, and blood pressure were monitored continuously in all patients.
The low-frequency forced oscillatory technique that was used in the current study has been previously described.25,26 Briefly, the oscillatory signal to measure the input impedance of the respiratory system (Zrs) was introduced into the trachea during short apneic periods (8 s) interposed during mechanical ventilation by connecting the tracheal cannula from the respirator to a loudspeaker-in-box system at end-expiration. The loudspeaker generated a small-amplitude pseudo-random signal with frequency components between 0.5 and 21 Hz. To exclude the effect of the endotracheal tube, tracheal pressure was sensed via lateral holes on the tip of a small-diameter plastic catheter, positioned 1–2 cm beyond the distal end of the endotracheal tube, attached to a miniature pressure transducer (model 33NA002D; ICSensors, Malpitas, CA). Central flow was detected by a screen pneumotachograph attached to an identical type of differential pressure transducer. Tracheal pressure and flow signals were low-pass filtered at 50 Hz and sampled with an analog–digital board of a computer at a rate of 128 Hz. Fast Fourier transformation with 4-s time windows and 95% overlapping was used to calculate Zrs. To separate the airway and tissue mechanics, a model27 containing a frequency-independent (newtonian) resistance (Rn) and inertance (I) in series with a constant-phase tissue compartment characterized by damping (G) and elastance (H) was fitted to the Zrs spectra by minimizing the differences between the measured and modeled impedance values.
The parameters Rn and I can be attributed to the airways (being the contributions by the chest wall), whereas G and H represent the viscous (resistive) and elastic properties, respectively, of the total respiratory tissues.26,27 Impedance data at frequencies coinciding with the heart rate and its harmonics were omitted from the model fitting if cardiac activity caused a low signal-to-noise ratio at these frequency components.
Before the first set of Zrs measurements, it was assured that there was no further end-expiratory sevoflurane for at least 2 min, as measured by the anesthetic workstation (Draeger Primus). Then, a lung recruitment maneuver to total lung capacity was performed to standardize the volume history by manually elevating the peak inspiratory pressure to 40 cm H2O for 10 consecutive breaths. Next, the first set of four Zrs measurements was performed under propofol anesthesia before switching the anesthetic maintenance to 1 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) (age controlled as calculated by the anesthetic workstation according to the formula of Mapleson28 based on age in years [MAC = MAC 40 × 10(−0.00269 × (age − 40))]) of either desflurane or sevoflurane, in random order. After the establishment of a steady state concentration of the first volatile anesthetic agent, a 3-min period was allowed for the agent to exert its effect and a second series of four Zrs measurements were performed. Zrs recordings were repeated 8 and 13 min after the establishment of a steady state of 1 MAC. The first volatile anesthetic agent was then discontinued, and the maintenance of anesthesia was switched to the second volatile agent. After ensuring the clearance of the first anesthetic agent and the establishment of a steady state concentration with the second volatile anesthetic at 1 MAC, sets of Zrs measurements were performed at 3, 8, and 13 min, similar to the first phase.
Estimation of the sample size was performed using the nQuery Advisor 4.0 software (Statistical Solutions Ltd., Boston, MA). Based on our previous investigations in children,25 a sample size of 20 in each group will have 95% power to detect a difference in means between 6.0 and 7.20 cm H2O · s/l (20% difference), assuming that the common SD is 1.0 cm H2O · s/l using a two-group t test with a 0.050 two-sided significance level. Blocked randomization was obtained using a computer-generated random number, and randomization was concealed until clinical procedures were initiated.
Data were successfully collected in all patients (including demographic and oscillatory parameters), with no missing values in the statistical analysis. Because the procedural data proved to be normally distributed as analyzed by the Shapiro-Wilk test, data are reported as mean ± SE. The demographic differences between the protocol groups were assessed by using t tests for the continuous variables (age, weight, height) and chi-square test for categorical data (sex). Two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance using a linear mixed model was used to test significance with two within-subject factors: the time and the group assignment of the children. For pairwise comparisons, 95% confidence intervals for the differences were computed by taking into account the significant interactions between the factors. The relative changes in the mechanical parameters were compared by using one-way analysis of variance tests. The Student-Newman-Keuls test was used for post hoc comparisons. P < 0.05 was considered significant. SigmaStat (Systat Software Inc., Richmond, CA) and SAS (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC) statistical software packages were used for the tests.
The measurement protocol was successfully completed in all 40 children enrolled in the study. Demographic data are depicted in table 1. There was no difference in any of the demographic parameters between the protocol groups.
Airway and respiratory tissue parameters are shown in figure 1for the children with normal and hyperreactive airways during propofol anesthesia and 13 min after inhalations of desflurane and sevoflurane. At the initial phase of the protocol when the children were anesthetized with propofol, the parameters Rn, G, and H were significantly elevated in the children with AS. Two-way analysis of variance revealed that the anesthetic agent (propofol, sevoflurane, desflurane) had statistically significant effects on the levels of the mechanical parameters (P < 0.001 for all), with no significant interaction between the anesthetic agent and the order of their administration. However, the presence of AS statistically significantly affected all of the respiratory mechanical parameters (P < 0.001), with statistically significant interactions between the presence of AS and the anesthetic agent (P < 0.001). Independent of the presence of AS, administration of sevoflurane had no statistically significant effects on the mechanical parameters relative to their levels obtained during propofol anesthesia if the order of anesthetic drugs was distinguished. In contrast, desflurane induced marked and statistically significant elevations in all respiratory mechanical parameters, particularly in Rn, with greater increases in the children with BHR. Because neither the order of the administration of the anesthetic volatile agents (P = 0.55, P = 0.93, P = 0.97, and P = 0.97 for Rn, I, G, and H, respectively) nor the time elapsed after their administration had an effect on the magnitude of their action on respiratory mechanics, the results obtained from each group for the two inhalation agents were pooled and are presented in figure 2. These pooled data exhibit minor but statistically significant beneficial effects of sevoflurane when compared with propofol; in contrast, desflurane induced marked and statistically significant elevation in airway and respiratory tissue parameters, with substantially greater effects in children with AS. Analysis of variance revealed significant time effect (P < 0.001 for all parameters except I with sevoflurane, where P = 0.25) and that the presence of AS had significant effects on the levels of the mechanical parameters (P < 0.001). Furthermore, there was a statistically significant interaction between the factors time and the presence of AS for Rn (P < 0.001 for both sevoflurane and desflurane) and G (P = 0.006 and P = 0.012 for sevoflurane and desflurane, respectively), whereas the interaction was significant for I only with desflurane (P < 0.001), and no significant interaction between these factors was observed for H.
Fig. 2. Airway resistance (Rn), inertance (I), and tissue damping (G) and elastance (H) in children with normal airways ( open symbols ) and/or with airway susceptibility (AS , closed symbols ). Data are pooled independently of the order of administration of the volatile agents and presented during propofol (Prop) and at 3, 8, and 13 min after administration of sevoflurane ( A ) and desflurane ( B ). Data are mean ± SEM (n = 20 in each group) . *P < 0.05 versus propofol within a group . # P < 0.05, normal versus AS.
The changes in the airway and respiratory tissue parameters at 13 min after the administration of the volatile anesthetics relative to their baseline levels (propofol administration) are shown in figure 3. In both groups of children, minor but statistically significant decreases were observed in the mechanical parameters during sevoflurane administration. In contrast, desflurane induced moderate and statistically significant increases in Rn (18.2 ± 2.8%), I (15.1 ± 2.1%), G (24.1 ± 3.5%), and H (7.8 ± 1.7%) in children with normal airways. However, in children with AS, greater increases were observed in Rn (53.9 ± 5%) and I (30.8 ± 3.9%), whereas the elevations in G (21.9 ± 3.3%) and H (9.8 ± 2.8%) were comparable to those observed in the children with normal airways.
Figure 4demonstrates the changes in Rn after administration of the anesthetic volatile agents in the subgroups of children with AS. Children in both subgroups exhibited no statistically significant changes in Rn during sevoflurane inhalations, whereas desflurane caused significant increases in the Rn. In addition, table 2depicts the values for Rn at the different assessment periods for children with doctor-diagnosed asthma with relation to the randomization to the anesthetic agent and to whether children received salbutamol therapy on day of surgery. The small number of patients does not allow any statistical analysis; however, children who received salbutamol on the day of surgery exhibited higher airway resistance values than those who did not.
The results of the current study demonstrated that children with susceptible airways exhibited elevated airway and respiratory tissue mechanical parameters during propofol anesthesia compared with those obtained in similar-age children with normal airways. Changing the anesthetic management to sevoflurane led to mild improvements in the mechanical parameters of the respiratory system in all children with no impact from the presence of AS on the relative changes in respiratory mechanics. In contrast to the effects of sevoflurane, administering desflurane at any time during the anesthesia resulted in marked increases in all respiratory mechanical parameters, with substantially greater adverse changes in the airway mechanics in the children with AS. These marked adverse changes were independent of the underlying clinical status (asthma or upper respiratory tract infection) leading to AS.
We enrolled preschool children with no history of pulmonary disease and children with a recent upper respiratory tract infection and/or doctor-diagnosed asthma with a history of wheezing in the past 12 months. Because no reliable routine lung function tests are available in this age group, we were unable to perform provocation tests to confirm the presence of BHR. Nevertheless, it has been well demonstrated that older children with these clinical features exhibit enhanced airway reactivity to exogenous constrictor stimuli.6,29 Therefore, it can be expected that children enrolled to our AS group would exert greater responses to exogenous stimuli compared with healthy controls. This assumption was confirmed by the elevated baseline airway and tissue mechanical parameters obtained during propofol anesthesia. Another important feature that may lead to BHR is passive smoking. Unfortunately, in our study group, we only have two children in the control and three in the AS group with history of parental smoking. These small figures preclude any exact statistical analysis of this confounding factor and will be a subject of future investigations. Moreover, children in the AS group were quite heterogeneous in regard to their degree of airway reactivity; hence, some of the children received salbutamol on the day of surgery, whereas others did not (table 2). If salbutamol had affected the interaction between airway reactivity and inhalational anesthetics, one might have expected an equal or smaller resistance in those treated with salbutamol. Because children who received salbutamol demonstrated a 10–15% greater airway resistance than those who did not, it would be unlikely that salbutamol increased the resistance directly or interacted with the inhalational anesthetics. Therefore, it is unlikely that the inclusion of these children might have introduced a systematic error or bias.
The study design required establishing basal levels of respiratory mechanics for comparison with values obtained during the administration of volatile anesthetics. Ideally, these basal values should have been collected without administration of any anesthetic agents. However, the measurement of low-frequency Zrs data assumes apneic conditions that do not prevail without paralysis and accompanying anesthesia. Propofol was chosen as the baseline anesthetic condition because this agent has been demonstrated to protect from the vagally mediated bronchoconstriction that can occur after tracheal intubation.30 In addition, this agent exerts identical effects in children with and without AS,31 guaranteeing the validity of baseline measurements.
The mechanical parameters derived from the low-frequency Zrs data provide a noninvasive technique to estimate airway and tissue mechanical variables separately.25,32 Because changes in the respiratory system are expected to affect both the airway and tissue compartments, this approach was considered as an appropriate and sensitive technique to characterize the changes in the lungs during propofol anesthesia and after the administration of volatile agents. Consistent with this, we were able to obtain Zrs data in all children enrolled in the current study, and the model fitted well to Zrs spectra obtained from both groups of children under all anesthetic regimens (fitting errors ranging between 2.1% and 5.3%, with no difference between the conditions). Although this is the first study to report airway and constant-phase respiratory tissue parameters in healthy children, the current data exhibit good agreement with those obtained previously in children with congenital heart disease.25,26 The parameters obtained from Zrs spectra in the current study combine mechanical properties of the lungs and chest wall. Previous findings in children indicate that the pulmonary system provides the majority of the Rn and I (more than 90%), whereas the chest wall contributes substantially to G and H (approximately 40%).26 Therefore, it is likely that the airway parameters were estimated accurately from the Zrs data in our children, whereas the total respiratory G and H underestimated the changes in the lung tissue parameters. We assumed that this masking of the chest-wall parameters was similar between the two groups of children and remained constant after the administration of inhalation agents in the presence of muscle relaxation.26
Changes in Rn and I reflect geometrical alterations in the airways or can also be a consequence of the changes in the viscosity or density of the resident gas. Anesthetic inhalation agents administered at 1 MAC have slightly lower viscosity values (0.9% for sevoflurane and 1.7% for desflurane) but substantially greater density values (10.9% for sevoflurane and 22.4% for desflurane) than the 50% oxygen mixture alone.33 Based on physical principles, Rn is influenced by the viscosity of the resident gas during laminar flow conditions, while density also affects this parameter only if the flow is turbulent. Altered density is directly reflected in the changes in I. Therefore, to distinguish the effects of the physical properties of the gas and the active changes in the airway geometry, we performed a model experiment where only the former was changed. Our simple lung model demonstrating similar mechanical parameters to those obtained in the children consisted of a 10-cm, 8-mm-ID tube filled with many small 8-gauge tubes (acting as an “airway” compartment) and a silicon bellow in series (acting as a “tissue” compartment), ”ventilated” and measured during identical flow conditions to those followed in the our clinical protocol. The measurements revealed the relative constancy of Rn, G, and H when the resident anesthetic mixture was altered, whereas the parameter I reflected the differences in the density of the anesthetic gas (fig. 5). These results provide experimental evidence that the changes in Rn were almost exclusively related to geometric changes in the tracheobronchial tree (the minor increase in Rn with desflurane was probably due to the involvement of some flow nonlinearity), whereas those in I reflected primarily the difference in physical properties of the resident gas. Furthermore, the presence of the anesthetic agents did not modify the estimates of G and H in the model, suggesting that the changes observed in the patients were related to alterations in the viscoelastic properties of the respiratory system, and the elevations in G in excess of that in H could be related to enhanced ventilation heterogeneities.34
Fig. 5. Model parameters obtained from measurements of a mechanical lung model ventilated with 50% oxygen and during the same amount of volatile anesthetics given to children in the current study. Data are mean ± SEM . *P < 0.05 versus 50% oxygen . # P < 0.05 versus sevoflurane (Sevo). Des = desflurane; G = tissue damping; H = tissue elastance; I = airway inheritance; Rn = airway resistance .
Although the effects of sevoflurane on the respiratory system have been investigated intensively in animal experiments11–14,35 and in studies in adult patients,9,15 data relating to lung mechanics during sevoflurane anesthesia in children are scarce.17,36 Furthermore, in these previous pediatric settings,17,36 global respiratory mechanics were measured and the changes in the airway and tissue properties were not separated. In the current study, the mild bronchodilation effect of sevoflurane produced moderate decreases in Rn and I in both groups (fig. 3). These changes were associated with small but significant decreases in respiratory tissue parameters and could have been a consequence of the bronchodilation effect that facilitated lung recruitment by keeping the small bronchi patent. Nevertheless, these statistically significant differences obtained during sevoflurane anesthesia are likely to have a minor impact on clinical outcomes. The mild bronchodilatory effect of sevoflurane that we observed in children with and without AS is the first confirmation of similar results obtained in adults,9,15 and in experimental settings where sevoflurane protects from or reverses lung constriction in normal11–14 and sensitized animals.35
Although desflurane is increasingly used in children because of its low solubility and fast action,37,38 we are unaware of any previous study assessing the changes in respiratory mechanics in children after administration of this anesthetic agent. The most striking findings of the current study were the adverse changes in the airway and tissue mechanics observed during desflurane anesthesia, independent of the preexisting respiratory mechanical condition (i.e. , the order of administration of the agents and the underlying clinical symptoms). The adverse airway effects were significantly exaggerated in children with AS, whereas the presence of AS had no influence on the desflurane-induced increases in respiratory tissue parameters. This changing pattern can be explained by the potential of this agent to induce airway narrowing reflected by the increase in Rn and I, particularly in children with AS who are more sensitive to the irritative nature of desflurane.9,39,40 The bronchoconstriction likely included the peripheral airways, because the proportionally greater increases in G than H suggest the development of ventilation heterogeneities in the lung periphery,34 although intrinsic changes in lung tissue viscoelasticity might also have been involved in these changes. It is noteworthy that the airways of children with recent upper respiratory tract infection behaved the same way than those of children with asthma, indicating that both conditions lead to an AS of apparently similar nature and exhibit an enhanced response to desflurane.
The current study provides objective and systematic measurements of airway and respiratory tissue mechanics in children with normal lungs and with AS. The results show the beneficial profile of sevoflurane on the respiratory system mechanics independent of the clinical status of the child, whereas the deleterious effects of desflurane were apparent in all children, although with a markedly exaggerated airway narrowing in children with susceptible airways. We therefore conclude that the use of desflurane should be avoided in the anesthesia of children who exhibit a clinical history of recent upper airway infection or any other pulmonary disease that may be associated with AS.
The authors thank all the children and their families who participated in this study and Joan Etlinger, B.A. (Secretary, Department of Anesthesia, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland), for editorial assistance.
Extent and Localization of Changes in Upper Airway Caliber with Varying Concentrations of Sevoflurane in Children
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Dr Lui Hock Foong is a gastroenterologist practicing at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He specializes in digestive disorders and liver transplant for liver diseases such as liver cancer and liver failure. He completed his MBBS from the National University of Singapore in 1990. He then underwent his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine with the Ministry of Health in Singapore, before leaving for the United Kingdom for his advanced specialty training.
In London, Dr Lui Hock Foong trained in gastroenterology and hepatology at the Lister Postgraduate Institute, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, the Scottish Liver Transplant Unit and the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
He is the chairman of the National Foundation of Digestive Disease, the secretary of the Chapter of Gastroenterology of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore, a member of the Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver Working Party on Portal Hypertension, a member of the Ministry of Health (Singapore) Working Party on Hepatitis B and Hepatocellular Carcinoma and is a past editor of GutViews, the publication arm of the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore.
His present practice deals with treating common and complex disorders of the digestive tract and liver, undertaking diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and he has special interests in chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension and liver transplantation. Dr Lui Hock Foong speaks several languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Bahasa Indonesia.
Dr Lui Hock Foong has received several awards, such as Beecham Book Prize for Anatomy, The Hoops Medal for Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and Seah Cheng Siang for Best Free Paper of the 17th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore in 2000.
In addition to clinical practice, he is active in the field of Gastroenterology & Hepatology nationally and regionally. He is the Chairman of the National Foundation for Digestive Disease, the Secretary of the Chapter of Gastroenterology, College of Physicians of Singapore, Social Chairperson of the Organising committee of the Asia Pacific Digestive Disease Week 2011, Member of the Scientific Committee of the Asia Pacific Association of Liver Disease Meeting 2013. He was also Scientific Chairman of the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore and Editor of GutViews. He currently sits in the Ministry of Health Singapore Workgroups on Hepatitis B and Hepatocellular Carcinoma and the Asia Pacific Association for Study of Liver (APASL) Working Party on Portal Hypertension and Acute Variceal Bleeding.
Dr Yim Heng Boon is a Gastroenterologist practicing at Yim Gastroenterology Liver & Endoscopy Centre, Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre, Singapore. Dr Yim Heng Boon completed his MBBS MBBS degree in Medicine from the National University of Singapore in 1990 and the MRCP Master’s degree from the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 1996. In 1999, he was awarded the Ministry of Health’s scholarship in Advanced Endoscopy at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA.
Dr Yim Heng Boon is multilingual and speaks English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Malay. Dr Yim Heng Boon was a Deputy Head at The Deputy Head, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore and he was the Director of Endoscopy Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
In 2007, he was awarded a second scholarship in Endoscopic Surgery for Early Gastric Cancer at the National Cancer Centre, Tokyo, Japan. Dr Yim Heng Boon was also awarded with several awards, such as: Excellent Service Award (EXSA), Silver Award, 2004, Excellent Service Award (EXSA), Gold Award, 2005, and Excellent Service Award (EXSA), Star Award, 2006.
Dr Yim is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore and continues to contribute in the teaching of medical undergraduates and junior doctors. He was previously a member of the expert panel for the Institute of Family Medicine. In 2007, he was appointed Visiting Honorary Lecturer to the Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra, Indonesia. He was also appointed Visiting Associate Professor to Vietnam Ministry of Health Choray Hospital since 2010.
His work involves all general gastroenterology and hepatology cases, including oesophageal, gastric, liver, pancreatic and bowel cancers, peptic ulcer disease, large and small bowel diseases (including inflammatory bowel diseases), gallstone disease, functional gut disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, acute and chronic hepatitis (including hepatitis A, B, C, D, E), fatty liver, liver cirrhosis and liver failure.
Dr Andrea Rajnakova is a Gastroenterologist at the Andrea's Digestive, Colon, Liver And Gallbladder Clinic Pte Ltd in Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre.
She completed her MD in 1992 at the Apothecaries Hall of Dublin, Ireland, PhD in 2000 and MMed (Int Med) in 2001 at the National University of Singapore and MRCP in 2002 at the Royal College of Physicians, UK.
Dr Andrea Rajnakova is a multilingual and speaks several languages such as English, Russian, Czech, Slovak. Her works involves Gastroscopy, Test for Helicobacter pylori, Capsule Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal Problems, Colon Cancer Screening and many others.
She has received several awards such as in 2007 Sunny-Side-Up Award NUH Service Award, Sunny-Side-Up Wow Award NUH Service Award and Excellent Service GOLD Award 2007 and in 2008 National Excellent Service EXSA Star Award 2008.
Prior to setting up her private practice at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore, in 2010, Dr Andrea Rajnakova practiced at National University Hospital since 1995. Dr Rajnakova joined National University Hospital and National University of Singapore as a NUS PhD scholar in 1995. She completed PhD thesis on Gastric Cancer in 2000. The results of her research studies were published in multiple international journals and she actively presented her research at international conferences. Dr Rajnokova's research work was awarded by several prestigious awards such as The Young Doctor’s Research Award at NUH Inaugural Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore, in 1997 and the Best Paper Award for oral presentation at the Nitric Oxide Symposium in Singapore in 1999. In 2009, she was a Winner of Best Oral Presentation in Medical Disciplines at 8th Annual Scientific Congress of National Health Group in 2009.
During Dr Rajnokavo's clinical posting at National University Hospital, she obtained Master of Internal Medicine in Singapore, Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK, MRCP and the Fellowship of the Academy of Singapore in Gastroenterology (FAMS). Dr Rajnakova’s passion and main interest is in therapeutic endoscopy. In 2008 she was awarded a Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) by the Ministry of Health Singapore for further training in Therapeutic Endoscopy and ERCP at European Endoscopic Training Center, Gemelli Hospital in Rome, Italy under Professor Guido Costamagna, President of European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Her clinical expertise and passion for her work and patients were recognized by several clinical awards. In 2008, she received the National Excellent Service EXSA Star Award. In 2007, Dr Rajnakova received the NUH Sunny-Side-Up Award, NUH Sunny-Side-Up Wow Award and Excellent Service Gold Award. Dr Rajnokova as a clinical tutor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine enjoyed also teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. She was also a mentor and endoscopy trainer for advanced specialists and endoscopy trainees. She was appointed as a chief coordinator for clinical part of postgraduate exams in Internal Medicine MRCP PACES in 2009.
Dr Desmond Wai completed his MBBS in 1994 and MMed (Intl Med) in 1998 at the National University of Singapore. He also completed his MRCP (Intl Med) in 1998 at the Royal College of Physicians, UK.
Dr Desmond Wai is bilingual and speaks both English and Mandarin, and his works involve a focus in liver and digestive diseases. He has provided liver transplant care to over 100 live donor liver transplant patients. Dr. Desmond Wai is a frequent speaker at local and regional medical conferences on liver diseases, liver transplantation, as well as on other aspects of digestive diseases. Dr Wai's interviews and articles, covering various topics in on liver and digestive diseases, are also frequently featured in local and international media. Dr. Desmond Wai had received numerous awards such as the Young Clinician Award, Digestive Disease Week Thailand (1999), Heath Manpower Development Programme Fellowship (2002), 8th Congress of Asian Society of Transplantation: The Transplantation Society Travel Scholarship (2003) and Singapore National Day Award for Overcoming SARS-Commendation Medal (2003). His most recent award was the Mother Theresa Award, given by National Public Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2011, for his contribution in the field of Hepatology.
Dr Lim Chee Chian is a Gastroenterologist practicing at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and receive his MBBS in 1986. He completed his post-graduate clinical training in Interventional Endoscopy and Endoscopic Laser Therapy at the National Medical Laser Centre/Middlesex Hospital in London in the United Kingdom from 1995-1996.
Dr Lim Chee Chian was the Head of Gastroenterology Unit, The Department of General Medicine in Tan Tock Seng Hospital from 1999 to 2004. He was also a Supervisor for Advanced Specialty Training in Gastroenterology Clinical Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. In addition, he was also an Honorary Treasurer, Vice President at the Gastroenterological Society of Singapore before he finally he became the President of Gastroenterological Society of Singapore from 2001-2003.
Dr Lim Chee Chian was a member of several associations & societies such as Gastroenterological Society of Singapore, Specialist Training Committee for Gastroenterology, Ministry of Health.
Dr Lim Chee Chian is multilingual and speaks English, Mandarin, Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese. He is accredited in several hospitals, such as Gleneagles Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, and Parkway East Hospital.
Dr Tan Chi Chiu is as a Gastroenterologist at Gastroenterology and Medicine International in Gleneagles Medical Centre.
He completed his MBBS in 1983 at the National University of Singapore, MRCP (Int Med) in 1988 at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, MRCP(Int Med) in 1988 at the Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK, MMed (Int Med) in 1988 at the National University of Singapore, and FAMS (Gastroenterology) in 1993 at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
Dr Tan Chi Chiu trained at the Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital in Singapore and spent two years in the United Kingdom (affiliated to the University of Nottingham) as an advanced specialist trainee in therapeutic endoscopy and laser endoscopy. He was also attached to the Endoscopy Department of the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam for enhanced exposure to techniques of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography (ERCP). Dr Tan was appointed Consultant in Gastroenterology and Medicine in the Department of General Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in 1995, where he went on to found and head the Gastroenterology Unit. He was also Chairman of the Endoscopy Committee of the hospital.
Dr Tan Chi Chiu has conducted original research in Gastroenterology and Hepatology and published many articles in peer reviewed medical journals. He is an elected member of the Singapore Medical Council, where he is the Chairman of the Ethics Committee.
In addition to that, Dr Tan Chi Chiu is an active and well-known figure in the youth development and community service scene in Singapore, having been involved in numerous overseas humanitarian, scientific and community aid expeditions to countries such as Indonesia, Laos, India, Mongolia and Chile. He has received several awards for his work in this area including the Singapore Youth Award (Youth Development/Community Service) in 1996 and both the Excellence for Singapore Award and the Commonwealth Youth Programme Asia Award for Excellence in Youth Work in 1997. His 'Operasi Raleigh Batam' project won the Pan-Commonwealth Youth Service Award in 1998. Dr Tan led the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) medical missions to the Philippines earthquake disaster in 1990 and to the Gulf War in 1991. For these he was decorated with the SAF's Overseas Service (Non-operational) Medal (Philippines earthquake) and the SAF Overseas Service (Operational) Medal (Gulf War). He also received the British Gulf War Medal and the Saudi Arabian King Abdul Aziz Medal. |
The plant-based revolution is gathering pace at Tesco, which has now announced plans to double its Wicked Kitchen range.
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The label was created by Tesco chef and head of plant-based innovation Derek Sarno, whose task is to convert meat eaters to vegan food. The first batch of the new lines were launched on Monday 15 October, with more being added in November and December in time for Christmas.
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In the old time, people also said literature was dead. Ishihara Shintaro wrote “Taiyo No Kisetsu,” which became a social problem in the 1950s. He was using youth language then. But right now, light novels are even more graphic. “Sadistic Moon” oh my gosh, that light novel recently I read, really crazy. Can’t be animenized because too graphic. Man, that makes Ishihara’s novels even look like children books. Yes, festivity for skin colored girls. Yes, a lot of eros, teen eroticism, cutesy, or kawaii moe moe subculture, destroyed traditional Japanese literature. And Owlgildy is the defender of traditional Japanese literature. The Twintail, a guy actually, or Twintail wannabe, strikes down the owl of literature, or sage of literature, and then thus opens the new era of light novel, obliterates pure literature symbolically, which was sublime. It reminds me of Mishima‘s death.
Yes, the good old days when ppl wrote and appreciated pure literature, pure novels. But today, we worship defiled literature, which is light novels. Full of profanity, sacrilegious literature. That is our time, our youth. Taiyou-zoku is dead, and now mousou-zoku is alive!
Oh yes, Nietzsche once said, “God is dead.” Good bye to superstition and science and technology era opened. Now, literature is dead and bishoujo skin color literature has flooded the book stores and Book Offs. Yes, Hegel once said the Bible is the greatest literature. Yes, the Bible was the standard. But that has died. Thus, God is dead. Now, it’s the light novel praising zokusei, and yes, Twintails! That hairstyle can only be seen among cosplayers, maids, anime manga light novel 2D characters! Yes, that is new literature!
Yes, as the final defender of pure literature, Owlgildy’s final death cry would be surely inducted into the anime walk of fame. Just like Raoh from Fist of The North Star, “There is no single piece of regret in my entire life!” 我が生涯に一片の悔いなし!
Oh, I don’t know. I think literature might make a comeback, if we can spread the Dost(oevsky) obsession around the world again!
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on July 12, 2018, on page 16.
Assembled by Palestinian artist Said Baalbaki, the exhibition presents 50 of Abbo's sketches, etchings and object, as well as texts – all taken from Baalbaki's personal collection of work from, and publications on, the elusive sculptor. Baalbaki has no work of his own in this show.
Born in Safad, northern Palestine, around 1888-1890, Abbo was a farmer and fisherman who later took up carpentry and stone masonry. It was not until he moved to Berlin in 1911 to study sculpture that his artistic career took shape.
Baalbaki has spent the last four years finding, and determining attribution for, 70 artworks and 100 texts mentioning the artist.
Baalbaki says many of Abbo's sculptures didn't survive World War I. He believes those that were originally exhibited in museums in Germany were taken during the war and melted down to make weapons.
Alongside Abbo's artworks are vintage photos of places he'd been or postcards from that time period, which Baalbaki says is to give an overall look at the life he led, in today's age of media and imagery.
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