At primary school, I had a ranking system for 'out there-ness'.
I placed myself third on the leaderboard. I always wanted to play the lead in the school productions. I tried out every after school club you could think of. I ran around the playground with everyone else, forming 'bands' and playing games.
Thinking back, I probably wasn't one of the 'craziest', but I certainly felt like I was.
I must have known I was quiet – I spent my weekends with The Famous Five and The Secret Seven and I wrote a complete novel in year six – but I must have figured that my quietness didn't have any bearing on how much fun I was.
I was quiet but I was happy being quiet.
Suddenly no one else in my class was interested in learning. I was soon labelled 'the boff', so I kept my head down and tried not to get myself noticed by the naughty kids too much.
I hated it there, so, my parents fought to get me moved to a different school, where I was suddenly once again surrounded by other children who cared about school.
I carried on getting some of the best marks in my class but by this point, I was really shy. I had to get a taxi to school with a group of people I didn't know and I'd spend entire journeys plucking up the courage to tell the driver I wouldn't be in the taxi that afternoon. I was still the quiet and clever one.
At my next school, I got the top mark in all of my GCSEs. At uni, I finished top on my course.
The idea of who I was in my head had completely changed. I was the quiet, clever, geeky, boring one.
Figuring that I was good at working on my own and at a desk, I'd tried careers in translation, academia, and freelance graphic design. But I'd got bored with all of those, so I was trying to think of a new career path to go down, by thinking about all of the things that I'd done and enjoyed.
I'd lived in Slovenia, Germany, and Luxembourg. I'd travelled to almost half the countries in Europe. I'd written two novels. I'd travelled to Oslo to go to a party with a bunch of people I'd never even met.
Suddenly it hit me that I was an interesting person.
I realised that I was basing my career choices on my belief that I was quiet, clever, geeky, and boring.
But that the quiet, geeky, boring girl wasn't who I was. It was the identity I took on at secondary school to protect myself from the other children. I'd taken on that identity and then I'd run with it.
This shy, quiet, boring person identity was like an outfit that I put on to go out in the world. It was a kind of armour that I used to protect myself from potential judgement.
It wasn't really me. It was a safety behaviour.
Those exciting things that I'd done were evidence that the real me was still there, hiding underneath my quiet identity. That was the silly and fun me that my family knew. The me who loved being on stage at primary school.
I know now that I'm naturally quiet – I'm an introvert and I always have been. And that's OK.
I'm fun and playful, but I let my fear of what other people might think of me stop me from showing my real self when I'm around other people.
So I decided that, if I wanted to be the confident quiet girl that I was at primary school again, I needed to learn to like and trust the real me, so that I could drop my boring girl identity and be myself.
I started a site called Twisted Sleeve, where I committed to figuring out how to become confident and to helping other shy girls to do the same. And then I started working on getting to know the real me. Because you can't like yourself until you know who 'you' is.
I got to know myself primarily through introspection and healthy comparison. I got past the surface things (like hobbies and skills) and got to know the deeper stuff about myself, like my personality traits, my motivations, and the themes and patterns that link up all the things I do.
And by getting to know and understand myself, and by realising that each of my flaws comes with a flip side, I've come to like myself. And liking myself has made it easier to eke that real me out into the world.
As I write this, I'm in a coffee shop with no make-up on, scruffy clothes, and wet hair.
In the past, I'd have been distracted from my writing, worrying what the baristas and other customers might think of me.
Today I know that they don't know me, how much I've achieved, what makes me fun, and why I look so gross, and so I've been able to focus on what I'm doing and relax.
It's not always like this but I'm so much more relaxed about being myself now than I used to be. I'm way closer to that whole 'I couldn't care less what other people think of me' attitude than I ever thought I could be.
As babies and toddlers, we do whatever the hell we want. We don't realise that other people might be judging us, so we bop around to music and leave spaghetti sauce on our noses.
But as we grow up, we notice that other people see certain things as good and certain things as bad, so we start to hide and tweak the parts of ourselves that we're not sure they'll like, so that they'll approve of us.
Eventually we find ourselves feeling shy, uncomfortable, and awkward. Some of us feel like misfits or like we might at any moment be exposed as the way we really are. We've covered up our real selves.
If you know the you that you really are isn't the you that you show everyone else, maybe it's time to get to know that real you and see what's down there.
Maybe it's time to see if the real you is actually kind of OK.
It's by knowing who you really are that you can start to like and be confident in yourself. So you have to get to know the real you first. And once you've got to know and like yourself, you can finally start putting that you out there and being yourself.
Battling her British social awkwardness, Joanna L K Moore (Jo) runs Twisted Sleeve, where she helps shy girls get the confidence they need to do whatever they dream of doing. If you have low self-esteem and feel like you don't fit in, get her self-study course DIY Self-Esteem: How To Start Liking Yourself.
Joanna is offering a special discount on her DIY Self- Esteem course for Outsiders' Network readers until the end of October 2014. Get $8 or £5 off if you enter the code OUTSIDER at the check out. This is an affiliate link, so purchases will also support the running costs of the Outsiders' Network. Thanks!


You can help make a difference in one of Pittsburgh's favorite indoor playspaces for children!
Did you know that The Seesaw Center is comprised of a volunteer board of directors? We meet one night a month during the play season to discuss the operations of the Center. The different sub committees meet approximately four times over the summer. Two of these times include the cleaning, set-up, and taking down of the toys for storage.
The typical term is for two years. This way we always have a few experienced people on the board to help explain procedure and keep things running smoothly.
Your creative juices can flow or you can exercise your business skills by joining the board. We are a non-profit organization and we can certainly use any business savvy you may wish to share. We are also focused on making the Center a fun place for the children and occasionally an educational place for parents. Artistry, a good sense of humor and dedication are much admired board member characteristics, too.
Interested in joining the board of directors? Complete our Board of Directors Application here!


Archer Capital co-led the acquisition of Repco from Pacific Dunlop Ltd in September 2001. Repco is the leading automotive aftermarket parts and accessories wholesaler and distributor in Australia and New Zealand supplying trade repairers, OEM dealers and retail customers. The business was operationally re-shaped in the first 12 months of ownership, with IT functions reinstated and service levels improved to regain lost share, distribution centres rationalised, the wholesale division sold and excess working capital identified and eliminated. Cash generated in the first 12 months enabled a recapitalisation that returned to investors the equity invested originally. Archer realised its investment in Repco via a listing on the Australian Stock Exchange in November 2003.


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Duke Assistant Basketball Coach hired as Head Coach of Pitt Panthers
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Capel replaces Kevin Stalling after Stalling was fired for leading Pitt to its worst basketball season ever
Jeff Chapel has been hired as the Head Coach of the University of Pittsburgh Men's basketball team. Chapel was the Assistant Coach at Duke for seven years, where he gained a reputation for his unbelievable recruiting. Duke had the #1 ranked recruitment class in 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Capel is replacing ex-head coach Kevin Stallings, who served as HC for two seasons with a 24-41 record. Last season, Stallings led the Panther's to an atrocious 0-19 in the ACC. This is only the second time this has EVER happened in the ACC.
the new face of Pitt basketball? pic.twitter.com/YBcvQsIcPj
— Sean Gentille (@seangentille) March 26, 2018
Pitt was the only team in the NCAA that did not win a single game in their conference. According to AP sports writer Jordy McCreary, "this was the worst season in the program's 113-year history."
Capel being brought in is a solid, program-saving move by Pitt's new Athletic Director, Heather Lyke. Stallings brought in 11 new players for the Panther's last year. After Stallings was fired, eight Pitt players requested release to transfer…a nerve-racking situation for new AD Lyke and the Panther's as only three players did NOT request to leave, and Pitt only had one commit in its recruiting class. Pitt hope's that Capel will bring in a slew of recruits to help revive the program.
The new era of Pitt Basketball has begun! #Capel2Pitt #H2P pic.twitter.com/SsJLraqpc3
— Christian Spears (@CSpears_H2P) March 28, 2018
Many believed that Capel was to take the Head Coaching position at Duke upon the retirement of the legendary Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyewski—serving as Interim Head Coach when Coack K had to leave for medical reasons.
Capel signed a 7-year deal with the Panthers, while Stalling and Pitt has agreed to a buyout deal for the rest of his contract.
Safe travels Stalling! Hopefully we see yinz never again!
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Komodo Dragons Officially Listed As "Endangered" In IUCN Red List Update
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The world's largest lizard has officially been designated 'Endangered' due to climate change affecting its limited habitat. Image credit: Gudkov Andrey/Shutterstock.com
There's good news and there's bad news from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s latest update to its threatened wildlife Red List. Tuna, once overfished to shocking levels, have bounced back with four species being downgraded from their previous listings. Komodo dragons, on the other hand, have been officially designated "Endangered".
One of the most important takeaways from this week's update is that after years of habitat loss, overfishing, illegal trade, and exploitation, we are now seeing the direct impact of climate change threatening many species too, as is the case with Komodo dragons.
The world's largest lizards, which only live in the World Heritage-listed Komodo National Park and neighboring island of Flores in Indonesia, have been moved from Vulnerable to Endangered on the Red List. Global warming and sea-level rise are expected to reduce their habitat by at least 30 percent in the next 45 years. It's the first update to their status in 20 years, and comes after the first study to predict the effect of climate change on the lizards was recently published in Ecology and Evolution.
"The idea that these prehistoric animals have moved one step closer to extinction due in part to climate change is terrifying," Dr Andrew Terry, conservation director at the Zoological Society of London, said in a statement, describing it as a "further clarion call" for nature to be placed front and center in decision making at the upcoming COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
Other findings released from this week's IUCN Congress in Marseille, France, revealed nearly 30 percent of the 138,000 species assessed are threatened with extinction – sharks and rays faring particularly badly with 37 percent of the 1,200 species evaluated now threatened, mainly due to overfishing.
This is the most comprehensive survey of sharks and rays ever taken, and the discovery that two in five sharks are now threatened with extinction marks a downturn in their fate. According to Professor Nicholas Dulvy, lead author of a study due to be published today underpinning the assessment, this is a third more species at risk than seven years ago, reports AFP.
The success story that drives home how important these assessments and protections are is the indication that four of the seven commercially fished tuna species are showing signs of recovery since their last assessment in 2011.
The Atlantic bluefin tuna, most popular for high-end sushi, has moved from Endangered down to Least Concern. The Southern bluefin tuna has moved down a category from Critically Endangered to Endangered. Albacore and yellowfin tunas, the two most likely to be found in cans or steaks on supermarket shelves, have both moved from Near Threatened to Least Concern. The IUCN has credited this to enforced fishing quotas over the last two decades.
"Today's IUCN Red List update is a powerful sign that, despite increasing pressures on our oceans, species can recover if states truly commit to sustainable practices," said Dr Bruno Oberle, IUCN Director General. "States and others now gathered at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille must seize the opportunity to boost ambition on biodiversity conservation, and work towards binding targets based on sound scientific data. These Red List assessments demonstrate just how closely our lives and livelihoods are intertwined with biodiversity."
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Mum whose son died after overdose urges law on bullying
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Julie Steward gives evidence in parliament to force schools how to act to prevent tragedies
Simon Brooks & his mother, Julie Steward.
THE mother of Simon Brooks, the 15-year-old who died following an overdose in 2014, has given evidence in parliament to change the way schools handle bullying.
Julie Steward and other parents who lost children to suicide are telling their stories with the hope new legislation and policies will be introduced.
Ms Steward said Simon endured "persistent bullying" at school in Pontyclun and when he got home the bullying continued on social media.
"You can't even imagine the agendas that drive human hearts to do those sorts of things. I can't get my head around it," said Ms Steward.
Simon attended Y Pant Comprehensive School, in Pontyclun, and lived in Tonyrefail at the time of his death.
"At school there was regular pushing and name calling. They trapped him in a tennis court and took his bag and shoes. They just generally belittled him," said Ms Steward.
"When he got home, he would have the cyber stuff. Pictures of him or comments about him that he was tagged in and would have to see and endure," she added.
Simon Brooks died following an overdose at the age of 15.
He took an overdose at his home on March 28, 2014 and died four days later at University Hospital Wales, Cardiff from organ failure.
An inquest following Simon's death found he "died from deliberate self-harm" but with "unclear intention" as, after the overdose, Simon said he regretted it and did not want to die.
"He was a very bright, very articulate boy, the life and soul of the party. He walked into a room and he lit it up," said Ms Steward.
"We are six years in, and my life is still in tatters. I struggle to get out of bed and put one foot in front of the other every day," she added.
Julie Steward is campaigning for a change in how school's handle bullying.
Ms Steward said she was giving evidence in parliament yesterday because, despite many schools claiming to have a "zero tolerance" stance on bullying, there is no action schools have to take by law.
"Everyone sees bullying as just part of school, but when you're a mother whose child is no longer here because somebody has pushed him to feel that life isn't worth living anymore, then it's another story altogether," said Ms Steward, who now lives in Bristol.
"If I thought something had changed because of Simon's death then maybe it would be alright, but it hasn't. There is nothing different," she added.
The campaign was started by Jason Bartlett, an ex-teacher who was frustrated by how schools were handling bullying and had tried to bring the issue to MPs' attention without any success.
When Ms Steward and other families who had lost children as a result of suicide joined the campaign, they were able to provide real evidence of the devastating effects of bullying.
"All of a sudden the campaign had narration and it was real lives, real trauma and when others joined us, we had a bit more oomph to go forward and get something done, and now we have an appointment in parliament," said Ms Steward.
Julie Steward & Jason Bartlett, who started the campaign.
The campaign is proposing the following changes:
A written code of conduct in dealing with bullying to be created for all schools to follow.
For the written bullying policy to be enforced by law.
A law that says all reported bullying incidents must be recorded.
The option to appeal any conclusions from investigations into bullying complaints to at least one organisation above school governors.
Complainants to be made fully aware of the details of any outcomes following a complaint.
Bullies Out, an anti-bullying charity based in Cardiff, said that over half of children in the UK report being bullied. It agreed that all incidents of bullying need to be recorded.
Linda James, chief executive of Bullies Out, said: "We cannot keep ignoring this issue. From policymakers to parents, tech companies to teachers, we all have a role to play in preventing bullying and ensuring safe environments for children.
"As long as bullying persists and children are hurt, we are simply not doing enough, and this has to change."
If you or someone you know is affected by the issues raised in this story, contact Samaritans' 24-hour free helpline for confidential advice by dialling 116 123.
Bullying, Child Mental Health, Julie Brooks, Julie Steward, law, mp, MPs, Overdose, Parliament, Policy, pontyclun, school, Simon Brooks, Suicide, Tonyrefail, Westminster, Y Pant, Y Pant Comprehensive
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Lindemann choose to go with its Birdland BL-10 loudspeakers ($11,000) for its demo. They imaged well, but were ultimately bass shy. Nevertheless, they were perfect for this small hotel room.
The analog source was a vintage Luxman PD444 turntable. The tonearm on the right is a Triplanar. I believe the tonearm at the rear is a Morch DP6.
The Zesto Audio Andros ($3900) was easily the most popular phono stage at the show.
The rest of the components were all Lindemann. Here is the Lindemann 825 CD player with built-in asynchronous USB DAC ($12,500).
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On April 26, 2012, the fifth "Patricia L. Kanan Award for Outstanding Service" was presented to Carl Tennille longtime supporter of the ACKCSC, as well as Trustee and Treasurer of the Charitable Trust since 2006.
When you first meet him your initial impression is of a quiet gentle man of few words. If you were to ask him what he does he would probably say he was a numbers cruncher and you could find him working quietly in the back; keeping things moving smoothly and running in the 'black'. While not one to 'toot his own horn', he is proud that his financial formula and research was used successfully in a Supreme Court decision.
It seems that numbers and animals have always been a part of Carl's life. He was raised in Stillwater OK where his father was a professor in the Veterinary College of Oklahoma State University. Married for nearly 40 years, his family includes a wife, Joan, and her 2 boys. Carl has served as head scorer for equestrian events and Treasurer of the Canine Freestyle Federation. Although the Tennille's have no grandchildren, they have many substitutes including Puck, the duck, Paddington, the jet setting lab, and the Dobes, Luke and Panzer. Cavaliers have been included in the family since 1973.


It is not uncommon to see companies perform well in the years after insiders buy shares. On the other hand, we'd be remiss not to mention that insider sales have been known to precede tough periods for a business. So shareholders might well want to know whether insiders have been buying or selling shares in Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCBS).
Chairman Robert Atwell made the biggest insider sale in the last 12 months. That single transaction was for US$311k worth of shares at a price of US$55.16 each. That means that an insider was selling shares at slightly below the current price (US$56.81). While their view may have changed since they sold, this isn't a particularly bullish sign. As a general rule we consider it to be discouraging when insiders are selling below the current price. It is worth noting that this sale was only 9.7% of Robert Atwell's holding.
Over the last year we saw more insider selling of Nicolet Bankshares shares, than buying. The average sell price was around US$55.41. It's not too encouraging to see that insiders have sold at below the current price. Since insiders sell for many reasons, we wouldn't put too much weight on it. The chart below shows insider transactions (by individuals) over the last year. By clicking on the graph below, you can see the precise details of each insider transaction!
There was substantially more insider selling, than buying, of Nicolet Bankshares shares over the last three months. In that time, insiders dumped US$388k worth of shares. On the other hand we note Director Robert Weyers bought US$250k worth of shares, as previously mentioned. Generally this level of net selling might be considered a bit bearish.
Another way to test the alignment between the leaders of a company and other shareholders is to look at how many shares they own. I reckon it's a good sign if insiders own a significant number of shares in the company. It appears that Nicolet Bankshares insiders own 15% of the company, worth about US$80m. We've certainly seen higher levels of insider ownership elsewhere, but these holdings are enough to suggest alignment between insiders and the other shareholders.
So What Do The Nicolet Bankshares Insider Transactions Indicate?
The stark truth for Nicolet Bankshares is that there has been more insider selling than insider buying in the last three months. Despite some insider buying, the longer term picture doesn't make us feel much more positive. But since Nicolet Bankshares is profitable and growing, we're not too worried by this. Insiders own shares, but we're still pretty cautious, given the history of sales. So we'd only buy after careful consideration. Therefore, you should should definitely take a look at this FREE report showing analyst forecasts for Nicolet Bankshares.


The culture of giving should start as young as possible, Korean drama actor Kwon Oh-joong has said.
The star from SBS drama "Miss Ajumma" also called for more structured ways of volunteering to make it easier for celebrities like him to give their time.
"The more you expose children to people in need the better. That is the best way of educating young children." Kwon said during a discussion at Korea's 1st International Conference on Sharing last week.
"What is very important is the education of the younger generation. Everyone tells other people you shouldn't be prejudiced against the disabled but no one says anything about it (when prejudice happens). Nothing has changed.
The star, who has appeared in many movies and dramas, recently including "The Duo" and "Freedom Fighter" also reflected other conference speakers' comments to call for a more structured system for volunteers to give their time. He said that the demands for celebrities to use their talents for good could be conflicting at times.
"Recently there has been a lot of talk about giving and sharing, which was not often talked about in the past. Today we talk a lot about talent sharing," he said.
"Many people call me and say we would like to invite you for some kind of talent sharing opportunity. If I say I can't that makes me a very bad person. Right now it is not very systemized, celebrities are faced with a lot of requests where they can't really say no and every event they want to they don't always know how to.
His words echoed earlier speakers at the international conference organized by Korea's Health and Welfare Ministry and KBS .
During her opening remarks to the conference, Health and Welfare Minister Chin Soo-hee said: "We are seeing that the forms of sharing have changed, they are not just providing money or volunteer work ― we are also seeing people sharing their talents. All such developments of sharing are being seen, but there are a lot of things we can expand upon.
She cited this month's creation of a National Sharing Committee as a step in the right direction.
Conference speaker Yonsei professor Kang Chul-hee also told attendees: "We have to have an infrastructure to encourage more wealthy people to give. Instead of criticizing people by saying 'Why don't you give?' we should provide them with a better giving infrastructure.
Kang talked about offering tax cuts and better recording of donations data as good ways to foster Korea's sharing society.
He also voiced support for fostering sharing culture among young people.
"We should include sharing as part of the school curriculum. Our children will be taking care of Korea's growing older population. We have to educate them about sharing from early on," he said.


Zu meinem Geburtstag dieses Jahr hatte mir eine Freundin ein Paket geschickt, in dem auch diese tolle Box drin war, gefüllt mit allerlei. Da ich sie zu schön finde, um sie einfach wegzustellen, hatte ich mich entschieden, sie in eine Pflanzbox umzuwandeln! Dazu braucht man nur noch Plastikfolie (meine war von einer Verpackung), Reißzwecken (nicht im Bild), Steine, Blumenerde und kleine Pflanzen.
For my birthday this year, friend had sent me a parcel which included this beautiful wooden box, filled with all kinds of nice things. Since I thought it to be too nice to just put it away, I decided to turn it into a planter! You'll need plastic foil (mine came from a packaging), pins (not in the picture), stones, soil and small plants.
1. Zuerst habe ich die Box innen mit der Folie ausgekleidet und die Ecken mit Reißzwecken befestigt. Das geht schön schnell und sieht auch nett aus, finde ich.
1. First off, I lined the inside of the box with the plastic foil and pinned the ends with pins. This is nicely quick to do and also looks neat, I think.
2. Nun Steine in den Boden füllen; diese agieren bei überschüssigem Wasser als eine Art simple Drainage. Als nächstes Pflanzen kaufen und dann solange mit dem Einpflanzen warten, bis die Blumen verblüht sind, haha! Nein, ihr macht das natürlich gleich und nicht so schlumperig wie ich. Fertig ist's!
2. Now fill the bottom with stones; these will act as a sort of basic drainage in case of excess water. As a next step, buy plants and then wait so long with finally planting them that they have lost all their flowers. Ha! No, of course not, you will do it immediately and not as sloppy as me. And it's done!
I really love this idea, very cute and very easy to do!
What a clever idea! I love wood boxes.
I love to DIY too! Lovely piece of work, dear!
Das ist ja mal wieder eine super Idee!
Wünsche dir einen prima Sonntag-Nachmittag...genieß die letzten Sonnenstrahlen, aber morgen soll es ja erstmal wieder regnen.
You have the best DIYS!
So creative and gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
This is so lovely! Want something like this on my work table. :) Have a nice day!
so eine zauberhafte idee!!! genial!
what a great idea, its super cute!
Oh my, it's so pretty! I wish I known anything about gardening!


A couple of weeks ago I spent a Monday at the General Hospital in Grenada (It's the building in the picture above). Dr. Ameci, who I had been shadowing previously, worked at a private hospital in Grenada. Of course at the private hospital the standards are better, equipment is more professional and everything runs a bit more smoothly. Therefore I was curious to see what the public/general hospital was like. I was put in contact with a surgeon who worked at the General Hospital and was allowed to shadow him for a day.
Quite the view from the hospital!
As I approached the hospital and stepped inside the reception area (at 7 am!!! Early start for surgeons!) I was a little bit confused whether this was a hospital or an abandoned building, haha. I've seen a lot of primitive and things in-not-so-great-state during my travels, but the General Hospital did initially give me a bit of a shock.
I met Dr. Campritus who I was shadowing for the day and I put my scrubs on and was ready to observe some surgeries! Everything around me was very simple, very basic, and very 'old-school'. The beds were almost falling apart, everything is done by hand, there were cracks in the floor… But after I saw the first surgery I saw that those things weren't really an issue – everything worked just fine. It was actually quite strange, because by the end of the day the hospital didn't seem as simple and basic as when I arrived. Although it looked older and more primitive than what I was used to, none of those had any implications on the surgeries themselves.
It was a long day in the operating theaters, but very very interesting. I got to stand just up close to the patients, right next to the surgeon and he was very good at explaining the procedures. Surgery is definitely something that would interest me in the future, but first – get into med school, haha!
And here's half a thyroid!!
I'm very glad I've gotten the opportunity to do as much medical shadowing as I have done here in Grenada. It's been a really great experience that I know will benefit me in the future.
Meet 3 students who are traveling from the UK with the Jason Roberts Foundation. They have been involved in a project and were the final candidates who got to travel to Grenada and are going to help out at a special needs school.
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Jeg så noen herlig bilder fra Gålå – det så jo ut som perfekt påske vær! Må være deilig med lange skiturer og god hytte kos!
Om du fortsetter med yoga i sommer hadde det vært gøy om vi kunne dratt sammen en dag der du går på trening! Jeg har syntes det har vært utrolig gøy å holde med på det her i Grenada!
Grenada looks lovely, and I think it's great that you got some shadowing done. It's so important to get some experience before medical school so that you know what you're in for when the going gets tough. Good luck, and have fun!


Arguably the most infamous drug smuggler to have ever lived, and certainly the wealthiest, Pablo Escobar's story has fascinated filmmakers and writers alike for decades. The latest attempt at telling his story comes in the form of Netflix original series Narcos.
Following on from the online streaming service's successes with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black among others, Netflix are quickly making a name for themselves as having quality exclusive programmes.Initially, the dual narrative structure flicking between America and Columbia feels clunky and at times unnecessary, as Escobar's (Wagner Moura) story is the one that is of real interest, rather than Steve Murphy's (Boyd Holbrook) back story as a policeman in LA.
However, as the season progresses and Murphy moves to Columbia, both narratives become more and more intertwined, providing an interesting comparison in perspective. Without the voice of the law, we might be inclined to see the murdering and thieving Escobar as a hero, albeit a significantly flawed one. Sequences of archive news footage and photos throughout the show are reminiscent of Shane Meadows' masterpiece This is England, serving the same purpose of providing a wider context. Where This is England has Thatcher, Narcos has then-US president Ronald Reagan. At times, these sequences also provide a much-needed reminder that the events occurring in the show did indeed actually happen.
Rather than being a mere rehash of the ideas from Breaking Bad, as the show may at first seem, Narcos has a much wider perspective. Exploring not only Escobar's rise as a notorious criminal, Narcos also illustrates social and political issues present in Columbia as a whole. Not to mention, Narcos, at times unbelievably, is based on a true story.However, like Breaking Bad, Escobar provides us with an unquestionably 'bad' character, but expertly manages to elicit our sympathy, sometimes to a disturbing extent. As mustachioed crime fighter Steve Murphy puts it at the end of the first episode, "good and bad… they're relative concepts". Indeed, while delivering this line, he is surrounded by numerous corpses, apparently able to justify the killing of people due to their affiliation with the drug trade, making his morals questionable at the very least.
Narcos, then, is a fascinating exploration of the drug trade in Columbia, but also of morality and justification, making it a must-see.


A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they explore the South American jungles in search of the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. Noted in my Journal.
In late 2000 I began experimenting with cartoon narratives. My drawing skills are primitive, so I searched for raw material which I could adapt. I settled on a one-volume compilation of daily comic strips (1 June 1945 to 16 May 1946) featuring "Johnny Hazard", written and illustrated by Frank Robbins . The volume is 60 pages long; the material I purloined came to 12 pages. I threw away the original story with its dialogue (a tangled Second World War tale of fighting the Japanese and later the Vichy French in the tropics) and constructed my own story with new dialogue. I also chose the panels I needed from different places in the original volume, and altered all of the drawings with an image-editing program. The result has nothing in it of the original save the brilliant chiaroscuro ink drawings of the original artist, Frank Robbins, and a handful of the characters — their appearance, but not their names, identities, relationships or dialogue, all of which I reinvented.
1. Southerly vol 61 no 2, 26–37. Sydney: Halstead Press, 2001.
2. Chain 8 Summer 2001. pp.272–83. Philadelphia: English Department, Temple University, 2001.
3. Poetry Review vol 92 no 2 Summer 2002. London: Poetry Society, 2002. pp.29–40.
4. Internet (this page): http://johntranter.com/00/cartoons.shtml 2007.
 Robbins, Frank. Johnny Hazard: Side Pocket Sam: daily strips 1 Jun 45 to 16 May 46. U.S. Classics Series volume 2. Long Beach CA: Tony Raiola, 1984, and Park Forest IL: Ken Pierce Inc., 1984. Johnny Hazard Copyright © King Features Syndicate.


Roof Studio teamed with RPA for this acid-level romp inside an auto designer's mind.
The spot is a fantastical, surreal representation of the Honda ideation process.
If you haven't had enough eye candy, check out Roof's behind the scenes breakdown video.
Music Supervision/Sound Design: Squeak E. Clean Productions, Inc.


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Tag: frog
The monsters have shops too, right?
Post author By Dan
The bullywug shopkeep from XP Academy!
If you like D&D, laughing, drawing, or winning books get on it! http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/imboardwithlife/id/5693660
Tags board with life, bullywug, d&d, frog, xp academy
Animals Art Me
A skaldic poem about my cats
Witch's-friend, claws clutching
cold flesh. No more golden
balls to fetch or falls for
fair maidens this jade-prince.
Her mirror, still, murmurs;
mouse-bane in dreams, house-tame
she lies. A lap-lion,
loathe to win her dinner.
Edit: I made a change to lines 3 and 4 after Dr Jackson Crawford pointed out I had 'for' as a stress syllable in line 4.
Tags cat, frog, milly, molly, norse, vikings
The winners have been announced! If you've never been the exhibition at the NHM is worth a visit, it's not cheap but it is very good (also worth keeping an eye out for the free touring exhibition over the course of next year).
Some faves from this year:
Tags fish, fox, frog, hummingbird, mantis, wildlife photographer of the year
Endlings
An endling is an individual that is the last of its species or subspecies. Once the endling dies, the species becomes extinct.
I spotted a tweet Monday morning about Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon, she died 100 years ago but enjoyed some degree of posthumous celebrity:
"Poor Martha." Here's my encounter in WILD ONES with Earth's last passenger, who died 100 years ago Monday. pic.twitter.com/25AkQ2yx1I— Jon Mooallem (@jmooallem) September 1, 2014
It got me wondering how many other species we know (or at least think we can identify) the last member of that species.
Booming Ben, the last Heath Hen, was last spotted in 1932, he was the last member of his species for 4 years.
Long before Ben the Heath Hen was target for early conservationists, though in a turn that would be comical if it wasn't both bad for conservation and quite racist:
Heath hens were one of the first bird species that Americans tried to save from extinction. As early as 1791, a bill "for the preservation of heath-hen and other game" was introduced in the New York State legislature. Some representatives misinterpreted the bill when it was read as an act to protect "Indians and other heathen"; although the legislation was passed, it turned out to be unenforceable.
As recently as this April the heath hen was proposed for 'de-extinction' by a company called Revive and Restore. The list also includes Plesitocene megafauna that have been extinct for 4,000-10,000 years. He may not be as big and flashy but I'd say Ben has a better chance.
Another Benjamin, the last Thylacine, died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. I've posted footage of him before, and it's well worth watching if only to see how huge Thylacine jaws really were.
Thylacines are also a candidate for the Revive and Restore project though the Tasmanian Tiger still clocks up 40-50 unconfirmed sightings a year (the link is worth checking out for the Thylacoleo and Yowie sightings info).
Celia, the last Pyrenean Ibex was found dead in 2000, you can visit her taxidermied remains and she was briefly resurrected via cloning in 2009.
Lonesome George is one of the more famous examples, a number of attempts were made to breed him with similar sub-species but none of the eggs were viable. He died in 2012 at the age of 102, he'd been an endling for at least 40 years.
This is the quite possibly the last Rabbe's fringe-limbed treefrog, he resides at the Atlanta Botanical Garden and has been the last known member of his species for 2 years now, though the last known female died in 2009. The species was only discovered in 2005 and the last known observation "was that of a single male heard calling (but not seen) in 2007″.
This is the last female Yangtze giant softshell turtle, she lives at Suzhou Zoo in China and is the last hope for continuing her species. She's co-resident with one of the remaining males but after hundreds of unhatched eggs over the last 6 years it was confirmed last month that "the male is either infertile, or incapable of inseminating the female."
The other two known members of their species live in separate lakes in Vietnam, though as the article states there have been unconfirmed sightings in the Red River in Yunan Province, and as our female certainly has no problems laying eggs artificial insemination may bring some success.
This photos contains the entire breeding population of Northern White Rhinoceros. They were formerly resident at the Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic but were reintroduced into the wild in 2009 after the species had become extinct in the wild. One rhino remains at Dvůr Králové and two are in San Diego (a male and an infertile female). The last Northern White Rhino birth was in 2000.
In reality most endlings won't be named, or even known. There are almost 20,000 species currently at risk of extinction.
Tags endlings, extinction, frog, hen, rhino, thylacine, turtle
No Comments on One Froggy Evening
One of my fondest childhood memories – Michigan J Frog in 'One Froggy Evening':
Who takes a pumpkin to the theatre?
Flying cars and disintegration rays will be commonplace by the time I'm 70
Tags frog, ragtime, tin pan alley, warner bros
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Der Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park ist ein 363 Hektar großer Provincial Park in der kanadischen Provinz British Columbia. Der Park liegt auf der gleichnamigen Insel, einige 100 Meter Luftlinie östlich von Nanaimo vor Vancouver Island und gehört zum Regional District of Nanaimo.

Da der Park auf einer Insel liegt, kann er nur mit einer Fähre oder einem Boot erreicht werden. Die Fähre verkehrt vom Maffeo-Sutton Park in Nanaimo aus, allerdings nur in den Sommermonaten.

Anlage
Der Park umfasst heute die komplette Insel Newcastle Island, in den Gewässern der Straße von Georgia. Stellenweise hat das Ufer eine steil abfallende Böschung, in welcher sich dann Höhlen und Grotten finden. Der Park ist dabei eher flach mit leichten Bodenwellen und steigt nach Nordwesten auf etwa 20 Meter Höhe an. Weiterhin findet sich auf der Insel ein kleiner See. Neben den 334 Hektar Landfläche gehören auch noch 29 Hektar Gezeitenzone und umgebende Gewässer zum Park. Der Schwerpunkt der touristischen Infrastruktur sowie der Fähr- und Bootsanleger befindet sich im südlichen Teil der Insel.

Bei dem Park handelt es sich um ein Schutzgebiet der Kategorie II (Nationalpark).

Geschichte
Der Park wurde im Jahr 1961 mit einer Größe von 745 acres, das entspricht rund 301,5 Hektar, eingerichtet. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde dann mehrfach der Status des Parks und seine Größe geändert. Sein Name geht dabei auf die Insel zurück, auf welcher der Park liegt. Die Insel wiederum erhielt ihren Namen 1849, als auf ihr Kohle gefunden wurde. Wegen dieser Funde wurde mit dem Namen an die englische "Kohlestadt" Newcastle upon Tyne erinnert.

Wie jedoch bei fast allen Provinzparks in British Columbia gilt auch für diesen, dass er lange bevor die Gegend von Einwanderern besiedelt oder sie Teil eines Parks wurde, sie Siedlungs- und Jagd-/Fischereigebiet verschiedener Stämme der First Nations, hier hauptsächlich vom Volk der Snuneymuxw, war. In der Ankunftszeit der europäischen Entdecker und Siedler fanden sich noch zwei kleinere Ansiedlungen dieser First Nations auf der Insel. Ursprünglich waren diese Ansiedlungen nicht das ganze Jahr über bewohnt. Die First Nations lebten dort nur zu, von der Fischerei, bestimmten Zeiten im Jahr. Die Ansiedlungen wurde zwar verlassen, im Park finden sich aber immer noch zahlreiche Stätten von archäologischer Bedeutung.

Die First Nations waren auch die ersten, die auf der Insel Kohle förderten, schnell wurden sie jedoch von den europäischen und chinesischen Bergleuten der Hudson's Bay Company verdrängt. Diese förderte hier ab 1853 Kohle, bevor sie ihre Rechte an die Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Company verkaufte. Insgesamt dauerte die Kohleförderung auf der Insel bis 1883.

Länger als die Kohleförderung dauerte der Abbau von Sandstein auf der Insel. Der Baustoff wurde entlang der Westküste bei vielen Bauten verwendet und von 1869 bis 1932 abgebaut.

Newcastle Island spielte auch in der Fischerei der Provinz eine Rolle. Bis 1910 hatten die Japaner hier die Fischerei dominiert und eine kleine Siedlung auf der Westseite der Insel etabliert. Hier betrieben sie noch bis 1941 eine kleine Fischsalzerei und eine kleine Werft, dann wurden sie jedoch wie alle japanischen Kanadier, die entlang der Küste lebten, zwangsweise in Internierungslager im Landesinneren umgesiedelt.

Etwa 1930 begann dann die Karriere der Insel als Ausflugs- und Erholungsort. Die Canadian Pacific Railway betrieb mit einem ihrer Tochterunternehmen, dem British Columbia Coast Steamship Service, bereits auf einer anderen Insel der Gulf Islands einen solchen Ausflugs- und Erholungsort. Mit den Fahrten nach Newcastle Island erweiterte sie ihr Angebot und errichtete dazu den noch heute vorhandenen Pavillon auf der Insel.

Die Ära der CPR dauerte bis etwa Mitte der 1950er Jahre. Dann verkaufte die Eisenbahngesellschaft die Insel an die Stadt Nanaimo. In deren Besitz blieb die Insel jedoch auch nur für wenige Jahre. Ende der 1950er Jahre verkaufte die Stadt die Insel an die Provinz weiter, unter der Bedingung einen Provincial Park zu errichten.

Flora und Fauna
Das Ökosystem von British Columbia wird mit dem Biogeoclimatic Ecological Classification (BEC) Zoning System in verschiedene biogeoklimatischen Zonen eingeteilt. Biogeoklimatische Zonen zeichnen sich durch ein grundsätzlich identisches oder sehr ähnliches Klima sowie gleiche oder sehr ähnliche biologische und geologische Voraussetzungen aus. Daraus resultiert in den jeweiligen Zonen dann auch ein sehr ähnlicher Bestand an Pflanzen und Tieren. Innerhalb des Ökosystems von British Columbia wird das Parkgebiet der Moist Maritime Subzone innerhalb der Coastal Douglas fir Zone zugeordnet.

Das ganzjährig milde und feuchte Klima, wobei die Monate Juli und August davon abweichend eher trocken und warm sind, führt zu idealen Wachstumsbedingungen. Eine forstwirtschaftliche Nutzung fand im Park für den örtlichen Bedarf statt. In dem entstandenen Sekundärwald findet sich wieder eine Anzahl von Pflanzen. An Bäumen finden sich hauptsächlich die Douglasie, der Riesen-Lebensbaum und die Küsten-Tanne sowie die Oregon-Eiche und der Oregon-Ahorn. Diese Artenvielfalt setzt sich auch im Unterwuchs mit zahlreichen verschiedenen Pflanzen fort. Es finden sich Besenginster, Jakobs-Greiskraut, Gemeiner Efeu und ungewöhnlicher Weise die Europäische Stechpalme.

Entsprechend der Insellage finden sich hier überwiegend kleine Säugetiere wie der Waschbär. Weiterhin finden sich zahlreiche Vögel, unter anderem auch Weißkopfseeadler.

Benachbarte Parks
Auf Vancouver Island befinden sich noch zahlreiche weitere Provincial Parks, darunter der für seine zahlreichen Petroglyphen der First Nations bekannte Petroglyph Provincial Park.

Aktivitäten
Der Park ist von ausgeprägter touristischer Bedeutung und zieht zahlreiche Besucher im Jahr an. Touristisch ist er ein typischer Park für Tagesbesucher. Allerdings bietet er auch 18 vorbereitete Flächen zum Zelten. Der touristische Schwerpunkt ist der südliche Inselbereich mit dem Picknickbereich und den dazugehörenden Unterständen sowie dem Pavillon aus dem Jahr 1931. Der Park verfügt über einfache Sanitäranlagen. Im Park wurden verschiedene Wanderwege angelegt, welche auch die anderen interessanten Punkte der Insel, wie den alten Minenschacht oder den Sandsteinbruch, erschließen.

Am Fähranleger findet sich auch die Bootsanlage mit den Anlegeplätzen für bis zu 42 Boote unterschiedlicher Größe.

Weblinks

 Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park. In: Englischsprachige Internetpräsenz des Parks bei BC Parks
 Informationen zum Park auf britishcolumbia.com (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Gegründet 1961
Schutzgebiet (Umwelt- und Naturschutz) in Nordamerika
Provincial Park in British Columbia
Regional District of Nanaimo
Meeresschutzgebiet
Salish Sea

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#LitMagLove with Shashi Bhat from EVENT: Publishing in lit mags "Shows agents & editors you're serious"
Rachel Thompson
Room's Rachel Thompson spoke with Shashi Bhat, Editor of EVENT, for our series on literary and cultural magazines (#LitMagLove). Shashi's novel The Family Took Shape (Cormorant, 2013), was shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. She received an MFA in fiction from The Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Cornell University. No stranger to literary magazines, she's had stories in PRISM international, The New Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review and EVENT before she became editor.
EVENT is an award-winning, internationally recognized literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, non-fiction and book reviews by emerging and established writers three times a year. Like the other #LitMagLove interviews, the focus of their conversation is on advice for writers who wish to submit to the journal, now in its 44th year of publication.
Who are your first readers at EVENT and how do you make decisions about what appears in the magazine after first reading?
Our first readers are a team of volunteers who read the general submissions and separate them into a yes/maybe pile and a no pile. The yes/maybes go to our fiction editor, Christine Dewar, who selects the top ones to be discussed by the our fiction board (Christine, me, EVENT's managing editor Ian Cockfield, and reviews editor Susan Wasserman). We meet once every month or two and discuss an average of five stories per meeting (over delicious lunch at Christine's house). We chat about the stories and try to reach a consensus and we eat quiche. What's most thrilling is when someone comes to the meeting and says they'd be willing to fight for a story. Those are usually the stories we all agree on anyway.
Poetry goes through its own set of first readers, then to our poetry editor, Joanne Arnott. We meet and select the poetry together.
Most of our creative non-fiction comes through our contest each spring. Those pieces are read by me and a team of volunteer contest readers, and then go to our guest judge, who selects the winners.
What is the most common problem you find with submissions to EVENT?
The most common issue is a lack of freshness, and this can happen in plots, characters, imagery, in any area of a story. For example, we receive a fair number of stories about North Americans in their twenties feeling emotionally lost while travelling in other countries. When you receive a story that deals with themes and subjects you've seen so many times before, there needs to be something original, something startling about it to set it apart.
We're looking for well-crafted language, distinctive voices, causality in the plots…but really I think we're just looking for stories that move us. My advice is what I tell my creative writing students: read your piece aloud. You'll better understand your piece's rhythms and cadences, notice syntax or clarity issues, and catch typos and errors you might not otherwise. Nothing marks a professional like an error-free manuscript.
Do you think it is important for emerging writers to submit to literary journals?
Yup, I do. Publishing in literary journals is the street cred that shows agents and editors you're serious and that there are people besides yourself who think you can write. Not to imply that literary journals are only a means to an end. Literary journals print Canada's freshest writing. I think it's important for emerging writers to be aware of what's going on in CanLit today.
Who was your first publisher?
The Missouri Review accepted my first story and I felt giddy and relieved and grateful. It's a magazine I respect, which was great because I'd been having nightmares about my writing appearing in a gas station newsletter. EVENT accepted a story of mine later that year, so my being the editor now is a fun twist. Receiving an acceptance today still feels the same except that now I have even more gratitude for the people who read my submission and discussed it and edited it and put it in print.
What have you learned from being on the other side of the submissions process?
Being on this side of the submissions process has influenced my own fiction writing in that I'm more focused on conciseness and precision—I'm more conscious of baggy language. It's heightened my awareness of audience as well, of which passages are more for the writer than for the reader.
What are things you do to maintain the diversity of writers published EVENT?
We achieve diversity partly through searching for variety in the kinds of stories we print, and consequently, in contributors. I'm of East Indian background and explore multicultural themes in my own writing, and our poetry editor, Joanne, is a Métis/mixed-blood writer and a founding member of Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast. At our last meeting we both got excited because there was a submission from Yellowknife. EVENT's policy only allows writers to appear in our journal once every two years, and I like how this means we're always searching for new voices. Of course, writing quality is always the most crucial factor to accepting a submission. But part of our mandate at EVENT is to strive to reflect the diversity of our reading and writing community; we want our journal to be multidimensional.
What other literary journals do you read?
I like The New Quarterly, Room, Riddle Fence, The Puritan. I only recently discovered Riddle Fence; I admire their creativity.
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One of the most time-consuming tasks when learning Chinese is looking up characters in a dictionary. This is especially true when trying to read a passage that has quite a lot of unfamiliar words in it.
The add-on is available for both Firefox and Chrome. It's available in several languages (English, French or German to Chinese or Japanese, with Korean coming soon). The author also maintains a blog containing reviews of other language learning tools and material.
This add-on is similar but is only available for Chrome. One distinguishing feature is that it has integration with Skritter.
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After recently switching my main web browser to Safari, I became frustrated with the lack of options and wrote Frill: a Chinese pop-up dictionary extension for Safari.


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All patients who see Mr Freedman should have a recent (within the last 6 months) plain X-ray.
Unfortunately many GPs launch directly into sophisticated imaging but a simple plain X-ray provides very useful information and is just about always recommended. If you have not had a plain X-ray please contact our office and an a X-ray request slip will be sent out to you.
It is, however, correct to say that many early joint conditions are very subtle and may require a range of investigations to help arrive at a diagnosis. Plain X-rays are also not good at visualising soft tissues or cartilage and so if the plain X-ray does not reveal the problem additional imaging may be indicated.
Mr Freedman may request a CT scan to better view the bony anatomy of your hip and an special MRI scan to study the cartilage, labrum and other soft tissues of your hip.
CT scanners take multiple X-ray 'fine slices' in a very short space of time. The multiplanar images of bones and joints that result are very detailed. Mr Freedman may request further sophisticated processing and analysis of images into a 3-dimensional model that can be rotated to allow analysis of 3 dimensional shape of your hip.
The MRI scan is usually obtained with a special intravenous contrast agent to show up subtle soft tissue abnormalities.
The quality of the information gained from these scans is highly dependent on (1) The quality of the scanner on which the scan is performed, (2) The skill of the radiographer/technician who performs the scan and (3) The experience of the radiologist who reports the scan.
Unfortunately there is wide variability in the quality of all these variables.
Mr Freedman therefore advises to preferably have your scans done at certain carefully selected radiology centres. We will provide recommendations to you based on your location.
However, if you have already had scans organised by your GP please consult with Mr Freedman so that we can try avoid any unnecessary repetition or unnecessary additional xray exposure.


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IBM To Announce New NetVistas, Thinkpads	October 5, 2001 at 2:44 pm
IBM, in its first significant PC announcement in a year, will introduce five new ThinkPads and three new NetVista models on Tuesday, according to sources close to the company.
Are You Going To Comdex? Many Aren't	October 3, 2001 at 3:15 pm
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High signal intensity on T2-weighted cardiac magnetic resonance imaging correlates with the ventricular tachyarrhythmia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Yasuki Hen, Nobuo Iguchi, Haruhiko Machida, Kaori Takada, Yuko Utanohara, Tetsuya Sumiyoshi
Heart and Vessels
Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) with cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can predict ventricular arrhythmia and poor prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients. Although myocardial… (More)
Prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in Japanese hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients.
Yasuki Hen, Nobuo Iguchi, +4 authors Tetsuya Sumiyoshi
Circulation journal : official journal of the…
BACKGROUND The prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in Japanese hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients in a large,… (More)
Extent of Late Gadolinium Enhancement on Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Japanese Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients.
Yasuki Hen, Nobuo Iguchi, +8 authors Tsutomu Yoshikawa
BACKGROUND In addition to the presence of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) on cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), the extent of LGE is considered clinically important in hypertrophic… (More)
Non-invasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease by 123I-BMIPP/201TlCl dual myocardial SPECT in patients with heart failure.
Hajime Abe, Nobuo Iguchi, +12 authors Hitonobu Tomoike
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Detecting the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) is critically important in managing patients with heart failure of uncertain cause. The recently introduced… (More)
A preliminary feasibility study of simultaneous dual-isotope imaging with a solid-state dedicated cardiac camera for evaluating myocardial perfusion and fatty acid metabolism
Toshiyuki Ko, Yuko Utanohara, +5 authors Hitonobu Tomoike
Simultaneous dual-isotope SPECT imaging with 201Tl and 123I-β-methyl-p-iodophenylpentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) is used to study the perfusion–metabolism mismatch. It predicts post-ischemic functional… (More)
High Signal Intensity on T2-Weighted Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predicts Life-Threatening Arrhythmic Events in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients.
Yasuki Hen, Ayako Takara, +7 authors Tsutomu Yoshikawa
BACKGROUND The prognostic value of high signal intensity on T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (T2 high signal) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients in a single-center… (More)
Myocardial flow reserve derived by dynamic perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography reflects the severity of coronary atherosclerosis
Nobuo Iguchi, Yuko Utanohara, +7 authors Mitsuaki Setagaya-ku Isobe
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A novel single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) camera was developed to evaluate dynamic myocardial perfusion flow. However, it is unclear whether myocardial flow reserve (MFR) derived by… (More)
Planimetry of the Orifice Area in Aortic Valve Stenosis Using Phase-Contrast Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
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Detection of myocardial metabolic dysfunction caused by the right ventricular apical pacing using thallium 201/iodine 123-labeled beta-methyl iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid SPECT
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Purpose: Many clinical trials have reported that right ventricular apical (RVA) pacing increases the risk of heart failure and atrial fibrillation, but the mechanism remains unknown. Using thallium… (More)
A Case of Refractory Heart Failure Associated With Severe Aortic Regurgitation During Peripartum Period
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And now, it will only be one more week until Knife Party's newest EP Trigger Warning is released to the public. It will have three tracks and one remix, the Jauz interpretation of "Plur Police." Unfortunately, the collaboration with Tom Morello will not be on this EP. Fortunately, it will still see a release on Tom Morello's album.
Trigger Warning will be released on November 20th.


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NIST cloud roadmap: Too much too fast?
The new cloud computing roadmap designed to help federal agencies accelerate their cloud adoption could inspire agencies to do too much, too fast, warns an analyst.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the two-volume roadmap on Nov. 1. It lays out guidelines on how the federal government and private sector can best implement cloud computing. Although the roadmap is a "good, solid structure," agencies still have their own legacy needs, technology limits and budget concerns to deal with, said Shawn McCarthy, a research director at IDC Government Insights and a contributor to Government Computer News' Internaut column.
"It's very important to continue urging agencies toward an enterprise architectures standard or as close to that as you can," he said. "But every agency is going to have to proceed at its own pace, and it's unlikely that anyone will be able to comply with every piece of it because of their own unique limits."
Cloud-computing help is on the way for agency managers
The actual migration to the cloud could be an easy, quick process, but when factoring in security requirements and the service level an agency might need, investment in time eventually pays off, McCarthy said.
"Can you get some things in the cloud quickly? Yes. Is that the way to do it? Not necessarily," he said. "It's not exactly a checklist but people could view it like one: Have I looked at low- and high-priority security requirements? Do I understand how my data could be affected? Should I go in a cloud direction? Do I understand the requirements to collaborate with other agencies if I were to do this and share data?"
Agencies looking to follow the suggested guidelines should first pinpoint which services they need and which workload they should migrate, said Norm Laudermilch, federal chief operating officer at Terremark, a subsidiary of Verizon. Cost is another obvious element to consider: When the federal government decided to move USA.gov to the cloud, it first compared the costs of running the website internally with the expenses of outsourcing it, he explained.
Although a growing number of companies are planning on getting in on the cloud market, not everyone will be able to provide the security the proposed standards call for, Laudermilch said.
"The security requirements are going to be all about the physical facilities that these cloud pods reside in, and very few cloud providers can meet those requirements," he said. "It will help the government tremendously in their vendor selection process."
In the midst of a continuous cyber blitzkrieg on the public sector, federal agencies are concerned about security more than everything, Laudermilch added. The first question federal agencies typically ask is how secure is the cloud, not "how fast does [the migration] go or how much does it cost or how big can it get," he said.
"We see federal agencies that say, 'we're not convinced to move to the cloud yet; you have to prove to us how secure it is,'" Laudermilch said. "That's where the recertification and meeting all the audit criteria come into play for us. We see a very, very high level of diligence in security."


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Soft Powder is the latest project from Melbourne musician Andy Szetho (Storm the Sky). Today we're pleased to present the premiere of his debut EP Shangri-La.
"I took the name Shangri-La from James Hilton's Lost Horizon. In the book, Shangri-La is described as a mystical, hidden paradise of eternal youth. It's my dad's favourite story and has become one of mine.
I wrote these songs over the course of the last year with no intention of ever releasing them, but it got to a point where not releasing them stressed me out and gave me writer's block. I thought that maybe if I released these songs, I'd be able to let go of them, hopefully reigniting my creative spark.
As I wrote and recorded all of the songs myself, it was partly a self-imposed challenge to step outside of my comfort zone. Lyrically, the songs are about identity and belonging, and the ongoing influence that growing up Asian in Australia has had on me. There's also a touch of heartbreak in there for good measure! In hindsight it makes me seem like a pretty grim person, but there's definitely a tongue-in-cheek undercurrent present in the lyrics, not that you can distinguish any of them anyway amongst all the reverb… sorry.
The overall theme of the EP is escapism, and the idea of Shangri-La symbolises my ideal, imagined paradise. There's something I find romantic about the idea of Shangri-La, and I guess it resonates with me on a sentimental level as well."
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Blue Coloured Mountain, out now, is the 7-track follow up to Australian indie pop multi-instrumentalist Szymon's posthumously released and critically acclaimed debut album Tigersapp (2015).
Blue Coloured Mountain is a stunning release which expands on the much-loved sound of his ARIA nominated debut – but it also contains hints to where the young songwriter's music was heading before he tragically took his own life after years battling depression and mental illness. The way the songs are presented on the EP is the way Szymon left them. The family made the decision not to touch them.
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LIFE EXPECTANCY – What Do You Expect To Happen In Your Life?
Life expectancy is the expected (in the statistical sense) number of years of life remaining at a given age It is denoted by ex, which means the average number of subsequent years of life for someone now aged x, according to a particular mortality experience. (In technical literature, this symbol means the average number of complete years of life remaining, excluding fractions of a year. The corresponding statistic including fractions of a year, the normal meaning of life expectancy, has a symbol with a small circle over the e.) In the modern era, life expectancy has increased so dramatically as to call into question the ability to use current data for very long range predictions into the future.
The term that is known as life expectancy is most often used in the context of human populations, but is also used in plant or animal ecology; it is calculated by the analysis of life tables (also known as actuarial tables). The term life expectancy may also be used in the context of manufactured objects although the related term shelf life is used for consumer products and the terms "mean time to breakdown" (MTTB) and "mean time before failures" (MTBF) are used in engineering literature.
Continue to move forward with the exploration of the idea which supposes that the end results of a human being's life, including but not limited to the number of years afforded to an individual as well as the quality of those years, is directly related to a deep seated internal source code which shapes an individuals innermost authentic core expectations of life itself.
If it was that easy, everyone would be thinking, feeling, and acting as such.
Correction, if it is and was that easy, a majority of individuals would not be thinking and acting as such as it would first require the ability to consider a different and abnormal perspective as well as the courage to act upon it.
EQUALITY – You Too, Must Learn The Ways Of The Force!


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The high-tech industry is the leader of Chinese socio-economic sustainable development. China is facing two-pronged dilemma that continually growing energy demand and control the total energy consumption, so it is necessary for mining field to improve energy efficiency, expand low-carbon energy and clean energy (including renewable energy) usage, build a carbon market, propose low-carbon life ideas and promote the transition to a sustainable consumption. Central Economic Working Conference makes macroeconomic policy of next year is to make progress while ensuring stability. All kinds of Foundation Engineering Construction slow down their incapable, and the real estate market slumps. To some extent, those predict the winter of sand washing equipment used in the production of foundation construction material that. As the influence of Macro-economic situation, the cost of man power and raw material, what should the washing equipment manufacturers do to bear the winter of this industry in 2012? Mining machinery is important equipment for industrial raw materials and energy production, its will become an important part of saving resources and energy efficiency.
With the closing of a large number of small metallurgies, small coal mines, small cement companies, the new large-scale concentrator, large-scale coal preparation plant and large cement plant is constructed in succession, while it asks for a higher demand for mining equipment, so these manufactures are urgent to select jaw crusher manufacturer and slime dryer milling equipment of large handling capacity, high sorting efficiency and reliable operation. Ensure the quality, Enhance Internal Strength Without endurable quality, the development of any enterprises will become fantasy. An enterprise or an industry will always come cross the cold market situation, under this situation; enterprises should enhance Internal Strength, and depend on their first class products and first class brand to open and stabilize market. As for the prospect of sand washing equipment, we should see farther develop. Quality is the basic of enterprise, under the bad background, the enterprise should pay more attention on the quality. In the building of sand washer brand, first, the enterprise should lay emphasis on the strategic planning of brand, defines the development direction of brand, establish a unique value of brand recognition system and do not follow other brands. If the sand washing equipment enterprises want to survival in the winter, the integrated brand strategic planning is essential as well as the quality and technology support. Brand stands for the image of enterprise, it is the direct window that know about the enterprise customer.
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In the jaw crusher, shown in figure below, the moving jaw is pivoted at the bottom. The minimum movement is thus at the bottom and to more uniform product is obtained, although the crusher is less widely used because of its tendency to choke. The large opening at the top enables it to take very large feed and to effect a large size reduction. This crusher is usually made in smaller sizes than the stag crusher, because of the high fluctuating stresses that are produced in the members of the machine.As the professional manufacturer of complete sets of mining machinery, such as cement production line, Henan Hongxing is always doing the best in products and service. Zhengzhou Hongxing Machinery has been committed to researching and manufacturing mining machine for many years. By virtue of sound service and quality product, Hongxing Machinery wins the trust of customers. Meanwhile, jaw crusher produced by Hongxing Machinery is the most popular one with large crushing ratio, even product coexistence, low operation cost, simple structure and convenient maintenance.
In particular, Hongxing Machinery has always been at the domestic leading level in large jaw crusher design and production. Jaw crusher is mainly used in the first crushing procedure in crushing production line. It can be used separately or together with other supporting equipment. Thus, users should fully understand the working principle of jaw crusher and the common fault in production process. In our routine work, the most frequently used crusher in ore dressing plant or stone is jaw crusher plant. Compared with other crushers, jaw crusher has the advantages of low cost and high efficiency. Due to the fact that wear-resisting remove requirement of jaw crusher is high, so the material is usually wear-resisting high manganese steel lining plate. There are two jaw plates in crushing chamber; one is fixed on the upside of crusher; the other is mobile and forms to crushing chamber with the fixed jaw plate.
for users. As the saying goes, the details determine success or failure. The little screws also can make the machine fail. Any small part may cause large errors. In the machinery industry, we should pay more attention to details.
The large-scale machinery and equipment are assembled by all kinds of parts. The damage of any component will affect the function of the whole machine. As a machinery and equipment manufacturer, Henan Hongxing Mining Machinery thinks that in the producing process, we should be strict to the quality of the parts. The crusher, mill, sand making machine, the mineral processing equipment and other products are used more widely in the mining market today. The Raymond Mill is the most widely used today.
The advantages of its three-dimensional structure and small footprint make the raymond mill used in the industrial and mining areas. Since the mill is used to deal with the ore, in the current production use, the related components are more prone to wear and tear. If the quality cannot reach the standards expected, the wearing parts should be replaced frequently, which will cause downtime and affect the economic benefits of the users. In recent years, our company has invested millions of RMB in building the advanced production line and modern research and development Center. We have formed a professional service team engaged in research and development, management, sale, production and installation and realized the perfect combination of an production research. We also realized the transformation from made by Hongxing to created by Hongxing. After decades of years development, Hongxing has become one of the famous enterprises in the production of ore reduction and sand making equipment.