This month, Julia got us a commissioned job; a friend of ours was moving and wanted us to refinish wood furniture used in her daughter's bedroom. All the pieces had been painted a few years earlier in a solid, dark gray. The client wanted them all to be a nice, clean, flat white to start off in her new home.
Enter our new Earlex HV5500 sprayer.
We had purchased it a few months ago but hadn't had a reason to use it, yet. This sprayer is a high volume, low-pressure sprayer – perfect for painting a lot of large surfaces like headboards, footboards, dressers, and a vanity.
The bed rails needed to be repaired where the veneer had peeled. There also were spots that needed a little wood filler and sanding done on the vanity. (One vanity door needed a new edge piece attached to replace a splintered existing one.) A cedar bottom drawer in the dresser needed a larger finger hole drilled out because the old pull tab had long ago disappeared, and a larger one was requested.
All the drawer hardware had been previously painted with the same dark gray paint.
Julia boiled all of the hardware and then shocked it in an ice bath to break the paint bond. She then wire-brushed clean and polished it all.
Once the hardware had several coats of paint (and a few spots covered in Kilz), it was ready to be reattached to the newly painted bedroom furniture. The refinished wood furniture now looked clean and classy. Another happy customer!
Author designstudioPosted on October 30, 2018 November 2, 2018 Categories bedroom, furniture, restoration, WoodTags bedroom furniture, painted dresser, painted wood, wood dresserLeave a comment on New Job-New Tool!
The Barn Strikes Again…A Wood End Table!
The family open-floor barn held many treasures. Including one end table that I remember as a kid. This particular end table was at my Grandmother's house in the room we were not "allowed" in….the Formal Living Room. Yep – this end table was one of those very pieces of furniture I vaguely remember yet I just had to rescue it!
The hubby inspected and emptied any critter remnants getting it ready for the next stage of its life. The clean up was rather easy and I have to say there was pure joy in seeing this piece come back to life.
We normally see lots of pieces with "issues" in design, durability or wear and tear. This end table was a well-made piece. The builder did a fantastic job. It just needed some "nourishing" and given the next chance.
I am so proud of how it turned out! It is a bit different from what it was originally because I wanted to give it a more updated look. It turned out beautiful! I plan on placing this piece in an "allowed" room where everyone can see it.
Check our other recent barn find!
Looking at this painted oak dresser from a distance for the very first time was incredible! This amazing piece we rescued from an open-floor barn where it had been "stored" for at least 35 years. No electricity in this barn, just lots of "stuff" that I was able to pick through and take home! My family had stored lots of furniture items in this barn, I made sure this wood desk came home with me. And, yes, of course, I checked for lead paint..whew – no lead. Great!
Once we got it home and looked it over closely, we noticed it was missing a drawer on the lower right side. In fact, all the drawers will need new drawer bottoms and a bit of cleaning to remove the nests of different critters who had once (or more) called this dresser home.
The drawer sides were not a "Dovetail" cut, nope! They were a "scalloped and dowel" method of joining the drawer sides. This type of joinery was a first for me! Wow – This piece absolutely needed us!
The hubby made the updates to the drawers and installed a shelf where the missing door was and then added a bottom. A couple of drawer pulls were missing, and the rest were very brittle. The holes in these drawers were not the standard width of today. They were an odd size so we had to special order the pulls.
Once the paint was removed, the magic started to happen. The beauty began coming through. We then stained this magnificent piece of furniture and added the special-order handles as a finishing touch. This wood desk is in our guest room and just makes me smile every time I see it. The wood needed to be shown off…and I think it now does!
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Author designstudioPosted on October 1, 2018 October 16, 2018 Categories bedroom, furniture, Home decor, restoration, WoodTags bedroom furniture, painted dresser, wood dresserLeave a comment on Our Barn Treasure-An Oak Dresser!
Sometimes, it's what you take off; sometimes it's what you put on that counts. As I write this, I'm sitting at my wood desk in our family room. There're various books, a light, a router, and my PC.
What was originally on this wood desk was a TON of old varnish, years of abuse and just dirt. We bought it for a whopping $10.00 at the local thrift store. It was behind some other pieces and covered up with boxes.
Again, it's what's on it that counts.
The stuff on it had caused other people to overlook it. But, I saw something more – I saw what looked like a diamond in the dirt. My wife saw me checking it out and asked me if I thought it would be a good piece for us to refinish and sell.
It actually looked like cherry, and the whole wood desk was more solid than it first appeared. I finished sanding with 120 grit paper and decided to go with a cherry stain.
I kept being surprised by how well it took stain, and how well the varnish gave it a nice, deep shine.
Once completed, this cherry wood desk came inside to its own place in our family room. I've slowly added things back onto it. A blotter, a pencil jar, and a few small other things. The difference is now, the things are staying on it, and this wood desk is staying here.
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It was August 13, 2016….and it was purple….very purple.
I visited one of my favorite places about 35 minutes away and this lovely purple shelving unit was there just for me. It had to be because everyone would just walk on by without a second look. I saw it too and walked by, and then backed up to get another look. The price was so very reasonable….and it was screaming to me that it needed me!! Paid, loaded, and we are on our way home! Hubby helps to unload it and you can imagine his look of surprise. "Well, what do we have here?", he asks. I explained to him my vision of creating a bookshelf and the beauty it would be. It was all on me.
So, after a good wiping down and the first coat of Kilz ™, it was now more baby blue than purple. Two more coats of Kilz ™ and we were ready to paint the final color, but first….a few things were needed.
In comes the hubby's part.
The once very purple shelving unit needed a middle shelf and a backing to create the bookshelf I had envisioned. We had some beadboard leftover that would work great, but not with the "lines." So what do you do to make it work? Easy, just turn it over and use the backside of the beadboard. Shelving installed, back installed and 2 coats of Vintage White applied. We now had a bookshelf.
Love our pneumatic Bostitch nailer! It made quick work of installing extra shelves and backing. Vintage White Paint mixed with Chalky Powder made for great additional coverage and a look that made you stop in your tracks. Don't you agree?
I decorated for Fall that year; contemplating whether the possession of this great bookshelf should stay with me. It did not; it went to a great home and we had another satisfied Alden Design Studio client.
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I see open shelving, I see an off-white color, I see a new life for this old cabinet.
I see a beautiful coffee bar!
It is amazing what will fit in the "boot" of my SUV. Yes, many years ago I was introduced to the word "boot" instead of trunk (or in this case, liftgate), as the "boot." So, into the boot of my SUV went this wonderful little treasure that I came upon in October 2016! I was so lucky to find this one, and I knew it!
This old cabinet needed a good cleaning, but all-in-all was not in bad shape. The drawers needed a little "shelving rails" that my local home improvement store was very happy to provide, and I had to learn how to install them (explanation – had the hubby install because this was just not "clicking" in my head).
Rails complete – oh yeah!
Taking things apart is one of my favorite things to do; however, re-assembly, not-so-much. I was very excited that these doors would not be returning to this piece!! After removal, we decided to block cut the bottom apron. So glad the hubby loves me and loves to cut with that circular saw. I must admit, I am a bit apprehensive of that saw. I give him plenty of room when he starts with that saw. While waiting for the cut, my wheels were "a-spinning" for the color combination. I found myself wanting a deep dark stain color on the top and an off-white base. So, I went over the piece with my palm sander (that I absolutely love) from my local home improvement store and had my mahogany gel stain ready.
A quick order from Amazon for the cup pulls and a quick trip to the Hobby Lobby on a mission for "dark" colored baskets and Viola-I had a coffee bar! Sometimes I find myself buying baskets just in case I need for a project. In this case, I "had" to find these for this piece.
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If you like this repurposing project, be sure to check out our bookshelf from shelving unit post here.
Also, check out our progress as we remodel our 42-year old home! Feel free to follow us on Facebook where we show more of our finished pieces.
Author designstudioPosted on August 1, 2018 October 16, 2018 Categories Cabinet, furniture, paintingTags cabinet, coffee bar, paintingLeave a comment on Cabinet to Coffee Bar In No Time At All!
Wine Bar – Why Yes Please!
My husband would say, "My wife gets me in more stuff," and he would be correct. So in the Fall of 2016, when a co-worker messages me to check out an old hutch that she is getting rid of, we are "there"! No matter that it is a good 35 minutes away, no matter that it is an old hutch. Nope – not even a consideration (in my mind). So, off we go in the truck (love that truck) to see that "hutch." We arrive and the hutch is not in plain view, as you would think a hutch would be. We found it in the most interesting place- in a bedroom closet. Love that part!!
3) hurting me or the hubby!
Success!! The hutch is out and coming home with us!
It is totally curvy like an older hutch would be, and we have an idea for its final look. It will be a Wine Bar!! Yep – Can you see it?
First things first, off with the "cupboard" top by taking that wonderful saw to it and, of course, saving the cupboard part because you just never know when you will need it! We removed the curvy apron on this piece and decided to try a new look for the doors.
Inside our local home improvement store is an item called a "furnace" screen. Basically, it is a sheet of metal with a decorative pattern. Honestly, we had never ever noticed this before and just happened to be standing right beside the end cap one day and looked up.
Yep, the inserts to the bottom doors will be set with the furnace screen, and the hubby did a great job cutting this out and inserting the grate.
Next, a quick wood fill in the drawer holes and a relocation of silver cup pulls with a smooth look of gray paint to work with the silver in the furnace screen and pulls and wow!
Lastly, we added a wine bottle holder inside. Now it's ready for a new place that is not in a closet! We must show off the new look you know!
If you like this repurposing project, be sure to check out our coffee bar created from an old cabinet!
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Framed Mirror-Simple to Impressive in Under $40!!
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall….Less than $35.00 in it and love it!
I had a vision, and I had the paint. I only needed the understanding and the construction from the hubby on this piece. We see these mirrors in our local stores for less than $10.00. They are great on the back of a closet door or somewhere out of the way to do that "check" of the fit of your clothes before you walk out into the world. This one, however, was going to be a little different. A framed mirror.
We decided to do a larger wood frame and wood backing on this mirror to make it a stand-up mirror. You've seen the shows on TV where they have a standing wood frame mirror there to make the room look larger right? Well, that's what we (meaning me) were going to do.
Joining corners with a 45-degree angle is NOT my "bag" or understanding or willingness…just throwing that out there. I just stood by ready to inspect and paint while the hubby did his work to make it ready for me to paint. There is so much simplicity to this piece and yet, angles trip some of us up (yeah, me).
I finished my part by painting it in a Moosehide Brown Chalky Paint, and it was ready to go to a new home…or so I thought. At most, we had $25 in materials and about $10 for the mirror. However the more I looked at this framed mirror, the more I just loved it. We do so many other projects, and yet, I was totally smitten by this piece. And then this also happened…I go into our local hobby store, and I see a framed mirror (same height and just a tad wider) in a not-real-wood frame for $169.99.
Wait, what? A wood framed mirror with a price tag like this attached? I was shocked.
It was at that moment, I decided this mirror would stay with us; I'm good with that.
Have you ever completed a simple project that just "wowed" you? This one sure did me.
If you liked this home decor makeover, you might also like our bookshelf creation.
Author designstudioPosted on August 1, 2018 October 16, 2018 Categories furniture, Home decor, WoodLeave a comment on Framed Mirror-Simple to Impressive in Under $40!!


In a nationwide survey of more than 2,500 adults, 21% reported having personally experienced a medical error that often resulted in lasting impact on the patient's physical or emotional health, financial well-being, or family relationships.
WBB Take: Medical error is arguably the third leading cause of death in the U.S., trailing only heart disease and cancer (see BMJ figure). One of the primary obstacles is a lack of focus on measuring medical error as a distinct cause of death, and reporting on it in the same way that other causes are reported.
At present, surveillance of medical error as a distinct cause of death is only researched and reported episodically, and "Medical Error" in not a category in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) reports. Until the standard reporting identifies medical error as a distinct cause of death, public awareness and routine surveillance will remain muted.
* Nearly half of those who perceived that an error had occurred brought it to the attention of medical personnel or other staff at the health care facility.
* Most respondents believe that, while health care providers are chiefly responsible for patient safety, patients and their families also have a role to play.


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Totally original transformation of a 19th century Spanish palace, with early Roman remains, into a hot, new boutique hotel experience.
Valencia, Spain, has just debuted its first hotel within an historic landmark. This is the Caro Hotel, or the Palacio Marques de Caro, named after the former Marquis who resided within the palace walls. The building is quite unique in that it incorporates Roman remains, medieval defenses, and other historic elements that predate this predominantly 19th century structure. This provides quite an architectural opportunity, and as such, makes for a great new hotel.
This wealth of construction history provided quite a challenge for the hotel design team. The objective was to create a dynamic, contemporary, boutique hotel while incorporating, in fact celebrating, the palace's unique attributes. The surviving historic elements of the building were carefully restored. This included a Roman tile mosaic dating to the 2nd century BC, 13th century defensive stone walls, several dressed stone arches, and the later 19th century palace. A clean, contemporary look was given to the interiors by the creative minds of Frances Rife Studio. The straight lines and plain surfaces of new walls, furnishings and decorative accessories, highlight the deep textures and warmth of the stone walls and other extant artifacts. The lighting design further enhances these qualities.
The Caro Hotel offers only 26 rooms each furnished in crisp, clean, modern fashion. Original structural elements, such as timber roof framing, have been preserved and exposed, adding to the guest experience. Hotel amenities include 24-hour room service and Meta Bar, the hotel's hip bar/lounge with free Wi-Fi. The restaurant, Alma Del Temple, integrates large sections of stone wall remains that creatively serve as room dividers or privacy screens. Event services are provided for small groups in the public spaces.
Valencia, a city steeped in history, is recognized as a Unesco World Heritage Center. The Caro Hotel is ideally situated in Valencia's Historic District and is within walking distance of monuments such as the Valencia Cathedral.
A great example of our love for contemporary Spanish design in which the 21st century interiors actually honor, in fact feature, the building's unique history.


As a professor, I am constantly pushing students to do a better job in writing essays. This is because the skills needed to write good essays (clear language, analytical precision, logical structure) are skills that will serve them in many other contexts, work and non-work, written and verbal, friendly and professional.
I am therefore very sad to see a plague of "pay-for-paper" services [pdf] that allow students to buy essays written by "professionals." These services are extremely good at meeting "needs" (see Figure -- click to enlarge -- and be sure to read what they say on plagiarism), but they are also a total rip off... not just for society, but for students.
These services criminal dubious enterprises* are a rip off for society because they undermine the learning process, giving students the false assurance that they are qualified for the job, degree or grade that they do not actually deserve (and probably should not pursue; they should aim lower, for success).
They are a rip off for the student because their quality -- despite the hand picked "testimonials" on the websites -- is often crap, meaning that the students are paying good money for bad grades (or good grades that are not detected as ghosted).
Bottom line: Essay mills might make some money for under-employed writers in developing countries, but they undermine education for students and society, just as bike theft gives jobs to thieves while undermining security for bike owners and society. Just say no I'm trying to learn, so maybe I should write my own essay.
* Read this defense from one essay mill: "students need help!" whereas this professor sees essay mills as a response to "rot" in higher education.


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The Giants announced this afternoon they have terminated the contract of wide receiver/return specialist Dwayne Harris in the second significant transaction of the day. Earlier in the day, the Giants traded defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a third round draft choice. The teams also swapped fourth-round draft picks.
Harris and JPP join Justin Pugh, Weston Richburg, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Brad Wing, and Devon Kennard as players who recently made significant contributions to the Giants, but are no longer with the team.
Harris joined the Giants as a free agent on March 11, 2015. In three seasons with the team, Harris had 37 receptions for 409 yards (11.1-yard avg.). He had all but one of those catches in 2015. Harris also returned 53 kickoffs for a 25.5-yard average. That places him fifth on the franchise's career list (minimum 40 returns), behind Rocky Thompson (27.2), Joe Scott (27.2), David Wilson (26.6) and Emlen Tunnell (26.4). Harris also had 70 punt returns for an 8.0-yard average.
In 2017, Harris played only in the season's first five games. He suffered a fractured foot on Oct. 8 vs. the Chargers (the same game in which fellow receivers Odell Beckham, Jr., Brandon Marshall and Sterling Shepard were injured). Harris underwent surgery and joined Beckham and Marshall on injured reserve.
For the first time since his 2011 rookie season in Dallas, Harris did not have a reception. He did have a 20.9-yard average on nine kickoff returns and a 6.9-yard average on seven punt returns. In the game in which he was injured, Harris had season-long returns of 30 yards on a kickoff and 17 yards on a punt.
In 2016, Harris played in all 16 games with one start. He was selected to his first Pro Bowl as a special teamer. He caught just one pass, but made the most of it, scoring a touchdown on a 13-yard throw from Eli Manning at Cleveland on Nov. 27. Harris led the Giants in kickoff and punt returns for the second straight season. He finished fifth in the NFL with a 24.2-yard average on 22 kickoff returns, and averaged 5.9 yards on 29 punt returns.
In his first season with the Giants in 2015, Harris played in 15 games with six starts and recorded a career-high 36 receptions (three more than he had in his first four seasons combined) for 396 yards and four touchdowns, which were also career-highs. He finished third in the NFL with a 28.7-yard average on 22 kickoff returns, including a 100-yard runback for a touchdown vs. Dallas on Oct. 25. That was the fourth-highest average in Giants history among qualifiers for the league title. Harris also finished seventh in the NFL with a 10.0-yard average on 34 punt returns, including an 80-yard touchdown vs. the Jets. That was the fifth-highest average in Giants history.
Harris was just the third player in Giants history with kickoff and punt return touchdowns in the same season, and the first to do it in 60 years. In 1951, Pro Football Hall of Famer Emlen Tunnell scored on an 81-yard punt return vs. the Chicago Cardinals on Oct. 14 and a 100-yard kickoff return vs. the New York Yanks on Nov. 4. In 1955, Jimmy Patton scored on a 98-yard kickoff return and a 69-yard punt return, both against Washington on Oct. 30. Patton, of course, is the only player in Giants history with kickoff and punt return touchdowns in the same game.
Harris is the only player in Giants history to score on a punt return, kickoff return and a reception in the same season.
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The Florida box turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri) is a subspecies of turtle belonging to the family Emydidae and is one of six extant  subspecies of the common box turtle (T. carolina)

Etymology
The subspecific name, bauri, is in honor of German herpetologist Georg Baur.

Geographic range
Of the four subspecies of the common box turtle, the Florida box turtle has the southernmost range. It is endemic to the U.S. state of Florida and the extreme southeastern portion of Georgia. Its distribution is widespread throughout Florida's mainland and has also been observed in the Florida Keys and the barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida's western coast.

Habitat
The Florida box turtle can be found in damp environments such as wetlands, marshlands, and near swamps but usually does not enter water deep enough to swim. It is often found in the flatwoods, upland, and mesophytic hammock but is generally absent in the high pine. Within these habitats, juveniles prefer areas that contain dense cover, high amounts of leaf litter, and moist soil. Adults are more flexible in their habitat requirements and have been observed in more open areas.

Temperature
Daytime air temperature:  70 - 90 °F (21 - 32 °C)
Basking temperature:  85 - 95 °F (29 - 35 °C)
Humidity:  70 - 90%

Description

Like other box turtles, the Florida box turtle has a narrow and highly domed shell with a hinged plastron that allows it to close its shell tightly. However, the Florida box turtle is different in appearance from the other subspecies of Terrapene carolina. Its carapace has a distinct pattern of yellow stripes that make it easily identifiable. The coloring of the plastron can vary anywhere from solid yellow to solid black, with any number of variations in between. This turtle has sharp claws as well as a sharp beak used for catching small insects and eating fruits, vegetables, and fungi.

The Florida box turtle exhibits significant sexual dimorphism. On average, males are larger (length and width) than females. The carapace length of females ranges from 12.1 - 15.8 cm while the average male carapace can be anywhere from 12.8 - 17.3 cm long. However, female carapaces tend to be taller than those of males. This is most likely to allow more space to accommodate eggs inside the body cavity.

Behavior

Like many other box turtle species, the Florida box turtle spends an extreme majority of its life (80-90%) buried in the underbrush or underground, and their activity varies significantly at different times of the year. During the dry, cool parts of the year (November - February) they enter a dormant stage and are inactive and difficult to find. They exhibit higher levels of activity during the warm, wet months (April - October). However, unlike other species of box turtle, the Florida box turtle does not actually enter a complete state of brumation during this time of year. This is most likely due to the warm and stable temperatures throughout its Florida range. As a result, it exhibits longer annual activity than other box turtle species. It is less tolerant to colder conditions than other common box turtle subspecies.

Feeding
The Florida box turtle is a generalist omnivore with a diet similar to other box turtle subspecies. Its most common food sources include gastropod species and fleshy, low-hanging fruits. They also consume leafy vegetation (shrubs, herb, grasses, etc.), insects, crustaceans, and fungi. They have even been observed feeding on carrion and garbage.

Seed dispersal
The Florida box turtle contributes to the seed dispersal of various plants throughout its range. The vast majority of these plants contain fruit (Annona glabra, Brysonima lucida, Coccoloba uvifera, Cocothrinax argentata, Ficus sp., Morinda royoc, Manilkara zapoda, Psidium longipes, Serenoa repens, Smilax havenensis, Thrinax morrissii) while others might not (Paspalum spp., Fabaceae).

Reproduction and life cycle

The Florida box turtle reaches sexual maturity around 12–13 years of age. While some species can produce only one clutch in a breeding season, the Florida box turtle has been observed laying as many as four separate clutches in a single year. The egg laying season occurs in the Spring and generally lasts from April to early June. On average, each clutch can contain 1 - 9 eggs that range in size from 35×19 mm to 38.5×21 mm. Its eggs tend to be slightly larger than those of other T. carolina subspecies. Researchers have observed a positive relationship between female carapace length and clutch size, with larger females possessing the ability to produce more eggs. Incubation of the eggs lasts an average of 60 days but can last anywhere from 45 – 120 days. Different environmental factors may influence the reproductive success of the Florida box turtle. Years with higher levels of precipitation may positively influence reproductive success, resulting in a higher number of hatchlings when compared with drier years. Research also points toward a positive correlation between latitude and clutch size in box turtles, with larger clutch sizes being found in higher latitudes. The incubation temperature of a clutch has been observed to influence the sex ratio of the hatchlings. Warm incubation temperatures tend to produce more females, while cooler temperatures result in more males.

Its growth patterns are similar to other species of box turtles. Juvenile turtles have shorter and wider scutes and carapaces when compared to adults, but these lengthen as the individual grows. Growth rates are rapid in juveniles, slow down significantly following sexual maturity, and eventually level off completely a few years later (around 16 and 17 years in females and males respectively). Despite having higher activity levels, the Florida box turtle has a slower annual growth rate than other box turtle species.

Threats and conservation
Like other subspecies of T. carolina, the Florida box turtles is listed on the IUCN red list as a vulnerable species. Wild populations are at risk due to predation of eggs and juveniles (raccoons, possums, foxes, birds), habitat loss and modification, car strikes, pesticides, pollution, and collection for the pet trade and turtle racing.

Wildfires
Seasonal fire regimes in Florida represent a significant source of mortality for box turtles, with burns having the potential to kill off nearly half of a population. However, the mortality rate of turtles is lower during dry season burns as opposed to wet season burns. This is potentially due to its inactivity and its tendency to spend more time underground during the dry season.

As pets
Florida box turtles can be kept as pets. They are omnivores and feed on a huge variety of food in the wild. In captivity, they are especially fond of live food such as earthworms, crickets, locusts, snails, wax worms (as a treat because of their high fat content), superworms (Zophobas morio), and baby mice. In addition to this large variety of live foods, you can offer chopped fruits and vegetables. Finely grated dark green veggies such as lettuces and kale, and fruits such as melons, berries and cantaloupe are also accepted (though not eagerly) once or twice a week.

By law, in their home state, no person may possess more than two of these turtles. People may be prosecuted by fine and removal of the animals if they own three or more without a reptile permit. This subspecies is found only in Florida, and is also protected in many other areas. Many pet stores offer hatchlings as pets, which are usually healthier than the box turtles from the wild.

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Further reading
Powell R, Conant R, Collins JT (2016). Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. xiv + 494 pp. . (Terrapene bauri, pp. 220–221 + Plates 18, 21).
Smith, Hobart M.; Brodie, Edmund D., Jr. (1982). Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp.  (paperback);  (hardcover). (Terrapene carolina bauri, pp. 46–47).

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The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, has often been seen as a 'last frontier'. Rugged, wild and resource-rich, the island holds one of the world's largest and most intact tropical rainforests, which is a 'hot-spot' for a wide range of unique and threatened flora and fauna. Its indigenous communities are famously diverse, too, with over 800 languages spoken and a number of cultures that are still relatively untouched by globalization.
Compared to the rest of Indonesia, the Papua region has little infrastructure and high levels of poverty: currently, 53 percent of the population don't have access to electricity, and over a quarter of residents live below the poverty line – more than twice the national average of 10.7 percent.
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The Papua Atlas comes on the heels of a similar tool – the Borneo Atlas – which the team designed for tracking deforestation on that island. But the Papua version boasts extra layers that track road expansion and mine development. According to CIFOR associate and project lead David Gaveau, these layers allow users "to verify, for example, the extent to which development projects like the Trans-Papua highway are impacting forest cover." Public roads have expanded rapidly after 2010 in Papua province.
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Time series (2001–2018) data for main public roads expansion. Documents the annual expansion (in kilometers) of national and provincial roads (including Trans-Papua Highway) in Indonesian New Guinea (a), Papua (b) and West Papua (c) provinces.
Given the area's remoteness, geography and limited local capacity for geospatial analysis, the tool also provides an accessible means for local authorities "to find out the extent to which roads and other infrastructures have actually progressed," says Mohammad Agus Salim, Atlas developer.
"They can now verify: did the roads that we've paid for get built? They can look at how the landscape has changed: how many roads have been added in the last 18 years – or just last year – connecting which cities, and so on." For example, the Atlas reveals that public roads have expanded rapidly between 2011 and 2016.
"So it's a tool, beyond conservation, for spatial planning by local authorities," he says.
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But conservation still remains a central concern of the project – and a hot topic in Papua, where old-growth forests are under threat from oil palm plantation expansion, mining and road expansion. Using the atlas, it's easy to see how annual forest loss in the region grew steadily from 2001 onward, with a concerning spike in 2015-16 of 103,000 hectares and 80,000 hectares lost, respectively. Meanwhile, the area occupied by industrial plantations – mostly oil palm – has more than quintupled from 50,000 ha in 2000 to 272,000 in 2018. Oil palm driven deforestation is not the sole cause of forest area loss, says Gaveau. It accounts for 30 percent of total losses between 2001 to 2018. Small-scale agricultural expansion, logging, roads and urban expansion, forest fires, and mining also play a role. "Through our time-lapse visualisations," says Gaveau, "we also uncovered a little-known natural driver of forest loss: the movement of surface water. Expanding lakes, rivers changing course, overflows and surface run-offs cause significant forest loss." The authors will expand on drivers of forest loss in a forthcoming publication.
Aerial view of old-growth forest growing on dry mineral soils in West Papua Ulet Ifansasti/Greenpeace
Hearteningly, the rate of forest loss (and roads expansion) has dropped markedly since 2016, with 2017 and 2018 both tracking much lower rates. According to Gaveau, this is likely due to policies to reduce deforestation and prevent forest fires (such as the 2018 moratorium on oil palm plantation expansion), coupled with a drop in the price of crude palm oil, and international restrictions from emerging no-deforestation markets.
Time-series (2001-2018) of Papua and West Papua's land cover change. Documents the annual loss of forest area (a,b,c) and the concomitant annual expansion (d,e,f) of industrial plantations of oil palm and pulpwood (mainly fast-growing Acacia). The black bars in (d,e,f) represent the forested areas cleared and converted to industrial plantations in the same year (or company-driven deforestation)
However, Salim points out, forest loss is still higher than pre-2011 levels. "Expansion still continues," he says, "and this platform enables you to quickly detect the companies that continue to clear in 2018 and in 2019."
"As a monitoring tool, this atlas is very useful," says Sasmita Nugroho of the Directorate of Prevention of Impacts of Environment and Sector Policy. "It can help detect [incidents] quickly, before further steps can be taken. This is a very reliable support tool to add to our existing official system."
As the region gears up for significant transition, the developers hope that the Atlas will help government, civil society and consumers across the globe to hold would-be developers to the highest of environmental and social standards as they engage with this precious forested frontier.
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== Cleaning larvae that are to be shared with others == Given that hookworms shed a layer of skin before entering a host, it is very unlikely that hookworms would transmit infectious organisms to a host, and a literature search yielded no record of pathogen transmission between hookworm and host. [https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/images/e/e4/Hookworm.pdf] However, the possibility of pathogen transmission between hookworm hosts as a result of inoculation by one individual with larvae grown from the faeces of another has not been ruled out unequivocally. This is why the commercial providers of NA periodically test their reservoir donors for a range of communicable diseases such as HIV and hepatitis, always use an antimicrobial wash to clean the larvae they supply, and then ship them in a weak antibiotic solution. These precautionary measures are as far as the hookworm providers can go to obviate the risk of pathogen transmission, given that helminths are living organisms, and would be killed by any attempt to completely sterilise them. Hookworm larvae do not need to be cleaned if they have been grown at home for use by the same individual who provided the stool sample for their incubation. However, if that individual wishes to share the larvae they have grown, these can be cleaned using one of the following methods. '''Bleach treatment''' Collect the brown water from the bottom of the container used for incubation and leave this in a champagne glass for 24 hours. Then add one or two drops of bleach to one litre of water and use some of the resulting bleach solution to almost fill a second champagne glass. The next day, use a pipette to carefully draw up the worms that have settled to the bottom of the champagne glass containing the brown water. Avoid squeezing the pipette once it is in the water because this would create bubbles that would disturb any sediment and distribute the larvae. Instead, slightly squeeze the bulb of the pipette before it enters the water, and hold this position carefully until the pipette reaches the bottom of the glass, where it can be gently released to collect the larvae. Then add the larvae collected to the bleach solution in the second champagne glass. Leave the larvae in the bleach solution for a further 24 hours. The following day, use a pipette to draw up the larvae from the bottom of the bleach solution and transfer them to a microscope slide for counting in preparation for inoculation, or add them to an eppendorf tube containing fresh water (distilled, filtered or bottled water, or dechlorinated tap water) for supply to someone else. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/678894952216125/permalink/3644376115667979/?comment_id=3653994954706095&reply_comment_id=3660985507340373] '''Iodine treatment''' Add one drop of commercially available 5% Lugol's iodine to 5 ml of water (distilled, filtered or bottled water, or dechlorinated tap water) to create a 0.02% iodine solution. Then add 1 ml of this solution to 1 ml of water containing the larvae to be cleaned. After the larvae have spent 20 minutes in this solution, the iodine should be neutralised by adding a pinch of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) powder to the solution. Neutralisation of the iodine is confirmed when sufficient ascorbic acid has been sprinkled into the water to make this completely clear. Larvae that have been cleaned by any method will have a shorter shelf life than those that have not been cleaned. == The problem with clinical trials == Many independent lines of evidence, including epidemiologic studies, clinical observations and investigations using animal models, have pointed to the idea that humans need exposure to helminths in order to enjoy optimal immune function, and the many hundreds of reports by self-treaters featured elsewhere in this wiki attest to the therapeutic benefits of reworming. The fact that these benefits have not been confirmed by the majority of clinical trials is due to a number of factors. {{Quote|indent}}Unfortunately, for a variety of economic, regulatory, and practical issues surrounding the conduct of clinical trials, main stream trials have thus far been unable to accommodate the nuances of helminth therapy. Foremost among the issues that clinical trials must address before they can effectively test the potential for helminth therapy are (a) details in formulation of the helminth product that affect efficacy, and (b) the very wide range of doses typically needed within a cohort of individuals. [https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/images/9/94/Socio-medical_studies_of_individuals_self-treating_with_helminths_suggest_that_most_clinical_trials_assessing_helminth_therapy_may_be_designed_to_fail.pdf]{{Quote|/indent}} === Trials of pig whipworm ova (TSO) === The first helminth to be systematically investigated by researchers was TSO, the ova of the pig whipworm, Trichuris suis, and results from early trials of TSO carried out in the first few years of the 21st century were very encouraging. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14499784/] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15591509/] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15825065/] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21372112/] But a raft of twelve trials carried out by a different research team between 2008 and 2017, to investigate the effect of TSO in five different diseases, produced such universally lacklustre results that all but three of them were discontinued prematurely. [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00645749] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25698173/] [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01040221] [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01279577] [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01413243] [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01433471] [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01836939] [https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01948271] [https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01953354] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27707789/] [https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02140112] [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33572978/] The researchers involved in this unprecedented project made two critical errors in their study design, the first of which was to use a trial length of only 12 weeks. While this is the standard trial period used in pharmaceutical research, it is not appropriate for studies of live helminths, which only begin to produce consistent effects after 12 weeks, and, in some cases may produce no indication of benefit whatsoever during the first two years. [https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/index.php/Hookworm_dosing_and_response#Consistent_improvement_can_begin_anytime_from_3_to_24_months] Arguably the most critical mistake was to insist on the use of a novel TSO formulation with a pH of 5.0, even though the investigators were advised against this by the product's manufacturer, who knew from his own product development work that TSO is most effective when formulated with a pH of 2.4, which was the formulation used in the earlier, more successful trials. Other significant errors in the design of these trials included the use of a single dose size for all participants, when it is known that the helminth dosage requirements of individuals can vary by as much as a factor of 10, and poor subject selection, which is revealed by the high rate of improvement in the placebo group in some cases. With so few clinical trials of helminthic therapy having been carried out previously, the sheer number of these "failed" studies overwhelmed the existing helminthic therapy research base to deliver a body blow to the therapy's reputation. Other researchers began referencing these trials in support of assertions that TSO is ineffective. For example, four of these trials were included in a meta-analysis of six studies which concluded that TSO therapy showed no statistical benefit for IBD patients. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30142867/] Apart from the issues with the product's pH, only one of the trials reviewed in this analysis had lasted for longer than 12 weeks, and the remit of that particular study was only to assess the safety and tolerability (not efficacy) of a '''''single''''' dose of TSO. This glut of poorly designed trials, and consequently flawed meta-analyses, by researchers who clearly had not fully understood the therapy they were investigating, also appears to have dissuaded other researchers from investigating helminthic therapy. This may explain why, after increasing steadily for around 50 years, the annual number of published papers in which "helminthic therapy" is mentioned plateaued from 2014 onwards. (Data from [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov PubMed].) === Trials of the human hookworm (NA) === TSO is not the only living helminth to have failed to reveal its true colours when tested using methods developed to assess the performance of pharmaceutical products. In 2007, Correale and Farez had revealed that patients with multiple sclerosis who were hosting helminths experienced a reduced number of disease exacerbations compared with patients who were helminth-free. [https://helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/images/e/ec/Association_Between_Parasite_Infection_and_Immune_Responses_in_Multiple_Sclerosis_.pdf] However, when researchers at Nottingham University published the results for a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled trial in which patients with RRMS were colonised by hookworms [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32539079/] they reported that the statistical endpoint determined for the trial had not been reached, so concluded this helminth appeared to be ineffective against RRMS. Yet closer examination of the data revealed that more than half the patients given hookworms had not developed any new lesions. [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200618150223.htm] And socio-medical research has shown that NA is extremely effective at treating MS, with a success rate of approximately 50% for the progressive form of the disease and more than 90% for relapsing-remitting MS. [http://www.yourwildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/galley-proof-v2.pdf] === Self-treaters provide the most reliable data === Unless the scientists conducting trials to assess the effects of hosting living helminths cease treating these organisms as pharmaceutical products and take into account the unique and dynamic nature of each individual helminth/host relationship when designing formal studies, clinical trials will continue to fail to demonstrate the benefits offered by reworming. 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RCMP have released details about a tragic incident near Canal Flats on Thursday, where a man is presumed drowned after attempting to rescue his dog from the Kootenay River.
Search and Rescue crews and RCMP officially called off the search after multiple attempts to find and locate the 43-year-old man from Edmonton, AB.
The victim was reportedly walking around a sand bar in the river when his dog became caught up in the river's current when it attempted to swim over to him, said Cpl. Jesse O'Donaghey, spokesperson for the BC RCMP Southeast District. The victim tried to reach his dog, when he suddenly lost his footing, fell into the water and failed to resurface. The family's dog survived and managed to swim back to shore.
RCMP said they first got reports of the incident on Thursday, July 30th, just before 3:30 pm. Police said the man was recreating with his family in the Canal Flats area when the tragic incident unfolded.
Search and Rescue crews were immediately called to support a search for the man, while an aerial search was also conducted along the river banks by both the RCMP Police Dog Service and Search and Rescue technicians.
The search was resumed Friday by both the RCMP Underwater Recovery Team and RCMP divers, while Search and Rescue continued their efforts.
"All possible efforts to safely locate and rescue the 43-year-old Edmonton man, have been exhausted," said RCMP. "The difficult decision to suspend the search has been made in consultation with Search and Rescue experts, swift water rescue technicians and RCMP divers."
Water levels will continue to be monitored periodically, while shoreline and aerial searches will continue as conditions permit in hopes of locating the man's body.
I'm extremely grateful to all the agencies and local residents who supported our search efforts, including Columbia Valley SAR, Kimberly SAR, the Cranbrook SAR search dog, the Canal Flats Fire Department, BC Emergency Health Services, Coldstream Helicopters and our very own RCMP Victim Services, said Sgt. Darren Kakuno, Detachment Commander of the Columbia Valley RCMP. Our search to date has involved twenty swift water SAR technicians, three jet boats, a police dog team, a SAR dog team, an unmanned aerial vehicle, underwater rovers and cameras, a helicopter and the RCMP's dive team. Local residents continued to drop off food and water for searchers, which was greatly appreciated.


Chances are that, in 2012, you've spent more time than you wished « checking your email ». Those days, going back to work after one week of vacations often means that you will spend the next two days dealing with your email backlog only. No wonder why people communicate more and more through Facebook or Twitter messages : email is now a daunting nightmare, something that reminds you everyday that you are swamped in a life you don't control anymore.
Let's take 2013 as an opportunity for a fresh start. I will give you a few rules to follow. Give it a try for one month. One full month and I promise you will start to love email again. Last year, I was receiving approximately between 40 and 80 emails a day. Keeping a neat inbox was taking me several hours each morning.
Inbox 0 is a well known method. Every mail should go out of your inbox as quickly as possible. After reading an email, you should archive it immediately if there is no action, answer it immediately if needed or create an action in your todo list and archive the email.
Lot of people tell me that they are doing the same with the read/unread status. This is not the same! Even if an email is read, it sits there, catching your attention, reminding your subconscious about something. So let's start now and move every single read email from your inbox in an Archive folder. Do it now!
The problem with inbox 0 is that it doesn't scale well. You simply can't do it with 100 mails a day, 25 folders, multiple accounts. That's why we need other rules.
Are you the guy with twelve different email inboxes? Seriously, what's the matter? You are one and only one person. You should have one and only one inbox. So, starting now, redirect all your addresses into one inbox.
The obvious exception is your work email. It is fine to separate well work and private life. But if, sometimes, you doubt about which address to give to someone, it doesn't mean that you have to create a third account. It means that you need to merge the existing ones.
That's it. No exception. Some people will have a hard time with that rule but it is the most mandatory one. You should not even have a sent folder. You only need the inbox and the archives. When you need to look for a given email, use the built-in search mechanism. Most mail solutions, like GMail, offer very good tagging features. Tagging is also present in Thunderbird and can be improved with extensions. The advantages of tags is that you don't have to tag an email to archive it. Or you can use multiple tags on the same email.
If you really insist on having folders, you will find yourself spending more time thinking about where to move a given email. And, when looking for that mail, you will have to go through ten potential recipient folders. Not to mention that you have to maintain your folder structure, to clean folder from finished projects, etc. Don't do folders. Just don't.
You will probably tell me that your folder structure is efficient. It is not. Take one month to try and you will see.
Deleting is, in fact, just another folder called Trash. Skip this and archive everything. Most email solutions allow you to define an Archive folder. Just do that. Let me repeat it again : inbox and archives are all you need.
If your space is limited, first consider changing to a true email provider. Simplifying your life is more important than following stupid rules. If you nevertheless hit the limit, go through your archives folder and order email by size. Select and delete the biggest one. Space is always consumed by a tiny fraction of emails with very large attachment. Delete them when you have a warning about the space left on your account. If the attachment was important, it should be elsewhere on your hard disk anyway. Email is not a storage platform.
A simple conversation about which restaurant to choose for the business lunch can contain tenth of emails. Forget about that and use the conversation mode. It's the default in GMail and is becoming available for most provider. There's a thunderbird extension too.
By handling conversations as a whole, you will have a feeling of less noise, less emails. Also, don't mind archiving something because you know that, in case of a new reply, the whole conversation will be seen. As soon as you answered to a conversation and don't have any action left, archive the whole conversation immediately.
It is astonishing how quickly we are subscribed to an insane amount of newsletters or mailing-lists. Unsubscribe from everything. As soon as you receive an email that you were not explicitly expecting, unsubscribe. Even if it is interesting. If you need it, you will always be able to find it later on the web. Even the mailing list of your pet project is not relevant anymore: you can always read the mailing list archives on the web when you want to be informed. The major difference is that you are never annoyed when you don't want it.
Do the same with bug trackers. Even if you find it interesting now, chances are that you will not be interested anymore in a couple of months. But you will still receive every single updates for years if you don't unsubscribe. For very interesting things, make a bookmark or use a service like Pocket and visit regularly until your interest fade away.
The rule is quite simple : as soon as you receive an email that you archive immediately, you should unsubscribe from that sender.
If the information is really important, the world will let you know, don't worry.
Yes. Every single notification. In hundred percent of the case, the notification is redundant with a built-in notification in the website. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Linkedin, they all have mail notifications enabled by default and it is very hard to disable them. Do it anyway. If you want to be informed, go to the website. If you forget to do it, it means that this website doesn't matter anyway.
Your inbox is a way to communicate with people, not a spaceship dashboard invaded by robots trying to get your attention. Don't worry, you will never miss something crucial.
You probably have a few contacts that send irrelevant emails to all of their contacts every once in a while. Ask them politely to not send them to you. Don't be aggressive, be polite and friendly. Say that you don't want to receive them anymore, implying that it was fine until now. Be honest and say that, those days, you receive too much emails. It works better than you think and apply also to that colleague putting you in CC: of every single mail he's sending.
Sometimes, you are in CC: of an email which becomes a huge conversation in which you have absolutely no interest. In GMail, there's a very nice feature called « Mute this conversation ». Use it as soon as a conversation you are not interested in grows is more than three emails.
Don't fear, just hit the button.
When everything else fails, mark the unwanted email as Spam. Spam filters are learning. If you do that a few times with a given kind of emails, those will be marked automatically as spam in the future. All benefit to your inbox.
In a corporate environment where marking some emails as spam is not an option, there's also the silver bullet: an automatic filter that immediately archive all emails where you are not in the To field. This one is very effective to remove the noise and the emails are still available in your archives.
Applying those rules strictly for one month led me to less than 10 emails per day on both my professional and personal inbox. Best, I didn't add the need for rule 11 and used rule 10 only a couple of time.
Also, I took the habit to immediately answer from my smartphone instead of waiting to be on my laptop to write a more in depth answer. A quick answer of a few words is often more useful than waiting. In only one month, the inbox 0 came from an every day fight to a normal state. Of course, some emails wait a couple of day that I take the time to answer them but it is manageable. I divided the time spent in my mailbox by ten and my typical response time came down from one week to a couple of hours.
You have to keep in mind that, since the rise of spam, missing an email is something acceptable those day. By applying those rules, you will in fact miss less important mails. In the worst case, you still have the excuse of « It was in my spam folder ».
But I agree that this requires a modern mail solution. Doing a good an efficient work requires good tools. A good mail client is just like a good chair, a good screen and a good keyboard. If your company still want to stay with, His Noodly Appendage forbid, Lotus Notes (cough), they just can't expect you to do any productive email work at all. You don't build a modern bridge with a century old hammer.


From his first steps after injury to climbing the "Rocky" steps, Parker Haller, 19, continues to inspire.
On July 27, 2012, Parker Haller, 19, of Woodbridge, Va., sustained a C-4 to -5 incomplete spinal cord injury when he leapt over an ocean wave off the Maryland coast and hit a sandbar head-first. Before two rods, eight screws and countless hours of physical therapy, the first doctors to examine Parker gave him a 4 percent chance of walking again.
Parker, though, is an odds-beater. Just take a look at the videos on his dad's YouTube channel. There's Parker, two years ago, standing unaided for three minutes. There he is, a year ago, walking with a cane for the first time. And then a couple months back, walking unassisted as part of a spinal cord injury research group at George Mason University.
They also show how far he's come. This past summer, to mark the three-year anniversary of his injury, Parker's dad recorded him climbing the 72 stone steps leading to the Philadelphia Museum of Art – better known as the "Rocky" steps from the Sylvester Stallone movie classic.
A month earlier, another video preserved an even more momentous moment. Parker had established graduation as a major goal – not just to graduate on time (which he did, with honors), but also to walk across the stage to receive his diploma. Mission accomplished.
This past fall, Parker started taking online college courses and hopes to attend college in person this spring. His career interests range from civil engineering to film criticism. Parker's stayed on the move, too. He's learning how to drive a car and competing in long-distance handcycle races.


Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a recently reported group of disorders characterized by fibrotic thickening of the pleural and subpleural parenchyma predominantly in the upper lobes. We report five Japanese cases fulfilling the criteria of IPPFE and address whether it should be considered a separate clinicopathologic entity. And this study was an attempt to identify features in common between IPPFE and previously described idiopathic upper lobe fibrosis (IPUF), allowing IPPFE to be considered as a distinct entity in our Japanese series.
Five consecutive cases of idiopathic interstitial lung disease confirmed as IPPFE by surgical lung biopsy were studied.
There were four males and one female, aged 70±2.76 yr. No associated disorder or presumed cause was found in any case. Lung function tests found a restrictive ventilatory defect (4/5) and/or impairment of DLco (4/5). Chest X-ray showed marked apical pleural thickening in all cases. Computed tomography of the chest in all cases mainly showed intense pleural thickening and volume loss associated with evidence of fibrosis, predominantly in the upper lobes. In all cases in this study, markedly thickened visceral pleura and prominent subpleural fibrosis characterized by both elastic tissue and dense collagen were clearly shown. All cases were alive at the last follow-up, 17.6±13.59 months after diagnosis; however, all had deteriorated both clinically and radiologically.
IPPFE deserves to be defined as a separate, original clinicopathologic entity owing to its uniformity and IPPFE has some features in common with previously described idiopathic upper lobe fibrosis (IPUF). Our limited experience with a cohort of 5 subjects suggests that IPPFE can be rapidly progressive.
Idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (IPPFE) is a recently reported rare disorder characterized by fibrotic thickening of the pleural and subpleural parenchyma predominantly in the upper lobes ; as such IPPFE is distinct from other types of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia . Since 1992 several reports of upper lobe-predominant pulmonary fibrosis (Idiopathic upper lobe fibrosis/IPUF) have been reported in the Japanese literature [3–9] and some of these cases share features with IPPFE. Herein we report five Japanese cases of IPPFE, and describe the clinical, radiologic and evolutionary profile of IPPFE in a retrospective series in order to determine if IPPFE represents a separate clinicopathologic entity and to clarify its relationship with IPUF.
The subjects included 5 patients fulfilling criteria IPPFE diagnosed by surgical lung biopsy  (SLB) from May 2009 to Sep 2011 at Hamamatsu University Hospital and affiliated hospitals in Japan. Lung biopsies were performed by video-assisted thoracoscopy, and specimens were obtained from 2 or more lobes in every case. We used the pathological criteria for the diagnosis of IPPFE as follows: (1) intense fibrosis of the visceral pleura; (2) prominent, homogenous, subpleural fibroelastosis; (3) sparing of the parenchyma distant from the pleura; (4) mild, patchy lymphoplasmocytic infiltrates; and (5) small numbers of fibroblastic foci present. All of our reported cases met all of the criteria. This criteria is based on the paper by Frankel et al. . Surgical lung specimens were also reviewed by an expert pulmonary pathologist (T.V.C.). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hamamatsu University School of Medicine. Clinical data were obtained from case medical records. Laboratory findings and pulmonary function test results at the time of SLB were also recorded.
Table 1 shows the clinical characteristics and laboratory data. All patients were more than 60 years of age. There were no current smokers, and only one patient was an ex-smoker. Four out of five were classified as underweight by body mass index (BMI). The main presenting symptom was dyspnea. There was no significant family or occupational history. Case 1 had a history of gingival cancer, and had chemotherapy. Mild lymphocytosis was found on BAL in one case. Examination and cultures of lung tissue for bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses were negative in all cases. KL-6 was elevated in two cases and normal in three. Interestingly, the level of SP-D was higher than the normal range in all the cases.
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index, BAL, broncho-alveolar lavage, KL-6, Sialylated carbohydrate antigen KL-6, Sp-D, Surfactant Protein D, RF , rheumatoid factor, ANA, antinuclear antibody.
All cases underwent a spirometry test and measurement of total lung capacity (TLC). A restrictive ventilatory defect defined by %FVC < 80% was found in 4 cases. In addition, four cases had impairment of DLco (Table 2).
Abbreviations: TLC, Total lung capacity, FVC, Forced vital capacity, FEV, Forced expiratory volume, FRC, Functional residual capacity, RV Residual volume, DLco, Diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide, DLco/VA, Diffusing capacity divided by the alveolar volume.
Chest radiographs in all cases showed marked apical pleural thickening and superior hilar retraction (Figure 1). Right lung is predominantly affected in case 2, 3, and 5, left lung in case 4. High-resolution CT (HRCT) showed intense pleural thickening associated with evidence of fibrosis. In Case 1 and 2, upper lobe volume loss, architectural distortion and traction bronchiectasis were also prominent.
Chest X-ray and Chest CT. Chest radiographs in all cases showed marked apical pleural thickening. High-resolution CT (HRCT) showed upper lobe volume loss, architectural distortion, traction bronchiectasis, and reticular abnormalities. There was no honeycombing.
In all cases in this study, the histopathological findings fitted those previously described for IPPFE. Markedly thickened visceral pleura and prominent subpleural fibrosis characterized by both elastic tissue and dense collagen were clearly shown (Figures 2a, b and 3a, b). The border between the fibroelastosis and the underlying normal lung parenchyma was abrupt, and the parenchyma distant from the pleura was spared (Figure 2a). Fibroblastic foci were rarely noted at the leading edge of the fibrosis. Inflammation was variable and primarily consisted of small aggregates of lymphocytes. Asbestos bodies were absent.
Histopathological Findings (hematoxylin-eosin). Surgical lung biopsy specimen at low power (a:case 1, b:case 5) and high power (a, inset) showed markedly thickened visceral pleura and prominent subpleural fibrosis characterized by abnormal increase of elastic tissue and dense collagen. Abrupt transition to normal parenchyma was also seen. Parenchyma distant from the pleura was spared.
Histopathological Findings (Elastic Van Gieson). Surgical lung biopsy specimen at low power (a) and high power (b) demonstrated an abundance of short, amorphous elastic fibers (Case 1).
All cases initially had no treatment. The mean duration of follow-up after the pathologic diagnosis was 12.1 months (range 4.4 - 22). The total duration of follow-up from the onset of the symptoms to the last follow-up was 45.2 months (range 7–83). All patients were alive at the last follow-up (Table 2), but all had disease progression according to clinical and lung function tests, especially in terms of %FVC (Figure 4).
Clinical Course of the cases. Case 1 radiologically deteriorated a year after diagnosis (a, b). Other cases present similar behavior. (c) Decrease in FVC was confirmed in all cases during the follow up. The median follow up was 12.1 (range 4.37-22.2) months.
It is clear that IPPFE is not a new pulmonary disease. As Reddy et al  reported, it has previously received other names, such as idiopathic upper lobe fibrosis (IPUF), and has more frequently been described in the Japanese literature [3–5, 9] and may be more common in the Japanese. IPPFE has been defined as a distinct entity in the English literature by Frankel et al.; a unique clinical presentation and precise characteristic pathologic criteria are described . Our study was an attempt to identify features in common between these two entities, allowing IPPFE to be considered distinct as it applies to our Japanese series.
The clinical presentation and the findings of the lung function tests were characteristic of restrictive interstitial lung disease. Radiological features were also characteristic, including intense pleural thickening associated with evidence of fibrosis, most striking pattern in the upper lobes with volume loss and architectural distortion. The upper lobes were always more severely involved, with involvement of the lower lobes being absent or less marked. Piciucchi and colleagues reported that one case had honeycombing on HRCT findings in their cases . In our series, no patients had honeycombing. In all the reports describing PPFE, eight out of total 25 cases (32%) had a history of malignancy. Among those cases, four cases had treatment with BMT  and those cases presented with histological evidence of obliterative bronchiolitis, which was not a feature in those with idiopathic presentation of PPFE, suggesting that bone marrow transplantation is a potential etiology at least in a subgroup of cases with pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis. In our series, Case 1 had a history of gingival cancer treated with surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. However, no cases had BMT, and other cases never had malignancy.
In terms of therapy and prognosis, previous cases of IPPFE showed a 40% mortality rate. In addition, many cases gradually deteriorated. In our series, consistent with previous reports, although no death occurred, all the cases clinically and functionally deteriorated even in a relatively short follow-up period. There are no therapeutic options available for IPPFE except for supportive care and ultimately lung transplantation. Regarding the mechanism of elastosis, it has not been determined whether fibroelastosis occurred by overproduction of elastin or impairment of degradation. Pirfenidone is an antifibrotic drug, currently used only for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) [13–15], which inhibits fibrotic factors, most notably TGFβ. As a consequence, downstream synthesis of extracellular matrix proteins, such as fibronectin, elastin and collagen, is reduced [16, 17]. Hence, it may potentially be beneficial for cases of IPPFE.
There are several case reports of idiopathic, upper lobe-predominant fibrosis in the Japanese language literature [3–6, 9]. Among those reports, it has been described that the thinness of the body was a characteristic of the disease. Consistent with these reports, our cases showed low BMI. However, there are no data on BMI or body weight of patients with IPPFE in reports from outside of Japan. Radiologically upper lobe predominance is associated with both IPUF and IPPFE. As both IPUF and IPPFE are relatively rare and only recently described, there are no guidelines or criteria as to how extensive the opacities in the middle and lower lobes can be. In terms of other aspects of the disease, such as possible occurrence of pneumothorax, infection and slow progression of the disease, IPPFE and IPUF seem to be within the same spectrum of disease. Although IPUF patients with surgical lung biopsy or autopsy were reported in some Japanese literature, there are no pathological criterias as IPUF. But in all those cases, intraalveolar fibrosis and subpleural elastosis were noted. Those findings are same to the pathological findings with IPPFE. Interestingly, the specimens from some patients shows UIP like pattern in the lower lobe. Amitani et al.  strictly defined the lesion is in the upper lobe, but the report from Shiota et al.  include the patients with UIP like lesion. Reddy  also mentioned patients with PPFE had the fibrosis in the lower lobe. Further studies are needed what is the possible lesion in mid-lower lobe. Finally, pulmonary surfactant protein D (SP-D) was elevated in all cases in our series. It is expressed in alveolar type II and bronchiolar epithelial cells and is secreted into alveoli and conducting airways [18, 19]. Our data suggest that those epithelial cells may play a role in the fibrotic process of the diseases.
There are some limitations to the present study. First, there were selection and recall biases because this was a retrospective study. Since the current authors' institutions are regional referral centers for diffuse lung disease, the proportion and severity of the disease reported here may differ substantially from those found in the community. Second, the sample size was too small to determine the precise prevalence and clinical characteristics of IPPFE. Prospective studies incorporating larger series are necessary to verify these results.
This study shows that the clinical, radiological and pathological presentation of IPPFE is remarkably uniform in cases with apparently idiopathic lung disease. We thus consider that idiopathic PPFE deserves to be defined as a distinct clinicopathological syndrome largely overlapping with previously described IPUF. It should be distinguished from other types of interstitial lung disease, especially because it is highly progressive.
diffusing capacity divided by the alveolar volume.
We thank Dr. Takeshi Johkoh (Kinki Central Hospital of Mutual Aid Association of Public School Teachers, Itami City, Japan) for helpful comments. This study was partly supported by a grant to the Diffuse Lung Diseases Research Group from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan.
HK: Conception and design, Data collection, Data analysis and interpretation, Manuscript writing. YN: Conception and design, Data analysis and interpretation, Manuscript writing, Final approve of manuscript. MK: Data collection. YK: Data collection. TF: Data collection. NE: Data collection. HS: Data collection. NK: Data collection. KY: Data collection. TS: Data analysis. T.V.C: Conception and design, Data analysis and interpretation, Manuscript writing. KC: Conception and design, Administrative support, Data analysis and interpretation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


Here are many of the old Lost Treasures from the Southeast region. This section will feature many familiar sights that are now just a memory.
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Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic to reach Madrid Open final
Nadal won the Madrid title in 2005, 2010, 2013 and 2014
Four-time champion Rafael Nadal ended a three-year, seven-match losing streak against Novak Djokovic to reach the final of the Madrid Open.
The Spaniard, 30, won 6-2 6-4 to claim his first victory over the Serb since the 2014 French Open final.
Nadal improved his record on clay this year to 14-0 and will face Austrian Dominic Thiem or Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas in Sunday's final.
Kristina Mladenovic plays Simona Halep in Saturday's women's final.
Nadal confirmed his return to form with a long-awaited win over Djokovic, his 24th in 50 career meetings.
"It is a great result," he said. "To win against Novak by that score you have to be playing very well, otherwise it's impossible.
"It was an important match for me. I lost a lot of times in a row. To break that means there are always nerves.
"The circumstances nowadays are completely different compared to those seven matches that occurred before.
"I think that the last two years perhaps haven't been my best two years. For Novak, they were really good years."
Djokovic, playing his first tournament since splitting with his long-time coaching team, won just four points in the opening four games as he fell 4-0 down to a rejuvenated Nadal.
There were more positive signs for the Serb in the second set as he recovered an early break of serve, punching his fist in delight, but Nadal would quickly re-establish the advantage.
The Spaniard came through a tense final game, fending off a break point before converting his third match point and closing on a fifth Madrid title.
"He deserved to win," said Djokovic.
"It wasn't a very high quality of tennis from my side. I made a lot of unforced errors.
"His quality was very high. He managed to do whatever he wanted really, especially in the first set."
Current and former Real Madrid stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Raul Gonzalez were in the crowd
Venus Williams 'at fault' in fatal car crash
Chelsea defender David Luiz signs two-year extension
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This section is updated with very important papers and articles which explain the religious and sectarian characteristics of Iranian theocracy. Reading this material will allow the reader to understand the core ideologies the Iranian regime since Khomeini's Revolution in 1979 has based on; to not only establish a strong power base in Iran, but also to appeal to communities of similar sectarian/religious belief in the region, to strengthening its self-appointed status "The Defender of Shii Islam".
This section aims at assisting the reader in understanding the difference between mainstream "Sunni" Islam and the "Shi'i" Islam and examining the Safavism ideology which promotes the Persian racism and geo-strategic expansion which the current Iranian theocracy uses to revive the Persian Empire. To achieve this goal, this section focuses on historical background of the foundation of Safavid Empire, which caused the deaths of thousands of people from numerous sects, religions and nationalities. It is hoped it will help in unwinding deep-rooted tension caused by the Iranian regime's radical and revolutionary ideologies that have led to the instability in the Middle East.
The historical relationship between the Iranian theocracy and Muslim Brothers in Egypt
Egypt, Ideology
Hassan al-Banna the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (left) and Ayatollah Khomeini the founder of the Islamic Republic in Iran (right). By Track Persia June 15, 2019 Senior Muslim Brothers have relatively been silent about the growing tension between the United States and Iran. They also seem to have refrained from [...]
By Track Persia|2019-06-14T20:31:12+00:00June 15th, 2019|Egypt, Ideology|
Iran and a tale of two losers
Ideology, Iran
Founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini speaks from a balcony of the Alavi School in Tehran in February 1979. (Reuters) By Amir Taheri May 3, 2019 Last November Westminster University in London organized a seminar with an enticing theme: Is a Plan B for Iran possible? In its simplest form the main [...]
By Track Persia|2019-05-03T11:24:23+00:00May 3rd, 2019|Ideology, Iran|
Khomeini's exporting Islamic Revolution: A failed revolutionary strategy?
By Track Persia April 27, 2019 It is widely viewed that the current sectarian conflict in the Middle East is primarily attributed to Iran's involvement in the internal affairs of the countries of this region and to the sectarian policy of the regime in Iran of exporting 1979 Islamic Revolution. The war on terror that [...]
By Track Persia|2019-04-27T18:11:52+00:00April 27th, 2019|Ideology, Iran|
Why Iran's Jews have to show support to the regime's ideology
Ideology, Iran, Isreal
By Track Persia April 22, 2019 Among the most ancient populations that have resided Persia and taken it as their homeland for many centuries are the Jews. Nonetheless, the number of Jewish communities living in this part of the world has been significantly declining. A recent estimate of their number has reached about 12000, though, [...]
By Track Persia|2019-04-22T13:22:32+00:00April 22nd, 2019|Ideology, Iran, Isreal|
Why have Iranians turned away from Shi'ism?
Demonstrators hold up a poster of exiled Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini during an anti-shah demonstration in Tehran, the Iranian capital, on Dec. 10, 1978. (AP) By Track Persia March 15, 2019 Since the crackdown on the protestors of the 2009 Green Movement which demanded some grievances be heard, there has been a [...]
By Track Persia|2019-03-15T13:05:52+00:00March 15th, 2019|Ideology, Iran|
Topsy Turvy in Tehran: The fickle nature of Iran's politics
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei (R) speaks with former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a meeting in Tehran. (AFP) By Jason Brodsky February 28, 2019 In the 40 years since the 1979 founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran's unelected management — namely the supreme leader and his mullahcratic appointees — has [...]
By Track Persia|2019-02-27T19:22:53+00:00February 28th, 2019|Ideology, Iran|
The 40th anniversary: How Iran's Islamic Revolution employs Shi'ism to forge foreign policy
Demonstrators burn U.S. flags during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 4, 2015, on the 36th anniversary of its seizure by students. Vahid Salemi (AP) By Track Persia February 19, 2019 Marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution that overthrew the Shah and established a [...]
The concept of revolution in Iran, 40 years after 1979
Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeni with leaders of the Islamic Republic in the 1980s. Ali Khamenei standing behind him. (Supplied) By H Rastgoo February 18, 2019 Before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, the term revolution, in general, was perceived as a rather positive concept in Iranian public discourse. One cannot deny that throughout the Pahlavi [...]
Decoding Iran's politics: the revolution online
Founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini speaks from a balcony of the Alavi School in Tehran in February 1979. (Reuters) By H Rastgoo February 13, 2019 To mark the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Iranian Revolution, pro-regime activists launched a massive online campaign to praise what they consider to be the [...]
Decoding Iran's politics: the formation of the Quds Force
Ideology, Iran, Middle East
Gen. Qassem Soleimani (C), who heads the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard attends a graduation ceremony of a group of the guard's officers in Tehran, June 30, 2018. (AP) By H Rastgoo January 8, 2019 According to Iran's constitution, the main mission of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is "to safeguard [...]
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