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Effect of metabolic genetic variants on long-term disease comorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes
Shifteh Abedian*, Ali Abbasi, Anthonius de Boer, Bruno H. Stricker, Stephan J.L. Bakker, Pim van der Harst, Sanaz Sedaghat, Maryam Darvishian, M. Arfan Ikram, Gerjan Navis, Abbas Dehghan, Ido Pen, Ronald P. Stolk, Harold Snieder, Olaf H. Klungel, Patrick Souverein, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh
*Bijbehorende auteur voor dit werk
Groningen Institute for Organ Transplantation (GIOT)
Groningen Kidney Center (GKC)
Cardiovasculair Centrum
Value, Affordability and Sustainability (VALUE)
Pen group - Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology
Life Course Epidemiology (LCE)
Real World Studies in PharmacoEpidemiology, -Genetics, -Economics and -Therapy (PEGET)
Groningen Institute for Gastro Intestinal Genetics and Immunology (3GI)
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Underlying genetic determinants contribute to developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) future diseases. The present study aimed to identify which genetic variants are associated with the incident of the major T2D co-morbid disease. First, we conducted a discovery study by investigating the genetic associations of comorbid diseases within the framework of the Utrecht Cardiovascular Pharmacogenetic studies by turning information of > 25 years follow-up data of 1237 subjects whom were genotyped and included in the discovery study. We performed Cox proportional-hazards regression to examine associations between genetic variants and comorbid diseases including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), chronic eye disease, cancer, neurologic diseases and chronic kidney disease. Secondly, we replicated our findings in two independent cohorts consisting of 1041 subjects. Finally, we performed a meta-analysis by combining the discovery and two replication cohorts. We ascertained 390 (39.7%) incident cases of CVD, 182 (16.2%) of chronic eye disease, 155 (13.8%) of cancer, 31 (2.7%) of neurologic disease and 13 (1.1%) of chronic kidney disease during a median follow-up of 10.2 years. In the discovery study, we identified a total of 39 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with comorbid diseases. The replication study, confirmed that rs1870849 and rs8051326 may play a role in the incidence of chronic eye disease in T2D patients. Half of patients developed at least one comorbid disease, with CVD occurring most often and earliest followed by chronic eye disease. Further research is needed to confirm the associations of two associated SNPs with chronic eye disease in T2D.
Published - 2-feb.-2021
10.1038/s41598-021-82276-3Licentie: CC BY
Effect of metabolic genetic variants on long-term disease comorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetesFinal publisher's version, 828 KBLicentie: CC BY
Abedian, S., Abbasi, A., de Boer, A., Stricker, B. H., Bakker, S. J. L., van der Harst, P., Sedaghat, S., Darvishian, M., Ikram, M. A., Navis, G., Dehghan, A., Pen, I., Stolk, R. P., Snieder, H., Klungel, O. H., Souverein, P., & Alizadeh, B. Z. (2021). Effect of metabolic genetic variants on long-term disease comorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Scientific Reports, 11(1), [2794]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82276-3
Abedian, Shifteh ; Abbasi, Ali ; de Boer, Anthonius et al. / Effect of metabolic genetic variants on long-term disease comorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes. In: Scientific Reports. 2021 ; Vol. 11, Nr. 1.
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Abedian S, Abbasi A, de Boer A, Stricker BH, Bakker SJL, van der Harst P et al. Effect of metabolic genetic variants on long-term disease comorbidity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Scientific Reports. 2021 feb. 2;11(1):2794. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82276-3


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We firstly deal with the history of the amendments to the anti-dividend stripping provisions and thereafter briefly discuss NT's proposal in the 2019 Budget.
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Pursuant to the 2017 amendments, if a company sold its shares in one of the ways set out above, the portion of the dividend that exceeds 15% of the market value of the share, ie the extraordinary dividend, would be added to the proceeds from the share sale, which would likely increase the seller's CGT liability. The only way to avoid this in terms of s22B and paragraph 43A was if the seller holds the shares for at least 18 months after the dividend is declared.
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that dividend must for purposes of s22B or paragraph 43A be treated as a dividend that accrued to or was received by the disposing company in respect of those shares within the period during which the disposing company held those shares.
Therefore, where the disposing company acquired shares in terms of a deferral transaction, it could only avoid the application of s22B or paragraph 43A, if it held the shares for at least 18 months after acquiring the shares, or if the disposing company and the company from which it acquired the shares in terms of a deferral transaction, were not connected persons during the 18-month period.
In the 2019 Budget, NT notes that some taxpayers are trying to avoid the adjusted rules in s22B and paragraph 43A. According to NT, some taxpayers are now putting arrangements in place whereby the the target company, being the company in which the shares are held, distributes a substantial dividend to its current company shareholder and thereafter issues shares to a third party. As a result, the value of the current company shareholder's holding in the shares of the target company is diluted and these shares are not immediately disposed of. According to NT, this differs from the previous avoidance arrangements that involved disposing of the same shares in return for a tax-exempt dividend.
It appears that this scheme may be similar to some of the avoidance schemes that were implemented prior to the 2017 amendments coming into effect, with the difference being that the target company does not buy back the shares from its current shareholder, followed by a share issue to a new shareholder, as this would likely trigger the application of s22B or paragraph 43A. Instead, the current company shareholder receives a substantial dividend that is exempt from dividends tax, following which the new shareholder subscribes for shares in the target company, which dilutes the current company shareholder's interest in the target company significantly. When the current company shareholder disposes of its remaining interest in the target company more than 18 months after receiving the dividend, its CGT liability will be less than it would have been, had it simply sold the shares to the new shareholder. Where the transaction is implemented in this manner, paragraph 43A and s22B will not apply.
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Home / College News / 2012 News / Study confirms cougars are making a comeback
June 14, 2012, Tim Crosby
Cougars, those wily, storied creatures that once moved like ghosts through their far-ranging North American habitat, are making a comeback. And a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale -- along with a former student -- is among those spotting the trend.
Clay Nielsen, assistant professor with the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Department of Forestry and the Center for Ecology at SIU Carbondale, said the cougar presence clearly is increasing in Midwestern North America. Nielsen worked with Michelle LaRue, a former graduate student at SIU Carbondale, now at the University of Minnesota.
The scientists see the trend reversing 100 years of species decline due to loss of habitat and other factors. Nielsen said the findings also raise new questions about how humans might live in closer proximity to the big cats.
Nielsen served as principal investigator on the study, the results of which are scheduled for online publication today (June 14) in the "The Journal of Wildlife Management." The article is titled "Cougars Are Recolonizing the Midwest: Analysis of Cougar Confirmations During 1990–2008."
As principal investigator, Nielsen helped with data collection, analysis and writing the paper, which used confirmed cougar sightings, carcasses, tracks, photos, video and DNA evidence collected from 1990 to 2008 in 14 states and provinces throughout Midwestern North America.
LaRue, who was Nielsen's master's student from 2005 to 2007 and currently is pursuing her doctoral degree in Minnesota, served as senior author on the study. Personnel from the Cougar Network and the Colorado Division of Parks & Wildlife also were involved with the study.
Cougars were driven from much of the Midwest by around 1900, and their absence left a hole in the ecosystem, Nielsen said.
"Cougars would be top carnivores in Midwestern ecosystems, affecting prey species populations. The white-tailed deer would be the primary prey item," Nielsen said.
During the last two decades, however, hard evidence of the cougar's return has been emerging. The researchers set out to qualify and quantify that evidence, which they hoped would identify population trends and movement among the cougar -- also known as a puma or a mountain lion -- ranks.
The researchers divided the study area into an east and west region, calculated the number and types of confirmed sightings and assessed trends brought forth by the data. In all, they identified 178 instances of a confirmed cougar presence, with that number increasing.
The confirmations ranged from just one in Kansas, Michigan and Ontario to a high of 67 in Nebraska. The cougar remains reclusive, however, with almost 80 percent of the confirmations occurring within about 30 miles of highly suitable forests with steep terrain and low road and human densities.
The most frequent means of confirming the predator's presence was by finding a carcass, and 76 percent of those found were males. The researchers believe sub-adult males are leading the repopulation trend by dispersing in search of territory and mates.
Nielsen and LaRue previously teamed up on another study concerning cougar populations, back when LaRue was a student at SIU Carbondale. That study, which looked at potential cougar habitat in nine Midwest states west of the Mississippi River, also pointed toward the cougar reclaiming its old turf. Nielsen and LaRue found that Arkansas, Missouri and Minnesota have substantial areas that could attract and support cougars. About 19 percent of Arkansas, for instance, is highly suitable, with 16 percent of Missouri and 11 percent of Minnesota.
Nielsen said the most recent findings have important implications for future management strategies for the big cat, which typically weighs 100 to 150 pounds but can grow up to 200 pounds.
"This paper provides the strongest quantitative information to date regarding potential recolonization of cougars in the Midwest, and these findings indicate that the public and wildlife managers may need to deal with increasing cougar populations in the near future if recolonization continues," Nielsen said. "Much of the Midwest has lived without large carnivores such as cougars for more than 100 years. How will we all get along...or will we?"
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Ulica Szeroka w Toruniu – jedna z głównych ulic Zespołu Staromiejskiego.

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Ulica Szeroka jest fragmentem najważniejszego traktu pieszego na terenie Zespołu Staromiejskiego łączącego Rynek Nowomiejski i Staromiejski, a dalej przez tzw. Łuk Cezara dochodzącego do placu Rapackiego. Ulica ta biegnie od zbiegu ul. Strumykowej i Przedzamcze do południowo-wschodniego naroża Rynku Staromiejskiego na długości ok. 240 metrów. W średniowieczu odcinek od ul. Podmurnej do Szczytnej nosił nazwę ul. Wielkiej (w źródłach średniowiecznych Grossegasse), a od Szczytnej do Rynku Staromiejskiego – Rymary (w źródłach średniowiecznych Corrigatores). Od strony Nowego Miasta, na wysokości dzisiejszej ulicy Podmurnej, kończyła się bramą miejską, nazywaną Wielką lub Kotlarską, rozebraną na początku XIX w. Od 2. poł. XIX w. ulica zaczęła zyskiwać charakter głównej ulicy handlowej Torunia, który w dużej mierze zachowała do dzisiaj.

Zabudowa
Ulica Szeroka, podobnie jak całe Stare Miasto, ma zabudowę pierzejową, z kilkuosiowymi kamienicami szczytowymi, przeważnie 3-piętrowymi. Zabudowa ma zrąb średniowieczny, ale wskutek licznych przekształceń tylko w jednej kamienicy, pod nr 38 zachowała się gotycka fasada. We wnętrzach zachowały się poza tym elementy gotyckiego i nowożytnego wystroju, takie jak malowidła ścienne (nr 16, 22) i polichromowane stropy drewniane (kamienice nr 16, 38, 40). Większość kamienic ma fasady w historyzujące, również z elementami secesji, lub wczesnomodernistyczne, z 2. poł. XIX lub pocz. XX w. Do ciekawszych budynków należą:
 nr 9, kamienica na rogu z ul. Podmurną, na zrębie gotyckim z XV w., przebudowana w XIX w. i w 1935 r.; obecnie restauracja Szeroka No. 9
 nr 10/12, połączone kamienice - barokowa z XVIII w. i klasycystyczna z przełomu XVIII i XIX w.; w 1. poł. XIX w. mieściła tu się biblioteka, później księgarnia; ob. szkoła językowa British School i bank Crédit Agricole
 nr 11, wczesnomodernistyczny dom towarowy z pocz. XX w., ob. sklep sieci Vero Moda
 nr 14, dawny bank z 1909 r.; ob. bank PKO BP
 nr 16, kamienica na zrębie gotyckim z przełomu XIII i XIV w., przebudowana w poł. XVIII i 1. poł. XIX w.; wewnątrz zachowane gotyckie malowidło ścienne ze sceną Pokłonu Trzech Króli oraz największy w Toruniu zespół stropów polichromowanych, z poł. XVIII w.; ob. bank PKO BP
 nr 18, kamienica na zrębie gotyckim; w latach 1678-1875 mieściła się tu kaplica ewangelicka; w 1877 r. budynek uległ gruntownej przebudowie na cele mieszkalne
 nr 19, kamienica pierwotnie gotycka, z zachowaną z tego czasu elewacją tylną ze szczytem i nowożytnym stropem belkowym
 nr 20, kamienica gotycka z XIV w., przebudowana w XIX w.; ob. sklep sieci Orsay
 nr 21, kamienica wczesnomodernistyczna z pocz. XX w., ob. McDonald's
 nr 22, kamienica pierwotnie gotycka z XIV w., przebudowana w XIX w., wewnątrz zachowały się gotyckie stropy i polichromie ścienne
 nr 25, secesyjna kamienica z pocz. XX w.; w latach 1946-1974 mieszkał w niej numizmatyk i historyk Marian Gumowski
 nr 26/28, kamienica eklektyczna, z dekoracjami secesyjnymi, wśród których znajduje się m.in. herb Torunia
 nr 27, na rogu z ul. Łazienną - Apteka Radziecka, założona w tym miejscu w 1623 r. w kamienicy będącej własnością Rady Miasta Torunia (stąd nazwa). Obecny wczesnomodernistyczny budynek pochodzi z pocz. XX w.
 nr 31, kamienica eklektyczna z 1899 r.; ob sklep sieci W. Kruk
 nr 32, kamienica na zrębie gotyckim, przebudowana w późniejszym okresie; wewnątrz zachowany drewniany strop; do 2012 r. księgarnia Matras
 nr 33, kamienica eklektyczna z 1909 r.
 nr 34, kamienica na zrębie gotyckim z XV w., wewnątrz na parterze polichromowany strop drewniany
 nr 35, kamienica wczesnomodernistyczna z 1913 r., zbudowana przez właściciela firmy C.B. Dietrich & Sohn, produkującej artykuły żelazne, na miejscu wcześniejszej kamienicy gotyckiej przebudowanej w okresie nowożytnym; obecnie sklep odzieżowy oraz Dom Legend Toruńskich
 nr 36, kamienica neogotycka z 1896 r.
 nr 37, kamienica z 1884 r., w miejscu której w średniowieczu usytuowane były ławy mięsne, biegnące aż do placu przy kościele św. Janów, obecnie ul. Kopernika.
 nr 38, kamienica gotycka z przełomu XIV i XV w., o zachowanej pierwotnej fasadzie; wewnątrz renesansowy polichromowany strop z końca XVI w.
 nr 40, kamienica XVII-wieczna na zrębach gotyckiej z XV w., wewnątrz strop z XVII-wieczną dekoracją malarską z przedstawieniem czterech ewangelistów oraz scen z życia codziennego
 nr 42, kamienica w zrębie gotycka z XV w., przebudowana w XIX w. i 1906 r.
 nr 43, kamienica narożna z ul. Żeglarską, w miejscu której mieścił się dawny odwach miejski z końca XVII w.
 nr 46, kamienica neogotycka z 1891 r., powstała w miejscu dwóch tzw. bud (budynków zbudowanych na płytkich działkach, bez zaplecza w postaci podwórza); mimo okazałej fasady dekorowanej glazurowaną cegłą jej głębokość wynosi jedynie ok. 4 m; w XIX w. mieszkał tu rabin toruński, pionier syjonizmu Cwi Hirsz Kaliszer, co upamiętnia tablica odsłonięta w 2011 r.

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Upton led off the ninth by hitting the first pitch from Donovan Hand (0-5) for a single to left. Freddie Freeman hit a fly ball to deep center for the first out before Evan Gattis, who had two hits, hit a grounder that Scooter Gennett bobbled behind second base for an error, leaving runners at first and second.
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Freddy Garcia allowed two run, six hits and one walk in 6 2/3 innings for Atlanta. Garcia, 36, had seven strikeouts to set a season high in a combined 13 starts with Baltimore and the Braves.
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PLA Succession: Trends and Surprises
Publication: China Brief Volume: 12 Issue: 24
By: Cristina Garafola
December 14, 2012 06:06 PM Age: 10 years
CMC Chairman Xi Jinping Meets with the PLA
On November 26, Air Force General Xu Qiliang gave his first major speech as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC). In front of a military audience, Xu urged the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to hasten the process of military modernization (Xinhua, November 27). Army General Zhang Yang, Director of the General Political Department and one of the eight regular CMC members, emphasized the importance of "further uniting behind a common purpose" and "strengthening" the PLA's "sense of responsibility and duty to the mission." The 18th Party Congress marked an important round of transitions for the PLA that also highlighted the difficulties of studying the military's leadership transition process. In the Mao era, the PLA leadership had been tightly linked to the unpredictable factional politics surrounding the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but the increasing routinization of the succession process since the 1980s has led to a better understanding of leadership transitions within the PLA's top echelons. Unexpected promotions during the recent Party Congress, however, challenge the reliability of some observed trends in PLA leadership succession. In particular, the continuing domination of the ground force component among the military services (e.g., Army, Navy and Air Force) works against succession routinization and hampers modernization efforts for the PLA going forward.
CMC Membership and Succession
Known as the "supreme command" of the military, the CMC currently has 11 members that include the General Secretary of the CCP, two uniformed military vice chairman, the Minister of Defense, and representatives from the four service and branch commands. The directors of the four general departments form the joint and de facto army command and sit on the CMC and, since 2004, the commanders from the PLA Navy (PLAN), PLA Air Force (PLAAF) and the Second Artillery also have been CMC members. The CMC "provides guidance for China's national military strategy and overall war effort," including force building, weapons purchases and development, senior personnel promotions, and the PLA's overall organizational structure [1].
PLA succession is difficult to understand in the same way that broader CCP succession processes are opaque. First, the base of power is ostensibly broad but in reality flows downward from a narrow top. The CMC is theoretically elected by the approximately 200 members of the CCP's Central Committee, but in practice the outgoing CMC as well as the GPD's Cadre Department and possibly certain top party leaders likely control appointments to the CMC, making predictions a challenge. That said, however, the pool of top military leaders to fill the vice chairmen and CMC member billets is fairly predictable based on their current positions and grades ("Assessing the PLA's Promotion Ladder to CMC Member Based on Grades vs. Ranks," China Brief, July 22, 2010; August 5, 2010).
Second, for those officers who are eligible based on their grade and position, promotions depend as much on merit as they do on guanxi, factional pedigrees and officers' skill at maintaining good relations within their units [2]. Most enlisted members and officers will serve in the same unit throughout their career, so harmony within the unit can have long-term implications for advancement.
Third, much of how Western PLA analysts frame their understanding of the military is based on patterns and norms that have developed in the reform era. For example, officers in high-level positions must retire once they reach a certain age (e.g., military region leader grade-officers must retire by the age of 65), officers can only be promoted one grade at a time and so on. When established norms run up against intractable personality and institutional conflicts, however, the structural elements of institutions have changed to accommodate nonconforming promotions. For example, Army General Fan Changlong's recent promotion as the senior of the two CMC vice chairmen required him to skip a grade, which was unprecedented based on past high-level promotions. The Army, however, wanted a ground forces general in that position to balance Xu Qiliang as the first PLAAF member to hold the vice chairmanship. Though Fan's promotion resolved the balance of power dilemma by keeping other non-ground forces from being promoted and breaking the grade promotion precedent, poking a hole in one of the guidelines generally used to understand the rules of the game.
Despite the difficulties in analyzing military succession, there have been noticeable changes in how PLA leaders become members of the CMC. Based on the CMC's membership since 1949 (including organizations with different names and structures that have served the same purpose), five trends are apparent. First, the number of people on the CMC has varied greatly over time, both in terms of overall membership and the number of vice chairman. For example, by 1954, the "Central People's Committee" (CPC) had 14 vice chairmen, but the committee established to replace this CPC was slimmed down to only 12 members total. In general, membership has hovered between about eight to 15 people and is currently on the lower end of that spectrum with 10 uniformed members; the number of vice chairmen also has fallen to either two or three in the past few decades. Two vice chairmen are generally PLA officers, including one political commissar, while the third, senior vice chairmanship is held by the CCP successor. For example, Xi Jinping was the senior CMC vice chairman from late 2010 until the recent 18th Party Congress.
Second, the composition of the CMC has moved away from party elders with military experience to career PLA officers and the top CCP leader (and, at intervals, his successor as a vice chairman). The top leader's accession to the CMC chairmanship also appears to be occurring at more regular intervals. Though Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin remained the CMC chair after stepping down as the CCP general secretary, Hu Jintao did not follow this trend, so Xi Jinping became the party general secretary and CMC chairman at roughly the same time.
Third, the CMC has changed names and added or removed the smaller Affairs and Working committees, which at certain points have held more power than the CMC as a whole. For example, in the Mao era, restructuring was particularly frequent, especially during the Cultural Revolution. Structural changes were sometimes used as a vehicle to enable Mao's current favorite to gain power by undercutting others' authority, such as when Lin Biao was made the head of a new Affairs Group in 1968. Since 1982, however, the CMC has basically remained in its current form, indicating that the focus has shifted away from altering the CMC's power vis-à-vis other organizations and toward how to ensure certain candidates gain positions on the CMC.
Fourth, until Liang Guanglie became the Minister of Defense in 2008, the minister position was held concurrently by a CMC vice chairman, who in turn have been concurrent Politburo members. Since 2008, however, the minister of defense has been only a senior CMC member but not a vice chairman. Of note, while General Liang Guanglie will remain the Defense Minister until the National People's Congress in early 2013, he is no longer a member of the CMC. General Chang Wanquan now holds that spot on the CMC and presumably will replace Liang as Minister of Defense in 2013.
Lastly, the CMC has seen increasing "diversity" of representation by the PLAN, PLAAF and Second Artillery since the reform era. Admiral Liu Huaqing was the first PLAN commander to gain the vice chairmanship in 1989 and stayed there until he retired in 1996, even if he was required to wear an Army uniform while he held that position. In 2012, the 18th CMC features two PLAAF, one PLAN and one Second Artillery representative besides the six Army generals, suggesting, at the very highest level, non-ground force members are becoming more prominent.
Keeping the early caveats of trend-watching in mind, some scholars believe that these trends hint that the CMC is falling into a more normalized path with a fixed size, standard ratio of vice chairmen to regular members and more representation of the non-Army leaders. Last month, Oriana Skylar Mastro, Michael S. Chase, and Benjamin S. Purser III argued "the fact that two Air Force officers have secured a place on China's highest military body along with the rising fortunes of the PLAN and Second Artillery probably foreshadows the loosening of the ground force's sixty-year-long grip on the levers of military power" ("New CMC Vice Chairmen Strong Advocates for Joint, Modern Chinese Military," China Brief, November 16). This greater diversity among the services, however, has not trickled down below these top positions. Table 1 compares the new CMC membership (the members of which are director grade or above) with deputy director and similarly graded officials. Overall, the top leadership is still dominated by the ground forces (PLAA).
Table 1. Personnel Appointments in PLA Institutions (by Service and Branch)
PLAAF
Second Artillery
CMC (10 + Xi Jinping)
General Staff Department Deputies (varies between 4-6)
General Political Department Deputies (usually 4; currently 3)
General Logistics Department Deputies (3)
General Armament Department Deputies (5)
Minister of Defense
Academy of Military Sciences Commandant and Political Commissar (2)
National Defense University Commandant and Political Commissar (2)
Military Region Commanders (7)
* The General Staff Department had a PLAAF deputy director from 2004 until the 18th Party Congress who was not replaced by a PLAAF officer; it also had a Second Artillery deputy director until he became the Second Artillery commander at the 18th Party Congress and was not replaced by another Second Artillery officer.
** The General Political Department had a PLAN deputy director from 2009 until the 18th Party Congress, but he retired and was not replaced.
Although the CMC appears to be moving toward more diversity at the top by selecting a PLAAF vice chairman, only one of the current 18 deputy directors is not from the ground forces, and the General Armament Department has never had any non-ground force deputy directors. Even more firmly in the Army's control, China's seven Military Regions (MRs) have only ever had Army commanders, even, as Mastro, Chase and Purser noted, "in the Nanjing and Guangzhou MRs that focus on conflict scenarios involving possible sea and air fights over Taiwan and in the East and South China Seas" ("New CMC Vice Chairmen Strong Advocates for Joint, Modern Chinese Military," China Brief, November 16). Based on the current picture of personnel appointments, diversity will be slow to filter down to the lower grade levels or result in a significant change to the balance of institutional power.
Conclusion: The 18th Party Congress in Context and Future Prospects
The recent 18th Party Congress saw signs of increased routinization of succession processes within the CMC but also departures from previously established norms. Overall, with the exception of no civilian vice chairman, the announcement of the new CMC in terms of membership remained consistent with CMC membership since 2004. Also, the membership of the new PBSC continues the trend of no uniformed military representation.
Hu Jintao's exit from the CMC along with his stepping down as CCP general secretary all but guarantees that he will have left all three top positions (head of party, military and state) within six months. Although Hu's "naked retreat" (luo tui) breaks tradition from the Jiang-Hu transition, the simultaneous transition of Party and military authority actually speaks to increasing routinization of power transfer at the highest levels of the CCP (Apple Daily [Hong Kong], November 16). The Jiang-Hu transition—in which Hu Jintao became the head of the CCP in late 2002 but Jiang Zemin retained the CMC chairmanship until mid-2004—reportedly had PLA officers concerned about potentially facing multiple chains of command during a crisis (Xinhua, September 20, 2004; Asia Times, March 12, 2003; PLA Daily, March 11, 2003). The "naked retreat" ensures that one leader has clear operational authority during China's extensive leadership transition period.
Selecting Xu Qiliang and particularly Fan Changlong as CMC vice chairmen marked significant departures from established norms. Xu is the first non-Army vice chairman to wear his branch's uniform on the CMC, and his selection to the CMC does indicate some victories for pro-"diversity" and pro-modernization leaders among the PLA. Fan's promotion reveals that the Army, however, is resisting the shift of power to other branches and is willing to go to great lengths to retain dominance. Another change is that the new CMC vice chairmen and members assumed their positions during the last session of the 17th Party Congress in October rather than during the first session of the 18th Party Congress in November.
Looking to future successions and the broader path of the PLA, there are a few key trends worth watching to assess whether the competition for resources and power among the three services and the Second Artillery will result in more joint cooperation or lead to stagnation. One key marker is the "diversity" of billets for officers promoted to corps and above grades, where each grade has two assigned flag officer ranks (one to three stars). The most obvious sign of change would be a significant restructuring of the PLA's four general departments to become truly joint organizations and the creation of the Army as a separate service with its own headquarters. If the four general departments (currently the army's de facto headquarters) were restructured to serve—and be directed and staffed by—PLAA, PLAN, PLAAF and Second Artillery officers, proponents of force modernization and integration will have achieved a major victory. Xu Qiliang's past and recent speeches have indicated his support for reform ("Parsing the Selection of China's New High Command," China Brief, November 16). The obstacles he and his supporters encounter as they advocate for change, including restructuring the 15-grade structure, reflect the complexity of internal military as well as party-military relations and will remain key areas for outsiders to parse and uncover.
Kenneth W. Allen, "Introduction to the PLA's Administrative and Operational Structure," The People's Liberation Army as Organization (RAND: 2002), p. 5.
Kenneth W. Allen and John F. Corbett, Jr., "Predicting PLA Leader Promotions," in Civil-Military Change in China: Elites, Institutes, and Ideas After the 16th Party Congress, Dr. Andrew Scobell and Dr. Larry Wortzel, eds., Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2004.
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No one knows except Hornswoggle about his wife and the mystery has not been solved yet. He has not been spotted dating with aby girlfriend or someone special. But an interesting fact about him is, Hornswoggle is the father of a son named Landon Postl. There is no more information about his family life.
Wrestler Postl entered the wrestling world by the ring name Hardcore Wonder in the Fox Valley Wrestling Alliance (FVWA). He was titled as "The World's Sexiest Midget" while he was appearing at National Wrestling Alliance territory NWA Wisconsin. There the short wrestler won the NWA Wisconsin X Division Championship.
On May 26, 2006, Hornswoggle made his debut in WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) in Bakersfield, California on SmackDown as a partner of the fellow Irish wrestler, Finlay. Initially, he appeared as the character Little Bastard. Being with Finlay, he has entertained the entire WWE universe through his funny and amazing activities. He started presenting his aggressive character and also helped Finlay win the WWE United States Championship. The Little Bastard changed his ring name to Hornswoggle on February 23, 2007, and the name "Little Bastard" was removed from everywhere including WWE website.
Apart from his wrestling career, Postl has served to several filmographies. In 2014 he played the role of a Russian Prisoner for the movie Muppets Most Wanted. The same year, he appeared on the movie Leprechaun: Origins as Lubdan/Leprechaun.
As one of the popular wrestler, his bio has been mentioned by several wiki sites including Wikipedia. Since this year, Hornswoggle is said to be appearing in TNA. This shortest wrestler is active on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Follow WWE Hornswoggle on Instagram @wwehornswoggle. Get his latest tweets from Hornswoggle Twitter account that can be reached @wwehornswoggle.


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Signed for the 2011-12 season by Helios Domzale.
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The quest to find Philae
Rosetta and Philae teams continue to search for the current location of the lander, piecing together clues from its unexpected flight over the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after its initial landing on 12 November.
Philae, as seen by Rosetta's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera nearly two hours after separation. The image shows details of the lander structure, including its three relatively bright legs.
ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
While Rosetta continues to study the ever-changing comet from a distance, the mission teams have been trying to narrow down the location of Philae on the comet nucleus using a variety of data, including imaging, magnetic field, and radio wave measurements.
Philae first touched down at the Agilkia landing site on the head of Comet 67P/C-G at 15:34 GMT on 12 November 2014, confirmation arriving back at Earth via Rosetta 28 minutes later. Unfortunately Philae's harpoons did not deploy and the ice screws alone proved insufficient to secure the lander at Agilkia. As a result, the lander rebounded for an additional two-hour flight before finally coming to rest at a site now known as Abydos.
The last moments of Philae's descent, the imprint of its touchdown, and subsequent drift away from Agilkia was captured by Rosetta's OSIRIS camera. All times in UT onboard spacecraft time.
Both Rosetta's navigation camera and the high-resolution OSIRIS camera successfully identified the first touchdown point, with Philae's down-looking ROLIS camera providing high-resolution views of the location from as close as 9 metres altitude. The bouncing lander was then identified in OSIRIS and NAVCAM images shortly after it had left Agilkia. Somewhat later, another OSIRIS image was thought to show Philae above the horizon of the large depression known as Hatmehit on the comet's head.
Rosetta's OSIRIS wide-angle camera captured this view of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014 at 17:18 GMT (onboard spacecraft time), with what is thought to be Philae above the rim of the large depression (marked). The image has been used to guide subsequent lander search efforts, and provides the basis for trajectory reconstructions.
Magnetic field measurements from Philae's ROMAP provided further details on subsequent events as the lander flew above the comet, including precise timing of the various contact points[EB5]. Initially, the lander flew in a stable orientation, but is then thought to have struck a surface feature at 16:20 GMT, after which it tumbled. A third touchdown occurred at 17:25 GMT, followed by a much shorter bounce of just a few minutes, before Philae finally arrived at Abydos at 17:32 GMT. Overall, Philae is thought to have travelled more than a kilometre from its initial contact point.
Images taken by its ROLIS and CIVA cameras, along with telemetry and data returned by its instruments during its nearly 60 hours of surface operations, have built up a picture of the final landing site. The lander is thought to be in a rough piece of terrain, tilted up against a cliff, and mostly in shadow.
In the days and weeks after landing, the OSIRIS team continued the search for Philae by making a detailed examination of new images of the comet as they came in. However, this proved to be a daunting task, given the rough terrain, the small size of the lander, and the distance of Rosetta from the comet.
The highest resolution images taken of the region of interest after Philae's landing were part of a dedicated search that took place in mid-December, at distance of roughly 18 kilometres from the surface of the comet. At this distance, the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera has a resolution of 34 centimetres per pixel. The body of Philae is just 1 metre across, while its three thin legs extend out by up to 1.4 metres from its centre.
Taking into account the size, reflectivity, and orientation of Philae, along with the 'point spread function' or intrinsic resolution of the camera optics, the OSIRIS team expect Philae to be no more than a few pixels across in their images. Their examination of the head of Comet 67P/C-G revealed many initial candidates for Philae in the form of bright spots just a few pixels wide, as illustrated in the montage below:
Approximate locations of five lander candidates initially identified in high-resolution OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera images taken in December 2014, from a distance of about 20 km from the centre of Comet 67P/C-G. The candidates are circled in the close-ups, identifying Philae-sized features approximately 1–2 m across. The contrast has been stretched in some of the images to better reveal the candidates. All but one of these candidates (top left) have subsequently been ruled out of consideration due to constraints including the reconstructed lander trajectory and topography at the landing site. The candidate at top left lies near to the current CONSERT ellipse.
Centre image: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM; insets: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
The question then is which, if any, of these candidates is the real Philae?
Fortunately, more information is available. The initial trajectory taken by Philae as it departed from Agilkia could be worked out from the OSIRIS images. This constrained the problem a bit, but only as far as the second bounce.
Fortunately, it was possible to narrow down the lander's final location by using the radio signals sent between Philae and Rosetta as part of the CONSERT experiment after the final touchdown. Combining data on the signal travel time between the two spacecraft with the known trajectory of Rosetta and the current best shape model for the comet, the CONSERT team have been able to establish the location of Philae to within an ellipse roughly 16 x 160 metres in size, just outside the rim of the Hatmehit depression.
By combining radio-wave data exchanged between Rosetta and Philae as part of the CONSERT experiment with trajectory data and the current model of the shape of 67P/C-G, the location of Philae has been determined to lie within an ellipse measuring approximately 16 x 160 m. The CONSERT ellipse corresponds to the outer limits of the various solutions identified for the likely landing site of Philae, although this depends to some extent on the shape model assumed. More detailed work, including a full account of all the errors involved, is currently in progress by the CONSERT team.
ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CONSERT
The ellipse represents the team's current best estimate of the outer bounds of the likely location of Philae based on a number of simulations, but further work is being carried out to quantify things more rigorously in terms of the statistical likelihood of Philae being inside this region. The location of the ellipse also depends on the assumed shape model of the comet: as this is constantly being refined, some slight revisions in the positioning of the ellipse remain possible.
Nevertheless, the CONSERT ellipse rules out the majority of the candidates shown in the montage above. But there is at least one candidate near to the ellipse, as well as a number of other bright spots in the vicinity.
The current 16 x 160 m CONSERT ellipse overlaid on an OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image of the same region. The location and size of the ellipse is not accurate at the pixel level, and may also change as further CONSERT data analysis proceeds and more detailed comet shape models become available. The OSIRIS image is a slightly cropped 2 x 2 mosaic of NAC images taken from a distance of approximately 18 km from the surface of the comet on 13 December 2014. At this distance, the resolution of NAC is approximately 34 cm per pixel, and the full mosaic covers roughly 1.3 km.
Ellipse: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CONSERT; Image: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
"We have identified several possible lander candidates in OSIRIS images, both inside the CONSERT region of interest and nearby," says Holger Sierks, OSIRIS principal investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany.
Sierks adds: "That said, it is important to note that the viewing geometry during our December search was such that Rosetta was 90 degrees to the Sun-comet direction and in a terminator orbit. Philae's solar panels could have been well illuminated, but still hidden in the rugged terrain from Rosetta's perspective, making it difficult or impossible to spot."
Zooming in towards the current CONSERT ellipse, a number of bright dots are seen in the region. As only one (at most) of these could be the lander, the majority must be associated with surface features on the comet nucleus.
Furthermore, and as the image above shows, bright features are common on the surface of the nucleus. The challenge of identifying Philae is made even more difficult by the fact that many of them are transient. For example, small-scale regions of the nucleus may "glint" under favourable illumination conditions, thus appearing in some images but not others.
To address this issue, scientists working with OSIRIS team member Philippe Lamy at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP) in France began searching for special sets of OSIRIS images.
In particular, they looked for images taken before and after Philae's landing under nearly similar illumination conditions, to reduce the chances of being fooled by transient surface features glinting. In that way, if something new appeared after landing, it could be Philae.
Scanning a broad area encompassing the expecting landing zone, the team identified a promising candidate that is seen on two images taken on 12 and 13 December, a month after the 12 November landing, but not on an image taken earlier, on 22 October. The candidate is also featured in the montage earlier in the post, at top-left.
Additional images below show the region containing the candidate as seen on 22 October from a distance of 10 km from the centre of the comet (roughly 8 km from the surface), and then on both 12 and 13 December from 20 km from the centre (18 km from the surface).
'Before' and 'after' comparison images of a promising candidate located near the CONSERT ellipse as seen in images from the OSIRIS Narrow-Angle Camera. Each box covers roughly 20 x 20 m on Comet 67P/C-G. The left-hand image shows the region as seen on 22 October (before the landing of Philae) from a distance of about 10 km from the centre of Comet 67P/C-G, while the centre and right-hand images shows the same region on 12 and 13 December from 20 km (after landing). The candidate is only seen in the two later images.The illumination conditions are broadly similar in the three images and the same topography can be recognised in each case. The difference in distance at which the images were taken yields a difference in resolution and thus the December images have been resampled and interpolated to match the scale of the October image. As a result, the candidate covers more pixels calculated for a Philae-sized object seen by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera from a distance of 18 km to the surface.
'Before' and 'after' comparison images of a promising candidate located near the CONSERT ellipse as seen in images from the OSIRIS Narrow-Angle Camera. Each box covers roughly 20 x 20 m on Comet 67P/C-G.
The left-hand image shows the region as seen on 22 October (before the landing of Philae) from a distance of about 10 km from the centre of Comet 67P/C-G, while the centre and right-hand images shows the same region on 12 and 13 December from 20 km (after landing). The candidate is only seen in the two later images.
The illumination conditions are broadly similar in the three images and the same topography can be recognised in each case. The difference in distance at which the images were taken yields a difference in resolution and thus the December images have been resampled and interpolated to match the scale of the October image. As a result, the candidate covers more pixels calculated for a Philae-sized object seen by the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera from a distance of 18 km to the surface.
The 'after' images have been resampled and interpolated to be on the same scale as the 'before' image: this results in the bright spot covering more pixels than in the original data.
"Although the pre- and post-landing images were taken at different spatial resolutions, local topographic details match well, except for one bright spot present on post-landing images, which we suggest is a good candidate for the lander," says Philippe Lamy, member of the OSIRIS team at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, adding: "This bright spot is visible on two different images taken in December 2014, clearly indicating that it is a real feature on the surface of the comet, not a detector artefact or moving foreground dust speck."
This graphic shows the solar panels on Philae's body. Simulations of the day-night cycle and landing site topography show considerable variations in the illumination as local features cast shadows at different times. The light blue coloured sections indicate the portion of solar panels thought to be illuminated at the exact moment the 13 December image was taken. While Philae's legs and feet appear bright in images acquired during its descent to the surface, the simulations suggest that the Sun would not reach the lower portions of the lander at the time the 13 December image was taken. Under these illumination conditions, Philae would only cover a few pixels in the OSIRIS images taken from 20 km.
But is this really Philae? Unfortunately, it is impossible to be sure.
On one hand, analyses carried out at the Philae Science Operations and Navigation Center (SONC) at CNES suggest that this candidate satisfies a number of constraints regarding, for example, illumination and radio visibility in this region.
On the other, the candidate is located just outside the ellipse currently identified by CONSERT, although as mentioned earlier, improved shape models and continued CONSERT data analysis may alter its position.
Also, given the relatively long seven week interval between the 'before' and 'after' images, it is possible that this object is due to a physical change at that location on the nucleus, perhaps as fresher material was newly exposed. The relative lack of significant illumination in this region at the time argues that such changes are unlikely, but they cannot be completely ruled out.
Ultimately, a definitive identification of this or any other candidate as being Philae will require higher-resolution imaging, in turn meaning closer flybys. This may not be possible in the near-term, as issues encountered in navigating close to the comet mean that the opportunity to make flybys at significantly less than 20 km from the surface may be on hold until later in the mission. But after the comet's activity has subsided, Rosetta should be able to safely operate in close proximity to the comet nucleus again.
The other possibility of further refining Philae's location would come if the lander were to receive enough power to wake-up from its hibernation and resume its scientific study of 67P/C-G. Then, CONSERT could be used to perform additional ranging measurements and significantly reduce the uncertainties on the lander's location.
At the moment, Philae is still in hibernation, but the mission team remain hopeful that, as the comet moves closer to the Sun along its orbit, the lander will receive enough power in the coming weeks or months to wake up and transmit a signal to Rosetta.
"The conditions for Philae's wake-up are becoming more and more favourable as the comet approaches the Sun," says Lander Project Manager Stephan Ulamec. "The team at DLR's Lander Control Center has continued to prepare long term operations for Philae and its instruments in the hope that it does wake up soon."
In the meantime, the team continue to search through all available data. Patrick Martin, ESA's Rosetta mission manager says: "Follow-up work, such as the identification of candidates in other images taken from 20 km or less, along with improved reconstruction of the local topography, may help further narrow down the location of Philae."
Matt Taylor, ESA's Rosetta project scientist, adds: "Accurately locating the lander is of great scientific value, in particular for the joint orbiter and lander CONSERT experiment to get the best assessment of the interior structure of the comet nucleus. Knowing where Philae is would provide important context for the lander measurements and valuable information for its possible future operation. In the meantime, Rosetta is continuing to observe the comet from a range of distances as the comet's activity increases."
Notes and credits
This post was prepared in collaboration of ESA, CNES, DLR, LAM, and MPS.
The candidate discovered by the team of Philippe Lamy at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) was identified by G. Faury of AKKA Technologies (a contractor of LAM and IRAP). E. Jurado and R. Garmier of CS-SI (a contractor of CNES) at the Philae Science Operations and Navigation Center at CNES (SONC), A. Herique and Y. Roger of the CONSERT team at Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, and P. Heinisch of the ROMAP team at IGEP, the Technical University of Braunschweig, were also involved.
CONSERT
CONSERT is the Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission. The principal investigator is Wlodek Kofman of the Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), France. The CONSERT instrument was designed built and operated by IPAG, LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, France) and MPS (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) and was financially supported by CNES, CNRS, UJF, DLR, and MPS.
The scientific imaging system OSIRIS was built by a consortium led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Germany) in collaboration with CISAS, University of Padova (Italy), the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (France), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, CSIC (Spain), the Scientific Support Office of the European Space Agency (The Netherlands), the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (Spain), the Universidad Politéchnica de Madrid (Spain), the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Uppsala University (Sweden), and the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering of the TU Braunschweig (Germany). OSIRIS was financially supported by the national funding agencies of Germany (DLR), France (CNES), Italy (ASI), Spain (MEC), and Sweden (SNSB), and the ESA Technical Directorate.
ROMAP
ROMAP is the Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor. The contributing institutions to ROMAP are: Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany; Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany; Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Energy Research, Hungary; and Space Research Institute Graz, Austria. The co-principal investigators are Hans-Ulrich Auster (Technische Universität, Braunschweig) and István Apáthy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary.
ROLIS
ROLIS (ROsetta Lander Imaging System) is a descent and close-up camera on the Philae Lander. It has been developed by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin.
Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its Member States and NASA. Rosetta's Philae lander was provided by a consortium led by DLR, MPS, CNES, and ASI.
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Climate regulation of Southeast Asian hydrology.
Chen, Yongqin David and Chappell, Nick A. (2009) Climate regulation of Southeast Asian hydrology. In: Critical states: Environmental challenges to development in monsoon Southeast Asia. Gerakbudaya, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 205-220. ISBN 978-983-3782-62-8
The Southeast Asian tropics extends from 23.5o North (Tropic of Cancer) to 11o South, and 90-140o East, and includes the countries of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. Southern China, notably the regions of Hong Kong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Taiwan extend below the Tropic of Cancer at 106-122o East and are, therefore, climatologically part of the region. The region is also known as the 'Maritime Continent' because of its high proportion of sea, and the 'Warm Pool' because of its elevated sea-surface temperatures and consequent impact on evaporation and water vapour input to the upper troposphere (Newell and Gould-Stewart, 1981; Chen and Houze, 1997b). The high water vapour input to the upper troposphere makes SE Asia important for the global climate system (Neale and Slingo, 2003) and hence the global water cycle. The region exhibits climatic phenomena having important periodicities ranging from hours to decades (Nesbitt and Zipser, 2003; Franks and Kuczera, 2002). The strength and timing of these cycles and trends vary significantly over the latitudinal gradients from the equatorial zone to the Tropic of Cancer in the North and Lesser Sunda Islands (Nusa Tenggara) region to the South (Kripalani and Kulkarni, 1997). The spatial and temporal variability in the climatic cycles strongly affects the patterns in hydrology across the region. As a result, there are marked variations in the likelihood of flooding and droughts, the intensity of erosion and nutrient cycling, and the demand for irrigation water and water supplies. Further, the magnitudes of land-use change impacts on hydrology are also either - masked (Chappell and Tych, 2003) or regulated (Chappell et al., 2004b) by the region's climate dynamics. This chapter aims to review influential and recent studies from SE Asia that show how hydrology is regulated by climate.
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Михайлов Юрій Матвійович (;  25 липня 1930, Старицький район, Західна область (РСФСР), нині Тверська область —  15 липня 2008, Твер) — радянський ковзаняр, олімпійський чемпіон, тренер ковзанярів.

Спортивна кар'єра

На чемпіонаті СРСР 1954 на дистанції 1500 м Михайлов був четвертим, а на чемпіонаті 1955 — другим після Євгена Грішина.

Найкращим роком спортивної кар'єри Михайлова став 1956. Спочатку він встановив новий світовий рекорд часу на дистанції 1500 м — 2:09,1. Потім Михайлов потрапив в заявку на Зимові Олімпійські ігри 1956 на дистанціях 500 і 1500 м. В забігу на 500 м Михайлов впав і припинив боротьбу. А через два дні на своїй улюбленій дистанції Михайлов зумів вибороти золоту нагороду, розділивши перше місце з Євгеном Грішиним. Грішин стартував раніше Михайлова і фінішував з новим світовим і олімпійським рекордом часу — 2:08,6, але Михайлов в наступній після Грішина парі повторив рекордний час.

Того ж 1956 року Михайлов виступив на чемпіонаті світу в класичному багатоборстві, де на дистанції 500 м був першим, на дистанції 1500 м — третім, а в загальному заліку — восьмим.

В 1956 році Михайлов отримав єдину в кар'єрі золоту медаль чемпіонату СРСР на дистанції 1500 м.

В 1957 році на чемпіонаті Європи в класичному багатоборстві Михайлов був другим на дистанції 500 м і 13-м в загальному заліку.

Після завершення спортивної кар'єри Михайлов в 1969 році відкрив в Калініні спортивну школу, якою керував більше 30 років.

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FDA Issues Pradaxa Valve Warning
WASHINGTON -- The FDA is warning clinicians not to prescribe dabigatran (Pradaxa) to patients with mechanical heart valves, an indication for which the oral anticoagulant is not approved.
The move comes barely 2 weeks after the drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim stopped the phase II RE-ALIGN trial, which tested three doses of the drug in patients with mechanical valves.
Investigators stopped RE-ALIGN because patients on dabigatran experienced more adverse events such as strokes, heart attacks, and thrombus formation on mechanical heart valves compared with those taking warfarin. Dabigatran patients also saw more bleeding after valve surgery associated with dabigatran compared with warfarin, the FDA said in a statement.
Dabigatran was approved in the U.S. in 2010 for the prevention of stroke in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation.
Some bleeding concerns around dabigatran's approved use in atrial fibrillation arose internationally amid reports of 50 deaths attributed to the drug.
The FDA subsequently investigated the matter and determined there was no excess risk of bleeding associated with dabigatran.
Although adverse events have been associated with dabigatran's use in patients with mechanical heart valves, the drug has not been studied in patients with bioprosthetic valves, those made from natural body tissues.
Patients on bioprosthetic valves typically don't require blood thinners, Daniel Simon, MD, of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, told MedPage Today. However, if he encountered a patient with a natural biological valve, he would not prescribe dabigatran.
In fact, in its warning, the FDA noted that studies involving the use of dabigatran with bioprosthetic valves have not been conducted and so it cannot make any recommendation for or against its use. It urged physicians to evaluate patients on all types of prosthetic heart valves for the most appropriate medical therapy.
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