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The serious losses sustained in maintaining an increasingly costly static defence led to fractures in the German high command. On the evening of 1 July, in a conversation with Wilhelm Keitel, von Rundstedt advised; "Make peace, you fools." Shortly afterwards, Günther von Kluge replaced him as Commander in Chief West, and due to disagreements with Hitler over how the campaign should be conducted, Heinrich Eberbach replaced von Schweppenburg as commander of Panzer Group West.
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Centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems
EPSRC Delivery Plan 2019; Queen's University provides an exemplar
EPSRC sets out it's vision and objectives for 2019-20 in a Priority Framework, and backs it with a £1bn budget. CSIT in Queen's cited as an exemplar under the priority "Delivering economic impact and social prosperity".
EPSRC Vision - Research and innovation that delivers economic impact and social prosperity.
Connected nation
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)[1] in Queen's University Belfast (QUB) has been cited by EPSRC as an exemplar Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC)[a]. It's work in cyber -security is recognised as a significant contribution to the achievement of the priority of a connected nation [b], which is one of three objectives set in the EPSRC Delivery Plan 2019, i.e.; "Objective 1: Delivering economic impact and social prosperity"[c].
Productive nation
Another priority under Objective 1 is that of a "Productive nation: catalysing growth"[d]. It is in this area that the centre for Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems (i-AMS) [4] was set up by QUB to exploit advances in industrial digitalisation and automation to transform manufacturing processes and business models to build a more competitive UK industry.
Our purpose is to research, develop and demonstrate innovative technologies that enable and underpin the rapidly evolving digital manufacturing world. Professor Seán McLoone, QUB, Director of i-AMS [4]
Professor Lynn Gladden
Professor Gladden is the Executive Chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and states in the Foreword to to the Delivery Plan 2019;
Since 2015, we have established our first institutes: The Alan Turing Institute in data science; The Faraday Institution in battery science and technology; The Sir Henry Royce Institute in advanced materials; and most recently The Rosalind Franklin Institute, which focuses on transforming life science through interdisciplinary research and technology development. These institutes represent a total financial investment of around £478 million...also engaged... the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) to support science, research and innovation. In addition to investing around £750 million per year in the research base, we have won over £400 million of NPIF awards, including Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and Strategic Priorities Fund projects and support for 650 doctoral students and 80 innovation fellows. Our new Prosperity Partnerships scheme, meanwhile, has introduced a new way of working with business, with investment of £156 million that includes £90 million leveraged from industry and university partners. [2. p.2]
[a] IKCs are based in universities, with the purpose to commercialise emerging technologies, and create early stage critical mass in areas of disruptive technology through international quality research and access to companion technologies needed to commercialise research [3].
[b] "...build on the UK's world-leading position1 in research in areas as diverse as AI, data analytics, communications networks, mobile technologies and next-generation electronic hardware and materials, and at the interface between these technologies and society. ([2], p.8
[c] Objective 1: Delivering economic impact and social prosperity... four priorities essential for future UK prosperity. Collectively, they articulate a strategic expression of how research and skills in engineering and physical sciences add value for our nation ([2], p.3)
[d] "... to develop and commercialise new products, processes, services and technologies. Ensuring future growth and increasing UK productivity and earning power means investing in potentially disruptive research that can drive business innovation or trigger development of new business models." ([2]. p.6)
[1] CSIT . "Centre for Secure Information Technologies" [online]. Available at <https://www.qub.ac.uk/csit/>
[2] EPSRC, (2019). "Delivery Plan 2019", [online]. Available at <https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/pubs/deliveryplan2019/>
[3] EPSRC. "Innovation and knowledge centres", [online]. Available at <https://epsrc.ukri.org/innovation/business/opportunities/impactschemes/ikcs/>
[4] i-AMS. "Intelligent Autonomous Manufacturing Systems", [online]. Available at <http://www.qub.ac.uk/iams/>
An autumn gathering in Queen's University of experts in manufacturing research
People who advance intelligent control and automation sciences assemble in Queen's
SEA-KIT; first commercial crossing of the North Sea by uncrewed autonomous vessel
International Research and Innovation Strategy unveiled by UK Government

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Q: PHP link parameters lead me to localhost/xampp instead of running the script it's supposed to The "changeUserRole" action always leads me to localhost... which is xampp index.php, instead of myproject/index.php?setting=userlist.
I don't understand why as I have implemented the very same technique in a different file for different settings.
The file it is supposed to redirect to is action_changeuserrole.php which runs an SQL query and redirects back to this file, only without the parameters.
function showUserlistManagement() {

if (@$_GET['action'] == "addUser") {
    require_once('actions/userlist/adduser.php');
}
else if (@$_GET['action'] == "changeUserRole" ) {
    require_once('actions/userlist/action_changeuserrole.php');
}
else {
    echo "<button>Add User</button>";

    $i = 0;
    $sql = "SELECT doctorID, username, isAdmin FROM doctor ORDER BY isAdmin DESC";
    $result = query($sql);

    echo "
";
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        $i = $i + 1;
        echo "
" . $i . "	" . $row['username'] . "	" . isAdminText($row['isAdmin']) . "	<button>" . changeUserRoleButton($row['isAdmin']) . "</button>
";
    }
}

function isAdminText($isAdmin) {
    if ($isAdmin) {
        return "admin";
    }
    else return "user";
}

function changeUserRoleButton($isAdmin) {
    if ($isAdmin) {
        return 'Demote';
    }
    else return 'Promote';
}

}

The action_changeuserrole.php file :
<?php
    //$sql = "UPDATE doctor SET (isAdmin = '1') WHERE doctorID = " . $_GET['userID'];
    //$result = query($sql);
?>

<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0; URL=../../index.php?setting=userlist'>

A: difficult to understand what you are asking and what exactly is happening in your code, but maybe this will help.
since the path is relative, where it leads you would depend on what the current url is (or base tag value).
if your url is:
foo/bar/something/something/test.php
../../index.php would then lead to:
foo/bar/index.php
on the other hand, if your url is:
foo/bar/test.php
../../index.php would then lead to:
index.php
To help mitigate this, some people use the <base> tag in their HTML. This tag lets you specify a base URL that all relative URLs will use to calculate a final path from. Not 100% sure if this works with meta refreshes. You will have to test.

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A place of artistic and architectural experimentation: The Art of Living by Molteni&C in Barcelona
in Architecture, Design
Molteni&C renovates The Art of Living project, presenting its latest collections at villa La Ricarda in Barcelona, one of the most important icons of Catalan Rationalism. The story of a family, a legacy and a passion for things beautiful and for finely crafted furniture, a culture forged and nurtured within the firm.
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La Ricarda, otherwise known as Casa Gomis, designed in 1953-54 in an area of Barcelona surrounded by pine trees, by the architect Antonio Bonet, in cooperation with the owners, Ricardo Gomis and his wife, Agnes Bertrand Mata.
Each part of the house has a virtual counterpart in the open air. Terraces and verandas look out over the garden with floor to-ceiling windows.
Several pavillions, arranged asymmetrically, make up the body of the building. The ondulating arches echo the profile of the pine trees, in an interplay that reveals and conceals nature and human construction.
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Tiffany enters in the LVMH empire
Zaha Hadid Architects Wins the Competition to Design the Hangzhou International Sports Centre in China
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Aldridge's 37 PTs lifts Davidson past UNC Wilmington 108-81
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package com.pavlovmedia.oss.jaxrs.publisher.impl;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.concurrent.CopyOnWriteArrayList;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
import org.osgi.framework.InvalidSyntaxException;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceEvent;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceReference;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Activate;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Component;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Deactivate;
import org.osgi.service.component.annotations.Reference;
import org.osgi.service.log.Logger;
import org.osgi.service.log.LoggerFactory;

import com.pavlovmedia.oss.jaxrs.publisher.api.Publisher;

/**
 * This is a tracker that will track all services in OSGi. It operates very
 * much like the osgi-jax-rs-connector that is being replaced.
 *
 * Because it operates on {@link ServiceEvent}, care needs to be taken with getting
 * and ungetting services.
 *
 * @author Shawn Dempsay {@literal <sdempsay@pavlovmedia.com>}
 *
 */
@Component(factory=WidcardServiceTracker.FACTORY_NAME,
    property= {
        "com.eclipsesource.jaxrs.publish=false"
    })
public class WidcardServiceTracker extends BaseObjectTracker {
    public static final String FACTORY_NAME = "com.pavlovmedia.oss.jaxrs.provider.impl.WidcardServiceTracker";
    public static final String FACTORY_FILTER = "(component.factory="+FACTORY_NAME+")";

    /** This service filter grabs everything that isn't marked with ignore */
    private static final String SERVICE_FILTER = "(&(objectClass=*)(!(" + Publisher.SCAN_IGNORE + "=*)))";

    /** This is a blocker to keep us from parsing while we are shutting down */
    private final AtomicBoolean processing = new AtomicBoolean(true);

    @Reference(service = LoggerFactory.class)
    Logger logger;

    @Override
    public void logDebug(final String format, final Object... args) {
        logger.debug(String.format(format, args));
    }

    @Override
    public void logInfo(final String format, final Object... args) {
        logger.info(String.format(format, args));
    }

    @Override
    public void logError(final Exception e, final String format, final Object... args) {
        logger.info(String.format(format, args), e);
    }

    /** The context is saved so we can get and unget services */
    private BundleContext context;

    /** This is a tracker for any {@link ServiceReference} that we hold */
    final List<ServiceReference<?>> openReferences = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<>();

    /**
     * This activate is here to control the service
     * tracker directly. It will start an event watcher and then scan all the
     * existing services looking for something that appears to be JAX-RS, which is
     * handled by the base class.
     *
     * @param properties OSGi properties passed along
     * @param context OSGi bundle context for this bundle
     *
     * @throws InvalidSyntaxException should never be thrown because the filter is a constant
     */
    @Activate
    protected void activate(final Map<String, Object> properties, final BundleContext context) throws InvalidSyntaxException {
        logDebug("Starting %s", this.getClass().getName());
        onTargetChange = Optional.ofNullable((Runnable) properties.get(CALLBACK));

        this.context = context;
        context.addServiceListener(this::serviceChanged, SERVICE_FILTER);

        // This walks all the existing services so bundle start
        // ordering has no impact on JAX-RS functions
        try {
            Arrays.asList(context.getAllServiceReferences(null, SERVICE_FILTER))
                .forEach(this::tryAddService);
        } catch (InvalidSyntaxException e) {
            logError(e, "Failed to pull existing services");
        }

        // If we pre-bound anything, notify now
        if (!jaxrsTargets.isEmpty()) {
            logDebug("Kicking initial page set");
            onTargetChange.ifPresent(Runnable::run);
        } else {
            logDebug("No pages to bind yet");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Not sure if it is really needed, but get rid of the service listener before
     * a full shutdown occurs
     */
    @Deactivate
    protected void deactivate() {
        processing.set(false);
        context.removeServiceListener(this::serviceChanged);
    }

    /**
     * This is the tracker event that tells about services coming and
     * going. We just take these events and pass along info to the
     * parent class to determine if they are jax classes or not.
     *
     * @param event the OSGi service event
     */
    private void serviceChanged(final ServiceEvent event) {
        // If we are shutting down just stop looking at services
        if (!processing.get()) {
            return;
        }

        switch(event.getType()) {
            case ServiceEvent.REGISTERED:
                ServiceReference<?> addedServiceReference = event.getServiceReference();
                // See if we really want to use this
                System.out.format("Service %s has been registered\n", addedServiceReference);
                tryAddService(addedServiceReference);
                break;
            case ServiceEvent.UNREGISTERING:
                ServiceReference<?> removedServiceReference = event.getServiceReference();
                if (openReferences.contains(removedServiceReference)) {
                    logger.debug(String.format("Removing service %s", removedServiceReference));
                    openReferences.remove(removedServiceReference);
                    context.ungetService(removedServiceReference);
                } else {
                    logger.debug(String.format("Did not find service reference %s in %s", removedServiceReference, openReferences));
                }
                removeTarget(removedServiceReference);
                break;
            default:
                // Do nothing
                break;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Takes an OSGi service and adds it if it matches the
     * criteria for being a JAX-RS target.
     *
     * @param serviceReference the service reference of the service
     */
    private void tryAddService(final ServiceReference<?> serviceReference) {
        try {
            Object jaxPage = context.getService(serviceReference);
            if (null != jaxPage) {
                if (addTarget(serviceReference, jaxPage)) {
                    openReferences.add(serviceReference);
                } else {
                    context.ungetService(serviceReference);
                }
            }
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            logError(e, "Failed to look at service %s", serviceReference);
        }
    }
}

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Michael Vick formed the Team Vick Foundation to provide opportunities and resources for the most vulnerable population - youth in the inner city. Over the past few years, Mike's passion to offer viable resources and provide successful paths for youth and their families has increased tremendously. We're proud to announce "The Huddle" will be launching in January 2019 in Atlanta, GA at a deserving Atlanta Public School and we need your support!
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In 1954 MGM released two musicals in the new widescreen CinemaScope format. One was a lavish adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical "Brigadoon" the other was a musical written especially for the screen, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Despite "Seven Brides" having a score that featured lyrics by perhaps the greatest lyricist to ever live, Johnny Mercer, MGM put all their gusto behind "Brigadoon," cutting the budget of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," essentially treating it like a B picture. Despite having an all-star cast that included Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, "Brigadoon" flopped when it was released, not recouping it's over three million dollar budget at the box office.
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" on the other hand, was a smash hit, bringing in over nine million on a mere two and a half million dollar budget. Film fans today are still mixed in how to view "Brigadoon," while "Seven Brides" is undeniably a classic and one of MGM's best. Directed by Stanley Donen and starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" takes place in 1850 in the Oregon Territory. Backwoodsman Adam Pontipee (Keel) comes to town looking for a bride, upon finding one the newlyweds return home, only for Adam's new bride Milly (Powell) she finds that not only has she gotten a husband, but an instant family of his six brothers too.
It's downright impossible not to get swept up in the charms of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" if the film doesn't have you fully hooked by the amazing barn-raising sequence, then maybe musicals just aren't your bag. Warner Archive has brought "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" to blu-ray in a most impressive two-disc set that brings both the original CinemaScope 2.55:1 version of the film to HD, and the little-seen alternate 1.77:1 "flat" version of the film that was shot at the same time as the CinemaScope film, but made of entirely different takes. This was an experiment MGM only did on three films, this one, "Brigadoon," and "The Student Prince." The feeling was that if CinemaScope flopped—or if not enough theaters are equipped to show it, they'd still have a releasable version of the films in the bank.
Both films are presented in new 2K scans, and both look quite good. The CinemaScope version of "Seven Brides" is really quite impressive when you realize how little there is to work with, the film's original CinemaScope negative was badly damaged in the late 1960s, and the film was shot in Ansco color—which faded rapidly over time. The flat version of the film has a slight edge color wise—MGM wound up never releasing it and the negative sat untouched for decades until being made available for the first time on a 1999 deluxe laserdisc set of the film.
This blu-ray set mirrors the bonus material from the 2004 deluxe DVD release of the film, which is perfectly fine as all the extras are quite solid. There's a commentary track from director Donen, a making-of feature, newsreel footage of the film's premiere, and a short subject celebrating MGM's 30th anniversary—also in CinemaScope and in a rich, 5.1 mix. "Seven Brides" was released in four-track stereo, and the CinemaScope version features a DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix created from those original elements, the "flat" version features a mono soundtrack, also in DTS-HD MA. It's a fine release of one of the most beloved movie musicals of all time.
Also out from Warner Archive, making its blu-ray debut, is director Vincente Minnelli's 1957 charmer "Designing Woman" starring Lauren Bacall and Gregory Peck. Bacall plays a fashion designer and Peck a sportswriter. Both meet in Los Angelas and fall in love, marry, then return home to NYC after a weekend romance and begin to realize that they don't actually know each other all that well. This is a fun film and starts off with a great opening scene that has the characters breaking the fourth wall and addressing the camera directly. Bacall and Peck are a fun duo together, and the film breezily moves along thanks to an Oscar-winning screenplay This new blu-ray from Warner Archive features a new 1080p transfer of the film made from original CinemaScope elements—it looks terrific! Bonus materials include a mini-documentary with costume designer Helen Rose and the film's theatrical trailer. Both of these films are fine additions to your home video library and another excellent job from Warner Archive. I hope you'll give both of them a look soon. See you next week.


First of all I want to thank everybody for the terrific feedback on Friday's post. There are enough ideas to keep us going for a long time here at SHTFblog. I'll announce the winner of the drawing Wednesday morning, so make sure to check in then to find out who the lucky winner is.
Awhile back I posted a story about how I broke my leg in the 100 Mile Wilderness here in Maine five or six years ago. In the story I mention the splint, but in the interest of space I didn't elaborate on it. After reading some of your feedback I thought I'd write a quick post about it because it hits on a few different things: medical emergency, it was a real life situation, improvising on the spot, etc.
We'd hiked through rain and thunderstorms and crossed a river, so we couldn't have been any wetter if we'd tried. My rain pants had proven to be absolutely useless and I'd ditched them earlier that morning and was wearing a pair of shorts and my hiking boots and my rain coat on top with my pack over it.
We were hiking up Gulf Hagas mountain and I was planning on spending the night at the lean to, but it was still about five or six miles from where we were. I was hiking fast to stay warm when I suddenly tripped on a wet root and fell, breaking my ankle on the way down. There was absolutely no question in my mind about what had happened. I'd never broken a bone before, but I could feel it break and actually heard it snap like a dry branch breaking. Oh yeah, and it hurt. A lot.
First, I wrapped the towel around my leg. Then I broke two sticks off so they reached from the bottom of my boot to my knee then I placed them on either side of my ankle and wrapped some twine around them to hold them in place. Finally, I had June cut my sleeping mat so that it would reach from just below my knee to down over my boot. The purpose of the splint was to keep the ankle in place as much as possible by holding my foot stable, which it did quite nicely.
I left the boot on as added protection, although later I had to loosen the laces up when my foot started to go numb because the swelling was cutting off the blood supply.
Later on an EMT checked it and said it was one of the best self-aid field splints he'd ever seen, so it was nice to get that kind of feedback about an emergency splint I cobbled together with what I had on hand.
As long as you had your knife with you it would be relatively easy to make this kind of splint.
What else could you think of use in a situation like that? Just imagine it… you're laying in the woods 40 miles from anywhere and you've got to splint a broken leg. What would you use?


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Car Crashes Into Fence at Governor's Mansion New Year's Day
News 9 - January 3, 2023 6:15 am
A car plowed through the fence of the Governor's Mansion on New Year's morning.
According to troopers, the car was speeding eastbound on 23rd when the driver lost control, crashing and mangling an iron fence.
One person fled, while three others who were also inside the car went to the hospital.
The crash is being investigated as a DUI.


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Real estate entrepreneur, television personality and bestselling author Fredrik Eklund is known for his signature high kicks and unstoppable energy on the Emmy-nominated hit television series Million Dollar Listing: New York and is a producer and star of Bravo's new real estate show Bethenny and Fredrik. Founder of the top sales team at prestigious real estate firm Douglas Elliman, Fredrik regularly breaks sales records and was named the number one real estate team in New York City by REAL Trends and the Wall Street Journal in 2017 with close to $1 billion in closed sales this year alone.
Often working on a building for years before it hits the market, Fredrik vets locations, interviews architects, and works with designers to customize each space to appeal to target buyers. Redefining what it means to be a real estate broker in today's market, Fredrik is changing the New York skyline, one luxury high-rise at a time.
Born and raised outside of Stockholm, Sweden, Fredrik understood the nuances of negotiation from a young age. At four years old, he performed a one-man show on a makeshift stage in his living room, inviting his family and neighbors to attend and charging five kroners per seat. At seven, he signed up to sell Christmas calendars and was obsessed with being the number-one seller out of thousands of kids. He crafted a sales strategy and went door to door, sometimes spending hours with his customers. That winter, he broke all sales records for the calendar company and learned his first of many lessons in the art of the sell: authenticity and earned trust are the cornerstones of a successful transaction.
At 10 years old, Fredrik visited New York City for the first time and was instantly hooked, captivated by the vertical landscape of gleaming towers. He vowed to return one day to make his mark. Fredrik went on to study at the Stockholm School of Economics and subsequently co-founded an Internet company and worked for the investment bank SEB in Stockholm, London, Singapore and Tokyo.
At 25, Fredrik returned to Manhattan armed mostly with a pair of well-worn sneakers and resolute determination to achieve success in an as yet unknown field of endeavor. During his first year in real estate, Fredrik sold $50 million worth of property and was nominated for Rookie of the Year by the Real Estate Board of New York. To date, he has closed more than $5 billion in residential sales, is consistently setting records, and has a client list that includes major celebrities such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Gigi Hadid, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, Daniel Craig, Alec Baldwin, and Jennifer Lopez. His active listings currently exceed $2 billion and includes his new development portfolio. In addition, he is the founder of Scandinavia's most high-end residential real estate brokerage with 50 employees, two offices, and $1 billion in closed sales this year. Despite his success, Fredrik remembers to not take himself too seriously.
Fredrik is married to abstract painter Derek Kaplan, and share twins, Milla and Freddy. He spends weekends with his husband, dogs, and kids in their Georgian mini-mansion in Connecticut. Known for being part "shark" in business, Fredrik is a softy at home, where he enjoys cooking, photography, and taking care of his puppies and family. He also launched his own wine, High-Kick, now sold in six countries and counting, and his rosé wine officially is the number-one new rosé in Sweden.
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Steve Gold is a successful luxury broker at The Corcoran Group. Formally at Town Residential, Gold primarily focuses on luxury properties throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn and played a vital role in many marquee new developments in Greenwich Village, Flatiron, SoHo the West Village, and now The Upper West Side, where he is spearheading sales of Circa Central Park. Prior to real estate, Gold had an enviable career in the fashion industry, working with some of the world's most coveted designers, including Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren and Giorgio Armani. Although modeling granted him the opportunity to travel extensively around the world, he considers New York his home and can't imagine living anywhere else.
Always hungry for a challenge, Gold decided to move on from fashion and go big into real estate. Whether working with a first-time buyer or an A-list celebrity, he prides himself on making the real estate transaction process as seamless and efficient as possible for his clients. Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut, Gold is an avid sportsman. He grew up sailboat racing in the Long Island Sound with his father on their boat, Turning Point. A lifelong athlete, he also enjoys ice hockey, boxing, skiing and surfing in his spare time. Beyond real estate and sports, however, Gold also allots his time to participate in several charitable causes, including his past support for AmFar for AIDS research, FreeArts NYC, and The Brazil Foundation, among others. Most recently, Gold has been an advocate and spokesperson for the Nassau County SPCA.
Gold graduated magna cum laude from the Stern School of Business at New York University with degrees in Finance and Marketing. He currently splits time between New York City and Southampton, NY with his dog Pablo, whom he rescued from high kill shelter in Georgia.
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Ryan Serhant's first day in the real estate business was on September 15, 2008, the day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in the wake of the subprime mortgage collapse. While the real estate sector has slowly recovered, Serhant has become one of the most successful brokers in the world, with agents under his leadership in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and the Hamptons. Ryan is known to audiences all over the world as one of the stars of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing: New York. He also starred in Bravo's series, Sell it Like Serhant where Ryan showed people how it's done as he put his skills to the test, helping struggling sales reps who are looking for his expertise. Last year, Ryan published a successful sales book by Hachette, Sell It Like Serhant.
Serhant is recognized as a real estate powerhouse. His team at Nest Seekers International sold just under $1B in real estate in 2017 and consistently ranks in the top five real estate teams nationwide in the Wall Street Journal Real Trends annual review, with Serhant consistently the youngest team leader in the top ten. As a real estate expert he is a frequent contributor to CNN, CNBC, The Today Show and Bloomberg TV, and is often quoted in The New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the real estate correspondent for Daily Mail TV, a nationally syndicated television show and he recently launched his own vlog at youtube.com/ryanserhant.
Serhant is an active supporter of nonprofit organizations including DKMS, Operation Smile, Save the Children, Make a Wish, the Human Rights Campaign, Ronald McDonald House, Habitat for Humanity, Pink Agenda and UNICEF, among others.
After graduating Hamilton College in 2006 with twin degrees in English literature and theatre, Serhant headed to New York City to pursue an acting career before becoming a successful real estate broker. He currently lives in New York City with his wife Emilia, and they welcomed their first daughter earlier this year, Zena.


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Women Who Eat on Tubes Facebook page: hilarious, right?
Women of London, it's time to acknowledge the fact that we are revolting commuters. That's right, if you get the Tube and have a vagina, you're exposing your fellow commuters to a disgusting display of behaviour.
But what is it exactly that we're doing? Are we coughing without covering our faces? Perhaps we're emitting fumes of stale coffee and ash over our travelling companions? Or maybe, the worst commuter crime of all, it's because we're noisy breathers?
Actually, it's none of the above. In fact, it's that we've been caught eating en route. Not only that, some lovely chap has decided to document these acts and has created a Facebook group, and tumblr, titled Women Who Eat On Tubes, for the sole purpose of presenting pictures of women munching on their way to and from work.
We were first alerted to this when Caitlin Moran tweeted about it last week:
There are some who find it funny and, in some respects, creating content on a niche area is what the internet does best, you need only look at the popularity of Hungover Owls. But we're not talking about the hilarious faces owls make (they don't even drink alcohol - lol!), this is about women being photographed without their knowledge.
A friend of the creator, Nathalie Gordon, wrote a blog piece for the Huffington Post about how we need to lighten up and not get so offended by such matters, and suggests that women stop using the word 'victim'. She says that the Facebook group, created by her friend Tony Burke and with 4,650 followers (at time of writing), should be celebrated and that because both men and women post images and comments, it's OK.
But what is it about women eating that is so funny? It's clearly a joke that many people don't seem to get.
More than that, none of the comments seem to be as innocent as Gordon suggests. True, both sexes post but they appear to deride rather than celebrate (as they say they do) the fact that women are eating.
Here are just a few comments you can currently read on the WWEOT page:
"McD's smelly onion rings, complete with unknown dip. Had to hand it to her, these round fried delights were dipped and devoured feverishly in the 7 minutes it takes from Waterloo to Bank."
"Gobble gobble... Piccadilly line 6.12 dry white sandwich with ham and what looked like mayo..."
"Looks as if she is about to pull a snake out of there"
"No wonder it takes women so long to leave the house if they're worrying about whether or not they've packed the Tommy K"
After reading various posts on the page, they at least don't tolerate rude language. At one point, one of the featured women is called a slut, and an admin steps in and says it's unacceptable. But when the subject is all about women, what do they expect? You need only look at the comment sections on websites, or witness the abuse that prominent (and not so prominent) women get on Twitter to realise how quickly language can escalate into something more threatening and sexual in nature.
It's misogyny disguised as 'a bit of fun', for 'a laugh' and, that horrendous word, 'banter'. Perhaps there's nothing overtly sexual about it (although there are some interesting fetishes out there) but it's incredibly creepy. Why do we need to see these pictures exactly? And how do these women feel about being photographed? The implication here is that female mastication is amusing and grotesque.
A similar "project" in the US titled Train Pigs offers the same sort of shooting and shaming process but they include men on their Facebook page too. While Burke says this isn't a gender argument, if that's the case, why not rename the group to People Who Eat on Tubes?
The next time I get on a Tube and I want to eat a packet of Mini Cheddars, I don't want to be worrying about if I'll be surreptitiously snapped and then posted up on Facebook without my consent. And in a world where women are constantly judged for being too fat, skinny, pretty, not pretty enough, not having a thigh gap, having a thigh gap (etc, ad nauseam), we can do without worrying about this too.
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The Hindi film Aye Dil Hai Mushkil released all over yesterday with a huge round of expectations and humongous promotions. The crazy star cast was the selling point and Aishwarya Rai was seen on screen after a long time in a Karan Johar film.
But to everyone's surprise Aishwarya seems to have stolen all the thunder from both Ranbir and Anushka. Even though Ash appears only in the second half her role and performance has hit the bulls eye. She plays a poet in the film and is smitten with Ranbir Kapoor big time.
Ash's chemistry with Ranbir has been appreciated big time but the real.fact is that everyone is watching the film for her and she has not let anyone down and has stolen the thunder from everyone.


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HUD Secretary Ben Carson Compares Baltimore To A Cancer Patient
By Brakkton Booker
Published July 31, 2019 at 4:11 PM CDT
HUD Secretary Ben Carson speaks during a news conference after touring a housing development in Baltimore.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson made a visit to Baltimore on Wednesday and renewed his defense of President Trump's disparaging comments about the city, and reiterated his own critique of the city where he lived for more than three decades.
"There are good things in Baltimore. There are bad things in Baltimore," Carson told reporters near a recently renovated affordable housing development. "But there are problems and we can't sweep them under the rug."
Carson, who built a career as a widely-respected pediatric neurosurgeon at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, went on to liken the city's social and economic woes to someone afflicted with cancer.
"You can dress them up and put a nice suit on him and you can try to ignore it, but that cancer is going to have a devastating effect. You have to be willing to address that issue if you're ever going to solve it," Carson said.
Baltimore and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., whose majority African American district encompasses much of the city, have been the targets of a series of controversial Trump tweets that began over the weekend.
In comments widely condemned as racist, Trump referred to Cummings, who is black, as "a brutal bully," said the city was "a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess." He also tweeted "no human being would want to live there."
At the White House on Tuesday, Trump accused Baltimore officials of being corrupt and stealing billions of dollars.
"What Elijah Cummings should do is, he should take his oversight committee, bring them down to Baltimore...and really study the billions and billions of dollars that's been stolen," Trump said. Cummings is chairman of the House oversight committee.
Carson, who is also black, on Wednesday reaffirmed his support for some of the president's remarks about Baltimore. He said that while he was a practicing physician in Baltimore, he was often caught in a "dilemma," over whether to send some children back to their homes in poor neighborhoods in East or West Baltimore.
"Where there were rats and roaches and mice and ticks, where there was just unabated lead problems that were having devastating effects on the mental development of young people," Carson said. "That was a problem for me and it stayed on my mind a lot."
On Monday, Carson told Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that he would sometimes order additional tests to allow patients to spend a few more days in the hospital before going home.
Carson's Wednesday press conference was originally scheduled for an open field across from the Hollins House, a high-rise building with 130 units and the site of a multi-million-dollar renovation that began under the Obama administration.
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Morning Star Baptist Church member Gregory Evans speaks to reporters about why asked HUD officials to move their press conference from the church's property. "There was no permission granted."
But the event had to be hurriedly moved to an alleyway because a member of Morning Star Baptist Church, Gregory Evans, objected to the event being held on church's property.
"You have not asked for any permission to be here," Evans told a Carson handler.
Carson addressed the matter during his remarks saying it was important to work together and called it "madness" that a church would boot him off its property "when we're talking about helping people."
Evans said no one informed the church that HUD would be holding a press conference on its property and said he did not believe that the Trump administration was doing enough to help people in his community.
"You can look across the street from the church and see the dilapidated housing. You can see the houses on both sides of the church are falling down," Evans said. "You don't need me to point that out."
Carson did not unveil any new housing policy at the event, but he did tout the benefits of a Trump-backed opportunity zones program that offers tax incentives to attract investment to distressed neighborhoods.
Trump said he would visit Baltimore himself "at the right time." Carson said he has spoken with the president over the last few days and said Trump was "very willing to work with the people here in Baltimore, including with Elijah Cummings."
Carson added: "You know, the president's emphasis is on the people."
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Disney is going hard on live action reimaginings of previous animated movies this year and one Disney exec has thoughts about why these movies have been so successful.
Do we trust Disney to fix these issues?
It's a whole new world of toy leaks out there.
Two more months of waiting for the live-action Aladdin can give you such a crick in the neck!
The new Aladdin is getting a new Iago, and the original is apparently quite unhappy about that.
Patience, Iago... we finally know who will voice the hilarious parrot in the live-action Aladdin.
The on going saga of Will Smith's Genie continues. So is he blue or not?
The internet has been having fun at the expense of Will Smith's Genie in Aladdin, but Disney thinks people will come around.
This is a different look for Thaddeus Sivana.
Nobody seems to like Will Smith's look for the new Aladdin, but why is anybody so surprised?
It's not sitting well with many Disney animation filmmakers that they won't see a dime from the live-action remakes.
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Playing for the Melbourne Stars vs Melbourne Renegades, Dwayne Bravo timed his leap to perfection and pulled off a wonder catch to dismiss opener Marcus Harris.
The Big Bash League (BBL) 2019 has some brilliant fielding efforts but on Saturday Dwayne Bravo came up with a one-handed stunner to rival them all. Playing for the Melbourne Stars against the Melbourne Renegades, Bravo timed his leap to perfection and pulled off a wonder catch to dismiss opener Marcus Harris for 15 and trigger a top-order collapse. The official Twitter handle of the Big Bash League posted a video of the catch with fans coming out in droves to applaud the effort.
Harris and skipper Aaron Finch had given the Renegades a brilliant start after the Stars had won the toss and elected to field.
Five boundaries, including two sixes, had already been hit in the first three overs as Melbourne Renegades reached 30 for no loss in 2.4 overs. But fielding at mid-on, Bravo's stunner turned the match on it's head.
After Harris, Finch and Sam Harper fell to Jackson Bird in the next over with the score still on 30.
Cameron White didn't survive too long either, falling to Marcus Stoinis for 1 as Renegades collapsed to 33 for four in 45 overs after being 30 for no loss.
Tom Cooper (24) and Mohammad Nabi (28) tried to steady the ship but another collapse towards the end saw Renegades being bundled out for 121 in 19.3 overs.
Melbourne Stars' chase didn't start well as they lost Ben Dunk (0) in the second ball of the innings while Peter Handscomb (8) and Glenn Maxwell (7) without making much of a contribution to leave the Stars tottering at 35 for 3 in 6.4 overs.
However, Stoinis, who opened the innings, single-handedly won the game for the Stars with an unbeaten knock of 70 off 65 balls to give his team only it's fourth win in nine matches.
Melbourne Renegades are currently third in the table with 10 points but have played a game more than the Stars, who are sixth with seven points.


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Figure 1. Screening and Progress of Patients in the Second Vasovagal Pacemaker Study
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Figure 2. Time to First Recurrence of Syncope
Relative risk reduction of 30.2% (95% confidence interval, −33.2% to 63.4%; log-rank P = .14).
Figure 3. Subgroup Analyses
Table 1. Baseline Patient Characteristics
Table 2. Pacemaker Complications
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Is There an Effective Treatment for Neurally Mediated Syncope?
Wishwa N. Kapoor, MD, MPH
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Connolly SJ, Sheldon R, Thorpe KE, et al. Pacemaker Therapy for Prevention of Syncope in Patients With Recurrent Severe Vasovagal Syncope: Second Vasovagal Pacemaker Study (VPS II): A Randomized Trial. JAMA. 2003;289(17):2224–2229. doi:10.1001/jama.289.17.2224
Original Contribution
Pacemaker Therapy for Prevention of Syncope in Patients With Recurrent Severe Vasovagal Syncope: Second Vasovagal Pacemaker Study (VPS II): A Randomized Trial
Stuart J. Connolly, MD; Robert Sheldon, MD; Kevin E. Thorpe, MMath; et al Robin S. Roberts, MTech; Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD; Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD; Carlos Morillo, MD; Michael Gent, DSc; for the VPS II Investigators
Author Affiliations: Departments of Medicine (Drs Connolly and Morillo) and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Messrs Thorpe and Roberts, and Dr Gent), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta (Dr Sheldon); Department of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond (Dr Ellenbogen); Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio (Dr Wilkoff); and Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Instituto del Corazon, Floridablanca, Colombia (Dr Morillo).
JAMA. 2003;289(17):2224-2229. doi:10.1001/jama.289.17.2224
Context Three previous small randomized trials have reported that pacemaker therapy is beneficial for patients with severe recurrent vasovagal syncope. However, because these trials were not double blind, they may have been biased in their assessment of outcomes and had a placebo effect of surgery.
Objective To determine if pacing therapy reduces the risk of syncope in patients with vasovagal syncope.
Design, Setting, and Patients A randomized double-blind trial of pacemaker therapy in outpatients referred to syncope specialists at 15 centers from September 1998 to April 2002. In the year prior to randomization, patients had had a median of 4 episodes of syncope. Patients were followed up for up to 6 months.
Intervention After implantation of a dual chamber pacemaker, 100 patients were randomly assigned to receive dual-chamber pacing (DDD) with rate drop response or to have only sensing without pacing (ODO).
Main Outcome Measure Time to first recurrence of syncope.
Results No patients were lost to follow-up. Of the 52 patients randomized to ODO, 22 (42%) had recurrent syncope within 6 months compared with 16 (33%) of 48 patients in the DDD group. The cumulative risk of syncope at 6 months was 40% (95% confidence interval [CI], 25%-52%) for the ODO group and 31% (95% CI, 17%-43%) for the DDD group. The relative risk reduction in time to syncope with DDD pacing was 30% (95% CI, –33% to 63%; 1-sided P = .14). Lead dislodgement or repositioning occurred in 7 patients. One patient had vein thrombosis, another had pericardial tamponade leading to removal of the pacemaker system, and a third had infection involving the pacemaker generator.
Conclusions In this double-blind randomized trial, pacing therapy did not reduce the risk of recurrent syncope in patients with vasovagal syncope. Because of the weak evidence of efficacy of pacemaker therapy and the risk of complications, pacemaker therapy should not be recommended as first-line therapy for patients with recurrent vasovagal syncope.
Vasovagal syncope, also known as neurally mediated syncope, is a common problem for which no highly effective pharmacological treatments are available. Because vasovagal syncope episodes are often associated with bradycardia, pacemakers have been proposed as a potential treatment. After some uncontrolled follow-up studies reported a benefit,1,2 3 small randomized controlled trials of pacemaker therapy were performed.3-5 All 3 trials reported a reduction in syncope recurrence with pacing. However, treatment in all 3 studies was not blinded, such that patients and their physicians knew whether the patient had received a pacemaker. It is possible that the reported benefit of pacemaker therapy was due in part to a psychological or emotional effect related to receiving a device by means of an invasive procedure. To exclude this possibility and to provide a stronger level of evidence that prevention of bradycardia by means of pacemaker therapy reduces the risk of recurrent syncope in patients with vasovagal syncope, we conducted a randomized double-blind trial of pacing.
Patient Eligibility
Patients were eligible for this study if they were older than 19 years and if they had a typical history of recurrent vasovagal syncope with at least 6 episodes of syncope ever, or at least 3 episodes in the 2 years prior to enrollment. In addition, patients had to have a positive head-up tilt table test result with a heart rate × blood pressure product of less than 6000/min × mm Hg. Each center used its own tilt study protocol. Although there was variation in the head-up tilt table test protocols used, considerable uniformity existed between protocols at the 15 centers in Canada, Australia, the United States, and Colombia. A passive head-up tilt table test was conducted at 60° to 80° for between 15 and 30 minutes and then an isoproterenol infusion was administered at doses varying from 1 to 4 µg/min for 5 to 15 minutes. Nitroglycerine was used by some centers instead of or with isoproterenol. The protocol was approved by a research ethics board at each center and each patient provided signed informed consent. Patients were excluded from the trial if any other cause of syncope was evident. They were also excluded if they had important valvular, coronary artery, or myocardial disease; an electrocardiographic abnormality; or any major noncardiovascular disease. The trial was conducted from September 1998 to April 2002.
Randomization and Programming
After implantation of a dual-chamber pacemaker (Medtronic Kappa, Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, Minn), patients were randomized by a central process to dual-chamber pacing (DDD) or sensing without pacing (ODO) (Figure 1). An unblinded nurse or physician, who had no other patient contact, did all the programming. The patients' physicians, the patients, and all other study personnel remained blinded to treatment allocation. Blinded study personnel and physicians were asked not to perform routine electrocardiograms. Patients randomized to DDD also received rate drop response pacing, a feature of the pacemaker that instituted rapid DDD pacing if the device detected a rapid decrease in heart rate. The protocol specified that the initial rate drop response parameters should be a drop size of 20 beats, a drop rate of 70/min, and an intervention rate of 100/min for 2 minutes.
The primary study outcome was syncope defined as a transient loss of consciousness with prompt spontaneous recovery. Patients were requested to report syncope episodes as soon as possible after the syncopal event occurred. Evidence of syncope was collected including signs of injury and reports from witnesses. A blinded committee of investigators adjudicated all reports of syncope. The study follow-up period was 6 months or up to the time of occurrence of the first episode of recurrent syncope.
This study was designed to have 80% power to detect a 50% relative reduction in the risk of recurrent syncope from a rate of 60% in the control group to 30% in the treatment group. To achieve this, a study population of 80 patients was planned. However, after enrollment of 60 patients, the combined event rate of the 2 treatment groups was lower than anticipated, so the study target enrollment was increased to 100 patients.
The primary analysis of the study was planned as a comparison of the cumulative risk of syncope between the 2 treatment groups using a log-rank test. All randomized patients had complete data for the primary outcome (recurrence of syncope) and were analyzed according to the intent-to-treat principle. Thus, all outcomes were attributed to the randomly assigned treatment groups regardless of compliance to assigned treatment. The randomization schedule was stratified by center and used randomly varying block sizes of 2 and 4. The centers were not aware of the block sizes. The individual responsible for randomization in the center was not involved in patient recruitment. All patients received their allocated treatment assignment.
The relative risk reduction (RRR) was calculated as 1 − the hazard ratio from a Cox model. The Cox model was also used for subgroup analyses. A 1-sided test was specified for the primary analysis because it was judged that there was no conceivable interest in or plausible potential for an increase in syncope to occur with pacing. The 95% confidence intervals (CIs) are 2-sided. All statistical analyses were performed using SAS (Version 8, SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC) and S-Plus (Version 6, Insightful Corp, Seattle, Wash) software.
Patient Enrollment
A total of 137 patients met the inclusion criteria (Figure 1). Two patients had exclusion criteria prohibiting enrollment (1 patient had 2 exclusions). Of the remaining 135 patients who met all eligibility criteria, 100 were enrolled in the study and randomized. There were 48 patients randomized to the DDD group and 52 to the ODO group. Baseline clinical characteristics of the patients are shown in Table 1. There were more men in the ODO group than in the DDD group, but otherwise the 2 treatment groups were well matched. Patients had many prior syncope episodes and a median of 4 in the year prior to randomization. Presyncope episodes were also common.
By protocol design, all patients had had a positive head-up tilt table study result. The mean duration of the tilt test was 30 minutes in both groups. Syncope occurred during this test in 60% of the patients randomized to the DDD group and 71% in the ODO group. The mean lowest heart rate recorded was 53/min in both groups and the mean lowest systolic blood pressure was 63 mm Hg in both groups.
Many patients had previously tried medication to control syncope and presyncope. The 2 most commonly used drugs were β-blockers and fludrocortisone. Table 1 shows the associated medical conditions and the consequences of syncope in these patients. Many patients had previously sustained injuries secondary to syncope episodes, had missed time from work, or had had driving privileges restricted because of recurrent syncope.
Patients were randomized centrally via the telephone after implantation of a dual-chamber pacemaker. The median time from implantation to randomization was 1 day (maximum 4 days) and the median duration of hospitalization for pacemaker implantation was 1 day. All patients randomized to the ODO group received ODO programming. However, 46 of 48 patients randomized to the DDD group received DDD pacing. The other 2 patients in the DDD group received dual-chamber inhibited pacing. Rate drop response was activated initially in all DDD patients. The median low rate programmed was 50/min.
During follow-up, no patients randomized to ODO pacing had pacing functions activated before having an outcome event. No patient was lost to follow-up. Several patients in the DDD group had programming changes. One patient had the pacemaker system removed. Two patients had their pacemakers reprogrammed to ventricular pacing due to atrial lead sensing and pacing problems. Concomitant pharmacological therapy for vasovagal syncope was used in some patients during study follow-up. Twelve percent of the patients in the ODO group compared with 19% in the DDD group received β-blockers; fludrocortisone, 10% vs 2%; and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, 12% vs 13%.
Recurrent Syncope
A total of 38 patients had syncope during the 6-month follow-up period. Of the 52 patients randomized to ODO, 22 had recurrent syncope within 6 months compared with 16 of 48 patients in the DDD group. The median duration of syncope reported was 2 minutes in the ODO group and 1 minute in the DDD group. Syncope resulted in injuries with bruising or bleeding in 3 patients in each group; no other injuries were reported. Syncope was witnessed in 12 patients in each group.
The Kaplan-Meier plots showing time to first episode of syncope, based on intent-to-treat analyses, are shown in Figure 2. The cumulative risk of syncope at 6 months was 40% (95% CI, 25%-52%) for the ODO group and 31% (95% CI, 17%-43%) for the DDD group. The RRR in time to syncope with DDD pacing was 30% (95% CI, − 33% to 63%; 1-sided P = .14). Another treatment analysis, which excluded 1 patient who deviated from allocated therapy (this patient was randomized to the DDD group and had the pacemaker removed during the study), showed an RRR with DDD pacing of 35% (95% CI, −26% to 66%; 1-sided P = .10).
Subgroup Analysis
To explore whether subgroups of patients benefited from a pacemaker, exploratory analyses were performed (Figure 3). Age, duration of tilt test before syncope, and minimum heart rate of less than 50/min during the tilt test did not define which patients would benefit from pacing. Patients who received isoproterenol during the tilt study were significantly more likely to benefit from pacemaker therapy than those who did not require isoproterenol during the tilt study. Sex and history of vehicular collision were also examined as potentially prognostic baseline characteristics but were not associated with an increased or decreased risk of syncope.
Presyncope
Information on presyncope was collected from patient diaries. Presyncope was defined as a feeling of impending loss of consciousness that does not result in complete syncope. Patients were instructed to record every episode of presyncope and to grade each episode on a scale of 1 to 5, in which 5 was the most severe. There were 49 (94%) patients with any presyncope in the ODO group and 46 (96%) in the DDD group (P>.99). The median reported episodes of presyncope per 100 days of follow-up were 16 in the ODO group and 13 in the DDD group. Of those patients who recorded any presyncope, the median maximum severity of presyncope was 4 for both groups.
Pacemaker complications occurred in several patients (Table 2). One patient had infection requiring reimplantation of the pacemaker generator and another had pericardial tamponade leading to removal of the pacemaker system.
Three previous randomized studies have reported that pacemaker therapy reduces the risk of recurrent syncope in patients with vasovagal syncope. In the first randomized trial, the Vasovagal Pacemaker Study (VPS I),1 patients were randomized to receive or not receive a pacemaker. This pilot trial of pacing was terminated early when a large treatment effect in favor of pacing was observed after enrollment of just 54 patients. Subsequently, 2 other randomized trials of pacing for vasovagal syncope were also terminated early. One of these trials randomized 42 patients to receive a pacemaker or not.2 The other trial randomized 93 patients to receive a pacemaker or to receive a β-blocker (atenolol).3 All 3 studies observed statistically significant reductions in the risk of syncope in patients who received pacing.
However, all 3 of these trials were unblinded. Patients and physicians knew whether pacing therapy was being used or not. Any open-label trial has the potential for bias in reporting and assessment of outcomes. For trials in which the outcomes of interest are major morbid events such as stroke or death, the risk of bias in outcome assessment is minor. However, syncope is an outcome that has a major subjective component and is difficult to verify objectively. It is possible in the unblinded studies that some patients, hoping to have received a pacemaker and disappointed by being randomized not to receive one, may have been more prone to report syncope. The double-blind trial design removes this type of potential bias to a considerable extent.
Vasovagal syncope episodes can be aggravated by adverse experiences such as anxiety and fear. It is possible that the disappointment of being randomized not to receive a pacemaker in unblinded trials actually increased the likelihood that patients would have recurrent syncope. On the other hand, it is well accepted that surgical procedures can have a placebo effect independent of the actual surgical care received.6-8 Patients receiving a pacemaker may have benefited from the psychological effects of receiving a surgical procedure. Although this effect is an accepted part of medical care,6 it is important to know whether pacemaker implantation is beneficial because of its physiological effects on the heart or because of the psychological effects of surgery, or both. In the 3 unblinded studies, it was not possible to determine whether patients benefited from the actual pacing therapy.
To reduce potential for bias and confounding psychological effects, we performed this double-blind study. We expected that the risk of syncope in the control group would be reduced to some extent by the receipt of a device, even if it was not actually pacing, and we increased the study's statistical power accordingly. The VPS II is, to our knowledge, the first double-blind randomized trial of pacing, and also is the largest of the randomized pacemaker trials for vasovagal syncope.
The main finding of this double-blind trial was that a statistically significant benefit was not found for pacemaker therapy for prevention of syncope in patients with vasovagal syncope. The main difference between the results of this trial and the nonblinded VPS I is the observed risk of syncope in the nonpaced group. Whereas in the VPS I study almost 80% of nonpaced patients had syncope by 6 months, in this study only 41% of ODO patients had syncope by 6 months. The 6-month rates of syncope in the patients receiving pacing therapy in the 2 studies were more similar; 20% in VPS I and 31% in the present study. Another difference between this trial and all 3 previous trials was that the previous trials were all terminated prematurely. Early termination of a trial for unexpected efficacy tends to overestimate the treatment effect.
This study was designed to detect an RRR with pacing of 50%. The observed RRR was 30% with a wide 95% CI. An RRR of 50% with pacing is unlikely but still plausible. However, the large RRRs (in the range of 80%), which were observed in the 3 unblinded randomized trials, are unlikely. These RRRs are not included in the 95% CI of the RRR observed in this study, the upper limit of which was 63% RR. This trial was designed to have reasonable power to detect an RRR of 50%, which we believed to be the minimum effect size that would justify this invasive treatment. The RRR of 30% observed in this study, if it were real, might be considered by some to be a reasonable benefit to obtain by pacing. Based on the results of this study, a benefit of this magnitude is plausible but not proven.
The rationale for the use of a pacemaker in vasovagal syncope is that bradycardia often occurs at the time of syncope. Prevention of bradycardia is the main physiological mechanism by which a pacemaker can prevent attacks of syncope. However, patients with vasovagal syncope often experience reductions in blood pressure at the beginning of a syncopal episode and heart rate changes later.9,10 If profound hypotension has already occurred, pacing therapy will not help patients even if bradycardia or asystole has been demonstrated at the time of syncope. It is possible to capture the marker channel information recorded in the pacemaker at the time of syncope if the patient activates the pacemaker to do so shortly after the syncope event. Several patients made such recordings and when these data are analyzed, it may provide information to help understand how the pacemakers were functioning at the time of syncope.
Of the subgroup analyses performed, 1 was statistically significant and it suggested that patients who required isoproterenol during their tilt test were more likely to respond to pacing therapy than those who did not receive isoproterenol. It is difficult to find a biologically plausible reason why this should be so, and it is possible that this finding is due to the play of chance.
Small differences in study design between this study and VPS I are unlikely to explain the different results, but should be noted. The VPS I study only enrolled patients with a minimum heart rate below 60/min during the tilt test and the present study did not specify any minimum heart rate during the tilt test. Both studies required a heart rate blood pressure product below 6000/min × mm Hg. The percentages of patients with a heart rate of less than 40/min during the tilt test were similar in both studies. In VPS I, 12 (22%) of 54 patients enrolled had a rate of less than 40/min during the tilt test compared with 19 (19%) of 100 patients in VPS II. Therefore, there were similar numbers of patients with extreme bradycardia at the time of positive tilt test results in both studies, and this minor difference in study design is not a factor in the different results observed. Moreover, our study allowed investigators to use their own institutional protocol for head-up tilt table testing. This reflects the fact that there is considerable variation in the details of the tilt test procedure. This increases the generalizability of the results of this study.
This study is unique among pacemaker and device trials because of the use of a double-blind study design, which removed the potential bias that could occur if patients and physicians knew which treatment a patient had received. Although the use of placebo-controlled surgery trials can be criticized as unethical, this was less of a concern in this study because patients receiving the pacemaker could have it activated to deliver pacing therapy once study participation had been completed.11
Considering the risk of complications, the rate of recurrence of syncope in the patients receiving a pacemaker and the weak evidence for any true benefit of pacing, pacemaker therapy should not be recommended as first-line therapy for patients with vasovagal syncope.


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Geologer har inddelt Jordens historie med en geologisk tidsinddeling eller tidsskala. Hver tidsenhed har et navn, der samtidig henviser til geologiske lag, der er påvist i og på jorden. Den geologiske kronologi fastlægges af International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) under International Union of Geological Sciences. Som det fremgår af det nuværende Internationale Stratigrafiske Skema, kaldes den nuværende epoke Holocæn. Imidlertid har Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy foreslået en ændring, som kan medføre at Holocæn slutter cirka år 1800, og derefter afløses af epoken Antropocæn. Det er senere foreslået, at Antropocæn starter med "the bomb spike", det radioaktive nedfald fra atombombesprængningerne i midten at det tyvende århundrede som det gyldne søm.

Ordet Antropocæn har græske rødder: Ordet er dannet af anthropos 'menneske' og kainos 'ny', på dansk gengivet som 'menneskets nye tid'..

Historie

Udtrykket Antropocæn blev introduceret af atmosfærekemikeren og nobelpristageren Paul J. Crutzen i 2000. "At navngive vor tid Antropocæn kan befordre en erkendelse af det afgørende, verdenshistoriske ansvar for klodens fremtid, som det moderne industrielle menneske har pådraget sig.". Forslaget om at introducere epoken Antropocæn begrundes bl.a. med den vurdering, at mennesket er blevet en geologisk kraft på lige fod med vulkaner, meteornedslag og forskydning af tektoniske plader. "En anerkendelse af Antropocæn vil .. veje meget tungt i den vægtskål, der fastslår menneskers påvirkning af miljøet som en videnskabelig kendsgerning" jf. den sjette massedød.

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Forståelsen af vor tid som Antropocæn, som Menneskets tidsalder, danner grundlag for en refleksion over menneskeskabte klimaændringer, herunder en kritik af 'neoliberal væksttænkning': Den "nuværende økonomiske tænkning vil fortsætte sin dominans, og i stedet for at blive revideret grundlæggende vil blive justeret efter de behov, som de tiltagende forringelser af de geofysiske forhold vil tydeliggøre. Og det vel at mærke på en måde, der yderligere vil fremme uligheden i en verden, hvor dem, der kan beskytte sig bag diger, forsikringspolicer, statsborgerskaber osv. vil blive færre, og dem, der vil mærke den indirekte vold, der ligger i disse forringelser, vil blive flere." .

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 Velkommen til Antropocæn. Information 2011 - Se også
 Antropocæn: En geologisk og politisk kampplads. Ingeniøren 2017
 Seks teser om Antropocæn. Turbulens 2018
 Gregers Andersen: Grænseløshedens Kultur. Et opgør med hastighed, udmattelse og håbløshed i klimakrisens tidsalder. Informations Forlag, 2016. 185 s.
 Jeppe Christensen: Menneskets plads i naturhistorien, 8. feb. 2015
 Klimadebat.dk > Artikler > Klimavinklen > Klaus Illum: Klimaet i antropocæn, 1. juli 2014
 Ferdinand Ahm Krag: Menneskets nye tidsalder, 18. jan. 2013, i anledning af en international konference i Berlin: The Anthropocene Project: An Opening
 Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' - Webside for den arbejdsgruppe, der skal undersøge emnet
 When Did the End Begin? New York Magazine 2015
 Theme Issue 'The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?' compiled and edited by Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz, Alan Haywood and Mike Ellis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369, 835-1112, 2011
 Jan Zalasiewicz, .. : Are we now living in the Anthropocene? GSA Today 18 (2): 4–8, 2008

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