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Feline Perineal Urethrostomy
Aesculight » Case Studies » Feline Perineal Urethrostomy
By William E. Schultz, DVM For The Education Center
Originally Published In Veterinary Practice News, December 2018 – Download as a PDF
In our clinic, urinary tract obstruction in cats has been a common problem until recently. Before that, many late-night emergency calls were spent sedating and unblocking cats. After several attempts at catheterization, the outcome in many cases was surgical intervention. Over the years, several cat food companies have responded to the problem by changing formulations in the food to reduce the occurrence of crystalluria. The response in cats has been significant to the point that many veterinarians in practice have never done a perineal urethrostomy procedure. Although not as often as in the past, cats still develop urinary obstruction and urethrostomy is necessary. During conventional scalpel procedure, visualization may be compromised due to hemorrhage from several areas. Therefore, in our clinic, we utilize our Aesculight CO2 laser (by Aesculight®, Bothell, Wash.) for this procedure.
Before surgery, the cat should have a complete urinalysis performed and diet should be changed to a urinary care diet for life. Culture and sensitivity tests are done if infection is present. Blood chemistry is performed preoperatively with fluids, pain medications, and antibiotics given for surgery.
An important factor intraoperatively is to dissect the attachments of the penis and associated structures from pelvic attachments, allowing for the entire structure to be moved caudally. The caudal aspect of the penis and associated structures allows the urethra to be opened to the proper diameter for a successful procedure. CO2 laser surgery has completely changed visibility during dissection and the success of the procedure.
Figure 1: Initial incision around the scrotum and sheath.
Figure 2: Completed incision for removal of scrotum and sheath.
Figure 3: Incision at penile frenulum.
Prepping for the procedure
For this procedure, a tipless Aesculight handpiece with a 0.25-mm focal spot size is typically used (shown in Figures 1 and 5). The laser is set at 15 watts SuperPulse for the initial incision of the skin.
The cat is positioned at the end of the surgery table in sternal recumbency with the tail tied cranially and the feet extending off the end of the table, exposing the perineum. Surgical prep with chloroxylenol is completed before surgery.
The sheath and scrotum are removed completely (Figures 1 and 2), with the tissues surrounding the penis dissected away from the penile shaft. The retractor penis muscle is also dissected and removed (Figure 6).
Figure 4: Blunt dissection to identify the attachment of the bulbourethral gland at the ischium.
Figure 5: Laser-dissecting the attachment of the bulbourethral gland.
Figure 6: Removal of the retractor penis muscle.
Figure 7: Initial failed attempt at insertion of tomcat catheter.
Figure 8: Penile urethra opened to allow for insertion of tomcat catheter.
Figure 9: Iris scissors opening the dorsal aspect of the penile urethra.
The laser is then set to 10 watts in the continuous wave mode for the dissection of the bulbourethral gland from the ischium (Figures 4 and 5). The laser is directed at the surface of the ischium to prevent laceration of the bulbourethral gland. The attachment of the gland is completely removed from the ischium bilaterally. During surgery with a scalpel or scissors, the lack of coagulation often leads to hemorrhage as the bulbourethral gland is removed from the attachment to the ischium. The bleeding is difficult to control and will cause poor visualization of the surgical field.
The third area of attachment is centrally to the pelvic floor with a frenulum that needs to be incised (Figure 3). With the removal of the bulbourethral glands and the ventral frenulum, the entire penis and accessory organs are able to shift caudally, thus allowing the proper opening of the penile urethra. Digital palpation and movement caudally of the penis and attached organs will verify complete dissection of the bulbourethral glands and the ventral frenulum.
The penis is then catheterized with a tomcat catheter (Figures 7 to 9). In some cases, the scar tissue may be sufficient that the catheter cannot be inserted in the urethral opening. In this surgery, the urethra was opened dorsally with iris scissors enough for the easy insertion of the catheter. With the catheter in place, the iris scissors are used to open the penile urethra until the opening is wide enough for the hinge on a mosquito forcep to insert without pressure (Figures 9 and 10). The incision is advanced incrementally until the desired width of the lumen is achieved. This opening is enlarged until about 5 mm in diameter. The catheter may be removed during the final opening of the penile urethra, allowing for better visualization of the lumen. This stage of the surgery is usually characterized by mild hemorrhage due to the highly vascular tissues incised. The hemorrhage is easily controlled with gauze sponges.
The distal third of the penis is clamped transversely with mosquito forceps and the distal aspect is removed with the laser (Figure 12). The forceps remain during initial suture placement to help maintain tension on the penis for visualization.
Figure 10: Testing urethral opening by insertion of mosquito hemostat to the hinge.
Figure 11: First suture being placed at the dorsal aspect of the urethral opening to the skin.
Figure 12: Amputation of the distal penis.
Figure 13: Anchoring the distal penis to the skin.
Figure 14: Interrupted sutures placed from the penile urethra to the skin.
Figure 15: Final closure of perineal urethrostomy.
Sutures and postop
3-0 Monocryl was utilized for this procedure. The use of a braided suture material is not recommended due to tissue friction. Monofilament suture material has less friction and proper tissue apposition is more likely. The important sutures are the dorsal central 3 sutures (Figures 11 and 13). The first suture is placed in the central area from the lumen of the urethra to the skin margin of the incision. The next two are placed at 11:00 and 1:00 o'clock position. These sutures assure patency of the urethral opening. The hemostat is then removed and sutures are placed from the distal aspect of the penis to the ventral aspect of the incision (Figure 13). The interrupted sutures are then placed progressively from the open urethra to the skin (Figures 14 and 15).
When the procedure is complete, the surgeon should be able to easily insert the hemostat to the level of the hinge. A catheter is then sutured in place overnight and the patient should wear an Elizabethan collar until suture removal two weeks after urethrostomy. Many cats will allow sutures to be removed without sedation, but it is important to evaluate the surgical site postop and sedation may be necessary in fractious cats.
Urethrostomy was common procedure 20 years ago. Since then, food companies responded by changing formulations in feline diets to dramatically decrease or completely stop the formation of urinary crystals that lead to the urethral obstruction. Yet, with the changes in feline food formulas, the occurrence of cats presenting at our clinic has declined from weekly to several times a year. Because the foods are not 100% effective in all cats the procedure is still needed for the cats that block several times or those that have extensive scar tissue as a result of urinary tract blockage. CO2 laser is highly beneficial for the surgery due to its excellent hemostatic ability, which assures good intraoperative visualization.
William E. Schultz, DVM, graduated from Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1973 and opened his companion animal practice in the fall of 1974. The practice includes general medicine with special interest in reproduction and orthopedic surgery. Fresh, chilled, and frozen semen breedings with semen collection, storage, and shipment are also available. Digital radiology includes Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA) and PennHip procedures. Dr. Schultz has been a board member on the Synbiotics Reproductive Advisory Panel, MOFA Advisory Panel, the Society for Theriogenology, and the Theriogenology Foundation. He has a special interest in canine reproduction and laser surgery and has had speaking engagements at veterinary conferences, veterinary associations, and national specialties. In addition, he was awarded the Veterinary Practice of Excellence award by the Society for Theriogenology in 2014. Dr. Schultz has also published articles related to canine reproduction and soft tissue laser surgery, including a chapter on perineal and urogenital laser surgery in a new textbook.
This Education Center article was underwritten by Aesculight of Bothell, Wash., the manufacturer of the only American-made CO2 laser.
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The Fiction of Emyr Humphreys
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Un luogo incerto (titolo in lingua originale Un lieu incertain) è un romanzo poliziesco del 2008 della scrittrice francese Fred Vargas, il sesto con protagonista il commissario Adamsberg e i suoi uomini del commissariato del XIII arrondissement di Parigi.

Il romanzo è stato pubblicato per la prima volta in Francia nel 2008 dall'editore Hamy, poi tradotto e pubblicato in Italia nel 2009, da Einaudi.

Trama
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Un collega austriaco rivela intanto ad Adamsberg che qualche mese prima nel suo paese era avvenuto un omicidio con le stesse strane modalità di quello di Vaudel. Nel frattempo Danglard si rende conto che qualcuno nelle alte sfere della magistratura sta tramando alle spalle di Adamsberg per coinvolgerlo nell'omicidio del giornalista e incolparlo di complicità con Émile. Un mattino, un giovane si introduce nella casa di Adamsberg, minaccia di ucciderlo e gli rivela di essere suo figlio, un figlio di cui il commissario non era mai stato a conoscenza. Adamsberg riesce a distrarlo con uno stratagemma e il ragazzo si allontana senza mettere in atto le sue minacce, e peraltro senza negare di essere l'assassino dell'anziano giornalista.

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Altri romanzi della Vargas con protagonista il commissario Adamsberg:

 L'uomo dei cerchi azzurri
 L'uomo a rovescio
 Parti in fretta e non tornare
 Sotto i venti di Nettuno
 Nei boschi eterni
 La cavalcata dei morti
 Tempi glaciali
 Il morso della reclusa
Raccolta di racconti
 Scorre la Senna

Collegamenti esterni

Romanzi di Fred Vargas
Romanzi di autori francesi
Romanzi gialli

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Larry Summers did women a favor by being such a blatant pig.
His verbal blunder made the media start examining women and the workplace and discrimination and change, or the lack there of. Sadly, most media focused on the biology crap, which was a giant load of crap, for sure. But fortunately, even if it is months later, the other issues that Summers' touched on are getting attention.
Along with biological differences, Summers also smacked two other walls blocking women from advancing in a variety of jobs: discrimination and "the reluctance or inability of women who have children to work 80-hour weeks," as reported by the Boston Globe.
That 80-hour BS still agitates me. And I'm still perplexed as to why there are so many people who think that reasonable work hours and success can't and shouldn't co-exist, or that achieving a more hospitable workplace is a feminist issue.
Matt Miller, who is filling in for Maureen Dowd over at the New York Times, most recently volleyed Summers' gristly comments into the spotlight. Even though Miller didn't mention Summers by name, it's hard to read about excessive work hours and not be reminded of his infamous comments.
"Today talented people live in fear of sounding anything less than 24/7. Tell your boss you have to deal with a drinking problem and you'll be fine; say you want more time with your family and you're on the endangered species list," wrote Miller in a column for the New York Times last week called, "Listen to My Wife."
Why are people so against change? Why are people so against society adapting to allow people to work without foregoing everything in their lives? It's sort of like some sick fraternity hazing. Perhaps the mentality is: "I worked 80 hours a week to get where I am today, so why shouldn't everyone else? If they don't, they don't deserve success."
Here are some of the best parts from Miller's piece:
It's hardly news that the issue vexing talented people is the struggle to balance their professional lives with time for fulfilling lives outside of work. The shock is that after decades of wrestling with these tradeoffs, the obvious answer is the one everyone has been too skeptical or afraid to explore: changing the way top jobs are structured.
In a world where most people are struggling, the search for "balance" in high-powered jobs has to be counted a luxury. Still, there is something telling (if not downright dysfunctional) when a society's most talented people feel they have to sacrifice the meaningful relationships every human craves as the price of exercising their talent.
Nowhere is there a greater gulf between the frustration people feel over a dilemma central to their lives and their equally powerful sense that there's nothing to be done. As a result, talented people throw up their hands. Women are "opting out" after deciding that professional success isn't worth the price. Ambitious folks of both sexes "do what they have to," sure there is no other way. That's just life.
My unreasonable wife rejects this choice. If the most interesting and powerful jobs are too consuming, Jody says, then why don't we re-engineer these jobs - and the firms and the culture that sustain them - to make possible the blend of love and work that everyone knows is the true gauge of "success"?...
...Here's the deal: this isn't a "women's" problem; it's a human problem. Yet for 30 years women have tried to crack this largely on their own, and one thing is clear: if the fight isn't joined by men (like me) who want a life, too, any solutions become "women's" solutions. A broader drive to redesign work will take a union-style consciousness that makes it safe for men who secretly want balance to say so....
...Some call this "whining." Others like working 24/7. Still others assert that you can never change the nature of work near the top. But our corporate experience persuades us that change is inevitable. In a globalizing world, many senior jobs are already impossibly big. If they need to be restructured anyway (we're working on how), why not do so in ways that give folks the option to have a life?...
Labels: balancing career with parenthood, mothers & media
AHMEN!
Angry Pregnant Lawyer 5:56 PM
It's sort of like some sick fraternity hazing. Perhaps the mentality is: "I worked 80 hours a week to get where I am today, so why shouldn't everyone else? If they don't, they don't deserve success."
I think you're right, and that accounts for some of it--but it doesn't account for all of it. Specifically, I know that the older folks who are partners in law firms generally didn't have to work the 80-hour weeks. Billable hours were much lower. In fact, "the billable hour" standard wasn't in common practice a half-century ago. Instead, just a few years ago, a NY law firm decided to raise first-year associate salaries to $125K. Other firms felt like they had to follow suit. And to afford all of this nonsense (and yes, it's nonsense to pay a first-year associate $125K), firms needed to get their money's worth by upping billable hour requirements.
It's all silly. Or, as you put it (better), BS.
Mandy 11:59 AM
I'm so glad you posted this -- I have the article (along with another NYTimes one from May 24 entitled "What Women Want") hanging in my office, but I've been too preoccupied to write about it on my blog.
I really feel that for the first time in my life there is an issue I care so deeply about that I am willing to risk my job for it. I am more fortunate than so many others, however, because I work in a career and at a level where I know if it's not this frying pan, I can jump into another!
Let's keep the pressure on and make this a revolution.
Mother in Chief, I am so tickled to have found your blog and to be linked to no less!
And to your ruminating I say BRAVO! I have some thoughts posted on this on my blog as well. The Rat Race I am glad other peopel are taking it seriously as well.
My boyfriend and I are having a difficult time figuring out what life choices to make so that we can live our lives, have children, and be civilized people without bowing the pressure of well everybody works these hours so you should too. Perhaps that means we will have less but in the end the appeal of having more is often simply that you feel you earned your money in your 80 hour weeks thus you must spend it. I would rather have cultural capital and life capital than physical capital.


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Husbands, Sons, & Sweethearts
2nd Battle of Ypres
Battle of Festubert
Battle of the St. Eloi Craters
Battle of Mount Sorrel
The Somme Offensive
The Battle of Vimy Ridge
Battle for Hill 70
Battle of Amiens
The 2nd Battle of Arras
The Battle of the Canal Du Nord and the Battle of Cambrai
Battle of Valenciennes and Mons
Animals at War
War Dead
Medal Recipients
Interred in Lake of the Woods Cemetery
Local War Memorial Photo Gallery
Sex and the Somme
Shortened Service and Field Discipline
Understanding Military Records
Place of Birth Belfountain, Ontario
Marital Status Single
Next of Kin Mrs. Agnes Brock (mother), Kenora, Ontario
Trade / Calling Merchant
Religion Methodist
Regimental Number 2382654
Service Record Link to Service Record
Force Air Force
Branch Royal Air Force (Canada)
Enlisted / Conscripted Conscripted
Place of Enlistment Winnipeg, Manitoba
Address at Enlistment Kenora, Ontario
Date of Enlistment April 28, 1918
Age at Enlistment 22
Theatre of Service Canada
Prisoner of War No
Survived War Yes
Death Details
Date of Death April 18, 1980
Buried At Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Plot 14-G0075B
Brock, Clifford Wallace
Cadet Pilot Clifford Wallace Brock was the oldest son of Robert Meadows Brock and Agnes McKechnie Francis of Kenora, Ontario. His mother was from a large family in Stirlingshire, Scotland and his father was born and raised in Belfountain, Peel County, Ontario. They were married in 1890 in Belfountain and Clifford was born there on 26 June 1895. His older sister Pearl was also born in Belfountain. By 1898 Robert and Agnes had moved to Rat Portage (later called Kenora), in northwestern Ontario. They had another daughter and five more sons: Earl, Eunice, Ewart, Lester, Stanley and Quinton (born 1908, died as an infant). When the 1911 census was taken the family was living in the Rideout area of Kenora, with Robert listed as a farm labourer. A few years later they were able to get a homestead in Melick Township and Robert began clearing the land for farming. Sadly, he died on 29 January 1917, at age 52, from injuries received in an accident five days earlier.
Conscription started in Canada in the fall of 1917 and single men aged 20 to 34 were called up first. Clifford was working as a merchant in Kenora and he had his army medical on 29 April 1918. He was enrolled with the 1st Depot Battalion, Manitoba Regiment in Winnipeg on 2 May. That same day he was discharged from the army so he could enlist with the Royal Air Force. He signed his RAF attestation in Winnipeg on 9 May and four days later he joined his unit in Toronto. From there he was sent to the Armament School in Hamilton, Ontario for training as a cadet pilot. The Armistice was signed on 11 November and Clifford arrived back in Kenora on 7 December. He received his official discharge at the end of the month, 'in consequence of being Surplus to R.A.F. requirements.' His brother Earl had enlisted with the Canadian Field Artillery and he served for a year in Canada and the UK. Their uncle and a cousin, John and David Francis of Kenora, were both killed at the Somme Offensive in France on 8 October 1916.
By 1921 Clifford and his family were living in Winnipeg and he was attending the University of Manitoba. He was very involved in sports while he was a student, as a player, coach and manager. He studied law and after graduating he was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1927. On 3 July 1928 he married a local girl, 26-year-old Jessie Watson Craig. Jessie was born and raised in Winnipeg, the daughter of Andrew and Madeline Craig. Her father worked as an engineer for the CPR. Clifford and Jessie made their home in Winnipeg and they had four children: Carol, Rosemary, Helen and Donald. Clifford set up his own law practice and in 1941 he received the honour of Queen's Counsel. He was very active in his church and in the community, serving on school boards and as city solicitor. He belonged to the Kiwanis Club and several lodges. His son Donald also studied law and joined the family firm in the 1950s.
Clifford retired from his practice in 1977, at age 81, and passed away in Winnipeg on 18 April 1980. His wife died in October 1991 and they are both buried in Elmwood Cemetery.
By Becky Johnson
Photos are from the University of Manitoba Brown and Gold Yearbook – 1923 (Creative Commons License).
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Q: Javascript event after all controls posted to the page? I have created a javascript that checks if the grid have no rows it will insert a cell with input button in it, the problem is that when i try to fetch the grid by document.getElementByID() the value returned is null because the controls is not yet loaded to the page. So is there an event that would interact with controls cause i don't want to invoke it from the page, i would like this to be automatically ?
Edit:
I have tried window.onload and it didn't work, the wierd thing is that when i traced it, the page load runs first and the grid gets populate then the javascript function fires.
Here is the code:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

window.onload = gridAddButton();
function gridAddButton() {

    var gridTable = document.getElementById('<%=GridView_Users.ClientID%>');
    gridTableRowsLength = gridTable.rows.length;

    if (gridTableRowsLength == 0) {

        var addButton = document.createElement('input');
        addButton.id = 'tempButtonAdd';

        gridTable.rows[1].cells[4].appendChild(addButton);
    }
}

<asp:GridView ID="GridView_Users" runat="server" DataKeyNames="ID" Width="100%"
        AutoGenerateColumns="False">
    <Columns>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="UserName" HeaderText="UserName" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Email" HeaderText="Email" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Company" HeaderText="Company" />
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Address" HeaderText="Address" />
        <asp:TemplateField>
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton_Edit" runat="server"
                    onclick="LinkButton_Edit_Click">Edit</asp:LinkButton>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:TemplateField>
        <asp:TemplateField>
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton_Delete" runat="server"
                    onclick="LinkButton_Delete_Click">Delete</asp:LinkButton>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:TemplateField>
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

A: You should use DOM Ready event. You can use a library like jQuery to do that for you, like this:
$(document).ready(function(){
    // Here, the grid is made into DOM, so you can access it.
});

However, if you still have problems, then you should check other causes. For example, Microsoft ASP.NET controls tend to change the id attribute at runtime, so you might need use ClientIDMode='Static' in your page, to get sure that you can get your element using document.getElementById();.

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Warning: File History, like Storage Spaces, can be very buggy in the Consumer Preview version of Windows 8. For this reason, you should not rely on either feature to protect your most critical data.
Windows 7 included a very well-hidden feature called Previous Versions that allowed you to recover an older version of a document or other data file. Previous Versions was Microsoft's attempt to create a usable front-end for a service called Volume Shadow Copy that debuted in Windows Server 2003. But since most users didn't didn't even know it existed, it can't arguably be called successful. Fewer still know that Apple copied this feature and created a prettier version called Time Machine. Sure, you've heard of that.
Well, Windows 8 includes a new feature called File History that attempts to right the wrongs of Previous Versions by offering the same capabilities in a far easier to discover and use package. Apple fans will note that it works, in fact, a lot like Time Machine, albeit without the gratuitous animations and spacy theme. Fair enough.
More to the point, File History differs from its predecessor in some key ways. First, it isn't enabled by default for some reason, so you'll need to turn it on. Second, while File History can use a secondary disk or network-based storage to store its backups, it also caches information to the primary disk, so it will work even when you're away from the office with a portable computer. And finally, File History is much easier to use than was Previous Versions. Even if you did use this feature in the past, you'll never miss it.
By default, File History automatically backs up everything in your libraries, desktop, Favorites, and contacts. That's a lot of stuff, when you consider that your libraries include several folders, even in a base install of Windows 8: My Documents, Public Documents, My Music, Public Music, My Pictures, Public Pictures, My Videos, and Public Videos.
But File History is actually more sophisticated than that. If you make your own libraries, as some power users might, even those libraries are backed up automatically: File History backs up all libraries, not just the built-in libraries. And you can exclude folder locations if, say, you don't need this feature backing up videos or other files.
File History can also be used as a replacement for Windows Home Server's centralized PC backup functionality, sort of. While it doesn't offer centralized image backup functionality like WHS, that feature isn't really needed in Windows 8 because the system is so easily reset with Push Button Reset. Instead, File History can advertise its location to other users and PCs in your local homegroup, creating a centralized spot for these backups. So you might use your desktop PC with its ample storage as the central location for File History-based backups for all the PCs in your homegroup.
File History is implemented as a classic control panel. (The fastest way to access it is to first display Control Panel via the new power user menu (mouse into the lower-left corner of the screen, right-click, and select Control Panel) and then search for File History using the pre-selected search box.
You can configure File History to use a secondary hard disk or other storage device if available. Otherwise, it will recommend network storage.
Exclude folders. If you would like to exclude certain folder locations from being backed up, you can do so here. Remember that everything in your libraries, desktop, Favorites, and contacts is backed up, so be sure to pick a folder inside one of those locations since other locations are already omitted.
Advanced settings. This interface provides fine-grained control over key File History functionality. You can change how often files are backed up, the size of the offline cache (which is the size of the File History backups replicated on your system disk), and the length of time to save backups. You can also use this interface to clean up (i.e. delete) older backups and advertise your backup location to others on the homegroup.
File History offers two basic approaches to file version recovery: You can simply launch the File Backup control panel, click the Restore personal files link, and navigate through a virtual view of your file history starting at the Home location.
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I suspect that many power users are already contemplating how they can use Storage Spaces and File History together to create a two-way mirror or better on a well-equipped desktop PC and then share out that space as the central location for File History backups for all the PCs in the house. This should enhance the resiliency of all of your backups, no matter which PC you use on the home network. And it might even make you forget all about Windows Home Server, you never know.
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WHAT IF PEOPLE WITH DYSLEXIA INVENTED WRITING?
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We are so accustomed to reading and writing that it's hard to imagine that once no one was able to read. We may think of reading as being hardwired into our brains, but it's not. Reading and writing is nothing more than an elaborate social convention used to transcribe speech, and this had to be invented. At one time in history the choice of notation was arbitrary, and the conventions evolved over time as people discovered ways of writing that were easier for scribes, and others that were more effective when read.
At first, the scholars, priests, and scribes who shaped the invention of writing were a relatively small and select group. Reading didn't become common in Western cultures until the Industrial Revolution, when printed texts could be cheaply reproduced. Once reading material became commonly available, reading became useful enough to be widely taught. It was at this time that people noticed some individuals found it difficult to make use of the established conventions for reading. These people were described as handicapped, and thus, along with the printing press, a "disability" that didn't exist earlier was invented, a disability we today call dyslexia.
We now know that people with dyslexia have neurological wiring that is different from typical readers. Dyslexia is estimated to occur in the general population at rates of at most 10% to 20%. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to assume that very few people with dyslexia were among the original scholars, priests, and scribes who first invented the conventions for writing. But, what if they were?
What if all of the people responsible for the creation of writing had dyslexia? What if writing evolved to match the capabilities of brains with dyslexia, instead of those who are typical readers? Would the system of speech notation these people would invent be completely different from the one we use today? What might writing invented by people with dyslexia look like?
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THE DYSLEXIA PARADOX
I have thought about this from time to time. My as-then-unidentified dyslexic son came home in fourth grade with a sheet covered in hieroglyphs which he had learned in school. The boy who could not write two sentences in under an hour proceeded to read me the rather elaborate story he'd drawn. It broke my heart. I could literally see on that piece of paper how much he wanted to be able to share his thinking in writing, but couldn't.
Karen Blatt says:
Might writing perhaps look more like some variant of traditional Chinese characters. I don't speak or read Mandarin, but if I understand correctly from the little I know, the characters tell a pictoral story. And that within a character is a "build up" of various sub-parts or component characters that, taken together, create the whole? I know in many ways it's far more complex than our system of transcribing sounds to symbols and putting those together. But it sounds much more visual. And perhaps if dyslexics had created Western-style writing, it would be more visually-inspired.
I have dyslexia and have studied the Chinese language. I certainly struggled with the written language, but so did my non-dyslexic peers. A quick Google search gave me several links to articles on a study about the differences between Chinese language dyslexia and English language dyslexia. It seem that the brain images of Chisese students with dyslexia had abnormalities that were differant than those that appear in English language readers. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/life/discover/2008/04/08/150981/Dyslexia-different.htm Interesting stuff!
Karen's son, who is attempting to communicate in "gibberish" may be onto something. I think written language invented by people with dyslexia would look like gibberish to most. We are very good at making up symbols or words to stand for things we don't know how to say or spell, and perhaps our written language would take advantage of this. In responding to Kent's point, I grew up in Japan, and although my parents tried to have me taught to read in Japanese, I wasn't able to master written Japanese any better than English (although I can speak Japanese fluently). The Japanese system of language I was taught was largely phonetic. This leads me to believe that language invented by people with dyslexia would bypass phonetic representations, and be entirely symbolic. Written Chinese does symbolic aspects to their language, but as Kent points out, there are Chinese forms of dyslexia as well (that may be different from our dyslexia)! If people with dyslexia invented written language we might just end up replacing one" disability" for another, and shift the burden of this onto a different group of people.
I have read in several places that Italian is a great language for dyslexics. It is completely phonetic (letters are always spoken in the same way – no silent letters, etc). I am dyslexic, and struggled with English and French in school, but on a vacation to Italy a few years ago discovered that it is a language that made complete sense to me!
Matthew Schneps says:
Bob — I'm with you here. French is probably worse than English. Spanish and Japanese are also relatively transparent in this way (there's a one-to-one correspondence between spelling and sound). What's interesting is that even in these transparent languages there are people with dyslexia! Matt
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New gTLD registry MMX said it has sold $3.4 million in "premium" .vip domains names to Chinese domainers in the last few months.
In what is believed to be a small number of deals to a limited number of investors, "over 7,000" domains changed hands since they became available in late June.
MMX said that $2.8 million of the deals closed in the last 10 days.
While we don't have the exact number of domains, it looks to work out in the ball-park of $485 per domain.
As $3.4 million is a materially significant number — the company's entire revenue for 2016 was $15.6 million — it was disclosed to the financial markets this morning.
.vip has been MMX's cash cow, so far amassing a zone file with more than 600,000 domains names in it.
For some reason it has been hugely popular in China — the vast majority of its registrations have been through Chinese registrars and 59% of its overall revenue was from China in 2016.
In April, the company sold 200,000 .vip names to a single Chinese investor for $1.3 million.
MMX has also said that renewal rates for .vip, which only launched last year, have been over 75%.
Dot Vegas has made one and two-character .vegas domain names available to register on a first-come, first-served basis.
Single-character domains such as a.vegas and 7.vegas and two-character names such as 77.vegas and bj.vegas all appear to be available, including domains that match country-code TLDs.
Prices seem to be around the $2,750 to $3,299 mark for the one-character names at the three registrars Dot Vegas plugged in its announcement.
For the two-character names, you're looking at $550 to $699, again depending on registrar.
Renewal fees for these short names seem to be about double what you'd expect to pay per year for a regular .vegas name, starting at over $100 per year.
Of the three promoted registrars — GoDaddy, Uniregistry and NameCheap — Uniregistry appears to be the cheapest and GoDaddy the most expensive.
The .vegas gTLD has been on the market for about three years and has about 16,000 domains in its zone file currently.
.CLUB Domains said it has seen some early successes with its new 0% financing option, selling $150,000 worth of premium .club domains in its first week.
The registry announced that it sold 39 premiums for a total of $149,480, and that 37 of those names were sold using the financing option.
This option allows registrants to spread the cost of their domains over five years — 60 monthly payments — for names priced over $1,000.
The scheme was announced at the NamesCon conference in conjunction with a new brokers program, which gives brokers the ability to pass on 10% discounts to their clients and earn 15% commissions.
Seventeen of the 39 names were sold via brokers.
The results of the the first seven days of these programs compare favorably to other periods. In the fourth quarter of 2016, .CLUB said premium sales were $112,000.
For the whole of 2016, the registry sold $941,000 of reserved premium names, making a total of $4.3 million since .club launched May 2014.


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Sir Gerald Howarth
Danny Kinahan
Gavin Robinson
Sir Peter Bottomley
Kirsten Oswald
Notices of Amendments: 18 November 2016
Louise Haigh
"Personal data breaches
The Data Protection Act 1998 is amended as follows.
After section 24 insert—
Personal data breaches: notification to the Commissioner
In this section, section 24B and section 24C "personal data breach"
means unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data or accidental
loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
Subject to subsections (3), (4)(c) and (4)(d), if a personal data breach
occurs, the data controller in respect of the personal data concerned in
that breach shall, without undue delay, notify the breach to the
The notification referred to in subsection (2) is not required to the extent
that the personal data concerned in the personal data breach are exempt
from the seventh data protection principle.
The Secretary of State may by regulations—
prescribe matters which a notification under subsection (2) must
contain;
prescribe the period within which, following detection of a
personal data breach, a notification under subsection (2) must be
given;
provide that subsection (2) shall not apply to certain data
controllers;
provide that subsection (2) shall not apply to personal data
breaches of a particular description or descriptions.
Personal data breaches: notification to the data subject
Subject to subsections (2), (3), (4), (6)(b) and (6)(c), if a personal data
breach is likely to adversely affect the personal data or privacy of a data
subject, the data controller in respect of the personal data concerned in
that breach shall also, without undue delay, notify the breach to the data
subject concerned, insofar as it is reasonably practicable to do so.
from section 7(1).
The notification referred to in subsection (1) is not required if the data
controller has demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner—
that the data controller has implemented appropriate measures
which render the data unintelligible to any person who is not
authorised to access it; and
that those measures were applied to the data concerned in that
personal data breach.
If the data controller has not notified the data subject in compliance with
subsection (1), the Commissioner may, having considered the likely
adverse effects of the personal data breach, require the data controller to
Personal data breaches: audit
Data controllers shall maintain an inventory of personal data breaches
the facts surrounding the breach;
the effects of that breach; and
remedial action taken
which shall be sufficient to enable the Commissioner to verify
compliance with the provisions of sections 24A and 24B. The inventory
shall only include information necessary for this purpose.
The Commissioner may audit the compliance of data controllers with the
provisions of sections 24A, 24B and 24C(1).
In section 40 (Enforcement notices)—
in subsection (1)—
after "data protection principles," insert "or section 24A,
24B or 24C";
for "principle or principles" substitute "principle,
principles, section or sections";
in subsection 6(a) after "principles" insert "or the section or
sections".
In section 41 (Cancellation of enforcement notice")—
in subsection (1) after "principles" insert "or the section or
sections";
In section 41A (Assessment notices)—
in subsection (1) after "data protection principles" insert "or
section 24A, 24B or 24C";
in subsection (10)(b) after "data protection principles" insert "or
section 24A, 24B or 24C".
In section 41C (Code of practice about assessment notices)—
in subsection (4)(a) after "principles" insert "and sections 24A,
24B and 24C";
in subsection (4)(b) after "principles" insert "or sections".
In section 43 (Information notices)—
in subsection 43(1)—
after "data protection principles" insert "or section 24A,
after "the principles" insert "or those sections";
in subsection 43(2)(b) after "principles" insert "or section 24A,
24B or 24C".
In section 55A (Power of Commissioner to impose monetary penalty)—
after subsection (1) insert—
The Commissioner may also serve a data controller with
a monetary penalty notice if the Commissioner is
satisfied that there has been a serious contravention of
section 24A, 24B or 24C by the data controller.";
in subsection (3A) after "subsection (1)" insert "or (1A)";
in subsection (4) omit "determined by the Commissioner and";
after "The amount" insert "specified in a monetary
penalty notice served under subsection (1) shall be";
after "Commissioner" insert "and";
The amount specified in a monetary penalty notice
served under subsection (1A) shall be £1,000.
The Secretary of State may by regulations amend
subsection (5A) to change the amount specified therein."
In section 55B (Monetary penalty notices: procedural rights)—
in subsection (3)(a) omit "and";
after subsection (3)(a) insert—
specify the provision of this Act of which the
Commissioner is satisfied there has been a serious
contravention, and";
A data controller may discharge liability for a monetary
penalty in respect of a contravention of section 24A, 24B
or 24C if he pays to the Commissioner the amount of
£800 before the time within which the data controller
may make representations to the Commissioner has
expired.
A notice of intent served in respect of a contravention of
section 24A, 24B or 24C must include a statement
informing the data controller of the opportunity to
discharge liability for the monetary penalty.
subsection (3A) to change the amount specified therein,
save that the amount specified in subsection (3A) must
be less than the amount specified in section 55A(5A).";
in subsection (5) after "served" insert "under section 55A(1)";
A person on whom a monetary penalty notice is served
under section 55A(1A) may appeal to the Tribunal
against the issue of the monetary penalty notice."
In section 55C(2)(b) (Guidance about monetary penalty notices) at the
end insert "specified in a monetary penalty notice served under section
55A(1)".
In section 67 (Orders, regulations and rules)—
after "order" insert "or regulations";
after "section 22(1)," insert "section 24A(4)(c) or (d),
24B(6)(b) or (c),";
after subsection (c) insert "(ca) regulations under section
24A(4)(a) or (b) or section 24B(6)(a),";
for "(ca) regulations under section 55A(5) or (7) or
55B(3)(b)," substitute "(cb) regulations under section
55A(5), (5B) or (7) or 55B(3)(b) or (3C),".
In section 71 (Index of defined expressions) after
section 1(1)"
"personal data breach
section 24A(1)"
In paragraph 1 of Schedule 9—
after paragraph 1(1)(a) insert—
that a data controller has contravened or is contravening
any provision of section 24A, 24B or 24C, or";
in paragraph 1(1B) after "principles" insert "or section 24A, 24B
or 24C";
in paragraph (3)(d)(ii) after "principles" insert "or section 24A,
in paragraph (3)(f) after "principles" insert "or section 24A, 24B
or 24C.""
This new clause seeks to create a general obligation on data controllers to notify the Information
Commissioner and data subjects in the event of a breach of personal data security. The proposed
obligation is similar to that imposed on electronic communication service providers by the Privacy
and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
"Code of practice: accessibility to on-demand audiovisual services for people
with disabilities affecting hearing and/or sight
It shall be the duty of Ofcom to draw up, and from time to time to review and
revise, a code giving guidance as to—
the extent to which on-demand audiovisual services should promote the
understanding and enjoyment by—
persons who are deaf or hard of hearing,
persons who are blind or partially-sighted, and
persons with a dual sensory impairment,
of the programmes to be included in such services; and
the means by which such understanding and enjoyment should be
promoted.
The code must include provision for securing that every provider of a service to
which this section applies ensures that adequate information about the assistance
for disabled people that is provided in relation to that service is made available to
those who are likely to want to make use of it.
In complying with subsection (1) Ofcom must conduct a public consultation to
inform Ofcom's determination of the elements of the code.
In complying with subsection (1), Ofcom must have regard, in particular, to—
the extent of the benefit which would be conferred by the provision of
assistance for disabled people in relation to the programmes;
the size of the intended audience for the programmes;
the number of persons who would be likely to benefit from the assistance
and the extent of the likely benefit in each case;
the extent to which members of the intended audience for the
programmes are resident in places outside the United Kingdom;
the technical difficulty of providing the assistance; and
the cost, in the context of the matters mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e),
of providing the assistance.
The code must set out the descriptions of programmes that Ofcom considers
should be excluded programmes for the purposes of the requirement contained in
that subsection or paragraph.
The code shall make provisions about the meeting of obligations established,
including by allocating relevant responsibilities between—
broadcasters;
platform operators; and
any other provider or purveyor of programmes or programme services.
For the purpose of subsection (1) a service is an on-demand audiovisual
programme if it falls within the definition given in section 368A (Meaning of "on-
demand programme service") of the Communications Act 2003 (as inserted by
the Audiovisual Media Service Regulations 2009)."
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Organizers have announced that the fifth Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo will be held Wednesday-Thursday, April 11-12, 2018, and once again in the Grand Ballroom North of the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The 2016 Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo attracted 320 industry professionals from the industrial wood pellet, heating wood pellet, biomass power, biofuels and in-woods chipping sectors. More than 40 speakers, including leadership from the major producer companies, addressed project startups, market forecasts, international supply chain and production technologies. The event was supported by 70 equipment and technology exhibitors, of which 37 exhibited in both the Wood Bioenergy and PELICE events.
Meanwhile, biomass power plants continue to start up around the world as more countries integrate biomass power into their electricity infrastructure. And of course it all begins in the woods, which is why the Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo will once again include its Chip Chip Hooray! series of presentations.
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Q: Does "smartctl -H or -all" run anything against disks or just poll data? I am setting up Smart monitoring currently and I had a question regarding the command
smartctl -H /dev/sda

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Does this actually run anything against the disk, or does it just poll the logs/data currently available from SmartMonTools.
I understand and am looking into running smartd with short and long tests, but that would be managed by smartd. My script is simple in that it just greps for Health Status OK and fails/passed based on finding the result. It also displays "smartctl -all /dev/sda", and I wondered about that too.
I just want to make sure, because
I Think that both smartctl -H /dev/sda && smartctl -all /dev/sda when run, don't actually do any testing, they just poll avaialable data. Can anybody confirm?
The reason is I poll this data way to often with my network monitoring software (every 15m currently), but if it doesn't effect disks, I will just leave it and use smartd to schedule the actual self-tests which do 100% read/write/test the disks.

A: As a fellow user of the tool (not a developer), I would assume they don't run any tests because, looking at the man page:

*

*-H appears under "SMART READ AND DISPLAY DATA OPTIONS"

*-a, --all appear under "SHOW INFORMATION OPTIONS"

*all the tests are under "SMART RUN/ABORT OFFLINE TEST AND self-test OPTIONS"
If this were not convincing enough, I would also ask on the mailing lists on their homepage.


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While staying at the Hay Adams this weekend I had a weird experience. In the middle of the night, I woke my boyfriend up saying "Why is that woman taking pictures of us" and pointed to the middle of the room. Of course he thought I was just sleep talking and didn't think too far into it. After we checked out we decided to see if the Hay Adams was haunted. When we saw that Clover, who apparently haunts the Hay Adams, we were shocked to see that she was a skilled photographer and died from drinking dark room chemicals. Not sure if this was a weird coincidence or not, but I'm definitely freaked out!


The oil and gas industry has experienced turbulent times in the last two years, and companies in the sector have made massive efforts to curb costs and scale back on new project development. Analysis of the usual practices in the oil and gas industry suggests that the industry is undergoing digital disruption and a technological re-organisation to fully utilise the Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. While many companies are hard at work to adopt Industry 4.0 into their core functions, the leaders of tomorrow, a generation that is born with technology, will play an eminent role into transforming the industry.
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New HPV vaccine offers greater protection against cervical cancer than current vaccine
by Queen Mary, University of London
Credit: National Cancer Institute
Scientists have developed a new HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine which protects against nine types of the virus - seven of which cause most cases of cervical cancer. The new vaccine offers significantly greater protection than the current vaccine, which protects against only two cancer causing types of HPV.
A pivotal international clinical trial compared the safety and efficacy of the new vaccine, Gardasil 9, with the current vaccine, Gardasil, in more than 14,200 women aged between 16 and 26 years old. The findings indicate that if uninfected populations are vaccinated with Gardasil 9, approximately 90 per cent of all cervical cancers worldwide could be prevented.
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study found that, among uninfected women, Gardasil 9 was 97 per cent effective at preventing high-grade cervical, vulvar and vaginal disease caused by HPV 31, 33, 45, 52 and 58, and was equally effective as the current Gardasil vaccine in preventing diseases caused by HPV 6, 11, 16 and 18.
Professor Jack Cuzick of Queen Mary University of London, who co-authored the report and participated in the design and analysis of the study, and served on the Trial Advisory Board, comments: "This is a significant achievement. The new vaccine, Gardasil 9, is not only safe but will offer greatly improved protection against cervical and other cancers. Eventually this will mean less screening is needed, as women will have greater protection from the outset.
"Gardasil 9 offers the potential to increase overall cervical cancer prevention from 70 to 90 per cent, nearly eliminating this cancer among vaccinated women. However, it's crucial to remember that vaccination must be done before exposure to the virus. Our focus for prevention must be on girls aged 12-13, as the current UK vaccine programme is doing, but the vaccine may also be appropriate for women 25-45 as part of a screening appointment."
Until late last year, there were two available vaccines to protect against HPV related disease (Cervarix and Gardasil). The UK currently uses Gardasil which protects against four HPV types and offers about 70 per cent protection against cervical cancer, and also significantly reduces the risk of other types of cancer and genital warts.
However, researchers have been trying to find methods to completely eliminate cervical cancer and other HPV related disease and by adding five more cancer related HPV types. The development of the new Gardasil 9 vaccine makes an important step in that direction.
HPV is the most common sexually transmitted virus. Many people infected with HPV clear it from their systems with no lasting health concerns and some types of the virus are low risk, causing warts or verrucas. However, other types are high risk, causing cervical cancer (and less commonly vulvar, vaginal, penile, anal, and throat cancers). Almost all cases of cervical cancer occur as a result of infection with high risk types of HPV.
Cervical cancer is still the fourth most common cancer in women, with over 500,000 cases and 250,000 deaths per year worldwide. In the UK around 3,000 women a year are diagnosed with cervical cancer and in 2011 there were around 970 deaths.
In the UK, all girls aged 12 to 13 are offered HPV vaccination as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme.
Professor Jack Cuzick concludes: "Following these important findings, this vaccine has been licenced in the USA and approval is currently being sought in the UK and other countries. It is encouraging that the Joint committee on Vaccines and Immunisation is reviewing Gardasil 9 in light of this new evidence."
This clinical trial was funded by Merck.
New HPV vaccine strengthens cancer protection
Journal information: New England Journal of Medicine
Provided by Queen Mary, University of London
Citation: New HPV vaccine offers greater protection against cervical cancer than current vaccine (2015, February 18) retrieved 16 July 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-hpv-vaccine-greater-cervical-cancer.html
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