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namespace pomdog::skeletal2d::detail::WeightBlendingHelper {

void Lerp(
    const std::vector<JointPose>& sourcePoses1,
    const std::vector<JointPose>& sourcePoses2,
    float weight,
    std::vector<JointPose>& output)
{
    POMDOG_ASSERT(!sourcePoses1.empty());
    POMDOG_ASSERT(!sourcePoses2.empty());
    POMDOG_ASSERT(sourcePoses1.size() == sourcePoses2.size());

    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < sourcePoses1.size(); ++i) {
        auto& pose1 = sourcePoses1[i];
        auto& pose2 = sourcePoses2[i];

        POMDOG_ASSERT(!output.empty());
        POMDOG_ASSERT(i < output.size());
        auto& result = output[i];

        result.Scale = math::Lerp(pose1.Scale, pose2.Scale, weight);
        result.Rotation = math::Lerp(pose1.Rotation.value, pose2.Rotation.value, weight);
        result.Translate = math::Lerp(pose1.Translate, pose2.Translate, weight);
    }
}

} // namespace pomdog::skeletal2d::detail::WeightBlendingHelper

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Three Words That Kill
December 27, 2018 Gillan Drew1 Comment
It's often said that, as a parent, the worst three words you can ever hear are, 'I hate you,' spoken by the sweet darling you've sacrificed your health and sanity for.
I always took this with a pinch of salt. Grow a freaking backbone, I thought. Your kids don't mean it for one second – that's how they talk. 'I hate you' is small person shorthand for 'I'm angry because you won't let me get my own way, but I'm not yet emotionally, cognitively or socially developed enough to deal with these feelings or articulate them in a healthy or appropriate manner.'
Besides, there are far worse things a parent can hear. Five words that never fail to freak me out are, 'Hello, I'm from Children's Services'. I'm sure I'd be turned into a gibbering wreck by a mere two words: 'It's meningitis.' By comparison, 'I hate you' is incredibly mild.
This complacency left me thoroughly unprepared for a grouping of five words that have killed me over the past few days, especially as it's Christmas. My three-year-old hasn't told me she hates me, no – I'd be able to handle that. Instead, she keeps looking at me and saying, 'I don't love you, daddy.'
If she said it once, in the heat of the moment, that'd be okay, but she brings it up at least every hour. Sometimes she varies it with, 'I don't love you anymore,' or she adds, 'You're naughty' or 'You're always mean to me.'
She often juxtaposes it with, 'But I love my mummy.' Indeed, she delighted in telling people over Christmas, 'I don't love daddy anymore, but I love my mummy.'
I've got to tell you: that shit hurts.
Despite the tough, resilient front I put on, I have to admit that I'm not handling it well. For three years she was a daddy's girl, but now I'm like something she's stepped in. When she's screaming because daddy's putting her to bed and not mummy, and shouting that she doesn't love daddy, she loves mummy, and even after you've calmed her down and read her a story and checked her room for monsters and told her you love her and wished her goodnight she says to you, 'Can mummy put me to bed tomorrow because I love mummy and I don't love you,' it's hard not to let that bring down your whole evening.
Whenever I ask her why, she tells me it's because I'm naughty and mean to her.
What do I do that's so bad? I make her eat her breakfast. I make her put her shoes on when we go out. If we're driving and I notice she's slipped her seatbelts off her shoulders, I tell her to put them back on. I make her stay in bed after I've put her there, and sit on the naughty step if she hits her sister. And instead of crisps and sweets all the time, I try to make her eat fruit.
Yep, what an ogre I must be. On Christmas morning, because I made her eat her cereal, she told me I wasn't allowed to go to my in-laws for Christmas Dinner because I'd been naughty and mean to her and she didn't love me and wanted to spend Christmas with people she loved – mummy, her sister, her grandparents, but certainly not me.
Every time I try to do things with her now, she kicks and screams and says she wants her mummy instead. It's kind of hard to enjoy yourself when you've got that hanging over your head. You wonder why the hell you bother taking her to theme parks and adventure playgrounds, why you cook her nice food and go out especially to buy special puddings, why you play with her in the bath and dry her all over with a hair-drier, and wipe her bottom and kiss away her ouchies and educate her about the world, why you try so hard to do everything right when apparently everything you do is wrong, wrong, wrong.
It'd be easier just to sit on the sofa, let her do what she wants, whenever she wants, let her eat junk and watch garbage on TV and go to bed when she chooses, and leave her to her beloved mummy. I would be far healthier and happier. I could read my books again, make models, watch movies, lounge in a hot bath, play video games, get a decent night's sleep for a change – all the things I don't have time for because I'm looking after two kids.
But if I did that, I wouldn't be a parent. Let her mummy be her best friend. Much as I'd love to be able to, it's not my job to make her feel warm and cuddly inside. It's my job to keep her safe, clean and fed, to prepare her for the world, to make sure we have a home in which to live. She might say she doesn't love me, but I'm the one she shouts for when she has a problem, I'm the one she needs if she's had a nightmare, I'm the one who fixes the things that she breaks.
God, why does it matter to me so much what a three-year-old thinks of me? And why does it make me so upset when she says she doesn't love me?
I guess that, no matter how old you get or how much you prepare yourself, rejection still feels like the absolute pits. I'd really better grow a backbone. I just hope it doesn't take too long.
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Heather Gill says:
You will shed many a tear & your heart will feel like it's been torn apart many times by things your children do/say, but it never stops you loving them & it never stops them loving you. It's so much harder to discipline a child & be the baddie than to let things go, but as you've said it's you who's her security & it's you she'll turn to when things go wrong. Those we love the most, we hurt the most. Blow her a kiss when she's looking daggers at you & screaming at you. It'll defuse the situation. If her words get no reaction she may stop saying it or say it less. Whatever………It's a normal part of growing up so try not take it to heart. All part of being a loving dad.

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As a barefoot kid in Pine Beach, N.J., I got a "teaser" ride with a bunch of kids on a Lightning. I loved it, but couldn't afford the $5 to join the junior program, so for the rest of the summer I watched from the beach. This fanned the fire to sail, and led to the first lesson: Make junior sailing accessible.
During a high school summer, I sold myself as a sailing instructor to a summer camp in New Hampshire. (No US Sailing Certificates then.) After preparing by memorizing the "Golden Book of Sailing," I got the kids safely sailing Sunfish dinghies. But the key discovery was integrating water games with the sailing. For most 10 year olds, pirate, sponge tag, bucket attack, etc., are far more fun than racing--but sailing well improved each team's attack. The second lesson: Make it fun.
As a college student, I took a summer job on the south shore of Long Island at a club with a hot new fleet of International 420s, complete with trapeze and spinnaker. That was the easiest lesson. Sailing fast is more fun, (and trapezing beats hiking).
The summer before medical school I landed a job as the head instructor at Royal Bermuda YC. A summer in Bermuda, accompanied by my Finn Dinghy, was a wonderful experience. Competing in the Finn Gold Cup against the likes of Paul Elvstrom was icing on the cake. That lesson: Keep the instructor happy. And let him or her race every now and then.
On the Charles River in urban Boston-Cambridge, MIT had a great racing program—sailing tubby Tech Dinghies. As a busy medical student and resident, this was the only sailing I had time to do. Soon I learned that the slow Tech made the "small pond" much bigger, and proved the next lesson: Competition is what makes good racing, not the boat.
My move to San Francisco occurred at the birth of the local Laser phenomenon. Don Trask built Lasers and junior sailors sailed them to their limits. John Bertrand, Jeff Madrigali, Paul Cayard, Craig Healy, and many others pushed each other such that the whole group excelled. They went on to win world championships, proving the next lesson: When kids are ready, challenge them against the best.
The stock Windsurfer was an active one-design racing class for all ages and sizes. One often saw 60+ boards at events on the Bay or Delta. The windsurfer was widely available, inexpensive, and easily transported. It got many people onto the water that had never sailed a boat. Local shops ran training programs for kids and adults. Racing was made fair by defining weight classes. The next lesson is obvious: To be accessible, entry level sailing must be affordable.
The most competitive kids from all over the Bay Area took advantage of the StFYC's Junior Program because it offered the only full-time coach and the best racing opportunities. The team traveled to regattas near and far, with logistical support and coaching; it had great success. The lesson: To succeed at the top, there must be a good coach.
Meanwhile, the technology of windsurfing evolved. Boards and sails improved tremendously and high-end racing flourished. But the simplicity of the entry level one-design Windsurfer was lost, and fewer kids and beginners entered sailing through that platform.
Other yacht clubs with good beginner programs built stronger upper level programs with coaches and traveling teams. The kids that started with them stayed. High school sailing teams aligned their kids with the club near their school. The high school regatta schedule filled spring and fall weekends that had been used for open (Laser) competitions. The number of highly competitive juniors joining StFYC dwindled. The lesson: Successful junior programs build from beginner to advanced levels.
The FJ proved satisfactory for high school dinghy racing, but was not a great springboard to other sailing platforms, e.g. Lasers, skiffs, windsurfers, or keelboats. Parents didn't purchase other classes of boats because the FJ's were available at their club and filled most of the kids' sailing time. Entry into Lasers or even windsurfers became too expensive, and parents participation in high school sailing was more as "little league parents", than as sailing role models. The lesson: Successful junior programs have actively involved parents.
By 2000, the Optimist Dinghy arrived on the Bay. It offered an international class that was inexpensive and far more forgiving in Bay conditions that the El Toro. Where previously most StFYC beginner instruction took place at Tinsley, beginner Opti sailing expanded at the City Front. Upper level Opti kids began traveling to highly competitive regattas. The Opti was a great overall change, but by creating a racing format for very young kids, it discouraged other kids who were just too young or who had grown early and were too heavy to be competitive.
The 29er skiff created another opportunity. It is a high speed trainer for the Olympic 49er, a boat that relishes the Bay's conditions. For kids 12 and over who have grown too big for an Opti, it offered a fun, fast platform and great competition. I've had the joy of racing a 29er with both of my kids, and with a number of other juniors, and witnessed how it reinvigorated their interest in sailing. This lesson hasn't changed in 50 years: There is no substitute for FAST and FUN.
The big initiative is to build windsurfing instruction into our junior camps. The new international trainer board is the BIC Techno 293, a smaller and lighter version of the Olympic RSX. It is excellent in a wide variety of conditions and is equipped with interchangeable rigs of multiple sizes. By providing an accessible and fun learning platform it builds on the advantages of the Opti and the old stock Windsurfer. It will also take advantage of the Club's uniquely windy location. There is no reason that the Bay Area should not be producing Olympic caliber windsurfers, and this program will help us do it.
Fifty years ago, sailing wasn't accessible to me, and today that is true for most local kids. Under the Club's new lease, it's obligated to extend junior opportunities to non-members through community outreach programs. With the generous support of the StFYC Foundation, a variety of options are planned, including the following: 1) day sails on the Blue Water Foundation's IOR sloop, 2) scholarships to our City Front programs, 3) enlarged and diversified HS sailing practices, and 4) beginner windsurfing clinics.
Having learned all these lessons, the plan now is to put it all together. Look for more kids on the docks and around the junior room. It's the future of the Club.
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By CAMERON KOUBEK - cameron.koubek@uslsoccer.com, 11/11/20, 10:45AM EST
The club's new USL Academy program will create a development platform up through League Two and to the professional ranks for players in east Tennessee
Over the last few decades, if you were a young soccer player from Johnson City, Tennessee or the surrounding area with aspirations of playing professionally, chances are you had to leave home to find a level of competition that would prepare you to reach that goal. But since the foundation of Tri-Cities Otters in 2016, that has begun to change.
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Why the UN Needs a Comprehensive "Agenda for Protection"
by Damian Lilly
Antonio Guterres, Peacekeepers, Peacekeeping, Protection of civilians, UN Secretary General, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly
The protection of crisis-affected populations is a key responsibility of the United Nations. From Tigray to Myanmar, Afghanistan and elsewhere, atrocity crimes continue to be committed with almost complete impunity. At the same time, U.N. Member State support for the human rights agenda is at a low ebb making it increasingly difficult to rally international action to address such situations. The U.N. Security Council is in a perpetual state of deadlock over many crises while human rights norms are under assault from populist governments and right-wing politicians that reject the international liberal order and multilateralism. The performance of the U.N. system has also been inadequate in cases where the U.N. has intervened, with the findings of previous independent inquiries into events in Sri Lanka and Myanmar – that catalogued "systemic and structural" failings in the U.N. response – just as relevant today. A report I published in June on the U.N'.s response to the Myanmar coup found that the same challenges persist with the U.N. seemingly destined to fail there yet again. Reports this month that the U.N. downplayed reports of sexual violence in Tigray are of particular concern.
Last year, faced with criticism about the inaction of the U.N., the Secretary-General launched a Call to Action on Human Rights to reaffirm the importance of human rights to the organization. The initiative outlines seven priority areas, including amongst these, "Rights in Times of Crisis" with the commitment to develop an Agenda for Protection, which the U.N. secretariat is currently working on and is expected to finalize later this year. Human rights are also a central theme of the Common Agenda launched last week by the U.N. Secretary General to reinvigorate multilateralism. To ensure that these latest efforts to put human rights at the forefront of the U.N.'s response to crises do not fail (as previous ones have) requires a comprehensive approach that unifies the current fragmented ways in which the U.N. protects people, whether it be through humanitarian action, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, development cooperation or human rights work more generally.
An Opportune Moment to Tackle a Longstanding Problem
Since the U.N.'s inaction during the Rwandan genocide, the Balkans conflict, and other debacles during 1990s, the organization has increasingly focused on protection as a core aspect of its work, with different entities of the U.N. developing their own approaches. Defining "protection" in the U.N. context is challenging: for example, humanitarian agencies have viewed the term broadly in terms of all actions aimed at obtaining full respect for rights under international humanitarian, human rights, and refugee law including the provision of services and advocacy, whereas U.N. peacekeepers have adopted a narrower definition in terms of physical threats of violence to civilians, emphasizing the potential use of force to protect civilians.
There are currently several reviews underway regarding these different institutional approaches that provide the opportunity to truly transform how the U.N. protects civilians. Within the humanitarian sector, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) has just begun a review of its first ever protection policy that was adopted in 2016. The U.N. Department of Peace Operations (DPO) is re-examining its approach to the protection of civilians in view of the transition and drawdown of several of its peacekeeping missions. There is increased attention to the protection role of the Special Political Missions of the U.N – civilian missions that support peace processes and democratic transitions – as these increase in number and take over from many peacekeeping operations, with the U.N. Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) considering its position on the topic. Human rights also remain central to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in which protection is an important dimension of the so-called triple nexus promoting greater collaboration between humanitarian, development and peace actors.
The forthcoming Agenda for Protection should be seized upon as the chance to bring together these disparate strands of the U.N.'s protection activities – and reforms thereof – to deliver a more predictable and effective response for those most affected by crises. Currently, each part of the U.N. has its separate definition, terminology, policies, strategies, and guidelines in this area. Endless time is spent discussing the finer details about the conceptual differences between "humanitarian protection," "protection of civilians," "human rights," and the many other terms that describe broadly similar kinds of activities. All these terms share the overarching common goal of protecting civilians impacted by crisis. Yet institutional interests are often put ahead of developing a common, unified approach that ultimately could be more successful at providing protection, and that could address the failings identified in previous inquiries, studies, and reviews.
The distinctive protection roles of different U.N. entities should not be completely overlooked. Whereas international humanitarian and human rights law provides the common legal framework, there are important mandate, policy, and principled reasons why each relevant part of the U.N. plays a separate role and has developed their own approaches accordingly. It would be impossible (and unhelpful) to iron out these important differences. That being said, despite this diversity of approach, there are more similarities than there are differences among U.N. entities' understanding of protection. Yet to outsiders and other parts of the U.N., what comes across is a conceptually confusing, fragmented, and disparate protection agenda, which causes frustration and potentially leads to disinterest – precisely what the protection agenda does not need, given its cross-cutting nature that requires mainstreaming, with even non-protection specialist U.N. entities required to play a role.
From the former U.N. Secretary-General's Human Rights Up Front initiative to the IASC Principal's Centrality of Protection statement, much has been said about the need for a "system-wide" approach to protection, but little progress has been made in actually bringing this about. The Agenda for Protection needs to learn the lessons why these previous initiatives did not bring about the systemic and structural changes required to improve the U.N.'s protection role.
Six Priorities for the Agenda on Protection
There are several critical issues that the Agenda for Protection will need to address to really make a difference:
First, the agenda needs to adopt a truly holistic approach. The greatest imperative for the U.N. is to halt atrocity crimes and the worst forms of violence towards civilians. Rather than merely responding to such incidents, though, efforts should be made to prevent them from occurring in the first place. The U.N. Secretary General has made prevention a priority and this should equally apply to protection which requires tackling not only the symptoms of violence but also their underlying causes. When conflicts do break out, protection should be prioritized throughout their duration, right through to recovery and peacebuilding to avoid a relapse, as so often occurs in many conflicts. The Agenda for Protection should address all types of threats to civilians during crisis and be applied throughout all phases of them, making the linkages between all complementary interventions.
Second is the issue of leadership. With so many different U.N. entities involved in protection, it is frequently unclear who is responsible for making the required decisions and providing leadership. The most senior U.N. official in a country – whether it is a Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG), Resident Coordinator (RC), or Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) – is usually the nominated focal point, but they frequently struggle to mobilize and direct other U.N. entities around a common approach to protection, as each entity has their own vested interests. Moreover, there is no consistent coordinating U.N. entity for protection, with this task varying from one context to the next. As the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to humanitarian action and the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) is to development cooperation, there needs to be a clear lead entity regarding protection. This will most likely require significant investments in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to play a more active coordinating role that is separate from its myriad existing mandated tasks which it already struggles to implement due to lack of resources. The Agenda for Protection should clarify these leadership responsibilities and provide the resources to execute them.
Third, there needs to be a single protection plan. Currently, in each crisis situation, there are countless different protection strategies by – to name just a few – the humanitarian country team, protection cluster, peacekeeping missions, and other human rights-related teams. While these strategies are often complementary, they also overlap and duplicate each other and there is frequently a lack of clarity as to who is responsible for doing what. As a result, tasks tend to fall through the cracks and don't get implemented because each U.N. entity thinks it is someone else's responsibility to implement them. Ideally, there should be a single protection plan that all U.N. entities endorse or, if not, a rationalization of the increasing number of planning frameworks that are becoming unmanageable. The Agenda for Protection should clarify roles and responsibilities and provide the framework for an overall protection strategy while being mindful of the different roles that each entity needs to plays for them to be consistent with their own policies and principle.
Fourth is the importance of predictability. The U.N.'s operational field presence on protection is often determined by what the U.N. Security Council or other U.N. bodies mandate. These operations are also constrained by the resources that are provided from the U.N.'s assessed budget and the terms of the host country's consent. Notwithstanding these constraints, there is still enormous variation in the protection footprint of the U.N. from one crisis context to the next. I was most recently based in Myanmar (a country with on-going crimes against humanity and a genocide committed only a few years ago) where the U.N. has only five human rights officers (based outside the country). This compares to, for instance, South Sudan or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the U.N. has had up to one hundred human rights officers. Recent research by the Global Protection Cluster has confirmed (yet) again how humanitarian protection field operations remain not only perennially underfunded but also extremely uneven from one context to the next. U.N. peacekeeping missions with protection-of-civilians mandates are also facing increasing budgetary pressures. The Agenda for Protection should set out standardized protection responses to crises and the capabilities needed to deliver these – and help try to even out funding and resource disparities to provide more predictability.
Fifth is the need for scaled up crisis response mechanisms related to protection. When a crisis erupts, the U.N. has a poor track record at scaling up its protection response, with few tools available to respond rapidly and effectively. Within the humanitarian sector all aid agencies as part of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee operate according to common scale up protocols that calibrate their operational response to the severity of an emergency. Once a humanitarian emergency is declared "Level 3," every organization is obliged to prioritize and dedicate global resources and capabilities to respond. A similar system should operate across the U.N. to ensure every relevant entity supports a truly system-wide response to each protection crisis that is commensurate with the scale of violations occurring. Currently, the mobilization of resources relies on the goodwill, capacity, and interest of different U.N. entities rather than agreed procedures. Instead of this capricious approach, a threshold of ongoing atrocity crimes should trigger U.N. entities to scale up their actions as part of a common U.N. response. The use of emergency rosters should also be used to deploy greater numbers of protection staff to crises. The Protection Stand-by Capacity Project (ProCap) exists within the humanitarian sector and the Justice Rapid Response for human rights investigations, but far greater use could be made of these roster arrangements. The Agenda for Protection should review and set out crisis response mechanisms to fill gaps.
Sixth is the importance of adopting a results-based approach and promoting accountability. Protection is a goal, an approach, but also an outcome that crisis-affected populations should expect to receive from the U.N. If the U.N. is to address the shortcomings identified in previous inquiries, then it must adopt a results-based approach to its protection actions. Too often protection is defined as an aspiration the U.N. hopes to achieve, rather than a measurable outcome that crisis-affected populations can count on. The Sustainable Development Goals set clear objectives for what development cooperation is meant to achieve. Standards have been set for humanitarian action as well. There are, in contrast, few benchmarks that guide the U.N.'s protection work. There has been increased scrutiny on the performance of U.N. peacekeeping operations including their efforts to protect civilians, with steps taken to integrate consideration of these within the results-based system of accountability. Within the humanitarian sector, the NGO network InterAction has promoted a result-based approach to protection. But these are just two initiatives rather than a system-wide results-based approach to protection. The Agenda for Protection should propose a common system for measuring the protection outcomes of the U.N.'s efforts to protect crisis-affected populations.
The U.N. is facing an uphill struggle to protect civilians in crisis as respect for international law diminishes and support for multilateral action wanes. While these external challenges might be hard to control, there is much more that could be done internally within the U.N. to improve the organization's performance in this area. The Agenda of Protection provides the possibility to address many of these concerns starting with a system-wide policy on protection that has been missing up until now and is sorely needed to bring better protection to crisis-affected populations.
Image: Members of the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) Italian contingent gather in the village of Seddiqine in the southern Lebanese district of Tyre, from near where four rockets were fired towards Israel, on May 19, 2021. – The Israeli army confirmed the attack, saying it retaliated with artillery fire.
Damian Lilly
Damian Lilly (@damian_lilly) is an independent consultant and Director of Protection at the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP). He most recently served as Chief of the Protection Division in the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and Senior Protection of Civilians Advisor in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
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He represented his country at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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GREED: Highly desperate 23-year-old Nigerian American, ECHEZONACHUKWU OBIANEFO handcuffed in Texas for stealing $300,000 worth Rolls-Royce … confessed to crime, saying: 'Devil lured and tempted me into it' *Houston man held in the Harris County Jail, bail set at $50,000, worked as manager of Osita Links and Logistics Group LLC before arrest *Original owner of car tells investigators automobile was missing in Florida *Rolls-Royce Cullinan is the first sport-utility vehicle produced by luxury automobile maker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars being the brand's first all-wheel-drive vehicle *BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Editor
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Highly desperate 23-year-old Nigerian American, ECHEZONACHUKWU OBIANEFO handcuffed in Texas for stealing $300,000 worth Rolls-Royce
… confessed to crime, saying: 'Devil lured and tempted me into it'
*Houston man held in the Harris County Jail, bail set at $50,000, worked as manager of Osita Links and Logistics Group LLC before arrest
*Original owner of car tells investigators automobile was missing in Florida
*Rolls-Royce Cullinan is the first sport-utility vehicle produced by luxury automobile maker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars being the brand's first all-wheel-drive vehicle
*BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Editor
END OF THE ROAD HAS COME FOR A NIGERIAN BORN AMERICAN man, EZECHEZONACHUKWU OBIANEFO, who parade himself in Houston, Texas as a successful businessman, whereas in reality, this suspect was just arrested, handcuffed for stealing a brand new Rolls-Royce valued at $300,000 cash. Upon interrogation, he confessed to the crime, blaming it on temptation from the Devil.
This 23-year-old of Houston, Texas, United States, has been arrested by the Harris County Sheriff's Office. He is being held in the Harris County Jail in Houston and his bail was set at $50,000. Obianefo is the manager of Osita Links and Logistics Group LLC, which provides transportation services.
Business where the suspect worked is owned by Mary Obianefo. The freight shipping trucking company was incorporated on April 8, 2021, and is based in Houston. Echezonachukwu is accused of stealing a Rolls-Royce Cullinan, which is valued at around $300,000.
The owner of the vehicle, whose name was not released, is a resident of Florida, USA, according to the Harris County District Attorney's office, conandaily.com reports. It is not clear whether the vehicle was stolen in Houston or Florida. The date when the alleged crime was committed was not announced, but sources squealed to our correspondent that "The said Rolls-Royce Cullinan had been missing in Florida for some days. We were able to use the car's internal G.P.S to track to Houston where EZECHEZONACHUKWU OBIANEFO was found to have stolen the expensive vehicle."
Meanwhile, the suspect placed the whole blame on the feet of the Devil, who lured and tempted him.
The Rolls-Royce Cullinan is the first sport-utility vehicle produced by luxury automobile maker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, based in Goodwood, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom. It is also the brand's first all-wheel-drive vehicle.
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ARTH 203. Introduction to Art - AH3 Units
Description: Introduction to the visual arts, for non-majors, involving analysis, interpretation, and criticism.
ARTH 250. Ancient Through Medieval Art - AH3 Units
Description: Survey of arts and architecture from antiquity to the Middle Ages.
ARTH 270. Renaissance Through Modern Art - AH3 Units
Description: Survey of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the present.
ARTH 290. Survey of Asian Art - D2, AH3 Units
Description: A survey of the major artistic traditions of Asia, primarily China, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia from Neolithic times to the turn of the twentieth century.
Note: Cross-listed with AST 290.
ARTH 301. History and Issues of Graphic Design3 Units
Prerequisite(s): BFA Graphic Design Candidacy or faculty consent.
Description: The themes, styles, expressions, technologies and artists that contributed to contemporary graphic design, with special consideration on the period from 1800 to present.
Note: This course is taken in the same semester as ART 371.
Note: This course is a requirement for the completion of the BFA in Graphic Design.
Note: May be used to satisfy an ARTH elective for the BA in Art History.
ARTH 320. Twentieth-Century Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270 or faculty consent.
Description: Survey of international art between 1900 and the present.
Note: Credit may not be earned for this course and ARTH 321 or ARTH 325.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period/Area 2 - after-1750 requirement.
ARTH 321. Art 1900-19453 Units
Description: Survey of international art between 1900 and 1945.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period/Area 2 - after 1750 requirement.
ARTH 322. Pop Art & Fluxus3 Units
Description: Pop Art & Fluxus investigates the international, historical, and historiographic components of two artistic movements that developed simultaneously in the late 1950s. The course considers their visual strategies and ideological positions, foregrounds the interpretive contexts in which they have been conventionally situated (ranging from social realism and Marxist critiques to camp sensibility), and challenges students to pursue a critical reevaluation of these approaches.
ARTH 325. Art Since 19453 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270, or faculty consent.
Description: Survey of international avant-garde art from 1945 to the present.
Note: Credit may not be earned for this course and ARTH 320 and ARTH 321.
ARTH 326. International Trends in Contemporary Art3 Units
Description: Survey of international developments in contemporary art since 1980.
ARTH 331. Chinese Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 250, or ARTH 270, or ARTH 290; or faculty consent.
Description: An introduction to important Chinese artistic works and stylistic changes through history and their relationships with Chinese society, culture and visual traditions.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period/Area 3 - Non-western requirement.
ARTH 335. Twentieth Century Chinese Artists and Architects - D2, AH3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 250, ARTH 270, or ARTH 290, or faculty consent.
Description: This course studies twentieth-century Chinese art and architecture through major artists and architects whose work showcases the rethinking of Chinese culture in the modern era and global context.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period/Area 3 requirement.
ARTH 337. Eastern Asia Landscape Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 250, ARTH 270, or ARTH 290, or consent of instructor.
Description: This course explores the traditions of Chinese and Japanese landscape art and design from its beginning phase around the first century until early 20th century.
ARTH 339. Architecture and Gardens in China and Japan3 Units
Description: This course provides an overview of the built environment in China and Japan, both traditional and modern.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period/Area 3 Non-Western requirement.
ARTH 341. African Art: A Survey3 Units
Description: Examination of African art from the Paleolithic era to contemporary times. Relationship between classical Egyptian art and sub-Saharan art forms.
Note: Cross-listed with PAS 381.
ARTH 342. Selected Topics in Art History3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or faculty consent.
Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of Art History. Topics to be indicated in the Schedule of Courses.
Note: May be taken with different subtitles to a maximum of 12 hours.
Note: Satisfaction of curricular requirement determined by individual course content.
ARTH 343. African-American Art to 19203 Units
Description: Relationship between African and African-American art from the slave era through the Harlem Renaissance in its aesthetic, social, cultural, and political contexts.
ARTH 344. African-American Art 1920 to Present3 Units
Description: Relationship between art of the Harlem Renaissance, Black Art of the 1960's and contemporary art in its aesthetic, social, cultural and political contexts.
ARTH 345. History of Drawing and Prints3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 250, or ARTH 270, or faculty consent.
Description: Survey of history of graphic arts, emphasizing ways of interpreting drawings and prints.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period/Area 1 - Pre-1750 requirement.
ARTH 347. Historic Interiors for Interior Design3 Units
Description: The study of building interiors in relation to design, culture, history, furniture and decorative elements.
Note: This course is a requirement for completion of the BFA in Interior Design.
ARTH 349. Contemporary Trends in African-American Art - WR3 Units
Description: A survey of contemporary African-American art since the 1960s into current trends today. Students will examine contemporary paintings,sculpture, fabric art, folk art, public art, and installation art. Emphasis will be on the social, cultural, spiritual and religious influences expressed in contemporary art.
Note: Approved for the Arts and Sciences upper-level requirement in Written Communication-WR.
Note: Credit may not be earned for this course and ARTH 549.
ARTH 351. Greek Art and Architecture3 Units
Description: Survey of art and architecture of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.
ARTH 353. Roman Art and Architecture3 Units
Description: A survey of the art and architecture of Italy and the Roman world from the time of the Etruscans through late antiquity.
ARTH 362. Early Medieval Art and Architecture - WR3 Units
Description: A survey of the art of western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire through the Carolingian Renaissance (4th-10th c.).
Note: Approved for the Arts and Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR).
ARTH 363. Late Medieval Art and Architecture - WR3 Units
Description: A survey of Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture.
ARTH 364. Byzantine Art & Architecture3 Units
Description: An introduction to the world of the Byzantine Empire (6th-15th c.) through an examination of the art and architecture which attest to the creativity and vibrancy of this period.
ARTH 365. Mexican Art and Architecture3 Units
Description: A survey of Mexican art from the Conquest (1521) to present.
ARTH 367. Islamic Art and Architecture3 Units
Description: An introduction to the medieval Islamic world (7th-16th c.) through an examination of the art and architecture which attest to the creative vibrancy of this period.
ARTH 371. Italian Renaissance Art I3 Units
Description: Art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
ARTH 372. Italian Renaissance Art II3 Units
Description: Art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance during the sixteenth century.
ARTH 373. Northern Renaissance Art3 Units
Description: Art and architecture of Northern Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
ARTH 381. Baroque Art3 Units
Description: Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French painting and sculpture of the seventeenth century.
ARTH 391. Nineteenth-Century Art3 Units
Description: Principal trends in Western painting and sculpture of the nineteenth century.
ARTH 393. Nineteenth-Century Architecture3 Units
Description: Major movements and figures in American and European architecture from 1750 to World War I.
ARTH 394. Twentieth-Century Architecture3 Units
Description: Architecture of the United States and Europe from World War I to the present; primary emphasis on major figures and developments before 1975.
ARTH 395. American Art I3 Units
Description: A survey of painting, sculpture, architecture in the American colonies and the United States from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century.
ARTH 396. American Art II3 Units
Description: A survey of the visual arts in the United States since 1900.
ARTH 397. History of Photography3 Units
Description: The aesthetic development of photography, with emphasis on U.S. photographers and contemporary issues relevant to the medium.
ARTH 398. History of Landscape Architecture3 Units
Description: The garden as form and symbol; a general survey of the history of gardens from ancient to the present time, with major emphasis on Italian, French, and English gardens.
Note: Credit may not be received for both ARTH 398 and ARTH 598.
ARTH 440. Cooperative Internship in Art History1-3 Units
Prerequisite(s): See the College's requirements for cooperative internships in the undergraduate catalog.
Description: An individually arranged course combining a work experience with a related academic or creative project. This work/learning arrangement must be overseen by an Art History faculty member and by a designated employee of an organization.
Note: Registering for ARTH 440 is contingent upon the student identifying an Art History faculty member who will sponsor and oversee their work.
Note: May not be used to fulfill minimum requirements for the major in Art or Art History.
ARTH 501. Advanced History and Issues of Graphic Design3 Units
Description: The themes, styles, expressions, technologies and artists that contributed to contemporary graphic design, with special consideration on the period from 1800 to the present.
ARTH 521. Studies in Modern Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Modern Art or consent of instructor.
Description: Reconstruction and interpretations of modern artistic aspirations through study of sources and documents by artists, critics and historians.
ARTH 523. History of Performance Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270 and ARTH 325; or permission of instructor; or graduate standing.
Description: History of Performance Art is designed as an advanced upper-level seminar that investigates the international, historical developments in Performance Art after World War II. It considers the experimental strategies and ideological aims of visual artists who used their bodies as the primary vehicle of expression, information, communication, and social change. Performance Art has had the dubious distinction of being the most censored art medium, and since the 1960s artists have been continually arrested and fined for their work. This is a highly significant social fact, one that draws attention to Performance Art's particularly disruptive aesthetic codes and materials-emphasizing presentation over representation; intersubjective, human bodies over inanimate objects; and temporarily over spatiality.
Course Attribute(s): CBL - This course includes Community-Based Learning (CBL). Students will engage in a community experience or project with an external partner in order to enhance understanding and application of academic content.
ARTH 524. Installation Art3 Units
Description: An advanced exploratory seminar that investigates a contemporary art form as well as a thorny art-historical problem: the term "installation" now functions both as a loose descriptor for a myriad of contemporary artworks (having supplanted terms such as Assemblage and Environment) independent of medium and context, as well as a general and comprehensive art-historical genre, a circumstance that has its own compelling historical development. The course is designed so that students can grapple with a central issue for contemporary art-the definition of a burgeoning critical term for art history.
ARTH 525. Representations of Trauma in the Visual Arts3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 270 and ARTH 325; or permission of instructor.
Description: This seminar examines the changing relationships between trauma and its representation in the twentieth century. Beginning with the Holocaust, the course charts a trajectory from this most profound of collective traumas, to the refinement of clinical definitions of trauma (e.g., PTSD) in the wake of the Vietnam War, to the development of trauma studies in the humanities in the 1990s, to the recent "pictorial turn" within scholarship on trauma. This historical framework will be brought to bear upon the dynamics of how trauma and visuality have been approached by scientists, scholars, and artists.
Note: Cross-listed with WGST 525.
ARTH 526. Studies in Contemporary Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 320, or ARTH 321, or ARTH 325 or ARTH 326, or permission of the instructor.
Description: An advanced-level seminar on special topics in contemporary art.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period 2/Area - after-1750 requirement.
ARTH 531. Studies in Asian Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): One 300-level course in Asian Art, or consent of instructor.
Description: Selected topics that examine the development of art and architecture in the context of the social and cultural history of China and Japan.
ARTH 541. Theories & Methods in the Visual Arts3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
Description: An introduction to various art historical and interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that have shaped the understanding, interpretation, and production of visual art and culture in the nineteenth century to the present. The course will explore these theories and methods as specific fields of inquiry through the study of primary texts, secondary or applied texts, artists' writings and artworks.
Note: This course is required for completion of the BA in Art History.
ARTH 542. Special Topics3 Units
Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of Art History not covered in the regular course offerings. Content to be indicated in schedule of courses.
Note: May be taken with four different subtitles to a maximum of 12 hours.
ARTH 543. Independent Study1-3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Minimum grade point average of 3.0 overall, and minimum grade point average of 3.5 in the department, and at least 18 semester hours credit in the department, or consent of instructor.
Description: Topic and content to be determined in consultation with instructor.
ARTH 544. Pan-African Art: Form and Content3 Units
Description: Similarities and differences in African-American folk art, Caribbean folk art, and traditional African art.
ARTH 547. Introduction to Critical and Curatorial Studies I3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Description: An introduction to curatorial practice of the last 30 years. Focusing on the curator's increasingly prominent role in the reception and synthesis of contemporary art, the course explores developments in exhibition design in terms of art production, international exchange, globalization, and critical theory.
Note: Cross-listed with CCS 547.
Note: A student may only receive credit for only one of the courses: ARTH 547, CCS 547, ARTH 647, CCS 647.
Note: Formerly Museum Methods I.
ARTH 548. Critical and Curatorial Studies II3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 547, or CCS 547, or ARTH 647, or CCS 647, or consent of instructor.
Description: This seminar is structured as a curatorial practicum. Students work with the professor to develop and produce an exhibition from the university's print collection. Throughout the semester, weekly readings and presentations focus on contemporary exhibition practice as well as on the theoretical and critical concerns undergirding the student's developing exhibition.
Note: A student may receive credit for only one of the following courses: ARTH 548, ARTH 648, CCS 548 and CCS 648.
Note: Formerly taught as Museum Methods II.
ARTH 549. Contemporary Trends in African-American Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): One 300-level art history course or faculty consent.
Description: Survey of contemporary African American art since the 1960s into current trends today. Examination of contemporary paintings, sculpture, fabric art, folk art, public art, and installation art.
Note: Undergraduate credit may not be earned for this course and ARTH 349 and ARTH 329.
Note: May be used to satisfy the Period 3/Area - Non-Western requirement.
ARTH 550. Art History Undergraduate Capstone Seminar - CUE3 Units
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and BA candidacy; or faculty consent.
Description: The Art History Program's undergraduate capstone seminar evaluates the ability of our majors to conduct original art historical research, frame their investigations in the form of a scholarly abstract, and present their ideas in a "conference paper" following the conventions appropriate to the discipline.
Course Attribute(s): CUE - This course fulfills the Culminating Undergraduate Experience (CUE) requirement for certain degree programs. CUE courses are advanced-level courses intended for majors with at least 90 earned credits/senior-level status.
ARTH 551. Studies in Ancient Art3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ARTH 351, or ARTH 353, or consent of instructor.
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Granard Garda Chief retires: Superintendent Brian Mohan reflects on the highs and lows of his career
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Granard Superintendent Brian Mohan who retires this week. Photo: Shelley Corcoran
The term gentleman is a turn of phrase that's all too often overused in today's fast paced modern era.
Yet it is a mode of expression which undoubtedly befits the broad shoulders of Granard Superintendent Brian Mohan.
The gracious and perpetually engaging father of four steps down from his role on Friday, bringing the curtain down on a career he has given more than half his adult life to.
And, as you would come to expect, Supt Mohan, or Brian as he is more affectionately known to those closest to him, has certainly encountered his fair share of highs and lows since first enlisting as an ambitious, yet innately mild mannered twenty-something garda in 1982.
Throwing out a chuckle when it emerged his 'passing out' had come before his interviewer had even been born, Supt Mohan didn't take long in rhyming out where he was first stationed during what was a much changed and recession hit Ireland.
"The first place I got sent to was Stepaside, in Dublin, Shane Ross' patch," he instinctively pointed out.
From there, a similarly short spell in Omeath, Co Louth (1984-86) before senior bosses rewarded the Monaghan native's strong work ethic and rapidly emerging investigative nous by assigning him to Dundalk's Detective Branch.
Given the volatile nature of Ireland's socio-political make-up, hindered by decades of violence on both sides of the border, Brian admitted the task facing him was one he quickly had to adjust to.
When I went there in 1986 The Troubles were very much at their height," he recalled.
"They were dark, dark days and dangerous times."
One of the stand-out memories which still lingers with him to this day was what would later become known as the 'Clontibret Affair' with a certain former DUP leader Peter Robinson at the centre of the controversy.
The 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement, which for the first time gave Dublin an advisory role in the North, had been met with fury by the unionists.
After almost a year of unrest, more protests and demonstrations had been called for the evening of 6-7 August 1986: one, it turned out, wasn't scheduled to begin until the early hours of the morning, just a few miles from the border – on the southern side. An official's note to the British ambassador, released years later, described how 150 loyalists, "some wearing paramilitary uniforms and carrying cudgels," invaded Clontibret in the dead of night.
It later transpired that the RUC had tipped off gardaí about the expected events of the night – and armed Garda reinforcements arrived from Monaghan town within half an hour.
The affable former St McCartan's College student can still remember the sheer vitriol and acrimony that came with such paramilitary led violence.
"There were riots and petrol bombs thrown out of buildings," he said, as he along with his colleagues attempted to uphold Mr Robinson's well-being en route to various court appearances following his arrest and subsequent charging.
"It was an absolute nightmare and supporters of theirs were completely stoned out of it.
"We were escorting Loyalist supporters back down the street but the next thing we were having to deal with petrol bombs being thrown out of a three storey building into the crowd below.
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Three people were arrested as a result of that and brought before the Special Criminal Court, but they were dark, dark days."
Less than two years later, the young detective garda became embroiled in legislating for the safe passage through Dundalk of the so-called 'Gibraltar Three'-a further low point in Anglo-Irish relations which culminated in three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) being shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on March 6 1988.
It's questionable what dignifying or uplifting memories one can assume from such episodes, yet they are ones which still resonate with the departing Granard garda boss to this day.
Another sore point that still rankles with him concerns the brutal abduction and murder of farmer Tom Oliver by the IRA in July 1991.
No one has ever been brought to justice for his killing, a case Brian was closely involved in as an investigating officer.
"That was one of them," he said, somewhat limply, when pressed asked if any low points still embittered him.
"It was also probably the one defining moment in the community there as it split the whole area wide open and drove a wedge right through it."
Another is having to deal with both the personal and professional trauma which came his way in January 2013 with the shooting dead of his colleague Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe.
"It was very difficult," he admitted with more than a tinge of stoicism.
"But there is a person before the courts in relation to that. I hope it is brought to a successful conclusion and I have no doubt other people involved (in murder) will be pursued just as vigorously."
On the flip side, there are many highlights too.
The successful prosecution of a vicious rape of a young woman with special needs in 1988 and the life sentence handed down to a man for a similar offence against a 71-year-old woman in her own home, are just a couple.
But rather than take any personal sense of satisfaction from putting the seal on both investigations, a more subtle and gratifying aspect is very much at play.
"My job when I was in Dundalk mainly involved the investigation of murder and serious crime so much so that you sort of found yourself as a voice for those people and families who became caught up in it all," he said.
"Bringing people before the courts and getting successful convictions was not so much about yourself, it was always about the families involved.
"I remember that case (1988 rape of special needs victim) and when it was all over her father actually wrote to the Garda Commissioner to say what a good job I had done.
It's when you get letters and things like that which makes it all worthwhile."
It's a statement which underlines the humility and diffidence of a man who is the very epitome of what every budding, new and recently appointed gardaí should aspire to.
That same sense of humbleness and broad-mindedness is a virtue which has come to define his two year stint in Granard.
In an abrupt and unexpected revelation, he explained how his affinity for his last posting led him to rejecting a possible transfer to Bailieboro, a location which would have considerably reduced his daily commute from his Co Monaghan home.
A large slice of that, the amiable garda chief, puts down to a deep seated connectedness with a community he has come to venerate alongside an innate desire to finish a job he started just over two years earlier.
We have done quite a lot in that we have targeted organised crime in the area," he added.
"And though we are only starting to see the fruits of that now as I leave, I would like to see CAB (Criminal Assets Bureau) get involved."
Equally, and like many of those in political office, he expressed an inherent desire to see the position he has proudly occupied since December 2016, filled without haste.
That, allied to an appetite for an underpinning of the District's detective branch and for a realigning of garda demographics to ensure more members live within the parameters of districts in which they serve are personal cravings which may yet still come to pass.
That said, his fears over a potential hard border have been echoed by many others.
But perhaps it is most striking the warning of the "disaster" such a scenario would bring to the relationship between North and South, should come from a man who has spent much of his working life endeavouring to uphold law and order across a region that's now facing its greatest dilemma in over 20 years.
Those discussions are for another day however. For the moment, and as the Granard garda boss prepares to take his leave this Friday it's a case of looking back with pride, but also looking forward to a new chapter full of optimism and quiet expectation.
"I don't play golf," was his swift response to questions over whether he intends improving his handicap in retirement.
"But I will certainly be back to Longford for the fishing."
And, based on the level of respect and admiration this absolute gentleman of a public servant has managed to command from almost all quarters of society, it's a wish Longford and its 40,000 strong populous will more than gladly accede to.
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December 5, 2016 /in Latest News /by Dr. Brian Harkins
Another First for Tomball Regional Medical Center
As proven leaders in robotic surgery, Tomball Regional Medical Center and Dr. Brian Harkins has accomplished yet another milestone!!! Single-Site surgery on the Da Vinci Xi robot premiered at TRMC on May 4, 2016. Dr. Harkins accomplished the first Single-Site cholecystectomy on the Xi in Houston… in Texas… and one of the first ten in the country.
The FDA recently released approval for the technology to be applied to the Xi platform which allows gallbladder surgery to be done through a single one-inch incision at the umbilicus. Currently, the approved surgeries are Cholecystectomy, Oophorectomy, and Hysterectomy. As experience grows and technological advances continue, expect more and more surgery to be done through ever decreasing incisions!
While one could expect to pay a premium for this state of the art technology the reality is that the cost is ever less than the robotic multiport equivalent. Dr. Harkins is currently seeking patients to assess if they are candidates for Single-Site on the DaVinci Xi. In fact, as of press time for this newsletter, it's the only place you can get in Houston!
Houston Technology Turns Hard to Easy… and Safe
Some of you may recognize the term Single Site or Single Port. The concerted effort to introduce this approach into laparoscopy began in 2007. Studies proved it safe and effective. The increased degree of difficulty in doing the operation, however, resulted in limited penetration into the field of surgery.
Placing 3 instruments and a camera through once trocar and trying to find enough room to manipulate all of that in close quarters was challenging at best. Not to mention that the limited working room required the instrument on the left of the screen and visa-verse for the other hand. It was kind of like operating looking into a mirror while playing Twister! No wonder it didn't catch on as expected. But if you connect all the instrument to the robotic platform then Presto… hard becomes easy.
The robot is designed to manage the tight quarters and the computer adjusts the view for the unnatural angles and visual associations. The older model DaVinci Si was the first robotic platform to have this but many surgeons had limited access to a robot making that the rate limiting step for adoption. Robots are increasingly more available and general surgeons are quickly adopting the platform. Couple this with added safety in identifying the ductal anatomy using Firefly visualization (see side panel) and it's easy to see how the future of minimally invasive surgery is the header in "1" direction. 1 incision, 1 inch long equals 1 happy patient!
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"One of the aspects I like the most about being on the cutting edge of technology in surgery is the ability to interact with colleagues across the country as the surgical community helps to shape this emerging standard" stated Dr. Brian Harkins in a recent lecture to surgeon colleagues in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He pointed out that the surgical community has seen this happen before.
The early 1990's saw the emergence of laparoscopy as a standard practice in general surgery. Most laparoscopy prior to that was performed by gynecology. In less than a decade, laparoscopy became a gold standard in many procedures and general surgeons became the most prolific laparoscopists.
While urology and gynecology have lead the way in robotics since 2000, it's the new advanced technologies and latest robotic platform, the Xi, that have opened the door for general surgery to perform an increasing number of complex multi-quadrant procedures. He concluded, "This is paving the way for robotic surgery to be the new minimally invasive standard in general surgery. You could say, its laparoscopy with a long overdue upgrade to advance technology!"
Dr. Harkins is recognized as a world leader in experience using the Da Vinci Xi system in General Surgery.
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The robot consists of 3 separate but interconnected parts. The "Patient Cart" (above) holds the instruments and connects to the trocars. The "Vision Cart" is similar to the laparoscopic tower. The "Surgeon's Console" is where the surgeon sits and controls the "robot".
Why Is Robotics Better?
Improved Vision! Surgery with an HD, 3D, magnified, totally immersed view.
Wristed Instruments! This is a huge return of dexterity that was lost in laparoscopy.
Improved Ergonomics! Now surgeons can sit in the same supported, comfortable position for every case.
FireFly Visualization! A special dye is injected into the patient. A built in laser light is turned on. Presto! In the laser light the dye glows and now the surgeon can see incredible detail about bowel vascularity or the bile ducts right through other tissues.
Vessel Sealer and Stapler! Rock stable control of these technologies allows greater precision and control in the critical use of these devices.
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Former Sheriff David Clarke and Ben Carson, both of whom are outspoken supporters of President Trump, are "black white supremacists," according to comedian Chelsea Handler.
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While this delusion may make perfect sense in the ultra-liberal echo chamber, it's not a sentiment shared by a lot of Americans, especially bluedog Democrats who helped Trump pierce the "Blue Wall" during the election.
And to create perpetual victims, you must first create perpetual offenders, which is where the lunacies of "microaggressions," "toxic masculinity," and now "black white supremacists" come into play.
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