Ever heard of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy?
I'll admit, it's a mouthful and it sounds weird. Before getting trained in the technique, I thought, "someone looks at some lights and magically feels better?" I was skeptical to say the least. But I was working in a practice with other practitioners who valued empirically validated research were using EMDR with their clients and having powerful results. Eventually, I gave in. And I'm glad I did.
EMDR is a proven, research-based therapy designed to reduce or eliminate the pain caused by traumatic experiences. Trauma is defined as a one-time stressful event, or the culmination of several small, repeated events. Trauma shapes how a person sees themselves in relation to the world they live in, the emotions they feel, and how they react.
How Does The Process Work In Therapy?
Generally, EMDR combines talk therapy, deep breathing, and bilateral stimulation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain (activating each side of the brain through hand held vibrating pods, or a moving visual target that the eyes track left to right). The goal is to stimulate or "light up" each side of the brain alternately while you talk about difficult stressors or memories. Some clinicians use a "light bar" and/or headphones that provide an auditory component to bilateral stimulation.
This may sound a lot more complex than it actually is.
In therapy sessions with clients, I work with them to identify situations that cause them discomfort while their brains are being stimulated through EMDR techniques.
EMDR is designated as an "effective treatment"by the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and and other international health agencies (www.emdria.org).
EMDR is not the only form of therapy I use in my practice. However, because of the specific techniques used to reduce the physiological symptoms of negative emotions, I find it to be incredibly effective. If a person comes to see me and reports this "heart-head connection" problem related to previous experiences, it is at the top of my list of interventions.
EMDR requires less talking. Oftentimes clients say that it's difficult to put their feelings or experiences into words. EMDR allows them to move through some of these memories without relying as heavily on the verbal component.
Because of the nature of the bilateral stimulation, EMDR tends to help people move through emotional distress from their experiences with less discomfort. One reason that people stop therapy prematurely is because it can be very emotionally taxing. Using EMDR can make it easier to talk about the difficult things that bring a person into my office.
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Rhetorically speaking, it took a royal songbird to fall upon a premature death for the industry's mighty powers to kick out a "greatest hits" collection that appropiately represents her best work. For those who suffered through Whitney Houston's imbalanced and vainglorious double-disc set, Whitney: The Greatest Hits, God bless you. The set was marred with the same divisive strategy used on George Michael's Ladies and Gentleman compilation, which separated the ballads from the uptempo tunes. But at least that collection wasn't cursed with EMD replacements, something explored by Thuderpuss, Rodney Jerkins and Junior Vasquez on Houston's dance-centric disc. This also meant one disc fell into a sleepy comatose while the other felt like one hell of a non-stop megamix. Houston deserved better than that. Finally, a single disc containing her best musical assignments has arrived that both her beloved fans and discovers of her transcendent soul-pop can really appreciate.
I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston does a fine job in assembling sixteen of her chart-topping hits in chronological order, while adding two relatively new ones – making the final total a whopping eighteen in all. The Kashif-produced "You Give Good Love" was Houston's entrance into contemporary r&b, while "Saving All My Love for You" and the majestic "The Greatest Love of All" lifted her comfortably into the AC rafters, continuing the great succession of international popdom created by her celebrated blood cousin Dionne Warwick. Those three songs kick off this set, along with her Narada-produced dance numbers ("How Will I Know," "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"). The disc runs through every studio album up to 1998's My Love Is Your Love, including her unavoidable motion picture soundtrack submissions ("I Will Always Love You," "I Have Nothing," "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)"). There's a few odd omissions to vent about, particularly additional Babyface wonders like the heart-tugging "Miracle," and the inspirational sing-a-long "Count on Me." Even "It's Not Right But It's Okay" and "Heartbreak Hotel" is absent from the body, but it seems quite understandable when compiling Whitney's crowned jewels. The best made the cut, the decent filler didn't. Unless you want to hear the newly assembled R. Kelly duet of "I Look to You" taken from his ProTools-salvaged musical empire or the Jermaine Dupri-concocted "Never Give Up," which sounds like a throwaway track from the My Love Is Your Love era. Thankfully, a double-disc version of this posthumous collection – outlined with liner notes by musical mentor Clive Davis – mends the broken hearts with more hits and less misses ("One Moment in Time," "My Name Is Not Susan," "Run to You," "Count on Me" "It's Not Right But It's Okay," "Million Dollar Bill"). And oh yeah, "Miracle" is still missing on Disc 2. Overall, the single disc version capsulate Houston's finest, although it once again reminds us that her amazing zenith was jeopardize too early in life and that cherubim sound-alikes like Celine Dion and Mariah Carey were far from the problem.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul isn't the state's only region awash with floral beauty. Here are several other stunning cultivated nature centers worth a visit.
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Founded in 1973, the Linnaeus Arboretum in St. Peter covers 125 acres, including the 70-acre Coneflower Prairie added in 2008. The arboretum contains more than a dozen formal gardens and restored natural areas including wetlands, forests and woods. The three major ecosystems found in the state are represented: the conifer forest in the north, the prairies in the south and west, and the deciduous forest in between. A fourth area includes cultivated gardens and trees that were introduced from other regions of the world. There are more than 114 species of trees and shrubs in the arboretum, and more than 150 species of birds have been sighted throughout the area.
Munsinger Gardens (14 acres) and Clemens Gardens (7 acres) sit adjacent to one another on the bank of the Mississippi River next to St. Cloud University. Munsinger Gardens, which was primarily constructed in the 1930s, is an informal garden filled with flower-bordered paths that wind through tall pines. Clemens Gardens was developed in the 1990s and contains six European-style gardens with American plantings and fountains.
This 4,500-square-foot greenhouse in Virginia, on Minnesota's Iron Range, is free and open to the public year-round. The three-room greenhouse dates from the 1930s and features a central room containing exotic plants ranging in size from small specimens to mature Ponderosa lemon trees, along with cacti, succulents, large agave, palm and ficus specimens.
North of Hinckley in Sandstone, this five-acre garden in the shape of a Canada goose opened in 2013 after many years of development. It contains more than 400 native species that were used by local Ojibwe tribes in the late 1800s. The flowers, plants and trees, which include wild roses, downy yellow violets, cottonwood and hemlock, are accompanied by 21 sculpted animal totems. The garden is open to the public June-October.


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The 11th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ2019) in Lausanne, Switzerland, is about three months away. The event held every two years is a flagship project of the World Federation of Science Journalists.
As science journalists from around the world prepare to attend this riveting five-day event that starts on 1 July, SciDev.Net interviewed Olivier Dessibourg, chairman of the organising committee of the conference to unravel what is in store for attendees.
What are some of the things so far done to ensure the success of this august global science journalism event?
Firstly, and most importantly, we have secured the presence of a tremendous number of high-quality speakers, from different walks of life relevant to the work of any journalist covering science. We have speakers covering journalism and editing, science and technology, the sociology of science and ethics, science policy and science democracy, and media tools and technologies.
Secondly, we have raised funds to offer about 110 travel fellowships to colleagues from 55 countries around the world. We have also managed to bring a lot of geographical diversity to our list of speakers.
This will ensure that WCSJ2019 is a truly global conference.
What are some of the things that you believe will give this conference an edge over the previous events?
How will the selected speakers achieve divergent and captivating deliveries?
There will also be new and talented young speakers, bringing fresh dynamics to the nowadays complex world of journalism, not only the science variety. These include people such as Nina Fasciaux, the European ambassador for the Solution Journalism Network, and Uzodinma Iweala, a medical doctor who is also a writer and journalist, and founded a magazine in Nigeria. He now heads the US-based Africa Center in New York.
How do you plan to ensure inclusivity in terms of the interests of both the global South and North?
Science journalism simply defined – bringing science results to the public and debating them in the media in the most correct, relevant, independent and societally useful way – is an activity that is similar on every continent. Each region has its own particularities, and of course the media world has many facets, particularly in the age of the internet and social media.
Many sessions will therefore address general challenges useful to any journalist while the programme also includes many sessions and workshops dedicated to nurturing good journalism in the global South, helping freelancers from developing countries to pitch their stories to editors representing established media brands and enabling them to enlarge their networks.
For example, a full-day pre-event workshop will be organised on science journalism in French-speaking countries, with a strong focus on establishing links between science journalists from West Africa and French-speaking science institutions in the global North. For those same participants, some sessions of the programme will be simultaneously translated into French. There is also another pre-event workshop to be held in Spanish for Latin American participants. We've worked hard to make our programme really inclusive.
Along with the mountain field trips, we also have field trips going to Swiss science institutions, many in nearby Geneva or Zurich, to French institutions in Paris, Lyon and Grenoble, to Genoa and Ispra in Italy, to the European Astronauts' Centre in Germany, and even to places as far afield as the laboratory of the Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East, Jordan or St Petersburg in Russia. So, whatever your scientific taste, we have it covered.
Are there some challenges that you had to work really hard to overcome as the host?
Organising WCSJ2019 comes with a number of challenges ranging from the big ones such as raising funds to secure a venue and support a programme involving some 220 speakers to the minutiae of answering personal and sometimes hard-to-solve questions about travelling from remote places in the world. It's all part of this great adventure.
How instrumental have been the different organisational components such as the committees in achieving the overall conference objectives?
Organising such a global event is an enormous task. It has taken us more than two years. We first established a bidding-committee made up of five main working groups covering the programme, fundraising, side events, logistics and communications. Once the Lausanne bid was successful, we turned those groups into sub-committees of the organising committee, each composed of many people. Overall, about 30 people are involved in the sub-committees in some capacity.
The programme committee is most definitely of central importance: its main tasks have been to select a group of 15 distinguished journalists from around the world to serve as committee members, launch a call for session proposals. We received 646 applications from which we selected about 45 to be turned into parallel sessions. We are working on the accepted proposals to ensure relevance to journalists from any part of the world, making sure the geographical distribution of speakers is as broad as possible.
Another non-trivial task of the Organising committee was to raise the 2.5 million Swiss francs (about US$2.5 million) to cover the costs of the conference, mainly to invite and bring all those speakers to Lausanne. To make it all work, the continuous and common efforts of many dedicated people is essential.
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Trouble Sisters, the flier reads. Spinning rock records for your asses. Do our asses want rock? Our asses want nothing more in all the world.
Wednesday nights at the Point, while sporty types watch televised athletics upstairs, Venus Starr and Jessie Mathews take over a dim corner of the basement, playing rock classic and current, metal and punk. The ladies take turns behind the tables doing exactly what the fliers promise. While one spins records, the other stands by the table singing along, tapping a stylishly disheveled pigtail, smoking a cigarette, nursing a PBR. One wears a black Billy Joel T-shirt, and the other wears a black Ramones T-shirt that's been altered with scissors and left unhemmed. Both look like figures from a tattoo artist's dream. Starr's arm says rebel.
"It's like partying in your mom's basement," Starr says. "You know, drinking a beer, playing rock records."
"With your gross middle school friends," Mathews adds.
Their description is so accurate, it's almost frightening. The furniture in the basement is very here's-what-we-had-left-over-after-decorating-the-rest-of-the-house: a few leather couches, one lone coffee table. There's a mantel piece, in this case used to hold beer bottles for the DJs. Two chairs have been pushed together to hold a large speaker.
But what really gives this event that preteen feel, other than the fact that it takes place in a basement, is that the people upstairs don't seem to understand what's going on.
A few of them peek in before turning around and leaving just as quickly. Some stagger in and ask questions. For example: "Is this the dance floor?" Out of curiosity, they stand back and watch both the women and the small crowd that's gathered, almost like uncomfortable chaperones.
This is totally awesome. It revives a sense that listening to rock and roll is rebellious, not just the thing you do when you go out or while you're getting ready for work.
P.S.: The beer's so cheap that it's almost as good as sneaking it out of your parents' fridge.
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Here's your Big 12 baseball weekend preview.
Rankings are from Baseball America. Conference statistical rankings include all games, not just the Big 12.
- #19 Nebraska at #13 Texas
One of the biggest series in the nation this weekend. We're hot hot hot and while Texas hasn't quite lived up to their preseason expectations, they're still Texas. We come in with a 2.68 team ERA, while the Longhorns are at 3.97. They're hitting better, though, at .326, while we're at .294.
Friday's game was scheduled to start at 6:00, but has been moved to 3:00 pm to accommodate Texas being in the NCAA basketball tourney. Saturday's game will be televised on FSN (FSN Midwest, FSN Southwest and FSN Rocky Mountain) at 6:00 pm. Sunday the series finale will start at 1:00 pm.
#20 Baylor at Oklahoma
Baylor can't seem to win on the road, having lost their last five conference road games. They had a hard time holding off TAMU-Corpus Christi midweek, winning 11-8. The Bears are ninth in Big 12 team batting average at .277 and pitching at 4.43 ERA.
It's the conference home opener for Oklahoma, they're ranked third in team batting at .314, and pitching at 3.25. Baylor was picked at the top of the Big 12, they need to win this series to keep from falling into the second tier teams where they'll have to battle for post-season play.
Texas A&M at Kansas
JQ has a great preview up at Rock Chalk Talk - rather than me going on about it, check it out. Both teams badly need this series.
#2 Missouri at Texas Tech
Missouri moved up to #2 this week after crushing Baylor last weekend. They had won 14 straight until losing to Minnesota 12-5 in Minneapolis earlier this week. Missouri's defense is top in the Big 12, and while their pitching is ranked fourth at 3.30, they have pure stars in the pitching rotation.
Texas Tech seems lost, and will be lucky if they're not swept even at home. They're dead last in team pitching at 5.79 ERA and Missouri doesn't need a lot of runs to win every game.
Oklahoma State at Kansas State
Big 12 batting average leader Oklahoma State against the Wildcats, who are ninth-ranked in fielding and seventh-ranking in pitching. Kansas State is another team that looks to be out of the running for already. Oklahoma State isn't quite in the position that Baylor is (OSU is 3-3, Baylor 2-4 in conference) but they should take this series, otherwise they will be.


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ABSTRACT: The current discussion on the future of electronic navigation is focusing on the expansion of ECDIS by integrating additional data streams, like AIS or real-time tide information. While this are important aspects, which will be touched on in the paper, it is important to note that the ENC data layer is the necessary data layer to enable advanced data display. The current focus on ENC production has a limited view on coverage within scale bands and on datum code. While this allows concentrated efforts to produce the necessary country coverage to meet the timeframe of the IMO ECDIS mandate, future mariners will require a more solid basis of chart data for their electronic naviga-tion needs. The IMO e-Navigation discussion and the discussions in related the IALA e-Navigation Commit-tee are starting to join efforts with the new IHO S-100 and S-101 standards as well as the developing S-10X series of standards. The Hydrographic community needs to take that in account when preparing for the future of electronic navigation to increase safety of navigation in a rapidly changing environment with larger ships and more traffic in areas with specific navigational challenges. The paper will focus on the following topics: ? The ENC data layer as the basis of electronic navigation, ? Closing gaps and overlaps in ENC coverage by adjusting cell boundaries, ? Moving from a cell based data structure to a seamless database structure, ? Integration of Scale-Independent and Scale-Dependent objects, ? Adaption of harmonized and flexible data models ? an S-10X outlook, ? Enabling integration of advanced data streams ? an e-NAV outlook.


Why did Nadal hit the ball so short if it gets hardly any kick on the AO surface?
Reason for Nadal awful depth?
Djokovic was tremendous today, but regardless of the narrative that he took all of Nadal's time away, his depth/length was just unacceptable. He knew the ball wouldn't kick up on clay, so why not aim for depth and pull the trigger on the FH side as soon as you get a slightly short ball? His strategy made no sense and it didn't seem to change.
Simple, when in trouble Rafa reverts back to how he does it on clay. This narrative about the 'new Rafa game' was b-s. Meet the new Rafa, same as the old one.
Maybe you should email Moya and tell them how to do it?
He's been doing that for a long time though.. not too many out there who'd take the initiative.
Provide me with the email friendo..
You could say because he has no other real strategy, but that's probably not fair. I think more accurately you could say that this is the only strategy he feels comfortable using when he's under the pump, and even more so now he's declined in terms of speed and reflexes and has less options available to him. If he thought he could get away with what you're suggesting in the OP he'd do it. He's not stupid.
poll should have option: he hasnt beaten any good players on hard court since us open 2017. he simply is a good but not great hard court player. He has only 1 AO title to his name. the players he played in the draw were weak players.
Some good answers. I think his entire performance was due to having to play Novak's game from the first point until the last. Whenever he tried to play close to the baseline Novak would just rob him of time, especially with that outworldly backhand of his. Whenever he tried to go back, to his favourite position, Novak would start running him left and right as if on a string. I don't think Rafa had more than a dozen points that were played 'his' way; it was always Novak's way, even on Rafa's own serve.
Of course it didn't help that pretty much every time he had a winning court position he'd pull an unforced error. But a big part of it is also Novak's defense; Rafa knew he had to always hit his best shots and it is not easy even for him.
In short, Novak did to Rafa what Rafa has done to countless people - either dominate them with superior groundstrokes and then finish them off with outright winners or force them into stupid errors due to being desperate, short of time and out of position.
Edit: I don't think I have ever seen Rafa completely whiff on a forehand; even on clay... it happened yesterday and it definitely wasn't a bad bounce.
I don't know what to make of his performance. I was trying to figure out what he or Novak were doing different, tactically, to explain why this match was as one sided as it was in Novak's favour, but I can't seem to put my finger on it.
Nadal also left a lot of short balls in the 2011 US open final, and in extended stretches of the 2012 AO final, but neither was as one sided as this.
Apart from the fact that Nadal wasn't hitting his forehand down the line, what exactly does everyone here think played the biggest role in the scoreline being what it was?
Excellent analysis. When I read that, most of it rang true and I could see what you were talking about.
Rafa just got out played in the AO finals. Djokovic made few errors and his game was perfectly on. Back to the training strategy for Rafa team. The slow, top spin sitting up did not help matters either for Rafa. Of course Rafa was on the defensive a lot today as well.
"You're projecting, stop projecting on me!"
Yeah, Djokvic right now is a terrible matchup for Rafa. He pretty much defends and moves as well as Nadal, if not then a bit better. On top of that, his two handed backhand is arguable the best twohander in men's tennis right now, which neutralizes Rafa biggest weapon - his lefty forehand to the backhand of righty players. Then you look at their serves, and Djokovic seems to have more options or more choices that he goes to, plus he defends his second serve incredibly well. Probably one of the reasons why Nadal had very few break point chances in the match. In fact, I don't think he had any until the 3rd set.
He didn't have one till the penultimate game, if I'm not mistaken. He only took 1 point on Novak's serve in the 1st set and Djokovic looked really comfortable on his serve for the most part. It was surprising to see.
Actually, his racquet touched his left knee just a little before hitting the ball - changing the trajectory of the racquet in the process.
I would agree that it was unacceptable, especially when it is a major final. At times it looked as if Rafa didn't belong on TV. Tuned in to watch a bit of tennis and it looked more like death wish 8, ya know. I had a nightmare about Rafa's supporting box last night as well. Not good. Djokovic though, wow, what a geez.
Agreed ... Kalin's post is on point. I would add that the forehand down the line you mentioned was something Novak targeted coming into this match. I personally feel his team addressed this via a combination of FHDTLs from Novak and sharper cross-courts backhands. Of course, these type of "tactical" changes are easier said than done right? But Novak executed beautifully, and as a result, Rafa had no answer. He simply couldn't play aggressively as Novak continued to rob him of time and push him around. He was just too good on this day, and even the errors from Rafa I think were mostly due to a lack of an answer for what Novak was bringing. Credit to him for an outstanding performance.
Nah, email Sebastian instead, he's a lot more into Rafa's matches.
1. Movement. Djoker's defense was incredible and Nadal couldn't just wear him out and discourage him like he does to everyone else.
2. Djoker knows how to beat Rafa, you keep the ball up the middle until you have the shot you want. Rafa thrives on being pulled wide.
Rafa has been poor on AO hardcourt for a long time actually. He has only won AO title once, in 2009 in his best form in his career.
He was simply overrated massively going into the match. he never was a great AO hardcourter in the past 6-7 years.
Nadal's hardcourt and grass game peaked in the previous decade and declined significantly in the past few years(the us open being the exclusion).
His clay game, however, never declined.
Just based on the observation of the highlights on Youtube, I get the impression Djokovic was much faster than Nadal that night. Nadal relies heavily on mixing it up with his forehand, and for that he needs some really good movement, circling the backhand and getting there early so he can take advantage of all the angles. But Djokovic kept him on the defense a lot, and Nadal was often just barely getting to the ball and chipping it back with slices. Because Nadal wasn't very quick, his plays becomes predictable, and Djokovic can use his speed to take the ball on the rise to keep Nadal on defense.
Nadal was certainly trying to go on the offense, he hit a lot of flat forehands, looking for easy points or damage Djokovic's defense, but Djokovic's court coverage is still good, he doesn't get bothered by aggressive play, especially from someone who doesn't usually do that. Djokovic with his flexibility and speed, always gets to the ball quick and even if sometimes he doesn't, he can use flexibility to place the ball anywhere, which makes him always unpredictable in his play pattern. Basically, Nadal is shoehorned into only a few play patterns that works for him, while Djokovic has many more play patterns that work for him, keeping him in the points. Also, Nadal's serve wasn't hurting him.
But based on what I saw, Nadal will still be the favorite at the French Open. Suffering from speed disadvantage isn't as huge on clay. Inconsistent bounces, windy conditions, Djokovic can't hug the baseline that much on clay. Nadal has been working on his strokes, hitting the ball with a lot of power still. I think it's enough to keep him in dominant positions in rallies on the clay.
Rafa thrives on being pulled wide.
I mean...does he not generate his best shots with those wicked angles?
Maybe he needs to read more?
agree. djokovic was playing a lot faster than rafa, thats because he's a much more natural hard courter/fast court player ,in the same vein as Federer.
I don't think Nadal actively tried not to hit with depth as a progressive tactic vs just being cagey with his shots.
I voted "Other" because Nadal did not aligned his bottles more precisely at the final.
Go on Twitter or Facebook Nadal page and just post that for Rafa to read! LOL! I sure he will reply to that bait message!


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Booking.com-First Strategy at Play In Priceline's Cuba Entry
- Mar 21, 2016 2:00 pm
We've been saying it for awhile: The Priceline Group should be renamed the Booking.com or Booking Group as its foray into Cuba highlights. The Group's lead brand gets there first although there's an option to distribute Cuba hotels through Priceline.com too.
Would it be Holland-based Booking.com or Connecticut-headquartered Priceline.com that would be the first among the Priceline Group brands to pursue and get permission from Cuban authorities to begin offering hotel rooms in Cuba to U.S.-eligible travelers?
It's no huge surprise that it is Booking.com, which also states "that it will become the first online U.S. travel brand to offer instantly bookable hotel properties for certain U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba … "
Booking.com announced today that it got permission from Cuban authorities and entered partnerships with hotels in Cuba to offer rooms on the island.
The Agreement Could Cover Other Brands
It turns out that Booking.com's agreement with Cuba also enables it to distribute Cuba's hotels through the Group's other brands, such as Priceline.com, although no decisions have been made on whether it will do so.
Both Booking.com and Priceline.com are part of the U.S.-headquartered Priceline Group and Booking.com is the Group's leading brand by far. International business accounted for 94 percent of the Group's consolidated operating income in 2015, and Booking.com generated a "substantial majority" of that, the Group states.
Priceline.com, which already offers much of Booking.com's hotel inventory, might be considered the more logical choice to service U.S. travelers traveling to Cuba because Priceline.com also offers flights, when they open to Cuba, and Booking.com is hotel-only. So U.S. travelers securing a hotel from Booking.com in Cuba would have to look elsewhere to find flights.
Asked why Booking.com led the way into Cuba and not Priceline.com, Group spokesperson Leslie Cafferty said: "Booking.com is truly a global business with operations all over the world. The brand is guided by a mission to help people experience the world and Cuba was one of a small handful of places Booking.com had not yet opened operations, given the prior laws.
"With the easing of restrictions, Booking.com jumped at the opportunity to make Cuba instantly bookable for those eligible to travel there, staying true to the essence of what Booking.com delivers to its customers all over the world."
Booking.com, too, has the most experience among the companies in the Group when it comes to breaking into new markets while Priceline.com, which this year revamped its offering, is U.S.-focused.
Will Booking.com ever broaden its offerings from hotels and begin to offer flights?
That is certainly a possibility although the decision definitely wouldn't be driven by travel to Cuba alone.
Another Priceline Group brand, Kayak, offers hotel search for properties in Cuba but bookings are done by through companies such as Zleeping Hotels.
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Honda of Marysville opens
MARYSVILLE — Honda of Marysville drew dignitaries from throughout the Marysville and Arlington business communities to its official grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
by Kirk Boxleitner
Saturday, March 1, 2014 8:14pm
Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring is surrounded by Honda of Marysville employees and community members as he cuts the ribbon to the auto dealership on Feb. 26.
While the showroom is a standard feature of any car dealership, Marysville Honda General Manager Pete Smith noted that one aspect which sets his store apart from others is that most of his business is conducted on the showroom floor itself.
"Even the offices lining the showroom all have glass windows instead of walls, so there's nothing to hide," Smith said. "We're literally as transparent as possible. You get the price right up front. It's a model whose appeal has been proven."
Even the delivery center adjoining the showroom floor is entirely glass-walled, so that customers can become acclimated to their new cars in an enclosed and heated space, even in the midst of snow and rain outside.
"We're starting with 35 employees, but we expect to grow that number very quickly," Smith said.
The large open spaces of the Honda of Marysville dealership include expansive waiting areas for adults and children alike, the latter with their own toys, but both equipped with large TV screens. Vending machines are placed in a well-stocked coffee room adjacent to the waiting areas, while the dealership's parts boutique can be found just down the hall, although Smith admitted that the shelves of the latter are still being filled.
"In the service area, when you drive in over the ramp, it tells you how your tires are wearing, by measuring their tread depth and alignment," Smith said. "We did a soft open of the service area on Feb. 15, just to make sure everything was working properly. Our goal is to make our technicians more efficient, so that you can spend less time here. It's all part of our guest advocacy policy, which is to meet your needs and budget."
The service area alone takes up close to 18,000 of the dealership's estimated 42,000 square feet of space, and will be complemented by a detailing shop that will serve non-Honda automobiles as well.
"This is a phenomenal facility," Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring said. "I hope this area can become an auto row in the future. The technology is state-of-the-art, and the folks here have already shown their heart for the community, by donating to groups like the Marysville Community Food Bank."
Honda of Marysville is located at 15714 Smokey Point Boulevard.
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>"the giant Heelstone will no longer cast its shadow within the circle of stones"How does that work then? In reality, it takes about 2,000 years for the Sun's rising position to change by 1 sun-diameter. Any planetarium software will demonstrate this.


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San Filippo Benizi is a Roman Catholic, Baroque style church in Montefano, Province of Macerata, region of Le Marche, Italy. The church is dedicated to St Philip Benizi (1233-1285), credited with the revival of the Superior of the Order of the Servants of Mary.

History
The Servites moved a convent to Montefano in 1673 after closing another near Ginestreto. After the canonization of St Philip in 1671, the present brick church was built in 1694 to replace an ancient church. Consecration took place in 1703. The female convent was transiently suppressed during 1880-1897.

The façade has two stories, flanked by pilasters, with a triangular pediment over the main door, and a rounded one over a superior window.
A number of additions and ornaments were added over the next centuries. The chapel of our Lady of Sorrows was decorated by Tibalducci, a painter from Recanati. The oval portraits were painted by Nazzareno Aquilanti.

The church and convent face a small piazza in the town. Adjacent to the church is a convent of the Servite order that also houses the Centro Studi Biblici Giovanni Vannucci, created in 1995 for biblical studies. The library houses nearly 10 thousand volumes.

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Roman Catholic churches completed in 1694
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Last week, Alec Baldwin wearily acknowledged that our reality is growing so absurd that it's beginning to rival fiction, including the dystopian kind. Now comedy writers face the daunting task of imagining more ludicrous and potentially harmful statements than those actually coming from the president's mouth(pieces). But John Oliver, fresh off a three-month vacation, is taking a different tack—he's basically waving facts in front of Trump's face in an effort to turn off that spigot of lies and misinformation.
The Last Week Tonight host knows he won't accomplish that with a thoughtful op-ed in a paper of record (which Breitbart certainly isn't), or even an incisive segment on his talk show (to which Trump has never been invited). Instead, Oliver and his team have put together a series of commercials that will run during such daytime cable news shows as Morning Joe and Fox & Friends, the better to catch the president at his most alert. These commercials feature an older cowboy who knows the right way to cath, and isn't afraid to talk about it, or the nuclear triad, or actual crime stats for large metropolitan areas. There's also some stuff in there about basic human anatomy and decency, though that might have to be bumped up to an intermediate course.


"Judgement" redirects here. For other uses, see Judgement (disambiguation).
Judges the target, dealing (250% of spell power) Holy damage, and causing the target to take 30% increased damage from your Crusader Strike and Holy Shock for 6 sec.
Judges the target, dealing (250% of spell power) Holy damage, and reducing the remaining cooldown on Shield of the Righteous by 2 sec, or 4 sec on a critical strike.
Judges the target and 1 other nearby enemy, dealing (250% of spell power) Holy damage, and causing them to take 12% increased damage taken from your Holy Power spenders for 8 sec.
Taking 12% increased damage from the Paladin's Holy Power consuming abilities.
Judgment is a level 3 paladin ranged ability. It deals Holy damage to the target.
The damage increase of Holy Power spenders scales with [Mastery: Divine Judgment].
Judgment's cooldown is reduced with Haste.
Hotfix (2016-09-14): "Judgment's damage on secondary targets should correctly match its damage on the primary target."
Hotfix (2016-08-01): "The tooltip for Judgment no longer incorrectly states that it hits 2 additional targets for paladins without Greater Judgment."
Judgment is now naturally free for Holy paladins, and naturally generates 1 Holy Power for Protection and Retribution paladins.
The Retribution version no longer applies the Physical Vulnerability effect.
Now costs 5% of base mana for all paladin specializations.
Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Judgment for Holy Paladins now costs 12% of base mana to cast (up from 5% of base mana).
Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now costs 5% of base mana.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Renamed from Judgement to Judgment.
Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Judgement no longer automatically targets a nearby enemy when the player attempts to activate it without a hostile target selected.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Judgements are now useable while silenced.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Readded, as Replacement for [Judgement of Justice], [Judgement of Light] and [Judgement of Wisdom].
Patch 1.1.1 (2004-11-17): Moved to level 4.
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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) went on strike action on Monday, following a breakdown in negotiations at the end of June. NUMSA would not budge on its demand for a 13% increase across the board, better working conditions and a total ban of labour brokers.
South African 2011 local government elections: what do they mean for the working class?
In the recent local elections in South Africa we witnessed a concerted campaign by the Democratic Alliance, backed by the media, to exploit discontent with the ANC to their own advantage. They failed to do so, as the masses instinctively see the DA as a threat to the conquests of the anti-apartheid movement. However, what is true is that the ANC leadership, pursuing policies that are limited to what can be achieved within the confines of capitalism, have failed in the recent period to solve the fundamental economic and social problems faced by working people.
We publish here an article written by a comrade of the Young Communist League in South Africa. The article, which was first published on the website of SASCO (The South African Students Congress) was a reply to another comment on the same website called "A revolution foresaked or advanced: 2007 Polokwane aftermath" (at the bottom of the page). Although we are not in complete agreement with all the content of the article we think that it is an important contribution to the debate that is going on within the South African worker movement.


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Bruce Weigert Paltrow (Brooklyn, Nova York, 26 de novembro de 1943 - 3 de outubro de 2002) foi um diretor de cinema e televisão norte-americano.

Biografia
Filho de Dorothy (née Weigert) e Arnold Paltrow, estudou na Universidade de Tulane em Nova Orleans, Louisiana. No final dos anos 60, ele começou a dirigir produções teatrais de Nova York, onde conheceu a atriz Blythe Danner, com quem se casou em 14 de dezembro de 1969.

Ele foi o produtor da série de televisão The Shadow White, St. Elsewhere e Homicide: Life on the Street. Sua última produção foi o filme Duets, estrelado por sua filha, Gwyneth Paltrow. Ele tem outro filho Jake Paltrow

Paltrow morreu no dia 3 de outubro de 2002, enquanto estava de férias em Roma, Itália, para celebrar o 30º aniversário de sua filha. Ele tinha 58 anos de idade. Paltrow sofria de câncer oral durante vários anos, e sua morte foi devido a complicações de câncer e pneumonia. Em 2007, sua viúva, em cooperação com a Fundação Câncer Bucal, criou um fundo em seu nome para resolver os problemas do câncer bucal em os EUA A fundação trabalha principalmente nas áreas da sensibilização, a detecção precoce, o paciente funções de apoio e pesquisa.

Paltrow foi um descendente de rabino David Segal HaLevi de Cracóvia através da família rabínica russa Paltrowitch, que produziu 33 rabinos ao longo de várias gerações.

No final dos créditos do filme "Prenda-me se for capaz" de Steven Spielperg, seu nome aparece como dedicatória, acredita-se que seria amigo de Spielperg pois sua filha Gwyneth estreou no cinema com o filme "A Volta do Capitão Gancho" do mesmo.

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What's the Difference between iPhone Xs, Xs max and XR?
Apple has finally launched the most awaited series iPhones for 2018 and people just can't get enough of the hype of these three. These are the iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, and iPhone XR. If you are not an avid user of iPhone, you probably won't even notice the difference between these iPhones except for their size since they almost have similar core features. However, it's indeed important to know how these differ if you're planning to replace your iPhone or if you really just can't pass the year without adding one to your collections. Therefore, in this article we give you the difference between iPhone Xs vs iPhone Xs Max vs iPhone XR.
Let's start by comparing the three in terms of their size and weight. iPhone Xs is the smallest among them having 5.65in height, 2.79in width, 0.30in depth, and with a 6.24lb weight. However, iPhone Xs Max is 6.20in in height, 3.05in in width, with a maximum depth of .30in and 7.34lb weight, which makes it the largest and the heaviest of them. Finally, iPhone XR has an 5.94in height, 2.98in width, 0.33in depth, and 6.84lb weight.
Next, let's proceed with their screen and design. iPhone Xs has a 5.8-inch OLED display with Super Retina pixel density of 458 ppi. Meanwhile, iPhone Xs Max has a 6.5-inch OLED display, Super Retina pixel density of 458ppi whereas iPhone Xr has a 6.1-inch LCD display and Liquid Retina Display pixel density of 326ppi.
This might be one of the most important aspects that consumers anticipate and the factor which will mostly attract iPhone devotees. So, let's begin with the so-called "least-pricey" among them, the iPhone XR. This one initially starts at $749 (64GB), and then jumps off to $799 (128GB), and $899 (256GB). Now, let's move on to the iPhone XSes. iPhone Xs begins at $999 (64GB), then it increases at $1,149 (256GB) and $1,349 (512GB). On the other hand, iPhone Xs Max's starting price is at $1099 (64GB), $1,249 (256GB), then $1,449 for 512GB. This obviously is the most expensive one not only among these three but also among other iPhones.
Other than the price, what most users consider are the features that a phone has. So, let's see what these could offer us. Both iPhones XSes feature a faster and better-quality dual camera system which certainly gives us more advanced photos and videos. iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max have dual 12-megapixel camera with f 1.8 wide-angle and f2.4 telephoto, 10x digital zoom, and five portrait lighting effects. However, iPhone XR has a single 12-megapixel camera (f1.8), 5X digital zoom, and a three-portrait lighting effects. But generally speaking, iPhone Xs, Xs Max or XR fully support HDR. Other than that, Face ID authentication is of course still present in this series of iPhones to replace the Touch ID authentication from the previous versions of iPhones. In addition, these also features louder and better sounds as they have wider speaker on the top the bottom. Another good thing to know about these iPhones is that, they are water and dust resistant and they fully support IP68, which secures protection in water up to 1.5m deep for half an hour. Dual-SIM capabilities (nano-SIM and e-SIM) is also one interesting feature that's introduced by Apple in this series of iPhones. And finally, all these three support wireless and fast charging for about 50% in 30 min.
Apple, as expected, has brought another advanced technology for us. As the newest iPhones, iPhone Xs, Xs Max and XR also run with the very latest iOS, the iOS 12. Apart from that, Apple also introduced the A12 Bionic chip in this series. A12 Bionic chip is by far the smartest and most efficient chip in a mobile device. This features the first ever 7-nanometer chip which provides excellent performance and design to smartphones. That only means that we are anticipating a very smooth and speedy experience for this.
iPhone Xs has an internal capacity of 64GB, 256GB, or 512GB while iPhone Xs Max has a 64GB, 256GB, or 512GB. However, iPhone XR has a storage of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB.
Apple has not yet stated the definite battery capacity of the new iPhones. However, comparing iPhone Xs vs Xs Max vs XR with other iPhone models, iPhone Xs is expected to last 30 minutes longer than iPhone X while iPhone Xs Max is more likely to run 90 minutes or one and a half hours longer than iPhone X. Of course, for iPhone XR, Apple claims that it will last 90 minutes longer that iPhones 8 plus, which is known to have the longest-lasting battery capacity of 2017 for iPhones.
Now that you know the difference between iPhone Xs, Xs Max and XR, as well as what will best suit your need, you can now decide on what you should purchase. Feel free to share your thoughts below about the newly launched iPhones.
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5 Ways Social Media Algorithms Are Destroying the World
QP Marketing August 8, 2022
We know that algorithms take on the characteristics and personalities of their creators – hence the disaster of the sexist Amazon hiring algorithm, and the failure of the algorithm-driven Zillow Offers house flipping endeavor.
When an algorithm is placed in charge of social interactions the outcomes are entirely predictable: early success leading to rapid growth, followed by a slow but unstoppable descent into promoting behavior that raises revenue for the platform at the expense of users. Here are five ways algorithms are tearing at the seams of society.
#1 Forcing the creativity out of creators
In order to make a living, creators must ensure their content is properly aligned to the algorithm – a classic example of the tail wagging the dog. Websites having to completely alter their content and design periodically to avoid being put out of business by shifts in the Google algorithm we already knew about; social media algorithm updates are murkier. A cottage industry has grown up around tips and tricks to overcome platform algorithm changes, and while some is structural, plenty is around content. To get maximum distribution, creators can't focus on their core audience – they must hit the preference of the algorithm.
The algorithm should be the enabler of preference, not the final arbiter
#2 Forcing posts to act like ads
The latest disastrous Instagram algorithm rollout has finally woken up legions of users and creators to the insidious nature of platform-driven feeds. Nonetheless, Instagram has opted to promote video over still pictures, in the same way that Facebook now shows roughly as many ads as it does organic posts. In order to compete for viewers, creators must now use gimmicks and ad-like rapid fire action to stand out from commercial content. There are few, if any creators, who signed up to become ad writers.
Literally nobody ever went on social media looking for ads, whatever Meta tells you.
#3 Promoting unreal illusions of life
The impact of the impossible standards promoted by social media have had a demonstrated corrosive effect on teenagers – and, as a result, those who are now young adults. The algorithm learns early one that we are fascinated by movie stars and models, so promotes those posts to the top; which forces creators who want to compete for mindshare to create similar pictures; which drives an aesthetic that is impossible to achieve in real life (see these with/without Photoshop pictures).,
Social media that literally hurts its users can hardly claim social value.
#4 Promoting anger and hatred
The social media platforms know that negative emotions can be stronger than positive ones, so they program their algorithms to score an angry emoji five times higher than a happy one. It turns out that engagement (read: continued scrolling through feeds busting at the seams with ads) goes up when users are angry than when they are happy. Instead of using technology to connect the world, algorithm-driven platforms are instead using technology to get the people in the world to fight with one another!
Fraying relationships between people is a horrible end result of digital social connection!
#5 Encouraging trolls, stalkers, and haters
Trolling – those who capture the comments section of a post and make it their own – continue to be a problem, and are, if anything, getting worse. The algorithm, far from protecting us from individuals and groups that are promoting an agenda at odds with a creator's content, encourage dissension and argument, promoting posts with unhealthy amounts of bad faith bickering. Stalkers are essentially impossible to avoid for popular creators, as the advice for ditching them basically comes down to "don't post publicly". As long as a creator cannot protect access to their work, they are forced to leave a door open for those who would harm them.
Providers owe users control over their own social access
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ALL three Alpine Health hospitals are now better equipped to make early decisions on the management of patients presenting with chest pains.
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BRIGHT has rallied behind a single mum and her kids who lost all their possessions in a house fire last week.
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Home » 'Should we talk to Vladimir Putin? None of Emmanuel Macron's opponents in the presidential election dare to attack him on this subject."
'Should we talk to Vladimir Putin? None of Emmanuel Macron's opponents in the presidential election dare to attack him on this subject."
Chronic. Five years ago, an invader quietly broke into Emmanuel Macron's campaign with the aim of weakening his presidential bid, or at least destabilizing the democratic process. Rumors about the former economy minister's private life had been distilled, and by the end of the campaign, computer hackers had penetrated his team's mailboxes. Tens of thousands of messages, including fakes, had been leaked from the "MacronLeaks".
Russia Today and Sputnik were banned from the candidate's headquarters, who regarded them as… "propaganda organs" † A study published by The world two and a half years later, the hack linked to an operation of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency. The shadow of Vladimir Putin has already hovered over Emmanuel Macron's campaign.
Five years later, the nature of the outage has changed. Discretion is no longer required. Vladimir Poutine weighs in with all his weight of dictator and invader on Emmanuel Macron's second presidential campaign. It weighs all the more because the two men now know each other. In five years, they built a relationship, fueled by a few meetings and frequent phone calls. Emmanuel Macron had pinned hopes on this relationship, a grand design that sometimes bordered on an obsession: starting negotiations on a "European Security Architecture"that of the XXIand century with which Russia would be associated.
This dream was shattered on the ruins of the cities of Ukraine bombed by the Russian army since February 24. And the "firm and demanding dialogue", according to the expression inaugurated by Mr Macron to justify the relationship he wanted to establish with the Russian president, turns into a nightmare at the end of the campaign, when new unbearable images of war crimes are delivered every day. No one dares to imagine what a "security architecture" negotiated with Moscow in a Europe subject to the "return from tragedy", rearming and preparing for the possibility of a new Iron Curtain. Shall we discuss security architecture, or even security guarantees, with someone who refuses to stop fire for a few hours to evacuate civilians from Mariupol?
Also read: Article reserved for our subscribers In Boutcha and in the Kiev region, scenes of massacre
For the past three months, contacts between Macron and Putin have been more of a dialogue between the deaf than an exchange. President Macron wanted this out, to understand why he so stubbornly maintained this bond with a leader who blatantly lies day in and day out. He instructed his advisers to report his conversations with Vladimir Putin to the press, of which he also informs his European partners: often gloomy reports, to the desperate rhythm of the Putinian leitmotif of "denazification" in response to the humanitarian urgency argument. In these telephone interviews, Emmanuel Macron tried all the stops, patience, conviction, the rising tone. Every time he hit the same wall.


so I have this idea for a card…or maybe a few… what do you think? a girl and her dog? maybe lots of girls and their dogs? i don't know where i got that idea or anything… ha.
Do you remember my friend Jenna? Isn't she cute? yes, I know WAY cuter than me. ha. Way sweeter too… so watch out.
She's an artist too. More like a professional one because I'm just an architect wanna be artistic person where as she has her degree in fine art and everything… She's AMAZING. If she had a blog I'd link it. But she hasn't gotten into this massive time eater yet like i have. haha. jk. i didn't mean that. you know what i mean…i link to one blog then another, next thing i know, it's been an hour… obviously i have time to waste on here and she doesn't. hee hee.
so… duh dun dum…. i'm inspired! a girl and her dog –my latest artwork!
To see another "portrait" Check out my mother-law's Christmas present from me. A "portrait" of the family clan…not to mention a VERY nice little blog… 🙂 (also check out the red sweater in the picture… it's my husband's christmas sweater that he wears all freakin year!) hee hee.
see? told you that i like to do portraits…. not real ones… but ones that capture a little bit of a person that you can connect to but doesn't have to look just like them…or have facial features… haha… you know what i mean.
anyway. here's to Jenna and Charlie!
we are so lucky for friends like you two! and for expensive wine bars…. and for silly dances… and anthropology shopping dates… and nonstop mario cart crazyness…and way too many settlers games… and dog dates… i mean really, if it weren't for our dogs, we wouldn't be friends… jk. 🙂 haha.
very nice. so if you do one of zoe and me does that mean we look like each other? i guess we sort of do if we are both wearing matching pink in my blog pic. oh well…c'est la vie!


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Archive for the 'Brain Tumors' Category
Sunday, December 8th 2013
Awake Brain Surgery
Sometimes as a matter of a tumor's (or other lesion's) location within the brain it is helpful to have a patient awake for part (or all) of the actual removal of such. It aids staying away from important normal parts of the brain.
Similarly, I've been doing/seeing a lot of deep brain stimulator surgery lately and having the patient's awake can aid in making sure the lead is in the right spot, or at least not in the wrong spot.
It is pretty incredible to see.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Health, Neurosurgery
Saturday, December 7th 2013
Novel Treatments
The history and evolution of novel clinical research is interesting. The old ideal, "Don't think; try is, perhaps rightly tempered by the new ideal of not just the informed and consented patient but protected patient. Such is interesting considering our move, otherwise, away from paternalism.
The development of the smallpox vaccine or the first artificial heart would have never happened today as is. Of course, neither would these horrific syphillis experiments hopefully.
Not to argue that IRBs and government agencies have made clinical research too burdensome and are hampering progress.
It's just that a focus and regulations beyond guaranteeing informed consent seems counter to the way the rest of medicine is moving.
I'm not sure many are arguing three glioblastoma multiforme patients of Drs. Muizelaar and Schrot were at UC-Davis were ill informed. But the treatments they undertook for those patients, without approval, have cost both men their jobs. Dr. Muizelaar was in fact chairman of Neurosurgery at UC Davis prior to this scandal bringing him down.
I've covered this previously. But with both men resigning earlier this year its worth bringing up again now that we have some resolution.
Two UC Davis neurosurgeons who intentionally infected three brain-cancer patients with bowel bacteria have resigned their posts after the university found they had "deliberately circumvented" internal policies, "defied directives" from top leaders and sidestepped federal regulations, according to newly released university documents.
The most contentious issue between the doctors and the university – and even within the university – was this: Were the surgeons performing research? Or were they providing "innovative care?"
Research on humans is tightly controlled in the United States and, according to federal regulations and university policy, must undergo a rigorous approval process to ensure that participants are protected from harm. Innovative treatment, more commonly known as compassionate care, gives a doctor more latitude in offering nonstandard care to a single patient where evidence of safety or success is limited.
Muizelaar and Schrot called their novel approach "probiotic intracranial therapy," or the introduction of live bowel bacteria, Enterobacter aerogenes, directly into their patients' brains or bone flaps. The doctors theorized that an infection might stimulate the patients' immune systems and prolong their lives.
The first patient lived about 5 1/2 weeks. The second survived another year, an outcome that buoyed the doctors and seemed to bolster their theory, they said.
The institutional trouble began in March 2011, when a newly diagnosed third patient developed sepsis, became unresponsive and died two weeks after being deliberately infected. The university's first internal investigation soon followed.
What they did was highly unethical and dangerous.
But I have trouble with this paternalism later in the article,
"I think sometimes surgeons and doctors can get caught up in the enthusiasm for what they really believe is going to work," said Caplan, head of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center. "That is exactly why we have FDA oversight and approval and the research ethics requirement we do.
"Every time somebody dies or is injured or we have to recall a product, what we find ourselves saying is, there is no short-cut to innovation," he said. "Finding the truth is a long, slow, arduous process."
Informed consent for novel treatments can be difficult. "Informed" consent for proven standard of care is difficult. But maybe the focus should be on that and not necessarily on impeding access to even highly dangerous and unproven treatments.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Ethics, Neurosurgery
Tuesday, June 4th 2013
Some Disappointment For Avastin
Bevacizumab is an anti-VEGF antibody used as a chemotheraputic agent. VEGF is a growth factor in the body that promotes the growth of new blood vessels. The antibody is marketed as Avastin and has on-label approval in a number of cancers. Initially approved for colon cancer it is now used in lung and renal and, for our purposes in this post, glioblastoma multiforme. GBM is an aggressive primary brain tumor. It is what Ted Kennedy passed from.
Avastin got quick approval for GBM from the FDA based on limited studies and results that showed it delayed progression once patients had progressed on traditional chemotherapy.
Well now at the American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting two phase III randomized studies have shown somewhat disappointing results for Avastin in terms of prolonging overall survival in patients with GBM. Both the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group protocol and the AV Aglio trial put Avastin with Temodar and radiation therapy at diagnosis to see if such improved survival versus simply temodar and radiation, a more traditional therapy. Perhaps no surprise as phase II trials had shown similiar prior to these two large trials but there was no improvement in overall survival.
Avastin didn't prolong life when used as a first treatment for people with brain tumors like the one U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy died of several years ago, two studies found. In one, patients who were expected to benefit the most from Avastin based on genetic testing had the worst survival rates. Side effects also were more common with Avastin.
That might not be so horrible, since Avastin's current approval is essentially as salvage, but the side effects were much more significant when Avastin was added to Temodar as a first line agent.
Avastin used to have approval for use in breast cancer but something very simliar had to the data with Avastin in breast cancer that prompted the FDA to pull approval.
Avastin received Food and Drug Administration approval after studies suggested it delayed disease progression. But when later research showed it didn't prolong life and brought more side effects, its approval for breast cancer was revoked.
I would argue, and clinicians more in the know than myself however are already as well, that progression free survival in brain tumors is something different than progression free survival in breast cancer patients.
[B]ecause of the cramped quarters of the brain, progressive disease almost always has immediate effects on cognitive and motor functions. Other studies have shown that patients receiving Avastin are more likely to be able to live independently, and have less need for corticosteroid drugs.
If Avastin does indeed produce very quantifiable quality of life benefits, potentially mostly in terms of preserved cognition and functional ability, then it would obviously be a potentially well worth therapy, at least as continued second line therapy, even with its known potential side effects.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Health
Monday, May 27th 2013
Playing A Guitar During Brain Surgery
It is common practice in some techniques for putting in deep brain stimulator electrodes to keep patient's awake to make sure the electrode is in the right place and giving good symptom relief. Likewise for parts of some surgeries for brain tumors you might have a patient awake to "map" their brain surrounding the tumor so as to not damage important parts that control things like movements or speech. You may ask patients to do certain tasks while they're awake so that you can see if the stimulation is working or see if an area of the brain is involved in such a task. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone playing the guitar during a surgery however.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Epilepsy, Health, Neurosurgery
Sunday, May 5th 2013
Facing The Truth On Cancer
You need to read this piece in Salon by Mary Elizabeth Williams who is living with widely metastatic melanoma.
[T]he fate of people with metastatic cancer is the same as everybody else's – to go on living until life ends
It raises important issues, and links to posts from others on the same subject, about how the end of life with cancer makes even cancer patients and cancer support groups and cancer researchers uncomfortable.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Health, Other Medicine
Monday, July 23rd 2012
Research At Your Peril
A physician can't employ novel, potentially dangerous, treatments on you, even with your permission, without crossing off Institutional Review Board approval. The IRB critique process is designed to weight the risk/benefit of the proposed study and assure appropriate informed consent of the subjects. And in the case of new drugs or devices, the physician can't do it without running through the Food & Drug Administration.
And so the confusion out at UC-Davis right now, involving the chair of neurosurgery, is likely to grab some attention.
In 2008, [UC-Davis neurosurgery chair Dr. J. Paul Muizelaar and his colleague Dr. Rudolph J. Schrot] proposed treating a glioblastoma patient with bacteria applied to an open wound to "attack the tumor," then later withholding antibiotics and letting the bacteria do its work.
Schrot contacted the FDA but ultimately was cautioned that animal studies were needed first.
Back at UC Davis, IRB chairman [Dr. John] Anderson…was also skeptical. Anderson told Schrot in an email that denying this patient the treatment would be "likely devastating to this family," but that he believed the FDA and UC Davis "won't allow this product to be used in humans without further testing," internal documents reveal.
Despite the initial roadblock, Muizelaar and Schrot "strongly believed that the intervention with intentional wound infection was promising for patients who otherwise faced certain death," according to [a letter from Harris A. Lewin UC-Davis' vice chancellor of research]
Between October 2010 and March 2011, the physicians went forward with three procedures on humans with malignant brain tumors, surgically introducing probiotics into their open head wounds.
Schrot got IRB permission to move forward on Patient No. 1 with a "one-time procedure" that was "not associated with any research aim," the letter states.
University documents show that the physicians believed they had been given the go-ahead for all three surgeries, but officials later determined that they had been misinformed or were misunderstood by the doctors.
Muizelaar and Schrot stressed to The Bee that all three patients, in consultation with their families, gave their consent.
In the case of Patient No. 1, the investigation found, Schrot had made an "incorrect statement" about restrictions on the bacteria's use, leading IRB staff to incorrectly conclude that such review was not necessary, Lewin told the FDA.
As for Patients 2 and 3, the university found that treating them with an "unapproved biologic" amounted to human-subjects research – and thus required prior review and approval.
The idea of infections stemming cancer progression is hardly unprecedented and is reported in the literature for everything from lung cancer to bone cancers. Indeed, even intentional infections in cancer patients have a history. And, although two recent relatively large retrospective studies from 2009 and 2011 failed to show post operative infections improved survival in GBM, the issue remains equivocal with more anecdotal reports supporting the idea that infections may promote an immunologic response against the tumor itself.
Much of the issue seems to center on the idea of these bacteria as a 'biologic'. If what Drs. Muizelaar and Schort did constituted 'research' of a biologic then there is likely real trouble ahead and much, if not all, of UC-Davis' federal research funds, from all sources, could be at risk. It probably bodes well that if the University thought there was something wrong going on here that they self reported it and potentially did so in a relatively timely fashion.
I'm not going to jump to conclusions here. Although two patients seems to have had poor outcomes, potentially related to the treatment, it seems very plausible that this is a matter of bureaucratic misunderstanding. I understand the idea behind IRBs and the reasoning of a level of paternalism that most bioethicists feel patients need,
Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center, said that desperate people are especially vulnerable and need added protections.
"If you're dying, you're kind of like reaching out to anything that anybody throws in front of you," said Caplan, who recently left the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics to assume the New York post.
"That's why so many people over the years are pursuing quack cures in Mexico and all kinds of questionable treatments," he said, speaking in general terms. "They're not able to think straight because they're at death's door."
Caplan said that institutional review boards are often misunderstood, with many people believing that such strenuous oversight is "a lot of bureaucracy to get in the way of trying something to save lives."
In reality, he said, the committees are an essential safeguard for research subjects, who may not get an unbiased view on a researcher's consent form of the study's risks vs. benefits.
Maybe the informed consent portion should be the sole purview of the IRB. It is true that the 'informed' in informed consent can be a matter of contention, there is very often a wide discrepancy in information between a provider and patient. However, if Drs. Murzelaar and Schort, provided a reasonable view of the risks versus very potential benefits to these patients, even if the use of the bacteria actually under law fell to the FDA for permission, I would be inclined to step back, take a very libertarian view and think much unnecessarily is being made of the situation.
I'm sure fuller details are to follow. It is unfortunate that this is playing out so publicly at present.
Monday, July 2nd 2012
International Care From Socialized Medicine
An interesting piece on 'rationing care' in single payer systems. The piece in The Guardian focuses on British patients who are sent overseas for specialized therapies not available in the United Kingdom, with the trips funded by the NHS. And how that compares to the current U.S. system.
Ethan [who has an ependymoma] is in the US because the NHS as yet does not have proton therapy machines, although the UK government has just agreed to fund two of them, in London and Manchester.
Pay for service models will obviously be inefficient and provide a plethora of potentially unnecessary care. There are probably strategies to mitigate the inefficiency of over use in a fee for service system, but they will never be as effective as the central control afforded in a single payer system.
The scary thing about such overt rationing, as in the NHS, is it removes some control from the patient and their personal physician and puts the control in the hands of committees of amorphous physician 'experts' and bureaucrats who deem what is appropriate and available care and what is not. The great fear is that such a system will deny effective or questionably effective care as a matter of cost.
The reality is that the U.S. system already does this. Private insurers already deny payment for treatments as being unproven. Centralizing this rationing and making it more transparent and overt may be an answer. Certainly it seems the case with the NHS and proton therapy.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Health, Healthcare Policy
Livetweeting Surgery
One of the big things the use of social media in medicine is supposed to do is help diminish the information disparity between providers and patients. Although knowledge asymmetry is present in many fields perhaps nowhere is it as large as in medicine. If you've never been in a surgery I can do all I can to explain it in an informed consent process but perhaps hearing about it, seeing it in real time.
That said I though the novelty of using social media during surgery would've died down by now. As well as its use. Its not like the social media observer experience has been widely adopted by patients. I've never run across a patient in practice whose referenced having used social media to experience surgery as part of their information gathering process. Not that I think the effort is fruitless but the whole 'live' experience is overstated. In effect these livetweets of surgery are a publicity stunt.
And yet, here we are in Houston with a proposed first use of Youtube and Pintrest in a livetweeting of a brain surgery.
"What will come out of this is a detailed, real-time sequence of what happens in a brain surgery through all the stages from preparation, to shaving the hair, to making the incision, to draping," Dr. Kim says. "People are very anxious and want to know what goes on in a brain surgery like this."
While Dr. Kim (left) works in the operating room, a team outside the room will work the social platforms. A brain tumor specialist will be present to help answer questions from the digital audience via Twitter. But the operation will expand to other social networks too.
Video clips from inside the operating room will be posted to YouTube, and photos shared on Pinterest. Storify compilations will recap each hour of the broadcast.
A big enough story to prompt Mashable's attention and CNN and Medgadet.
The web and social media are a great source of information for patients and families of all types, including those facing surgery. I applaud providers and hospitals and others for putting such information out there and using social media. The live presentation of that information though and, especially, the hype surrounding such seems overdone. Five years from now we will neither be giving fanfare to livetweets of surgery nor will be doing it on a regular basis. In some respects it seems a waste of resources in using social media and the internet to distribute information.
If you want to tune in though the livetweet begins today at 9am central time and can be found @houstonhospital.
Filed in: Brain Tumors, Health, Social Media
Monday, December 22nd 2008
A Mature Tumor
While I was away on the interview trail a very interesting story hit the media wires. In Colorado a pediatric neurosurgeon went in to sample/remove a tumor from a young child's brain. What he found was that the tumor contained fully formed anatomical parts. Included was a fully formed foot.
"It looked like the breech delivery of a baby, coming out of the brain," Grabb said. "To find a perfectly formed structure (like this) is extremely unique, unusual, borderline unheard of."
Sam's parents, Tiffnie and Manuel Esquibel, said their son is at home now but faces monthly blood tests to check for signs of cancer or regrowth, along with physical therapy to improve the use of his neck. But they say he has mostly recovered from the Oct. 3 surgery.
"You'd never know if he didn't have a scar there," Tiffnie Esquibel said.
The question is how did this happen.
The Foot In Surgery
Teratomas are a type of germ cell tumor which can occur in the brain. They develop from embryological cell lines and often develop characteristic mature tissue including skin, hair, teeth. Cases have certainly been reported of even more complex structures appearing in teratomas, including eyes. Approximately one hundred cases of a situation called fetus in fetu have been reported. In such cases a born child ends up having parts of his assumed twin growing somewhere inside of him. Fetus in fetu often have even more complex structures, including what often appear as fully formed limbs and organ systems. As in this case.
I'm not sure if a case of fetus in fetu has ever been reported inside the cranium. Still, teratomas often occur there and in some people's opinion fetus in fetu should be considered a highly rare form of teratoma. In anycase, this is an incredibly rare and interesting discovery. My thoughts are with the family but if the AP report is to be believed the kid is doing well.


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Quiché Airport  is an airport serving Santa Cruz del Quiché, the capital of Quiché Department, Guatemala. The airport is just south of the city.

The Rabinal VOR-DME is located  east of the airport.

See also
 Transport in Guatemala
 List of airports in Guatemala

References

External links
 OpenStreetMap - Quiché
 OurAirports - Quiché
 SkyVector - Quiche Airport

Airports in Guatemala
Quiché Department
Santa Cruz del Quiché