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Surface Go 3 vs iPad 9: Which tablet should you get?
By Hannah Davies
September 23, 2021 2:07 pm BST
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The Surface Go 3 has a bigger display
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The iPad 9 appears to be better for video calls
The iPad is cheaper
Microsoft unveiled the latest update to its affordable tablet line – the Surface Go 3 – at its September event, just one week after Apple announced the new iPad 9 during its own livestream.
The Surface Go 3 and the iPad 9 are the cheapest current generation tablets available from their respective companies, making them the best options if you're want a tablet for school or entertainment that won't cost a fortune.
So, what's the difference? And, which tablet should you opt for? Read on to find out how the Surface Go 3 compares to the iPad 9.
One of the biggest differences between the Surface Go 3 and the iPad 9 is their operating systems.
The Surface Go has been upgraded to Windows 11 this time around, with updates including the new Snap feature for rearranging windows, the presence of Android apps and a built-in Microsoft Teams feature. Meanwhile the iPad 9 runs iPadOS 15, which takes advantage of new multitasking features to arrange windows and move between apps, SharePlay in FaceTime and widgets on the Home Screen.
It's also important to note that the Surface Go 3 runs the more restricted version of Windows 11 – S Mode.
Ultimately, the decision comes down to which OS you prefer. If you're a diehard Apple user with an iPhone and a Mac, the iPad will fit seamlessly into your life. If you prefer your Windows PC and have a phone filled with Android apps, then the Surface Go 3 makes much more sense for you.
The Surface Go 3 features a 10.5-inch PixelSense touchscreen with a resolution of 1920 x 1280, whereas the iPad 9 has a 10.2-inch LED touchscreen with a 2160 x 1620 resolution and Apple's True Tone technology.
This makes the Surface Go 3 the larger of the two displays, while the iPad has a higher resolution. Both tablets appear to have similar sized bezels on the sides, with Apple having slightly larger spaces at the top and bottom to make room for the camera and the Touch ID button.
Both displays feature pen support for sketching and note-taking, and both can also be considered 2-in-1 devices thanks to their attachable keyboards. However, the Surface Go's Type Cover is the more affordable at £124.99, while the Smart Cover for the iPad 9 costs £159.
Another major upgrade the Surface Go saw this year was an update to Intel's 10th Gen processors. You can choose between Intel Pentium Gold 6500Y and Intel Core i3-10100Y CPU. This means the Go 3 is 60% more powerful than its predecessor, the Surface Go 2.
The iPad 9 on the other hand runs on Apple's own A13 Bionic chipset – the same one found in the iPhone 11 series.
It's difficult to say how either performs without having tested them yet, but it's safe to say the Surface Go 3 has been given a significant performance boost for 2021.
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One thing tablets have proven ideal for throughout 2020 and 2021 is holding video calls. So, how do the cameras compare?
The Surface Go 3 features an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front camera. Both cameras are capable of capturing video at 1080p, while the front camera also provides support for Windows Hello face authentication for faster log-ins.
The iPad 9, meanwhile, takes advantage of an 8-megapixel rear camera with features including Panorama, digital zoom, HDR for photos and Burst mode. On the front, there's a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera with a 122-degree field of view. Both cameras can record video at 1080p, but the iPad 9 does not support Face ID, opting instead to stick with Touch ID.
The iPad does, however, include support Centre Stage, a feature that ensures you stay in frame during video calls by panning the camera as you move throughout the space. This, combined with the higher megapixel front camera, makes the iPad seem like the better choice for video calls and virtual meetings.
Another major deciding factor when it comes to buying a new piece of tech is price.
Prices for the Surface Go 3 start at £369 with the Intel Pentium 6500Y chip, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage and Wi-Fi. The iPad 9, meanwhile, starts at £319 with the A13 Bionic chip, 64GB of storage and Wi-Fi.
This makes the Apple tablet £50 cheaper than its Windows counterpart.
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Orpheus and the Dark Aether – Chapter 3
By The Archivist on October 14, 2011
Mr. Angkarn was walking through The Academy, stopping at each house he came across. He approached the residence of Miss Junie Ginsburg and knocked on the door.
"Hello? Anyone home?" he asked.
"Come in Mr. Angkarn. Jed and I are upstairs," replied the homeowner.
Orpheus let himself inside and joined the ladies, who promptly offered him a seat and a drink.
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"What brings you to Academy tonight?" asked Miss Ginsburg.
"Just doing a neighborhood watch. With Moriarty back in town, you can't be too careful."
"Ah. I don't know the fellow," she replied.
Miss Dagger and Mr. Angkarn began to recount the incidents that occurred last year for Miss Ginsburg.
Orpheus asked, "This may seem a random question, but have either of you noticed any strange cracks forming in the walls lately?"
"Not beyond the usual," replied Miss Ginsburg.
"That is good news."
"Indeed. I don't like to pay for plaster, and the wallpaper is a pain to obtain."
"I fear it goes beyond simple appearances at this point," replied Mr. Angkarn. "Time itself is in danger!"
Miss Ginsburg asked if had to do with the strange fellow at City Hall the other day, to which Orpheus replied that it did, although he could not explain how. All he knew was that New Babbage was teetering on the brink of destruction.
"You see, there is a set path through time that New Babbage is meant to follow, but right now forces are conspiring to tip the city into another path, and if they are successful, the events that the Writer has been writing about will come to pass," he explained. "Like I said, however, I haven't acquired any hard evidence."
While Jed sat sleeping in her chair, Junie asked how Moriarty was involved. Orpheus explained that the book spoke of a man sparking electricity from his hands, and word on the street was that the Urchins had seen Moriarty do just that. "Of course, there aren't many others in town who have that ability," he continued.
Noticing what time it was, Miss Ginsburg explained she must go to bed. The friendly hostess showed Orpheus to the door. He thanked her kindly, and warned her to avoid any cracks. He then left to continue his watch. Miss Ginsburg reentered her home, unaware that at
that moment, a strange crack was forming outside her home.

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The PC Master Race (abbreviated PCMR), sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet meme, subculture and a tongue-in-cheek term used within video game culture to describe the alleged grandiosity and god complex associated with PC gamers when comparing themselves to console gamers.

In current parlance, the term is commonly used by computer enthusiasts both to proudly proclaim themselves as an elitist gamer group, as well as a humorous self-parody of their own firm belief in the technical supremacy of personal computers as a video gaming platform over video game consoles such as PlayStation and Xbox, often citing gaming PC features like high-end graphics, faster frame rates, more precise gameplay control (especially with first-person shooters), free online play, wider variety of downloadable games, backward compatibility, better modifiability, upgradability and customization, lower cost-over-time, open standards, multitasking and overall superior performance. Popular imagery, discussion and media referencing the term also commonly belittles gamers who prefer playing consoles as "dirty console peasants", and describes people who prefer playing PC as the "PC master race".

History

Creation

In 2008, comedic writer Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw employed the comedically extreme term "Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" in a Zero Punctuation video-review for the role-playing game The Witcher for the online gaming magazine The Escapist. Croshaw explained that his initial intent in referencing Nazi Germany's master race ideology when he coined the intense term Glorious PC Gaming Master Race was to poke fun at an elitist attitude he perceived among some of The Witchers PC playerbase at the time of The Witchers release, who had complained about the PC release of the game being possibly negatively affected by the console port of the game:

"It was intended to be ironic, to illustrate what I perceived at the time to be an elitist attitude among a certain kind of PC gamer. People who invest in expensive gaming PCs and continually spend money to make sure the tech in their brightly-lit tower cases is up to date. Who actually prefer games that are temperamental to get running and that have complicated keyboard interfaces, just because it discourages new or 'casual' players who will in some way taint the entire community with their presence. I meant it as a dig."

Reappropriation

The term caught on quickly, but with a different meaning than originally implied by Ben Croshaw. It is now being used as an expression of pride among PC gamers, who view their PC platform as superior to traditional video game consoles due to its ever-expandable and upgradable hardware, graphical potential, affordability, game library, mod support, freedom of input and peripheral options, emulation capability and other popular reasons. This change in meaning and widespread popularity can be linked back to the creation and popularization of the /r/PCMasterRace subreddit created by Reddit user pedro19 in 2011, which accumulated one million members by July 2017. (close to 5.5 million as of 2021)

While The Escapist continued to popularize the term's (or at least the term "Glorious PC Gaming Master Race") usage in later episodes for several years, writers in more mainstream computer-related and gaming-related publications tended to avoid using the term because of its negative associations, such as Nazism. In early 2015, Tyler Wilde, executive editor of PC Gamer, suggested the term should be abandoned altogether in an article titled "Let's stop calling ourselves the PC Master Race". "It worked as a hyperbolic joke when it was first said as a hyperbolic joke, and I did think it was a little funny to embrace the criticism ironically - for a moment, [but] when I see kids unironically boasting about their 'master-race' affiliation on forums, I cringe". Tyler instead suggested replacing the term, and offered examples such as "Fearsome Keyboard People" and "PC Thunder Cats". The article was met by some disagreement from others who believed the term's usage was acceptable. While Ben Croshaw acknowledged the term's reference to and origins from Nazi Germany, he countered that those who use the term without knowing of the association can be viewed positively as a sign that those ideals and their historic Nazi associations had faded from the public mind. He also made a reference to attempts to incite the term's abandonment as being part of a sort of "thought police", criticizing Tyler Wilde's article. Croshaw later sardonically admitted his distaste for the term, jokingly suggesting the term "PC-Gaming-Dick-Slurp-All-Stars" instead.

Popularization
The rapid growth of the shortened and now re-appropriated "PC Master Race" term as well as its handful of associated communities has attracted the attention of related computer hardware and game companies such as Corsair and Valve, as well as celebrities such as Terry Crews. Since 2015, several large technology companies have partnered with the PC Master Race group to organize contests, events and giveaways, such as AMD, Corsair, Cooler Master, Oculus VR, NZXT, and Nvidia. They have also been in close collaboration with the Folding@Home project, a distributed computing project developed by Stanford University, regularly pushing members of the community to donate their computer power to science, and organizing promotion events to fight against cancer and other diseases, as well as hosting an AMA for the Folding@Home team themselves, which had the participation of investigators and students from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford University and Temple University.

By several accounts, the term has become an Internet meme, and is a launching point for debates about the relative popularity of gaming platforms. Reviewer Paul Tassi in Forbes suggested in 2014 that PCs had an edge because they were a "necessity" for everyday life while consoles were a "luxury" costing hundreds of dollars and only offering a few different games or features over that of what a PC already offered. However, the increasing cost of many new PC gaming components from the early 2020s, partially attributed to the 2020–present global chip shortage, has resulted in a re-evaluation of the affordability of PC's over consoles gaming.

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Inspired by her father's battle, physician-scientist determined to stop glaucoma
Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, is developing new treatments to save more people from glaucoma-induced blindness.
JoAnne Viviano
David Moroi loved baseball, and he loved watching TV — slapstick comedy shows, wildlife programs, Bigfoot documentaries and especially the Little League Baseball World Series matchups, which he made sure he never missed.
His daughter, Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, remembers her father struggling to see those programs and games due to his glaucoma and retinal condition. And it was his determination and positive attitude despite those challenges that inspired her to specialize in ophthalmology, with a focus on glaucoma.
"My motivation and truly my inspiration for choosing glaucoma was because, essentially, my father developed blindness." Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD
"He still saw 20/20, but he met the legal criteria for blindness from glaucoma," says Dr. Moroi, who holds the William H. Havener, MD, Chair in Ophthalmology Research at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and directs the Havener Eye Institute.
Glaucoma limits peripheral eyesight and can severely impact the ability to see, even in people with otherwise 20/20 vision. Dr. Moroi's father only saw small glimpses of the world around him. It was as if he was looking through a drinking straw.
His love of sports didn't stop at baseball — he'd catch just about any sports game on TV. His daughter, herself a Blue Devils fan since her undergraduate days at Duke University, smiles as she remembers him always calling to remind her, "Sayoko, Duke's playing basketball right now!"
Today, her thoughts of her father and his struggle with glaucoma are never far away.
Photos of her late parents are among the items she keeps on display in her office as she continues to pursue her aspirations. They look on as she fulfills an active roster of clinic appointments and eye surgeries, all while running an impressive amount of research programs that promise to revolutionize the field of glaucoma treatment.
Searching for better glaucoma treatment options
Glaucoma is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in both the United States and the world. The incurable disease is caused by damage to the optic nerve in the back of the eye. A main risk factor is increased eye pressure, which can place stress on the nerve, often caused by a problem with the eye's drainage system.
According to the most recent data from the National Eye Institute, more than 2.7 million people in the United States had glaucoma in 2010. The agency has predicted that nearly 4.3 million Americans will have glaucoma by 2030 and that nearly 6.3 million will have glaucoma by 2050. Prevalence increases with age.
When explaining options to treat glaucoma, Dr. Moroi likens the system that regulates eye pressure to a plumbing system: There's a faucet of fluid production and there's a drain. Treatments either help decrease the flow of the faucet or unplug the drain.
Current treatment options include medication eyedrops or pills, laser therapy and incisional surgical procedures with the goal to lower eye pressure. Dr. Moroi says research is essential to make advances in treatment and cures, and federal funding, private foundations and philanthropy are the means to makes these discoveries
Learn more about glaucoma symptoms, risk factors and other frequently asked questions
Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, explains the role technology and gene therapy play in the future of treating vision disorders, including glaucoma and other retinal conditions.
"Many people will tell you that if they lost a significant amount of vision, they would be devastated. In order to secure research funding to make discoveries, it is essential to write a strong pitch that is reviewed favorably and then funded for research," says Dr. Moroi.
Through collaboration, the Ohio State Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences was recently awarded a five-year, $2.85 million National Eye Institute P30 Core Grant by the National Institutes of Health. This research award will be used to bring together vision scientists across the Ohio State colleges of Medicine, Optometry, Veterinary Medicine, Engineering and Arts and Sciences. "The Ohio State University Vision Sciences Research Core Program will serve as a bridge to help funded investigators and to foster collaboration across disciplines by providing access to shared state-of-the-art resources, services and training that are essential to research activities.
Through separate research work in her area of expertise, Dr. Moroi's hope is to decrease the amount of glaucoma-related blindness. With a combination of research methods, she's working with other teams on projects designed to customize each patient's glaucoma treatment plan. This is done by using genetic information, eye physiology, imaging data and other factors specific to a patient, including social determinants of health — the many conditions that affect a person's health, functioning and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. This broad team-based approach is known as precision medicine.
Her work will allow glaucoma specialists to move beyond antiquated ways of assessing risk and effectively target care, says Andrea Sawchyn, MD, director of the Glaucoma Division in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
"And that will save us time, because we're not going to have to go through months of trying different medications," Dr. Sawchyn says. "And if we're able to save that time, we can potentially save more vision and obtain a better outcome for the patient in the long run."
Dr. Moroi's current research projects seek to make that happen in three main ways:
Using new technologies to gather more eye pressure measurement data to assess large eye pressure variations
Examining the eyes' plumbing system to determine the inflow and outflow systems to understand optimal medications to lower eye pressure
Mapping drainage pathways to determine the most appropriate surgical technique for each patient
Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, hopes to reduce glaucoma-related blindness through research in precision medicine, which involves customizing each patient's glaucoma treatment plan based on genetic information, eye physiology, imaging data and other factors.
Improving data to save more vision for patients with glaucoma
Eye pressure is the only treatable risk factor to slow glaucoma progression, which is measured through peripheral vision tests and images of the optic nerve, typically taken during periodic doctor visits.
"We're very much still limited to a clinical care model of being comfortable and satisfied with three to four eye pressure measurements during the year. With this current model, people are still going blind from glaucoma," Dr. Moroi says.
Newer technology allows patients to gather their own pressure data at home through use of a handheld device with a disposable tip that gently taps the eye to collect pressure data. More comprehensive eye pressure data collection in the real world gives physicians and researchers insight into potentially 24/7 fluctuations in eye pressure, response to treatments and adherence to medications. Dr. Moroi seeks to determine whether this eye pressure fluctuation data will help improve patient outcomes by comparing data from stable patients with data from patients who are losing vision.
One goal is to use the more robust eye pressure data in partnership with her department colleague, X. Raymond Gao, PhD, to compare patient readings with their genetic sequences. This collaborative research will provide genetic signatures that relate to patterns of those patients who have high pressure fluctuations, average pressure fluctuations or low pressure fluctuations.
"So, what am I hopeful for? And what do I share with the patients? I inform them that we now have better technologies to assess their pressures in the real world," Dr. Moroi says. "Once we understand and have their data, we can better control their eye pressure outcome. And that definitely has an impact on decreasing vision loss from glaucoma."
Studying glaucoma treatments to 'fix the plumbing'
To further determine why certain medications might work better for some than others, Dr. Moroi is studying the glaucoma drugs' effect on the eyes' plumbing system to understand the 'why' and 'how' of patient variations in treatment response. She and her multi-center team, which includes Mayo Clinic and University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers, have established a dataset in more than 125 normal health controls, and have begun to collect the same data in more than 100 patients with glaucoma. These anticipated results will provide answers that will eventually allow physicians to prescribe the right medication to the right person without the current trial-and-error process.
"Once we get the results, we'll be able to understand and answer 'what are the main drivers for drug response in healthy persons?' and then, 'how is it different in patients with glaucoma?'" Dr. Moroi says. She leads this collaborative project that's funded by the National Eye Institute.
On their initial consultations with Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, patients with glaucoma may be fearful of going blind, and she's lent her support to building a social work team to assist patients who need emotional support.
Precision glaucoma surgery
There are many approaches to incisional surgery for patients with glaucoma who are intolerant of medical therapy and have failed laser therapy. As a surgeon, Dr. Moroi knows there can be a lot of trial-and-error approaches. She seeks to change that by using imaging to map patients' drainage pathways and determine what surgical approach may work best by either targeting this drainage pathway or bypassing the drain if the individual patient's drain is nonexistent or "closed."
She initiated this research at the University of Michigan about a decade ago when she worked there and has launched this research at Ohio State using a new-generation imaging instrument called swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography. The device allows for wider, deeper, more detailed images, which Dr. Moroi processes with the help of engineer collaborators. The goal is to determine which type of surgery is most appropriate for each patient or, if these drainage pathways are too damaged, how they can be bypassed.
"And then I hope, with the right partners here, that we could perhaps even consider regenerative treatments for patients with glaucoma if their drain pathway is so severely damaged," Dr. Moroi says.
Guidance and a calling
Dr. Moroi's parents, David Moroi, PhD, and Kazue Moroi, both earned degrees in Japan before immigrating to the United States. David Moroi arrived on a federal Fulbright Scholarship and earned a doctorate degree in physics and quantum electrodynamics at Johns Hopkins University in 1959, the same year the couple wed. Kazue Moroi, who held a degree in traditional Japanese studies, later joined him in Ames, Iowa, where he was performing postdoctoral research at Iowa State University.
The couple eventually settled in Kent in northeast Ohio, where they raised a daughter and two sons.
Dr. Moroi says her parents pushed their children to excel, but also helped them find balance to enjoy life, with many camping trips to National Parks. (One of Dr. Moroi's early dreams was to be a National Park ranger.) Her mother also trained her daughter in many manual skills and art, such as Japanese tea ceremony, doll making and origami sculpture, so surgery was a natural fit. One of Dr. Moroi's brothers, who's mechanically inclined, is a mechanical engineer, and her other brother, who's artistic, is an architect.
"My parents really helped support us to find what our natural skills are and helped guide us with education to really build upon those." Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD
"So, I and my brothers, we don't just have a job, we have a profession with a calling and what we like to do. And not everybody has that. I feel very fortunate."
Dr. David Moroi began having difficulty with vision when he was in his 50s. At the time, his daughter was pursuing her advanced degrees at Ohio State, and it was there where he was diagnosed with glaucoma.
"It was very scary, as he was driving. And then my brothers and I finally had to say, 'you know, Dad, you shouldn't be driving anymore,'" she says. "His central vision in one eye was very, very good. And he — as a typical Asian immigrant — never complained. He just kept going.
"So, I really admire him for not giving up or not getting depressed, because then later on, he had a retina issue that made him legally blind in the other eye."
Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, left, says collaboration is essential in ophthalmology research and involves scientists from various fields, including ophthalmologists and optometrists as well as cell biologists, engineers, gene therapists, pharmacologists and others.
Dr. Moroi is a brilliant physician with a genuine interest in both the field of ophthalmology and the human condition, says Lorna Gonsalves, PhD, a sociologist who was a patient of Dr. Moroi's in Michigan and continued seeing her at Ohio State, a 2.5-hour drive from her northwest Ohio home.
She calls Dr. Moroi a rare health care provider who understands the importance of attending to a patient's entire system, not just the eyes.
"She is truly remarkable. I see her not just as my doctor, but as someone who is going to be advocating for me on many fronts," Dr. Gonsalves said during a visit in spring 2022. "Sy is a wonderful human being — a true healer in every sense of the word."
When patients first come to Dr. Moroi for consultation after a glaucoma diagnosis, they're fearful, often having read up on the disease and learning that it can lead to blindness.
"As we all age, we realize what changes happen in our bodies. And people become more and more self-aware of what would happen to their life if they became vision-impaired." Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD
The value Dr. Moroi places on treating the whole person is evident in her support of building the department's social work team to provide assistance to patients who may experience anxiety or depression due to potentially blinding diagnoses, says Dr. Sawchyn.
"So, when we see someone struggling — because they're losing independence, they're losing their ability to get to and from their medical appointments, because they can no longer drive — we can reach out to our social work team to start some foundational emotional support while we work on getting that patient into a therapist," Dr. Sawchyn says.
Amit Tandon, MD, a clinical professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in the Ohio State College of Medicine, has known Dr. Moroi professionally for about 18 years and calls her "a perfect combination of intelligence, camaraderie, leadership and, most importantly, caring."
"She's very genuine," Dr. Tandon says. "And I think patients see that."
Advancing care, overcoming challenges
Dr. Moroi is optimistic about the possibility of discovering new treatments through research and heartened by the promise of new imaging, new technology and surgical techniques.
Ophthalmology is the field that achieved the first FDA-approved human gene therapy, in December 2017, for a condition called Leber congenital amaurosis, a rare blinding disease diagnosed in newborns and young children.
"Children would uniformly go blind, but now there is hope for their parents and the child that gene therapy can change the course of this blinding disease. Translating the basic genetics from the lab bench to the operating room and clinic is really amazing," Dr. Moroi says.
"I am proud that ophthalmology is at the forefront for a number of discoveries and life-changing interventions that improve a patient's quality of life."
She says she's achieved success by not giving up, even when disheartened by denied grant applications, and she's grateful for her patients.
"I let them know that patients are my inspiration for research. Through research, I am trying to improve outcomes. However, I explain that the research results may not directly affect the patient, but future generations' outcomes. The patients understand, and I am very blessed in getting support for research," she says.
Dr. Moroi also understands the challenges of being a woman and a person of color in the medical field and considers herself to have been fortunate.
"My approach and attitude are such that I will keep working and find allies, and certainly mentors, who will help me along the way," she says. "Have I sensed discrimination and bias? Yes, I have, but not in a way that I let it make me angry or frustrated. I would just keep going."
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Sayoko Moroi, MD, PhD, says she often explains her research efforts to patients and is grateful for their understanding and support.
Eyes as a window to overall health
In the future, Dr. Moroi seeks to expand research showing how eye health and vision pathways offer a key to a person's overall health and to healthier aging.
The vision pathway to the brain is a relatively short pathway — a very easy, accessible pathway to analyze, Dr. Moroi explains. And the retina is the only place in the body where clinicians and researchers can physically see what's going on in the blood vessels, which could reflect what's going on with blood vessels in the brain and major organ systems.
Such research could offer insight into high blood pressure's impact on age-related falls, changes in cognitive function and dementia. Further, Dr. Moroi has begun a pilot collaboration with the Ohio State Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine to determine whether optic nerve and retinal blood vessels can offer a key to improving outcomes for pregnant people with preeclampsia, which impacts both the parent and baby.
"Nowhere else in the body, except through the retina, can we understand the rest of our body," Dr. Moroi says. "It is truly the window to our health."
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'Alexa, let's drop in on our neighbors'
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Twenty-two million Americans now have what's called a "smart speaker," a gadget that sits on a table or shelf and responds to commands. The numbers have doubled in the past year.
This is without doubt the hottest product out there. and we expect the numbers to jump sharply again this year. The market leader, with about 72 percent, is the Amazon Echo; Google has about 18 percent and the rest is "other," which includes Apple's HomePod, and Sonos' Sonos One.
Now the Amazon Echo not only listens to you but also can listen for you. In short, it can be an intercom. If someone turns on its "voice calling and messaging" feature, you can either call them or listen in. There have to be certain agreements here: You must have put them on your approved list and vice versa. This last should be a big sigh of relief for all involved, because otherwise you are bugging their house without bothering to get a judge's order.
This is a lot like spying. You can "drop in" on a friend's home if they have an Amazon Echo, Echo Dot or Echo Show. If they have the latter, you can not only hear what's happening in the room, you can see whatever the device can see. You pay extra for eyeballs in the room; It's $160 for the one with the video camera.
More than a year ago, Joy bought an extra Echo Dot for a disabled friend. In the Alexa app settings, she named the second device "Joy's Second Echo Dot." Then she tapped the speech bubble to turn on calling and messaging. Back home she said, "Alexa, drop in on Joy's Second Echo Dot." She then heard her friend talking with the helper who comes in twice a week. The sound was clear, as if she were in the room. It's also like an intercom, in that she could have also talked back to Joy – if she knew Joy was there.
Time to play defense. If you don't want anyone to eavesdrop on what you're doing, you simply say to the device: "Stop Drop-In for my household."
The intercom feature kicks into play usefully if you have Amazon Echo devices all over the house or business. You can drop in on the one in your child's bedroom, for example, and call her to dinner. You would start that call by saying something like "Call the Echo in Jane's Bedroom." Go further afield: Check on grandma, check on someone next door, check on the dog.
We're still exploring the features of these devices. For instance, we just found out we can use Alexa to control the TV. Joy asked her to play the movie "Mother's Day," which is free for Amazon Prime members. It worked because we have a $30 Amazon Fire Stick plugged into the back of the TV. We then asked Alexa to pause the movie so we could write this column. She got confused and searched for a movie named "Pause." But that stopped the movie anyway. The "Google Home" device can also send movies and videos to your TV; it has the advantage of access to the millions of shows and talks on YouTube, which Google owns. Amazon Fire TV also has access to YouTube videos, but in our tests, Alexa couldn't find them.
Special effects at home
If you've ever been to the Haunted Mansion at Disney World or Disneyland, you'll remember spooky ghosts floating through the air and 3D figures waltzing before your eyes. A similar kind of magic, from AtmosFX.com, is now available for your home. It requires no virtual reality headsets, starts at $7 and is called "animated decorations."
On June 1, the company is coming out with a new set of animated decorations, but we're held in check by one of those nondisclosure agreements for the time being. We can only say that they're basically kid-friendly; fans of a certain blockbuster movie will be thrilled to see 3D creatures projected onto their windows or TV. OK, that's enough hints. (Hate those nondisclosure agreements. Bob's regular response is: "If you don't want it disclosed, don't tell us about it.")
To watch these effects, you need a DVD player or a computer connected to a TV, monitor or projector. We first looked at the "Party Time" decorations, which bring you virtual balloons, confetti, fireworks and streamers. But what really blew us away was their Halloween set. Wacky pumpkins sing songs and tell stories from a virtual shelf. Moving shadows create mayhem in your windows. A creepy portrait follows you with his eyes from your TV screen; reminds us of Uncle Max.
Finding a good bridge game
Bob has been playing Microsoft's Bicycle Card Games for years. He likes it because of the graphics. He also likes it because the Microsoft programmer who made it is probably the worst bridge player in the world, and is very easy to beat.
It's a friendly game with friends, if you don't mind that one of your friends is Sam Spade and another is a guy who looks like he needs a shave. But the game suddenly went kaput on us, showing a haze of colored blocks. This set us off on a quest to find the best substitute.
Many people like "Bridge Baron," but we hate paying $65 for a bridge game and the graphics are junk compared to Bicycle Card Games. We next considered the free game at 247Bridge.com, but it kept getting stuck on Bob's computer. We also tried BridgeBase.com (which was too confusing), and the bridge game at Pogo.com. (Cards were too tiny.) Then we tried Arkadium.com, but the players were really dumb. "Bridge Bandit" looked promising but the download button didn't respond when we clicked it. The bridge game at Games.AARP.com was the same Arkadium we'd already tried. Worst yet was the free "Quick Bridge for Windows." Our electronic partner bid three spades when he had almost none.
Just when we were ready to give up, we put the Bicycle Card Games CD into the computer one more time and it worked! By the way, it's an old program and lists Windows 98 as the most recently compatible operating system. But it works on our Windows 10 machines. Amazon had only two copies left when we checked. The cheapest was $20; golden oldies still sell.


In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to exposing an animal to an inhalant; acquiring near real time measurement of at least respiration during said exposing; and calculating a received dose of the inhalant in response to the near real time measurement of the at least respiration during said exposing. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to automatically controlling an environment of an inhalant chamber; and automatically controlling a concentration of an inhalant in the inhalant chamber. In one embodiment, a method includes but is not limited to displaying near real time measurement data related to an animal in an inhalant chamber. In addition to the foregoing, other method embodiments are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application. In one or more various embodiments, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the foregoing-described method embodiments; the circuitry and/or programming can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the foregoing-described method embodiments depending upon the design choices of the system designer. In one embodiment, a system includes but is not limited to at least one inhalant chamber; and at least one animal respiration sensor integral with the at least one inhalant chamber.


This statistic shows the number of members in the American Guild of Musical Artists in the United States from 2000 to 2013. In 2013, 7,520 people were members of the union. The American Guild of Musical Artists represents current and retired opera singers, ballet and other dancers, opera Directors, backstage production personnel at opera and dance companies, and figure skaters.
* Numbers have been rounded to provide a better understanding of the statistic.
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Sancho Manuel de Vilhena, 1.º Conde de Vila Flor de juro e herdade (c. 1610 - 3 de Fevereiro de 1677), foi um militar português.

Biografia
D. Sancho Manuel de Vilhena era filho de D. Cristóvão Manuel de Vilhena, Cavaleiro e Comendador de São Paulo de Maçãs de Dona Maria na Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo, Senhor do Morgado de Alcarapinha, e de sua mulher Ana de Faria.

Era irmão mais velho de D. Rodrigo Manoel de Vilhena, Cavaleiro e Comendador de São Paulo de Maçãs de Dona Maria na Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo, casado com D. Antónia Henriques, sem geração; e de D. Maria Manuel de Vihena, casada com D. António Álvares da Cunha (Índia, Goa, 1 de Maio de 1626 - 26 de Maio de 1690), 17.º Senhor de Tábua, com geração.

Era neto paterno de D. Francisco Manuel de Vilhena, Alcaide-Mor do Castelo de Portel, e de sua mulher Beatriz da Silva de Meneses (filha de Manuel de Abreu Pessanha (n. 1490), Alcaide-Mor do Castelo de Elvas, e de sua mulher D. Filipa da Silva), bisneto de D. Cristóvão Manuel de Vilhena e de sua mulher Francisca de Castro (filha de Rui Vaz Pinto, 3.º Senhor de Ferreiros e Tendais, e de sua mulher Joana Pereira), e trineto de D. Juan Manuel de Villena, 3.º Senhor de Cheles, e de sua mulher Isabel de Mendonça, igualmente bisavós de Pedro de Mendonça Furtado.

Combateu em vários pontos da Europa Central e, entre 1638 e 1640, guerreou os Holandeses no Brasil. Aderindo à Restauração, foi feito mestre de campo general (posto hoje equivalente a Tenente-General) e Governador das Armas (posto equivalente a Marechal) da Província do Alentejo e Comandante-Chefe das forças portuguesas.

Participou na defesa da Beira e, já no Alentejo, saiu vitorioso na Batalha das Linhas de Elvas em 1659 e na Batalha do Ameixial onde, em 8 de julho de 1663, derrotou o exército espanhol chefiado por D. João de Áustria. Destacou-se ainda nas outras principais batalhas do conflito, nomeadamente, na Batalha de Montes Claros em 1665.

O cerco de Elvas, praça tão heroicamente defendida por D. Sancho Manuel de Vilhena, e em 14 de Janeiro de 1659 a célebre batalha das Linhas de Elvas já referida, foram dois grandiosos feitos de armas. Nesse mesmo ano de 1659 foi feito por Decreto 1.º Conde de Vila Flor com o Senhorio da vila, confirmado a 23 de Julho de 1661.

Foi depois nomeado para cargos civis importantes, entre eles o de vice-rei do Brasil, mas faleceu antes de tomar posse.

Era Senhor de Vila Flor, Alcaide-Mor do Castelo de Alegrete e Cavaleiro e Comendador de Santa Maria de Pernes na Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo.

Casou duas vezes. A primeira vez com Ana de Noronha, filha de seu primo Gaspar de Faria Severim, do conselho de el-rei e secretário das Mercês e expediente dos reis D. João IV e D. Afonso VI. O segundo casamento foi com sua sobrinha materna, D. Joana Manuel de Vilhena, filha de D. António Álvares da Cunha, 17 º senhor de Tábua e de sua mulher D. Maria Manuel de Vilhena.

O 66.º Grão-Mestre da Ordem Soberana e Militar Hospitalária de São João de Jerusalém, de Rodes e de Malta, D. António Manuel de Vilhena, que era seu quinto filho do primeiro casamento, fundou na ilha de Malta a cidade de Floriana, assim baptizada em homenagem ao Conde, seu pai.

Foi sucedido por seu filho primogénito D. Cristóvão Manuel de Vilhena (1640–1704), 2.º Conde de Vila Flor de juro e herdade.

Ligações externas
 Vila Flor (D. Sancho Manoel, 1.º conde de), Portugal - Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico, Volume VII, págs. 497-500, Edição em papel, 1904-1915 João Romano Torres - Editor, Edição electrónica, 2000-2010 Manuel Amaral

Generais de Portugal
Militares da Guerra da Restauração
Governadores das Armas de Portugal
Militares do Brasil Colonial
Cavaleiros da Ordem de Cristo
Comendadores da Ordem de Cristo
Heróis de Portugal


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On Friday night, Husband and I were invited to Knoxville's favorite speakeasy to meet Travel Channel's Booze Traveler Jack Maxwell who was in town for several Friends of the Smokies events.
I must tell you that Jack was fascinating to meet in person! I had said hello in a long line of Scripps employees at the office earlier in the day when we had chatted about my name being a palindrome. So when James & I walked into the speakeasy, not only did he remember me, he said, "Hannah, I want to meet Husband!" I kid you not.
Jack is full of stories from his world travels that he tells in the sweetest Boston accent. (Sweet? Boston? It's totally a thing, but I was as surprised you are.) When he spoke, he was so respectful of the places that he's been and the people that he's met. Apparently, when he was auditioning for the job, the most important criteria was that he be unflappable–willing to jump into anything head on. If you've ever seen the show, he fits that to a T.
There were two signature cocktails for the evening: the High Note (right) and the Aunt Adelaide (left). I will spare you a review and instead just tell you that Root Beer Bitters is now on my shopping list.
We also asked him about how he approaches all these different cultures. He's done some absolutely crazy things. (For example: Exhibit A) Has he ever offended anyone? Jack said he tries to be genuine and let people know he's honored to be there. And that's probably my favorite thing about watching Booze Traveler: he tries outlandish things I never would and then serves up a cocktail I can make at home.
If you want to be happy for a day: get drunk.
If you want to be happy for a while: get married.
If you want to be happy for a lifetime: have good friends.
Thanks so much to Travel Channel for having us!
Husband and I talk often about how honored we are to live in this sacred place. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited of all the parks for one reason: it is breathtaking. Friends of the Smokies is an organization that works to preserve the park and its inhabitants. You can click here to learn more.
Booze Traveler's Tennessee episode will air March 2nd at 10pm on the Travel Channel.
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I have been waiting for Jack on Booze traveler!!!! Gee took long enough!!!! I love his travels and what One learns. And funny!!!! Only Jack is the real star!! ¡ Yahoo Jack is Back!! ¡ From a big fan.
Loved his show from the beginning , so glad they brought him back…..he makes drinking interesting….
I would love to meet this handsome Traveller. I hope he comes to Austin, but let me know when he's coming!!


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David Clayton-Thomas appears with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for two special concerts at Massey Hall on Feb. 12 and 13.
David Clayton-Thomas: No more blood, sweat and tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears isn't just the band that made David Clayton-Thomas famous. It's also the story of his life.
By Richard OuzounianTheatre Critic
Sat., Feb. 6, 2010timer6 min. read
Blood, Sweat & Tears isn't just the band that made David Clayton-Thomas famous.
It's also the story of his life: a childhood runaway from an abusive home; a teenage jailbird held in some of the country's bleakest prisons; an angry young man who was homeless on the Yonge St. strip during its toughest days.
It might sound like a recipe for disaster rather than rock stardom, but only if you haven't met David Clayton-Thomas, who's uniting with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for two special concerts at Massey Hall on Feb. 12 and 13.
He's a big, burly guy and, even at the age of 68, his handshake is something you have to be ready for. Still, the eyes are gentle, the smile is warm and, as he reclines in an easy chair gazing from his penthouse apartment on Lake Ontario, he seems at one with himself and the world.
But that sure isn't how he started. Born David Henry Thomsett in England on Sept. 13, 1941, he was the son of a Canadian soldier and a young British woman whose father was a popular entertainer named Harry Bryan Smith.
Indeed, Clayton-Thomas makes it very clear that all the artistic impulse in his family came from his mother's side. "My father was about as artistic as a piece of Muskoka rock," he begins. "He would always say, `Put down that damn guitar and dig a hole in something.'"
The family moved from England to Willowdale when Clayton-Thomas was 3. He has no happy childhood memories. None. "Not to speak ill of the dead, but my father was a tough, brutal, bullying, controlling tyrant. I started running away from home at 11 to get away from the beatings."
By the time he was 14, Clayton-Thomas succeeded in breaking his ties with home because he was tossed into his first reformatory school, and that's pretty much how he would spend the next five years.
"I was called a habitual offender," he remembers. "So, even though none of the things I did was that bad – joyriding, vagrancy, kid stuff like that – I did them so often that they kept putting me in worse and worse holes."
He finally wound up at the bottom: in the Burwash Correctional Centre. Closed down in 1973, Clayton-Thomas recalls it as "Canada's answer to Devil's Island."
The one thing prison did for the young man was give him time to discover his singing gift, so when he finally was set free around 1960, he headed for the bars on the Yonge St. strip.
"I was a kid with no one to love him, which made me very violent, very tough. And I guess that was a good thing because those bars of Ronnie Hawkins' sure weren't for pussies."
Long story short, young David Thomsett gave himself a double-barrelled stage name, built up a big reputation with a variety of bands and soon headed down to the States, where he found himself as the new lead singer of a group about to break through into superstardom, with the name of Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Normally, this would be the cue for the "happily ever after" ending, but not with these guys. "The band that I walked into was already ripped apart by power struggles waged by guys who had massive egos," Clayton-Thomas recalls. "It was the reason BS&T rocketed to the top of the charts, and imploded just as dramatically."
Originally, Al Kooper put the group together, but it soon took on a life of its own, with Steve Katz and Bobby Colomby gaining equal prominence. There's an incident that took place shortly before his arrival that Clayton-Thomas tells to set the scene.
"They were scheduled to play the Fillmore East and, the day before the show, the marquee read `Blood, Sweat & Tears.' Kooper walked by, saw it and had the stagehands change it to `Al Kooper's Blood, Sweat & Tears.'
"Katz walked by, read it and raised s---. By dinner, it read `Al Kooper, Steve Katz and Blood, Sweat & Tears.' The next morning, Colomby saw it and exploded but (owner) Bill Graham said, `Forget it. I'm out of f---ing letters.' So they opened as `Blood, Sweat & Tears.'"
Clayton-Thomas roars with laughter at the rampant egos involved but, in the same breath, acknowledges the serious problem underneath. "You can't have nine superstars in one group. Mick and Keith, sure. John and Paul, fine. But not nine.
"They got rid of Kooper before I came and Katz always made sure I knew that he was the boss and I was his employee, even though I was making 10 times the money he was."
A lot of that was because Clayton-Thomas had also written some of the group's biggest hits of the period, including the classic "Spinning Wheel."
"What goes up must come down," were Clayton-Thomas's prophetic words and, despite gold records and Grammy Awards, the personality pressures caused him to split from the group in 1972.
He tried striking out as a solo act but soon found that, when he was announced, everyone thought they were going to hear BS&T. Finally, Colomby approached him. "We're not doing that well without you," Clayton-Thomas recalls him saying, before twisting the knife. "And you're not setting the world on fire without us."
By then, Katz had left the group and, since he had been the major reason for Clayton-Thomas's departure, the singer returned. "In some ways, the second time around had the better band, in the sense of world-class musicians," Clayton-Thomas says. "But they were hired guns and the spirit just wasn't there anymore."
Then things got even stranger. In 1976, Colomby was named a vice-president at CBS. He left the band but retained ownership of the name and control of all its activities.
"Blood, Sweat & Tears didn't go into a recording studio for 25 years," Clayton-Thomas notes sadly.
"(Colomby) wouldn't let us. He was a big executive and didn't want to be connected with the name but he had no trouble collecting millions of dollars from the money we made touring."
And, as usually happens when a band falls on unhappy times, some of its members sought ways of finding a more pleasant alternative reality. "Yeah, we acquired a reputation as a drug band," Clayton-Thomas concedes, noting that it probably reached a low point when Gregory Herbert died from a heroin overdose in 1979, although Clayton-Thomas maintains that, instead of a simple OD, his colleague had been sold strychnine by Moluccan terrorists bent on killing Americans abroad.
"I had a bit of a meltdown after that," he says, "but then, once my daughter was born in 1982, I got myself together again."
So, Blood, Sweat & Tears kept rolling along, "a multimillion-dollar road operation, but we finally had guys in the band who weren't even alive when we first hit."
That was when Clayton-Thomas decided to come home to Toronto. He quit the band for good in 2004 and set up residence in the city that "I always knew was my spiritual home.
"The kind of burning passion to succeed and overcome my early years has pretty much fizzled out now. I have no interest in doing 200 concerts a year on the road any more."
But he has to glance over his shoulder at his ghosts one more time. "I spent most of my life driven to prove something, to be accepted, because if you didn't make it, the alternative was back to Burwash. I was running like crazy from my past. But I've put all that behind me now."


Thank you to everyone who joined us on February 23rd, for our live chat on "Women & Heart Disease" hosted by Carolina Gongora, M.D., cardiologist with the Emory Women's Heart Center.
We had a lot of great questions! Heart Disease is the number one killer of women, so it was wonderful to have so many women engaged and interested in their heart health. The physicians at Emory Women's Heart Center are dedicated to diagnosis, screening, treatment and prevention of heart disease in women.
We hope that you found the discussion informative. If you missed the chat or are interested in reviewing all of Dr. Gongora's answers, you can view the chat transcript.
Question: What is the effect of depression on my cardiovascular health?
Dr. Gongora: Although men and women share similar risk factors for heart disease, there are some that are more frequent and damaging in women and depression is one of them. Depression increases the risk of heart attack and cardiac related death by 50%. If you are experiencing signs of depression, it is important that you consult your doctor for treatment.
Question: What is the best diet for heart disease?
Dr. Gongora: The Mediterranean and DASH diets have shown to reduce risk of developing and worsening heart disease.
The Mediterranean diet is based on traditional foods from Italy and Greece, hence the name. It consists of daily servings of fruits, vegetables, olive oil, nuts and whole grains. Frequent ingestion of fish, moderate ingestion of low fat yogurt and cheese and eggs, and infrequent ingestion of red meats, refined oils, refined grains and processed sweets. This diet has been shown to prevent heart disease and stroke.
The DASH diet is meant to prevent hypertension. It favors food lower in sodium and richer in potassium, magnesium and calcium. It is similar to Mediterranean diet in recommending intake of plenty of vegetables, fruits and low-fat dairy products, as well as whole grains, fish, poultry and nuts.
Question: What is generally the first sign of an impending heart attack for a woman?
Dr. Gongora: Women tend to have symptoms other than the recognized central chest pain. Symptoms like back pain, arm, neck, and jaw, as well as unusual fatigue, shortness of breath, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, palpitations, and weakness occur more frequently in women compared to men. Remember, if you think you're having a heart attack, call 911 immediately.
To learn more about the Emory Women's Heart Center, visit our website. To make a new patient appointment, call 404-778-7777.
Heart disease kills 6 times more women than breast cancer each year, making it the number one killer of women.
The Emory Women's Heart Center is dedicated to screening, diagnosing, treating and preventing heart disease in Atlanta's women. We're thankful the awareness about heart disease, and the unique challenges faced by women, continues to be on the rise. The most important weapon against heart disease is awareness. Women need to research their family history and take time to educate themselves on not only the risk factors and symptoms of heart disease, but preventive medicine as well.
How can you educate yourself? Join Emory Women's Heart Center physician, M. Carolina C Gongora, M.D., on Tuesday, February 23 at 12pm EST for an online web chat on women and heart disease. She will be available to answer your questions such as: unique challenges women face specific to heart disease, what women can do to prevent heart disease, the importance of getting treatment right away and the research underway to combat heart disease in women. Register for this live chat.
Is Jaw Pain a Warning Sign of a Heart Attack?
September 8th, 2014 By Alexis Cutchins, M.D.
While chest pain is the most common symptom of a heart attack in both men and women, it may not be the most prominent one. This is especially true for women, who are more likely than men to experience a heart attack without any chest pain at all. However, women are also more likely than men to experience other, less common symptoms, including jaw pain.
Heart attacks occur when oxygen-rich blood is unable to flow through the arteries and into the heart muscle. When this happens, a distress signal is sent to the spinal column through the nerves connected to the heart. Many nerves meet in the same location on the spine, including those coming from the jaw. As a result, when the signals from the heart reach the brain, sometimes the brain misinterprets the source of the original signal, and instead of alerting the body about the danger by sending pain signals to the heart, it sends the pain signals to the jaw instead.
If the jaw pain is constant, it may be due to a dental health issue. However, if it's a symptom of a heart attack, the pain is more likely to be intermittent and increase with activity. If you experience jaw pain and there's no other obvious cause, you should call 911 — even if you're not sure it's a heart attack. A heart attack can begin to damage the heart within 30 minutes of the start of symptoms, and sometimes the damage is irreversible. Visit the Emory Women's Heart Center website to learn about other atypical heart attack symptoms .
It can also help to know your personal risk level and what you can do to help prevent a heart attack. Call 404-778-7777 to schedule a comprehensive cardiovascular risk assessment with an Emory Women's Heart Center specialist today.
Emory Women's Heart Center is a unique program dedicated to screening for, preventing and treating heart disease in women. The Center, led by nationally renowned cardiologist Gina Price Lundberg, MD , provides comprehensive cardiac risk assessments and screenings for patients at risk for heart disease, as well as a full range of treatment options for women already diagnosed with heart disease. Call 404-778-7777 to schedule a comprehensive cardiovascular screening and find out if you are at risk for heart disease.
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Do All Heart Attacks Present With Chest Pain?
Chest pain is the most common symptom of a heart attack in both men and women. However, it is important to understand that the exact nature of chest pain can be quite different in women and is often not the most prominent symptom of a heart attack.
Most of us probably think of a heart attack the way it is portrayed on television and in the movies: A sudden, dramatic occurrence that causes the victim to clutch his or her chest in agony. Women, however, may report chest pressure, discomfort, fullness or a burning sensation. In addition, they often experience pain in adjacent areas, such as the upper abdomen, upper back, neck, arms and jaw.
As a result of this variation of presenting symptoms, women who have complaints other than chest pain during a heart attack may be overlooked or not evaluated in a timely fashion. Women are more likely than men to have already sustained heart damage by the time they reach the emergency room. A heart attack can begin to cause damage within minutes of the start of symptoms, and sometimes this damage is irreversible. This is why it is critical that women and their loved ones learn to recognize the typical and atypical symptoms of a heart attack and seek emergency care immediately.
Screening is one way for women to determine their risk for heart disease. Through screening efforts, individuals can identify ways to reduce their risk of a heart attack and find out if they need to see a cardiologist for additional evaluation and testing. The Emory Women's Heart Center offers comprehensive cardiac risk assessments for women who may be at risk for heart disease or want to learn more about what they can do to reduce this risk. As part of these comprehensive screenings, we review strategies to improve overall cardiovascular health and offer treatment options if appropriate. Schedule your screening today!
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Thank you for attending the live chat on women and heart disease on Tuesday, February 11. We had a great discussion, so thank you all who posed questions. We were thrilled with the number of people who were able to register and participate in the chat. (You can check out the transcript here). We hope this means the word is spreading that heart disease is the number one killer of women and in many cases it is preventable if we take action.
Kim – Do you have advice for how we handle ER/EC encounters and successfully get the ER/EC doc/ staff to acknowledge active Heart Disease in the pre-menopausal woman?? With newer diagnoses such as coronary endothelial dysfunction/severe coronary vasospasms for me diastolic CHF due to the preceding perhaps advice on how to navigate our local healthcare systems when we cannot get to Emory. Are these disorders and often the testing that goes along with them that is often NORMAL, are they becoming more well-versed to the medical establishments or not?
Kim – This is a very good question but not so easy to answer. The Emory Women's Heart Center is working hard on trying to educate physicians in our communities about heart disease in women. We are stressing to these physicians that heart disease can exist with negative ED test results. That said, when a woman presents to the ED with symptoms the physicians are doing their best to make sure there is nothing acute or life threatening going on with the patient. If all ED tests are normal and the patient is still concerned, the patient should follow up afterwards with a cardiologist who specializes in women with heart disease. All of the diseases you have described above are real and should be taken seriously. We have multiple treatment options for patients who fall into those categories. To find out more information you can visit emoryhealthcare.org/womensheart.
Tonia – Recently diagnosed with CHF- should I be concerned about my heart murmur?
Hi Tonia. Although I can't speak to your condition without seeing you in person, I can tell you that in general, it's not uncommon for patients with CHF (congestive heart failure) to have heart murmurs. Typically, I recommend patients speak to their physician and ask their physician(s) to perform an echo (heart ultrasound) if it has not been imaged already.
Tightening of a heart valve.
Stay in close connection with your cardiologist to evaluate your case. If you need a cardiologist who specializes in heart disease and women, you can choose an Emory Women's Heart Center physician by calling 404-778-7777 or visiting emoryhealthcare.org/womensheart.
Flora – I have atrial fibrillation (AF) will I get better?
Hi Flora. I can't speak to your condition without seeing you in person, but for many people, atrial fibrillation can get better. Some people have atrial fibrillation that comes and goes and some are in AF all the time. Typically, depending on a patient's symptoms while they are in AF there are a variety of treatment options available ranging from medications to surgical procedures. How an individual feels with the diagnosis can vary so it is important to visit your cardiologist and discuss your particular case in person.
Imelda – Is taking baby aspirin now is safe?
Like most medication, taking baby aspirin can provide side effects and is risky in some populations of people. In some cases it can cause gastrointestinal bleeding. In certain populations, such as women over the age of 65, the benefit outweighs the risk. For women over 65 who are at risk for heart disease and have well controlled blood pressure, a baby aspirin is recommended to decrease the risk of stroke and heart attack. Also women of any age with diabetes or diagnosed coronary artery disease, who do not have a contraindication, typically should take a daily baby aspirin. We always recommend to patients that they consult with their physician prior to taking any new medication to make sure it does not interact with any other medication the patient may be taking.
Imelda – Is fish oil and vitamin E is good for the heart?
Fish oil is useful for women with high cholesterol or triglyceride levels. The recommendation is to take 1800mg/day of "EPA" which should be found on the bottle. Also fatty fish such as salmon, is a great source of Omega-3 fatty acids that are protective. For more information on how fish oil can improve your heart & brain health please visit this blog on fish oil, posted last week on the Emory Advancing your Health Blog.
I am not as familiar with the benefits and risks associated with taking Vitamin E but it is not specifically recommended for women by the American Heart Association.
Quiz: Am I At Risk for Heart Disease?
Women often times wait longer than men to go to an emergency room for treatment while having a heart attack.
Physicians, not specifically trained in women and heart disease, some times have a harder time diagnosing heart attacks in women because of the differences in presentation of symptoms.
Women's hearts respond better than men's hearts to healthy changes in lifestyle.
Within a year after a heart attack, 38% of women will die, compared to 25% of men.
Women are more than 2 times more likely to die after bypass surgery then men.


Centrally located in the Lakeview Chicago neighborhood, 1049 W. Oakdale is a vintage 4-story walk-up with an elevator, tucked away on a quiet tree-lined street. It's close to shopping, restaurants and entertainment on nearby Clark, Belmont and Lincoln. There's easy access to public transportation, including the Wellington Brown/Purple line "L" stop, one block away. Units feature charming vintage details plus spacious floor plans with walk-in closets and large windows.
1049 W. Oakdale is located in the heart of Central Lakeview, a legendary, lively community with distinct personality and charm. We are located around the corner from the Wellington 'El" stop on the Brown Line, which gets you downtown in seven minutes. We are a short stroll west of our incredible lakefront, marina, and Lincoln Park. Central Lakeview is home to the FAN-tastic Chicago Cubs and historic Wrigley Field. Central Lakeview is also the proud host of the annual Belmont-Sheffield Music Fest, Chicago's most popular summer kick-off event. From great dining to live theater, there is ALWAYS something to do walking distance from 1049 W. Oakdale!


The NeuroGym® Trainer is a mobile, multi-faceted biofeedback device designed to help clients regain motor control and coordination. It uses input from various sensors to control the action of computer games.
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HubPages is great & I personally love it, not only for the money making but the community is also great over there too.
It's free to join & it provides an easy way to make money from your content without requiring any technical knowledge of building a website. If you enjoy writing or have something that you're enthusiastic about then I'm fairly confident you'll enjoy HubPages just as much as me.
Once you're signed up you'll be given the opportunity to start your own Hub, which is basically your own page on the web.
With their easy to use editor you can quickly setup the layout of the page based on the type of content you'd like to publish, for example if you'd like to publish a recipe you'd just click the recipe button & it would automatically put a template together for you ready to edit.
From there you'd then go on to publish your content. You can add all sorts to your Hub such as images, videos, ratings, maps, polls and quizzes to make them as engaging & fun as possible.
When you publish your Hub it'll be sent for review & given a quality score. The higher the score the better because a high quality Hub will be featured on other member's Hubs & will get the opportunity to be listed in search engine results. If your Hub is really high quality then it can even get the chance to feature on the homepage attracting maximum visitors.
The more visitors you get to your Hubs the better because HubPages give you the opportunity to earn money via their Ad program, Ebay Program and Amazon program.
You can sign up the programs in just a few clicks & once you've done so you'll be able to begin earning money from each of your Hubs. You'll earn money for advert impressions & any referrals you send over to eBay or Amazon who then go on to make a purchase.
The great thing about HubPages is that not only does it make it easy for people with a lack of technical knowledge to publish their own content on the web but it also makes it easy for them to get visitors too. Since each Hub is manually reviewed the majority of the content on their website is fairly high quality which means search engines tend to rank Hubs pretty well.
They also allow you to create as many different Hubs as you like, and of course the more you create then the more money you'll begin generating.


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Afghan war inflicting devastating toll on civilians - U.N
Child casualties more than doubled in the first six months of 2014, two-thirds more women were killed and wounded in ground combat compared with the same period of 2013.
World Bulletin/News Desk
Afghanistan's war is inflicting an increasingly devastating toll on the civilian population, with the number of casualties rising by almost a quarter in the first half of this year, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday.
The U.N. report comes out as a political crisis unfolds in Afghanistan, threatening civil unrest on top of the fighting as supporters of the two presidential candidates go head-to-head over the result of a presidential run-off.
Preliminary results announced on Monday gave Ashraf Ghani, a former World Bank official, 56.44 percent in the run-off on June 14, but his rival Abdullah Abdullah immediately rejected the outcome, saying the vote had been marred by widespread fraud.
Abdullah's supporters rallied in Kabul on Tuesday, demanding he form a parallel government. Washington responded forcefully, warning it would withdraw financial and security support from Afghanistan if anyone tried to take power illegally.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said ground combat was the leading cause of conflict-related deaths and injuries to Afghan civilians, with child casualties more than doubling in the first six months of 2014.
It said two-thirds more women were killed and wounded in ground combat compared with the same period of 2013.
"The nature of the conflict in Afghanistan is changing in 2014 with an escalation of ground engagements in civilian-populated areas," said U.N. Special Representative for the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, Jan Kubis.
"The impact on civilians, including the most vulnerable Afghans, is proving to be devastating."
It said that from Jan. 1 to June 30 it documented 4,853 civilian casualties, up 24 percent from the same period in 2013. The death toll included 1,564 civilian deaths, up 17 percent, and 3,289 injuries, up 28 percent.
Total child casualties jumped 34 percent to 1,071, including 295 killed and 776 injured, while total women casualties increased 24 percent to 440, it said.
The period has seen more fighting in densely populated areas as foreign forces pull out from most regions, with injuries caused by mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire jumping dramatically in the first half of this year.
The rise in casualties comes despite repeated promises by the Taliban leadership not to target civilians. Yet, the report said the Taliban carried out 69 attacks deliberately targeting civilians, including tribal elders and government officials.
"In 2014, the fight is increasingly taking place in communities, public places and near the homes of ordinary Afghans, with death and injury to women and children in a continued disturbing upward spiral," said Director of Human Rights for UNAMA Georgette Gagnon.
"More efforts are needed to protect civilians from the harms of conflict and to ensure accountability for those deliberately and indiscriminately killing them."
Muhammed Öylek
#afghanistan,
#afghan refugees
With another 7-year conviction, Myanmar's Suu Kyi to spend 33 years in jail
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China urges countries to ensure travel curbs are 'scientific and fair'
Amid 'multilaterally changing situation,' N. Korea to bolster self-reliant defense


All members are welcome to attend. Contact Ram Penumarthy with questions or agenda items, president@eastonlions.org.
Club General Meeting 6:30 - Meet and greet 7:00 - Meeting starts Contact Ram Penumarthy at president@eastonlions.org with questions or agenda items.
We would like to hear from Lions and community members and donors on how to transform what we do with our Auction to meet our need for service and fundraising in the future. Participation in the TV auction has been in steady decline for five years. Our latest auction in 2019 only had 180 bidders compared to almost 300 five years ago. Please send your thoughts to the new committee via email newdirection@eastonlions.org or talk with Lori Maver.
Annual Junk and Recycle day at the DPW in conjunction with Hazardous Waste Day. Contact Henry Narsasian at 508-269-7181 for more details.


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Combine base ingredients in a food processor until it starts to stick together, but is still a little crumbly.
Press base into bottom of a lined cake tin (I used a rectangular 22cm x 9cm tin).
Combine all filling ingredients in a high speed blender and process until smooth and creamy.
Combine topping ingredients (except muesli) in a blender and pour gently over the filling.
Remove from freezer 2 hours prior to cutting.
Top with Paleo Hero toasted muesli prior to serving.