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"The Hangover" has the physical freedom and the wildness of a great silent comedy, though, heaven knows, none of the innocence. "The Hangover Part II" isn't a dud, exactly—some of it is very funny, and there are a few memorable jolts and outlandish dirty moments. But it feels, at times, like a routine adventure film set overseas. There is a car chase through a city market, a boat racing past green mountains on the coast, many bright colors, and much scenery, all of it vaguely reminiscent of a James Bond film, though one featuring men rather less suave than Sean Connery, Roger Moore, or Daniel Craig. No one, I suppose, can blame Todd Phillips, the director of both movies, for trying again. Phillips and the first set of screenwriters, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, did something brilliant in "The Hangover." They showed us not the long night of vice but the longer day after it, when the men, stone-cold sober, are forced to realize, with increasing horror, what they have done to the world and to themselves in the preceding twelve hours. The filmmakers knew that scenes of drunken and druggy carousal are just as boring to watch in movies as in life, but that throat-clutching anxiety, mounting in shrill hysteria to the point of breakdown, can be riotous and engulfing. The movie is a comedy of rationality struggling for control. It resembles, of all things, a police procedural, with the increasingly battered men (the previous evening's participants keep showing up to settle scores) piecing together the events from bizarre clues. In "The Hangover Part II," the men, again seeking to find out what atrocities they have committed, run afoul of thugs, hookers, and various other denizens of Sin City East. Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong), the gangster from the first film, turns up, and Jeong recapitulates his naked, obscene, casually sinister turn.
The two movies offer a comedy of types, a kind of Freudian allegory, with Bradley Cooper enacting the ego, Ed Helms the superego, and Zach Galifianakis the id. Or, to put it more simply, aggression, caution, and stupidity. Part of the fun in "The Hangover" is the men's amazed discovery of one another's capabilities. This time, however, there's little surprise in Cooper's double takes at Galifianakis's enraging, naïve-child responses. And, though no one could have predicted the exact nature of Stu's misadventures in Bangkok's sex underworld, we already knew from the first movie that he has a thing, when drunk, about whores. Stu, as the man who most completely embodies ordinary male confusion, is the center of the two films, and Helms is at his frenzied best when he tries to exert logic in the most chaotic situations, and then, giving up, stiffens his back, whirls his arms, and shrieks in frustration. Looking at him, you understand Todd Phillips's idea that every man buries within himself, and wants to liberate, a lord of misrule. In obedience to this alleged need, both movies plunge precipitously through levels of taste, morality, common sense, and caution, finally reaching a subterranean miasma of infantile need, flesh, organs, and drool. When you've seen the bottom, in the roll of photographs running next to the credits at the end of each movie, you've seen more than you want to see. Though, somehow, I think it unlikely that the spectacle will stop anyone from trying to go even lower.
"Submarine," a delicate and potent new British comedy, is narrated by the reedy, precise speaking voice of a fifteen-year-old smarty-pants named Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts). Oliver, who lives in the Welsh coastal city of Swansea, isn't nasty, but he's a spy and a manipulator, often dishonest, not always brave, and, for all his intelligence, apt to misunderstand events and get into ridiculous situations. In other words, he could be any of us as a teen-ager, only he's more active and articulate. "Submarine" is based on the 2008 novel by Joe Dunthorne, which is set in the late nineteen-nineties, but the writer-director Richard Ayoade moved the story back to a strange, distant time of typewriters and tape cassettes—perhaps the early eighties. Ayoade shifted the time frame, I would guess, because he wanted to make hand-delivered notes a major feature of the story. Oliver tells us that he has two projects: to end his virginity before he turns sixteen, and to keep his parents' marriage together. A born writer, he sends many missives, all of them inappropriate. Our own view is that his parents' marriage is doomed, but he thinks that an extraordinary fellow such as he deserves a family. Ayoade, formerly a music-video director and TV comedian, sweetly satirizes the boy's endless self-absorption. Oliver thinks that he can change the world with his fantasies, and he creates Super-8 movies in his head, which we see. One film is about the devastation wrought upon his school by his premature death: weeping girls in uniforms gather in miserable groups, while a sensitive local newscaster, microphone in hand, speaks of "incredible, unprecedented scenes of devotion."


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Calhoun County District Attorney Brian McVeigh said that it will be up to a grand jury to decide whether Walter Craig Pinkston, 32, and Monica Marie Shively, 30, both of Anniston, also will be charged with committing murder during a robbery or kidnapping.
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Nicki Minaj has been trading barbs with her "American Idol" nemesis Mariah Carey all season, but last week's nasty exchange may change the entire game for the dueling divas.
During last week's live shows, Carey -- who's had 18 singles reach No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart -- commented that not everyone gets to have a number one hit. Minaj took the comment as a personal dig and unleashed a series of Twitter rants, calling the five-time Grammy award winner "bitter" and "insecure," and alluding to a rumor that producers wanted to replace Carey with former "Idol" judge Jennifer Lopez.
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The rivals got off to a bad start last summer during the show's audition phase. During a "Nightline" interview with Barbara Walters, Carey revealed that she hired extra security last summer after the "Super Bass" rapper allegedly threatened to shoot her with a gun during an explosive argument on the "Idol" set.
"It felt like an unsafe work environment," Carey said. "Anytime anybody's reeling threats at somebody, you know, it's not appropriate. I'm a professional. I'm not used to that type of environment."
While producers downplayed the scuffle, the on-camera diva drama and eye rolling reached epic proportions last week. During Wednesday's performance show, when the two didn't agree on contestant Angie Miller's performance, Minaj actually pulled some Q-Tips and told her rival she needed to clean her ears out!
No matter what happens this season, Mariah Carey is reportedly done with the show for good once the Season 12 finale wraps. (The show is down to final three contestants Angie Miller, Candice Glover, and Kree Harrison.)
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Wait, IdiotApathy and Tom Scholes are the same person? What the hell is going on? This guy is an obvious rip-off. I'm reporting you to the higher authority of...Gorilla Artfare. Yeah.
Man, I've totally got nothing to say anymore. I've already commented on GA and linked your work on Facebook. You'll get the job and it'll be my link on FB that helps you land it. I'll be expecting my royalties any day now.
Love the work and I checked this thread again for the 5th time hoping you added new work. Tricked again. But your style and soft edges really make these paintings stand out and deliver emotions I haven't felt since that trip to Church camp. Man, those were awkward times.
Good luck and can't wait to jump back into your mentorship. I need to improve and you are massah!...er, master. Shit, coming from a black guy that is so wrong.
love the colors
beautiful stuff man....reminds me of dreamscapes or smehting
love it man...ur very talented
LIFE kepping me MOTIVATED
Seriously brother, you're a poet. None gives me more chills than you with those incredible worlds.
Big respect.
I wish we were hiring here..
These are just wonderful sir, awesome in the traditional sense, and in the widely used sense.
Good luck (what happened?)
great works, I like your colour palettes. feels like a soft camera lens in some areas.
Beautiful paintings man. I told ya that in Dallas already...I love how your characters always turn away from the viewer.
your colors are such a trip man..beautehs, all of them
Best of luck for the future Tom, but i have no doubt you'll find something great. You have so much to tell
The trip to Acheron serie is absolutely stunning, and it shows you put so much of your soul in it. That's probably why i love it so. Hugs!
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With your experience and talent I am sure you will find something soon.
Good luck
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Dreamy... way to go. Digs,
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Instantly memorizable painting technique, the pieces have a very dream-like quality to them.
I love it.
naomiful: Hehe, thanks Naomi! How's your job been?
InvertedChalupa: Thanks Mike! And hell yes, let's get drank! First round is on me!
TonyH: Thanks Tony, very interesting insights! Glad you enjoyed the PSD's. I'll definitely have somethings more constructed or designed soon Cheers!
Sublimus: Hahaha god that is a little strange But I like it. Thanks!
3bleadpencil: Thanks very much!
kira akira: Well thank you! My favorites as well!
sabin boykinov: Thanks for the kind words and the well wishing
humboldt squid: Whoaaaaaaaaah! Didn't know Rodger Dean, he's a badass! Thanks for the tip!
Alex Alexandrov: Thanks dude It's all photoshop, just one or two brushes and a round brush Thanks for wishing me luck
Oblio: Hey man, how have you been? Sad that I didn't see you in Dallas I am sure we will meet again
daveneale: Awwww, thanks so much! That's super flattering.
John Bridges: I think there are plenty enough jobs in the industry if you are good enough, the economy might be poor but I think the entertainment industry, though trimmed of fat is still healthy. Thanks for wishing me luck
Mock: Well hell yes That's great news! Party town!
mariusz: Thanks! Okay I will !!!
Stark: Yup, you figured me out! Damnit! Hehe, thanks for the linkage dude! I'll send your royalties asap. 'Fraid I haven't had time lately to paint for myself; been enjoying life outside of work you know? Hahah, christ - yeah calling a big white german dude your massah is more than a little awkward. I hope to have more time for mentoring soon. Cheers!
barto: Well thank ya!
ZIP: Thank you kindly! Appreciate it!
Chupacabra: Thanks Kan, you've always been incredibly supportive and I love you for it. Hope all is well with you, we should exchange IM's.
Brun: Awwwwwww, thanks man! How the hell you been?
Salaryman: I really appreciate it Calum Your support makes me super happy. I'll send you an email in a bit about the situation
pazur: Thanks very much Soft camera lens hmm? I like that.
Marko Djurdjvic: Aw hell Marko; you are too kind, really means a lot. Your comment about the character turning away from the viewer made me think quite a bit, in some ways it's a nice device to make the viewer feel that they are the ones looking perhaps... Thanks again! Hope you are well! Great new post!
aaro n: Haha, thanks!
Clochette: Thanks so much Clo, I really feel like I've reached a small renaissance in a way. I can't wait to paint more and paint more of my soul
st.s: Awww, don't cry! Thanks for wishing me luck!
BArtful: Thank you kindly! First post? I feel honored!
Bomba: Well thank ya Mr. Felix! Hope you are well and I hope freelance is treating you well!
elgirafe: Thanks very much! Glad to see that my paintings are recognizable!
theUNKNOWNsketcher: Hehe, thanks!
Where's the new art? So your making me wait eh? I'll be waiting.
You're the shit Tom... good luck on the hunt. If you don't find something quick, it certainly isn't for lack of skills.
Wow, i really love your work. Colours are so sweet and rich. You have a very sensible touch.
amazing work! i like the characters and their position in the paintings!
Those enviros are more alive then my charcters!!
pro work, i wish you luck on the jobquest
Wow I really love the colour and impressionistic - ness ( if thats a word ) Especially the 2nd blue there with the vehicle that looks like a deep sea submersible.
OMG! dude, your works is always awesome!
if there ever was a good way to mix high and low contrast,this is it.
love the last one especially.
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You have such a unique and beautiful visual language. That's not to say that all of your work is stylistically homogeneous - far from it. But there are things you do with your work that I just don't see elsewhere. You're not just another excellent Mullins knock-off, but at the same time, your artistic fingerprints aren't so excessively unique that they lose their impact. I think a big part of it is the way you handle your colors...I can't figure out how you do it, honestly. Anyway, keep up the insanely good work, and thanks for being such an inspiration.
really unique style and beautiful work!
damn Tom, these are pretty killer. Thx for posting them at a proper size to print out and make love to.
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He may have hung up his wizard's cloak, but when it comes to landing roles, Daniel Radcliffe still has the magic touch. The young star tells Sophie Herdman about stripping down, bulking up and proving the critics wrong.
There's little that we don't know about Daniel Radcliffe.
We know about his love life, his childhood, his vices (he smokes but doesn't drink) - we even know, thanks to a controversial performance in Equus, the size of his todger.
So it's surprising when you stumble upon a piece of information about the former child star that you hadn't already heard - like the fact that, aged 17, he tried his hand at poetry.
A quartet of his works, which tackled topics such as infidelity, prostitutes and Pop Idol, appeared in Rubbish magazine in 2007 under the pseudonym Jacob Gershon.
"I mean why would you bother with divorce?/It's so much easier to slip away/And put a week aside so you can play," reads one particularly anti-Potter poem.
And six years later, the verse-loving star finds himself playing one of the most famous poets of all time, Beat Generation writer Allen Ginsberg, in new film Kill Your Darlings.
So what would Ginsberg have thought of Radcliffe's rhymes?
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That's not the only pastime of Radcliffe's the late poet would have struggled to appreciate.
The 24-year-old, who today looks smart in matching navy blue trousers, shoes and jumper, admits that while filming, he and co-star Dane DeHaan spent their spare time playing Fantasy Football.
"I'm not sure if Ginsberg would have been in our league if he was alive today," he says. "But we'd have invited him for sure."
It wasn't all fun and games, of course. Playing such a prominent character's no easy task - Ginsberg was a leading figure of the counter-culture, opposing materialism and writing explicitly about homosexuality at a time when it was still illegal.
As someone who speaks out about homophobia and supports a number of charities, including The Trevor Project, which focuses on suicide prevention for young homosexual people, Radcliffe was well-suited for the part.
The actor reveals that many of his parents' friends are gay - his father was a literary agent, his mother a casting agent - so sexuality's never been an issue for him.
"I hate any kind of prejudice or injustice, we all do, so if I can be a small voice to speak against it then that's fantastic."
Radcliffe has a number of homosexual scenes, including a kiss with DeHaan and an explicit sex scene.
While he seems relaxed about the doing the scenes, watching them back did give him a slight attack of body anxiety - though he's good humoured about it.
"I remember thinking at the time, 'I'm in quite good nick'. And then I saw the scene and thought, 'Oh Jesus, I look like a whippet'. I was not in any way lean - but I guess it would have been inappropriate for Allen Ginsberg to look like he'd been going to the gym."
It was an incentive to beef up, he admits, not that he'll be showing off the results of his efforts any time soon - while recently filming a second series of A Young Doctor's Notebook, Radcliffe told producers that he wanted to avoid getting naked. (Though fans of Radcliffe's torso will be pleased to know he'll be stripping off in films Horns and The F-Word, out next year.)
"It was the only thing I said no to, but I saw the Guardian wrote a whole thesis on the nudity comment," he notes, chuckling.
Radcliffe's body has been a particular talking point since he starred, frequently starkers, in Equus.
"I'm still getting naked questions about that," says Radcliffe of the 2007 play.
Numerous Harry Potter films followed, but the role marked his transgression from child wizard to adult actor.
In that same year, he also appeared in Australian film December Boys and TV movie My Boy Jack, alongside Carey Mulligan.
In 2011, the year that the Harry Potter franchise came to an end, he made his Broadway debut in the musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, followed by the big screen horror The Woman In Black and the first series of A Young Doctor's Notebook in 2012.
It's a lot in a short space of time, and he clearly works hard; at one point he was filming A Young Doctor's Notebook during the day and starring in a Martin McDonagh's play The Cripple Of Inishmaan in the evenings.
"Everyone said to me, 'Aren't you tired?'. But I wasn't really. I only get tired if I'm bored. If I stop getting stimulated I shut down, I'm like a dog in that way," he says, grinning.
Energy and enthusiasm aside, it must have been daunting to leave the cocoon of Harry Potter.
"You definitely have a moment of fear," he confesses. "But mainly - and please don't take this the wrong way - because of journalists. I never considered that I might not have a future in the industry until I was asked that by a journalist.
"You can react to that in one of two ways. One is to go: 'Oh well, maybe they're right' and give up, the other is to use it to fuel you and prove those people wrong."
To a certain extent, he says, he's achieved that.
"I feel I'm on my way to it. I've done work that I'm proud of but I don't think it's the end of the process," he notes.
"At this point, it isn't just about not repeating Harry, it's not repeating the Woman In Black, and now Kill Your Darlings."
And also about moving away from Potter?
"I always try to be careful with this question," Radcliffe says cautiously. "I don't want it to sound like I want to stop talking about Potter, because I love those films."
Plus, he's now financially secure. "I don't have to do a job if I don't want to. I've had so many friends on the phone saying they're off to audition for this terrible film that they really don't want but they have to do," says Radcliffe.
"If you want to talk about something valuable that money can buy you, that's it - the luxury of being able to choose what to do."
Extra time - Daniel Radcliffe
:: Daniel Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989, in West London.
:: He attended two independent schools but during Harry Potter filming, was educated on-set.
:: He made his acting debut pre-Potter in 1999, in BBC One's two-part adaptation of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, playing a young Copperfield. Two years later, he appeared in the film The Tailor Of Panama.
:: He famously keeps his love life private, having admitted that aged 16 he lost his virginity to a much older woman. Most recently, he's been romantically linked with Erin Darke, five years his senior, who he met on the set of Kill Your Darlings.
:: His pen name - Jacob Gershon - is a combination of his middle name, Jacob, and the Jewish version of his mother's maiden name, Gresham.
:: Kill Your Darlings is released on Friday, December 6
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DURHAM, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It's a deadly waiting game. As many as 20 percent of children standing by for a heart transplant die before they get one, but a device for adults is now helping kids.
These days, CJ Moore is happy to be playing basketball, even if it's from the couch.
"Well, there's not much I can do right now," 10-year-old CJ Moore told Ivanhoe.
Several months ago, CJ was in much worse shape. His heart was enlarged, and doctors didn't know why.
"I was scared because I didn't know what an enlarged heart could do to a person," CJ said.
"It was a hard, hard thing to see my child, and I couldn't do anything about it," an emotional Reshella Moore, CJ's mom, told us.
CJ needed a new heart. He got on the transplant list, but to keep him alive until one was available Duke surgeon Andrew Lodge implanted a pump in his chest. It's in clinical trials for adults. CJ was only the fourth child in the U.S. to receive it.
"We had to pursue the company and the FDA to allow us to implant the device," Andrew Lodge, M.D., a cardiac pediatric surgeon at Duke University Hospitals, explained.
The battery-powered device is placed in the left ventricle and pumps blood to the aorta. It's small enough to use in some kids, and it's portable, so patients don't have to stay in the hospital. CJ wore the device for four long months. The holidays were especially hard.
"I said 'CJ, what do you want for Christmas?' He said, 'granny, I want me a heart!,'" Joan Howell, CJ's grandmother, said.
Then they finally got the call.
"I just started hollering and screaming, and he said 'mama, what's wrong?' and I said 'CJ, we got a heart!'" Reshella said.
Since the transplant CJ's getting back to normal. He's on 32 pills a day, but excited about his new heart and his new life. All made possible by a pump.
CJ will be on some of his medications for the rest of his life. Doctor Lodge said he may need one or two more heart transplants because he's so young.
BACKGROUND: The human heart works like a pump, circulating blood to all the body's cells. The right side takes blood from the body and pumps it into the lungs, while the left side takes blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body. An average heart beats about 100,000 times a day. When the heart starts to fail, it may struggle to pump blood, and muscle function can deteriorate. Patients with a failing heart may need a heart transplant. There are many devices that can support and keep adults healthy until they receive a donor heart transplant. However, that's not the case for kids. As many as 20 percent of children waiting for a transplant die before an organ is available. (SOURCE: http://childrenshospitalblog.org/heart-week-francis-fynn-thompson/)
THE BERLIN HEART: The Berlin Heart is a device that was recently FDA approved for use in children. It takes over the heart's work of pumping blood and can be used while a child is waiting for a heart transplant. Most of the device sits outside the body. Only the tubes are implanted. The tubes emerge from small openings in the skin to enter the pump, which is a small, round chamber. While this device is currently the only pump approved for children, there are some drawbacks, according to Andrew Lodge, M.D., a cardiac pediatric surgeon at Duke University Hospitals. "The problem with that device is it's not an implantable device," Dr. Lodge told Ivanhoe. "It's not as neat. The pump is outside the body. The hardware is a little more cumbersome. It's not designed for hospital discharge. It's designed for shorter-term use." Patients must take a higher dose of a blood thinner medication, which can also lead to complications. (SOURCES: Ivanhoe interview with Dr. Lodge, http://www.childrensmemorial.org/depts/heartcenter/berlin-heart.aspx)
HEARTWARE: Dr. Lodge recently used a pump that is currently in clinical trials for adults on a child with a failing heart. 10-year-old C.J. Moore was just the fourth child in the United States to have the HeartWare ventricular assist device implanted in his chest. The pump is placed in the left ventricle of the heart and takes blood through a tube to the aorta, which moves oxygen-replenished blood throughout the body. A cord extending from the patient's stomach to a battery pack keeps the machine alive. According to Dr. Lodge, the hardware in this pump is more portable because it's implantable. Patients can be discharged to their homes if they wish. "It takes a patient who is basically dying from heart failure, it takes that situation and turns it into a situation where the patient feels better, can be up rehabilitating from a physical standpoint…and it makes them better transplant candidates because they're healthier, basically, when they receive their transplant," Dr. Lodge told Ivanhoe. C.J. wore the HeartWare pump for four months until a donor heart became available. (SOURCES: Ivanhoe interview with Dr. Lodge, Duke press release)
Andrew Lodge, MD, a Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon at Duke University Hospital, talks about a device that saved a young boy's life.
What are left ventricular assist devices?
Andrew Lodge: Left ventricular assist devices are basically blood pumps; they're mechanical pumps that pump blood. They're connected to a chamber or vessel that provides the inflow of blood and then they pump the blood out to some other place. It's typically hooked up to the left ventricle usually at the apex (the tip of the left ventricle) and then has an outflow graft, which attaches to the aorta. It pumps the blood from the left ventricle into the aorta. If the left ventricle is failing people can develop what's referred to as end stage heart failure, where the heart failure has progressed to the extent that they no longer maintain adequate circulation by themselves. Typically those people are waiting for a transplant and the device is used to help them to get to the transplant, which is called a bridge to transplant. Other people who are not candidates for transplant may have the devices implanted for what's called destination therapy or permanent ventricular assist device therapy.Who can receive these devices?
Andrew Lodge: Up until fairly recently, the initial devices were developed for adults, which is typical for all kinds of medical technology actually. Most of the experience has been accumulated in adults and in fact up until very recently the only approved pumps in the United States have been for adults. The market is much smaller for children and so companies aren't as motivated to go through the long and expensive process of developing this technology, but there have been some pediatric pumps that have been developed and some of the adult pumps which have now become smaller and smaller as the field has progressed have been used in some children.
Tell me about the Berlin device.
Andrew Lodge: Ventricular assist devices come in different types. They can be categorized in different ways, but one way to categorize them is implantable pumps and non-implantable pumps. Implantable pumps are basically placed entirely inside the body. They do have an electrical connection that comes out and connects to a computer that controls the device. The non-implantable pumps are pumps that are outside the body and then are connected to the heart by tubing that the blood travels through. The only approved pediatric pump that's used in the U.S. these days with any frequency is referred to as the Berlin Heart EXCOR. It's made by a company called Berlin Heart and they've actually done a lot of work and spent a lot of time and effort introducing this pump and getting it approved. It was just recently approved in December of this past year and now is available in this country and comes in different sizes. It can be used to support patients from infant size all the way up to teenagers, but the problem with the device is that it's not an implantable device and it has a fairly high anti coagulation or blood thinner requirement. It has been used very successfully to support kids while they're awaiting a transplant. However, it's associated with problems such as having to remain in the hospital, sometimes in an ICU setting. There are also issues related to the amount of blood thinner that has to be used for it that can lead to complications, so other pumps are being designed that parallel the same process that's happened in adult patients where initially pumps similar to the Berlin Heart were used and then the field progressed towards using more of these implantable pumps.
Can you tell me about CJ?
Andrew Lodge: CJ was nine years old when he presented to the hospital with severe heart failure that was previously unrecognized, which is actually typical when children present with advanced heart failure. A lot of times the symptoms are attributed to something else until the point where they get really sick because they can tolerate a lot before they really start to go downhill. He was very sick when he came to our hospital and his heart was functioning very poorly. We knew he would need a heart transplant, and thought that the best way to support him while he was waiting would be with a ventricular assist device. Given his age and size, at the time we felt that a relatively new implantable pump made by a company called HeartWare would be the best device for him. The reason for that is that it's a smaller pump, and it can sit almost entirely within the pericardial space, which is the space that contains the heart, and the configuration makes it a little bit more amenable to putting in somebody who's smaller or thinner, which CJ is compared to an adult. We felt that would be the best type of support for him but that device is not approved by the FDA at this point. Clinical trials are ongoing, but only in adult patients. Because of this we had to pursue the company and the FDA to allow us to implant the device. It's implanted under what are called emergency or compassionate use guidelines and in that case you have to obtain the approval of the institution, as well as the company, and the FDA to be able to use it. We went through those steps to get the device for him. Unfortunately during the time that was required to obtain the approval to use the device for him, he became even sicker and required temporary support with a different type of pump called ECMO, and we supported him with that for a number of days and then transitioned from the ECMO pump to this type of implantable device. He was the only 4th child to be implanted with this particular device in the U.S.
Why aren't these studied in children?
Andrew Lodge: They are studied in children, but the requirements for these clinical trials extremely rigorous and in order to get a trial through the FDA, it's a very time consuming and expensive process.
What are the benefits of having this (should specify what "this" is) over the Berlin heart or something else?
Andrew Lodge: There is no standard mechanical circulatory support yet for children. A ventricular assist device is used for a patient that is basically dying of heart failure and in many ways is a poor candidate for transplantation because they're debilitated or they may have other organs that are failing. It takes that situation and turns it into a situation where the patient feels better, can be up and rehabilitating from a physical standpoint and their other organs typically start to work better. It makes them better transplant candidates because they're healthier. That's the benefit of having the ventricular assist device in general. With this particular type of pump (the HeartWare pump) compared to the Berlin heart, there are a couple of potential benefits. Number 1 is that these pumps in adults have had fewer complications with bleeding and with clotting, particularly related to the brain and has generally had a lower incidence of stroke as a complication. Number 2 is, as the device is implantable, the hardware is a little bit more portable. It's easier to get the patients up and mobilized after the surgery and potentially even discharged to home. From an implantation standpoint the device is relatively small. It's attached directly to the heart. The only connection that comes to the outside world is a small electrical connection that comes through the skin whereas with the Berlin heart device, there's two relatively large pieces of tubing to go through the body wall, and whenever you have a breech in the skin, there's potential for problems like infection and things like that.
How common is heart failure like CJ's in kids?
Andrew Lodge: It's pretty uncommon compared to adults. There are a couple hundred thousand patients in the US who are potential candidates for these types of devices or have this degree of heart failure, but in kids it's much more rare.
How rewarding is this line of work for you?
Andrew Lodge: It's very rewarding not just for me but for the whole team. I think everybody is very gratified when you take somebody who basically would have died otherwise and get them to the point where they can go back to school and resume more or less a normal life.
What does the future hold for CJ?
Andrew Lodge: After you have a heart transplant, you are subject to ongoing medical care. What we frequently tell people is a heart transplant is not a cure but it's a treatment. The transplanted heart is at risk for rejection by the body throughout the rest of the patient's life, so they're always on some amount of medication to suppress the immune system. That has some side effects. It can have an impact on other organs like the kidneys, and at the same time it reduces the potential for rejection, it also reduces the body's ability to fight infection. They're at higher risk of infections and at higher risk of some kind of tumors as they grow and become adults, so he'll have relatively frequent doctors' appointments compared to other children and he'll have to come occasionally for biopsies of the heart. Those become less and less frequent as he gets further out from the transplant procedure itself provided that he is doing well. He can have a normal lifestyle, but it does come with the expense of having to take medications and to get regular follow-up with doctors for basically the rest of his life.
How about his lifespan?
Andrew Lodge: It's hard to know. If you look at the averages and the odds it's likely that his life expectancy will be shorter than the average person. There is a life expectancy for the transplanted heart itself such that maybe after 10 years about 50 to 60% of the hearts are still functioning adequately. In children who have heart transplants, they may need to undergo another transplant or even two additional transplants in the future. Overall, the survival of patients that have heart transplants is reduced compared to the general population. That being said, there are people who have had heart transplants that are living happily and healthy 20 years later.
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Your Eustace, 2009
We held our second annual contest soliciting readers' takes on Eustace Tilley, the magazine's mascot, who appeared on the cover of the first issue of The New Yorker as well as almost every anniversary issue since. More than three hundred readers responded. Looking for humor and originality, we picked twelve favorites.
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Portland Pipe Line Corp. has surrendered a permit it would have needed to reverse the flow of its 236-mile underground pipeline and bring in so-called tar sands oil from Canada to South Portland's waterfront.
Oil is off-loaded from the tanker HS Electra at Portland Pipe Line's pier facility in South Portland. A proposed city ordinance would limit any alteration of petroleum facilities to change their function or capacity.
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The unusual step is a direct response to the company's critics, who pointed to the environmental permit as proof of an impending project despite Portland Pipe Line's denials of any intention to pursue one.
It also reflects the charged atmosphere of the campaign leading up to a high-stakes local referendum on the issue Nov. 5.
Although giving up the permit does not preclude the company from applying for another one in the future, Portland Pipe Line CEO Larry Wilson issued a statement Thursday calling it "one more good-faith commitment to this city that we do not have a pending or proposed, or let alone imminent, 'tar sands' project."
Environmental activists say tar sands crude is especially risky because it is sticky and corrosive and its export into the global market will accelerate climate change. Spills of the oil – especially in bodies of water – have been particularly difficult to clean up.
Petroleum industry representatives say the oil poses no greater risk of leaks or spills than the crude that already flows through the pipeline.
The permit, granted in 2009 by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and extended last year through February 2014, would have allowed Portland Pipe Line to build two 70-foot-tall vapor control units on its pier in South Portland. The units, which look like smokestacks, would have burned off vapors released during the loading of crude oil onto ships for export.
Surrendering a permit is unusual, said Jessamine Logan, spokeswoman for the DEP. She said that if Portland Pipe Line were to apply for a similar permit in the future, it would have to pay the fees again and start the approval process anew.
Edmond Bearor, who has practiced environmental law for more than two decades and is now a partner in the Bangor firm Rudman Winchell, said he has never seen such a surrender in his career.
"I can't think of a much rarer event," he said. "These people don't take these decisions lightly. There were probably hours of meetings and strategizing with their lawyers and engineers."
Since May, petroleum companies that operate in South Portland and residents who don't want tar sands oil in the city have battled over a proposed zoning change, called the Waterfront Protection Ordinance, which would bar tar sands oil extracted in Alberta from flowing through the city.
The ordinance would strictly define the unloading of petroleum as an allowed use in South Portland's shipyard district and limit any expansion or alteration of existing petroleum facilities that would change their function or capacity.
In the face of a public campaign against the Canadian oil, Wilson and other Portland Pipe Line officials have said there is no active pipeline reversal project.
But members of Protect South Portland, the citizens group campaigning for passage of the zoning change, have said repeatedly that they distrust the company's claim. Until this week, they pointed to the permit as proof that the company was disingenuous in its denial.
"The opponents have raised this in their mind that this could be brought back imminently," said Jim Merrill, a spokesman for Portland Pipe Line. "There is nothing pending. There is nothing proposed. They have surrendered this permit to the DEP."
But with the potential for another permit application, Cathy Chapman, spokeswoman for Protect South Portland, said, "This is just another in a line of flip-flops that Larry Wilson has been doing on this issue. ... He says whatever is convenient at the time."
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Former General Hospital star Sebastian Roche (ex-Jerry Jacks), Frances Fisher (ex-Debra Saxon, Edge of Night), and Camryn Manheim (ex-Rabbi Heller, One Life to Live) were among the celebrities who celebrated the red carpet premiere of The Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie, The Makeover, premiering Jan. 27 on ABC.
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ex·haus·tiveadjective \ig-ˈzȯ-stiv\
: including all possibilities : very thorough
Full Definition of EXHAUSTIVE
: testing all possibilities or considering all elements : thorough <conducted an exhaustive investigation>
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— ex·haus·tive·ness noun
— ex·haus·tiv·i·ty \-ˌzȯ-ˈsti-və-tē\ noun
Examples of EXHAUSTIVE
- The list was long but not exhaustive.
- <after an exhaustive search of our house, we still hadn't found the cat>
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circa 1789
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Providing perks like cars and country club memberships for top leaders and coaches, according to many connected to the University of Nebraska and big-name athletic programs, is part of the game.
Through donations and private money, 94 NU administrators and athletic staff — and one coach's wife — get cars, gym or country club memberships, or both.
The 80 cars, ranging from economical sedans to luxury SUVs, are collectively valued at least $2.25 million, according to a World-Herald analysis. Memberships for 50 employees range from gyms valued at $50 to $60 a month to country clubs with $5,000 initiation fees, $10,000 down payments for golf memberships and hundreds a month more in dues.
The list of 94 people receiving the privately funded perks extends from the prominent coaches of revenue-generating sports down to less-publicized teams. It was released to media outlets Wednesday by the watchdog group Common Cause Nebraska. It periodically requests the lists from the university because it believes that too little is known about the broader incentive program.
Foundation and university officials said the cars, memberships and related expenses are paid for through a mix of private money: the NU Foundation's athletic discretionary fund, alumni support organizations and area car dealers in Wheel Clubs associated with the Lincoln and Omaha campuses.
Jack Gould, Common Cause Nebraska's issues chairman, believes that the public should know who is funding such perks at the public university.
"When you begin to see more and more private money going to public officials, where do the loyalties lie?" Gould said. "The public needs to know how this money is being used."
But for others, the boost from non-state funding gives a competitive edge in recruiting and retaining talent.
NU Regent Hal Daub said he respects Gould's point, but he thinks that the perks have value and are well-monitored by athletic and NU Foundation leaders.
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FULL LIST: Roster of university employees whose cars and club memberships are paid by the University of Nebraska foundation
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"I think we do a pretty good job now of casting a critical eye on useful ways to attract and retain good people while using money that is not devoted to scholarships," said Daub.
Chris Anderson, spokeswoman for NU athletics, said Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst was unavailable for comment.
She said via email that athletic staffers' cars were provided through the Wheel Club program, under which car dealers from throughout Nebraska donate cars or leases and can take a tax deduction for doing so.
Gas and insurance are paid for by the individuals driving the vehicles, she said, and decisions about who receives which benefits are made by the athletic director.
The athletic director oversees the discretionary fund at the NU Foundation used to pay for most of the benefits, according to a foundation spokeswoman.
The foundation's total assets are $1.9 billion; it gave $174.7 million to the university in the last fiscal year during a record year of fundraising.
The additional benefits are needed to remain competitive, Anderson said in an email.
"Providing our coaches and administrators everything they need to be successful is an important tool used in recruiting the best and the brightest talent," Anderson said.
The university's president and chancellors, as well as head Husker football coach Bo Pelini, have the fringe benefits written into their often-scrutinized contracts. But the bulk of the perks go to coaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln or the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Salary records show that more than half the employees getting the perks make six figures or more.
Pelini gets a Lincoln Country Club membership and 2012 Nissan Armada — and a 2011 Nissan Quest for his wife — on top of a nearly $3 million salary.
But numerous assistant coaches of sports from softball and volleyball at UNO to wrestling and swimming at UNL also get cars, something that experts say is growing increasingly common at colleges in the big five sports conferences.
The records provided by the university list the types of cars and memberships but no information about the value of the benefits or the funding sources.
To analyze the car values, The World-Herald used the invoice prices from autotrader.com that dealers would have paid to manufacturers, though actual retail values of all the cars would certainly be higher. Many of the cars were directly donated by dealers.
The value of the perks varies widely from person to person, though.
While the UNO assistant women's volleyball coach drives a Volkswagen Jetta (invoice price $14,923), the assistant athletic director for football at UNL drives a Range Rover (invoice price $70,684).
The Range Rover for Jeff Jamrog, UNL's assistant A.D. for football, for example, could cost up to $23,000 over the invoice price, or about $93,000, on the car lot, depending on the options included.
The 2009 Porsche Cayenne driven by Harold Maurer, chancellor for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, had an invoice price of $37,910 but would have sold for between $44,600 and $123,600 when it was new.
Maurer referred questions to the foundation. Jamrog did not return a call for comment.
And though some leaders such as NU President J.B. Milliken get memberships to exclusive Omaha and Lincoln country clubs, UNL assistant football coach Ross Els has his relatively modest membership to the YMCA paid for.
UNO President John Christensen and NU vice president for university affairs Sharon Stephan take monthly car allowances instead of a vehicle.
Milliken did not respond to a request for an interview through a spokeswoman.
The level of perks for athletic staff has become a high-dollar case of keeping up with the Joneses, said Robert Malekoff, associate professor of sport studies at Guilford College and a former Division I coach.
Any college in the big five conferences faces the same sort of pressure, Malekoff said: the pressure to offer a better deal than the next school when it comes to keeping good coaches.
That big picture of compensation is what's making the cost of college athletic spending unsustainable and may cause onlookers to question an institution's priorities, he said.
"I think they can point to the idea that this really isn't costing any money, and that may or may not be fair," Malekoff said. "But we still need to look at salaries being one of the big issues."
Jack Crowley, who sits on the board of the nonprofit Husker Athletic Fund, a fundraising arm of the UNL athletic department, said the arrangement is decades old and very common in major athletic programs. He said the cars are important because the coaches' jobs don't end after practice.
"I think it helps the coaches to have a vehicle available to them so they can get to different events, give talks and all the things they have to do beyond coaching," Crowley said. "I think they (the donors) feel good about our athletic program and the way things are being done. They feel good about supporting it."
Brian Hastings, president of the NU Foundation, said the foundation funds the cars for administrators, as well as insurance and other expenses. It all comes from unrestricted nondonor funds, he said.
The rest of the cars come from other groups, such as the Wheel Club, he said.
"We exist to support the university and help the university advance," Hastings said.
World-Herald staff writer Andrew Ward contributed to this report.