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Originally Posted by SoothingDave
Priests offer sacrifices as well.
I decided to leave this alone because I've never really understood who offers the Sacrifice of the Mass in the Roman Catholic Church (which I guess works the same way in Orthodoxy). Is it the faithful, the presbyter or Christ? I think all of these answers can be found somewhere, and probably one can also find an explanation of that too, but I've never looked for it. It seems a bit complicated.
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Originally Posted by birdeen's call
It seems a bit complicated.
The myths, rituals and hierarchies of the various branches of the Christian and other monotheistic churches are indeed complicated. However, they have little to do with this thread. Here we seem to have established that 'imam' is probably the word atabitaraf was looking for. Whether or not an imam is a 'priest' is perhaps not something that linguists can decide. That's something for popes, cardinals, patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deacons, priests, clerics, vicars, canons, divines, rectors, rabbis, ecclesaisatics, imams, ayotollahs, mullahs, ministers, padres, pastors, chaplains, clergy, witch doctors, cobleighs et al .
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We, that's Sandra, Jackson and me (Carol), are 'slightly divided' when it comes to baby names. We don't want to know the gender of the tiny human, yet. That's why we discuss boys' and girls' names. There are two possible last names, too. If it's a girl, we are probably naming her Josephine. After my mother and Sandra's grand-grandmother. So is itJosephine Sasha Sullivan? - with the father's last nameMy surname isn't an option, 'cause, officially, it's not even my kid.
Josephine Sasha Weber? - with mom's last name
But the major problem are boys' names. We haven't found any compromise, yet. Sandra, no matter what, wants a Sasha, Jack goes for Eli, while I'd like Ismael. I'm gonna raise this baby with Sandra. And still, Jack get's to discuss this with us and Sandra listens to him. There has always been something, I couldn't give her. She found it in her best friend. Anyway, that's not the point.Sandra is German... She probably doesn't see it like that. She sees her homeland in another light. But with all these prejudices about Germans... Kids can be so cruel. With Ismael Sasha Sullivan, there would be part of my culture, Sandra's brother's name and Jack's last name. Isn't that a compromise? Or is Eli it after all? What do you guys think?


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Large rock from I-5 overpass hits UO student in face, causes crash
RICE HILL, Ore. - A rock larger than a baseball crashed through the windshield of a car on Interstate 5 Monday night, injuring the University of Oregon student athlete behind the wheel and causing the car to crash.
UO student Molly Grabill, 20, of Poway, California, was driving north on I-5 around 10:40 p.m. when a rock larger than a baseball came down from the Isadore Road overpass at Exit 146, smashing through the driver's side of the windshield and hitting Grabill in the face, Oregon State Police said.
Grabill's passenger, Chris Brewer, grabbed the steering wheel of the 1997 Subaru Legacy station wagon but was unable to control the car. The Subaru went off the road and overturned on the freeway, police said.
Grabill was taken by ambulance to Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield for treatment of facial injuries. She was reportedly in good condition Tuesday morning, police said.
Brewer was treated and released for injuries from the crash.
Grabill and Brewer are both distance runners on the Duck track and cross country teams.
Anyone with information about persons or vehicles seen near the mentioned location around the time of this incident is asked to call OSP Detective Tom Willis at (541) 440-3334 or the OSP Southern Command Center dispatch at (541) 440-3333.
"I urge anyone with information on this incident to please come forward and contact the Oregon State Police so that no one else gets hurt.""The most import thing is that we are grateful Molly and Chris are going to be alright," said Robert Johnson, the head track coach. "We're a tight-knit, family oriented team and this has been a real shock for all of us. The outcome could have been much worse."Our team has rallied around Molly and Chris and I'm so proud to see them all being there for their teammates and doing whatever they can to help. We will continue to support Molly and Chris and we ask for all of TrackTown to pray for a speedy recovery."


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Fat isn't just a feminist issue. Ever since Liam Gallagher branded Robbie Williams "the fat dancer from Take That", while Robbie sneered at Liam's brother Noel's "man boobs", and perhaps even before this venerable feud, the sexual desirability of adiposity among men has been questionable. Fattist slurs between pop icons only work because they're underpinned by a truth surely universally acknowledged: ladies don't dig fleshy dudes.
Rather, according to the once-popular immunocompetence handicap hypothesis (IHH), what women want from male sexual partners is a chiseled jaw, abs like fossilised chipolatas and, most likely, a set of free weights that aren't collecting dust under the bed. Think Brad Pitt making Gina Davis drool in Thelma and Louise, rather than his hilarious recent monologue in that perfume ad.The IHH claimed that real men produce a lot of testosterone but that interferes with the workings of their immune systems, so they have to be super-fit to withstand handicap of over-producing that masculinsing hormone. Women are attracted to just such men, then, because their unremitting machismo betokens health.
According to this account of sexual desire, women – even clever ones – aren't put off real men by the fact that such buffness demands narcissistic levels inimical to rewarding romantic liaisons and/or sexual encounters. That, to my mind, has always been the IHH's fatal flaw.
Now, thankfully, comes a challenge to this hypothesis. It gives hope to those men with negligible muscle tone, tummies as hollow as your cheeks, and whose morning regimen consists of choosing between 27 pairs of skinny jeans to a soundtrack of Nick Drake's gaunter works. It also explains why I model myself on Don Quixote rather than Ignatius P. Reilly.
Twenty-nine heterosexual Latvian women in the fertile phases of their menstrual cycles (is it just me who loves sentences that start like that?) were asked by researchers at the University of Pretoria to look at photographs of 69 men of varying body-mass indices in their underwear and rate them for attractiveness. Tough gig. What sort of underwear, you ask. That's not important now. It might well be, you quite sensibly retort. Why South African researchers used Latvian women is also a puzzle.
Pressing on. Of the photographed male volunteers, the adipose ones were quickly discounted by the women because, researchers concluded, fatter men have weaker immune systems and are therefore less fanciable. Better that Barry White is dead than he read such rubbish.
But the really surprising finding was that, as one headline put it: "Ladies prefer thin over macho". Is this because of the truth of my Buff Narcissist Caveat? Sadly no. It's because thinness, so suspiciously regarded historically by evolutionary biologists, turns out to be a better indicator of immunity and thus sexual attractiveness.
The study raises questions. Can we extrapolate from the subconscious desires of hormonally challenged Latvian women to a global account of what kind of men women want? Doesn't the fact that all the study's volunteers were Caucasian confound the theory's more general applicability? How thin can one be and still be attractive to possibly hotsy-totsy women from a Baltic state? As thin as Christian Bale in The Machinist? Really? Do women fancy heroin-addicted Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting more than his later, chunkier incarnations and, if so, doesn't that show how sick and weird women are? Don't evolutionary biologists' treatments of the mysteries and intermittencies of the human heart seem intolerably glib?
But forget about those questions. The study seems to provide scientific underpinning for Mick and Keef's half century of sexual success. It also confirms a prevailing aesthetic. Inside every Calista Flockhart, there's a little guy trying to get out in an oversized raincoat and matchstick legs, probably to form a grisly indie band and drive girls nuts. There has also been a rise in what's facetiously called manorexia as some men strive to adhere to the second part of Wallace Simpson's stern dictum "You can never be too rich or too thin."
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I do not like to eat beetroot very much because I do not like the flavour but I make this dip quite alot for when I am having a light lunch. It is very delicious and has got enough added ingredients that they cover up the natural taste of the beetroot a little bit. It takes only a few minutes to make the dip and the ingredients I have given you is enough to make a big bowl and the dip will store in the fridge for a few days but you should take it out and let it warm a little bit to room temperature before you eat it.
A 250g pack of vacuum packed cooked beetroot
2 crushed up cloves of garlic
1 small bunch of coriander
1 small bunch of parsley
50g of walnut flesh, weighed without the shells
3 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
2 tsp red wine vinegar
Salt and fresh ground black pepper
Chop up the beetroot and herbs and put them in a food processor. Add the garlic and the walnuts and blend them until you have a paste that is thick and sticky.
Add in the vinegar and the oil and use lots of fresh black pepper and some salt to season the dip.
Leave the dip in the bowl for half an hour so that the flavours combine together.
It is very nice served with raw vegetables or crisp breads dipped in. When my husband makes this beetroot he adds chili also so that it is spicy and I think that makes alot of difference but I never remember to do that when I make it.
5 Dooyoo Stars.
A friend of mine who is in her seventies has grown a wide range of vegetables for most of her life. She is a sheer inspiration but not a person who attempts to convert others into growing vegetables with expert knowledge, she simply shares what she does and also gives away an awful lot of vegetables. One day a few years ago she was doing just that, chatting away about beetroot and walked me over to her large patch of beetroot plants. She pulled up and gave me a handful of plants explaining how she eats them as a sliced hot vegetable or grates raw for salads.
The usual way we find beetroot presented for sale in the supermarkets is cooked and preserved in jars of vinegar or packed into vacuum sealed bags with vinegar or water. I'm not a big fan of pickles so have mostly passed it by. The cold whole beetroots packed in water I've found to be rather strong in flavour, tough at times and generally unappetising to be honest. So I'll always be grateful to my friend for introducing me to seeing beetroot in a whole new way and now beetroot is one of the main vegetables I grow each year and a favourite to eat.
There are many varieties of circular beetroot including 'Burpees Golden' with dark orangey yellow roots. I recommend 'Boltardy' and 'Pablo' as reliable to grow and delicious in flavour. There are also cylinder shaped beetroot which are great to slice. Beetroot can take quite long time to mature, usually around 3 months from sowing the seed. I succession sow starting in early Spring. Young very tender leaves can be picked for use in salads whilst you wait for the roots to grow, a nice little extra.
As a cool climate crop, intense heat during the summer can cause beetroot to bolt ('Boltardy' is less inclined to do so) but beetroot can remain in the ground until the first frosts begin.
Fresh beetroot are delicious boiled and simmered for approximately 30 - 40 minutes and served hot. My family like beetroot to be slightly firm when served. It really doesn't need to be simmered away for hours unless you like it very soft, but a certain amount of flavour will be lost. Grated raw is probably the healthiest way to eat beetroot and it can add vibrant colour to salads. I'm especially impressed with how well beetroot retains it's flavour and shape after freezing, you can freeze small whole beetroot or slices of larger roots. Why do we not find frozen beetroot in the shops?
Nutritionally beetroot provides vitamin C and B6, iron, folic acid and magnesium. It can help to detoxify the liver and is believed to reduce high blood pressure. The flavour of fresh beetroot is earthy mellow and sweet, the golden variety sweeter still.
When I'm cooking or harvesting beetroot my friend usually comes to mind, although she didn't set out to do so, she converted me into becoming a dedicated beetroot grower and my whole family adore eating it.
Thank you for reading this review x
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Beetroot Jelly might not sound like everyone's cup of tea but it is lovely and so far of the people I have introduced it to everyone has liked it. It is a tasty sweet but sharp addition to a meal.
I got the recipe from my Mother in law but have adapted it to suit my tastes and slack attitude to cooking!
Ingredients you will need:
1 x pack of longlife beetroot (usually four beetroot per pack)
1 x blackcurrant jelly
1/4 pint of vinegar
3/4 pint of water
equipment you will need:
a kettle
1 jug
1 fork
1 dish that holds over 1 pint of liquid (preferably a pie dish or casserole dish)
This is so easy to make and it takes hardly any time at all.
1. Boil the kettle
2. Break up the jelly and place it into the jug
3. Slice the beetroot and place in layers in the dish
4. Add 3/4 pint of boiling water to the jelly chunks and stir until dissolved.
5. Add 1/4 pint of vinegar to the jelly and stir
6. Pour the jelly over the layered beetroot until it starts to float or until it is completely covered.
7. Place in the fridge until set
Once it has set the jelly can be served as an accompaniment to salad or with cold meat and potatoes and it is great all through the summer with BBQ's.
As I said this is my slacker's version. If you really wanted you could grow your own beetroot or buy fresh beetroot and cook it and peel it and then slice it up and use it.
I use blackcurrant jelly but you can use strawberry or raspberry for a slightly different flavour.
I only use ¼ of a pint of vinegar so that it isn't too sour but you can mix it half vinegar half water if you prefer the sharper taste.
**Please note that this is NOT the category for which I suggested this article! Dooyoo have put it in 'Recipes'.**
Beetroot's brilliant. It's low in calories, it's packed full of powerful antioxidants and nutrients and is rich in cleansing and detoxifying properties. Since the 16th century this humble root vegetable has been used to treat a number of ailments.
Beetroot offers a rich source of proteins, carbohydrates and contains high levels of important vitamins and micronutrients, including A, B6 and C. It contains silica, which turns into calcium when and where it is needed within our bodies, and is also a rich source of folic acid and iron. There are many benefits associated with a diet rich in beetroot.
Research has shown that beetroot can help lower blood pressure. Experts at the London School of Medicine and Dentistry conducted tests that showed the blood pressures of healthy volunteers were reduced within an hour of drinking 500ml of beetroot juice. Other preliminary studies have shown that beetroot can help prevent lung and skin cancer.
Beetroot is one of the richest sources of folic acid, something that is essential for normal tissue growth. Folic acid also crucial to the development of a baby's spinal cord during the first three months of pregnancy and can help prevent spinal cord defects such as spina bifida. Women who are pregnant or trying to conceive can get 75% of the Recommended Daily Allowance of folic acid from just three raw baby beetroot.
The bioactive agent betaine, which is essential for the liver to function healthily, is heavily present in beetroot. When the liver is functioning properly, fats are broken down efficiently, aiding weight loss, and preventing fatigue and nausea. Recent studies point to betaine as also contributing to the prevention of coronary and cerebral artery diseases. It is also important for cardiovascular health.
Betacyanin is the pigment that gives beetroot its colour, and is an antioxidant. Antioxidants are believed to help reduce the oxidation of LDL cholesterol, protecting artery walls and reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke. They also help to cleanse the gall bladder, kidneys and spleen.
Beetroot contains soluble fibre, which has also been shown to have cholesterol lowering capabilities. It also contains virtually no fat. It has a Glycaemic Index (GI) of 64 which makes it 'medium' on the index; this means that it is converted into sugar slowly which helps to keep your blood sugar levels stable and stop 'spiking' and 'crashing' which can cause fatigue and mood swings.
There's really no end to the benefits of beetroot. Beetroot should be provided free of charge on the National Health Service. It truly is a Superfood!


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A round table discussions by civil society organisations and think tanks on the national economy have called for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government to ensure that the economy does not experience fiscal slippages to cause structural effects on the gains made so far.
The round table discussions organised by the Centre for Policy Analysis (CEPA) was attended by representatives of civil society, trade unions and the private sector met to identify and promote solutions for better fiscal responsibility in the country, through an inclusive process. In pursuance of this objective, the participants discussed issues concerning fiscal slippages, particularly in election years, and their structural causes and effects.
After various presentations have been made by experts, including the experiences of other countries, the participants agreed that applying the principles of fiscal responsibility is particularly critical for Ghana at this stage of its development. These principles include political commitment to the transparency of budget processes and fiscal reporting, effective oversight of fiscal operations and mechanisms in order to ensure full accountability of public officials and institutions, including enforcement of sanctions where necessary.
The participants also agreed that the costs of fiscal indiscipline to the country have been significant. These costs include declining value of income, reduced purchasing power for families, and higher costs and reduced access to credit for business owners. The social consequences are school drop-outs, declining health and insecurity, which affect vulnerable citizens the most. Other effects of fiscal mismanagement are the poor use of public funds and the arbitrary hold-up or abandoning of on-going development projects, especially during political and administrative transitions.
The participants agreed that citizens, bear the costs of fiscal indiscipline, which they are also convinced that it undermines the equitable spread of the development dividends of Ghana's growing economy. Consequently, the participants demanded greater fiscal responsibility as prerequisite to accelerating national development in order to tackle the problem of persisting inequalities in our society.
In a communique issued at the end of the discussions said "We are concerned that the problem of sustaining fiscal responsibility has persisted over the years and adversely affected both revenue mobilisation and the quality of public spending and service delivery. Weak commitment to fiscal responsibility undermines our ability to pursue consistently our long-term development vision. Furthermore, spending and borrowing more than can be afforded by the nation and, worse still, doing so without the prior authorisation of Parliament, as has occured in the past, have contributed to the culture of impunity on the part of our political leaders".
The communique further stated that "during an electoral year, the fiscal indiscipline behaviour worsens, increasing the risks that decisions will be made for short-term political gains, rather than the advancement of long-term developmental goals. The only way to break this costly cycle is to create broad national awareness and consensus about the imperative of fiscal responsibility".
"With this awareness, we demand that our political leaders, government and political parties lead by example and make decisions in the national, as opposed to partisan interest. In the same vein, civil society organisations, including trade unions and employers, chiefs, ordinary citizens and the media should support a process of cultural transformation that puts the national interest first", the commuique stated.
Accordingly, the participants declared that:
1. We believe in the laws and institutions of this country and, therefore, call for their strengthening through reforms and innovations, including the prioritisation of human capital development in order to empower our people to manage our institutions well and deliver their mandates effectively. Our state and public service institutions should be well resourced to maintain the highest standards of fiscal responsibility.
2. We urge our leaders to improve fiscal discipline in the interest of inclusive national development, based on good quality information that is accessible to all. Consequently, we call for the expeditious passage and implementation of the right to information law.
3. We call on the government to take measures to strengthen the public service while we expect public officials to demonstrate impartiality and professionalism in the management of national affairs and be held accountable for the provision of statutory information and the delivery of services.
4. We require that the principles of fiscal responsibility apply to all levels of government, including district assemblies, state owned enterprises and other public entities.
5. We pledge full support for a strengthened and efficient tax administration; a requirement for all citizens to fill annual tax returns; expansion of the tax base from self-employment particularly in respect of professionals; and the commitment to the collection of property taxes. The objective is to ensure the needed revenues for self-reliant development.
6. We call upon our political leaders and the parties to demonstrate strong commitment to the principle of fiscal responsibility at all times and particularly the promises that they make during election years.


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KNOXVILLE (WATE) – A National Guard helicopter made a hard landing in the Karns area of West Knox County Friday night.
Knox County Sheriff Jimmy "J.J." Jones told 6 News the helicopter made a hard landing in the 11000 block of Yarnell Road around 6:30 p.m.
Jones said only minor injuries to the crew had been reported so far, but his deputies were still gathering information at the scene.
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Should the Philadelphia Eagles have suspended or cut Riley Cooper, the former University of Florida star, for his use of the n-word at a concert this summer?
Opinions are lining up on either side, as Cooper lines up for the Eagles' opening game tonight against the Washington Redskins. Critics say that anyone using the slur should be a pariah — not a starting wide receiver — in the National Football League. To the Eagles' apologists, meanwhile, Cooper's own apology was enough to justify putting him back on the field.
They're both wrong. The Eagles should indeed have punished Cooper, but not simply because he said a bad word. Instead, they should have punished him for the bigoted context in which he said it. After a dispute with an African-American security guard at the concert, Cooper said, "I will jump that fence and fight every n----- here."
Captured on video and beamed across the internet, Cooper's remark is hateful at its core. It clearly links the guard's allegedly poor behavior to his race; even more, it associates other people who share the guard's race with that same behavior.
And that's been a defining formula for white racists for the past four centuries: If you're angered or frightened by a black person, trot out the n-word. That's why South Carolina Sen. Benjamin Tillman threatened to kill "a thousand n-----s" after famed black educator Booker T. Washington dined at the White House in 1901. And it's why, a half-century later, Georgia's Eugene Talmadge swore that "n-----s will never go to a school which is white while I am governor."
It's also why white players in the Philadelphia Phillies' dugout told Jackie Robinson, "We don't want you here, n-----." And it's why a white baseball fan wrote to Hank Aaron that "we don't want no n----- Babe Ruth" when Aaron was on the verge of breaking Ruth's home run record in 1973.
But not everyone who uses the n-word does so in a malicious or insulting way. Consider Keith Dambrot, whom you might remember as LeBron James' high school basketball coach in Akron, Ohio; now he coaches at the University of Akron. But you probably don't know that Dambrot was fired from a previous coaching job, at Central Michigan University, for using the n-word.
During halftime of a 1993 game, Dambrot — who is white — asked his players for permission to say the n-word. The players assented, so Dambrot said, "We need to be tougher, harder-nosed, and play harder. ... We need to have more n-----s on the team."
Dambrot went on to laud one of the team's three white players as a "n-----" for his effort and hustle. He then categorized other members of the team as n-----s or half-n-----s: The former were giving it their all, while the latter needed to try harder.
Obviously, Dambrot was using the word as one of praise rather than of hatred. When word got out about his comments, however, none of that mattered. "The term is inappropriate under any circumstances," the university president intoned, shortly before Dambrot was dismissed.
Under any circumstances? Really? The president must not have heard much contemporary African-American music, where the n-word figures prominently. It has also led to a long internal dispute about whether that's crude and self-hating (see: Bill Cosby) or therapeutic and uplifting (to rapper Tupac Shakur, "N---a" stood for "Never Ignorant, Gets Goals Accomplished").
No matter where you come down on that debate, it's clear that African-Americans have sometimes employed the term to indict racism in American society. And so have whites. Consider Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which uses the word "n-----" more than 200 times.
Anyone who has studied the context of the novel — or of Twain's essay Only a N-----, which attacks lynching — knows that he was deploying the word to satirize racial prejudice. But that hasn't stopped parent groups from challenging schools that teach Huck Finn, which came in 14th on the American Library Association's list of the most-banned books of 2000-09.
If any use of the n-word is as bad as any other, we'd have to put Twain's words in the same foul bucket as Riley Cooper's. Ditto for Lyndon B. Johnson's now-famous quip about appointing Thurgood Marshall — not a lesser-known African-American — to the Supreme Court. "When I appoint a n-----," Johnson told an aide, "I want everyone to know he's a n-----."
You might not like Johnson's choice of words here, but it's clear that he was trying to give blacks a leg up. Just as clearly, Cooper was slapping them down. That's why the Eagles should have done more than just slap him on the wrist. At the end of the day, it's really not about the n-word at all. It's about who is using it, and how and why.
Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of history and education at New York University. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory."


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Sky Go – the Sky TV app previously available only on iPhone and iPad – will launch on Android before February is out.
The app, for Sky's TV customers, brings Sky Sports channels, ESPN, Sky News and 11 Sky Movies channels to selected Android smartphones before the end of February, plus Sky 1, Sky Living and Sky Arts 1. Sky Sports F1 joins the streaming party in March.
It's tough love for tablet users, though. The app is limited to HTC handsets (including the Desire S, Desire HD, Incredible S and Sensation) and Samsung's Galaxy S and Galaxy S II. Perhaps we can add a Galaxy Tab 11.6 Sky Go rumour to our wish list for Mobile World Congress 2012?
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SWINDON captain Liam Tucker has conceded that the Glos/Wilts Division promotion race looks to be between Lechlade and Rockhampton, but he's not giving up on the campaign just yet.
Swindon currently sit third in the league table, 31 points behind leaders Lechlade and 23 off Rockhampton in second, with eight games of the term remaining.
While the challenge is daunting, and Tucker concedes the top two will take something special to overhaul, he's still in a competitive frame of mind going into the weekend clash with Tewkesbury.
"If you'd have asked me before the start of the season I'd have probably said there'd be one runaway club, so I'm not surprised there are two that are a little bit ahead of everyone else," he said.
"I think most clubs are realising that there is a group of two or three clubs after the top two and Chipping Sodbury are a little cast adrift.
"But things can change in a couple of weeks, it only takes one or two strange results, especially with the weather.
"If you suddenly get lucky with the rain, get a win and one or two other sides get a rain-off around you it soon changes things around you.
"There are probably two sides competing to get promoted, to be honest.
After a comfortable victory over Chipping Sodbury last time out, Tucker is expecting a tougher examination of his players by Tewkesbury.
"I'm kind of aware that Chipping Sodbury have not done too well this year, so I'm expecting a bit sterner a test this weekend," he said.
"I'd expect Tewkesbury to be pretty decent. We went to their place earlier in the year and had a very interesting game.
"Both sides were 80-8, they got up to 155 and we were 80-8 and chased them down.
"It was a bit of a strange game but they proved they batted all the way down and that they have good bowlers.
"We'll look to repeat what we did last week - we were pretty happy with last week, and we'll look to replicate that."
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Soviet Tanks - Early Developments
The Soviet High Command was interested in the production of light wheeled caterpillar tanks. Two Christie tanks were purchased in the US for this purpose, and one was delivered to the Kharkov Locomotive Works. In 1931 BT-2, a light wheeled caterpillar tank based on Christie tank was created at the Works by a group led by N.M. Toskin, a military engineer. Tankmen liked these fast-moving tanks that were affectionately nicknamed "Betushkas". When compared to other tanks, the BTs were more agile, but they were harder to drive.
By 1936 the Soviet Army had an operational level doctrine and four mechanized corps of almost 600 tanks; each with a complement of mechanized and tank brigades, regiments and battalions ready for employment at the tactical and operational level. Unfortunately, Stalin reversed the trend of operational thinking and design by eliminating most of the Army's senior leaders and leading theorists. Stalin's purge of 1937-1938 eliminated Tukhachevsky, Egorov, Kamenov, Svechin and many others. Moreover, any senior officer who survived distanced himself from their ideas. Stalin's purges could not have come at a worse time for the evolution of operational doctrine in the Soviet Army was at a critical juncture. The tank corps had existed prior to 1937, but were dismantled, their forces parceled out in support of infantry armies.
The General Staff view was that the full potential of tanks had not been displayed in Spain and that the Red Army should continue to pursue plans to use tanks, but on a mass scale, with full artillery support. Georgiy Zhukov's successful use of mechanized formations in his defeat of the Japanese Kwangtung Army at Khalkhin Gol in 1939 further reinforced the advocates' view of armored warfare. The Red Army reorganized its tank force in 1938, enlarging the four mechanized corps and renaming them as tank corps. In addition, many of the scattered tank battalions and regiments were consolidated into twenty-five independent tank brigades. The first Russian heavy tank designed by N.N.Lebedenko was tested near Dmitrov. Soviet designers recognized that the tank needed a variety of firepower immediately available during the attack, so they hung a variety of weapons systems on the tank. The Soviet T-35 heavy tank weighed 50 tons, had an 11-man crew and carried a 76.2mm cannon, two 45mm cannons, and six 7.62mm machine guns. These awesome five-turret monsters were produced from 1936 to 1939, but proved too cumbersome for the battlefield.
From the beginning, the technical problems with heavy multi-turret design precluded the reliable armoring and very soon it became clear that the possibilities of these designs were limited. The Russians had produced a limited quantity of heavy tanks KV-1 and KV-2. About 2400 tanks KV-1 were build in the USSR in 1939-1942. With the weight of 43.5t and armor thickness 30-95 mm it was the biggest contemporary heavy tank in the world.
It was only in the mid-to-late 1920s that the Soviet leadership fully grasped that the next large-scale war in Europe would be a clash of armored vehicles. In 1924, the authorities set up a technical office at the General Directorate of Military Industry, a centralized authority that would run the design, testing and adoption of new tanks into the Red Army. Finally the state got to grips with the task of producing this essential weapon, and work became a national priority.
In 1926 the first three-year Soviet tank building program got under way, although how the "iron horses" would actually be used in combat had still not been thought through. The tank was mainly conceived as a means to support the infantry and this was the task envisaged for the first combat models, due for completion in 1929. Once again, development co-opted features of existing foreign models. During the Polish-Soviet War in 1920, Soviet cavalry had captured an Italian Fiat 3000 tank, which was also based on the very same Renault. The Soviets then took the design further.
The resultant T-18 (MS-1) small escort tank was the first all-Soviet product and looked relatively good for its time. Armed with a 37-mm cannon, carrying 8-mm bulletproof armor and able to move at 10 miles (16 km) an hour, the design was quickly adopted as the core element of the Red Army's tank forces. Around 1,000 T-18s had been built by 1931, but by this stage plans already existed for an upgrade. Despite attempts to extensively modernize the T-18, the limitations of the resultant T-20 showed that the scope for improving on the original Renault design had been exhausted.
But before the Soviet designers really came into their own in the 1930s, there was still one vital chapter of foreign influence to come: American engineer and tank enthusiast John Walter Christie, who was a major source of inspiration. In his work for the US government, Christies various projects had qualitatively changed the understanding of how to build these machines. But while his talents remained largely unrecognized and fulfilled in his homeland, they came to maturity in the Soviet workshops. Christie is best known for developing the Christie suspension system used in a number of World War II tank designs, notably the Soviet BT and T-34 series.
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Republican Party of Crawford County will present its annual Lincoln Day Dinner Friday, April 25, at Butterfield Assembly of God Church, 1302 N. 30th St., Van Buren.
Congressman Tom Cotton, a Republican candidate for the United States Senate, will be guest speaker.
"The Republican Party is proud to bring Congressman Cotton to Crawford County for our annual Lincoln Day Dinner," said Mark Shaffer, chairman.
Cotton has represented Arkansas' 4th congressional district since 2013. He is an Army veteran and a lawyer.
The Lincoln Day Dinner also will feature Congressmen Steve Womack and Tim Griffin, Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Doyle Webb, Gubernatorial candidate Curtis Coleman and Gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson's wife Susan Hutchinson.
"As well as those dignitaries, we will have several county and state Republican office holders and candidates in attendance," Shaffer said.
Doors will open at 5:45 p.m. State Sen. Bryan King will sponsor a meet-and-greet from 6-6:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6:30 with the program to begin at 7.
Tickets are $35 per person and ads for the program also are available. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Shaffer at (479) 414-3320 or email email@example.com.


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They seem to come in every few days, too much and too often now, from all corners of Los Angeles.
Statements from lawyers jostling for the best position in a fight nobody cares to see. Reports from NCAA investigators still trying to get to the bottom of one of the most embarrassing and unnecessary messes in modern college football history. Arbitrators' rulings and jury verdicts with Donald T. Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers named as defendants. Breathless updates on whether Dodgers owner Frank McCourt will be able to make payroll twice a month.
Every few days, I check in with the district attorney's office and the Los Angeles Police Department to see whether there have been any developments in the Bryan Stow investigation. Before that, I spent a month checking in with Stow's family after the San Francisco Giants fan was brutally beaten in the Dodger Stadium parking lot on Opening Day.
It's too much.
It feels strange for a journalist to complain about there being too much news in Los Angeles. Scandal and crisis are like nectar in this field. Our headline stacks have never hopped faster.
And yet none of this feels good. To me or to any of you reading this.
L.A. has never been a squeamish town. It takes a lot of ugliness to wear people out or make them look away. But this is embarrassing. And exhausting. I'm not sure when we as a city hit the tipping point. I'm only sure that we've tipped. We're through.
But we're also stuck. And frustrated. There are no easy answers or ways out. There might not even be any happy endings. Los Angeles is mad as hell, but it might have to keep taking it for awhile.
On Tuesday afternoon, another one of McCourt's lawyers, Robert Sacks, served notice that his client "isn't going to go away quietly," as if we expected any less.
This development came:
-- A day after the LAPD announced it was holding the suspect in the Stow beating another 10 months on a parole violation because it still hadn't collected enough evidence to present a case to the district attorney's office.
-- A week and a half after Clippers lead counsel Robert Platt announced he would review and "carefully explore the team's various options" after an arbitrator's binding decision to award former coach Mike Dunleavy $13.5 million in a salary dispute.
-- Two weeks after USC football coach Lane Kiffin was called to Indianapolis to speak to the NCAA about recruiting violations that occurred in his time at Tennessee, which could result in further sanctions.
And there are a dozen more lawyers' statements I could quote off the top of my head.
I miss the days when losing was the worst thing a team could do.
So is there anything to do about it?
There has already been a de facto fan boycott at Dodger Stadium this year, with its attendance falling off more than that of any other team in the majors.
Two weeks ago, ESPN LA's Pedro Moura noted that the USC athletic department has sent out 15 reminder emails to students to purchase season tickets, after selling out without a single reminder two years ago.
Voting with our feet is a good start. But it feels more like a manifestation of some collective depression than a plan of action.
On Monday afternoon, callers into the "Mason & Ireland Show" on 710 ESPN in L.A. sustained nearly four hours of discussion about how to organize a boycott at Dodger Stadium that would get McCourt's attention after baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced he'd rejected the lucrative Fox television contract that had effectively become McCourt's last raft toward salvation.
Passionate outcry -- that can be cathartic, even inspiring.
But is it enough? The show ends, and everyone goes back to dreaming about an Orel Hershiser- or Mark Cuban-led ownership group that could someday rescue the team but might never come.
What's sad is how many more column inches Monday were spent dissecting the showdown between McCourt and Selig than on Clayton Kershaw pitching one of the best games of his life, a two-hit shutout of the normally robust Detroit Tigers offense.
Or how many more stories will be written this season about USC's disgraced former Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush than about its current Heisman candidate, Matt Barkley, or its future candidate, wide receiver Robert Woods.
Or how many times Blake Griffin is going to wonder whether he wants to keep playing for an owner who seems to believe it's wasteful not to use the lawyers he keeps on retainer every year.
But this is where we are now. Stuck, without a clear way out of all these messes. Tired, of hearing from lawyers and policemen. Mad as hell, but with no choice but to keep taking it and waiting for the next Lakers season to begin.
Oh, wait ...
Ramona Shelburne is a reporter and columnist for ESPNLosAngeles.com.


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Things have changed over the years, though. The dining scene has gotten more interesting. G Burger is great. There's a mess of Korean joints worthy of Garden Grove, and now, apparently in the shell of a defunct Korean restaurant comes Mrs. Bea's Lousiana Chicken and Waffles, which serves, um, well, I think you've already figured that out. They also offer waffle sandwiches, gumbo, and bananas fosters for dessert.
It opened this past weekend at 1299 S Harbor Blvd., La Habra, CA 90631.
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The purpose of this organization is to increase knowledge about the field of PM&R, provide liaisons for clinical experiences and exposure to the field, provide information about PM&R residency programs and matching in the field. promote interactive and interdisciplinary student get-togethers, especially between COM, Physical Therapy, and Occupational Therapy students and participate in service related activities targeting at assisting agencies or individuals actively undergoing or supporting physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R or physiatry) is the branch of medicine emphasizing the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders that produce temporary or permanent functional impairment. These physicians are considered" nonsurgical experts of bone, muscle, and nerve."
The umbrella of PM&R is broad, including:
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The AAPM&R offers an informative video on the specialty, has free student membership, and also has a medical student center with lots of valuable information, including a stepbystep guide to applying to a PM&R residency program.
If you are interested in PM&R, you should definitely consider:
Here is a list of local physiatrists who you may want to seek out as mentors. Those specifically associated with our interest group are: Dr. Emily Darr and Dr. Bryan Kumiga.
Of the several professional groups for PM&R, the two premiere organizations are:
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This study was conducted to determine the effects of chronic combined pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary insufficiency (PSPI) on right (RV) and left ventricular (LV) function in young, growing swine. Six pigs with combined PSPI were studied, and data were compared with previously published data of animals with isolated pulmonary insufficiency and controls. Indexes of systolic function (stroke volume, ejection fraction, and cardiac functional reserve), myocardial contractility (slope of the end-systolic pressure-volume and change in pressure over time-end-diastolic volume relationship), and diastolic compliance were assessed within 2 days of intervention and 3 mo later. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to quantify pulmonary insufficiency and ventricular volumes. The conductance catheter was used to obtain indexes of the cardiac functional reserve, diastolic compliance, and myocardial contractility from pressure-volume relations acquired at rest and under dobutamine infusion. In the PSPI group, the pulmonary regurgitant fraction was 34.3 ± 5.8%, the pressure gradient across the site of pulmonary stenosis was 20.9 ± 20 mmHg, and the average RV peak systolic pressure was 70% systemic at 12 wk follow-up. Biventricular resting cardiac outputs and cardiac functional reserves were significantly limited (P < 0.05), LV diastolic compliance significantly decreased (P < 0.05), but RV myocardial contractility significantly enhanced (P < 0.05) compared with control animals at 3-mo follow-up. In the young, developing heart, chronic combined PSPI impairs biventricular systolic pump function and diastolic compliance but preserves RV myocardial contractility.
- myocardial contraction
- magnetic resonance imaging
- heart defects
- congenital
- pulmonary heart disease
- regurgitation
- ventricles
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many patients with congenital heart disease involving right ventricular (RV) outflow tract obstruction, such as tetralogy of Fallot, have residual pulmonary stenosis and insufficiency (PSPI) after surgical repair. Individually, these abnormalities, if severe, can lead to right heart failure. In these patients, timing of pulmonary valve replacement is crucial to extend the time window for repetitive cardiac surgery without increased risk of irreversible RV damage. In this setting, recent studies focused on the evaluation of the effects of pulmonary insufficiency (PI) on ventricular function and propose a less restrictive management of pulmonary valve replacement (9, 17, 25, 26, 28, 29). However, the combined effect of PSPI on biventricular function remains not well investigated. Although some reports suggest that increased RV afterload modulates the degree of PI, the effect of combined PSPI on biventricular systolic and diastolic function is inadequately understood (4, 21, 24). This lack of understanding limits our ability to develop an optimal treatment strategy that minimizes intervention yet maximizes long-term biventricular function.
The aim of this study was to create chronic pressure and volume overload of the RV in a growing pig model to determine the effect on biventricular systolic pump function, diastolic compliance, and myocardial contractility. The data were compared with previously published data on controls and animals with isolated PI (13). Cardiac chamber size and systolic pump function were assessed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Hemodynamic data were obtained by using standard catheterization techniques, and parameters of RV and left ventricular (LV) myocardial contractility and passive diastolic compliance were measured by using the conductance catheter technique.
Six pigs were studied and compared with data obtained on five controls. The mean animal weight at the initial procedure was 14 ± 0.8 kg, which corresponds approximately to an age of 5–6 wk. All animals underwent four experimental procedures: cardiac catheterization with or without stent implantation, MRI study within 2 days of catheterization, cardiac catheterization with conductance pressure-volume loop analysis ∼12 wk thereafter, followed within 2 days by repeat MRI study. We defined the follow-up study at 12 wk as midterm follow-up. All procedures were performed in accordance with the National Institutes of Health Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and with the approval of the Committee of Animal Research at our institution. For all procedures, anesthesia was initiated with telazol-ketamine-xylosin (0.025 mg/kg im) and then maintained with 1–2% inhaled isofluorane. Heart rate, pulse oximetry, and systemic pressures were monitored continuously during each procedure. At the end of the last procedure, the animals were euthanized with pentobarbital sodium. The hearts were harvested, dissected, and weighed. The membrane stent was inspected for patency and position.
After baseline hemodynamics, an 18 × 20-mm self-expanding nitinol stent (Memotherm), fitted with a thin intraluminal Teflon membrane (WL Gore), was deployed across the pulmonary valve through an 8-F custom delivery system under fluoroscopic guidance. The membrane was cut to the diameter of the stent and sutured circumferentially into its distal end, with a 3- to 4-mm central orifice (Fig. 1). After implantation, angiography was performed to confirm position, and hemodynamic measurements were repeated.
Hemodynamic Study
Pressures were measured in the right atrium, RV, main pulmonary artery proximal and distal to the membrane stent, and LV using fluid-filled catheters connected to a transducer at the time of stent placement and 12 wk later.
MRI Study
MRI was performed by using a GE 1.5-T magnetic resonance (MR) imager (Signa 5, General Electric Medical Systems) with a standard body coil. Pulmonary flow volumes were assessed by using a velocity-encoded cine (VEC) MRI sequence in a plane perpendicular to the dominating flow direction in the main pulmonary artery (14, 29). Instantaneous flow volumes were summed to give total forward and regurgitant flow per cardiac cycle. The following acquisition parameters were used for VEC MRI: repetition time/echo time = 25/7 ms, slice thickness = 5 mm, flip angle = 30°, field of view = 24 × 24 cm, matrix = 256 × 192, number of excitations = 2, and VEC = 200 cm/s.
A cine MRI sequence in the cardiac short-axis plane was used to assess RV and LV chamber volumes (14). End-systolic and end-diastolic volumes were measured by manually tracing the area of the endocardial and epicardial surfaces. Ventricular chamber volumes were computed as the sum of RV and LV volumes of all short-axis view slices containing RV and LV chambers. The following imaging parameters were used: repetition time/echo time = 8/5 ms, slice thickness = 10 mm, spacing = 0, flip angle = 20°, field of view = 24 × 24 cm, matrix = 256 × 128, number of excitations = 2, and phases = 16. Two independent observers analyzed cine MR and VEC MR images.
Conductance Catheter Study
A 5- to 7-F dual-field combination pressure-conductance catheter (Millar Instruments) was used to generate RV and LV loops, with the catheter tip placed at the ventricular apex. Vascular access was gained from the jugular vein and carotid artery. The catheter was connected to a Sigma-5 signal conditioner processor (Leycom) that computed time-varying segmental conductance and generated analog output. The analog output was digitized at 200 Hz by an analog-to-digital data card (National Instruments) connected to a Power Macintosh computer (Apple). The data were analyzed on LabView 5.2 software (National Instruments).
Pressure and volume data were obtained during skeletal muscle relaxation and with the ventilator held at end expiration. Data were acquired simultaneously in both ventricles before and during inferior vena cava balloon occlusion. Measurements were made in the resting state and during infusion of dobutamine at a rate of 3 μg·kg−1·min−1.
General hemodynamics.
The pressure difference across the membrane stent was calculated by subtracting the peak systolic pulmonary arterial pressure distal to the stent from the peak systolic RV pressure.
Quantification of pulmonary regurgitant fraction.
Pulmonary flow volumes were generated from the VEC MRI sequences. The volume of insufficiency per beat was calculated as the retrograde flow in the main pulmonary artery in diastole. Total RV stroke volume was calculated as the antegrade flow in systole in the main pulmonary artery. These flow volumes previously have been shown to be accurate in the presence of a stent in the pulmonary artery (14). The regurgitant fraction was the ratio of insufficiency to total RV stroke volume.
Turbulent blood flow in the presence of vascular stenosis can cause spin dephasing and in turn affect the accuracy of VEC MRI techniques. Therefore, internal validation of VEC MRI-derived pulmonary regurgitant fraction comprised comparison with RV volume analysis by using cine MRI (14). Cine MRI-derived regurgitant fraction was calculated as stroke volume divided by end-diastolic volumes (14).
Systolic pump function.
Resting indexes of systolic pump function were derived from cine MRI at rest and from conductance measurements during dobutamine infusion. Cardiac functional reserve was defined as the ability to increase effective stroke volume during dobutamine infusion. It was calculated by dividing the increase in ventricular stroke volume during dobutamine infusion by the stroke volume at rest and is presented as a percentage increase over baseline. All measurements were obtained at an increase in heart rate of <10% compared with rest.
Myocardial contractility.
Indexes of RV and LV myocardial contractility were derived from pressure-volume loop analyses during preload reduction. Pressure was differentiated during the preejection period, and the slope of the maximum change in pressure over time-end-diastolic volume relationship was calculated (8, 18). End systole was defined as the point of maximal elastance using the iterative method (2). From the end-systolic point derived from each loop, the slope of the end-systolic pressure vs. end-systolic volume relationship was calculated. See Fig. 2.
Diastolic performance.
Investigation of diastolic performance was limited to the evaluation of passive compliance. Active relaxation could not be calculated in our model because PI precludes isovolumic data points in the RV. Passive ventricular compliance was derived from the end-diastolic pressure-volume relationships of both ventricles, where the stiffness coefficient (κ) was calculated as previously reported (12, 13). Pulmonary forward flow, as assessed by VEC MRI, was used as an indirect measure of passive RV diastolic compliance.
Statistical Analysis
Data measured at rest and during dobutamine infusion (conductance catheter-derived indexes of ventricular function) were analyzed by analysis of covariance. Variables were coded for animal numbers and the presence or absence of dobutamine. Data obtained only in the resting state (MRI, hemodynamic data, and weights) were analyzed by either unpaired or paired Student's t-test with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparison. A value of P ≤ 0.05 was considered significant. Data are expressed as means ± SD. Bland-Altman test was used to determine the agreement between VEC and cine MRI-derived pulmonary regurgitant fraction.
Control and PSPI pigs were of similar weight at the initial intervention and at the final study (Table 1). All animals showed throughout the study normal activity and feeding habits. As expected, hemodynamic data were normal and similar in the two groups before stent implantation.
Global Cardiovascular Effects
See Table 1. At 12 wk, the PSPI group had a pulmonary regurgitant fraction of 34.0 ± 7.1%, an average gradient across the pulmonary outflow of 20.9 ± 20.0 mmHg, and a significantly increased RV mass of 52 ± 4 g at 12 wk. Control pigs had no pulmonary regurgitation and no gradient across the pulmonary outflow and an average RV mass of 27 ± 3 g. RV end-diastolic pressures were significantly elevated in the PSPI animals (12.3 ± 1.6 vs. 7.8 ± 0.7 mmHg, P < 0.05), as were RV end-systolic and end-diastolic volumes (P < 0.05, Table 1). LV peak systolic and diastolic pressures were similar in both groups (control = 72.4 ± 5.6 and 6.8 ± 1.6 mmHg vs. PSPI = 73.2 ± 5.3 and 8.4 ± 2.4 mmHg, P > 0.05). LV end-systolic volumes of the PSPI group were at control level; however, end-diastolic volumes were significantly decreased (P < 0.05, Table 1).
Inter- and intraobserver variability of VEC MRI-derived pulmonary regurgitant fraction was 2.9 and 2.7%, respectively. Inter- and intraobserver variability of cine MRI-derived ventricular volumes was 5.8 and 3.1%, respectively. Bland-Altman analysis showed good agreement between pulmonary regurgitant fraction as measured with VEC and cine MRI method, with a bias of +2.2%.
Systolic Pump Function
See Tables 1 and 2. After 12 wk of PSPI, the animals had significantly increased RV total stroke volume (P < 0.05), whereas the effective cardiac output was significantly decreased in the presence of marked pulmonary regurgitant flow (P < 0.05, Tables 1 and 2). LV stroke volume decreased significantly in the PSPI animals in association with a significant decrease in LV end-diastolic volume (P < 0.05, Tables 1 and 2). Cardiac functional reserve in response to dobutamine was significantly decreased in both ventricles at 12 wk compared with control (P < 0.05, Table 2).
Myocardial Contractility
See Table 3. At 12 wk, RV myocardial contractility was significantly increased above control levels in the PSPI animals, both at rest and during dobutamine infusion. LV indexes of myocardial contractility remained at control levels in both inotropic states (P < 0.05, Table 3). In both groups, myocardial contractility of the RV and LV increased significantly and at a similar rate in response to the dobutamine infusion (P < 0.05, Table 3).
Diastolic Performance
See Table 3. After 12 wk of PSPI, the diastolic compliance was significantly decreased in the RV and LV. The κ was significantly increased in both ventricles of the PSPI group compared with control (P < 0.05, Table 3). In addition, in the PSPI group, there was notable pulmonary antegrade flow during late diastole, indicative of a restrictive RV diastolic function.
This study created a model of chronic PSPI in asymptomatic normally growing swine. MRI and conductance catheter techniques allowed for careful assessment of biventricular function. We found that, after 3 mo of PSPI, indexes of RV systolic pump function were decreased at rest and failed to increase appropriately during dobutamine stress. Impaired systolic pump function was associated with decreased RV diastolic compliance but enhanced RV myocardial contractility. These findings contrast markedly with the effects of isolated PI observed in a similar model (13). In this study, systolic pump function was also attenuated, however, and went along with decreased RV myocardial contractility and increased RV compliance. In addition, PSPI resulted in a smaller regurgitant fraction, more RV hypertrophy, and a smaller increase in RV volumes than did isolated PI (Table 4).
Stenosis, in addition to insufficiency, seems to have been beneficial by promoting hypertrophy, limiting RV dilatation, and enhancing myocardial contractility. This enhanced contractility is supported by recent animal data that showed an increased RV contractility in the presence of both acutely and chronically (8 wk) increased RV afterload with isolated pulmonary stenosis (PS) (5, 6, 15, 19). These beneficial effects of short- to intermediate-term stenosis on RV myocardial contractility raise many questions in light of the known adverse effects of long-term severe PS on RV function. This also brings into question the long-held belief that stenosis, even mild, is detrimental to ventricular function while insufficiency is well tolerated.
Despite the potential beneficial effects of stenosis on myocardial contractility, the systolic pump performance was decreased in the PSPI animals, similar to that seen with isolated PI. These results are in accordance with reports from a clinical study involving patients with pulmonary valve insufficiency and/or stenosis (27). This suggests that different mechanisms in these two conditions lead to similar global effects. A possible explanation may be that, in the presence of enhanced RV myocardial contractility (PSPI group), the inability to increase output in response to positive inotropic stimulation is due to abnormal diastolic loading of the RV. In contrast, with isolated insufficiency, compensatory hypertrophy is not adequate, resulting in myocardial contractile dysfunction, whereas RV diastolic compliance is (at 3-mo follow-up) not decreased.
At the initial study, pulmonary regurgitant fraction was not significantly different between the combined PSPI and isolated PI group (28.2 ± 1.8 vs. 33.1 ± 4.1, P = 0.28). However, after 3-mo follow-up, regurgitant fraction differed significantly between the two groups (34.3 ± 5.8 vs. 49.2 ± 5.9, P < 0.01, Table 4). These data are indicative that, at least in the presence of proximal PS, RV hypertrophy might limit the degree of PI. However, the course of PI in the presence of increased pulmonary arterial resistance due to distal PS or hypoplastic pulmonary arterial bed cannot be extrapolated from the present data but should be subject to future research. Furthermore, isofluorane inhalation can modulate pulmonary arterial resistance, and that should be taken into account when interpreting the present data.
LV cardiac reserve was reduced in both experimental groups (PSPI and PI). This finding could be explained by impaired LV diastolic filling and, in turn, decreased LV systolic ejection, whereas LV filling may be altered by 1) limited RV effective outputs (serial coupling between the RV and LV) and 2) decreased LV diastolic compliance. The latter is possibly mediated by parallel coupling between the RV and LV through the interventricular septum in the presence of RV eccentric and/or concentric hypertrophy. In both the PI and PSPI group, MR images showed changes in RV configuration with a flat "D"-shaped interventricular septum.
Cardiac reserve is considered to be a good measure of the quality of life and prognosis in a patient with impaired ventricular function. In adults, peak exercise oxygen consumption, as a measure of cardiac reserve, has been used to estimate the prognosis of patients with decreased ejection fraction (1, 10). Besides peak exercise oxygen consumption, dobutamine stress was used for assessment of the functional status of the heart and to differentiate decreased function, resulting from abnormal loading conditions from true myocardial dysfunction (7, 16, 20, 22, 23). Our study suggests that cardiac reserve, as assessed by dobutamine loading, may be a poor marker for contractile dysfunction of the RV in the setting of both volume and moderate pressure loads on the RV. A decreased cardiac reserve seems to be substantially mediated by the effects of changed RV configuration and may not reflect RV contractile dysfunction.
The conductance catheter has been shown to assess accurately relative volume changes of the RV; however, care must be taken for analysis of absolute volumes and the distribution of the measuring field of the catheter in the RV infundibulum (3, 5–7, 11, 15). Day-by-day changes of stroke volume have to be taken into account when comparing MRI with conductance catheter data, as both measures were acquired in our study within 2 days of each other. The impact of heart rate-velocity and muscle mass-velocity interaction was taken into account in this study, but it cannot be fully excluded. Care must be taken in extrapolating these animal data to human populations with congenital heart disease. The hemodynamic abnormalities in this model are homogeneous and of short duration compared with patients with repaired RV outflow tract obstruction. In addition, confounding effects on cardiac and myocyte function due to chronic cyanosis, cardiopulmonary bypass associated with surgical repair, and the effects of noncompliant synthetic material in the RV outflow tract that alters pulse propagation are not taken into consideration in this study. Finally, in patients, various degrees of isolated and/or combined PSPI are found, and their balance must be considered as a major determent for the course of RV function. The present study provides valuable insight into a subset of possible RV overload conditions; however, more research is needed to cover a broader range of PSPI.
In summary, using MRI and conductance catheter techniques, we showed in an animal model that chronic PSPI causes biventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction, despite preservation of LV and enhanced RV myocardial contractility. Changes in RV configuration and their serial and parallel coupling effect with the LV appear to play a major role in this dysfunction. At midterm, PS combined with PI preserves RV myocardial contractility, compared with isolated PI. Our physiological findings need to be confirmed in long-term studies and for different degrees of PSPI.
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Lagerfeld is Fighting "PC Fascism"
Karl Lagerfeld, pretentious snob who lives by the mantra "I wear my sunglasses at night," or fabric genius and a designer we should all gravitate to?
Whatever your answer is the fact is you know his name. He has a ground in fashion. Whether or not you love or hate him the fact of the matter is that he synonymous with Chanel. I haven't come across one person in my life that has never heard of Chanel.
The skinny model issue has split the industry's designers into the yay and the nay. Donna Karan is heading team yay and the fight to ban models who are underweight. But, many other designers including Karl think the mere thought of the ban is disgusting. Contact Music reports the words straight from the source's mouth.
"The idea of regulation is revolting, but so much of the moment. Models are about looks, not about weight. It's part of this new, PC fascism."
When I read his quote aloud I laughed to myself thinking about how he threw the word fascism out there so freely. Somewhat ironic since he possesses many qualities of a dictator. But before a flood of pointing fingers begins let me remind you the real issue is the weight. Where do we draw the line? Let the battle of the no-bulge alllowed begin.


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InfoPath 2010 form
I would like to keep all the approval process "inside" the form.
The form has 3 views; Submitter (default) + Approval + ReadOnly
There are 2 approval sections on the "Approval" view;
1 for a manager approval and 1 for CEO approval (CEO section hides as long as the "FormStatus" equals blank or not "ManagerApproved" )
When enduser submits the form (1'st time) the FormStatus field is set to "Submitted"
When a manager submits the form the Formstatus field is set to "ManagerApproved"
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no checkmark in the "don't run the remaining rules......"
But I never get switched over to the ReadOnly view….
1. They need to be separate rules Rule 1 if FormStatus equals "Submitted" switch view to 'Approval' Rule 2 if FormStatus equals "ManagerApproved" switch view to 'ReadOnly'
2. Please check how you are updating the FormStatus. It seems your FormStatus is not updated. In my case FormStatus was a column in the SharePoint list and I updated it through an event receiver (a workflow would also work fine but I needed an event receiver).
Regards, Huzefa Mala, MCTS
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Pa. legislators reckon with school funding disparities
As Pennsylvania lawmakers consider proposed changes to funding cyber charter schools, larger problems with how public education is funded are drawing their attention.
Pennsylvania school districts pay for every charter and cyber charter school student who would otherwise go to their schools.
But student costs vary from district to district because of the way state funding is allocated.
So what charter schools receive is based on each district -- not on the charter's per-student costs.
Joanne Jones Barnett, CEO of the Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School, is asking state House lawmakers to consider a comprehensive overhaul to correct the district-to-district inequities.
"First of all, we need to look at what is broken," Barnett said. "That is the funding model for all education in the commonwealth."
The changes before lawmakers would require school districts to pay less money to cyber charter schools.
That's giving some lawmakers pause.
State Rep. Ryan Aument, R-Lancaster, says he's hesitant to vote for those changes and not alter the way all public education is funded.
"My concern with a piecemeal approach is that we perhaps are taking away legitimate options for students," Aument said Thursday."I am interested in the conversation about children in two different school districts receiving different allocations of funds as it flows from the state. Shouldn't we really start there?"
However, groups representing school districts say putting such measures off until a grand bargain is struck would be a mistake.
"If we've got the obvious things that we can do, the improvements that we can make immediately, we should do that because the grand bargain could be very elusive when it comes to that," says Stuart Knade, head of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
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Guinness Nigeria Plc has shown it resilience and ability to forge ahead as reflected by its results made available to the public last week.
The audited result of the multinational Diageo Drink Group for the year ended 30th June 2009 shows turnover of N89.148 billion, representing a growth by 29%, as against N69.173 billion in 2008.
Its profit after tax and exceptional items also stood at N13.541 billion in the year under review, compared with the N11.861 billion it realised in 2008.
Guinness is the second largest brewer in Nigeria. Its board of Directors had earlier recommended a dividend of N7.50 per share as it closed its register last Friday.
It had also fixed November 2, 2009 as its payment date.
Guinness owns majority of its shares with various leading brands such as Satzenbrau, Smirnoff ice and among others as it forges ahead in the diversification of its product base.
The company has a strong competitive advantage in the stock market, leveraging on the wide market of Guinness stout.
Its share price which closed at N136.50 per share on Friday, can be said to be one of the blue-chip stocks that has sustained NSE indices from falling below the region it has stayed for some months now, following the activities of the bears and global economic recession.
Although Guinness Nigeria Plc, which stood at N98.01 per share as at January 2, 2009, has not had a smooth ride, it has demonstrated a commitment to cross the N150 per share mark.
Its half-year result for the period ended December 31st 2008 had earlier shown modest growth in its performance.
Guinness turnover grew by 35% from N32.13 billion in 2007 to N43.48 billion.
Its profit after tax increased sharply by 52%, from N5.24 billion in the comparable period in 2007 to N8.06 billion in 2008.
Also, its earnings per share during the period stood at N3.55 which is similar to what was posted last financial year and this could be due to increased operating cost. However, earnings per share as at March 3rd 2009 was N9.95.
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Philippines looking to woo more Indian travellers
Manila: The Philippines is increasingly looking at India as a huge market for travellers willing to spend their hard earned cash for holidays in the country.
Assistant Tourism Secretary Benito Bengzon said during the recent Philippine India Travel Exchange (PHILINDEX) held in Manila, that the country is turning to the South Asian country as a market for Philippine travel destinations.
"India is a vast source of potential travellers. Its newfound prosperity and growing affluence will lend its population an increased disposable income for leisure and travel-related pursuits. By 2020, India is predicted to have 50 million outbound travels. By that time, we should have already deepened our stake as a choice destination," he said.
China used to be big market for tourists to the Philippines, but with the dragging tensions between the two Asian countries over conflicting claims on certain South China Sea territories, Manila deems it more frugal on its part to be less dependent on Chinese travellers.
Bengzon describes Indian tourists as big spenders whose average length of stay lasts more than one week. They mostly prefer destinations with good air connectivity and easy entry procedures. India is one of the fastest growing outbound travel markets in the world with 12.5 million trips made abroad in 2010.
During the PhilIndex, a total of 24 Indian tour operators, wholesalers, travel agencies, and around fifty 50 of their Filipino counterparts engaged in table top discussions on how to bolster Indian travel to the Philippines and enhance the potential of the Chennai and Bengaluru markets. "Outbound travel from the two cities make up 26% of total outbound from India," Benzon said.
Growth engine:
The official said the country is increasingly banking on tourism as an engine for economic growth.
"We envision tourism to be a stable pillar of inclusive socio-economic growth. With a target of ten million visitors by 2016, we need to rethink our strategies and meet new standards of performance in order to grow our existing markets, as well as develop new ones.
"This travel exchange is one way of better understanding the needs of this market and its segments. While the future is in online marketing, we equally recognize the strong influence and insights of travel agents particularly for group travel and customisation," Bengzon said.
According to him, the Indian market generated 38,108 tourists for the first ten months of 2012, posting an 8.18 per cent growth over the same period last year. Month-on-month comparison for October 2011 and 2012 reflected a double-digit growth of 42.0 per cent. This milestone may be attributed to the recent move by the Philippines to implement the 14-day visa-free entry facility for Indian tourists with existing US, Japanese, Australian, Canadian, Schengen, Singapore, or UK visas.


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Santa Clarita is using the new building material, which combines recycled material with resin, to meet the city's goal of using environmentally friendly material. And compared to wood, the recycled bags are less expensive and more durable, said Assistant City Engineer Curtis Nay.
The library's design is about 95 percent complete, he said. Some finishing touches, including the color scheme for the library, still need to be worked out.
Located at the intersection of Lyons Avenue and Main Street, the library would be be two stories and have nearly 27,000 square feet, Nay said.
The library would have 60 computers and have free wireless Internet access for people bringing their laptops or portable phones said city spokeswoman Gail Ortiz.
A special emphasis has been placed on areas designed specifically for children and teens, Ortiz said.
A children's reading room would be painted with pictures depicting Newhall's early history, she said. Giant pictures of "Howdy Doody," a Western-themed children's show popular in the 1950s, would decorate some of the walls.
A light tower in the middle of the library, above the children's area would be lit every time the library has special reading events, Nay said.
Quiet study rooms and a family literacy center, which would host free reading lessons, also have been incorporated into the design, Ortiz said.
At a meeting Monday, some members of the Newhall Redevelopment Committee said the design looked closer to a ski lodge than a library, and worried that the design conflicted with the area's Western look.
Paul Brotzman, the director of community development, told committee members that the design will meet all Newhall redevelopment guidelines and incorporate the flavor of Old Town Newhall.
Officials hope to start building the library in June, Nay said. Construction would take about a year to complete.


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Hi, I would like to do a simple implementation of a userspace fs. In particular, it will be an archiver FS, which stores all metadata and contents of some files in an SQL database (PostgreSQL). I was wondering whether anybody has any suggestions as to which user fs out there for 2.2 kernels would be easiest to modify. I don't think it has to be able to process more than one requests at a time. (Maybe two.) It doesn't have to be fast nor portable. It can be very slow and cumbersome and bulky, as long as it is modifiable to do some SQL client stuff. I've read about 2-3 years ago in the "PostgreSQL related projects" database that once upon a time somebody had done this. Please point fingers or raise hands. Thanx, Jan -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Vicherek.Waterloo.on.ca/
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Case Study : Upload and crop images with specific dimensions Upload an image with 1500 pixels width and 1000 pixels height. But we need 1200 pixels of width and 630 pixels of height as per Facebook reference. Once user upload the image we can't display entire image on web page. We can take ideal width
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DJ Khaled's role in the hip-hop industry [Blog/Video]
Toronto, ON – Recently, I've been doing some thinking about DJ Khaled and the role he plays in the hip-hop industry. Most people know him as the guy who screams "DJ KHALED!" and "WE THE BEST!" at the beginning of songs and making appearances in videos. First and foremost he's a DJ but he was also a member of Terror Squad, and has put out 5 studio albums with a 6th one, Kiss The Ring, dropping August 21st. He's also the CEO of We The Best Management, a YMCMB artist and an executive at Def Jam Records.
Sure DJ Khaled's resume is undeniably impressive, but something about his involvement in the hip-hop industry doesn't sit right with me. The average listener; the type who might not understand the inner-workings of something like mechanical royalties, or what an executive producer does, can be easily confused about the role that DJ Khaled plays. Every song he puts out is titled "DJ Khaled featuring so and so" but he doesn't actually have a verse, nor is the hook his and he didn't make the beat. In my opinion, he's double dipping because all I ever see him doing is performing in videos, ad libbing and promoting for other artists. My question is this: what exactly is DJ Khaled doing that allows him to have his name attached to all these songs and claim the track as his own?
I brought this question up to Bizz and he mentioned that Khaled acts as an executive producer on records and he 'puts it all together,' so to speak. It goes something like he has an idea for a song then brings in the artists. In the words of Bizz, "he fosters the records," so basically because he puts his creative direction into it and gets to call it his own. A comparable example would be Diddy; he sat down with producers and gave his input, and said "try this sample" or "add this instrument" etc. On the other hand, Diddy also raps, sings and dances (well, tries).
I found an interview on YouTube from BMI Video that clarified a lot of my questions and confirmed what Bizz said. If you've ever wanted a better understanding of the role someone like Khaled plays, you'll want to check this out. In the clip, Khaled breaks it down and identifies himself as an artist and a producer. But still, when I put the pieces together I have trouble wrapping my head around it. I can understand the producer side but I can't see the artist side. I don't think he's a true artist. To me, a true artist is someone who raps or sings, makes a beat, and writes complete songs… not a person who puts a record together. That would be a different role.
Either way, one thing is for sure, his work is well respected and significant since dudes like Kanye, Ross and Drake are merely being featured on songs that appear to be entirely theirs. I've come to realize that DJ Khaled is part of the bigger picture. He might not be rapping or singing, but his creative input is there and that's why he gets credit. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think he's been given a little too much credit, but hey, that's just me.
Shout-out to Bizz for lending his ear and thoughts! Make sure you peep the interview below courtesy of BMI!
Written by Natasha Paolini for HipHopCanada
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How I Wrote That Song 2012 (DJ Khaled Interview)
BMI presented "How I Wrote That Song", its annual pre-Grammy event, today at The Key Club in West Hollywood. The panel featured RZA, the Grammy-winning founder of the Wu-Tang Clan; Joel and Benji Madden, co-founders of Good Charlotte; Rev Run, the Grammy-winning hip-hop icon; DJ Khaled, a multiple Grammy-nominee/producer/artist; and RedOne, a Grammy-winning songwriter/producer.
The panel, moderated by Catherine Brewton, BMI Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, focused on the process of writing, producing and performing hit songs. Each panelist shared anecdotal stories on how their greatest hits were spawned, and attendees were also treated to an impromptu performance by Joel and Benjamin Madden, who debuted their new song "Brother."
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Tags: BMI, Def Jam, Diddy, DJ Khaled, Drake, Kanye West, Rick Ross, YMCMB
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