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I get emails like this fairly frequently these days. The sender, Alex, agreed to let me put his letter and my response in a blog, in case the conversation might prove useful.
Dear Dave
I wonder about following my own passions, but I wonder how successful I would be at supporting myself and raising any kind of profile publicly, both to find sponsor ship for good causes and to help sustain myself.
What are your views on this?
Quitting work and everything I am presently involved in seems a huge leap, but I am ready to make it. I think of little else.
Alex Harling
My response:
Hi Alex,
Good to hear from you.You've asked me a pretty open-ended question. But simply, my views are that if you know what your passions are or at least have the will to explore them, if you keep doing what you love the money will come. It probably won't come quickly, but the process of downsizing, decreasing your outgoings and experiencing a more simple life is a natural precursor to living a more sustainable, happier existence.Only you have the real answers for how determined you can be in search of a fulfilling career. Your last line hit the nail on the head. Stop thinking about it, and start acting. It won't happen otherwise.It's worth it, go go go!!!!CheersDave
There's a catch 22 to perceived success and the transition from working person to 'famous' or 'notorious'. Regardless of intentions or design, a meteoric rise to previously unthought levels of recognition will always bring critics. They may be jealous or bitter or even right, but receiving criticism is barely easy. It must be frustrating at best.
This essay by the writer Dave Eggers was written in response to a critic's review of his book 'Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' which at times became a blunt, personal attack on the author's integrity, summed up with the words 'Are you taking any steps to keep shit real?'
Cue Mr Eggers' reply:
You actually asked me the question: "Are you taking any steps to keep shit real?" I want you always to look back on this time as being a time when those words came out of your mouth.
Now, there was a time when such a question – albeit probably without the colloquial spin – would have originated from my own brain. Since I was thirteen, sitting in my orange-carpeted bedroom in ostensibly cutting-edge Lake Forest, Illinois, subscribing to the Village Voice and reading the earliest issues of Spin, I thought I had my ear to the railroad tracks of avant garde America. (Laurie Anderson, for example, had grown up only miles away!) I was always monitoring, with the most sensitive and well-calibrated apparatus, the degree of selloutitude exemplified by any given artist – musical, visual, theatrical, whatever. I was vigilant and merciless and knew it was my job to be so.
I bought R.E.M.'s first EP, Chronic Town, when it came out and thought I had found God. I loved Murmur, Reckoning, but then watched, with greater and greater dismay, as this obscure little band's audience grew, grew beyond obsessed people like myself, grew to encompass casual fans, people who had heard a song on the radio and picked up Green and listened for the hits. Old people liked them, and stupid people, and my moron neighbor who had sex with truck drivers. I wanted these phony R.E.M.-lovers dead.
But it was the band's fault, too. They played on Letterman. They switched record labels. Even their album covers seemed progressively more commercial. And when everyone I knew began liking them, I stopped. Had they changed, had their commitment to making art with integrity changed? I didn't care, because for me, any sort of popularity had an inverse relationship with what you term the keeping 'real' of 'shit.' When the Smiths became slightly popular they were sellouts. Bob Dylan appeared on MTV and of course was a sellout. Recently, just at dinner tonight, after a huge, sold-out reading by David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell (both sellouts), I was sitting next to an acquaintance, a very smart acquaintance married to the singer-songwriter of a very well-known band. I mentioned that I had seen the Flaming Lips the night before. She rolled her eyes. "Oh I really liked them on 90210," she sneered, assuming that this would put me and the band in our respective places.
Was she aware that The Flaming Lips had composed an album requiring the simultaneous playing of four separate discs, on four separate CD players? Was she aware that the band had once, for a show at Lincoln Center, handed out to audience members something like 100 portable tape players, with 100 different tapes, and had them all played at the same time, creating a symphonic sort of effect, one which completely devastated everyone in attendance? I went on and on to her about the band's accomplishments, their experiments. Was she convinced that they were more than their one appearance with Jason Priestly? She was.
Now, at that concert the night before, Wayne Coyne, the lead singer, had himself addressed this issue, and to great effect. After playing much of their new album, the band paused and he spoke to the audience. I will paraphrase what he said:
"Hi. Well, some people get all bitter when some song of theirs gets popular, and they refuse to play it. But we're not like that. We're happy that people like this song. So here it goes."
Then they played the song. (You know the song.) "She Don't Use Jelly" is the song, and it is a silly song, and it was their most popular song. But to highlight their enthusiasm for playing the song, the band released, from the stage and from the balconies, about 200 balloons. (Some of the balloons, it should be noted, were released by two grown men in bunny suits.) Then while playing the song, Wayne sang with a puppet on his hand, who also sang into the microphone. It was fun. It was good.
But was it a sellout? Probably. By some standards, yes. Can a good band play their hit song? Should we hate them for this? Probably, probably. First 90210, now they go playing the song every stupid night. Everyone knows that 90210 is not cutting edge, and that a cutting edge alternarock band should not appear on such a show. That rule is clearly stated in the obligatory engrained computer-chip sellout manual that we were all given when we hit adolescence.
But this sellout manual serves only the lazy and small. Those who bestow sellouthood upon their former heroes are driven to do so by, first and foremost, the unshakable need to reduce. The average one of us – a taker-in of various and constant media, is absolutely overwhelmed – as he or she should be – with the sheer volume of artistic output in every conceivable medium given to the world every day – it is simply too much to begin to process or comprehend – and so we are forced to try to sort, to reduce. We designate, we label, we diminish, we create hierarchies and categories.
Through largely received wisdom, we rule out Tom Waits's new album because it's the same old same old, and we save $15. U2 has lost it, Radiohead is too popular. Country music is bad, Puff Daddy is bad, the last Wallace book was bad because that one reviewer said so. We decide that TV is bad unless it's the Sopranos. We liked Rick Moody and Jonathan Lethem and Jeffrey Eugenides until they allowed their books to become movies. And on and on. The point is that we do this and to a certain extent we must do this. We must create categories, and to an extent, hierarchies.
But you know what is easiest of all? When we dismiss.
Oh how gloriously comforting, to be able to write someone off. Thus, in the overcrowded pantheon of alternarock bands, at a certain juncture, it became necessary for a certain brand of person to write off The Flaming Lips, despite the fact that everyone knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that their music was superb and groundbreaking and real. We could write them off because they shared a few minutes with Jason Priestley and that terrifying Tori Spelling person. Or we could write them off because too many magazines have talked about them. Or because it looked like the bassist was wearing too much gel in his hair.
One less thing to think about. Now, how to kill off the rest of our heroes, to better make room for new ones?
We liked Guided by Voices until they let Ric Ocasek produce their latest album, and everyone knows Ocasek is a sellout, having written those mushy Cars songs in the late 80s, and then – gasp! – produced Weezer's album, and of course Weezer's no good, because that Sweater song was on the radio, right, and dorky teenage girls were singing it and we cannot have that and so Weezer is bad and Ocasek is bad and Guided by Voices are bad, even if Spike Jonze did direct that one Weezer video, and we like Spike Jonze, don't we?
Oh. No. We don't. We don't like him anymore because he's married to Sofia Coppola, and she is not cool. Not cool. So bad in Godfather 3, such nepotism. So let's check off Spike Jonze – leaving room in our brains for… who??
It's exhausting.
The only thing worse than this sort of activity is when people, students and teachers alike, run around college campuses calling each other racists and anti-Semites. It's born of boredom, lassitude. Too cowardly to address problems of substance where such problems actually are, we claw at those close to us. We point to our neighbor, in the khakis and sweater, and cry foul. It's ridiculous. We find enemies among our peers because we know them better, and their proximity and familiarity means we don't have to get off the couch to dismantle them.
And now, I am also a sellout. Here are my sins, many of which you may know about already:
First, I was a sellout because Might magazine took ads.
Then I was a sellout because our pages were color, and not stapled together at the Kinko's.
Then I was a sellout because I went to work for Esquire.
Now I'm a sellout because my book has sold many copies.
And because I have done many interviews.
And because I have let people take my picture.
And because my goddamn picture has been in just about every fucking magazine and newspaper printed in America.
And now, as far as McSweeney's is concerned, The Advocate interviewer wants to know if we're losing also our edge, if the magazine is selling out, hitting the mainstream, if we're still committed to publishing unknowns, and pieces killed by other magazines.
And the fact is, I don't give a fuck. When we did the last issue, this was my thought process: I saw a box. So I decided we'd do a box. We were given stories by some of our favorite writers – George Saunders, Rick Moody (who is uncool, uncool!), Haruki Murakami, Lydia Davis, others – and so we published them. Did I wonder if people would think we were selling out, that we were not fulfilling the mission they had assumed we had committed ourselves to?
No. I did not. Nor will I ever. We just don't care. We care about doing what we want to do creatively. We want to be interested in it. We want it to challenge us. We want it to be difficult. We want to reinvent the stupid thing every time. Would I ever think, before I did something, of how those with sellout monitors would respond to this or that move? I would not. The second I sense a thought like that trickling into my brain, I will put my head under the tires of a bus.
You want to know how big a sellout I am?
A few months ago I wrote an article for Time magazine and was paid $12,000 for it I am about to write something, 1,000 words, 3 pages or so, for something called Forbes ASAP, and for that I will be paid $6,000 For two years, until five months ago, I was on the payroll of ESPN magazine, as a consultant and sometime contributor. I was paid handsomely for doing very little. Same with my stint at Esquire. One year I spent there, with little to no duties. I wore khakis every day. Another Might editor and I, for almost a year, contributed to Details magazine, under pseudonyms, and were paid $2000 each for what never amounted to more than 10 minutes work – honestly never more than that. People from Hollywood want to make my book into a movie, and I am probably going to let them do so, and they will likely pay me a great deal of money for the privilege.
Do I care about this money? I do. Will I keep this money? Very little of it. Within the year I will have given away almost a million dollars to about 100 charities and individuals, benefiting everything from hospice care to an artist who makes sculptures from Burger King bags. And the rest will be going into publishing books through McSweeney's. Would I have been able to publish McSweeney's if I had not worked at Esquire? Probably not. Where is the $6000 from Forbes going? To a guy named Joe Polevy, who wants to write a book about the effects of radiator noise on children in New England.
Now, what if I were keeping all the money? What if I were buying property in St. Kitt's or blew it all on live-in prostitutes? What if, for example, I was, a few nights ago, sitting at a table in SoHo with a bunch of Hollywood slash celebrity acquaintances, one of whom I went to high school with, and one of whom was Puff Daddy? Would that make me a sellout? Would that mean I was a force of evil?
What if a few nights before that I was at the home of Julian Schnabel, at a party featuring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, and at which Schnabel said we should get together to talk about him possibly directing my movie? And what if I said sure, let's?
Would all that make me a sellout? Would I be uncool? Would it have been more cool to not go to this party, or to not have written that book, or done that interview, or to have refused millions from Hollywood?
The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans, getting people together and doing something, trying something, even when it's corny or stupid. I am not good at saying no. And I do not get along with people who say no. When you die, and it really could be this afternoon, under the same bus wheels I'll stick my head if need be, you will not be happy about having said no. You will be kicking your ass about all the no's you've said. No to that opportunity, or no to that trip to Nova Scotia or no to that night out, or no to that project or no to that person who wants to be naked with you but you worry about what your friends will say.
No is for wimps. No is for pussies. No is to live small and embittered, cherishing the opportunities you missed because they might have sent the wrong message.
There is a point in one's life when one cares about selling out and not selling out. One worries whether or not wearing a certain shirt means that they are behind the curve or ahead of it, or that having certain music in one's collection means that they are impressive, or unimpressive.
Thankfully, for some, this all passes. I am here to tell you that I have, a few years ago, found my way out of that thicket of comparison and relentless suspicion and judgment. And it is a nice feeling. Because, in the end, no one will ever give a shit who has kept shit 'real' except the two or three people, sitting in their apartments, bitter and self-devouring, who take it upon themselves to wonder about such things. The keeping real of shit matters to some people, but it does not matter to me. It's fashion, and I don't like fashion, because fashion does not matter.
What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things that are true and will stand. What matters is that the Flaming Lips's new album is ravishing and I've listened to it a thousand times already, sometimes for days on end, and it enriches me and makes me want to save people. What matters is that it will stand forever, long after any narrow-hearted curmudgeons have forgotten their appearance on goddamn 90210. What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who's up and who's down, but what someone has done and if they meant it. What matters is that you want to see and make and do, on as grand a scale as you want, regardless of what the tiny voices of tiny people say. Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and do not dismiss a movie until you have made one, and do not dismiss a person until you have met them. It is a fuckload of work to be open-minded and generous and understanding and forgiving and accepting, but Christ, that is what matters. What matters is saying yes.
I say yes, and Wayne Coyne says yes, and if that makes us the enemy, then good, good, good. We are evil people because we want to live and do things. We are on the wrong side because we should be home, calculating which move would be the least damaging to our downtown reputations. But I say yes because I am curious. I want to see things. I say yes when my high school friend tells me to come out because he's hanging with Puffy. A real story, that. I say yes when Hollywood says they'll give me enough money to publish a hundred different books, or send twenty kids through college. Saying no is so fucking boring.
And if anyone wants to hurt me for that, or dismiss me for that, for saying yes, I say Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers, finally, finally, finally.
Dave Eggers on 'selling out'
Taken from an article in Harpers entitled Are You Taking Any Steps to Keep Shit Real
Ah, finally. For an entire week other annual reviews have been posted with scant regard to the potential of the final days of the year. It's almost as though so much will be consumed at Christmas that physically moving, let alone creating outstanding memories, will be totally impossible.
Still, I thought it prudent to wait until the year turned, seeing as my Christmas dinner was a tasty yet flimsy beef taco on an African beach and learning to kitesurf carries a daily threat of either amusement or pain. So without further ado, I'm going to kick off 2014 with a look back at 2013.
Things started in unique fashion. I'd accepted the offer of accommodation in Newport Beach, California for Christmas and New Year, as well as the price of said shelter: looking after a loveable labradoodle named Max who was very fond of destroying entire rolls of toilet paper, and my underwear.
The next stop was Memphis, Tennessee, where I distributed the first batch of Say Yes More headwear amongst a group of people for whom I have great fondness.
We were brought together by a big river the previous year, and down that river was paddling another friend, Rod Wellington, who having kayaked the entire Missouri River was now moving slowly towards the Gulf, en route to becoming the second person and first North American to paddle the 3800 mile Mississippi Missouri waterway. We popped him back into the chilly river in Cape Giradeau, Missouri, and I caught a lift up to St Louis with Donn Ganim, who had looked after both Rod and I when we passed through on our journeys.
I'd been invited to give a short address to some students at the New City School, St Louis, an innovative hotbed of education that was also home to some of the tiniest people on the planet, if the furniture was to be believed. One of the teachers, Claire Reinbold, seemed to be at a crossroads, a desirous time where adventure is often the best medicine, I advised. A few months later she crossed the USA on a bicycle.
And then to the UK. January and February is Outdoor Show season and it was time to deliver some adventurous tales and officially launch Say Yes More as a brand in the UK. With the help of my adventurous head intern Oli Milroy, a satisfying clutch of patrons left the Adventure Travel Show in Kensington Olympia wearing a big fat YES!
I've never been so good at Winter in the cold sense, so a plan began hatching. I needed to write a book so I decided to go somewhere I couldn't speak the language, I figured this would reduce the chance of distraction. On my first day in Malaga, Spain I found what I was looking for: a coffee shop with attitude.
El Ultimo Mono Coffee and Juice became my haunt. For 8 hours a day I tapped away, slowly completing my third book with the support of Victor and Sergio, Chief Monkeys Nos. 1 & 2, who sponsored me with a coffee and a muffin every day.
Not long before I left Malaga an email appeared in my inbox. 'It's ready,' wrote Miguel Endara, who had been editing a short film about an expedition I'd completed in mid 2012. The resultant Swim1000 was 9 minutes of genius, a beautiful legacy to what was a pretty tough trip. If you get a chance to watch it please leave a comment and give Miguel some virtual applause.
Swim 1000 from Miguel Endara on Vimeo.
In late April two things happened. The first was reported to me by my good friend Danny, who once drove behind me for five months when I was on a skateboard. 'It's Number One!' he texted. My third book, Life in the Slow Lane, had been released on Amazon Kindle and before the day was out had climbed to Number 1 on the Adventure Chart.
A couple of days later, face still wide with smile, I began the 8th expedition of my Expedition1000 project. Everest Mountaineer Squash Falconer and I left Everton Football Club on ElliptiGO elliptical bicycles and made our way across Europe.
In Switzerland we went our separate ways after I ruptured a disc in my back carrying the ElliptiGO down some steps. A silly, innocuous incident that meant that my own expedition would be cut short. I battled on, slowly losing energy, and eventually succumbed to pain and common sense after 1970 miles. Liverpool to Nice by ElliptiGO, Journey No. 8.
Recovery began with the lady in my life in the glorious Swiss mountain village of Vals. During her days as an architecture student, Emily had always wanted to visit the famous Therme Vals baths, created by Peter Zumthor. Typically, the week we visited the Therme was shut for refurbishment but the view from our second-choice hotel wasn't too shabby.
Later in the month my brother Andy would visit Zurich and complete his first Ironman Triathlon. I just love this picture, with my Mum in the background about to jump skywards. Such a proud moment.
It's happened before. Children's TV show wants the most bizarre of nautical contraptions to feature, and my phone rings. 'Would you be able to come and ride an Aquaskipper for us?' Of course, I answered in the positive and off we went to Hunstanton to film an episode of WILD with Tim Worwood, Naomi Wilkinson and Radzi Chinyanyanya.
A relatively chilled month in the UK was rounded off by a day on the Thames building a raft out of bamboo, with none other than the CEO of BAM Bamboo Clothing Dave Gordon. Although our final product wasn't quite seaworthy, a long journey might have had its seed sown on that day.
Finally, the Life in the Slow Lane Paperback was released and, like its electronic sibling, went straight to Number 1 in the Amazon Adventure chart. In the scheme of things, as charts are largely based on recent sales, there was only so long we'd hold onto the top spot, but it was vindication of the decision to turn down offers from publishing houses and self publish again. One of the most satisfying moments of my life. YES!
With hindsight, I needed to give my back more than 7 weeks to recover but still, I gingerly partook in Game for a Future to help raise over £6000 for mosquito nets and educational facilities in East Africa. After 46 hours of non-stop football, we had a new world record!
'I want it to be a high brow afternoon,' my brother requested of his stag do. I duly forced him to dress up in a chimp costume and punt down the Cam. He later danced in front of a dustbin that contained a busker. Standard.
The Adventure Travel Film Festival in Dorset was a bit unlucky to have an entire day of rain, and although Ben Fogle's opening speech was great and the general atmosphere of the event will have me returning year after year, the highlight was a storming introduction before my own lecture by the Show's overall'd curator Austin Vince, who said, 'If Dave had charged us what he's worth he'd be sitting at home right now with a pot noodle.'
Off to Greece for a small family wedding in a villa with a swimming pool and a tennis court. Thank god my brother turned out to be marriage material. Beautiful day, beautiful week.
In thanks partly to a dodgy back and my brother's wedding commitments meaning I couldn't organise a big old expedition this Summer, a smaller project began to take shape. 50 Ways to Make £50 was all about showing that one person with an open mind can make money in a lot of different ways. Thanks to Kirsty Cavill and Donna Jordan, a few jobs started to flow, and my odd summer was summed up in mid September when I was a bootcamp instructor one day, and a zookeeper feeding bears jam sandwiches in Dartmoor Zoo the next.
Having been taking a photo of my face since the first day of January 2011, the 27th September 2013 was momentus, Day 1000, spent en route to a festival in the Peak District with my better half. The memory-creating project was complete, and although I decided to carry on the project for, well…forever, the video of the first 1000 days was a treat.
A long standing offer to go and visit our friends in Poland was finally accepted, and mainly involved a fortnight of being looked after very well, plus a bit of football with Nelly the dog.
My friend Sean Conway was swimming the length of Britain, along with the marvellous Emily Bell who had looked after me on my own swim the previous year. After 4 months of making their way up the coast they were closing in on their finish point in northern Scotland, and I decided to go and find them in the most remote spot possible. SO worth it! They finished a week later, incredible effort.
I continued my quest to find 50 Ways to Make £50 with a few more jobs, including cleaning an airport, making some bricks, tidying up a garden, being an accountant for a day, stand up paddle board instructing and possibly my favourite (and definitely most nerve-wracking) job of the month, Karate Sensei.
The Explore weekend at the Royal Geographical Society is always an inspiring get together, and to see Em's art on display, and then up on stage nailing the opening lecture on the Friday night was probably my proudest moment of the year.
A week later I finally had the chance to speak at the Lost Lectures, a creative gathering for which the location is kept secret until the last minute. It was definitely a first for me, entertaining a crowd of 700 from a boxing ring!
The year has ended in wonderful, unique fashion. A good recharge was necessary and we found the perfect spot, Zanzibar. Staying at the effortlessly cool Red Monkey Lodge in Jambiani, we've been building up our sleep credit, polishing off old projects and starting new ones, enjoying being part of a barefoot community and all the while sharing the habitat with Red Colobus monkeys as they swing and jump above us. Sometimes, they even come into the office…
2014 has much in store. There doesn't look like much resting time, and I'm particularly excited about some new expeditions. In April I'll be taking on the Atacama desert in Chile by Whike…
…and then, assuming I make decent progress in my training these last weeks in Zanzibar, a couple of months in late 2014 will be spent kitesurfing at least 1000 miles along another South American coastline, in Brazil.
So, enough looking backwards, it's now time to make another epic year count. Keep saying yes more, and if you have the time in between your own adventures you can follow mine on Facebook, Twitter, through my monthly email newsletter and on my website.
Have a brilliant 2014, start off as you mean to go on and if there's anything I can do to help you set off on your own new adventure, just drop me a line.
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One of Duke/Fuqua's two essays this year is actually a numbered list: "25 Random Things About Yourself." Definitely the only essay from any school that even approaches fun. (Haas asks for the song that defines you best as a person, which sounds like it could be fun but is actually turning out to be just as torturous as all the others.) In the list, Fuqua asks for "important life experiences, your likes/dislikes, hobbies, achievements, fun facts, or anything that helps us understand what makes you who you are."
The first draft of my 25 is below. Subsequent drafts were increasingly MBA-ified, and I still wrote the first draft knowing that a b-school adcomm was my audience, obviously, so it's less random (read: fun &/or quirky) than it might have otherwise been. But representative nonetheless, and I genuinely had fun compiling it. I encourage everyone out there to do one yourself, and share it on Tumblr if that's your bag.
- My first nephew, Leo, was born in February. On a related note, I think there should be a gender neutral word for niece/nephew, like "sibling" or "parent," so that when you tell people your first nephew was born, they can assume there isn't also a cute little niece already toddling around.
- Mostly to see if still had it in me, I picked up chess again in 2002 for the first time since I was a child and started competing in local tournaments. With a lot of study and practice, I eventually worked my way to a very respectable 1580 USCF (U.S. Chess Federation) rating.
- I'm a citizen of Colbert Nation. When I lived in New York, I got to see The Report filmed live; I also attended the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, DC in 2010.
- I once made it into Amsterdam and then halfway across Europe on an expired passport. I was eventually caught at the Slovakian-Hungarian border and sent back to Bratislava, where I had to spend the weekend while I waited for the embassy to open and process a new passport for me.
- One thing all my friends know about me: I'm obsessed with The New Yorker. When I lived in New York, I attended the New Yorker Festival every year, and I've won Honorable Mention twice in TNY's weekly Twitter contest, "Questioningly" (#TNYquestion). I'll probably be buried with an issue of the magazine. Before that happens, though, I'd like to get at least one humor piece published in "Shouts & Murmurs."
- Also on the bucket list: learn to sail, set foot inside the top of a lighthouse, compete on Jeopardy!, visit Antarctica, and marry Natalie Portman.
- My great-grandfather, Morris Wolman, walked across Europe—from Russia to the west coast of Europe—by himself when he was 13 years old. It was the first leg of a long journey that included stops in England and South Africa before ultimately landing in Baltimore, where he settled. I never met him, but I heard stories from my grandfather about his generosity, business acumen, tenacity, and gentleness—a rare combination. He remains an inspiration to me to this day.
- A state finalist in cross-country in high school, I put on 10-15 pounds after college due to a chronic illness and a suddenly slower metabolism. In 2004, I decided to work my way back into racing form, and that fall I finished 8th out of more than 4,000 competitors at San Francisco's Komen Race for the Cure 5K.
- I am a Wednesday/Thursday/Sunday New York Times crossword solver.
- The West Valley Walkathon was the biggest event of the year at my elementary school. Each October, every student would solicit per-mile donations from parents, parents' friends, neighbors, et al., and then walk or jog laps around the school, collectively raising upwards of $50,000 or $60,000. In 3rd grade, I decided to try to win. I did, alternately walking, jogging, and limping 30 miles in seven hours. The next year, I won again, this time with 32 miles. The year after that, I set the school record (since broken, I've heard) with 34 miles. (In 6th grade, I "stepped aside" to help my friend Matthew, who had finished second several times, finally win.) My most vivid memories are not of the awards ceremonies or the prizes (though the football autographed by the Super Bowl XXIII champion 49ers was pretty cool) but rather of the Walkathons themselves and the days afterward, which inevitably involved aching feet in buckets of ice and muscles so stiff I lumbered around like a 10-year-old Frankenstein monster.
- I can juggle.
- In New York, I went on one date with a former girlfriend of 2006 American League MVP Justin Morneau. I was MVP of my 8th-grade basketball team. I told her that. She seemed unimpressed.
- I've raised more than $1,000 for cancer research over the past several years by running in charity 5K's and growing mustaches for "Movember."
- I have visited more than three dozen countries on five continents, including three former dictatorships (Uganda, Cambodia & the Philippines) and one current one (Belarus).
- To diversify my investments, I bought a three-bedroom house in Goodyear, Arizona with a friend in 2005. Bad timing on that one.
- When I arrived in Shanghai, I started a blog on Tumblr to share my experiences with friends and family who might be interested. To my surprise, I now have more than 130 followers, 90% of whom are complete strangers, and last month "Hai from Shanghai" was named the gold medal winner in the China category by ExpatsBlog.com.
- Both my fourth toes dogleg inward and curl under my third toes. My grandmother had the same "defect," so everyone in my family assumes this is genetic. On a similar note, I can turn my tongue upside-down, which my dad can also do but most people can't. Again, we assume it's genetic.
- I played piano for ten years as a child. Despite possessing no natural talent whatsoever, I was eventually able to play some challenging pieces, including Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53. Since I don't have access to a piano in Shanghai, I bought a guitar and started taking lessons when I moved here. I'm still terrible.
- My uncle and his daughter have both appeared on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Uncle Fred won $32,000 on the original show with Regis; Cousin Elise won $16,000 on the syndicated version.
- I have skydived in the Swiss Alps, camped on the Great Wall of China, spent an hour with a family of mountain gorillas in the Ugandan rainforest, and fired pistols at a transvestite cabaret theater that daylights as a firing range (yes, you read that right) in Thailand.
- Even though I'm an awful golfer — my handicap is so high, I don't think it even qualifies as an official handicap — I have pulled off something many accomplished golfers never do: an eagle. The week before I left for Duke, my dad took me golfing, and on one short par-4, I drove the green and then putted in from the fringe for a 2.
- My cousin Todd, a math genius, was one of four members of the winning U.S. team at the 2004 World Puzzle Championships. When I learned about the event, I instantly became fascinated by these "Mind Olympians" and thought more people should know about them, so in 2008 I flew to Minsk to cover the World Championships as a reporter. Besides experiencing an interesting week (and terrible Belorussian food), I also got to meet and interview The New York Times's famous crossword editor, Will Shortz.
- I'm a big A's and 49ers fan, and a rabid Duke basketball fan.
- My paternal grandfather, the last of my living grandparents, died last February, one month from his 100th birthday. He did, however, live to see his first great-grandchild born.
- My online-dating handle is "The Male Liz Lemon." If I have to explain that one, we probably weren't meant to be. Don't cry — you'll meet someone else someday.


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We have an internal Java library, that for legacy reasons, needs to be compiled using Java 1.4. However, this lib has gone through several versions, the latter of which have had certain methods and objects deprecated. For client support reasons, the code needs to use some of these deprecated methods/objects. As such, we always keep the latest lib on the build path of our projects (in Eclipse).
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The Chinese financial system's evolution in recent years has been extraordinary. I have observed its transformation as a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).Back in 2002, all of China's major banks were awash in non-performing loans (NPLs), which in some cases amounted to more than ten per cent of the total balance sheet. None of the major banks met even the Basel I standards for capital adequacy.
Few financiers in London or New York could have named any bank other than Bank of China, which was often wrongly thought to be the central bank. And to suggest that the United States Federal Reserve, or the United Kingdom's Financial Services Authority, might have anything to learn from China's financial authorities would have been thought absurd.Less than a decade later, much has changed. The old NPL problem was resolved, primarily by establishing asset-management companies to take over doubtful assets, and injecting new capital into the commercial banks.
Now, reported NPLs amount to little more than one per cent of assets. Foreign partners have been brought in to transfer skills, and minority shareholdings have been floated. Current valuations put four Chinese banks in the global top ten by market capitalisation. They are now expanding overseas, fortified by their strong capital backing.Of course, challenges remain.
Even in China there is no magic potion that can revive a loan to a defunct exporter. And China's big banks have lent large sums, willingly or otherwise, to local governments for infrastructure projects - many of them of dubious economic value.
There is an ever-present risk that the property market might one day collapse, though banks would emerge in better shape than have banks in the US and the UK, because much speculative investment has been funded with cash, or with only modest leverage. The authorities in Beijing, especially the CBRC and the People's Bank of China (the real central bank), have a good record of managing incipient booms and busts, and I would not bet against their success this time.
They have considerable flexibility, owing to a range of policy tools, including variable capital and reserve requirements and direct controls on mortgage lending terms. They have already been tightening the screws on credit growth for several months, with positive effects.It would be flattering to think that this turnaround in China's financial system been attributable to the wise counsels of foreign advisers. But, while external influences have been helpful in some ways - the stimulus of Basel I and II strengthened the hands of those in Beijing determined to clean up the banking system - the Chinese now, not unreasonably, treat advice from the City of London and Wall Street with some scepticism.
China setting an example for the WestFor example, recent criticism of Asian regulators by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is viewed across the region with scorn, not to mention incredulity. A little more humility is in order, given US regulators' performance in the run-up to the crisis. People who live in glass houses should not throw even rhetorical stones.The most interesting development is that we can now see increasing convergence in the regulatory philosophies and toolkits in Beijing, London, and New York.
Until the recent near-implosion of Western capitalism, the North Atlantic authorities thought that the end of financial history had been reached. Financial conditions could be controlled with one tool - the short-term interest rate - deployed exclusively in pursuit of a target, implicit or explicit, for consumer price inflation.Banks' capital-adequacy ratios were set globally, and, once set, remained fixed. Otherwise, the market knew best.
Banks had their own incentives to lend wisely, and controls on lending would necessarily prove ineffective. By contrast, in China, all aspects of a bank's business were directly overseen. Indeed, most banks were under the sway of the central bank.Now, in Beijing, officials see the advantages of a more hands-off approach, and of institutions with a primarily commercial focus. But they have not eschewed the use of variable capital and reserve requirements, loan-to-deposit ratios, and thresholds for minimum deposits and maximum leverage as controls on property lending.Meanwhile, in developed capital markets, we are busily reinventing these "macroprudential instruments", to use the term now in vogue in Basel.
We can now see the utility of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset-price bubbles, where the manipulation of short-term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double-edged sword. An interest-rate rise might take the heat out of the mortgage market, but it will also chill the rest of the economy.Regulatory philosophies are converging, too. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's famous injunction that "you cannot buck the market" was part of the regulatory mindset in the pre-crisis Anglosphere. And former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan resisted any attempts to rein in the animal spirits of the wealth creators on Wall Street.The Chinese were less ideological. They had no compunction about calling a bubble a bubble, or in intervening to deflate it. Now, only Sarah Palin reveres Thatcher's views on all issues, and Greenspan has been airbrushed out of financial history, Chinese-style.When the G7 morphed into the G20 in early 2009, many were understandably worried that, with such a diverse range of participants, coming from such different traditions, it would be difficult to achieve consensus on regulatory matters in the Basel Committee and elsewhere. These concerns turned out to have been overstated.
The elements of a broader consensus on the future role of financial regulation are in place, as long as Americans such as Geithner can resist their constant desire to tell the rest of the world to do as they say, not as they do.Howard Davies, former Chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and former Director of the London School of Economics, is the author of Banking on the Future: The Fall and Rise of Central Banking.
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Sony has started testing a new version of their PlayStation Store that's accessible online. The destination offers a selection of movies, television shows and games available for purchase and download. It's called Sony Entertainment Network and it's online right now despite the fact that the company has yet to make a public announcement about it.
Once it's fully functional (I was having issues connecting earlier), it'll compete with the likes of Microsoft's Xbox media store and other online outlets like Amazon and iTunes that offer the same type of digital content. Pricing should be similar to other outfits based on your home region and you can pay for purchases using a credit card, pre-paid cards and PayPal.
Once you buy something, it will automatically be added to your download queue. You can also have the service start the download automatically granted you've first set up this feature in the Account Management settings. Interestingly enough, I didn't see the US listed as a participating country when I first visited the portal.
As we understand it, all content will be available on the PlayStation 3, the PS Vita and the PSP. Movies and television shows can also be downloaded and watched on computers, Sony tablets and Sony smartphones.
A post on the European PlayStation Blog notes that Sony is planning to announce and officially launch the store soon although no specific date was given. Here's to hoping that it's not a case of too little, too late for Sony in this competitive market.
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That's like ~$64.10 usd lol
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Its not too late at all. The PS Plus subscriber base is huge fo r SONY, so this is just reaching out to a wider user base. I think they will do just fine.
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Now if only you can buy something on the store as a gift for someone?
I wish it was exactly the same as the one on the PS3. The website is too confusing still.
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Following the yellow brick road: how the United States adopted the gold standard
The United States, with some difficulty, adopted the gold standard in the late nineteenth century, thus pegging the dollar to the pound sterling and other currencies. Some have argued it was mistake, others that it was inevitable. This article recounts the historical background and uses a model to shed light on the choices faced by policymakers of the time.Download Info
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Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome that is the leading cause of maternal death during pregnancy in the developed world. In preeclampsia, a combination of immunological, genetic and environmental factors can lead to altered cytotrophoblast (CTB) invasion of the uterine wall, a process that is critical for normal placental development and ...
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Fetuses with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) can be programmed in utero to develop hypertension in adult life. The etiology of IUGR in human fetuses is not uniform. The present study demonstrated that different etiologies of growth restriction, idiopathic cause, and pregnancy-induced hypertension, produce different consistencies in the occurrence of an ...
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BACKGROUND: We report a case of baking soda pica in a woman at 31 weeks of pregnancy causing severe hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and rhabdomyolysis. CASE: A multigravida at 31 weeks of gestation presented with weakness and muscle pain. She was found to have severe hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis and rhabdomyolysis, with ...
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Certain similarities between preeclampsia and insulin resistance syndrome suggest a possible link between the 2 diseases. The aim of our study was to evaluate 3 insulin sensitivity (IS) indexes (fasting homeostasis model assessment IS [ISHOMA], quantitative insulin sensitivity check index [ISQUICKI], and oral glucose IS [OGIS]) early and late in ...
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Despite recent research progress, the biology of preeclampsia is still poorly understood and neither effective prediction nor causal therapy have yet emerged. Nevertheless, recent studies have documented new and exciting pathophysiological mechanisms for the origin and development of preeclampsia. These studies provide a more differentiated view on alterations of particular ...
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to quantify adiponectin levels in women with normal and hypertensive pregnancies to determine whether there is an independent association, while controlling for body fat and insulin sensitivity. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the following categories: 12 normotensive non-pregnant women, 10 normotensive, ...
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A one-year longitudinal study was conducted at Tikur Anbessa central referral Hospital to assess the prevalence of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), to see the socio-demographic and clinical parameters and pregnancy outcome of pregnancies afflicted by these complications. Out of 3424 deliveries conducted during the study period, 183 (5.3%) mothers ...
Kobashi Gen - - 2006
Hypertension in pregnancy (HP), one of the most common causes of perinatal deaths, is a multifactorial disease with genetic and environmental factors involved in its etiology. We have carried out molecular epidemiologic research with the purpose of (1) identifying gene variants associated with HP in Japanese women, and (2) analyzing ...
Henry Frédérique - - 2006
The profound endocrine upheaval of pregnancy is frequently associated with changes in the function and structure of the blood and lymph microvasculature of the skin and mucosae. Palmar erythema is frequent but rarely severe and is associated with burning sensations. Spider telangiectasias develop in the majority of pregnant White women ...
Puschett Jules B - - 2006
Preeclampsia is a disorder which is responsible for significant maternal morbidity and mortality as well as fetal wastage. Its pathogenesis remains obscure and its only treatment is the delivery of the placenta and the fetus. Over time it has become clear that this syndrome is not a single disease but ...
Ziaei Saeideh - - 2006
BACKGROUND: The etiology and pathogenesis of hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy are poorly understood, and the definition of these disorders is controversial. METHODS: In a prospective study, 470 primigravida women between 28 and 32 weeks of pregnancy were evaluated for serum levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein ...
Lygnos M C - - 2006
BACKGROUND: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1), endothelin-1 (ET-1) and soluble c-kit ligand (sKL) are cytokines involved in embryogenesis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Maternal plasma cytokines were measured with ELISA during the three trimesters of gestation and on the day of delivery in ...
Levario-Carrillo Margarita - - 2006
OBJECTIVE: To determine the body composition of women with the diagnoses of gestational hypertension or preeclampsia. METHODS: Cross-sectional study, including four groups of patients who were in the third trimester: those with an uncomplicated pregnancy (n = 110), those with a diagnosis of gestational hypertension (n = 38), those with ...
Jacquemyn Y - - 2006
PURPOSE: Recent studies have questioned the relationship between low birthweight and hypertension in pregnancy, especially in term pregnancies. We aimed to analyse the influence of chronic hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension and superimposed preeclampsia on birth weight in singleton pregnancies at different gestational ages. METHODS: Between January 1, 2001 and December ...
Kwiatkowski S - - 2006
BACKGROUND: Hypertension that develops after 20 gestational weeks and is defined as pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH). The main cause of PIH is vasoconstriction and the thickening of vascular media, which decreases vascular capacity and increases peripheral resistance. One of the theories postulated to explain this phenomenon is that a transmembrane sodium ...
Baier V - - 2006
Discrete hidden Markov models (HMMs) were applied to classify pregnancy disorders. The observation sequence was generated by transforming RR and systolic blood pressure time series using symbolic dynamics. Time series were recorded from 15 women with pregnancy-induced hypertension, 34 with preeclampsia and 41 controls beyond 30th gestational week. HMMs with ...
Gu Haihua - - 2006
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the maternal hemodynamic changes that occurs during pregnancy. To find out the difference that lie in healthy pregnancy and women with gestational hypertension. To introduce a method that is applied to shift high-risk women of gestational hypertension in pregnancy women. METHOD: Serial hemodynamic investigations (total 8 times) ...
Hupuczi Petronella - - 2006
AIM: In this study, we investigated the course of subsequent pregnancies in patients with HELLP syndrome and the development of chronic maternal diseases. RESULTS: The study population consisted of 50 patients who were treated for HELLP syndrome at 1(st) Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Semmelweis University between January 1, 1995 ...
Sayin M?ge - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of natural coagulation inhibitors in various classifications of pregnancy associated hypertension in Turkish population living in Trakya region of Turkey. STUDY DESIGN: Serum uric acid levels, plasma protein C (PC), protein S (PS), antithrombin III (AT III) activities and activated protein C resistance (APCR) were ...
Schipper Elbert-Jaap I - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is thought to play a role in immune activation in preeclampsia. The objective of this study was to establish if soluble TNF-receptor I (sTNF-rI) levels relate to the onset and severity of preeclampsia. METHODS: Maternal plasma sTNF-rI levels were studied throughout pregnancy in 68 women ...
Ianosi-Irimie Monica - - 2005
Preeclampsia/eclampsia is a disorder of human pregnancy that continues to exact significant maternal morbidity and mortality and fetal wastage. Therapy of these disorders has not changed in over 50 years and there are no proven preventive measures. We describe a model of the development of a syndrome in the pregnant ...
Robins J B - - 2005
This study evaluates the relationship between the first trimester assessment of maternal rheology and the subsequent development of pregnancy induced hypertension. This is a prospective observational study based in the Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital, Scotland. From an original population of 744 consecutive antenatal attendees a total of 579 women were ...
Egerman Robert S - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the percentage of hypertensive disease in pregnancies complicated by systemic lupus erythematosus at a single institution. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a retrospective analysis of medical records between 1992 and 2003 of 68 pregnancies that were complicated by systemic lupus erythematosus from ...
Vasiliou D Marie - - 2005
BACKGROUND: Goodpasture syndrome, an immunologic disorder characterized by glomerulonephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage, rarely presents in pregnancy. CASE: We describe a patient who was diagnosed with Goodpasture syndrome in her second trimester. She required daily hemodialysis, intermittent plasmapheresis, and immunosuppressive therapy. Her pregnancy was complicated by hypertension, and she delivered a ...
Frishman William H - - 2005
Hypertension in pregnancy includes a group of distinct disorders that require special consideration in both prevention and pharmacologic treatment. In recent years, there have been few advances regarding the pathophysiology and prevention of preeclampsia or in the recommendations for first-line drug therapy for its hypertensive complications. Similarly, the recommendations for ...
Spasojevic Mica - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: To compare peripheral pulse pressure waveforms in normal pregnancy, gestational hypertension (GH) and pre-eclampsia (PE). DESIGN: Comparative study. SETTING: Tertiary referral teaching hospital. SAMPLE: Women with hypertensive disease in pregnancy and matched normal pregnant controls. METHODS: Women in the third trimester of pregnancy with newly developed PE (n= 27) ...
Bendayan Daniele - - 2005
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is contraindicated in cases of pulmonary hypertension, a highly morbid disease affecting young women of childbearing age. CASES: We describe the pregnancies of 3 patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (idiopathic, Eisenmenger syndrome, and related to systemic lupus erythematosus). They received epoprostenol and low-molecular-weight heparin throughout pregnancy. The patient ...
Day Misty C - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence and effect of pregnancy-related hypertensive conditions on multiple gestations. METHODS: Women with 1-4 fetuses enrolled in an outpatient perinatal services program at 28 or more weeks of gestation were identified. Those without a prior diagnosis of hypertension at enrollment and who delivered at more than ...
Wikström Anna-Karin - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the risk of developing ischaemic heart disease (IHD) later in life increases with severity and recurrence of gestational hypertensive disease. DESIGN: Cross-sectional population-based study. SETTING: Sweden. POPULATION: Women (403,550) giving birth to their first child in Sweden, 1973-1982. Of this ...
Gack Sabine - - 2005
Preeclampsia is a multisystemic pregnancy-associated disease affecting about 3-7% of pregnancies worldwide and is still a principal cause of fetal and maternal morbidity and mortality. To identify potential markers, we have compared gene expression profiles from control and preeclamptic placental tissues taken at various age-matched gestational stages using complementary DNA ...
Roberts James M - - 2005
Gestational hypertension is differentiated into higher and lower risk by the presence or absence of proteinuria. We asked if hyperuricemia, a common finding in pregnancy hypertension, might also be an indicator of increased risk. We examined fetal outcome data from 972 pregnancies collected from 1997 to 2002 in a nested ...
Roberts James M - - 2005
Preeclampsia is a pregnancy complication with serious consequences for mother and infant. The disorder is diagnosed by gestational hypertension and proteinuria but is far more than pregnancy induced hypertension. Preeclampsia is proposed to occur in 2 stages. Stage 1 reduced placental perfusion is postulated as the root cause and to ...
Mindikoglu Ayse L - - 2005
We report a 26-year-old woman with congenital hepatic fibrosis (CHFib), adult polycystic kidney disease, type II diabetes mellitus, and von Willebrand disease, who despite persistent advice to the contrary because of severe portal hypertension, had 5 pregnancies delivering 6 healthy infants over 8 yr. During this time, she experienced several ...
Chittacharoen Apichart - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: To compare the incidence, severity and pregnancy outcomes of pregnancy induced hypertension in twins and singleton gestations. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The cohort study enrolled 305 twins and 298 singleton gestations at Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand between January 1996 and ...
Ganzevoort Wessel - - 2005
OBJECTIVES: Plasma volume expansion may benefit both mother and child in the temporising management of severe and early onset hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. DESIGN: Randomised clinical trial. Setting Two university hospitals in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. POPULATION: Two hundred and sixteen patients with a gestational age between 24 and 34 completed ...
Saleh M M - - 2005
This study is based on an audit designed to investigate observance of the guideline on pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) and referral to the day assessment unit (DAU) at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. The audit included 60 patients; all were first time referrals, over a period of 4 months in 2003. ...
Kamari Yehuda - - 2005
BACKGROUND: Pheochromocytoma, a rare and usually curable cause of hypertension, is characterized by symptoms and signs related to increased catecholamine secretion. Pregnancy can elicit clinical manifestations of otherwise unrecognized pheochromocytoma. METHODS AND RESULTS: Four women, ranging in age from 27 to 37 years, were referred to the hypertension clinic with ...
Mugo Maryann - - 2005
Hypertension in pregnancy contributes significantly to both maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Among different forms of pregnancy-associated hypertension, preeclampsia-eclampsia has the highest impact on morbidity and mortality. Chronic hypertension may result in preterm and small for gestational age infants, even when it is mild-to-moderate. Chronic hypertension is a risk ...
Carro-Jiménez Eric J - - 2005
Primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is a disorder intrinsic to the pulmonary vascular bed characterized by sustained elevation in pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance with normal pulmonary artery wedge pressure, in the absence of a known cause. Cardiovascular disorders are the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in ...
Vidaeff Alex C - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: Obstetrical hypertensive emergencies are life-threatening conditions involving significant risk to both the mother and fetus. Aggressive treatment of the maternal hypertensive state requires an initial consideration of the effect of treatment on the fetus, via changes to the uteroplacental circulation with treatment. The challenge then is to correct blood ...
Stelmach Tiina - - 2005
Establishing consistency between cerebral palsy registries in reporting of new cases enables more effective collaboration in terms of researching predisposing factors. To identify antenatal and intrapartum risk factors for cerebral palsy in the Estonian population, we undertook a matched case-control study of 153 children with cerebral palsy, ascertained from a ...
Feinberg Jeffrey H - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: To determine the perinatal outcome in pregnancies with maternal hypoglycemia following a second trimester oral glucose challenge test (GCT). STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case-control study of pregnancies undergoing a second trimester 1-hour oral glucose challenge test (GCT). Hypoglycemic pregnancies (<88 mg/dl) were matched with pregnancies with 1-hour glucoses of >88 ...
Ghanem M E - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: To present our 15 years' experience in the management of 67 pregnancies in renal allograft recipients in Egypt. METHODS: A retrospective study of 67 pregnancies that occurred in 41 renal allograft recipients over the last 15 years. The study was performed in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Nephrology ...
D'Anna Rosario - - 2005
OBJECTIVE: Adiponectin is an exclusively adipose tissue-derived protein. Low plasma adiponectin levels have been found in hypertensive men. Our objective was to evaluate whether low first-trimester plasma adiponectin values were predictive of hypertensive disorders later in pregnancy. METHODS: A nested case-control study was carried out on a cohort of 1,842 ...
Vendemmia Maria - - 2005
Sartans are selective type 1 angiotensin II receptor-antagonists that are used in the treatment of arterial hypertension. Few reports are available concerning the use of sartans during pregnancy. We report two cases of adverse fetal outcome in hypertensive pregnancies exposed to sartans. In the first case, anamnios and fetal renal ...
Zhong Xiao Yan - - 2005
INTRODUCTION: Elevations in circulatory DNA, as measured by real-time PCR, have been observed in pregnancies with manifest preeclampsia. Recent reports have indicated that circulatory nucleosome levels are elevated in the periphery of cancer patients. We have now examined whether circulatory nucleosome levels are similarly elevated in cases with preeclampsia. METHODS: ...
Merchant Anwar T - - 2005
Hypertension during pregnancy increases fetal growth retardation, preterm deliveries, and perinatal deaths, and yet its causes remain unclear. In HIV-infected women, preterm birth additionally increases the risk of HIV transmission to the infant. Oxidative stress and endothelial cell dysfunction of the placenta have been implicated in the development of hypertension ...
Bar J - - 2005
Preeclampsia has been suggested to be a two-stage disorder of an alteration in placental perfusion (stage 1) leading to generalized vascular endothelial damage (stage 2). Because the mechanism linking the two stages remains unclear, effective primary prevention is still impossible. However, advances made in our understanding of the pathophysiology of ...
Shaarawy Mohamed - - 2005
OBJECTIVES: To investigate feto-maternal bone turnover in normal pregnancy and preeclampsia and to test the hypothesis whether the reported low bone mass at birth in small-for-gestational age infants is associated with decreased bone formation or increased bone resorption. METHODS: Thirty-two patients with preeclampsia (17 mild and 15 severe) and 20 ...
Elliot C A - - 2005
In patients with pulmonary hypertension, pregnancy is associated with a high risk of maternal death. Such patients are counselled to avoid pregnancy, or if it occurs, are offered early interruption. Some patients, however, decide to continue with their pregnancy and others may present with symptoms for the first time whilst ...
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What would be the equivalent of ERD for a NoSQL database such as MongoDB?
It looks like you asked a similar question on Quora. As mentioned there, the ERD is simply a mapping of the data you intend to store and the relations amongst that data. You can still make an ERD with MongoDB as you still want to track the data and the relations. The big difference is that MongoDB has no joins, so when you translate the ERD into an actual schema you'll have to make some specific decisions about implement the relationships. In particular, you'll need to make the "embed vs. reference" decision when deciding how this data will actually be stored. Relations are still allowed, just not enforced. Many of the wrappers for MongoDB actually provide lookups across collections to abstract some of this complexity. Even though MongoDB does not enforce a schema, it's not recommended to proceed completely at random. Modeling the data you expect to have in the system is still a really good idea and that's what the ERD provides you. So I guess the equivalent to the ERD is the ERD? |
I know of no standard means of diagramming document-oriented "schema". I'm sure you could use an ERD to map out your schemata but since document databases do not truly support--or more importantly enforce--relationships between data, it would only be as useful as your code was disciplined to internally enforce such relationships. |
You could just use a UML class diagram instead too. |
I have been thinking about the same issue for quite some time. And I came to the following conclusion: If NoSQL databases are generally schemaless, you don't actually have a 'schema' to illustrate in a diagram. Thus, I think you should take a "by example" approach. You could draw some mindmaps exemplifying how your data would look like when stored in a NoSQL DB such as MongoDB. And since these databases are very dynamic you could also create some derived mindmaps to show how the data from today could evolve in time. Take a look at this topic too. |
You should also take a look at this: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/data-modeling/ |


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satanclaus - 7:13 pm on Jan 31, 2002 (gmt 0)
Wow Rob thats the most in depth I've ever seen anyone take find. Very useful as well. I've never put that much thought into my use of find mainly because most of my experience has been w/ relatively small BSD or Linux machines. A great reference. I hope I haven't been making my universities Admin too crazy with my broad searches of his filesystem. :)