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Early 2000s. The first units of the present-day Afghan National Army were established in late 2002. The training classes were battalion-sized units, called Kandaks, and consisted of 500-900 men. The very first battalion (1st Battalion, Afghan National Guard) was trained by personnel from the British Army. Subsequent trainers were Special Forces detachments from 1st Battalion 3rd Special Forces Group followed by 5th Battalion 19th Special Forces. Once trained a Kandak would be deployed, advised and assisted by a Special Forces detachment from the CJSOTF-A, to different parts of the country. In the early 2000s training was conducted at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC). Conditions were harsh with little equipment for the recruits (uniforms, boots, weapons, etc.) and buildings with no heat. The pay was a paltry $30 a month and desertion rates were extremely high.
Vetting of Recruits. Current procedures (instituted in March 2011) for vetting recruits for the ANSF is an eight-step process. This includes: (see 2.)
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(Afghan identity card)
Organization. The Afghan National Army has six corps headquarters and two Capital divisions (111th and 112th). In addition to the infantry units there are military police, intelligence, route clearance (for IEDs), combat support, medical, aviation, and logistic units. Each ANA corps has on average 3 to 4 brigades to include a Corps Engineer Kandak, Military Intelligence Kandak, and other varied support units. In addition, some corps are now being augmented with a Mobile Strike Force (MSF). Each ANA brigade has 4-6 infantry kandaks, one Combat Support Kandak (CSK), and one Combat Service Support Kandak (CSSK).
Constant Turnover of ANA. One of the big problems is the high constant turnover of members of the Afghan National Army. This is caused by two factors - the high desertion rate and low re-enlistment rate. 3. Not only does this drive costs up for recruitment efforts but it increases the cost of the training effort and decreases the effectiveness of the ANA. A third of the Army's force has to be recruited and trained every year. Currently the ANA is about 195,000 strong (as of October 2012).
Desertions. There are many reasons cited for the high desertion rate and lack of second termers - including poor pay, corrupt officers, lack of equipment, sub-standard living conditions, terrible medical care, and the pressure of the Taliban and chance of dying in combat. 7.
Training of the Afghan National Army (ANA). The NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan (NTM-A) is responsible for assisting the Ministry of Defense (MoD) with the training of the ANA. The NTM-A website can be accessed here. The NTM-A mission statement reads as follows "NTM-A suppports ISAF to enable accountable, Afghan led security not later than 31 December 2014". Hmmmmm. Let's just say there is lots more work to be done before December 2014. Office cadet training is taking place at a training facility near Kabul informally called 'Sandhurst in the Sand'; the official name is the Afghan National Army Officer Academy or ANA-OA.
Afghan National Army Special Operations Command (ANASOC). The Afghan National Army Commandos and Afghan National Army Special Forces come under the command and control of ANASOC. As of spring 2015 there were ten Special Operations Kandaks.
Afghan Army Air Corps. The Afghan Army Air Corps was at one time part of the ANA. The air component has now been redesignated as the Afghan Air Force or AAF. The Afghan Air Force was created in 2007 and currently (as of Fall 2013) has more than 6,000 personnel. It has a variety of aircraft to include helicopters and light fix-wing aircraft.
Logistics of the ANA. One of the shortfalls of the ANA is its poor logistical system. Although it has made progress in it's ability to provide its units with material, supply, food, and ammunition it still has a long way to go to be ready by the end of 2014. Glowing reports from ISAF and NTM-A about how the ANA logistical system is up and running should be tempered with regard to 'from the field' reporting from company, battalion, and brigade level Battle Space Owners (BSOs), Battle Space Integrators (BSIs), Security Force Assistance Advisory Teams (SFAATs), and advisors about how far behind the ANA logistics and maintenance programs are in being self-sufficient without coalition assistance.
Literacy. One of the biggest challenges for the Afghan National Army is literacy. Currently, as of April 2014, less than 20 percent of the Afghans in the army are functionally literate. This means that more than 80 percent cannot read written orders or write reports. 4. While the Nato Training Mission - Afghanistan (NTM-A) has a literacy training program the results have been criticized by observers. 5.
Artillery. The main gun for the ANA is the 122 mm D-30 howitzer. Usually 6-8 of these artillery pieces are found at the brigade level. Learn more about the 122-mm D-30.
ANA Tank Battalion. The Afghan National Army has one tank battalion - part of the 111th Division located in the Kabul area. The tank battalion has about 44 T-55 and T-62 tanks. At any given time about 20 tanks can actually work and as many as 6 have been used in operations in the Kabul area. There is a rudimentary logistics and maintenance program - Afghan style - that keeps the tanks running. This is basically canabilizing old tank hulks found throughout the country. The need for tanks in a counterinsurgency war is diminished - therefore the lack of support by the international community for this tank battalion.
National Engineer Brigade. The Afghan Army's national level engineer brigade was established in recent years but has had a troubled start. See a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) about the Afghan National Engineer Brigade, SIGAR 16-15 Audit Report, January 2016.
Transition to Afghans in the Lead for Security. 2013 saw the turning over of security to the Afghans. The ANSF are now in the lead with the Coalition in a supporting role. The vast majority of the fighting conducted in the 2013 fighting season was done by the ANSF. For the most part the ANSF has held its own - not losing too much real estate and keeping control of the major population centers and the important Highways 1 and 7. Then ANSF has had trouble keeping control of many of the remote districts - notably Sangin district in Helmand province.
Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF): Training and Development. ISAF Media Backgrounder. February 2012. Provides info on current state of the ANSF as of February 2012. Adobe PDF file available here.
Afghan National Army Special Forces. The ANASF are the elite of the ANA. Their training base is Camp Moorehead near Kabul. Recruitment for the ANASF is very selective and the training is difficult and comprehensive. Learn more about the ANASF.
Afghan National Army. Wikipedia.
July 2014. ANA and Map Reading, DVIDS. A couple of videos on an 205th Corps ANA map reading class. View at this link and this link. An SF NCO from 7th SFGA describes the challenges of teaching map reading.
November 3, 2015. "The Tale of Two Afghan Armies". Small Wars Journal. Lemar Alexander Farhad compares the Communist Afghan Army of the 1980s with the Afghan National Army of today.
May 13, 2013. Afghan National Army Systems by Warfighting Function, 162D Infantry Brigade.
June 2011. Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Background paper for media by ISAF.
May 10, 2011. "No Time to Lose". Promoting the accountability of the Afghan National Security Forces. Joint Briefing Paper. Oxfam.
April 2011. "Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan". Department of Defense.
March 15, 2011. Statement of Gen Petraeus Before Senate Armed Services Committee. General Petraeus.
May 1, 2015. "Funding Afghanistan's Army is a Long con That's Cost America $60 Billion", by Matthew Gault, War is Boring. There's no accountability, no oversight and no end in sight.
April 29, 2015. "Phantom Troops, Taliban Fighting, and Wasted Money - It's Sprintime in Afghanistan", by Gary Owen, Vice News.
January 17, 2013. "Which Way Did the Taliban Go?" The New York Times Magazine. An interesting report on how an ANA kandak operates - provides some info on the Military Advisor Team that advises the kandak.
October 28, 2012. "Afghan Army Seeks Better Equipment, But Lacks Basic Skills". NPR.
January 25, 2012. "Afghan army's night raiders ready to take control". Reuters.
May 9, 2011. "Afghan National Army update, May 2011". The Long War Journal.
1. Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF): Training and Development. ISAF Media Backgrounder. February 2012. Provides info on current state of the ANSF as of February 2012. Adobe PDF file available here.
2. Statement on Use of Afghan Nationals to Provide Security to U.S. Forces. Presented to the House Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, January 31, 2012. Accessed here on February 2, 2012.
3. See "Afghan Army's Turnover Threatens U.S. Strategy", The New York Times, October 15, 2012 accessed here for more on how the high turnover affects the ANA.
4. For more on ANA literacy read "Literate Afghans are key to sustainability", DVIDS, April 4, 2014 here.
5. For more on issues with the NTM-A literacy training program for the ANSF see blog posts from Afghan War News about literacy and the ANSF.
6. For more on the ANA tank battalion see "Afghan army's rusty tank relics still roll into battle", Stars and Stripes, July 20, 2014 at this link.
7. For more on desertions see "Desertions deplete Afghan forces, adding to security worries", Reuters, January 18, 2016.
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I purchased your 'Frame Photography' theme and I am informed on Wordpress that there is a new updated version for me to download- however when I go to download, it is no longer available. This is not cool at all and I don't know where to complain other than on this comment section. Can you please send me the latest 'updated' version that I already paid for?
There is no available update on themeforest. This theme will be available soon.
Mad_dog…. I already PURCHASED the theme. Now it has disappeared. Are you saying that an UPDATE will be available soon for me to download?
Did you download the theme? The update will be available asap. We do some major security updates and optimizations.
Yes. My Wordpress homepage says
"There is a new version of Frame Photography Minimalistic WP Theme available. To update the theme, please follow this link Download Update."
When I follow the link or look at my envato account, it says the theme is gone.
Please wait till official available update at themeforest. Sorry for the inconveniences.
Your demo Frame template on your website : Frame header & logo does not fit (logo and menu icon overlaps) on 720 Pixel devices such as Note 2 and Moto X. I have also raised this issue at your help desk, but did not get any resolution. I am alos facign the same problem in www.shankeronline.com Please do something, as this is really annoying and your help desk is unable to resolve this issue. Please do test on the template on bigger devices and resolve the issue asap.
Also how do I know that you are releasing new version of FRAME? Do you indicate what all changes have been made?
The template was tested on the most popular devices and it works fine. We can't adapt the template to all available resolutions, there are lot of them. Having no problems http://www.responsinator.com/?url=www.gt3themes.com%2Fwebsite-templates%2Fframe%2Fdark%2Findex.html
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Helou, I am having problems with "How to setup flickr account…"
i found this in the documentation: To show posts from your flickr account you need is to insert your account details in index.html file line 897, simply replace default username with yours <script src="http://www.flickr.com/badge_code_v2.gne?count=6&display=latest&size=s&layout=x&source=user&user=92335820@N08"></script>
I did change the 2335820@N08 for my username and nothing happens, Any ideas?
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Hello! Did you post this request to my help forum? If not, please do, and the support team will check it. Thanks
hi, how can i change the footer color? (where the copyright is). i put my chosen color within the footer css code but it's not working . thanks!
Hello! The template price does not include the customization services. Thanks for understanding
I do not want you to customize. I want you to tell me the tag to change. When I change what should be changed (everything under footer) nothing changes.You have coded it in a way that it cannot be changed. That is not fair. Please just tell me the tag to change. I am a seasoned designer and the fonts/font colors won't even change. I would happily purchase the wordpress, but the wordpress version does not include the 3 and 4 column portfolio version.. which is why I purchased the HTML template.. so I can use the columns and change the fonts/color to match my theme. This is for my business.. please just tell me. You don't have to do anything customization services yourself. I have purchased several templates from you.. I would appreciate your help. THANK YOU.
1. Why do you claim that it can't be changed, though it can be. 2. If you made the changes and you do not see the result, maybe you did something wrong? 3. skin.css
footer, .fs_gallery_container { background:#4f4d57; }
this worked. thank you.
It's ok
i would also like to change the colors of the slider arrow. some of my image backgrounds are white and the arrows disappear. thanks!!
Hello! The template price does not include the customization services. Thanks for understanding
Finally my site is up and live with Frame HTML template www.ShankerOnline.com Thanks to Mad_Dog and team. Template is technically perfect and looks great on eyes. Thank you Mad_Dog
Question : How do I get the updated on HTML Frame, if any?
Hello! There was no update of yet.
how can I add facebook comments in pics with facebook like button?
If you are talking about the prettyphoto lightbox, then there is no way to do that.
Forgive my question, very new. I have my own domain and do not use wordpress. There was no clear indication in the instructions on how to publish new blogs and functional comments. Is that something that has to happen via wordpress?
Hello! You purchased Website Template not a WordPress theme.
That is what I was wanting and got, so my question is, I can see ho9w to edit the blog code, but as far as people commenting on the blog, is there anything special to do, or am I missing instructions on how to address the blog portion? Thanks for the fast response.
If you want to use the wordpress blog, then you have to purchase the WordPress version of this design. But please note that it differs in the page layouts. Please compare them before the purchase.
I think you are misunderstanding my question. The non wordpress template I bought has a blog page but the instructions do not address updating it. I could edit the code on the html to make an entry, but the template shows comments. etc etc, I was wondering if that is addressed anywhere.
It is a static blog page, you can update that page only manually by editing the HTML code.
Hi mad_dog I purchased your 'Frame Photography' theme and having problems uploading it to Weebly, keeps saying no main_style.css found. Any ideas?
Hello! What is Weebly, it is a static HTML template.
www.weebly.com is a site that allows you to create websites using their templates or upload your own for the total novice (that's me).
We have no idea how their system work, we provide static HTML templates. I guess they have some requirements for their templates based system.
Think I may have found a work around, thanks.
www.weebly.com is a site that allows you to create websites using their templates or upload your own for the total novice (that's me).
There is no need to duplicate your comments.
Hi, could you tell me, is there any way to use fs_gallary in non full screen mode? For example add any text after thumbnails?
Hello! Unfortunately, there are no options or layouts that allow to add any text below.
Frames HTML : How do I increase the line spacing between Mobile Menu? They are too close and difficult to select one menu item in mobile. Please help.
Hello! Please post this request on our help forum
I bought the Frame theme but thought it was wordpress theme.Have this theme in wordpress ? You can cancel the purchase to acquire it. Thanks
Hello! Sure, we do. Please contact Envato.


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Putnam County HomeCare & Hospice, Gretchen Lammers, RN, Nursing Supervisor, credits the agency working as a team, from the nurses to support staff in conjunction with quality/process improvement efforts in order to achieve recognition as one of the HomeCare Elite. "I am so proud of our team. They are an awesome bunch delivering great care to the patients we serve," said Dr. Mary Ann Meyers, MD.
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|Coordinates: 27°11′N 88°32′E / 27.18°N 88.53°ECoordinates: 27°11′N 88°32′E / 27.18°N 88.53°E
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Rangpo is a town in East Sikkim in the Indian state of Sikkim. The town borders West Bengal and is situated along the Teesta river. It is the first town in Sikkim on NH 10 that links Siliguri to Gangtok. It is about 200 m above sea level with a sub-tropical climate. All vehicles entering Sikkim have to stop here. Foreign tourists require documents to enter Sikkim state and have to show them at the border police post.It is the Gateway to Sikkim.
Rangpo has a large population of Nepalis and Bhutias. Marwari and Bihari businessmen have settled in the town and own most of the shops among them are few old settlers in town who have history of business since 1912.
Rangpo is located at 27°11′N 88°32′E / 27.18°N 88.53°E.[1] It has an average elevation of 333 metres (1093 feet).
As of 2001[update] India census,[2] Rangpo had a population of 3,724. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Rangpo has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 75%, and female literacy is 63%. In Rangpo, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
New Sikkim Railway Project[edit]
The foundation stone for construction of a new railway line from Rangpo to Sevoke railway station on the border of Sikkim with West Bengal was laid in October 2009 by vice president of India.[3] In 2008, the track was proposed to be 53 km long. However, the 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge track finally may be 45 km long, 1 km of which will be in Sikkim state and the rest in West Bengal state. 32 km of the track will be in tunnels[4][5] with almost equal number of bridges on deep gorges and valleys with proposed 65 km per hour speed limit. New railway stations will be constructed at Melli, Tista Bazar, Geilkhola, Riang and Rangpo. The track will be constructed through the foothills of Kanchanjungha mountain range and Teesta river valley and will offer very beautiful views.
The new railway line will be beneficial to people of Sikkim for easier access to the rest of India through Siliguri and the Indian army for movement of troops and support to the border with Tibet. It will boost the state's economy and tourism.
In 2008 the project was planned to be completed in 2015 at estimated cost of INR 13.4 billion[6] but is likely to be delayed like most projects of Indian Railways as the construction had not started by March 2013. The Indian Railways signed a contract with the construction company, IRCON, only in May 2010 and the work has been progressing at a very slow pace. The final alignment had not been fixed for the first 22 km through elephant sanctuary forest in 2013 and the final clearance of environment ministry had not been received.[7] To obtain approval of the environment and forest ministry, the railways made a proposal in February 2013 to install elephant sensors along the stretch of the proposed railway line in Mahananda elephant sanctuary or run the trains at a speed of only 20 km per hour in the forest area and stop when an elephant is sighted close to the track.[8] Construction of the railway line had started by March 2013.
People of two villages in East Sikkim, through which a 3.5 km stretch of the 45 km long railway line has been planned, had not agreed to give their land for laying the track.[9]
Mining Ground is a cricket ground in Rangpo and was established in 1997 when a match of Vijay Merchant Trophy was played between Sikkim Under-16s and Bihar Under-16s.[10] Previously, the ground belongs to Sikkim Mining Corporation was handed over to the Sikkim Cricket Association in 2002 to be developed as a cricket stadium.[11][12]
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Rangpo
- ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ^ http://www.constructionupdate.com/News.aspx?nId=WIcIBZdMByhLAS9Iyls+Og==
- ^ http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-logistics/article976301.ece
- ^ http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/01/25/stories/2010012551081500.htm
- ^ http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/railwayboard/uploads/directorate/works/pdf/Other_Projects_080411.pdf
- ^ http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/northbengalsikkimrai/
- ^ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/elephant-sensors-may-come-up-on-railway-line-to-sikkim/article4387995.ece
- ^ Villagers' nod to rail survey, The Telegraph, August 28, 2012
- ^ Scorecard
- ^ Rangpo recce for cricket big league
- ^ Rangpo Mining cricket ground changed into the jungle due to the negliency of the department
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GAO noted that: (1) based on NASA data and GAO's analysis, it estimated that the U.S. cost to develop, assemble, and operate the space station has increased to almost $96 billion; (2) further, GAO identified a number of program changes that could significantly increase this estimate, such as the potential for additional schedule slippage and the need for shuttle launches to test and deliver the crew return vehicle; (3) as GAO has reported previously, it continues to be concerned about the adequacy of program reserves to deal with changing program needs; (4) over three years ago, the space station program had more than $3 billion in financial reserves to cover development contingencies; (5) in March 1998, with almost 6 years until completion, the net unencumbered financial reserves were down to about $1.1 billion; (6) after GAO completed its work and issued its May 1998 report, NASA and its international partners revised the station assembly sequence again, resulting in further schedule slippage and one additional shuttle flight; and (7) additional costs will be incurred as a result of these changes.
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ABSTRACT: To determine if propofol infusion can be steered automatically by using bispectral index (BIS) as a controller during lung transplantation. A prospective study of patients undergoing lung transplantation. University hospital. Twenty consecutive patients scheduled for bilateral (n = 14) or single (n = 6) lung transplantation. The goal of the closed-loop administration of propofol was to maintain the BIS value between 40 and 60 during the maintenance phase. The remifentanil infusion was adjusted according to standard clinical practice. The closed-loop system was able to provide anesthesia maintenance for all patients. Cardiopulmonary bypass was used in 5 patients, and 14 patients received a thoracic epidural catheter. The BIS value was maintained between 40 and 60 during 84% +/- 16% of the maintenance phase. Eleven patients were extubated in the operating room, and 1 patient needed reintubation. Closed-loop control of consciousness by a computer during lung transplantation is clinically feasible.
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ABSTRACT: Studies investigating the influence of muscle relaxants on the bispectral index have yielded contradictory results. In our prospective, randomized, double-blind experiments, patients received a fixed target concentration of remifentanil along with a target-controlled infusion of propofol, titrated until loss of consciousness. Two minutes after loss of consciousness, the study group received a bolus injection of atracurium, whereas the control group received a placebo. The following variables were recorded: bispectral index, spectral edge frequency, electromyographic activity, state entropy, and response entropy provided by the Datex-Ohmeda Entropy monitor. Similar values were obtained in both groups at loss of consciousness. Placebo administration induced a decrease in bispectral index (P < 0.002), spectral edge frequency (P < 0.05), electromyographic activity (P < 0.02), state entropy (P < 0.05), and response entropy (P < 0.01) compared with the values measured at loss of consciousness. Atracurium administration induced a decrease in bispectral index (P < 0.0001), spectral edge frequency (P < 0.01), electromyographic activity (P < 0.0001), state entropy (P < 0.0001), and response entropy (P < 0.0001) values. Decreases in bispectral index (P < 0.05), electromyographic activity (P < 0.0001), and response entropy (P < 0.01) were larger after atracurium than placebo injection. In lightly anesthetized patients, myorelaxant administration decreases bispectral index and response entropy, but not state entropy values.
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ABSTRACT: Local anesthetic infiltration has been proposed to decrease postoperative pain. The aim of this study was to determine whether scalp infiltration with bupivacaine or ropivacaine would improve analgesia after supratentorial craniotomy for tumor resection. Eighty patients were recruited into a randomized double-blind study. Infiltration was performed after skin closure with 20 mL of saline 0.9% (placebo group, n = 40), of 0.375% bupivacaine with epinephrine 1:200,000 (bupivacaine group, n = 20), or of 0.75% ropivacaine (ropivacaine group, n = 20). Postoperative analgesia was provided with patient-controlled morphine IV analgesia (PCA). The study was continued until PACU discharge, which occurred early in the morning following surgery. Results are reported on 37 patients in the placebo group, 20 in the bupivacaine group, and 19 in the ropivacaine group because 4 patients experienced postoperative complications and were excluded from the study. Morphine titration at arrival in the postanesthesia care unit was necessary more often in the placebo group (62% of the patients) than in the 2 treated groups (19% in each, P = 0.02). The median quantity of morphine administered during the first 2 postoperative hours, including initial titration administered by a nurse and PCA-administered morphine, was lower in each treated group than in the placebo group (P < 0.01). The median morphine consumption up to the 16th postoperative hour was not significantly different among the 3 groups. There was no difference in the visual analogue scale scores among the 3 groups at any time. Scalp infiltration with either bupivacaine or ropivacaine had a statistically significant effect on morphine consumption during the first 2 postoperative hours.
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ABSTRACT: We performed this prospective randomized double-blinded study to assess the ability of almitrine to treat hypoxemia during one-lung ventilation (OLV). Twenty-eight patients were anesthetized with propofol, sufentanil, and atracurium; lung separation was achieved with a double-lumen tube. A transesophageal Doppler probe was inserted to evaluate cardiac index. If SpO(2) was equal to or decreased to <95% during OLV (inspired fraction of oxygen of 0.6), patients were included in the study and received a placebo or almitrine (12 microg x kg(-1) x min(-1) for 10 min followed by 4 microg x kg(-1) x min(-1)) infusion until SpO(2) reached 90% or decreased to <90% (exclusion from the study). Eighteen of the 28 patients were included and received either almitrine (n = 9) or a placebo (n = 9). Treatment was discontinued in 1 patient in the almitrine group and 6 in the placebo group (P < 0.05). Treatment was successful (SpO(2) remaining >or=95% during OLV) in 8 patients in the almitrine group and 1 in the placebo group (P < 0.01). Heart rate, arterial blood pressure, and cardiac index did not change throughout the study, but we could obtain an adequate aortic blood flow signal in only half of the patients. Almitrine could be used to treat hypoxemia during OLV. IMPLICATIONS: IV almitrine improves oxygenation during one-lung ventilation without hemodynamic modification. Such treatment could be used when conventional ventilatory strategy fails to treat hypoxemia or cannot be used.
Article: Using the Intubating Laryngeal Mask Airway for Ventilation and Endotracheal Intubation in Anesthetized and Unparalyzed Acromegalic Patients[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Airway management may be difficult in acromegalic patients. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the intubating laryngeal mask airway (ILMA) as a primary tool for ventilation and intubation in acromegalic patients. Twenty-three consenting consecutive adult acromegalic patients presenting for transsphenoidal resection of pituitary adenoma were enrolled in the study. Anesthesia was induced using propofol (1.5 mg/kg followed by 0.5-mg/kg increments); the ILMA was inserted when the bispectral index fell below 50. The ILMA was successful as a primary airway for oxygenation and ventilation at the first attempt for 21 (91%) patients, while 2 (9%) patients required a second attempt. Patient movement was noticed in five (21.7%) of the patients during ILMA insertion. An attempt at tracheal intubation through the ILMA was performed following administration of a mean 395 +/- 168-mg dose of propofol. Overall success rates for tracheal intubation were 82% (19 patients). The first-attempt success rate for tracheal intubation was 52.6% (10 patients), second- and third-attempt success rates were 42.1% (8 patients) and 5.3% (1 patient), respectively. Coughing or movement during intubation was observed in 12 (63.2%) of the patients. Direct laryngoscopy permitted intubation in three cases and blind intubation using a bougie in the fourth case. ILMA can be used as a primary airway for oxygenation in acromegalic patients (manual bag ventilation), but the rate of failed blind intubation through the ILMA precludes its use as a first choice for elective airway management.
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Author Interview: Delphine Dryden On 'The Lamplighter's Love'
Delphine Dryden's latest tale, "The Lamplighter's Love", has RT's Dawn Crowne raving, "This novella is steampunk erotica at its best!" What inspired the story that has heroine Mary Cross monitoring the steam engines that keep Victorian England running? Delphine Dryden answers our questions in this exclusive author interview.
For such a short story, there is certainly a lot happening in "The Lamplighter's Love". There are steampunk mechanisms, a historical setting, a power driven villain and the blossoming love affair between your main characters Mary and Nicholas. When you were first pitching this story to your editor, how did you explain it?
This actually started out as a much shorter piece that was rejected for a steampunk erotica anthology, so I spent some time lengthening it to a novella to submit to my editor at Ellora's Cave. She knew it was coming because I'd been discussing it on Twitter with some other writers, so I just told her it was steampunk erotica and she was perfectly fine with that! The politics and villainy were just a bonus.
Reading "The Lamplighter's Love" was a bit like seeing what The Matrix would have been if it were set in Victorian England. Take, for example, what Mary sees when she gets into the Chair in the underground engine rooms so she can remotely view the happenings of London:
"[H]er vision was obscured by the reflections of a thousand equations and terse messages. The figures ticked by in endless rows and columns, revealing all that was important in the city's daily workings … Mary found her place, orienting herself mentally within the world of the engines as she interpreted the screens. In her mind a picture of London emerged, with herself in the middle of it, sending invisible lines of control out to every intersection of the city."
Was The Matrix indeed an influence on the story and if not what were some of the stories or ideas that were?
I have to confess, until I read this question the parallel hadn't even occurred to me. But that's brilliant, and I can absolutely see the connection. I think The Matrix is just one of many movies/books/other media that have heralded or influenced the current trend toward "punked" work, all this stuff that's grounded in the notion that technology can take us in directions we don't expect, and we don't use it with nearly enough caution and wisdom. Centrally controlled traffic lights, prosthetic sewing-machine-attachment hands, predictive crime fighting... It all seems like a good idea at the time, then BAM! Dystopia.
As far as specific influences, I'd say aside from Mr. Babbage's difference engine itself, the idea for this book came mostly from a series of stock photos I ran across one day while working on a trailer video. Two guys and a girl, all in Victorian dress, and they were strapping her into something that vaguely resembled an electric chair on steroids. There may or may not have been goggles involved. That was the inspiration for the original one-scene story the novella was built on (obviously, the scene where Mary is strapped into the Chair).
There has got to be a feeling of great power that comes along with being the master Lamplighter and literally controlling the movement of the people in London. Yet your hero, Nicholas, has had the duty for a decade and doesn't seem overly concerned with giving up his position. What makes him so willing to leave behind his Lamplighter status?
As I envision it, the job is extremely wearing, physically and mentally. The power rush wears off after a few years. The Chair is a recipe for repetitive motion injury, so Nicholas is already suffering the effects of that in his hands and upper body, while his lower body is relatively weakened due to the sedentary nature of his job. He can expect to suffer long-term health consequences as a result, such as early-onset arthritis and a high probability of some vision loss. Also, to say he's stir crazy is an understatement of epic proportions. The story is short, so I didn't dwell too much on his perspective, but he's very eager to be done with the job. He's over it.
"The Lamplighter's Love" showcases your knack for writing steampunk. In this novella you are able to create a whole world with only short bits of well-written description. What are the hallmarks of steampunk that you adhered to and how do you feel your story is different from others in the genre?
Of course all steampunk starts with steam power, or at least an emphasis on technology that hails from the era in which steam power was still supreme. Hence, the difference engines, which are a favorite of steampunk writers everywhere. I also played with the Victorian social mores typically found in steampunk, though I tweaked that by positing a world in which women had gained a certain amount of additional freedom and power through the guild structure. There's still a lot of institutionalized sexism, though, which is seen not only in the guild dynamics and Mary's social predicament, but in other factors like fashion and manners. In "The Lamplighter's Love" and in the longer steampunk series I'm currently working on, I tend to adhere as much as possible to technology that's actually feasible, without relying on supernatural forces or aether power to get around the strictures of physics, strength of materials, and so on (although I adore reading steampunk stories that incorporate those elements). Even I get pretty far-fetched with the steampunk-y elements, though, I freely admit.
You recently self-published story "Love With A Chance of Zombies". You also have a story in Girls Who Bite which is lesbian vampire erotica and, releasing soon, is what you call a "plain vanilla novella" in Ellora's Cave Volume IV of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Needless to say, you are not an easy author to categorize. What draws you to all these different types of stories and are there any common themes/threads that weave themselves through all of your writing?
And don't forget all that kinky, BDSM erotica I'm primarily known for at Ellora's Cave! That's actually why it's so funny that I have a vanilla novella coming out there — it isn't my norm at all. Not that I really have a norm, as you point out. I think the common theme in all my writing is geekery. My characters tend to be nerdy (my books have been referred to by one reviewer as "nerdmance"); they are over-thinkers, who are their own worst enemies when it comes to love. Obviously, this is because I'm a geeky nerd myself, and I write stories that appeal to my areas of geeky, nerdy interest. So in one book, I might have college professors playing MMORPGs and having cybersex, while in another I have human calculators hooked up to the Victorian Matrix and engaging in steam-powered shenanigans. An upcoming work involves a Dominant who is an actual rocket scientist. In all my stories, sex is an experience that allows these overly cerebral characters to connect to the visceral, immediate, "real" side of themselves. To simply act and be in the moment, instead of thinking.
The lesbian vampire erotica, well...that was just for fun.
Desperate for more Delphine Dryden? You can download her latest e-book, "The Lamplighter's Love", and check out her website to learn more about all of her upcoming projects. And for the latest genre news and a look at some of this month's hottest releases be sure to stop by our Everything Erotica Page!


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Author's Note: This blog post was originally posted on my older, now inactive blog, Eye on East Asia. I have included some extra links in this post which were not included in the original post.
Readers who enjoy reading about East Asian languages and cultures may be interested to know that a wide range of articles on Chinese history, culture, archaeology and linguistics can be found at the Sino-Platonic Papers website.
The Sino-Platonic Papers is a series of monographs published and edited by the University of Pennsylvania's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Many of the articles have been posted on the website and are free for download in PDF format. Some of my personal favourites include :
- New Research on the Origin of Cowries Used in Ancient China
- On the Problem of Chinese Lettered Words
- Dogs and Cats: Lessons from Learning Chinese
- Zhaoling: The Mausoleum of Emperor Tang Taizong
- Developments in Chinese Language and Script During the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- An Investigation in Orthographic Variance in Shang Writing
- Guanxi: The Key to Achieving Success in China
There are also a number of articles which focus on other cultures in the region, including articles on some of China's ethnic minorities and articles on Korean, Japanese and Central Asian history and linguistics.
- Uyghurs and Uyghur Identity
- China's Dagur Minority: Society, Shamanism, and Folklore
- Computers and Japanese Literacy
- The Cult of the Bodhisattva Guanyin in Early China and Korea
- The 'Silk Roads' in Time and Space: Migrations, Motifs, and Materials
- The Earliest Tocharians in China
The full selection of articles can be found at the Sino-Platonic Papers website. New articles are added every month so feel free to bookmark the site for future reference.
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Rebel Fanfare is a musical motif that represents the Rebel Alliance. It is used extensively in Episode IV and less frequently in all other episodes. The theme is played by a brass section. It appears in the closing credits of every movie. It also appears in the theme of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series). It is an integral part of the main theme of Star Wars Rebels TV series.
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The trumpet fanfare that is the signature of the Rebel Fanfare is used in all intro screens and most outro screens of the Star Wars Rebels episodes. Since the Call to Action episode, however, the trumpet fanfare was no longer heard in the outro screen. It remains to be seen if this will be the pattern for the rest of the episodes in Season 2, or just indicative of a multi-episode arc.
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I felt like drawing them c: It was only supposed to be Jinora but then I felt like adding the siblings~ XD
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aw, sorry I though you knew it....well dunno how to put on a link, put its name is When I'm Ikki, it lasts 24 secs, and your image is EXACTLY in the middle, at the start of the 12 sec, it's kidda hard to see, moving too fast...what can I say? I have a falcon's eyes
It sad. Aang was cute, Katara was cute, how come her got ugly grand kids? (Pema's side XD)
They are all so cute , I love the way you draw them
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I love this! It captures all of them so well.
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Aw this is so great they look perfect. Background matches so well, too :3
So cute! I love Meelo face!
Quite a family photo...
Aw, this is so cute!
I love the siblings so much and I wish they appear more often.
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Hahaha, can't help it, gotta love them! I was a little hesitant about Meelo but he's grown into me, Jinora and Ikki became instantly my favourites! That's an awesome drawing, I LOVE the background as well!
I love Meelo and his antics! You gotta give props to Pema for dealing with him xDD
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Thanks so much!~
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Love the new Airbenders, specially Jinora...
Love the new Airbenders, specially Jinora...
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A two-week institute for 25 historians, to be hosted by George Mason University's Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, on advanced theory and application of new media tools for teaching and scholarship.
Historians, as a group, are reluctant and anxious to engage in digital research methods and to integrate those methods and accompanying tools into their teaching. Taking a cue from the most recent Ithaka S+R report, "Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians," the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (RRCHNM) requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities to host a two-week institute in 2014 to fill a much-needed gap for historians who need instruction and a professional learning community to engage with new media methods and tools, and to push forward with work on their own digital projects. In the spirit of capitalizing on our own expertise and the significant resources in the field, we will solicit our participants from the broad field of American History, without respect to subfield specialty.
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Sony Offers Mary Jane, Lines Up More for Gwen
Deadline.com reports that Sony Pictures Entertainment has offered Emma Stone (ZOMBIELAND) the role of Mary Jane Watson in the SPIDER-MAN reboot. She would star opposite Andrew Garfield (THE SOCIAL NETWORK) as Peter Parker/Spider-Man.
Several actresses are still vying for the role of Gwen Stacy, who is being considered the primary female role in the film. The latest names added to the list include Dianna Agron (GLEE) and Georgina Haig (WASTED ON THE YOUNG). They join Mia Wasikowska (ALICE IN WONDERLAND) and Dominique McElligott (MOON).
Word is the studio wants to bring villain Venom into the mix and are looking at Philip Seymour Hoffman for the role.
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