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A recent conversation with one of the worlds most influential trading desks netted the question, what does the next generation of trading application look like, "what is possible today and where are we going?" Observing a teenager today playing a video game yields some answers and direction with regard to this question and that is, immersion. Immersion may be the guiding principal as ISV's look to develop the next generation of trading application. Taking cue's from the gaming industry and leveraging its game design will not only serve to meet some of the user interface expectations of the next generation but also increase their effectiveness. As pointed out by many traders today, the slowest thing they do is translate information taken from a screen into action at the end of their fingers on a keyboard. Looking at game immersion and how players use multiple senses to collect, ingest, analyze and act on information and the speed at which they do, it seems only logical that the industry heads this way.
Imagery is a very powerful and complex conveyance of information and coupled with auditory cues, the human mind can process more information at a much faster pace than through the textual conveyance of information. Examining today's traders one can see how they have attempted to create an immersion environment for themselves. The din and drone of the trading floor itself can provide auditory cues to traders as the pitch and activity rises in certain areas on the floor. Look at the average traders work space, surrounded by six to eight LCD screens, a turret that can at times look like a Christmas tree and a hoot or squawk linking multiple desks across the globe. I have witnessed the same seemingly blank stare of a trader at their screens as I have a teenager engrossed in the latest first person game but that stare is not an indication of idle synapses in the brain. Rather it is the manifestation of the physiological transformation to sensory absorption where the mind is solely focused on the goal and leveraging all available sensory inputs.
As institutions we will likely need to leverage consumer technology and design to meet the requirements of the next generation of trader. We need to start to explore how best to convey information in a much more consumable fashion. The ability to convey complex data in graphical format can be much more effective than textual conveyance alone. The human eye is much more sensitive to shapes, colors and movement than the brain is to characters on a screen. Add in auditory stimuli and you have a very powerful mechanism to communicate with.
Microsoft partners such as Lab49 ( www.lab49.com) and Aqumin (www.aqumin.com) have recognized the capabilities of graphical conveyance of financial services data and have worked with order management ISVs like LineData (www.linedata.com) to leverage graphical display and Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation layer (www.windowsclient.net/WPF). As an industry, the gaming community is arguably further along the graphical and immersion interaction curve than financial services. It would behoove partners and customers alike to seek out the development expertise and knowledge of the gaming community, as the next generation of traders are not getting any younger.
Great point, Matt.
Data visualization is a huge growth industry.
Matt, agree fully. It is back to the 80-20 rule. 80% of our brain is dedicated to visual processing and 80% of the population are visual thinkers. To enable future (or current) traders to make faster and better decisions we need to move from a predominant number based environment to an image based environment. At Aqumin we do just that. AlphaVision™ is a financial market interpretation application that make use of 3D Visualization, sophisticated data-aggregation and high-end analysis algorithms to help market participants interpret their world faster, better and cheaper.
Aqumin has a great solution for data visualization. AlphaVision provides traders, risk managers and portfolio managers with the ability to combine landscape views of markets with lazer insights into individual securities.
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looks like AJ wants an OT to help protect the pocket, also a possible move to start getting the running game going again...does this mean the chargers are expected to either draft a "franchise running back" or possibly pick up in FA...damn i sure hope so. Chargers might finally have a running game going again!
Remember that the Chargers are now a passing team 1st,and a rushing team second. They need to beef up both defense and offense lines. They need to control the line when need be. It would be nice to get a superstar RB, but they just need 3 solid RB's.
I mean young RB's.
AJ, I pray that you're looking for D-linemen and RB's in FA. Chargers are in dire need of beefing up both sides of the line in order to have half a chance at winning in the play-offs. Turn to FA and get this train a rolling.
if the Bolts don't find consistant balance between the passing & running game they'll never win out. Defenses are going to tee off on Rivers constantly rearing back, trying to find an open receiver. Lets remember LT and Spoles are gone so no more safety valve out of the backfield.
I still believe the biggest mistake the Bolts have made is letting Lorenzo Neal go. the next day LT's production started dropping and it never stopped. get rid of these wannabe fullbacks and go find a beast! then you can make a hero out of the next RB in SD no matter who he is.
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This page at the House Oversight Committee has links to additional info and reports on the matter.
Citizen journalist, Arlen Parsa spent some time pouring through last night's document dump from the DoJ, and sends us the following today, with a link to his exclusive...
Cunningham, who by this point was acutely aware that Lam's investigation was breathing down his neck, was a co-author of a letter 19 House Republicans sent to the Attorney General complaining about Lam's record on prosecuting cases related to illegal immigration. However, at the same time, Department of Justice reports indicate that Lam's office was doing a good job prosecuting immigration related cases.
Also: after Lam notified the DoJ that more investigation was expected following the investigation that put Cunningham behind bars for more than eight years, the White House got a letter from the Department of Justice saying there was a "real problem" with Lam. A week after the White House was alerted to the "Lam problem," one Republican lawmaker Darryl Issa (R-CA) [from the Congressional district adjacent to Cunningham's] stepped up his efforts to smear Lam's record on immigration, leaking altered documents about Lam to the Associated Press and appearing on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight to complain about Lam's performance.
Guest Blogged by BRAD BLOG's D.C. correspondent Margie Burns
"We don't have a law that would make war profiteering specifically a federal crime," Sen. Leahy (D-VT) said in this morning's efficient hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, so he is introducing one.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is busy these days --- what with the scandal over White House manipulations of the prosecutorial function of the Department of Justice, the continuing scandals of war profiteering in the "war on terror," and other oversight matters, the Committee is in jeopardy of being overstretched. In fact, it already is overstretched.
The room was full for this morning's hearing, which I attended, on "Combating War Profiteering," but, as with last week's House Oversight Comittee hearings with Valerie Plame et al, this one was also scantly attended by GOP'ers. Of Republicans, only the co-chair of the committee Arlen Specter (R-PA) and --- to do him justice --- Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) graced the hearing with their presence. The co-chair could do no less, and indeed did little, though I noticed that both he and Leahy alluded to their past jobs as prosecutors, from which it can safely be inferred that they too think the current manipulations of US Attorneys --- prosecutors --- by the DOJ look very bad...
3,000 pages were just released to the House Judiciary Committee by the Dept. of Justice in re: the U.S. Attorney purge. Judiciary is getting 'em posted as quickly as they can, even as we type. Says Conyers in a statement just released:
Looks like it'll be a long night for the folks at Judiciary, and likely much longer for Josh Marshall and friends at TPM. Happy reading, all!
Earlier from U.S. News & World Report:
The fear that virtually any piece of communication will have to be turned over has paralyzed department officials' ability to communicate effectively and respond in unison to the crisis...
Accountability sucks, huh? Welcome to it. We believe your nightmare is just beginning.
Just out from AP...
Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said she called the four board members of Ohio's most populous county late Sunday, asking them to leave by close of business Wednesday.
Brunner, a Democrat, said new leadership is needed in the county before the 2008 presidential election. She said that if the board members don't resign by her deadline, they would face public hearings and removal.
The board's chairman, Robert Bennett, is also chairman of the state GOP in Ohio. His term on the board ends in 2010. The other board members are two Democrats and one Republican.
Bennett said Monday he plans to finish his term.
"We are making progress on our major goal, which is to restore voter confidence in Cuyahoga County elections," he said at a news conference
The issue comes in the wake of two Cuyahoga County Election Officials recently found guilty of rigging the 2004 Presidential Election recount and subsequently sentenced to the maximum 18 months in prison after they refused to cooperate with the state's special prosecutor, Kevin Baxter.
Both Baxter and the district court judge, Peter J. Corrigan, indicated they believed the conspiracy to game the recount was part of a larger, higher-reaching conspiracy. "It seems unlikely that your superiors wouldn't know what you were doing," Corrigan declared during the sentencing.
Brunner told the Plain-Dealer this morning that the convictions were "so serious that I don't think I had any alternative" but to request the resignations of the entire board. "It has to do with public confidence and perception," she said.
In a news conference this morning, Bennett vowed to fight Brunner in court rather than leave on his own accord.
Cuyahoga County's then-Election Director, Michael Vu, who was not charged in the incident but has since resigned, had previously admitted that sealed ballot boxes were opened and secretly counted prior to the state-mandated recount in order to assure the recount would not reveal any inconsistencies with the officially reported results. He has since recanted his original story.
After the recent sentencing, Bennett, who was ultimately responsible for overseeing the convicted elections officials --- supposedly one Republican and one Democrat --- who rigged a presidential election recount in his county said, incredibly enough, "the convictions are a travesty of justice."
The issue also underscores an important point we've been trying to make for years: Despite the claims by disgraced former Buckeye State SoS J. Kenneth Blackwell and his operatives (including Bennett) for the travesty that occurred in 2004, which suggest that Ohio's supposedly "bi-partisan" structure of county elections boards --- theoretically all comprised of two Republicans and two Democrats each --- prevents any partisan malfeasance, those boards and the officials who work under them have always served ultimately at the pleasure of the state SoS. That power and pressure were wielded frequently by Blackwell during his tenure, resulting in a host of not-so-bipartisan decisions and oversight from Ohio elections officials in 2004 and beyond.
UPDATE: We heartily recommend "OhioRebel's" superb citizen journalist coverage at ePluribus Media, with many useful additional details. Would that the non-citizen journalists were as thorough!
Don Rumsfeld 2/7/2003: "It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months"
George W. Bush 5/1/03: "My fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
Dick Cheney 6/20/05: "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
Just in from Waxman's office after this morning's stunning revelation that the White House never conducted an investigation into the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, despite a number of promises from Bush to do exactly that and an executive order signed in early 2003 which requires such an investigation in the wake of such a disclosure.
In a statement sent to The BRAD BLOG, Waxman's office explains that a letter just sent to White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten asks for an explanation as to why the White House "did not follow the investigative steps prescribed by Executive Order 12958," as signed in March 2003. The order requires the White House to "'take appropriate and prompt corrective action' whenever there is a release of classified information," according to the statement. (Waxman's letter is posted in full at the end of the article.)
During this morning's testimony of James Knodell, Director of the Office of Security at the White House, it was revealed --- to the amazement of the assembled Congress members on the House Oversight Committee panel --- that no such investigation was ever conducted.
"Taken as a whole, the testimony at today's hearing described breach after breach of national security requirements at the White House," the letter reads. "The first breach was the disclosure of Ms. Wilson's identity. Other breaches included the failure of Mr. Rove and other officials to report their disclosures as required by law, the failure of the White House to initiate the prompt investigation required by the executive order, and the failure of the White House to suspend the security clearances of the implicated officials."
Waxman asked for the following from Bolten: "I request that you provide the Committee with a complete account of the steps that the White House took following the disclosure of Ms. Wilson's identity (1) to investigate how the leak occurred; (2) to review the security clearances of the White House officials implicated in the leak; (3) to impose administrative or disciplinary sanctions on the officials involved in the leak; and (4) to review and revise existing White House security procedures to prevent future breaches of national security."
Waxman's letter to Bolten follows in full...
As requested by a number of readers, the following chart was displayed at today's House Oversight Committee hearings (live blogged here) as chaired by Henry Waxman (D-CA). The BRAD BLOG obtained the chart from his office.
It was presented by Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) during the hearing and shows the known number of disclosures of Valerie Plame-Wilson's identity by the White House and the State Department. Plame-Wilson testified under oath today that she was a covert CIA operative working to monitor WMD in Iraq when her cover, and that of her entire network, was blown after the disclosure of her identity by White House officials.
She also testified it was the first time such a CIA agent's cover was purposely blown by our own government.
The chart is followed by the section from the text transcript when the chart was initially displayed this morning...
What happened to you is deadly serious. You were the victim of a national security breach. If this was a law enforcement context, something I'm familiar with, it would be equivalent to disclosing the identity of an undercover police officer who has put his life on the line, and the lives of all those who help that officer.
Our job on this committee is to find out how the breach happened. Now, I'd like to show you a chart that we prepared on the committee --- you'll see it up on the screens, and we're putting it up here on paper. That chart is a graphic depiction of all the ways that your classified CIA employment was disclosed to White House officials and then to the press.
Every colored block on that chart is an individual, and every arrow shows a disclosure of classified information. That classified information was your CIA employment status. And the arrows are based on the testimony in Mr. Libby's criminal case and press reports. This chart shows over 20 different disclosures about your employment. Let me ask you, looking at this chart, are you surprised that so many people had access to the classified information about your CIA employment?
MS. PLAME WILSON: Yes, I am, Congressman. And I'm also surprised at how carelessly they used it.
In the second panel in the House Oversight Committee hearings this morning, following the testimony of Valerie Plame-Wilson, the Director of the White House Security Office, James Knodell, has stunned the Congress members by disclosing that no investigation into the leaking of Plame-Wilson's covert identity as a CIA operative was ever conducted by his office!
The members are flabbergasted. The questioning is intense. My live-blogging notes are posted, and updated live, below...
Also, the third panel, featuring Victoria Toensing, apologist for White House leaks, was fascinating, as her previous claims that "Plame was not covert" and that "she didn't serve overseas within five years prior to the leak" had been demolished by Plame-Wilson's earlier testimony. She attempted to mitigate the situation throughout her testimony by claiming that Plame-Wilson was not covert "under the provisions of the statute." Many more details below...
(Live blogging of Valerie Plame-Wilson's testimony is back here...)
UPDATE: Video of complete hearing and related documents now online at House Oversight Committee website right here...
Absolutely riveting, historic, under-oath testimony by Valerie Plame-Wilson in the House Oversight Committee on-going right now. Recurring theme over and over again: She was covert, covert, covert when her identity was outed and her cover was blown --- for the first time in history by her own government.
Every wingnut argument to the contrary, and concerning her case has been utterly destroyed. The Republican questioning of Plame-Wilson has come up with absolutely nothing to counter and it's been confirmed that CIA Director Gen. Hayden has also confirmed her covert status and that she we worked overseas (as per the Intelligence Identity Protections Act) in the last five years.
Hearings were covered for first 15 minutes or so on all three cable news nets. Now only LIVE currently on C-SPAN.
AP just filed this short initial item:
Plame, whose 2003 outing triggered a federal investigation, said she always knew her identity could be discovered by foreign governments.
"It was a terrible irony that administration officials were the ones who destroyed my cover," she told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
RAW STORY currently has details on her opening testimony.
Live blogging notes on the testimony below follow below...
(NOTE: Second and Third panels now live blogged here. Includes details on stunning admission from White House Security Director that no investigation was ever made into the leak by his office!)
UPDATE: Video of complete hearing and related documents now online at House Oversight Committee website right here...
Guest Blogged by Luke Ryland
Last week, more than thirty 'good government' groups including the ACLU, POGO, CREW, Liberty Coalition, and September 11th Advocates called on Henry Waxman's Committee "to hold public hearings into the case of FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, and the erroneous use of the State Secrets Privilege to shut down all court proceedings in her case."
Sibel Edmonds says: "Thanks to Brad and Bradblog readers. Exactly twelve months ago, Bradblog helped launch this petition and we had a great response. Fifteen thousand people signed the petition and we have delivered it to Congress. Now we'd like to ask for your help again."
We've had solid indications that Waxman is ready and willing to hold public, open hearings into Sibel's case. We need to give Waxman a final push and get him to commit to a date, in May or June, and that's where you come in. We want you to call the offices of Congressmen Henry Waxman, John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, and Charles Grassley and demand, beg, and implore them to publicly announce that they will have hearings.
Sibel has already told her story in classified briefings to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, Henry Waxman's staff, and the 911 Commission, and her case has been investigated by the Department of Justice Inspector General. All of them have verified Sibel's claims. As Republican Senator Charles Grassley said (YouTube) on 60 Minutes in 2002: "Absolutely, she's credible. And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story." ...
Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
That Iran and al-Qaeda have been the prime beneficiaries of George W's foreign policy is incontrovertible. Another beneficiary is China which has exploited anti-American sentiment in Latin America to sign major trade and arms deals with our neighbors. To add insult to injury, not only has Bush opened the door to stronger China - Latin American ties, but his economic policies are financing China's efforts.
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Asset Management: Trends for the Future: An Interview with Van L. Pell
Gorman, Bridget, Journal of Property Management
Asset Management: Trends for the Future How do you define asset management today?
Asset management encompasses a broad range of activities. It is the ongoing process of creation and maintenance of value over a period of time. The manager attempts to ensure that the investment outperforms the marketplace and makes long range decisions on retention, refinancing, and sale of the investment. The asset manager must also supervise day-to-day capital decisions and long-term leasing strategies for commercial properties.
In essence, the asset manager updates and supervises a strategic business plan for each property and ensures the property manager is effective in day-to-day implementation.
How has asset management evolved, and where do you see it headed in the future?
Asset management will change for two reasons. First, the industry is getting much more sophisticated and will continue to get even more so in the future. For example, real estate unquestionably will remain a business of local markets. If you look at a real estate investment, it is inherently a property that is located in a local market in which it competes. Because of the relative illiquidity of real estate investments and the absolute non-transferability of the asset from a physical perspective, its performance on an individual basis has to take place against competition, the economy, the demographic changes, and the performance standards achieved by others in the local marketplace.
For this reason, property management has always been looked at as a relatively localized business. However, asset management must become and is becoming much more broad based, particularly with institutions. Institutions should look at real estate investments as they would other investments, whether they be stocks, bonds, government securities, and so on.
Investors must also look at portfolio value maximization, what performance indices are relevant for that particular class of assets, and how to compare the performance of that class of assets to others. They should make broader capital investment and sale decisions based upon those results.
Institutions have also become more sophisticated with the development of different methodologies for comparing and tracking performance. They have created standards of performance for classes of assets. As this happens with real estate, we are going to see increased sophistication in the ability to monitor the performance of properties, to compare performance within markets, and to compare the performance of property management companies.
There is a strong desire to achieve excellence in property management as evidenced by above-market property performance. This will create a continually evolving process in which there is more sophistication, better standards of performance assessment, and a great deal of competition among property management companies and asset managers.
What will managers need to do to compete in this market?
There are a number of things we are going to have to do. First, managers must recognize this tendency toward more sophistication. Institutions are now looking at real property as a long-term asset. They are not looking for an annual operating budget, but for a broad-based business plan for positioning of the asset for the future.
It is important to look at how to position that asset to maximize its performance in the marketplace, what competition could occur in the foreseeable future, and what decisions should be made with regard to that asset. You must also study the tenant profile and have a plan for each tenant. This is a customer service business today. How you structure leases and the economics of the property in order to maximize the performance of the asset is essential.
Managers must also look to technology if they want to compete in this market. The major asset managers are developing strong technological capabilities. …


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From Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94121.
Acknowledgment: The author thanks Harold Sox, MD, for insightful comments on this editorial.
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Clinicians as far back as the father of internal medicine, Sir William Osler, have noted characteristic behavioral patterns in patients with heart disease. In 1897, Osler observed that "the typical heart disease patient is a keen and ambitious man … whose engine is always at full speed ahead" (1). Almost a century later, cardiologists Friedman and Rosenman picked up on this theme by linking the type A behavior pattern, a combination of time urgency and hostility, with coronary heart disease (CHD) (2). In 1986, they published a randomized, controlled trial of type A behavioral therapy in 862 patients after myocardial infarction and found that, during 4.5 years of follow-up, patients who received type A behavioral therapy plus group cardiac counseling were less likely to develop CHD events (myocardial infarction or cardiac death) than those who received group cardiac counseling alone (3). Subsequent work by Barefoot and colleagues (4) and others demonstrated that hostility was the component of type A personality primarily responsible for its association with CHD events.
During the past 20 years, several other psychological factors, such as anger, anxiety, and depression, have also been associated with an increased risk for CHD events and with adverse outcomes among patients with established CHD (5–6). A recent study of more than 25 000 patients from 52 countries found that psychological factors were stronger risk factors for incident myocardial infarction than diabetes, smoking, hypertension, and obesity (7). Despite the strong evidence supporting this relationship, however, we do not know whether or how psychological factors actually cause CHD events.
In this issue, Diez Roux and colleagues (8) report the results of an elegant cross-sectional study examining the relationship between psychological factors and coronary artery calcium in a multiethnic, community-based sample of 6814 Americans age 45 to 85 years with no history of clinical cardiovascular disease. Coronary calcium is a marker of atherosclerosis that predicts incident CHD events in asymptomatic individuals, independent of traditional risk factors (9). Diez Roux and colleagues found no association between any of 4 psychological factors (depressive symptoms, anxiety, anger, and chronic burden) and coronary calcium as measured by computed tomography. Given the substantial body of evidence supporting an association between psychological factors and CHD events, are these negative findings surprising? Do they contradict more than a century of epidemiologic observations? How do they improve our understanding of the link between psychological factors and CHD events?
There are 3 possible explanations for this association: 1) Psychological disorders may lead to atherogenesis or to CHD events (causation), 2) psychological disorders may result from atherosclerosis or from CHD events (reverse causation), and 3) psychological disorders may be associated with other variables that lead to CHD events (confounding). The lack of relationship between psychological factors and coronary calcium observed by Diez Roux and colleagues makes it unlikely that psychological factors lead to atherogenesis, but it does not rule out the causal hypothesis because psychological factors may trigger CHD events without necessarily causing atherosclerosis. Combining the coronary calcium score with traditional risk factors and C-reactive protein improves prediction of CHD events, increasing the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve from 0.69 to 0.79 (9). However, at least 20% of the variance in risk for CHD events remains unexplained, and the factors that trigger CHD events are unclear (10). Thus, it is possible that psychological factors may account for some of the variance in risk for CHD events that is not explained by coronary calcium or traditional risk factors.
Indeed, several plausible biological and behavioral factors have been identified as candidate mechanisms by which psychological factors may lead to CHD events without necessarily causing atherosclerosis (11). Potential biological mechanisms include mental stress–induced ischemia, alterations in cardiac autonomic tone, enhanced activity of the hypothalamic–pituitary axis, increased catecholamine levels, and greater platelet activation. Potential behavioral mediators include dietary indiscretion, lack of exercise, and medication nonadherence. Genetic factors may predispose patients to both depression and CHD events (12). However, further studies are needed to determine which—or what combination—of these potential mechanisms explain the increased risk for CHD events in patients with psychological disorders.
The second possible explanation for the relationship between psychological factors and CHD events is that psychological symptoms may result from atherosclerosis. Although previous studies of the association between psychological factors and coronary calcium have yielded mixed results, the study by Diez Roux and colleagues included more than twice the number of participants as all of these studies combined. The lack of association observed between psychological factors and coronary calcium essentially rules out the possibility that greater atherosclerosis causes psychological symptoms. Coronary heart disease events (as opposed to atherosclerosis) can of course cause psychological symptoms (13), and the association of psychological factors with CHD events may well be bidirectional. However, the findings of Diez Roux and colleagues make it unlikely that greater underlying atherosclerosis explains the increased risk for future CHD events in patients with psychological disorders.
The third possible explanation for the relationship between psychological factors and CHD events is that psychological factors may be associated with confounding variables that lead to CHD events. Most, although not all, studies have demonstrated that the increased risk for CHD events associated with psychological disorders is independent of age, diabetes, smoking, lipids, obesity, physical activity, and measures of baseline CHD (5–6). Thus, it seems unlikely that traditional risk factors explain the association of psychological factors with CHD events. However, patients with psychological disorders may have a higher frequency of unmeasured characteristics that predispose them to CHD events. To exclude confounding, a randomized trial would need to demonstrate that treatment of psychological disorders decreases the incidence of CHD events without affecting traditional risk factors. Showing that changes in psychological factors precede a decreased incidence of CHD events would eliminate residual confounding and strengthen the causal hypothesis.
Despite the initially encouraging findings of Friedman and coworkers (3), subsequent randomized trials have failed to show that psychotherapy for mental health disorders reduces CHD events (14), and no trial has examined whether pharmacotherapy for mental health disorders reduces CHD events. In the Sertraline Anti-Depressant Heart Attack Randomized Trial (SADHART), researchers examined the safety of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor sertraline in 369 patients with depression and CHD and concluded that this drug is safe in patients with CHD (15). Although a trend was observed toward fewer CHD events in the sertraline group, SADHART was not designed or powered to detect a reduction in CHD events. A recent observational study found that use of antidepressant medication after myocardial infarction was associated with reductions in future CHD events, independent of CHD severity and traditional risk factors (16). However, the effect of antidepressant medication on CHD events has not been evaluated in a large randomized trial, and a trial would be necessary to rule out confounding as the explanation for increased CHD events in patients with psychological disorders.
Of the 3 possible explanations for the association of psychological factors with CHD events (causation, reverse causation, and confounding), Diez Roux and colleagues have decreased the likelihood that psychological factors cause atherosclerosis, but they have not ruled out causation; psychological factors may trigger CHD events that are not predicted by coronary calcium. Diez Roux and colleagues have virtually eliminated the possibility of reverse causation by demonstrating that psychological factors are not associated with atherosclerosis, at least in patients without symptoms of CHD. Whether confounding explains the association of psychological factors with CHD events cannot be determined by the currently available evidence. A randomized trial testing the effect of antidepressant medication on CHD events would be the cleanest way to examine this question. However, since patients with depression cannot be assigned to placebo, ethical considerations make designing such a trial challenging.
Regardless of whether psychological disorders are associated with CHD events, they must be recognized and treated. Depression is second only to ischemic heart disease as the leading cause of worldwide disability (17), and it is a stronger predictor of health status than ejection fraction or inducible ischemia (18). Depression is present in approximately 10% of primary care patients and in 20% of outpatients with CHD (13). Treatment of depression improves mood, employment, functional status, and quality of life (19), and brief, validated depression screening tools are readily available and easy to use (13). Both cognitive behavioral therapy and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are safe and effective treatments for depression in patients with CHD (15, 20).
In summary, the preponderance of evidence indicates that psychological factors are associated with an increased risk for CHD events, but the reasons for this association are not well understood. By demonstrating a lack of relation between psychological factors and coronary calcium, Diez Roux and colleagues have ruled out the possibility that greater underlying atherosclerosis is responsible for the link between psychological factors and future CHD events. It is less clear whether the association between psychological factors and CHD events is causal. In the case of depression, only a randomized trial testing the effect of antidepressant medication on incidence of CHD events can answer this question.
Mary A. Whooley, MD
Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94121
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The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August; also called in old books Pausatio,Nativitas (for heaven), Mors, Depositio, Dormitio S. Mariae. It was declared a dogma by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
This feast has a double object: the happy departure of Mary from this life; the assumption of her body into heaven. It is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin.
To mark this great day, it's worth quoting Adrian I, "Venerable to us, O Lord, is the festivity of this day on which the holy Mother of God suffered temporal death, but still could not be kept down by the bonds of death, who has begotten your Son our Lord incarnate from herself." This feast was elevated from being just one of the Marian feasts to being part of the whole liturgical cycle because as the Mother of God , Mary was kept a virgin-incorrupt-so was she kept incorrupt even after her temporal earthly death.
The exact year that she is believed to have assumed into heave is not known but it is between three to fifteen years after the ascension of our Lord. Is a truth that has been revealed by God and consequently something that must be firmly and faithfully believed by all children of the Church.
Thus St. John Damascene, an outstanding herald of this traditional truth, spoke out with powerful eloquence when he compared the bodily Assumption of the loving Mother of God with her other prerogatives and privileges. "It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity intact in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she, who had carried the Creator as a child at her breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles. It was fitting that the spouse, whom the Father had taken to himself, should live in the divine mansions. It was fitting that she, who had seen her Son upon the cross and who had thereby received into her heart the sword of sorrow which she had escaped in the act of giving birth to him, should look upon him as he sits with the Father. It was fitting that God's Mother should possess what belongs to her Son, and that she should be honored by every creature as the Mother and as the handmaid of God."
Though the mother of the Lord, she also underwent challenges in her life as learned from the sacred books that the Virgin Mary, throughout the course of her earthly pilgrimage, led a life troubled by cares, hardships, and sorrows, and that, moreover, what the holy old man Simeon had foretold actually came to pass, that is, that a terribly sharp sword pierced her heart as she stood under the cross of her divine Son, our Redeemer.
Just as The Virgin Mother kept her virginity so are we to keep our bodies pure since they are the temples of the Holy Spirit so that after our life here on earth we may be rewarded with incorruptible spiritual 'bodies'. The challenges of this life should not be an excuse to doing the call that we've from God.
The Psalmist: "Arise, O Lord, into your resting place: you and the ark, which you have sanctified"
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The following is a mini interview of generic questions that we posed to all bands that wanted to answer:
1. How did you get your band name?
At first we were thinking of �The Source� as our ideal moniker, because it conveyed the concept of a hidden and mystic reality above the five senses. After some collective brainstorming we decided to change it to �Desource� because it sounded more original, and creative!
2. How did this band get started?
The band got started in 2007 as a dream of some Italian guys who loved metal and hardcore music. We were really immature as musicians at that time, but after some lineup changes and hours spent covering songs by As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage and similar bands, we eventually started writing our own songs. The first three songs were completed in 2009, and in the same year we managed to play at a couple of local venues in Central Italy. We also attended lots of contests where we�ve met lots of incredible guys who shared our same aspiration; and we managed to play alongside bands such as The Secret, Helia and Locked In. However the key year was 2012: the songs we had written through the years were finally recorded and we�ve restarted playing after a long pause.
3. What bands are you influenced by?
Our songwriting is mainly influenced by metalcore bands like Misery Signals, August Burns Red, As I Lay Dying; but we also owe much to the alternative rock tradition of the 90s, and especially Deftones. There are some tracks in our album
Dirty Happiness
where you can hear the �rock� element coming in.
4. If you could tour with any bands, past or present, who would they be and why?
The ideals bands to tour with would be Killswitch Engage, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Misery Signals. They all enjoy their touring time, and when they�re on stage it seems it�s the most natural thing in the world for them!
5. Best food to eat on tour?
Pizza, pizza, and pizza again. Unless you�re outside Europe or the US, where we�d rather eat local food. Anyway, we basically eat everything!
6. Why should people listen to your band?
People should listen to our band because they�re surely going to find something that goes beyond strict musical genres, something meant to be just �inspirational music� before being metal, or hardcore, or progressive. We composed our songs just on the basis of the message we wanted to convey.
7. If you could be any athlete, which athlete would you switch places with?
There are so many athletes in the world that we�d like to switch places with! Micheal Phelps, for example, has an approach to life that�s valuable also for a musician: always strive to be better than yesterday. You know, maybe one day he will include our music in the playlist he listens to before his races!
8. If you won a Grammy, who would you thank?
We would thank our families and closest friends in the first place. No one has ever believed in our foolish project more than them; they�ve always been supportive even when playing and rehearsing hours were leading us to disappear from the world. We would also thank Simone and Alessandro, the mixing magicians behind our album
Dirty Happiness
, and Beppe, our manager at This Is Core Records. Their job is precious!
9. If you could change something about the music industry, what would it be?
The music industry is at the crossroads. The old business model brought about by majors, based on huge investments and high prices of CDs, has come to an end. Now the problem is that nobody is investing in new, emerging, and innovative bands in the underground scene. Indie labels and promoters struggle to earn a living with their activities, and bands have to invest lots of money just to play live at some interesting venues. Maybe we should rethink the whole model: people should support in some new ways the artists they listen to (watching them live, donating something to keep them going), but majors should stop seeking higher and higher profits when the crisis hits hard.
10. Memorable tour experience?
We haven�t had a proper tour yet, but just gigs across Italy, and it was fantastic to know so many different people. In these case the journey is more important than the goal! We�re arranging something for July 2014, and it�s going to be outside Italy.
11. What does AP.net mean to you?
AP.net is one of those websites we would be following and reading when, let�s say, a new album came out or a new interview with some great musician. So it�s like a dream for us to be featured on your website!
12. What is your favorite song to play?
We�ve got various preferences, but maybe the song that we enjoy playing the most is Deliver Me From Myself. You know, there�s also a solo on it, it�s perfect for cocky guitarists!
13. What is your vacation spot of choice?
The place we�re from, in Central Italy, is a beautiful town on the Trasimeno Lake; being a vacation place already, we usually spend most of our holidays there. But of course sea places are our favorite!
14. What music reminds you of your childhood?
Maybe it�s nu metal that reminds us of our childhood! We started listening to rock and metal when bands like Korn, Deftones, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park were releasing amazing albums. They were our heroes at the time, then one day Killswitch Engage came in�and everything changed!
15. If you could have any super power, what would it be? Why?
Guess it would be turning everything into Telecaster guitars. That design is amazing, even for metalheads like us!
16. Any pre-show superstitions or rituals?
We usually warm up frenetically before shows, and we do that together, at the same time, to kill the pressure. We try to chill as much as possible and we tell each other every kind of jokes. It helps!
17. What is something that most fans don't know about you?
Most people don�t know that we secretly listen to Jeff Buckley more than every metal band during the day!
18. What is your assessment of the current state of radio? Do you think it's a place where your band could flourish?
Radio is maybe the most interesting place for our music right now: I�m talking about focused, alternative radio stations of course, as the mainstream circuit is impossible to approach. We believe that alternative radio stations, especially web-based, can really help spreading around our music. After all, we feel lucky: hardcore and metal communities are made of passionate fans who actively search for new artists and support them. We wouldn�t exchange this amazing crowd for a MTV show.
19. What do you like to do in your spare time?
In our spare time we usually hang out together at night, while we spend our afternoons in very different ways. Edoardo (guitars) is also a music producer and has various musical projects; Giacomo (guitars, who�s speaking) has a solo project and studies economics; Andrea (bass) is a tattooist and a great visual artist; Iuri (voice) is also a student of social services and has various musical projects; Gabriele (drums) has several musical projects and attends drum teaching clinics.
20. What kind of hidden talents do you have?
Maybe we�re very comical and amusing and we don�t realize it too often! We�re able to play a tight metal show with all the breakdowns, sweep picking, tapping, blasts beats you could expect, but we�re having lots of fun. And who has seen us live always finds a reason to be happy and laugh even if our songs often deal with suffering, social issues, weird psychology.
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