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Hazeldine's 'Unfair Fight'
'I strive for excellence'DEBBIE JAMIESON
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If Sam Hazledine, 35, could bottle and sell enthusiasm, he would make a fortune.
But he doesn't need to.
Hazledine dropped a career as a doctor to grow a 2006 start-up business to a $20 million a year turnover.
His Queenstown-based company has spent four years on the Deloitte Fast 50 list as one of the fastest growing businesses in the country and Hazledine was the 2012 Ernst and Young Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
Now he's written the book about it.
And he's donating the profits from that to Angels of East Africa, a charity focused on rescuing children from becoming child soldiers; setting them up in orphanages and schools.
But he was not always on such a high-reaching trajectory.
In 2002, living in the moment and drinking excessively he was attempting a backflip off a 2m high wall when he crashed, sustaining a major head injury.
In a coma for two days he was told he was unlikely to regain full brain function, return to medical school or ski again.
It was the catalyst for change, to raise his standards and educate himself further.
''All the good things came after that,'' he said.
He went on to become the New Zealand Extreme Ski Champion the next year, married Claire who had considered him a bit of a dick beforehand, completed his medical degree and started practising as a doctor.
Yet it was seeing how exhausted and disillusioned many of his young colleagues were, that lead him and Claire to begin the medical recruitment agency MedRecruit in 2006.
Today they employ 35 staff in Queenstown and New South Wales and are still growing but there has been a lot of learning in between times and Hazledine is keen to share the lessons.
''Over the past 10 years I've probably invested quarter of a million dollars in my own education, personal development stuff, psychology and business education.
''I wanted to capture everything I've learned and put them in a place so I can replicate my own success and grow from where I am.''
The subsequent book Unfair Fight is a summary of his approach to running a small business in New Zealand.
There is a massive failure rate among the 97 per cent of businesses in New Zealand having 19 or fewer staff and Hazledine believes this is because they are trying to compete with big business on a level playing field.
They need to be thinking like David, from David and Goliath.
''Small businesses have an advantage only if they think and act unconventionally.''
It is a tactic he has used, in its most public form completing challenges from young doctors including water-skiing in mid-winter across Lake Wakatipu in a leopard-print G-string or visiting the supermarket dressed as Borat - marketing stunts to appeal to the young doctors he was recruiting at the time, not in use now as he deals with senior doctors and GPs.
''We still use a personal approach but in a more elegant way.''
His book is predicated on the idea that success lies at the intersection of mindset and action and deals equally with each.
He works with simple ideas - the set up, the fight and the knockout, all focused on techniques small and medium-sized businesses can use to work smarter and achieve success.
And of course none of it is possible without passion and commitment.
For Hazledine that has meant loving what he does enough to ensure he is the very best he can be at any role he takes on whether as an entrepreneur, a husband or a father to his two girls.
''A lot of people strive for balance. For me that's another word for mediocrity.
''I strive for excellence in the areas that are important to me. Balance becomes an outcome as opposed to a goal.''
Ask yourself, he suggests, what is exciting, not just what's safe, and always go to it with fanaticism and energy.
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It seems so hard to pop into the handbag world out of nowhere and grab hold of enough attention to get things going, but sometimes designers manage to make that happen; at the moment, Belstaff is on a roll.
The perennial cool kids of Opening Ceremony have taken one more step into the accessories realm: just this week, they've launched their first in-house bag line, which feels like a long time coming. As you might expect, the bags ring up at a contemporary price point and they look like exactly the sort of thing that Opening Ceremony's hipper-than-thou clientele wants to carry when their It Bags start to feel overexposed.
It's rare that I come across a line of bags at Neiman Marcus that I don't immediately recognize, but that's what happened when I was browsing the retailer's new fall arrivals online recently. The SW1 Podplaza Satchel, above, immediately caught my eye for its spare, confident design; it takes some nerve to design a bag that's so aggressively minimal, because the eye doesn't have anything by which to be conveniently distracted when evaluating the finished product.


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READING, England, January 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Pulsant - Powering IT, today announced that its Enterprise Cloud and Enterprise Cloud VDC service has achieved VMware vCloud® Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company's cloud services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), the Enterprise Cloud and Enterprise Cloud VDC VMware vCloud Powered service delivers a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.
Mark Howling, CEO of Pulsant, states: "We have been delivering cloud solutions for over ten years. What we are bringing to market now is true next generation cloud - it's not just an upgrade or enhancement. Pulsant can truly deliver on cloud's promise of unlimited scalability, total flexibility, quicker access and processing. Our customer trails have recorded a 40-50% increase in speed and 20% reduction in power usage."
"The VMware vCloud® Powered program was developed to enable our service provider partners to differentiate themselves and help them bring their enterprise-class cloud services to market in this competitive landscape," said Gavin Jackson, director, vCloud & Service Providers, EMEA, VMware. "We look forward to supporting Pulsant further as it delivers on the agility and performance customers are looking for in the cloud computing landscape."
Customers of Pulsant have the ability to move workloads from their VMware vSphere-based virtualized or private cloud environment to the VMware vCloud Powered service and back again. This application portability is a key differentiator allowing customers to achieve the flexibility and security they need while enabling increased IT agility.
Pulsant sought VMware vCloud® Powered validation in order to highlight the expansion of its enterprise-class cloud solutions, while providing the security and agility customers require in their cloud solutions.
As a validated provider, Pulsant can now provide users with enhanced responsiveness and agility, and reduced IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management.
About Pulsant:
Experts in cloud, data centre and infrastructure services, Pulsant specialises in highly resilient, high quality IP network, colocation, managed application and cloud hosting.
- Pulsant supports more than 3,000 mid-tier and enterprise customers from its eight UK-based ISO 27001 compliant data centres.
- Pulsant provides world class technology and exceptional people creating advanced and innovative solutions that optimise performance and cost effectively manage, store and safeguard data.
- Pulsant's 'Triple-A' service models ensures the right 'Access, Ability and Action' to deliver 24/7 support from multiple UK-based operation centres.
- 100% of the energy used within Pulsant's data centres is from renewable sources.
For more information, please visit http://www.pulsant.com
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"We work in the area of Big Data analytics and Big Data analytics is a very crowded space - you have Hadoop, ETL, warehousing, visualization and there's a lot of effort trying to get these tools to talk to each other," explained Mukund Deshpande, head of the Analytics practice at Accelerite, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann returns to 'DevOps at Cloud Expo 2016' as Conference Chair The @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo will take place on November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. "DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results DevOps delivers. So I am excited t...
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Basho Technologies has announced the latest release of Basho Riak TS, version 1.3. Riak TS is an enterprise-grade NoSQL database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT). The open source version enables developers to download the software for free and use it in production as well as make contributions to the code and develop applications around Riak TS. Enhancements to Riak TS make it quick, easy and cost-effective to spin up an instance to test new ideas and build IoT applications. In addition to...
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IoT is rapidly changing the way enterprises are using data to improve business decision-making. In order to derive business value, organizations must unlock insights from the data gathered and then act on these. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, and Peter Shashkin, Head of Development Department at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how one organization leveraged IoT, cloud technology and data analysis to improve customer experiences and effi...
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Presidio has received the 2015 EMC Partner Services Quality Award from EMC Corporation for achieving outstanding service excellence and customer satisfaction as measured by the EMC Partner Services Quality (PSQ) program. Presidio was also honored as the 2015 EMC Americas Marketing Excellence Partner of the Year and 2015 Mid-Market East Partner of the Year. The EMC PSQ program is a project-specific survey program designed for partners with Service Partner designations to solicit customer feedbac...
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The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it's challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging "as-a-service" options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data profession...
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"There's a growing demand from users for things to be faster. When you think about all the transactions or interactions users will have with your product and everything that is between those transactions and interactions - what drives us at Catchpoint Systems is the idea to measure that and to analyze it," explained Leo Vasiliou, Director of Web Performance Engineering at Catchpoint Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York Ci...
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Ask someone to architect an Internet of Things (IoT) solution and you are guaranteed to see a reference to the cloud. This would lead you to believe that IoT requires the cloud to exist. However, there are many IoT use cases where the cloud is not feasible or desirable. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dave McCarthy, Director of Products at Bsquare Corporation, will discuss the strategies that exist to extend intelligence directly to IoT devices and sensors, freeing them from the constraints of ...
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Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. Knowing when and where these devices connect from is critical for a number of scenarios in supply chain management, disaster management, emergency response, M2M, location marketing and more. In his session at @Th...
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There are several IoTs: the Industrial Internet, Consumer Wearables, Wearables and Healthcare, Supply Chains, and the movement toward Smart Grids, Cities, Regions, and Nations. There are competing communications standards every step of the way, a bewildering array of sensors and devices, and an entire world of competing data analytics platforms. To some this appears to be chaos. In this power panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, Bradley Holt, Developer Advocate a...
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June 28, 2016
A Hollywood Star for Country Entertainer Tim McGraw
October 18, 2006 (2:52 am) GMT
Tim McGraw has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday Oct 17th, 2006.
Award-winning country singer and actor Tim McGraw has become the latest Hollywood famous figure to be honored a star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame".
The entertainer is the 2,322nd celebrity to have his star unveiled in front of the Virgin Records store on Hollywood Boulevard.
"I really still don't know how it happens, maybe they made a mistake or something," McGraw said while receiving the honor Tuesday Oct 17th.
Among those attending the ceremony were McGraw's country star wife Faith Hill and his co-star in the acclaimed "Friday Night Lights" Billy Bob Thornton.
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BYU basketball report card: Carlino, Cougars pull out win over San Francisco
Overall, the Cougar big men really took a beating in this game. San Francisco's top three bigs combined for 51 points and 26 rebounds, while BYU's trio tallied just 14 points and 17 rebounds.
Not only did the Dons' post players score 51 points, they did so on just 32 shot attempts. Eric Mika, Nate Austin and Josh Sharp were bad on defense, looking lost and slow much of the time while committing bad fouls.
Mika, who fouled out, seemed to be as much of a hindrance as a help in the game, as the Cougars were outrebounded in the game by 11 and gave up 16 offensive rebounds to the Dons. Often this season, BYU seems to be a better rebounding team when Mika is not in the game.
Thanks to good shooting by its guards and bad shooting by its opponent's guards, BYU was able to win despite its frontcourt being outplayed Thursday night.
Grade: D+
The best thing Rose did versus San Francisco was stick with Carlino for 27 of the final 32 minutes in the game. He also stuck with the man-to-man defense, which cut down the Dons' 3-point attempts. This was key since the Dons made 50 percent of the threes they did take (5-of-10).
If someone would have told Rose before the game that his team would have twice as many turnovers as assists and give up 16 offensive rebounds while getting outrebounded by 11 overall, he probably would have said they would need to shoot 60 percent to win.
What he couldn't have guessed is that the Cougars would get 37 free-throw attempts and make 28 of them (75.7 percent).
Against the Dons, the Cougars were essentially what they've been all season: a guard-dominated team with major depth, consistency and foul trouble issues in the frontcourt; a bad offensive team in the half court; a team that plays soft defense; a team with wild fluctuations in minute distribution; and a team that has to shoot the ball really well to win.
Grade: C
San Francisco is a rugged group with surprising athleticism. The Dons had a nice three-game stretch to begin January, beating Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine and Pacific. They certainly look capable of competing to be the fourth-best team in the WCC.
Senior forward Cole Dickerson is a skilled player down low who averages 13.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. He was a monster versus BYU.
The Cougars are lucky senior point guard Cody Doolin, probably the Dons' best player, decided to quit the team after just four games this season. If he had been around, the Cougars would have had a tough time winning this game with the way they played.
Grade: C+
Nate Gagon is a published sports, music and creative writer. He is also a wholehearted father, grateful husband and ardent student of life. He shoots roughly 94% from the free-throw line and can be reached at: email@example.com or @nategagon.
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ZACH COLLAROS (QB): Collaros has the opportunity to be a star. The senior was a first-team All-Big East performer last year, throwing for 2,902 yards and 26 touchdowns. On the flip side, Collaros threw 14 picks and completed just 58.7 percent of his passes. If Collaros wants to take the final step into stardom, he'll need to improve his decision making skills.
D.J. WOODS (WR): Woods has big play potential each time he's on the field. The senior caught 57 passes for 898 yards and eight scores. Even more impressive was his 15.8 yards per reception.
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J.K. SCHAFFER (LB): The middle linebacker led the Bearcats, along with the entire Big East, with 111 tackles last season. Said Schaffer to GoBearCats.com: "I love being the underdog and underrated. The driving force behind my whole life is going out and proving people wrong, so I wouldn't want it any other way."
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Pulling from over 30 years of space shuttle coverage, KUED's program takes an close look at the highs and lows experienced by those involved with the space shuttle. "To the Stars: Utah and the Space Shuttle," scheduled to air Friday at 8:30 p.m., was produced and directed by Al Cutler and reported by Ken Verdoia.
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For many in Utah, the connection to the shuttle program began with shuttle flight by Sen. Jake Garn (R-Utah) in 1985. However, the state's participation started in 1973 when Brigham City-based Morton Thiokol was chosen to develop the solid rocket motors that would propel the shuttle into space. This selection would allow Utah to experience some of the ultimate highs of the shuttle program, but also some of the deepest lows.
The 1986 Challenger disaster focused the nation's attention on Thiokol's solid rocket design. It also focused President Ronald Reagan's attention on getting NASA back on track. For this important task, President Reagan turned to a man with Utah connections. Former University of Utah president James C. Fletcher was given the responsibility of getting NASA's management under control and restoring the American public's faith in NASA.
Utah had other close ties to the shuttle program, producing two shuttle astronauts with Utah connections. Utah native Don Lind was aboard Challenger's 1985 flight and Mary Cleave, a USU research associate, flew aboard Atlantis twice the same year. In addition, Utah State University and the University of Utah participated in NASA's Get Away Special program, which sent experiments into space aboard shuttle flights.
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Companies are increasingly recognizing climate risk in their supply chains, but investment in emissions reductions programs is going down, according to research by CDP and Accenture.
The firms say the research establishes a "clear link" between stalling progress on emissions reductions within supply chains and the uncertain regulatory framework.
According to the CDP Global Supply Chain Report 2014, Collaborative Action on Climate Risk, more companies are reporting on their emissions reductions programs and there are clear financial benefits from investment in sustainability measures. However, average monetary savings from emissions reductions efforts have fallen 44 percent in the past 12 months. The report points to an ever widening gap — highlighted last year — between measures taken by large corporates that are members of CDP's supply chain program and those by suppliers.
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He maintained that the delay in Shinde's statement expressing regret had created a condition which "gladdened the hearts of terrorists and their patrons in Pakistan".
Chief of Pakistan-based terror outfit JuD Hafiz Saeed had welcomed Shinde's Hindu terror remarks.
BJP sources said the party will not raise this issue in Parliament and the matter is closed after Shinde's regret.
"We hope and trust that Shinde will be cautious in his comments about nationalistic organisation like the BJP and RSS in future and not repeat this again," Prasad said.
BJP had spoken firmly against the remarks made by Shinde at the Congress 'chintan shivir' in Jaipur. Soon after taking over as BJP president, Rajnath Singh had demanded that Shinde should withdraw his remarks and tender an apology.
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By Ginger Lumpkin
Even though it is only two and-a-half hours away, I have not spent much time in Chicago. In 1974, I tagged along on a church youth trip chaperoned by my parents. I was only five, but I have some very distinct memories of that time.
A hospital administrator was once startled to see a patient fleeing down the hall from the operating room. Stopping the patient, he asked what seemed to be wrong. The patient exclaimed, "The nurse scared me near to death when she said, "Be brave! An appendectomy is a simple operation."
On June 25, more than 200 outstanding student musicians will gather at the University of Louisville for five days of rehearsal and performances prior to departing to seven European countries for a 16-day tour.
Though Rick Bissmeyer of the Oldham County Red Cross said he knew it was a cliché, he could not resist comparing his coworkers to a family.
An Oldham County tradition will continue June 18 as the South Oldham Lions Club sponsors the Crestwood Festival.
Centre College awards degrees
The following local students graduated from Centre College during the 193rd Commencement ceremony held May 22. From Crestwood:
North Oldham announced in late May the hiring of Kayla Koerber as the new head volleyball coach for the reigning Eighth Region champion Lady Mustangs.
Koerber comes to North Oldham having last been an assistant volleyball coach at Lindsey Wilson College the past two seasons.
The South Oldham High School awards ceremony was held in the school auditorium on Tuesday, May 31. There were 117 students recognized at the ceremony for excellence in academics, service and other achievements.
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Treating Hip & Groin Pain With Abdominal Release of Upper Lumbar Nerve Impingements
Have you encountered patients with groin and hip pain you can't seem to solve? You know it's not a worn-out hip; you suspect the pain is somehow connected to the spine. But somehow, you just can't help them break through.
Beating the Odds: Interview With Para-Powerlifter Adeline Dumapong-Ancheta
Since October 2015, the FICS Foundation, the charitable organization affiliated with the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (FICS), has been supporting disabled athletes internationally.
A Long-Overdue Win for Oregon Medicaid Patients - and the Implications for Other States
Beginning July 1, 2016, Oregon Medicaid patients with spinal pain (cervical, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic) who are determined to be low risk based on a biopsychosocial assessment tool (STarT Back – Keele University) can receive four chiropractic visits per episode.
What's New in Phytonutrition: Mangifera Indica, "The King of Fruits"
One hundred percent pure Indian green mango fruit (mangifera indica), harvested at a special degree of ripeness for efficacy and taste, can now be concentrated as a phytonutrient nutraceutical powder.
How to Stay Sane During the Elections: Understanding Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine
In Chinese Medicine philosophy, everything consists of Yin and Yang. The law of polar opposites – one cannot exist without its opposite.
Three Tips to Help You Analyze the Acupuncture Case Studies of the NCCAOM Exam
Tip #1
Confirm the answer quickly by the elimination method. Case study:
After two treatments for back pain, a patient presents for a third
session complaining of rapid breathing and wheezing that is made worse
during cold weather.
Acupuncture's Impact on the World
For several years, I have been hearing about the town of Rothenburg, Germany. It seemed just a dot on a map until I arrived. It is the home of the TCM Kongress which began in 1968. It has been held annually for 47 years and it has only missed one year.
Acupuncture Muscle Trigger Point and Oriental Medicine Sports Therapy
It is difficult to ascertain the internal condition of professional basketball player Lebron James during game one of the 2014 NBA finals, in which he developed debilitating muscle cramps that led to his premature removal from the game.
Chronic Pain: Become Part of the Solution
I have lectured to more than 7,000 chiropractic physicians over the past five years regarding the chronic pain and opioid epidemic in this country.
The Pertinent Negative
We all have to perform evaluations on patients. Most of us don't like doing it – exams take time, and worse it takes even more time after the evaluation to put together a narrative summary of the findings. Sometimes, this process becomes downright tedious.
An MD Who Understands the Opioid Epidemic
Doctors of chiropractic have an important role to play in ending the opioid epidemic and dealing with chronic pain by conservative means (see our top story in this issue) – but who's to blame for opioid dependence and abuse in the first place?
Tai Chi Documentary Premier
First Run Features recently announced the world theatrical premiere of Barry Strugatz's documentary The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West, which premiered last month at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles.
Kansas Achieves Licensing Law
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed House Bill 2615 into law on Friday, May 13, 2016. HB2615 includes provisions for the licensure of acupuncturists in the state of Kansas.
Drive-Through Disease
Believe it or not, an estimated one-third of your patients have eaten some form of fast food within 24 hours of their appointment with you.
Sit or Stand? Analyzing a Mixed Message
I'm more than a bit confused. At my age, that seems to be a rather common occurrence. However, today more than ever, I'm getting a mixed message.
What You Say Isn't Always What Patients Hear
A few years ago, my aunt Edna (name changed for the purpose of this story) suffered a stroke. After a short hospital stay, she was transferred to a nursing home for rehabilitation. When she arrived at the nursing home, Edna requested a private room.
An Emerging Partnership Model
Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) has educated integrative health and wellness practitioners for the last 40 years, originally as an acupuncture clinic and school. The institution's transformative, relationship-centered programs integrate traditional wisdom with contemporary science
AOM Hospital-Based Practice: A Future Reality?
The natural evolution of health care on the planet is integrative health. We may have some challenges ahead, but based on my research, all indicators are pointing in a positive direction. There seems to be an evolving consciousness among our patient population that is "getting it."
Increasing the Value of Spine Care: CMS Approves New Low Back Pain Registry
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved the Spine IQ Low Back Pain Registry as a qualified clinical data registry for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) in 2016.
Multivitamin Supplement May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence
There is a great deal of controversy regarding the value of multiple vitamin supplements in cancer prevention.
Adventures with the San Jiao
Those of us who have been in practice for several decades relish the way meridians and points reveal new diagnostic clues and new insights. I love to encourage my students to see this as an adventure that goes way beyond the textbooks.
Insuring Quality Control in Herb Importation: An Interview with Wilson Lau
Wilson Lau is the vice president of Nuherbs, a Chinese herb importation company based in San Leandro, California. Before joining Nuherbs, he trained as a lawyer specializing in FDA law.
June, 2008, Vol. 08, Issue 06
Mapping Body Into Motion
By Keith Eric Grant, PhD, NCTMB
"I found that when I made certain expressions, I was flooded with strong emotional sensations. It wasn't just any expression, only the ones I had already identified as universal to all human beings. ... Over the next ten years, we did four experiments, including one in a non-Western culture, the Minangkabau of Western Sumatra.When peopled followed our instructions about which muscles to move, their physiology changed and most reported feeling the emotion. Again, it wasn't just any facial movement that produced this change. They had to make the muscular movements that our earlier research had found were universal expressions of emotion."3
There is a deep and seemingly inherent connection between our bodies and our emotions. Based on more than 40 years of research into human emotions, Paul Ekman characterizes many of our emotional responses as unconscious reactions to triggers that affect (or may have once affected) our welfare.3 Some are inherent, but the differences in individual responses to similar situations indicate many are learned. Ekman and his colleagues discovered that the process of mentally revisiting events from memory retriggered the emotions and bodily responses (such as increased heartbeat, blood pressure, respiration and sweating) that occurred during the original event. The memory "movies" we run in our heads - the events we habitually revisit in our mind's eye - have profound effects on the state of our bodies.
Perhaps even more interesting, from the perspective of massage practice, Ekman found that making various facial expressions would bring forth strong emotional responses. The associations between the expressions and the emotions were observed to be universal across cultures, indicating they are an intrinsic part of how we are "wired" as human beings. There is thus strong support from research that the muscles we activate and the bodily sensations we experience are as much generators of our emotional state as our emotions are influencers of our bodily state.
The ability to positively affect emotions via massage appears to have an extensive foundation in the research literature. In a meta-analysis of previous massage literature, Moyer reported consistent emotional benefits.5 "Reductions of trait anxiety and depression following a course of treatment were MT's largest effects. The average MT participant experienced a reduction of trait anxiety that was greater than 77 percent of comparison group participants, and a reduction of depression that was greater than 73 percent of comparison group participants."
Similarly, in a previous column, "Searching for Medical Massage" (October 2005), I noted that a large number of applications of massage in a medical context were reporting psychological and emotional benefits leading to increased well-being.4
In their recent book, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee report on neurological research that touches on the mechanisms of such body-mind interactions. The research concerns both how the mind creates our inherent sense of our body and how we map the space immediately around our body into extensions of our body. For example, we use tools as if they were actual parts of our body, extending our sense of touch to include our tool's contact with the outside world. Such mapping may form the scientific basis for the "connection" of touch and for the healing powers of touch.2
"The scientific method has never been able to confirm that qi flows or other mystical vital energies are real and present in the mind and body. Yet the experiences of these things are so palpable for so many people that it would be a cop-out to dismiss them out of hand as 'nothing more than' wishful thinking. Perhaps science, having banished these energies from the account of reality, can nonetheless explain the sensory awareness that people have of them. The brain's touch, movement, and peripersonal space maps go far in explaining many key elements of these beliefs and experiences."2
The Blakeslee's accounts of body maps are in congruence with my own observations from multiple forays into research. There are features and reactions of the body that are not explicitly physical, but stem from the immense pattern-matching and mapping processes of our brain. In some cases, what we perceive might be both a mapping of the peripersonal space and a mapping from one sensory mode to another. Abbott, for example, reports recent research on mirror-touch synesthesia, in which a touch seen literally is felt by the observer.1
The bottom line is that, as humans, we are neurologically wired to respond to and be part of the sensory world immediately surrounding us. As massage practitioners, this opens the door to helping our fellow humans cope with transitions and traumas, and for sharing their joys. Our emotions map into our body, but just as surely, our bodily experiences map into our emotions.
Click here for previous articles by Keith Eric Grant, PhD, NCTMB.
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A London gangster is recently released from prison and tries to go
straight after being offered a job by a clinically depressed borderline
agoraphobic celebrity. However, he's forcefully reined back into 'the
business' by Gant a psychotic criminal boss.
A star-studded and familiar face cast come together in William Monahan's passionate compelling and compulsory underworld film that manages to capture a contemporary 60's feel. It benefit's from an on location look which is wonderfully and stylishly shot capturing both beauty and darkness of L.A. and London. The back drop of London feels like a character itself with something interesting always going on screen.
For some reason despite the formulaically worn genre Boulevard manages to stay fresh. Colin Farrell's main character Mitchell is likable, interesting and dynamic with a Steve McQueen air about him.
The character relationship dimensions and interactions are intriguing and a little bit different from the usual Brit flick considering linear story thanks to a at times ambiguous script. Leads Farrell, Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone are on fine form. And both David Thewlis and Ben Chaplin steal the show with their contrasting character performances. There are loads of great supporting actor appearances, Eddie Marsan,Matt King,Tim Plester and Sanjeev Bhaskar to name a few. Notable is Briony, Mitchell 's alcoholic sister played excellently by Anna Friel.
US director Monahan has created a slick, witty, violent and soulfully hard hitting film. It's a quality production and despite the soundtrack being repetitive at times and a choppy last act - London Boulevard is near on perfection for the genre.
Reminiscent of Layer Cake (2004) quite frankly it's the UK's Carlito's Way (1993),which is a simply a good thing.
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I really wanted to admire this film but the confusing plot, unintelligible dialogue(particularly from Ray Winstone) and ridiculously loud music soundtrack spoilt it for me. There were sudden plot twists and developments that made no sense, as if the continuity department had pasted scenes together in random order. The ending was tacked on to end the movie just for the sake of it. What I wanted to know is what motivated David Thewlis' character to commit murder? Who was the Bosnian guy? Why is Anna Friel's character so annoying? Why do I care? If you wish to see a first-rate British crime movie, watch "Harry Brown".
It is a story of an ex-con Mitchell (Colin Farrell) who got out of
prison and who wants to put his criminal past behind him. He takes a
job to work as a bodyguard for a young and unhappy actress Charlotte
(Keira Knightley) and to protect her from paparazzi. Unfortunately his
friends from the past and a London crime lord named Gant (Ray Winstone)
don't leave him alone and pressure him to join their gang.
The story may be a cliché but what makes this movie worth to watch is its cast. The scenes between Colin Farrell and Ray Winstone (especially their restaurant and parking garage scenes) were pretty intense and strong. I can say that these two actors' performances have kept the movie together. Colin Farrell was definitely in his best shape physically in this movie. He marvelously portrayed Mitchell, a gangster who doesn't want to be a gangster anymore and showed once again that he is a perfect fit for badass characters. I also liked watching David Thewlis who plays Jordan, Charlotte's agent. Unfortunately, Keira Knightley doesn't get much screen time and therefore her relationship with Mitchell neither.
I am not sure how much this movie reflects London's underground crime world since I am not from the UK, but it was a different scenery for me and I liked it despite its very disappointing end. The soundtrack of the movie is superb.
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I agree with Matt Quigley (Belfast). I was expecting a satisfying
British crime thriller, especially with such a good cast, but I was
disappointed. The film's script let it down, and although the acting
was up to par, especially Colin Farrell as main guy Mitchel, with a nod
to David Thewlis as 'famous film star' Keira Knightley's sidekick
protector, and Anna Friel as Mitchel's sister, the potential to make
this a gripping tale was not realised.
The dilemma of Mitchel (Farrell) coming out of prison, trying to go straight, but given his previously high profile in London's gang underworld of serious crime, finding this impossible, could have been developed into a dark moral story with possible redemption. But the disjointed progression of scenes with so many mis-matched and disturbed characters, while underlining the fact that 'we're all fxxxxd', as Mitchel says at one point, fails to make sense.
Everyone is screwed up: Charlotte (Keira Knightley) with all her money is now utterly vulnerable, Mitchel can't get away from his heavily criminal past, his sister can't overcome her addictions, Charlotte's protector, Jordan (Thewlis) is beyond help in drink and drugs. Even the doctor (Sanjeev Bhaskar) who befriends Mitchel and ends up with his sister is seen as utterly flawed. Gant (Ray Winstone), the underground criminal overlord is horrible and you know things are not going to end well.
The only redemption in this film comes to Charlotte. Mitchel's attempt to revenge his down-and-out friend's death rebounds on him badly and the irony of the knife he gave the friend becoming his own nemesis is unflinchingly bitter and cruel.
The film is over-littered with bad language and the screenplay is unconvincing. The violence is extreme and only visual reticence makes it watchable. In retrospect I can see the point of the film/story, the moral dilemmas, the effect of crime, money, drugs, drink, violence, on the human psyche, degrading it to the point of self-destruction and destruction of others, but despite the actors' every efforts to make the whole thing work, by the end you just feel the whole thing has just been an exercise in exposing the violence people are capable of and gathering as much of it as possible into one film. I was left feeling unsatisfied, queasy, and with little faith in human redemption which is not pleasant. Hardly entertainment!
I have been wanting to see this for some time, there is just something
special about British action movies, the language is just so much
cooler and the characters for some reason gets more evil without being
anything different or doing anything different then what they would if
it had been an American flick.
This is just moving a bit slow, there are some very nice scenes and good dialogs, but the pace of the movie is a bit boring. It never really gets into fourth gear, sometimes gets up to the third, but never higher and that is a shame. The acting is great, the characters also great, the scenery very fitting and the story also quit good, but the fast paced, hard hitting action is missing.
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Just another British gangster flick? That's what I was afraid of. It
starred Colin Farrell, so I thought I would have to at least give it a
Farrell, like most actors, has a limited range, but when he fits a role, he usually excels, as he does in this flick. Of course he plays the brooding, soulful, powder keg criminal with a heart of gold (whose sister, well acted by some relatively unknown performer, is a mentally disturbed hooker with a heart of stone). Very pleasantly, the storyline, which is punctuated with some pretty rough violence and a killer soundtrack, is quite unpredictable (at least, I thought so).
Even though I watched it a couple of days ago, I'm still not certain about how I feel about the ending, which will likely leave a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths. Still, I can't say that I saw where the plot was going, or where it was going to end up, which is one of the characteristics I value most in a film experience.
Because my mind hasn't made complete peace with the ending, I'm holding back full marks, although I think there are arguably legitimate artistic reasons for how it was all wrapped up.
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I am very ambivalent about this film. It is a real pleasure to see so many great actors, all at the top of their game: Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Ray Winstone, Thewlis. But the script is all over the place and in the end, deeply unconvincing. It is as if the filmmaker couldn't make up his mind about what story he wanted to tell: a story about celebrity? cinema? gangsters? a love story between a star and a nobody? revenge? redemption? Maybe a better writer could have pulled it, but it is not the case here. Just the duel between Winstone and Farrell would have made a great movie, but why throw in a traumatized movie star, and a nymphomaniac sister and a killer producer and who the hell was Joe that was killed in the beginning?! It is just too much, too many useless characters, to many storie lines, too hard to believe, too much plot holes. Still it is weirdly entertaining, thanks to Winstone and Farrell's wonderful charisma. It is really a case where the actors pleasure and work almost redeem a very, very bad script.
Harry Mitchel (Colin Farrell) just got out of prison. He's a criminal
of some notoriety. His old friend Billy Norton (Ben Chaplin) is a low
level gangster. Briony (Anna Friel) is his wild sister. Penny (Ophelia
Lovibond) has a small job with reclusive somewhat retired actress
Charlotte (Keira Knightley). She's holed up in her mansion with friend
manager Jordan (David Thewlis) surrounded by the paparazzi. Corrupt
detective Bailey (Eddie Marsan) tells Mitchel to avoid Billy but he
still follows Billy collecting money. Billy has a proposal from his
boss Rob Gant (Ray Winstone) to rob Charlotte's mansion for the car
collection. Gant wants to pull Mitchel into his organization but
Mitchel resists. In another side story, a couple of kids kill a
homeless friend and he feels a need to get revenge.
There are a couple of good performances in this pulpy British gangster movie. Colin Farrell is quite good in a darker moody role. Ray Winstone comes in and blows this movie up. There are quite a few wonderful British actors that I love. There is just too many stories going on. It would be better off concentrating on a few less characters and put more attention to Gant. This has a scatter shoot effect.
A surprising movie in many ways, Londm Boulevard rewards the watcher.
It's filled with classy British acting, and a great script. A slow, but
stylish story, which kept me entertained way better than expected, with
a poster looking quite more like a crime story. It's bleach, no doubt!
Well, criminal it is, for sure. But it's more brutal than you expect,
based upon a novel by Ken Bruen, of which I knew nothing about in
Mitchel gets out after three years in prison, determined that he wants to get away from the criminal scene, which is obviously a merciless environment. But that's almost impossible, as his old pals are all expecting him to do jobs. He takes a job as a lifeguard for a famous actor, but is this his way out. Well he thinks so, though his led environment both is difficult to get rid of, and the marks on his gangster soul is also difficult to run from.
Colin Farrell is better here than I've ever seen him. Keira Knightley dies a good job, but doesn't steal the screen from him. But then the film is followed by great acting in minor roles by a load of great British actors. I must say I started loving each and every one of them, down to the brief encounter with the youngsters in extra-roles. What a great instructor director William Monahan is!
And not only that! The film is scattered with a great soundtrack which is almost worth watching the film blindfolded! Starting off with (what I believe is a '66) Rolling Stones tune, we follow up with the Yardbirds, Pretty Things, the 22-20's, the Nox Tops, Drek and Cluve, the Electric Banana, the Knickerbockers, Kasanian, Bob Dylan, Annu Malik and a lot of other great stuff which I don't recognize, all with a sixties feel. Simply marvelous! And very suitable for the flick as well. Yummy! This was well suited.
Maybe the best British gangster movie I've seen, if you not count in the couple which are all a big laugh as well. Because this is hasn't got the wit of "Snatch." or "Two smoking barrels", but is way more serious.
This film was so great that I watched it a second time, on which I added an extra star! Look out for this film maker! I certainly will!
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Colin Farrell plays an orphan just leaving prison for GBH (he was innocent, of course) who within a few minutes is mixed up in two employment offers. One is from a ghastly, brutal, psychopathic killer (Ray Winstone), the other from a fey, titless actress who also has no family (Keira Knightley). Colin's supposed sister (Anna Friel) is the worst-mannered person on earth, but he loves her deeply. Ray offs her without ceremony, using a hammer. Meanwhile Keira has quit her upstairs painting to dally in bed with Colin, delicately hiding her absence of bust from the camera. He's pretty fuelled, because they can be seen together in the USA, where she is going. Sadly, he has to knock off a couple of louts and Ray first, in a sequence of brutal murders. Then, sadly, he is stabbed many times by a street oaf he had been after for killing a good mate of his who was a wino down-and-out. End of story. No tears for him, then. And Keira? Who gives a damn? They blew UKP25 million on this phony piece of rubbish. I hope they had fun, because we didn't.
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Saudi dismantles spy ring
Authorities arrest 16 Saudis, Iranian, Lebanese on charges of espionage for foreign country.
Middle East Online
Spying for which foreign country?
RIYADH - The Saudi authorities have arrested 18 suspected spies, including an Iranian and a Lebanese, on charges of espionage for a foreign country, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
"Sixteen Saudis, an Iranian and a Lebanese were arrested in coordinated and simultaneous operations in four regions of the kingdom," including the capital Riyadh and the holy city of Mecca, the ministry said in a statement.
The suspects, some of whom were arrested in Eastern Province where the kingdom's Shiite minority is concentrated, were working for a foreign country which it did not name, the statement added.
Their arrest was made after the ministry had "received information concerning the involvement of Saudis and expats in espionage on behalf of a another country," said the statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
The suspects "gathered information on vital installations which they provided to the country" they had been working for, it added.
Although the ministry did not reveal the name of the country for which the suspects were allegedly working, the announcement that an Iranian is implicated could point to Iran.
Saudi Arabia and its partners in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council have strained ties with Iran which they suspect of supporting Shiite opposition protests in GCC member Bahrain, which like its partners is Sunni-ruled.
News of the arrests came as rights activists on Tuesday reported that Saudi security forces had arrested several Shiites across the kingdom, including two clerics, over the past days for unspecified reasons.
Since early 2011, mainly Shiite towns in Eastern Province have seen sporadic protests and confrontations between police and Shiite residents who complain of marginalisation.
There are an estimated two million Shiites in the Sunni-dominated kingdom of about 27.5 million people.
Ankara goes back on compensation offer for downed Russia jet
Iraq court deals blow to PM's cabinet reform efforts
Egypt deports British-Lebanese TV show host
EgyptAir black box flight recorder 'repaired'
Egypt becoming departure country for migrants to Europe
Israel revokes controversial 'Hannibal Directive'
Detained Bahraini activist hospitalised
UN chief urges Netanyahu to make tough choices
Saudi Aramco, SABIC in joint petrochemicals study
Yemen clashes, air strikes kill 37 civilians
Egypt's anti-graft tsar becomes public enemy number one
Iraqis shun return to 'cursed' Fallujah
Lebanese army raids refugee camps after bombings
UAE jails Emirati woman for spying for Hezbollah
Eight hurt in Turkey car bombing blamed on PKK
Iran hopes Saudi embassy attack trial will restore confidence
France charges Assad's uncle with graft
11 Kurdish rebels, 3 Revolutionary Guards killed in Iran
Turkey seeks to restore broken ties with Russia
Deadly bombings target Yemen troops in ex-Qaeda bastion
NGOs press EU leaders on Africa migrant plan
Jordanian intelligence officials sold weapons for Syria rebels on black market
On British-Irish border, Brexit breeds worries for future
New lawyers of Gaddafi son urge ICC to drop case
Bahrain jails 5 people on charges linked to 'terrorism'
Erdogan apologises to Putin over downing of Russia jet
Clashes continue at Al-Aqsa compound
Turkey allows German minister visit after air base row
UN chief tells Israelis, Palestinians 'stand firm against violence'
Brexit vote unlikely to curtail Gulf appetite for London property
Egypt cancels high school final exam after online leaks
One year on, Tunisia holds minute silence for beach massacre victims
5 killed in string of suicide bombings in Lebanon
Netanyahu lauds Israel's deal with Turkey
Dozens killed as clashes intensify in Yemen
Sarraj says only united military can defeat ISIS in Libya
Jordan court charges 21 people with 'terrorism'
Iraq forces take ISIS last positions in Fallujah
Iran conceals heated military standoff in Kurdish region
Brexit vote lays bare depth of division across Britain
Young Britons vent anger at grey Brexit vote
Russia planes pound Aleppo as Syria regime forces closes in
Car bomb kills four civilians in Libya's Benghazi
US-backed Syria fighters edge further into ISIS border hub
Tunisia flaunts seaside security to bring back tourists


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