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Theusinger, O M; Felix, C; Spahn, D R (2012). Strategies to reduce the use of blood products: a European perspective. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 25(1):59-65.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Anemia is the most common hematologic problem preoperatively. In itself it compromises the outcome of surgical patients, and additionally results in more frequent allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions which again independently compromise patient outcome. In elective cardiac surgery as well as in other surgical specialties the use of a patient blood management program will minimize the exposure to blood products, lead to a cost reduction and improve patient's outcome. The aim of this review is to discuss the rationale for patient blood management, explain patient blood management in detail including modern and future transfusion strategies. RECENT FINDINGS: The risk for allergenic RBC transfusions is increased by preoperative anemia. The adverse outcome in recipients of RBC transfusions has recently been shown to be caused rather than only associated with RBC transfusions. In Jehovah's witnesses undergoing cardiac surgery patient blood management programs have been established effectively, demonstrating that it is possible to correct preoperative anemia and avoid RBC transfusions resulting in better outcomes. SUMMARY: Patient blood management strategies are based on an interdisciplinary multimodal approach including early preoperative recognition and treatment of anemic patients, surgical efforts to minimize blood loss, optimal perfusion strategies to reduce hemodilution and continuous assessment of the bleeding and coagulation status of patients as well as a restrictive volume management. This allows specific and goal-directed treatment of patients, preventing anemia in elective patients, optimizing patient's coagulation status early, minimizing exposure to blood products, reducing costs and improving patient's outcome.
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Judy Cuevas
1996, European Historical Romance (Turn of the Century France)
Jove, $5.99, Amazon ASIN 0515117633Part of a series
And the most tasty entree of all is Sebastien de Saint Vallier, an aristocrat, a genius, a hand-ball player and weight-lifter, a lawyer, a man completely in control. From the first paragraph you know Sebastien is going to get his hair mussed.
"Sebastien knew Marie Du Gard slightly better than her father realized. Sebastien had slept with her once. It had been a feverish encounter on a rainy August afternoon that had made no sense then and made even less now. He remembered that afternoon three years ago as a kind of a blurred, hysterical dot on the continuum of his otherwise orderly life, a little moment that was easier to pretend had never happened than to explain in the context of his normally sound, exemplary conduct."
When Marie's fabulously rich and crippled father declines to lend Marie the money she needs to finish her film, she disappears with a foul-mouthed septuagenarian artist and his two nubile models, Dot and Sally. Sebastien is desolate.
He works out at his club and encounters, although he doesn't know it, Marie's benefactor. The artist tells Sebastien that he is too tense and prescribes a remedy. "I'm not tense," says Sebastien tensely.
Sebastien's sexual well-being seems to generate interest in many quarters. In Cuevas' prequel Bliss, 'Bastien's utterly charming brother Nardi asks him how many women (other than his wife who had borne him five children) he had known. Sebastien replies that he is discriminating. Then Nardi asks:
Et combien d'orgasmes, 'Bastien? How many, eh?"
Sebastien snorted and looked away, but not before a sheepish look had passed across his face.
Nardi chuckled, this time a true release. Poor Sebastien had some sort of statistic on this as well. In some way, he kept track. How funny. How sad. Sebastien counted his orgasms, presumably to measure his total against some standard. Even his private life had to measure up.
After reading this book, I didn't want to read anything else. I wanted to read it over and over again because nothing else measured up to the richness of Cuevas' work. As Marie films her motion picture at the chateau she begins to grow into seeing her work as art instead of simple entertainment. The descriptions of the process are technical enough to give a real sense of her development. Throughout the book Sebastian is revealed as more and more corporeal, less and less the mask he has developed for his life.
The relationship between Marie and her father, which impacts her dance with Sebastien, is subtly portrayed, yet powerfully presented. Cuevas never takes the easy way out. Nothing is taken for granted and every notion and emotion of every character is explored and revealed.
Everything about this book is exemplary; the plot is intricate and convincing, the characterization is multi-leveled and engaging, the setting is unusual and utterly fascinating, and the style of writing is masterful. My only demur is with the very end of the book, which felt anticlimactic.
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The Trillion Tonne Communiqué will be launched in a series of global events. Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com if your organisation would like to be involved in promoting The Corporate Climate Communiqués.
The Carbon Price Communiqué has been very impactful, with over 150 organisations from 29 countries signing up in support. The Communiqué's success is being highlighted this week during Climate Week in New York. Carbon pricing will be discussed during numerous important events including a roundtable discussion jointly hosted by the World Bank, the World Economic Forum and the We Mean Business coalition, of which The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) is an active partner. This will build on the work that the CLG team have been doing with the World Bank on their latest carbon pricing initiative, of which the CLG's Carbon Price Communiqué is a part.
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The businesses behind the Trillion Tonne Communiqué, The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group, today welcomed the third part of the 5th Assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC), Mitigation of Climate Change. The Trillion Tonne Communiqué, already signed by over 90 companies from 5 continents, and with fast-growing support, calls for an increase in the pace and scale of action. Specifically, the signatories urge policymakers to take a number of significant actions in line with the science of the IPCC.
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Now that the excitement of the Holidays are finally beginning to calm down, why not take some time out to relax and enjoy some of Denver's most beautiful and scenic spots.
The Denver Botanic Gardens is one of the nation's premier botanic gardens, and if you've never experienced The Blossom of Lights display, you've definitely missed one of the most romantic settings the Mile High city has to offer. Envision yourself walking hand in hand with your partner under a million vibrant glistening holiday lights as you navigate your way through the beautifully lighted garden. On your journey through this winter wonderland you'll find yourself surrounded by amazing ice sculptures and even some romantic smooching spots throughout the garden. The Blossom of Lights display is a Denver Holiday favorite and should definitely be added to your Holiday 'to do' list.
So you live outside the city limits and don't want to venture too far from the suburbs? The beautiful Trail of Lights at the Chatfield Arboretum might be more your style. The Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield is an amazing nature preserve along Deer Creek in Littleton. In the warmer months, nature trails, ponds and grasslands cover the preserve, but during the winter season the garden comes alive as its enormous cottonwood trees are covered in millions of twinkling lights.
Another perfect option for couples and for families is the Hudson Holiday light display at the Hudson Gardens and Events Center in Littleton. This whimsical and dazzling display of lights is a first for the Hudson Garden's Event Center, and it's enchanting and creative design you'll find unique and quite impressive. The brilliantly lit giant animals scattered through the garden will unquestionably become a family favorite, and the horse-drawn carriage rides most definitely adds a nice romantic touch.
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Travelers passing through Rick Husband International Airport in Amarillo now have an interesting, even compelling advertisement to examine. The brochures placed next to the backlit ad disappear quickly and have the desired effect of promoting OPSU. – Michal Stachowski photo
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Reaching More Students
By Laura Hays
- released by OPSU Campus Communications 01-31-2008
Goodwell, Okla. — Situated in a rural part of the state, it can be a challenge to get the word spread about OPSU's many advantages and the educational opportunities offered in a sparsely populated area.
President Dave Bryant resolved to remedy that situation, and since taking over the leadership of OPSU five years ago, he has directed a multi-media advertising blitz. In order to attract more students to this regional university, Bryant has authorized television, radio, and print advertising and recently added two more types of promotion.
Colorful, eye-catching billboards in Amarillo, Texas as well as one on the east side of Goodwell that welcomes travelers to the town reach a new segment of the population. A new backlit poster in the airport in Amarillo offers those flying into or out of the facility an irresistible photograph of Trell Etbauer riding a saddle bronc at one of last fall's rodeos. The original photograph, taken by Dale Hirschman, is a close action shot that draws the viewer right into the middle of the arena.
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Starting Monday, March 18, and going until Friday, March 22, David Farland is presenting his Novel Rewriting Workshop in Dallas at the Ramada Inn on LBJ Freeway.
What is the Novel Rewriting Workshop?
Farland's Novel Rewriting Workshop is a week-long intensive class on how to edit and rewrite your novel to take it to the next level, the publishing level. This workshop will teach how to do triage editing, where to select scenes or story lines to add to the work, delete from the novel, or change dramatically. Attendees will also learn how to do line edits to improve the quality and clarity of their work, voice edits to make their narrator and characters sound consistent, and do syllabic edits to greatly increase the pacing of their novel, and so on.
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David Farland, aka David Wolverton, is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author who has penned nearly fifty science fiction and fantasy novels for both adults and children. Along the way, he has also worked as the head judge for one of the world's largest writing contests, as a creative writing instructor, as a videogame designer, as a screenwriter, and as a movie producer.
Farland is best known for his hit series The Runelords, The Golden Queen series, and his young adult fantasy Ravenspell series, and many more. Farland also has several books on writing: Million Dollar Outlines, Write That Novel, and his latest, Drawing on the Power of Resonance.
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In 1999 Dave was invited to teach the science fiction and fantasy writing at Brigham Young University, and over the years he has taught dozens of writing seminars around the US and Canada and appeared at hundreds of conventions. Over the years, many of his students have gone on to publish with tremendous success, including New York Times Bestsellers like Stephanie Meyer (Twilight), Brandon Sanderson (The Mistborn Trilogy), Brandon Mull (Beyonders), Jessica Day George (Twelve Dancing Princesses), James Dashner (The Maze Runner Series), and Dan Wells (The Partials Series).
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On Friday, June 13, 2014, the Lincoln Day Dinner will be held in Loveland, CO at the Embassy Suites Ballroom. Dinner begins at 5:30, with the evening program, featuring national speaker and one of America's top authors, David Horowitz, at 7:00.
Why attend the Lincoln Day Dinner? If you like freedom in the United States and want to protect it by getting involved in the 2014 political year, you can help. The Lincoln Day Dinner is a Republican organized event and fundraiser to support elected officials and candidates.
Issues at stake in the 2014 election: legalization of illegal immigrants, getting the US financial house straight after 8 years of out of control spending, protecting churches and faith-based organizations.
David Horowitz is the founder and current president of the think tank "The David Horowitz Freedom Center", editor of "FrontPage Magazine" and director of "Discover the Networks" a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. His parents were members of the Communist Party USA, and he was a former New Left member before turning publicly to conservatism in the mid 1980s.
General admission is $65. VIP Reception tickets are available for $100. "Victory" sponsor tables are also available, which include 10 tickets and a limited number of VIP tickets. Reserve online at: larimergop.org or call the GOP Fort Collins office (10-2 M-F) 970-224-2577.


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Battle of the Bear
May 19th,
Bear Creek Park, Morrison
From the Promotor
Well, you win some, you lose some!
Thank you to everyone who came out and tried to race today.We waited as long as we could to make the decision about tomorrow in hopes the trails would dry for good conditions to race on, but in good stewardship of the trails we respect, we have to pull the plug on using them tomorrow. They may very well dry enough for a good ride tomorrow afternoon, but a morning race would be too risky. And we want our customers to be able to plan the rest of their weekend with a definitive schedule.
So get out and enjoy your Sunday, it looks to be beautiful. There is a great MSC race in Salida, and I got word from the promoter that you can enter the XC t omorrow morning.We will reschedule the Battle Race, and let you know what good dates we come up with that will allow most of you to participate.
Of course we will refund any entry fees for those who cannot make the reschedule date.
See you in July, if not sooner, for the Breckenridge 100 races on July 15th.
All the best until then, and please stay in touch.
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Battle the Bear - Cancelled for Today
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Heavy Rains in Lakewood.
Today's race is officially canceled due to rain. We are rescheduled for tomorrow with the same start times in all categories. We will make the final call on tomorrow based on trail conditions at 5:00pm today. Thanks everyone! Check back here. -RME Crew
Good decision
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It was a wise and responsible decision to cancel the races rather than destroy the trails.
While it was a good decision
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While it was a good decision to not run it on Sunday, but perhaps they should have considered not starting it on Saturday as well. They started all the morning waves in a drizzle and had black clouds looming on the horizon. 5-15 minutes after a hundred+ racers started, the rain really hit while they were all on course. So the trails were destroyed anyway. Yes, they decided not to destroy the trails any further on Sunday, but they did a lot of damage on Saturday, making the decision to race even though most forecasts called for heavy rain that morning.
"5-15 minutes after a
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"5-15 minutes after a hundred+ racers started, the rain really hit while they were all on course."
If you said before, rather than "after" you would have a point.
Gotta disagree. The trails at
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Gotta disagree. The trails at Bear Creek don't handle moisture well to begin with and it WAS raining lightly as they were starting the first wave. There was no chance that they'd make it through the day without getting too much rain to continue.
Try racing a road bike event
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Hey, if you all want to enjoy high speed racing in the rain and have minimal chance of an event getting called due to weather, try a springtime criterium. The one last Saturday was particularly awesome for most of the categories!
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Fresh neons and loud brights have been popping all over the office lately. We love a good statement neon top and fun bracelets. We're even scooping up neon computer cases. How do we like it styled? We love pairing the shades back to black so they really pop. Check out how we're wearing neon for (…) Read more
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Take a look at the profiles of three Olympic athletes to find out. These physical and physiological profiles are representative of US Olympic Team members competing this year in Nagano. These athletes are profiled:
cross country skier
Female cross country skier
Female figure skater
Male ice hockey player
Female ice hockey player
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Competitive Event
The events are classified by their major emphasis -- either endurance or strength and power
Body composition
Body composition is one of many factors that affects athletic performance. Body composition consists of two components: the fat mass (FM) and the fat free mass (FFM). The fat free mass includes muscle, bone, and water. The fat mass includes all of the fat stores in the body. Because the FFM does the work of the athlete, high ratios of FFM/FM are associated with better athletic performance in most sports. Endurance athletes tend to have lower percentages of body fat than non-endurance athletes because body fat limits endurance, speed, and movement through space. Within most sports, the percent body fat of males is lower than that of females. Compare the percent body of the five athlete profiles with the recommendations below.
Percent Body Fat
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Recommended Percent Body Fat for Good Health
Men 15-20 %
Women 20-25%
Healthy Percent Body Fat
Men 5%
Women 8-12%
Muscle fiber type
Compare the distribution of Type I and Type II skeletal muscle fibers between male cross country skiers and male ice hockey players. Remember that Type I fibers are associated with aerobic metabolism while Type II fibers are recruited during anaerobic work.
VO2max is an expression of an athletes capacity to consume and utilize oxygen. To be competitive, elite endurance athletes must have high VO2max levels. VO2max is influenced by mode of exercise, heredity, state and type of training, body size and body composition, age, and gender. Compare the VO2max levels of male and female cross country skiers with those of male and female ice hockey players.
Anaerobic power
The Wingate test is an all-out cycling test that measures anaerobic power. This test is used for ice hockey players and other athletes whose sports emphasize anaerobic energy production.
Energy expenditure
How many calories does a person burn? Resting energy expenditure (REE) is determined primarily by body weight and fat free mass. The more a person weighs and the greater the FFM, the higher the REE. To determine the total amount of calories expended in a given day, calories burned during everyday activities and exercise training are added to the REE. Exercise intensity and duration are the main factors that influence exercise energy expenditures. Compare the energy expenditures for REE, exercise training, and total daily energy expenditure for each of the five athletes.
Exercise training
A representative training session is described for each athlete. The following are included:
Sport nutrition guidance
A nutrition prescription is presented that includes recommendations for energy intake (kcal/day) and the distribution of calories from carbohydrate, protein, and fat. To be in energy balance, an athlete needs to consume about the same number of calories that he or she expends on a daily basis.
Sample menu
What do athletes eat? A single days menu is presented that meets the energy needs and nutrition prescription for each athlete. Each menu is designed to support the athletes exercise training. The menus are divided into meals and snacks and contain a variety of foods.


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"47 Ronin"
Soundtrack Review
Music By Ilan Eshkeri
Varese Sarabande VSD-7246
22 Tracks/Disc Time: 70:10
Grade: A (Best 2013-14)
Bad movies don't ordinarly have bad scores. It's very rare that the case that both the movie was a bomb but it was a good movie and featured an epic score that really rocks the house. Well the film "47 Ronin" was both great looking and exciting but after two years of delays, reshoots and other assorted issues, Universal Pictures finally released the film during a very crowded and star filled Christmas holiday last year and almost immediately cut wrote off its' losses of the films bloated 175 million dollar budget. Despite some positive reviews and a solid metacritic score by moviegoers, the film had no chance of being a hit, but I personally suspect that it will be a cult classic for years to come. The film stars Keanu Reeves as Kai, a half-breed warrior who was found at a young age in the forest as Lord Asano of Ako (Min Tanaka) and his samurai were hunting and then take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Nagato and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira's evil plot, the Samurais along with Kai set out for revenge against the Shogun's final order. The film was the debut of music video director Carl Rinsch, who pretty much had the film taken away from him during post-production and radicially edited while the shooting of the film saw studio interference and altered the original script by writers Chris Morgan ("The Fast & The Furious films") and Hassian Amini.
During the turbulent post-production of the film, the composers originally slated to write the music left the project because of the delays and a third composer was hired to come in and pretty much score the film the way he wanted which fell into the talented musical hands of IIan Eshkeri, who made a sensational splash with Matthew Vaughn's stunning and enjoyable fable, "Stardust" writing one of his most memorable scores in grand operatic and fun fashion. The score to this film definitely required that style of sound and those who have bypassed the film and are curious about how the score is on its' own, will definitely not be disappointed one bit. This is a masterful, energetic and grand work that easily has become Eshkeri's most memorable work he's written to date.
A powerful and tender Japanese opening "Oishi's Tale" establishes the scores terrific mood early on shifting with powerful percussion rumbles to very pensive and delicate cello and flute solos that get the album off to a great start. The score's terrific asset is without a doubt the perfectly balanced shift between propulsive action and quiet, reflective and darkly hued moments that perfectly play off each other in balance. Hard edged action is heard in "Kirin Hunt", "Tournament" (with its' relentless pounding percussion licks), "Dutch Island Fugue" (which features a fun classical mood and one of the many highlights of the score), ""Reunited Ronin", "Tengu", "Shrine Ambush", and "Palace Battle" which feature great sweep and energy to the material. Blaring horns, very rhythmic driving percussion and very aggressive string work are certainly the name of the game here with added urgency and frenetic power. It just simply passionate, aggressive music that channels a little bit of Elliot Goldenthal and it truly works. Eshkeri's more subtle and pensive moments really have a solid profound impact with lush orchestrations and excellent sweeping power featured in tracks such as "Resentment", "Shogun", "The Witch's Lie" (with its' errie foreboding darkness), "Shogun's Sentence", "Seppuku" and "Mikka And Kai" (which plays more so like a tender love them complete with flute and lush harps and strings), that use the established themes and strikes a balance from light to dark and back to light again. Guided by powerful string work and sweeping melody, Eshkeri really nailed these tracks that make the album work so well as a meticulous and able musical whole that makes this score so good. "47 Ronin" is the perfect finale to the score which pretty much reprises the major themes of the score to give the album a great send off. The music also has an added, operatic appeal to it that alot of soundtrack action fans will certainly get a kick out of.
Varese Sarabande's very generous and lengthy album is packed especially for a movie that just completely tanked and as they say, sometimes the music always out lives the movie the music was intended for. Eshkeri really outdoes himself here and it will probably be a score that will do very well for the label through great word of mouth and it truly deserves it much like many scores on the label have in its' very historic past. This one is easily one of the label's truly shining moments of last year and of early this year as well. Major enthusiastic thumbs up!


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Is it possible to get hyperlinks to previous versions of a form, or even just see a list of changes to a Form Library item via Workflow History? If that wouldn't be available, what are the workarounds? So far what I can think of is to manually write column data to another list using a workflow anytime something is changed on the Form Library's items, but if there are any easier strategies, please share.
I'm pretty sure you can enable versioning on list. So you can view all changes in item history.
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Oscar Blandi Pronto Dry Shampoo
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Oscar Blandi Pronto is a dry shampoo that refreshes, revives and rejuvenates hair in a matter of minutes. No water or blow dryer required.
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- Solves the dilemma of dirty hair and product build up in between washing
- Absorbs excess oil and product build up without weighing hair down or stripping precious oils from the scalp
- Increases volume at the roots
- Strengthens hair and nourishes scalp
- Available in nozzle to enable application directly onto the roots or aerosol for ease of application
- Perfect for use between washings when in a rush, or as a midday hair pick-me-up
Apply Pronto to dry hair on the days you don't shampoo. Using the point of the cap to separate sections of hair, tilt bottle and lightly squeeze to release product onto the root of each section throughout entire head. Massage into scalp using fingertips. Follow with a natural bristle brush. Restyle hair as desired.
Can't Live Without It!!!I LOVE THIS PRODUCT. I am a deep brunette with mid-back length fine curly hair. I love a natural, full, loose curl look. I don't brush my hair because it disturbs the curl. I use this product always on second or third day hair by massaging it into the roots with my head upside down. Sometime I even use it on first day hair when it's not as full as I'd like. The result is a beautiful full head of clean hair without a trace of powder. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this dry shampoo!!Dec 19, 2009Daphne
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Strong ScentI don't like the scent associated with this product. It is very strong, somewhat unpleasant, and I can smell it all day like a cloud around my head. I have blond hair and if I apply the shampoo close to my roots like they say to do, it looks awful and thick and it's hard to brush out. I can't imagine using it on dark hair.Sep 11, 2009Cathe / Wrangell Alaska USA
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Love This!This is my desert island product. I work at Folica and would be mortified if my hair looked greasy or dirty... this saves me from having to wash and style my hair every day. I apply it to my scalp and my hair looks totally fresh and it also gives me volume at the roots and helps my sometimes limp hair hold a style. Ive tried a number of dry shampoos and I think this one (with a nozzle) performs the best and is the best value. (The aerosol is great, too, but doesnt travel as well and doesnt last nearly as long).Aug 9, 2009Lizzy / Folica.com
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Not PracticalIve got a test size and only used it once. It made so much mess, that I swore to never use it again. Plus, I have black hair, and I think it works best for lighter hair, not brunnettes. At least its easier to make sure that the powder does not show. I do have to say that it did work to cover/hide greasy roots, but I spent so much time applying it, Id be better of by getting in a shower.Jul 21, 2009Elena / OC, Cali
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Totally Works!This product is great for oily hair types, black or mixed hair or just adding body to flat hair. It smells good and adds an extra day to your hair before you have to wash it. Its very good for someone who straightens their hair.May 7, 2009Annie / Brooklyn, NY
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- Freelance web designers can offer great website UIs which is the first and most important element involved in the website designing process.
- The coding skills possessed by freelance web designers are really good as far as a simple, static type of website so when this is what you need done you should definitely consider the idea of hiring freelance web designers for cheap web design.
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- Most freelance web designers do not have online content expertise which means that the website owner will have to deal with this task. On the other hand, professional agencies in the website development industry have teams of professionals who can handle all the necessary tasks involved in website development, including content development. Certainly, this will not be considered cheap web design at all because the tasks involved are much more complex and require a higher budget.
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[[caption-width-right:302:How come when he makes up imaginary friends it's cool, but when I do it...]]
->''"Hello there. My name is Jim Henson, and I'm a superhero."''
-->-- edited-together audio from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hzQXGlFJQk this video]][[note]]Based on "Creator/StanLee vs Jim Henson" from WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory. Everything until "superhero" is taken from a 1970s TV appearance of Henson's; "superhero" is taken from the rap.[[/note]]
'''Jim Henson''' (September 24, 1936 -- May 16, 1990) was one of the great puppeteers in history, and used that art to reach heights of popular success and artistic acclaim undreamed of by anyone before.
In 1955, WRC-TV, a Washington DC television station, began airing a short five minute puppet show named ''Series/SamAndFriends''. In addition to the manic title character and a skull-like omnivorous creature named Yorrick, it featured a lizard like creature made from an old green sweater and a pair of ping pong balls named Kermit. This was the humble beginning for Kermit, who would eventually be refined in his design into a frog with a collar.
Kermit, Sam and the other primitive creations of this show were the first [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]], and ''Sam and Friends'', as well as the concurrently produced commercials for Wilkins coffee, both proved to be smash local hits, which set a new standard for puppetry. Henson's techniques of setting the camera's point of view right at puppet level rather than using a traditional puppet show stage, and using a TV monitor so a puppeteer could see his own performance, were the first in a series of innovations he and the team of talented men and women who came to work for him made in the field. Even then, Henson initially considered puppets simply as a means of getting on TV with dreams of moving on to other TV careers like art direction. However, a vacation in Europe exposed him to a whole new world of puppetry as a deeply respected artform and Henson realized he found his calling after all.
When ''Sam and Friends'' ended, Henson moved on to producing commercials for national advertising campaigns. Meanwhile, The Muppets became popular features on variety shows, once even taking over ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' for a Christmas special, as well as Jim's character Rowlf the Dog being a regular on the ''Jimmy Dean Show''. Henson even experimented with non-puppet films such as the surreal short, ''Film/TimePiece'' which was nominated for a Live Action Short Oscar. However, it wasn't until Joan Ganz Cooney and a show [[Series/SesameStreet brought to you by the letters]] [[Creator/{{PBS}} "P", "B" and "S"]] came into the picture that the Muppets would become an institution.
''Series/SesameStreet'' launched [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters dozens of characters]] who are now a part of the worldwide consciousness, including Jim's own characters Ernie and Guy Smiley. The program would also solidify the core performers he'd work with for years to come. Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Caroll Spinney, Fran Brill, and later David Goelz, Steve Whitmire and Kevin Clash all performed characters too numerous to mention here that are just as memorable as Henson's own. In fact, Henson and Oz, whether performing Bert and Ernie, or Kermit and Fozzie Bear, or Kermit and Miss Piggy, or the Swedish Chef (Henson did the voice and Oz did the hands) rank as one of the most prolific comedy duos in television history, and barely ever appeared on screen as themselves. Unfortunately, the success of ''Sesame Street'' caused a lot of people to see the Muppets as strictly "kid's stuff," a notion that Henson worked to dispel (with varying degrees of success) for the rest of his life.
In the mid-1970s, after both a season performing new characters on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and a couple specials that would serve as pilots, ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' launched on first run syndication. Like the early variety show appearances, the Muppets used {{Slapstick}} so over the top it's a wonder MoralGuardians of the time didn't have a heart attack from all the explosions, Muppets eating smaller Muppets, and general mayhem surrounding the Muppet Theatre. Henson, in addition to Kermit and Rowlf, performed characters ranging from trippy keyboardist Dr. Teeth to the masculine and very dense Link Hogthrob. He also performed Waldorf to Richard Hunt's Statler, giving the theatre its [[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf heckling, cackling and long suffering]] GreekChorus.
A couple years later, Henson took a major gamble, bringing his characters to the movie theatres with the aptly named ''Film/TheMuppetMovie''. Much like WaltDisney with ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Jim knew he had to top anything his team had put out to that date. Complex sequences, ranging from Kermit riding a bicycle to the Electric Mayhem rocking an old church to its rafters, made the Muppets believable in a more or less undiluted real world setting. The movie was a critical and commercial success, paving the way for ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' and ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan''.
Later Henson-helmed projects were met with more sporadic success. ''Series/FraggleRock'' was one of the earlier successes in its initial run on {{Creator/HBO}}. While the show was produced by him, neither Henson nor Frank Oz took on regular recurring roles in it, instead opting for Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire and others to take the lead. Two big-screen efforts into non-Muppet fantasy arrived in TheEighties -- ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' was a minor success, but its spiritual successor ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' was mostly considered a disappointment in terms of its financial record. (Both films went on to be VindicatedByCable.) ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'', which would feature segments from another series, ''Series/TheStoryteller'', only lasted for about half a season.
In the meantime, Henson's Creature Shop had become a major font for further advancing puppetry. Building on full body characters like the Gorgs from ''Fraggle Rock'', the Creature Shop was responsible for the title characters of [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 the 1990 movie version]] of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', and its first sequel ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze''. As well, the Shop also did forays into CG animation, namely Waldo, a gusty experimentation of a manually-controlled virtual 3D character who appeared in both ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' and ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' which runs at Ride/DisneyThemeParks to this day.
Jim Henson died of a severe and sudden strep throat infection on May 16th, 1990. At the time, he was negotiating with Creator/{{Disney}} to turn over the rights to his characters so that he could focus on production and performing, and did not wish to visit the hospital (his wife would later state that the refusal was likely due to his desire not to be a bother to people). In a sense, this was the EndOfAnAge for the Muppets.
While ''Sesame Street'' still runs strongly, as it was not affected by the sales and resales of The Jim Henson Company and its properties that persisted into the TurnOfTheMillennium, the ''Muppet Show'' cast had a spottier record via all the turmoil. ''Series/MuppetsTonight'', which set to update the concept of ''The Muppet Show'' for the 1990s by introducing new characters, a new host, a new setting, and new skits, only lasted a few seasons before falling into obscurity. New film productions were largely overlooked. Other productions by the Jim Henson Company and its performers, ranging from ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' and ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' to ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' and ''WesternAnimation/DogCity'', more successfully continued Henson's legacy with new characters for new generations of fans.
Disney has owned ''The Muppet Show'' and its characters since 2004. [[Film/TheMuppets The 2011 Muppet film]] set out to keep the original cast of ''The Muppet Show'' fresh without changing them as characters, and proved successful enough to warrant [[Film/MuppetsMostWanted a sequel]] in 2014. (A few photos of Jim Henson are visible in the film, including [[TearJerker a large one of him and Kermit in Kermit's office.]]) Otherwise, the "classic" Muppets have been making fewer and shorter appearances in other mediums, such as a Website/YouTube channel of original skits. The Henson Company in New York City produces mainly CG series, internet material, and the puppets for ''Sesame Street'', the representative characters now owned by Sesame Workshop. And then in 2015, [[Series/TheMuppets they came back to TV once again.]]
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSE1Mtnnm4Y&feature=related His funeral was pretty awesome]]. The downside was that it was never televised.
Also well worth checking out is Brian Jay Jones' biography of him, the result of unprecedented access to Henson's family and co-workers.
!!Tropes Related to Jim Henson Include:
* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: Perhaps the poster child for how well this can work. From his early successes to the day he died, Henson was constantly trying to get new projects off the ground and expand his artistic possibilities. Many of his associates speculated that this was due to his brother's death in a car accident, with such a vivid demonstration of how suddenly a person's life can end making him want to do as much as he possibly could with whatever time he had.
* AuthorAvatar: Those who knew him say that Jim was a lot like Rowlf the Dog -- except he wasn't as good a pianist.
** Of course, there was also Kermit -- the sanest member and leader of a group of crazy performers. Though unlike Kermit, Henson was far less likely to complain or criticize -- apparently only saying "Hmm" if he disliked something.
--->"He can say things I hold back."
** And then there's Ernie and Bert, which were basically this for both Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Many have said that Ernie and Bert are very much like Jim and Frank, in that Jim had a little bit of a mischevious streak, and especially loved to pester Frank, meanwhile Frank was rather uptight. Jim also confessed that he and Frank were so comfortable with Ernie and Bert, that most of the time, they would ad-lib many of the Ernie and Bert inserts -- keeping the original educational goal and specific gag of the bit in mind, but forgoing the rest of the script otherwise. One insert in particular, featuring Bert showing off his new aquarium of goldfish to Ernie, was ''completely'' improvised by Jim and Frank from start to finish.
* AuthorExistenceFailure: One of the most heartbreaking examples in recent memory.
* BadassBeard: He grew it to hide the scars from a particularly bad case of acne, which his Christian Scientist mother refused to let him use medicine on.
* TheCasanova: As much as many people don't want to believe it, Jim was known to have occasional flings with different women (even while still being married to his wife, Jane), including some within his own organization.
* CashCowFranchise: The Muppets.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A more subdued, clearer-headed example than most, but still qualifies.
* CreatorBreakdown: He had one in the mid-1980s, involving the disastrous reception to ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' and a separation from his wife. He became morbid and reclusive and was just starting to come out of that stage when he died.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' did have some dark moments, ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' and ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'' are by far the darkest films involving puppets he's done, the former for SurrealHorror and the latter for a rather alien and cruel world.
* DoingItForTheArt: This was pretty much Jim's mindframe for most, if not all, of the projects he did in his life. However, this also contrasted him from other puppeteers and puppet troupes who saw more commercial success than he did, such as [[Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions Sid & Marty Krofft]], for example.
* AFatherToHisMen: Many who have worked for him have said that Jim never seemed like a boss or an employer, but more like a father. Jim himself absolutely hated confrontations of any kind, he could never fire anybody (with the one exception of producer Diana Birkenfield due to creative differences), and producer David Lazer often reprimanded Jim for never disciplining his colleagues when he should have... in fact, it often fell on Lazer to punish someone for stepping out line, such as an occasion where Richard Hunt ended up going on record for publicly bad-mouthing a recent ''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppet Show]]'' guest star -- Lazer chewed Hunt out for his actions (driving Hunt to tears), where afterwards, all Jim could do was hug and console him.
* FlipFlopOfGod: For many years, Jim had said that the word "Muppet" was combination of the words "Marionette" and "Puppet" (and given that most Muppet puppets resemble marionettes that are worked more like traditional hand puppets, it's convincing), but later in his life, he retracted this, and said "Muppet" was just a funny-sounding word he and his wife Jane made up -- a claim that the Henson family continues to use to this day.
* FragileFlower: As noted above, Jim strongly disliked, and avoided any kind of confrontation as much as he could -- in fact, whenever he would end up being dragged into some kind of heated arguement, or dispute, he might as well have been a turtle retreating inside his shell, as his way of handling the situation would be to just sit there and be quiet.
* FriendToAllChildren: Despite disliking being typecast as a children's entertainer, he was the man who made the single best and most successful children's show what it is. Check out those letters the Muppets read at the end of ''The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson''. That says it all. He had five children of his own, as well.
** Interestingly enough, by the time TheEighties rolled around, he seemed to shift gears and change his attitude, as such, he actually began working on more and more projects specifically for children, with ''Series/FraggleRock'' being the first in a line of such projects.
* TheFunInFuneral: He personally requested that his funeral not be a dour occasion and demanded a dixieland jazz band play. Everyone had to wear ''colorful'' outfits, and everyone was assigned a basic puppet on a string to play with as they watched. It's true there were sad moments -- but the whole thing crested when Kevin Clash, using his [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] voice, broke out into the bawdy "Lydia the Tattooed Lady".
* GameBreakingInjury: In his last few months he began to suffer tremors in his hands, meaning he would have had to stop puppeteering soon if he'd lived.
* GrayEyes: Types 1 and 3.
* GreenAesop: He loved these, and they can be found all throughout his career. In fact, the very last ''Series/SesameStreet'' skit he performed before his death [[http://www.sesamestreet.org/videos#media/video_4493a236-2579-4f23-9f71-8ed08181dcb0 has such a message.]]
* HeAlsoDid: Henson did a surrealistic teleplay called ''Film/TheCube'' in the 1960s about a man trapped in a small cube who's visited by various strange people as he tries to find his way out.
** His equally surreal 1964 ''Film/TimePiece'' received an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Live-Action Short Film.
*** ''Tale of Sand'' was an unproduced screenplay by Henson and Jerry Juhl that attempted to adapt some of the dark themes and stream-of-consciousness filmmaking techniques of ''Time Piece'' to a feature-length presentation. After languishing in the Henson Company archives for decades, it was finally produced as a graphic novel by Creator/ArchaiaEntertainment.
** A number of film inserts for ''Series/SesameStreet'', such as animations (affectionately known as the Henson Number Count films, or his stop-motion King of 8 and Queen of 6) and live-action (the memorable Dollhouse insert).
** In 1960, he put out a novelty record called "Tick Tock Sick." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYFshBjIOI No, really.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Frank Oz.
* HypocriticalHumor: The "Wilkins and Wontkins" commercials, in which Wontkins is brutally punished for saying he doesn't like Wilkins coffee, or has just never tried it, get even funnier when you find out Henson himself hated the taste of coffee and only ever drank it to be polite.
* {{Improv}}: Henson embodied his characters so fully that he could make up scenes with them entirely off-the-cuff, a particularly {{heartwarming}} example being [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYIRO97dhII this bit]] on ''Series/SesameStreet'' when a little girl spontaneously attempted to take the ABC song OffTheRails by [[CountingToPotato counting to Cookie Monster]]. Kermit's reaction, and the girl's, are totally unscripted and genuine. You can even hear him almost crack up while saying "You're just teasing me."
* IncrediblyLamePun: When he was reading the nominees in his first appearance as himself at the UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, he began to read in Kermit's voice, "And the nominees are...", cleared his throat, and said, "Sorry, had a frog in my throat," then immediately apologized and claimed, "That's the ''first'' time I ever did that joke, I swear!"
** As Kermit on ''Series/SesameStreet'', he mentioned the joke about having a man in his throat. (He didn't actually do the joke.)
* InsistentTerminology: Jim actually hated the word "Muppeteer" feeling that it sounded and felt too gimmicky, which is why he and his colleagues were always billed as "Muppet Performers" and never "Muppeteers". When Apple Computers printed out a list of well-known clients who used their products, Jim found his name on the list, saw his occupation listed as "Muppeteer", scratched it out, and scribbled above it "Muppet Performer".
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: He and the rest of the crew got a lot of this when ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' was being shopped around and when it first premiered. It happened again before ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' was released.
** Henson himself took two decades of trying to get other kinds of work going before he finally accepted that the Muppets were what he would be known for.
* LooksLikeJesus
* NiceGuy: So nice that people found even the mildest of admonishments from him to be absolutely devastating.
* OldShame: The ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' "Land of Gortch" sketches, sort of. Henson was still proud of the characters, enough to give King Ploobis a cameo in the final shot of ''The Muppet Movie'', but the contract forbade him and his team from contributing to the writing process, and the SNL writers really didn't get what he was going for. He did at least get to write their bittersweet sendoff when ''The Muppet Show'' was picked up.
* OutlivedItsCreator: Just about all he worked for, but it's not even something that was of a major concern of his. In fact, this is one of the reasons why towards the end of his life, it was Disney he chose to sell the Muppets to, on the grounds that the company had managed to keep Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and others alive years after Walt's passing. While some of his associates (Caroll Spinney, for one) felt the Muppets did need to live on even after Jim's death, others (Frank Oz) weren't so keen on the idea. Nevertheless, despite the rocky road, the Muppets have still managed to survive for future generations nearly 25 years after losing Jim.
* PrecisionFStrike: He typically avoided profanity and would simply say "Oh for heaven's sake!" when he got upset. Except for when a viewer of ''The Cube'' wrote a bizarre letter about the corpse of Marcus Aurelius belching at how bad it was. Henson wrote back just one line: "What the ''fuck'' are you talking about?"
** A milder example is a presentation he taped to pitch ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' to networks; the pitch was a brief showcase of the typical kind of mayhem the Muppets are known for, and when all is over with, Kermit enters frame, [[NoFourthWall looks to the camera]], and asks, "What the hell was ''that?!''"
* RealitySubtext: He had been really close to his older brother Paul, Jr., and Paul, Jr.'s sudden death due to a car accidental had such a personal effect on Jim, that almost all of his work has some underlying level of melancholy and poignancy to it. In fact, this is brought up and somewhat lampshaded in the Muppets' 30th anniversary special, where Kermit admits his favorite part about the Muppets are the times where the Muppets aren't necessarily funny (to which his nephew, Robin, says, "Yeah, I always figured that was the writers' fault").
* RefugeInAudacity: His first idea for ''The Muppet Show'''s title: "Sex and Violence." And yes, he did actually pitch it under that name, and even aired a special with it.
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted. Henson died just when he was ready to go back to being a full-time performer instead of running a production company (though he was not going back to performing his signature character; he had already tapped another Muppet Performer Steve Whitmire for that).
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' and ''Film/MirrorMask'' are DarkerAndEdgier than the Jim Henson Company's other productions.
* SouthernFriedGenius: Hailed from Leland, Mississippi.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Considering that he died suddenly and at a relatively young age (53), this also got bandied about after his death. One anonymous child was quoted as saying "God must have needed Muppets in heaven."
* TropeMaker: Henson was responsible for several leaps in the art of puppetry which changed the art forever, such as the obvious combination of the hand puppet and the rod puppet, the use of raised platform sets (which gave much more freedom for the puppeteers to go wild), to the use of radio-controlled animatronics. All of these and more paved the way for new puppeteers.
* UniversalAdaptorCast: [[WordOfGod Jim has said]] that he never really thought of the Muppet characters as characters, but rather, a troupe of actors that just happen to be puppets. This is especially true when you consider the Muppets have essentially done their own remakes of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', various different fairy tales, among other stories in which they play the characters themselves.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It's impossible to look at ''anything'' made by the Henson company post-1990 without asking this question.
** On a related note, Jim was the first person GeorgeLucas approached to play [[StarWars Yoda]]. Jim deferred the character to Frank Oz due to his busy schedule, but who knows how Yoda would have turned out under a different performer?
** Henson died while he was negotiating selling the Muppets to Disney. That ultimately did happen, but not for over a decade. One wonders if/how things would've been different for Kermit and the gang.
*** One immediate difference would have been a Muppet theme park, or at least an entire Muppet "land" at Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM Studios). Only the Muppets 4D show building remains of this plan.
*** He planned to sell off the Muppets to Disney in order to return to strictly puppeteering. One wonders what might have happened if he'd remade himself as a for-hire performer instead of a show runner.
*** Additionally, Disney was hoping to have Jim become the new Walt-esque creative face of the company and consult on various projects, similar to the role John Lasseter would fill after Pixar's buyout. One can only imagine how a Henson influenced Disney Renaissance could turn out.
** Even with everything he did accomplish, he also had ''tons'' of other ideas that never got past his notes. A nightclub where films would be projected on women's bodies, for instance.
** Frank Oz has speculated that, given Jim's fascination with computer animation in his last few years, he might have joined Creator/{{Pixar}}. Now that's something to sigh about never getting to see.
** Henson was so grateful for Jimmy Dean giving him national exposure on his show that he offered Dean 40% ownership of the Henson Company. Dean turned it down, noting that he did nothing to deserve it and Henson should have all the fruits of his incredible creativity. It was a decision of conscience that Dean never regretted.
** At the beginning of TheNewTens, there was such a resurgence in interest of Jim Henson's life and career that a screenplay for a biopic was penned and shopped around to studios. When a sample of the script surfaced on the web, fans found the depiction of him inaccurate and so disrespectful ([[spoiler: the climax of the biopic depicted him as losing his mind to the point that he was hallucinating his puppets were coming to life and communicating with him, when in fact Jim ''never'' talked to his puppets, nor was he ever sentimental of them]]) that plans for the movie were soon shot down and the script was laid to rest.
* WhatTheHellHero: It's one thing to not bother people if one has a sore throat, but when Jim started ''[[BloodFromTheMouth coughing blood]]'', then it should have been blindingly obvious that he should have seen a doctor right away. Instead, he stubbornly refused to do anything until he could barely breathe and it was too late for the hospital staff to do anything to save him.
* WorldBuilding: Both of his theatrical releases that stepped away from the Muppets had their own in-depth settings. These unique worlds were a combination of the genius of Henson and artist Creator/BrianFroud.
** Also, [[Series/FraggleRock Fraggle Rock]]'s complex ecosystem and magical underground world.


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GREENVILLE, N.C. - Beginning with Sunday's season opener against Tulsa, East Carolina University in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, will implement a new policy for personal bags brought into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for the 2010 season.
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Before he was appointed dean of the Southern New England School of Law in 1993, a position he held until 1998 when he was appointed chancellor, Professor Larkin served for over two decades as a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. Earlier he served as Associate Dean of the Boston College Law School where he was also a tenured Full Professor.
Previously, he was law clerk to the Honorable John C. Hartigan of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. While at Boston College, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Massachusetts Law Quarterly (now the Massachusetts Law Review) and a contributing editor of the Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Your body needs sleep. For a while it has been believed that getting enough sleep is essential primarily for brain function, but it turns out sleep is just as crucial for other functions. A recent study has found that not getting enough sleep actually has a harmful effect on the body's fat cells.
Researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine performed the study using seven young, lean, and healthy adults who each went through two study conditions: one where they slept for 8.5 hours a night for four nights in a row, and another where they only slept for 4 hours a night for four nights.
The morning after the last night of both study conditions, the participants were given an intravenous glucose tolerance test, which measures total-body insulin sensitivity. This was done by the researchers removing abdominal fat cells from the area near each participants' navel, and then measuring how these fat cells responded to insulin.
Out of the participants, six were males and one was female and all of them had their food intake strictly controlled during the study.
The results showed that after a having four nights of shortened sleep the participants' total-body insulin response decreased by an average of 16 percent and the insulin sensitivity of fat cells decreased by 30 percent.
This can be a problem because….
"Body fat, also known as adipose tissue, stores and releases energy. In storage mode, fat cells remove fatty acids and lipids from the circulation where they can damage other tissues. When fat cells cannot respond effectively to insulin, these lipids leach out into the circulation leading to serious complications," study author Matthew Brady, Ph.D., was quoted as saying.
With this new knowledge, people will further understand how important sleep is for their overall health and begin to recognize getting enough sleep as another way to avoid the risks of some diseases.
So start aiming for a solid 8 hours a night!
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Metro Boston, North Shore and Metro West: It was a beautiful Summer preview on Monday with temperatures climbing into the low 80s throughout the Boston area along with low humidity and a light breeze. A few coastal locations developed a feeble afternoon sea breeze but that did nothing to dampen what turned out to be a great day. Officially, Boston reached 83 degrees which was representative of the highs throughout the North Shore and Metro West. It was cooler across Cape Cod with highs in the 70s but throughout the Connecticut Valley highs managed to climb into the mid 80s for many of you there.
A slow moving front to our west will take its time to get here crossing the area through the middle portion of this week. Tuesday will be a day of transition as we go from early sunshine followed by increasing clouds through the afternoon. Although showers are expected to break out across far western Massachusetts, locally we should remain dry through the day. Temperatures once again climb above 80 across most of the interior, however a southeast breeze will keep it cooler along the coastal plain as readings remain in the 70s there.
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Low pressure likely tracks along the front Thursday, moving across the south coast of New England. Showers can be expected through a good portion of the day. Highs once again in the mid 60s along the coast to near 70 inland.
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LUBBOCK, Texas - No. 27 Texas Tech will return to action on Saturday, as the Red Raiders will face Lamar at 10 a.m. and Wichita State at 3 p.m. in men's tennis at the McLeod Tennis Center.
"We are excited to get back on the court," said Red Raider head coach Tim Siegel. "You never know how your team will respond after more than a week off, but we look forward to the challenge. These are a pair of quality opponents and we are excited to get on the court."
The Red Raiders are 3-3 and look to snap a three-match losing streak, which saw Texas Tech fall to No. 11 Mississippi State, No. 26 San Diego and No. 10 Stanford.
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A dead zone the size of Connecticut is in the Gulf of Mexico and scientist claim it is a man-made phenomenon. The dead zone, which covers about 5,000 square miles is the second largest in the world today, according to MSN News on August 6.
They call it a dead zone because it contains no oxygen, or not enough to sustain life for the bottom dwelling fish and shrimp on the floor of the Gulf. This dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is caused by the excess nutrient runoff coming from the farms along the Mississippi River. This is an annual event when these nutrients are carried by the river that empties into the Gulf promoting this man-made dead zone, according to the Latin Post.
These nutrients themselves don't deplete the oxygen, but the feed the algae growth, which consumes the oxygen, depleting it as it works its way to the bottom of the Gulf. The size of this dead zone is smaller than the size of Massachusetts, which is what it reached in size at least twice in previous years. That's 8,200 square miles of a dead zone. While not that size today, the dead zone is growing, as are the ones around the globe today.
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Tabgha - The site
"So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place." (Mark 6:32)
Tabgha, the traditional site of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes, is situated near the northeastern shore of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), 2.5 kilometers south of Capernaum, and some 12 kilometers north of Tiberias. The name "Tabgha" is an Arabic contraction of the Greek Heptapegon (the place of seven springs). Several springs still flow in this area, which is also associated with the teaching of the Beatitudes and the confirmation of the primacy of Peter.
The Lady Egeria, who visited in 383, lists some steps on the shoreline where Jesus once stood; an adjoining grassy field where Jesus fed the people with the five loaves and the two fishes; and a nearby cave on the "mountainside" where Jesus preached the Beatitudes. She only mentions one religious building (a church containing the stone on which Jesus placed the bread when dividing it for the multitude), but modern archeological investigations found that small chapels had been built at all three sites during the second half of the 4th century. These investigations also determined that the site matched the Gospel description of "a solitary place", as no evidence was found of houses or cultivation.
In the 5th century, the church at the assumed site of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes was rebuilt and enlarged, but this building and the two nearby chapels were destroyed sometime in the 7th century, probably at the time of the Persian invasion. Bishop Arculf, who visited the place in 670, found only a grassy and level plain with no traces of buildings, except for a few columns around a spring.
The small chapel on the lakeshore was rebuilt sometime later, but the Crusaders found it in ruins when they arrived in 1099. They rebuilt it, but this chapel was also destroyed in 1187, after the defeat of the Crusaders at Hittim. Rebuilt in about 1260, the chapel was razed to the ground by the Mamluks in 1263.
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