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Happy 2008 (or 2014?)
Sorry for all the dust and cobwebs
This site hasn't been updated in awhile, and I'm a little embarrassed to invite you in. Something is amiss with the fonts (I'm not sure you can even read this), the template files haven't been touched since 2008, and the design has clearly fallen apart. Though the engine (ProcessWire 1.0) is still purring along beautifully. If you browse around this place, think of it like jumping into the web from 5+ years ago, like you are browsing archive.org. Currently all my energy is going towards ProcessWire and my clients. I stopped taking on new client work a few years ago (to give more attention to the ones I already had, and to ProcessWire), so this site has largely been forgotten. But don't worry, it will get a full re-do before long. But having seen new links [to this site] show up recently, I felt there needed to be some kind of disclaimer to explain the mess. Rather than browsing around here, head on over to: processwire.com.
July 18, 2011
New Site Launch
Design and Development by Ryan Cramer Design, LLC and Powered by ProcessWire 2.1.
November 12, 2010
ProcessWire 2 Video Overview
What is ProcessWire 2, why it's here, and how it works…
October 26, 2010
Introducing ProcessWire v2
ProcessWire is an open source CMS and web application framework. It is a system that keeps content management processes bundled together like a wire … simple, organized, secure and fast. Based on a modular/plugin architecture, ProcessWire's name also reflects the wires that connect modules to create new processes.
What makes ProcessWire unique?
October 1, 2010
New Launch
Bike Tours by Tripsite
Tripsite is the leading company that provides hundreds of bike tours throughout Europe (and a few in North America too). RCD completed site design, logo design, and all site development. The site is powered by ProcessWire 2 and launched at the end of September, 2010.
August 15, 2010
Design Concept
Wilson Center
June 2, 2010
New Launch
Island Hideaways
Designed and developed by Ryan Cramer in March–June, 2010, this site provides listings and bookings of villas in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico. The site was developed with and is powered by ProcessWire. This site replaces a previous version of the site that Ryan designed and developed in 2001.
October 2, 2009
New Launch
Villas of Distinction
Designed and developed by Ryan Cramer in July–October, 2009, this site provides access to thousands of villas around the world. The site was developed with and is powered by ProcessWire.
Web Site Design Longevity and CMSs
The architecture of dynamic content
The longevity of a web site design will depend on several factors, some of which may be out of the designer's control. But the most important factors behind creating a long lasting design are within the designer's influence, and should be accounted for. These factors are:
- How well the designer has planned and executed the design specific to the client's current and future needs.
- How well the design holds together, both visually and conceptually, when populated with the diverse reality of dynamic content.
- How few design or stylistic decisions the client has to make when adding/editing content.
March 9, 2009
Stress-Testing a CMS-Driven Design
The architecture of dynamic content
When a site goes from design comps to development site, a lot of change has taken place. Once the design is being populated with real content, and the navigation is functional, you should stress-test the design in two key areas: translative and invasive stress testing.
Translative stress testing
The designer should carefully go through the development site to ensure that all key design aspects have properly translated from the approved design. Any inconsistencies should be noted and fixed before a site launches.
Pixel perfection
Focus on proportions, colors, margins, and padding. It can be helpful to take screenshots from the development site and overlay them on top of your design comps at 50% opacity. This will quickly point out if there are any major placement errors that need correction. Pixel-perfection is possible, so insist upon it if it is important to the design.
March 7, 2009
Scaling of Dynamic XHTML/HTML5 Text
The architecture of dynamic content
Dynamic content design should recognize and accommodate the effects of text scaling and length. The typeface sizes that you define are likely to be the standard from which most people view your design, but they are not set in stone.
Browser variation
Current versions most Mozilla and Webkit-based browsers scale up the entire design when the text is scaled up, which maintains the proportional integrity of your design. But many other browsers will just scale up all the text (proportionally) and nothing else. Your design should acknowledge that this will happen and react to it in a graceful manner. But how do you do that?
Design for CMS-Powered Web Sites
The architecture of dynamic content
Designing for content management is uniquely challenging and satisfying alike. Unlike print design that goes to the publisher once, a CMS powered design may be published every single time it is viewed.
The designer often has no knowledge of what specific copy is being published in his/her design. This creates unique challenges and responsibilities for the designer who must learn to think like an architect.
Context and scope
In this article we look at some of these challenges and offer tangible solutions on how to design for content management. We won't focus on any specific CMS products. Instead, we'll focus on big picture best practices. In addition, we'll emphasize design for sites that are output in standards compliant XHTML/HTML5 markup and styled with CSS.
March 1, 2009
A Dynamic Layout Design System
The architecture of dynamic content
What follows is just one approach to design that has worked well for the author. It should be considered a primer of the process so long as it helps with your design needs. It should not be considered a set of rules, as each designer may have a different approach.
The Designer
When designing an overall look and feel, be creative and don't think too much about technicalities at first. You have to make your creative side happy with proportion, color, weight, line, type and texture before letting the engineer drive the design. Otherwise your architecture may be a tall inward looking box that communicates more about the system than it does about the design concept. The fact that you are designing for CMS-output need not affect the creativity in your design, though it should affect your approach.
The Engineer
It's time for you to think like an engineer when you've settled on a creative concept. Before you've fleshed out all the proportions and details, you'll want to go through your design and identify each major part as falling into one of the following blocks, each of which bear unique design considerations.
March 1, 2009
CMS Navigation Design
The architecture of dynamic content
Design of the navigation system is one of the most important and challenging aspects to designing for CMS-output. Not only must the navigation system(s) make it easy for the user, it must accommodate and adapt to the growth of the site. If the site uses a hierarchal structure, then this navigation system must accommodate new levels of structure (subpages of subpages) beyond what may have existed at the time it was designed. As the architect, you are establishing the design systems by which your client may add new floors to the building.
Search Accessibility
Using Google's First Click Free with PHP
Solving subscriber-only search engine indexing
Content in subscription web sites is naturally limited for search engines. This type of content can't be indexed by Google because you have to log in to view it. How do you retain the benefits of being indexed by Google and still maintain subscriber-only content?
Content Management
ProcessWire - Developer API
A brief overview covering the basics of ProcessWire's application programming interface
Note that this article is specific to the ProcessWire v1 developer API. There is also the ProcessWire 2.0 Developer API.
ProcessWire's PHP-based developer API is loosely inspired by jQuery's syntax. Pages are located and retrieved by selectors in a manner not unlike DOM elements are retrieved in jQuery. Many methods use a fluent chaining interface, allowing you to bundle a good deal of work into a single expression (when it makes sense to do so).
Content Management
ProcessWire - Building Structures
In this screencast we look at how a page structure in ProcessWire can be used to build other web application structures.
A multi-building, multi-floor campus map using custom fields in the CMS.
Content Management
ProcessWire - Relational References
This screencast shows how you can create cross references between pages in ProcessWire.
In this case, we demonstrate using it towards creating a simple categories system by taking advantage of the CMS's custom fields.
December 21, 2008
Firefox, Radio Buttons and Javascript
Firefox exhibits an undesirable behavior when reloading a page containing a form under these conditions:
- The form contains radio buttons
- The form contains any type of field inserted with Javascript
- The inserted field lives before the radio buttons (in the source)
The radio buttons will become corrupted. This article takes a close look at the issue, isolates the conditions, and presents examples. Following that, a couple of simple solutions are presented as a way to avoid this issue.
Content Management
ProcessWire - Introduction
Note that this article was written for ProcessWire v1. For information about ProcessWire v2, please see processwire.com. Though the majority of what is in the article applies to both versions.
ProcessWire is a content management system written by Ryan Cramer Design. It is written in PHP 5 and is built on an original MVC framework bearing the same name. Nearly every component within the application is plugin-based, making the application adaptable to a diversity of needs. Within this article and associated screencasts, I hope to communicate what makes ProcessWire a unique platform and where it's strengths are.
December 17, 2008
New Launch: Synbio Project
The Synthetic Biology Project is a project of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Ryan Cramer handled design and development of the site, design of the logo, and implementation with ProcessWire.
November 29, 2008
asmSelect v1.0.4
A new version of asmSelect has been released and is available at Google code.
asmSelect is a jQuery plugin providing progressive enhancement to select multiple form elements. It provides a simpler alternative with several advantages. This new version includes several bug fixes and enhancements.
Fixed issue that interfered with multiple asmSelects on the same page. This also solves an issue with dynamically rendered (ajax) asmSelects on 1 page.
Select Multiple Form Fields
Finding a better solution for multiple selection
Most of the form fields available with HTML are straightforward and easy for people to understand and use. But there is one exception. The select multiple. While useful and necessary, the select multiple form field has always been a usability challenge.
Example: Select some categories
While it may be clear to you and me how to select multiple items here, it's not obvious to most people. Furthermore an accidental click causes all previous selections to be lost. We'll get into more detail about these and other issues with select multiple form fields.
Why we use select multiple
The select multiple can accommodate a large number of selectable items without taking up a lot of screen real estate. It's usage is desirable when you consider that it can replace an ugly screen full of checkboxes. It's also easy to work with for the developer, in that the markup is nearly identical to that of a regular select. In cases where there needs to be potentially a lot of selectable items, select multiple is the standard choice.
Underlying problems with select multiple
Unlike most HTML form fields, the select multiple always requires an explanation of what you must do in order to select multiple items. It's not at all intuitive, especially to people that aren't computer savvy.
July 3, 2008
Firefox 3 Headaches
The long awaited Firefox 3 was released recently. It contains a lot of great new features, but it's been a bit of a headache for a few web developers. When a browser update causes us to have to go back to old sites and make updates to them in order to look their best, that's annoying, but it goes with the territory.
May 27, 2008
jQuery and Javascript
Timeless Tools
It was only a few years ago that javascript was something a web developer could easily ignore. After all, it was useful primarily for popup ads, scrolling marquees, and other stupid tricks. But then something changed. Companies like Google started using Javascript in ways that made us take another look. Google Maps and GMail (among others) opened our eyes. Javascript was being used to bridge the gap between desktop applications and web applications. People started to throw around the term web 2.0.
Today, knowing javascript is one of the most valuable skills that a web developer can have. The modern web thrives on javascript. When properly applied, it makes our sites easier to use, faster to interact with, and nicer to look at. Javascript makes platform independent, web-based desktop applications, a reality (much to Microsoft's chagrin).
The Need for jQuery
May 6, 2008
On-Site SEO Best Practices
How to Bake Tasty Googlebot Snacks
Search engine optimization (SEO) can be defined in two categories: on-site, and off-site. On-site is the kind of SEO that is directly under your control through your web site files or CMS. Whereas off-site optimization takes place on other web sites. This article deals primarily with the on-site portion of SEO; that which is usually handled by site designers and developers. But I think it's important to define both types in more detail for the context of this article.
May 5, 2008
IBM Model-M Keyboard
Flash back to the 1960s for a moment. IBM was a major manufacturer of typewriters with their Selectric line. It was a simpler time … typewriters were judged on how well they typed. The way to sell lots of typewriters was to give you an extremely satisfying experience typing on them, both in feel and speed. The keyboard was a make or break proposition for the typewriter, and IBM had an amazing product in this respect. At no other time in history have so many resources been put towards the typing experience.
Now flash forward from the 1960s to 1981. IBM is still making great Selectric typewriters, but they've got a new product: The IBM Personal Computer. With such a large base of Selectric customers, the PC was a natural upgrade path. The PC can do so much more than the typewriter, and the keyboard—no longer center stage—is just one of many parts of that whole.
April 30, 2008
To the best of my knowledge, there aren't many full-time web developers that use tools like Dreamweaver, GoLive, FrontPage, and so on, to create web sites. Instead, web developers work directly with the XHTML and CSS code. Not just by choice, but by necessity as well. I won't get into the reasons why that is so important here, but I will say that working directly with the code is something that's not likely to change in the future, given the nature and purpose of markup.
To work with code, a text editor becomes your key tool. Everyone has their favorite text editor. Mine is VIM, which is essentially a newer version of the unix classic, VI. I get chastised for using a text editor that came from the 1960s. While it may be an old tool, made for a different time, it's a great tool that I could not do without.
April 21, 2008
PHP is at the top of my list as a timeless tool for web development. Microsoft .NET developers make more, and Ruby and Python may have a nicer name, but PHP is by far the most important, longest lasting and widely adopted web programming language out there. Sites not powered by PHP tend to be the exception. Yahoo, Flickr, and Digg are powered by PHP, and the most widely used CMS products (like Drupal and WordPress) are likewise powered by PHP.
PHP 5.x brought the language into the enterprise-level, many years ago. PHP is far from perfect, and it does have its quirks. In fact, it's a little bit dangerous in the hands of an inexperienced developer … really, what language isn't? But it's hard to dispute the positive impact and importance this language has in the web development world.


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After 11 years as a miner and many more as a comic on the northern club circuit, Paul Shane finally became a household name in his forties when he was cast as Ted Bovis in the holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!
Short and tubby and dressed in a loud check suit, his hair set in a quiff, Ted was the camp's hearty, ale-quaffing host, part of an ensemble of oddballs and misfits that included Ruth Madoc as the lovesick yellowcoat Gladys, Su Pollard as the chambermaid Peggy and Simon Cadell as the dreamy entertainments manager.
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ln ./myfile ../otherdir/samefileasmyfileWhen you do this, there is no difference between the two directory entries: when you change the file using one, it's the same as changing it using the other. Neither one is special. When you delete one link, the other one remains; when the last link is deleted, the file is deleted. The command for creating a symbolic link is like this:
ln -s ./myfile ../otherdir/symlinktomyfileIf the symlink is removed, the file is unaffected. If the last hard link is removed, the symlink remains, but cannot access the (now-deleted) file. Note a subtlety in the above command. A symbolic link called symlinktomyfile is being created in the directory ../otherdir. That symlink will contain the path ./myfile. It will not actually refer to the file myfile in the current directory, but to a file called myfile in ../otherdir/myfile! The ln command is not designed to be smart enough to do a path translation; it's just a thin wrapper for the operating system interface for creating a link with the specified contents, and people expect it to work that way. The original author of this page probably did not intend this, but I'm keeping the example because it illustrates and underscores the shallow simplicity of symbolic links. If you want a symbolic link inside ../otherdir to refer to this myfile over here, it will have to be something like:
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ln -s `pwd`/../thisdir/myfile `pwd`/../otherdiror equivalently using newer shell syntax
ln -s $(pwd)/../thisdir/myfile $(pwd)/../otherdir...to avoid ambiguity. Even better, to make sure the ".." doesn't get included in the symbolic link:
ln -s $(cd ..; pwd)/thisdir/myfile $(cd ..; pwd)/otherdir(Page heavily revised by KazKylheku) [ rant moved to SymbolicLinkRant ] Symbolic links are just delayed binding of the link name. Instead of evaluating the object which the link will refer to at link creation time, it will be evaluated at lookup time.


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Previously, he created and ran McKesson's Advanced Diagnostics Management business and was part of the corporate strategy team. His background includes diagnostics, healthcare, enterprise software, global strategy consulting and M&A.
Recognized for his innovation, Mr. Zubiller was voted to Healthspottr's "The Future of Health 100" list (ranked #49). Mr. Zubiller is a leading voice and thinker helping to usher in a new collaborative era of healthcare where stakeholders work together to develop and deploy connected decision management solutions that benefit all stakeholders by optimizing decision-making at all points of care.
Mr. Zubiller's academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Economics (BSE) from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the London Business School, and a certificate in Management of Technology jointly from the University of California, Berkeley's HAAS School of Business and the College of Engineering. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife, Love and two young children, Texas and India.
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Classes are Monday through Friday for three hours a day, and students can choose aftemoon or evening slots. The classes are taught jointly by an Adult Basic Education teacher and a Workforce Development instructor from Tempebased Rio Salado College, and are at the West "Valley Career Center, 1840 N. 95th Ave., Suite 160, Phoenix.
This opportunity is of no cost to students and is available only to residents, at least 16 years old who do not have a high school diploma. Tuition, fees and book costs will be covered through financial aid, "WIA job training and scholarships. The Arizona I-BEST Program integrates instruction for a GED diploma with 12.5 credits of construction: electrical training. Students enrolled in this program will learn skills needed to work in 3ie construction trades that focus on basic electrical fundamentals as well as electrical equipment, blueprints, codes and safety.
Students successfully completing the program will earn a Workforce Development- Construction-Electrical, Level I Certificate from Rio Salado College, plus certificates from the National Center for Construction Education and Research in Core, Introductory Craft Skills and Electrical Level I.
Students will also prepare for and successfully complete the tests for a GED diploma. "Rio Salado's ABE program helps students improve their reading, writing, English and math skills," said Blair Liddicoat, associate dean of Adult Basic Education at Rio Salado College. But with today's high unemployment, it is imperative that high school graduates receive workforce development training. The Arizona I-BEST Program is designed to meet that need by helping students become more self-sufficient, improve job skills and lay the foundation for a better future.
The program will provide hands-on application of learned skills and students will also attend job readiness workshops and receive job-search assistance upon completion of curricula.
For more information about the program and to sign-up for an upcoming new-student orientation, contact Jeff Hall at 480-377-4263 or visit www.riosalado.edu/ibest.
Source: Arizona Republic (Jan. 2011).
For more information about earning a GED diploma, contact Rio Salado College.
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Example, Kanaeva who was olympic rhythmic gymnastis champion in 2008 was 18 and was quite petite.
In 2012, she won the olympics with a greater build as she became more curvy. Same flexibility, two-time olympic champion.
Both Julia and Ashley looked great, IMO. I thought that Ashley should have received the higher score, though, mainly due to her interpretation of the piece--very eerie and spot-on.
The other myth that is being put about is that she has a poor 2A. Nonsense. Again, it reminds me of Tara Lipinski's. Whilst it is not her best jump, as with Lipinski it is not going to cause her any problems as there will never be any need for her to upgrade it to a 3A
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I agree with the 1st and 2nd, it is sport, you can't win with 3+2, if Julia is clean and Ashley doesn't gor for 3+3, she'll beat her on TES and that will be right. It's sport!
Great job Polina,
I'm not enjoying this year's Liza, she's gained weight and her skating looks hard... You get the impression that she is goiung to faint...


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Anyone who has been treated against their will at a psychiatric hospital or avoided prison time by claiming insanity would not be able to buy a gun legally from a retailer under the proposal U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham announced Wednesday.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham's bill would make it so people deemed by a court to be mentally ill would fail a background check required for purchasing a gun from a retailer. According to Graham's office, the measure would pertain to people who:Are determined to be an imminent danger to themselves or others.Are found guilty but mentally ill in a criminal case.Pleaded not guilty in a criminal case by reason of insanity or mental disease or defect.Were incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case.Were not guilty only by reason of lack of mental responsibility under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.Required involuntary inpatient treatment by a psychiatric hospital.Required involuntary outpatient treatment by a psychiatric hospital based on a finding that the person is an imminent danger to himself or to others.Required involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital for any reason, including drug use.
South Carolina's senior senator unveiled the measure to address what he called flaws in the system for background checks that potential buyers are subjected to.
As it is, the database allowed 28-year-old Alice Boland to buy a pistol in February. Police said she used it three days later to threaten school officials in downtown Charleston, and as Boland's history of involuntary treatment for schizophrenia emerged, calls for action from lawmakers mounted.
"To people in the Charleston area, I've heard your voices," Graham said. "This law captures decisions of courts. We're not going to take your rights away if someone said something bad about you down the street."
Graham, a Republican, discussed the "NICS Reporting Improvement Act" alongside Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska; Jeff Flake, R-Arizona; and Mark Pryor, D-Arkansas.
They said they worked with mental health advocates and the National Rifle Association to draft the bill. In some ways, Begich said, it targets a stigma that current law places on the mentally ill by calling them "defective." The bill would change the term to "incompetent."
"One of the things I love about this effort is that it's bipartisan," Pryor added.
The announcement came on the same day state senators in Columbia heard testimony from parents of students at Ashley Hall, the private school where the police said Boland pointed a .22-caliber pistol at an official Feb. 4. She pulled the trigger, but the handgun didn't fire.
S.C. Senate and House bills introduced last month would compel courts to report people determined to be mentally ill to the national database. Graham's bill would outlaw the purchase of guns by people in the database.
Michel Faliero, a mother of three Ashley Hall students, urged state senators during a committee hearing Wednesday to act quickly.
The parents were greeted by Democrats, Republicans and gun advocates who, Faliero said, supported the legislation. She got the sense, she said, that the bill would pass, though certain "logistics" still need to be ironed out.
"But a lot of things can't be accomplished on the state level," Faliero said. "That's why people are looking to (Graham) to solve the bigger issues with background checks."
Fifteen of 46 members in the S.C. Senate have co-sponsored the bill. Forty-eight of 124 legislators have signed on to its companion legislation in the S.C. House.
Rep. Kris Crawford, R-Florence, dropped his support, however, because the bill would include people incapacitated by a physical illness or old age.
"I don't have a problem with the bill in general, but it's always in the details," Crawford said. "You might have someone who was in a wheelchair and deemed incapacitated at some point in time. Now, they can't buy a firearm unless they go through a process."
Since the NICS database was created in 1998, only 34 people in South Carolina have been reported to the system as being banned from buying a firearm because of a mental illness. But Graham said Wednesday that about 13,000 people in the Palmetto State fit the description.
After she was charged with threatening to fatally shoot the president in 2005, Boland pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The federal case eventually was dropped after she was forcefully injected with anti-psychotic medications in a prison facility, leaving her rap sheet clear of criminal convictions and her free to purchase a gun.
Begich, the Alaskan senator who helped Graham draft the federal bill, said he and others were moved by that "incredible story." He said the measure wouldn't stop otherwise disturbed people, such as Jared Loughner, the man who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona two years ago because he hadn't been involved with the court system.
But it was a chance to "make a real difference."
"If they are turned down, it may delay them long enough where there might be some type of intervention," he said, "that could stop them from the path they're on."
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Yum, eggplant. It's not coming in my organic basket right now, and I'm trying to take advantage of it to learn to eat more seasonally. But I do sneak out to buy tomatoes and peppers and avocados. So hard to survive without my nightshades...
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Yum, eggplant. It's not coming in my organic basket right now, and I'm trying to take advantage of it to learn to eat more seasonally. But I do sneak out to buy tomatoes and peppers and avocados. So hard to survive without my nightshades...
Boys had hot dogs and last can of canned chili. I'm scrounging leftovers. Clinic was okay. Got paid! :). Will marinate a London broil tomorrow. Dinner will be some top steaks and veggies.
Slept fair. Up twice. Late start for me. Getting caught up and drinking the usual. Have a Skype meeting in an hour to work with a fellow student on the last stats case study. After that is done only the final remains. Got my grade for the paper I turned in for my other class and I did well. Glad for the feedback, as I hope to finish the last two papers this weekend. After Skype, I have a hair appointment. I need to run by my parents and pick up the Christmas gifts to take to the kids next trip. Then I need to do some grading and make 3 student calls. Okay time to get moving........
always busy busy busy! I think I have sympathy exhaustion from following your schedule! :)
I don't know what sucks more, not being able to sleep or being sound asleep and DH alarm going off at 4 and knowing DS will be up at 5 both for work. No matter how quiet they are, I wake up. Hopefully I can get a quick snooze in before I need to get up. Meanwhile, got my grade on paper #2 and its good too, so with excellent feedback, I'm prepared to tackle papers #3 & 4 this weekend. My study buddy and I are Skyping again Monday for the stats case study I mentioned yesterday. We got a weird result, so ran it by the instructor and he pointed us in the right direction. :) We meet again on Wednesday for the final exam case studies (we are allowed to work in teams on it). Hoping that by Wednesday night all my homework is turned in for this semester. :D I leave again Friday and as usual the trip is packed with stuff to do! Okay DS is gone, so off to try and catch some zzzzzzzzzz.........
How much longer till you're finished studying?
[QUOTE=Judg;1020584]How much longer till you're finished studying?[/QUOTE]
4 more semesters, comprehensive exams, research, defense. 2014-15? Keep in mind this was my choice. I've got a clinical doctorate and decided to get a research one too. So this is self inflicted. I'm just not into the "process" this time around.
Got lots of yummy veggies and fruit in organic basket. Also got some supplemental Mexican food veggies. I've got chili going that I made with fresh tomatoes, green pepper, onion, garlic, spices, and grass fed beef plus pork. It smells great.
Oy. I have my Ph.T. (Putting Hubby Through) In my case I really earned it, seeing as I proofread, copy-edited, and translated both this Master's thesis and his doctoral dissertation. And I know that even if it's a personal choice, it still doesn't come easy.
Are you wanting to go anywhere particular with this?
[QUOTE=Judg;1020678]Are you wanting to go anywhere particular with this?[/QUOTE]
Well I'd like to go tenure/tenure track and be eligible for research money. My DNP (Doctorate of Nursing Practice) is a new degree that is not always recognized. I did it first because it was 18 months and then a HUGE (for academia) raise..


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Smartphone Buying Guide 2015
Picking out a shiny new phone can be tough. These days, the biggest decision for smartphone buyers is whether to go with Apple's latest iPhone or one of the many Android devices. Some buyers are now even considering Windows phones as a viable option. While the diehard fans from the iPhone and Android camps might have you believe otherwise, the decision isn't as big as you might think; it basically comes down to personal preference. If you're used to iPhones, you'll undoubtedly love the iPhone 6, and if you're used to the Android OS, there are plenty of options to find a model you'll like. With that said, there are several important factors to consider when buying a new smartphone, including battery life, camera quality, screen size, processor, RAM, carrier and the actual size of the phone.
We've made the decision process easy by looking at the top phones in various categories so you can get the best phone for your needs and budget.
Choosing an OS: Android vs. iOS vs. Windows
Selecting which mobile operating system is right for you isn't an exact science. For certain tasks, iPhones fare better, and for other tasks, Androids come out on top. Even the Windows OS has its perks. With that said, many tasks are going to be similar no matter what phone you choose. Most smartphones will allow you easily organize contacts, read email and access a variety of apps. Synching with a PC is also relatively painless for most phones. If you're uncertain which OS is best for your lifestyle or you're thinking of switching camps, consider the pros and cons we've listed below before making the leap to a new phone.
- FaceTime
- Universal quality
- Siri
- Free messaging to other iOS users via iMessages
- The App Store is a hot mess of disorganization
- Google Maps doesn't work with Siri
One of the biggest selling points for buying an iPhone is FaceTime. Making a call with FaceTime is an overall better experience than making a regular phone call, plus the calls don't count against your regular minutes on your plan. Even when you look at Skype or Google Hangouts -- two of the big video chat apps available on other phones -- FaceTime wins out because it's always running, so you don't have to worry about opening the app or missing any calls. Additionally, the audio quality is superior, and it comes included and set up on every single iPhone right out of the box. The only downside of FaceTime is that, well, there isn't an Android app, so anyone you want to FaceTime needs to own an iOS device.
If you opt to go the iPhone route, you're going to want to pick up Apple's latest iteration, the iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 6 Plus has a bigger screen that measures 5.5-inches versus the regular iPhone 6's 4.7-inch screen, making it a great option if you're into watching movies and playing games. Of course, your life isn't all fun and games, so you'll be happy to know that the bigger screen increases your work productivity as well. It is a bit clunkier to carry around, though.
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Android Lollipop
- Highly customizable
- Google Play has more apps and better organization than the Apple App Store
- Android uses Google for all of its searches, while iOS uses Bing for Siri.
- No FaceTime
- More choices gives potential to pick a poorly made phone
- Buggy software updates
With Android, the biggest perk is its main app store, Google Play. Google Play is light years ahead of the Apple App store in many ways. For one, Google Play's organization is more user friendly than the Apple App Store. Additionally, there are roughly 300,000 more apps available on Google Play than in the App Store, which had 1.4 million apps as of January 2015. The second biggest selling point of any Android phone is the integration of Google Maps. Sure, you can use Google Maps on an iPhone, but it's only natively used on Android, meaning Siri (in all her seemingly infinite wisdom) can't use Google Maps.
The clear choice for the best overall Android smartphone is the Samsung Galaxy S6. The Galaxy S6 not only looks like a million bucks, it has top-notch specs to back those looks up, including good battery life, the best smartphone camera available, and lightning quick speed. Although the battery can't be removed and it doesn't have a MicroSD slot, the Samsung Galaxy S6 is the best overall Android smartphone that money can buy.
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Windows 8.1 OS
- Easy to setup
- Customizable tiles and colors
- Not nearly as many apps as Android or iOS
- Homescreen can't be customized with anything but tiles
- Lacks compatibility with many smart devices
So where does Windows 8.1 stand in the debate over smartphone operating systems? Well, we'd be hard-pressed to keep it in the running at this point. The first — and most relevant — downside to a Windows 8.1 smartphone is that we already know Windows 10 phones are on the way (although they won't be launching this summer with the Windows 10 PC launch). Still, there's that looming fact that you'd be buying something that will become obsolete very soon. Secondly, Windows 8.1 has a compatibility problem with quite a few other smart devices, like Galaxy Gear smartwatches or various fitness wearables. Most devices simply won't connect to a Windows Phone, and others might have limited features. Thirdly, there is very little customization and personalization available compared to other systems that allow you to change your home screen, backgrounds and add useful widgets. With Windows, you're basically only able to edit the colors and change out the Windows Tiles.
However, if you do find yourself wanting a Windows Phone, there are some high quality Windows 8.1 smartphones out there. Your best bet is the HTC One M8, which is a sophisticated-looking Windows phone that adds variety to a stale line-up of Windows smartphones. It has a quick Snapdragon 801 processor (which is also used in the Sony Xperia Z2), 1080p display and the same specs as the Android version it is based off of, making it the most powerful Windows handset to date.
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Best Battery Life
For many people, battery life is the most important factor when buying a new cell phone. No one wants a phone that's going to die when they need it most. If you want a long lasting smartphone that doesn't sacrifice too much productivity, your choice should be the reliable Motorola Droid Maxx. It has a 3,500mAh battery that lasts for well over 15 hours of heavy use — and we do mean HEAVY use. You can use a Droid Maxx for the entire day, sometimes even a day and a half, without charging. Of course, it isn't as fast as newer phones like the Galaxy S6 or iPhone 6, but its battery is still second to none.
Comparatively, the Galaxy S6 has an 2,550 mAh battery, lasting for about 8.5 hours of heavy use, and the iPhone 6 has an 1,810 mAh battery, which manages to last for 9 to 9.5 hours with heavy use. The Droid Maxx outperforms these phones with its incredibly long and reliable battery life. It also charges lightning quick when you actually have to charge it.
Best Camera Phone
The Samsung Galaxy S6 has the best camera out of any smartphone to date, dethroning the iPhone 6 Plus. Sure, the Galaxy S6 has the same 16 MP as its predecessor, but the way that the phone handles picture-taking places it above every other phone. The S6 contains an infrared sensor that helps the camera properly adjust to lighting conditions for better white balance. The images snapped with the S6 results in true-to-color pictures, especially when taken in low-light. It also has optical image stabilization (for the first time in the Galaxy S series), as well as facial recognition and phase-detection autofocus.
It's also helpful that the S6 has a 0.7-second startup time so that you'll likely never miss a great photo opportunity. Of course, by today's standards, a camera phone wouldn't be great unless it also had a fantastic front-facing camera to snap those bathroom selfies with, which the Galaxy S6 has with its 5-MP front camera.
It's important to note that when it comes to smartphone cameras, more pixels doesn't always mean better quality. A great example of this is the brand new HTC One M9, which has a whopping 20 MP rear camera/ 4 MP front camera, but doesn't quite stand up to other high-end Android phones. Even though the One M9 captures more pixels than the Galaxy S6, the One M9 lacks the color detail and sharpness you'd get with the S6.
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Best Screen
Screen size and quality isn't as important to some as it might be to others, but it's certainly important to those that use their phone to watch Netflix or stream live TV with Sling TV. The biggest screen goes to go the Nexus 6, which has a whopping 5.96-inch AMOLED screen. And while the Nexus 6 has full 2560 x 1440 resolution, it only has 493 pixels per inch, which is generally good, but not the best. The best-looking display goes to the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, which has a slightly smaller AMOLED screen (5.1"), but also sports full 1080p resolution and 577 pixels per inch. So if you want screen quality, go for the Samsung Galaxy S6. If you want screen size, pick up the Nexus 6.
As far as the Samsung Galaxy S6 versus the S6 Edge is concerned, the Edge's curved screen makes your shiny smartphone look sexy, and it has a slightly higher battery capacity (2,600mAh compared to the Edge's 2,550mAh), but is it worth the significant upgrade price? Probably not. Skip it, and just go for the Samsung Galaxy S6.
If you're wondering how the iPhone 6 screen compares to that of the Galaxy S6, you'll find that the S6 is better in just about every aspect. The S6 is bigger than the standard iPhone 6, brighter and has a sharper image, with deeper blacks and an impressive contrast ratio.
Best Processor
Speed is also very important when shopping for a brand new phone, especially if you're a multi-tasker. If you need a smartphone that can handle having all of your apps open at once without missing a beat, the Samsung Galaxy S6 wins again. The Galaxy S6's Exynos 7420 64-bit octa core 2.1 GHz + 1.5GHz processor is blazing fast, and scored significantly better in the Antutu Report's benchmark tests than any other phone. It looks like Samsung's choice to create its own custom chip for the S6 instead of opting for the popular Snapdragon 810 processor (found in the LG Flex 2 and HTC One M9) paid off.
Compared to the iPhone 6, the Galaxy S6 feels like the hare in the turtle versus the hare fable. That's not to say that the iPhone 6 isn't fast, but the Galaxy S6's speed is significantly ahead of that of Apple's latest phone. This is due to the fact that the Galaxy S6 features 3GB of RAM — three times the amount of RAM found in the iPhone 6. And, to make things worse for the iPhone, the Galaxy S6's RAM is DD4, which is 80 percent faster than the iPhone 6's DDR3.
Best Smartphone for Gaming
If you're more into Hearthstone and Angry Birds Star Wars II than making phone calls, you're going to want an incredibly powerful phone that delivers quality graphics without losing a step. The best smartphone for gaming is the Sony Xperia Z3v. The Xperia Z3v allows users to bring console gaming to their smartphone if they own a PlayStation 4. Out of the box, the Xperia Z3v can use RemotePlay to connect to your PS4. Additionally, the PlayStation controller can be synced directly to the phone. Of course, there are ways of using RemotePlay with any high-end Android device nowadays, but it requires downloads and installs. With the Xperia Z3v, you can play your PS4 via RemotePlay right out of the box.
The Xperia Z3v uses Sony's own TRILUMINOS display, which delivers vivid colors and realistic images on its 5.2-inch screen. The Z3v also uses X-Reality technology, which creates a better contrast and resolution while making lower resolution graphics look better.
You can even take your Z3v to the beach or pool and play your games outside thanks to the phone's glare-resistant screen and waterproof exterior (note: waterproof for up to 30 minutes). If sound is important to you — and it should be — you'll be happy to know that the Z3v is equipped with Hi-Res audio that reduces distortion and DSEE HX, which improves sound quality from lower resolution mp3s.
See all Sony Xperia smartphone slickdeals here!
Best Phone Under $200
For roughly $150, you can pick up Motorola's Moto E (2nd generation), which is the best overall value phone available at this price point. It's an affordable smartphone that still packs 4G LTE connectivity and a great looking design. A fast internet connection was the key missing ingredient in the original Moto E, so we're glad Motorola has rectified the problem with the second wave. The Moto E also has the latest stock Android Lollipop version, which has a great look and is highly functional, as well as easily customizable.
The Moto E 2 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor under the hood, as well as 1GB of RAM and an Adreno 306 GPU. The Moto E 2 is significantly faster than the EE Kestral, the only other cheap 4G phone in its class. As far as battery life is concerned, the second generation Moto E has a 2,390mAh battery — a significant upgrade from its predecessor's 1,980mAh.
Although you're probably not looking for a best-in-class camera, you can rest-assured that the Moto E 2 is, well, good enough. It only has a 5MP camera that gets the job done, but obviously does little to impress. Still, the second iteration of the Moto E's 4G LTE connectivity and great design is unbeatable for the $150 price tag.
If you're looking for the best no-contract Android phone, the clear choice is the Sharp Aquos Crystal that comes in at $150 on Boost Mobile. The Sharp Aquos Crystal has a bold, edgeless design, which is what places it above the rest of the pack. Otherwise, the Sharp Aquos Crystal pretty much falls where it should, with an 8 MP camera, 1.2GHz processor and 720p display.
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I read the Moto Voice feature on the Moto X is supposed to be an improved version of Ok, Google. Other than being able to change the voice trigger, do you know what voice activation features may be unique to the Moto X? And whether it is enough of an improvement to justfy buying the Moto X over a Moto G or other standard Android phones?
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"I don't care how cheap memory is in 2016! Lets keep the entry level iPhone at only 16GB, so customers have to pay $100 extra for 64GB, or waste their monthly data allotment on our cloud service."
"Who cares if Android phones have 4 GB RAM! Lets keep the iPhone 6 at 1 GB, and continue to market it as a premium device. I'm sure these morons will keep buying them."


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Barneys Warehouse Sale to Become Online Fashion Destination
Here at The Recessionista, we've always enjoyed the Barneys Warehouse sales. The sales bring all the designer goodies to a warehouse location in Los Angeles or New York for a sell off at reduced prices. I've bought a lot of great designer pieces at these warehouse sales including Marc Jacobs & Lanvin. Now the folks at Barneys decided that the sales were such a good idea, they are going to open a Barneys Warehouse Sale online, called….wait for it.. Barneys Warehouse online. The online store is set to open on Feb. 4th, tomorrow.
The physical warehouse sales will still continue, so the online destination is an extension of the sale. Barneys is bullish on the expansion. "I certainly think this could be our biggest store," said Daniella Vitale, chief merchant and executive vice president of Barneys. " The online business is explosive and the fastest growing business we have. The warehouse sale is [a factory] outlet in the same way that Barneys.com is a flagship and should reflect the Madison Avenue location."
I can't wait to check out the site tomorrow and see what designers are offered and at what prices. Move over Century21, Barneys is coming!


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Chen Wins 2010 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship
Doris Chen survived playing 36 holes in stifling heat over three days to win the 2010 U.S. Girls' Junior Championship at the Country Club of North Carolina. The Bradenton, Fla., 17-year-old forged a 3-and-2 victory over 15-year-old Katelyn Dambaugh of Goose Creek, S.C., in the scheduled 36-hole championship final Saturday at the 6,331-yard Dogwood Course at CCNC.
Chen, who lost in the semifinals a year ago, knew she had the game to claim the championship. But it took a change in her mindset to finally lift her to the top. "This afternoon I really played in a different way than before," she said. "In the first round I was very serious. In the second round I was very relaxed."
In the morning 18, Chen made a 45-foot birdie putt on the par-3 seventh for a 2-up lead. But Dambaugh cut into the lead with a birdie on No. 10 and squared the match with a par on No. 13. Two holes later, Dambaugh took her first lead of the match when Chen had trouble getting out of a fairway bunker.
After the lunch break, Dambaugh increased her lead to 2 up with a par on the 19th hole. But her lead evaporated in the searing heat when she lost holes 24 and 25.
"I was feeling great," said Dambaugh, who lost her caddie near the end of the final round due to heat exhaustion and blisters. "I don't know what happened. I hit a couple of bad shots, and for some reason, started getting down on myself. I started getting really tired."
Exhaustion was understandable as temperatures neared 100 and the heat index was around 110. During the break between rounds, Chen used her mother's umbrella to shield the sun.
Using a steady short game, Chen started to chip away at Dambaugh's lead. She made an 8-footer for birdie on the 23rd hole and squared the match when Dambaugh found trouble off the tee a hole later. But Dambaugh wasn't done. She again took the lead on No. 28 when she stuck her approach shot from the rough to 4 feet and made her birdie putt, her second of the match on that hole. But it would be her last lead of the day.
Bogeys by Dambaugh on the next two holes allowed Chen to turn a 1-down deficit to a 1-up advantage. But Chen was careful not to get ahead of herself.
"I didn't think of that in the afternoon," said Chen. "Even in the afternoon when I got back, 1 up, 2 up, I didn't feel like I was winning. I was just hitting my golf shots. I didn't really think about, 'Oh, maybe I can win this.' "
Chen made a 10-footer for birdie to win No. 32 and won the next hole on another bogey by Dambaugh. Chen made a 25-foot birdie putt on the final hole to put an exclamation point on the victory.
But the left-handed Dambaugh, who was playing in her first USGA championship, did not leave disappointed. "It's amazing," she said of her experience at CCNC. "I never even thought about getting this far. I'm so pleased with how I played. I'm just so blessed to even be here."
The above report is courtesy of the USGA. For more information, visit www.usga.org.
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The anticipatory rush of Jack Reacher adrenaline continues to build with this awesome interview from author Lee Child in Empire Magazine! The brilliant mind behind the literary global phenomenon pulls no punches in his passion for the upcoming Tom Cruise screen adaptation of the hit novel, 'One Shot."
"I had every faith that Tom understood the character," Child said after the impressive first read-through. He continues, "And I don't just mean that he'd read the book, but that he understood the character in the very gut-level way."
In an exclusive behind-the-scenes revelation, Screenwriter/director Christopher McQuarrie enjoys describing Child's visit to the set on location in Pittsburgh, PA, "He would hang out for days on end. We would be shooting in a quarry, it was raining, it was cold, it was rolling into winter, but he was a real soldier."
Speaking of solider's, the article includes the unbelievable fact that it took 14 years to get the take-no-prisoners avenging former US Army Military Police Major to screen. (Think you know Reacher? Did you know he served 13 years in the fictional military police unit, the 110th Special Investigations Unit?)
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Scientists have identified a new type of stem cell in blood vessel walls that initial studies suggest gives rise to the proliferative cells that result in the vascular remodeling and neointimal hyperplasia characteristic of vascular diseases. Until now it has been widely accepted that these features are caused by proliferative and synthetic cells derived from dedifferentiated vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs). However, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University have identified previously unknown stem cells known as mutipotent vascular stem cells (MVSCs) in the tunica media of both rodent and human blood vessel walls, which they claim are the real source of the proliferative/synthetic SMCs and chondrogenic cells responsible for vascular remodeling and scar tissue formation.
Reporting in Nature Communications, Berkeley Department of Bioengineering professor Song Li, Ph.D., and colleagues say their discovery provides a completely new perspective on the cellular changes that lead to vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, and may springboard the development of new, more effective treatments that specifically target MVSCs. "For the first time, we are showing evidence that vascular diseases are actually a kind of stem cell disease," professor Li claims. "This work should revolutionize therapies for vascular diseases because we now know that stem cells rather than smooth muscle cells are the correct therapeutic target." The investigators describe their findings in a paper titled "Differentiation of multipotent vascular stem cells contributes to vascular diseases".
The first indication that blood vessel walls might contain a new type of cell came when professor Li et al immunostained rat carotid arteries to look for cells that expressed smooth muscle alpha-actin (SMA) and smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC), a marker of contractile SMCs. They found that while 90% of the cells were mature, contractile SMCs (i.e., SMA+/SM-MHC+), 10% of cells, located in the tunica media, were negative for SM-MHC.
Initial culturing experiments showed that in comparison with the mature SMCs that expressed SM-MHC, the SM-MHC- cells were smaller, expressed low levels of SMA, and were highly proliferative under suitable conditions. The SM-MHC- cells could be isolated from a number of different rat blood vessels in addition to carotid arteries. In each case the isolated SM-MHC- cells expressed stem cell markers, were cloneable, and demonstrated telomerase activity. Transplantation experiments demonstrated that Schwann cells derived from the SM-MHC- cells could even contribute to nerve axon myelination in vivo.
It seemed that the multipotent SM-MHC- cells—which the authors termed MVSCs—and not dedifferentiated SMCs might therefore be the source of synthetic and proliferative SMCs implicated in vascular diseases. Lineage tracing negated the possibility that the MVSCs were actually derived from the dedifferentiation of mature SMCs. Rather, immunostaining, differentiation, and co-culturing experiments showed that MVSCs could differentiate into mature MVSCs. Moreover, while the MVSCs remained quiescent in undamaged blood vessels, they rapidly started proliferating in response to blood vessel injury, and differentiated into cells with a synthetic phenotype, as well as chondrogenic cells that are found in the hardened walls of diseased arteries.
Importantly, the researchers subsequently identified the same MVSC cell type in human carotid arteries. These human MVSCs expressed the same set of markers as their rat equivalents, including Sox10, Sox17, Pax-3/7, vimentin, NFM, and S100β. As with the rat MVSCs, the human cells could be induced to differentiate into Schwann cells, neuronal cells, SMCs, chondrocytes, and adipocytes.
"This study supports a new hypothesis that MVSC activation and differentiation, instead of SMC de-differentiation, results in the proliferative and synthetic cells in the vascular wall, and that the aberrant activation and differentiation of MVSCs may play an important role in the development of vascular diseases," professor Li et al conclude. "The multipotential of MVSC differentiation into SMCs, chondrogenic cells, and other lineages offers a novel and reasonable explanation for the complex phenotypes of cells in the diseased vessel ... These findings may have transformative impact on vascular biology and diseases, and may lead to new therapies using MVSCs as a therapeutic target."
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How to make your city smarter: Creating and assessing the path to prosperity
More than ever, the traditional "bricks-and-mortar" drivers of economic growth are giving way to an economy based on "brains and creativity." Competitive differentiation today is more likely to be based on the ability of the workforce to create and absorb skills and innovation than on traditional drivers such as available natural resources, physical labor or manufacturing prowess. As a result, the skills, aptitude, knowledge, creativity and innovation of a workforce – which collectively can be viewed as the talent pool in the economy – have become increasingly important drivers of economic growth and activity.
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The patient underwent an esophagogastroduodenoscopy to identify the source of the gastrointestinal bleeding, and graft material was seen at the base of a duodenal diverticulum with no active bleeding, indicating an aortoduodenal fistula (Figure 1). Understanding the risks, the patient refused any surgery. She was treated with a nasogastric tube and intravenous vancomycin hydrochloride and Zosyn (piperacillin sodium and tazobactam sodium; Wyeth, Madison, New Jersey). Her peritonitis resolved within 4 days. She then agreed to a palliative repair of the endoleak (Figure 2A and C). She was treated with an Excluder bifurcated endograft (W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc, Flagstaff, Arizona). A second Excluder bifurcated endograft was inserted into the first endograft, with the orientation such that the second device was rotated 180° compared with the first device, ensuring complete overlap of the 2 main bodies and converting the bifurcated device into an aorto-uni-iliac endograft. A completion angiogram showed complete resolution of the type IIIb endoleak (Figure 2B). The patient tolerated the procedure well without any complications and with complete resolution of the melanotic stool and endoleak confirmed by a computed tomographic angiographic scan with 3-dimensional reconstruction (M2S Inc, West Lebanon, New Hampshire). The patient was discharged from the hospital with oral antibiotics. At 1-year follow-up, the patient was doing well, without any complaints of abdominal pain or gastrointestinal bleeding, and tolerating a normal diet. There is no evidence of an endoleak or an expansion of the aneurysm on the 1-year follow-up computed tomographic scan with 3-dimensional reconstruction (Figure 2D).
Figure 1. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy demonstrating endograft material seen at the base of a duodenal diverticulum. The arrow indicates the stent struts.
Figure 2. A, Aortogram revealing a large type IIIa endoleak at the midsegment of the endograft. B, Completion angiogram showing complete resolution of the type IIIa endoleak. C, Preoperative contrast computed tomographic (CT) scan with 3-dimensional reconstruction (M2S Inc, West Lebanon, New Hampshire) showing large type IIIa endoleak. D, Intravenous contrast CT scan with 3-dimensional reconstruction at 1-year follow-up showing complete absence of the aneurysm.
Complications of stent-graft implantation include endoleak, endograft migration, aneurysmal rupture, distal embolization, contrast allergy, renal insufficiency, wound complications such as hemorrhage, infection, and, in rare circumstances, the development of a secondary aortoenteric fistula (AEF), which is a devastating complication with a high mortality rate.1 Bergqvist et al2 identified 14 cases of AEF. The etiology of the AEF has been explained as a direct injury to the bowel due to the defective stent graft (in 5 cases), the erosion of the bowel (in 2 cases), or an expanding aneurysm with endoleak or rupture (in 6 case); in 1 case, however, the etiology was unclear.2 In our case, the AEF could be the result of continued expansion of the aneurysm because of a persistent type IIIb endoleak through a hole in the body of the endograft and because of the aneurysm's close proximity to the duodenum with local inflammation. The standard treatment would include the removal of the impaired stent graft and either in situ aortic replacement with a new graft or aortic closure in combination with an axillobifemoral bypass procedure.2 The mortality rates for patients who undergo either procedure are as high as 59%. Our 90-year-old patient who underwent hemodialysis was clearly not an acceptable candidate for open repair. Endovascular repair of an AEF may offer rapid control of bleeding and may help to avoid severe morbidity and high mortality associated with the complicated open procedures.3 Antoniou et al4 demonstrated the association of endovascular repair with a high incidence of infection postoperatively. They identified 33 reports with 41 cases of AEF. There was a 44% risk of hemorrhage and/or infection after a mean follow-up period of 13 months. This risk of infection was almost 3-fold higher in secondary AEF than in primary AEF. Although our patient continues to do well without evidence of bleeding or infection at 1-year follow-up, she is still at significant risk of recurrent infection and/or bleeding.
In summary, AEF is one of the most difficult vascular complications to treat, with a very poor outcome. Although open repair continues to be the gold standard, endovascular repair may offer rapid control of bleeding, may help to stabilize the patient, and may offer a bridge to a better-planned complicated open repair. In rare circumstances, endovascular repair might be the only endurable intervention for severely debilitated and/or elderly patients.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Swamp Foxes teamed up with other schools in Dorchester District Two to put on a big annual event at Ashley Ridge High School on April 25.
The sixth annual Swampfest took over the stadium field at Ashley Ridge all day. Swampfest is a field event for students with severe special needs in DD2, hosted by the Ashley Ridge student body. Various student teams, clubs and organizations set up booths for activities such as arts and crafts and games.
Special needs students were teamed up with Ashley Ridge buddies who guided them from booth to booth to participate in the event.
Ashley Ridge junior Demi Barkley said the event is a way for the school to give back and help out students with special needs.
They love it, she said. They smile all day because they look forward to it.
Ashley Ridge probability and statistics teacher Kim Emery said she loves seeing the visiting students get excited about the event.
You can see the kids and how good of a time theyre having, she said. And as a teacher I love seeing my kids work with special needs students.
All over the football field visiting students could be found painting, throwing Frisbees, kicking soccer balls, bowling, squirting water guns and pelting Ashley Ridge students with water balloons.
One booth had Ashley Ridge students pretending to be ducks while they moved around and had special needs students try to shoot them down with water guns.
There was a dunking booth and live entertainment by the host school. Seniors Maria Martinez and Kristyn Carlson have been buddies for the same special needs student for four years in a row a student from Fort Dorchester Elementary School.
Hes loving it, Martinez said. Hes having fun its fun when you know them already.
Carlson said she always loves being a part of Swampfest.
Theres not many opportunities like this so I think they (the special needs kids) love it, she said. Theyre limited to what they can do.
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In Virginia Tech's last seven road games, they have:
- Had a 9-point lead at fsu with 75 seconds to go (fsu would go on to win the ACC Tournament)
- Possessed the ball at #7 duke with the score tied and the shot clock off
- Had the same situation at unc as with duke (possession with a chance to take the final shot)
As you know, the Hokies lost all three games to the three best programs in the ACC. An epic fail from the line and Mr Big Shot Snaer did them in at Tallahassee (the only road venue VT has not won at since joining the ACC), neither Green nor Raines could make their shots at the end of regulation at duke (and they'd lose a close one in OT), and Green took a tough step-back jumper at unc with a taller defender in his face before Tech would get blown out in overtime at unc.
3 road games, 3 chances with VT in control at the end, 3 losses. This is a bitter pill especially in the final two instances because you don't get many chances to win at Cameron Indoor or in Chapel Hill (just ask clemson about the latter considering they've never won there in 50+ opportunities). Tech has won at unc and duke since joining the league (both were in 2007), but wins like this are program builders, or perhaps program rebuilders, and the Hokies missed their chance on Saturday… again.
- Quick Starts: Tech came out and did exactly what I thought they'd do yesterday – play their tails off on the big stage that is the Dean Dome. Too bad they couldn't quite finish it and walk off the court a winner yesterday, but they showed again they could compete. After not scoring in the first five minutes against uva or clemson, Tech jumped out to a 28-16 lead vs miami and a 12-0 lead over unc yesterday. It is a heck of a lot easier playing with a lead then it is playing uphill all game.
- The Other Side of the Nation's Leading Scorer: Erick Green is a really good point guard, and not just at scoring, but protecting the ball. In Tech's last three games he has 12 assists to just 1 turnover (he had 4-to-0 yesterday). As you'll see below, everyone else has not been as efficient.
- Raines's Days: After scoring just one point at clemson, Cadarian responded with 22 points, 14 rebounds, and 3 blocks this week.
- Defense: In a four game stretch from colorado state through bc, the Hokies gave up an average of 91 ppg and no less than 86 in any of those four contests. In the six games since, VT has given up an average of 66.5 ppg (in regulation, not counting OT) and held 3 of those teams under 65 points.
- 3-Point Defense: Holy cow, an opponent had an off night from behind the arc! This is the first time in 8 ACC games, or 12 games overall, that a VT opponent did not shoot a higher 3-Point % than their season average AND have more makes (3s) than they average. Tech held unc to 5/24 behind the arc for 21%, both well below their averages. Reggie Bullock, a 45% 3-point shooter (#2 in the ACC), was just 1/8 from deep. Zones are usually susceptible to 3-point shooting but it didn't hurt Tech yesterday, so let's credit it to improved perimeter defense. More on the zone below…
- I didn't like the play at the end. I'd have liked to have seen EG drive and either try to finish (and possibly get fouled) or dish to a post player. What's the worst that happens? If you charge with possession of the ball, there are no free throws for the opponent, so it's low risk. Didn't like the step-back jumper considering Strickland was taller than EG. But, hindsight is always 20/20. It goes in and I have this up in the other section.
- Turnovers: Tech had just 3 turnovers at the half but committed 11 in the second half. Too many possessions wasted on bad passes. Brown and Eddie each have 8 turnovers in the last two games (Erick Green has ZERO).
- Offensive Rebounds: Zones are not good for defensive rebounding and the Hokies proved that point yesterday. unc snagged 19 offensive rebounds in 43 opportunities (44% – way too high).
- 2-3 Zone Defense: JJ played the zone to counter their foul trouble in the post and to save energy but I felt he should have scrapped the zone in the final 5 or so minutes and gone back to man, even if it meant some guys fouling out sooner.
- Zone Part 2: The high post killed us. Namely McAdoo. He had 22 points and 10 rebounds. How many of his points came on wide open jumpshots from the foul line when unc fed the high post? Why Raines wasn't flashing out on him faster (or at all in some situations), I don't know. But Tech did not adjust and this burned the Hokies all game.
- Fading Offense: Tech shot 47% in the first half including 4/9 (44%) from behind the arc and had just 3 turnovers. In the second half, they didn't attempt a 3-pointer, shot just 32% from the floor, and had 9 turnovers. In OT they hit just 2/7 FGs, 0/4 on 3s, and had 2 more TOs.
- Brown: After hitting 3/5 shots including 2/3 three-pointers against miami, Robert fell back into his slump yesterday, going 3/12 on FGs and 0/2 on 3s. He's now shooting 26% in ACC play and 13% on 3-pointers.
- Whistles: unc shot 27 free throws, VT 10. That's BS. The refs game the heels a lot of home town calls which I would not have expected in an off year for them. And shouldn't the best player in the ACC get some calls? He didn't shoot a single free throw despite averaging almost 8 per game. Hopefully this was just bad officials and not a sign of things to come.
Well, Saturday was progress. I remember Tech losing by 39 at unc five years ago. At 2-5 and as 14-1/2 point dogs, Tech could have laid down yesterday. If only we could have pulled out that game that quite frankly was ours, it would have been great to shut up those snobby blue bloods. Hopefully Tech can keep this positive play going AND find a way to win this week, and snap this 4-game skid.


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Dave Richards: The sun peeks through the clouds
My head has not been in a good place lately, and I trace it back to December's Sandy Hook tragedy. That sent me into a profound funk.
The idea that someone could open fire on children -- happy, innocent beautiful children with entire lifetimes before them -- crushed my soul.
In the wake of that, debate began on gun control and I hoped, at the very least, reasonable people might agree that requiring background checks before gun purchases would be wise and that one doesn't need an assault weapon to kill a deer or defend oneself.
But Congress wilted and nothing changed, nothing happened. Then Boston happened, more people dying and injured, this time from bombs.
Every day seemed to bring another reason to sink into gloom. Threats from North Korea, civil war in Syria. GE threatened to eliminate Erie jobs, my son had open-heart surgery, winter dragged on.
Good news? Can I get some heartening news, please?
For me, it came last week after NBA center Jason Collins became the first active player in the United States' four major sports to come out as gay.
I expected the inevitable backlash from those who refuse to acknowledge that a gay person is a fellow human being. Instead, the reaction startled me. His teammates and fellow NBA players -- including Kobe Bryant -- issued supportive comments.
Celebrities, broadcasters and politicians -- including President Barack Obama, who called Collins -- and former President Bill Clinton offered encouragement and commended his bravery.
Even more amazing: The leaders of the NBA, NHL and NFL released strong, accepting statements. Said NBA Commissioner David Stern: "Jason has been a widely respected player and teammate throughout his career, and we are proud he has assumed the leadership mantle on this very important issue."
The top brass set a tone that will reverberate throughout their respective sports: Intolerance, prejudice and hate will not stand. The NBA will have Collins' back. That's huge.
Can it really be just 16 years since Ellen DeGeneres came out on "Ellen" and created a national uproar? (By the way, Erie's Jonathan Stark helped write that episode and won an Emmy).
Today she is, perhaps, the country's most beloved talk-show host. Actors such as Neil Patrick Harris, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer, among others, came out with zero negative impact on their careers.
So, in what has been a bleak 2013, a ray of hope for compassion, acceptance and kindness shines through. If Collins' bravery and the support he received prevents even one young, tortured gay athlete from giving up, helps him or her shed shame and embrace life, we are a better, nobler world.
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