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DALLAS -- It seems that everyone at the Hilton Anatole -- from scouts to officials to media -- believe the Texas Rangers are going to get involved in the Prince Fielder sweepstakes.
But as of Tuesday morning, Rangers president Nolan Ryan isn't so sure. He said that he doesn't see how Fielder fits financially in the club's plans. And sources said the club is not pursuing Fielder at this time.
Fielder, 27, is one of the top bats on the free-agent market. He hit .299 with 38 homers and 120 RBIs and played in all 162 games in 2011 for Milwaukee. He has a .282 career average, has hit at least 28 home runs in all six of his full seasons (including a career-high 50 in 2007) and has played in at least 157 games in all of his full seasons as well.
The Rangers, though, have key members of their core they'll need to consider re-signing in the next few years, starting with Josh Hamilton, and that makes it difficult to take on a contract the size of Fielder's without giving up a member of that core. That also includes Mike Napoli, Nelson Cruz and Ian Kinsler in the near future.
The club also is a strong believer in Mitch Moreland as he continues to develop. A wrist injury slowed Moreland in the second half of the season and he had surgery last month. He's expected to be back by the time games start in Surprise, Ariz., if not sooner. Texas has Michael Young and Napoli, who played some first base in 2011, as well.
But the Texas front office is known as a creative group and they explore any and all options. Perhaps if C.J. Wilson signs with another team, that change their minds on Fielder.
Richard Durrett covers the Rangers for ESPNDallas.com.


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Intracoronary pressure wire–derived measurements of fractional flow reserve (FFR) and intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) provide functional and anatomical information that can be used to guide coronary stent implantation. Although these devices are widely used and recommended by guidelines, limited data exist about their effect on clinical end points.
To determine the effect on long-term survival of using FFR and IVUS during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Design and Setting
Cohort study based on the pan-London (United Kingdom) PCI registry. In total, 64 232 patients are included in this registry covering the London, England, area.
All patients (n = 41 688) who underwent elective or urgent PCI in National Health Service hospitals in London between January 1, 2004, and July 31, 2011, were included. Patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (n = 11 370) were excluded.
Patients underwent PCI guided by angiography (visual lesion assessment) alone, PCI guided by FFR, or IVUS-guided PCI.
Main Outcomes and Measures
The primary end point was all-cause mortality at a median of 3.3 years.
Fractional flow reserve was used in 2767 patients (6.6%) and IVUS was used in 1831 patients (4.4%). No difference in mortality was observed between patients who underwent angiography-guided PCI compared with patients who underwent FFR-guided PCI (hazard ratio, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.67-1.16; P = .37). Patients who underwent IVUS had a slightly higher adjusted mortality (hazard ratio, 1.39; 95% CI, 1.09-1.78; P = .009) compared with patients who underwent angiography-guided PCI. However, this difference was no longer statistically significant in a propensity score–based analysis (hazard ratio, 1.33; 95% CI, 0.85-2.09; P = .25). The mean (SD) number of implanted stents was lower in the FFR group (1.1 [1.2] stents) compared with the IVUS group (1.6 [1.3]) and the angiography-guided group (1.7 [1.1]) (P < .001).
Conclusions and Relevance
In this large observational study, FFR-guided PCI and IVUS-guided PCI were not associated with improved long-term survival compared with standard angiography-guided PCI. The use of FFR was associated with the implantation of fewer stents.
Myocardial revascularization is among the most common major medical procedures provided by Western health care systems. In the United States alone, more than 1 million percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass procedures are performed annually.1 It is estimated that the total direct medical costs of cardiovascular disease will triple in the United States between 2010 and 2030, from $273 billion to $818 billion.2 While innovations such as drug-eluting stents and better antiplatelet therapy have increased the use of PCI, recent studies3,4 have challenged the value of the procedure in stable coronary artery disease. This has highlighted the importance of more carefully targeted PCI.5,6
It is recognized that visual lesion assessment of coronary lesion severity by coronary angiography has limited accuracy and can result in overestimation or underestimation of lesion severity.7,8 Furthermore, technical problems with stent deployment such as stent malapposition or vessel dissections can be missed by angiography alone. Intracoronary imaging with intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) has much greater sensitivity for detecting stent malapposition, which can then be treated through postdilatation of the stent with an angioplasty balloon.
Another intracoronary device, the pressure wire, can be used to assess the hemodynamic importance of a stenosis by measuring the fractional flow reserve (FFR). The FFR is derived from a comparison of the mean arterial pressure distal to a coronary stenosis with the systemic pressure measured in the ascending aorta during adenosine-mediated vasodilatation. Current American Heart Association guidelines recommend that FFR should be used for the hemodynamic assessment of intermediate-severity (50%-70%) angiographic lesions in patients with stable angina (class IIa).9 These recommendations are based on randomized clinical trials of FFR-guided vs angiography-guided PCI (Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation [FAME] and FAME 2).5,10 They have demonstrated reduced major adverse cardiac events, mainly due to a decreased need for repeat myocardial revascularization for FFR-guided PCI.5,10 While FFR assesses the hemodynamic effect of coronary lesions, IVUS allows for direct imaging of vessel and lesion morphologic structure.11,12 The American Heart Association guidelines recommend the use of IVUS to assess intermediate lesions in the left main artery (class IIa indication).9 To date, no existing randomized data show a benefit of IVUS or FFR regarding clinical end points.
The aim of this cohort study was to determine the effect on long-term mortality of FFR-guided PCI or IVUS-guided PCI compared with angiography alone. Our hypothesis was that FFR-guided PCI and periprocedural IVUS use are superior to standard angiography-guided PCI.
The data were collected as part of a mandatory United Kingdom national cardiac audit, and all patient-identifiable fields were removed before merging the 8 data sets and analysis. The local ethics committee at Barts Health National Health Service Trust, London, England, advised that formal ethical approval was not required.
This is an observational study based on the pan-London (United Kingdom) PCI registry, which is a prospectively collected data set that includes all patients treated by PCI in the 8 Primary PCI Centers within the London, England, area, which covers a population of 8.2 million. The data are reported according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology guidelines.13 In this registry, PCI is defined as any coronary device advanced into a coronary artery to probe or cross 1 or more coronary lesions and with the intention of performing a coronary intervention. The registry included 64 232 patients who underwent PCI between January 1, 2004, and July 31, 2011. Follow-up analysis was performed on August 5, 2012. All centers use the same database, as recommended by the British Cardiac Intervention Society, which forms part of the national mandatory audit by the society. Data are collected prospectively at each hospital, electronically encrypted, and transferred online to the National Central Cardiac Audit database, allowing linkage to the Office of National Statistics for live or death status, which is tracked by individual patients' National Health Service numbers. This approach ensures complete follow-up data.
Patients undergoing elective or urgent PCI were included. Patients initially seen with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (n = 11 370) were excluded. Patient demographic characteristics were collected, including age, smoking status, left ventricular function, previous PCI and indications for PCI, and New York Heart Association classification, as well as the presence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiogenic shock, hypercholesterolemia, peripheral vascular disease, previous myocardial infarction, and previous coronary artery bypass grafting. Also recorded were technical aspects of the PCI procedure (target vessel, the number of diseased vessels, the use of IVUS or pressure wire, the use of drug-eluting stents, and the use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GPIIb/IIIa) inhibitors, as well as adverse outcomes, including complications up to the time of hospital discharge. The flowchart in the eAppendix in the Supplement shows the patient inclusion and exclusion process.
Invasive procedures followed a comparable protocol in all institutions according to current guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology.14- 16 Patients receiving a stent were pretreated with clopidogrel (300-600 mg) and aspirin (75-300 mg). The use of GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors was infrequent in this patient cohort and was left to the discretion of the interventional cardiologist. Coronary lesions were classified as left main stem, proximal left anterior descending, other left anterior descending, left circumflex artery, right coronary artery, or graft. The severity of luminal narrowing was graded as 0%, 1% to 49%, 50% to 74%, 75% to 94%, 95% to 99%, or 100%. Typically, patients were prescribed statins, lifelong aspirin use, and clopidogrel for 1 month (after implantation of a bare metal stent) to 12 months (after implantation of drug-eluting stents or in patients with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction) after PCI.
The primary outcome measure was long-term all-cause mortality. Secondary outcome measures were the number of implanted stents, in-hospital mortality, and procedural complications (eg, coronary dissection, coronary perforation, stroke, and myocardial infarction).
The study population was analyzed according to the use of diagnostic devices (FFR and IVUS). Event rates for the primary and secondary outcomes were compared between FFR-guided PCI or IVUS-guided PCI and standard angiography-guided PCI (visual lesion assessment). Categorical data are presented as the number (percentage) of patients and continuous data are presented as the median (interquartile range). Study groups were compared using Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Pearson χ2 test for independence, as appropriate. Stent, vessel, and lesion numbers are presented as the mean (SD), and t test was used to compare the means. Time-to-event analyses were performed with a multivariate Cox proportional hazards model. The model adjusted for age, sex, coronary risk factors, the use of GPIIb/IIIa inhibitors, the number of implanted bare metal and drug-eluting stents, the number of diseased vessels and the location of the culprit lesion, and the setting (stable coronary artery disease or acute coronary syndrome), as well as for prior PCI, myocardial infarction, and coronary artery bypass grafting. We performed a complete case analysis, and patients with missing values were excluded.
As a secondary sensitivity analysis, we also performed a propensity score–matched analysis. Propensity scores were calculated based on a logistic regression model that included the variables used in the multivariate Cox proportional hazards model. We performed a 1 to 1 matching without replacement with the match function of statistical software (version 2.15 of R).17 Matching performance was tested with the match balance function.18 The Cox proportional hazards models were then stratified for matched pairs. Two-sided P < .05 was considered significant. Analyses were performed with statistical software (version 2.15 of R17 and SPSS version 20.0 [IBM]).
In total, 41 688 patients (24 787 with stable angina and 16 901 with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction) were included in the study. Overall, 2767 patients (6.6%) had FFR-guided PCI, 1831 patients (4.4%) had IVUS-guided PCI, and 37 090 patients (89.0%) had angiography-guided PCI.
Patients who had FFR-guided or IVUS-guided PCI were slightly younger than patients who had angiography-guided PCI (P < .001). Table 1 lists the baseline characteristics of our study population.
The distribution of target vessels was significantly different across the 3 groups. Intravascular ultrasonography was more commonly used in left main stem PCI, which represents a higher-risk intervention. The mean (SD) number of attempted stenoses was lowest in the FFR-guided group (1.3 [0.8]) compared with the IVUS-guided group (1.5 [1.0]) and the angiography-guided group (1.5 [0.8]). Also, the mean (SD) overall stent length was shortest in the FFR-guided group (23.3 [11.5] mm), longer in the angiography-guided group (24.0 [12.7] mm), and longest in the IVUS-guided group (25.4 [14.2] mm) (more detail is available in the eAppendix in the Supplement).
Unadjusted, FFR was associated with reduced mortality (hazard ratio, 0.72; 95% CI, 0.61-0.84; P < .001). However, the adjusted mortality did not differ significantly between the groups (hazard ratio, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.67-1.16; P = .37).
Intravascular ultrasonography–guided PCI was associated with a higher unadjusted mortality rate compared with angiography-guided PCI (hazard ratio, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.05-1.41). It was also associated with a slightly higher adjusted mortality risk (hazard ratio, 1.39; 95% CI, 1.09-1.78; P = .009) (more detail is available in the eAppendix in the Supplement).
The mean (SD) number of implanted stents was lower in the FFR group (1.1 [1.2] stents) compared with the IVUS group (1.6 [1.3]) and the angiography-guided group (1.7 [1.1]) (P < .001). Overall, 195 patients (0.5%) died in the hospital. No significant difference in in-hospital mortality was observed between the IVUS-guided group (13 patients [0.7%]) and the angiography-guided group (177 patients [0.5%]) (P = .12). In-hospital mortality was slightly lower in the FFR-guided group (5 patients [0.2%]) compared with the angiography-guided group (P = .03) (Table 2).
Procedural complications differed slightly across the study groups but were low in general. Coronary dissections and coronary perforation were more common in the IVUS-guided group compared with the angiography-guided group (P < .001). In the FFR-guided group, procedural complications (side branch occlusion, coronary dissection, coronary perforation, and no reflow) were generally less common than in the angiography-guided group (P < .001) (Table 2).
We also performed a propensity matching–based analysis for the primary end point in an attempt to potentially further reduce residual confounding. Point estimates for the treatment effects were comparable to those of the primary analyses, but differences were no longer statistically significant.
In total, 919 patients undergoing FFR were matched with 919 patients undergoing angiography-guided PCI. Panel A in the Figure shows the survival plot. The hazard ratio for mortality was 0.78 (95% CI, 0.47-1.27) (P = .32). Before matching, P < 2.22 × 10−16 was the minimal P value comparing the baseline variables between the 2 groups. After matching, it was P = .28.
A, Fractional flow reserve (FFR)–guided vs angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention. B, Intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS)–guided vs angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention.
In total, 803 patients undergoing IVUS were matched with 803 patients undergoing angiography-guided PCI. Panel B in the Figure shows the survival plot. The hazard ratio for mortality was 1.33 (95% CI, 0.85-2.09) (P = .25). Before matching, P < 2.22 × 10−16 was the minimal P value comparing the baseline variables between the 2 groups. After matching, it was P = .09.
Recent randomized trials assessing the value of FFR-guided PCI (FAME and FAME 2) demonstrated reduced rates of major adverse cardiac events, mainly due to a decreased need for repeat revascularization.5,10 These results have led to changes in practice guidelines. The use of FFR is recommended to assess lesions of intermediate severity.5,10,16 However, data on the effect of FFR-guided PCI on clinical end points are sparse. This large cohort study with a median follow-up period of 3.3 years showed no mortality benefit for FFR-guided or IVUS-guided PCI compared with angiography alone. The use of FFR was associated with fewer implanted stents, which represented a secondary end point.
Comparing FFR-guided PCI vs angiography-guided PCI, the FAME trial enrolled 1005 patients with stable or unstable multivessel coronary artery disease.5 While the primary composite end point of death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and repeat revascularization was improved by the use of FFR, none of the single end points showed a significant difference.5 More recently, the FAME 2 trial,10 which enrolled 1220 patients and compared FFR-guided PCI vs optimal medical therapy, was stopped prematurely after it became clear that the risk for major cardiac events was lower in the FFR-guided group. This difference was mainly due to a greater need for urgent revascularization in the optimal medical therapy group. No significant difference was observed in overall mortality.10 Neither study was powered to detect survival differences.
The present study is based on large cohort of 41 688 patients, of whom 2767 had FFR-guided PCI. After adjustment for potential confounding factors, no significant survival benefit was seen for FFR-guided PCI compared with angiography-guided PCI. These findings are in line with a recent observational study from the Mayo Clinic by Li et al.19 Although the authors detected no survival benefit for FFR-guided PCI, they concluded that FFR-guided PCI may yield a favorable long-term outcome. This conclusion was based on a subgroup analysis that excluded patients who had an FFR of borderline significance (range, P = .75 to P = .80) and in whom PCI was deferred. In that analysis, recurrent myocardial infarction was the only end point that was significantly less frequent in patients who underwent FFR-guided PCI.
It is perhaps too optimistic to expect a survival advantage from the use of a purely diagnostic procedure. This is particularly true in patients with stable coronary artery disease, for whom PCI has never demonstrated a clear survival benefit.4
These data are in line with results from previous randomized trials suggesting that FFR-guided PCI may have a stent-sparing effect, but this did not translate into a survival benefit.5,10 However, the use of FFR does not seem to increase periprocedural complications, and using fewer stents may have other advantages such as reducing the bleeding risk related to dual-antiplatelet therapy and decreasing the risk of in-stent restenosis and stent thrombosis, as well as reduced stent costs.20 A recently published FAME 2 substudy21 revealed an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $36 000 per quality-adjusted life-year for FFR-guided PCI. In the present study, the in-hospital mortality was also decreased in the FFR-guided group, but this was a secondary end point and was based on few events.
In the present study, long-term mortality associated with IVUS-guided PCI was increased in the primary analysis. Yet, after a more stringent adjustment using propensity score matching, this difference was no longer statistically significant. Intravascular ultrasonography may be used before PCI to determine the characteristics of coronary stenoses from a purely anatomical point of view or to assess the procedural result after stent implantation (stent apposition or stent edge dissections).22 Compared with FFR, IVUS may be used more often in complex disease (eg, left main stem disease). Because FFR and IVUS are such different procedures, a direct comparison of the 2 modalities does not seem appropriate.23,24 Intravascular ultrasonography may be useful in individual cases because it allows better characterization of equivocal lesions and facilitates vessel sizing to plan appropriate stent implantation; it also helps to detect complications.25,26
In the present analysis, IVUS-guided PCI was associated with longer stent segments and with a larger final stent diameter. The reasons for this cannot be determined from this study, but IVUS often reveals problems that may not be seen angiographically such as stent malapposition or stent edge dissection, which may result in more aggressive postdilatation and the implantation of additional stents, but this did not seem to translate into better clinical outcomes in this study.
The effect of IVUS-guided PCI has been tested in several small randomized trials. The largest one was the Angiography Versus Intravascular Ultrasound–Directed stent placement trial.27 It was interpreted as a positive trial based on post hoc analyses. The primary end point was negative (target lesion revascularization of 12.0% in the angiography-guided group and 8.1% in the IVUS-guided group, P = .08), and no mortality benefit was observed. The trial enrolled 800 patients. The final stent lumen was significantly larger in the IVUS group, driven by more frequent postdilatation; 37% of patients in the IVUS group received postdilatation because the stent appeared sufficiently expanded angiographically but not according to IVUS. The primary end point was target lesion revascularization and did not differ significantly between the study groups. No differences were observed in other clinical outcomes as well. However, we believe that IVUS may be useful in selected cases to characterize lesion morphologic structure, aid in optimal stent sizing, and diagnose PCI complications.25,26
Our study has some limitations. Long-term follow-up data were available only for the end point of overall mortality and not for other potentially relevant outcomes such as stent thrombosis, reinfarction, stroke, or a need for further revascularization. Left ventricular function was not assessed routinely in all patients and was not incorporated into the multivariate analysis. We had no detailed information on secondary preventive medication use other than aspirin and clopidogrel. It is unclear whether differences existed across the groups in the proportion of patients undergoing complete or partial revascularization. Data on the effect of complete vs partial revascularization on outcomes are conflicting.28,29 Furthermore, no detailed information was available on whether IVUS was performed before or after PCI. In patients undergoing multivessel PCI, no data were available on whether FFR or IVUS was performed for the assessment of 1 or all stenoses. We have no information on patients who underwent IVUS or FFR but did not undergo PCI.
In this large observational study, FFR-guided PCI and IVUS-guided PCI were not associated with improved long-term survival compared with standard angiography-guided PCI. The use of FFR was associated with the implantation of fewer stents.
Accepted for Publication: December 8, 2013.
Corresponding Author: Pascal Meier, MD, The Heart Hospital, University College London Hospital, 16-18 Westmoreland St, London W1G 8PH, England (email@example.com).
Published Online: June 23, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.1595.
Author Contributions: Drs Fröhlich and Meier had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Fröhlich, MacCarthy, Wragg, Timmis.
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Drafting of the manuscript: Fröhlich.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Obtained funding: Fröhlich.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported by a research fellowship grant from the Schweizerische Stiftung für Medizinisch-Biologische Stipendien and the Swiss National Science Foundation (Dr Fröhlich).
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|January 26, 2015 at 6:13 am #18661
There is no long term future for a society in the "bonds" (oh, the oligarchs must laugh every time the word "bond" is said aloud!) if Debt Money Tyranny.
If the international banking cartel lends $20 government/society (or $20 trillion – the math doesn't change, people!) @ 5% interest, in one year government/society owes the private international banking cartel $21 due to double entry bookkeeping adjustments that add $1 interest liability to government/society and $1 interest asset to the international banking cartel (to add to their $20 "bond" – oh, the laughs must be good at the oligarch parties… "bonds" tying down society in Gulliver the Bankster's Travels).
How can a $21 debt be paid when the borrower only has $20 and the lender possesses the only $1 available to pay back the debt (and they are not giving that $1 back, they are busy swindling the chumptocracy out of the original $20, too!).
Oh, and a "bailout" is when the $20 is created and stuffed in an international banking cartel corporate "front pocket" and society is sent the $21 bill EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDNI'T RECEIVE THE $20 PROCEEDS FROM THE DEBT.
I know, this is sooooooo simple the mind is repelled.
Hiding won't help.
|January 26, 2015 at 6:16 am #18662
Prof L&L, the normalcy bias will confuse one who doesn't comprehend the power structure and the incentives operating on the power structure.
|January 26, 2015 at 2:02 pm #18671
Hi Trivium,
Since the popularity of the Grignon animations "Money as Debt" many observers of the global economy have adopted his view that lending creates unrepayable debts, along the lines of your example of a $20 loan creating a $21 debt.
However the assertion is a fallacy, and the Grignon videos (and arguments to the same effects by others) are flawed. I created a small simulation in a spreadsheet to model the supposèd creation of unrepayable bank credit.
Yes, it is possible to take out unrepayable loans, but this is also possible even if they are issued at 0% interest. We must not make the mistake of thinking that interest makes loans unrepayable.
Yes, bankers do charge money for lending money, but this is no different to a singer charging her audience for a concert. Neither banker nor singer creates money, or necessarily creates unrepayable debts for anyone. An opera singer can put.the whole world into her debt just as a banker can. It's just that the bankers are better at it.
My concern is that this false idea about loans have creating unrepayable debt, is that it is a deliberated falsehood to distract the public anger away from the far simpler truth. Every debt has an equal an opposite credit, every debtor a matching creditor. Every article written about our "debt problems" can be written in equally validate terms about our "credit problems". You can no more have technically unrepayable debt, than you could have technically unspendable credit.
If it is indeed true that the creditors of 95% of all world debt will fit on the seats of a double decker bus, and those individuals were driven to say Trafalgar Square for a little chat with the People, then it might be clearer to all just how very simple the mechanism of debt is. And how simply those few creditors of the world can help resolve the misery.
In fact, despite efforts since 2012 to discredit the disclosure, we do occasionally see some spare change from the back of the sofa being handed back by the creditors:
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There's a rat-a-tat-tat coming from the trees across the valley, the sound of a woodpecker doing whatever it is that woodpeckers do. The fluffy clouds are tinged with pink and the outlines of two of Dorset's highest points, Pilsdon and Lewesdon - known by sailors and locals as The Cow and The Calf - are sharp and clear against the morning sky.
It is cold and bright and we might have snow.
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The Enchanted Village is turning its own corner towards a brighter future.
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We desperately want someone to come and buy the shop. We want the heart of our village back. We also want our former shopkeeper to be able to live his life, happily, away from sad memories. We can't afford what he wants for it, and we really hope someone will come along and take it over. We will support them: this village is nothing if not supportive and willing.
But in the meantime, the answer, it seems, lies in a portable shop building in the grounds of the village hall. It's worked elsewhere, so why not here?
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I love the line of Spring tucking its dress in its knickers very evocative.ReplyDelete
It takes the spirit of an adventurer to start anything like a village shop or new business right now. Have those living in the area thought of making the shop a volunteer-run co-operative? There is a very successful one running in Freshford near Bath.ReplyDelete
Bella, indeed we have. This is probably what we will do but it would be so much better and easier if someone bought the shop. The latest figures show it is very profitable, with lots of 'chimney pots' and good passing trade. However, we can't wait for that to happen so we need to just get on with it.ReplyDelete
BC, I liked that line too. It reminded me of myself!
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi women demonstrated Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.
The protest, held on Mar. 8, International Women's Day, came a week after the cabinet voted for the legislation, based on Shi'ite Islamic jurisprudence, allowing clergy to preside over marriages, divorces and inheritances. The draft now goes to parliament.
"On this day of women, women of Iraq are in mourning," the protesters shouted. "We believe that this is a crime against humanity," said Hanaa Edwar, a prominent Iraqi human rights activist. "It would deprive a girl of her right to live a normal childhood."
The United Nations representative to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, also condemned the legislation. Mladenov wrote on Twitter the bill "risks constitutionally protected rights for women and international commitment".
The legislation goes to the heart of the divisions in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, as Shi'ite Islamists have come to lead the government and seek to impose their religious values on society at large. The bill would institutionalize the Shia clerical establishment and give it a larger say in the state legal system.
It describes girls as reaching puberty at nine, making them fit for marriage, makes the father sole guardian of his children at age two and condones a husband's right to insist on sexual intercourse with his wife whenever he wishes.
The legislation is referred to as the Ja'afari Law, named after the sixth Shi'ite imam Ja'afar al-Sadiq, who founded his own school of jurisprudence in the 8th century.
The draft was put forward by Justice Minister Hassan al-Shimari, a member of the Shi'ite Islamist Fadila party, and approved by the cabinet on Feb. 25 with 21 of 29 cabinet ministers voting for it.
It must now be reviewed by parliament, but the draft could get stalled, with national elections scheduled for April 30, and vocal opposition among secularists.
Shi'ite religious parties first attempted to pass a version of the law in 2003 under U.S. occupation, angering secular Iraqis and prompting protests. Policies adopted by the U.S. occupation authority led to the empowering of Shi'ite Islamists and largely excluded Shi'ite secularists from the new government that emerged.
It was widely believed that the Bush administration promoted Shia Islamists as part of a strategy to create a kind of "Islamic democracy" as a counter to extremists but also to blunt left and progressive forces. As a result, an article in Al-Ahram notes, "Shia religious groups have controlled the government and dominated the national political space, pushing leftists, nationalists, liberals and secularists to the sidelines."
The struggle between Iraq's secularists and Islamists continues.
The announced of the bill in the run-up to the Apr. 30 elections, is seen by some as an attempt by the leading Shia political groups to play on the sectarian sentiments of sympathetic Shia voters.
Iraq's current personal status law 188 (enacted in 1959) enshrines women's rights regarding marriage, inheritance, and child custody, and has often been held up as the most progressive in the Middle East.
It established at least partial equality between women and men in a number of areas, restricted polygamy, created a judicial procedure for divorce and required marriage to be performed only in state-run courts. The law, which was later amended several times, also set an 18-year minimum age for marriage. A later amendment allowed marriage for persons over the age of 15 but under that of 18 in very strict cases and only by authorization of a state judge.
Photo: Iraqi women protest the draft of the "Jafaari" personal status law in Mutanabi Street in central Baghdad, on Friday, March 7, 2014. Mutanabi Street, famous for its book stalls, is a focal point for cultural events and peaceful protests on Fridays, which are a holiday in Iraq. Tareeq al-Shaab


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The two candidates running for a vacant seat on the Berkeley County school board were well-versed on an array of education issues ranging from school funding to classroom discipline to the No Child Left Behind law in a debate Tuesday night.
Sponsored by the Berkeley County Teachers' Forum, the event at the Daniel Island School revealed only minor differences between Doug Cooper and Karen Smith. Both candidates are active parents with a history of school involvement in the district they hope to represent if elected Feb. 5.
Only voters in Berkeley's District 2, which covers Daniel Island and parts of Hanahan and Goose Creek, are eligible to vote in next week's election.
Cooper, the general manager of a three-state region for McNaughton-McKay Electric Co., stressed the importance of fixing the state's funding formula for schools during many of the questions posed to him.
School board members should serve as leaders in an effort to lobby lawmakers to give more money to growing areas such as Berkeley County, which need new schools but currently have limited options for funding the facilities, he said. But reaching out to lawmakers also needs to be a grassroots approach with local community members who care about schools doing their part, he said.
Cooper said he wants to see a combined effort where leaders in all three Lowcountry school districts appeal to local lawmakers with a "common message" to fix the funding inadequacies plaguing schools throughout the region.
Smith, who has served as president of the Daniel Island School PTA for the last two years, focused on her experience learning the ins and outs of schools as a volunteer. In answering a question about how to boost parental involvement, Smith said she hopes to see schools become "community centers" used for a multitude of local events. If parents are comfortable entering a school for community gatherings, they also will feel welcome attending conferences relating to their child's education, she said.
Smith emphasized that 30 percent of all Daniel Island School students come from outside of the school's attendance zone and use choice transfers to attend. She said she favors school choice and would like to see Berkeley County explore the idea of a magnet high school.
The candidates differed the most when asked to describe their leadership style and their thoughts on the role of school board members.
Cooper said board members should hire the superintendent, monitor and set policies for the district and review and approve the annual budget, but not micromanage tasks best left to school administrators and teachers. Smith said board members need to "think outside the box" and be independent and innovative.
Both candidates have attracted significant support from Berkeley's education community and had plenty of backers in the crowd of roughly 75 people.
Cooper has received endorsements from the conservative Citizens for Reasonable Taxation Group, as well as from Frances Brewer, who represented the district on the school board for 16 years until November 2006. Smith has been endorsed by the Daniel Island Business Association, County Councilman Tim Callanan and Dan Kingsbury, who held the now-vacant seat on the school board for the past year before relocating to Columbia.
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Press Tour: Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant bring the funny for 'An Idiot Abroad'
Under optimal circumstances, Karl Pilkington provides plenty of fodder for his friends/colleagues/tormentors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to mock him about. But when you put the two creators of "The Office" in a room with their round-headed kickball of a podcast partner, hand them all tall glasses of beer and tell them to answer questions via a long satellite delay, well... then you have A Very Special Episode in the ongoing comic saga that is the three men's friendship.
Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington were appearing via satellite at press tour to promote "An Idiot Aboard," a new eight-part documentary series that Science Channel is debuting on Jan. 22 at 10 p.m. The idea is that Pilkington - whose insular, illogical worldview has made him the butt of Gervais and Merchant's jokes for years - has to travel the globe to visit the Seven Wonders of the World in what Gervais refers to as "a social experiment." In the clip reel Science Channel showed the critics, Merchant speculates at the start of the experiment that travel might finally broaden Karl's mind, while Gervais says, "I want him to hate it. I want him to hate every minute of it for my own amusement."
So naturally, Pilkington was first asked which of his friends was right with their prediction.
"I did hate it," Karl said, followed by a pause so long that Gervais had time to be overcome with two separate fits of the gigles, "but now that I'm back and it's all over, I think I got a lot out of it. I think I won in the end."
As a critic was trying to ask the next question, Merchant literally fell out of his chair laughing, because Pilkington's earpiece had broken in two, with one half lodged in his ear. (He had to spend the rest of the press conference bent over with a finger over the loose piece to keep it from falling out.)
Pilkington was asked how he felt about the title and explained the show was originally called "Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders of the World," and that the title changed on him while he was out in the Amazon. When he objected to Gervais, Gervais said a press release had already gone out, and they had to stick with it.
"What can you do?" he shrugged.
He was asked about his relationship with the other two, and how it feels to have them constantly mocking him and calling him stupid.
"They're always annoying me. People say, 'Oh, it must be great being mates with Ricky - but it isn't. I'll tell you what it's like. It's like when you get a dog, and it seems like a good idea at the time... you realize it's a pain in the ass, and it's shitting everywhere. Everyone else comes over for a few minutes and they think, 'Oh, what a cute dog!' But they don't know about all the shit."
By this point, Gervais was perched on the edge of his seat, hanging on every word from his simple frenemy.
"I can't get enough of Karl," he said. "I treat it like I've found the Missing Link."
Pilkington said that when he returned from his travels, he tried to talk Gervais and Merchant into traveling to the places in Wales where he vacationed as a child, but they refused. And as he began listing all the different places he stayed, he said a sentence that sounded very much - not only to me, but to Merchant and Gervais, who were doubled over in laughter for a good 30 seconds afterwards - like "I had to stay in an old gay man."
A reporter asked Pilkington to describe a typical day in his life, and Gervais began ranting about having witnessed Karl doing his own plumbing, and Karl in turn complained that Ricky and Stephen seem to work only a few hours a day.
"That's because we're geniuses!" Gervais retorted.
Pilkington tried to prove his point by asking the reporter if she cleaned her own drains, and was baffled when the reporter said she usually calls her manager.
Calling back to an earlier question about what this show was doing on Science Channel, Gervais said, "That's the science right here. How does it function? How does it live? We don't know. That's the science."


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The Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) is announcing: The Radio and System Operations Handbook. This handbook will assist Soldiers in developing unit training strategies that support the Army Force Generation process. By applying the information in this handbook, Soldiers, leaders, and planners will have a solid foundation for unit signal operator training that will build individual confidence and competence while providing individuals with essential skills and knowledge related to radio/system operations.
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KidsWorx Fall Into Color Work Shop
This month's theme is "Fall into Color". At the Project Center section of the workshop, kids will be making their own Flower Presses that they will get to take home with them. The Exploration Station will be featuring Crayon Rubbing and Jelly Crystals where kids will be able to explore States of Matter (liquid to solid and solid to liquid again) and how to "trap" your favorite color in a Jelly Mixture. KidsWorx is a really fun opportunity for children to play, learn and explore "out of the box" science concepts and best of all it's FREE! Hope to see you out there on September …
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Kids across the US to find a book in their Happy Meals (Examiner)
I still remember the excitement of finding a toy in my Happy Meal as a kid. Whether it was a miniature Beanie Baby or off-brand coveted Polly Pocket dolls, I devoured my meal just for the reward of that toy. McDonald's recently evolved its offerings to include four children's books, including Spanish and online options.
Suit up for football: exclusive football collection designed by players (Target's Bullseye View)
Target asked five popular football megastars - Aaron Rodgers (Green Bay Packers), Devin Hester (Chicago Bears), Arian Foster (Houston Texans), Marshawn Lynch (Seattle Seahawks) and Patrick Willis (San Francisco 49ers) - to bring their signature styles to life with apparel designed "by players, for the fan." You won't want to miss their fun, inventive designs as we head into the heat of football season.
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Today in History for April 24
Highlight in History:
On April 24, 1916, about 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising was put down by British forces almost a week later.)
On this date:
- 1792, the national anthem of France, "La Marseillaise," was composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
- 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.
- 1898, Spain declared war on the United States. (The United States responded in kind the next day.)
- 1913, the 792-foot Woolworth Building, at that time the tallest skyscraper in the world, officially opened in Manhattan as President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button at the White House to signal the lighting of the towering structure.
- 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1962, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, using NASA's Echo 1 balloon satellite to bounce a video image from Camp Parks, Calif., to Westford, Mass.
- 1970, the People's Republic of China launched its first satellite, which kept transmitting a song, "The East Is Red."
- 1980, the United States launched an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.


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How Ron Swanson spent Valentine's Day
I managed to talk to Nick Offerman for a half hour without mistakenly calling him by the name Ron Swanson, the epitome of manhood he plays on NBC's "Parks and Recreation."
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