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4 Tips to Teach Kids about Traveling
2013-04-11 by Melissa & DougShop the Story
In this family travel series of posts, three blogger moms will offer their tips & tricks from the road as they trek across the country with their families this summer, staying in hotels, cabins, and tents.
As any parent knows, kids often don't realize what traveling in such close quarters is really like. So this week, we're helping you "grease the wheels" for your next family vacation with tips to help your kids understand — and get comfortable with — different modes of transportation through pretend travel adventures.
Using toy vehicles (like Whittle World toys) in pretend play is a great way to teach children about the different modes of transportation. Children can create stories and games for passengers getting in and out of buses, planes, trains, and cars while concocting pretend travel adventures of their own.
Here are 4 tips for using toys, games, and pretend play to teach your child about different forms of transportation your family may use this summer:
Nothing beats the speed of a plane to get you from one part of the country to any other place in the WORLD. Using an airport-themed set, children can improve fine motor skills as they explore the parts of a plane, have passengers board and exit a plane, and bring their luggage back and forth to the airplane — It's just like what they'll see on a real plane trip!
Trains are speedy and provide beautiful views as they travel across the country. Practice storytelling skills by asking your child to load people onto a wooden train set one by one as he or she tells you a story about each passenger. Where are they traveling today? What sort of terrain will the train pass through? Will any of the passengers get off at the same stop? Do the riders like to play any travel games together? (This is a great way to brainstorm which pretend travel adventures the child would enjoy.)
Teach your child how buses help conserve fuel by carrying a whole group of people who are all going in the same direction, instead of each person driving a separate car or truck. Point out how buses are a great way to travel with friends, to meet new people, and to spend more time with their family (since the driving is left to a professional). You could have your child build a town with blocks. Then as a toy bus travels from stop to stop, sing "The Wheels On the Bus" as you make the doors on the bus "open and close" or the people on the bus "go up and down" all over town — and BEYOND!
Taking a summer road trip by car provides lots of "family togetherness" time. Keep everyone entertained by playing car games. Classic games like Travel Bingo or the License Plate Game are perennial favorites. You could also make a game of spotting different kinds of traffic signs or vehicles on the road (which you can teach with a Wooden Vehicles and Traffic Signs set). See who can be the first one to spot a school bus, a taxi, a garbage truck, a one-way sign, and more!
It's easy to dream up a world of pretend travel adventures right in your own living room! So get started preparing your little ones for all the exciting transportation adventures that await them as you hit the open road (or tracks or air).
Where are YOU planning to go for your next vacation, and how will you get there? Share your transportation tips in the Comments below, or chat with us on our Melissa & Doug Facebook page.
And don't miss our Traveling with Kids Pinterest board for tons of handy tips and ideas for making traveling with kids a cinch!
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No. You have no idea how old the characters are and were making up numbers at random. I slammed the brakes on this by temp-banning you for a day, given that you'd burned through over two dozen character articles.
As I have explained over on the Timeline page, we don't actually know what year it is "After Landing" in the books' dating system...but hopefully we will one day (they added two years after Robert's Rebellion increasing it from 15 to 17 years). If we ever find out what year the TV series takes place in, we'll switch to giving dates instead of approximate ages.
We only know the ages of some characters with any rational basis. Primarily, the Stark children (including Jon Snow and Theon Greyjoy), Daenerys Targaryen, and the Lannisters - Cersei, Jaime, and Tyrion have all been given dates (some of them hard to reconcile, but dates nonetheless), so has Joffrey - and we assume that Myrcella and Tommen are each two years or so older than their book counterparts, following this pattern.
Cersei is stated to be 19 when Robert's Rebellion ended, plus 17, this means she was 36 in Season 1...not 32, as you claim. That would have made her 15 when she married Robert, younger even than her book counterpart. You gave the same age for Jaime as they're twins, messing up his age as well.
Myrcella is 7 years old at the start of the books, so presumably she was 9 at the start of the TV series. You said she was 8 years old....matching neither the books or TV series.
You did correctly put that Jon Snow and Robb Stark were roughly seventeen in Season 1...though given that their book counterparts were both roughly 14, I actually think they were closer to 16 years old. Difference of a few months. Also that Bran was aged-up from 6 to 8 in the TV series. Also Sansa states that she is 13 on-screen in Season 1, plus 3 makes her 16ish at the start of Season 3 -- minor confusion that she said she was 14 at her wedding to Tyrion and not 15 as she should be, but hey, maybe she just didn't reach her nameday yet, and wanted to emphasize that she was being forcibly married off young. (I'm not sure if this means Robb was two years older or three years older when he died, given the difference of a few months, but we'd let that slide for now). Arya stated she was 11 on-sreen (aged up from 9 in the books) and you got this right.
Nonetheless you goofed up Rickon Stark: he's stated on-screen to be six years old in Season 1 (aged up from 3 in the books). The article correctly stated that he was 8 years old in Season 3 as a result. You then changed this back to the book version by saying that he was 3 in Season 1, but is 6 in Season 4.
Daenerys Targaryen's age is the whole reason they changed everything: she's 13 in the books but they can't show a 13 year old having sex in the first episode. So the censors made them age her up - and because she was born at the very end of the rebellion when her mother died, the rebellion had to be pushed back 2 years, affecting everyone else's age. We don't have an exact figure but yes she's 15-16 in Season 1. Nonetheless, what did you base Viserys's age on? You said he was 20 in Season 1...meaning he was 3 years old during Robert's Rebellion 17 years ago? He was 7-8 years old when the rebellion happened (I have to check, he said in the Complete Guide to Westeros featurettes).
You said Theon Greyjoy was 19 in Season 1...in the books, he's four years older than Robb Stark. Now the Greyjoy Rebellion was 9 year before and I'd have to check how old they state Theon was when he left, they may have changed it to make him closer to Robb's age.
All of this aside, these are the characters we can date. After this, you moved on to....simply making up ages for all of the characters. Please, as a non-rhetorical question, what was your reasoning behind all of this guesswork?
You said that Drogo is 30....we have no idea exactly how old Drogo is. Why 30? Why not 32? Why not 35?
You said that Gared was 50, Waymar Royce was 18, and Will was 20...is this book information?
Ned Stark himself is 35 in the books...you said he was 40. Based on what?
But you also...bizarrely...started claiming "approximate" ages for characters, based on complete guesswork. When you guess someone's approximate age you say "mid-60's" or "65" - because these are generalizations. You don't pick an exact number then say it's approximate (unless of course it's how old Robb and Jon are exactly, emphasizing that it might be one more or less).
Well, let's see what you did: you said that Rodrik Cassel was "approximately 61" in Season 2, because he was 60 in Season 1. If he was 60 in Season 1 that means's he's 61 a year later, no approximation. But on what did you base that he's 60? Was this stated?
You say that Luwin is "approximately 76" in Season 2, because he's 75 in Season 1. Where was it ever stated that he is 75 in Season 1?
You said that Illyrio Mopatis was 50 years old in Season 1....based on what? You then say he's approximately 54 in Season 4. I thought we'd established that because "one season equals one year", we're adding 3 years to character ages for Season 4 (three years have "elapsed", and the fourth is only starting).
Similarly, you say that Sandor Clegane was 35 in Season 1, and "approximately" 38 in Season 4....adding 3 years instead of 4 as you did to Illyrio, so you're not even being consistent about how many years you're adding.
What was your basis for character ages? We don't really have a system in place and I do apologize for that, but it's because the TV series hasn't been giving us exact dates. Even so you shouldn't just make up ages. What we're trying to do is only provide "citable" ages based on those directly stated within the TV continuity (i.e. Sansa says she's 13, Arya says she's 11, and Cersei says she was 19 when she was married 17 years ago which makes 36, and that Tyrion is four years younger than her making him 32).
Please read through this carefully and fix all of it. You're taking time away from other edits we're desperately racing to make as we gear up to Season 4. If you have any other questions please ask and we'll try to help. You aren't in trouble or anything because this was a mistake from ignorance, but please be more careful.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 15:00, February 17, 2014 (UTC)


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We already have Glenn Greenwald's assertion on The Nation that John Key has misled New Zealanders as to whether the GCSB has engaged in mass surveillance of Kiwis.
But Key has made many other statements about the GCSB's powers and activities. So which of these other public statements made by Key will Glenn Greenwald challenge and refute ?
1 Sharing of information
December 3, 2013 John Key: "we share information in isolated cases about New Zealanders with our partners, and we do that when the is a really good reason to do that."
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December 3, 2013
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I think we know the answer to this one John. And so do you.
4 Does the NSA tap into New Zealand's Southern Cross Cable which carries approximately 95% of New Zealand's Internet traffic?
John Key may not have been specifically asked this question. But a NZ Telecom lawyer said it was "wholly unaware of recently disclosed US surveillance programmes". Hopefully Greenwald will be able to provide the definitive answer.
5 Is there a NSA SSO (Special Source Operation) site in New Zealand?
A NSA technician visited NZ in 2013 to assist the GCSB with plans to install one. The GCSB refused to say whether it went ahead with plans to install an SSO site in New Zealand, but a spokesperson for John Key said "there was no (SSO) cable tapping operations in New Zealand and there were no plans to introduce one"
So is there an SSO site in New Zealand? If so is that a cable tapping operation? If not is there some other type of NSA SSO site or operation of the kind which operates in the USA and UK, such as:-
- hacking into ISP's large industrial scale Routers
- Corporate Partnerships with NZ companies, (such as NSA had with Google Facebook Yahoo! etc)
John Key – "any metadata that is used would be used appropriately and within the law"
7 Has a loophole been deliberately placed in the GCSB Act to allow lawful warrant-less spying on New Zealanders?
And does this make a mockery of Key's comforting assurances that the GCSB always acts within the law?
8 Does the NSA fund GCSB's operations?
Mr Key refused to say whether the NSA helped fund the GCSB. But does the NSA in fact fund the GCSB through a Five Eyes program called Windstop, which carries out cable tapping operations, or through some other mechanism?
The refusal to say speaks volumes.
9 Is raw data on New Zealanders collected by the GCSB or the NSA and shared with Israeli Intelligence Services?
Is Israel effectively part of Six Eyes? When did the NZ Parliament agree to share raw data on its citizens with Mossad?
John Key's fitness to be PM is on the line over more than the issue of mass surveillance. Hopefully Glenn Greenwald will provide the proof on many of these other critical issues and the media will have the mettle to hold Key to account.
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West Jefferson Medical Center's chairman on Tuesday provided the most extensive public explanation to date for why the hospital's governing board prefers Louisiana Children's Medical Center to lease West Jefferson and East Jefferson General Hospital. The key is not so much money, said Harry "Chip" Cahill, as it is concern for the community served by the two public hospitals.
"Our recommendation is about our very existence as community hospitals with a community hospital culture, a community hospital mission and an unwavering belief to do what is best for our patients," Cahill wrote in a letter to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune. "The West Jefferson Hospital Board shudders at the very thought of our health care being dictated by Wall Street investors."
That's a jab at Hospital Corp. of America, the publicly traded for-profit company that is competing with Children's to lease Jefferson's hospitals. The East Jefferson board prefers HCA, leaving the Parish Council with conflicting recommendations as it tries to reach a decision.
West Jefferson board members have been less vocal about their preference than their East Jefferson counterparts, who would rather split the hospitals to go with separate lessees than acquiesce to Children's. Cahill has stated publicly he prefers Children's because it is a locally based non-profit, characteristics he thinks will help preserve West Jefferson's connection with the community.
HCA is based in Nashville, Tenn., and runs more than 160 U.S. hospitals, including Lakeview Regional Medical Center, Tulane Medical Center and Lakeside Hospital in the New Orleans area. Part of its proposal to lease the Jefferson hospitals is to relocate its regional headquarters from New Orleans to Jefferson Parish.
Louisiana Children's Medical Center runs Children's Hospital, Touro Infirmary and LSU Interim Hospital. And it has a state contract operate the $1.1 billion University Medical Center once it is complete in 2015.
Like Cahill, Parish Council Chairman Chris Roberts, who endorses Children's along with Councilman-at-Large Elton Lagasse, has expressed an aversion to mixing public hospitals with for-profit management. East Jefferson board members find this wholesale dismissal irksome, and they point out that tax status wasn't part of the initial criteria in soliciting potential lessees.
"It would have been a whole lot easier if that had been voted on early on," East Jefferson board member Jim Hudson said in an Oct. 1 meeting with the NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune editorial board. "We would have saved a whole lot of time and would have narrowed the list down a whole lot quicker."
Indeed, the solicitation process that was spearheaded by the hospital boards' consulting firm, Kaufman Hall & Associates Inc., initially netted 17 suitors in 2012. Three of the six finalists were for-profit firms, according to East Jefferson officials
The hope at that time was that the boards would agree on a recommendation to the Parish Council. But philosophical differences underlie what appear to be irreconcilable differences.
East Jefferson board members clearly view HCA's national reach and corporate hierarchy as reasons for confidence, as opposed to distrust. The West Jefferson board, as represented by Cahill, seems to hold the opposite view, and regard the state's partnership with Children's on University Medical Center as a guarantee against its failure.
Among the boards' many disagreements is whether to disagree and go separate ways. The East Jefferson board is calling on Parish Council to allow it that freedom, but Cahill opposes the idea.
"Splitting our community hospitals was not our intent, consideration, nor our purpose, as we set out on this journey to protect the stability and mission of our hospitals," Cahill wrote.
HCA is offering Jefferson Parish more money for the lease, $538 million compared to Children's $406 million, and HCA would pay a estimated $183 million in property taxes where Children's would pay no taxes. Neither the hospital boards nor the Parish Council has clearly articulated what will happen to this money, and the interest that accrues from it, but Cahill wrote that that it "wouldn't be used to strengthen a suitor's ability to perform."
What's more, Cahill wrote, a for-profit might be all too willing to cut jobs should when margins shrink. HCA has pledged to offer Jefferson hospital employees comparable jobs within its local system if the lease deal results in downsizing. But that's not enough to convince Cahill, who wrote that "our Westbank communities have suffered" with job loss at the Avondale shipyard, which is set to close at the end of the year.
"If some months pass and the suitor loses money, the suitor has no right to request any portion of this payment be returned. Where would the losses be made up? Where would the difference come from to satisfy stockholders?" Cahill wrote. "Herein lies where Wall Street could trump Main Street and our very mission."


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Looking at the opening titles and images behind them, you'd guess "Caramel" is about confectioners. Hardly. It's a touching story about the emotional rises and falls in the daily lives of a group of unmarried Lebanese women.
Shot on the streets of Beirut with barely any references to civil unrest or armed hostilities, "Caramel" often captures intimate moments of solitary sadness. Director Nadine Labaki works slowly on material similar to what previously has been filmed in a livelier manner by her Indian contemporary, Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding").
Rated: PG for thematic elements involving sexuality, language, some smoking
Cast: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisele Aouad
Director: Nadine Labaki
Run time: 95 minutes, in French and Arabic, with English subtitles
See it: Urban Insitute for Contemporary Arts, 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE
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Layale surely could use some of the latter, in as much as she spends most of the first hour of the film pining for a married man who doesn't return her calls. In one scene of special misery, she lies on her bed staring at her cell phone. A musical caption could be supplied by the refrain from Vikki Carr's 1967 pre-feminist hit, "Let it please be him, Oh dear God, it must be him."
True to the melancholy spirit of the film and despite her Christian prayers, her silent pleas don't get her a call from the thoughtless man. She's so miserable she doesn't even notice the attention paid to her by a handsome but shy local traffic policeman. As a last straw, the wife of the guy who doesn't call stops in one afternoon for a manicure and a pedicure.
Her cohorts have problems of their own. Close friend Nisrine (Yasmine Elmasri), a Shiite Muslim, is engaged to a young man who shares her faith. Nisrine is not a virgin, so in order to prevent humiliation within her community, she undergoes a minor surgical procedure that will disguise her experience.
Hairdresser Rima (Joanna Moukarzel) gradually realizes her own sexuality when a beautiful customer named Siham (Fatmeh Safa) returns to her for repeated modifications on her waist-length raven-silky hair. The realization brings her only private joy, however, since openly lesbian behavior in that society is anathema.
Finally, an older seamstress named Rose (Siham Haddad) apparently is about to begin a romance with an elderly gentleman for whom she has made some clothes. On the night of their first date, however, she admits to herself she can't ever make any commitments because, as always, she must take care of her lunatic sister.
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Why The Cowboys Will Miss The Playoffs Again
Last week, as part of a point-counterpoint series, I attempted to outline and argue a case for the Dallas Cowboys winning the NFC East. This week, I'm tackling the easier side. But to address all the possible reasons that could contribute to Dallas missing the playoffs for a fifth consecutive year, well, that's more suited to a Kindle or book on tape. For the sake of brevity and optimism, I'll rank just a few of the specific forces that could break the 'Boys in 2014.
The Sean Lee Situation
There's just no getting around the whopping destruction this one torn ligament could cause. When the Cowboys waved bye to DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher, it was expected, like a cost built into a preliminary budget. Those losses could have been offset by Anthony Spencer returning to 2012 form and by Henry Melton adapting to the scheme as envisioned. The D-line was and is a shell of its former self. But with a healthy Spencer and George Selvie plus DeMarcus Lawrence's potential and Rod Marinelli's scheme, there was hope for a swift rebuild.
Lee's injury shattered any such illusions. The 'Boys depended on the Penn State product for a little bit of everything: he was their best tackler, mid-range pass defender and second-level pass rusher. Running plays notwithstanding, his absence leaves the Cowboys more vulnerable to the shallow crosses and catch-and-run screens that burned them so often last year. His unteachable knack for finding the ball and the action made him the team's go-to playmaker. Even without the D-line problems, this would still look like a death sentence.
The Secondary
They have to cover better, end of story. This is just one of those football scenarios where the solution is really that simple.
The Front Office
In my opinion, Jason Garrett should be a coordinator in another town right now. But to be fair, a head coach can't be an effective motivator and strategist if he's just a figurehead — and that's precisely what Jerry Jones reduced Garrett to when he revoked his longtime play-calling job. It's a screwed up relationship between owner/GM and coach that limits the latter's authority in game management and locker room settings. It won't last another non-playoff season. It just can't.
I like the Scott Linehan hiring — a lot. But it will take a few games to click. The Cowboys really need at least one statement performance from their offense against the likes of St. Louis, New Orleans and San Francisco — all early matchups. It could very easily translate into a God-awful start.
Tony Romo's Health
The quarterback has undergone multiple surgeries in six months' time and been limited in OTAs. I find this injury potentially disconcerting for two reasons: it could affect his elusiveness, and it could, presumably, be re-aggravated by legal hits on both Romo the scrambler and Romo the pocket passer.
Much as it could behoove Dallas to up DeMarco Murray's touches in what's probably his last year, you have to figure with Linehan, they'll still be the high-flying Cowboys at heart. Kyle Orton's future is very uncertain. Losing Romo for even a game would immediately jeopardize the offense and, thus, the team's sole shot at postseason action. Can't you just close your eyes and see the dozens of columns pining for Johnny Manziel and crying for opportunity lost? Who wants that?


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Snik! I've just hooked second gear, bursting from the pit lane and onto the main straight. The needle rockets to the red line and I flatten the clutch for the shove to third. Turn one is upon me and I'm off the throttle, the staccato full-bore roar replaced by a race car rifle crack from the exhaust barrels. Splutters, crackles and pops erupt as engine compression helps the massive brake discs slow the little car just enough to clip the apex. Power is poured back on and the sound on exit from the turn is madly addictive and wholly mismatched to the humble 1600 motor beneath that curvy bonnet.
This is the new John Cooper Works Mini, and at R300 000 in basic trim it's no cheap thrill. Add a few options from the exhaustive Mini catalogue and you'll easily rack up a R325 000 bill. That's R100k more than two similarly-specced European rivals, the Renault Cliosport R27 and Opel Corsa OPC. We've brought them along to lay down their respective gauntlets, but they're not alone. The Mini's sky-high sticker price means it has to defend itself against the larger hot hatches, the cream of the crop. So we lined up the brilliant Ford Focus ST, fresh from its mid-life facelift, and the Seat Leon Cupra, which joins us for its last track foray before VWSA calls it curtains on the brand in SA. The bigger hatches still undercut the Mini's price tag by R50k or so, and unless you're a high nett-worther that's hard to ignore. Each car trumpets the respective marque's sporting heritage, and each promises the best compromise between trackday toy and urban runabout. After just one lap it's easy to be seduced by any one of them. You'll even be able to post a respectable lap time first time out, a testament to their driveability.
Test circuit
Killarney Raceway in the Cape served as our battleground, with its five distinct turns and two long straights more than capable of testing the mettle of any hot hatch. Here we can easily sort good front-driver from true performance legend. Our wait for a gap between a succession of Cape storms was worth it. We needed at least a partially dry track to extract the best possible performance from the cars. Our full day's routine began with 0-100km/h sprints, quarter-mile (400 metres to be precise) runs and 100-0km/h braking tests. Finally, we wanted a lap time comparison, achieved via a warm-up and two flying laps in each contender.
This is one 'cute' car, but before you shoot me down, remember that the art of 'cuteness' has long been nature's secret weapon. It's the reason why giant bears are adored by children all over; it's the law that endears our goo-covered infants to us. Small wonder such automotive notables as the VW Beetle, Fiat Cinquecento and Ford Ka. Enough to make you want to cuddle them for the full 54-month instalment term. Therein lies the problem: turning Bambi into a focused track tool. Witness the tinsel-strewn exterior of the Corsa OPC. The addition of aggressive bumpers, vented arches and massive hoop-like alloys, while striking to behold, seems to unbalance the lines of the little Opel. I'm still endeared to it thanks to the 'smiley-face' airdam and doe-eyed headlamp treatment, but the overall package seems compromised. Strangely this all makes me want it to be the quickest one here, to triumph over the cars who take themselves too seriously. Regrettably, it doesn't quite happen.
On track
The Opel makes its 141kW and 230Nm via a turbocharged 1.6 litre mill, and puts it all down via 225mm wide rubber, the widest of the junior hatches here. Disabling the traction control and flooring the throttle results in a flurry of wheelspin before the rubber bites hard into the tarmac, unleashing a wave of torque steer that pulls the OPC vigorously forward and to the right. It's manageable when you anticipate it, but our test model had a bigger problem to contend with. It seems 11 000km of wrestling with press hacks, most of that on track, had cooked the clutch. This seriously hampered its 0-100km/h abilities and the best we managed in the dry was 7.8 seconds – a full 0.6 seconds slower than its claimed time. But despite tired mechanicals we still managed to blitz through a lap of the track in 1min 35.29 seconds. Our test pilot's comment: 'It's quite twitchy coming out of turn one and five, but overall it's a very predictable drive. A good car.' With a properly working clutch we reckon the Corsa is capable of lapping a full second quicker.
Swathed in racy red, the heavily decaled Cliosport R27 cuts an impressive figure even in this bespoke crowd. Boasting a similar level of body widening, arch flaring and extravagant cutting of air vents as the Opel, on the Renault these mods seem more a result of function over form. Less Christmas tree, more race car – and the better for it. The Renault is the only car in this group that makes do without a turbo to achieve its outputs of 145kW and 215Nm. Instead, old-school fettling of its two litre 16 valve lump extracts the ponies from the barn. So no rorty induction noise like the Corsa; instead a highly strung scream of an exhaust note. A chisel-sharp profile and widened track helped by 215 wide rubber gives it a purposeful stance. The Clio looks like it's moving at a blistering rate even when parked alongside the rumble strips. The cabin is also far less fussy than the Corsa. No circling of gauges and instrument pods with metal-look plastic here. Minimalism reigns supreme. Renault killed the clutter inside and opted for a vast grey slab, so no distractions from getting on with the job at hand. The main token to race-car ambience is the not strictly necessary shift light on the dash.
On track
Rounding off the most track-focused interior of the lot is a pair of Recaro racing buckets. Climbing into them is effortless yet so rewarding once you've planted your backside into the deep recess. While similar in shape, grip and comfort to the Corsa, the Clio's seats refuse to lower themselves quite as far. A favourable 'racing' position is still easily achieved, and with the sporty Clio steering wheel clasped in hand we're launched from the pit. Hallelujah! Everything feels so direct in the Clio. Its normally aspirated lump delivers buckets of power with linear precision, so you can easily balance the car's trajectory and velocity through the apex. Turn-in is predictable, with only the wildest inputs able to unsettle the Clio. This car is so neutral you could teach anyone to go fast in this. Release throttle, brake late, turn in hard, feel the back slide, feather the throttle, the corner opens up and 'wham!', I bury the throttle into the carpet and the little Clio rockets out of every bend we encounter. We gun for the benchmark time set by the OPC and on its first hot lap the Clio posts 1min 33.73 seconds. Tough to beat.
We were expecting a lot from the blue oval. Ford's rally heritage in addition to the allure of the ST and RS badges, coupled with that gravelly engine note, meant we had placed it on a pedestal. Closer inspection of its rap sheet showed some concerns. Despite boasting the biggest engine here, it was not the most powerful car. Its fifth cylinder and extra 500cc only contributed to its biggest downside. At 1437kg the Ford was a bit of a fat bastard. That goes against the lean, mean fighting trim track-car ethos. With bags of torque in reserve however, we were confident. Changes to this newly facelifted model are all cosmetic; the mechanicals remain as they were. That's just fine as the ST has proven itself a capable performer. Raked-back headlamps, a smoother aero kit and the subtle addition of style lines along its flank are the key revisions, in addition to a resculpted interior. A trick bit designed to appeal to the racer in you is the START button to the left of the driver's thigh. Be warned however, this keyless system could easily see you stranded at the track after your colleague's gone home with it. True story …
On track
Starting up the ST in the pit lane at Killarney is an experience on its own. The roar from that in-line five-pot is primal; each stab at the gas sends a shimmy of power through the chassis and directly up my spine. 'No speeding in the pit lane' – the signs in this place make no sense to me at all. I ease off the clutch and feed power through to the front wheels. A chirrup of wheelspin is all I dare muster before a wave of Newton's finest sends me briskly onto the main straight. Turn one looms and … something is very wrong. It's as though everything has been covered in wool. The throttle is soft, the steering vague and the road isn't hurtling at quite the rate I expected, despite the aural assault from the exhaust. I'm being unfair, truth be told, as we are barrelling along just fine, but after two pared away baby hatches the Focus is a lesson in refinement. Select third, line-up for the turn, and it's all a bit remote, even if the tyres are telling another story. 'It's heavier than the rest of them and you can feel it too,' comments one of the testers, echoing my sentiments. As the corner opens up, a wide-open throttle pulls the Focus out with great resolve, though it's no rally car. It may shine at the local traffic light Grand Prix, yet is strangely muted on the circuit. Predictably it's slower than the Clio, with a respectable 1min 34.19 seconds.
I feel like a bit of a bully as I stroll over to the Seat. If VWSA has no faith in this car, then why should I? Yes, it develops the most power here, thanks to some clever mapping of its GTI-sourced engine, but sans sport pack the design lacks aggression. It's too soft. The car I'm about to drive is a nebulous dark 'Grape' colour. No show boat then, and while the wheels are pleasant enough, consensus is that they are the least exciting in this line-up. Wheels do not a car alone make, but we wanted to be moved and so far the Seat is coming across as a passion-free machine, a bit of a Cyborg. That might not be a bad thing on the track. Climb inside and it's not much better. The seats and dashboard cosset you just enough to be classed as 'pleasant'. Similarly, the engine note is subdued but adequate: smooth on idle and just a bit rougher in the upper rev range. More ho-hum than hurrah thus far.
On track
A quick lap of the circuit reveals more of the same. Despite its power advantage it feels less special than the Focus, even though 177kW and 300Nm makes it capable of a 6.6sec sprint to 100km/h. It also weighs 100kg less than the chunky Ford. In the absence of visual and aural aggression, something else exists here – precision. Placing the car in the corner is notably easier than in the other hatches, and the back end remains composed even hammer down, yet I feel I have to work harder in the Seat. The steering is heavy, and my arms are tired after just two laps. I realise why. Despite being heavier than the small hatches, it offers similar levels of control. A racing driver would theoretically be able to extract decent performance from it on a track, and after logging a 14.8 second quarter mile we were expecting something special from the Leon. On our second hot lap we set up the quickest time thus far, at 1 min 32.70 seconds a full second quicker than the Clio. We're astounded, but only because of the disconnectedness of the drive. I'd gladly sacrifice half a second of pace for a bit more involvement, but I might be alone on this.
There's something inherently special about the John Cooper Works Mini. The first thing that catches your eyes are the relatively narrow tyres – only 205s – that should make it a much more agile, if scarier machine. The 17 inch multi-spoke wheels wouldn't look out of place on a DTM car. They've been placed in the outer reaches of the car, giving it a square stance despite the short wheelbase. Massive red callipers handle the task of squeezing the equally large brake discs. We'll be testing those in a second. The JCW manages 14kW and 60Nm more than the Corsa from its turboed 1.6 litre, achieved by John Cooper's special witchcraft. Yes, the OPC sounded pretty god with al its induction and turbo noises, but the Mini has all that and some. It even carries the trophy for the most ellipses fitted into any interior, carried right through to the horrid seats. A shame, really. The deep, rasping exhaust note is almost out of sorts with the car's rounded exterior. And I tried, your honour, I tried to drive it like a good motorist on my daily trips to work. But it actually turns you into a bit of a tit, revving when there's no need to and accelerating hard from the traffic lights. I'm not proud of what it's done to me.
On track
I could drive this thing all day. Novices beware, this chassis, though remarkably sorted, is the most likely candidate for ending up arse-deep in an embankment. Lift-off oversteer moments keep us entertained all day. Still, it's a more tactile experience than the rest of them. Yes, you can still gun it into a bend, pick up the inside wheel and power through the turn. And if you're able to measure off your inputs it's a razor-sharp experience on par with the Clio. With those JCW brakes you can stomp right at the 50m mark, pitch in hard, balance the car on the throttle and then jam it wide open with just the tiniest hint of a slide on exit. Fun! All to the zestiest sound we've heard all day. The final run of the day is about to begin. Launch! The Mini rockets off! Turn one is a mess of understeer, oversteer, opposite lock and tyre smoke. The track's still wet in critical places and this was not a timed lap, just a bit of showboating extracted from that delectably twisty chassis. A full noisy out lap is completed and 'Click!' the stopwatch denotes the first of two timed laps. Turn one is noiselessly dispatched. Necks strain to keep up with the Mini's antics as it powers through turn two. Its tiny black form traverses the kink and, again with nothing but engine sound, blasts through turn three. Turn four, a double right-hander, is blitzed with an audible tyre squeal indicating its nigh on flat-out before catapulting along the back straight. All that remains is turn five. We wax it effortlessly, cleanly, and hustle on to the main straight for that surge over the line. 'Click!' on 1min32.03seconds. The Mini proves its pedigree.
The motorsport connection
In 1964, car number 27, a Mini Cooper S piloted by Paddy Hopkirk and co-driver Henry Liddon, won the prestigious Monte Carlo Rally. Here was a British crew winning in a British front-wheel drive car, and a legend was born.
Sure, I could take the cowardly route and say 'they're all winners!' And I'd be right. But our goal was to find the car that could best entertain you on a day to day basis, plus double as a real trackday performer. The Seat springs to mind, but like the Ford, it feel ultimately detached from the driving experience. Both cars are good on track, both would do well in a traditional traffic light grand prix, but once you've experienced the track-focused antics of the Mini, Corsa or Clio, you will feel cheated. At the end of the day, these diminutive cars gave us the biggest smiles. And if money is not an option, then the John Cooper Mini works! For under R230 000, you'd do well with either of its peers, but on the day when it mattered most, it was the cheap as chips ClioSport that was faster – and that's value for money coupled with the sort of driving pace and involvement you simply cannot ignore.


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Roosevelt Bryant III, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
UC Department of Surgery
Phone 513-636-4770
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Neonatal and congenital heart surgery and pediatric heart transplantation with specialty certification in Berlin Heart Surgical implantation and training.
Ex vivo analysis of the pediatric donor heart and pediatric mechanical circulatory support.
BA: Biology, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA, 1990.
MS: Boston University, Boston, BA, 1999.
MD: Boston University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
Internship and Residency: General Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, 2004.
Residency: Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 2007.
Fellowship: Congenital Heart Surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2009.
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Arain N, Braunlin E, St. Louis J, Bryant R 3rd. Delayed Arterial Switch Operation in a Patient with Complete Transposition of the Great Arteries and Glucocorticoid Remediable Aldosteronism. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 2011 Apr; 2(2):316-17.
Bryant R 3rd, Steiner M, St. Louis JD. Current Use of the EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device. J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2010 Dec;3(6):612-7.
Shepard CW, Kochilas LK, Rosengart RM, Bryant R 3rd, Moller JH, St. Louis JD. Repair of Major Cardiac Defects in Low Birth Weight Infants; Is Delay Warranted? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Nov;140(5):1104-9.
Arain N, Bryant R 3rd, Ameduri R, Gruenstein D, Braunlin E, Joyce L, St. Louis J. Successful Coil Embolization of a Large Ascending Aortic Pseudoaneurysm Following Explanation of the EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device in a Patient with Acute Fulminant Myocarditis. World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 2010;1(2): 259-26.
Owens WR, Bryant R 3rd,Dreyer WJ, Price JF, Morales D. Initial Experience with the Heart Mate II Ventricular Assist System in a Pediatric Institution. Artif Organs. 2010 Jul;34(7):600-3.
Booth JH, Bryant R 3rd, Powers SC, Ge S, McKenzie ED, Heinle JS, Fraser CD, Morales D. Transthoracic Echocardiography Does Not Reliably Predict Involvement of the Aortic Valve in Patients with Discrete Subaortic Shelf. Cardiol Young. 2010 Jun;20(3):284-9.
Zhi D, Bryant R 3rd, Heinle J, Nihill M. Isolated Cleft of the Mitral Valve: Clinical Spectrum and Course. Tex Heart Inst J. 2009;36(6):553-6.
Bryant R 3rd, Morales D. Corkscrew Trachea: A Novel Type of Distal Congenital Tracheal Stenosis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Jun;87(6):1923-5.
Booth JH, Bryant R 3rd, Vaporciyan A, Morales D. Complete Lung Parenchyma Sparing Resection of the Right Main Stem Bronchus and Bronchus Intermedius. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009 Mar 6.
Bryant R 3rd, Phalak K, Morales D. Multimodality Therapy for Primary Sternal Osteomyelitis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009 Jan;28(1):73-4.
Clifford Chin, MD
Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone 513-803-3151
Fax 513-803-7869
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Pediatric cardiology; cardiomyopathy and transplantation
Cardiomyopathy and transplantation
MD: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1989.
Residency: Pediatrics, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, 1989.
Fellowship: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1992.
Castleberry C, Ryan T, Chin C. Transplantation in the Highly Sensitized Pediatric Patient. Circulation. 2014;129:2313-2319.
Chin C. Pediatric Antibody Mediated Rejection. Pediatric Transplantation. 2012;16:404-4012.
Pietra B, Kantor P, Bartlett H, Chin C, Canter C, Larsen R, Edens E, Colan C, Towbin T, Lipshultz S, Kirklin J, Naftel D, Sleeper L, Hsu D. Early Predictors of Survival to and After Clinical Heart Transplantation in Children' with Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2012;126:1079-86.
Chin C, Chen G, Sequeria F, Berry G, Siehr S, Bernstein D, Rosenthal D, Reinhartz O, Tyan D. Clinical usefulness of a novel C1q assay to detect immunoglobulin G antibodies capable of fixing complement in sensitized pediatric heart transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Feb;30(2):158-63.
Chin C, Lukito SS, Shek J, Bernstein D, Perry SB. Prevention of pediatric graft coronary artery disease: atorvastatin. Pediatr Transplant. 2008 Jun;12(4):442-6.
Potena L, Fearon WF, Sydow K, Holweg C, Luikart H, Chin C, Weisshaar D, Mocarski ES, Lewis DB, Valantine HA, Cooke JP. Asymmetric dimethylarginine and cardiac allograft vasculopathy progression: modulation by sirolimus. Transplantation. 2008 Mar 27;85(6):827-33.
Tu W, Potena L, Stepick-Biek P, Liu L, Dionis KY, Luikart H, Fearon WF, Holmes TH, Chin C, Cooke JP, Valantine HA, Mocarski ES, Lewis DB. T-cell immunity to subclinical cytomegalovirus infection reduces cardiac allograft disease. Circulation. 2006 Oct 10;114(15):1608-15.
Potena L, Holweg CT, Chin C, Luikart H, Weisshaar D, Narasimhan B, Fearon WF, Lewis DB, Cooke JP, Mocarski ES, Valantine HA. Acute rejection and cardiac allograft vascular disease is reduced by suppression of subclinical cytomegalovirus infection. Transplantation. 2006 Aug 15;82(3):398-405.
Chin C, Naftel D, Pahl E, Shankel T, Clark ML, Gamberg P, Kirklin J, Webber S; Pediatric Heart Transplant Study. Cardiac re-transplantation in pediatrics: a multi-institutional study. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2006 Dec;25(12):1420-4.
Chin C, Naftel DC, Singh TP, Blume ED, Luikart H, Bernstein D, Gamberg
P, Kirklin JK, Morrow WR, Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group. Risk
factors for recurrent rejection in pediatric heart transplantation: a
multicenter experience. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2004 Feb;23(2):178-85.
Social Worker, Heart Institute
John L. Jefferies, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACC
Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
Phone 513-803-2913
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Advanced heart failure; cardiomyopathy; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Heritable causes of vascular disease; novel drug therapies for advanced heart failure; novel gene discovery in cardiomyopathy; characterization and management of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC); early diagnosis and management of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity.
Dr. Jefferies, a professor of pediatric cardiology and adult cardiovascular diseases within the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is the director of Advanced Heart Failure / Cardiomyopathy in the Heart Institute at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
He completed his combined pediatric and adult cardiology training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas at the Texas Children's Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute. He has authored or co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters on cardiomyopathy, cardiovascular genetics, and adults with congenital heart disease.
His current research interests include heritable causes of cardiovascular disease, novel drug therapies for advanced heart failure, novel gene discovery in cardiomyopathy, characterization and management of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC), and early diagnosis and management of chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity.
He is on the editorial board of the Texas Heart Institute Journal and is an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the Heart Failure Society of America, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He is the lead editor for two textbooks that focus on the management of heart disease in children and young adults entitled "Heart Failure in the Child and Young Adult: From Bench to Bedside" and "Cardioskeletal Myopathies in Children and Young Adults."
BS: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1992.
MD: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1996.
Residency: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2000.
MPH: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2001.
Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 2006.
Certification: Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplant.
Towbin JA, Lorts A, Jefferies JL. Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy. Lancet. 2015;Apr 9. Epub ahead of print.
McCullough PA, Jefferies JL. Novel Markers And Therapies For Patients With Acute Heart Failure And Renal Dysfunction. Am J Med. 2015 Mar;128(3):312.e1-22.
Villa CR, Ryan TD, Collins JJ, Taylor MD, Lucky AW, Jefferies JL. Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy associated with epidermolysis bullosa simplex with muscular dystrophy and PLEC1 mutation. Neuromuscul Disord. 2015 Feb;25(2):165-8.
Raman SV, Hor KN, Halnon NJ, Kissel JT, He X, Tran T, Smart S, McCarthy B, Taylor MD, Jefferies JL, Rafael-Fortney JA, Lowe J, Roble SL, Cripe LH. Eplerenone for early cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 2015 Feb;14(2):153-61.
Jefferies JL. Barth syndrome. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2013 Aug;163C(3):198-205.
Breinholt JP, Moulik M, Dreyer WJ, Denfield SW, Kim JJ, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Gates CM, Clunie SK, Bowles KR, Kearney DL, Bowles NE, Towbin JA. Viral epidemiologic shift in inflammatory heart disease: the increasing involvement of parvovirus B19 in the myocardium of pediatric cardiac transplant patients. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2010 Jul;29(7):739-46.
Carlson P, Jefferies JL, Kearney D, Russell H. Refractory dilated cardiomyopathy associated with metastatic neuroblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Jun 29.
Shah AM, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Decker JA, Cannon BC, Kim JJ. Electrocardiographic abnormalities and arrhythmias are strongly associated with the development of cardiomyopathy in muscular dystrophy. Heart Rhythm. 2010 Jun 18.
Rossano JW, Morales DL, Zafar F, Denfield SW, Kim JJ, Jefferies JL, Dreyer WJ. Impact of antibodies against human leukocyte antigens on long-term outcome in pediatric heart transplant patients: An analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing database. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 May 26.
Angela Lorts, MD
Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program
Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone 513-803-4580
Fax 513-636-3952
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Advanced heart failure; cardiopulmonary bypass mediated myocardial dysfunction; novel uses of pediatric VADs; cardiomyopathy; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Myocardial remodeling
MD: Creighton University Medical School, Omaha, NE, 1998.
Residency: The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO, 2001.
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2004; University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.
Certifications: American Board of Pediatrics, 2001; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Cardiology, 2004; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Pediatric Critical Care, 2006.
Towbin JA, Lorts A, Jefferies JL. Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy. Lancet. 2015 Apr 9.
Benoit S, Antommaria AH, Weidner N, Lorts A. Difficult decision: what should we do when a VAD-supported child experiences a severe stroke? Pediatr Transplant. 2015 Mar;19(2):139-43.
Zafar F, Castleberry C, Khan MS, Mehta V, Bryant R 3rd, Lorts A, Wilmot I, Jefferies JL, Chin C, Morales DL. Pediatric heart transplant waiting list mortality in the era of ventricular assist devices. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2015 Jan;34(1):82-8.
Thomas TO, Chandrakasan S, O'Brien M, Jefferies JL, Ryan TD, Wilmot I, Baker ML, Madueme PC, Morales D, Lorts A. The use of a Berlin Heart EXCOR LVAD in a child receiving chemotherapy for Castleman's disease. Pediatr Transplant. 2015 Feb;19(1):E15-8.
Thomas TO, Jefferies JL, Lorts A, Anderson JB, Gao Z, Benson DW, Hor KN, Cripe LH, Urbina EM. Autonomic dysfunction: a driving force for myocardial fibrosis in young Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients? Pediatr Cardiol. 2015 Mar;36(3):561-8.
Friess MR, Marino BS, Cassedy A, Wilmot I, Jefferies JL, Lorts A. Health-related quality of life assessment in children followed in a cardiomyopathy clinic. Pediatr Cardiol. 2015 Mar;36(3):516-23.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Zafar F, Lorts A, Morales DL. The evolving role of the total artificial heart in the management of end-stage congenital heart disease and adolescents. ASAIO J. 2015 Jan-Feb;61(1):8-14.
Moore RA, Madueme PC, Lorts A, Morales DL, Taylor MD. Virtual implantation evaluation of the total artificial heart and compatibility: Beyond standard fit criteria. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2014 Nov;33(11):1180-3.
Lorts A, Zafar F, Adachi I, Morales DL. Mechanical assist devices in neonates and infants. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2014;17(1):91-5.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Sawnani H, Wong BL, Gardner A, Del Corral M, Lorts A, Morales DL. Implantation of the HeartMate II and HeartWare left ventricular assist devices in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy: lessons learned from the first applications. ASAIO J. 2014 Mar-Apr;60(2):246-8.
David L.S. Morales, MD
Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clark-Helmsworth Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery
UC Division of Surgery
Phone 513-803-9150
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Congenital heart surgery; heterotaxy syndrome; pediatric heart and lung transplantation; mechanical circulatory support
Clinical and translational research related to mechanical circulatory support and tissue engineering
MD: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Residency: General and cardiothoracic surgery, New York-Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Fellowships: Congenital heart surgery, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
Board certifications: Surgery, thoracic surgery, congenital heart surgery.
Thomas D. Ryan, MD, PhD
Heart Failure, Transplant, VAD Physician
Heart Failure, Transplant, VAD Physician
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Cardiomyopathy; advanced heart failure; heart transplantation; mechanical circulatory support and transplant
Development of cardiomyopathy in at risk populations, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other genetic cardiomyopathies, and anthracycline exposure.
Thomas D Ryan, MD, PhD, was born and raised in Wichita, KS and graduated magna cum laude from Wichita State University in 1996 with a BS in biological sciences.
In 1997 he began training in the MD/PhD program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and studied the molecular, cellular, and whole organ aspects of cardiac remodeling in a rat model of volume overload. His general pediatrics residency training took place at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center from 2006-2009, as did his pediatric cardiology fellowship training from 2009-2012 and advanced fellowship in Pediatric Heart Failure/Transplant from 2012-2013. His clinical and research interests focus on heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.
BS: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1996.
PhD: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2004.
MD: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 2005.
Residency: Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2006-2009.
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009-2012.
Advanced Fellowship: Pediatric Heart Failure/Transplant, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2012-2013.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, 2010; American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology, 2012.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Chin C, Sticka JJ, Taylor MD, Harris R, Moore J, Goodridge E, Mount L, Bolyard AA, Otto B, Jones A, Shimamura A, Davies S, Myers K. Abnormal circumferential strain measured by echocardiography is present in patients with shwachman-diamond syndrome despite normal shortening fraction. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Mar 2.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Wilmot I. Managing heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2015 Feb;17(2):376.
Dandoy CE, Davies SM, Hirsch R, Chima RS, Paff Z, Cash M, Ryan TD, Lane A, El-Bietar J, Myers KC, Jodele S. Abnormal echocardiography seven days after stem cell transplant may be an early indicator of thrombotic microangiopathy. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Jan;21(1):113-8.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Zafar F, Lorts A, Morales DLSM. The evolving role of the total artificial heart in the management of end-stage congenital heart disease and adolescents. ASAIO Journal. 2015 Jan-Feb;61(1):8-14.
Chin C, Ryan TD, Castleberry CD. Transplantation in the highly sensitized pediatric patient. Circulation. 2014 Jun 3;129:2313-19.
Ryan TD, Jefferies JL, Sawnani H, Wong BL, Gardner A, Del Corral M, Lorts A, Morales DLS. Implantation of the HeartMate II and HeartWare left ventricular assist devices in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: lessons learned from the first applications. ASAIO Journal. 2014 Mar-Apr;60(2):246-8.
Ryan TD, Taylor MD, Wojciech M, Cripe LH, Pratt J, King EC, Lao K, Grenier MA, Jefferies JL, Benson DW, Hor KH. Abnormal circumferential strain is present in young Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. Pediatric Cardiol. 2013 Jun;34(5):1159-65.
Ryan TD, Ware SM, Lucky AW, Towbin JA, Jefferies JL, Hinton RB. Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy and aortopathy in a patient with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Sep 1;5(5):e81-2.
Ryan TD, Rothstein EC, Aban I, Tallaj JA, Husain A, Lucchesi PA, Dell'Italia LJ. Left ventricular eccentric remodeling and matrix loss are mediated by bradykinin and precede cardiomyocyte elongation in rats with volume overload. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007 Feb 20;49(7):811-21.
Shelly L. Stark, MSN, APRN, CNP
Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Heart Failure/Cardiomyopathy/Transplant, Heart Institute
Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Heart Failure/Cardiomyopathy/Transplant, Heart Institute
Phone 513-803-9011
Email email@example.com
Pediatric cardiology; cardiomyopathy; heart failure; heart transplant.
Pediatric cardiac transplant; heart failure
RN Co-Op Program: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Transitional Care Center, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit), Cincinnati, OH, 2008-2009.
BSN: Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2009.
RN: Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2009-2013
MSN: Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2013.
CPNP-AC: Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, 2013.
APRN: Heart Failure/Cardiomyopathy/Transplant Services, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2013.
PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Outpatient Cardiology, Division of Pharmacy
James S. Tweddell, MD
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute
Surgical Director, Heart Institute
Professor, UC Department of Surgery
Phone 513-803-8824
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Surgical emphases include congenital heart surgery in neonates, infants, children, teenagers and adults. Heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.
Developing reliable and reproducible evidence-based perioperative management strategies to improve survival and developmental outcomes; novel monitoring techniques such as continuous venous oximetry and near infrared spectroscopy.
Dr. Tweddell leads the Heart Institute's surgical team providing unparalleled surgical care and innovation for our patients and their families. Over the last 20 years, he built the pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he held the S. Bert Litwin Chair for Cardiothoracic Surgery position, served as medical director of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and professor and chief for the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Tweddell has an extensive list of vital research contributions, having authored more than 125 peer reviewed articles, published numerous books, chapters, invited reviews and editorials, and serving on multiple editorial boards and national committees.
Dr. Tweddell is the elite surgeon of his generation and has earned a worldwide reputation for outstanding clinical results based on team contributions to his outcomes. He decreased mortality following the Norwood procedure through the use of venous saturation monitoring and afterload reduction. In addition, Dr. Tweddell reduced interstage mortality of a single ventricle patient through the development of a home monitoring program.
MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1985.
Residency: Intern and Second Year Resident in General Surgery, New York Medical Center, New York, NY, 1987.
Residency: Research Fellow in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 1989.
Residency: Senior Resident and Chief Resident in General Surgery, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 1991.
Residency: Resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 1993.
Fellowship: Fellow in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 1993.
Jacobs JP, O'Brien SM, Pasquali SK, Gaynor JW, Mayer JE Jr, Karamlou T, Welke KF, Filardo G, Han JM, Kim S, Quintessenza JA, Pizarro C, Tchervenkov CI, Lacour-Gayet F, Mavroudis C, Backer CL, Austin EH 3rd, Fraser CD, Tweddell JS, Jonas RA, Edwards FH, Grover FL, Prager RL, Shahian DM, Jacobs ML. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database Mortality Risk Model: Part 2-Clinical Application. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Aug 3.
Tweddell JS. The Atrial Level Switch Operation: Lessons Old and New. Circulation. 2015 Jul 16.
Niebler RA, Shah TK, Mitchell ME, Woods RK, Zangwill SD, Tweddell JS, Berger S, Ghanayem NS. Ventricular Assist Device in Single-Ventricle Heart Disease and a Superior Cavopulmonary Anastomosis. Artif Organs. 2015 Jul 6.
Jacobsen RM, Earing MG, Hill GD, Barnes M, Mitchell ME, Woods RK, Tweddell JS. The Externally Supported Ross Operation: Early Outcomes and Intermediate Follow-Up. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Aug;100(2):631-8.
Ginde S, Lam J, Hill GD, Cohen S, Woods RK, Mitchell ME, Tweddell JS, Earing MG. Long-term outcomes after surgical repair of complete atrioventricular septal defect. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2015 Aug;150(2):369-74.
Buelow MW, Earing MG, Hill GD, Cohen SB, Bartz PJ, Tweddell JS, Ginde S. Tricuspid repair at pulmonary valve replacement does not alter outcomes in tetralogy of Fallot. Ann Thorac Surg. 2015 Mar;99(3):899-904.
Cox DA, Ginde S, Tweddell JS, Earing MG. Outcomes of a hepatitis C screening protocol in at-risk adults with prior cardiac surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2014 Oct;5(4):503-6.
Samyn MM, Plymale JM, Cousineau AJ, Tweddell JS. TAPVR in a kindergartner presenting with fatigue. BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Oct 9;2014.
McCrindle BW, Li JS, Manlhiot C, Tweddell JS, Giglia TM, Massicotte MP, Monagle P, Krishnamurthy R, Mahaffey KW, Michelson AD, Verdun N, Almond CS, Newburger JW, Brandão LR, Esmon CT, Manco-Johnson MJ, Ichord R, Ortel TL, Chan AK, Portman R, Rose M, Strony J, Kaltman JR. Challenges and priorities for research: a report from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) Working Group on thrombosis in pediatric cardiology and congenital heart disease. Circulation. 2014 Sep 30;130(14):1192-203.
Mitchell ME, Rumman N, Chun RH, Rao A, Martin T, Beste DJ, Berens RJ, Parakininkas DE, Ghanayem NS, Hubert MJ, Uhing M, Simpson P, Sato TT, Tweddell JS, Kerschner JE. Anterior tracheal suspension for tracheobronchomalacia in infants and children. Ann Thorac Surg. 2014 Oct;98(4):1246-53.
PumpKIN Trial. Principle Surgical Investigator. National Institutes of Health. 2013-ongoing.
Targeted, Highly Sensitive, Non-Invasive Cardiac Transplant Rejection Monitoring. Co-Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health. 2013-2018.
Berlin Heart Post Approval Study. Co-Principal Investigator. Berlin Heart Inc. Aug 2013-ongoing.
Ivan Wilmot, MD
Heart Failure, Transplant, Ventricular Assist Device Physician
Heart Failure, Transplant, Ventricular Assist Device Physician
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Advanced heart failure; transplantation; mechanical circulatory support and transplant; cardiomyopathy
Care of children with advanced heart failure requiring mechanical circulatory support bridge to transplant; quality of life in children with heart failure, transplant and mechanical circulatory support (MCS); advanced strain imaging in evaluation of ventricular function in pediatric heart transplant patients.
Ivan Wilmot, MD, graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Science in zoology.
In 1998 he began medical school at Emory University. His general pediatrics residency training took place at the Emory Affiliated Hospitals from 2002 to 2006. He completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship training from 2006 to 2009, and advanced fellowship in heart failure and transplant from 2009 to 2010.
His clinical and research interests focus on heart failure, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support (MCS).
BS: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1998.
MD: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 2002.
Residency: Emory Affiliated Hospitals, Atlanta, GA, 2005; Chief Resident: Emory Affiliated Hospitals, Atlanta, GA, 2006.
Fellowship: Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2009.
Advanced Fellowship: Heart Failure and Transplant, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, 2010.
Certification: American Board of Pediatrics; American Board of Pediatrics Sub-board of Pediatric Cardiology.
Ryan T, Jefferies J, Wilmot I. Managing Heart Failure in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. 2014. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2015 Feb;17(2):376.
Czosek R, Wilmot I, Jefferies J, Spar D, Anderson J, Khoury P, Knilans T. Outcomes, Arrhythmic Burden and Ambulatory Monitoring of Pediatric Patients with Left Ventricular Non-Compaction and Preserved Left Ventricular Function. AJC. 2015 April;115(7);962-6.
Fries M, Marino B, Cassedy A, Wilmot I, Jefferies J, Lorts A. Health-Related Quality of Life Assessment in Children Followed in a Cardiomyopathy Clinic. Pediatric Cardiol. 2014 Oct 7.
Stapleton GE, Wilmot I, Suh EJ. Cardiac catheterisation of patients with common arterial trunk and transposition of the great arteries. Cardiol Young. 2012 Dec:22(6), 687–690.
Dadlani GH, Braley K, Perez-Colon E, Stapleton G, Crawford M, Turpin D, Wilmot I, Freire G, Decker J, Martinez R. Long-term management of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: the diagnostic approach at All Children's Hospital. Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec:21 Suppl 2, 80–87.
Asante-Korang A, Jacobs JP, Ringewald J, Carapellucci J, Rosenberg K, McKenna D, McCormack J, Wilmot I, Gjeldum A, Lopez-Cepero M, Sleasman J. Management of children undergoing cardiac transplantation with high Panel Reactive Antibodies. Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec:21 Suppl 2, 124–132.
Wilmot I, Morales DL, Price JF, Rossano JW, Kim JJ, Decker JA, McGarry MC, Denfield SW, Dreyer, WJ, Towbin JA, Jeffries JL. Effectiveness of mechanical circulatory support in children with acute fulminant and persistent myocarditis. J Card Fail. 2011 June:17(6), 487–494.
Perez-Colon E, Dadlani GH, Wilmot I, Miller M. Mesalamine-induced myocarditis and coronary vasculitis in a pediatric ulcerative colitis patient: a case report. Case Rep Peditr. 2011; 524364.
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SOUTH HADLEY – As soon as the news hit the public address system at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School on April 1, everyone began screaming and dancing.
Moments earlier, the school's mock trial team had won the statewide 2011 Mock Trial Championship in Boston, defeating Boston Latin.
Now the team is trying to raise money to send eight of its members to the National Mock Trial Championship in Phoenix on May 4-8.
Administered by the Massachusetts Bar Association, the state Mock Trial program is in its 26th year. Participating teams are assigned a hypothetical case in November and then train for all the roles – attorney, witness, defendant.
"They learn to think on their feet," said Gary Huggett, team coach at Performing Arts. "They learn how to analyze, how to logically progress. It teaches them the court system and how to argue in a coherent fashion."
The 17 members of the Performing Arts team sharpened their skills in class twice a week and also after school.
While some may think actors, dancers, poets and other creative youths are ill-suited for courtroom battle, the state champs beg to differ. "We have confidence," said junior Sam Farnsworth, of Belchertown.
Ways to help the kids get to Phoenix
• Donate any sum via Friends of the PVPA, a non-profit volunteer group composed of parents and alums.
• PVPA is also holding a $100-a-ticket raffle for a special set of Red Sox tickets. Part of the proceeds will go to Mock Trial.
To donate or buy a raffle ticket, contact Mary Cantler at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts, 15 Mulligan Drive, South Hadley MA 01075 or firstname.lastname@example.com or (413) 552-1596.
"It's really like acting," said eighth-grader Kayleen Welch, of Westfield. "You have to pretend to be a character."
"You have to think creatively to fill in the blanks," said Rafael Fields, a junior from Northampton. "You have to captivate your audience, yet at the same time appear nonchalant."
After preliminary rounds, schools were narrowed down to 16 regional teams that then competed in Boston.
Days after they won, the victory is still sweet for the Performing Arts School. "You can't walk down the hall without getting a round of applause," said Welch.
It will cost more than $5,000 to send eight members of the team and their two coaches to Phoenix. The Massachusetts Bar Association will contribute $2,500.
In these pinched times, the school can't foot the rest of the bill, so donations are welcome.
Also, a portion of proceeds from a Friends of PVPA raffle to benefit the school will go toward the Mock Trial trip. Raffle tickets are $100, but the prize is majorly awesome.
Four field box tickets for a historic May 20 Red Sox vs. Chicago Cubs game will be raffled off. The Cubs have not played at Fenway Park since 1918. The school will print 300 raffle tickets. They'll go on sale April 11.
Members of the winning Mock Trial team also include team captain Hannah Sokoloff-Rubin, Gabriella Magnani, Jake Engram and Noah Loving, all of Amherst; Ian Fox, Alana Young and Kayla Smith, of Belchertown; John Tyler and Nathaniel Matthews, of Hadley; Gabe Benevento-Levin, of Pelham, Graham Weston, of Hatfield, Rosemary Tropeano, of Westfield, Grace Chamberlin of Chesterfield and Hannah McNeight, of Williamsburg.
Sokoloff-Rubin, Fields, Fox, Farnsworth, Matthews, Tyler, Weston and Young have been selected for the Phoenix trip.