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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Number' - TwiFans-Twilight Saga books and Movie Fansite 2016-10-27T01:33:25Z http://twifans.com/profiles/blog/feed?tag=Number&xn_auth=no The Host Movie - New Behind the Scenes - Clip Number 5 ( "The Seeker" Featurette) tag:twifans.com,2013-02-09:2644331:BlogPost:10742185 2013-02-09T08:30:00.000Z sarah cullen http://twifans.com/profile/saracullen388

 See more BTS videos From the Host movie of Melanie , Jared and Wanda and Ian …

 See more BTS videos From the Host movie of Melanie , Jared and Wanda and Ian Here

 The Host Movie - New Behind the Scenes - Clip Number 4 ( Meet Ian O'shea Featurette ) tag:twifans.com,2013-02-01:2644331:BlogPost:10740875 2013-02-01T10:32:54.000Z sarah cullen http://twifans.com/profile/saracullen388

In a new featurette exclusive to Celebuzz, fans get their first in-depth look at Ian O'Shea (Jake Abel), one of the two leading men (opposite Max Irons) competing for the attention of Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan) against the backdrop of the film's dystopian future.

Abel offers some insights about who his character is, and what he wants – that is, until Stryder shakes up all of his expectations.

"The group I'm a part of is what we believe to be the last pocket of human resistance," he reveals of his circumstances at the beginning of the film. "[They are] living in the mountains and surviving, barely, day to day."

Abel says that Stryder presents a threat to the safety and security of the group he's a part of, but he soon discovers that there's more to her than he initially assumes.

"When this stranger enters, I think she's got to go," Abel says. "But the more I get to know her, the more I see she's more human than humans are – her generosity, her care, her kindness."

Given Meyer's pedigree, The Host arrives in theaters with enormous expectations – both from fans of theTwilightbook series, and critics of its film adaptations. But Abel insists that the film will appeal to everyone, whether or not you know (or like) her previous work.

"I think people who are fans of he previous books and films can easily transfer into this," he says. "But I think it's also its own entity – it's something completely different. It's something that hasn't really been done before – and that's exciting to us."

See more BTS videos From the Host movie of Melanie , Jared and Wanda Here

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You've met…

You've met MelanieandJared, now meet Wanda! Click above to watch new The host BTS video : Meet Wanda

 Robert Pattinson Ranks Number Two In This Year's @PopSugar Shirtless Bracket tag:twifans.com,2012-09-02:2644331:BlogPost:10588427 2012-09-02T15:28:53.000Z sarah cullen http://twifans.com/profile/saracullen388

Robert Pattinson ranks number two in this year's …

Robert Pattinson ranks number two in this year's Shirtless Bracket! He placed first in our 2010 competition but last year lost out to Zac Efron. This year, True Blood's Joe Manganiello bested them both. Nonetheless, we're celebrating Rob with a look at some of his hottest moments sans shirt, including his time on the set for Twilight and racy magazine shots.

To see their entire gallery, visit PopSugar!

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 'Breaking Dawn Part 1′ Number 1 in Top Ten Best Film Scores/Soundtracks of 2011 tag:twifans.com,2012-02-18:2644331:BlogPost:10153118 2012-02-18T16:30:42.000Z sarah cullen http://twifans.com/profile/saracullen388

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According to Soundtracks Examiner, the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 by Carter Burwell is number 1 in the Top Ten Best Film Scores/Soundtracks of 2011.

1. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, composed by Carter Burwell (Atlantic)

Go ahead, call me a sellout. But I don't think Carter Burwell has ever been given his due for his enormous contributions to film music. And the man continues to plow forward as one of the most creative minds in compositional minimalism as well as full-bodied orchestration. While he was probably disqualified for nomination at this year's Academy Awards for Breaking Dawn – Part 1 because it was anchored heavily to the original Twilight score, his work was no less remarkable. I would go so far as to say that it was actually better than the original, given that, although he laid the original template for the Twilight sound, he was coming back into the fold on the heels of critical heavyweights Alexandre Desplat (with whom the Academy also bears an unspoken beef) and Howard Shore. Burwell fearlessly picked up the baton and ran with it, giving us a romantic score easily on par with Nino Rota's Romeo & Juliet (which was also unceremoniously snubbed by the Academy in 1969). [Read more of my thoughts on Carter Burwell's Twilight contribution here.]

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Movieline interviews with Bill Condon . Bill talks about Kristen Stewart's input for the big wedding and sets the…

Movieline interviews with Bill Condon . Bill talks about Kristen Stewart's input for the big wedding and sets the record straight about the rumored dance number, among other things

How are you feeling in this moment, knowing the film is about to start being seen, finally, after all this time?
I know! Well, anxious, obviously. But excited, too. Because you live in a cocoon for so long, and we don't do big previews or anything like that, so it'll be fun, you know?

Breaking Dawn - Part 1 is a part of theTwilight Saga that contains a lot of big important life events happen to Bella Swan — the wedding, the honeymoon, the birth of a child, and what comes after that… which of those big moments did you feel the most pressure to nail?
I think the big three — wedding, honeymoon, birth. You just felt like those, you've got to get right. But man, I would say the most pressure might have been the wedding. Just because, my god, everybody has an idea of what it should be like. And I have to say, ultimately I kind of stayed with that one idea: What's Bella feeling? For each of those three things. And once you sort of do it through that prism, things start falling into place. So that it really because about, what is she feeling as she walks down that aisle? But you have this incredible collaborator in Kristen Stewart. The wedding made us all anxious, but excited.

Did Kristen have a lot to say, a lot of input into how the wedding came together?
Absolutely. She was a big collaborator in the design of the dress, and in general… as you know, she's like the biggest Twi-hard in the world, and she's very tough on herself as well. She had a list of things she was most anxious to get right, and I think the wedding was a huge part of that. Just making sure that she could express as much as possible — and again, it's all happening on her face. That's not dialogue, that's not anything. It's just to express as much of what's going on inside that character as she could.

So in a way, it's like you and Kristen planned the wedding together.
Right!

Rumor has it there is a musical number in the wedding scene. True?
This has gotten a little [distorted]… there's no musical number. No. All there is, is that people dance at the wedding so we brought a choreographer in; Ashley [Greene] and Jackson [Rathbone] are both great dancers, and they just chill out for a moment. That's all it is.

But there was some sort of dance battle on set?
There was. It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen. In that second movie, as you know from the book, a half hour takes place in this one location, this on field. And we shot there for — when you include the second unit it was a couple of months, but the first unit was there for many weeks - and we came to the last, widest shot, with 80 vampires on one side and 27 vampires on the other. I'm sitting up the ladder and suddenly you hear this music — "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" — and suddenly the Cullen side starts this incredible, West Side Story kind of rumble dance, and of course the other vampires then start to dance back. It was unbelievably great.

Did you film that? Is that something that will be seen on the Blu-ray?
I think there was a lot of B-camera rolling, and stuff like that. So that will all come out - but it's the second movie....

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  According toThe Hollywood Reporter

The Bruno Mars song was just released on Tuesday and it is a runaway hit.…

 According toThe Hollywood Reporter

The Bruno Mars song was just released on Tuesday and it is a runaway hit.

It was released on iTunes Tuesday and ranked No. 14 as of Tuesday morning.

Mars has said the single (which was written and co-produced by his band, Smeezingtons) will be "dark."

"The Twilight movies for me [are] a love story. But it's a dark love story. And I think the best way to describe the song is: it's the darker side of love. I think that pretty much sums it up," he told Billboard.biz.

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 Twilight reached 1 bestelling on itunes! tag:twifans.com,2009-03-22:2644331:BlogPost:76625 2009-03-22T16:22:48.000Z Leslie http://twifans.com/profile/Leslie38

 wellno surprises there.i went on itunes and found that.unfortunately I still have to wait for the 6th of april because I'm in the UK :'(

 wellno surprises there.i went on itunes and found that.unfortunately I still have to wait for the 6th of april because I'm in the UK :'(


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Yellow and orange color cars show the least depreciation over five years, a new study says, contrary to conventional wisdom that the less popular bright hues hurt resale value.
The study from iSeeCars.com found that yellow cars had an average 5-year depreciation of 26.2 percent from the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. Orange was 27.6 percent.
The most popular car colors, such as white, silver, gray and black, all had depreciation rates of more than 30 percent. Black was the highest, at 34.4 percent.
The average depreciation for all color cars was 33.6 percent. So, for a car with an MSRP of $20,000, a yellow one could be worth $1,500 more than one with average depreciation after five years.
Scarcity might make the difference, said Phong Ly, chief executive and co-founder of iSeeCars.com.
"While a popular car color like black or silver may get more interest and sell faster, our analysis indicates it may not get as high a value as a car, say, in yellow," Ly wrote on the website's blog. "..Only 1.1 percent of all cars are yellow and orange; if teal and green are included, the percentage still goes up to just 5 percent. The dearth of supply of such colors may drive prices up."
White topped the list as the most popular car color in 2013 for the third year in a row, according to data from transportation coatings manufacturer PPG Industries. It was followed by silver and black.
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For its study, iSeeCars.com analyzed more than 20 million used cars, model years 1981 to 2010, in all different colors. The depreciation for each vehicle was calculated based on the price of the used car, the original MSRP (adjusted for inflation) and the age of the vehicle.
Here's a list of car colors and their average depreciation over five years:
Yellow, 26.2 percent
Orange, 27.6 percent
Green, 31.3 percent
Teal, 31.4 percent
Red, 31.7 percent
Beige, Brown, Gold, 33.3 percent
Blue, 33.6 percent
White, 33.7 percent
Silver, 34 percent
Gray, 34.2 percent
Black, 34.4 percent
Average, 33.6 percent
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IntroductionThis PalmOS applications allows you to manage your lessons on your Palm. If you open the program it jumps to the upcoming lessons so that you see fast what comes next. It shows all needed information on one screen.
Some features:
- Multiple semesters: Up to 16 semester can be managed.
- Manage courses, events and exams
- Beaming Support: Courses can be beamed to another palm (You can also beam whole semesters).
- Keep your data easily in one place. Homepage, email, phone, everything about a lecture in your Palm.
- Alarm for exams (but not during an exam, UniMatrix will take care of it, only PalmOS >= 4)
- Notes for events and exams
Just to be sure that you heard: You will need a PalmOS device to run this application. You can also use the Palm OS Emulator POSE. Linux binaries can be found here.
Do not ask for ROM files. I cannot and I do not want to share my ROMs with you. Go to the mentioned POSE page, there is a description on how to obtain ROM files from Palm Source directly and legally without owning a Palm handheld.
UniMatrix is available in multiple languages. Supported languages are right now (randomly ordered):
- German (Deutsch)
- English
- Portugues (Thanx to Leonardo Dias Vaz de Melo from Brasil)
- French (Thanx to Francis H. and Antoine from France)
- Greek (Thanx to Tom Diamond from Greece)
- Slovenian (Thanx to Bostjan Müller from Slovenia)
- Spanish (Thanx to Antonio Guijarro and Andreu Bassols from Spain)
- Czech (Thanx to Tomas Kolousek)
- Dutch (Thanx to Colin Helvensteijn)
- Polish (Thanx to Tomasz Zielinski)
- Catalan (Thanx to Andreu Bassols from Spain)
- Korean (Thanx to Unknown from Korea (do not know which part))
- Hebrew (Thanx to Gil Zlotnik)
Palm Software SponsoringMy Palm Software is Freeware and often Open Source. If you like the software and want feel that you want to give something back consider donating a few Euros/Dollars/you-favorite-currency-here. Thanx for your support.
FAQ - Frequently Asked QuestionsThere are some questions people are asking again and again. Read the common answers here. Please read this FAQ before sending any questions!
UniMatrix v1.2 released. Fixed bug that only the color fields were redrawn in event editing form after the color was set. Was reported by many users over the years but I just did not find the time to fix it. It was reported now again and I setup the Palm toolchain once again. Additionally fixed a too narrow date column in the exams form.
Release of UniMatrix 1.0rc1. This version fixes several critical bugs that could cause data loss and confusion. Also the "crash after reset" bug has been fixed. Several minor code improvements. More "intelligent" dialog for adding events. It tries to "guess" the color now if there is already an event for the selected course. You should upgrade immediately! If this version does not throw any more bugs I will make this 1.0 and will work on some new features for 1.1 :-)
Release of UniMatrix 0.9. Some major new features. This is the "feature freeze" release for UniMatrix 1.0 so please test it and gremling around to get it stable for 1.0. New features include alarm for exams (only PalmOS >= 4) and notes for events and exams and new caching to get drawing faster (also some flicker removement still needs to be done), ability to show first letters of course name on main page in event boxes.
Release of UniMatrix 0.8. Getting pretty close to the 1.0 release. Lots of new features and several bug fixes. Integrated with other new software like UniMensa and UniChat. Download and try it out.
Release of UniMatrix 0.7. Several users have tested this version and it seems to work pretty well. But just to be sure make a backup before installing this version (as you should do with every new software...). See below what changes have been made and which features I added. If you find any bugs please send me an email describing the problem (please note OS and hardware you use).
Requested and/or planned features
- Be able to enter events that occur only every second week
- "Zoom" - Have only 6 hours on one screen instead of 12 for example
- Enter grades (probably not)
- Enter feature that shows time to end of current lessens and to start of next lesson
- Show remaining time for current event, this seems to be wanted by many people that are bored in their lessons :-)
ThanksThanks for all the user contributions for those ideas! Especially to Leonardo Dias Vaz de Melo from Brasil and to Andy Y. Lin from the MIT.
A special thanks to my friend Tobias "The Bugfinder" Weyand who greatly helped to reduce my Bug ratio in this software (and others...). All remaining bugs are my fault. I probably inserted them after Tob's checks...
ScreenshotsSome screenshots will give you an impression of the software.
|Main screen. UniMatrix can handle up to 16 semesters
|Edit course
|Coure List
|UniMatrix can show the types for courses
|Edit event
What users said about UniMatrix
- Dear Mr. Niemueller. Thank you for Unimatrix 0.4! It is EXACTLY what I have been looking for. I am not a student, but a teacher. I have three part-time teaching jobs, and UniMatrix will help me avoid schedule conflicts. Bill Hogue (Kobe, Japan) [Found on freewarepalm.com]
- Very good program! well coded, easy to use and very handy. I recommend it to anyone at school or uni! Steg [Found on freewarepalm.com]
- The developer seems to know exactly what a student needs and has implemented it in his program. This is what I would probably classify as one of those really functional program. I really wish I had this when I was in university. Guess I'll give this program a try anyway. It looks good! Kuan Ming Keong (Singapore) [Found on SPUG]
- A simple, well-organized app that does its job well. It should be useful to many people who need to keep track of weekly events or schedules.Bill H. [Found on freewarepalm.com]
- [Zip-zilla] transfers everything from Timetable Pro to UniMatrix Andre Tan, Singapore [Found on freewarepalm.com]
UniMatrix in the press
- The German magazine "Notebooks, Organizer und Handy" has a column about good freeware. The article can be downloaded here. Thanks to NOuH for permission to do so!
If you want to write an article about UniMatrix please let me know. The development version I have usually has the features of tommorrow so you might want to test that also. Please send me a printed or digital version or your writing. Thank you!
Supported devicesAny PalmOS handheld device running PalmOS 3.5 or higher should work for UniMatrix. To get the real UniMatrix feeling you need a handheld with a color display. See the screenshots why... But it also supports 16 grays so you can use it on a grayscale device, too.
I have tested UniMatrix on:
Palm m515 (PalmOS 4.1, color, tested on real device, works perfectly)
Palm IIIc (PalmOS 3.5, color, tested on real device, works perfectly)
Palm IIIx (PalmOS 4.0, gray, tested on real device, works perfectly)
Palm IIIx (PalmOS 3.5, gray, tested on emulator, works perfectly)
Palm III (Palms OS 4.1, b/w, tested on emulator, works, but looks bad)
ChangesRead complete changelog here.
DownloadUniMatrix is released and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). By downloading and/or using the software you agree to this license!
You may download the Palm install file provided as a .zip and as a .tar.gz file.
Latest stable version is 1.2.
|UniMatrix 1.2 (German/Deutsch)
|.tar.gz (47730 Bytes)
|.zip (48840 Bytes)
|UniMatrix 1.2 (English)
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|UniMatrix 1.2 (Portugues)
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|.zip (48814 Bytes)
|UniMatrix 1.2 (French/Francais)
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|.zip (48867 Bytes)
|UniMatrix 1.2 (Greek)
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|.zip (49103 Bytes)
|UniMatrix 1.2 (Spanish)
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|.zip (48852 Bytes)
|UniMatrix 1.2 (Slovenian (Latin1))
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|.zip (48923 Bytes)
|UniMatrix 1.2 (Slovenian (Latin2))
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|UniMatrix 1.2 (Slovenian (cp1250))
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|UniMatrix 1.2 (Dutch)
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Situated in Colorado City, this hotel is 19.2 mi (30.9 km) from Bishop Castle and within 32 mi (52 km) of Walsenburg City Hall and Pueblo Greyhound Racetrack. The Paleo + Pelagica Museum of Natural Science and Museum of Friends are also within 32 mi (52 km).
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Factors related to local and regional economic growth are attractiveness to retirees, right-to-work laws, excellent high school completion rates, good public education expenditures, and access to transportation networks. These were associated with improved county earnings in 1979-89, according to a multiple regression analysis of rural counties. Factors associated with poor earnings growth included higher wage levels, concentrations of transfer-payment recipiency, and concentrations of small independent businesses in the goods-producing sector.
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During his time at the Air Force Academy, Olson completed Combat Survival Training, earned his Parachutist Badge and Glider Instructor Pilot wings, and was an instructor pilot for Basic and Advanced Soaring. In addition, he is the fourth cadet ever to be selected to be a USAFA Cross Country Soaring Instructor Pilot.
Olson was captain of the Air Force Academy Sailplane Racing Team for their record-breaking season and competed in TG-15A Duo Discus and TG-15B Discus 2b gliders in Utah, New Mexico and Nevada setting state and academy records. He also set the record for the farthest distance a TG-10B Merlin glider was flown away from the Academy.
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The Carrollton Middle School teacher just stepped up her exercise and gave up the large portions of rich food that most restaurants offer.
"I stopped going out to eat," said Harchick, who teaches sixth-grade math. "That seemed to work for me."
For the first half of 2007, Harchick and 47 other Carrollton Public Schools staff members took part in what they called "The Biggest Losers Club," a competitive weight loss effort that a group of Carrollton Middle teachers started.
Harchick, a Flint resident, shed the pounds and kept them off beyond the contest's end June 1, taking home the $900 first prize for her efforts.
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When The Saginaw News first checked in with the Biggest Losers Club in January, the initial group of 23 Carrollton Middle School teachers had lost a combined 114 pounds in the first 10 days of the contest -- slightly less than five pounds per person.
Encouraged by the group's success, more staff members joined up, expanding the club to 48 members. The 37 who made it through to the last weigh-in day shed 346.6 pounds, an average of more than nine pounds per person.
The competitors split themselves up into color-coded teams, complete with matching T-shirts, for weekly prizes of Tropical Smoothie Cafe drinks that the Kochville Township vendor donated.
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The Jewish religion is full of symbols and religious items that hold within them deeply meaningful messages, values and ideas. Some of the symbols are centuries old whereas others have become popular only in recent decades. Each and every one of them represent part of the Jewish journey; part of the incredible history of this tiny people that have always been small in number yet have always been highly influential as far as world history is concerned. We'll present a number of these Jewish symbols and their meanings in an attempt to give the reader a glimpse of the richness of the Jewish tradition.
One of the oldest Jewish symbols is the Mezuzah. The Mezuzah is a piece of parchment that is inscribed with specific Jewish passages that is placed in a little oblong box and attached to the doorposts of Jewish homes. The Mezuzah is a commandment that has this source in the written Torah- in the Bible- and the details are found in the Oral Torah- the Oral tradition that is an inseparable part of Judaism. The Mezuzah is meant to act as a constant reminder of G-d's presence and of his guarding over the members of the household.
Another very old symbol is that of Tzitzit- ritual fringes that Jewish males wear due to a Biblical commandment to do so. In the Bible, the Jewish people are commanded to affix fringes to garments that have four corners -this was a common piece of clothing in certain times but today is not common so Jewish males have a special garment called a Tallit that they don in morning prayers and make a blessing over especially so as to fulfill this commandment. There is also a miniature version of the Tallit called Tzitzit that is worn by Jewish males from the age of three under their garments so that they can wear the ritual fringes on a daily basis at all hours of the day. The fringes are meant to remind the wearer of G-d's Presence.
The Menorah is a seven-branched candelabrum that was used in the Temple. The priests would light the Menorah every evening. Although the seven-branched candelabrum is not in use today (until the Third Temple will be built there is no use for it) and in fact it is forbidden according to Jewish tradition to create a likeness of it too. Having said that, Jewish people in the Diaspora refer to the nine-branched candelabrum that is lit on the festival of Hanukkah (that is known in Israel as the Hannukiyah) as a Menorah too.
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The Hai symbol is actually a Hebrew word, made up of the two Hebrew letters, Het and Yud. The word Hai (pronounced "Hi") means "life" in Hebrew and is the perfect representation of the Jewish love for life. it is common for Jewish people to donate to charity in multiples of eighteen, reflecting the Jewish belief that charity (along with prayer and repentance) are the way to ensure safety of one's being.


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A country's gross domestic product (GDP) has long been the predominant measure for its wealth and standard of living of its citizens. But that's a relatively small element of the entire picture, according to Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestlé, a multinational food and beverage company, the world's largest of its kind.
What remains largely neglected are additional important aspects, including the state of public health.
More than any other indicator, the health and well-being of the population should be of interest to us when we talk about the wealth of nations, he writes in a recent article published in the Huffington Post.
Amounts of healthcare spending alone do not tell us how healthy people are in any given part of the world. It is well known that the United States has by far the highest expenditure per capita worldwide, yet falls dramatically behind in terms of access to healthcare, infant mortality, and longevity. Canada, for example, spends about 40 percent less but has a slightly higher average life expectancy.
Leading European nations like Germany, France and Switzerland do much better as well – at about half the cost. And even notoriously welfare-oriented Scandinavian countries like Norway, Denmark and Sweden all seem to offer much more bang for the buck.
There can be countless speculations about these discrepancies, but in the end, everyone has to look at the same situation: Despite of record-high spending on medical services, people get sicker everywhere in greater numbers. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more people die every year from so-called non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer than ever before, and the trends are worsening. Even more tragic is that most of this could be prevented with better diet and lifestyle choices.
One of the reasons why we seem unable to address these issues more effectively is our culture and the policies we have put in place to deal with illnesses as they occur, rather then finding better ways to prevent them from taking hold in the first place, says Bulcke.
"We need to focus on a culture of healthful living and disease prevention," he urges.
"Unfortunately, we have a tendency to value our health only after we've lost it. This position has to change. We have to protect and improve our public health. [...] That means that healthcare systems must be developed further in terms of prevention and improvement of health standards. This is what we must concentrate on."
As the CEO of a leading food manufacturing company, Bulcke sees a clear mandate for his industry to contribute more forcefully to the creation of health-promoting environments through education and, if necessary, sensible regulation.
Consumers must also take responsibility to lead healthy lives as best as they can. But industry and government should support those efforts and not hinder or inhibit them by remaining on the sidelines.
"There cannot be any healthy industry within an unhealthy society," he writes. Both are interdependent, and progress will only be made if all parties work together for the common good.
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"The farmer beat the environmentalist in what was by far the the biggest Conservation District election ever held on Whidbey Island.People from all over the island swarmed to the Island County Courthouse to vote on Thursday. No absentee ballots were allowed.Unofficial results showed Coupeville farmer Len Engle with 605 votes to 391 for well known South Whidbey environmentalist Marianne Edain.Benye Weber, manager of the Whidbey Island Conservation District, said such elections usually attract 250 to 300 voters. This is the highest turnout we've had, she said.The electorate was polarized between property rights advocates and environmentalists, with many of the latter coming from South Whidbey to vote.It was pretty amazing, actually. It was a mob scene, a party, said Edain, who took the loss in good spirits. I'm pretty sure Len is jubilant. He pulled out all the realtors and property rights advocates.Engle, talking on a cell phone as he worked in his pea field, said, It came out good. I want to thank all the people who came out to vote -- for me or against me.Engle said he and supporters circulated a letter and sent emails as part of his campaign. The letter stressed his long ties to the land and Edain's association with what he considers extreme environmental causes. They want more mainstream people, not off on the extreme, he said. The landowners have spoken.Both the winner and loser took pride that their campaign made people aware of the Conservation District. The district is headed by a five-member board charged with educating landowners about possible water pollution problems and soil conservation techniques.Although they come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, Edain and Engle hold some common views on the district's future.For example, both agree it would be a good idea to put the Conservation District election on a regular ballot so more people could vote. And both favor adopting a small property tax to give the district some operating money.Engle described the tax as real small, very minimal, but it's real important. There needs to be some basic funding. He said he will ask his fellow board members to put the tax request on some future ballot.Edain was the incumbent, and although she lost her seat her interest in Conservation District issues has not waned. Past board members are typically given the title of associate supervisor, she said. I'll ask to be an associate supervisor so I can continue to be involved."
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - November 2011
12 comments:
- Christine @ the Gardening Blog said...
I love the photo of your Japanese Anemone.
Happy GBBD :)
- November 15, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- NellJean said...
Alyssum is my new old favorite. Lots of it featured this Bloom Day to great effect.
- November 15, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- Dee/reddirtramblings said...
I think it was a rough growing year all over from what I've seen on blogs. Your purple looks very good. Happy Bloom Day Lisa.~~Dee
- November 15, 2011 at 2:29 PM
- Commonweeder said...
You may it all look easy.
- November 15, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- Fairegarden said...
Your garden still looks quite lovely, Lisa! That purple alyssum is magnificent, as is the white. We grew the Bacopa, blue and white this year and enjoyed it. Mine have been done for some time, though. Happy GBBD!
- November 15, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- Cris, Artist in Oregon said...
I still have a few things blooming but with a freeze and possible snow on the valley floor this week promised, I am sure that will be the end of the impatiens and a few daisy like flowers.
- November 15, 2011 at 9:03 PM
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter said...
I was also surprised by Bacopa/Sutera. The foliage on mine turned wine colored, but it still keeps blooming despite frosts & freezes. I'll definitely be looking for it next year.
- November 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Marvin said...
Beautiful blooms for so late in the fall, and after such a hot, dry summer.
- November 16, 2011 at 12:59 AM
- Gail said...
Lisa, It's been a rough fall following a rough summer. I am always surprised that anyone has blooms! I can't grow Sweet Alyssum! Isn't that amazing and I love it. Love the acorn on the pedestal! gail
- November 16, 2011 at 8:29 AM
How beautiful that sweet anemone is, and what a treat to have it into November. It is one bloom that always takes a good picture even in too much drought!
- November 16, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- scottweberpdx said...
That pool of purple Alyssum is stunning...love it!
- November 17, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- Blackswamp_Girl said...
I think that I have alyssum envy! Can you remember which purple one you've got there? Mine never look half so good, so maybe I need to try a different one. (Yes, I know it's probably gardener error, not the type... but I'm trying to be optimistic. lol.)
Glad that you're finishing off a tough growing season with a very nice November Bloom Day! Hope that you also have a happy Thanksgiving. :)
- November 18, 2011 at 8:03 PM


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I've got the houseplant for you ….. Seriously! A few weeks ago my Twitter friend @queen_elisheba and I were chatting about how we both would like to grow more plants indoors. It wasn't until I started moving plants indoors to protect from the cooler temperatures that I realized I had the perfect plant for newbies to indoor growing! I think Elizabeth is going to love this plant because you can grow it indoors with little maintenance as well as outdoors in the summer months. This plant is a heat and drought lover in the summer on my deck in containers. The foliage coloring is not the deep purple you'll find in the hot summer and in the year the plant has been indoors I have yet to see a bloom ; and yet this remains at the top of my list for plants that are easy to grow.
It is the Tradescantia pallida or better known as the Purple Heart or Wandering Jew. Thank you MrBrownThumb for helping me with the plant ID. I started growing this plant in 2011 spring after picking up a little 3″ container of this 'accent plant'. None of this 'accent' plant had tags on it but the price was right at $2.29 each. After purchasing the plant and putting it in a container with coleus on my deck I started noticing the plant around the country on my trips to garden shows. I saw this beauty growing along the road side in Miami while attending the TPIE event as well as in containers loving the summer sun in Indiana while attending the GWA garden tours. When the cooler weather arrived last year I quickly clipped a section of the plant growing wild and brought it indoors. It went NUTS just like it did in the summer container only with low light. Indoors or Outdoors this plant does not like too much water. I've had best results letting the plants soil become dry.
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FLINT, MI -- After forming in the early 1970s in Oakland, Calif., Y&T carved a niche in the rock world with songs like "Forever," "Rescue Me," "Mean Streak" and "Summertime Girls."
More than 40 years later, Y&T is still going strong, playing 60 to 70 shows a year in the United States and abroad. Lead guitarist/vocalist Dave Meniketti said Y&T's formula for success is a simple one.
"We have integrity as musicians and we have good songs that have sort of stuck in there through the times," Meniketti said during a recent phone interview.
"We've always been dedicated to playing good shows. We're not one of these bands that is controversial, which is a bad thing in some ways. We didn't get the great controversial press all the time for fighting or doing some crazy (stuff), or one of us marrying a movie star. That was never in our flight path."
Meniketti describes the band as straight-forward musicians. They show respect to the fans and fans appreciate that.
"We have a little bit more of what we think is the real thing every night," he said. "We're not out there for any other reason than just to have some integrity in the way that we play. I think that helps."
Another obvious reason for Y&T's success is good songs, Meniketti said. If a band doesn't have great songs, fans would not purchase tickets to the show.
"Eventually that wears thin if they don't love your songs, if they don't want to come out there and hear new songs played live because they love singing them or hearing them," Meniketti said.
"I think that's a good combination. We have integrity as musicians and we have good songs that sort of stuck in there through the times."
Y&T is celebrating its heritage with the double live album "Live at the Mystic," which was released in 2012. The band--which includes guitarist John Nymann, drummer Mike Vanderhule and bassist Brad Lang--plans to write new material later this year for a 2014 album.
Right now Y&T is focused on its tour, which hits The Machine Shop in Flint on Friday, March 29. Behind the scenes, Y&T is a family affair.
"It can be really tough. It's not an easy gig, but it's something that makes me feel good," Meniketti said about touring.
"When I'm out doing what I love doing, which is playing live. We do it in a good way. My wife, Wendy, manages the band. She's been out with us so many times that she understands what it's like, putting the routing together and making the most sensible kind of tour for us, that's her job. It ends up being much less stressful than in the old days when our agents used to throw darts at the board and say, 'Here's where you play. Here's the next one 1,000 miles away, the next one come back to where you were.'"
Y&T will perform a 2- to 2 1/4-hour show at The Machine Shop. Meniketti said Y&T strives to do that to give the fans their money's worth.
"Within that two hour-plus set, what's cool about it, is because we have so much material, it makes it easier for us to dig deeper into the catalog and play some stuff that maybe people weren't expecting or hoped we would play, besides the standard sort of classic hits they expect to hear.
"That's why it's good for us to play that long. We can do the eight or nine 'have to dos' every night and then we have room for another 10 or so that we can play around with. We play 19 or 20 songs a night. It is cool. We love doing it and of course the fans get their money's worth and then some. We get into it every night. It doesn't matter how many people we play for. It's in us. It's sort of our spirit. When we hit the stage we're always giving the best show."
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*From the Departments of Medical Imaging (Drs. Chan and Zukotynski) and Medicine (Drs. Chow, Faughnan, and Ms. Cohen), St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Correspondence to: Marie E. Faughnan, MD, MSc, FRCPC, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond St, Suite 6–049, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5B-1W8; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Background: Untreated pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) can present with life-threatening complications. Agitated saline solution transthoracic contrast echocardiography (TTCE) has been recommended as the screening test of choice for PAVMs in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). A TTCE grading system has been proposed but not validated. The aim of this study was to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) of TTCE grades for the presence of PAVMs on CT.
Methods: A blinded retrospective review was conducted. All patients screened at the Toronto HHT Center (June 2002 to September 2004) with positive TTCE results were included. TTCE results were scored for delay (number of cardiac cycles) before appearance of microcavitations in the left atrium and graded for intensity of opacification. Grade 1 indicates minimal left ventricular opacification, grade 2 indicates moderate opacification, grade 3 indicates extensive opacification without outlining the endocardium, and grade 4 indicates extensive opacification with endocardial definition. Thoracic CT was performed in all patients, and results were scored as positive, negative, or indeterminate for PAVMs.
Results: Of 155 patients screened for PAVMs, 104 had positive TTCE results. Complete data were available for 90 patients (87%). Mean age was 45 years; 62% were female. Seventeen percent of patients screened and 27% of patients with positive TTCE results had CT detectable PAVMs. There was a significant association between TTCE grade and presence of PAVMs on CT (p < 0.0001). The PPV of grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 were 0.02 (95% confidence interval, 0.00 to 0.06), 0.25 (95% confidence interval, 0.06 to 0.44), 0.56 (95% confidence interval, 0.23 to 0.88), and 1.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.0 to 1.0), respectively.
Conclusions: Increased shunt grade predicts increased probability of PAVMs and may be used to guide decisions in the screening algorithm for PAVMs.
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) are abnormal fistulous connections between arteries and veins in the lungs, without intervening capillaries, first described in 1897 by Churton.1Only three cases of PAVMs were detected in 15,000 consecutive autopsies according to an early study from Johns Hopkins Hospital2suggesting a prevalence of 1 in 5,000 in the general population. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is the underlying cause of approximately 80% of PAVMs,3–4 although mechanisms of development of PAVMs are not well understood.
HHT or Osler-Weber-Rendu disease is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by vascular dysplasia, with an estimated prevalence of 1 in 5,000. Disease expression is age dependent, and > 90% of individuals are symptomatic by age 40 years.5 Approximately 15 to 46% of patients with HHT have PAVMs.4–8
PAVMs result in direct right-to-left shunt; and although frequently asymptomatic, patients may present with life-threatening complications.3,9 In a study3 of 76 consecutive patients prior to embolotherapy, the prevalence of previous stroke was reported in 18%, transient ischemic attack in 37%, cerebral abscess in 10%, massive hemoptysis in 13%, and spontaneous hemothorax in 9%. Early diagnosis is essential because these complications can be prevented with PAVM embolotherapy and antibiotic prophylaxis for bacteremic procedures.10 Embolotherapy is the treatment of choice and is indicated for PAVMs with a feeding artery diameter ≥ 3 mm.3
Several screening tests are available for PAVMs. Pulmonary angiography has historically been accepted as the reference standard. With recent technological advances, CT approaches the sensitivity and specificity of angiography.11 Unfortunately, CT results in radiation exposure to the patient and pulmonary angiography is invasive; therefore, these are not ideal screening tests but best used as confirmatory imaging. Alternative methods of screening include chest radiography, arterial oxygen measurements, radionuclide lung scanning, and agitated saline solution transthoracic contrast echocardiography (TTCE).10
TTCE has been recommended as the initial screening test of choice for patients with HHT or suspected PAVMs.6–7 It is accessible, minimally invasive, and has a sensitivity of 92 to 93%.7 During TTCE, agitated saline solution is injected IV and then resulting microbubbles opacify the right side of the heart. Since the diameter of the pulmonary capillaries is smaller than that of the microbubbles, appearance of bubbles in the left atrium implies a right-to-left shunt. Patients with intracardiac shunt show rapid opacification of the left heart, within one to three cardiac cycles after opacification of the right heart. Patients with PAVMs, and other causes of intrapulmonary shunt, are generally reported to present more delayed opacification of the left heart, at least four cardiac cycles after opacification of the right heart,12 although there are no studies in the literature specifically analyzing bubble appearance timing in relation to location of shunt.
In 1991, Barzilai et al13 proposed a grading system to further characterize intrapulmonary shunt on TTCE. The degree of left ventricular opacification on contrast echocardiography was graded on a four-point scale of 1+ through 4+, with 1+ indicating minimal opacification and 4+ indicating intense opacification with left ventricular endocardial outline. Patients with higher-grade left ventricular opacification were reported to have large feeding vessels or multiple malformations, while those with lower grades were more likely to have small or isolated malformations. Currently, this grading system is not widely used because it has not been further validated. The aims of this study were to determine the positive predictive values (PPV) of the proposed TTCE grades for the presence of PAVMs at CT, and to illustrate the usefulness of TTCE grading in initial screening assessments of patients with HHT.
A retrospective review of charts, TTCE, and imaging was conducted. One hundred fifty-five consecutive newly referred patients to the Toronto HHT Center (adult clinic) were screened with TTCE between June 2002 and September 2004. All patients with positive TTCE results were included in this study and underwent thoracic CT scanning. This was the routine screening protocol followed for all patients referred to the HHT Center from 2002 to 2004. For each patient, the TTCE was reviewed for the presence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO). The Toronto HHT Center at St. Michael's Hospital and University of Toronto is a specialized clinic at a tertiary care, university-affiliated, teaching hospital that encompasses a national referral base from within Canada. The study protocol was approved by the hospital research ethics board.
Standard TTCE was performed on all patients as previously described.6 This procedure was implemented as our laboratory procedure several years prior, and all laboratory technicians and attending echocardiographers have been trained to follow this standard procedure. In each case, an IV line with saline solution lock was placed in the patient's forearm (typically 19 gauge, 2.5 cm). A three-way stopcock was attached, and two 10-mL syringes were attached to the other two ports. One 10-mL syringe was empty, with air excluded, and the other was filled with saline solution. The agitated saline solution contrast was obtained by flushing the saline solution from one syringe to the other. The patient was positioned in the left lateral decubitus position, and 10 mL of agitated saline solution (bubbles) were injected by hand while echocardiographic images were obtained simultaneously in the apical four-chamber view. If the decubitus TTCE result was negative, the study was repeated in the sitting position in an attempt to increase the sensitivity for detection of shunting due to lower lobe PAVMs.
TTCE results were defined as positive if saline solution contrast was observed in the left atrium after injection. All TTCEs were scored by an experienced echocardiographer (C.M.C.), who was blinded to the CT results, for delay (number of cardiac cycles before appearance of bubbles in the left atrium, after their first appearance in the right atrium) and graded for intensity of opacification. Relative opacification was graded as either 1 (minimal left ventricular opacification), 2 (moderate), 3 (extensive without outlining the endocardium), or 4 (extensive with endocardial definition), according the proposed grading system described by Barzilai et al.13 TTCE grade was also reported at the time of TTCE by an attending echocardiographer (one of five echocardiographers), and these results were for compared with the study TTCE grade by C.M.C., for calculation of interobserver agreement. Examples of the appearance of left ventricular opacification for each TTCE grade are illustrated in Figure 1
All patients with positive TTCE results underwent thoracic CT. Twelve patients had previously undergone scanning at their referring institutions. The remaining 92 patients underwent imaging with a helical scanner (LightSpeed QXi; General Electric; Milwaukee, WI) at our center using the following protocol: noncontrast-enhanced helical acquisitions during a single breath-hold in the supine position, with a collimation of 7.5 mm, table speed of 11.25 cm/s with no overlap, 120 kilovolt peak, current of 200 mA, and exposure time of 0.8 s per rotation. Images were reconstructed at a slice thickness of 3.75 mm with 1.8 mm of overlap in both standard soft-tissue and lung algorithms. All CTs were reviewed by an experienced radiologist, blinded to the TTCE results, and scored as positive, negative, or indeterminate for PAVMs.
A Pearson χ2 test for association was performed (SAS v8.2; SAS Institute; Cary, NC) in order to determine if there was a significant association between TTCE grade and presence of PAVMs on CT scan with a significance level of α = 0.05. The PPV of TTCE was calculated using CT as the reference standard. The PPV represents the percentage of the sample with a given TTCE grade that was determined to have PAVMs on CT. A multivariate logistic regression analysis with was also performed in SAS v8.2 to determine if there was a significant association between presence of PAVM and TTCE grade and/or number of cardiac cycles before bubble appearance (the level of significance utilized for this analysis was α = 0.05).
Of 155 patients screened with TTCE, 104 patients (67%) had positive TTCE results. Mean patient age was 45 years (range, 16 to 75 years). The majority of patients screened were female (62%).
Of 104 patients with positive TTCE results, we had complete data for 90 patients (87%). In 14 patients, data were incomplete because the echocardiography tapes were lost and the studies could not be reviewed. Twenty-four of the 90 patients (27%) for whom we had both TTCE and CT data had CT detectable PAVMs. Two CTs were scored as indeterminate and were considered positive for the purpose of the analysis. One of these patients was later shown not to have a PAVM on pulmonary angiography, while the second patient had not undergone angiography at the time of our analysis. Six of 104 patients had a PFO, and 5 of the 6 patients did not have a CT detectable PAVM. Table 1
shows the PPVs for the 90 patients for whom complete data were available. TTCE grade was significantly associated with the probability of detecting PAVMs on CT (p < 0.0001). PAVMs were detected in only 1 of 51 patients with grade 1 TTCE, who had four PAVMs, each with feeding artery diameter < 1 mm. Of 12 patients with grade 4 TTCE, all had CT detectable PAVM with at least one feeding vessel ≥ 3 mm. More than half of the patients (8 of 12 patients, 67%) with grade 4 TTCE had multiple PAVMs.
The number of cardiac cycles before the appearance of bubbles in the left ventricle was not statistically significantly associated with the presence of PAVMs on CT (p > 0.05). Table 2
lists the mean number of cardiac cycles before the appearance of bubbles in the left ventricle for each TTCE grade (this includes all patients, those with and those without PAVMs). In patients with CT detectable PAVMs, bubbles were seen in the left ventricle after 3 to 10 cardiac cycles (mean, 6 cardiac cycles). In patients without CT detectable PAVMs, bubbles were seen in the left ventricle after 1 to 17 cardiac cycles (mean, 6 cardiac cycles). There was overlap in bubble appearance timing among patients with PAVMs, with PFO, and "false-positives" (without PAVMs or PFO). Patients with early appearance of bubbles (less than or equal to three cardiac cycles) and PAVM on CT were TTCE grade 3 or 4. Most patients with very late appearance of bubbles were TTCE grade 1 and had no PAVMs on CT.
In 87 of 90 patients, attending echocardiographer TTCE grade was available and was compared to TTCE grade (by C.M.C.), with an interobserver agreement of 87%. Of the 11 cases for which there was disagreement, the disagreement was within 1 grade in 10 cases (91%).
Patients with PAVMs are at significantly increased risk of complications including stroke, cerebral abscess, and massive pulmonary hemorrhage.3–4,10 Early diagnosis of PAVMs is important so that preventative treatment with embolotherapy may be performed.3–4,10 TTCE has been recommended as the screening test of choice for PAVMs, although the intensity of shunting on TTCE remains of uncertain clinical significance. We demonstrate here that TTCE shunt grading predicts the probability of PAVMs on CT.
Prior studies6–7 have found that TTCE is a sensitive screening tool for PAVMs in HHT patients. Our results demonstrate a statistically significant association between proposed TTCE grade and the probability of detecting a PAVM on thoracic CT (p < 0.0001). Our results indicate that patients with grade 1 TTCE are unlikely to have a CT detectable PAVM, although we have previously reported one patient with a grade 1 TTCE who presented with stroke secondary to PAVM.14 Patients with grade 4 TTCE will almost certainly require antibiotic prophylaxis as well as transcatheter embolotherapy for PAVMs.
TTCE is accessible, minimally invasive, and has a high sensitivity, making it a desirable initial screening method.6–7 The advantage of a screening algorithm using TTCE first with CT for confirmation is demonstrated in our series, in which one third of patients screened for PAVM were spared the radiation dose of CT. In addition, the TTCE grade, and therefore the probability of detecting PAVMs on CT, can be used to make decisions about the timing or urgency of confirmatory CT. One of the challenges of TTCE is the high number of false-positive results.7 Only 5 of the 66 patients with false-positive TTCE results were found to have PFO as a possible explanation. The high false-positive rate may reflect interobserver variability in TTCE interpretation, although our group has previously demonstrated an excellent κ (0.926) for identifying microcavitations in the left atrium,6 and here we report very good interobserver agreement (87%) for TTCE grading. More likely the false-positive results represent the presence of microscopic PAVMs, detected with TTCE but too small to visualize on CT or angiography. Our group15 has previously demonstrated that 90% of patients with PAVMs retain a positive TTCE result after successful embolotherapy, which we have interpreted as evidence that patients with CT detectable PAVMs also have other smaller PAVMs, not visualized at CT or angiography. In other words, we hypothesize that many of the false-positive results reported here may in fact be cases of microscopic PAVMs. We have therefore elected to follow these patients prospectively for growth of PAVMs and also have recommended antibiotic prophylaxis.
At this point, we do not have sufficient long-term follow-up data to report on outcomes in the group of patients with false-positive results. With long-term follow-up, likely in the order of 10 years, we should be able to better conclude about whether PAVMs do become detectable on CT or whether complications from PAVMs develop in these patients. Until we have these data, it is unclear how these patients should be followed up and even, in fact, whether CT is necessary in the patient with a grade 1 TTCE. With our previous reported experience of one patient with a grade 1 TTCE who presented with stroke secondary to PAVM,14 and the fact that our patients are very motivated to avoid preventable stroke and other complications of PAVMs, our approach continues to include CT assessment of patients with grade 1 TTCE and follow-up CT within 1 to 3 years afterwards.
The timing of appearance of opacification during TTCE by convention has been used to discern intracardiac from intrapulmonary shunt, although there is little literature validating this approach. We observed that in fact patients with intrapulmonary shunt could have appearance of bubbles as early as three cardiac cycles, often in patients with high grades of shunt (grade 3 or 4). In addition, we observed considerable overlap in bubble appearance timing among patients with PAVMs, patients with PFO, and false-positive results. In other words, the timing of appearance of bubbles is often not a reliable indicator of location of shunt and may be influenced by intensity of shunt.
There are some limitations to this study. The TTCE grading system is subjective because the quantity of bubbles in the left ventricle used to define a specific TTCE grade is approximate. Also, variability secondary to the intensity of hand agitation, rapidity of injection, and cardiac output may result in small differences in timing and grade. We believe that these limitations should not significantly influence the interpretation of our results because they would have been expected to have weakened the significance of the observed association, and yet in this study the grading was highly statistically significantly associated with the probability of detecting PAVMs on CT. In order to clarify our interpretation of the grading system and provide a standard for other studies, a reference set of images illustrating the appearance of each TTCE grade has been presented in Figure 1. We report very good interobserver variability for TTCE grading, but this may not be generalizable to centers with less experience.
We used CT of the thorax as the "gold standard" for the diagnosis of PAVMs in this study. CT was shown in 1992 to be approximately 97% sensitive for the detection of PAVMs, compared to the conventional "gold standard," pulmonary angiography.16 With the dramatic advances in CT technology over the last 10 to 15 years, and the ability to detect smaller and smaller PAVMs (feeding artery as small as 1 mm in diameter), although there are no recent studies of the sensitivity of CT for PAVM detection, the sensitivity of CT now likely exceeds that of conventional pulmonary angiography. CT has therefore become the accepted "gold standard" for the detection of PAVMs in recent clinical studies. We therefore did not feel that the use of CT as the "gold standard" was a limitation to this study.
We have demonstrated that TTCE shunt grading, on a four-point scale, is significantly associated with the probability of detecting PAVMs on CT. This provides additional information that is clinically relevant in guiding decision making about further diagnostic testing.
Abbreviations: HHT = hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; PAVM = pulmonary arteriovenous malformation; PFO = patent foramen ovale; PPV = positive predictive value; TTCE = transthoracic contrast echocardiography
Financial support (M.E.F) was provided by the Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundation, St. Michael's Hospital Research Institute.
This study was conducted at St. Michael's Hospital.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
NIL = no PAVM and no PFO.
One patient had PFO in addition to PAVM.
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Josh Barro makes an important point: For Republicans, losing the political fight isn't a downside of the strategy. It is the strategy.
Republicans are eventually going to have to agree to a compromise deal that is acceptable to a broad swath of Democrats and that substantially raises taxes. Their base is going to hate that. But if they drag their feet and get smacked around enough on the way to the deal, they will be able to sell the idea that they had no choice but to cave.
It's very similar to the 2011 fight over the debt ceiling increase, which Republicans for a time insisted would have to be linked to congressional passage of a balanced budget amendment.
A good fight — or at least the show of one — placates the conservative base and helps Republicans avoid primary challenges. It also makes the Republican Party look incompetent and reckless, damaging the national brand. Indeed, Republicans actually lost the popular vote for House seats in November, though they held on to a House majority due to a favorable electoral map.
Barro points to California, where a small pool of very rich campaign donors funds a permanent cozy minority of obstructivist Republicans. They don't get anything done, but their seats are safe.
Kicking and screaming and being unreasonable can help secure a cozy minority of legislative seats with a true-believing party base behind you. It's a strategy that works. It's just not a strategy that works for building electoral majorities.
Even NRO thinks "I'm alright, Jack" is too selfish a strategy for Republican politicians, "rational for an individual but highly destructive for a political party" unless it truly wishes to be a party of permanent and shrinking minority. The problem, however, is that there's no stick with which the G.O.P.s leadership can beat these recalcitrant, obstructivist seat-sitters into taking a more competitive line except to abandon them and try to make co-operative deals with Dem Blue Dogs instead. That course will be the death of the current Republican Party.
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The Pearl River High School spring musical is "Honk, Jr.", and will be playing March 20-23. On March 20-22, matinee performances will be presented to the students at nearby elementary schools. On March 22 and 23, a 7 p.m. show will open to the public.
The choreographer for the show is the owner of The Dance Project dance studio, Tara Brewer. Costume designer is Shannon Landry. Director of "Honk, Jr." is Laurie Jo Koster. The music director is Ms. Cassie Garrett.
The family-friendly show is a musical rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling".
Some members of the Lady Rebels Soccer Team were chosen to be on the District 7 All-District Team. On the first team are Faith Washington, Rachel Ricau, Christina Cutura, and Alicia Graham. The members who made the second team are Kristine Arceneaux and Megan Holifield. Honorable mentions are Emily Botsford, Alicia Alexander, and Shayna Washington. Faith Washington was also listed as the Defensive MVP for the District.
Shelly Dauterive's first-hour class won the Honors Society's Coin War. The class will receive a pizza party in the near future.
Spring Break will be March 25, and students will return to school April 2.
Senior Graduation will be May 10. More information about the event will be given at a later date.


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