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Tuesday, August 19
Feature: Boy by Band of Outsiders. A few months ago, I featured Boy by Band of Outsiders, which I liked for its classic take on androgyny. I recently stumbled on these images, modeled by Michelle Williams, who I love. I'm going to celebrate polaroid photography until it's not available anymore in the near future.
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Nozomi Ishiguro
Feature: Nozomi Ishiguro. Japanese designer, Nozomi Ishiguro, is a combination of Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons. The zipper pants and excessively layered clothing are both eclectic and funky without being tacky. The overwhelming knits on top of unconventional bottoms -- are those pants or a skirt? -- make this collection as creative than it is original. Ishiguro has a way of incorporating Fall trends, yet making them the brand's own. You should judge for yourself (especially if you pay attention to parts of the whole.)
Via Fashionpirates.
Images courtesy of Nozomi Ishiguro.
Images courtesy of Nozomi Ishiguro.
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Saturday, August 16
Feature: Emanuel Ungaro. Back from a short hiatus, I bring you some of my favorite Fall collections this week. Since I've noticed certain collections receiving notoriety and others not so much, I'm going to try to focus on underrated collections this upcoming season. (We all know about YSL's severely futuristic androgyny and Prada's lace...) From fashion week in Paris, Emanuel Ungaro 's Esteban Cortazar chose to keep it soft and constructed. The necklines on his sweaters and the draping techniques give the looks an effortless yet artistic appeal.
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Sunday, August 10
Feature: Roland Mouret. Although Roland Mouret appeals to a more formal side of my aesthetics, I always appreciate the folds and cuts that accentuate female curves in his designs. While ironically, only non-curvy women seem to don his dresses, I can appreciate the intelligence that went into designing these innovative silhouettes for his Fall 2008 collection.
I also love the shoes.
Dresses found at net-a-porter.com
Images courtesy of style.com
I also love the shoes.
Dresses found at net-a-porter.com
Images courtesy of style.com
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Friday, August 8
Feature: Junya Watanabe. As bloggers enthusiastically cite their favorite fall fashion collections, I have not fully thought my inspirations through. Although there are the usual suspects like Isabel Marant and Phillip Lim, I want some avant-garde influences. And then the thought occurred to me: "Did I miss out on everyone freaking out about Junya Watanbe's Fall 2008?" I normally crop out the heads, but in this entry, I contemplated cropping out the body because I'm so mesmerized by the styling on top. When I regained my senses, however, I realized that the pieces themselves were unbelievably understated, interesting, and innovative. Oh Junya! Thank you for your contributions to fashion.
I just wanted to mention that I love what that woman on the left hand side is wearing (the blue is magnificent) and her pensive expression as she watches the runway.
Please check out the entire collection at style.com
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Wednesday, August 6
Feature: Future Classics. Do you ever just come across a design label who just gets it? Future classics embodies everything I want with draping, fabrics, and styling. The minimalist distortions of body proportions still flatter with the sleeve details. This is what I want from "fashion."
Images courtesy of futureclassicsfashion.com
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Tuesday, August 5
Feature: Eryn Brinié. Korean fashion chain, Eryn Brinié, recently opened their first North American boutique in SoHo. With a refreshingly ethereal appeal, EB is an affordable option for feminine and simple flowly pieces. I especially love how they capitalize on trends without making them "trendy." (Located at 501 Broadway.)
Images courtesy of erynbrinie.com
Images courtesy of erynbrinie.com
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Monday, August 4
Feature: Acne Fall accessories. I've concluded that I want one of each thing in the dark gray wool or perhaps, black leather. But really, if I'm going to be honest, I just love these images.
Images courtesy of acnestudios.com
Images courtesy of acnestudios.com
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Feature: Stone and Honey. I don't wear much jewelry but I do have one classic handmade necklace by Portland designer: Small Things. It is the one recognizable piece of jewelry that I wear with pretty much everything -- so to my delight, Small Things launched a new jewelry line with delicate gold and silver pendants. I really love delicate chains and natural shapes of the honeycombs. (They're also affordable at $65 a piece!)
Images courtesy of stoneandhoney.com
Images courtesy of stoneandhoney.com
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WARNING: this header meme avatar does not contain a time machine!!!
THESE GUIDES WILL HELP YOU WITH THE VIDEO GAME MEME COMPETITION and or other daily MYIGN issues relating to design and personalizing your profile / blog.
This blog is specifically upon request and from countless people I have helped over the years.
Also MYIGN has gone through many changes so older guides might not apply. It is not perfect and some of the more advanced tutorials require basic to advance software and computer skills.
The idea is to give you an idea of what is involved and that you can accomplish virtually anything with a little time and effort. All the software you need can be obtained free online in varying degrees of quality and much of the work can be done with a pen and paper though ultimately you need a computer and internet access (which if you are reading this you probably have unless you are on a phone lol).
Please shout out below any mistakes or typos or things you want me to add or need help with as this is very much a 'fluid project' (ewwwh) to HELP newbies and those he never learned or are just old but curious.
You DO NOT NEED TO BE ARTISTIC!!!
The successful meme is a mixture of a clear idea well executed through text and image. Let sonic demonstrate via a basic template which can be adapted to the digital and physical world.
There is no fixed rule to what a meme should be as it can vary from image to video to action but here is the same principals as above but with variants. To show how different the end result from the same ingredients can produce.
For every successful meme there are countless fails which can be easily avoided by not doing the following lol
When making a meme from scratch you will probably be using photoshop or some variant on it i.e. digital image manipulation software but a meme can simply be drawn on paper with a pencil and a ruler. Or you can use some of the pre-exisitng websites epcifically set up to create quick memes for people who are not technically minded or one of the many apps which exist on ios/ android devices.
http://www.quickmeme.com/ http://makeameme.org/ http://www.mememaker.net/create http://cheatatvideogamememecompetitions.org/
The rule is really to keep it simple, keep it clear, and stay true to your original idea and planning does not hurt. Experiment until you feel comfortable with the result then share it with others you trust and ask for an honest opinion.
Ironically some of the most effective memes have little effort but a great idea.
Regardless if you like memes or have a header / banner you will be given or forced to choose an AVATAR to represent you (ahh that film about blue cats finally makes sense lol). On IGN they have a wonderfully bland selection to choose from which immediately paints a 'noob' target on you if you do not change it within minutes of registering your account lol
So unsurprisingly the vast majority of people who wish to have a presence on IGN quickly change it and often keep changing it due to the endless variety of avatars available across the netosphere. Bizarrely as with everything these free avatars are not born out of nothing except an artists creativity and somewhere someone made a series of conscious choices to bring your and all avatars to life.
So now we will demonstrate how one goes about elevating themselves up the avatar food chain. You have a huge variety of options but we will focus on the most common.
1). Random static avatar grabbed from web (casual)
These can be cut, copied and screen grabbed for almost any location and there are millions of them out there. MyIgn uses a simple but effective avatar system which has a selection of preexisting avatars to choose from upon registering for an account. Though for the more creative / ambitious among you who wish to define themselves as individuals then there are multiple options to import or upload an out side sourced avatar. The benefits is that you don't look like a lazy ass super noob unless that is your style lol but usually the people who want to personalize their accounts will also have a games list, some followers and follows and maybe even a blog and for the hardcore a header (or animated header!!! WOOT!).
The following simple picture tutorial will get you nearer to that utopian state of total personalization. You might need basic knowledge of image manipulation software but you should be ok without it for this tutorial below though later it will become a necessity.
2). Custom static avatar (intermediate)
The following examples definitely require image manipulation software as you are customizing those random images you nabbed or maybe drawing one from scratch!
When making anything from scratch planning is what makes it perfect. Have an idea and plan the stages using the guide below. Make sure the file sizes and measurements match up at all stages otherwise you will upload to MYIGN only to get a mess or an error.
Beyond this think about design and colour and placement. This is a slightly more advance tutorial as you are now in the original content period, adding to the millions of other avatars across the net.
3). Custom animated avatar (Advanced more permanent choice).
Wooh nelly you are now playing hardball with the big boys! You are not only creating an original avatar but you are giving it life. Your animation if done well will stand out, define you and be copied and stolen for years to come lol Though be under no illusions that though very basic animation can be fun and straightforward the more ambitious the idea the more head aches they incur and you might find yourself going mad trying to make a tiny picture of a skipping rope spring to life (long story).
Also unlike the static avatar the 100kb file size will quickly be used up by the multiple frames so now size is a serious concern.
Well you are such a bad ass now that you might as well colour your masterpiece.
Colour is best left to last as it can make something difficult impossible but it really will make that tiny image 'pop' and catch the eye of every other user.
Above are all the frames side by side in order including the final product which has the added tech which is also animated. All fully coloured but that colour is limited and simple, bright, fun and eye catching. From a distance it works well as much as it does up close i.e. THE PERFECT avatar lol.
The Evolution of an AVATAR
You can see below that once you have an animation you can adapt it to anything you like but with varying success. I have taken my 'winking Felicia avatar' and added the cat paw from above and I have coloured it to match her scheme.
My avatar started life as a static 'google image nabbed image' but later progressed to a hand drawn static image by me based on the original and then was elevated to a winking freak show by me again when IGN aloud animation in avatars (they did, then they didn't, then they did again....ohhh the drama!!!).
So you can see that we all go through a process as we become more experienced over time. Just give it ago, what's the worse that can happen (see below lol)
The Worse That Can Happen
Also of note is 'WHEN BAD GIRLS GO WILD:2 PAPA NOCHES GETS FRISKY' but taking that has nothing to do with this BLOG (this one! lol) instead take a peak at what can happen with the same pieces of puzzle are rearranged and incomplete. Everything is technically the same but the colours, layout and sizing have changed and placed together with little thought for good design, resulting in EPIC FAIL AVATAR (soon to have its own animated webisode series!)
EPIC FAIL AVATAR! exact same ingredients but a less sophisticated approach lol
Where do I begin. Any serious MYIGN blogger will need one otherwise do not concern yourself. Why do bloggers need them? For the same reasons we have avatars as they define who we are and the message we want to give. Ironically as with all things I am A-typical in that I change my header every (EVERY!) blog lol (that is funny when you know how much work that can be....lol) but I always for best part of half a decade have the same avatar. The majority of people due to the work involved with headers do the opposite and while their avatars change like my pants (every 3 days lol) their headers or banners remain the same....if it ain't broke why fix it?
Headers can be anything from a simple image to your name in lights to both or a message to new users of what to expect...maybe even a promise of things to come and future greatness (if you have someone else design it for you lol). I have been known to make a few headers (now over 200 lol) for people on MYIGN and though most have come and gone some have stayed as I put so much into them they just stuck (that or the user forgot how to change it lol) so get ready after this for a wave of change across ign as I hand the power back to you all so that you may improve on my humble efforts.
The most important info. you need to know is file sizes, which fortunately for static image headers is not really an issue though dimensions certainly are, but later with the fabled ANIMATED HEADERS size (ladiez) is everything (or so I rock myself to sleep at night denying).
The following simple tutorial will get you up and running with text and image to impress all your new friends flocking to bask in your majesty of creativity and stylistic glory (where does he get this stuff!!??!).
Below is the finished product and pretty much any variation on this tutorial will end with the same usable result.
As with memes and avatars if you deviate too far from the plan even the best intentions will not save you. This EPIC FAIL header is comprised of the same parts without any planning or thought to the good design principals covered above.
Once you have your header saved on your computer then use the following step by step guide to navigate the minefield of MYIGN inner workings and hopefully avoid the major pitfalls which I regularly help people resolve. My best advice is CHECK EVERYTHING TWICE (then check again).
I hope to add videos at a later date
Coming up on Winzen's Blog:
How to make an animated header
200 Header Blog
Interview with IGN very own FILM BUFF Scott Collura!!!
The round up of videogame meme entries for voting purpose
The Results of Re-MEME-ber ME!
Interview with a Pokemon artist
Interview with an Indie Game Dev.
Interview with a video game artist.
and so much more your eyes will bleed!!! YAYYYYY :<
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This article was published 29/1/2009 (3124 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
WINNIPEG needs to be a better-trained, better-planned and more co-ordinated city, a subdued Mayor Sam Katz told 1,150 businesspeople, politicians and public servants at his annual state of the city address.
In his fifth annual spiel at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, Katz promised to spend $3 million over the next three years on aboriginal training, broaden the powers of the city auditor, move forward on plans to replace the city's obsolete planning framework and — as announced last year — create a new umbrella organization to handle all transit and transportation planning.
Katz promised to hire a chief performance officer, a new city staffer who would assist the city auditor and ensure city departments are accountable for the money they spend.
"Often, what you will see is, our audit department going in and making suggestions on how a department should have done this or should have done that. I want conformance," Katz told reporters after the $75-a-plate lunch.
On the planning front, Katz said the city will hold an invitation-only, multimedia seminar called A Sustainable Winnipeg that will be part of the ongoing effort to replace Plan Winnipeg, the city's all-but-obsolete long-term planning blueprint.
This morning, city councillors will learn more about a new land-use and infrastructure framework that's supposed to govern Winnipeg's next 25 years.
"It's basically a plan for our future. We haven't had one done since 1972, which really means that there's never been one done for the city," the mayor said. In fact, Winnipeg updated the document in 1986, 1991, 1993 and 2001. The mayor also said concrete steps will be taken this year to develop a transportation authority to decide how to plan and spend money on roads and transportation.
"For too long, our city has built out its suburbs, with new housing developments and commercial-retail properties, then later struggled with the impacts this growth has on our transportation infrastructure," he said.
But the mayor also made an oblique reference to the IKEA-led development that's wound up in the crosshairs of urban-sprawl critics, referring to the $400-million project as "a new major commercial development" that will soon be the subject of a public hearing.
Reaction to the mayor's speech was mixed. Tax watchdog Colin Craig praised Katz for stating his goal is to freeze property taxes for the 12th straight year. City council finance chairman Justin Swandel, however, said another tax freeze will be difficult to implement this year without more help from the provincial government.
Fort Rouge Coun. Jenny Gerbasi, a frequent Katz critic, said she was disappointed the mayor made no mention of downtown revitalization.
Businesspeople in the audience gave Katz an easier time. Maxim Truck & Trailer president Doug Harvey said he was satisfied with the content of the speech, even though he wished Katz would have mentioned the proposed CentrePort development outside Richardson International Airport. He also said the mayor could have been more upbeat.
"He's the chief cheerleader for the city," Harvey explained.
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Training, planning and transportation
Highlights from Mayor Sam Katz's fifth state of the city speech, delivered Thursday at the Winnipeg Convention Centre:
New promises
ABORIGINAL TRAINING: The city will spend $3 million over the next three years on an aboriginal youth strategy.
CITY AUDITOR: New powers are coming for the city auditor, along with a chief performance officer who will ensure city departments remain accountable.
Progress on previous announcements
LONG-TERM PLANNING: This spring, Winnipeg will launch a symposium called A Sustainable Winnipeg as part of the an effort to replace Plan Winnipeg, the city's almost obsolete long-term planning blueprint. The aim is to create a 25-year plan for land use, transportation and infrastructure.
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY: Last year, Katz said a new regional transportation authority would co-ordinate the transit and transportation needs of the city and its suburbs. That authority will begin to take shape this year, Katz said Thursday.
And is this a promise?
PROPERTY TAXES: Katz all but promised to freeze property taxes for a 12th straight year, but the wording left the mayor a little wiggle room. "My goal again will be to freeze property taxes," he said. City council finance chairman Justin Swandel said it will be tough to balance the operating budget that includes a tax freeze without more help from the province.
The bottom line
DOUR BUT SUBSTANTIVE: Thursday's speech amounted to a dour accounting of the challenges facing the city. Some audience members called it dull, as the mayor essentially read a long laundry list of plans and priorities. But the serious tone -- the speech was completely bereft of the jokes typifying earlier state of the city addresses -- seemed appropriate for the gloomy times.


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Contrary to an ideology making the rounds circa these parts a little too much of late, Ohio State is coming off one of the program's most riveting wins of the last decade, a ten year stretch that's been rather good to the Bucks. If that wasn't enough, there's only arguably the biggest rivalry in sport just ahead on the horizon. I concede this weekend likely won't live up to the lofty expectations I usually give it - less of course Rich Rodriguez is given that long overdue life contract. None the less, I remain confident the rivalry will go on. A tradition whose future is far less assured is that of the now infamous Mirror Lake Jump.
The old timers amongst us may have little exposure to the jump beyond the back-from-commercial-break lead ins commented upon by Kirk Herbstreit during the now immortal 2006 #1 vs. #2 epic (and naturally co-narrated by Brent Musberger, whom all but suggested "liquid coats" were in play, either in jest or more likely envy). Virtually all graduates anytime in the last two decades now the tradition in any number of senses: either they themselves were survivors (perhaps multiple time veterans) of the Lake's near hypothermia inducing conditions and the subsequent after-party that ensued, knew someone that was, or made it a point to take in the insanity during their time occupying the 43210 zip code and surrounding areas.
To a generation of Ohio State fans, risking pneumonia for the chance at being able to brag foolheartedly to your dismayed parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents a week later at Thanksgiving, while also "guaranteeing victory" for your beloved Buckeyes is as much part of the Buckeye ethos as "Dotting the 'i'", or as "Hang on Sloopy" is to the ones that came before and after them alike. With Ohio State-Michigan returning to Thanksgiving weekend a year from now, as has been the case just 16 times in the previous 68, with the entire student body sure to be markedly absent from the campus area, one has to wonder whether the often frozen pond jump will be the casualty of the conference's plan to try and further increase exposure.
Per University folklore, the history of the modern jump goes back the 1989 season, which happened to be one of the sixteen times The Game fell on Thanksgiving weekend. With the typical 'Beat Michigan Week' festivities 86'ed, an ad-hoc marching band was assembled (including some members of the actual TBDBITL) and what few students happened to still be around the campus area. As legend has it, the parade, fueled by an absence of tryptophan and abundance of rye whiskey, turned ugly, resulting in the flipping of covers and multiple arrests. A year later, to pay homage to the madness of year's past, many of the same band members reunited for an impromptu march again, this time ending with many of those on hand plunging into the bitter waters. The tradition took on a life of its own, eventually evolving into an event surrounding specifically the act of the plunge itself.
A Lantern article from a few years back confirms many of the legends surrounding the history, also adding in that arguably the earliest roots of the Lake related festivities go back to the roaring 20's, when hapless freshmen were tossed into the lake during Michigan week (NERDZ!!!!!!!!!). Several other jumps of varying magnitudes took place in the decades that followed, likely setting the stage for the idea to take root in the early 90's.
The question still lingering at this point: what do 2010 and future incarnations of The Game have in store for the pre-requisite-to-graduate for many jump? Should the '89 season be any barometer, wanton violence and chaos the only way the cliches would dictate Buckeyes know how. More realistically, per a few turn-of-the-century Bucks, the 2001 jump went off as planned (the last time the game took place after Thanksgiving weekend) though with a far smaller than normal crowd and less fervor than the years that would follow. While convenient for the University, who's stuck footing the refinishing of the lake's bottom year-after-year, diminished jump participation, a poorly coordinate rescheduling of the jump, or little excitement surrounding the happening in future classes could spell the end what'd often devolved into Woodstock with hypothermia.
While hardly superstitious in the least, I played the "tussy" card my freshmen year and saw the Bucks fall to the hated squad from up north. After taking part the next 3 years, 3 entire Ohio State teams had 3 more pairs of Gold Pants. In a sport riddled with irrational transference, future classes may have to settle for other targets for their glee or malaise.
The Dispatch's Tim May goes into the reasoning behind the seemingly spontaneous emergence of what Jim Cordle calls the "Buck Wild". Football strategy memes aside, while the Bucks certainly reaped the benefits of a Boom Herron touchdown strike from the package and certainly seem to be saving some of the wear and tear on TP, can the package really be qualified as any kind of success when seemingly 75-85% of its execution results in minimal gains and what almost feels like the element of 'unsurprise'?


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Colorful graphic printed maxi tank dress with buttonfront opening. Adjustable drawstring ties at front of neckline. Slit at each bottom side.
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Pretty Ordinary, Shapeless Dress
I found this dress to be shapeless, hangings straight down instead of tapering in at the waist and the tie at the bust didn't help much. The patterning was as pictured... I thought it would be a bold statement piece, and I guess if you can pull it off, it is, but it didn't work for me. I even tried tying the bottoms and that didn't help much.The material is basic polyester, and it's a pretty ordinary dress which is probably not worth the pricetag.


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Commons Historic District is near a diverse collection of New York's well-known sights. Two attractions that should be on every visitor's itinerary is the fabulous Fredonia Opera House and the much-loved Darwin R. Barker Historical Museum. Two more worthwhile attractions that are located nearby Commons Historic District are the Dunkirk Historical Museum and Chadwick Bay.
New York is world famous as the home of the Statue of Liberty. It is only 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the center of town.
Spend some time in the center of New York. Enjoy the Empire State Building and Times Square. If you have enough time, why not stop by the Chrysler Building and the Grand Central Terminal before heading back to Commons Historic District.
At the end of a busy day enjoying the charms of Commons Historic District, put up your feet and relax at one of the area's hotels or serviced apartments. If you're looking for a warm welcome and a good nights sleep be sure to check out the Days Inn Fredonia, the Best Western Plus Dunkirk & Fredonia Inn, and the popular Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, Dunkirk.


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The thought of a Dr. Seuss hat was the last thing on my agenda when I went to one of my friend's house to borrow some creamer for my coffee this morning. Even in my pre-caffeinated foggy frame of mind, I could tell that she was pretty agitated even for her (she's a pretty excitable chick). I came to find out that the reason for the excitement was that she was trying to figure out how to make a Dr. Seuss costume including a hat out of some strips of red and white nylon fabric and cardboard.
She didn't have a pattern to make a homemade Dr. Seuss hat and Cat in the Hat costume. And she was trying to wing it on her own with very little success.
The fabric she was using was thin, slippery and her sewing machine was puckering the stitches. My initial suggestion was that she ditch the idea of using fabric of any kind and try her hand at making a paper Dr. Seuss hat for her child. She looked aghast and informed me that paper would look cheap and silly. My response was, "How could anyone possibly in their wildest dreams ever think that a red and white striped stovepipe hat of any kind could look silly?"
She conceded the point and I convinced her to salvage the day and buy a Cat in the Hat costume at the store as we had no suitable supplies or Dr. Seuss hat pattern to go by even if we did. In my opinion, that was the best twenty bucks that she ever spent.
Her child was happy that his hat was suitably similar to the Cat in the Hat that we see in the pics and that his costume was not homemade and thus didn't make him look goofy. Plus, the Dr. Seuss hat that we found was cheap and the darn thing lit up! The fiber optics on the hat were so cool and it was no more expensive than the Cat in the Hat costume hat that just sat there and did nothing.
Several lessons were learned:
- Don't try to make homemade Dr. Seuss Costumes without a pattern
- Don't wait until the day of any party to start sewing a costume
- Don't wander around the neighborhood looking for creamer early on a Saturday morning; you get suckered into all kinds of projects against your better judgement


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I believe Transfer on Death titling of real estate was adopted in Illinois in 2012 ; while it is a process that other states have had for some time, it's fairly new for us -- and so I'm worried about titling my house this way, until I know that the process actually works. I know there are other ways to transfer property, but I'm looking not to have to pay for a Trust, or a Life Estate, or anything else if I can just do "transfer on death" titling. Can anyone tell me if this is working in Illinois (Cook County)?
TODIs have been available for a short time in Illinois and there still is no standard form. If you decide to do one, make sure you use the services of an attorney who knows the law and preferably has done a few. It is not really appropriate for most estate plans, for several reasons, which your attorney will discuss with you. If you decide to go that route, make sure you also have a TODI revocation form prepared so you are ready to revoke if you change your mind, and that your beneficiary knows the requirements and is ready to file a notice of death affidavit and acceptance of the TODI within the very limited time frame allowed by law. Any filing beyond the statutory 30 days after death will void the instrument.Ask a similar question
A Transfer on Death Instrument may be a suitable document in certain circumstances. Generally this means properly being left to children equally. Even with that situation the use of TODI's is still being done with caution as title insurance companies are not comfortable with many uncertainties in the existing law. It is my understanding that meetings between the Illinois legislators and title insurance company representatives have taken place to discuss changes to the existing law. However, as of yet these changes have not been agreed upon nor inacted.
As Ms. Goldstein suggests, you are best served using a knowledgeable estate planning or elder law attorney to prepare the TODI for you and/or to review your circumstances and make other recommendations.
Best wishes!
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I agree with everything my colleagues have said and would add that yes, it does in fact work. It seems that there are certain circumstances under which it works better than others, but yes it does work. The TODI must be prepared by an attorney, per the statute. If you consult with an attorney who is familiar with them, I'm sure she/he will go over the facts of your case and advise you appropriately. Keep in mind that you are not changing the title to your house; rather you are designating a beneficiary to receive it upon your death similar to a beneficiary designation on a financial account.
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- The General is a G.I. Joe vehicle from the A Real American Hero series.
The Joe Team's General Mobile Headquarters is the second-generation mobile headquarters vehicle, like the Mobile Command Center, but with vastly increased offensive systems, and lacking some of the more redundant and/or less useful features, such as the Detention Cell, vehicle service bay, and advance Battle Control Suite.
What the General lacked in features, however, it made up for in direct actions effectiveness; Whereas the MCC was an excellent battlefield support platform, the it's height and limited weapons selection made it a poor choice in a firefight; General had far less support facilities, but could slug it out with everyone and everything, and probably come out on top. It did have limited small vehicle support capabilities, but most for refueling; Small aircraft could also land on top, if the pilot was careful.
Essentially a huge, wheeled platform, the General was powered and propelled by the armored tractor in the front, and outfitted with optical scanners, infrared videography, Doppler Radar, and laser range finders, and very well defended, with several multi-purpose autocannon emplacements and a 200MM main cannon, capable of hitting target in excess of 20 miles, and flattening s few hardened city blocks.
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James McManus files Amicus Brief defending DiCristina decision
In 2012 a district court in New York dismissed a case against Lawrence DiCristina, who hosted a home poker tournament at his business. DiCristina was originally charged with violating the 1955 Illegal Gambling Business Act (IGBA) but was found not guilty when judge Weinstein's decision was rendered in a ruling many heralded as a major victory for poker. In his opinion, Judge Weinstein determined that poker was not covered under the IGBA due to its high-skill factor as well as the absence of any mention of the game in the IGBA.
However, this completely rational argument hasn't stopped the government from appealing Judge Weinstein's decision, and on Thursday author James McManus filed a preemptive strike against the appeal, filing an Amicus Brief with the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, detailing why Judge Weinstein's was correct.
An Amicus Brief (which is a type of Amicus curiae) is in essence an opinion offered to the court by a person(s) with no connection to the case, but someone who can offer expert opinion or testimony on the matter. An Amicus Brief is something along the lines of unsolicited expert testimony designed to explain the ramifications of the decision.
In the Brief, McManus lays out several arguments in favor of poker, and the right of US citizens to engage in the game. Among the headers in the brief are:
* Poker's Intimate Connection to American Culture Sets It Apart From Activities Commonly Classified As Gambling
* Because of a Strong Connection to American Life and the Absence of Any Meaningful Association With Organized Crime, Poker Is Readily Distinguishable From Games Generally Classified As Gambling
The Brief stretches some 28 pages and is good primer for anyone trying to make the case FOR legalizing poker.
I reached out to James McManus to shed some light on how he became involved with the case and what his thoughts on the appellate court's future ruling might be. McManus told me that, "DiCristina's attorneys on the appeal asked me to file an amicus brief, probably because Weinstein cited Cowboys Full in his ruling that poker was a legal game of skill with a long and honored tradition in American society, and I'd written along those lines so often in The Times, Foreign Policy, Harper's, Grantland, Card Player and elsewhere. I was happy to oblige them, of course."
In terms of where he sees the DiCristina trial and poker legislation in general McManus stated, "Right now the endgame seems to be that the mostly failed prosecution of the big three sites on Black Friday, Weinstein's ruling, the DoJ's own ruling that poker is not proscribed by the Wire Act, the almost universal contempt for the UIGEA (not only because it's a bad law but because of the sneaky way it was attached by nanny-state Republicans like John Kyl and Bill Frist to the SAFE Ports Act of 2006, happily signed by GW Bush), the desperate need for new tax revenues, etc., etc. will encourage more and more states to legalize online poker. Once enough dominoes fall, Congress will revise the law to enable the feds to regulate and tax it as well."
You can check out James McManus's Amazon author's page here: http://www.amazon.com/James-McManus/e/B000APZYKG, and I highly recommend his poker works in Positively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full; both deserve a spot on every poker player's bookshelf.
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I recently took Novell to task over CEO Jack Messman's remarks at BrainShare Europe about the coming release of Windows Vista being the "window of opportunity" for Windows XP desktops to be migrated to Novell Linux Desktop. I still think Messman talks first and thinks later, but other reports I've gotten (from a number of you, gentle readers) help give a better picture of Novell's strategy.
A number of you have said that the message you got from front-line Novell people was that you shouldn't rush to move to NLD, it's not ready for everybody's desktop just yet. The general thinking is that late next year, when another revision of the package is available with more "Windows-like" features, better ease-of-use and more well-rounded functionality, will be the time to start rolling it out to the masses. Serendipitously, this is also the time frame when Windows Vista will ship. Predictably, the Microsoft marketing machine will go into high gear at that time promoting upgrades from Windows XP (and earlier) to Windows Vista.
Well-respected analysts, though, are cautioning that the move to Vista should be slow and deliberate - if you move at all. See this week's Windows Networking newsletters for more on what the Gartner Group and the Burton Group have to say about Vista (you'll be able to read those newsletters online later this week, if you don't already subscribe to it).
The issue of training has also been raised as a discouragement from moving to Linux on the desktop with NLD. Specifically, some feel, users would prefer the familiarity of Windows to the unknown depths of Linux. This would also require more expense in training users on the less familiar system. But, as some have pointed out to me, if you consider the differences in the user interface between the last two Microsoft desktop releases (Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP) and extrapolate that to the new UI coming with Vista, then even diehard Windows fans will have a tough learning curve coming to grips with the new system.
I would certainly encourage you to get at least one copy of Novell Linux Desktop just so you can put it through its paces in your test lab. You might decide it's right for your organization now or, you might prefer to wait for the next release or reject it and stick with Windows for your users. There is no "right" answer, but your answer should be well-informed.


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NAGOYA – For the first time in its history dating back some 1,300 years, a woman has become an apprentice of traditional "ukai" fishers along the Kiso River in central Japan.
Ukai fishermen use tamed cormorants. The city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday appointed Kotomi Inayama, 23, as an apprentice. She is the nation's sixth female "ukai" fisher.
The fishing, which takes place from June through October, has long been a popular tourist attraction along the Kiso River, but customer numbers have been down, decreasing from 47,000 in 1979 to 21,000 last year.
Inayama's appointment "will draw lots of public attention," Inuyama Mayor Yukinori Tanaka said.
Inayama is a native of Komaki, Aichi Prefecture. She had been working in a pet shop after graduating from an animal training school. She said her interest was sparked when she saw the Kiso River ukai fishing show last August.
Her mentor will be Takayoshi Muto, a 63-year-old ukai master.
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These sums, stunning on the numbers, provide a glimpse of the financial bonanza available to those able to milk their political connections. It might look like the fantasy of a schemer with a pot of gold on his mind. But these are the cool-headed calculations of Geoff Greene, a former Queensland Liberal state director and lobbyist, of just how much income he could have made had the party delivered a spread of awards and letters – including from the former prime minister – to be used as a recruitment tool to win clients for a political lobbying business.
The potential monetary gains to be made by spruiking party awards and endorsements is the centrepiece of a remarkable lawsuit filed two months ago in the Queensland Supreme Court by Greene, a former state director expelled from the Liberal National Party in April.
Fully itemised with a 10-year escalator clause, the calculations show that the probability of a lobbyist attracting a new client goes up by 10 per cent with each accumulated letter or award.
According to his statement of claim, Greene calculated that his Queensland lobbying firm, Entrée Vous Pty Ltd, lost the chance to make additional income over the next 10 years of $779,000 because the Liberal Party refused to give him personal endorsements, awards and life membership that he had expected to receive.
A long-time party official who lost his job after the merger of the Liberal and National parties in Queensland, Greene maintains strong connections with prominent Liberals. He was appointed this year as national director of the Conservative Leadership Foundation, a training ground for young conservatives founded by leading Liberal right-wing senator Cory Bernardi.
Greene's claim against the Liberal National Party, totalling $1 million, shows just how valuable political cachet can be.
And with the recent fight over the election of the Liberal Party's federal president still seeping poison through the party nationally, the growing power of professional lobbyists in top Liberal positions has highlighted the potential money trail.
Seven weeks ago, registered Melbourne lobbyist
One senior federal Liberal, critical of the growing numbers of lobbyists in party positions, argued yesterday that commercial opportunity was entangled in recent ballots for federal office bearers.
The party is divided over the role of lobbyists.
In Queensland, the LNP has already moved to ban lobbyists from key positions. Rules passed in July specify that lobbyists on Queensland and federal registers of professional lobbyists are banned from fund-raising for the party. Moreover, members of the state executive are banned from lobbying.
The Greene lawsuit has opened a window on the opportunities for lobbyists to monetise their Liberal connections – or as one critic described it, "the chance to sell party connections for personal profit".
Greene has powerful allies. When the lawsuit was first reported by The Australian's Michael McKenna in early June, Liberal powerbroker
Greene is also a close ally of Santoro, who has returned to prominence after he was forced to quit the Howard ministry in 2007 following a scandal involving more than 70 undisclosed share trades. Santoro subsequently quit politics to focus on his lobbying business. He and Greene remain sufficiently close to have attracted the attention of senior party figures on June 22 this year when Greene was a guest at a table hosted by Santoro during a farewell function for former Liberal senator Russell Trood. Liberals say Greene was also a guest at a drinks party organised by the Liberal federal secretariat at Old Parliament House during the recent Liberal federal council.
Greene's expulsion from the party followed a tangled drama over disendorsed federal Liberal MP
Greene, who was already in dispute with the party over his severance package, was asked by party bosses to explain his actions in relation to Johnson.
In the aftermath, Greene was expelled from the party. His current lawsuit alleges his reputation was damaged by being expelled and that the party failed to honour a raft of commitments negotiated as part of a severance package when he ceased to be party director in 2008 following the Queensland merger.
Greene's statement of claim alleges that the LNP failed to give him: a certificate of appreciation; a letter endorsing his contribution to the formation of the LNP; fully paid life membership; a letter acknowledging his exceptional service to the party including his contribution to the success of federal Coalition governments; and a nomination for a Liberal Party Distinguished Service Award, including obtaining letters of support from John Howard and former Queensland senator
Had he received these documents, Greene claimed he would have been able to use them to procure "at least six accounts that he will not otherwise gain in the 2011/2012 state election".
When contacted by The Australian Financial Review yesterday, Howard declined to comment on Greene's claim that the former prime minister had at all times been "ready, willing and able to provide the plaintiff a letter of endorsement and support".
The statement of claim says that by expelling him, the LNP has deprived Greene of the opportunity "to represent to persons, including the clients of his employer, or his own clients", that he is an active member of the LNP and has the confidence of the LNP, its executive, its council and its officers.
This "directly damages the plaintiff's ability, either by himself or through the companies owned by him, to earn income by gaining new clients or keep existing clients, including clients who will be campaigning for preselection and election for the LNP at 2011/2012 state election".
The loss of income by Greene's political campaign advisory business related to this is calculated by Greene to be $124,200.
Most startling in the claim are the carefully calculated potential losses over 10 years applicable to each of the letters and awards Greene says were promised him by the party. Now unable to tell clients that he is the recipient of such awards and letters, Greene says both his business and his brand have been damaged.
Queensland LNP president Bruce McIver declined to comment when contacted by the Financial Review yesterday.
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The changes are coming thick and fast for Instagram. Hot on the heels of their recently added Photos of You feature, which was a very welcome update for brands, they have now added video.
So what are the updates?
Photos Of You
Brands on Instagram were previously missing out on an abundance of engagement and Reach opportunities that are now being fulfilled by Photos Of You. This new feature finally enables users to tag brands, people or products in their Instagram photos, so users can tag the establishment they've taken the photo in or tag the product they are photographing.
Instagram Video
Instagram video has sprung onto the scene as a competitor to Twitter's Vine. Like Vine, it allows short videos to be filmed and uploaded but Instagram's version allows fifteen seconds of film rather than Vine's six and it does not include the famous Vine looping action.
How does it work?
Photos Of You
Photos of You works in the same way that Facebook allow you to tag your friends in your photographs. For example, when a user takes a photo of their Starbucks coffee they're enjoying with their best friend, they can tag both their best friend and Starbucks in that photo. The photo will then appear in their best friends' and the brands' 'Photos of You' section.
Instagram Video
When a user taps the camera icon, they will now be given the option of video. They will have to hold their finger on the screen to record continuously and there's the option of tapping the screen to auto-focus on a specific spot. It also of course, includes the option to use Instagram's handy filters to make the videos look extra special.
What does this mean for brands?
Ultimately both updates are a positive change for brands.
Video will allow brands to create great new content using Instagram's filters and with fifteen seconds allowed, it gives brands more of a chance to get a complete message across. For those brands that would prefer to keep their platform management to a minimum, it means they can at least upload both photo and video to the same platform now.
Photos Of You allows them to tap into the rich user generated content which is probably already on the platform but not yet attributed to their brand, venue or products.
It's a way to curate content and ensure that your brand name or products are being seen and given credit, thereby increasing your opportunities for engagement and your reach.
However, the update will mean that extra moderation time is required, as it can (and most likely will) result in your brand being tagged in inappropriate photos.
Extra moderation! What's a brand to do?!
First, change your settings so the only photos that appear in your Photos of You tab have been manually approved. This will allow you to keep control of the content related to your brand.
- Go to your profile page,
- Select the new Photos Of You button
- Click settings in the top right and check 'Add Manually'
Alternatively you can keep the setting as 'automatic' (the default) and use 'untag' to remove your brand name from inappropriate content.
- Go to your profile page,
- Select the new Photos of you button
- Click on the photo you wish to view
- Select the 'more' option at the bottom of the photo (the '…')
- Select Photo Options
- You can then choose to 'Hide From My Profile' OR..
- To delete the tag completely, choose 'More Options'
- Select 'Remove Me From Photo'
- You also have the option to 'Report Inappropriate'
What else?
The photos you approve will now appear in Photo of You, so it has become a useful tool to curate great user generated content. This is particularly useful for brands who already receive a lot of UGC (e.g. Benefit cosmetics) and for those who want to start encouraging it.
It doesn't appear that this tagging function is available yet for video content so we'll watch that space to see if this updated.
Want to get creative?
Photo contests and CTA's are already part of the Instagram landscape but until this point they've relied on hashtags. Photos Of You now offers the option of Fans also tagging your brand in the post. Not only does this mean that brands benefit from an influx of great UGC but it also ensures other users can find your genuine account and may choose to follow you too.
Ways to encourage UGC can now be part of your marketing plan. It also enables brands who run several accounts, to tag each other in their posts.
Your marketing plans should now include ways to encourage Instagram tagging Photos of You. Check out some examples of how other brands are already using this feature:


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John Byczek
Learn how Northwestern Mutual helped John hold onto his financial representative position after being deployed as a reservist following 9/11.
John Byczek enlisted in the Army in 1982 and spent 16 years in a variety of roles – serving as an infantryman to a paratrooper to an intelligence officer. Upon leaving the Army, John pursued two tracks: He continued to serve in the Reserves and searched for a new career where he could continue to make a difference in people's lives. That drive led to him becoming a financial representative with Northwestern Mutual.
In His Own Words
Making a Difference
I work with all kinds of people at all levels of income – from individuals making $40,000 a year who need to figure out how they will achieve future financial security to extremely wealthy people who, while they may already be financially secure, are looking for guidance to help ensure they remain protected later in life. The core of what I do is help people. It's what drives me every day, and it's a good feeling to know that I'm making a difference in people's lives.
Career Rewards/Challenges
The September 11 attacks occurred just after my third anniversary with Northwestern Mutual. Shortly afterward, I got called up to the Reserves to serve in Afghanistan. While I was honored to serve, it was an obvious disruption in my current career as a financial representative. But Northwestern Mutual stood by me throughout my deployment. They helped keep my practice up and running and even awarded bonuses prorated from results of the year prior to my deployment.
This career requires a lot of self-motivation and discipline. For some, it can be very lonely. There are a lot of people who can serve as mentors, but at the end of the day, the opportunity is what you make of it. You have a lot of independence, which is one of the drivers of the career. One needs to work hard to be successful, but for someone with discipline and drive, this career can be a great fit.
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The military instills discipline and teamwork. If you enlist, everyone starts at the bottom. That's the same model at Northwestern Mutual. You're all equals at the start of your careers, and all receive the same training, education and mentoring designed to build up your skills. You start as a financial representative, and from there you choose your own path – for example, pursuing additional training and credentials. Northwestern Mutual is there every step of the way to help you get started – providing hands-on learning to put you on the path to having a successful career. If you are open to being coached, you can do this job.
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The intention of the government to prohibit anti-Semitic Nationalist organizations which of late have developed in conjunction with the fierce anti-Jewish campaign in Greece was revealed today by open declarations in this direction from government members, led by Premier Tsaldaris and M. Dragoumis, Governor General of Macedonia. The declarations from the government also assailed anarchistic acts against the State and placed them in the same category with anti-Semitic movements.
The organization, Hellas, most fierce of all anti-Semitic groups, which was responsible for the fire in the Campbell Jewish quarter here in June 1931, is almost certain to be closed down by the government because it is undermining governmental authority and leading the country to anarchy, it was said today by states spokesmen.


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STOCKHOLM – November 13, 2012: iZettle, the social payments company, today announced its app and mini chip-card reader that let you take card payments using a smartphone or tablet, is out of beta and now commercially available for individuals and businesses in Denmark, Finland and Norway.
The app can be downloaded from Apple's App Store or Google Play free of charge. iZettle's chip-card reader – designed for small businesses and independent service providers such as gardeners, housekeepers or repair people who conduct large or frequent transactions – is now available for purchase from iZettle's website. The card reader comes to the price of €24 excluding VAT, and with a voucher toward iZettle transaction fees of the same amount.
With iZettle there is no lengthy sign up processes, no monthly fee or minimum transaction volumes. Instead, iZettle merchants are charged 2.75% of payments made. iZettle then electronically deposits payments in the merchant's bank account.
"We are seeing huge demand for our service throughout the Nordics," said Jacob de Geer, CEO and co-founder of iZettle. "And with the holidays right around the corner we're very happy to have resolved the Visa situation. For now, Visa transactions in Denmark, Finland and Norway will be done on the cardholders phone, as Visa Europe prefers. But most important for us is that we've restored Visa acceptance for our small business users and individuals there".
iZettle is EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) approved, and compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). No sensitive data is ever stored on the mobile device or iZettle reader, and all data traffic is encrypted.


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Washington, D.C.-based United Fresh Foundation's Frieda Rapoport Caplan Family Business Scholarship Program is now accepting applications.
Four scholarships will be awarded to employees of family-owned businesses to attend the United Fresh Produce Association's Washington Public Policy Conference, according to a news release.
The scholarship covers airfare, hotel stay and registration to the conference.
The conference is Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, D.C.
"This scholarship afforded such a unique opportunity to connect with our nation's lawmakers and gain a deeper understanding of the policy-making process, and how those policies impact my family business," TJ Rahll of Edward G. Rahll & Sons Inc,, a 2012 scholarship recipient, said in the release. "Walking the halls of Congress was an incredible experience and one that highlighted how important it is to be engaged so that our industry's voice is heard in D.C."
Applications must be turned in by July 31.
To apply, or for more information, contact Shannon Young at (202) 303-3405, or visit


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V.A.C. VeraFlo™ Instillation Therapy vs V.A.C. Ulta™ Therapy on Biofilm in Chronically Infected Wounds
This study has been completed.
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 24, 2013
Last updated: June 17, 2015
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This study would like to determine if using negative pressure wound therapy with an instillation of .125% Dakins is more effective than using negative pressure wound therapy alone on biofilm removal, disruption and elimination in chronically infected lower extremity wounds.
|Lower Extremity Wound Infected Venous Stasis Ulcers
|Device: VAC VeraFlo with Dakins Instillation Device: VAC Ulta Therapy
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Open, Comparative, Randomized Single-center Study to Evaluate the Effect of V.A.C. VeraFlo™ Therapy With .125% Dakins vs V.A.C. Ulta™ Therapy on Biofilm Removal/Disruption/Elimination in Chronically Infected Wounds
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MedlinePlus related topics: Wounds and InjuriesU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Evaluate the change in bacteria colony-forming units using when NPWT and NPWTi on venous leg ulcers [ Time Frame: Baseline through day 7 ]Biopsies for bacteria colony-forming units will be obtained at pre surgical debridement (baseline), post surgical debridement, day 4 and day 7.
|Study Start Date:
|November 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: VAC VeraFlo with Dakins Instillation
VAC VeraFlo with Dakins .125% instillation will be initially applied in the OR after surgical debridement. Dressing will be changed on day 4 and and removed on day 7. Wound assessments will continue at weeks 2, 3, and 4.
Device: VAC VeraFlo with Dakins Instillation
VAC VeraFlo with Dakins instillation will be placed in the operating room after surgical debridement. Biopsies will be obtained prior to surgical debridement, after surgical debridement, on day 4, and on day 7.
Other Names:
Active Comparator: VAC Ulta Therapy
VAC ULTA Therapy will be initially applied in the OR after surgical debridement. Dressing will be changed on day 4 and and removed on day 7. Wound assessments will continue at weeks 2, 3, and 4.
Device: VAC Ulta Therapy
VAC ULTA will be placed in the operating room after surgical debridement. Biopsies will be obtained prior to surgical debridement, after surgical debridement, on day 4, and on day 7.
Other Names:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- The patient is of 18 years or older.
- Males and females - provided they are not pregnant and if of reproductive age are using contraception.
Patient with ulcers that:
- Have an ulcer area of at least 4 cm2 confirmed via counting squares on an wound tracing
- Have been present for at least 4 weeks
- Are confirmed to have a colony forming unit per gram of wound tissue greater than or equal to 10 to the 5th cfu
- Are full thicknesses through to dermal or subcutaneous tissue but not extending to muscle or bone.
- The patient has an ABI of greater or equal to 0.8 and lower than 1.3 or has a suitable Peripheral Vascular Resistance (PVR) and Doppler assessment which confirms venous disease & therefore treatment with Profore is deemed acceptable by the clinician.
- The patient has one or more clinical signs of infection (edema, malodor, local/periwound erythema, spontaneous pain between dressing changes, increased exudate, discoloration of granulation tissue, increased temperature at wound, non progression of wound, purulent exudate and friable granulation tissue)
- The patient is able to understand the evaluation and is willing to consent to the evaluation.
- Patients with a suitable wound on a different limb to any other wounds previously eligible.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients undergoing chemotherapy
- Patients being treated with immunosuppressive drugs or corticosteroids
- Patients with an autoimmune disease
- Patients who have participated in an experimental drug or device study within the last 15 days
- Patients that have been entered in this evaluation previously as an evaluable patient.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02009501
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02009501
|United States, New York
|St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10025
Sponsors and Collaborators
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
|Principal Investigator:
|John C Lantis, MD
|St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
More Information
Keywords provided by St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 22, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT02009501 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 24, 2013
|Last Updated:
|June 17, 2015
Keywords provided by St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center:
Infected wounds
VAC Instill
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Wounds and Injuries
Postphlebitic Syndrome
Postthrombotic Syndrome
Varicose Ulcer
Wound Infection
Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Venous Insufficiency
Venous Thrombosis
Embolism and Thrombosis
Varicose Veins
Leg Ulcer
Skin Ulcer
Skin Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 22, 2017


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STAGE TUBE: Watch Sneak Peek of Frances Ruffelle's PARIS ORIGINAL Concert!
On October 3, the Tony Award winning actress Frances Ruffelle will perform her critically acclaimed, sell out solo show Paris Original in London at the St James Studio, followed by an appearance in New York City at 54 Below on October 23 . Check out a just-released promo for her upcoming shows below!
Frances is well known for creating the role of iconic waif Eponine in the original London and Broadway casts of LES MISERABLESand for her many West End appearances but also for her outrageously playful and emotionally heartfelt solo shows. Recently, Frances received a UK Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress when she portrayed the eponymous title role in Pam Gem's Piaf.
Come and discover the charms of the city of light and be seduced by the delightful Miss Ruffelle as she brings a Frenc-accented twist to her latest zestful and feminine performance celebrating all things 'ooh la la' with music from Francoise Hardy to Edith Piaf, Francis Lai to Claude Michel Schonberg. New to the show for the St. James and as an added bonus for LES MISERABLESfans, Frances will sing Schonberg's original, beautiful song written for Eponine and cut from the show that played such a special part in her career.
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15 Celebs Who Turned Down Nudie Mags (PHOTOS)
Flesh-featuring magazines like Playboy and Playgirl are willing to pay big bucks to get famous faces in their pages. While there are plenty of stars who oblige, many turn down a big payday in order to avoid the nude spread.
Glee hunk Chord Overstreet was the most recent celeb to turn down a big offer from Playgirl to pose nude. Luckily for Chord, he isn't the only star who has turned down a lucrative offer to pose in the buff. From Justin Bieber's mother to JWoWW, lots of celebrities weren't willing to show it all.
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Every Tuesday on VF.com, filmmaker Jamie Johnson offers a glimpse into the secret lives of the super-rich.
"Everything would be so much easier if someone would only invent text messaging."
Recently, I was reprimanded for committing what my old dancing-school instructor used to refer to as "a criminal act of social indecency." It happened at a bar, where, in the shuffle of being seated in tight and overcrowded quarters, I failed to offer my date the optimal chair at a tiny table set for two. Instead of following proper protocol, I absent-mindedly took the corner seat with a generous view of the entire room for myself and left her stuck in a lousy spot that required her to stare directly at either an empty brick wall or my face, which, at that moment, expressed not even a trace of sympathy. I realized my error only when, after somewhat playfully suggesting that she order first and insisting that I wanted to be polite, she curtly responded, "Why start now?"
This incident reminded me of a passage I read once in a 19th-century book of manners. The author, a popular counselor to the daughters of Boston's most prominent old-guard families, advises young ladies to be watchful of improperly behaved men. "Accept not unnecessary assistance in putting on cloaks, shawls, overshoes, or anything of the sort. Be not lifted in or out of carriages, on or off a horse; sit not with another in a place that is too narrow." The instructions reveal just how strict the rules of courtship were in the 1800s for members of the Brahmin caste.
Lately, my own experiences, as well as the stories I'm hearing around town from friends and acquaintances, are causing me to wonder what vestiges of patrician etiquette remain current among affluent young adults. Of course, etiquette is always evolving and each new era has a fresh set of social guidelines crafted to fit the age. One of my favorites scenes in the seminal prep-school satire Metropolitan involves two teenagers agonizing over the earliest hour at which it's acceptable for them to call the home of a girl they have a crush on. In the era before cell phones and E-mail, such concerns were of the highest importance for anxious fledgling suitors. Now, though, the joke is largely irrelevant; I bet there isn't a high school kid in the country who doesn't know how to get a message to a friend in an instant.
There are certain formalities, however, that do not appear to be disappearing from genteel life. Just yesterday, I listened to a proud Mayflower descendent describe a romance he had no more than a decade ago with a New England debutante. When the two lovebirds spent weekends together away from school at the young girl's country house, her parents demanded that there be no physical contact of any kind. This meant that the couple was not allowed to sit next to each at the dinner table or go on walks alone—even simultaneous horseback riding was forbidden. The only way around the conflict was for the girl to ride while the boy eagerly chased behind her horse on a 12-speed bicycle. It was especially awkward, I was told, because, although the boy could claim Puritan roots, he wasn't as affluent as his companion, and the vehicular disparity only reinforced the uncomfortable economic gulf between them—to say nothing of the practical inconvenience.
Another passage in the aforementioned book of manners indicates that the city of New York is to blame for inconsistent standards of decorum. The author identifies "a form of folly that is quite prevalent in New York," where upstanding and respectable members of society "imitate the dress of the fast and loud class, because they think it is rather knowing to do so." As absurd and outdated as this observation appears, it actually does have some bearing on what's happening within the ranks of Manhattan's privileged set today. A new reality television show titled High Society features well-known socialites playing caricatures of themselves on the party circuit. The show's greatest weakness—one of many—is its subjects insistence on acting more vapid and obnoxious than they truthfully are.
Strictly speaking, the historical comment in the book of manners on New Yorkers and their breaches of etiquette refers to fashion, but the hyperbole of High Society reveals how naturally the observation extends to today's social behavior. It's interesting to consider the way traditions fade, or even disappear because the times have rendered them problematic or even offensive. Actually, that evolution often leads to a new and more substantial system of etiquette, and it's fun to observe these arrangements vying for influence over time.


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清邁 Diva Guesthouse
84/13 Rajpakinai Tambol Phra Singh, Ampoe Muang
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We are a tastefully designed budget hostel, offering attractive and clean rooms. Every room has at least one window and strong WiFi signals are guaranteed throughout day and night in rooms or common areas.
Strategically located between Tapae gate and Chiang Mai gate in a backpacker area. Close to all the important cultural sites and between Saturday and Sunday walking streets. We provide the perfect base for you to discover all adventures and beauty that the north of Thailand has to offer
The spring mattresses are comfortable and all the rooms include a western toilet with hot shower inside. Linen, blankets, pillows and towels are provided in every room or dorm. Rooms are Fan-cooled or one rooms is air-cooled.
Fan-cooled 6-bed dorm (3 x bunk beds) with 105x200cm spring mattresses.
A/C-cooled 6-bed dorm (3 x bunk beds) with 105x200cm spring mattresses.
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Colorful and comfortable room with queen size bed (150x200cm) and 2xsingle beds (105x200cm). Air-cooled
Please note the 4-bed family room has 1x queen-size bed and 2x single beds. 1xwall fan, 1x ceiling fan, 1x aircon unit. Bathroom with hot shower are inside
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Attractive and colorful rooms, queen-size (150x200cm)) bed or 2x twins (105x200cm). An extra bed can be added to double rooms, sleeping three people. Fan-cooled or three rooms are air-cooled.
Opening hours: 08:00am till 21:00pm. For later arrivals it is important to inform us before!
If arriving after 21:00pm, please drop off at Diva G.h, walk 30m to the little lane next to Mickey Cafe and then 60m into lane to Julie G.h. Please ask night guard for check-in at Diva and he will walk you back and guide you to the room. Next morning please come to see us at reception for further info.
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Is Mario Draghi leading an insurrection at the European Central Bank?
Speaking this morning to Banca d'Italia shareholders, Italy's central bank governor identified "a greater need to proceed with monetary policy normalisation so as to prevent expectations of higher inflation from becoming entrenched".
That might have seemed a unsurprising nod towards another ECB interest rate increase by the man expected to take over as ECB president on November 1. But the term "normalisation" has become loaded in ECB policy-making circles. Read more


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Carnival Miracle - Western Caribbean: Carnival Miracle Cruise Review by pleasan7
Overall Member Rating
Carnival Miracle - Western Caribbean
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Tampa
Ship: The Captain of the Miracle was very friendly at the past guest reception; he really seemed to enjoy that part of his job. I really appreciated that he merely rearranged two of our ports of call to avoid 'Ernesto' and still made all our ports.
This is the best designed ship for the passenger that I have sailed on. The passageway walls have photos from various books and plays. We were mid-ship on deck 7 so the ones that indicated our side of the ship were Robin Hood, The Mask, and Sherlock Holmes. This made finding our way around the ship easier. Decks 2 and 3 have nothing to obstruct movement from one end of the ship to the other so you can walk on either level from the phantom lounge to the dining room.
The Bacchus dining room lights of purple grapes look fine now and the maitre d' was very helpful. The waiters (Irawan and Enio) were superb and remembered our preferences after the first meal. More They were very friendly and attentive. Food was excellent and plentiful as one might expect on a cruise ship. The Cabin Steward and housekeeping staff were excellent and kept the cabin in a constant state of cleanliness. Towel animals were fun as expected. Shows and entertainment were all tasteful and professionally performed.
Ports: Our first port was Belize. We took the ship's excursion to Geoff's Caye. The first part of the trip is a snorkel swim. Participants have the option of swimming from the shore if they are inexperienced or the more experienced can snorkel from the boat. My husband and I snorkeled from the boat and saw lots of fish. The coral all appears to be healthy.
Cozumel was the second port. We scheduled our own excursion with Eagle Ray Divers. The group was small and we chose the dive spots. We made two, seventy foot dives of about forty minutes each. The coral was breath taking. We enjoyed seeing big fish on this trip, a turtle was resting next to a barrel sponge and a nurse shark was sleeping under the edge of some coral. We saw the biggest grouper that I have ever seen. The snorkel group spotted turtles and a shark as well. The crew was friendly, helpful and very knowledgeable.
The third port, Costa Maya, is still being developed as a port. This provided a great opportunity for a rural exploration of the old Yucatan. We enjoyed touring the ruins of Chacchoben with Ivan, David and Carolina through Native Choice Tours. We watched several large groups walk by as we were still being informed by Ivan. Our smaller group received additional attention from our guide. I recommend this trip if you want personal attention and historical information. Ivan grew up in the area and is intimately familiar with the site and the details of its discovery.
Grand Cayman was our last stop and we chose to go to Stingray City with Captain Bryan. The crew was very friendly and went out of their way to ensure we had a good time and had plenty of time with the Stingrays. It was a pleasant trip and the crew took time to show us the fish and coral. We saw two moray eels and the fish were very colorful. The Stingrays are fun for pictures and to see them swimming around very close is also lots of fun. Every tour will offer photos so bring about $30 if you think you want photos.
I cannot find anything to criticize on this trip. Our thanks to everyone that made our trip so wonderful! Less
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