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FOXBOROUGH -- The Patriots got a boost Friday as both inside linebacker Jerod Mayo and defensive tackle Vince Wilfork returned to practice, giving New England full attendance as it prepares to tangle with the Ravens Sunday at Gillette Stadium.
Coach Bill Belichick noted the return of Mayo, who suffered a sprained right MCL in the Patriots' Week 1 triumph over the Bills and remains doubtful for Sunday's game, provided a nice jolt of energy for his team.
"That gives a good lift for everybody to see him back out there," said Belichick. "It was good to have him in uniform."
A smiling Mayo entered the locker room in his blue No. 51 practice jersey and showed no signs of a pronounced limp. With a prognosis that suggested he'd be out as long as six to eight weeks, it's an encouraging sign for team and player that he was able to put on the pads, even for Friday's typically light session.
And Belichick stressed that Mayo is working hard in his recovery.
"Jerod always works hard," said Belichick. "He's worked hard from the day he's been here. He's the first guy in the building, and last one to leave, and he's working the whole time, too. He doesn't spend half the day playing dominoes and that stuff. He works hard. He does. He's here with a purpose."
Asked what Mayo is able to do as he recovers, Belichick added: "He works all day. He's getting treatment, doing things with his upper body, doing tape work, grabbing [linebackers coach] Matt Patricia on stuff, [special-teams coach] Scott O'Brien -- whatever it is. He's a hardworking player. I have a lot of respect for Jerod, everybody does. Just being elected captain in the second year, and the leadership, and support he has on this team, every day he's impressive."
Linebacker Pierre Woods, whose locker neighbors Mayo's, said it was nice to have a defensive captain back on the field.
"Looking great," Woods said with a smile. "It was nice to have everyone out there."
Wilfork's return suggests he could still suit up for this Sunday's game, though he remains questionable with a sprained left ankle suffered in Sunday's win over the Falcons.
Belichick spent time tackling questions on how exactly the team makes decisions on injured players, particularly ones like Wilfork who missed practice time during the week.
"I think we have a few guys that will probably be closer to game-time decisions, guys that maybe didn't practice one of the days earlier in the week -- or maybe both of them -- and then they go out there today, and that's good," said Belichick. "We'll see where they're at tomorrow and make a call on that on Sunday. Sometimes after they go out and do something today, they realize tomorrow or Sunday, it doesn't improve much and they're not ready to go. Other guys, that's kind of the start of further healing and by Sunday they are ready to go. Truly, the term questionable, that's what it is. Just because they were out there today, that doesn't really say where they're going to be tomorrow, or, more importantly, the next day. We'll just see how it goes on a case-by-case basis."
Maroney: 'Feeling better'
Laurence Maroney likes to keep the mood light, so after joking about getting a new bionic leg after a thigh injury chased him from last Sunday's game against the Falcons, the fourth-year running back declared himself ready to go for this week's matchup with the Ravens.
"I'm definitely feeling better," said Maroney.
Asked if he was going to play this weekend he added, "I don't see why I wouldn't."
Pressed about the specifics of the injury, the oft-injured Maroney preferred to look forward.
"I don't remember," said Maroney. "It was a run play, the guy made a nice hit it was big at the time, but I definitely got over it. It definitely feels a lot better and I'm expecting to play. I really don't think I'm not going to play."
Maroney and his fellow running backs are looking forward to the challenge this weekend.
"They're the best," Maroney said of the Ravens' rush defense. "That's definitely a chance for the running backs to show we're as good as them They're No. 1 in [rush defense], so let's see what we can do against the No. 1 defense. It will let us know as a running back group where we stand."
Let's get physical
One of the prevalent themes in Foxborough this week was how physical the Ravens are and how the Patriots will prepare for that.
Maroney joked he was stocking up on painkillers in anticipation of this week's clash.
"We're expecting a 60-minute game, a physical game," said Maroney. "It's not going to be an East-West, outrun-them type of game. I got my Tylenol ready, because there's going to be headaches after this game."
Maroney knows if he gets the ball there's a good chance Ray Lewis's No. 52 could be greeting him near the line of scrimmage.
"It's one of those things where, you're going to have to bite that mouthpiece hard," said Maroney. "Buckle up, go get it. One thing about it, you never have to worry about [Ray Lewis] not hitting you. If you want to know if Ray Lewis is going to hit you hard, then, yes, he's going to hit you hard. You can get that out the window.
"That's the one thing you can't control. You can only control how hard and how physical you're going to play. I don't feel like I'm going to quit and [the Ravens' defense] ain't going to quite hitting me, so I'm not going to quit running, and none of the other backs will quit running."
Belichick downplayed the physical talk.
"Every game's physical," said Belichick. "We don't go into any game and say, 'There won't be any contact in this game.' Every game's physical."
More from Belichick
Belichick was witty and insightful at his final media briefing of the week.
On Randy Moss and his efforts in last week's win over the Falcons: "I thought he showed a lot of toughness last week. I think that's one of the stronger performances I've seen. He was hurting. He had a will and he played through it. I know he's doing a lot better this week than he was last week, but he showed me a lot of toughness in that game. He's been tough, but I thought that was really It was a pretty special performance, going over the middle, blocking, catching short passes, taking a lot of hits, making first downs, and he was making a lot of them. I thought it was a real good performance."
On if we'll see a pink hoodie this week to join Patriots players who will don pink-colored accessories to raise awareness for breast cancer: "I think that's something that we've all been affected by -- one way or another -- family or friends, or friends of friends, in varying degrees of closeness. It's a cause that, in this organization, we're all behind. I think what it represents. I think it's a great statement by the league, and by the players, and all of us that are putting our support behind something that hopefully can be better for everybody going forward. I don't think I'll be in a pink hoodie though, no."


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Christina Rivera, mother of 8-year-old Neveah, works full-time. She is grateful that her daughter has a safe and educational place to go after school and during the summer.
Neveah attends the after-school program at the Copperas Cove Boys & Girls Club and said she loves it.
"When we're outside, we play with balls and stuff. When we are inside, we watch movies," the third-grader said. "My best friend goes there too. So I always have someone to play with."
The Boys & Girls Club restarted its annual fundraiser, Music at the Gap, after a six-year absence. The event exceeded its $10,000 goal and the club approached the city two days later asking to lease property in Ogletree Gap Park for a new building.
Currently, the club's building is outside city limits near the Lampasas County line. Supporters say a facility more centrally located will allow them to serve even more families. The club serves 85 to 100 students in the after-school program and the 150 children who attend the club in the summer, said Director Bobby Krei.
"We are offering new programs, which include learning not just the German language, but also about the German culture. We are offering Bricks 4 Kids, which teaches basic engineering concepts," Krei said. "Some of the money will fund our summer field trips including a trip to the aquarium in Austin, area museums, and other things they might not otherwise be exposed to."
Rivera said she appreciates that the club makes homework a priority for the kids.
"The kids come in, get a snack and get settled. Then they have to do homework," she said. "This is important because it will not always get done at home."
Having the quality childcare option with the Boys & Girls Club is not only economical, but also has a positive effect on Rivera's work performance.
"I don't have to worry about (Neveah), so that's less stress for sure," she said.
"And it's very affordable. You can't get anything better in this area."

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One of the Mumbai's reputed engineering colleges, KJ Somaiya , will be putting up a fashion show completely inspired by Sushant's look from his upcoming film, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, for their annual festival. The college students decided to use a dhoti-inspired theme after Sushant's look as seen in the trailer of his upcoming film which has been well appreciated.
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Published: February 28, 1992
Here is a sampling of shows, performances and art exhibitions in the New York metropolitan region that will be closing soon: Closing This Weekend
"PATTERNS OF PRESTIGE: THE DEVELOPMENT AND INFLUENCE OF THE SALTILLO SERAPE," Museum of American Folk Art, Columbus Avenue at 65th Street, Manhattan. Forty blankets woven in northern Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries. Through Sunday. Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:30 A.M. to 7:30 P.M. Free. Information: (212) 977-7298.
ILSE BING, Houk Friedman Gallery, 1094 Madison Avenue, at 82d Street, Manhattan. A collection of vintage photographs. Through tomorrow. Hours: today and tomorrow, 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Free. Information: (212) 628-5300.
"ALEXIS SMITH," Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Avenue at 75th Street. Seventy of the artist's multi-media works. Through Sunday. Hours: today and tomorrow, 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Sunday, 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. Admission: $5 ($3 for students and the elderly). Information: (212) 570-3676.
"A LITTLE HOTEL ON THE SIDE," Belasco Theater, 111 West 44th Street, Manhattan. Georges Feydeau's play, performed by the National Actors Theater. Through Sunday. Showtimes: today, 8 P.M.; tomorrow, 3 and 8 P.M.; Sunday, 3 P.M. Tickets: $35 to $40. Information: (212) 239-6280.
"THE MIND KING," St. Mark's Church, Second Avenue at 10th Street, Manhattan. A series of stories written and directed for the theater by Richard Foreman. Through Sunday. Performances: today through Sunday at 8 P.M. Tickets: $10. Information: (212) 533-4650.
"THE VISIT," Roundabout Theater, Broadway at 45th Street. A revival of Friedrich Durrenmatt's play, directed by Edwin Sherin. Through Sunday. Performances: today, 8 P.M.; tomorrow, 2 and 8 P.M.; Sunday, 2 and 7:30 P.M. Tickets: $35 to $39. Information: (212) 869-8400. Closing Next Weekend
"CREDITORS," Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, Manhattan. The Strindberg drama directed by Carey Perloff. Through March 8. Performances: Tuesday through Saturday, 8 P.M.; Sunday at 3 and 7 P.M. Tickets: $22 to $27. Information: (212) 677-4210.
"IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA," by Rossini. Metropolitan Opera. Last performance, March 7 at 8 P.M. Tickets: $20 to $110. Information: (212) 362-6000.
"NIKON SMALL WORLD PHOTOGRAPHS," New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th Street, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. Color photographs of everyday objects taken through microscopes. Through March 8. Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Admission: $3.50 ($2.50 for students and the elderly). Information: (718) 699-0005.


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Just under a year ago, I put together my very first product launch for the blog and honestly at that time – I had no idea how to launch a product properly.
Even as an experienced digital marketer it was a daunting task with a lot of moving parts that left me feeling confused and pretty helpless.
I spent countless hours searching for the perfect product launch formula and boy did I find it because my very first product launch made $134,171 in just 6 days!
So today, for the first time ever – I am going to take you behind the scenes of my product launch. In fact, this is the first time I publicly revealed how much money it made.
What You Will Learn
- How I made $134,671 in just 6 days
- The exact product launch formula I used step by step
- How to layer mental triggers to make people buy like crazy
- A behind the scenes look at how I put it all together
- And most importantly… how you can achieve the same success!
Putting My Money On The Table
Before we get into the meat of things, let's talk about the money because I know that's all anyone is really interested in.
In total the product launch generated $134,171 in sales in just 6 days which was broken down like this-
- Day 1: $30,027
- Day 2: $15,264
- Day 3: $9,810
- Day 4: $22,701
- Day 5: $45,025
- Day 6: $11,344
That is right! On day 5 alone, I made over $45,000!
It would have taken me a year to earn that in my previous corporate job, but I made that in just 1 day using the product launch formula I'm about to introduce you to.
Now I know you might be wondering why the sales spiked so hard on day 5 and that is because I took the product off the market to create scarcity.
The trickle of sales you see on day 6 is just the difference in global timezones.
So technically it made over $56,000 on the final day.
Only making the product available to buy for 5 days might seem crazy, but that is part of the bigger product launch formula that I am going to share with you later.
But What About The Product Itself?
Before I introduce you to the product launch formula I used to achieve those results, I want to tell you a little about the product I launched.
My regular readers have probably already figured this out – but the product was my Private Blog Network Specialist Certification.
I put the course together because I kept seeing the same questions/problems coming up about Private Blog Networks and I had wealth of experience to share on the topic.
In total the course is made up of-
- 10 modules
- 53 lessons
- 39 videos
- 6 printable cheat sheets
- 6 exams
As you can appreciate that took some time to put together, which is why it was crucial that the product launch itself went well.
If you want to learn how to create your own product, you could read this, this or this.
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I know some of you will be wondering how I put the actual product together, so this is what I used-
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- SamCart – I used SamCart for the checkout as it integrated with lots of payment processors so I could switch them out in 1 click if I had a problem but it also made setting up payments plans and split testing the checkout design easy.
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But for now, let's focus on the product launch itself because that makes the difference between making no money and making a ton of money!
And you want to make a ton of money right?
The Perfect Product Launch Formula
I'm going to be honest with you.
Creating the product was easy, but when it came down to actually launching the product, I was like a deer caught in the headlights.
You see, I didn't really know how to launch a product and I certainly didn't know where to start!
On top of that as an experienced marketer I understood that trying to sell anything online these days is difficult because everyone is walking around with a super sensitive "BS Detector".
But I was determined to break 6 figures with my first product launch and have the most profitable week of my life.
After making $134,171 in just 6 days, I'm pretty confident that I nailed it and that success was purely down to discovering the sideways sales letter.
Introducing The Sideways Sales Letter
After countless days of research, I decided to implement The Sideways Sales Letter technique which was created by Jeff Walker.
I highly recommend you watch his free training videos that explain it all step by step.
I remember when I first watched that video, it completely blew my mind and opened my eyes to the new world of selling & how to layer mental triggers to drive sales crazy.
And for those of you that are wondering who Jeff Walker is, he is the king of product launches. His strategy has been used to generate over $500 million dollars in niches like juggling, tennis coaching & internet marketing.
In fact, you have probably been the victim of his sales strategies over the past decade without even knowing it.
Essentially he took the traditional long form sales letter and turned it on it's side.
Instead of having a single 10 page sales letter, he splits it up into a series of contacts over a number of days with individual pieces of prelaunch content which ends in a sales pitch.
Sounds complicated right?
Well don't worry because it's super simple and Jeff does a much better job of explaining it in these free training videos.
In essence it's just 3 pieces of compelling, valuable pieces of content that is followed by a sales message.
The idea is that you deliver so much value across the 3 pieces of prelaunch content that people are ready to hand over their money by the time you make the actual sales pitch.
Before you continue you must watch Jeff's free videos or the rest of what I'm going to share with you won't make any sense.
And trust me when I tell you that he knows what he is talking about, his last launch made over a million dollars in a single hour!
Behind The Scenes Of My Prelaunch Content
So now you've watched the videos & understand the entire sideways sales letter concept & how to take advantage of the mental triggers that make us buy things.
Now I am going to take you behind the scenes of my own prelaunch content to give you a tangible real world example.
In the videos Jeff explained the different types of content we can use. I chose to use 4 videos to deliver the content and sales message.
As you can see, I used an iPad as a teleprompter, a GoPro and a lavalier microphone to record the videos. These videos are also the only time you'll ever see me in a shirt.
What really counts though, is how the videos were structured as part of the sideways sales letter.
Each video introduces a problem, a solution and then another problem through story telling, education & TV like cliff hangers.
All of which eventually leads into the final video & sales pitch.
This is how I structured my sideways sales letter-
Prelaunch Content Video #1
The first piece of prelaunch content is critical because it has to grab peoples attention and answer "why".
Why should people listen to you, why should they pay attention to you, why should they care?
To do that you need to focus on the opportunity for transformation or change.
Essentially you are communicating how someones life will change for the better if they listen to you & what you have to say.
This is how I structured it-
- Title: "How To Increase Traffic & Rankings With The Most Powerful Backlink On The Planet"
- Mental Triggers: Authority, Reciprocity, Credibility, Proof, Anticipation
- Launch Story Theme: Reluctant hero
- The Problem: Viewers have no traffic, no search engine rankings & confused by SEO
- The Solution: Introduce private blog networks
- Introduce The Next Problem: How do you build a private blog network?
If you don't know what mental triggers are, then you need to go back and watch Jeff's free training videos.
Prelaunch Content Video #2
The first piece of prelaunch content focused on the "why". The second piece of content is all about the "what".
What is the transformation or opportunity that will change the viewers life?
This video has a heavy focus on teaching and I really went overboard with what I taught in this video.
This is how I structured it-
- Title: "How To Create As Many Authoritative Links As You Want To Seriously Increase Your Websites Traffic"
- Mental Triggers: Community, Relatable, Proof, Controversy, Emotion
- Launch Story Theme: Loss & Redemption combined with The Underdog
- The Problem: How do you build a private blog network?
- The Solution: Show people a top down view of the process over my shoulder
- Introduce The Next Problem: Getting caught by Google & how to avoid detection
As you can see, in each video I am introducing a problem, the solution to that problem and then closing with the next problem.
That creates an "open loop" which keeps people in suspense for the next video, much like your favorite TV series always leaves you on a cliff hanger.
Prelaunch Content Video #3
The last 2 videos answered the "why" and the "what" – the third video shifts focus to the "how".
It is also designed to shift into the product ownership experience and really dial down exactly how it will change the viewers life.
At this point I've already introduced people to private blog networks with a top down view of how to build them.
This video shows them how to avoid getting caught, but it doesn't show them how to put all of the pieces of puzzle together.
This is how it was structured-
- Title: "My Secret Strategies To Fly Under The Radar & Remain Undetected For Complete Ranking Domination"
- Mental Triggers: Social proof, Proof, Simplicity
- Launch Story Theme: Discovery
- The Problem: Getting caught by Google & how to avoid detection
- The Solution: Understanding footprints
- Introduce The Next Problem: How to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together
The Sales Video
The last 3 videos were designed to take people on an educational journey by delivering huge amounts of value through story telling while simultaneously touching on key mental triggers.
You might not realise it by reading through these notes, but I can't stress enough just how much value I delivered in the first 3 videos.
I ensured that I delivered actual tangible content with real substance that would change peoples lives if implemented.
That is where the true power of the sideways sales letter comes into play and with this power, we can now safely pivot into the sales pitch.
At this point people have a thorough understanding of private blog networks, how to build them and how to avoid the common pitfalls – but they don't understand the wider strategy which is where the pivot into the sale comes in.
This is how I structured the sales video-
- Title: "How To Take Full Control Of Your Websites Traffic & Search Engine Rankings"
- Mental Triggers: Social Proof, Credibility, Scarcity, Proof, Reason/Why
- Launch Story Theme: Reluctant hero, loss & redemption, the underdog and discovery.
- The Problem: How to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together
- The Solution: Buy the full course
You should notice one significant change in the structure of this video.
Instead of introducing a new problem like the first 3 videos, this video delivers the full course as the final solution with a call to action to buy.
And people bought like wildfire!
The Results Speak For Themselves
The sideways sales letter technique took me from clueless to 6 figure product launch step by step.
Without it, I don't know where I would be!
But what I do know is that the product launch formula Jeff teaches WORKS and it not only works, it works VERY VERY WELL.
Whether you have a new product to launch or want to re-launch a product you already made, his product launch formula is a license to print money.
I mean just look at these outrageous numbers-
Just to recap, that is $134,171 in 6 days!!!! It really is the perfect product launch formula.
So if you only do one thing today, make sure you watch these free training videos.
You might just regret it if you don't.


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Always moving. A Yes man.
I give off and feed off positive energy. I like smart people. I like clever people.
You gotta be able to laugh and laugh at yourself.
I like to run in the sun to good music.
I play golf.
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I cook. I used to live in Iitaly so I learned from the right folks ;)
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From Too Big to Fail to Too Big to Care
Alan Greenspan's confirmation hearing as Fed chairman has been addressed in two previous contributions (May 21, 2007 Help Wanted: A Leading Contrarian Indicator and July 20, 2007 Alan, We Hardly Knew Ye). The spotlight was on Greenspan. This time, the prophetic warnings of Senator Proxmire receive attention. The chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development expressed several concerns, the greatest of which was the trend towards the concentration in banking. In extracts below, Proxmire makes it plain he expects Greenspan will abet these tendencies. And while the chairman's statements and questions are directed to Greenspan, he speaks with the frustration of a man who sees danger ahead but finds little acknowledgement among his fellow legislators.
Whatever Proxmire's motivations, we find the paradoxical situation of a politician lecturing the future Federal Reserve chairman that interest-rate competition is preferable to government regulation of banking, and, after Greenspan's term expires, a television comedian grilling Greenspan on why he rigged interest rates in a market distorted by the government's "benevolent hand."
Greenspan's confirmation hearing was in July 1987. This was during the great deregulation of banking. Initiatives included the emancipation of the savings and loan industry, authorization for commercial banks to cross state lines, to offer home mortgages, to enter the brokerage business, to underwrite securities and to change themselves into conglomerates offering all of the above services and more. The pressure to grow also pushed from the other end - investment banks that ran brokerages, brokerages that became investment banks, and so on.
Towards the end of the hearing Proxmire declaimed the trend: "It seems to me that banking in this country and finance in this country is likely to move very sharply... in the direction of concentration.... I think most senators, if they thought very long about it, might be very concerned too. And I think the American people would be concerned too."
A coincident development was the socialization of risk, unwritten (at least in legislation), but gradually understood by all: the "too-big-to-fail" doctrine. The government bailout of Continental Illinois in 1984 made it plain that the federal government would not allow one of the largest banks in the country to suffer insolvency. In March 2007, Henry Kaufman described a consequence: "Therefore, market discipline falls unevenly: it falls more heavily on smaller institutions, which in turn motivates them to merge into larger entities protected by the too-big-to-fail umbrella."
In 1986, Kaufman wrote an important book, Interest Rates, the Markets, and the New Financial World. As is often the case with books published well ahead of their time, nobody read it. Then managing director and chief economist at Salomon Brothers, Kaufman saw that banks would augment their balance sheets and profits by securitizing mortgages, consumer credit and commercial property. Financial derivatives were young. He expected these markets would explode.
Proxmire was concerned with Greenspan's lobbying efforts. Among other ventures, a top project was Sears' attempt to offer banking services. Proxmire addressed the candidate: "[Y]ou think, if we erected Chinese walls, you can still merge banking and commerce. And that shocks this Senator, and I think it should shock many others. You, in my judgment, favor an increased concentration of banking..." (Aside from the larger issue, Proxmire had other concerns. In Greenspan's full disclosure of relationships before the hearing, he listed such directorships as Alcoa and J.P. Morgan. He did not include either Sears or Lincoln Savings & Loan. Greenspan's distinguished the two by slipping them in the side pocket of "advocacy projects." Cutting through the euphemism, he was paid by each to lobby for banking de-regulation.)
Proxmire tutored Greenspan on the beauty of markets: "[The] chairman of the Federal Reserve Board [is] the country's leading bank regulator. The Fed, as we know, regulates a large number of State member banks [and] bank holding companies that control an increasing proportion of all the commercial banking in our country. You take this position at a time when there's a headlong drive towards bank concentration....A couple of weeks ago, the second and third largest banks in Wisconsin, also interest rate competitors, announced their intention to merge and form a bank that will be far larger than its nearest competition in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin."
The italics are mine. Greenspan's term was marked by government distortion of asset markets and the economy by consistently setting the short-term interest rate at a level that encouraged speculation, borrowing, and bubbles at the expense of long-term capital investment. It requires courage for a Fed chairman to resist the temptation of low interest rates.
Proxmire questioned the candidate's resolve: "[Former Federal Reserve chairmen] resisted the pleading of Congress for a more expansive, stimulative monetary policy. If Congress pays any attention at all to monetary policy, it is to call for a more expansive policy. If interest rates are too high, it's the Fed's fault. If they are low, the administration and Congress will fall all over themselves claiming credit, especially when an election approaches.... You have to find it in you to deny the President the easy money policy he and his party want. You have to say nix to the Congress, too. As usual the only voice you will hear from Congress will be a steady chant to ease up on the money supply.... Are you the man who can say no to the administration and to the Congress?"
The banking committee chairman continued to address financial concentration: "As chairman of the Federal Reserve you play the key role in approval or disapproval of these massive bank mergers.... I would feel much better about this appointment if there was somewhere in your record an indication of your awareness of the dangers to our economy of excessive financial concentration. Maybe you can reassure us that you understand that banking should be separated from commerce and the unique multiplicity of banking in this country is an immense source of strength for our small businesses and that you can't have competition without having a large number of banks, as many banks as possible competing in every banking market. Do you have a conviction that regulators, no matter how able, cannot do the job as effectively and efficiently as competition? I hope as chairman you can show us this." (Italics added.)
Proxmire was looking in the wrong place for conviction. He probably knew this, since he described Greenspan elsewhere as a "get along, go along" guy. Over the course of Greenspan's term at the Fed, banks merged and expanded until they were no longer banks. They take deposits, make loans, trade for their own accounts, manage hedge funds, serve as brokers for competing hedge funds, offer mortgages, securitize mortgages, sell securitized mortgages, (e.g., CDOs, CBOs, CMBS), then sell credit derivatives to protect the buyer against bankruptcy of the securitized mortgage.
Kaufman foresaw the abstraction of matter. Derivatives grew fancier, more profitable and detached themselves from economic purpose: in a world that produces a $50 trillion Gross Domestic Product; derivatives, mostly created from within the banking system, now top $500 trillion. Financing exceeds economic output by at least a factor of ten - for what purpose?
The financial system does serve an economic function of its own: additional finance is needed to grow the real economy (e.g., that of manufacturing automobiles, selling flowers). Credit expanded faster than production. This impaired the ability of those living in the real economy to service debt (most obviously now in California, where the median house price exceeded $500,000 at the peak with a median income of $60,000).
Overindulgence is an age-old problem that rehabilitates itself in a recession, but the expedient route of faster financing beckoned. Too-low interest rates fueled the factories of finance with more energy than that expended at Ford's River Rouge plant. The banks produced billion-dollar derivative instruments and sold them to hedge funds. Hedge funds produced more and sold them to banks. Generally, no capital was required to back these promises.
No money existed the moment before the transaction; yet, the security was immediately integrated into the bouillabaisse of stocks, bonds and cash savings. Physical objects were turned into tradable currency - houses, power boats, facelifts, coffins and David Bowie. Finance was mimicking installation art; Alan Greenspan admitted to Congress he no longer knew what money was; money had grown more abstract than Greenspan's syntax; if exhibited at the Whitney Museum Biennial, the chairman, stuffed and seated at the FOMC conference table, would win the blue ribbon for coherent symbolism.
The imprimatur of the Fed chairman went a long way to relieving concerns of derivative activity. Congress held hearings during the 1994 derivatives maelstrom. George Soros appeared before the House Banking Committee and stated: "There are so many [derivatives], and some of them are so esoteric, that the risks involved may not be properly understood even by the most sophisticated investors, and I'm supposed to be one of them." After Congress completed its study, Alan Greenspan dismissed it as unnecessary. He described the risk of derivatives as "negligible." Congress chose to believe the testimony of Greenspan and ignore Soros.
Whatever ran through Greenspan's mind (it is not clear if Greenspan understood the consequences of his actions), the Federal Reserve, as the leading bank regulator, held an institutional bias towards expanding the derivatives markets: commoditized and securitized loans relieved banks of default risk on their balance sheets. Given the Fed's regulatory responsibility, this must have been a welcome development. Citicorp might be a poor judge of consumer credit, but it could sell its receivables into the marketplace. The financial institutions were growing larger; derivatives were very profitable and a means to reduce risk at banks; the risks to the financial system mounted. Today, five commercial banks hold over $160 trillion of derivatives with a comparatively microscopic capital allotment. With banks now forced to take the odious derivatives back on their balance sheets, the only clear beneficiaries to all this maneuvering are those who collected fees.
The Fed chairman was ever vigilant in assuring all that derivatives reduced risk.
In May 2003: "Derivatives have permitted financial risks to be unbundled in ways that have facilitated both their measurement and their management.... As a result, not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient."
In April 2005: "[L]enders have taken advantage of credit-scoring models and other techniques for efficiently extending credit to a broader spectrum of consumers.... These improvements have led to rapid growth in subprime mortgage lending."
In May 2005: "The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions."
Henry Kaufman viewed the development differently: "[I]nstitutions with aggressive [derivative] models will get the business and garner the profits. Senior managers will find it more difficult to resist increasing pressures to compete using riskier models, especially if doing so would cause the earnings and stock process to lag behind those of institutions deploying riskier models. Ongoing financial intermediation and balance-sheet leveraging also will continue to support riskier modeling on the near horizon."
In March 2007, before all hell broke loose, Kaufman viewed the preferable solution as impractical: "One [solution] is to let competitive forces discipline market participants. In this scenario, the managers who perform well will prosper, while those who do not will fail. But...[we] typically do not allow the process to follow through when it comes to very large financial institutions. The failure of behemoth financial conglomerates not only exacts enormous social costs, but also poses systemic risks for markets around the world."
During the first quarter of 2007 (December 2006 through February 2007), the balance-sheet assets of Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Bear Stearns rose $237 billion - a 34% annualized growth rate. If sustained over a year, these banks would grow by $1 trillion, in an economy with a $13 trillion GDP. The leverage was enormous, as was that of the hedge funds they financed. The suspicion arises the behemoths have grown from too-big-to-fail to too-big-to-care. The Fed has lost control over the banks it failed to regulate and the credit-creating apparatus it no longer understands.
During Greenspan's recent book tour promotion, the most enterprising interviewer was Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. Stewart, unencumbered with presumptions of how he should think and what he should not say, spoke much as the boy who asked why the emperor wore no clothes:
STEWART: Many people are free-market capitalists, and they always ask about free-market capitalism, and that is our economic theory. So why do we have a Fed? ... [W]ouldn't the market take care of interest rates and all that? Why do we have someone adjusting rates if we are in a free-market society?
GREENSPAN: You're asking a very fundamental question.
STEWART: I am? Should I leave?"
Greenspan convinced his host to both stay and listen to an inaccurate Federal Reserve pep talk. (The former chairman seemed to think the Fed was founded in the 1930s). Stewart was not satisfied with the mumbo-jumbo:
STEWART: So, we're not in a free market then.
GREENSPAN: No. No.
STEWART: There's a... benevolent hand that touches us.
GREENSPAN: Absolutely. You're quite correct.
Proxmire, Kaufman and Stewart alerted their audiences to government interference in the free market. (The Greenspan myth includes a commitment to laissez-faire economics, which is a wholly inaccurate characterization.) In the end, both Proxmire and Kaufman tacitly conceded defeat to the monster they saw so clearly, and that may devour us all. The Banking Committee chairman concluded: "[T]his nomination should result in a slam-bang debate in committee and the floor. It won't, and it is startling, given what you have told us."
At the end of his 2007 speech, Kaufman noted that decisive changes in economic thought only occur after collapse: "In light of this pattern, it seems unlikely that a new economic philosopher will come forth with an integrated economic and financial approach anytime soon. Today's most influential economists have strong vested interests in preserving the integrity and reputation of their views. A lifetime of research and writing is at stake. It is very difficult for any of us to fundamentally alter our views, especially for those who have reached a leadership role."
In other words, the former chairman of the Princeton economics department in unlikely to question the viability of his own institution. The comedian from Comedy Central at least planted the seeds for a new economic philosopher.


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Citizenship All students will be productive members of the community as it reflects the value of American democracy.
Students will: 1. Understand and respect the broad global range of cultures and belief structures2. Appreciate the process and demonstrate civic responsibility of: Voting and/or participating in the political process; Contributing positively to the community; Being good stewards of the environment
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All students will demonstrate the aptitude, attitude, and skills to lead responsible, fulfilling, and respectful lives.
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Anarchy- absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.
Pros- 1. Total freedom. 2. No political disputes.
Cons- 1. Complete chaos. 2. No system of power.
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. - Sid Vicious
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself. - Alan Moore
Examples: There are no governments run by anarchy however there are regions in countries like Greece and Mexico.
Oligarchy- a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
Pros- 1. Multiple opinions. 2. Considers each social status group
Cons- 1. Many arguments. 2. Longer decision process.
As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'll become some sort of oligarchy. - Jason Mraz
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. - Charles de Montesquieu
Examples: Two examples of oligarchies are Venezuela and North Korea.


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I'm not the type to publicly complain to people, but sometimes I jest need to rant. I feel like that's definitely what I use this site for :P
Do you feel like ranting? I feel like ranting today and did so anonymously not too long ago ;D
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New Delhi, Sept. 6: Even as petroleum minister Ram Naik slugs it out with disinvestment minister Arun Shourie over the privatisation of state-run oil companies, a high-powered panel on foreign direct investment headed by Planning Commission member N. K. Singh has recommended opening up oil marketing to 100 per cent FDI.
The report may also bolster disinvestment minister Arun Shouries arguments that security concerns being raised against selling oil PSUs are irrelevant in the new scenario. The Singh committee has said the petroleum regulator could address all security-related concerns and force oil companies, including MNCs to act in the national interest, adding that leaving 26 per cent with Indians to block special resolutions will serve no useful purpose.
The panel also argued that the move to allow greater FDI in various sectors will encourage foreign players who would be attracted to bid for the state-run companies being put up for sale. If a clear signal is given that foreign companies are not only allowed but also encouraged to bid in disinvestment auctions, this could attract a significant amount of FDI, the Singh panel report said.
The panel has argued that 100 per cent foreign investment in the petro sector would not only bring in more hard currency but also increase competition, leading to dissipation of fears of private monopolies replacing state monopoly in the sector.


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The Last Activity Utility was developed by PowerObjects to provide visibility to the last interaction with a client or potential client. In this blog, we'll briefly describe how the Last Activity utility works and then walk through how to configure it to display properly on the CRM record.
How it Works
This great little plugin functions on the lead, account, contact, opportunity and case. It will automatically track the last date associated with any sort of activity such as an Email, phone call, appointment, etc. This plugin actually works for all "activity parties" on an activity. If an Email is addressed to two contacts and tracked in CRM, and then also 'set regarding' an Opportunity, then the Last Activity date will be updated on both the contacts AND the opportunity.
The Last Activity Utility meets a number of business use cases that are frequently needed in CRM. First, you will not only be able to see the last time a record was touched, but it also allows you to query or report based on this information. Users can see if a case has been open for 30 days, but no one has been in touch in the past 15 days. Second, users can see a list of their leads, and sort that based on when the lead was last touched. Lastly, users could also set up workflows to email notifications when a record hasn't been touched in the past week, in the past month, or in the past year.
How to configure the Last Activity Utility
Once the Last Activity Utility has been installed, you will need to configure it to show on the various records in the desired manor.
- Go to your Settings tab and select Customizations
- Click on the Customize the System
3. This will open up a configuration screen where you can configure the 5 Entities that the Last Activity Utility can have fields placed on. This will open up a configuration screen where you can configure the 5 Entities that the Last Activity Utility can have fields placed on.
- Account
- Case
- Contact
- Lead
- Opportunity
4. Click on the expander to the left of Entities
5. Click on the expander to the left of Account
6. Click on Forms
Note: For the purpose of this demo I will be using the out of the box main Account form
8. You can place the Last Activity and Last Activity Date fields anywhere on the form. Generally most clients place these fields on the "Header" section of the form so that as you scroll you always have visibility of the Last Activity and Last Activity Date for the record.
The Header section will not be outlined in blue. This means that this is the active section.
10. On the right side of the form is the Field Explorer section scroll down until you see the two fields we are looking for; Last Activity and Last Activity Date.
11. Click and drag these two fields onto the Header section.
In CRM 2013 you can place up to 4 tiles in the header section in order to utilize the new header layout format. If you place more than 4 field on the header section there will be a warning from CRM saying "Header tiles don't work with the current customizations and will be displayed in compatibility view. With header tiles you can't have more than four fields or multiline fields, and you can't use web resources and inline frames". It is generally advised to keep the header fields at a minimum due to the fact that the header fields do take up the form real estate. Use your best judgment as to how many fields to add to the header section.
Header with 4 or less fields
Header with more than 4 fields (compatibility mode)
12. Once you have your fields placed in the header section, or wherever you decided to place them, click Save then Publish.
There you have it! Now you have eyes on the last activity that has been completed for each of the 5 entities the Last Activity Utility included. PowerObjects is 100% focused on Dynamics CRM. Our full time R&D group often develops various gadgets and tools that have helped overcome little CRM hurdles. Check out more of our PowerUtilities for even more Dynamics CRM fun!
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- self-reflection
- self-control
- humility
- analyzing evidence
- applying information
- thinking critically
ProsStudents become active participants in their education while teachers get valuable feedback on student learning.
ConsCreating presentations can be time consuming, there's very little flexibility within the templates, and it's difficult to preview presentations.
Bottom LineThis effective tool leverages the capabilities of 1-to-1 environments to bring the slideshow presentation format into the 21st century.
From the teacher dashboard, educators can create, edit, preview, launch, and monitor presentations; follow student progress on assignments and assessments; access and download assessment reports; and shop in the Nearpod store for pre-made presentations.
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With a device in their hands, students are able to move through teacher-directed or self-directed interactive presentations. Immediate feedback on assessments and polls increases buy-in.
Interactive features make it possible to deepen the learning during direct instruction; assigning presentations as self-paced assignments empowers students.
The site provides real-time results and reports to monitor student progress and modify instruction. Nearpod support is extensive for all users. The company wants teacher feedback and offers regular webinars and updates on new features.
Teachers can use Nearpod effectively in the classroom to support student learning in a variety of ways. As an assessment tool, Nearpod provides immediate feedback and opportunities for re-teaching. When students receive quiz scores, they can ask questions to clarify errors in their understanding of the content instead of waiting until a paper copy is handed back a week later. As a presentation tool, students move through content at their own pace which allows for differentiation. Teachers may also choose to provide students with different presentations to further individualize instruction. As an interactive tool, students complete polls and results are immediate for classroom discussion. As a homework tool, students access the assignment outside of the classroom on their own device using the free app or or on the website. They respond to open-ended questions that the teacher can review online and use to prepare follow-up lessons based on areas of need. And finally, as an instructional tool, teachers can project student work to the class to discuss, review, or evaluate individual responses.
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Nearpod is the go-to tool for interactive presentations and assessments. At the Nearpod website, teachers create their own multimedia presentations or use a growing library of pre-made offerings (many CCSS aligned and some at a cost). They can upload videos, images, audio clips, and PDF files and can embed multiple-choice quizzes, slide shows, polls, draw-its (students write directly on a slide), and open-ended questions. Teachers launch the presentation and monitor progress either from the website or through the app. Using the Nearpod app on their devices, students input their names to access the content and submit responses.
With Nearpod, teachers can interact with students as they move through the presentations and can view student responses in real time. Students enjoy the opportunity to take ownership of their learning rather than passively viewing a teacher-directed whole-class presentation. Teachers can control the timing or launch homework sessions in which students move through at their own pace. Either way, teachers are aware of who is and who isn't viewing the presentation, which helps with classroom management and reinforces appropriate use of technology in the classroom.Read more Read less
The presentations provide opportunities for skill development across the curriculum and multiple ways to improve student learning. Students can see immediate results when they draw on a map, respond to a poll question, or take a multiple-choice quiz. In addition, students can review key concepts when they watch videos or read over notes. Whether students draw key locations on a map of China, respond to a poll question on tropical forests, watch a video on how to solve a quadratic equation, review notes on the different parts of speech, or submit an open-ended response analyzing a primary document, they're interacting with the content in a meaningful way. For situations where direct instruction is a necessity, Nearpod offers a fantastic way to increase student involvement. It would be nice to see some collaborative features like a backchannel or group annotation capabilities. Also, it would be great if students could make presentations as well (the tool is only set up for teacher creation).
The pre-made presentations, created by certified publishers and educators, are high quality. Many are free, and those that cost are reasonably priced. Highlights include a series of world history presentations for high school students, a Common Core-aligned presentation on quadrilaterals for 4th graders, and a presentation on Newton's Laws for middle school students.Read more Read less
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Journal of the American College of Cardiology
The Simple Arithmetic of Mixed Aortic Valve DiseaseLVH + Volume Load = Trouble
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- Published online May 24, 2016.
Author Information
- Matthew W. Parker, MD and
- Gerard P. Aurigemma, MD∗ (gerard.aurigemma{at}umassmed.edu)
- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, UMass Memorial Healthcare, Worcester, Massachusetts
- ↵∗Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Gerard P. Aurigemma, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, S3-860, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655.
Aortic stenosis (AS) is the prototypical pressure overload lesion. The Gunther-Grossman paradigm of the 1970s dictates that as afterload increases, concentric hypertrophy—increases in left ventricular (LV) mass index and relative wall thickness—normalize systolic load and allow for normal ejection fraction despite markedly increased intraventricular systolic pressure (1). In some individuals, this compensatory process appears to be excessive (2) and can be associated with poor outcome even with aortic valve replacement (AVR) (3). Increasingly, attention has been focused on the malefic consequences for diastolic function of such 'compensatory' hypertrophy (4,5).
Aortic regurgitation (AR), by contrast, is predominantly a volume load lesion but systolic stresses (σ) are high by the law of Laplace (σ = pressure × volume/wall thickness). In chronic severe AR, the need for abnormally large stroke volumes leads to eccentric (fiber elongation) hypertrophy, whereas high systolic pressures of AS stimulate concentric hypertrophy (6).
When AS and AR occur simultaneously—mixed aortic valve disease (MAVD)—the combined loads result in an entirely new phenotype of cardiac remodeling (Figure 1). The ventricle must not only adapt to the elevated afterload presented by the stenotic valve but must also remodel to accommodate an increased stroke volume. We can make an educated guess as to how the heart will remodel when faced with combined pressure and volume load lesions: a left ventricular end-diastolic diameter less than that seen in pure AR (7), but greater than that seen in pure AS (8). Some studies have suggested decreased ventricular function in MAVD (9), but large-scale natural history studies are lacking in adults.
The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Valve Disease Guidelines cite a plethora of large studies about isolated AS, emphasizing the prognostic importance of transaortic peak velocity and onset of symptoms, but only 9 small cohort studies and the "50-55" rule of thumb for asymptomatic severe AR—AVR when the ejection fraction falls below 50% or the LV end-systolic dimension exceeds 55 mm—provide guidance regarding AR. Not surprisingly, data guiding the clinician caring for MAVD patients, arguably a more challenging situation than either lesion alone, are sparse (10).
Severe degrees of both AS and AR rarely coexist (11), at least not for long. The transcatheter aortic valve experience provides evidence of miserable outcomes when hypertrophied ventricles, conditioned for pressure loads and likely containing at least some fibrosis, are exposed to an acute significant AR volume. During short- and intermediate-term follow-up, moderate or severe and possibly even mild AR portend a worse outcome for the hypertrophied ventricle of severe AS (12). By contrast, moderate AS and moderate AR often do coexist, the subject of the interesting paper by Egbe et al. (13) in this issue of the Journal. As noted in the preceding text, very little is known concerning the natural history of MAVD; the cardiac phenotype has not been described, nor has anyone extensively studied outcome with or without AVR. Thus there is clearly a need for contemporary data, especially in view of an aging population (more valve disease) and new transcatheter techniques (more valve therapies). For this reason alone, the report by Egbe et al. merits serious consideration.
In a large cohort of moderate MAVD, studied retrospectively clinically and by echocardiography, Egbe et al. (13) describe the natural history of the mixed lesion and compare that to age- and gender-matched patients with isolated moderate AS, moderate AR, or, most provocatively, severe asymptomatic AS (14). At the time of their initial echocardiographic study, MAVD patients demonstrated a ventricular phenotype with an LV end-diastolic diameter intermediate between pure AS and AR. Mean wall thickness was also highest in the MAVD group (11 mm compared with 9 mm in the moderate AR and 10 mm in both the moderate and severe asymptomatic AS patients). The combination of modest LV end-diastolic diameter enlargement and marked LV wall thickening resulted in the MAVD patients having larger indexed LV mass than patients with either lesion in isolation (13) (Figure 1).
It is worth remembering that in patients with preserved LV ejection fraction, LV mass has proven to be a key predictor of outcomes across a variety of diseases (3,14,15), so that the very high LV mass indexes encountered in this study suggest the possibility of severe combined volume and pressure overload despite the valve lesions being graded as moderate. Interestingly, the rate of cardiac death reported in trials of advanced hypertensive heart disease, which approaches 5% at 5 years in subjects with the highest indexed LV mass (16), was similar to the 5-year rate of cardiac death in the current study of MAVD.
This suggests to us that the high combined event rates during the follow-up period that severe LV hypertrophy is the fundamental issue underlying poor outcome with MAVD, with progression to either symptoms requiring AVR or cardiac death at rates that parallel severe asymptomatic (isolated) AS over median follow-up of 9.1 years. (Similarly high event rates for this patient population have been reported by others [11,17] as shown in Table 1.)
There are some limitations to this study, such as the peculiarly low mean body surface area of this patient population, raising a question about the generalizability of the findings. With a retrospective study, of course, it is hard to know exactly why some patients go on to AVR, whereas others do not, because the clinician's "eyeball" score cannot be quantified. In this study, we are told, the overwhelming majority (89%) of patients who underwent AVR did so because of progression to symptomatic severe AR or severe AS. The remaining minority who underwent AVR did so in the absence of a severe valve lesion and still furnish a valuable lesson: these 19 patients had the largest LV mass in the study (mean relative wall thickness 0.44 and mean indexed LV mass 145 g/m2) and Doppler echocardiographic parameters consistent with advanced diastolic dysfunction were present in all 14 who had complete Doppler evaluation of diastolic filling, suggesting that perhaps clinicians were either concerned about the degree of hypertrophy or that they felt that the echocardiographic parameters were not adequately capturing the degree of stenosis or regurgitation. To us, a subliminal message from these data was that the development of symptoms was driven by diastolic dysfunction. Protocol-driven serial evaluations of diastolic function were not available, but advanced diastolic dysfunction in patients with increased LV mass is common and could explain the development of symptoms in patients with non-severe valve disease.
The authors conclude that surveillance for the patient with MAVD should be modeled on the patient with severe asymptomatic AS, rather than the common adage to follow such a patient on the basis of the more severe of their two lesions. This provocative conclusion in turn raises additional questions. Which parameter, specifically, is to be followed during surveillance? And which modality should be used to follow it? Markedly increased LV mass appears to differentiate MAVD from predominantly stenotic or regurgitant lesions, but at what threshold of LV mass is AVR most likely to be beneficial? Unfortunately, progression of LV mass in relation to progression of the individual valve lesions or symptoms were not collected serially and may be below the resolution of contemporary echocardiography to reliably detect. Serial analyses of LV geometry and mass in parallel with hemodynamic measures of AS and AR, either with echocardiography or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, may lead to better insights than clinically driven interval assessments.
It should be remembered that peak Doppler transaortic systolic velocity integrates both severity of AR and AS and is independently associated with prognosis in pure AS with preserved systolic function (18–20) as well as in MAVD (17). The current report recapitulates the finding by Rashedi et al. (11) that progression in patients with MAVD principally manifests as progression of AS. The authors also report accelerated progression of AS in patients with MAVD when qualitatively comparing with patients with isolated moderate AS. In MAVD, it can be difficult to determine which is progressing, because worsening of both lesions will lead to increasing transaortic valve velocities. This aspect of MAVD is acknowledged by the authors and must also be acknowledged by clinical echocardiographers comparing serial studies, and argues for the calculation of the aortic valve area by the continuity equation when feasible, because this parameter can differentiate between increasing velocity due to increasing stroke volume and increasing velocity due to worsening AS. At the same time, accelerated transvalvular flow may also be responsible for trauma to the aortic valve that leads to fibrosis and calcification (21), which could become a target for medical, rather than surgical, treatments prior to the development of severe, symptomatic disease.
Ultimately, the question of whether patients with MAVD would be better served with a unique indication for AVR can only be answered by a prospective study design. For the present the key clinical message about patients with MAVD should be vigilance. Combined AS and AR is more complex than an isolated lesion, both for ventricle and for the clinician, and precise predictors of symptom onset remain elusive. Careful assessment of LV mass, geometry, diastolic function, as well as parameters of AS and AR, is necessary and may well require multimodality imaging.
↵∗ Editorials published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC or the American College of Cardiology.
Both authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
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