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Today my Europa League ticket arrived. I wasn't expecting this – assumed they'd be loaded onto S/T as usual – but the early start must have some impact on how these things are implemented. How exciting anyway, the new season underway and I'll be there.
I'll also be at the Olympics, but only just. We, like many people, went in for the initial ballot. Wary of over-committing ourselves (they said to make sure you had funds available for tickets you applied for) we registerd for £120 worth of tickets, something we could afford for a special occasion like this.
Later it turns out that to actually get to see something you want to see you probably had to apply for something between £1,000 and £3,000 worth of tickets (this is what the lucky few who I've met seem to have put up). People seem to be missing this in the "is it fair?" debates. Yes, Sebastian Coe, of course not everyone can expect to see the events – the sums don't add up – but it just so happens that the most likely to see the games are those who had £3,000+ available in case they won all their tickets. It's an Olympic games for the wealthy.
So Lord (!) Coe goes on tv and explains how fair it all is under the circumstances and explains how they're doing all they can to give people a 'second chance'. Well we got up at 6 this morning and after clicking through the Judo and the Handball and the Synchronised Swimming decided that it wasn't for us. Only some events are child friendly (e.g. you don't have to pay full price for a one year old to go (!)) and those were all sold out anyway, even for sports we weren't remotely interested in (is that our own fault then? Being so choosy? Maybe, it's a tricky issue. Ultimately we didn't want to watch the walking or the women's weightlifting; maybe this invalidates my whole rant, I don't know).
So….. my sister proposed that we might join her and her boyfriend at the women's football semi-final at Wembley. Stanley can go for £1 (it'd be £30 for the final) and at least it means we'll have seen some Olympics. We'll go with Sarah and Dave, semi-finals are often more exciting than finals anyway, and the standard should be pretty good. I'm sure I can get Stan a tacky Olympic sun-visor or something.
I'm aware that there's a sense of entitlement to what I'm writing. In years gone by people wouldn't think twice about not being able to go to the games. People would accept that tickets are scarce and not everyone can get them and well, good luck to those who manage. But there's something about the way it's been sold to us, particularly in London: yes, we've wasted billions on two weeks of sport, but at least you can enjoy it when it's here. They Olympics! In London! Yay us. And then the time comes and actually you can't go after all but Sebastian Coe's done his best and we're all very sorry but it was a ballot after all and ballots are fair aren't they? No, not if some can have far more entries than others, they're not. (And I didn't get upset when for a long time I couldn't get Germany 2006 World Cup tickets because the system seemed perfectly fair: tickets were pricey, but those who were well prepared and then prepared to persevere were rewarded with tickets (as were we eventually: Iran v Angola and Ukraine v Saudi Arabia! But we were there and we had fun).)
To put the tin lid on it, I read tonight that Bradley Wiggins is struggling for tickets:
Wiggins also directed his ire at the "shambles" of an Olympic ticketing process during which he has been luckless. "It's a shame really, isn't it? Coming from London and growing up in London you'd always sort of imagine that your family would be able to watch you in the velodrome, win a gold medal. Obviously that's not to be at the moment.
"So it is a shame and I'm now looking at maybe doing the individual road time trial just so they can poke their heads over the barriers and watch, because that's free of course.
"We're just the athletes. I think we're low down the list in the whole thing. I think the whole corporate thing is probably obviously what pays for the Olympics and I think that's where most of it has gone."
It's been a complete fuck up. We'll enjoy the women's football and will watch what we can on TV, but until the feelgood factor hits us (and you can be sure that the government and every commercial entity in the British Isles will be feeding us happy vibes by whatever means possible, fair or foul) I'm going to remain my usual grumpy self.
I was going to go the full Daily Mail and suggest that it sums up the country today, but instead let's take this as an opportunity to praise football. Football gets a lot of stick – rightly – but generally is well organised and fan-orientated. Seriously, I know people get upset about stewarding and pricing and Monday night fixtures, but these issues seem trifling compared to the Olympic fiasco. I can't wait for the season to start. The Premier League is far from Olympian in its values and it is a complete shower on so many levels, but at least it is inclusive and does bring a lot of joy to those of us it is openly ripping off.


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Cisco WebEx Meetings Review
Cisco WebEx Meetings web conferencing emphasizes flexibility, giving businesses plenty of options in terms of how they want their meeting space to look and how they want to connect to it. Some of their high-end plans are a little expensive, however.
The Good
Solutions for businesses of all sizes
If you're working with a small team or hosting a one-on-one meeting with a client, you don't have to pay anything to use Cisco WebEx Meetings. The Free plan includes all of the major sharing and collaboration tools found in the pay plans; however, the number of participants is restricted to three or fewer in each meeting. WebEx's Premium plans offer the same range of features for small, medium, and large businesses. The only difference is the capacity of the meeting space: Choose from eight, 25, or 100 people per meeting. If decide you need to support a lower or higher capacity even after you sign up, you can upgrade or downgrade your plan accordingly.
Design the space with customizable layouts
Cisco WebEx's meeting spaces offer several different tabs, which you can move or delete to create a layout that works best for you. The Quick Start tab is where files and screen recordings appear. It's the largest tab in the initial setup, but that is easily changed by dragging it to the side. Doing this also makes the right sidebar larger, which is where you find the participants list, webcam feeds, chat box, and recording tools. Each of these can be minimized, enlarged, or closed entirely depending on their importance. Every file or whiteboard you share is kept open in its own tab across the top until you close it, so it's easy to switch back and forth between multiple documents. Few web conferencing software offer this flexibility within the meeting space. It is a simple way to help focus your participants' attention on what is most important and improve productivity during your meeting. Keep this in mind while conducting your research.
Free for small teams
Cisco WebEx Meetings offers a free web conferencing plan that enables you to host an unlimited number of meetings with three participants or less. There's no time constraints on the length of the meetings you host, and you have access to almost all the same tools as the pay plans. This makes the WebEx Free plan a viable option for small teams who want a powerful online meeting space but don't have a large budget. For the first 14 days after you sign up, you also can test WebEx Premium, which enables you to host meetings of up to 25 attendees and provides HD-video capability and the option to dial in from a landline. After the trial period, you have the choice to upgrade your plan or continue to use the Free plan.
Easy to follow up after meetings
Once your meeting is finished, head over to the My Reports section of your account to view important data and attendance records from your meeting. This is also where you send follow-up emails to your participants. Click on the list of attendees and choose Send Thank You Email, then customize the messages and hit send. If some attendees were unable to make it to your meeting, you can send follow-up emails to keep them in the loop. Choose Send Follow-Up Email and write your message. Let them know what happened during the meeting and attach important documents that were discussed.
Full-featured mobile tools
Cisco WebEx's mobile apps enable you to host meetings from your smartphone or tablet. Schedule meetings as you would from your computer and, when it's time to start, click Join. During the meeting, you'll see all webcam feeds, hear what other participants are saying, chat privately or with the group, and view important files or presentations. Mobile apps are available for Apple, Android, Windows, and BlackBerry devices. Connect to your WebEx meetings while on Wi-Fi or use 3G or 4G. Mobile tools like these are valuable if you or your team members travel frequently and need a simple way to stay connected with what's happening at the office.
Have your meeting call you
WebEx Premium customers have the option to add the Call Me service to their plan for an additional fee. This is a unique tool that calls you when your meeting is about to start, so you don't have to remember to connect on your own. Once a meeting is scheduled, you enter the phone number you want your WebEx call to direct to. Then simply answer the call and jump right into the meeting; no passcode is required. WebEx charges a per-minute fee for the Call Me service, but there are also monthly subscription packages that include a set amount of minutes, which might be better if you plan on using this feature frequently.
The Bad
High-end plans are somewhat pricey
While Cisco WebEx Meetings offers some affordable plans for smaller teams, larger organizations may find the plans to be expensive. The Premium 100 plan is about $90 per month, which is above average for the industry. WebEx offers significant discounts to customers who pay annually rather than monthly. They offer one of the best web conferencing services out there, so you'll get your money's worth, but it might be more than some can afford.
The Details
- Contract Length: Month-to-Month, Annual
- Free Trial: 14 days
- Max Number of Participants: 100
- Monthly Price: $0 - $89
- Simultaneous Video Feeds: 7
- Storage Space: 1GB
WebEx Free
- Monthly Rate: $0
- Max Number of Participants: 3
- Simultaneous Video Feeds: 3
- Storage Space: 1GB
WebEx Meeting Premium 8
- Monthly Rate: $19 - $24
- Max Number of Participants: 8
- Simultaneous Video Feeds: 7
- Storage Space: 1GB
WebEx Meeting Premium 25
- Monthly Rate: $39 - $49
- Max Number of Participants: 25
- Simultaneous Video Feeds: 7
- Storage Space: 1GB
WebEx Meeting Premium 100
- Monthly Rate: $69 - $89
- Max Number of Participants: 100
- Simultaneous Video Feeds: 7
- Storage Space: 1GB
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Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Welcome to the Allset Platform
Allset Technologies, Inc., doing business as Allset ("we" or "Allset" or "Company"), provides a mobile payment and customer rewards platform and related services ("Services" or "Allset Services"), and provides and/or enables related mobile applications, software applications, websites, and microsites ("Apps" or "Allset Apps"), for use by you ("User") to make payments for goods and/or services and participate in merchant incentive and rewards programs ("Campaigns") at physical and/or online points-of-sale ("POS"), among other available functions. Allset provides access to these Services and Apps, including this App, subject to your acceptance of all of the following Terms and Conditions ("User Terms" or "Agreement").
By accessing, downloading, copying, and/or using a Allset App, including this App, and/or the Services, you agree to these User Terms. THESE USER TERMS CREATE A BINDING LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND ALLSET, AND INCLUDE AN ARBITRATION CLAUSE UNDER WHICH CERTAIN CLAIMS MAY NOT BE BROUGHT IN COURT OR DECIDED BY A JURY. PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY.
1. Definitions
1.1. When the following words are used in these Terms, this is what they will mean:
App: the mobile application created by Allset which allows a User to locate a Venue, open a Order at a Venue and pay for their purchases at the Venue.
Stripe: a PCI DSS compliant payment gateway to store, process and transmit a User's credit or debit card payment data.
Device: a User's mobile telephone, smartphone or handheld device.
Intellectual Property Rights: means (without limitation) any patents, rights to inventions, copyright and related rights, trade-marks and service marks, goodwill and the right to sue for passing off, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, rights to use, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications and rights to apply for and be granted, renewals or extensions of, and rights to claim priority from, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which subsist or will subsist now or in the future in any part of the world.
Notification: the email/push sent from Allset to a User.
Allset: Allset Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation 1811 Silverside Road, Wilmington, DE 19810 doing business as Allset.
Order: the digital medium through which User(s) confirm their use of the App, the Venue communicates to the User(s) the total amount payable by any customers of the Venue in a particular group and through which the User(s) can pay a proportion of the total amount.
Order Holder: the person in whose name the Order is opened.
Terms: the terms and conditions set out in this document.
User(s): customers who sign up with Allset and download and use the App.
Venue: a restaurant or bar which supports the App.
Website: the website http://allsetnow.com
1.2. The words "writing" or "written" in these Terms will include e-mail, unless specified otherwise.
1.3. These are the terms and conditions on which Allset supplies the App to you.
1.4. By downloading the App from the Website you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms and the license contained within them, including the Allset Privacy policy. We may at any time modify these Terms.
1.5. These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Delaware.
2. Signing up
2.1. Sign up to Allset will not be confirmed until the following information has been provided and verified by Allset and Stripe:
2.1.1. - first name and surname;
2.1.2. - valid credit or debit card details.
2.2. To ensure the required level of payment security, Allset currently uses Stripe to collect payments from Users on behalf of Venues. Allset reserves the right to change its payment provider at its discretion, provided any such payment provider meets the security compliance level above.
2.3. Upon confirmation of the details in 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 above, Users will be connected to Allset to complete the sign up details by providing credit or debit card details. Stripe will verify the credit or debit card details prior to confirming the User. If the credit or debit cards cannot be verified by Stripe, Allset reserves the right to refuse the User access to the App.
2.4. Users can import the relevant information in 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 above from social networking accounts on Facebook. Users consent to the use of their personal information, including profile photographs, if they follow this course of action.
2.5. You can only have one Allset account at any time. We do not allow Users to have multiple accounts for the same individual. Attempting to and/or establishing multiple accounts for the same user (even if such accounts are registered with different profiles, emails, phone numbers, payment methods, and etc.) violates this Agreement. We reserve the right to take corrective action at our sole discretion (including but not limited to suspending or terminating Service and/or deleting accounts) in the event you attempt to and/or establish multiple accounts with us.
3. Using the App
3.1. Allset will supply the App to you from the date that the details in clause 2 are confirmed.
3.2. Allset will make every effort to ensure the App is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, there may be issues or delays due to events outside Allset' control.
3.3. Allset may have to suspend the App if it has to deal with technical problems, or to make improvements. Allset will contact you to let you know in advance where this occurs, unless the problem is urgent or an emergency. This does not affect your obligation to pay any outstanding amounts on open Orders (as may be notified to the Users by Allset).
3.4. In the unlikely event that there is any defect with the App:
- please contact Allset as soon as reasonably possible;
- please give Allset a reasonable opportunity to repair or fix any defect;
Allset will use every effort to repair or fix the defect as soon as reasonably practicable. You will not have to pay for Allset to repair or fix a defect with the App under this clause 3.4.
- please contact Allset as soon as reasonably possible;
- please give Allset a reasonable opportunity to repair or fix any defect;
Allset will use every effort to repair or fix the defect as soon as reasonably practicable. You will not have to pay for Allset to repair or fix a defect with the App under this clause 3.4.
4. Merchant Incentive and Reward Campaigns; Campaign Credit
4.1. When you pay with your Allset User Account at a merchant POS, you participate automatically in any promotional campaigns offered by Allset' merchant partners, and/or third-party partners, such as loyalty reward programs, refer-a-friend programs, product incentive programs, etc. ("Campaigns"), and earn automatically any merchant-offered rewards, incentives, or discounts ("Merchant Credit") and/or third-party-offered incentives, rewards, or discounts ("3rd Party Credit") associated with your transaction. Allset will also automatically redeem any Merchant or 3rd Party Credit previously awarded at the time of purchase at the participating merchant's POS in accordance with the terms of such Campaign. Merchant or 3rd Party Credit applied to the purchase will be deducted from the transaction amount charged by Allset as part of the authorized charge to the payment instrument(s) associated with your User Account.
4.2. Promotional Campaigns, and Merchant or 3rd Party Credit associated with such Campaigns, are offered by the merchant or funding third party alone (and not by Allset) and the offering parties are responsible for setting applicable rules, including the expiration of any Merchant or 3rd Party Credit, and compliance with such rules. Any complaints concerning any merchant's or third party's failure to award or redeem Merchant or 3rd Party Credit according to any Campaign may be sent to Allset at: email@example.com. While Allset may, in its discretion, attempt to resolve any complaints concerning a person's failure to award or redeem Merchant or 3rd Party Credit, Allset is not responsible for such person's failure to award or redeem Credit for any reason.
4.3. The merchant shall be solely responsible for the goods and/or service provided by such merchant, including the quality of the goods and services, and, any claims, liabilities, injuries, losses or damages you may suffer in connection with the goods or services, your participation in any Campaign, and/or any unclaimed property liability arising from unredeemed Merchant Credit, or any portion thereof. Merchants may choose to discontinue a Campaign at any time. Allset also reserves the right to terminate a merchant's Campaign at any time.
4.4. Merchant or Third Party Credit associated with any merchant loyalty programs has no cash value. You have no property interest in any Merchant or Third Party Credit. If a Campaign is terminated for any reason, or if your User Account is suspended or terminated for any reason, any existing Merchant or 3rd Party Credit will expire immediately.
4.5. Redemption or application of Merchant or 3rd Party Credit for alcoholic beverages is at the sole discretion of the merchant, and is subject to (and may be limited by) merchant's compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Merchants may refuse to apply Merchant or 3rd Party Credit to delivery, processing or handling fees, or taxes or gratuities.
5. Promotions and Credits
5.1. Allset may, in its sole discretion, create promotional codes that may be redeemed for account credit or other features or benefits related to our Services or services provided by Restaurants or other third parties, subject to terms that Allset establishes, including without limitation, on a per promotional code basis ("Promo Codes"). You agree that Promo Codes: (1) must be used for the intended audience and purpose, and in a lawful manner; (2) may not be duplicated, sold or transferred in any manner, including, without limitation, between accounts, or made available to the general public, unless expressly permitted by Allset; (3) may be disabled by Allset at any time for any reason without liability to Allset; (4) may only be used pursuant to the specific terms that Allset establishes for such Promo Code(s); (5) are not valid for cash; and (6) may expire prior to your use. We reserve the right to suspend your Account withhold or deduct credits or other features or benefits obtained through the use of Promo Codes by you or any other user in the event that we determine or believe that the use or redemption of the Promo Code was in error, fraudulent, illegal, or in violation of the applicable Promo Code terms or these Terms.
6. Venue
6.1. When you enter the Venue you acknowledge that any purchases you make are the subject of a contract between you and the Venue. All queries or orders should be directed to staff at the Venue.
6.2. Users are required to open a new Order at every Venue:
- Each Order is in the name of a single Order Holder;
- Additional Users may be invited by the Order Holder to join the Order.
- Each Order is in the name of a single Order Holder;
- Additional Users may be invited by the Order Holder to join the Order.
6.3. It is the Order Holder's responsibility to ensure that the Order is accurate and reflects the goods purchased from the Venue. Allset is not responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Order. Any queries or issues with the total of the Order should be directed to the Venue. Allset' obligation is only to facilitate the payment of the amount shown on the Order.
6.4. All Users can use the App to apportion amounts of payments, but it is the responsibility of the Order Holder to ensure that the full amount is settled. A Venue will not close an Order until it has been settled in full.
6.5. It is the Order Holder's responsibility that any and all Users on the Order are at the Venue at the time for which the Order is scheduled. The Order Holder agrees to be the Venue at the time for which the Order is scheduled when he or she clicks "Place Order" on the App. Allset is not responsible for any additional charges the Order Holder may incur from the Venue due to being late to the time when the Order is scheduled.
7. Liability
7.1. The Order Holder is responsible for ensuring that the full amount of the Order is paid, regardless of whether there are items that were ordered by people not using the App. If there is any amount outstanding on the Order, the Order Holder will have that amount automatically deducted from his/her credit or debit cards, plus a $1.5 surcharge, including any VAT and/or additional charges incurred by the Venue. Allset is not liable to cover any outstanding amounts on an Order.
7.2. The Order Holder is solely responsible for any and all charges incurred at the Venue placed or incurred outside of the App.
8. Refunds
8.1. Allset will not process a refund unless it is verified by the relevant Venue. The following actions must be taken by the User immediately following payment of an incorrect amount (Incorrect Payment):
- The User must inform the Venue that they have made an Incorrect Payment;
- The User must ensure that the Venue verifies the Incorrect Payment by immediately recording the Incorrect Payment with Allset, as part of its reporting obligations under Venue's Terms and Conditions with Allset;
- Within 48 Hours of the Notification, the User must request a refund in a free form by email and send it at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- The User must inform the Venue that they have made an Incorrect Payment;
- The User must ensure that the Venue verifies the Incorrect Payment by immediately recording the Incorrect Payment with Allset, as part of its reporting obligations under Venue's Terms and Conditions with Allset;
- Within 48 Hours of the Notification, the User must request a refund in a free form by email and send it at email@example.com.
8.2. A Refund Request received outside the 48-hour period will not be accepted unless there are exceptional circumstances. Allset reserves the right to refuse any Refund Request that is not verified by the relevant Venue.
8.3. Once a Refund Request is approved, Allset will contact the User and refund to their credit or debit cards (such refund may incur a 3%-10% fee).
9. Intellectual Property Rights
9.1. In consideration of you agreeing to abide by these Terms, Allset grants you a non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the App on the Device, subject to these terms, the Privacy Policy and any other applicable rules. Allset reserves all other rights.
9.2. You may download or stream a copy of the App onto your Device, to view, use and display the App on the Device for your personal purposes only.
9.3. You acknowledge that all Intellectual Property Rights in the App anywhere in the world belong to Allset or its licensors, that rights in the App are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in, or to, the App, other than the right to use it in accordance with these Terms. You acknowledge that you have no right to have access to the App in source-code form.
10. How we may use your personal information
10.1. You provide us with information when you sign up to Allset. Allset will also collect information from all of its Users about their use of the App. Any information on Users or their use of the App is subject to Allset Privacy Policy. By using Allset, you consent to use of that information and warrant that all information provided by you is accurate.
10.2. You may be offered the option to link one or more social networking profiles to your profile or Allset. Where you link a profile, you authorize Allset to post updates on your activities on Allset to your linked social networking profile.
11. Termination
11.1. We may at any time, under any circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your account and/or access to the Allset Services. Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to: (a) violations of these Terms of Use; (b) a request by you to cancel or terminate your account; (c) discontinuance or material modification to the Service or any part thereof; (d) a request and/or order from law enforcement, a judicial body, or other government agency; (e) provision of the Allset Services to you becoming unlawful; (f) unexpected technical or security issues or problems; or (g) your participation in fraudulent or illegal activities. Any such termination or suspension shall be made by us in our sole discretion, without any refund to you of any prepaid fees or amounts, and we will not be responsible to you or any third party for any damages that may result or arise out of such termination or suspension of your account and/or access to the Allset Services. If you want to terminate your account, you may notify Allset in writing via email at email@example.com.
12. Other important terms
12.1. Allset may transfer its rights and obligations under these Terms to another organization, and will always notify you in writing if this happens, but this will not affect your rights or its obligations under these Terms.
12.2. You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if We agree in writing.
12.3. This contract is between you and Allset. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
12.4. Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
12.5. If Allset fails to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if it does not enforce its rights against you, or if it delays in doing so, that will not mean that it has waived its rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If Allset does waive a default by you, it will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that it will automatically waive any later default by you.
Last updated on: June 14, 2017


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Mike joined the association January 1, 2016. A former Hancock County executive, 1990-2002, Mike served out a two-year unexpired term as a general session judge in his county.
Mike served in the General Assembly beginning in 2002, resigning in December 2015. In addition to being chair of House Finance Subcommittee, he also served as a member of House Finance, Ways & Means, and a member of both the House Health Committee and the Joint Pensions & Insurance Committee. A member of the 103rd through 109th General Assemblies, he attended Walter State Community College and East Tennessee State University.
Representative Harrison will be limited in his ability to lobby the Administration and legislature for a one-year period, beginning the day he leaves. State law prohibits retiring legislators from lobbying the General Assembly for 12 months after leaving the Senate or House.


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can i get it :/ :)
you can send as many mail as you want to as many email you want in plain text or html in just 1 click and it is fast
It looks cool but it's the exact same as a normal email. You can send a normal email to a massive amount of people


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(3 month internship)
We are looking for a motivated individual with excellent communication skills and attention to detail to join the Fair team during the core marketing campaign. Responsibilities will include artist and partner liaison, programming assistance, assistance with distributing Fair invitiations, the management of the Fair's RSVP lists, and general office management. The internship will include working onsite during the Fair.
Candidates must be motivated, have excellent communication skills attention to detail, show initiative, have an interest in the arts and working directly with artists.
Please submit a current CV and covering letter to:
Zoe Paulsen
Onsite Fair Volunteer
Melbourne 2018
We are looking for motivated individuals to join our onsite team for the duration of the fair. Volunteers work closely with our artists, operations team and partners. The role is varied and exciting, providing valuable experience for anyone interested in events and contemporary art. Responsibilities include hosting and event support, liaising with visitors and partners, and social media assistance.
You will be required to be onsite during the fair. All expenses will be covered.
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In 2013, we launched the Hall Capital Full Consequence Investing® ("FCI") initiative to further our commitment to sustainable investing and more completely address our clients' needs in this area. FCI is led by senior members of executive, research and portfolio management teams.
This initiative furthers our commitment to long-term, sustainable investing while more completely addressing our clients' needs and priorities.
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What's more inspiring than deep space images of nebulae and space fog?
How about a single quote from Blade Runner?
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Yep, that's all it takes.
About "C-Beams"
I too want to see C-beams glitter in the dark. Unfortunately, it's not likely this will happen any time soon, so all I could do was imagine what that looked like. So that's what I did this month.
Painting home-made nebulae has been on my to-do list for quite a while. I even had some early mockups that weren't worth using. Since I am in a bit of a hurry this month (I'm leaving for Sweden in 45 minutes, although that'll be 3 days ago when you read this), I picked up this mockup and did some things to it.
Those things involved using that Photoshop filter no-one uses (Render > Clouds) on a selection in a channel. The end result actually somewhat resembles space fog. Add to that a scattebrush that paints stars, and you have this months installment.
I want to write more about this, but time is of the essence. Enjoy, and leave me a comment or two and I'll get back to you when I get home.
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Update: Fred Willard handles this as only Fred Willard can. On the Fallon show:
Fred Willard might just be one of our favorite actors, and not just because he's a Shaker Heights native. The Guest-movie mainstay, however, does not get a pass on this one.
Police arrested him at a Hollywood-area adult theater for "lewd" activities, which means he had taken little Willard out for a playdate in public, which is not OK.
The 72-year-old was released shortly after without posting bail, according to the AP.
The manager of the porn hall came out today and proclaimed that Willard did nothing wrong, wasn't jackin' it, and that cops were just being over-antsy puritanical worrywarts, according to the NYDN. Our completely made-up sources say one of the officers vaguely resembled Carl Monday.
Let me ask you something. How many times do you think I can stroke it? Take a guess.
A fun sidenote in the all the hoopla over Randy Lerner probably selling the Cleveland Browns:
ProFootballTalk, the highly read NBC football blog, posted Mayor Frank Jackson's statement about today's news. Alongside a picture of Michael Stanley. It's been changed now, but screengrabbed below for posterity.
OK, readers: Stanley or Jackson. Cast your vote.
The rumors have been around for a couple of months now, and they hit a high mark when WKNR's Tony Rizzo blasted them out on the airwaves this morning. Is Randy Lerner looking to sell the Browns?
Turns out, the answer is yes. Though right now the language used by the team, which confirmed the rumors, is veering toward "investment."
Mr. Lerner released this statement this morning:
"In connection with current rumors and press inquiries, I can report that I've been approached by Mr. Jimmy Haslam, who is interested in making an investment in the Cleveland Browns. We are currently in negotiations and both sides have agreed to keep that dialogue and its details private. Given that any transaction would require League approval, care has been taken so that this process will not be disruptive to the organization, in particular the football team, as it prepares for the upcoming season. We will share further details or make an announcement if it becomes necessary."
Haslam is the CEO of the Pilot Corporation.
Haslam previously was an investor of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
All-around swell guy and relentlessly creative soul Derek Hess posted some photos of his booking calendar from back in the day when he was bringing bands to play the Euclid Tavern. The shot below, from 1992, has a few interesting tidbits, including Green Day's Wednesday-night show where the group pulled a sweet $100 for stopping by the venerable Cleveland institution. Just fabulous. (Via the AV Club)
Between Obama vs. Romney for President, Brown vs. Mandel for Senator, and Goldhammer vs. Lima for Best Saturday Morning Sports Talker, Cleveland's docket of important decisions this fall is brimming like Frank Russo's closet. With Ohio's swing-state status, that has meant an avalanche of political ads popping up on your TV during commercial breaks of Maury.
According Wells Fargo and the Washington Post (via NewsNet5), Cleveland's now far and away the number one target of political ad dough, outpacing L.A. Over $17 million of funds had been dumped square in the 216 demographic through June, and millions more have funneled in through July, all helpfully boiling down complex issues like the economy into 30-second bits of misinformation and flame-throwing. Lucky us.
Some of the down and dirty numbers:
The L.A. dollars dried up in July, while the Cleveland spending did not, increasing another $2.7 million from June 24 through July 8 pushing the northern Ohio media market into a tie for first with L.A. with $20.5 million each, according to the Wells Fargo data.
Beyond that, the Washington Post's analysis of campaign spending shows in the two weeks since July 8 an additional $2.3 million has been spent in Cleveland, none in Los Angeles giving Cleveland the clear front runner status for dollars spent on television.
"I think Ohio is one of a handful, maybe even two or three states," said President Barack Obama in a July 16, interview with Newschannel5, "where if we win here, we're likely to win."
As a result, both camps are fighting hard for the state and the Cleveland television market provides them with the opportunity to reach a third of the voters who will cast ballots this November.
Through July 8, the Wells Fargo report finds $648 million had been spent on television nationwide with that number expected to balloon to $2.65 billion by campaign's end.
Money, perhaps, better spent on buying everyone a lollipop. Or, ya know, rethinking campaign finance. One or the other.
In a bit of good news: Goldhammer and Lima seem to have waged the most honorable campaigns so far.
No doubt about it. Slipknot stole the show at all-metal Mayhem Fest, which touched down at Blossom yesterday. The band's music might not provide much in the way of artistry (it's the aural equivalent of getting hit by a baseball bat on the head), but the guys can certainly command the stage. They were the loudest and heaviest act to play during the course of the 10-hour metal fest. And that's saying plenty since they went up against a long line of heavy hitters. The masked men made the most of their multi-tiered stage as they ran through what appeared to be choreographed set and literally ignited a series of high-octane explosions. Their bright red jumpsuits looked sharp — even from the lawn area, the band's visual display was striking.
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Stroke Research
Researchers in the UK studied ways in which one can predict which people who had a TIA (a so-called mini stroke) will go on to get a larger stroke during 7 days after they had a TIA.
Scientists at the University of Newscastle in New South Wales have been trialling a form of CAT scanning of the brain, using an injection of dye, which helps to make the diagnosis of stroke more accurately.
Researchers in the US looked at methods of rehabilitation for patients who suffered a stroke.
Plus a personal story of a stroke survivor.
Norman Swan: This morning on the Health Report getting both sides of the brain working to help people recover from a stroke. Finding out just when the tom-toms might be beating telling you that you might be at risk of a stroke. Australian research finding better ways to scan the brain when the tom-toms have missed their beat and a remarkable story of recovery.
We tend to think of strokes, acute brain injuries caused by something going wrong with the blood supply to the brain, as being a problem we'll face when we're old. Well plenty younger people have strokes and one of them was literary editor of the Observer newspaper in London, who's just passed the tenth anniversary of the stroke he had when he was 42.
From a day when Robert McCrum had to slide himself down the stairs of his home lying upside down on the landing for hours - to today - has been a long trip. Robert has a book about his experience and recently, marking the ten year point, he wrote an article talking about how he's fallen into the role of an advocate for people just like him.
But let's go back to that day a decade ago. Robert McCrum.
Robert McCrum: Well it was the 28th July, 1995 and I'd been out for the evening and I came home, my legs were very heavy and I was feeling a little under the weather, I'd just got married and my wife was away in America that day and I made myself a cup of tea and went to bed. And when I woke up the following morning I was paralysed down my left side and unable to move.
Norman Swan: What did you think it was?
Robert McCrum: Well I had no idea actually. At the time that I was drifting in and out of consciousness I thought I'd had some kind of sort of sudden brain tumour or something.
Norman Swan: You were 42?
Robert McCrum: I was 42 yeah. And then in the course of that Saturday I managed to get myself from the bed to a telephone that was downstairs. It was all rather horrendous. I had to go down the stairs face forward which if I'd known then what I know now I would have been terrified. I just sort of blindly followed the kind of survival instinct to get to a phone.
Norman Swan: And this took you hours didn't it?
Robert McCrum: It took me all day. Interestingly, I didn't call up the emergency services, I called my family and I could hardly speak. The stroke had occurred in that part of the brain which operates speech. But I managed to get a message out to my brother and he came and rescued me. And then the nightmare began because I than became aware of what had happened because people told me and nobody thought I would survive. On the whole one third of strokes are fatal, one third cause very, very severe and prolonged disability and one third like mine are ones from which you recover. But it was a terrific shock and I spent the subsequent year in and out of hospital, gradually getting better.
Norman Swan: And in hospital what did they tell you?
Robert McCrum: Those first three days really are a blur now. I've written about it in the book because I managed to reconstruct it with the help of my wife and family. But all I can remember is being given a choice of hospitals. Now Queen Square where I ended up is one of the world centres of neurological treatment and I was very fortunate to fall into the hands of some of the best people in the business who were able to oversee my recovery. That was a stroke of fortune really.
Norman Swan: Tell me about the process of recovery because nowadays you have a stroke, they call it a brain attack, you go in, they jump on you, it's almost like having a heart attack, they do all sorts of things to you. Those were still, even ten years ago, the bad old days when you were really left in a bed.
Robert McCrum: Yes, you were sort of left to sort yourself out really. And in some parts of England you'd be better off seeing the vet. You were sort of left to kind of figure it out for yourself and there's a lot of hanging around and after a bit you got physiotherapy. What they really wanted to do was to see whether you'd survive. And once you get past the danger period which is the first sort of two or three days and you aren't going to conk out again then, they start to get interested.
I couldn't stand up, I couldn't do anything at all, hardly speak, totally paralysed down the left side and very depressed of course. Then finally I went home after about three months.
Norman Swan: And what sort of rehabilitation did they give you?
Robert McCrum: Oh physio, quite intense actually which is very important. I mean you talk about the change that's come people talk about brain attack and so forth. When I had a stroke, the view in medicine was that the brain didn't really regenerate and now the view is there is something called plasticity which says that the brain had a capacity to rewire. And in my case that's certainly the case. I mean was unable to move my left side and I can now and as I'm talking to you I'm waving my fingers about and they work perfectly OK.
Norman Swan: You've written about the problem of getting a prognosis, people telling you what's going to happen. What were you told?
Robert McCrum: Well they are very pessimistic. Since the outlook of most stroke sufferers is very poor they do paint a pretty bleak picture. I was told by one doctor that I'd spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair which is pretty depressing. And even the very good ones were very reluctant to give me any sort of prognosis. One of the reasons I wrote the book was just to tell people if they survive that actually things weren't necessarily so bad. You could recover.
Norman Swan: Tell me what was going on inside your head psychologically and - importantly - your wife?
Robert McCrum: It was a very difficult period, very difficult. I was very depressed, one of the things that people don't go into much about strokes is how depressed you become, I was very tearful and pretty angry I think. My wife who I had only married two or three months before, had to bear the brunt of this and it was very difficult. The fact that we came through has been a great strength in our marriage but it was a difficult time and again one of the things that people don't talk about is the very important role that can be played by the family. Family and friends, particularly family, are very important in the recovery process, without that I think stroke tends to come with divorce, redundancy, unemployment, disability and human breakdown. I didn't experience it myself but I have observed it and it's a bleak picture.
Norman Swan: So you see people splitting up after the one partner ................
Robert McCrum: Yes, it really is quite common.
Norman Swan: Describe what your wife had to do for you in the process of recovery.
Robert McCrum: One of the problems is you become something of a monster of dependency. You know she had to bring me meals in bed, had to bath me, get me dressed, all the stuff that you take for granted, when you have a stroke you can't do those things anymore.
Norman Swan: Had your personality changed, had you become irascible?
Robert McCrum: I was pretty grumpy, and as I say I was pretty angry too. But I was in a pretty bad mood. Probably because the future seemed so bleak really. And after about the first six months it improved dramatically as I say the rewiring began and I began to kind of perk up but it was very tough to start with.
Norman Swan: And where was that anger directed?
Robert McCrum: I suppose you know those closest to you really and then miraculously I went back to work in a very feeble way, I was then working for a publisher Faber and Faber and I went back to do that, I wasn't doing it at all well. One of the things that I experienced was terrific fatigue. One of the things that people don't talk about is after a stroke you tend to get terrible fatigue and the smallest thing can make you very, very tired. So doing a job was very, very difficult; it's quite a stressful job at the best of times. I really wasn't up to it and miraculously I was offered this job at the Observer which I very much credit with my convalescence. The Observer which is very high pressure in many ways, created an environment for me in which I could be literary editor which enabled me to gradually find my way back into the world. It was a slow business, it was a very painful business, I still write with only one hand.
Norman Swan: Can you remember the day when it first dawned on you that things might be coming back?
Robert McCrum: One thing which every stroke sufferer will tell you is that the day it happens to you is the day you never forget and I shall actually never forget the 28th July. That day comes around every year of course and it's a milestone. And a day which I can remember most vividly - my wife actually burst into tears when she saw this because it really was an extraordinary moment. I was lying on the hospital bed, paralysed down my left side, nothing was moving at all, I'd be sitting there with my hand on the pillow, sort of willing it to move. And one day I guess it must have been September, my little toe on my left foot began to move and that was an extraordinary moment. But that was the first sign and then from that inch by inch, day by day we gradually built up more strength and more mobility. And then the next big step was the day I was able to stand.
Norman Swan: How long was that after the stroke?
Robert McCrum: I think it must have been about three or four months.
Norman Swan: And your speech?
Robert McCrum: I had speech therapy, it's still an effort to talk actually. This conversation's quite difficult for me in some respect because it's a real effort to articulate the words. You probably can't tell that but it's an effort to me.
Norman Swan: Well I notice a slight slur on your speech.
Robert McCrum: There is a slight slur yes.
Norman Swan: Is it a physical effort or is it a cerebral effort?
Robert McCrum: It's a physical effort it's not cerebral, it's all there in my head but I just can't articulate it.
Norman Swan: And when you had the speech problem was it an inability to actually articulate the words or did you understand everything that was going on around you?
Robert McCrum: My stroke was a right side stroke, right goes to left and the ones you don't want to have are the ones on the left. If you've a left sided stroke you tend to loose your language. I never lost my language.
Norman Swan: People talk about the situation when they've had serious brain injury whether it be stroke or a car accident that the rehabilitation people tend to focus on the first year or so.
Robert McCrum: Yes, one of the commonplaces of rehabilitation is that your first year is the crucial year. I must say I take issue with that myself because I think the first three or four years was the period of the most change. I carried on improving as it were, getting stuff back over about four years and in fact even now there are still very slight improvements you can tell here and there. For example even as recently as two years ago I wouldn't have been having this conversation with you for more than about five minutes.
Norman Swan: And then you'd just be fatigued?
Robert McCrum: I would have become an incoherent, I mean I would have become too slurred and too difficult to understand.
Norman Swan: And do you still get the fatigue?
Robert McCrum: That miraculously went after about a year for no reason that I could think of, it just went.
Norman Swan: So here you are ten years on, do you think you're a different person now than you were then?
Robert McCrum: Well I mean I think I'm probably a little bit more understanding of physical affliction. If you ask my friends they'd say basically the same person.
Norman Swan: And this role you've got now which is as a sort of advocate for people with
Robert McCrum: Well yeah, I didn't seek that, I mean I wrote the book for myself. I'm essentially a writer and if you're a writer you make sense of the things by writing them down in part and I wrote down what had happened to me to make sense of it to myself. My worm's eye view struck a cord and found an audience and then I began to get emails and letters and so forth.
Norman Swan: What do people want to know when they contact you?
Robert McCrum: They want to share what they've been through. I mean what happened to me although it was pretty bad was by no means bad as it can be. I mean on a scale of ten, ten being death, one being TIA, transient ischaemic attack, mine is about a six or a seven. But there are plenty of people who've had an eight or a nine and have survived that are in wheelchairs and they can't do things, their lives are rather miserable and they've been in touch. I mean they are very moving because often the letter are painfully written and they are very impressive because they are so desperate to speak somebody who - I think one of the things about a stroke is you feel very alone and no one understands you. One of the things about having one of these things is the people you want to talk to are the fellow sufferers, only they really understand. Doctors really don't understand it. They can understand it medically but they can't understand it psychologically and the psychological dimension is massive.
Norman Swan: Just finally you have some tips and one of them is your belief that in fact the road to recovery is about stressing normality.
Robert McCrum: I think so, I think you know one of the things that my wife was very good at and very positive about was getting back to normality and just getting on with it, not becoming too self pitying. The danger when you're recovering from one of these things is to become very self-obsessed and very miserable really.
Norman Swan: And you've got some dos and don'ts.
Robert McCrum: Don't give up, don't despair. My own personal motto is never surrender. I'll say this, you probably can't say this on national radio but I'll say it anyway, you can always cut it out, Churchill's motto was keep buggering on - it's KBO and there's a lot to be said for that.
Norman Swan: The person KBO-ing is Robert McCrum, whose book on his experience is called "My Year Off" published by Norton.
And you're KBO-ing with the Health Report here on ABC Radio National with me Norman Swan. Still to come, a remarkably simple rehabilitation technique but before that - stroke warning signs.
Robert mentioned that the scale of stroke severity begins with the Transient Ischaemic Attack or TIA. TIA's have similar symptoms to a stroke but a very short lived, although they do herald an increased risk of a permanent brain attack.
The question is whether there's a particular pattern of symptoms that indicate a person in peril. A group in Britain has followed the course of around 1000 people with transient ischaemic attacks to see what predicted progression to a proper stroke. Matthew Giles of the University of Oxford was one of the researchers.
Matthew Giles: The TIA can come in all shapes and sizes. For instance weakness in the face, or the arm, or the hand, or the leg, numbness in any parts of the body.
Norman Swan: You can even get loss of vision can't you?
Matthew Giles: And loss of vision and also we looked at how long the symptoms lasted, the age of the patient, whether or not they had any existing vascular risk factors. For instance high blood pressure and previous heart disease and so on and what we found was the people who have weakness on one side of the body were at high risk, people who have speech disturbance as well. That's either problems with slurring of speech or it's problems where language, being able to understand language and choose your words. Older people, people over 60, people who have symptoms that last over an hour then lastly people who have high blood pressure just after the event.
Norman Swan: Did any one of those increase the risk substantially or did you have to have more than one?
Matthew Giles: We worked out a score out of six to which those features contributed and the biggest contributors were the presence of weakness (or motor problems). And also whether or not your symptoms lasted for over an hour are the biggest predictors of risk that we found.
Norman Swan: Just to summarise, I think that if you are over 60 you scored one, (one contributing to the total score of six), if you had a blood pressure of more than 140 the top figure - the systolic - and diastolic over 90 that was a one, weakness you actually scored a two and speech disturbance you scored a one, and duration of symptoms again as you said over 60 minutes was a two, and between ten minutes and sixty minutes was a one. What did you have to get out of 6 for what sort of risk?
Matthew Giles: We found that anybody 3 or below was pretty safe, but once your score got to 5 then your risk of stroke within a week got about to around 12% and people with a score a 6 got up to a risk of 30% risk of stroke within a week.
Norman Swan: Really, 1 in 3 so it's really big?
Matthew Giles: It is.
Norman Swan: And as you say if you scored weakness and over an hour then that's 4 out of 6, you're already well on the way. So what do you do next?
Matthew Giles: In the UK TIAs are traditionally treated in quite a relaxed way. But on the basis of this, I think that services need to act an awfully lot more quickly and there are certainly a variety of treatments which would be recommended in the acute phase.
Norman Swan: Now in the Australian setting if somebody's worried they usually end up with an ultrasound of their carotid arteries to see whether there's a blockage in the arteries in the neck which is firing off basically rubbish, you know clots or cholesterol, plaque or something like that up into the brain causing a stroke. And if it is you might have an operation to remove that. Is that the sort of thing you're talking about?
Matthew Giles: That's definitely one of the sorts of things that you would be looking at. It's only a small number of people who are found to have a narrowing in the carotid artery but for those people surgery is very effective.
Norman Swan: And what can you do for somebody who doesn't have the narrowing, I mean is it just aspirin or what?
Matthew Giles: Aspirin is definitely recommended, treatments for blood pressure and statins which are treatment to lower your cholesterol.
Norman Swan: So you would really try and get down their risk factors fast?
Matthew Giles: Yes, the fact that all of this risk is very high within the first few days and weeks means that the time that you need your treatment needs to be in the first days and preferably hours.
Norman Swan: And is there any indication for somebody say with a 6 score to get clot busting?
Matthew Giles: The clot busting hasn't been tested and isn't designed for people with TIA; it's designed for people with stroke. There are some arguments that people with a score of 6, because their risk of stroke is so high they might be taken into hospital and if they're found to start developing a stroke, then clot busting could be administered because the benefits of clot busting come from having the treatment given as soon as possible and that's within the first sort of minutes to hours.
Norman Swan: Now my understanding is that the three or four hallmark signs of having a stroke include speech disturbance and yet speech disturbance didn't rate very highly in your study?
Matthew Giles: You're right to point that out. It's not clear from the research why people with weakness should be at a higher risk than people with speech problems than people with numbness because we found that people who come just with numbness, loss of feeling in an arm or a leg are at actually at much lower risk and it's certainly not clear why some features should be at very high risk and others at low risk.
Norman Swan: So what's the message then for anybody who might be listening cause in fact people can get strokes from quite an early age unfortunately?
Matthew Giles: As far as this message to the public is concerned the presence of symptoms of weakness on one side of the body and symptoms that last any longer for an hour, especially in elderly people are definitely things to be concerned about.
Norman Swan: But how does that tie in with the advice that more and more people are giving about stroke which is treat strokes like a heart attack, don't sit on it, go straight to the hospital? I mean if I had unilateral weakness which went more than ten minutes I'd be going to the hospital in case I was having a stroke.
Matthew Giles: I would agree with that, I would get to hospital quickly. The problem is that people, doctors included, are very bad at knowing what is and isn't a stroke. And if doctors are confused then the public are perfectly entitled to be even more confused. So hopefully this research simplifies the message to the public.
Norman Swan: Dr Matthew Giles is in the Department of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford.
Strokes, just like heart attacks, are best treated when people deal with their symptoms urgently and get to an Emergency Department where one of the options, as you just heard, is being given a clot busting medication ideally within three hours.
But not everybody needs the drug and some people who've had a brain haemorrhage rather than a clot should not have what's called thrombolysis, because it could make them worse. That's why at the University of Newcastle in NSW they've been trailing a form of CAT scanning of the brain using an injection of dye which helps to make the diagnosis of stroke more accurately. Dr Mark Parsons is one of those involved in the work.
Mark Parsons: We've actually compared the new CT scanning the perfusion CT to the standard non contrast scanning and we've found that the perfusion CT scanning is much more sensitive at picking up the early changes than a non contrast CT and much more predictive of number one, the final area of stroke damage. And also how much brain tissue is at risk and that we might be able to save if we can open up the artery with clot dissolving treatment.
Norman Swan: Give me an example in the 50 people you've looked at so far of how treatment's changed as a result of you doing this extra scan?
Mark Parsons: Traditionally we'd treat all patients that fulfil the standard clinical criteria with clot dissolving therapies as long as they get to hospital within three hours. But in a proportion of people that we've seen within three hours when they come in the perfusion scan shows that there's already been massive damage and there's no brain tissue that's still salvageable so by giving them clot-dissolving therapy there's no real benefit. And in fact because the clot-dissolving therapy is extremely potent there's a real risk of bleeding into the brain.
Norman Swan: And do you find people with stroke that you didn't expect to have stroke?
Mark Parsons: Probably actually more the other way round. Generally you don't miss many people that you think you've got a stroke.
Norman Swan: You might have over-diagnosed it?
Mark Parsons: Yeah, you can certainly over-diagnose it with clinical assessment and non contrast the standard CAT scanning, people that have had a seizure and they've got a deficit after their seizure that might mimic a stroke, migraine and sometimes even psychological problems.
Norman Swan: So you've been able to prevent some people having unnecessary clot busting drugs?
Mark Parsons: That's right. The other benefit of performing more advance brain imaging like perfusion CT is that we may be able to extend the time window of treatment. Cause even in the best centres less than 10% of stroke patients are treated because they don't get to hospital in time; there are delays with the ambulance, hospital delays.
Norman Swan: So this shows you whether or not it's worth treating?
Mark Parsons: Yes, that's right. In the study to date around 70% of patients beyond three hours out to six hours still have considerable tissue and risk that may benefit from clot dissolving treatment.
Norman Swan: And in somebody who has had a genuine stroke, doesn't have a haemorrhage, has clot busting treatment within three hours, what's the difference in outcome? What can that person expect as a result of the new sort of kind of emergency treatment of stroke?
Mark Parsons: The studies that are out there to day show that if you deliver the therapy in a well organised environment then if someone's effectively treated their risk of being permanently disabled or dying is reduced by around a third. That's one of the most powerful treatments in medicine.
Norman Swan: And what about the treatment after you've got the clot busting drug and again with heart attacks you go onto all sorts of treatments to prevent it happening again and rehabilitation?
Mark Parsons: The most important thing probably after someone's been admitted to hospital for a stroke is that they are admitted to a stroke unit, a bit like a coronary care unit. And that's actually in itself has been shown to reduce death and long term disability from the stroke by at least 20%.
Norman Swan: Again going back to the heart analogy, in good cardiac units they talk about patency, in other words they say it's not good enough just to have given the clot dissolving drugs, you actually want to know whether the artery's clear and the heart's getting blood supply. Does that happen in people with stroke?
Mark Parsons: There's actually been a recent study called Clot Bust and what they did was after they'd given patients intravenous thrombolysis they monitored the intra-cranial arteries with ultrasound to see if and when it opened up. And the earlier it opened up the better the patient's outcome was. And in some patients where the artery didn't open up within a few hours they were taken to the catheter lab and had more direct therapy into the clot.
Norman Swan: And did it make a difference to them?
Mark Parsons: It did. In fact the continuous monitoring with the ultrasound targeted at the clot.......
Norman Swan: Actually broke up the clot?
Mark Parsons: It does, it actually breaks up the clot.
Norman Swan: So strap on an ultrasound probe.
Mark Parsons: Yes, and we've actually been doing that in Newcastle as well.
Norman Swan: Dr Mark Parsons is a neurologist at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
The recurring message is that recovery from stroke is possible for far longer than people used to think and one new way of getting the brain into action is being developed in Baltimore. It relies on making the opposite side of the brain help out.
Professor Jill Whitall is at the University of Maryland.
Jill Whitall: We decided to try to have a new method of rehabilitation based on motor learning principles which are repetition, feedback and gold setting so that if you're trying to learn a new skill, you repeat it a lot, you want to have feedback on how you're doing and you want to try to get better.
Norman Swan: So if you're teaching me how to serve at tennis that's how you'd do it? You'd have trouble but that's how you do it.
Jill Whitall: That's exactly right.
Norman Swan: And this is with the assumption that your brain no matter what age you are is ready to learn?
Jill Whitall: That's right. There's plenty of evidence that suggests that even 90 year olds can learn new skills. So we use some principles of motor control. One of them is that instead of just using the paretic arm we use both arms.
Norman Swan: So the paretic arm - so now we're moving from the situation where I might as well have an arm that doesn't work if you're coming to teach me how to play tennis. The paretic arm is the technical term for the arm that is either weaker or paralysed as a result of the stroke.
Jill Whitall: That's correct. So a lot of the newer rehabilitation methods will concentrate on the paretic arm and actually constrained the non-paretic arm. What we decided to do was to have both arms move at the same time because we know that there's a neural coupling between the hemispheres and we thought that maybe if both arms were moving at the same time, now it's important that they're not joined together, so there's not like an arm ergometer so that you can get help from the good arm as it were.
Norman Swan: Like these grinders that you might have at the gym where you move a thing in a circle, you're not quite sure why but you move in a circle.
Jill Whitall: That's right so your non-paretic arm could help the paretic arm. In our particular machine we have it so that they are independent but they are moving together and we think there could be neural facilitation and that's one of the main principles of this particular paradigm.
Norman Swan: The idea being that if you're moving your left arm somehow there's a communication across your brain to your right arm. Or at least the part of the brain the runs the right arm.
Jill Whitall: That is correct yes and we have two other principles one is that we try to have the patients do what we call symmetrical movements and asymmetrical, or inphase and antiphase and then the third thing is the cue. We have a rhythmic auditory cue so that's a metronome and there's plenty of evidence, if I asked you to tap your finger and I put a metronome on, you would find that your finger was tapping in beat with the metronome. So the sensory information will sort of attract the motor and so we use that principle also in our training.
Norman Swan: So here we are in front of one of the machines, one of your machines your Batrac machines, so what I'm looking at is two kind of handles on tracks on a Perspex base, so just explain what happens here.
Jill Whitall: Well here's the handle and you can see that the handle will move across the tracks very easily so the patient does not have force very much,
Norman Swan: I should say these two tracks a parallel so they are almost an arm's worth apart.
Jill Whitall: And we have a stop here so there you can hit the stop and provides extra feedback when we're doing the actual exercises so they are going backwards and forwards and that sound and the metronome will give them some feedback.
Norman Swan: So there's no resistance here, this just moves forward on a glide?
Jill Whitall: Yeah, that's right so those changes that we've seen have happened only in just a fairly moderate exercise. In our fist trial we found with 14 patients that 13 of them got better.
Norman Swan: What sort of period?
Jill Whitall: Over six weeks, three times a week, twenty minutes of exercise in each of those three times. And then more recently we have a controlled study which has 9 back track people and 12 based on passive kinds of movements and there we looked at the brain before and after to see whether we could see any changes in the brain in addition to the functional changes.
Norman Swan: So you took pictures of the brain with what a magnetic resonance scanner or something like that?
Jill Whitall: That's right, a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. And we found out of our 9 back track patients that 6 of them showed quite amazing changes in the brain. The reason I'm saying they're amazing is in the past most studies have shown that the brain where the lesion occurs, where the stroke occurred, is the part which shows new areas of activation. But in our training we saw a bit of that but we also saw the opposite side of the brain light up as well. As though we were causing some kind of reorganisation. And we found that in 6 patients out of the 9, those 6 patients were the ones that showed the functional patients. Now 3 patients who didn't show the brain changes also didn't show functional changes.
Norman Swan: Are these differences that the people themselves noticed and did they make a difference to their lives?
Jill Whitall: Well that's a very good question. We have very impaired patients and it's not a miracle cure. So they will say to us well now I can use my arm to push open the door, where I couldn't do that before. Or now I can use my arm to wash under my other arm. Some patients have been like 25 years after their stroke and they've also shown some gains and some people have been six or seven months. We had in our first study a couple of women who actually started jobs again and it seems like the patients who don't benefit from this usually are the ones that are the most severely impaired.
Norman Swan: Have you tried getting people lying flat and doing this with their legs?
Jill Whitall: What we do do here is use treadmill training and we've got some good results with a similar principle. We don't want to put them on a bike where they have
Norman Swan: Getting assistance from the other side?
Jill Whitall: Yeah, with the treadmill they have to do the walking themselves and we find pretty much similar results and sometimes very striking results, probably more than I can demonstrate with the arms because they'll get out of their wheelchairs now.
Norman Swan: Jill Whitall who's Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
I'm Norman Swan and this had been the Health Report. You can hear us again tonight after the 8 o'clock news.
Rothwell PM et al. A simple score (ABCD) to identify individuals at high early risk of stroke after transient ischaemic attack. The Lancet, July 2, 2005;366:29-36
Luft AR et al. Repetitive Bilateral Arm Training and Motor Cortex Activation in Chronic Stroke. A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA, October 20, 2004;292;15:1853-1861
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Writing a Screenplay: Part 2 of 4 – First Drafts
Of all the steps in the writing process, I enjoy the first draft most. I've already got an idea for what I'm going to write. I have the steps outlined so I know where I'm going. I don't have to do a perfect writing job. My mission is clear.
When you sit down to work on a first draft, you know that your day's word count will be high and you'll feel like you've accomplished something at the end of the day. Every other step in the process can involve a lot of thinking and revision. In the first draft, you can fly right along.
.The Outline Revisited
I'll assume you already read part one on outlines and that you're working on a screenplay. If not, you can still follow along.
You've turned your favorite story idea into a script treatment and then created an outline from it. Those first steps were small and easy. They took a lot of thought, but you made it. You have a story worth writing.
Now you can use the outline headings as jumping off points for writing each scene in the first draft. The beauty of a first draft is that nothing needs to be good. Whether what you write is great, okay or terrible doesn't matter. Nobody except you will ever read it. Forget about quality. All you want to do is pound out your story from beginning to end. You'll fix things up in the second draft and polish it to perfection in the final
.Just Say It
There can be a strong temptation to speed up the first draft by putting in a little note as a way to pass by a scene that seems difficult. Don't do it. Write the whole thing. If it seems too tough to write that's because you want to write it well. Writing it badly is better than not writing it. Can't think of anything to write for the next scene? We'll get to writer's block shortly.
.Keyboard Commenting
While you're writing, you'll have lots of great ideas pop into your head. You'll also realize you need to do more research for some scenes. And you'll remember you have to pick up some milk when you go out this afternoon. Don't stop for any of that. Don't even take your hands off the keyboard. Enter your thoughts as comments right in the text using angle brackets. <It's easy to come back at the end of your writing day, search for "<" and clean up.> You can go through after and change the text color if it's staying in the file. That makes it easy to jump past the notes when you're reading through the document later.
.Writer's Block Doesn't Exist
There's been so much written about writer's block that it seems like it must exist. It's an illusion. A writer doesn't know what to write next and they stop writing. That's called writer's block. You don't need to stop writing just because you don't know what comes next. That's the illusion.
You may not know what's next in the scene but you know what the next scene is. All you have to do is write to make the connection. If you're driving to an important appointment and the radio announces that the freeway is blocked by an accident, you don't go ahead and take the freeway anyway. You find an alternate route. The same with writing.
Ryoki Inoue, who may be the world's most published writer, says he solves story problems with dynamite. You can do the same. Force your way through to the next step. Is a character getting in the way of the protagonist's progress? Have him killed by a drunk driver. What's that? You need the character later? I guess he's only hospitalized then. He'll be out in time for his big scene.
There are a few different causes of writer's block. Some are caused by poor preparation. You won't be dealing with those kind of problems because you wrote a story idea, script treatment and outline before beginning. Let's look briefly at some other excuses for not writing.
Other ideas keep popping up. No problem. You're writing them as notes as you go.
Another is writing in your head before typing it. Nobody else is looking. Just type it down directly. The second and final drafts are for fixes. Don't do the fixes before you write. You'll be subjecting yourself to writing multiple drafts and it will take two or three times as long.
Some writers get stuck on the introduction. Like everything else in the first draft, you can rewrite it later. If you can't be happy without a good start, write several first paragraphs with a distinct break between them. The start and end of your screenplay really are the most important parts. You should revise both often. But get something down as a starting paragraph and move on with your story. You have a lot of writing to do. There's no time for hanging out at one spot for a long time.
If you're physically tired, take a nap. Twenty minutes max or it will feel like morning when you get up. If you're emotionally tired, get some exercise and it'll clear right up.
Feeling negative about what you're writing. If you're story is any good there's conflict. That means you've got some bad characters in there. Jump to where they play a part and write their lines. When you've had your fill of negativity, go back to where you were and continue.
Two related problems are deadline intimidation and your internal editor. Both should be easy to banish. Because it's a first draft, you can ignore your internal editor. Everything can be fixed in the next draft. The deadline problem also goes away just by writing. If it's an unreasonable deadline externally imposed you can get revenge by submitting the first draft. With that happy and ridiculous thought in mind, you should be able to speed along. Then do the second draft. You don't want anyone reading your first.
The formatting of a screenplay is not like a book manuscript. The margins are extra wide and there are different indents for every kind of entry. At the first draft level of your screenplay you don't need to worry too much about the format. You just need to get it written. You can fix it in the second draft.
More important than the format is what you actually write in a screenplay. There are no long descriptive scenes. You aren't helping a reader imagine what's going on. A film is presupposed. You present the bare bones and the producer and director will show the audience the scenes.
Write your screenplay as lines of dialogue with descriptions as one liners. Here is a short example of a screenplay that should be good enough to go on for now. The important thing is not to waste a lot of time on descriptions that you won't be keeping.
For part three of this series, when I write about second drafts, I'll provide a list of links to sites that can help you get a grip on the formatting. This series of four articles is to help you get the big picture. The details will be filled out in later articles.
Your first draft mission should be clear now. I didn't say a lot about writer's block because it could be an article on it's own. And there will be a writer's block article here in the next couple of days.
I'll be dealing with the second draft next. It's not as satisfying to work on because you don't get a good daily word count. If you track your word count it can seem like you're not getting anything accomplished. But, like all writing problems, there are ways around that. On the plus side, when you review your second draft work you'll see that you are producing some great material.
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