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"One of the goals with Robin was to make people think Robin is cool because a lot of people don't, which is a fair point, but our goal from day one was to make him cool, forget everything you've seen in the films. We wanted to make the fighting with Robin—which we're not going to show you today—cool. We wanted to make you think, 'I would rather play as Robin than as Batman.'"
I wanted to play him... Until The devs turned him into yet another shaved head MMA fighter. Now, I don't give a shit about him.
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Can We Lesser Mortals wear jumpsuits without looking like Andy Pandy or an 80's throw back?
Lesser Mortals are probably thinking – Can I wear a jumpsuit at my age or is it too young? Is it practical if dragging a toddlers around? or even: With my pelvic floor, can I get to the loo quick enough? Jumpsuits have been around for the last 2-3 years, and I think they are highly wearable and comfy if you are a jegging type lady, and hate constrictive garments. I also think they are very stylish, as not many people have embraced them yet. I wear mine for special occasions, like weddings, as I like to be different, and you can guarantee everyone else will be in a dress. ( I shall be posting some images on my Facebook page if you want a laugh – Vicky Smith Styling) Anyway, here are some ideas for different shapes, sizes and budgets, as obviously with a jumpsuit, you haven't got the flexibility to buy different size tops and bottoms (not least tall ladies don't want to be cut in half, and petite ladies don't want to trip over their trousers legs!!) I also prefer the jumpsuits that are the same pattern top and bottom, (for different patterns top and bottom, you could just buy separates). A belt is an essential accessory which can add quality to a cheaper jumpsuit.
- Brittany jumpsuit. Phase Eight. £110. Sizes 8-18. Polyester elastane. Machine washable. Fastens with a zip at the back. This will suit pear shapes, as the drapey wide legs flow nicely from the hip. Hourglass figures and larger busted ladies may find this fits them, as the V neck and stretch fabric will allow room to expand and the V-neck will break up that area. (NB – Next stocks this jumpsuit too!) Lovely with a Chanel style jacket.
- Saskia Lace jumpsuit. Phase Eight. £110. Sizes 8-18. Mixture of fibres. Dry clean only. Again, the wide leg flatters larger hips, the 3/4 sleeves are for those who hate their upper arms, and the wrap over top suits a nice bust. The gentle gathering over the tummy area, may also forgive a less toned middle area, but if store fat over your tummy, the gathers may accentuate too much. Will suit hourglass figures too.
- Pink jumpsuit. Next. £55. 100% polyester. sizes 6-22 reg, and 6-18 petite and 8-18 tall. How lovely to see a jumpsuit that isn't black !!(believe me, there are a lot of black ones out there!!) This has the advantage of being scaled to fit whatever height you are. If you are petite, wear heels and make sure the legs drape over your shoes, to give the illusion of extra height. Definitely wear with a belt.
- Navy print jumpsuit. £28. Next. 100% viscose. Available in sizes 8-22 and petite and tall. This is a good jumpsuit or wearing with flat shoes as well as heels. It will suit top heavy ladies with long slim legs. The slightly dropped waist will lengthen your torso and again, use a belt.
- Printed wide leg jumpsuit. £35. Next. Only available in regular sizes 6-22. Don't be a shrinking violet. This eye catching jumpsuit allows you to cover up on the beach, or dress up a night time with heels. You probably need a generous chest to suit this, but it will also expand round the waist, and apple shapes may find a contrasting belt around the middle gives a waist where there isn't one. Use a coloured pashmina at night time.
- Palm print jumpsuit. £39.99. Mango. Xs- XL. 100% viscose. Handwash. Another lovely summery print. Suits a boyish shape, as the straps don't allow much bra support. Wear with a smart belt. To dress up, use a gold belt and high heels. For evening, a white tuxedo jacket will really add style.
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Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing
- 1h 59m
- 1989
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This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever. Danny Aiello co-stars in this absorbing tale of inner-city life that heats up with vivid images and unforgettable performances.
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Parents need to know that Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing is an intense study of racism as it existed in an urban U.S. neighborhood during the late 1980s. There are many angry racial confrontations using provocative, coarse language and highly-charged racial taunts, including constant use of "n----r." Violence realistically depicted includes: a riot, fistfights, a crowd setting fire to a restaurant, a man being choked by police using a baton. One sexual scene shows a couple during foreplay and uses extreme close-ups of a woman's body parts: her legs, her breasts, her neck. A leading character drinks beer continuously.
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- Release Date:June 30, 1989
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decrease or eliminate the sources of stress. The belief that they are powerless to cope with stress is the major cognitive distortion of drug abusers. One consequence of this is the intense feeling of low selfesteem that is a well-known clinical entity among drug abusers (Krystal and Raskin 1970). Feelings of self-depreciation, which form the belief that one is powerless, represent the affective component of the CAP theory.
The experience of anxiety is, of course, uncomfortable, and a means of anxiety reduction is necessary. A primary pharmacogenic effect of heroin is anxiety reduction. Not only does the drug provide relief from anxiety, but the individual obtains a temporary ecstatic feeling--a "high." Under the influence of the drug the individual temporarily experiences an increased sense of power, control, and well being. The sense of powerlessness is replaced by an exaggerated sense of being all powerful--no task is too great and no feat impossible while "high." Thus, drugs can do for abusers what they believe they cannot do for themselves: get rid of anxiety, lead to good feeling about themselves, and make them believe they are competent, in control, and able to master their environment.
Unfortunately for the drug abuser, the drug effects are short lived and any temporary gains turn into long-term losses. Inevitably, after the high wears off some internal or external source of stress will rekindle the conflict and anxiety. Not only do the old feelings of lack of control return but they are likely to be even stronger than before. It is this increasing sense of powerlessness with increased drug use that leads the individual from drug use to abuse. Each time drug users rely on a drug to relieve tension and feel good about themselves, they become a little less capable of coping on their own. By using drugs to cope, the individual is cut off from learning other more adaptive coping mechanisms and becomes less tolerant of the pain of anxiety. The drug user now knows that anxiety does not have to be tolerated, as drug taking has been successful in the past in removing tension and producing good feelings. It is therefore expected that drug use will increase both in frequency and in the number of different situations in which it is employed. For example, arguments with parents may be a primary source of conflict and anxiety for the adolescent drug abuser. Drug taking will frequently follow such an argument. An adolescent experiencing school-related stress, having learned that drug taking is an effective means of anxiety reduction, may turn to additional drug taking to compensate for academic failures. The reliance on drugs to cope with stress therefore creates a vicious cycle; the more drugs are used, the more the individual believes they are necessary. Each drug experience serves to confirm for users the belief that they are powerless to function on their own.
The CAP model of drug abuse also makes several assumptions about the treatment of drug abuse. First, effective and lasting change is based on learning that behavior has consequences and that one can have an effect on his or her own life. To replace a sense of powerlessness with a sense of mastery, the abuser has to be taught alternative ways of responding to external or internal stress. These alternative ways cannot, however, be developed, practiced, and adopted as long as the individual continues to use drugs.
A second assumption is that an effective treatment plan must be multimodal (Lazarus 1976). A complete treatment plan must assess not only the overt behavior of drug taking but the negative emotions (e.g.,
anxiety), unpleasant physical sensations (e.g., aches and pains that accompany withdrawal), intrusive images (e.g., recollections of past failures), faulty cognitions (e.g., "nothing I do will ever be successful"), and interpersonal inadequacies (e.g., difficulty in making friends with non-drug-taking peers). Each of the individual's problem areas may require a specific treatment strategy. For example, systematic desensitization may be used to help the abuser cope with anxiety, while cognitive restructuring may be needed to correct the faulty cognitive processes.
The multimodal therapy approach is consistent with the CAP theory in that both stress the interaction between personality modalities, and both suggest that in complex human problems a lasting result depends upon addressing all relevant aspects of the individual's functioning. The high recidivism rate, characteristic of drug abuser treatment, may be due to treatment focusing on a limited aspect of the abuser's overall personality functioning and lifestyle (Platt and Labate 1976).
The CAP theory of drug abuse was developed primarily on experiences gained working with adolescent drug abusers at Holy Cross Campus, a coed residential treatment center in Rhinecliff, New York (Coghlan et al. 1973). To evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment program and the CAP model, adolescents completed two personality tests, once approximately 30 days after admission and again six months later (Gold and Coghlan 1976). The Rotter Locus of Control (1-E) Scale (Rotter 1966) was used to assess whether an individual believed reinforcement to be contingent on personal efforts and behavior (internal control) or a result of luck, fate, chance, or more powerful others (external control). A second scale, the Self-Esteem Survey (SES) was also used as a measure of self-evaluation (Coopersmith 1967). It was predicted that after six months in residential treatment the adolescents would move toward more internal control and greater self-esteem. Data based on 32 males and 21 females provided some support for the hypotheses. Females became significantly more internally oriented. Both males' and females' scores on the SES reflected higher self-esteem, though the change was not statistically significant. A second important finding was a significant correlation for the females between low self-esteem and both running away and self-destructive acts (Gold and Coghlan 1976).
The role of perceived control has been examined in a series of studies by Seligman and his associates (Seligman 1975; Maier and Seligman 1976). A belief in external causation or control may dramatically impair learning and functioning. The research paradigm is as follows: One group of subjects is exposed to a situation in which their behavior can control the occurrence of an aversive event, while another group experiences the same situation except that the aversive event is beyond their control. When both groups are next presented with a new situation in which learning is required, the typical finding is that people who previously experienced control learn faster in the new situation. Moreover, some subjects, after experiencing the lack of control, may not learn at all even though the task is often quite simple. Seligman (1975) interprets such findings as indicating that, when an organism's behavior has no effect on its environment, "learned helplessness" is the result. The learned-helplessness theory has been suggested as a
model for the development of reactive depression. It also points out a way in which the sense of helplessness or powerlessness may be a characteristic of drug abusers. Individuals prone to drug abuse may be those who have a history of lack of relationship between their responses and consequences--a series of learning experiences which teach them they are not effective in altering or influencing their environment. For example, studying may have no effect on grades received; behaving as demanded by parents may not lead to being loved; hard work may not lead to a promotion or better job; etc.
The similarities between a model of reactive depression and drug abuse are not surprising, as there are aspects of drug abuse that parallel depression. Drug abuse can be described as a self-destructive activity and often is clinically viewed as a form of "slow suicide." Gold and Coghlan (1976) found a relationship between adolescent female abusers' belief in external control and low self-esteem with overt self-destructive behavior. Wetzel (1976) studied 154 suicide attempters, threateners, and psychiatric controls and found that a sense of hopelessness was highly correlated with suicidal behavior, even more so than depth of depression.
The effects of perceived control have also been studied with reference to coping with aversive stimulation. For example, Geer et al. (1970) found that college students who falsely believed they had control over the duration of shocks received displayed less physiological response to the shock. The finding of less arousal suggests that the shocks were becoming less stressful for them. Turk (1975) trained volunteers to develop different coping strategies to deal with pain to encourage them to believe they could successfully manage it. Cognitively trained subjects were able to tolerate the pain for almost twice as long as untrained subjects.
In summary, the CAP theory of drug abuse emphasizes the interaction of cognitive-affective-pharmacogenic effects of drug taking. The belief that one is powerless to affect the environment and cope with stress plays a central role in the theory. The CAP theory is seen as being consistent with newer cognitive models which emphasize the role of internal thoughts and beliefs in the development of maladaptive behavior. Research findings support the hypothesis that an individual's belief in the ability to control a situation strongly influences behavior. Successful treatment of the drug abuser requires a multimodal approach which alters faulty thinking, teaches new interpersonal skills, helps the abuser cope with pain and anxiety, and encourages the development of a positive self-image.
The Bad-Habit Theory
By "bad habit" | refer to repetitious, harmful, semireflexive behavior resulting from classical conditioning in "susceptible" individuals. With regard to drugs, "susceptibility" may be specific for certain drugs or nonspecific, i.e., the individual may be susceptible to abusing a number of drugs, perhaps only in certain classes (e.g., the sedativehypnotics) or perhaps across classes (e.g., opiates, sedative-hypnotics, nicotine, etc.). Susceptibility may be partly inherited (under some degree of genetic control), or it may reflect purely psychosocial influences, or both. These issues are complicated, and a global theory of addiction may be premature. My theory is limited to alcoholism, but I have included a brief discussion of the possibility that theories of alcoholism may help to explain other forms of substance abuse.
Perhaps the strongest evidence for a genetic factor in alcoholism is the evidence that alcoholism strongly runs in families (Cotton 1979). This, combined with findings from twin and adoption studies, at least suggests the possibility of a hereditary factor (Goodwin 1979). If so, what is inherited?
Certain behaviors associated with drinking must be explained before it is known why serious drinking problems develop in perhaps one of 12 or 15 drinkers in Western countries. These core features must be explained: (1) loss of control, (2) tendency to relapse, and (3) tolerance. The following explanations blend possible genetic and nongenetic factors.
Indisputably, there is a wide range of innate variations in response to alcohol. This is true in humans and every species studied. There are not only strain and species differences but also differences between
individuals. It is difficult to account for this variation other than to ascribe it to innate, probably genetically controlled influences.
In humans, the most conspicuous example of innate variation in alcohol response has been shown in Orientals, whose low alcoholism rates have usually been attributed to social factors. However, three studies have now shown that small amounts of alcohol cause a cutaneous flush and unpleasant reactions in about three-quarters of Orientals (Wolff 1973; Ewing et al. 1974; Seto et al. 1978), indicating that a large number of Orientals are physiologically intolerant of alcohol. The biochemical basis for these adverse reactions has not been determined, but recent data indicate a high frequency of atypical liver alcohol dehydrogenase among Japanese (Stamatoyannopoulas et al. 1975). This coenzyme may alter the metabolism of alcohol, leading to increased formation of acetaldehyde, and this may explain the flush and other ill effects (such as nausea).
Other groups with relatively low alcoholism rates may be similarly protected by an innate sensitivity to alcohol. For example, fewer women than men are alcoholic, and one study reports that women have higher blood alcohol levels after ingesting a given amount of alcohol than do men (Jones and Jones 1976). Informal surveys suggest that a substantial proportion of women experience unpleasant physical effects after modest amounts of alcohol (e.g., nausea and headache). Anecdotal evidence also suggests that more Jews than non-Jews have adverse physical reactions to modest amounts of alcohol, which may contribute to the low prevalence of alcoholism among Jews.
It is obviously essential to be able to drink large quantities of alcohol to be alcoholic. Many people are prevented from this because of innate cutoff points almost certainly under genetic control. That genetic control is an important factor in drug metabolism in general has been demonstrated by numerous studies showing that identical twins metabolize a wide variety of drugs (including alcohol) at almost identical rates, while fraternal twins have widely disparate rates of metabolism (Vesell et al. 1971). Whether the development of alcoholism is also subject to some genetic control remains conjectural.
It is widely believed that tolerance to alcohol is acquired mainly from "practice"; the more a person drinks, the more he or she needs to drink to get the same effect. With opiates, this clearly is true; with alcohol, it is not so clearly true. Animals fail to show much tolerance to alcohol, even after repeated exposure. Also, young men with almost no prior drinking experience vary widely in their response to alcohol in experimental studies (Goodwin et al. 1969). Some show almost no effect, while others are quite easily intoxicated. Since this variability does not correlate with prior drinking history, the only other explanation is that innate biological factors are responsible.
To summarize, large numbers of people are more or less "protected" from becoming alcoholic because of genetically determined adverse physical reactions to alcohol. If anything is inherited in alcoholism, it is probably the lack of intolerance for alcohol. (Parenthetically, it is interesting that Alcoholics Anonymous often refers to allergy as a factor in alcoholism, usually properly bracketing "allergy" in quotation marks. It now seems that this is indeed true, but it is the nonalcoholics, not the alcoholics, who are allergic!)


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What made it for me was the utterly confused Batman shot near the end, where it is clear that he thought he had figured it all out, and he turned out to be wrong.ReplyDelete
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Wasn't it wonderful? That little moment with Hal and Roy was my favorite.ReplyDelete
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Women in cardiology: past, present and future
a HerzGefässZentrum Zürich, Klinik Im Park, Zürich, Switzerland
b Division of Cardiology, Spital Thun, Switzerland
c Boston Scientific AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
d Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland
e University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
In 2018, the Swiss Society of Cardiology celebrated its 70th year. Is this also a celebration for the achievement of women in cardiology? Yes and no.
Yes, women are increasingly seen in cardiology fellowships, hospital settings and private practice. But, no, so far, unfortunately there has been no female main editor of a Swiss cardiology journal, no female chief of a cardiology department in a large hospital, and no female president of the Swiss Society of Cardiology (SSC). The percentage of women in leading positions or boards in cardiology is negligible. Also, editorial boards are still dominated by men. This shows the need for more support of female cardiologists in Switzerland. Things are, however, evolving. In the USA, "women in cardiology (WIC)" has been a section of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for many years, and in Switzerland, a WIC group has been founded in 2017. Gender issues are important, also in cardiology. Patients need physicians of both genders to be treated best. Gender disparity remains to be improved. Female cardiologists still face many challenges such as failure in family planning, radiation exposure, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, lack of career advancement and unequal financial compensations. However, the future will be different. The percentage of women and men working in cardiology will become equal. Perhaps even in invasive cardiology and electrophysiology, there will be an increasing number of women. Men and women will have to work together for optimal patient care.
History of women in cardiology
The start for women in cardiology was not easy. In ancient times, more than 2000 years ago, women were allowed to work as midwives but not physicians.
Henry VIII in the 16th century made a charter for the company of barber surgeons and this led to the specialisation of the health care profession where women were initially excluded. Even in the 19th century, James Miranda Stuart Barry (1795‒1865) had to dress as a man to practice medicine and only when "he" died was discovered to be female. Barry served as an army doctor and performed the first C-section in Africa. The first physician with some cardiology interest was perhaps Hildegard von Bingen (1098‒1179) living in the 12th century. Her work Causae et Curae (Ursachen und Heilungen) from around 1150 dealt with the cause and treatment of different diseases. She described honey parsley wine ("meluvin") as healing heart disease. The first qualified female physicians were fighters, such as Elizabeth Blackwell (1821‒1910) from England and Nadeja Suslova (1843‒1918) who finished her medical studies in Zurich in 1867. One of the first famous female cardiologists was Helen Taussig (figure 1). In 1947, she developed together with the surgeon Alfred Blalock the Blalock-Taussig shunt, enabling better survival for cyanotic children with congenital heart disease. In 1965, Helen Taussig was the first woman to become president of the American Heart Association (AHA). Taussig was followed by many famous female cardiologists. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease in 1936. Jacqueline Noonan became the first female governor of a Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in Kentucky in 1977. In 1993, the WIC Committee of the AHA was established. In 1998, Suzanne B. Knoebel became the first woman president and Master of the ACC. In 2004, the WIC Section held its first Section meeting at the AHA in New Orleans. In 2005, the British Cardiovascular Society's WIC Committee was established, and the ACC officially launched the WIC Members Section. In 2015, Sarah Clarke became the first female president of the British Society of Cardiology. What does the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) do for its female members? The ESC offers eight grants to attend an innovative Women Transforming Leadership Program, run by the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, UK. However, overall, the efforts of the ESC for support of women in leading positions are not strong enough yet. The situation seems to be improving: In 2018, the first female president was elected, the Italian Barbara Casadei from the United Kingdom, where she is Deputy Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford. The ESC so far lacks a separate working group for female cardiologists.
Female cardiologists in Switzerland
In 1928, there were 3300 physicians in Switzerland, 128 (3.9%) were women and no male or female cardiologists. In 1964, the first male cardiologist was recognised. Only four years later, in 1968, Ursula McKenna-Guhl became the first female cardiologist in Switzerland. The first female cardiologists included Barbara Güller (deceased), Isabelle Renggli, Yvonne Scholer, Sue Brand (deceased), Ingrid Oberhänsli, and Antonia Lüthy (deceased). They were the fighters for our cause. Their professional lives have been summarised previously [1].
Since then, many more female cardiologists have been educated. By 2005, over 25% of physicians and around 50% of medical school students were women. In Switzerland in 2018, 26 of 207 (13%) and 80 of 308 (26%) staff cardiologists were females. However, this is an overestimation due to part time work by some. From 2012 to 2017, the specialist title of cardiologist was obtained by 87 women and 171 men (34% females versus 66% males). In spring 2018, there were 686 regular SSC members, 122 (18%) of them were women. Increasingly, female cardiologists become more visible and competitive, although in 2018, there were only 2 women among 16 physicians on the SSC Board. This is still a striking underrepresentation of women. In a recent article about the future of cardiology, gender issues are not mentioned at all, showing that it is still a minor concern to most [2]. Thus, as a reaction to the present situation in Switzerland, the "Women in Cardiology" (WIC) group was formed by Katja Grünenfelder, Hildegard Tanner, Marianne Zimmerli Vögtlin, and Anna Lam on the 27th of March 2017. Later, the group received additional support from Kerstin Wustmann, Fabienne Schwitz and Christine Attenhofer Jost (figure 2). Currently, there are 94 WIC members in Switzerland, with the hope of many more women joining in the next years. The WIC group in Switzerland (www.ig-wic.ch) aims to have a better representation of women at meetings, in science, in the SSC to help young female cardiologists with mentoring and moral support. They plan also to join their efforts with peers abroad.
Glass ceiling in cardiology
Therefore, increasingly women are getting established, but there is a "glass ceiling" that only few women could break through in the past. Only 10-15% of professors at Swiss medical schools are female, indicating the difficulty of penetrating the glass ceiling. However, job satisfaction remains high, also for women, although women remain less likely than men to marry and have children [3].
Typically for women in cardiology seems to be that they are more likely to work in academic hospitals, they are often pediatric cardiologists, and prefer doing noninvasive cardiology. This has not changed in the last 20 years as shown in an US study (figure 3) [3]. Despite similar levels of career satisfaction, many women complain of discrimination (three times more than men). A good example from the past showing the discrimination is the movie: "My fair lady" where the main actor sings: "Why is thinking something women never do? And why is logic never even tried? Straightening up their hair is all they ever do. Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside?", although this is meant jokingly, some grain of truth of male thinking might be there. A survey of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions found that the reason women do not choose interventional cardiology was because of lack of opportunity, lack of guidance and lack of good mentors. Female authorship in journals has increased, but there is still a big gap in academic medicine. There is gender bias and the belief that women may not be able to handle the pattern and workload needed. Women should be encouraged to give talks; they should be invited for leadership roles in hospitals, societies, journals and organisation of meetings. Dr. Angela Maas wrote in an article "Why I'm a cardiofeminist" that she wants better cardiovascular healthcare for women and better positions for female cardiologists. Maas mentions that in the U.S. less than 10% of new cardiologists are women because the culture in cardiology is still not very attractive for female colleagues. Women have only rarely been involved in cardiology politics; not only at the national level, but also in hospitals and group practices. This is hopefully changing.
Marriage, children and radiation exposure in female cardiologists
A survey in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2008 showed at that time that there was a significant difference in marriage and children between male and female cardiologists. 37% of female cardiologists had no children compared to 19% of male cardiologists, 19% were not married versus 4% of male cardiologists [4]. Since then, increasingly female cardiologists do have children and this leads to more part-time jobs, making cardiology a more attractive field for women who also want children.
Even these days, a career in cardiology often impacts family planning and pregnancy or vice-versa. Part-time work may not be consistent with a successful professional career. Radiation exposure should be avoided or minimised during pregnancy. Interestingly in France, 54% of female interventional cardiologists have children [5]. There are increasing efforts for better radiation protection during pregnancy. The problem of radiation exposure has been discussed by the European Heart Rhythm Association [6]. The authors wrote that in an international survey of 380 members of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, 8% of females did not declare pregnancy to their institutions; this is not advisable, as proper monitoring is necessary with possible negative legal consequences. Of note, although the operator is still exposed to some radiation during a procedure, the fluoroscopy dose has fortunately decreased by 95% in the last 10 years [7]. Interestingly enough in an ESC report, women reported not taking up a fellowship in interventional cardiology not because of radiation but because they were not given the opportunity [8]. After pregnancy, female cardiologists should be careful not to take shorter parental leave than usual.
What is also essential in cardiology training programmes are opportunities for job sharing and options for flexible training (the option to finish the cardiology fellowship working part-time), this will help increase the percentage of female cardiologists [9].
Discrimination and sexual harassment in cardiology?
In a recent article summarising a survey in the US, discrimination was reported much more by women than by men, especially regarding sex and parenthood [3]. Interestingly, female cardiologists experienced sex discrimination not only from other physicians but also from patients and allied health professionals. Men more often experienced racial and religious discrimination. This data is shown in figure 4. Also in Switzerland, we have seen male cardiologists experiencing racial discrimination, though religious harassment seems less an issue.
Sexual harassment respectively #Metoo is also a topic in cardiovascular medicine. However, this is not specific for cardiology but can be considered "normal" at workplaces involving different genders. In a recent article, zero tolerance for sexual harassment in cardiology was demanded [10]. Senior staff cardiologists and scientists should not exploit their positions of authority to take advantage of younger women who are dependent on them.
The more gender balance we have, the less sexual harassment will be a problem.
Happiness and burnout in cardiologists
In the 2018 Medscape Lifestyle Report, (see https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2018-lifestyle-cardiologist-6009219) cardiologists were the least happy among all specialists (21% in cardiology versus 37% in ophthalmology or 33% in gastroenterology). Burnout symptoms were reported by 46%, which was comparable to other physicians (52% of women, 41% of men).
Burnout is a hot topic that should be addressed urgently, especially in the current era with an ageing physician population. We have to learn to balance our workforce to not to become too exhausted and "eaten up" by our practice. Many try to recover by exercising and family time, and try to get enough sleep. But also eating disorders (junk food or binge eating) have been reported. Professional women should have help in the household so they can spend some free hours on Sunday, extra childcare, online shopping etc. In order to avoid a burnout, it is recommended to exercise regularly, meet friends and family, have time for a massage, or pedicure, and have some dates … We should be taught at medical school about the importance of self-awareness, work-life balance, acceptance of some clinical uncertainty (perfectionism and burnout are linked), personalised stress reduction and help-seeking for mental health problems [11].
The future in cardiology
To attract the best and enough women working in cardiology, we need jobs with flexible work hours, part-time jobs, group practice settings, mentoring, control of sexist behaviours, better representation of women in the staff, and - we want a female President of the Swiss Society of Cardiology. Marie Curie, the first person to receive two Nobel prizes, a chemist and physicist, said: "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained". This should be the motto of all female and male cardiologists. It should not be a battle of the sexes as by the tennis players Billie Jean King and Billy Riggs in 1973, or the golfer Annika Sorenstam 2003 on the PGA tour. As Bruce Fye pointed out in an article in JACC 2002: "in the 21st century: both male and female medical graduates seek for better balance between professional and personal lives. This is our future and will make us together strong. Everybody must work in this mission together. "
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Correspondence, Prof. Dr. med. Christine Attenhofer Jost, HerzGefässZentrum Zürich, Klinik Im Park, Seestrasse 220, CH-8027 Zürich, christine.attenhofer[at]hirslanden.ch
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According to People, the "civil ceremony" was held in the Monegasque palace, a detail we include mostly to justify using the word Monegasque, a very fun word that everyone should try to use as often as possible. The so-called "pink palace" was also the location of Princess Caroline's first marriage and hosted both of Princess Charlotte's brothers' civil ceremonies. There will reportedly be a bigger wedding celebration next weekend in France (Rassam is French), but somehow we still haven't received our invitations yet. Strange.
The princess wore an Yves Saint Laurent brocade dress designed by Anthony Vaccarello, per a press release. The fabric is reminiscent of the brocade skirt and jacket the bride's grandmother wore for her civil marriage to Prince Rainier in 1956, though that ensemble was designed by MGM costumer Helen Rose.
Per a source that spoke to People, the bride and groom have "actually known one another for a while," and maintained "a remote friendship of many years." Rassam is the son of model and actress (and Bond girl!) Carole Bouquet. According to IMDb, Rassam's next project is Playmobil The Movie, due out this year, AKA the European answer to The Lego Movie.
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Posted by antithesis Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM
so that song that peter (family guy) goes OFF on, surfin bird, is on the video game my niece just got. i went in on that song and that's how i spent my "day on, not a day off". what did you do? hopefully something more constructive than me.
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- Don said...
I did some things that MLK wouldn't have been proud of. I guess we all looked at yesterday as if it was still weekend celebration.
Can you believe I have never watched The Family Guy? Whenever I hear people talk about i or bloggers post videos I feel left out. Like I'm missing something.
- January 19, 2010 at 8:36 AM
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don-!!!!!! i never understood ppl who have never seen it. i disagree with ppl who have watched it once and dont like it/didnt get into it, but to not have even watched? shame.
- January 19, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Don said...
I always thought it was like The Simpsons or something. Don't trip, I haven't watched too much of The Boondocks either. LOL! And I know that cartoon is the bomb.
- January 19, 2010 at 11:02 AM
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I'm late, but I didn't do anything. I got up, took a shower and put on some new pajamas. I spent the day "dreaming."
- January 22, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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Ladies, it's time for the guys to have a little private time. Now guys, we're all worried about getting clocked in the face during our MMA training, but the last place any of us wants to get hit is, you guessed it, the groin. So do we just have to make sure we're protecting our junk at all times? Well what do UFC fighters do, do they wear cups? Let's take a look.
The short answer is, of course UFC fighters wear cups! Imagine taking a full power kick from a UFC fighter straight to the groin without an MMA groin protector, not going to be the most pleasurable experience. In UFC, you don't even get a choice, wear a cup or don't fight, at least more men. Sorry girls, UFC prohibits y'all from wearing protective groin gear. But back to the guys. So if you're about to begin your MMA training, you probably want to get a cup. But it isn't as easy as you may think to select a cup.
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Remember, this cup will be protecting the most delicate part of your body, so it's probably best to take your time with this purchase. There's a few things you want to take into consideration when you're shopping around. You'll want something durable that won't give in after just a few months of use.
Make sure that it's going to stay in place when you're sparring too, the last thing you want is your package flying around down there.
There are also different types of cup supporters you should evaluate: the classic jockstrap, compression shorts, or the tie-on Muay Thai style cup. So with these aspects in mind, let's take a look on what the best online MMA groin protectors.
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- 1 Athletic Cup Groin Protector & Compression Shorts System with Built-in Jockstrap
- 2 Diamond MMA - 4-Strap Jock Strap With Built-in Athletic Cup System for Sports
- 3 Shock Doctor Core Supporter with BioFlex Cup
- 4 RDX MMA Abdo Guard Groin Cup Boxing Adult Abdominal Protector Jockstrap Muay Thai
- 5 Shock Doctor 221 Compression Short with BioFlex Cup
Athletic Cup Groin Protector & Compression Shorts System with Built-in Jockstrap
If you're serious about MMA, the athletic cup is what you're going to want to get. It offers some of the best protection out there, and is still one of the most comfortable options for fighters. The cup also has a patent-pending design to help keep impacts from damaging surrounding muscles and tissues.
- Great protection
- Off the charts comfort
- Good design
- Compression shorts can be too tight
Diamond MMA - 4-Strap Jock Strap With Built-in Athletic Cup System for Sports
The diamond MMA protective cup is great if you're a fan of the more traditional jockstrap. It's made from military grade elastics for easy flexibility, and also has a drawstring so you can adjust the fit easily as well. For the cup, it is made from the same plastic material used in bulletproof glass, so not only are you protected from your opponent's foot, but also a gunshot!
- Adjustable fit
- Durable materials
- Flexible
- Not great for Jiu Jitsu
- Can be uncomfortable
Shock Doctor Core Supporter with BioFlex Cup
The value deal of the group, the Shock Doctor Core offers some qualities that the other cups don't bring to the table, and for a fraction of the price. The jockstrap is meshed to allow easy airflow to keep you nice and cool below the belt. The fabric is also made to help you from sweating as much down there.
- Inexpensive
- Great air flow
- Good protections
- Uncomfortable
RDX MMA Abdo Guard Groin Cup Boxing Adult Abdominal Protector Jockstrap Muay Thai
The RDX has a steel construction that helps disperse the impact so it isn't directly put into your
- Absorbs hits well
- good for Jiu Jitsu
- Not big enough
- odd shape
Shock Doctor 221 Compression Short with BioFlex Cup
The Shock Doctor 221 offers great comfortability for its price. The material of the compression shorts are very flexible and allows for a wide range of movements. The ventilation for the 221 is also on a new level compared to most of the option above.
- Good if you have irritative skin
- Good price
- Flexibility
- Designed with a four-way stretch fabric that helps to wick away moisture
- Good ventilation
- Can shift around when throwing kicks
- The sizing can appear to be a bit smaller
Guys, when it comes to our special area, we want only the best. The idea of taking a kick straight between the legs is horrifying, especially if you have a sub-par cup on. So before you buy a cheap cup, think twice about the ramifications of not getting a good groin protector. Also read about using ankle weights properly for training.


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Julia is a lively girl who enjoys being active and is very social. She likes to show affection and spread her joy to everyone. She is very enthusiastic and likes to daydream. She enjoys being with her friends and siblings. She is very close to her older sister Erica and enjoys doing activities with her. She wants to become a teacher or own a business when she grows up.
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Top Five Reasons to Use a Livingston County REALTOR®
Our homes are the single most important investment most of us will ever make. It is not just the place we call home for our families, it encumbrances at least 35% or life's expenditures and it is one of the single most important long-term financial decisions that we monitor and depend on. That is why selecting a local Livingston County real estate professional to assist you in making a move is so important.
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It's with mixed emotions that we announce the retirement of J. Paul Miner.
Paul, Whether you were in the truck with a student … mentoring an Instructor … in the classroom … on the bus doing your thing … in the office interviewing … or just "hogging the printer" 😉…
You always gave it your ALL.
We know if you put as much effort into your retirement, as you have working with us at Tri-County, it is sure to be a SUCCESS! 🎉
Thank you, Paul, for 21 years 7 months of YOU ! We wish you good Health, Good Times and Relaxation in your future.
Richard, Mary and the Gang
Well shucks…
When we won the Consumer's Choice Award for best truck driving school in the region award last year, we were honoured and humbled. This year, we're almost speechless.
First, we want to thank all of our amazing students. You make us proud, and you're a credit to the trucking industry.
We also thank all of our staff and instructors. I think they're the best, but based on the comments we get on our Facebook page from past students, it would appear I'm not biased at all … well, maybe a little!
And thank you to YOU … the community where we live, and work. We're proud to be a locally-owned, family run business, and to help our neighbours become skilled truck drivers.
We look forward to another year of service to you all!
Richard Wynia, President
34th annual Central Ontario Regional
We're pleased to announce our participation in the 34th annual Central Ontario Regional Truck Driving Championship again this year.
It'll take place on June 8, 2019 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex.
For complete details be sure to check out cortdc.com.
Need to add the Z-endorsement to your current "A" or "D" license? Join us on April 13th and 14th for two days of training to obtain your Z-endorsement.
Once you pass the written and practical tests, you'll be able to move on to the Drive Test, and having the Z-endorsement added to your license.
You must pre-register to attend. Call our office at 1-800-265-0400 to register.
Our students told us it was so. The trucking companies that hired our students told us too.
But now, the cat is really out of the bag.
We're pleased to announce that Tri-County Training has been awarded the Consumer's Choice Award for 2018/2019 as the region's top truck driving school.
Thank you to all of our students, staff, employers, and to the community of Kitchener-Waterloo and the surrounding areas for your support.
The Workforce Planning Board of Waterloo Wellington Dufferin has released their latest job demand report and one job stands out as the most in-demand.
In the 2nd quarter of 2018, 1323 postings for Truck Drivers were placed – almost more than double the number of the next type of posting.
Ever wondered what it's like to sit behind the wheel of a big rig? Well, so did Marc Venema of CTV News Kitchener.
In this video, our very own Ron Klicka takes Marc out on the road to show him what it's like to double-clutch and drive a 13-speed manual transmission Mac truck.
Click the image below to see the video…
No doubt about it...
Being a truck driver can be a tough job. Is it Navy Seal tough? Well, I can tell you that our AZ License Course doesn't quite compare to hell week. But still...
Trucking has its challenges. In this video, Red Viking Trucker, shares his experiences of working with a U.S. Navy Seal and how those lessons apply to driving a truck.
Below, I've included what I found to be the key takeaways.
Stuff happens and you have the choice to carry baggage with you or put it down anytime you want,.
Truck driving requires great focus, and a cool head. Many decision are made moving at 60 mph so you can't let a rude dispatcher or grumpy border guard get in your head.
You might be worried about how you're going to learn to drive a big truck. You might be worried about living on the road for days or weeks at a time. Not sure how you're going to get through it.
Rather than worry and stress about what MIGHT come. Focus on what's in front of you and take it one day, or even 10-minutes at a time.
Driving a truck is a skill like tying your shoes. You'll make mistakes. Have an open mind and a willingness to learn and make mistakes. Allow yourself to make mistakes but learn from them and strive not to make the same mistake twice.
Doubt. Fear. Hesitation. All of these feelings and emotions are normal when learning something new. Despite all of this, you want to go into your new career, expecting to succeed.
It's very likely that trucking is like nothing you've done before. All of it will be new. You can let this fact cause fear and doubt or you can embrace every new moment of the learning process and approach it with an attitude of wonder.
When stuff hits the fan, you can still decide who you want to be.
When stuff happens that is out of your control, it can be difficult to remain calm - especially when you're driving alone. When you have no one to vent to, it's easy to unleash your fury on others around you.
But in every moment, you have control over who you will be and how you'll react.
The 2017 Shipper's Choice Awards winners have been announced and Cambridge's own Challenger has been named one of Canada's favourite shippers.
Shippers across Canada vote for companies who demonstrate performance excellence and regularly exceed shippers' expectations.
Congratulations to everyone over at Challenger for this award.


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Advanced: This adds to the Int. We can just use an add operator like "+=" for most programs.
Tip: To go to the previous number, we can use advanced() by negative one. But subtracting one is likely clearer.
Part 1: We try to capture overflows with multiplyWithOverflow. We perform a multiply that causes an overflow.
Part 2: Here the numbers multiplied do not overflow, so the "overflow" property returns false.
Tip: Other methods include addWithOverflow, divideWithOverflow, remainderWithOverflow and subtractWithOverflow.
Instead: The numeric value will become invalid. It will wrap around to the lowest (or highest) value.
Quote: For both signed and unsigned integers, overflow in the positive direction wraps around from the maximum valid integer value back to the minimum, and overflow in the negative direction wraps around from the minimum value to the maximum.Advanced Operators: apple.com


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Farewell Call! (And Some Thoughts on Parenting)
^^All six handsome Nelson brothers. They share a close, unique and special bond and actually enjoy getting together. I feel so fortunate to have married into this good looking, fun, hard-working, family.^^
These last two weekends have been spent in good 'ol Ririe, Idaho getting Bron's youngest brother, Call, ready to leave on a two year LDS mission to the Albuquerque, New Mexico area. We're really going to miss Call! He's everyone's favorite uncle, has an unpretentious sense of humor, and is all around just a good kid. Ahem, I mean adult now. He is 18 after all.
Last weekend we rounded up the entire Nelson crew to attend Call's first experience through the Rexburg Temple. I really cannot describe how special it was to have the entire family there gathered together: parents, brothers, and all their wives. It was almost like we got a little sneak peek at what heaven might feel like.
Because getting six boys through the temple and off on missions is an impressive feat (alongside raising responsible men and contributors to society), it has made me really pause to analyze what Flint and Merri Sue did right as parents. What we have right now as an extended family is exactly what I want for my own family years from now. I know there is no one right way to raise a child and that often times one approach may work for one child but completely backfires with another. And there are absolutely no guarantees either. Even if I do everything "right", my children still have their free agency to choose whom they ultimately want to become. Believe me, I will love my boys unconditionally! No matter what. But be worried or scared or disappointed for them in some of their decisions? Yes, definitely yes. This parenting gigue is kind of scary sometimes! But for some reason, it's reassuring to know I have two very excellent examples to try to pattern myself after. And I'm super lucky to have Bron as my partner in this parenting adventure as well. He's a good dad. Together we're trying our best, learning from our mistakes, and praying for some extra help along the way. Wish us luck!
Anyway, back to Call and his mission, we all made it to church yesterday to hear Call speak in sacrament meeting. I thoroughly enjoyed his talk! It wasn't boring at all. He referenced a few scriptures and used lots of personal anecdotes. I don't think I've ever heard Call speak so many sentences in a row, but I was impressed with his level of maturity.
Then afterwards, family and friends gathered at the house to eat and talk. We moved to another room, ate and talked. Helped the kids out. Moved outdoors, ate and talked some more. The men changed water with farmer Talon. Then we ate and talked some more.
And that was our Sunday! Good times. Good memories. I sure love these folks I get to call family. Best wishes on your mission, Call. We will miss you!
^^The whole Nelson crew sans little children. And yes, three of us ladies are pregnant!^^


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Another transfer window promises the same old storylines for the North East's Premier League football clubs.
While Sunderland will set about another rebuild, Newcastle United are once more looking only to fine-tune.
It is a sign that while the Magpies largely got things right in the summer transfer window, the Black Cats got it spectacularly wrong.
One thing has changed, though. Joe Kinnear was under intense pressure in the last window, but this month the spotlight will shine brightest on his opposite number, Stadium of Light director of football Roberto De Fanti.
Kinnear was castigated for his lack of window work in the summer, while De Fanti was praised for the volume and speed of his recruitment. The mid-season Premier League table has cast those assessments in a different light.
The English fascination with directors of football centres around control. That De Fanti's first signing of 2014, left-back Marcos Alonso, came straight from Gustavo Poyet's old Brighton and Hove Albion shopping list suggests the coach is in charge of business. The arrival of Liam Bridcutt and/or Will Buckley from Falmer would only strengthen that view. After the mess De Fanti made last summer, signing 14 players most of whom successive coaches Paolo Di Canio, Kevin Ball and Poyet did not appear to rate, reducing the former agent's power would be a wise move. Either way, he cannot afford another bad window.
Kinnear is hardly on solid ground either, but he will not be seriously tested until the summer when the time comes to permanently sign Loic Remy or his replacement. For now, another month of inactivity would not be the worst thing in the world, so long as it applies to major outgoings as well as incomings.
As has often been the case at St James' Park in recent windows, keeping star players like Yohan Cabaye and Tim Krul is as important as adding to them.
A stronger supporting cast would do no harm, however. Alan Pardew can say what he likes in public, but what Newcastle's manager thinks of his squad was writ large on his Christmas team-sheets. After Wednesday's 1-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion, Pardew complained about "heavy legs", adding "with this programme we're on you're always struggling".
Three games in a week is a big ask, but six of the top eight clubs have started 17 different players to cope with it, whereas Newcastle and Liverpool relied on just 13. It tells you what Pardew thinks of his fringe men. More depth is needed to sustain a European push.
Jonas Gutierrez, Gabriel Obertan and Sylvain Marveaux's Tyneside careers seem to be nearing an end, so another winger would provide much-needed options.
Pardew must decide if he can revive Papiss Cisse's goalscoring instinct, or if the Senegal striker is heading for the same fate. If so, it is better that Newcastle cut their losses and put a bit of money into the transfer pot. Likewise, is there any need to keep Gutierrez, Obertan, Marveaux, Gael Bigirimana and Dan Gosling – who could make his loan at Blackpool permanent – if the manager is reluctant to use them? A loan has been mentioned for Steven Taylor, but with Fabricio Coloccini picking up another injury, it would be risky to let him leave, even temporarily, without getting anyone else in.
With Cisse a shadow of himself, Newcastle already look a striker light, and the lingering fear is that Remy will go looking for greener grass at the end of an impressive season-long loan. West Brom's Shane Long has been mooted as a possibility but there will be no shortage of suitors. The same can be said of Bafetembi Gomis, whose demands stopped him arriving in the summer. Remy Cabella is another Newcastle have looked at, and while the 23-year-old can play wide, Montpellier have almost exclusively used him centrally, in a Cabaye-style role.
As for Sunderland – what do they not need?
There are too many faults to address mid-season, so Poyet needs to make the "three or four" signings he talks about count. As in the summer, De Fanti has at least been quick off the mark, with Alonso teed up before the window even opened.
Sunderland also need wide players, with neither Adam Johnson nor Emanuele Giaccherini stamping their authority on the season; goalscorers, with Steven Fletcher, Jozy Altidore and Ji Dong-won looking anything but; and another central midfielder more capable of playing the passing football Poyet insists on, and which Sebastian Larsson, Lee Cattermole and Craig Gardner look ill-suited to. Even back-up goalkeeper Keiren Westwood is expected to be out for a couple of months with a shoulder operation.
That Connor Wickham's loan at Sheffield Wednesday has been extended until late January suggests that for all his recent Championship goals, Poyet does not see the England Under-21 international as the answer to Sunderland's problems up front.
The trouble is getting them. The Black Cats will hopefully learn the lessons of the summer and avoid players who need time to bed into Premier League football.
No matter how good an attacking player Ignacio Scocco is, Poyet will know from experience how difficult it is for a South American to adjust to English football.
On the other hand, anyone bought in England comes at a high premium. Targets like wingers Shaun Wright-Phillips and Charles N'Zogbia will command hefty wages and relegation rivals Cardiff City, Crystal Palace and perhaps Fulham are likely to throw more money at the problem.
There is bound to be hesitancy on both sides. Good players will be reluctant to join a club staring into the Football League abyss, and owner Ellis Short must be wary of over-spending in case that is where the team ends up. Pardew must just be relieved that for once the transfer window is someone else's problem.


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Our aim at Monkhouse is for all pupils leaving school to be physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport.
We teach PE through a games based approach. This allows children to apply skills in competitive small sided match scenarios that promote maximum participation. We encourage creativity in our dance and gymnastics sessions.
P.E. is undertaken throughout the school and is an important activity, leading towards good physical co-ordination and agile movement.
During this last year, our pupils have thoroughly enjoyed participating in sporting events with other local schools. A selection of our recent activities includes:
Our Year 5 and 6 pupils enjoyed fantastic success at the indoor athletics competition. We had many individual winners and won the event overall as a school team.
The school football team are currently undefeated in the league and are top of the table.
Our Year 2 and 3 pupils had a wonderful time recently at the Dance Festival.
The children at Monkhouse always demonstrate tremendous passion, determination, teamwork and respect in all of their sporting endeavours.


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The Promise by Johnathan Alter
While we, the general public, typically see the calm, cool, and collected President Obama on all the TV stations, we tend to forget that there are times when the most powerful man in the world and his entourage get frustrated, desperate, and confrontational. The Promise is an insider's account of the campaign, election, and first year of President Barack Obama's first term. The author, Jonathan Alter, uses his unique access to tell the stories behind some of the new President's highs and lows. From candidate Obama breaking up a fight between Finance Committee Chairman Barney Frank and Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to Joe Biden's gleeful profanity being caught on a hot mic after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the author does a great job of detailing the inner workings of the executive and legislative branch.
One of the most important things the book did for me personally was remind me that President Obama had some huge legislative victories before Obamacare, which tends to overshadow almost every other achievement of his first term. I also enjoyed the focus put on the role of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, who was willing to ignore his own gut instinct in order to accomplish his boss' goal of health care reform. A third aspect that stuck out to me was the inner drama that took place within the bureaucracy, such as Hillary Clinton swallowing her pride as secretary of state and the unseen arguments between the Pentagon and the White House on the debacle in Afghanistan.
While there were some lulls as far as action, the book as a whole is a learning experience, especially in the workings of the bureaucracy and what it takes to get things done in Washington. I learned a lot about the difficulties of whipping votes and the congressional process of getting something for their own district, as in the case of Ben Nelson's infamous "Cornhusker Kickback" on the Affordable Care Act. If those two things don't at all sound interesting to you, this probably isn't the book for you. If the topic interested you but you don't have much background knowledge, I'd recommend learning a little about the inner workings of Washington or at least having Google handy while you read. If you have a great interest in the political process, I would definitely recommend this book, especially if you have a great admiration for President Obama's legislative agenda and achievements.
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In less than one year, the notorious L train shutdown will impact 400,000 commuters, and advocacy groups and elected officials want to make sure that Ridgewood and Bushwick residents living near the subway line aren't overlooked.
On June 6, a contingent of nine environmental and transportation advocacy groups, as well as Councilman Rafael Espinal and a representative from Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez's office, gathered in the plaza outside of the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues subway station to call for the MTA, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo to present a final mitigation plan for the L shutdown.
In that plan, low-income neighborhoods and communities of color must be treated fairly and there must be stronger actions taken to address how the plan will affect the environment, the advocates said.
Members of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, El Puente, Make the Road New York, NY Renews, New York Communities for Change, MoveNY, Riders Alliance, Transportation Alternatives and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign all took part in the event.
Espinal pointed out that between 18,000 and 25,000 people use the Myrtle-Wyckoff station on a daily basis, so the local community will be drastically affected.
"We're all concerned about how we're going to get to work, how we're going to make sure we get our kids to school, how we're going to get to the doctor's office," Espinal said. "Every day that DOT, the MTA and the mayor do not come up with a plan that's going to deal with all of those issues, it just continues putting pressure on the families who depend on this transportation most."
The L train will stop running between Brooklyn and Manhattan for 15 months beginning in April 2019 so that necessary repairs can be made to the Canarsie Tunnel — damaged by saltwater during Hurricane Sandy — that runs under the East River. The MTA released an initial plan earlier this year describing the extra measures that will be taken to make up for the loss, but the agency has since held several open house meetings and presented the plan to community boards in search of constructive feedback.
The protesters made it clear that they don't believe the initial plan will be enough. Not only did they call for more options such as CitiBike in the area, but they also pointed out the importance of addressing the environmental impact of adding 200 buses to the city's fleet as part of the current mitigation plan.
"Our community suffers from some of the highest asthma rates and worst air quality in the city," said Leslie Velasquez, program manager for El Puente. "Therefore we call on the MTA to deploy their entire fleet of electric buses in providing alternate transportation to the L … By moving away from fossil fuel burning vehicles we would also be able to address the root cause of of the L train shutdown, which is climate change induced storms like Superstorm Sandy."
Velasquez and other speakers said that the MTA has so far committed to rolling out 60 electric buses.
There to support the speakers were a few dozen other members of the advocacy groups who held up signs and banners, and chanted "No pollution, fund solutions." Many people coming to and from the Myrtle-Wyckoff station stopped to listen to the protest for a few moments, and some people stuck around and even joined the movement.
One daily L train rider, Juana Alvarez, spoke to QNS in Spanish while another woman translated, and said that planning around the shutdown just to make it to work on time could jeopardize her livelihood and the livelihood of thousands more.
"We depend on very low salaries to get by, and if we're going to run into issues with getting to work late because of trains and the possibility of getting fired for something like that, that's not something that we can do," Alvarez said.


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Congrats, Campfire!
September 26, 2007 - 10:20 pm
Campfire wins gold and bronze at the Mixx awards
The bronze in Digital Video was for the campaign I worked on – The Battle Over Promicin. You can see the case study here. (I wrote that pro-Promicin ad script, woo!)
Congratulations to Campfire Media for the wins.