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Rich Moore's sweet, funny and exciting Wreck-It Ralph was a huge animated hit for Disney in 2012. Even without., being based on a recognizable character or a familiar show, the original story won audiences over to the tune of $392M at the worldwide box office. It earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, and is an obvious candidate for a sequel, given the amount of interesting places a second chapter easily could go. T;oday, we're hearing clues about where the next Wreck-It Ralph might head.
With the movie reaching DVD and Blu-ray, Moore spoke (via IGN) about a deleted scene in a subsequent gaming world named Extreme EZ Livin' 2, where he would have met up with a laid-back character. The scene would have added too much time to the end of the original Ralph, but Moore explains that he's anxious to attempt a sequel, and could pull some of those forgotten characters – as well as new realms inspired by popular games, into a second film.
I don't exactly know how we could work it in, you know, things like Angry Birds and the With Friends games — only because I love playing them," Moore said to IGN. "It just seems like it would be great to work in a story about those types of games that are so prevalent and contemporary and part of today's culture. I would love to somehow work that into a sequel. … There's definitely a lot of interest from a lot of people: myself, the actors -- Sarah [Silverman] and John [C. Reilly] especially -- and all the artists and technicians at Disney. We're just kind of waiting for an official word at this point, but it definitely seems like something could happen. We're really keeping our fingers crossed. We had a great time, all of us working on the film, from top to bottom. I think it would be just awesome to work with that team again and return to that world."
Considering how easy it would be to introduce new games that already in place in Ralph's arcade, it does seem like the possibilities of new characters (heroes and villains) for a Ralph franchise would be endless. Where recognizable video game characters like Qbert and the Pac-Man ghost made it into the first film, you could pull in Pitfall Harry, the Super Mario brothers and thousands of other people fans would devour. If Ralph wins the Oscar, I think you can pretty much count on Moore's team getting that green light. What do you think? Do you want to see another Wreck-It Ralph adventure?


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Van Hoose joins business faculty at Wayland
Sam Van Hoose has joined the faculty in the Division of Business at Wayland Baptist University as assistant professor of management information systems.
A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Van Hoose has served as an adjunct professor in the division for the past two years after receiving his MBA from Wayland. He also holds a bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Texas Tech University in instructional technology.
Van Hoose worked as technology director for the Hale Center Independent School District from 1997-2002 and previously owned his own computer sales and service business.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1965-1987, where he was damage control assistant on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and engineer officer on the U.S.S. Spiegel Grove and the U.S.S. Bowen, among other duties.

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I found both my images over at Poppy Power. Marcella Hawley is one talented lady and her stamps (rubber and digital) are simply gorgeous and I love coloring them.
To sweeten things Rhea, of Passionate Paper Creations provides you with a coloring template to get you started. Her work is fabulous and while I may never reach her level of coloring, I do enjoy trying to repeat her combinations.
Moving forward with my cards, I'll start with the Father's Day card.
As I mentioned earlier the image is from Poppy Power and the title is "Fly Guy".
The paper is from My Mind's Eye but due to the disarray of my paper I can't began to tell you what collection it came from. Orange and brown is one of my favorite combinations for creating masculine cards and this paper was perfect for this card.
I colored my image with copics and I mean I used a slew of them. I added a few buttons but didn't get the effect I was going for but that's how it goes sometimes when crafting. The inside uses leftover paper from the stack but I haven't taken time to take a photo yet.
I'd like to enter this card in a couple of challenges:
Digi Choosday Crafting- Anything Goes
Everybody Art Challenge -#404 Anything Goes
Cards und More - #185 Father's Day
Cardz 4 Guys - #170 Favorite Color Combo
My second card is all about the color yellow. I love this image and had lots of fun coloring it.
This image is called "Dancing Daffodils" and I colored it with almost 15 different copic markers.
I used the Sizzix pierced ovals to cut out the image and then adhered it to Spellbinders Floral Oval die-cut.
I used paper from the "Park-bench" collection by Fancy Pants. I thought the yellow with grey/gray accents was perfect for my daffodils.
I'd like to enter the following challenges:
Whoopsie Daisy - Tic Tac Toe
Crafting from the Heart - #161 ATG
Artistic Inspirations - #180 Flower Theme
Die Cutting Divas - #319 ATG
Create and Makes - #12 ATG/Use Yellow
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Sarah McCoubrey, who received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, is an Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University. A widely renowned artist, she is the recipient of many grants, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant. Her paintings were included in the 2008 and 2002 Everson Museum of Art Biennial and in recent exhibits at Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca.
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With the increase in popularity of crowd-funding sites, anything is possible.
We are certainly in a digital age. These days, you need not look far to find information, can watch your favorite movies and tv shows with the ease of signing into a Netflix account, and can share your views on anything with people halfway across the world.
In the olden days, if your favorite TV show was canceled, you were limited to penning angry fan-hate mail to the production companies and demanding more while studio executives tossed your correspondence in a wood chipper and laughed their huge, corporate guffahs. Not anymore, my friends.
Something miraculous called Kickstarter has come to the rescue, and it's almost by accident. Kickstarter.com is a wonderful tool that was launched to the Web in April of 2009. The website is dedicated to artists showing their wares (or rather, what they plan to make), and offering rewards at multiple donation levels to people kind enough to put money towards the project. Sometimes the rewards are as simple as a T-shirt or a download of the project, sometimes as lofty as getting the title Producer or getting your name printed in a book. The kind of projects that can be funded include comics, video games, artwork, films, and various technologies. It steadily gained popularity to the point where they've collectively $500 million in donations by over 3 million people.
I was currently witness to a couple of achievements in Kickstarter history. One was a comic book series being bound into a volume called The Tomorrow Girl by Aaron Diaz. He asked for $30,000 to make this project come true. Sound like a lot? Well art costs money, my friends. And not only did he make his $30K in funding, he exceeded it, making Kickstarter comics history by recieving combined donations of over $530,000.
The other project I was privvy to was The Veronica Mars Movie Project. Veronica Mars was a TV show about a smart girl detective in a town called Neptune. The show was canceled, but not before it gained a core of fans that would remain true to the series years after it's demise. Creator Rob Thomas posted a plea on Kickstarter that he would make a Veronica Mars film if the donations reached $2 million. A very modest number for a film production. Boy he was certainly surprised when they made the budget...IN A DAY. As of the time of this posting, the funding still has 14 days to go, and the donations have topped a whopping $4 million.
Trust me, everyone has been paying attention to this on the Internet. Other fans of cult TV shows like Firefly perked up immediately. They do this from time to time when they see an opportunity for their ill-fated show, canceled after only eleven out of the fourteen produced episodes aired. They want a revival. Unfortunately, creator Joss Whedon is too busy with Avengers related work and he's tied in to Marvel for the next few years.
But this has formed so many opportunity for fan crowd-funding to be a major aspect of Hollywood in general. Now other canceled shows like the animate Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series are getting another look. Canceled recently, these incredibly popular superhero series produced quite the fan outcry, inspiring pleas for a return by YouTubers and groups on Facebook. On April 11 Warner Bros will be holding a meeting specifically to see if crowd-funding would be a feasible idea to bring back these shows. The site SMGO.tv (My Show Must Go On) is planning to launch a Kickstarter campaign once they get the go-ahead to do so.
Just imagine, for $10, you could make something happen.
Or you could go to Starbucks. The choice is yours.
It seems that fans have a lot more power than ever before. By putting in your two-cents (opinion) or actual money, you and thousands of your compatriots can rally together to bring back your favorite shows. It may mark the beginning of something great in entertainment at large--a sort of supply and demand that shows Hollywood and TV studios what we really want.
But then again, a ton of us requested Paranormal Activity, and look how that monster grew (for better or for worse.)
The power to pick and choose...I want that one!
What are your thoughts on these developments? Is technology the way to go to fund our favorite forms of entertainment, or will we see a negative shift in supply and demand?
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Well, that's super - next time you enter a debate how about you come up with something more than empty rhetoric?
Well, that's super - next time you enter a debate how about you come up with something more than empty rhetoric?
Empty rhetoric?
I would've thought you would agree with me, being the proud New Zealander you are. In a sport or event where somebody from our nation wins a gold medal, especially when said gathering happens once every four years and is a collection of the best disabled athletes in the world, it certainly deserves more than two sentences in a news broadcast. I'm not expecting a fully fledged report with a ten minute interview, but some sort of visuals and a decent story would have been nice. We should celebrate the achievements of our athletes, even if they are disabled, for winning a gold medal.
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Perhaps 'priority' was the wrong word, but I've always thought that sports in which New Zealanders are competing and doing well should come before things such as tennis, golf and motorsports in the sports bulleting - events we don't usually have participants in, with the odd exception.
The irony of someone who goes out of his way to support Bangladesh when playing NZ expecting me to be a "proud NZer" and agree with you is not lost on me, Perm.
I've given several reasons why the Paralympics haven't or shouldn't get the same coverage and you replied with:
Good for you. Really in-depth stuff, that.I stand by my statement. When a New Zealander wins a gold medal there deserves to be more than two sentences on a news broadcoast.
FWIW, point taken about the TVNZ coverage, there is a fair possibility that TV3 may not have had access to any sort of video footage.
Personally, and I may be crucified for saying this, I find the whole Paralympics a exercise in political correctness. They're not the best athletes in their sport, and they never will be, simply because of their disability. It might be harsh, but that's the way it goes. And that's why I think the coverage was adequate.
If you're of that opinion, then should we also disband rugby teams like the NZ Maori and the Black Ferns?
Media priority dictates that they show us things we can relate to, that we want to see, the Paralympics isn't something that the greater part of society gives a toss about. You're a Saint Permster but frankly I'm not too fussed about the best basketball team in wheelchairs. While this denies some people a lot of kudos for being amazing individuals considering their circumstances, a lot of things don't get on the news that could do. You'll also notice we often don't put on any third world disasters, not because its anymore or less tragic in reality to anything that happens to the first world, but because we don't relate ourselves to these people. It's all about us buying their stories, not about achievement or tragedy.
As for the Black Ferns, why would you disband them? Have I suggested getting rid of women in the Olympics? No. The Black Ferns are the best of their gender in the world. Good enough for me.
I'll repeat what I just said on MSN, you're a douche.
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wanna check out the Smith family home in Dunedin?
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haha, what?
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74 London Street?
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years 1991-1997 were spent there
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if I was in Dunedin and working I'd move in
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Will I get attacked if I compare your friendship to that of two twelve year old girls?
I'm sure TV 3 would have liked to cover the gold medal more, but due to their stuttering weatherman who takes ten minutes to string a coherent sentence together they simply don't have time.
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ATI and NVIDIA have struggled to outdo each other in the video card performance wars ever since ATI launched the original Radeon in 2000, but the red team has spent most of the last 18 months dealing from a very bad deck. The company's R600-based HD 2000 series was ultimately unable to challenge NVIDIA at the high end of the market, so G80-based GeForce products dominated the enthusiast market through the first three quarters of 2007.
Last November, ATI unveiled its improved RV670 GPU and launched a new line of video cards around the chip. The RV670 GPU was an architectural tweak of the R600 (rather than a new design), but building the chip on a smaller process allowed ATI to dramatically reduce total power consumption and improve the GPU's performance-per-watt. Moving from a 512-bit memory bus on the R600 to a 256-bit memory bus on the RV670 also reduced the GPU's die size, further cutting manufacturing costs.
All of these improvements allowed ATI to bring the HD 3850 and HD 3870 to market at a price point (and power envelope) far below that of the ill-fated HD 2900XT. These two parts gave ATI a new footing in the midrange enthusiast market just in time for Christmas. The HD 3850 offered a far better price/performance ratio than NVIDIA's 8600GTS (or ATI's own 2600XT), and the HD 3870, while not as fast as NVIDIA's then-new G92-based 8800GT, offered its own strong price/performance ratio. Both cards were well received, but NVIDIA still retained the raw performance crown. The 3870X2 that Ars is reviewing today is meant to erase the stumbles of 2007 and put AMD back on competitive footing with NVIDIA in terms of performance at the high-end, $450 price point.
The 3870X2's GPUs are based on the same RV670 chip that powers the standard HD 3870, but that doesn't mean building a 3870X2 is as simple as gluing two chips together and calling it a day. ATI's reference 3870X2 design leaves some room for the card to grow, and offers board vendors a fair degree of flexibility when designing their offerings.
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The 3870X2 combines both GPUs and their associated memory on a single PCB, rather than using two separate boards joined by physical interconnects à la the GeForce 7950GX2. As you can see from the diagram below, the two GPU's are connected via a bridge chip. The bridge communicates with both cores via two PCIe 1.1 x16 links; bridge-to-motherboard communication is handled by a third x16 PCIe 1.1 connection.
ATI's decision to use a PCIe 1.1 bridge chip constrains it from advertising the 3870X2 as a "PCIe 2.0" solution, but the company claims that it tested the card with both a PCIe 1.1 and a PCIe 2.0 bridge chip and saw no significant performance difference between the two. On the manufacturing side of the equation, the PCIe 1.1 bridge chip in question is a chip that ATI's board manufacturers have worked with before, and it's less expensive (and available in greater volume) than its PCIe 2.0 counterpart. With that said, there's no reason why a board manufacturer couldn't release a 3870X2 with a PCIe 2.0 bridge chip rather than the current PCIe 1.1 model.
The 3870X2 is 10.5" long, making it 1.5" longer than a standard 3870, but equal in length to NVIDIA's single-core 8800 Ultra. ATI is rather fond of pointing this out, and it does speak to the company's engineering prowess that it was able to pack two GPUs into the same form factor as a single-chip NVIDIA card—but this is really more an indication that GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra cards are on their way out. The 90nm G80 that powered both cards was considered immense, even by 2006 standards, and NVIDIA will undoubtedly unveil a new ultra-high-end card based on 65nm process technology in the relatively near future.
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ATI's reasons for switching back to GDDR3 appear to be economic. According to the company, GDDR4 production has yet to achieve the economy of scale that GDDR3 enjoys. With only two manufacturers currently building GDDR4, supply was also constrained—apparently, more than some of ATI's board partners were comfortable with. Moving back to GDDR3 alleviates both issues, and it should also cut a few dollars off the card's retail price.
The 3870X2 may currently only carry 512MB of RAM per core, but ATI has left its new high-end baby room to grow. If the current 512MB-per-core version of the card proves successful, we'll surely see various board manufacturers touting 1GB-per-core flavors for a total of 2GB of onboard RAM.
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Dr. Brem received his undergraduate degree from New York University, his medical degree from Harvard, and trained in neurosurgery at Columbia. At Hopkins, he has built one of the largest brain tumor research and treatment centers in the world. He reinstituted the Hunterian Neurosurgery Laboratory (originally founded by Cushing) and has trained numerous researchers who have revolutionized the fields of intraoperative imaging, angiogenesis, immunotherapy, and controlled release polymers for drug delivery to the brain.
Dr. Brem has changed the surgical treatment of brain tumors by introducing new approaches for targeted therapy. He developed new classes of polymers and microchips for drug delivery that are custom synthesized for the agent being developed. The polyanhydrides, which were the first new treatments for brain tumors that the FDA had approved in 23 years, have been shown in his laboratory to be biocompatible and potent. He then designed and led the clinical trials demonstrating safety and efficacy.
Dr. Brem has used his laboratory experience to design and lead many novel multi-institutional clinical trials to prove the safety and efficacy of this approach in patients with brain tumors. His work has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1982, and is currently funded by several active grants.
Dr. Brem's teaching was recognized by the Hopkins Professors Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996. In 1998 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2000 he was awarded the Grass Award by the Society of Neurological Surgeons for meritorious research; in 2001 he received the Founders Award of the Controlled Release Society; in 2004 he received the New York University Distinguished Alumni Award; in 2005 he was co-recipient of the Society for Biomaterials Technology Innovation and Development Award and was named the Coleman Fellow in Life Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. In 2011 he delivered the commencement address for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has been recognized by the Castle Connolly Guide each year from 2002 in "America's Top Doctors", and from 2005 – present in "America's Top Doctors for Cancer". In 2013, the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the Section on Tumors of the AANS/CNS named him as the recipient of the Abhijit Guha Award. In 2014, The Johns Hopkins University established the Henry Brem Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery. In 2015 Dr. Brem was selected to receive a Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Award for Clinical Excellence. The award is given annually to five physicians whose dedication, talents and skills have improved the lives of thousands of people throughout the world.
Dr. Brem is constantly sought after as a guest lecturer across the world. In 1996 he was the Altman Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005 he was the E. Llewelyn Thomas Lecturer at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering in Toronto, Canada, as well as the Noun Shavit Memorial Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Dr. Brem was the Rosomoff Visiting Professor to the University of Miami in Florida in 2007, and in 2008 he was a visiting professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. He was the Henry A. Shenkin, MD Lecturer at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, in 2009. In 2010, he was the Van Wagenen Professorship Lecturer at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY, and the Tenth Annual Hugo V. Rizzoli M.D. Lecturer of Walter Reed Army Medical Center & National Naval Medical Center. In 2011 he delivered the Seventh Annual Stuart Rowe Society Lecture at University of Pittsburgh. In 2013 he was the Yale University Voynick Lecturer.
In 2000, Dr. Brem was named director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. Since his appointment, Dr. Brem has brought to Johns Hopkins many of the nation's best neurosurgeons, who share his philosophy to provide the best clinical care, while pushing research boundaries to enhance patient's outcomes in the field of neurosurgery. Dr. Brem strives to ensure that each patient receives the best possible state of the art care in neurosurgery from his team. In addition, patients can be assured that they will have a team of physicians and scientists who are thinking about the patient's problems and design the best therapy possible across all disciplines and sciences. Patients can also be assured that the latest research, the newest technology, and the best possible and most innovative therapies will be made available to them.
Dr. Brem and his team have established one of the best fellowship and residency programs in the US. His mission, which extends through his team, is to train the next generation to be cutting-edge neurosurgeons who will become academic leaders in their field. Brem's leadership and his team were recognized by U.S. News & World Report in 2010, when it ranked Johns Hopkins as the #1 neurosurgery program in the nation, a distinction it held for four consecutive years. In 2014 the Neurosurgery Residency Program was ranked in the top three Neurological Surgery Residency Programs in the US by U.S. News & World Report and Doximity.
Dr. Brem has an active role in Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his role as chief of neurosurgery he had led several medical school wide safety initiatives including organizing and leading the clinical directors to identify safety issues across departments and implement processes to improve patient safety. His commitment to patient safety is further demonstrated by being a founding member of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, a multi-disciplinary Institute for implementing optimal patient safety procedures. Dr. Brem has served on eleven Departmental Chair search committees as well as chairing two searches (ophthalmology and anesthesia).
Dr. Brem is committed to collaboration across disciplines to inspire and facilitate the translation of scientific advances for direct patient benefit. As such, he has helped found Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute and is co- principal investigator of the Johns Hopkins Coulter Foundation "Translational Research Partners Program" which funds and supports innovative biomedical engineering projects across disciplines that have potential to rapidly develop into useful products for patients. He served for eight years as the Chairman of the Budget and Finance and Planning Committee of the Johns Hopkins Clinical Practice Association. Dr. Brem chaired the LCME Institutional Setting Subcommittee for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Accreditation Site Visit (2014) for its successful re-accreditation.
Dr. Brem has built collaborative neurosurgical programs in the Washington Capital region and facilitated Hopkins Neurosurgery programs in many countries throughout the world.
Dr. Brem is committed to international collaboration. He serves on the executive board of the Maryland Israel Development Corporation which facilitates the relocation of Israeli biotech companies to Maryland, resulting in beneficial scientific and economic contributions to Maryland and Hopkins. He has led a Hopkins delegation to China to establish new collaborations and has played a leadership role in establishing neurosurgical programs in the Persian Gulf. He has helped start several biotechnology companies and has served on their Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Boards.
To sustain his vision of combining scientific progress with improved clinical outcomes, philanthropy is important to Dr. Brem. He has raised over $30 million to establish a Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute at Johns Hopkins. During his chairmanship, the Department of Neurosurgery has raised over $109 million, including nine endowed chairs to support, sustain and stabilize the department's spirit of innovation and excellence.
In summary, over the past 30 years, Henry Brem has introduced new therapeutic approaches to Neurosurgery. His devotion to patient care, clinical excellence and translational science has brought together a unique group of neurosurgeons and investigators that have changed the field of neurosurgery. His approach to science and medicine has also had significant impact throughout Johns Hopkins. His trainees have gone on to distinguished careers in science and medicine and are serving in leadership roles throughout the world. He continues his practice of complex brain surgery and to lead the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Department.
- Director, Department of Neurosurgery
- Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery
- Neurosurgeon-in-Chief, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Director, Hunterian Neurosurgical Research Laboratory
- Co-Director, Brain Cancer Program, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Joint Appointment in Ophthalmology
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Professor of Oncology
Departments / Divisions
- Biomedical Engineering
- Neurosurgery - Brain Tumor
- Oncology - Brain Cancer
- Ophthalmology
- MD; Medicine, Harvard Medical School (1978)
- Neurological Institute of New York / Neurosurgery (1984)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1980)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Neurological Surgery / Neurological Surgery (1986)
Research & Publications
Dr. Brem is the principal investigator in the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Subependymoma and Ependymoma Research Center. This research center conducts basic science, translational and clinical practice research with the goals of optimizing current treatment options and developing new therapies that will positively impact the care and lives of patients with subependymomas and ependymomas, primary central nervous system (CNS) brain tumors
Lab Website: Supendymoma and Ependymoma Research Center
Technology Expertise KeywordsRobotic Arm Heart Surgery; Robots
Clinical Trials
Learn more about clinical trials at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Controlled Local Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents for Treating Solid Tumors
Patent # WO1996003984 A1 | 02/15/2011
Controlled Local Deliver of chemotherapeutic agents for treating solid tumors.
Vitamin D3 Analog Loaded Polymer Formulations for Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disorders
Patent # WO1999011272 A1 | 03/11/1999
Vitamin D3 analog loaded polymer formulations for cancer and neurodegenerative disorders.
Cytokine Enhanced Immunotherapy for Brain Tumors
Patent # WO1998016246 A1 | 04/23/1998
Cytokine enhanced immunotherapy for brain tumors.
Activities & Honors
- Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, 2014
- Neurosurgery Department Ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report, 2010 - 2013
- Abhijit Guha Award, Society for Neuro-Oncology and the Section on Tumors of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2013
- The Michael S. Voynick Lecture in Neuro-Oncology Award, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 2013
- Castle Connolly Magazine, Top Doctors: Washington-Baltimore, 2012
- Health Leadership Award, Boy Scouts of America, 2012
- Commencement Address, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2011
- Seventh Annual Stuart Rowe Society Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Neurosurgery, 2011
- Tenth Annual Hugo V. Rizzoli, M.D. Lecturer, Walter Reed Army Medical Center & National Naval Medical Center, National Capital Neurosurgery, 2010
- Faculty Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 2010
- Van Wagenen Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, 2010
- Gary Lichtenstein Humanitarian Award, Voices Against Brain Cancer, 2010
- American Academy of Neurological Surgery, Scientific Program Chair - 69th Annual Meeting, 2007
- B.R.A.I.N. (Brain Research Academy International for Neoplasia) founding member, 2007
- Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 2003
IOM Membership Committee, Vice-Chair, Section 1 (2003-2005)
IOM Membership Committee, Chair, Section 1 (2005-2007)
IOM Nomination Committee, (2011-present)
- Liaison to the National Cancer Institute for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Board of Directors, 2001
- Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation, Executive Council Member, 2002 - 2009
- NYU in DC Committee, New York University Alumni, 2009
- Society of Neurological Surgeons – Committee on Resident Education (CoRE), 2007
- Society of Neurological Surgeons, Research Updates in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; RUNN Course Co-Director; RUNN Curriculum (Subcommittee), 2005
Professional Activities
- Editorial Advisory Board, Neurosurgery, 2011
- Editorial Board, World Neurosurgery, 2010
- Editorial Board, Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2006
- Editorial Board, NeuroRx (ASENT), 2002
- Editorial Board, Annals of Surgical Oncology - Section of Neuro-Oncology, 2002
- Editorial Board, AACR, 2001
- Editorial Board, Neuro-Oncology, 1998
- Editorial Board, Neurosurgery, 1997
- Guest Editor, Special Edition: Implant Approach to Chemotherapy, 1995
- Section Editor, Youmans Textbook of Neurological Surgery-6th Edition, 2011
- Section Editor, Youmans Textbook of Neurological Surgery-5th Edition, 2004
Videos & Media
Dr. Brem Describes the Spirit of Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery
Patient story: Brain Tumor Patient, Carlos
Developing New Therapies for Brain Tumors, A Presentation by Dr. Henry Brem
TomorrowsDiscoveries: Innovative Strategies for Treating Brain Tumors—Dr. Henry Brem
Dr. Henry Brem - 2015 National Physician of the Year Award Recipient for Clinical Excellence
Dr. Henry Brem, Part 1 of 2 - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Convocation 2011
Dr. Henry Brem, Part 2 of 2 - Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Convocation 2011
Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery First Annual Harvey Cushing Lecture Part 1 of 3
Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery First Annual Harvey Cushing Lecture Part 2 of 3
Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery First Annual Harvey Cushing Lecture Part 3 of 3
Brain Tumor Treatment Advances Over Ten Years: Carlos' Story
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
RECORDED ONLINE SEMINAR: "A Meningioma Brain Tumor Diagnosis: Now What?" (April 2016)
Clinical Trials OK for High-Grade Glioma Patients, MedPage Today (08/24/2015)
Jimmy Carter, Brain Cancer and You, Next Avenue (8/21/2015)
Podcast: How to Choose a Neurosurgeon
Tomorrow's Discoveries: Innovative Strategies for Treating Brain Tumors - Dr. Henry Brem (12/01/2015)
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Hello everyone,
I'll be working at Yarns in the Farms tomorrow from 10:30 to 5:00, if any of you happen to be in the North Shore area of Massachusetts and would like to stop by and chat.
Note the Twinkle vest in the above shot... the theme of the outfit was "playing with size." Large glasses, large vest, small everything else. I call the new glasses my "Big Trotsky Look." As in, "Chris, NO ONE OUT THERE is rocking this Big Trotsky Look yet! I must!"
Monday, February 23, 2009
Interim Shopgirl
Posted by weaverknits at 2:16 PM
7 comments:
- AmyPinSeattle said...
love the look! Good luck with your job tomorrow!!
- February 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM
- rebecca said...
the glasses are absolutely cool!
And yes, I think you are the first to show off this look :-)
I love it!
Herzliche Grüße,
- February 24, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- kiki said...
cool! have a great day there.
all the best
- February 24, 2009 at 12:09 AM
- Aline la Bergère said...
this picture is really cool. Love the vest on you. I admire your confidence and style.
- February 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- ponyknit said...
Love the look! The vest is so cute!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Susan said...
You look fabulous!
- February 25, 2009 at 5:49 AM
- Salty Miss Jill said...
Cute, very cute!
- February 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM
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Afghanistan Population: 33,332,0251 VISITOR FROM HERE!
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|Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 communist countercoup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-communist mujahidin rebels. A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Usama BIN LADIN. A UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. In December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan, and the National Assembly was inaugurated the following December. KARZAI was reelected in August 2009 for a second term. The 2014 presidential election was the country's first to include a runoff, which featured the top two vote-getters from the first round, Abdullah ABDULLAH and Ashraf GHANI. Throughout the summer of 2014, their campaigns disputed the results and traded accusations of fraud, leading to a US-led diplomatic intervention that included a full vote audit as well as political negotiations between the two camps. In September 2014, GHANI and ABDULLAH agreed to form the Government of National Unity, with GHANI inaugurated as president and ABDULLAH elevated to the newly-created position of chief executive officer. The day after the inauguration, the GHANI administration signed the US-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement and NATO Status of Forces Agreement, which provide the legal basis for the post-2014 international military presence in Afghanistan. Despite gains toward building a stable central government, the Taliban remains a serious challenge for the Afghan Government in almost every province. The Taliban still considers itself the rightful government of Afghanistan, and it remains a capable and confident insurgent force despite its last two spiritual leaders being killed; it continues to declare that it will pursue a peace deal with Kabul only after foreign military forces depart.
Landlocked; the Hindu Kush mountains that run northeast to southwest divide the northern provinces from the rest of the country; the highest peaks are in the northern Vakhan (Wakhan Corridor)
|Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 652,230 sq km
land: 652,230 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: almost six times the size of Virginia; slightly smaller than Texas
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 5,987 km border countries (6): China 91 km, Iran 921 km, Pakistan 2,670 km, Tajikistan 1,357 km, Turkmenistan 804 km, Uzbekistan 144 km
|0 km (landlocked)
|Maritime claims:
|none (landlocked)
|arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers
|mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones, arable land
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 58.1% arable land 11.9%; permanent crops 0.2%; permanent pasture 46% forest: 2.1%
other: 39.8% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|32,080 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; flooding; droughts
|Current Environment Issues:
|limited natural freshwater resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials); desertification; air and water pollution
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection
signed, but not ratified: Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation
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| noun: Afghan(s)
adjective: Afghan
|Ethnic groups:
|Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, other (includes smaller numbers of Baloch, Turkmen, Nuristani, Pamiri, Arab, Gujar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Aimaq, Pashai, and Kyrghyz) note: current statistical data on the sensitive subject of ethnicity in Afghanistan is not available, and ethnicity data from small samples of respondents to opinion polls are not a reliable alternative; Afghanistan's 2004 constitution recognizes 14 ethnic groups: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Baloch, Turkmen, Nuristani, Pamiri, Arab, Gujar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Aimaq, and Pashai (2015)
|Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism, but Dari functions as the lingua franca note: the Turkic languages Uzbek and Turkmen, as well as Balochi, Pashai, Nuristani, and Pamiri are the third official languages in areas where the majority speaks them
|Muslim 99.7% (Sunni 84.7 - 89.7%, Shia 10 - 15%), other 0.3% (2009 est.)
|33,332,025 (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 41.03% (male 6,947,939/female 6,728,983)
15-24 years: 22.49% (male 3,816,369/female 3,678,657)
25-54 years: 30.01% (male 5,095,905/female 4,907,019)
55-64 years: 3.9% (male 640,813/female 660,121)
65 years and over: 2.57% (male 396,124/female 460,095) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 87%
youth dependency ratio: 82.3%
elderly dependency ratio: 4.6%
potential support ratio: 21.7% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 18.6 years
male: 18.5 years
female: 18.6 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|2.34% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|38.3 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|13.7 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-1.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 26.7% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 3.96% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|KABUL (capital) 4.635 million (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.86 male(s)/female
total population: 1.03 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|20.1 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2010 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|396 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 112.8 deaths/1,000 live births male: 120.3 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 105 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 51.3 years male: 49.9 years
female: 52.7 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|5.22 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|21.2% (2010/11)
|Health expenditures:
|8.2% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|0.27 physicians/1,000 population (2013)
|Hospital bed density:
|0.5 beds/1,000 population (2012)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 78.2% of population
rural: 47% of population
total: 55.3% of population
urban: 21.8% of population
rural: 53% of population
total: 44.7% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 45.1% of population
rural: 27% of population
total: 31.9% of population
urban: 54.9% of population
rural: 73% of population
total: 68.1% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|0.04% (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|6,900 (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|300 (2015 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|2.4% (2014)
|Education expenditures:
|3.4% of GDP (2015)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 38.2%
male: 52%
female: 24.2% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 11 years male: 13 years
female: 8 years (2014)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
conventional short form: Afghanistan
local long form: Jamhuri-ye Islami-ye Afghanistan
local short form: Afghanistan
former: Republic of Afghanistan
etymology: the name "Afghan" originally referred to the Pashtun people (today it is understood to include all the country's ethnic groups), while the suffix "-stan" means "place of" or "country"; so Afghanistan literally means the "Land of the Afghans"
|Government type:
|presidential Islamic republic
| name: Kabul
geographic coordinates: 34 31 N, 69 11 E
time difference: UTC+4.5 (9.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|34 provinces (welayat, singular - welayat); Badakhshan, Badghis, Baghlan, Balkh, Bamyan, Daykundi, Farah, Faryab, Ghazni, Ghor, Helmand, Herat, Jowzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nimroz, Nuristan, Paktika, Paktiya, Panjshir, Parwan, Samangan, Sar-e Pul, Takhar, Uruzgan, Wardak, Zabul
|19 August 1919 (from UK control over Afghan foreign affairs)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 19 August (1919)
|several previous; latest drafted 14 December 2003 - 4 January 2004, signed 16 January 2004, ratified 26 January 2004; note - a provision in the constitution prohibits changes until 2020 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of civil, customary, and Islamic law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf GHANI Ahmadzai (since 29 September 2014); CEO Abdullah ABDULLAH (since 29 September 2014); First Vice President Abdul Rashid DOSTAM (since 29 September 2014); Second Vice President Sarwar DANESH (since 29 September 2014); note - the president is both chief of state and head of government
head of government: President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf GHANI Ahmadzai (since 29 September 2014 ); CEO Abdullah ABDULLAH (since 29 September 2014); First Vice President Abdul Rashid DOSTAM (since 29 September 2014 ); Second Vice President Sarwar DANESH (since 29 September 2014)
cabinet: Cabinet consists of 26 ministers appointed by the president, approved by the National Assembly elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held in 2 rounds on 5 April and 14 June 2014 (next to be held in 2019)
election results: percent of vote in first round - Abdullah ABDULLAH (National Coalition of Afghanistan) 45%, Ashraf GHANI (independent) 31.6%, Zalmai RASSOUL 11.4%, other 12%; percent of vote in second round - Ashraf GHANI 56.4%, Abdullah ABDULLAH 43.6%
|Legislative branch:
| description: bicameral National Assembly consists of the Meshrano Jirga or House of Elders (102 seats; 34 members indirectly elected by district councils to serve 3-year terms, 34 indirectly elected by provincial councils to serve 4-year terms, and 34 nominated by the president of which 17 must be women, 2 must represent the disabled, and 2 must be Kuchi nomads; members serve 5-year terms) and the Wolesi Jirga or House of People (249 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms) note: the constitution allows the government to convene a constitutional Loya Jirga (Grand Council) on issues of independence, national sovereignty, and territorial integrity; it can amend the provisions of the constitution and prosecute the president; it consists of members of the National Assembly and chairpersons of the provincial and district councils; no constitutional Loya Jirga has ever been held, and district councils have never been elected; the president appointed 34 members of the Meshrano Jirga that the district councils should have indirectly elected
elections: the Wolesi Jirga's five-year term expired in 2015, but the president extended its term by decree until elections can be held
election results: results by party - NA; seats by party - NA
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court or Stera Mahkama (consists of the supreme court chief and 8 justices organized into criminal, public security, civil, and commercial divisions or dewans) judge selection and term of office: court chief and justices appointed by the president with the approval of the Wolesi Jirga; court chief and justices serve single 10-year terms
subordinate courts: Appeals Courts; Primary Courts; Special Courts for issues including narcotics, security, property, family, and juveniles
|Political parties and leaders:
|note - the Ministry of Justice licensed 67 political parties as of September 2015
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|other: religious groups, tribal leaders, ethnically based groups, Taliban
|International organization participation:
|ADB, CICA, CP, ECO, EITI (candidate country), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OIC, OPCW, OSCE (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (dialogue member), UN, UNAMA, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|lion; national colors: red, green, black
|National anthem:
| name: "Milli Surood" (National Anthem)
lyrics/music: Abdul Bari JAHANI/Babrak WASA
note: adopted 2006; the 2004 constitution of the post-Taliban government mandated that a new national anthem should be written containing the phrase "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) and mentioning the names of Afghanistan's ethnic groups
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Hamdullah MOHIB (since 17 September 2015)
chancery: 2341 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 483-6410
consulate(s) general: Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador P. Michael MCKINLEY (since 22 December 2014)
embassy: Bibi Mahru, Kabul
mailing address: U.S. Embassy Kabul, APO, AE 09806
telephone: [00 93] 0700 108 001
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Afghanistan's economy is recovering from decades of conflict. The economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance, the recovery of the agricultural sector, and service sector growth. Despite the progress of the past few years, Afghanistan is extremely poor, landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid. Much of the population continues to suffer from shortages of housing, clean water, electricity, medical care, and jobs. Criminality, insecurity, weak governance, lack of infrastructure, and the Afghan Government's difficulty in extending rule of law to all parts of the country pose challenges to future economic growth. Afghanistan's living standards are among the lowest in the world. The international community remains committed to Afghanistan's development, pledging over $67 billion at nine donors' conferences between 2003 and 2010. In July 2012, the donors at the Tokyo conference pledged an additional $16 billion in civilian aid through 2015. Despite this help, the Government of Afghanistan will need to overcome a number of challenges, including low revenue collection, anemic job creation, high levels of corruption, weak government capacity, and poor public infrastructure. Afghanistan's growth rate slowed markedly in 2014-15. The drawdown of international security forces that started in 2014 has negatively affected economic growth, as a substantial portion of commerce, especially in the services sector, has catered to the ongoing international troop presence in the country. Afghan President Ashraf GHANI Ahmadzai is dedicated to instituting economic reforms to include improving revenue collection and fighting corruption. However, the reforms will take time to implement and Afghanistan will remain dependent on international donor support over the next several years.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $64.08 billion (2016 est.) $62.82 billion (2015 est.) $62.35 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $18.4 billion (2014 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|2% (2016 est.) 0.8% (2015 est.) 1.3% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,000 (2016 est.) $2,000 (2015 est.) $2,000 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|23.4% of GDP (2016 est.) 23.3% of GDP (2015 est.) 20% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 108.6%
government consumption: 12.8%
investment in fixed capital: 18.2%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 6.6%
imports of goods and services: -46.2% (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 108.6%
government consumption: 12.8%
investment in fixed capital: 18.2%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 6.6%
imports of goods and services: -46.2% (2014 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|opium, wheat, fruits, nuts; wool, mutton, sheepskins, lambskins, poppies
|small-scale production of bricks, textiles, soap, furniture, shoes, fertilizer, apparel, food products, non-alcoholic beverages, mineral water, cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, coal, copper
|Industrial production growth rate:
|2.4% (2014 est.)
|Labor force:
|7.983 million (2013 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 78.6%
industry: 5.7%
services: 15.7% (FY08/09 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|35% (2008 est.) 40% (2005 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|35.8% (2011 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 3.8%
highest 10%: 24% (2008)
| revenues: $1.7 billion
expenditures: $6.639 billion (2015 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|9.2% of GDP (2015 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|21 December - 20 December
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (2016 est.) -1.5% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|$827 million (2016 est.) $925 million (2015 est.)
|$658 million (2014 est.) $2.679 billion (2013 est.) note: not including illicit exports or reexports
|Exports - commodities:
|opium, fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems
|Exports - partners:
|India 42.3%, Pakistan 29%, Tajikistan 7.6% (2015)
|$7.004 billion (2014 est.) $12.19 billion (2013 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery and other capital goods, food, textiles, petroleum products
|Imports - partners:
|Pakistan 38.6%, India 8.9%, US 8.3%, Turkmenistan 6.2%, China 6%, Kazakhstan 5.9%, Azerbaijan 4.9% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$6.232 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $6.681 billion (31 December 2014 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$1.28 billion (FY10/11) $2.7 billion (FY08/09)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|afghanis (AFA) per US dollar - 61.14 (2016 est.) 61.14 (2015 est.) 61.14 (2014 est.) 57.25 (2013 est.) 46.45 (2010)
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|Electricity - production:
|1 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|4.7 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|3.7 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|600,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|35.4% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|64.4% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|130,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|127,200 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|159.6 million cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|159.6 million cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|49.55 billion cu m (1 January 2016 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|7.4 million Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 19.709 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 61 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: limited fixed-line telephone service; an increasing number of Afghans utilize mobile-cellular phone networks
domestic: aided by the presence of multiple providers, mobile-cellular telephone service continues to improve rapidly; the Afghan Ministry of Communications and Information claims that more than 90 percent of the population live in areas with access to mobile-cellu
international: country code - 93; multiple VSAT's provide international and domestic voice and data connectivity (2012)
|Broadcast media:
|state-owned broadcaster, Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), operates a series of radio and television stations in Kabul and the provinces; an estimated 150 private radio stations, 50 TV stations, and about a dozen international broadcasters are available (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 2.69 million percent of population: 8.3% (July 2015 est.)
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|43 (2016)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 25
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 18
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 5 (2016)
|9 (2013)
|gas 466 km (2013)
| total 42,150 km
paved: 12,350 km
unpaved: 29,800 km (2006)
|1,200 km; (chiefly Amu Darya, which handles vessels up to 500 DWT) (2011)
|Ports and terminals:
river port(s): Kheyrabad, Shir Khan
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|Military branches:
|Afghan National Security Forces: Afghan National Army (includes Afghan Air Force), Afghan National Police, Afghan Local Police (2016)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18 is the legal minimum age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2016)
|Military expenditures:
|28.09% of GDP (2016) 4.74% of GDP (2011)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|Afghan, Coalition, and Pakistan military meet periodically to clarify the alignment of the boundary on the ground and on maps and since 2014 have met to discuss collaboration on the Taliban insurgency and counterterrorism efforts; Afghan and Iranian commissioners have discussed boundary monument densification and resurvey; Iran protests Afghanistan's restricting flow of dammed Helmand River tributaries during drought; Pakistan has sent troops across and built fences along some remote tribal areas of its treaty-defined Durand Line border with Afghanistan which serve as bases for foreign terrorists and other illegal activities; Russia remains concerned about the smuggling of poppy derivatives from Afghanistan through Central Asian countries
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 257,523 (Pakistan) (2015) IDPs: 1,174,306 (mostly Pashtuns and Kuchis displaced in the south and west due to drought and political instability) (2015)
|Illicit drugs:
|world's largest producer of opium; poppy cultivation increased 7 percent, to a record 211,000 hectares in 2014 from 198,000 hectares in 2013, while eradication dropped sharply; relatively low opium yields due to poor weather kept potential opium production - 6,300 metric tons - below the record set in 2007; the Taliban and other antigovernment groups participate in and profit from the opiate trade, which is a key source of revenue for the Taliban inside Afghanistan; widespread corruption and instability impede counterdrug efforts; most of the heroin consumed in Europe and Eurasia is derived from Afghan opium; Afghanistan is also struggling to respond to a burgeoning domestic opiate addiction problem; vulnerable to drug money laundering through informal financial networks; illicit cultivation of cannabis and regional source of hashish
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(CNN) -- Five days after giving birth to her daughter, Rhonda Monroe laid Dominique back in her crib after nursing, sat down and had a heart attack.
Rhonda Monroe, pictured with daughter Dominique, had her first heart attack at age 36.
Monroe didn't know she was having a heart attack -- she was only 36 years old -- but she did know she felt as if she had an elephant sitting on her chest. So she called 911, and within minutes the paramedics came, gave her an EKG, told her she'd had a heart attack, and whisked her off to the hospital.
"My experience with the paramedics team was great -- if that's possible under the circumstances," says Monroe, a teacher and writer who lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. "They were efficient and attentive and got me to the hospital pretty quickly."
But not every woman who's having a heart attack is as lucky as Monroe. A study published last week found that women who called 911 complaining of cardiac symptoms were 52 percent more likely than men to experience delays from emergency services.
The time it took for ambulances to arrive on the scene was similar for men and women, according to researchers at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, who published the study in the journal, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Watch more on women and emergency care »
The delays began after ambulances arrived and while they were on the way to the hospital, the researchers found.
Part of the problem is that too many health care workers -- doctors, nurses, paramedics -- still think of heart attacks as something that happens to men, and not to women, according to Donna Mason, former president of the Emergency Nurses Association.
While she says health care workers are smarter now, too many still think of heart problems as a man's disease. "We need to change that mindset," she says.
Another problem: Women often don't have the "classic" signs of a heart attack. "Women don't have the 'typical' heart attack like men do," Mason says. "Women don't present as dramatically, and therefore aren't taken as seriously."
About a third of women experience no chest pain at all when having a heart attack, but often have symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and extreme fatigue, according to the Women's Heart Foundation.
If you're a woman who fears she's having a heart attack, here's what you can do to decrease the chance of delays in your emergency care.
1. "Don't be a martyr"
Dr. Nieca Goldberg, cardiologist and author of "The Women's Healthy Heart Program" says too often women hesitate to call 911 even if they think they're having a heart attack. "Don't be a martyr," she says. "This is a big mistake because time is of the essence."
Or as Dr. Jesse Pines puts it, "Time is muscle." The longer it takes to get treatment for a heart attack, the more extensive the damage to the heart muscle, says Pines, an emergency room doctor at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
2. Don't play down your symptoms
Mason says in her 35 years of working in emergency rooms, she often saw women pooh-pooh their pain. "Women tend to blow things off, and men don't," Mason says. "This is a time when you can't downplay your symptoms."
Pines warns that telling emergency workers "it's nothing" or "it's just indigestion" could lead to delays. Don't diagnose yourself, he advises -- just explain your symptoms in detail.
3. Tell emergency workers if you have a family history of heart attacks
Knowing this could make a real difference in the care you receive from emergency workers, Mason says.
4. Be specific about your symptoms
Don't just say you feel sick or short of breath, Mason warns. Instead, do something along the lines of what Monroe did. By describing the pain as feeling as if she had an elephant sitting on her chest, she gave emergency workers a specific location and intensity for her pain.
Also, tell emergency workers when the pain started, whether it's radiating, and what you've done, if anything, to make it go away.
5. Explain these symptoms are not normal for you
Abnormal pain is a big red flag. "If you tell me this isn't normal pain, [as a nurse] I'll pay attention to this," says Mason.
Since her initial heart attack four years ago, Monroe has had two more heart attacks and two bypass surgeries, and has become a spokesperson for the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. "I'm a living miracle," she says.
CNN's Jennifer Pifer-Bixler contributed to this report.
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Austin Chang wrote:A versatile and defensive-minded 6-foot-9 forward, Kirilenko last played for the Jazz during the 2010-11 season. During the 2011 NBA lockout, he became one of the few big-name NBA players to leave the league and opted to sign a three-year deal with CSKA Moscow. During his 10-year NBA career, Kirilenko averaged 12.4 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.0 blocks, and 1.4 steals a game.
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Grape Variety: Tempranillo 100% Alcohol Content: 13% Vol. Ageing: 18 months in new American oak barrels and 6 months in the bottle. Sight: This wine's cherry red colour reveals its youth and fruitiness. Its aspect is clean and appears to be glyceric. Nose: The wine's intense bouquet reveals the best dark fruit marked by impeccable wood aromas. Hints of fallen leaves and certain spices such as vanilla. Taste: Starts off smoothly upon entry into the mouth to later become lush with abundant ripe tannins and an excellent balance between its acidity and alcohol content. Flavours from the barrel do not overwhelm the fruit. Refined, long-lasting and elegant retronasal effect. Accompanying Dishes and How to Serve: Its fruity richness and abundant tannins suggest that it is best drunk at around 17º C and accompanied by the best roasts, farmyard poultry, veal stews as well as semi-cured cow's and goat's cheese.
More than a working philosophy, the four wineries that form the wine heritage of Alejandro Fernández –the Pesquera Corporation– share the same story of love for the viniculture that time helped to perfect. The bonds with its home land are clearly expressed in the symbol of the group: the image of the Arch and the Tower of Pesquera de Duero, typical of its flagships, the "Tinto Pesquera'.
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BuddyRoadhouse Friday the 16th is $5 admission day at Irish Fest. Saturday the 17th is Fred's day, followed by activities TBD.
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WILMINGTON � It�s move-in day at the new Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, and Lefty the loggerhead is excited about his new digs.
Four men hoist the 200-pound sea turtle from a flatbed pickup truck and deposit him gently in a large blue tank inside the state-of-the-art facility.
Once he hits the water, Lefty takes off, swimming laps while slapping the surface with his one remaining flipper. Waves slosh over the sides, and laughter breaks out among the dozens of volunteers encircled around the room.
�It was very easy to see the excitement of the turtles today,� said Jean Beasley, the hospital�s founder. �I�ve never seen so much splashing. We�re going to have to create more saltwater to bring it back up to normal levels.�
Excitement was palpable on Thursday as Beasley and several dozen volunteers moved recovering sea turtles into the 13,600-square-foot Surf City facility, capping 17 years of planning and fundraising.
The $2 million building, funded entirely by private donations, is an enormous upgrade for hospital staffers, who since 1996 have worked out of a one-room, 850-square-foot facility.
Almost 400 sea turtles have been rehabilitated and released in that time � more than 60 of them in the past year.
�Over the winter, we had 63 patients,� Beasley said. �That was an incredible number of turtles to treat in such a small space.�
The space constraint was a logistical headache. Basic equipment, from shell brushes to towels, had to be stored and pulled out whenever a turtle required treatment. Simple tasks, such as weighing a reptile, became major ordeals.
�We�d have to go get the scale, bring it up, put it back, grab the next thing,� Beasley said. �Now, we bring a turtle in, take it to the weighing station, then go right to radiology and on to surgery.�
The new building boasts a host of on-site equipment, including an X-ray machine, exercise tank and fully-stocked laboratory. Surgery can be performed down the hall from the sea-turtle bay, where reptiles on the mend spend their days swimming and splashing in tanks.
Previously, surgical patients had to be transported to the veterinary school at N.C. State University, a six-hour round-trip drive that taxed the turtles. Most patients will avoid that now, said Dr. Craig Harms, the hospital�s veterinarian.
�There will still be some turtles that have to make the trip for major procedures, but far fewer,� he said. �We�ll be able to do what we have to do and get them right back into the water, and that will facilitate their healing.�
Construction on the building began in 2010 and concluded earlier this year. The hospital, which draws between 30,000 and 35,000 visitors each year, should be open to the public by June.
�This facility is going to be something that everyone wants to visit and see,� Beasley said. �Today is just the beginning. There are great things ahead.�
Kate Elizabeth Queram can be reached at 910-343-2217 or on Twitter @kate_goes_bleu.
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Old facility: 850 square feet in Topsail Beach
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Cost: $2 million, all private donations
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As reported yesterday, WBAL's new afternoon strategy of "Ellen" at 4 p.m. opened strong on Monday.
And it did well again on Tuesday in Oprah's old spot with viewers 25 to 54 years of age.
But WJZ, which had tennis on Monday, came roaring back Tuesday with the premiere of its afternoon lineup to dominate in overall afternoon viewership.
From 2 to 3 p.m. WJZ's "The Talk" more than doubled WBAL drawing 53,300 viewers to 20,500 for Anderson Cooper's new show. Meanwhile, Jerry Springer drew 31,900 viewers for WBFF, with WMAR getting an audience of 13,200 for "One Life to Live."
From 3 to 4 p.m, "Dr. Phil" owned Baltimore Tuesday with 87,000 viewers, compared to 28,000 for "Dr. Oz" on WBAL. "Judge Mathis" drew 20,700 viewers for WBFF, while "General Hospital" was seen by 11,000 persons on WMAR.
And here's an impressive number for WJZ news, which drew 70,300 viewers Tuesday between 4 and 5, while "Ellen" drew 44,300 on WBAL.
WBFF was seen by 26,900 for its two judges show airing back to back, while "Right This Minute," a new syndicated news program, was seen by 12,100 viewers on WMAR.
"We're very pleased with the terrific viewer response to our afternoon program lineup as the new season begins. WJZ's The Talk, Dr. Phil, and afternoon news remains strong – and we're confident WJZ will continue to perform well against the new program lineups on many competitors," Jay Newman, WJZ president and general manager, said in an email response to the Sun.
"Ellen" is still winning with viewers 25 to 54, and that lead-in is carrying over to the 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts for WBAL -- at least, through Tuesday.
Once again, WJZ and WBAL are in a battle for a key time period. But I have to say as a sidelight, there certainly is audience for those WBFF courtroom shows in Baltimore.


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Queens' most dense business district is Long Island City, which is undergoing massive changes and commercial real estate expansion. New Long Island City office space is primarily Class A office towers, drawing both established brands and fast-growing startups.
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Though there are fewer MTA subway stations than Manhattan or Brooklyn, residents and visitors alike have numerous public transit options for traveling to and from Queens and getting around within it. To fly, use JFK International Airport or LaGuardia Airport. To take the subway, choose between one of 81 stations on seven main lines. To travel by commuter rail, take the Long Island Rail Road, which operates 22 stations in Queens to take passengers to Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island. You can even travel by ferry between Queens and Manhattan.
If you're planning a business lunch or event, check out Abuqir Seafood, D Angelos Sausage Truck, Bill's Townhouse or Ltauhua Restaurant. If you just want to take a break from the office and go for a brainstorming stroll, visit one of Queens' many parks such as Astoria Park, Brookville Park or Queensbridge Park.
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Queens has something for everyone. Sports fans can enjoy a Mets game at Citi Field or watch a US Open tennis tournament. Swimming, tanning or surfing enthusiasts can enjoy Rockaway Beach. In fact, this beach is the city's only legal surfing beach. Visitors can enjoy a variety of concessions and outdoor activities along with the surf and sand. And those who just want to take a stroll can explore Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the largest park in Queens and the fourth largest park in New York City. This 897-acre park offers a wide variety of activities including a recreation complex, a zoo, an art museum, a science museum and a botanical garden. Popular tourist destinations include the Museum of the Moving Image, the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden, the Unisphere and the Panorama of NYC, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center.
Like in most of New York City, many streets in Queens are named with numbers. Consecutive streets with the same number—such as 52nd Road, 52nd Drive and 52nd Court—can cause confusion even for residents. Queens is home to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, the Queensboro Bridge, the Queens Midtown Tunnel and the Roosevelt Island Bridge. Popular colleges in the area include Queens College, York College, and Queensborough Community College.
Queens became a borough on May 4, 1987. It used to be larger until 1899, when the eastern 280 square miles was partitioned and designated as Nassau County. It hosted both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs at Flushing Meadows Park. This exhibition for mid-20th century American culture and technology included more than 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, 45 corporations and 80 nations.