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ON ONE OF MANY TRIPS TO SAN FRANCISCO AS A CHILD, I spent
a day with my family wandering miles on foot, searching for my favorite restaurant, which we were sure was somewhere to be found. Turns out, it was not in San
Francisco at all, but in Oakland. So all of that trudging up and down hills, from Fisherman's Wharf up Hyde Street to Lombard Street to Chinatown and everything in
between, was in vain. These days, no one would end up lost like that, with the Internet and GPS available in one's pocket to solve any potential quandary. But I fell in
love with the city of San Francisco during this adventure, and I'm sure visitors to
NECA 2015 San Francisco will do the same.
Of course, you have to get there first, and many people traveling to the showwill come through San Francisco International Airport, where they can admire thehandiwork of Redwood Electric Group in completing the artfully designed new airtraffic control tower. If you're driving or flying into Oakland and you miss seeingthe cool new tower, you can turn to page 54 for Susan Casey's project profile, "Clearfor Takeoff."When downtown, you should treat yourselves to the work of Paganini Electric atSan Francisco City Hall. Stop by at night to see the dramatic LED color projections.
Much work went into replacing all of the exterior lighting, and it's quite a showpiece
for the electrical contractor. If you're not going to San Francisco and you want to see
it, look for the article, "Lights on for the Golden Gate City," on page 50.
The work of electrical contractors can be viewed all over this country, and you
can certainly check out some cool projects in your own neighborhoods. In Washington, D.C., for instance, you can soon view the complicated historic-renovation work
performed by Aarow Electrical at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, located just a
few steps from the White House. You also can read Darlene Bremer's "Art Shining
Brighter in D.C." on page 86.
Perhaps you love an outdoor festival. Unfortunately, you probably just missed
this year's Septemberfest in Schaumberg, Ill., but keep it in mind for next Labor Day
weekend. Prior to this annual event, Mc Williams Electric scrambles to get temporary
power in place for hundreds of thousands of attendees, food vendors and performers.
It's a major undertaking in a short amount of time. Scan "Expect the Unexpected"
on page 116 to see how Mc Williams Electric did it all.
In Philadelphia, H.B. Frazer Co. played a big part in the GridSTAR Smart Grid
Experience Center, which has multiple components: a microgrid composed of a
smart home powered by photovoltaics (PVs) and stored solar power, a demonstration
and training center for PV design and installation, a 150-kilowatt-hour grid interactive solar-energy-storage system, and Level 2 and rapid direct-current electric
vehicle charging stations supported by solar canopies. Go tour it, or read the article
"A Serious Play for Real Solutions" on page 60.
Whether you're actually going on the road to one of these places or just living
vicariously through the pages of this magazine, you can certainly learn quite a bit
from your peers. It's clear that, by exploring these projects, electrical contracting
work is varied and continues to shift into new areas, both geographically and topically. We hope you don't get lost along the way.


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Volunteer teaching English in Ecuador and learning Spanish!
Volunteer in Ecuador in our teaching project. As a volunteer, you will have the chance to change individual path of life. Learning English will make it much easier for children and adults to work with tourists and also other volunteers. Many people in the community are interested, or already in the process of learning English. So you can offer them private or community lessons.
The local school is also open for you to teach English and help with other educational subjects. Most of all, it is extremely important to give them attention and affection while teaching English as this is what they need the most. We suggest Iko Poran volunteers to give lessons in a playful and interactive way; this will definitely make lessons more effective.
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Restaurant Week has quickly become one of the city's most popular culinary traditions. Area residents make their way to support the local dining community by exploring the newest restaurants and hitting up old favorites. This annual event is the perfect opportunity for food lovers to sample some of Sheboygan's finest local offerings. Some restaurants offer […]Find out more »
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When Star Wars hit the theaters in 1977, it became an instant smash. That popularity soon spread to the toy store, as Kenner Toys manufactured hundreds of action figures, vehicles, and playsets featuring the characters, creatures and spaceships of A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. From 1978 to 1985, […]Find out more »


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Dreaming of a Craftsman, Spanish or Mid-Century character home in Los Angeles? If you're interested in buying, selling or just curious about real estate inSilver Lake, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Echo Park, Mt. Washington, Atwater Village or Glendale you've come to the right spot.
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She has always lived in Los Angeles' Eastside from Silver Laketo the first home she bought in Highland Park. She loves the Eastside so much that she rarely makes it past WeHo. With her Asian background, she also maintains strong ties to the San Gabriel Valley where most of her extended family lives.
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Today, we have rolled out a new way for you to share your outdoor adventures with friends and family. You can now connect ViewRanger to your Facebook Timeline, making it easier to share trail routes that you publish, along with gps tracks and Trip Stories that you record.
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Expanding Social Connections for Outdoor Adventures
Following on from the release of social screens, including the new Trip Story screens, within the ViewRanger app (see this blog post) which make it simpler to share your outdoor adventures with other ViewRanger users, we also want to make it easier for you to share your outdoors passion with other friends and family. Connecting ViewRanger to Facebook Timeline lets you do this.
ViewRanger and Your Facebook Timeline
When ViewRanger is connected to Facebook you can:
- Log in to your My.ViewRanger web account using your Facebook account (nb: you cannot log-in to the mobile app using Facebook yet)
- Optionally bring some of your Facebook profile information, such as your profile picture and sports interests, into ViewRanger; making it quicker and easier to set up your profile on ViewRanger
- Put maps of ViewRanger routes that you have published, and maps of tracks/trip stories that you have recorded onto your Facebook Timeline
- List your recently published routes
- List your recently recorded tracks/trip stories
Easier to View Friends Tracks & Trip Stories Over Premium Mapping
Now that you can log-in to My.ViewRanger simply by tapping the "Log in with Facebook" button, it is much simpler to view on the web tracks and routes, created by your friends, over your ViewRanger premium mapping.
Premium Maps from Ordnance Survey (GB), IGN (FR), OSI (Ireland), OSNI (Northern Ireland), BKG (Germany), Kadaster (NL), NRC (Canada), USGS/Accuterra (USA), LINZ (New Zealand), that you purchase for ViewRanger are also available for you to view and use online. When you view a track or route at My.ViewRanger, if you have the premium maps for that area - then the track or route will be shown over those premium maps.
The simplicity of Facebook log-in, makes logging in to My.ViewRanger a single tap - making it easier to access your premium maps online.
Easier to Plan Group Outdoor Activities
As ViewRanger for Facebook Timeline makes it easier to share planned trail routes, you can use it to share and plan your outdoor adventures with a group of your friends. You can share proposed trail routes via your Facebook page, giving your friends an opportunity to comment and discuss which trails you all want to do.
And, of course, you can all share your ViewRanger recorded GPS tracks when the trip is complete.
How to Connect ViewRanger and Facebook
To connect ViewRanger to your Facebook Timeline:
- Go to My.ViewRanger.com
- Log-in using your existing ViewRanger username and password
- Go to My ViewRanger Account > Plug-ins
- Click on the "Connect" button
- You will be taken through a couple of Facebook panels to confirm that you want to allow ViewRanger to connect to your Facebook account
- You will then be given the option to add some of your Facebook profile details to your ViewRanger account profile
Important Privacy: ViewRanger will not post anything to your Facebook Timeline without your permission. Our aim is to allow you to more easily share your outdoor adventures with your friends on Facebook, not to spam your friends through your facebook timeline.
How to Share Routes and Tracks to Your Facebook Timeline
On every Route page and Track page are the Share Buttons that let you share routes and tracks by Email, to Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest.
If you are sharing a link to a friends track or someone elses route, then clicking on the Facebook share button will continue to pop-up the standard Facebook Share dialogue.
However, if you have connected ViewRanger to your Facebook timeline and click to share a route or track that you have created, then this will be frictionlessly shared to Facebook.
Routes are shared as Facebook maps that may appear on your timeline. Tracks are shared as enhanced links that include information about the track (length, time, etc).
Facebook has some fancy algorithms that determine whether to show an item in your activity feed or on your main timeline or not. To force a ViewRanger track or route to appear on your timeline, you need to click on the Activity Log and then select "Shown on Timeline" for the item(s) you want to force to be on your timeline. You can use the same menu to hide items from your timeline.
More ViewRanger and Facebook to Come
We'll be working to extend and improve the connectivity and integration of ViewRanger with Facebook, as well as continuing to improve the social features within ViewRanger itself.
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A video that answers nine serious questions about Catholic priesthood. Have you ever considered the possibility that God may be calling you to the priesthood? There are often so many questions attached to vocations and so many fears we may face when we seriously begin to consider that God may be calling me to a life of service and sacrifice in the priesthood.
It is obviously a counter-cultural response to answer in the affirmative to a life of celibacy and sacrifice in an age that thrives on individualism and lack of commitment. But, we all come to a point in our lives where we begin to seriously search for the meaning of our lives and perhaps for the first time, ask God what it is that He might want me to do. As you begin 2013, and perhaps you have made New Year's resolutions, might you also be willing to consider a New Year's question? Is God be calling "you" to be a priest in His Church?
You probably have the same questions that are asked in this video; many men who have answered the call share these fears and have similar questions. Give yourself 20 minutes alone to watch this video and perhaps ask God if a vocation to the priesthood might be what He wants you to do.
God bless you for this New Year and may He richly bless you as you faithfully seek His will for your life.
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Rodeo Life
Each year thousands of cowboys all over the world travel from rodeo to rodeo. They get hurt, broke and utterly disappointed. They lose almost
everything and yet come back for more! The sport is very demanding - mentally and physically. A lot of times rodeo is unfair because cowboys
don`t go up against each other but against judges who decide the score of the efforts. And to be quit honest: Who`s to say the difference
between an 88,25 ride to a 88.50 ride?!? Another reason why it is not always the best who wins is because it is up to the contestant himself to
decide how much time and money he puts into traveling to the rodeos. In football or baseball the teams play the same amount of games to
keep it even. Not so in Rodeo! If a Cowboy does not compete he does not get any points. And then yet another reason why the best does not
always win is the luck of the draw!So what is it that makes cowboys come back for more time after time?!? Maybe it is the camaraderie or"
brotherhood" amongst bull riders or it`s just the experience of holding on to a 2,000 lb living tornado. Or maybe it is the feeling of being a
cowboy. Whatever it is - Justin McBride describes it best in his song "Cowboy till I die": "Unless you`re one of us you`ll never understand"
In bull riding (and the other roughstock rodeo events "bareback bronc riding" and "saddle bronc riding") the contestant has to stay on the
bull for 8 seconds in order to earn a qualified ride. If he gets bucked off before the 8 second mark he will get no points for his efforts.
Whatever happens after 8 seconds does not matter for the score that the cowboy receives! A rider who stays on will get points for his riding
style and for the behaviour of the bull. Each ride is graded by two judges. Each judge can award up to 25 points for the bucking of the bull
and up to 25 points for the riding-style of the cowboy...
Bull Riding / Rodeo is not just a show, it is a serious sport - the sport of the cowgirls and cowboys. During the events the riders usually fight
for the event championship as well as for points towards the seasonal championship. I competed as a bull rider in several European Rodeo
leagues. On this page I would like to introduce my sport but also talk about my experiences as a bull rider in Europe.
Bull Riding
Unfortunately I have come across several people now that are under the impression that our livestock is mistreated in bull riding. Many
people over here in Germany do not care about bull riding...and that is OK. But because of that, people don`t really think about what others
tell themabout Rodeo - they just believe what they are told without checking it for them-selves... And that is how lies and rumors are
spreading. Thewebsite of a leading "animal rights organisation"even claims that we would secretly use tasers and acids to make the
animals buck. Another organisation claims that we would torture the animals "behind the scenes" so that they are wild. Statements like
those upset me. Why are theytrying to dis "my" sport with lies? Because their claims are far from the truth. What they say is not even
possible and they can be provenwrong with a little bit of common sense and just a little knowledge about cattle. So let`s take a look at the
Acids: I have no clue how it would even be possible to use acids... When are we supposed to do that? Before the bull isloaded into the
bucking chutes? That would be impossible as the last thing the riders need is a wild bull in the chutes. Preparing the ride is very important
and not that easy. So a wild moving bull in the chute would make things very dangerous for the cowboy! Using acids would be the exact
opposite of what we need for a good ride
Tasers: I have been riding bulls since 2008 and I have never seen the use of a taser during a rodeo. I have not even seen the use of a
cattle prod
even though
(bovine experts)
attest that cattle prods do not hurt the bulls because of their thick hide. I personally think
using a hotshot to make a bull buck does not make sense t
But usually rodeo associations DO NOT allow the general use of a cattle
prod to make the animals buck! And that is good! Maybe there are a few "backyard rodeos" that allow it because there is no evidence the
animals are hurt by it, but the sport can`t be judged by what a bunch of stray black sheep associations do anyways.
Flank strap: The flank strap is a rope that is pulled around the bulls flank. For some reason in Germany people think that the flank strap
goes around the bulls testicles! This however is complete nonsense! People who say that obviously have no clue about a bucking bulls
anatomy! Just look at a rodeobull! The flank strap goes around his flank - like the name says while the testicles are between the hind legs!
It is not possible to put the flank over the testicles!!! Need I say more?!? I guess not!
Representatives from those so called "animal rights" organisations have been frequently invited to watch our events behind the scenes. We
want them so see first hand that their claims are nothing but lies! And guess what: When they come they don`t find anything! They then
insist that we did not do anything bad THIS TIME just because they are there this time! Now lets use some common sense again: The
rodeos those folks visit are part of a championship series! Changing stuff would have impact on the championships and would make a fair
competition impossible. But what is even bigger: The bulls buck the same way they always buck! They do exactly the same what they
always do and the rodeo show runs asit always does!!! So tell me: How is it possible that the animal rights people claim that we did not do
anything bad just this time because they are there...but usually we do bad things?!? How is this possible when our animals do exactly what
they always do? A classic shot in the foot I would say!!!!!
I have been riding bulls since 2008 and I can assure everybody that I have never seen any crualty during our rodeos!!! Neither behind the
scene nor elsewhere...
It surely is possible that there are rodeo organisations that mistreat their animals. However people can`t dis an entire sport because of a
few black sheep! And that brings us to common sense again: Do you think dogs should be forbidden? Certainly not. But unfortunately there
are dogs abused by their owners! So should we disallow dogs and children because bad people abuse them? Same goes for bull riding!
Common sense..
2008 - My first year
I competed in my first rodeo a couple of weeks after the clinic. The rodeo was held at
Ragow near Berlin. And surprisingly I won second place right at my first Rodeo! With
that I collected valuable points towards the Championship race.Even though the season
had alredy progressed pretty well I was able to gain enough points to make it to the
Finals that year (the Finals are the final Rodeo of the season where riders can get a lot
of points towards the Championship. Usually there are more rides than at other rodeos
and only the top riders are invited). I had no chance of winning the Championship
(points from the season are carried over to the finals) but it was an honor to be among
the 4 invited riders in each event! The Finals took place in "Erdgas Arena" in Riesa and
each rider was supposed to ride 3 bulls during the 2 day event. Unfortunately I was hurt
during my first ride and had to spend the night in a hospital. I was supposed to stay for 3
days but I talked the Doctors into letting me go after just one night. However the rodeo
officials had already given me a medical turnout for my last ride on Sunday…
The first official Rodeo Association in Germany was the ERCA (European Rodeo Cowboy Association), founded by Alan Jacob in the
1970s. Alan, originally from Oregon, came over after the war as a photographer. The ERCA was a U.S. Military organization and most of
the rodeos took place on U.S. Military installations to bring a piece of home to the American military. Over time more and more Germans
found their way to the rodeo. Because of the US military drawdown and the goal to be officially recognized outside the U.S. Military, the
GRCA (German Rodeo Cowboy Association) was founded. The GRCA took over more and more responsibilities from the ERCA. In 2009
another German Association, the DRSV (German Rodeo Sport Association) was founded. In the State of NRW (a rodeo stronghold) the
NRW Rodeo Association was also founded in 2009. That gave riders plenty of opportunities to ride in several leagues. Rodeo also gained
popularity in France, Italy and Belgium so riders from Germany often competed there as well.
My Bull Riding Years
When I first came to the rodeo I did not do much, I just enjoyed being around the cowboys and watching the events. After a little while I
helped out at the calf chutes and I became "Calf Chute Boss" over time. I never really thought about riding in the rodeo until 2008. During
the Cologne Rodeo that year all of a sudden I felt the urge to become a bull rider. I am not sure why but I remember watching the riders
behind the chutes and I wanted to be part of that. On the way back home that weekend I told my travel buddy that I`ll ride a bull at the next
rodeo. He looked at me like I was crazy and said something to that extend but during the next week I made a phone call and it was done: I
would get a clinic including a bull ride next weekend! My ride was not part of the rodeo competition, it was just a clinic ride during the
Sunday morning slack. The ride only lasted a couple of seconds but I was hooked!
2009 - My best year
At the beginning of the season I traveled to every single rodeo . I rode at DRSV and
NRW Rodeo Assn events. I missed a few events at the end of the season due to a trip to
the USA but it was a very successful year for me. I came in 4th place before the finals
and that meant I qualified for the finals again. And – compared to the previous year –
the finals went great for me. Each rider had to ride two bulls, one on Saturday and one
on Sunday and I managed to ride both bulls for the full 8 seconds! However the other
riders did pretty well too so I was unable to catch up to the 3rd place cowboy. So I ended
the DRSV season in 4th place. However I was very successful with the NRW where I
ended the year as the 2009 Bull Riding Champion.
Rodeo in Germany
Is Bull Riding crual? The truth!
About me
Cowboy Life
Bull Riding
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My USA
My Blog
Probably the biggest misconception about bull riding is the thought, that the rider who stays on the bull the longest wins. This is far from the
truth. But how then does bull riding work? Here is a brief overwiew:
Bull riding is often compared to the riding of a mechanical bull. A ride of a 2000 pound bull is hardly comparable to a mechanical bull though! It
takes a whole lot more than just good balance! Outsiders often misjudge the enormous power and movement of a real bull! The right position
and body movement as well as the correct use of the legs are very important! Also the preparation in the chute is elementary because all the
rider has to hold onto the bull is a rope! After the rope is prepared with rosin the cowboy has to ajust the rope and has to decide how much
the rope is pulled! He does not stand a chance if the rope comes lose during the ride. But if it was pulled to tight he might get hung up! As you
can see - bullriding is harder and much more complex than getting on a "mechnical bull". The two things are hardly comparable!
Riding Badboy at Rodeo Griesheim
Getting bucked off Painball at Rodeo Cologne
As far as I know Rodeo came to Europe in the early 1970`s when Alan Jacob had a vision of bringing America`s cowboy sport to the old
continent. Alan, originally from Oregon, came over after the war as a photographer.
Behind the Chutes
Terry Don West and DJ
Kanin Asay and DJ
2010 – 2015 – Time marches on
After two successful years I really thought I had a chance to fight for the championship in
2010. I traveled to all rodeos but for some reason I couldn`t get things to work my way…
several 7.9 rights and a few unfortunate judges scores left me out of the finals. I decided
to take a break from serious competition in 2011 and traveled to a few select rodeos
only. But even after the break I was unable to regain my 2009 form in 2012. In 2013 I
received an offer to become the head coach of a youth football team. You see, besides
rodeo I also love the sport of football and my dream job had always been high school
football coach. I took the offer but did not stop bull riding completely. I just went to a lot
fewer rodeos than before. I officially retired from bull riding in 2015
Rodeo Griesheim
RTL TV shoot
Christmas Rodeo - Belgium
Rodeo Graben-Neudorf
Rodeo Cologne
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Nothing quite like a bit of Treacle Donahue of an evening… – Preview it on Path.
Show 232 – the blues heavy weights
Long over due. But a great new line up… – View on Path.
Listening to Sweet Little Angel by B.B. King
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A historical day. But disappointing that Barclays are the only main high Street bank dragging their feet. No doubt because of their investment in Barclays Pingit. – View on Path.
It helps being a geek when trying to figure out what's going wrong with my network… I've pulled it all apart to see what's going on: 1. I've figured out its not the fibre connection into the compound. (phew) 2. I suspect it actually could be my asus router at fault. (which is worrying) 3. […]
Show 231 – It's all about the blues
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10 days or so of testing and I'm very impressed with Apple Music. Easily the best music subscription service I've tried – and I've tried most including the big three: Google Music, Spotify and Tidal. My only obvious issue at the moment is the lack of Sonos support. But we know Sonos and Apple are […]
Time to give Bukeela ka Ethiopia Lungo coffee a whirl this morning … Nespresso time. – View on Path.
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How Are You Not Getting This, Polanski? We Don't Want Anything to Do With You
By Vivian Kane | Miscellaneous | August 12, 2014 |
By Vivian Kane | Miscellaneous | August 12, 2014 |
Apart from a confusingly large handful of major Hollywood actors (and writers and producers), the world has pretty much washed its hands of the blight on humanity that is Roman Polanski. So when festivals and awards shows continue to shower him with accolades, you have to think they're either completely oblivious, or just downright horrible.
Polanski was set to be honored at the Locarno Film Festival later this week with a screening of his new film, Venus in Fur, a lifetime achievement award, and the invitation to lead a master class with the festival's Summer Academy. However, the Swiss media and a bunch of public figures and politicians less than keen on celebrating a man who had sex with a 13 year old and then permanently peaced out to France rather than face his sentence. Polanski's feelings were super hurt by all the negative reactions, and he issued this statement to the festival.
Dear Friends,
I am sorry to inform you that having considered the extent to which my planned appearance at the Locarno Festival provokes tensions and controversies among those opposed to my visit, even as I respect their opinions, it is with a heavy heart that I must cancel my visit.
I am deeply saddened to disappoint you.
Roman Polanski
But even more than Polanski himself, the person who seemed to be hit hardest by his own lack of human awareness was the festival's director, Carlo Chatrian, who said, "After several rainy days, today the sun shines in Locarno, but for me it is the darkest day since I have been asked to be the director of this Festival." Cue the tiny violins.
The decision of Roman Polanski to decline my invitation saddens me deeply.
Today I am sad because the participants of the Festival del film Locarno will be deprived of meeting an extraordinary artist, who embraced our proposal of giving a unique Cinema masterclass.
I am sad because the audience of the Piazza Grande won't be able to salute a Master of Cinema. I am sad because the idea of the Festival as a meeting and debating place today receives a big blow.
You know who else is sad? Everyone who wishes you wouldn't ignore the monstrous things this man has done, simply because he produces great art. The Swiss people (along with pretty much ALL people) do not want to be associated with your celebration of a rapist. How is that so hard to understand?
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2019 Inclement Weather Makeup Plan
Beginning Monday, April 1, OHS will start will start 5 minutes earlier (7:55 am) and end 7 minutes later (3:37 pm) as part of the plan to make up days missed due to inclement weather. Bus schedules will be adjusted to accommodate this change. The last day of school is scheduled for Thursday, June 13 (full day). Additional details can be found at: OregonSD.org/makeup.


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The city of Venice is located in the Venetian lagoon and is divided into two quite distinct parts, the island part (the historical and monumental Venice) and the mainland part with the city of Mestre.
Mestre is a city of recent construction, without tourist attractions, but is home to many hotels given its proximity to Venice.
The island historical part is divided into six districts called sestrieri (from their number) called Dorsoduro, Santa Croce, San Polo, San Marco, Cannaregio and Castello.
The city is divided in half by the Grand Canal that runs through it, forming a double bend, from which radiate a dense network of canals crossed by a large amount of bridges (more than 400).
The Grand Canal is the main waterway, over which pass many boats, including ferries used for passenger transport.
The core of Venice was built on 118 islands in the lagoon, and the foundations of the houses have been consolidated with the use of thousands of wooden posts driven into the ground.
So Venice has always been isolated, until 1846 when it was completed the railway bridge, then joined in 1933 from the car bridge, Bridge of Liberty called.
A special mention must be made to the name used in the urban field. In Venicecity there are no streets, squares, rivers, but each part has been assigned its own specific name.
Streets are "calli", "fondamenta", "rive", "salizada", "ruga", "sottoportego"
Squares can become, "fields" or "campielli" or "corti"
Rivers are "rii" or "canali".
Characteristic of the city of Venice is that the names of the streets are painted on the walls and are called "nizioleti"
To divide the main part of the historic city of Venice from the Giudecca island, we find the channel of the same name, the one called The Giudecca Canal.
On this channel, which gives access to the harbor, passing the large cruise ships towed by tugs.
In addition to the island of Giudecca, Venice neighboring islands are inhabited including Murano, famous for the production of artistic glass, Burano with colorful houses, famous for the production of lace, Torcello, St. Erasmus, Pellestrina, and Lido, long strip of sand that closes the lagoon from the sea.
1- Cannaregio A - Canal Grande
2- Santa Croce B - Canale della Giudecca
3- Dorsoduro
4- San Polo
5- San Marco
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Folear is an Australian agricultural biotechnology company creating new crops for plant oil production. We turn leaves and stems into oil production factories to make oil in a new, highly efficient way.
We harness the power of the natural world to produce plant oil using Leaf Oil technology by switching on seed oil pathways in leaves and stems. This means that we can produce very high yields of plant oil in high biomass crops like sugarcane, sorghum, miscanthus, switchgrass and even our prototype plant tobacco. This greatly increases plant oil productivity and capacity, unlocking new market opportunities.
Around 185 million tonnes of plant oil are used globally each year for food and industrial purposes. Demand for plant oil is growing rapidly because of rising world population, increasing per capita food oil consumption, and accelerating demand for sustainable industrial feedstocks. We cannot easily meet this demand with existing crops.
Plant oil is usually produced only in the seeds of plants such as soybean, sunflower and canola, or the fruits of plants like oil palm. These seeds and fruits represent only a fraction of the plant's biomass with the rest of the plant not directly used for oil accumulation. Leaf Oil technology switches on oil production and accumulation in the entire plant, significantly increasing productivity compared to conventional plant oil crops. The plant oil produced in the leafy biomass are normal triglyceride type oils, just like canola oil, soybean oil, and other vegetable oils.
Folear is greatly increasing energy density in plant biomass by switching on oil production in leaves. This is achieved by activating the plant's oil synthesis and accumulation genes in the leaf. These genes are usually only active in seeds, and this results in the production of oil droplets in non-seed parts of the plant.
Folear plant oils are similar to normal vegetable oils; rich in C18 fatty acids and highly monounsaturated. They can be used in food/feed applications:
- Extracted vegetable oil for food and animal feed use
- Direct use of harvested plant matter as animal feed
Folear plant oils are also suitable for use in many industrial applications:
- Oleochemicals (paints, surfactants, detergents, lubricants, plastics)
- Biofuels (green diesel, biojet, biodiesel)
Folear plants have been trialed in Kentucky with help from our partners at KTRDC (University of Kentucky): Field trials that test gene performance and explore ways to further increase yield have occurred over the 2017 and 2018 growing seasons.
Leaf Oil technology has been demonstrated in a number of species including sorghum, sugarcane, tobacco and potato. The core concept is highly applicable across multiple species.
The Folear team
James Petrie, PhD, is a plant biotechnologist with experience in the development and commercialisation of new plant oil products. He is an inventor on Leaf Oil technology patent portfolio. Dr Petrie is a central member of the team that developed omega-3 canola (http://nuseedomega3.com/) and has worked with Amfora to develop their Leaf Oil products (https://www.amforainc.com/). James is strongly motivated by wanting to see real world applications of transformational biotechnology ideas.
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Lego Truck
This page is dedicated to the the incredible Unity3D game engine. The following project is a simple demonstration of the engine and its basic capabilites.
- Steer: left and right arrows or "A" and "D"
- Accelerate, reverse: up and down arrows or "W and "S"
- Brake: "Left Shift"
- Handbrake: "Space"
- Camera control: mouse
- Refresh the browser page to reset truck
The game requires the download of unity player. It is just like the Adobe Flash Player, competely harmless and can be downloaded and installed within minutes. The game can be switched to fullscreen mode: Rigth click on the game window and select "Go Fullscreen" option. Perss "ESC" to leave the fullscreen mode. The use of Google Chrome is not recommended.
For a desktop version please download the zip file below.
Special thanks to Luis Carlos Lara for the awsome lego truck used in the game. This game is not official lego product and it is strictly for demonstration purposes only.


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What kind of man goes out on a 22-foot-long boat — all by himself — to catch 16-foot sharks?
Bill Goldschmitt. That's who.
Over the course of four decades, Goldschmitt worked as the captain of fishing vessels off of Florida's gulf coast. More than 6,000 caught sharks later, the Sarasota resident has finally put his personal account of some of the most memorable "fish tales" into a book, which actually began when he started keeping a journal in 1970.
The result is the recently released softcover memoir, "Sharkman Of Cortez," which Goldschmitt himself describes as, "Where 'The Old Man and The Sea' meets 'Jaws.'"
"I found work on local fishing boats baiting crab traps and working gill nets, but I yearned to hunt sharks," said the first-time author, who at 17 ran away from his home in Pittsburgh, Pa. before finding work on a crab boat out of Siesta Key, Fla. "I was a teenager who had neither fear nor respect for them although they often fed on our catch, ripping apart our traps and nets. At first, I listened to the shark 'experts' (marine biologists). That sharks were misunderstood. Not dangerous. Their aggression was just toward other fish, that's all. Although the commercial fishermen I worked with thought otherwise."
According to Goldschmitt, 60, the reason he wrote "Sharkman Of Cortez" was to share his life experiences and "the true nature of sharks" which have not been accurately presented in other books or in the news media.
The author states very frankly that he — more than anyone else — knows "the facts" about sharks. He also claims that many shark attacks could be prevented, and the fact that others perceive mankind as menace to the shark... not the other way around.
"I found out first-hand the horror sharks could inflict. My German Shepard was ripped apart by a hammerhead one day while my girlfriend and I swam in shallow water off Siesta Beach," he explained. "From that moment, sharks meant death."
At first, driven by his own killer instinct, Goldschmitt realized that he has what it takes to hunt down sharks. Later, through extensive documentation and ingenuity, he pioneers catching sharks live and transporting them to area aquariums, including Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, where the relationship between shark fisherman and scientists remains quite turbulent to this day.
In the novel, co-authored by Goldschmitt's wife, Marisa Mangani, the longtime sea captain shares stories about hunting and catching sharks off Florida's coast, the political incorrectness of the fishing industry and ongoing efforts to protect the species.
"Catch-and-release is the new sport and all public sympathy goes to the poor shark," he added. "You'll read 'Sharkman Of Cortez,' learn about Florida's fishing past and wonder, 'What happened?'"
Thus far, reviews of his "sometimes very adult" tale have been mostly positive, with Steven Pavon, writer for The Shark Con, offering, "His unbelievable personal encounters with sharks puts us right on the boat beside him, while his battles on land with love give a personal view of the life."
"Sharkman Of Cortez," releasd by Ocean Life Publishing, is available at island book retailers and online at www.amazon.com. For additional information, visit www.sharkmanofcortez.com.
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Author Bill Goldschmitt began a journal in 1970, which eventually became 'Sharkman Of Cortez,' recently released by Ocean Life Publishing. Goldschmitt describes the book as 'The Old Man and The Sea' meets 'Jaws.'


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As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive revolution. Easy availability to the Internet and social media has erased the boundaries that protect children from the unsavory aspects of adult life.
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That could seem unpleasant to fashionable ears, but in a very globe with out waterproof coatings and equipment stitching, walking inevitably meant wet toes, and brogues not less than authorized them to dry faster.
The fifty percent brogue was 1st intended and produced by John Lobb Ltd. as an Oxford in 1937 in order to supply his buyers a shoe far more trendy than the usual plain oxford, nonetheless not as bold as a complete brogue.
Closure design isn't a defining characteristic on the brogue and therefore brogues are available in a number of closure kinds.
Visualize them as shoes that say "off the clock, but I still care regarding how I seem." (They may be worn on the clock also, needless to say, significantly in peaceful but nicely-heeled sectors similar to the tech field, but for many people's uses wingtips must be social apparel very first, and enterprise clothing distant second or in no way.)
A great deal will rely on the colour and style of your shoe. A black wingtip with narrow wings that halt halfway around the foot and only one line of tiny perforations is fairly dressy; a two-tone shoe with white uppers and oxblood wings that go each of the way round the foot is much more everyday.
Normally, the greater holes the shoe has and The larger the wings, the less formal it is actually. But color can Participate in a part far too – black will almost always be a little bit dressier than brown, and various hues like pink and white will almost always be on the minimal conclude of formality.
Spectator shoes (British English: Co-respondent shoes) are complete brogue Oxfords manufactured from two contrasting colors, generally getting the toe and heel cap and occasionally the lace panels in the darker coloration than the leading physique with the shoe.
In one 2014 view, lace-ups with brogue detailing are thought to be a lot less good than basic-toed lace-up Gentlemen's models: "Simplicity ordinarily defines magnificence.
Present day brogues trace their roots to the rudimentary shoe originating in Scotland and Ireland that was created applying untanned hide.[four] Present day brogues attribute ornamental perforations. These in many cases are said to stem from the first Irish brogues as well, exclusively from holes meant to let water to empty within the shoes if the wearer crossed soaked terrain for instance a bathroom.
So there are several versions, but all of them share a person defining characteristic: an prolonged toecap with wings that attain throughout the sides with the foot.
In the event you're in search of your initial set of really great costume shoes, the answer Here's no – a wingtip shoe design and style is not where by you wish to be starting off.
Semi-brogues (also called 50 % brogues) are characterised by a toe cap with decorative perforations and serration alongside the cap's edge and incorporates more attractive perforations in the more info middle in the toe cap.
Despite the useful components of their structure, ghillie brogues are mostly seen for a component of traditional, formal Scottish dress and therefore are worn primarily for social occasions.
On the globe of top quality footwear, "considerably less is a lot more" applies to decoration and the amount of leather applied. The greater ornamentation and the more leather-based utilised to make a shoe the a lot less formal it is.
Modern day interpretations have specified you numerous of options to pick from should you go the wingtip route, starting from scaled-down versions that flirt with company formality to actually unique, neon-colored two-tone showpieces.
Mostly offered like a leather dress shoe, brogues may additionally can be found in the form of boots, canvas or leather sneakers or every other shoe variety that includes or evokes the multi-piece building and perforated, serrated edges characteristic of brogues.
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Goin' to The Forge Conference
So some of you know that I won this online giveaway that got me a free registration at the upcoming Forge Conference being held next week (30 Sep – 2 Oct) in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. I am so excited to go next week! I remember when I threw my name in the hat for the giveaway thinking, for some odd reason, "I might actually win this". Now let's get one thing clear, the few times that I actually enter online giveaways – I never win. But it was just one of those times where I got a sense that this time might be different; and I was so excited when it did!
I've got a great friend of mine, Herbie Ousley going to the conference with me. We've co-written some songs together and hopefully throughout the conference, we'll have the opportunity to do some more of that. It's great to share the labor and joy of songwriting with someone whose motives are pure and is focused on giving glory to God first and foremost – whether we write 3 songs are 3-lines of a still unfinished chorus.
The Vision for the Forge Conference is to create a worship and tech training conference that is small and reasonably priced for teams to come to as well as instilling into attendees the true heart of worship. The pioneers organizing this are focused on designing a conference with more of a retreat atmosphere than anything else. It drives not only at training and education, but very much at stretching, healing and forging Christ-centered relationships.
The closer this conference gets, the more excited I get. Maybe because of the teaching coming from great worship leaders and songwriters that we'll have the opportunity to experience. Maybe from the breakout workshops and fun times of fellowship. Maybe because I'll get to meet friends in person who, up until now, I've only known online from blogging or Twitter. Who knows… store for all of us over those few days.
One thing I'm certain of is that going this conference is going to change my life. It's something that's become more clear to me as the days tick by leading up to it. I don't know how – but it will. So I'm excited to see what God has in store for all of us.
So this is my shameless plug for The Forge Conference. Check out some of the workshops offered here and in addition to that, worship leaders to include Brenton Brown, Paul Baloche, Joel Auge, Mckendree Augustas, Jonathon Lee will be doing a concert (7pm Oct 1st – FREE to conference attendees!) and leading worship for us. So if you feel led to do so — get there! It's only $67 to register; an insanely wonderful price considering the immense growth that I'm certain attendees will experience in one way or another. And if you have more questions about The Forge Conference, check out the event website at http://theforgeconference.com/ , go to its Twitter page or I'd also encourage you to check out my friend Joel Klampert's Twitter to get additional info. If you're able to make it, I look forward to meeting you and worshiping with you!
Blessings in Christ!
September 24, 2010 9:05 pm
This is awesome – I'll be there telling the story of WorshipRises. Looking forward to meeting you. Definitely agree that God is using this to change lives.
September 24, 2010 11:20 pm
Great post bro!!
Im stoked for next week as well. Praying for God to have His way with us.
Peace man!!
September 25, 2010 1:58 pm
wow man…floored by your words… SUCH PRESSURE!! ha ha ha
looking forward to meeting you man. I think we are gonna let people pre-register for next year as well at a discounted price. Maybe we can create a crew that just always goes like clockwork and continues relationships with those around them.


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Articles by JCS
Pushing Over the Point
"With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour," said Gene Kranz, NASA Mission Commander, during the near disaster of the Apollo 13 ordeal with the possibility of losing three astronauts adrift in outer space or death upon re-entering the earth's atmosphere.
Our brave pioneers in chiropractic have also overcome potential disasters many times in the medical war over the past century.
Some of their astronomical efforts include:
Now we can add yet another achievement in the medical war. After twenty years of RCTs in this era of evidence-based healthcare, we can proudly say we have accomplished our own successful landing in the court of scientific opinion.
Our own Mission Commander, the renowned Scott Haldeman, MD, DC, PhD, confirms that every credible guideline on spine care now recommends conservative care first:
"The paradigm shift has already taken place. Non-surgical, non-invasive care is already the first choice for treatment for spinal disorders in the absence of red flags for serious pathology in virtually all guidelines."[1]
With this feather in our cap as CAM providers (Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Massage therapy), it's our turn to tout chiropractic care among the "best practices" in spine care for the majority of back pain cases, a claim now fully supported by international research and guidelines.
This revelation is enormous considering back pain is now pandemic, terribly expensive, and virtually inescapable, striking most of the 250 million American adults sometime in their lives.
For example:
Considering the fact that low back pain has become the #1 disabling condition in the nation/world with total costs nearly $300 billion annually in the USA alone,[3] DCs will be among the most valued and busiest practitioners in the new era of evidence-based fee-for-value system that will soon replace the abused fee-for-service system that has driven America to the brink of bankruptcy.
As Lou Sportelli, DC, suggests:
"If doctors of chiropractic only cornered the market on one condition, back pain, there would not be enough [chiropractors] now to handle the volume."[4]
Although not as dramatic as a rescued space odyssey from the earth to the moon and back, we've come a long way in a short 100 years from persecution to vindication.
The amassing of the numerous legislative, political, academic, research, and legal battles waged over the last century has been no less a feat to accomplish and given us the rare opportunity to crow (AHCPR, Manga).
To add more salt to the medical wound, new studies and newspaper articles now expose the overall ineffectiveness of medical spine care that has been called the "poster child of inefficient spine care" by Mark Schoene, a leading spine journal editor.[5]
Without a doubt, the stars are now aligning for a new awakening in spine care with DCs at the forefront.
Chiropractic, We Have a Problem
Just as retrieving a crippled Apollo module was a huge challenge to NASA officials, we need to admit like the NASA folks at Houston that we have a problem, too.
We face a huge challenge to repair the decades of medical propaganda at the core of our perceived public image. Judge Susan Getzendanner of the Wilk v. AMA antitrust trial also remarked about this public defamation in her court Opinion:
"In my judgment, this injury continues to the present time and likely continues to adversely affect the plaintiffs. The AMA has never made any attempt to publicly repair the damage the boycott did to chiropractors' reputations."[6]
Our public image, identity, and message have certainly been blurred after a century of medical disinformation, political demagoguery, and legal malfeasance by the "most terrifying trade association on earth," the AMA.
The call to repair the damage to our reputation is not new. Many chiropractic associations over the years have taken this task to hand. In 2002, I was assigned to the ACA's PR AD HOC Committee and compiled the following report of previous campaigns that I presented at NCLC in March of 2003. You can read this lengthy (no, not me) and fascinating study of the many previous programs and commentaries.
Dangar Research Group
On Attitudes Toward Chiropractic
4. Public Relations Program: 1992
For The ACA by Clayton Davis & AssociatesUnderstanding the Market Qualitative Report
The Role And Image Of Chiropractic Services
8. Chiropractic Opinion Survey
Reader's Digest Insert
By Jerome F. McAndrews, DC
Summary & Recommendations by JC Smith, MA, DC
Pushing the Envelope of PR
Dynamic Chiropractic publisher, Donald Petersen, Jr, recently mentioned in his editorial, Changing Times, the need to change our message and image by promoting our value to society:
"While it is definitely important to continue our efforts in research and public relations, it is time to change the message. It's time to focus on the benefits of chiropractic care and the value of good spinal health. Research can certainly confirm this, but the public needs to appreciate the impact their doctor of chiropractic can have on their current and continued health. This message would certainly include our cost-effectiveness.
"The public must see chiropractic as every bit as valuable as podiatry, dentistry and medicine before the average DC gets paid more. We are only halfway there in communicating our value proposition. We need to work harder on this."[7]
Even with this progress in the court of scientific opinion, our biggest battle remains in the court of public opinion. The jury is still out in the public's mind due to a century of "unreasonable" doubt imprinted by the AMA's indelible and illegal party line that "everybody knows that chiropractic is an unscientific cult."[8]
No other profession has survived such atrocious defamation. Our challenge is to replace that doubt with newsworthy evidence to show the public that "chiropractors have their backs" and the time has never been better as we approach our own finest hour.
This will require a new message, a new agenda, and a new image to replace the ill-begotten reputation contrived by our medical curmudgeons and, unfortunately, at times aided by chiropractic demagogues and scalawags who occasionally shot our professional image in the foot.
Despite the battles won by litigation in the courts and legislation on Capitol Hill, winning in the court of public opinion will be a more formidable task to:
The challenges on this list may seem daunting, but underlying issues must be addressed before the public and press clearly understand our controversial plight, the benefits we offer, and buy into our paradigm.
As you can imagine, vetting chiropractic is more difficult effort than selling new Coke or re-branding diet beer. We can't continue to assume nothing is wrong with our image or message when only 10% of Americans utilize our services.
Aside from the new guidelines endorsing our services, another ace in our hand that we must play includes the satisfaction of practicing chiropractic. Indeed, people must wonder why anyone would want to be a chiropractor knowing the medical discrimination we face—they simply don't realize our thick skins or the enjoyment we experience.
Few people appreciate that chiropractors now rank 11th according to "Best and Worst Jobs of 2013" in a review of 200 jobs in America while "general physician" ranked #45 and "surgeon" ranked #51.[9]
This revelation is perhaps more shocking than the evidence-based guidelines recommending our brand of care. As the Oklahoma poll found, one respondent frankly admitted, "I wouldn't want my daughter to marry one."
Our high ranking speaks volumes and will surprise most folks who do not realize the qualimetrics of our job—the aesthetics, low stress levels, good results, high patient satisfaction rates, and the remuneration that will only improve when our PR exposure improves.
Promoting a New Message
The main message now is to present ourselves as the evidence-based spine care providers offering the most clinically and cost-effective treatments for the majority of spine-related problems, a claim we never before could flaunt.
In terms of brand awareness, our profession must follow the advice to lay claim as "America's primary spine care providers" (PSP) as suggested by the brain trust of chiropractic reformers Drs. Donald Murphy, Stephen Perle, Michael Schneider, Brian Justice, and Ian Paskowski.
This is not a far reach since DCs already do 94% of all SMT according to a 1992 RAND report, staking this claim is perfectly legitimate.[10] The AHCPR report also concluded that spinal manipulation was a "proven treatment" for acute low back pain in adults and "should only be done by a professional with experience in manipulation," which was, in effect, another endorsement of chiropractors.[11]
This branding is identical to the World Federation of Chiropractic's (WFC) in a 2005 Report by a 40-person Identity Task Force consensus that determined the most appropriate public identity for the chiropractic profession is primarily "the spinal health care experts in the health care system."
This brand must become our cornerstone in each and every ad, PSA, and interview we do to imprint this identity onto the public before the MDs, DOs, and PTs attempt to do the same considering we are the best prepared primary care physicians to manage these cases that will help millions and save billions.
Pushing Back on Disinformation
Aside from pushing this good news, we also must push back on the bad news. We have recently seen anti-chiropractic articles go viral overnight in the media and, for the most part, these cheap shots impugn our reputation without fair and balanced reporting that I refer to as Chicken Little journalism.
Such one-sided disinformation is a problem we rarely have the opportunity to confront, defend, or explain why chiropractic is effective in a public forum during the war on chiropractic in the media.
As recently as 2012, a spurious article by an unknown physiotherapy instructor at a remote small British college took a swipe at chiropractors contending SMT caused strokes. There was no evidence of any injured patient; it was merely the instructor's hyperbole fueling this attack that took off with ten articles appearing within days of each other on the same issue—the safety of chiropractic.
I responded to this nonsense with facts in a letter to the editor of the UK newspaper that printed the original article. This is just one of many "push-back" letters and articles I have written in defense of the chiropractic profession over the years.
Pushing Back the Doubt
Although responding to such attacks is important, at best it may be too little, too late. This is where we might take a lesson from our medical merchants of misinformation by using the same proactive tactic to plant seeds of suspicion about medical care.
However, rather than using slander, now we can use the scientific evidence in our strategy to create cognitive dissonance, the feeling of intellectual discomfort that results from having two conflicting beliefs, which aptly describes the difference between medical and chiropractic spine care.
Today we must use the new powerful information to reach such a tipping point in the public's mind to make them very uncomfortable about medical spine care to replace the old stigma that "everyone knows chiropractic is an unscientific cult" that makes patients leery about chiropractic care.
Fortunately, this proactive tactic has been handed to us by the media. Certainly the tsunami of news articles about the dangers of medical spine treatments have already created public discomfort about ESIs causing meningitis, opioid painkillers causing thousands of deaths and addictions and, of course, the scourge of unnecessary spine surgery.
Many articles over the last few years have criticized spine surgery, such as:
These articles confirm that "spinal medicine in the US is a poster child for inefficient spine care," and this beat continues in the media to this day.
As recently as July 29, 2013, the JAMA Internal Medicine journal highlighted the Worsening Trends in the Management and Treatment of Back Pain, a rather shocking admission for JAMA to print, don't you think?
The authors admitted the importance of their study:
"Back pain treatment is costly and frequently includes overuse of treatments that are unsupported by clinical guidelines. Few studies have evaluated recent national trends in guideline adherence of spine-related care."
The study concluded:
"Despite numerous published clinical guidelines, management of back pain has relied increasingly on guideline discordant care. Improvements in the management of spine-related disease represent an area of potential cost savings for the health care system with the potential for improving the quality of care."
Immediately the mainstream media popularized this article in the LA Times, "Back pain: Doctors increasingly ignore clinical guidelines," and USA Today, "Patients with back pain often get the wrong treatment."
Medscape Medical News also featured a similar article, "Worrisome Trends in Back Pain Management" that shed more heat than light on LBP care. Although these "worsening trends are worrisome," lead author John N. Mafi, MD, stressed his own conflicted feelings:
"Not all physician referrals, MRIs, CT scans, opiate prescriptions, or even all back surgeries are bad. Under certain circumstances they can be very helpful. My main point is just that they are increasingly being overused and unnecessarily so."
Donald E. Casey, MD, said in the same article:
"We should aim to collectively sort out the differences between what really works and helps patients and what doesn't work, in a more systematic framework, by working more closely together rather than publishing each group's own different guidelines with their own different perspectives."[12]
It appears Drs. Mafi and Casey remain at the bottom of the learning curve unaware that these comparative studies and evidence-based guidelines have already been done and, as Dr. Haldeman stated, conservative care is the treatment of choice.
CBS This Morning also carried a related televised segment, "New solutions for long-lingering back pain - CBS News" that reported:
"Across the nation, 80 percent of people suffer from back pain at some point in their lives. Researchers from Harvard Medical School tracked the treatment of back pain between 1999 and 2010, and their results indicated that many treatments are actually inconsistent with clinical guidelines."
The CBS medical reporter, Dr. Norman Marcus, Director of Muscle Pain Research at New York University School of Medicine, mentioned the discordant nature of the non-evidence-based treatments still prescribed by MDs and, most surprising, he reveals his own discordant medical advice:
"The study tells us that we're not getting the recommended treatments...If you have back pain, it should be treated simply with simple drugs."
Inexplicably, he also suggests that patients "stay under the care of your family doctor" and not seek medical specialists, failing to acknowledge the lack of musculoskeletal training by PCP MDs as Scott Boden, MD, currently director of the Emory Orthopaedic and Spine Center in Atlanta, has confessed, "Many, if not most, primary care providers have little training in how to manage musculoskeletal disorders."[13]
Not only has this CBS reporter given PCPs more credit than is due about MSDs, his report shows that he, too, suffers from professional amnesia when he inexcusably forgot to inform patients that clinical guidelines recommend chiropractic care as an initial option to the "inefficient" medical methods.[14]
Indeed, how can anyone do an article on back pain and ignore chiropractors, the third-largest physician-level profession in the nation that specializes in spine-related disorders unless, of course, they suffer from a bad case of medical bias or shoddy journalism as we've seen with Dr. Sanjay Gupta at CNN?
These many news articles are certainly reason enough to create public skepticism about medical spine care. Now we must use this information repeatedly as evidence that medical spine care (opioids, ESIs, and disc surgery) should be the last resort, not the first.
This new information should be the nail on the medical coffin to finally end the exploitation patients by spine surgeons "gone wild." This is the 800-pound gorilla the spine surgeons hope never becomes public knowledge and, undoubtedly, is the biggest game-changer—the reliance on the outdated "bad disc" theory—the pole of spine surgery for decades.
Dr. Norman Marcus mentioned this on CBS news when he dismissed the pathoanatomical disc problems, aka, incidentalomas, found on MRIs in asymptomatic patients that spine surgeons are so keen to use as selling points to unsuspecting patients.[15]
"If you get an MRI, I guarantee you it's going to be abnormal. 40% of people on the street with no pain have herniated discs. 70% have degenerated discs, with no pain."
Spine researcher Chien-Jen Hsu, MD, flatly admitted his disbelief in the disc theory:
"By far the number one reason back surgeries are not effective and some patients experience continued pain after surgery is because the disc lesion that was operated on is not, in fact, the cause of the patient's pain."[16]
Therein lies the rub to our public message: The traditional medical model continues to view the cause of back pain as primarily anatomical incidentalomas with surgery as the logical solution when, in reality, most spine pain—up to 85%—is now believed to be a pathophysiologic problem, primarily as vertebral joint complex dysfunction.
This is the basic paradigm shift that we need to explain to the public why medical spine care is so "inefficient" today—the focus on the secondary clinical findings of "bad discs" by MDs and surgeons who ignore the primordial problem of joint dysfunction and the value of spinal manipulative therapy to restore joint play/motion.
The primordial role of joint dysfunction was stated by John Mennell , MD, in his testimony at the Wilk trial in 1976 :
"Eight out of ten patients that come out of any doctor's office complain of a musculoskeletal system problem, regardless of what system the pain is coming from…I will say 100 percent of those complaints…are due to joint dysfunction in the musculoskeletal [system].
"The science of mechanics demands that joint play movement is prerequisite to normal pain-free functioning of movement."[17]
Until people understand "bad discs" are found in most pain-free people, they will remain prey to surgeons. Evidence of this argument was revealed in a recent workers comp study from Washington State that compared patients with low back pain whose first provider was either a chiropractor or a surgeon. This produced drastically different rates for surgery—42.7% of workers who first saw a surgeon had surgery in contrast to only 1.5% of those who saw a chiropractor.[18]
By avoiding expensive and risky spine surgery the cost savings for the payers will be enormous. Extrapolating these savings around the world would save billions of dollars in total spine costs and help millions avoid unnecessary drugs, shots, surgery, and disability.
Promoting Patient Dissonance
With this litany of events in mind, a cultural tipping point in our favor will occur when patients realize:
As a result of this new information, people will realize they have been misdiagnosed, mistreated, misinformed about chiropractic, misled by inept medical PCPs, victimized by spurious pain management "pill mills," and ripped-off by unethical spine surgeons who readily tell patients, "You have a 'bad disc' and whatever you do, don't see a chiropractor," an attitude of fear-mongering that I refer to as medical voodoo.
It's past time to put the medical doctors on their heels by explaining why medical spine care has been a "20th century disaster" as Dr. Gordon Waddell DSc, MD, FRCS, author of The Back Pain Revolution, wrote over 24 years ago in 1989:
"Low back pain has been a 20th century health care disaster. Medical care certainly has not solved the everyday symptom of low back pain and even may be reinforcing and exacerbating the problem...It [back surgery] has been accused of leaving more tragic human wreckage in its wake than any other operation in history." [19]
Dr. Waddell also suggests chiropractic care as a solution:
"There is now considerable evidence that manipulation can be an effective method of providing symptomatic relief for some patients with acute low back pain."[20]
The proof is mounting and our message to patients must be to "Just Say No" to "inefficient" medical spine care, just as they were taught to "Say No to Drugs," except for "Dr. Ganja."
Pushing the Envelope at F4CP
With a membership over 4,000 DCs and corporate sponsors, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) is gaining clout, but the time is near to change strategy.
I support the Foundation's efforts as a contributor myself, but re-inventing our image as PSPs and shedding the image of an "unscientific cult" is unlike any other PR effort in the history of marketing.
A PR campaign based on evidence-based facts from the emerging studies (both pro-chiro and anti-medical spine care) is much different than the present F4CP advertising campaign primarily featuring WOC (Wonders of Chiropractic) testimonials from celebrities and pro athletes in national newspapers like USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Sport celebrities pushing chiropractic is as inconsequential to mainstream Americans as movie stars like Tom Cruise and John Travolta pushing Scientology. While they may convince a few impressionable fans, most view them with a jaundiced eye. Indeed, it's a "WOW" factor with very little sizzle to stem the tide of doubt.
I urge the Foundation to progress to the next phase of PR—the Information Age—instead of relying principally on testimonial ads that may stir emotions rather than evidence-based ads that spark reason.
Such a turnaround may seem bold, but so was bringing a damaged Apollo 13 module back from the moon. With the plethora of research and news articles now, we can do this unlike ever before. While it may take another generation to wean Americans of the medical propaganda, it may also happen overnight if just one effort on our part goes viral, too.
Instead of celebrity pitchmen, I suggest the Foundation hire a publicist who, first of all, fully understands our predicament and, secondly, has a big Rolodex with contacts in the media to schedule talk radio, TV news, and newspaper interviews to promote our profession where these issues can be vetted.
Just as we have lobbyists on Capitol Hill to organize our legislative battles in Congress, think of a publicist as our media lobbyist to create and maintain a favorable public image by developing a positive brand via interviews in the media and shocking exposés.
I can see the possible headlines now: "Chiropractors Poised to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes," Chiropractors Have Your Back, and "Chiropractors Demand Apology." That ought to get the nation's attention.
Sooner than later we must explain the underlying issues facing our profession. A good example of chiro journalism that aims at the intellect of readers rather than at their emotions was a recent article written by Dr. Don Nixdorf that appeared in the Vancouver Sun.
Dr. Nixdorf, a leading Canadian activist and co-author of Squandering Billions, interviewed Dr. Allan Gotlib, the Executive-Vice President of the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation (CCRF). Under the leadership of Dr. Gotlib, Canada has witnessed the "unprecedented expansion of chiropractic research that continues to thrust the chiropractic profession into the forefront of health care."
This type of investigative journalism requires spokesmen who understand the relevant "Talking Points" in healthcare today, the new research studies and, of course, the political issues.
Such media encounters on talk radio and television news shows do not cost anything, plus the message compared to advertising is much more impactful than WOC testimonials in terms of establishing DCs as cultural authorities as PSPs.
As examples, I have written articles for public consumption about the issues we face, such as:
I have also appeared on local TV news shows, talk radio programs, and produced a few infomercials to discuss these newsworthy issues. If DCs in every locality were to do the same, our image as professional spine specialists would improve and greatly expand our market share.
Our message is simple: this pandemic of back pain is not by accident, or the result of bad discs, bad germs, or bad genes, but by design as the result of two main causes:
Splashdown Success
Certainly if NASA can bring a crippled space capsule back from the moon and successfully re-enter the atmosphere, we can do no less since the groundwork has been laid in the media and by researchers.
As Scott Haldeman confirmed, "The paradigm shift has already taken place." Now is the time to tell the public about this splashdown of good news by pushing this paradigm shift over our proverbial rainbow, the tipping point in the court of public opinion.
[1] Private communication with JC Smith, 7/10/2013
[2] Scott Haldeman DC, MD, PhD, FRCP(C) and Simon Dagenais DC, PhD. A supermarket approach to the evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain. The Spine Journal, vol. 8, Issue 1, January-February 2008, Pages 1-7.
[3] The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States Bone and Joint Decade, Copyright © 2008 by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. ISBN 978-0-89203-533-5, pp. 21.
[4] L Sportelli, "AHCPR: It Did Not Happen By Accident," Dynamic Chiropractic 13/2 (January 16, 1995).
[5] The BACKPage editorial vol. 27, No. 11, November 2012.
[6] Opinion p. 10
[7] Donald M. Petersen Jr, Changing Times, Dynamic Chiropractic – July 1, 2013, Vol. 31, Issue 13
[8] W Trever, "in the Public Interest," Scriptures Unlimited, Los Angeles, Calif., (1972):11
[9] Joe Light, "The Best and Worst Jobs," The Wall Street Journal, (January 4, 2011)
[10] Shekelle, Paul G., et al, RAND Corporation Report, The Appropriateness of Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain, 1992
[11] S Bigos, et al. US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Clinical Practice Guideline, Number 14: Acute Low Back Problems in Adults AHCPR Publication No. 95-0642, (December 1994), Patient Guide:7.
[12] Pauline Anderson, Worrisome Trends in Back Pain Management, Medscape Medical News, Jul 30, 2013
[13] S Boden, et al. "Emerging Techniques For Treatment Of Degenerative Lumbar Disc Disease," Spine 28 (2003):524-525.
[14] A Rosner, "Evidence or Eminence-Based Medicine? Leveling the Playing Field Instead of the Patient," Dynamic Chiropractic, 20/25 (November 30, 2002)
[15] Deyo RA, Patrick DL, Hope or Hype: The obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises, AMACOM publication, 2002, pp. 191.
[16] Hsu CJ, et al. Clinical follow up after instrumentation-augmented lumbar spinal surgery in patients with unsatisfactory outcomes. J Neurosurg: Spine, October 2006;5(4):281-286.
[17] Transcript of testimony of John McMillan Mennell, MD, Wilk v AMA transcript, pp. 2090-2093.
[18] Keeney BJ, Fulton-Kehoe D, Turner JA, Wickizer TM, Chan KC, Franklin GM., Early Predictors of Lumbar Spine Surgery after Occupational Back Injury: Results from a Prospective Study of Workers in Washington State, Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2012 Dec 12
[19] G Waddell and OB Allan, "A Historical Perspective On Low Back Pain And Disability, "Acta Orthop Scand 60 (suppl 234), (1989)
[20] G Waddell and OB Allan, "A Historical Perspective On Low Back Pain And disability, "Acta Orthop Scand 60 (suppl 234), (1989)


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MISRATA, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi's forces poured rocket fire after dawn Saturday into Misrata, the only western Libyan city still in rebel hands, and weary residents who have endured more than a month of fighting angrily lashed out at NATO for failing to halt the deadly assault.
Five civilians were killed in a 30-minute barrage of shelling that heavily damaged a factory for dairy products and sent up a thick column of black smoke, a doctor said. A human-rights group has accused the Gadhafi regime of using cluster bombs in Misrata - munitions that can cause indiscriminate casualties and have been banned by most countries. The Libyan government and military denied the charge.
In eastern Libya, fierce fighting left seven rebels dead, 27 wounded and four missing as the anti-Gadhafi forces sought to push toward the strategic oil town of Brega, according to Mohammed Idris, a hospital supervisor in the nearby city of Ajdabiya.
Frustration was growing among residents in Misrata, where Gadhafi's troops have intensified their long siege of the city in recent days. The doctor sharply criticized NATO for failing to break the assault with its month-old campaign of airstrikes. "We have not seen any protection of civilians," the doctor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said. "NATO airstrikes are not enough, and the proof is that there are civilians killed every day here," he said.
The theme was echoed in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, where spokesman Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga told a news conference: "There's no more room for hesitation or for not standing with determination against what is happening in Misrata and other Libyan cities, because the destruction that Moammar Gadhafi is causing in Libyan cities is great and extensive."
The Misrata doctor said Gadhafi's forces are taking shelter in residential areas that civilians had fled, apparently confident that NATO won't risk attacking them there.
But the troops have so far been unable to fully occupy the city of 300,000 people, he said, so instead they are targeting sites such as the dairy plant or the port to prevent the arrival of humanitarian aid.
On Saturday night in Tripoli, Maj. Gen. Saleh Abdullah Ibrahim denied that the Libyan military is using heavy weapons in Misrata.
Ibrahim confirmed that prisoners had been taken, but would not say how many.
Rebels in Misrata and the New York-based group Human Rights Watch have alleged that Gadhafi's forces have been using cluster bombs, which pose particular risk to civilians because they scatter small bomblets over a wide area. Most of the world has banned the use of the munitions. Human Rights Watch said its researchers inspected remnants of the weapons found in a Misrata neighborhood and interviewed witnesses.
Ibrahim said the accusations were "unfounded," adding that Libya did not have "these kinds of weapons in our depot, and no single Libyan has been trained on this."
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