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I've been working, in my mind at least, on two different posts, one about SA's (and the world's) military stupidity and another about my exciting weekend in nature (featuring otters). Then my cat, Frost, got hit by a car sometime early Monday morning, and while he survived and is still with the vet for treatment and observation, I've been knocked flat, psychologically. It may even have physiologically exhausted me, but that's more likely entirely due to the unusually active weekend I had. Either way, I lost all my motivation for a couple days and found myself terribly angry at nothing in particular. It didn't help that I had to face anti-vaxxers literally laughing off child death stats. Fuckers.
Now, while I'm still too focused on Frost and not sufficiently focused on the other posts (or anything I've been trying to get done since the weekend), I've at least had an odd thought that might be worth sharing. It seems I find it easiest to interpret the world as a roleplaying game these days, with quantifiable skills and possessions evaluated either in terms of their survival use or their value as sellable loot. And the last few days, I've been noticing my own psychological responses and explaining them to myself in terms that I first learned from playing Call of Cthulhu: I have failed a SAN check.
For non-gamers, Cthulhu is a game of horror and things-man-was-not-meant-to-know, and it incorporates a quantitative measure of characters' sanity, with negative consequences for those who see too many horrors and who know too many not-meant-to-know things. It's not usually something that people can portray on their own very well, because those who really know what going insane is like are, I think, less likely to want to re-hash the experience as a social game for funsies. It's also hard, as either a game writer or GM, to come up with novel and reliable ways of making monsters and events scare the players even a fraction as much as they're supposed to scare the characters. In my experience, most people seem to just play along with a game's sanity mechanics, nothing more, nothing less. We abstractify a lot of other things in roleplaying (e.g. injuries, skills or physical movement), so what's one more?
Still, it never hurts to keep the reality from getting totally hidden behind the abstraction, and I've been paying close attention to my own mind, to report and provide some stuff for thorough method-roleplayers to borrow from. It's not that I think I've gone anywhere near properly insane (what Cthulhu would represent with a 20% drop in Sanity, and Warhammer would represent with a gain of 6+ Insanity Points), because that really is serious business and much harder (and more unpleasant) to describe. Instead, I'm limiting myself here to describing a short, sharp shock, the experience of finding a specific occurrence truly disturbing (what either of those game systems would represent with the loss/gain of only one or two Sanity %/Insanity Points, respectively). I believe it's what real-worldists might call an acute stress reaction. Let me be clear that I'm not suggesting that my experience is the only possible reaction to something like this. The Wikipedia link there will give you a much wider variety of symptoms. All I'm trying to provide here is a bit of an inside perspective of what some of that can feel like, beyond the dry, external, academic descriptions. Realistic roleplaying is not just about stating that something happens, but also understanding as well as safely possible what it feels like for that thing to happen to you.
The main thing that struck me was an inability to get the unpleasant experience out of my head. I didn't spend a lot of time examining Frost's wound, as getting him to the vet was a more urgent priority, but the quick glimpses stuck with me. He'd lost a large chunk of skin and outer flesh, exposing the internal organs rather neatly, like a plastic anatomy model, waiting to be clicked apart and clicked back together again. I don't know feline internal anatomy at all well, but I could work out easily enough which bit was the large intestine, because one side of it was grazed off at one point, and the feces inside was visible but fortunately not leaking out. Framing the whole wound was bright red, lumpy tissue, almost like little bubbles. Fat, I think? Muscle? He'd also bled the whole way from the road, through the house, and had somehow squirted quite a lot of blood a good 40cm up the wall just outside my bedroom door, which was odd, as the wound was on his left side and he would have been walking with that wall on his right if he'd gone straight through the house to where we found him sleeping next to a large puddle of dried blood. The whole scene was very vivid, but the bit about the red lumpy tissue was clear as fuck later that night, while I was eating my supper of soy mince (completely vegan, but also sort of lumpy). It didn't disgust me or put me off my food (I'm not squeamish at all), but the image stayed in my mind very persistently.
My first point about roleplaying insanity points is probably that this vivid persistence of memory is a fairly obvious thing to consider. It doesn't have to be the only thing your character talks about (or even mentions at all), but when they see their first shambling, slimy demon or whatever, the specifics are likely to stay with them for a while and spring back to mind with only the slightest reminder. GMs could put extra effort into describing memorable details, and players should make note of at least one or two things that really stand out for their character. Bring these details back to mind anytime the character should be reminded of the event, and even if they don't get explicitly mentioned, they give a more visceral long-term hook for players to hang the effects of their accumulated insanity points on.
The other big thing I noticed was the mood stuff. I'm pretty good in a crisis and getting Frost to the vet was technically pretty simple. Keeping it together in the short term is feasible, but once he's booked in to stay at the vet and I'm home with nothing else to do, things start catching up. Half of it's been simple worry about poor Frost. He's probably losing his entire tail. There may be spinal damage. There may be infections. He may become incontinent and have a miserable life. He might even still die. But I'm ok with worry, I can keep some perspective and wait for more complete news from the vet, instead of letting the uncertainties overwhelm me. What did overwhelm me was anger, rage, frustration. Last night, I wanted to burn everything, smash people, shout. Not directed at anyone or anything in particular; just an expression of displeasure combined with powerlessness. The fucking anti-vaxxers almost caught that, but I realised it would do more harm than good there, so I took it out on virtual people instead, with a few bloody levels of Hitman. Bombs thrown indiscriminately into Mardi Gras crowds worked wonders for that, and incidentally show how great the 21st century is. Real rage is very unusual for me, and real violence simply never happens at all, but what would I have done with myself a century ago that wouldn't have caused actual, real damage to myself or others?
This is quite an important point for roleplayers too. Most insanity systems have "run away/hide" as their default outcome for a failed sanity check, but that's only one half of the fight-or-flight response. Realistically, sometimes you should favour "fight", even when/especially if it's not the smart thing to do. A few roleplaying systems have mechanisms for mad barbarian berserkers who wildly (though usually voluntarily) charge into combat to slay without concern for their own safety, but usually this amounts to a huge pile of unrealistic benefits, offset only by the so-called disadvantage of potentially killing your own party too. But where's the mechanism for normal, usually-sane people who just lose their cool and start swinging when they shouldn't? Most of us don't get super powers when we're angry, and if we do more damage, it's probably only because we're bothering to hit more often before giving up. Non-physical violence, like vigorous verbal abuse, is another possibility, especially if physical contact is impossible.
It may also be relevant that the one and only properly scary nightmare I can remember from the last 3 or 4 years (the post-teaching years) was about Frost getting injured by a car. That was kind of weird, because he ended up with tomatoey noodles for legs after the car crushed them, but I was sufficiently distressed by this that I woke up in a sudden panic. I hardly ever remember dreams, and I hadn't been truly frightened by a nightmare since childhood, when I had that one. Clearly, the safety of my pets is something that already weighed heavily on me, and Frost in particular has already spent more than his fair share of time at the vet, getting stitches for bites from feral cats and having poison mushrooms pumped from his stomach. He's less than 3 years old and has already had 11 or 12 general anaesthetics. He is incredibly unlucky, especially compared with his brother, Byron, who's dodged all of this shit.
Cthulhu's Sanity rules are kind of realistic here, because exposure to horrible things will only ever make you less tolerant of them, less mentally tough, though repeated exposure to exactly the same thing will decrease the effect of that specific thing (which may be a house rule of ours; I never read that part of the rule book). But I think it makes sense that repeated exposure to vaguely similar things (monsters in general, cat/car accidents in general) should tend to heighten your fear of them, because the reality of their existence keeps getting confirmed. And when they do hit you in reality again, the psychological damage should be harder to shrug off.
So there's a few thoughts for you. It's far from a complete list of possible reactions, because it's not drawn from a complete list of distressing horrors. But it's something to consider during horror games, and I already feel a lot better for having gotten this all off my chest.


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If you're planning a camping trip, but you don't want to forego all the comforts of home, the Ozark Trail two room privacy shelter might be the ideal thing for you.
It has two compartments, one which can be used for a shower room, the other one can serve as a changing room – or it could be used to set up a portable potty if you like.
It's a great idea. Single compartment shower tents are good, but once you're finished showering, you either have to dry yourself off and change into something inside the shower room (with its wet wall and floor) or step outside wrapped in a towel or robe.
With the Ozark Trail's changing room you can just step out into a separate, dry area, towel yourself off and step into your clean clothes.
It comes complete with its own 5 gallon solar shower, and there are mesh pockets to store toiletries and other personal items. There's even a hanging towel rail in the changing room – which you can also use for drying wet or damp clothes if you like.
The top cover section is mesh, so if the weather is fine you can leave off the separate rain-fly for maximum ventilation. Likewise, the mesh window can be left open or covered over for privacy as you prefer.
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You might think that there's a price to pay in terms of setup time for all this luxury and comfort – but the Ozark trail can be set up in under a minute. It's a breeze to set up with two people, but one person could quite easily do it alone if required.
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When fully assembled the privacy shelter measures 7′ x 3.5′ X 7′ (L X W X H), which is plenty height for even the tallest person to shower.
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Oden's Extreme Vanilla (White Dry) portion. I really liked the taste and was hoping the day would come that GN Tobacco would release a Vanilla Original Portion. Vanilla isn't exactly a common flavor in snus, which is strange because Vanilla is so good. In 2009, V2 Tobacco had a limited line of loose snus, one of which was the flavor Dark Vanilla, which was really good. I had a can of it that I sent Nash, he reviewed it on his YouTube Channel recently. Nash is a big fan of Vanilla too and we've talked about how cool it would be to have a Vanilla Snus out there. Judging by the lettering on the can - the warning label is in Russian which means this is for sale in Russia for the time being, but knowing GN and their "take no prisoner" mentality when it comes to innovation in the snus market - I would predict that we see it someday in markets other than Russia.
Nila Wafers, which have this really mellow Vanilla taste. Even this snus has that almost baked taste with a bread-like quality. GN has taken Vanilla and paired it with snus in a very unique and flavorful way - not too sweet, but a natural flavor that is very enjoyable. And as an Original Portion, this has what I wish the White Dry had - a higher moisture level. So all in all, this snus takes the White Dry Vanilla to the level I hoped a Vanilla Portion would be, and with a great flavor - this one is alright in my book. I hope someday GN will release this snus to online webstores because it's really good and just what the snus market needs.


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A lap dance club owner has defended the industry after launching a High Court fight to save his business.
Leeds City Council last week refused to renew licences for three clubs because of their location in "sensitive" areas.
Wildcats and Red Leopard, on The Headrow, and Deep Blue, on Wellington Street, were told they must stop operating by tonight.
It came after the council introduced a policy stating there should be a maximum of four "sexual entertainment venues" (SEVs) in Leeds.
Wildcats owner Paul Gourlay, who has already spent tens of thousands of pounds making his case, is now seeking a judicial review.
He said the new policy was wrongly based on moral judgements.
"If you have moral issues about women wanting to take their clothes off for payment, that's your own viewpoint," he said. "But that can't be used as grounds for refusing a licence.
"We have been here eight years without incident. The dancers are well looked after, they earn good money, they are treated well. Not one of them feels pressured or objectified."
The new policy on SEVs was drawn up after a survey of the council's Citizens Panel and a public consultation.
But Mr Gourlay said the consultation process was flawed – and the council refused to take into account the concessions he was prepared to make. The other two clubs have also made High Court appeals.
Mr Gourlay said that the council could face a legal bill of £1million defending itself and that hundreds would be left jobless if the closures go ahead.
He added: "When you get to the bottom of this, that's £1million of taxpayers' money to put 400 people out of work because some people have moral issues with what we do. How can that be right?"
He was still waiting to find out yesterday if Wildcats would be allowed to stay open until the appeal is heard, but Deep Blue has been granted leave to continue operating.
The council said it could not comment while legal proceedings were pending.


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UNDP provides technical assistance, policy advice and development interventions to Legislature, Executive and Judiciary promoting the rule of law, system of checks and balances, transparency, integrity, accountability, effective public administration and citizen-centric public services delivery. Based on international experience, global UN expertise, innovative approach and lessons learned from the pilot initiatives, UNDP in Uzbekistan pursues close collaboration with partners in the following areas:
- Strengthening institutional capacity of the national public administration through evidence-based policy making (functional review, streamlining of administrative procedures, prevention of corruption in public sector, public participation, business process review) and introduction of a more professional civil service;
- Further strengthening rule of law and better protection of rights (judicial independence, transparency and enhanced court administration, regulatory impact assessment (ex-ante and ex-post) of laws and regulations, anti-corruption screening of legislation, parliamentary oversight);
- Human-rights based approach (follow-up support to UPR and Treaty Bodies recommendations) and gender mainstreaming to development programming (people with disabilities, women, elderly and other vulnerable groups);
- Integrated local development planning, enhancing the role of local authorities in regional developments; Participatory sustainable local development and accountability of local governments;
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Thanks to mutual trust and effective cooperation with national and international partners, for the last 4 years, UNDP Uzbekistan achieved several landmark results on good governance area. UNDP team continues to strengthen and upscale them so that the results would be sustainable and have catalytic effect.
UNDP's engagement with the Supreme Court contributed to generation of new legislative acts to scale up pilot e-court system for courts on civil lawsuits. The development and application of "e-Sud" (E-court) national case management system for civil courts enabled improved access to justice in more than 250,000 cases for citizens, including vulnerable groups, such as women
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What kind of church will Living Stone be? What kind of building will we meet in? How will people describe the people that attend Living Stone? I've been thinking a lot about the church - envisioning what it will look like, sound like, feel like.
I have no doubt that my vision of the future will be wrong in many ways. If God has taught me anything the last few months, it's that he is in the driver's seat. I don't know where we he is taking us. But, I like what I see around every bend in the road and over every hill.
The church is described in the Bible as the body of Christ:
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. I Corinthians 12:27
So, how should the body of Christ look? 6ft - 6in. 200lb. 5% body fat. Full, thick, curly hair. 3 sport athlete in high school. Straight A student ... right? Wrong! Here's how the Bible describes Jesus:
... he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. Isaiah 53:2
So what drew people to Jesus? What caused the 12 apostles to drop everything and follow him? What caused his friends and disciples to follow his teachings long after he was gone - even to the point of their own death?
The qualities that drew people to Jesus are the same that should draw people to our church like love, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and grace. People should feel welcome at Living Stone Bible Church. There should be an overriding foundation of love that guides us in all that we do.
And, at the same time we should be like Jesus in that he was bold, daring, courageous, and unwavering in his commitment to speak the truth. It is not loving to agree with a dying world that they are not dying. It is not loving to agree with a lost world that they are not lost.
And, finally, Jesus was willing to lay down his life for those that he loved. He did not put himself first. He was not planning for retirement. He wasn't saving for a new boat. He wasn't concerned with fame or prestige. Instead, he put you and I first.
"I'm not a smart man... but I know what love is." - Forrest Gump.In Christ,


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Sports News of Sunday, 19 February 2017
Source: GHANAsoccernet.com
Last season's Ghana Premier League goal king Latif Blessing excelled for his new side Sporting Kansas City in their 3-0 win over giants New York Red Bull in the Desert Diamond Cup, a pre-season tournament.
Blessing, 19, lasted in the game until the 62nd minute, playing a key role in the first part of the game and getting his side a goalless score line until he was substituted.
Sporting KC now has a win and a draw in the prestigious Desert Diamond Cup.
Sporting KC Manager Peter Vermes used two teams in the game while Red Bulls did not start their first team as they are focused on CCL match with the Vancouver Whitecaps.
The former Liberty Professionals forward and 2015/16 Ghana Premier League top scorer had some opportunities but could not bury them.
Sporting KC had all their goals scored after the 82nd minute of the game after Peter Vermes had changed the entire eleven players who started the game in the 62nd minute.
Latif was hailed by the fans who were mostly shouting his name when he was substituted from the game.


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I was painfully astounded by the fact that the city became farmland on three visible horizons. I winced as I realised I could see both Midland (the end of the Perth Metro Area) and Rottnest Island (kilometres off the coast) in the width of the plane window while I was flying low enough to see cars on the street.
A hot, flushed feeling of reluctant isolation swept through me again, as it had regularly throughout the flight.
I had been perfectly fine in the 11 hours to Kuala Lumpur, watching movies, reading my book, not sleeping a wink. Perth was still far away, I was still safely distant from imminent arrival.
Then I boarded for the last five hour flight and I started getting cramps from the horror of two years passing and yet I was back where I started with only dreams that I had touched and then been forced to relinquish to keep me company. Once these cramps and shaking were over however the excitement would scoop me out until I was a motionless membrane, vibrating and waiting for the heat, the sun and the salt water to fill me up once more.
I was a roiling mass of dread and love, endlessly revolving like serpents fighting, endlessly showing one colour over the other, endlessly dizzing and sickening in its intensity.
After the rush of greeting those at the airport, after slipping effortlessly back into the banter of the family, after holding court for hours on end to family in the house and on the phone, I got into bed and by default thought that tomorrow I must tell Laura and Ozy and everyone what it was like to get home … and it took me a rather difficult moment of crashing mental gear-changes to relinquish the friends of the last two years to the 'I'll have to email them about this' category instead of the 'I'll have to mention it when I see them' category.
By the same token, the diary is filling up rapidly with dates to meet and greet and I am looking forward to being enveloped by my much missed and rather excited family. As the first traveller of the grandchildren I have been requested for family meals at each family home, the uncles and aunts sounding determined to wring every little drop of overseas wonderfulness from me, whether I like it or not!
This morning I got up at six thirty (damn body clock) and because the day was that special crisp sunlight of a flawlessly clear Perth winter day (read an English summer day that was only chilly enough for a thin jumper), I got my walking shoes on and went for quick squiz at the changes in Perth. Three hours later I had covered an area barely the size of the Square Mile and my parents nearly crashed the car when I told them later that day how far I had gone. 'It's quite small really!' I assured them, smugly relishing their disbelief that I could cover that distance and still call the city small.
It was one of the best walks in recent memory – each corner was achingly familiar, but strangely devoid of sadness as the memories stayed hovering in the back of my mind, comforting in their familiarity, but reassuringly not swamping me with nostalgia. Perth has been important to me, but it resonates comfortably like much loved pyjamas, present, but not powerful.
I enjoyed seeing everything again, but I enjoyed even more the feeling of relaxation that accompanied my effortless navigation of places to get the best views, my walk along my favourite beach, the winding through the back alleys to the wharf for fish and chips. This really is going to be a rather enjoyable holiday!
Originally posted on Exiled Britophile, a blog I updated for about twelve months when I returned home from London. Due to it's frank discussion of how horrid I found Perth, these pieces had only been read by my London readers until 2011.


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The Brooking Institute hosted speakers from the Center on the United States and Europe on November 18, 2015 to discuss the intricacies of the Syrian refugee situation and analyze how European countries are handling the influx of migrants. The conversation was led by Fiona Hill, Director at the Center on the United States and Europe and featured Mateo Garavoglia, a Visiting Fellow from the Center on the United States and Europe, and Natalie Tocci, Deputy Director of the Instituto Affari Internazionali. Ms. Hill opened the conversation by describing how countries accepting refugees find difficulty distinguishing refugees from terrorists. Despite the fear inspired by the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, Ms. Hill reminded the audience of how important it is to differentiate between refugees and terrorists.
Mr. Garavoglia focused his remarks on the economic and cultural difference dividing Eastern and Western Europe. There is a geographical dichotomy between the East and West, with countries like Germany and Sweden standing with "open arms" to incoming refugees, while countries like Hungary setting up borders to block out incoming refugees. For countries like Poland, the Paris attacks gave reason to refuse accepting altogether. In addition to geographical dichotomy, there is also an institutional dichotomy. Providing food, shelter, education, and other aid require serious logistical and economic capacity. So while some European states are establishing refugee resettlement programs, other states are dragging their feet.
Ms. Tocci put the conversation in perspective by pointing out that Turkey has taken in almost 3 million refugees thus far. Therefore, she argues, European states should be able to take collectively accept another 2 or 3 million refugees. Ms. Tocci also alluded to the impact of the Paris attacks on neighboring countries. Since the November 13th attacks, heightened security measures have been put in place, and the European Union has begun discussing the possibility of establishing a European Coast Guard. The conversation ended with a plea for all countries take a humanitarian approach to refugees because there seems to be no end in sight to the crisis.


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Inmate charged after jail fight
A Pierce County Jail inmate faces new charges for allegedly attacking a man in his cell after an argument over television programming.
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Evans, a Menomonie resident being housed on Dunn County sexual assault charges, has been in the Pierce County Jail since July 10. The alleged victim, St. Paul resident Ivan E. Shapiro, has been in jail since Oct. 19 on a Pierce County conviction for misdemeanor theft.
According to a criminal complaint, Shapiro reported the incident at 3:44 p.m. He told jailers that he was lying on his bunk when Evans pulled him off it and assaulted him.
Deputies reviewed video surveillance of the incident, which showed Shapiro on his bunk while Evans was at a table. Evans allegedly stood up aggressively, then launched a chair before allegedly approaching Shapiro and pulling him off his bunk. The video shows the two men wrestling on the ground, "Evans with his legs wrapped around the neck and throat area of Shapiro," the charging document states.
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Evans corroborated much of that story, but told jailers that Shapiro called him "rapist" while protesting the TV channel change. That angered Evans, he allegedly admitted, and led to him confronting Shapiro.
A third inmate who witnessed the incident said there'd been tension between the two men in prior weeks and that Evans "just got fed up with it and had an outburst," the complaint states.
Evans makes his initial appearance on the new charge on March 5.


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The Blood-Retinal Barriers pp 81-100 | Cite as
Cerebrovascular Permeability in the Normal Brain and Following Osmotic Opening of the Blood-Brain Barrier
Cerebrovascular permeability of nonelectrolytes and organic electrolytes is directly proportional to the octanol/water partition coefficient of these substances, as was determined by a new method of compartmental analysis which is sufficiently sensitive to examine permeability coefficients as low as 10−8 cm sec−1 (i.e., sucrose permeability) or as high as 10−4 cm sec−1 (i.e., antipyrine and caffeine permeabilities). In the latter case, cerebral blood flow must be taken into account to correct for extraction of tracer during its passage through the brain. The compartmental analysis method was employed in conscious rats, when radiotracer was injected i.v. as a bolus and tracer entry into the brain was analyzed in terms of a permeability coefficient and cerebral distribution volume. The proportionality between cerebrovascular permeability and octanol/water partition coefficient suggests that substances enter the brain by dissolving in the lipoid membranes of the continuous cerebrovascular endothelium (blood-brain barrier) and not by passing through aqueous pores within the endothelium. In order to overcome permeability limitations to intravascular water-soluble compounds, furthermore, it is possible to open the blood-brain barrier by infusing, into the carotid artery, a hypertonic solution of a water-soluble solute such as arabinose. Physiological and ultrastructural evidence indicates that osmotic opening of the blood-brain barrier is mediated by widening of tight junctions between cerebrovascular endothelial cells. In the rat, osmotic barrier opening occurs abruptly at a threshold arabinose concentration of 1.6 molal, and at an infusion time of 20 sec. 14C-sucrose permeability is increased 10–20 fold by osmotic treatment, but the increase disappears within about 1 hr. Brain edema and stimulation of cerebral glucose consumption follow osmotic treatment, and also disappear without resultant evidence of long-term brain damage. Osmotic barrier opening has proven useful for allowing normally-excluded substances into the brain.
KeywordsTight Junction Lipid Solubility Hypertonic Solution Carbamate Ethyl Barrier Opening
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Though I am refraining from commenting at the moment (though thanks to those who still encourage me to do so - you make me feel good), Goodacre has weighed in with his opinion.
Also, there are some new blogs afoot that are of interest. The first two don't really look new, but they're new to me. They actually come from Goodacre's post, one is Canonist and another, which is from the Canonist blog is Apikorsus. Hopefully they'll have some entertaining and educational things to say to the world.
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One question that is often asked of writers is 'Where do you get your ideas from?' Invariable the writer gets really vague and says things like, 'Oh it just came to me in a dream,' or, 'I plucked it out of the ether.' However, the truth is far less artistic than these ether pluckers would have you believe. Ideas are not in the air we breathe, they actually mined on the dark side of the moon and sold for large sums of money. Ideas mined during an eclipse tend to be the more successful. J.K. Rowling, Dan Brown and E.L. James have been the fortunate ones to get ideas mined at that particular time. Mining the ideas is not an easy job and has been known to leave some of the miners with brain damage and even sent a few off to that great gig in the sky. Despite the risks they take to get the ideas for the writers, there is a real feeling of us and them between these two groups. A lot of writers feel superior to these brave men and women who put their lives at risk so that they can humour our creative muses. But I admire them. They go to extremes to find all shapes and sizes of ideas and in any colour you like. When I go idea shopping, I try to look for one that can speak to me. I don't just go for anything on the run. That was one of the reasons I chose the idea that said use the lyrics of the songs on 'Cold Fact'.
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NEW YORK -- For those who might have lingering doubts, post-hoc analyses of two landmark statin trials -- PROVE-IT and IDEAL -- affirm the value of an intensive versus moderate approach to lipid-lowering, researchers here reported.
As it turns out, staying the course with intensive lipid-lowering -- in this case 80 mg atorvastatin (Lipitor) versus either 40 mg pravastatin (Pravachol) or 20-40 mg of simvastatin (Zocor) -- actually "reduces events by about 50% over time," Christopher Cannon, MD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, told MedPage Today.
This is "an even more dramatic reduction in events" than the benefit seen at the primary endpoint of 30 days, Cannon said during a discussion of findings from both post-hoc analyses at an American College of Cardiology press conference today.
The findings were also published online by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Cannon's observations resonated with Alfred Bove, MD, president of the American College of Cardiology, who moderated the ACC press briefing. "When we take care of patients we don't stop taking care of them after two years, so we are looking for the longer-term horizon here. Many of the patients we follow for 10 or 15 years so this extra, longer data is very important for us," Bove said.
Cannon, who was principal investigator of the PROVE-IT trial, said there's a great value to this "looking behind the curtain" approach: determining if a drug that reduced the risk of a first event can also reduce the rate of events over the long haul.
"We have redesigned all of our trials -- including amending some protocols in ongoing trials -- to include this as a prespecified analysis," he said.
Cannon is a senior investigator for the TIMI Study Group, a Harvard-based organization that has published scores of trials and has many ongoing studies.
The true value of this long look, Cannon said, is the message that one needs to stay the course with intensive lipid-lowering.
"If you have an event in the statin arm in the first 30 days of a trial, you say, 'Okay, that's statin failure,' but if you look at two years of treatment and a patient in the atorvastatin arm has an event at a year but a patient in the control group has two events, and then at two years the patient in the atorvastatin arm has had two events but the control patient had four events -- that means that you have a even greater benefit in terms of the cost-effectiveness because the number needed to treat comes way down," he said.
In this analysis, treating 14 patients with 80 mg atorvastatin prevented one subsequent event.
Looking at recurrent cardiovascular events in the PROVE-IT trial there "were 138 fewer primary efficacy events with atorvastatin 80 mg versus pravastatin 40 mg (N=739 versus N=877, respectively; rate ratio: 0.85, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.94, P=0.001," Cannon and colleagues wrote in JACC.
The PROVE-IT analysis was based on two years of follow-up in the trial, which randomized 4,162 patients with acute coronary syndrome in the 10 days prior to randomization.
Cannon said the IDEAL data were even more convincing because the analysis was based on five years of follow-up of 8,888 patients with confirmed acute myocardial infarction who were randomized to open label atorvastatin or simvastatin daily.
"In IDEAL there were patients who had five events versus patients with two events," Cannon said.
The IDEAL investigators wrote that atorvastatin reduced relative risk of a first cardiovascular event by "17% (P<0.0001), of a second event by 24% (P<0.0001), of a third by 19% (P<0.035), of a fourth by 24% (P=0.058), and of a fifth event by 28% (P=0.117)."
But Steven Nissen, MD, director of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, himself a proponent of intensive lipid-lowering therapy, sounded a note of caution about the use of such analyses in an accompanying editorial.
In an interview, Nissen said he thought the findings were useful in terms of better understanding the benefits of intensive lipid-lowering therapy, but he said that there was also the risk of "overstating the benefits."
Patients who have already experienced an event have a much higher risk for subsequent events than patients "who have not yet suffered a morbid event. So when you count the subsequent events, you run the risk of greatly magnifying what we know is an effective therapy."
Also, he noted that the IDEAL analysis included hospitalization for unstable angina or revascularization -- an endpoint that Nissen considers troublesome because "the threshold for hospitalization or revascularization varies widely, especially for trials that include patients outside the U.S."
In his editorial, Nissen concluded, that "the most objective standard remains time-to-event analysis for cardiovascular death, MI, and stroke.
The TIMI Group received research grants form Bristol-Myers Squibb to conduct the PROVE-IT TIMI 22 trial. No outside funding was provided for this post-hoc analysis.
The IDEAL analysis was funded by Pfizer.
Cannon reported receiving research/grants/suport from Accumetrics, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Partnership, GlaxoSmithKline, Intekrin Therapeutics, Merck, Merck/Schering-Plough Partnership, Novartis, and Takeda. He is a clinical advisor with equity in Automedics Medical Systems.
NIssen reported that he has received research support to perform clinical trials through the Cleveland Clinic Coordinating Center for Clinical Research from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Roche, Daiichi-Sankyo, Takeda, sanofi-aventis, Resverlogix, and Eli Lilly. He consults for many pharmaceutical companies, but said he requires them to donate all honoraria or consulting fees directly to charity so that he receives neither income nor a tax deduction.
Bove is ACC president and reported no conflicts.
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
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Journal of the American College of CardiologySource Reference: Murphy SA "Reduction in recurrent cardiovascular events with intensive lipid-lowering statin therapy compared with moderate lipid-lowering statin therapy after acute coronary syndromes" J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 54: 2358-62.
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Journal of the American College of CardiologySource Reference: Tikkanen MJ "Total cardiovascular disease burden: Comparing intensive with moderate statin therapy" J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 54: 2353-57.
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Journal of the American College of CardiologySource Reference: Nissen SE "Cardiovascular outcomes in randomized trials" J Am Coll Cardiol 2009; 54: 2363-65.


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- Calling France from abroad Dial your country's international access code, then 33 (France's country code), then the 10-digit local number without the initial zero.
- Calling internationally from France Dial 00 (the international access code), the indicatif (country code), the area code (without the initial zero if there is one) and the local number.
Mobile Phones
Most modern European, Australian and American cell phones are compatible with French networks; if in doubt, check with your provider before leaving home. It is almost always cheaper to bring an unlocked phone and purchase a French SIM card.
More Information
- French mobile phone numbers begin with 06 or 07.
- Most modern smartphones work on a variety of frequencies and can be used in France regardless of their country of origin.
- Check with your service provider about roaming charges – dialling a mobile phone from a fixed-line phone or another mobile can be incredibly expensive.
- It is usually cheaper to buy a local SIM card from a French provider such as Orange, SFR, Bouygues or Free Mobile, which gives you a local phone number. To do this, ensure your phone is unlocked.If you already have a compatible phone, you can slip in a SIM card and rev it up with prepaid credit.
- Recharge cards are sold at most tabacs (tobacconist-newsagents), supermarkets and online through websites such as Topengo (www.topengo.fr).
Charging Devices
Carrying your own charger and cable is the only sure way of ensuring you don't run out of juice. Don't be shy to ask in cafes and restaurants if you can plug in and charge – if you ask nicely, most will oblige. In Nice the odd cafe lends cables to customers and savvy taxi drivers stock a selection of smartphone-compatible cables and chargers for passengers to use.


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Park Jung Min Will Visit Taiwan On The 29th!
SS501 Park JungMin accelerates advancement into Asia.
Park JungMin will visit Taiwan for 3 days 2 night schedule starting on 29th. Continuing his overseas activities after his contract with Japan Yamaha group's Yamaha Music Entertainment on 16-Sep, the visit to Taiwan this time is part of his advancement into the Asia market.
Agency CNR Media revealed "The activities in Korea as well as Japan has been fixed to a certain extent. This official visit is to make specific plans for his activities in Asia including Taiwan, China, HongKong, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. with Comic Ritz who is CNR Media's partner."
Park JungMin mentioned about his visit to Taiwan through his official Facebook page and is currently gaining high interests from fans and industry personnel. In addition for his Korean fans, his official homepage is scheduled to be opened in mid-October.
Credits : firstname.lastname@example.com + SS601.com + (English Translation) xiaochu @ Quainte501.com
JM also tweeted this too... that he will be going to Taiwan to see his fans on the 29th! And he's going to be opening a Korean website too, huh? I'm not surprised at all. And he's gonna be busy traveling! I hope they also include the Philippines to his list of Asian countries to visit.


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The Sesame Street puppets have done much for children over the years. They have taught them the alphabet. They have taught them to count. They have taught them that it is acceptable for two men to share a bedroom.
And, now, they are helping refugee children to adjust to the trauma of displacement.
The Sesame Workshop has teamed up with humanitarian aid organisation the International Rescue Committee (IRC), in order to deliver early-years education and emotional support to refugee children in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
Working together, the Sesame Workshop (formerly known, to those of a certain vintage, as the Children's Television Workshop) and the IRC will create multimedia content featuring Big Bird, Elmo (pictured top and below) and those paragons of intimacy and long-term fidelity, Bert and Ernie.
The educational material will be specifically tailored to meet the developmental needs of refugee children and their parents, and to mitigate the impact of the trauma they have experienced.
Culturally appropriate
It will include digital content, as well as printed material, in order to reach the largest possible number of children. It will be distributed through schools, community centres and health clinics.
The content will be drawn from the Sesame Workshop's existing Jordanian, Egyptian and Gulf programmes, in order to ensure that it is culturally appropriate to the refugee children.
Around the world, 25 million people have been displaced from their homes; half of those are children.
"We are in the middle of a global refugee crisis," says David Miliband, president of the IRC, in a three-minute film produced by the Sesame Workshop to promote its scheme.
"We know that children who suffer the trauma of war and displacement at an early age suffer the scars of that for many years to come."
'Secret weapon'
The film then cuts to puppet Elmo, talking to a child refugee wearing a headscarf, and then biting another's ears. From there, it moves on to yellow fluffy monster Zoe, making a group of children laugh.
"I think our muppets are our secret weapon," Sherrie Westin, of the Sesame Workshop, tells the cameras. "These Muppets have the ability to appeal to and engage children all over the world."
The project has been selected as a semi-finalist for a $100 million (£80 million) grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Photo credit: Ryan Heffernan, for Sesame Workshop
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text: Yes, it's true. I finally feel the lululemon love. My friend kept telling me about this apparel company and about their really, really comfortable line of workout wear. I brushed off her enthusiasm and said lululemon was just a fad and overpriced. So last week, I told her I was looking to buy some running gear for summer, and again, she started spouting the benefits of lululemon! Okay girl, what's the big deal? So we went to lululemon on 4th. Let me tell you, I fell in love with them the moment I looked at myself in the mirror. Lululemons make my ass look so sexy! They fit perfectly and are SO comfortable. The fabric and cut is just heaven. So here I am, wearing my lululemon pants and tee after waiting 5 days for the alteration. I couldn't be happier.


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From next month criminals or ex-criminals who try to profit (earn a living for paid work, like writing a book etc..) from their crimes in New South Wales will have the proceeds confiscated.
That is to suggest that the community doesn't profit from criminals' or ex-criminals' telling their story. How can that be? Only the ignorant would undermine the truth about what led to the crime and how to prevent that crime down the track...That is, unless you want to become the next victim!
As well as the fact that if what led to the crime was NOBLE CAUSE CORRUPTION perpetrated by the Government and its law enforcement agencies then that is also COVERED UP...That is, unless you want to become the next victim!
NSW Attorney-General Bob Debus says the move is to stop publications similar those written by Mark "Chopper" Reid making money for criminals.
But to blanket ban all paid work for, writing a book, or giving and interview on television, to inform the general public about criminal stories, or what led to the crime, all because of one unpopular case or person is again, ignorant to the benefit gained by having the knowledge of the predisposing factors that led to a crime, being known.
If the community doesn't know or isn't aware of the predisposing factors that led to a crime, then crime prevention is the casualty here.
Debus says the State Government will move to have any money made taken off the criminal and put into a victim's fund.
Mr Eric McCormack Senior Executive Officer of the NSW Justice Advocacy Centre said " When are people not criminals? Oppressive laws that attack an under class and prevent rehabilitation can only lead to huge dole cues and considerably more crime. He said".
The community questions ICAC's slagging and fobbing you off?
Concerns have been raised about the investigative capacity of the New South Wales Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC), after revelations that a large number of people it has found to have acted corruptly have never been prosecuted in the courts.
Who is bad?
You wouldn't suppose the Police Integrity Commission is just kinder letting of some steam in that big pressure cooker on government hill would you?
By Or Wellian 13 Jan 03
Ed: If the the ex-criminal has to write a book that takes time and why shouldn't that time be taken into account? That is say that ex-criminals should not have a living wage or a job?
NSW Govt criticised over criminal justice record
Key criminal justice groups have described the New South Wales Government's record on justice issues as a "disappointing performance".
The decision of the Carr government to appoint John Jacob Klok as the new Assistant Commissioner for Corrective Services in charge of security represents a statement of contempt to all those concerned about law and justice in NSW.
How NSW Dept of Corrective Services spent $800,000 dollars to rehabilitate a Sydney man sentenced to life for second murder! A spokesperson for Justice Action Mr Pro Grams said, "Well it's your money, how would you like it spent? And what do you think about rehabilitation on behalf of the Department of Corruptive Services?
Prisoners Representatives Excommunicated
Ron Woodham, Commissioner Corrective Services stated "[this Department] does not recognise Justice Action as an advocate on correctional centre issues." He has ordered a ban on all Justice Action material inside the NSW prison system. This resulted from a request for the approval of the latest edition of Framed (the Magazine of Justice Action) to be distributed throughout NSW prisons as has occurred for the past ten years.
Academic devises scheme for low income earners to pay back fines:
A professor at the Australian National University [another one of John Howard's hand picked losers like Peter Saunders the social services head-kicker has come up with a scheme which could see low income earners pay back criminal fines over a period of time.
Dept of Corrective Services: Rotten Ron Woodham on the ropes
This is The Freeedom Of Speech and The Press in a goldfish-bowl! Herr Goebells has spoken. Zieg Heil! (Which means, actually: "aim-for health!" incidentally)Apologies for not making meetings ... my first experiences with Woodham (then a -screw-gestapo-minor-with-a-friendly-dog - AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN EVEN HIS DOG DOESN`T LIKE HIM?)
At the Minister's Pleasure The case of Michael Kelly
Michael is caught up in a particularly cruel version of the game of Cat and Mouse. Because he is classified as a forensic patient under the Mental Heath Act of NSW, the Minister for Health is his master, not the Minister for Corrective Services. And the Minister for health will not let him go.
Name removed by request served time in prison decades ago. Shes still being punished today. According to commonwealth and state legislation, ex-prisoners applying for jobs must declare any conviction that fits into the following categories: less than 10 years old, more than 10 years old but served more than 30 months in prison.
The Australian Law Reform Commission had recommended that the Innocence Panel be independent and have the power to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice.
NSW Department of Corrective Services attack right to privacy
Corrective Services Minister Richard Amery has a problem attacking prisoners right to privacy.It seems to us that a civil society is best served when social justice laws are applied to all people regardless of their circumstances. Once government starts making exceptions which disadvantage certain groups and individuals, such laws are meaningless.
Litigants are drowning: in the High Court
There were so many self represented litigants appearing in the High Court that more than half of its registry staff's time was taken up in dealing with them. The "go it alone" litigants have to take on tasks well above their qualified league causing them stress. This growing problem cannot be left unchecked.
Everyone wants to get out of 'jail' but 'Framed' wants life: Rotten Ron on the ropes On 2 May 2002, Justice Action received a faxed letter from Manager of DCS Operations Support Branch saying that, in his view, articles in Framed edition #42 'lack balance and integrity' and he is therefore 'not prepared to recommend this issue of Framed for placement in to correctional centre libraries.' Prisoners and those concerned about prisoner issues have very few sources of information.
Methadone addicts formed within: 'NSW Prisons'
The New South Wales Opposition has accused the State Government of turning jailed heroin users into Methadone addicts.
Murder charge first for DNA data bank link, but not the same as solving the murder Mass DNA testing of prisoners has [allegedly] led to the first NSW case of a person being charged with a previously unsolved murder as a result of a controversial gene-matching data bank.
Medical Records: Alex Mitchell's lost world
Perhaps we can get your medical report and spew it around publicly so you can see how it feels. But surely we do not have to go that far. And of course we are law-abiding citizens and I should think it would be enough to remind you of your ethics to report at all.
Prisoners can prove innocence for $20?
Les Kennedy Daily Telegraph reported today that" Prisoners who believe that DNA will prove they were wrongly convicted will have the chance to prove their innocence for a mere $20 administration fee. The move comes 20 months after NSW inmates were asked to provide DNA for comparison with a databank of DNA from unsolved crime scenes for possible convictions.
NSW opposition pledges review of detention laws
A spokesperson for Justice Action Ms Anal Advice said " NSW Prisons are a sex offence if you have been raped, bashed and squatted down to be strip searched. People should be diverted from going there at all material times".
Civil libertarians condemn planned changes to prisoners' privacy rights The New South Wales Government is using a recent case involving [framed] serial killer Ivan Milat to justify its decision to remove the privacy rights of prisoners. But really just another attack on Ivan Milat from Parliament House.
Australian prisons are fast becoming the new asylums of the third millennium. The prison industry is booming, while Australia spends far less on mental health services than similar countries.
The punishment: Is the 'crime'
The punishment is the crime according to retired chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Justice Alistair Nicholson. "Smacking a child ought to be seen as assault".
Mr. & Mrs. Mandatory Sentencing
Well congratulations to the bride and groom. Could you please be upstanding and raise your glasses for Mr. And Mrs. Mandatory.
Just wipe your arse on Ivan again Minister?
Mr Amery Minister for Corrective services has a problem with finding a toilet roll to wipe his bottom. Justice Action is appalled at the attacks by Amery and others in parliament on Ivan Milat's right to privacy and their attacks on the Privacy Commissioner and his office.
NSW prisons - primary industry bailed up!
In many quiet regional centres around NSW there is a new primary industry shaping up. It has something to do with Bail but not with bales. The minister for Agriculture Richard Amery who also has the prisons portfolio is now committed to farming prisoners.
NSW Parliament Bitter Pills To Swallow?
One delusion pill: So people who investigate their own mistakes make sure there was no mistake or someone else made the mistake. Perhaps you're not biased and you will be honest about it.
The Government is likely to abolish the Inspector General of Corrective Services position The Mulawa inspection report recommendations below strictly illustrate how important he is.
Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.
Prison Mind Games-Do they exist?
Directives are given inside the prison system that are not consistent with the law in NSW. And not in the good interests of the health and well being of the prisoners.
Chronology - A History of Australian Prisons
[Allegedly:] The events that have shaped NSW prisons - from convict days through royal commissions, to the Supermax of today. [I say allegedly because no one should trust Four Corners [Walls], why? Because they spill out the propaganda of the day for the Government, whether it be wrong or right. A government that lies and has no remorse about it.]
Govt, police 'let off the hook' Haneef inquiry
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Expressions of admiration, respect, and genuine love filled the news channels Wednesday with the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Hyannisport at age 77.
Expressions of admiration, respect, and genuine love filled the news channels Wednesday with the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in Hyannisport at age 77.
The death was expected.
For months, Kennedy had amazed people around the globe with his acceptance of the inevitable result of his brain tumor, refusing to allow that known fate to dissuade him from using his power and influence to push for his long-time goal of national health care.
That would be the crowning achievement for the magnificent legacy he created while serving the third longest Senate term ever.
If President Barack Obama is successful, it may still come to that.
Opposition in Massachusetts to the Kennedy "governor's choice" plan to assure full representation on the vote was wavering.
Criticism that he was attempting to deal from the grave had slacked off as well. It may not be heard again. Nor should it.
Whenever he spoke, it was for the people, but he knew the power of maintaining relationships on both sides of the aisle.
He deserves to be hailed as one of history's greatest senators, but his public service career didn't start out that way.
Only a few who knew the boyish Kennedy well suggested that the youngest of four brothers had the ability and the desire to eventually emerge as the effective leader of the liberals at a time when conservatives were taking over.
He was accused of having reached the Senate by riding the Kennedy name.
The name didn't hurt, but there was more to the man than that.
He learned the art of political compromise and applied it to everything from minimum wage to illegal aliens.
As his brothers died, Joe in World War II, and John and Robert cut down by assassins, Ted picked up the torch and was a liberal lion in the Senate and a patriarch in an expanding family.
There is a need now in this world for someone else to carry the torch.


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I think I may have recovered from Maker Faire at last (though I will say I have not simply slept the past two days like I did the two after Maker 09.) I'm already cutting paper and excited that I have time to do it!
Knit.one.one is up next, June 5th, in Berkeley (very close to Oakland. I know this because I always get lost in Oakland, so when I see the sign a short distance away from k.1.1. I feel a desperate need to turn around. No offense to Oakland, you have great points, but I lose all sense of direction and end up in the absolute wrong place every time.) BUT, knit.one.one is great. If you're in the area you should come by and check it out.
And to top it off… photos from Maker Faire….
Okay, so this last one wasn't at Maker Faire. On our way to Herbivore in the city, Scott and I came across a Swoon off of 24th. I can't describe the excitement! It was like getting to meet my favorite artist. And check out the size of it!