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AirlineJay is back with the 2nd single off his To Whom It May Concern LP.
We've found ourselves in a YOLO culture. It's complete bullshit and it needs to stop. Fortunately, we have MCs like AirlineJay flipping the concept and asking the question What You Livin' For, the second track of his latest album To Whom It May Concern. The beat is by Sampleface favourite Nubbz and with its smooth soulful sample and guest rhymer ANTHM, the track's moral reminds us how important it is to seek your calling in life and to do something about it before it's too late. Hell, without that ideology, Sampleface wouldn't be here so we're co-signing that for sure! While the album itself doesn't have a release date as yet has yet to receive a drop date, you can still grab ANTHM's Joy & Pain EP for free on The DJBooth and we highly suggest that you do.
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Now I need some advice from you! How on earth can I fix it so that the glitter stays put?!!! It's driving me nuts, it's everywhere! Now don't laugh, but I sprayed some hairspray on it and it helped a bit, but there must be something out there that can help - advice strongly appreciated! Anyone with a fix for this will get some blog candy from me!
Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock, My Minds Eye Colorful Christmas
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Mediums: Doodlebug glitter, brown chalk (around gingerbread man), Sakura white gel pen
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My paintings are like notes from the Unconscious, as I try to understand the experience of this sensual world.
Being a psychiatrist, that work involves searching for the deeper narrative behind and below what my patients describe to me. Seeing it, feeling it, calling it by name and finally holding it long enough to work with the story. The same process is happening in my art practice.
Although my style has become more unbound, organic and sculptural over time, the underlying theme has always been a meditation on the felt experience of human being. The felt experience (as opposed to the analytical deconstruction of our lives) is what is both terrifying in it's painful grandeur as well as electrifying in its promise of beauty and truth.
Our lives are surface phenomena that suggest a deeper story and each painting seeks out the bedrock arc of a day, a week, a year as may be. Just as each session of psychotherapy seeks the resonances from the Deep of the human Unconscious. I gave up trying to completely separate my work as a psychiatrist and my work as a painter once I realised they involve a similar seeking after Depth. Truth. Presence.
The universal language of colour, figure and form coalesce into these blocks of Time called "paintings", Time and Space apparently captured inside 4 lengths of wood and heavy layers of paint, accented with natural objects such as stones, bark and other detritus.
Each painting has an emotional tone and a degree of conflict between chaos and order, just the same as each day provides a similar interplay of head and heart, bookended by dawn and dusk. "
"My technique involves "hitting" the canvas and leaving it. Hit and run. Find a place to recuperate and rehydrate as my canvases are often large and I travel through many layers over days to weeks. I wear a gas mask and sweat it out. The music is probably on the strong side.
I collaborate with the forces of perseverance and win over the better angels of our nature : experience, inspiration, freedom of action, daring, refusal to give up on a painting. I am a veteran of many failed campaigns in which the rubbish picture becomes the underlay of a memorable success.
My technique is "Get Out of Your Own Way"…….if you have an eye for colour and form, and you can turn down the volume of your L hemisphere conceptual mind, the painting will emerge in its own way. This is the most enjoyable part for me….the suggestion of standing aside as something makes its mark on the canvas. Whether you call it the Unconscious, Nature, Spirit or a slice of the Narrative of my patient that day , the joy of painting is standing aside and seeing what has manifested. Its the antithesis of narcissistic self-absorption."


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Deep Sky
Constellation Orion
Reflection Nebula
In the very center, you will see V380 Orionis, notice the faint dark line in this image. This a reflection nebula, sometimes called the keyhole nebula for its shape. Astronomers were at a loss to explain this and it was assumed that it was an extremely dense pocket of gas. In 2009, using the Mayall and Magellan telescopes, it was determined that it is not gas, but truly empty space. Astronomers are still trying to figure it out. We are very pleased that we were able to get the keyhole, while it may not be as impressive as the others, we are very pleased with it.
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This has been a lovely box office run by Golmaal Again and it has shown how a big Diwali festival release should be with audience showing its complete love in terms of response, footfalls and packed theaters. It all happened perfectly with the movie and it is on a record breaking spree right from its 1st day.
Golmaal Again has been in theaters for 9 days and within 9 days, it has crossed the 150 crore milestone which pretty much states the kind of heavy minting it has done at box office. It is already the Highest Grossing Golmaal franchise movie, Highest Grosser of Ajay Devgn of All Time and 2nd Highest Grosser of 2017.
You don't get to see 150 crore grossing every Friday in Bollywood. This mass entertainer created a massive buzz which ensured the crowd will keep coming for its shows. Even in 2nd weekend, Golmaal Again is proving its dominance as it is minting more than 7 crore. On its 2nd Saturday, it earned 10.61 crore to make its gigantic total 153.94 crore.
Its 2nd weekend total will take it beyond 160 crore. Now, the 200 crore mark is a bit difficult for Golmaal Again but anything is possible as there are no other big competitive releases even next week to stop it. The film's overseas collections are 34.93 crore till 2nd Saturday.
Despite Secret Superstar releasing with Golmaal Again in Diwali with 2000+ screens, Golmaal Again has absolutely dominated the theaters and who knows, with a solo release, it could have crossed the 200 crore mark easily. This is nonetheless, a magnificent performance by the movie and Rohit Shetty must be happy with its response.
This is also the Highest Grossing Rohit Shetty-Ajay Devgn association film as director-actor. Golmaal Again also stars Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Kemmu, Parineeti Chopra and Tabu.


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The "Why Close Guantánamo When You Can Open Havana?" Edition
Listen to Slate's show about normalizing relations with Cuba, Jeb Bush's presidential exploration, and the year in online outrage.
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For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, the hosts discuss the Sony decision to pull The Interview from theaters. Slate Plus members get an ad-free version of this podcast with bonus segments. Visit slate.com/gabfestplus and try it free for two weeks.
On this week's Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the agreement to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba with guest Will Dobson. They also talk about the possibility of a third Bush presidency and are joined by Slate editor-in-chief Julia Turner to debate the year in Internet outrage.
Here are some links to topics discussed on this week's show:
- Though recent presidents have opposed normalizing relations with Cuba because of the political sensitivity of the issue, the Obama administration now has significant public support to ease tensions. Obama won the Cuban vote in 2012, and a majority of Americans favor normalizing relations with the island nation.
- Puerto Ricans are a growing voting bloc in Florida that tends to lean left.
- Most Cubans still don't have access to high-speed Internet access.
- Bloomberg Businessweek suggested that Jeb Bush may face scrutiny and scorn over his private equity work with Barclays in a similar way to criticism of Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital.
- Jeb Bush hasn't run a race in 12 years.
- Slate cataloged "The Year of Outrage," noting the daily grievances big and small that resonated on social media.
- Back in 2008, John wrote about how taking umbrage at perceived slights has become a key campaign strategy.
- In 2010, David faced the ire of Fox News, who attacked him for comments on the Gabfest about punishing Wall Street bankers for the 2008 financial crisis.
John chatters about Hugh Sidey's Life magazine article "The Pecksniffs Squeeze the Fun From a Joyless Bunch."
Emily chatters about Sahil Kapur's piece " 'Nuclear Option' Helps Obama Reshape the Courts for a Generation."
David chatters about a radical lawyer's attempt to save Peter Kassig.
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Earn crypto-currency for your company or yourself by becoming an open source development partner
Cryptyk Inc. is building the CRYPTYK platform based on our hybrid blockchain technology for the provision of enterprise-class cloud security and cloud storage services. As part of building this revolutionary enterprise security and storage technology, we will first launch our own crypto-currency called Cryptyk Tokens (or CTKs) via a global public token sale starting February 8, 2018. Following launch of the CTK ecosystem, Cryptyk will transform its existing prototype platform into a fully featured enterprise-class product suite by Q4 2018. The product release will start with a 3 month trial phase, during which a Software Development Kit (SDK) will be released to OpenSource development partners to build plug-ins and APIs that use, integrate with or support the CRYPTYK platform. This will allow the OpenSource development community to build a variety of third-party software products on top of, or integrated with Cryptyk's enterprise security and storage platform.
OpenSource Partners are our most important community of strategic development partners that help us broaden the number and type of applications and products compatible with the CRYPTYK platform. OpenSource Partners will be rewarded with CTKs for developing plug-ins / APIs for integration with either standard consumer software applications or specialized enterprise software used by targeted industries (including financial, banking, legal, accounting, insurance, healthcare and technology industries).
Developer payments will be approved on a project-by-project basis according to synergy and use with the CRYPTYK platform. Payments will typically range in value from between US$5000 and US$100,000 depending on the type, complexity and market focus of a proposed development project. Developers can be a single person with a good idea or large software company with existing products that can benefit from the CRYPTYK security and storage platform. The Cryptyk Foundation (a non-profit entity for members) will manage all OpenSource Partner token issuances and community events. All OpenSource Partners become registered members of the Foundation.
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Mum of the moment
Today it's Darija who lives in Luxembourg with her 9 year old son, Nikola.
Nikola has a marked recognisable problem with his vision: Retinal dystrophy and Cone rod dystrophy; and some communication difficulties, but he can learn quickly.
I recently received a phone call from Darija.
Darija: Getting Nikola to do his homework is a major stress at the moment. Any ideas?
See my thoughts related to this now.
In an ideal world, Nikola wouldn't have homework.
He is given homework with the intention of helping him to learn more and making life easier for him in the future. It isn't - it is making life much harder for him. But we can't usually change homework expectations overnight!
Homework should be enjoyable, but kids don't want to do more of what they already know, and if they don't understand it, they can't do it! Even if we think homework isn't exactly what Nikola should be doing we can use this to explore his brain and wellbeing. That will help him in many situations today and in his future.
Darija wants Nikola to be accepted in school, so she wants to help him manage everything that the other children do.
This is creating a big dilemma!
Have a look at 'Life is sometimes like a sandcastle', Darija.
Let's look at Nikola's homework stress with the 6 steps: understanding, nurturing, loving, communicating, resolving, playing. I explain these steps in a lot more detail in my book (Coming Soon).
As Nikola can learn easily, the task set is not the challenge. Resistance is not an emotional character trait, it's neurological.
So we can look to his brain first, and then deal with his feelings.
Harry, a boy whom I spent many years with at NatureKids and is now in his twenties, explained to me that very often where a kid is struggling, there is a hidden gift.
So with Nikola, as he has different vision, we know his eyes see our world very differently. I would expect him to see hazy pictures in his brain, but from his huge imagination, it appears that he is hugely visually creative.
He may well have something like Eidetic vision – lots of kids do - even if their eye sight tests are normal. Eidetic vision is not imagining something in the mind, but all around you, superimposed over what can be actually seen. It's like living in an imaginary world, 3D, alive and very interesting.
For some kids is almost visually impossible to come 'out of this world', to see a page in front of them. We know that with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, people get flashbacks that interfere with them being able to concentrate in the moment.
It could be that Nikola is getting constant flashbacks of what he visually knows and understands for much of his day, and he can't 'turn them off' to 'see and settle down to homework'.
So his reluctance to start his homework may be neurological and outside his control.
We can deeper our understanding of how he 'sees', then we can put in the right nurture.
Many, many parents ask me why kids can't just 'get the homework task over and done with quickly'. They would if they could!
Nikola can't understand why Darija and his teachers don't realise tasks are beyond him at certain times. He doesn't explain how he sees the world, as he assumes we all see something similar to him.
Being asked to do tasks, especially at home, will make him frustrated and angry.
We need to establish strategies to help Nikola close down, for a short while, his 'interesting world' and to be able to focus on a short task. If we explore the gifts that Nikola has from his different vision (his imagination is incredible) then we can increase these to make up for the times he has to 'close it down'.
At the moment, it feels to Nikola that he isn't loved when given homework, because it is so stressful for him. Most kids feel like this when asked to do things that they just cannot manage.
Reassurance that he is loved makes no sense to him after homework, especially when he knows he isn't being loveable!
He will have many feelings locked inside him from experiencing the world like this, and the tiniest thing can trigger a meltdown.
Very often with Eidetic type vision, there is an enhanced ability to feel other people's feelings as if they are one's own. So Nikola picks up on others' frustrations when he can't start a task, and gets a double whammy of his own frustration, and the other person's!
He will do all he can to avoid this, and homework! We can encourage him to express himself with the feelings sheet, and maybe give a number to the degree of the feeling.
Then have a list of the things that help him to overcome this feeling, and move from the immense heartache it causes him back to his norm of happiness.
The first step may be practical – to ask the teacher for less homework. If we find out what he is actually seeing, and adapt to this, then maybe he can manage just a tiny bit without stress.
I always ask Mums or Dads to 'put on their own oxygen mask first'. First, take time out for your own recharge and relaxation times.
Ask his class helper for some ideas to bring what he has to do within his main interests and passions. Nikola likes to master and fully learn about one thing at a time. That's not a bad idea. Homework can be playing!
Stay up to date with Nikola's story through the forthcoming discussions:
- Socialising, especially at school is a huge challenge.
- He has tantrums when he can't have his own way.
- One minute he is so loving, the next he is angry and derogatory.


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Overcome Your Legal and Financial Challenges with Litigation Solicitors in London
Although the judicial system within the UK is impartial and powerful, filing a lawsuit and actually pursuing one comes with a number of daunting, social and financial costs. Unfortunately, these expenses can have an adverse impact on everyone who is involved in criminal and civil lawsuits such as:
Financial Hardship
The Ministry of Justice performed a comprehensive review that found that litigation within the UK can have very disproportionate costs in certain legal areas. Due to this fact, 36 percent of UK adults have legal issues that remain unresolved, mostly relating to claims concerning small debt that would cost far more to have resolved via the court system. CFAs or conditional fee agreements, ATE (after the event coverage), and BTE (before the event coverage) are all largely ineffective given that they impose costs on defendants that are very disproportionate. Additionally, shifting costs will not ensure a full reimbursement for the costs of litigating claims given that there are practical and legal limitations on the amount of funds that winning parties are able to recover from the parties that lose these cases. The losing party in the UK is usually assigned the responsibility of paying the legal costs of the winning party, which is known as cost shifting. This is why it is often wise to find alternative strategies for resolving issues that are potentially litigious.
Social Burdens
The Center for Policy Studies published research showing that litigation is having a stifling impact on natural innovation, thereby encouraging people and organizations to adopt bureaucracy that is nothing short of repressive – it also fosters the use of defensive tactics that erode professional autonomy. As an example, many doctors in the UK are reticent to perform ground-breaking and high-risk procedures given that they're afraid of lawsuits if these procedures should happen to fail. The increasingly litigious culture of the UK has additionally had a warping effect across British society on the notion of acceptable behavior.
Litigation In The Future
The good news is that a lot of litigants are currently opting to settle outside of court with approximately 45 percent of 63k lawsuits filed between just April 2001 and March 2011 being settled outside of the actual court. 38 percent of these claims were also effectively abandoned by their claimants.
When you've been harmed or wronged by an organisation or individual, it is your legal right to use the courts to seek redress. Doing so, however, can be both socially and financially costly. Luckily, litigation solicitors in London can assist you in finding an out-of-court solution that is both amicable and acceptable. Get in touch with StrainKeville right now to find out more about how cases can be settled outside of court.
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Electrical profession has been there for years. The profession has therefore attracted so many people into the industry. This leaves a challenge to the customers who have a wide range of choices. Picking a drop in the ocean can be overwhelming. In fact, you are never sure of who makes the best professional electrician. Some are unlicensed and others are just misusing the title electrician. They dont have any formal training into it. When it comes to electrical matters, you dont just let anyone handle the tasks. Instead, you go for the best. And here is what makes the best electrician .
1. License
It is the first question to ask the electrician. Are you licensed? If they give you a yes, then you go ahead and ask for confirmation of the same. Those who are not licensed or with fake licenses will hesitate to comply. The license can be a small document but it proves a strong point. For one to acquire a license, he/she has to have undergone the right training and is experienced in the field. It also shows the competence of an electrician to handle electrical jobs with safety guarantee. Some licenses may have restrictions. This means that you have to check whether the expert is licensed inn whatever task you want handled.
2. Value delivered
Although looking at the price quotes is discredited these days, there is a wise way of looking into it. You need to understand what value you are gaining from the electrician. This means that you have to ask how the price quote has been arrived at. Once you see where the money is being used and the profit margin, then you can make an informed decision of whether you are getting value for your money or not. In this point, consider inviting several quotes and then pick the most effective.
3. Experience
It is a point obvious to understand. You need to hire someone who has done it before. However, accreditation is also necessary. When you have special electrical issues say with your air conditioning systems, you dont just hire any electrician on the basis that they have experience. You go right ahead and ask whether they have handled a similar task to the one you want handled.
4. Referrals
Consider asking your neighbors and friends the simple question, who do they hire when they got electrical problems? in every household these days, there is electricity or solar energy deployed. Electrical problems have always been there and the locals know who the real expert is. If they say you stay away from some expert you better listen.
There are so many other factors that you need to consider. Among them include how well the electrician communicates, their passion and issues of trust.


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These last couple of summer days have really put a toll on my skin. It wasn't until I was making dinner one night that I quickly came up with a solution using three ingredients I found in my pantry. This sugar scrub is also a great moisturizer and an excellent way to buff knees, elbows, and ankles.
What You'll Need:
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 zested lime
- 1 tbs. (about 2 teaspoons) of coconut oil
In a small bowl mix the zest of the lime and the coconut oil together. If the coconut oil is too thick to mix easily put it in the microwave for 10 seconds. Make sure the mixture is completely cool then slowly start adding the sugar by spoonfuls mixing each time. Put the result in a small container and voilà. Instant scrub!


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Modelo Especial Modelo Especial is made with filtered water, malted barley, hops, corn and yeast. Modelo Especial is a rich, full-flavored pilsner beer brewed with premium two-row barley malt that gives it a slightly sweet, well-balanced taste with a light hops character and crisp finish.


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Master Chief waxed at Madame Tussauds
Whenever we hear or think of Madame Tussauds , we think of all the great personalities , movie stars , sports star , that have been immortalized there in the form of Wax Statues . But this time someone special is going to take the place at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas .
For the first time in its 250 year history , Madame Tussauds is going to have a video game character . And the lucky one is none other than Halo's Master Chief . Master Chief , a epitome of strength and victory will also be making history due to this accomplishment . This clearly shows the popularity of the Halo series in the world , the third installment of which is going to be released on September 25th, 2007 .
The life size figure of Master Chief has been developed at Madame Tussauds studios in London for the Las Vegas attraction . The figure will be around 7.2 inches tall and will weight around 275 lbs. The figure was created by 10 artists in around 892 hours of hard work . Around 1000 pounds of clay have been used in the statue.
"Master Chief is the first computer gaming personality immortalized by Madame Tussauds in our 250 year history — recognizing the 'celebrity' of the Halo series that we had to capture", maintained Adrian Jones, General Manager for Madame Tussauds Las Vegas.
It will be interesting to see whether some more game characters like Lara Croft , Mario , Sam Fisher can find there way in the museum . Which gaming character would you want to see there ? Share your thoughts in comments .


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Olivia & Aaron Dunowen House Wedding
I met Olivia at on one of my favourite workshops "Oh me Oh My DIY". At the lunch brake she was talking about theyr wedding plans and I thought to myself: " Oh God, I would love to shoot this wedding"! And I think He heard my prayers and soon I was hired as their wedding photographer 🙂
Olivia & Aaron "tied the knot" in a very cozy, family run, beautiful and very unique venue dunowenhouse.ie. They had an amazing and very intimate outside ceremony followed by an amazing food and festive mood! Food was supplied by truly talented kitchen Guru Diana Dodog FoodDepotGourmetStreetKitchen . I must admit that I love everything about this Wedding! Such a great Celebration of Love! Im delighted to have such an amazing people in my life and join them on the most intimate and significant day of their life. There is nothing more fascinating than to be able to document emotions that are so real and sometimes unexpected. Every time its like a new experiment.
Olivia and Aaron brought their families and friends from England and beautifully hosted a destination wedding in Ireland.
This wedding is really worth of checking. Enjoy!


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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2010, Article ID 487579, 4 pages
Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Advanced Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
Department of Internal Medicine, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA
Received 16 November 2009; Revised 3 February 2010; Accepted 21 March 2010
Academic Editor: Grigorios Korosoglou
Copyright © 2010 Yusuf Kasirye and Ihab B. Abdalrahman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Transient left ventricular dysfunction syndrome (TLVDS), or Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy (TC), is a clinical entity in which patients present with features of acute coronary syndrome, electrocardiogram abnormalities, and transient left ventricular (apical or mid-ventricular) dysfunction. Patients usually recover from this condition four to six weeks after the event. The etiology or triggering factors of TC remains unknown. Various triggering factors have been associated with this syndrome, with one of the most recent being malignancies. In this case report we present a postmenopausal female with underlying advanced malignancy who presented with TC. This is consistent with a recent hypothesis that in addition to currently known triggering factors, malignancies might well trigger TC in the context of a stressor or paraneoplastic phenomenon.
1. Introduction
Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a clinical entity first described in 1991 by Dote et al. [1]. It was initially described as tako-tsubo, a word derived from the Japanese octopus trap, which has a similar appearance as the left ventricle during this event. Other names include stress-induced cardiomyopathy, apical ballooning syndrome, ampulla cardiomyopathy, or Broken Heart syndrome. It was first thought to be restricted to the apex of the left ventricle, hence the name "apical"; however, we now have evidence that other parts of the left ventricle, as well as the right ventricle, are involved [2, 3]. Therefore, TC remains the most appropriate name although the most current literature still refers to it as a "left ventricular" or "apical" syndrome.
There continues to be a constant evolution in our understanding of this unique condition as far as etiology, pathophysiology, and triggering factors are concerned. There are no large randomized or cohort studies available. Most of the information known comes from case reports and case series. Current incidence is unknown; however, some studies estimate 1% to 2% of all patients present with acute coronary syndrome, which puts the incidence at 7,000 to 14,000 cases per year. The condition is common in postmenopausal women, with a mean age of 58 to 75 years, and <3% under age 50 [4].
Triggering factors and their mechanisms continue to generate deep clinical interest. Recent retrospective studies [5, 6] have unearthed a possible link between malignancies and TC leading to the hypothesis mentioned above. It is in support of this hypothesis that we present this case.
2. Case Presentation
A 66-year-old woman with hyperlipidemia and hypertension presented with acute onset of chest pressure. She denied any shortness of breath, diaphoresis, palpitations, presyncopal, or syncopal symptoms. She had no cardiac or diabetic history. She did not have regular medical care.
Clinically she was in mild distress with tachycardia at 120 bpm. Other vital signs were within normal limits. Physical examination was normal except for positive stool Guaiac test. Laboratory values were troponin I 6.5 ng/mL, creatinine kinase (isoenzyme—MB) 28.4 ng/mL, white blood cell count (WBC) 19600/uL with 0% bands, hemoglobin 10.9 g/dL, hematocrit 32.7%, normal platelets, alanine transaminase 36 U/L, aspartate transaminase 44 U/L, total alkaline phosphatase 234 U/L, sodium 133 mmol/L, and potassium 3.3 mmol/L.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) showed ST segment elevation in precordial leads V2-V3 (Figure 1). Chest X-ray was normal. Echocardiography showed apical and anterior wall akinesis (Figure 2). Coronary angiogram revealed normal coronary vasculature. Left ventriculogram showed ejection fraction 36% and anteroapical akinesia with an anteroapical ballooning (Figure 3). A comprehensive viral screen to rule out viral myocarditis as an underlying cause of elevated myocardial enzymes was negative. The patient was managed per acute coronary syndrome protocol and was discharged after two days on carvedilol, lisinopril, and aspirin. The patient denied any psychosocial stressful event prior to presentation.
Because of her positive Guaiac test and mild anemia, she was advised to return in four weeks for a diagnostic colonoscopy. Colonoscopy revealed a colorectal mass with colonic obstruction. Histopathology was consistent with a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis revealed stage IV adenocarcinoma for which an exploratory laparotomy with diverting sigmoid colostomy and mucous fistula was performed. This was followed by adjuvant chemotherapy with FOLFOX (folinic acid, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin) regime. She is currently having a sixth cycle.
Repeat echocardiography at four weeks postcardiac event showed improved ejection fraction (60%) and resolution of the anteroapical akinesia. Final diagnosis was TC possibly triggered by underlying advanced malignancy.
3. Discussion
The pathophysiology of TC remains largely unknown, but various hypotheses have been put forward including, but not limited to, autonomic dysfunction resulting in catecholamine-induced myocardial injury. In 70% of patients there is a triggering factor (psychosocial or physical) identified. Additional hypotheses include catecholamine-induced myocardial stunning, ischemia-mediated stunning due to coronary vasospasm, and myocarditis [7–10]. The predominance in middle-aged females has also raised a possibility of hormonal influence, especially estrogen withdrawal in this age group. A case report of a patient with TC and type 1 CD36 disorder has been described, leading to a suspicion that perhaps there could be a link with abnormal fatty acid metabolism [11].
The most supported hypothesis is the catecholamine-induced myocardial stunning, as evidenced by the elevated levels of catecholamine prevalent in patients presenting with TC. Endomyocardial biopsies done in symptomatic patients have shown features of catecholamine toxicity [8]. In this hypothesis, a stressor triggers a catecholamine surge in a susceptible individual, leading to impaired myocardial perfusion, myocyte injury, and rarely left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. The combined molecular effect of these insults on metabolic pathways gives rise to TC [4, 7–10]. This hypothesis is still insufficient to explain issues such as female predominance, age group affected, low recurrence risk, or the failure to reproduce the disease in animal models.
Recently Burgdorf et al. [5] observed a possible link between malignancies and occurrence of TC. In a retrospective cohort study of 50 TC patients, 18% had a previous history of malignancy, with another 14% developing malignancies over a mean 2.8-year follow-up. Since the occurrence of malignancies was higher in this cohort than the general population, it led them to speculate that TC might be a paraneoplastic phenomenon. Cancers are thought to cause catecholamine-induced myocardial injury through either increasing cardiac sympathetic activity or distorting cardiac adrenoceptor sensitivity. The distortion of adrenoceptor sensitivity might be caused by manipulation of the protein synthesis process intracellularly or extracellularly through possibly adrenoceptor autoantibodies. Burgdorf also speculated that cancer probably lowers the psychic threshold to stress, hence resulting in elevated levels of stress hormones which act on aggravated adrenoceptors [5]. In a larger retrospective study of 100 patients, Elesber et al. [6] found the mortality due to malignancies to be <1% over a mean 4.4-year follow-up period.
What makes our case more interesting is the close relationship known to exist between adrenoceptor dysregulation and proliferation of adenocarcinoma cells, especially breast and colon [12, 13]. It is possible that during the process of inducing self-proliferation, the cancer cells cause adrenoceptor dysregulation affecting the cardiac cells, resulting in TC. Unfortunately, neither Burgdorf [5] nor Elesber [6] provided the histopathological characteristics of the cancers among their subjects. Even then, this hypothesis might not explain why TC does not occur in all people with adenocarcinoma, which implies that there are other factors at play.
Most patients present with symptoms of acute coronary syndrome, chest pain, shortness of breath, cardiac enzyme elevation (mild), ST segment elevation, T wave inversion, or QT prolongation. Rare presenting symptoms include syncope, cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, or congestive failure. Patients in the intensive care unit might have pulmonary edema. Unique to this entity is preceding emotional or physical stress, although this is absent in about 30% of cases.
Echocardiography reveals regional wall motion abnormalities. Definitive diagnosis is made on cardiac catheterization, which reveals two classical features: normal coronary arteries and aneurismal dilatation or ballooning of apical segment of the left ventricle (LV), appearing like a Japanese octopus trap on ventriculography. Other variants described are apical sparing or inverted tako-tsubo.
Various diagnostic criteria exist, none of which has been adopted universally. The common criteria used are the proposed Mayo Clinic criteria, initially proposed by Bybee et al. [7] but recently revised by Prasad et al. [4] into the modified Mayo Clinic criteria. These criteria emphasize four characteristics a patient must have in order to be diagnosed with TC. These are transient hypokinesis or apical akinesis not limited to one vascular distribution, absence of significant obstructive coronary lesion, new ECG abnormalities with modest rise in cardiac troponin, and absence of myocarditis or pheochromocytoma. Our patient met the modified Mayo Clinic criteria.
Management is supportive. Since by the time of diagnosis most patients are on treatment for acute coronary syndrome, this is usually continued. The benefit of beta-blockers is unknown although theoretically, since they have an anti-catecholamine effect, they are given, especially those with both alpha- and beta-receptor blockade, like carvedilol. Diuretics are recommended for heart failure. Precautions must be taken to avoid thrombolysis as it might cause harm. Short-term anticoagulation can be given to patients who present with atrial fibrillation or thrombus formation [14]. Aspirin and renin angiotensin system inhibitors are not needed if the patient has no atherosclerosis or recovers systolic function, respectively.
Complications include left ventricular free-wall rupture, ventricular arrhythmias, mitral regurgitation, left ventricular mural thrombus formation, dynamic intraventricular obstruction, and death [7, 14–19]. In-hospital mortality from TC is estimated at 1% to 2%, with long-term survival the same as a general age-matched population. Hence, prognosis is good, with patients' LV systolic function recovering after four to six weeks, although it can sometimes take up to a year. Recurrence is less than 10% [4, 6].
This case hence raises two other interesting clinical issues. The first issue concerns which level of the troponin I elevation is clinically useful, and whether a degree of elevation matters. In this patient the troponin I elevation was not what we can refer to as modest, yet she did meet the modified Mayo Clinic diagnostic criteria. This challenges the clinical emphasis placed on "modest" troponin I elevation. The second issue is that the studies by Elesber [6] and Burgdorf [5] are relatively small, and the mean age of subjects was 60 to 70 years, an age group with a higher risk of malignancies in the general population [20]. This means that the finding of both malignancy and TC could be circumstantial. Nevertheless, from what we already know about the relationship between adenocarcinoma, stress hormones, and adrenoceptor dysregulation, this hypothesis is legitimate. Retrospectively, measurement of adrenoceptor autoantibodies in our patient would have shed more light on this hypothesis. However, this is not readily available in laboratories, and evidence of a direct causal relationship with Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy is still lacking. Further exploration with more studies is required.
The authors wish to thank Marie Fleisner and the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation for their assistance and support in the preparation of this paper.
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CD Group has invested in developing its own solutions for SAP Business One, such as a vertical solution for service providers, which it uses internally and plans to sell commercially. The firm is also looking at opportunities in the manufacturing space. It takes approximately 100 days to develop a vertical solution, says Coppi, including analysis, development, and testing. CD Group keeps in touch with other partners to stay up on the functionality being developed, and Coppi stresses that SAP should facilitate this partner interaction.
One particularly successful implementation took place at Gruppo Mauro Saviola, one of the largest industrial groups in Italy with international operations. The project started at one pilot shop and is currently being expanded across Europe, with plans to implement SAP Business One in most of Saviola's furniture shops.
SAP Business One's built-in international functionality is one major reason for the project's success, explains Coppi. Another is that the shops can use the system almost immediately, so implementation times are short – which in turn lowers project costs and minimizes the transition period from the old system. SAP Business One integrates with both Saviola's point-of-sale system and central ERP system, greatly increasing efficiency and the flow of information within the company. The client also reports that it is easy to use.
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Workshop 3 Iain McGilchrist, John McGlashan College –
Co-constructing a negotiated understanding
I am looking forward to this workshop. I went to Iain's workshop in Christchurch a couple of years ago, when he did "Thinking outside the triangle," which was great. I always enjoy his posts on English Online too. Am sitting here with @paulineHendog – interestingly she remarked that when she first met Iain she was surprised that he was so young. I laughed because I had thought the same thing – the tone of world-weary cynicism in his postings made me expect someone older ;-) !
Iain told us that the workshop was basically looking at the question: What can you do in your classroom that might make your job easier? [Sounds good to me.]
Up and down lessons
When he first started teaching, Iain would do a lot of chalk and talk – he wrote a lot of stuff UP on the board, and then students wrote it DOWN. Then he got smart and did this using OHPs and powerpoint.
He commented that up and down is easy to manage because you could get a lot done in that 20 minutes while the students were just writing that down.
Powering Down
Referring to talks on TED talk by people like Ted Robinson, Iain talks about how students 'power down' when they get to school because it is less interesting and important than the rest of their life. So how do we get that student engagement?
One way could be to co-construct resources and understandings, using discussion.
Co-Constructing Resources and Understandings
Iain gives us an example of beginning a novel study, providing the following information on a ppt slide:
Eugene Onegin
· Alexander Pushkin
· Context
· Significance
· Adaptations: film, opera…
· Byronic Heroes
· The Superfluous Man
He told us that it is a novel in verse, sonnets, 389 stanzas. The character of Eugene Onegin is a good example of a Byronic hero – the superfluous man.
Step one, asked the class what they knew:
· Alexander Pushkin 1799-1837 died at the age of 38, tragically – he found out his wife was having an affair, challenged the guy to a duel and was shot.
Iain then allocated the tasks of Vocabulary and Syllable Man whose jobs were to record and explain interesting words which come up in the course of the co-construction, and sent the rest of us off to find out about Byronic heroes, the poem itself, Pushkin etc. Students to post a link and brief description on the facebook page. Iain points out that facebook works for him, but you could use other platforms, such as Moodle, Knowledgenet (eg. using the Forum function), Wikis etc.
For this to work at your school you either need BYOD or access to the computer room – something which is often problematic. My own experience of trying something similar with Google Docs was a bit frustrating as bits of what students wrote disappeared into the ether or were transposed into some other part of the document from where they were entered. Admittedly, it still beat doing all the notes myself and was infinitely preferable from the learning point of view in terms of active student engagement.
I've been looking up stuff about Byronic heroes but have been distracted by the text itself – here's a sample:
Idle again by dedication,
oppressed by emptiness of soul,
he strove to achieve the appropriation
of other's thought -- a splendid goal;
with shelves of books deployed for action,
he read, and read -- no satisfaction:
here's boredom, madness or pretence,
here there's no conscience, here no sense;
they're all chained up in different fetters,
the ancients have gone stiff and cold,
the moderns rage against the old.
He'd given up girls -- now gave up letters,
and hid the bookshelf's dusty stack
in taffeta of mourning black.
I love it. "Idle again by dedication" and "He'd given up girls" - yeah right. But anyway I have decided it's a Must Read…
Go here to see the facebook page we made on Eugene Onegin (if you aren't blocked by Campus Watchdog that is…).
You could do this in the computer room in one period, and then come back to it several times over a few weeks to test students' understandings and decide whether they still agree with what they posted earlier.
Homework could be to go through and look at what everyone has posted and to comment on what you agree/disagree etc.
Syllable Man told us to check out http://visuwords.com/ - this site is awesome for vocabulary – go and see!!!
Iain went on to show us something one of his classes had done on Romantic Poetry. He gave them the table of contents and they had to build the document. He gave them an example – cut and paste, put in the URL to acknowledge source, add bullet point comments. He told them "maximum one page." Fabulous results, and they only had an hour to do it.
· Remember purpose and audience
· Remember your purposes – keep an academic voice – formal language
· Be supportive
· Reinforce other people's ideas "Furthermore…"
· Challenge other people's ideas "Alternatively…"
· Include specific details
· "Like" other comments if you agree
Summary from Iain: there's stacks of stuff on Eugene Onegin there that I didn't have to go and find!
Co-constructing discussion
Tools to draw people, get opinions and voices and keep discussion going:
Warn the quiet ones that you want to hear from them. Before they contribute, does anyone want to start? Sam, I'll be picking on you soon. I'll come back to you in 2 minutes, so collect your thoughts and get ready to speak.
That's a great idea. Who can support that idea? Who can develop that idea further? Who agrees/disagrees? I'll ask you to build a case to support/refute that idea.
Iain uses a digital voice recorder (USB) to record the discussion – provides a record of the discussion, which can be posted for students to access.
Giving students starters, eg:
· This language technique is effective because…
· This is significant because…
· This helps achieve the author's purpose because…
· Moreover…
· Furthermore..
· Additionally…
· Alternatively…
Teacher's role is to summarise the points of view and progress of the debate, or students can take turns to do this.
Iain played us a recording of a class discussion – obviously some great teaching of language techniques had been going on in his classroom! Students also had a clear model of how to construct a response – " the poet uses <technique> to show/to make the reader feel… <effect> - way to go Iain!!
Fabulous workshop! Has enthused me to go back and try to get that Y13 class talking, and to get those Y11s and 12s co-constructing their revision notes. I also withdraw and apologise re the "world-weary cynicism" comment. Iain is a totally positive dynamo!!
Thanks so much for the great inspiration and ideas, Iain.


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"A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep"
– Walt Disney's Cinderella
The last time I wrote about the lottery (if you haven't read it, click here), I talked about the power of the subconscious mind and how it can receive messages containing lottery numbers in dreams.
I was so caught up with recounting other people's experiences that I completely forgot about a dream I myself had a couple of months back. I didn't strike 4D or Toto, in case you're wondering, so you're free to disregard whatever I say as idle chit chat.
I had gone to bed early and slumbered happily for a couple of hours when I suddenly awoke around 4am at the end of a dream (you know how the dreams you remember most vividly are those after which you immediately wake up instead of going back to sleep).
In the dream, a woman I was having a conversation with gave me the four numbers (in sequence) 3, 2, 1 and 2.
Okay, I admit my dream wasn't as mysterious or as heavily symbolic as that of the guy who dreamt of the four spears. In fact, it was pretty crude as my dream-self whipped out a 4D entry form and started busily shading squares, haha.
This led me to conclude that the dream probably wasn't a divine message from above but just a base manifestation of my preoccupation with the lottery.
Nonetheless, I jotted down the numbers and went back to sleep.
The next day, I bought 4D numbers 3212 and iBet. Because I wasn't in Singapore at the time, I called a friend back home imploring her to help me buy the numbers and offering to split the winnings 50-50 if the numbers came out. By the way, that friend's Chinese zodiac sign is my own sign's secret friend (more on that another day).
(Note to those who may be unfamiliar with Singapore's 4D lottery game: you have to choose four digits from 0 to 9 in the same sequence as the winning numbers).
Well, as I said earlier, 3212 didn't win anything in the end.
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What do people think of Chris Heckler's ideas?
- For graphics, we understand how to model worlds, with triangles and texture maps
- He suggests manipulating the AI in a photoshop like way
- Neil suggests we won't get there yet – not quite feasable yet if it is the right way to go
On nav meshes, changing a nav mesh with destructable terrain – it's costly, how do we do it?
- Something in the Wisdom 4 books
- Middleware is working on it
- Some other companies are working on it
- Changable navigation meshes have been around at least a few years
- Seeing a player jump through some points
- Company of Heroes – hierarchical pathfinding – Chris Journey
- Changing the nav mesh is dangerous – changing a key point means a lot of nodes on the mesh being made invalid
- Envelopes around destructible bits can help (Monster fighting through tokyo-like game).
- Making the nodes for points infinitely weighted for barriers
- Navmesh can have data added such as speeds of … (Not sure why I missed the end of this sentence…)
Will you be able to precompile some areas you know will be where the destructible terrain? Presetup.
- Yes. Method of efficiency
When saving the game, do you recompute or save the nav mesh?
- Should save the nav mesh saved – need to keep the state the same!
Anyone using middleware?
- Some using kygon for pathfinding
- No standard of AI like texture maps, and using middleware can lead to having to make a game to the middleware's specs
- For most games, it's hard to find a real middleware solution since you need to tweak the AI and so might as well build it from scratch
- Good to use middleware if you want to work on behaviours
- Resistance to neural nets in industry, but it will be used in some military simulator.
- Game industry thinks the NN is the easiest technology to misapply.
- Aversion to it since they think it's awesome, fail at doing it, then don't want to go back to it
What success stories there have been using NN?
- DoD, intelligence community – billions of dollars on applications of neural nets. A few isolated cases are productive, others failed.
- Neural Nets for wii motion detection
- After filtering, it is 95% – needs to be 100% – trying to get there before shipping
- It is improbable to get 100% – the accuracy curve is a logathithmic scale in pain, and in user happyness.
- This is for speech, but is likely the same for motion control
- PHD in neural nets – who shipped Colin McCrea 2.0 with neural nets, but he suggested nearest neighbour
- Instead of plain recognition, perhaps differentiation
- Applying neural nets need a lot of tweaking. Perhaps use it for what it is good at – representing interesting human action and reaction
- What are we trying to accomplish with neural nets? The right solution. B&W used reinforcement learning, not neural nets. More predictable and cheaper technology.
- Forza series – PHD in neural networks, learns how you drive your car.
- Tools needed, neural nets and algorithms are useful – not just one thing, but 75 for halo!
- Exhaustive training for it!
- Appropriate usage of it – a script helps in a rare situation for instance, but doesn't scale
- Pre-ship or in game? Fine tune when testing/creation, but not after release.
- Will the tool save time? A tester might find the best track path faster going back to the racing car example.
Anyone doing speech recognition?
- Recognition mountain, then the natural language mountain is even bigger after it!
Smoothing AI outputs?
- Bioshock; animation system then locomotion system on top, so need to have a single action chosen not lots of them
- Subsumption will work with that
- Or don't be a dumbass rules!
- An AI wisdom article has something on applying Brook's original subsumption to games.
- Need to add momentum to an action – "is it important for me to change what I'm doing?"
Anyone working with a memory constrained device?
- Not really. (The original asker is working on the DS)
- The question asker is working on the lower limits of enemies, etc.
- But look at old PC gaming articles – is it similar to a P90? P60? etc.
- This keeps on recurring!
- Some articles in Wisdom books – such as not using A*
- Cell phone game used A* so it can work
- Constrained memory, CPU, so need to have the small 2-10% amount of CPU break up the work over frames (which is also thread friendly)
- Look for non-PHD implementations of mixing and matching the AI methods
- Or even fake it! – can you? or should you?
IntroGameDev.com (and AIWisdom.com) for article searches for older things.
Anyone used GPU for AI work?
- A single wisdom article on A* on it
- Tough since it's all being utilized
- There is an instance that was explained – vector math is fast on it.
Academia and AI?
- EA in Alberta working on checking the way players played
- Failure: a goal, so go back, find what went wrong so the AI can be fixed to not fail the time
- NHL 08 shipped with it – possibly not the flow fields.
- University of Tokyo – worked with creation of characters.
How many companies are interested in an AI specializing programmer?
- Yes, lots!
And so ended the AI roundtable Dave Mark got a recording, but it was a lot better structured (both my notes and the discussion) so it is easier to follow this time.


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