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Sudden Hearing Loss
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
A man explained:
Sudden hearing loss typically strikes without warning. The standard treatment is Prednisone. Beginning it as soon as possible after the sudden hearing loss gives the best chances of recovery. Just remember that sometimes Prednisone works and sometimes it doesn't. Also, sometimes hearing comes back on its own without, or in spite of, any treatment.
In your case, it seems the Prednisone didn't work. Even though you began it after 13 days, that is not necessarily too late—but the sooner you begin, typically the better results you have.
Unfortunately, it seems that neither the Prednisone, nor time, has restored your hearing. Typically, the worse the sudden loss, the less chance there is of full, or even any, recovery.
The way it usually works is that the hearing you have at the end of 30 days or so is what you will be left with—unless your hearing has been returning a bit at a time all along, in which case it could continue to improve after the 30 days. Since you haven't had any significant hearing returning during this time, I think the chances that more will return are slim.
You ask, "If my hearing does not recover, does the ringing, at least, eventually die down?"
It may, or may not. In any case, you can learn to habituate to your tinnitus so it no longer bothers you—no matter how loud or soft it is. The thing to do is not dwell on, or focus on, your tinnitus. Totally ignore it, and act like it isn't there. When you do this, you will notice that your tinnitus tends to fade into the background and not be so intrusive. Not easy to do, I know, but it does work for many people. I've had tinnitus for 40 plus years now, and although my ears are ringing away as I write this, I do not let my tinnitus bother me. It is just "there". (Of course, if I had by "druthers", I'd rather it wasn't there at all!)
Conversely, if you dwell on your tinnitus, it will get even worse. That is w...
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Sudden Hearing Loss (SHL, SSHL)
Question: My mother suddenly lost her hearing. She never had any known ear illnesses before. What could cause this?—S. M.
Answer: Good question! Few things are so baffling (and scary) as waking up one day and finding your hearing is gone. Immediately you want to know what caused it, and more to the point, can anything be done to bring your hearing back.
Ear specialists tell us that sudden sensorineural (inner ear) hearing loss is one of the most perplexing and controversial unsolved mysteries about our ears. Since even they can't agree among themselves what causes it, nor how to treat it, no wonder you are baffled. Here's the latest on this subject.
There are two basic kinds of hearing loss. If the hearing loss occurs in the middle ear, we call it a conductive loss. If it occurs in the inner ear, auditory nerve or brain, we call it a sensorineural hearing loss. (The old term was "nerve deafness.")
Sudden Conductive Hearing Losses
Sudden conductive hearing losses are relatively easy to diagnose and fix. The most common example would be the ubiquitous head cold. It may result in fluid build up/infection in your middle ears. Because the little bones in your middle ears can't move freely in the fluid like they do in air, you don't hear as well. You likely also feel pressure in your ears or your ears feel "plugged up." This condition normally affects both ears at the same time. Fortunately, when this fluid drains out your Eustachian tubes (which may take up to several weeks), your hearing returns to normal. This kind of hearing loss is quite common, especially in younger children, but is not normally a serious problem and is certainly not a medical emergency.
More serious could be a blow to your head, or a sudden loud sound like an explosion that could dislocate/break the tiny bones in your middle ear. You need to go to your ear specialist at once. Your ear specialist can often repair this damage through surgery and your hearing returns to normal or near normal again.
Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL).
Sudden sensorineural hearing losses (SSHL) are medical emergencies. You need to see your ear specialist (preferably an otologist or neurotologist) immediately (not your family doctor—he is not qualified and it wastes precious time you don't have).
By definition, you have SSHL if you have a hearing loss that occurs within three days (often within minutes or an hour or two) and your hearing loss is greater than 30 dB over three adjacent octaves (test frequencies) as shown on your audiogram.
About one-third of the people with SSHL discover their hearing loss when they wake up in the morning. They go to bed with normal hearing, and in the morning they realize they are deaf in one or both ears! Fortunately, SSHL only affects both ears about 2-4% of the time. Other people discover the...
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Sudden Hearing Loss And Strokes
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
The Washington Post (June 26, 2008) ran a piece entitled "Sudden Hearing Loss May Portend Stroke" The first three paragraphs read:
The article then goes on to muddy the waters and reaches no clear conclusions.
What the researchers don't seem to realize is that this can make sense. if a person has a build-up of "gunk" in their arteries (to use a fancy medical term), and if that gunk should travel to one of the arteries in (or leading to) the inner ear and block blood flow there, the result is sudden and drastic hearing loss.
If the same gunk had traveled to the brain and blocked an artery there, the result would have been a stroke. Same condition—just a different location.
Now, since the arteries in the inner ear are among the smallest in the body, it doesn't take much to block them. Thus such episodes of sudden hearing loss truly may indicate an underlying problem that, if not fixed, may lead to strokes and heart attacks if bigger pieces of gunk lodge in the brain or heart respectively. Thus it behooves us to heed warnings such as sudden hearing loss of vascular origin.
Having said that, there are lots of causes of sudden hearing loss that have nothing at all to do with vascular issue..
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Sudden Hearing Loss–Medical Emergency or Just a Cold?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D.
You have a cold and now you notice you can't hear well out of one or both ears. It/they feel plugged up and you can't hear well. Now comes the million dollar question. Is this hearing loss just because you have a cold (resulting in fluid in your middle ear) and will resolve itself in a week or two as your cold goes away? Or is this sudden hearing loss caused by a virus attacking your inner ear–in which case this is a medical emergency and needs to be treated now?
For years, most primary care physicians have assumed that it was the former case and told their patients to come back in a couple of weeks if their hearing had not returned. As a result, those people that actually had a viral attack wasted their precious golden hours when treatment could be successful and now are tragically left with a permanent hearing loss.
Fortunately for us, Dr. Jeffery Harris, chief of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center has recently come up with a quick test to separate the two conditions.
Here is all you need to do, assuming that only one ear is "blocked." Hum out loud. If you hear your voice louder in the blocked ear, the problem is congestion (fluid in the middle ear) and is probably temporary until your cold goes away and your ear clears.
However, if you hear your voice louder in your good ear, this probably indicates a viral attack causing permanent hearing loss if left untreated. If this is your case, seek treatment immediately. This is a true medical emergency and needs to be treated now if you want a chance of getting your hearing back. According to Dr. Harris, your chances of getting your hearing back with immediate treatment are greater than 50%.
If both ears are blocked equally, this little test isn't going to work (unless you can remember how loud humming sounded before you got the cold–and then apply the above rules). Thus, it is better to err on the side of caution if you have reduced hearing in both ears and seek competent medical help now.
Read my articles " Sudden Hearing Loss Is a Medical Emergency " and " Finding the Right Doctor for Sudden Hearing Loss and Other Ear Problems ." These articles will help you make informed decisions on what you should do next...
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A few weeks ago I received an email notifying me that I was now the oldest clinical academic in the Faculty of Medicine in Southampton. This came as a surprise because, arriving at this new institution two years after its beginning 40 years ago seems like yesterday. Having been trained at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and completing my early postgraduate career in London, going to a newly established medical school seemed an exciting option. At my interview at Charing Cross, I was asked if anyone in my family was a doctor. My mother told me that we did have a distant relative, Christopher Addison. Neither my mother nor I knew much about him except that he was the middle child of a large family from Hogsthorpe in Lincolnshire. I subsequently found out that Dr Addison was an anatomy lecturer at Charing Cross Medical School in 1901 then, after entering politics to became the first minister of health under Lloyd George in 1919, helped establish the Medical Research Committee (renamed Council, MRC) in 1913. I am sure, however that none of this had anything to do with my being accepted to study medicine at Charing Cross! Like many of my peers I received my medical education in what was then the standard curriculum – two years of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry followed by three year of clinical attachments to medical 'firms' as an apprentice. This worked well for a small medical school of only 40 to 50 students per year.
Since the historical epicentre for medicine was London, why did I move to Southampton? A particularly attractive feature was the opportunity of starting some research while finishing my general medical training in Salisbury, and continuing this in a new medical school. Southampton was one of three new medical schools established in 1971 along with Nottingham and Leicester. My first recollections were at my registrar interview which took place on a cold foggy November day and I had influenza: not the best conditions for answering challenging questions. When one of the consultants from Salisbury asked me if I was mentally stable, I thought I was doomed. But this was not so. My early days at Southampton were at the 'Western', an old infectious disease and TB hospital. From there, I moved to the main Southampton General Hospital, then a 19th Century hospital with long Nightingale-style wards. However change was happening rapidly. The first new ward block was opened in 1974 and we moved in with a great sense of optimism.
I was a university clinical lecturer working for the Foundation Professor of Medicine, Jack Howell who also had a major interest in asthma. The medical curriculum in was unique being modelled on that at McMaster University in Canada. Students were taught medicine in 'Systems Courses' where different disciplines were taught in the context of disease and, importantly had early patient contact. Such a curriculum was considered by many in the medical establishment as highly experimental, but its successes were soon built into new GMC guidance on medical education. My role was to organise and teach the respiratory systems course which was a most stimulating experience, as well as forcing me to understand how the lungs worked since I never really understood this as a student.
My research interests in asthma were encouraged and, with an MRC Fellowship, I moved to Boston, USA, to acquire new research skills at Harvard Medical School where K Frank Austen and colleagues were discovering new mechanisms of allergy and asthma. This was a totally liberating experience. My return to Southampton in 1980 was the real start of a lifetime in research. We set about uncovering asthma mechanisms and new ways of treating the disease. Funding was hard to come by but we did win some grant support from the MRC enabling me to eventually secure four year MRC programme support.
A key to enabling me to build a successful research career was the tremendous facilitatory atmosphere created by this new medical school; the pervading atmosphere was one of encouragement and excitement. The ability to recruit bright young researchers from both the UK and from over 30 different countries was hugely catalytic each one contributing something unique to our research endeavour. The award of an MRC Clinical Professorship in 1987 enabled me to concentrate on research and to receive continuous MRC grant support.
However, there were times when grant support was hard to find. Such an occasion occurred when my research was moving away from studying asthmatic inflammation towards understanding how asthma begins and why sudden severe attacks occur. With help of a local research charity that I established (AAIR), and the newly formed British Lung Foundation involving a visit by Diana, the Princess of Wales, we developed new diagnostic technology to show that attacks of asthma were mostly triggered by the common cold virus (rhinovirus). This turned out to be a real breakthrough because, up until this time, asthma had only been regarded as an allergic disorder. After uncovering the mechanisms involved in 2003, we established a university spin out company, Synairgen, to develop new treatments for viral-induced asthma and are soon to hear the results of our first clinical trial!
Another high I recall is coming in one Monday to find that over the weekend one of my overseas research fellows had safely obtained asthmatic biopsies using the newly developed fibre optic bronchoscope and for the first time showed that even mild asthma was caused by inflammation. The discovery of the first novel asthma gene (ADAM33) in 2001, in collaboration with US colleagues, was another thrilling moment. We now know that this gene contributes to the characteristic structural abnormalities in chronic asthma.
I can honestly say that there were very few "lows". What are the factors that have helped me on this exciting research and academic journey? Undoubtedly the ability of being able to do research in Southampton with patients at the centre of discovery, the pleasure of working with so many talented and committed bright individuals from all over the world and the enormous encouragement I have always been given by colleagues. The University of Southampton's Faculty of Medicine is now up there with the best in the country and it has been a privilege to help create some of the foundations for this.
Professor Stephen Holgate is the MRC Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton and honorary consultant physician at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.
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By Blake Gopnik
Sunday, July 4, 2010; E01
This Fourth of July, let's celebrate courage. It took courage to split from England, courage to risk democracy and still more courage to dream up a constitution to preserve it.
Courage has been the signature virtue of almost every great American: Emily Dickinson was brave to warp grammar, Louis Armstrong was brave to blow jazz and Jackson Pollock was brave to paint splats.
Norman Rockwell is often championed as the great painter of American virtues. Yet the one virtue most nearly absent from his work is courage. He doesn't challenge any of us, or himself, to think new thoughts or try new acts or look with fresh eyes. From the docile realism of his style to the received ideas of his subjects, Rockwell reliably keeps us right in the middle of our comfort zone.
That's what made him one of the most important painters in U.S. history, and the most popular. He had almost preternatural social intuitions, along with brilliant skills as a visual salesman. Over his seven-decade career, that coupling let him figure out what middle-class white Americans most wanted to feel about themselves, then sell it back to them in paint. (He started working as an illustrator at 16, in 1910. He died, still in the saddle at 84, in 1978.)
You could say that Rockwell painted the backdrop against which American courage has had to play out.
A new show of 57 Rockwells, borrowed from the collections of Hollywood celebrities Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, opened Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It includes oil paintings and drawings, and every one of them is a perfect depiction of what we've been taught to think of as true Rockwellian America.
There's the small-town runaway, and the cop who takes him out for a malt before returning him home. Aw, shucks.
There are the three old biddies gossiping, imagined as so ancient and gnarled that Rockwell had to use a man in drag to model them. What a hoot!
There's the remote blonde in her convertible being joshed by a couple of truckers. Jeez, lady, wontcha give those guys a wink?
In ads and magazine covers, on calendars and Green Stamps books -- on any surface that took ink, for any client who could afford his fees -- Rockwell sold us the vision of America as a place where troubles are never more than "scrapes" and flaws are always "foibles."
Rockwell remains resolutely, immovably on the mild side even when he goes "serious," as in his famous "Four Freedoms" series from 1942. (The conservative critic Dave Hickey, otherwise a Rockwell booster, has said that "when he's doing ideas, he's really awful.") Rockwell's vision of "Freedom of Speech," included in the Smithsonian's show, doesn't invoke a communist printing his pamphlets or an atheist on a soapbox. It gives us a town hall meeting of almost interchangeable New Englanders, no doubt agreeing to disagree about something as divisive as the rates for those new parking meters. For this, the Founders risked powder and ball?
Of course, Rockwell's true achievement wasn't in his trepidatious, homogenized vision of the country. That existed already. (The Saturday Evening Post, for instance, for which Rockwell painted 323 covers, forbade him to depict blacks except in subservient roles. Toward the end of his career, Rockwell got Look magazine to publish a few heroic scenes from the civil rights movement -- at just the moment when such subjects had moved into the mainstream of American thought.) Rockwell's great accomplishment lay in selling us this tepid vision of ourselves as one we simply had to buy into, on a communal scale.The sales pitch
Painting from scenes he set up, propped and cast -- or more often from snapshots of those scenes -- Rockwell achieved a photographic vision meant to convince us of the simple truth of what his images show. Even after all these years, high realist pictures never fail to play the magic trick of making us think that because they look so real, they must show things as they are.
Rockwell's technique goes further. Because of his pictures' particular perspectival constructions, some of them can give a sense that his subjects are being viewed from some slight distance off, by someone removed from the hurly-burly they show. (In one image, which depicts a teacher receiving birthday wishes from her class, the scene's imagined viewer would have to be floating in mid-air to see things as the painting shows them.) It's as though Rockwell's subjects have been recorded by a remote, objective watcher whose vision we can trust.
Rockwell's art makes Rockwell's America seem natural and necessary. His easy, untroubled realism is the perfect vehicle for an image of the nation as easygoing and untroubled: Looking at (or through) a Rockwell surface is as painless as living in a Rockwell world.
Not that Rockwell ever quite heads for a full-blown photorealism, in Richard Estes mode. He takes care to keep a few hints of the passage of his brush, which let him borrow some of the prestige of the Old Masters. He joins the persuasive power of photographic technology to the "hard work" of realist painting, with its popular appeal.
Sometimes Rockwell so badly wants his photo-based pictures to look painted, even once they've been reduced and reproduced in print, that he starts by laying down a rough surface of generically expressive brushstrokes, then applies his tightly rendered image on top. Those brushstrokes tell us that his Rockwellian America is better than simply real -- it belongs to the hallowed realm of art. (In case Rockwell himself failed to get that message across, the current owners of his paintings have framed his down-to-earth, supposedly democratic canvases in enough curlicues and gilt to please Louis XIV.)
Of course, the "art" in Rockwell's pictures isn't that modern stuff promoted by Picasso and his crowd. Rockwell's painted realism tells us that his pictures are the real thing, old-fashioned and skilled -- the very art admired by the kinds of regular, all-American folk his craft is used to depict, and to whom it sells magazines and products.
By the 1930s, making pictures the way Rockwell did couldn't count as just a neutral preference for the old. In the hands of America's Favorite Artist, it stood as a willed repudiation of the new. Judging from the fan mail that survives, that's precisely how it was read. Rockwell panders, in the very substance of his pictures' making, to his public's fear of change.The art of the received idea
Rockwell's greatest sin as an artist is simple: His is an art of unending cliché. The reason we so easily "recognize ourselves" in his paintings is because they reflect the standard image we already know. His stories resonate so strongly because they are the stories we've told ourselves a thousand times.
Those stories couldn't have been otherwise. To sell the publications and goods his pictures were in aid of, Rockwell's images needed to be grasped and digested in seconds -- and, unlike really notable art, they reliably achieved such fast-food effects.
His young women are always "spunky" or "hotties." Young girls are "impish" or "pure." Husbands are "harried" and Grandpa is "kindly." And young boys -- as the art history scholar Eric Segal has pointed out -- are either good and scrappy, busy roughhousing at the rural swimming hole, or urban and effeminate and overcivilized, in need of a good, toughening hazing.
Segal is part of a Rockwell reassessment that began around the time of the artist's last Washington retrospective, held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art just 10 years ago. If the experts haven't found new reasons to like him, they've found new ways to look at his achievement. Literary scholar Richard Halpern has suggested that Rockwell's vision of America is aware of its own gaps, making his paintings "not so much innocent as . . . about the way we manufacture innocence." The eminent art historian Alan Wallach has dared to see Rockwell's "capitalist realism" as deeply ideological, along the lines of socialist realism.
Most reactions to Rockwell, however, continue to be decidedly simpler. Steven Spielberg has said, "I look back at these paintings as America the way it could have been, the way someday it may again be." He and others have bought Rockwell's bill of goods. But what these speakers, and these pictures, fail to grasp is that the special, courageous greatness of the nation lies in its definitive refusal of any single "American way."
America isn't about Rockwell's one-note image of it -- or anyone else's. This country is about a game-changing guarantee that equal room will be made for Latino socialists, disgruntled lesbian spinsters, foul-mouthed Jewish comics and even, dare I say it, for metrosexual half-Canadian art critics with a fondness for offal, spinets and kilts.
I don't want to live by the clichés of a wan, Rockwellian America, and I don't admire pictures that suggest that all of us should. But I see why we need to look into how, in a world full of threats, so many of us have been soothed by their vision.
Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell From the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg is on through Jan. 2 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at Eighth and G streets NW. Call 202-633-7970 or visit http://www.americanart.si.edu.


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The Jackal
My trouble doll and I sit alone, we sit in the silence of those who have been together for a long time. It is not a nice silence, it is a quiet spawned of unsolved arguments and unspoken bad feelings. I take my pipe from a nearby shelf and load the bowl.
"I had friends once you know." I say lighting my pipe and reclining in the seat, I watch the smoke drift from my mouth in thick fat curls. She is dressed in all white and sits across from me, her stare vacuous, a mirror in which she hopes to reflect what she likes about me to myself. She fails, I am looking to find something in her that I like, not find myself in her.
Of course, it seems that the more I live the more I just keep running into myself.
"I have a past you know." I continue. I know that even though her teeth are sharp that she will not go for my delicate pale throat right now, and it is in this knowledge of safety that I close my eyes and allow myself to relax.
"Not everyone has the privilege of having a past. I don't think that you are one of those who have a past." She stares at me emptily and does not reply. This causes a small amount of discomfort for me, but there is nothing I can do about it. The discomfort echoes and amplifies itself, I turn to my pipe for comfort, I look at its smooth white exterior.
The white meerschaum of my pipe carved into a beautiful apple shaped bowl. I can see that it is connected into the elaborate network of my associative conscious. Even tied around the stationary white bowl of my pipe I can see the millions of intangible strings of my memory, dreams, and awareness wrapping it up in the confusing world of myself.
"I remember with such vividness so many wonderful days. The nights I had spent with my friends back before I lived in hurt, the days I had spent lying in the sun listening to the music of the wind caress my bruised exterior." I sigh, more smoke leaves from my mouth floating into the atmosphere when I do so, Another part of me to be lost and never recovered again. "Do you have those type of memories dear?"
I know my asking of this question to the Trouble Doll is a crime, but it is a crime that was comfortable to commit. She grins at me, I can vividly see her ugly sharp teeth her eyes are no longer vacant like mirrors with no reflection. No, now I can see that her eyes are now inhabited by the vacancy of the void.
"I am sorry Trouble Doll Amy." I tell her, but despite my fear I feel no regret. "You are going to call the Jackal now aren't you?"
Trouble Doll Amy does not reply to me, I don't need her to I know the answer. Body language is a language that anyone can speak and I can see from the way that the Trouble Doll's erotically proportioned body leans back that she is confident that the Jackal will be here momentarily. The funny thing is that before when she was leaning forward I was leaning back, and now that she is leaning back I am leaning forward. It is almost as if I can see the short chord between us pulled taught.
"Don't worry, I will not try to flee." I tell Amy, the Trouble Doll, her two void eyes stare at me. This troubles me deeply, but I will not flee. The Jackal will always find someone once he has been called to them.
I sit there and smoke my pipe as I wait for the Jackal to come, I think about the time I had been in love. Imagine that, me in love? It had been as bitter as it had been sweet, but I miss it now, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss it.
As I am lost in thought a pool of inky darkness begins to spread out on the floor, it looks like a puddle of black mercury. The black pool rises up, taking on a human shape. At the top of the inky darkness a human face appears, a grim visage like the face of death. The Jackal has arrived.
The face looks like it is made of wax, the features are smooth and delicate. His eyes shine like twin diamonds planted deep above his high cheek bones. He is an albino abomination and he stares at me and appraises me with his cold gaze.
The cloak of shadows around him seems to solidify into his clothes, he is dressed in evening attire with a black suit jacket. He reaches into the pocket of his jacket with a long spider like hand and procures a silver case. He opens the case, lining the inside of it are a dozen small cigarillos. He takes one of the cigarillos and places it in his mouth.
"Do you mind if I join you in a smoking communion?" He says, his voice is amazingly commanding and does not seem to fit his delicate features. I shake my head, I am almost too stunned by his presence to speak.
The Jackal lights his cigarillo and puffs at it meditatively. "You know," He pauses and licks his ruby red lips, "the Native Americans used to send their prayers up in smoke, smoking communion has always been important."
The Jackal is standing in front of the Trouble Doll completely ignoring her presence. The Trouble Doll does not once look at the Jackal, instead it stares at me with it's twin void eye sockets. Right now I know that the world is indeed against me.
The Jackal leans against the wall, his lithe figure is that of a man who knows nothing but hunger.
"I have something you lost." He says.
There is a pause in the conversation, I cannot gather up the nerve to reply to him just yet. Eventually I manage to overcome my better judgement.
"Can I have it back?" I ask, my voice is timid and weak. I can feel a flush rising in my face from the intense anxiety I am feeling right now.
"No of course not." The Jackal sighs. "I was in an accident many years ago," He says quietly, I have to lean in closer to him to hear him speak. "The accident made me what I am. My parents were into the pharmaceutical business, I took great joy in sampling their new and exotic drugs as if I were dining at a buffet." He stops momentarily to smooth out the wrinkles in his suit jacket.
"I was still a kid then, my father had constructed a new type of drug. The drug was electric blue and tasted really sweet, it made me really numb. I would take this electric blue miracle drug and spend days on end spinning around the room in a circle. When I was numb I couldn't feel the pain of the world, I couldn't notice the acuteness of my suffering.
When I was electric blue I couldn't feel how the other kids made fun of me for my introversion. When I was electric blue I couldn't feel how the other kids made fun of me for my soft skin and ruby red lips."
The Jackal looks at me, and then looks at Trouble Doll Amy, Trouble Doll Amy however does not stop looking at me. He rubs his index finger across his lips which are indeed ruby red. I find the the smooth red exterior of the Jackal's lips to be mildly fascinating, I can quite literally see my reflection in them.
The Jackal is holding his right hand down and twirling his finger, I don't think he notices that I see him do this. I can tell what he is doing twirling his finger like that. He is wrapping up the threads of my life around his finger, he is connecting me to him, interweaving my life into his. I do not want him to do this to me, it scares me. I can feel the complex network of my life being pulled even more taut, like a complex cat's cradle on the fingers of God.
"Well one day my parents decided that I didn't need any more electric blue." The Jackal says continuing his story, he is still wrapping the chords of my life around my finger. "They said I was having too much fun being high all the time. Well this caused me to be upset for a while, my parents had always indulged me."
The Jackal pauses and licks his lips; he even briefly stops stealing my life from me. Then he starts twirling his finger again and begins speaking.
"It was a full two days before I settled on the decision to kill them. They were making love when I killed them. How funny is that? Sex and death, the two main aspects of life at once.
I think my father was climaxing as I shot him with his own gun that he kept by the cash register. Two guns going off at once how ironic is that?"
I can feel the threads of my life get disconnected from my pipe as it drops from my mouth. Trouble Doll Amy looks at me, her upsetting grin widens to freakish proportions.
"I shot my mother next, there was no sadism involved, it was a quick shot to the head. What type of man would make his own mother suffer? After I killed my parents I took my father's keys and went to the room where he cooked up the electric blue. In there I helped myself to five full syringes of electric blue, needless to say that was a lethal overdose and after a few minutes of rolling around in exquisite agony I died."
I shudder when I think of this, not of the Jackal's lethal overdose, no that does not cause me to shudder. No, the fact that I am having communion with a dead man causes me to shudder. The thought that a dead man rules the world scares me shitless. Because you see the Jackal does rule the world, he slinks in the shadows stealing all that is good and pure from joy, he steals lovers' romance and replaces it with fighting, he steals children's' innocence and replaces it with vice.
"You're a monster." I tell the Jackal, it takes all of the courage in me to do so, but somehow I manage those three words.
The Jackal ignores me and continues his story.
"When I was dead I saw past human standards, I saw past what humanity thinks is pleasure, I saw that it is pure life energy that causes us to feel good. Then the mighty predatory god approached me, a deity of every type of claw and tooth imaginable, do you know what he said to me? He told me that I could steal it, undiluted joy. He told me in a voice of every type of growl and hiss that there was a whole world of pleasure for me to take.
And then I woke up from the dead, my body was bleached white as bone, but my lips stayed red like the color of blood."
I feel all of the strings of my life disconnect from my body, they are all on the Jackal's finger now. All of my memories, all of my passions, all coiled around the index finger of the Jackal.
"I have every right to what you are selfishly hoarding!" The Jackal screams at me, spittle flies from his mouth as he does so. "The god of the predators gave me what is yours, and now I fucking have it you bastard!" His rage is terrifying, even more terrifying than the icy cool demeanor he had previously worn.
The Jackal approaches me, I am glued to my seat in horror. He places his finely manicured finger in front of my face and I can see all of my life curled around it like fishing wire, a faint echo of all of my life emits from it. And then he places his finger in his mouth and sucks my life off of it with his delicate lips.
"Now you are just like everyone else." He says, and leaves, fading into the shadows of my Trouble Doll Amy.
Trouble Doll Amy gets up from her seat and then walks over to me and straddles me. She moans slightly and kisses me on the forehead with her lips that are almost as beautiful as the Jackal's.
"Don't worry sweet heart." She says, this is the first time she has spoken all night. "Being numb isn't all that bad."
And then we fuck passionlessly in the cold night. Drained, and used I am no longer alone.


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A beautiful and unique destination property, Rayos Del Sol is the perfect setting for a group retreat that will leave you refreshed, renewed and empowered. Perched over the beautiful black sand beaches of Playa Ostional on the Pacific coast, our hilltop property was named for the rays of sun that it basks in from the waking hours to the sun's fading afterglow.
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Finally, if you'd like to avoid the hassle of renting cars for your large group, we can pick you up and drop you off at Liberia airport and provide transportation to local activities and beaches at an additional cost.
Attila and Niki, a father-daughter duo, have combined their shared love of Costa Rica with their shared gift for warm and genuine hospitality to create a truly unique destination vacation for adventurous souls. Niki has a vision and Attila has the technical know-how. Together, they have created a place where other families, fitness enthusiasts and business teams can come together and celebrate the inspiring beauty and endless bounty of this extraordinary tropical paradise.
About Attila: Started advertising our first home on HomeAway in 2008, currently my wife and I own and manage 6 vacation rental properties in Las Vegas.
This Costa Rica property is our latest addition to HomeAway. We have been coming to this "off the beaten track" area of Costa Rica since 2002, fell in love with the place and have owned it from 2011. It took 4 years to remodel, upgrade and make it to our liking. When we researched for similar properties on HomeAway, we found nothing like this.
We hope that the description/photos will convey the uniqueness of our property; privacy, beauty, serenity, fun, fitness, and adventure.
Attila Grauzer purchased this estate in 2011
This is a one of a kind property, you will not find anything like this anywhere in Costa Rica.
With 20 private bedrooms w/ private bathrooms, plus additional shared rooms sleeping 40+ people, the property provides lodging with complete privacy, while the common area brings everyone together.
We provide complete meal and drink packages to fit your dietary needs and schedule.
And I believe the most unique feature of this property is the fitness aspect; we have a 2,000 sq ft outdoor gym, equipment for beach workouts and a 2 mile long obstacle course in the jungle.
The trip to Rayos was really an amazing experience. The venue is really spectacular and the views, breath taking. The staff, was the most personable of any resort I've ever been to. It really made it seem as if you were visiting their home and reinforced that feeling throughout the entire stay. The food was impeccable. Each meal was fresh, well thought-out and delicious.
If you are looking for a place to stay for a large group, in a beautiful secluded beach retreat, Rayos is the place without a doubt. Would not hesitate to go back.
Rayos Del Sol was the best team retreat location I have ever been to! It has everything going for it, from amazing beach to unreal views from the jungle covered hills above. Attila, Niki and all the staff were phenomenal and i cant fault anything - other than our stay not being long enough :P.
You have tons of space to get away if you want on the property, a perfectly laid out communal area and kitchen/bar by the awesome pool with view, everything here has been though out very well to make group gatherings the best they can be. I was with a group that had to leave at 4am and there was Attila to say bye, along with breakfast ready to take with us in the shuttle back to the airport. Can't recommend this venue enough.
What an amazing trip! We rented Rayos Del Sol for a company retreat and it was all that I could have hoped for and more! We were a group of 30 people that work remotely so we were travelling from all over to spend a week relaxing in Costa Rica together. Niki and Attila went out of their way to work with me to ensure that all the little details were taken care of for our group, from transportation to surfing to Ziplining! Their chef and kitchen team were fantastic, the food was healthy, fresh and our group really loved eating family style. Fresh baked bread at every meal, yes please! The location is remote, but very relaxing and the pool was awesome to splash around in during the heat of the day. For a company retreat it was fantastic to have a private location for our team to work, bond and relax. I would recommend Rayos Del Sol to anyone interested in a unique jungle experience!
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STAY: I loved that the resort was tucked away in the rolling hills between Ostional and Nosara. It is a hidden gem slightly off the beaten path of the local busy town. It's a great place to call "home"and retreat back to in between experiencing all that Costa Rica has to offer. It was like our own mini oasis in the jungle. My room was spacious with stunning views of the ocean. I loved that I could experience the wildness of the jungle (sometimes there were monkeys in the trees near by!) all around me while still having the luxury of AC and a great shower in my living space.
FOOD: Laura was wonderful.. our personal chef made a catered healthy menu to fit our needs all week long. Fresh local ingredients and fruit juices were staples in the kitchen. From the early morning coffee to the sunset margarita, our group was impressed. Make sure to ask for the avocado chocolate pudding for dessert! It's the best.
HOSTS: Attila and Nicole (father / daughter duo) made such warm and welcoming hosts. Having these two help book our daily activities on and off site made our adventurous trip as stress-free as possible. It gave me and my friends the opportunity to simply enjoy the experiences rather than having to organizing every single excursion. They were great with assisting with local etiquette and recommendations, too.
FITNESS: I've been to CR many times, never had I experienced such a uniquely tailored wellness program. The hosts arranged for a very balanced selection of group activities for my friends, ranging from climbing jungle obstacle courses onsite to surf lessons in town to yoga classes on various perches throughout the property. They really thought of it all.
I would recommend Rayos Del Sol to any group of friends, or co-workers to get away, and embrace the ruggedness and luxury that Costa Rica has to offer.
This property and its owners are amazing! If you are looking for a place for your extended family to stay or a retreat for several families, this is the spot. We were 24 relatives ages 13-87 and the needs of all age groups were exceeded. Yoga classes at sunset, group workouts and even an obstacle course kept teens and early 20s busy. There is also the pool, and a gorgeous black sand beach 1/2 mile away.
With Attila and Nicole's help, we took advantage of all the area activities such as surf lessons, ziplining (my 87 year old Mother was amazing!), ATV Tours, sport fishing, sunset cruises to swim with the turtles, paddleboarding and even witnessing the "Arribadas" on Ostional Beach. We were always sure to be back at the resort for the best food in town and the not to be missed sunsets each evening. Thank you Attila, Nicole, Eric, Tricia, Laura and staff for making all our dreams come true and then some! All 24 of us agree it was the trip of a lifetime and can't be topped!!
Brovilla is one of a kind. Nestled in beautiful jungle like setting, this property makes you feel both at home and far way from it all. The villas are all different and cozily appointed, within comfortable walking distance of the big central open air bar with restaurant and swimming pool. Breathtaking sunsets over the ocean. The owner, Attila, and his staff made us feel at home and did everything possible to make our stay a huge success. Highly recommend it!
The retreat is located in the middle of the three main surfing beaches in the area: Guiones, perfect for beginners and first timers; Ostional and Marbella for the more advanced. Ostional Beach is just a short walk from the property.
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A tough second in the markets
You know Linux can just stop for a second as it flushes its cache and does memory management. I have seen it in several supposedly real time systems.
Sometimes I wonder about the verbs we choose to describe finance. AOL didn't go down. It didn't "go" anywhere. Somebody's opinion of its value went down. The problem is, we're letting machines have our opinions for us, long long before we've solved the problem of artificial intelligence. The result is opinions and values that aren't very intelligent.
I wonder if the very same algorithm is deciding if I'm a terrorist? Woops - I just made it spike!
Stock trading wasn't really a sane endeavor even prior to computerized (let alone flash) trading. Even contemporarily, there was quite a bit of flesh and blood behind the decisions to create and exploit wonky packaged debt vehicles and predatory lending schemes. Awful lots of "yes-people" in these big firms.
Money. Money money money. If you have enough, or manage enough, you can sorta do what you want. It's extremely likely, for example, that HSBC uppercrusteans (among others, probably) are still seeing to it that the spice of Western Finance-First Morality floweth to unsavory militants and druglords the world over.
I would love it if this kind of story became common knowledge and the stock market would finally collapse. This kind of bullshit is ridiculous. There needs to be a new way...
So someone mistypes a number and the world is going to fall in. It happens all the time, and everything still keeps revolving.
Do a search and you will see its a common occurence.
A simple filter is that if there is a large jump, don't use it until you get a confirming value. ie. a Step not a spike.
I agree with the article's criticism about having inconsistent application of trading rules and problems with retroactively reversing trades, but he keeps calling someone making a very human error as a "dope". Is this what finance is like? Someone makes a mistake, then someone else takes advantage of that mistake to make money, and it's not only allowed, but defended? Does this impact the image finance has to the public?
Linux isn't real-time, at least out of the box.
(There are patches (which I think have never been merged into the main branch) for a real-time kernel, and I'm sure that anyone who uses the platform for HFT would use those. Perhaps not someone who was monitoring trading, so you could see lapses that weren't real.)
Wait, is this a drop i n value or volume?
Neither. It was a single trade at 90% share price of other trades. Could have been for 100 shares. Or a million. The fact that it was just one trade means the share price valuation did not change any more than one guy selling one item at 10% less than the average price on Ebay means all of the identical items are worth 10% less for that single instant.
And for all we know he just needed some quick money to buy that G.I. Joe with the kung fu grip.
No you wouldn't love it. You think the economy is fucked now? A capital market collapse would be something like ten times worse, even after our tax dollars bailed out their bonuses.
It is entirely possible to trade stocks sanely, but in very short terms it is often more profitable to trade them insanely or irrationally. If you are doing it with someone else's money then there is little short-term benefit to managing it carefully and prudently.
If you are trading in an environment where there are big bonuses for short term gambles that pay off, and little penalty when they don't, then the clear incentive is to play the market. When you lose the worst that can happen is you get fired (and have to go live on all those riches you have hopefully accumulated). When you win you get another bonus.
That is all froth on top of the actual market, which is at its core a system for assigning and distributing the value of various enterprises based on a million constantly changing factors. There are major weaknesses, but I have yet to see a 'better way' that doesn't involve repression and massive unintended consequences.
Money. Money money money.
Don't forget cocaine, cocaine, cocaine, cocaine.
Oh, I don't think the stock market should be abolished! It's useful, and I we'd agree there needs to be good regulation and oversight of finance (though we'll always have a revolving-door problem here because oftentimes the only people abreast enough of the scheming to keep a lid on it are the schemers themselves).
I was mainly taking issue with the implication that computer amorality is a problem here. Since these trading bots aren't sapient (afaik; maybe some serious AI specialists would disagree) they're just extensions of human morality. Computers are innately amoral (as yet, anyway). It's the human factor that's sometimes immoral.
If one trusts a computer with huge volumes of money/assets and doesn't know/care about [insert ethical implication of such trust], then they're the problem; a very human problem. Note that a person could, at least in theory, be an ethical, caring, "good" person and still design or participate in a system with a flaw they didn't foresee—cock-up before conspiracy, as they say. Despite spectacular terror-finance headlines, I think most of these people are simply oblivious.
Just to reiterate, if anybody is interested in this stuff I'd suggest economist Mark Blyth, because he writes sympathetically and passionately (and he isn't shy of decrying absolute turds when appropriate, which unfortunately is often).
Yes I am trying to push this as a solution at my work place.
A very effective tool to reduce bullshit criminal shenanigans would be to hold people who commit them criminally responsible. Start with their assets and their freedom. Combine that with accountability for incompetence and the markets would change dramatically for the better.
Not to say that people cannot or should not be able to make mistakes on the market - the whole exercise is supposed to be a high level conversation about risk and return. But trading against your clients and all the other bullshit that happens must be stopped.
Something similar happened to a public company I once worked for (and had a decent amount of stock in) - we saw our normally-20-dollars-and-some stock price drop 90% in the last minute or so of trading. Someone had obviously fat-fingered a sell order, and the resulting sale happened to be the last trade of the session, which made the two-dollars-and-something price the closing price for the day. Lots of hilarity ensued - people thought there was an insider dumping on bad news - until the CFO sent out a company-wide email to set everyone straight. We opened the next day at our usual price. I hope for the trader's sake that the sale got cancelled.
Yeah. I think I would. I'm ready to forage for grubs to subsist, I think about that kind of thing a lot. When I was a kid I thought it would be a nuclear holocaust, later, an environmental catastrophe, lately, a total economic meltdown. All that shit is coming to get us.
I'm just resigned, that's all.
A long time ago (the 90's) I used to work on a very large open outcry trading floor in London. We would occasionally get prints like this, we knew it had never traded there, we'd call Bloomberg up to fix it, and they didn't care, it wasn't them that got hung on a stop etc. As for this, if it's all electronic, it's a good trade. Who knows whether that was someone doing a sell market order with no bids, or it was a machine, and who's loosing? someone's on the other side of the trade.


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Investment fraud lawyers are currently investing claims on behalf of the clients of Mark Hotton. A recent complaint filed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority alleges that Hotton stole or rerouted money from his clients — funds that amounted to at least $8.5 million. Hotton, a stockbroker and businessman, was earlier accused of having allegedly defrauded the production team of "Rebecca: The Musical" by fabricating investors. Hotton was later sued by the producers of the musical. In an earlier statement, Preet Bharara, Manhattan U.S. Attorney, alleged that Hotton had "faked lives, faked companies and even staged a fake death, pretending that one imaginary investor had suddenly died of malaria."
FINRA's latest charges against Hotton are separate from the charges that he defrauded the producers of the musical. These charges state that since 2006, Hotton allegedly stole at least $5.9 million from clients and caused funds amounting to at least $2.6 million to be rerouted from the Oppenheimer Inc. brokerage accounts of his clients. These rerouted funds were wired to Hotton's outside business activities, other entities and individuals affiliated with Hotton. Furthermore, securities arbitration lawyers say Hotton reportedly lied when filling out third-party wire request forms, forged letters of authorization signatures and created investments that were completely fictitious.
In 2009, Hotton left Oppenheimer and he was last registered, until May 2012, with Obsidian Financial Group. Hotton faces serious charges in both cases, including 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud related to the musical and monetary sanctions and/or a bar from the securities industry related to the most recent charges. Clients of Hotton are encouraged to contact an investment fraud lawyer as soon as possible to explore their options for recovering their losses through all possible avenues, including securities arbitration.
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Cho Oyu is considered an easier climb compared to other Eight-Thousander peaks. Altitude sickness, avalanches, dropping temperature and Death zone have always been major causes of fatality on this mountain.
Technically easier to climb compared to other peaks, Cho Oyu is accessible from North-West ridge (China), which is more common route. Climbing can be made from South-West ridge (Nepal) too, however, this route is considered risky and isn't commercially operated.
It has always been a preliminary climb before attempting any other Eight-Thousanders'. The comparative ease of access, lack of objective dangers and generally uncomplicated terrain makes it the most attainable of the world's highest mountains.
"After a long halt, Chinese officials have restarted issuing permits for Cho Oyu climbing for 2013."
History of Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu 8,201 m (26,906 ft) Alpine PD+ is the sixth highest mountain in the world. Located in the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya, 20 km west of the Everest, it stands on Nepal-China Border. It is translated as "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan.
It was first attempted in 1952 by an expedition led by Eric Shipton and included Edmund Hillary & Tom Bourdillon, but ended being just a #reconnaissance.
Cho Oyu was first climbed on October 19, 1954, via the north-west ridge by Herbert Tichy, Joseph Jöchler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama of an Austrian expedition. Cho Oyu was the fifth 8000 meter peak to be climbed, after Annapurna in June 1950, Mount Everest in May 1953, Nanga Parbat in July 1953 and K2 in July 1954.
The route consists mainly of low-angled snow slopes with one short but very steep section to bypass a Serac barrier 6,400 m (20,997 ft). Generally, 3 different camps are setup during the summit; the highest camp at 7,500 m (24,606 ft) is the launch pad for the summit, which can be reached in 5-8 hours under normal conditions.
You should only attempt Cho Oyu if you have the proper experience and logistics for emergency situations. It is isolated and helicopter resource is not available. Most deaths are a result of falls but the weather and altitude also takes it's toll.
~Alan Arnette
Fatality Chart
The fatality isn't higher either. There has been only 43 deaths on the mountain till 2009.
- Download Cho Oyu Fatality Chart till 2009
- Download the list of nations participated in the climb till 2009
It is commonly climbed in two different seasons, Pre-monsoon (March to June) or Spring and Post-monsoon (September to November) or Autumn.
The spring holds more stable weather. On the other hand, there's no real deadline during the Autumn season, as long as you can deal with the cold, you can even attempt the summit at the end of the year.
- Cho Oyu Expedition -45 Days


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Cook, C.C.H. (2009) 'The Christian handbook of alcohol and other addictions.', Stowmarket: Kevin Mayhew. The Christian handbook.
Written by subject experts, the language used can be immediately understood by the non-expert reader and the books conclude with an insightful list of Do's and Don'ts. Their purpose is to inform and guide those who find themselves having to deal with the fallout from one or all of these serious social issues.
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