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The interpretation of clinical studies on the photodynamic treatment of actinic keratosis
Interpretation klinischer Studien zur photodynamischen Therapie der aktinischen Keratose
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Actinic keratosis is one of the most commonly treated skin conditions. A number of studies have recently been published on the treatment of this ailment using photodynamic therapy. The authors of this letter are concerned about the interpretation of some of these studies and would like to outline possible misinterpretations which may arise due to an incomplete analysis of the study reports available. Clearly, the "ideal" therapy for actinic keratosis should be a carefully chosen compromise between undesired side-effects and therapeutic efficacy and needs to be based on a consideration of all of the relevant clinical studies.
Aktinische Keratosen gehören zu den meistbehandelten Hautschäden. Eine Reihe der in den letzten Jahren veröffentlichten Studien beschäftigte sich mit ihrer Behandlung durch photodynamische Therapie. Die Bewertungen einiger dieser Studien veranlassten die Autoren dieses Briefes, mögliche Missinterpretationen der Daten herauszustellen, die infolge unvollständiger Analyse der einbezogenen Studienberichte und unvollständiger Berücksichtigung ihrer Randbedingungen auftreten können. Unbestritten ist dabei, dass die "ideale" Therapie der aktinischen Keratose ein sorgfältig abgewogener Kompromiss zwischen therapeutischer Wirkung und unerwünschter Nebenwirkung sein muss, der auf der Berücksichtigung aller relevanten klinischen Studien und ihrer Randbedingungen basiert.
In the outpatient setting, actinic keratosis is one of the most commonly treated skin conditions, the prevalence of which increases with cumulative skin exposure and increasing age. Rates of 11–25% have been reported in the northern hemisphere and of 40–60% in Australia [1]. Actinic keratoses are strong predictors of squamous cell carcinomas and are believed to be precursors of squamous cell carcinomas of the skin [1]. This condition therefore presents a growing public health problem.
A number of studies have been published recently concerning modalities of photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment for actinic keratosis in which the efficacy of several photosensitisers and/or light sources were compared [2], [3], [4], [5]. The most recent of these is the study by Dirschka and colleagues [5] which appeared recently in the British Journal of Dermatology and in which a gel formulation of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (BF-200 ALA) was found to be superior to methyl-5-aminolaevulinate (MAL). In the same study, the narrow-band light sources were found to be more effective than the broad-band light sources, although the narrow-band sources were associated with a higher occurrence and severity of adverse effects, which included pain, burning, erythema and exfoliation, irrespective of the photosensitizer used. While such a multicenter, randomized study is to be commended, the authors – in our opinion – failed to appropriately consider their findings in the light of previous studies, since a number of pertinent and highly relevant articles were not mentioned. An important study in this context is the study by von Felbert and colleagues [2] with a longer follow-up time of 12 months (compared to 12 weeks in the study of Dirschka et al. [5]) and in which the use of narrow-band and broad-band sources were found to be equally effective. One reason given by von Felbert and colleagues [2] for the comparable efficiency of these sources was the use of a more advanced and efficient broad-band optical filter (in comparison to the broad-band sources used in previous studies). Dirschka et al. [5] however, not only failed to discuss reasons for the differences between the narrow-band and broad-band types of sources used, but also did not comment on the differences found between the various types of broad-band sources employed. Additionally, despite the findings of von Felbert et al. [2] who found the use of a broad-band source with water filter to be associated with less pain than that caused by a narrow-band source, and a study by Apalla et al. [6] who found the use of a broad-band source without a water filter to be associated with pain, Dirschka and colleagues did not consider the fact that broad-band sources would result in absorption over a broader spectral range (and possibly encompassing several maxima) of the photosensitizer as has been discussed previously [7]. Additionally, previous studies in which no differences were found between narrow- and broad-band sources [1], [8], [9] were not considered. Their study also demonstrated that the conditions under which PDT was applied had a pronounced impact on the efficiency of the treatment. For MAL, the von Felbert study [1] also found considerably higher response rates (80% total clearance) as compared to the Dirschka et al. [5] study in which a clearance rate of 64.2% was obtained. Possible reasons for such a pronounced difference between the response rates in these two studies were however not discussed by Dirschka and colleagues [5]. While the extent of pain experienced during photodynamic therapy (which is deemed to be the main side-effect of PDT [6], [7]) was documented by Dirschka et al. [5], possible reasons for the greater incidence of pain during the use of the narrow-band sources were not considered. In the Dirschka et al. study, a comparison of the photosensitizers used showed BF-200 ALA to be superior to MAL, but again, a study with contradictory findings (Gholam et al. [3]) is not discussed. While we do not wish to infer that the study performed by Dirschka and colleagues is in any way erroneous, we would nevertheless like to point out that the discussion of the results and the authors' selection of cited literature appears to be biased towards studies supporting the authors' own findings. The problem of such a bias has recently been outlined [10], together with the need for an up-to-date selection of literature and the recommendation that a concealment of contradictory or critical literature should be avoided. As a result of the rather selective choice of literature provided and the lack of a thorough consideration of the relevant studies already published, the article by Dirschka and colleagues [5] leaves a number of questions unanswered. Furthermore, the corresponding editorial published in the same issue of the British Journal of Dermatology [11] is unfortunately also based on the acceptance of the "superiority" of BF-200 ALA in comparison to MAL as well as the "superiority" of narrow-band in comparison to broad-band sources and fails to address the fact that several other studies have found contradictory results. Certainly, sweeping statements claiming e.g., narrow-band sources to be preferable to broad-band sources or BF-200 to be better than MAL should not be made on the basis of a single study, especially since such statements may lead to rapid and ungrounded propagation of therapeutic protocols.
In conclusion, it would appear that the last word concerning the optimal photosensitizer and radiation source for the treatment of actinic keratosis has not yet been spoken. Obviously, the "ideal" therapy for actinic keratosis should be a carefully chosen compromise between undesired side-effects and therapeutic efficacy and needs to be based on a consideration of all of the relevant clinical studies.
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Summer at the Chamberlin Inn
Summer at the Chamberlin Inn is a special time.
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Parallel parking is tricky, and especially on hills. Once you've figured out how to stuff your car into a space sideways, you have to (or should) find someplace to lodge your tires to keep the car from rolling down the hill when you've left it behind.
Whoever was driving this Corolla found something alright. There's no way the car will roll anywhere with a Honda and parking meter under the back wheels. This, folks, is San Francisco parking asshattery at its best; or worst, depending upon whether or not you own the silver Honda this silver Toyota has just attacked and collapsed upon in an exhausted, jealous heap.
Still, we can't talk too much trash. The car is parked away from traffic and isn't rolling anywhere. That's most of what parking is all about anyway, right?
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Before I get to the Funbag, a quick programming note: There WILL be a Jamboroo column on Thanksgiving. It should run early before the games start. So be on the lookout for that while your mom makes you spoon cranberry sauce out of a can because she doesn't trust you with the important cooking duties.
Your letters:
I read your article about being a transfer student. Much like you were, I'm struggling socially and haven't been able to make friends. I know you said you didn't have a much better experience at your next school, but would you recommend transferring anyway? It's what I want to do, but my parents want me to stick it out because of the academic merits of the school I'm currently at.
I can only speak from personal experience, but I don't regret transferring. It didn't do wonders for my social life, but that's on me. At least I ended up at a school that was a much better fit for me in other ways: size, proximity to home and friends at other schools, etc. I thought I was ready for some bigass rah-rah school but the truth was that I was immature and still needed the nurturing environs of some isolated dipshit liberal arts joint.
Sometimes you have an idea of what you want out of a college while you're touring around and perusing all the course catalogs ("They have a class on Tarantino!") and reading The Insider's Guide to Colleges (my parents had a copy of this and I eyebanged the social life rankings intensely) and that vision of what you want for a school ends up being at complete odds with what you actually need, because 18-year-olds are poor arbiters of such things. Every high school senior thinks he can make a good decision about where to go to school but that's complete horseshit. He'll pick a $50K per year place just because he saw a hot chick on the quad steps.
If money allows it, I would recommend transferring if you really feel as if you've made a terrible mistake, as if there's nothing you could do personally to improve your quality of life where you are. It's not a cure-all. You will probably struggle to make friends at the new place, perhaps even more so because you're new. But maybe the change in environment will give you a fresh attitude or plunk you down in a city where you can make friends outside of school or what have you. Or maybe you'll find a girlfriend. It's no guarantee. My brother-in-law transferred two, possibly even three times before finally graduating from a school nearby. That's just how shit goes sometimes, but it's always worth making the effort to extract yourself from what you know is a hopeless situation.
Just don't transfer to Duke.
I was watching SNF this past Sunday and I kept seeing the Carrie Underwood commercial for her musical special "Sound of Music" live on NBC. Since it's live, what are the chances that there are bookies lurking somewhere to take bets on if she fucks up or not? Over under?
There are always bookies around willing to take bets on anything you're stupid enough to bet on. Even if you bet $1,000 on a nip slip or something, I assure you that you won't want to watch that broadcast. You know how NBC does the Thanksgiving Day Parade every year, and the parade features an unhealthy number of lip-synced numbers from unwatchable Broadway musicals? Well, picture one of those musical interludes stretched to two hours. That's what NBC has in store for you. The only saving grace? LIVE NAZIS. You never know what will happen when you get live Nazis.
If someone came to you right before you went to bed tonight, and told you (credibly) that tomorrow would be the happiest day of your life, how would that change the rest of your life?
I don't think it would change it much. When you're 37, you are already well aware that the happiest day of your life has probably already happened. There was probably some day when I was a kid when I was frolicking in mud and eating paste and was blissfully unaware of the horrors of the world, like NAZIS and slavery and serial killers and all that. No dark edge to my joy in any way. That was probably the happiest day of my life and now it's gone.
But that's all right. Just because your happiest day is in the past doesn't make the somewhat less happy days worse. Besides, no one can REALLY pinpoint the happiest day of their lives. It's an arbitrary listicle. Was it your wedding day? The day your kids were born? The day you graduated? The day your favorite sports team won a title? It's hard to single out one exact day and say yes, THAT was it. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar or is trying to impress Richard Deitsch. Memories are too fleeting and life is far too formless and unquantifiable for that to be the case. As a grownup, every day has its varying percentages of good and bad shit happening. You know too much about the world for it to be otherwise. And as an adult, I almost treasure the bad as much as I treasure the good, like when Louis CK talked about crying on the side of the road:
You can have a shitty day and, in a strange way, appreciate the shittiness when something makes you angry or sad, or something shocks you in a way that you'll never forget. Life needs that color, even if it isn't always fun to experience firsthand. At least you get something fun to bitch about the NEXT day, which is all I ever want in the Internet age. It's important to me to find things that anger me every day, so that I might hop on Twitter and tell the world how much it angers me. Like stale bread, AMIRITE GUYZ?! That pleases me.
I'm gonna tell you about a good day. I was 19 and a virgin. I took a girl out bowling and brought her back to my folks' house. They were not home. I poured her a glass of water as we stood in the kitchen and stared at each other for a little bit. And then, after an awkward pause, I went for it and kissed her and I'll be goddamned if she didn't kiss me right back. Then she let me take her shirt off. Right there in the kitchen (Sorry, ma). FIRST SHIRTLESS WOMAN YO. After we hooked up, I drove her home. Then I got on the highway, driving nowhere in particular, and sang along to the radio as loud as I possibly could. That was a good day. If that was the best day ever, or it was my wedding day, or it was that time I went to a party shitfaced and everyone knew the words to "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and sang along to it in perfect unison, or it was that time I took my kid out for an ice cream sundae and she never got up from the table ONCE while we ate, I'm OK if things are never quite that amazing again.
Don't you get so mad at guests on late night talk shows who stand up when the interview is over, and start to walk away? BEFORE it cuts to commercial? So annoying.
As a viewer, I get annoyed about this as well, because I could be missing out in precious banter between two never-before-paired guests. I would like to see what Jennifer Lawrence has to say to that chimp lady!
But I get why they take off as soon as possible. I went to a taping of "Conan" this fall and during the commercial break, everyone just sits there awkwardly while the band plays real loud and the stagehands move shit around. It's not a natural social environment. Also, it's cold as shit, and there's free food and booze waiting for you in the green room. These GLORY BOY celebrities are so used to being on television that they take it for granted, I tell you!
By the way, any time you go to a live taping like this, there is always 500,000 pounds of lighting and electrical equipment hanging from the ceiling over the entire stage. And I spend the entire taping wondering if some rope overhead will snap and a giant lighting rig will crush and kill everyone below. I don't WANT that to happen. I'm just saying it looks threatening. I don't trust some lazy ME-FIRST UNION WORKER to secure that boom.
I feel a sense of great personal satisfaction every time I open a condiment packet perfectly just so that only the corner is diagonally ripped, thus allowing me to direct a perfect even stream of mustard on my hot dog. Obviously, the alternative to this is when you rip the packet in half so that the contents come out in one shapeless glob all over your fingers.
I have also tried to rip off a perfect corner only to realize that I haven't actually created an opening in the pouch at all. All I did was create an extra piece of garbage. And then I tear it down the middle and everything goes to shit. This is why all fast food joints need to emulate Chick Fil-A and hand out the newfangled Heinz packets that give a "squeeze or dip" option. Whole new world of french fry consumption. But I know other places won't do this because that packaging is probably .0001 cents more expensive than the old, shitty packets.
Packaging costs are a big fucking deal to companies. I worked on the Hershey's ad account for a bit right when they changed the Kit Kat packaging to save money. Kit Kat used to come in a foil wrapper and paper sleeve, and opening it was a delight. Like treasure, it was! But that shit cost money, so they switched to plastic wrap instead. IT'S NOT THE SAME. Worst day of my life, people.
By the way, one of the more agonizing things in life is when you try to open a bag of cereal or chips clean across the top and, instead, you get a tear going straight down the middle. Ruins the whole fucking bag. I should probably leave the opening of things to more experienced hands.
The other day I was giving my dogs a dog treat and of course they were going completely bonkers. They were doing backflips, sitting, laying down… I pretty much could make them do anything to get that little dog treat. What is the human equivalent of a dog treat?
When a child wants candy. You can make a kid do pretty much anything when you hold the candy out. I've made my kid jump. I've made them do a "candy dance." I've demanded hugs. They will do filthy rotten horrible things for a package of Fun Dip. It's awesome.
The only adult equivalent is a man who is about to get sex. The woman gives the green light and the man tears off his clothes and adjusts the lighting and spritzes the room and basically will do anything else requested to make sure the deal is consummated. OH MY GOD WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA FUCK THIS IS GREAT DO YOU NEED ANYONE KILLED BECAUSE I'LL DO THAT.
I just turned 25 last week. I'm single and have relatively no interest in starting something. I think I've lost my faith in not necessarily women, but humanity in general, in that I genuinely believe no one can stay 100% faithful. Maybe I'm speaking from personal experience, but I meet an attractive lass but shy away from locking it down because I inherently feel it's going to crash and burn at some point. Things like marriage don't necessarily terrify me, but I'm in no hurry because of the impending failure. I know it's not normal, but what's your take?
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you feel like all relationships are doomed to fail, then PRESTO! All of your relationships are probably doomed to fail. You have to believe that—despite all the divorce and adultery and economic woes and gourd porn out there—that somehow YOUR relationship is special enough to transcend all that. It takes a certain blend of naivete and breathtaking arrogance to believe that (it's why young couple are really fucking annoying), but that's how pretty much every relationship starts out. Most relationships don't end that way. Most of them end with a vase being thrown at your face. But you HAVE to start out that way or else you'll just be some asshole with a shitty attitude who dies alone.
I've been married 11 years now. Is it 11 years? I really have to work hard to remember at this point. Before I met my wife, I had a nightmarish relationship with another girl that lasted for 18 grueling months. Somewhere in there, in a desperate attempt to stop the fighting, I suggested to this girl that we go get married. Not a formal proposal, but just one of those times when a guy talks about marriage just to drum up the romance. I easily could have married (and divorced) that girl at some point. The door to an alternate dimension slides and I'm trapped in an unhappy and unstable union with an insane person, with maybe a kid thrown in for added misery. It happens to plenty of people.
Instead, somehow that relationship ground to a merciful end before I did anything stupid, and I am now happily married. I have no way of knowing if that'll ALWAYS be the case, but I have faith that it will be. This December, my parents will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, which is completely insane. I should buy them a bag of wild rice or something for the effort. There's no guarantee that your relationship will succeed, but that doesn't mean it's doomed to fail. Some of them DO work. You gotta have faith in the girl and in yourself that you'll love each other enough to work through all of the horseshit. It's worth the risk, even if you end up failing. That's why motherfuckers get married over and over again. You see some guy getting married for the third time and you think, "What is that moron doing?" He wants to believe, even if that isn't the practical thing to do.
What is worse:
When dipping chips/pretzels/carrot sticks, etc. and your knuckle/finger grazes the dip, or...
When snow gets just under your gloves and touches your bare wrist?
I get irrationally upset when either happens.
The latter is worse because it's painful and the pain lingers. If you get salsa on your knuckle, you can just lick it clean off and get right back to dipping, much to the horror of fellow partygoers. But if you get snow up your sleeve or down your crack, you are in for an extended period of cold, wet, sodden misery. Sometimes I try sucking the melted snow out of my jacket sleeve, only that makes everything smell like drool. So now I'm cold and I smell like fucking drool. WORST DAY EVER. As an adult, I have no tolerance for this. Kids don't mind. A kid will get snow down the crack and stay outside for another eight hours until they come down with scarlet fever. I can't roll like that anymore. I'm not young enough to ignore the misery.
Also, a bonus FUCK YOU to snow when it gets on woolen garments like gloves and collars and forms little ice clumps that cannot be shaken off. You've got some nerve, snow.
What is the percentage of the population of the world that you would have sex with? My answer was 5%; which works out to around 175 million people. Do you think my estimate is over or under?
Are you drunk or sober? Did you just finished gratifying yourself, or are you currently mid-fap and just about to reach the precipice of ecstasy and you will do ANYTHING to have ANYONE naked in front of you to do with as you please right at this moment? Because the percentage varies wildly in all instances.
Anyway, let's say you're drunk, and therefore you have a sweet spot for any woman between the ages of 20 (being generous here about your chivalry) and 45. Census data gives you about 1.3 billion ladies to toy around with in that demographic. Let's go ahead and drop half of those women due to varying factors: looks, criminal backgrounds, possible communicable diseases, bunions, etc. That still leaves you with over 9 percent of the world's population. Somehow, that feels low. You're a man. You'd stick your dick in a drain pipe if you were hard up.
How many of the bottom NFL teams (starting with the worst by record) in any given year, would need to be combined before the new team could be competitive with the Super Bowl champ? The front office management of the worst team could cherry pick the players from those teams. They would probably never get a decent QB but the rest of the team could be good enough to compensate.
You could make a dominant NFL team with just two shit teams. In this day and age, the difference between the league's worst team and its best isn't that big anyway. Tampa went to Seattle and hung three TDs on the Seahawks before they finally caught up. If you combined the best players from Tampa with the best players from Jacksonville or Atlanta or Minnesota or Houston, you'd have a fucking great team.
If you combine the Jags and Bucs, you'd have an offense with a rapidly improving Mike Glennon at the helm, with MJD as your back, V-Jax and Cecil Shorts at wideout, Darrelle Revis in the secondary, Paul Posluszny and Lavonte David in the linebacking corps, and you'd have Gus Bradley booting Greg Schiano out the door. That team can win twelve games easily. Hell, both the Texans and Falcons were Super Bowl contenders before this season started. They have both had shitty, unlucky, injury-plagued, miserable seasons, but that doesn't diminish the talent on either roster. If you combined the Falcons and Texans and had Matt Ryan throwing to Andre Johnson with J.J. Watt batting balls on the other side, you'd have a fucking juggernaut.
Which professional football coach looks the worst shirtless? Andy Reid (huge fat guy)? Rex Ryan (probably has like ten square meters of extra skin now)? Bill Belichick (flesh may have grown into ragged hoodie)?
As of right now? John Fox.
/going straight to hell
Are left-handed guys at a disadvantage when it comes to wedding bands? Can I wear it on my right hand? I feel like my normal every day activities are being hampered by a $40 piece of tungsten (oh ya, I bought the cheapest thing I could find).
I don't see why you can't wear it on your right hand if that's more comfortable. Do you wear your watch on your right hand as well? If someone gives you shit for that, just tell them to fuck off. Wearing a wedding band on your right hand doesn't automatically downgrade it to a promise ring. Wear it how you want it. I knew a dude with no hands who wore his wedding ring on a gold chain around his neck. That was badass. If I had no hands, I would do that too.
Seen on the video bulletin board at my grandmother's assisted living home for Alzheimer's residents. On a 1-10 depressing scale, where does this rank? Gotta be at least a 9, right? God, I hope I don't get Alzheimer's.
Aw man, that's pretty rough. I wanna buy those people an imaginary cupcake.
Last night after work I was walking through the dimly lit, mostly empty parking garage. Then I noticed a lady walking toward me. And for whatever reasons, I immediately went to great lengths to make sure she saw my wedding ring — as if it was a comforting patrolman's badge or something, an implied announcement proclaiming "AT EASE MA'AM, I AM NOT A RAPEY MURDERER!!" This was entirely stupid, of course, in that evildoers can probably wear wedding rings, too. How much less threatened did she feel because of my wedding ring? 65%? Zero? (Also, I was dressed in a business suit not a rubber butcher's apron, so factor that in too.)
You're assuming that she noticed your wedding ring at all, which she probably didn't. Or if you flashed it too conspicuously, she probably thought you were some crazy asshole who was like I CAN'T HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH YOU EVEN THOUGH I'D BE DOWN WITH IT (One of my favorite parts of Die Hard 2 is when Bruce Willis flashes his wedding ring at a cute airport clerk who hits on him—I've been dying to smoothly rebuff a come-on like that for 11 years and am still waiting ... "Just the fax, ma'am."). A wedding ring is probably too small a thing to have an impact in that scenario, certainly compared to your general appearance, race (unfortunately), wardrobe, and body odor.
Having your actual wife with you is another matter, by the way. That eliminates the threat entirely. If I see one other dude in a parking garage, I assume he's gonna rape me. I see a couple? GET A ROOM, YOU TWO.
How far would you have to be pushed to actually throw down with someone in a wheelchair? Obviously I'm not going out of my way looking for an opportunity to fight the handicapped, but I would think it would really take something more than words, possibly life threatening to get me to that point.
I was in a supermarket once and a lady in a handicapped scooter bullied past me. I think she even screamed "MOVE IT" at me, which was a real dick move. I wasn't even occupying the middle of the aisle. That lady can fall off a waterfall, for all I care. Anyway, I did not throw down with this woman even though I had vivid daydreams about cutting her brakes. You're only gonna fight a handicapped person if they're a threat to you or your family. And even then, you might think twice, especially if you've ever watched The Pianist.
Good God.
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So I am middle school PE teacher. I have had bronchitis and hay fever the past three weeks, and was out sick Monday and Tuesday. When I returned Wednesday, one of my sixth grade girls came into my office and said, "Here's a present I hope will make you feel better". I have almost 250 evil preteens to argue with/attempt to force a workout into, so I do not know many of their names yet. They have them scrawled across their PE shirts in my poor handwriting with a black Sharpie, but this little girl had not yet changed so I had no clue who she was. I simply said, "Thank you" and took them. And then I looked at my "gift". Pizza flavored hard candy.
Who in the world thinks these things up? It got even better when I looked at the back. Gluten free, sugar free, salt free, and kosher. And at the bottom it mentions that excessive consumption may have laxative issues.
I couldn't bring myself to try one, even though it was still an hour until lunch, and my teaching partner flat out refused one as well. Today I finally opened one of the individually wrapped red candies that looked like a cough drop. I sniffed it. It smelled like cheap bad pizza. I wanted to puke. I just couldn't do it. The whole bag is still in my desk.
My question to you is this- is this a truly innocent and thoughtful child? Does she like this candy and wanted to share the joy of it with me? Did her parents invent it and are trying to make a buck by giving it away and spreading its popularity ? Or is it a backhanded insult, saying this is what she thinks of me? As cynical as I am, dealing with these midget monsters 6 hours a day 10 months a year, I would like to think it was a goodwill gesture. But I am not touching that candy.
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Ah, the plethora of kid stuff. I don't know about you, but I thought we'd get by with a lot less gear than we actually have. I'd done my homework, read reviews and comparison shopped. I'd wanted to make the right choices the first time around. But the truth is, you don't really know what will work until you try it in your own home with your own kid. Our first high chair, for example, had great reviews, two trays, folded for storage and could convert to a small chair for later. It sounded great in theory, but despite all those things we never liked it. The footprint was too wide, it was heavy, the trays were too big too clean in the sink, and we never folded and put it away between meals. What's the point if it was going to be used 3+ times a day? We used it for both kids for the least amount of time possible.
As soon as Leo was old enough we switched him to a booster and tray set that sat on top of one of our dining chairs. It worked fine for a while, but I could see that Leo couldn't rest his legs comfortably, plus it was too high to push under the table. We would all occasionally trip on the back legs. I began to look for other options.
Thanks to craigslist I found a like-new Hauck Alpha Chair for a bargain. It was and is the perfect chair for Leo. I could go on and on about it, but I'll limit myself to saying that it is super sturdy, adjustable, comfortable, promotes good posture and he can climb into it easily by himself. It also matches the rest of our dining chairs (unlike Chloe's Ikea Urban Junior Chair). Winner!
We've had the Alpha chair since January and just recently took the seat and the foot plate down a notch to accommodate Leo's growth (my little boy is growing up!). Actually, the only thing I didn't love about the chair was the seat pad. It was thin and lumpy. If food spilled on it, it would immediately stain. More like a bib than a seat cover. Yuck. Here is the "Before" photo:
Time for a new seat cushion! Here is what I sewed up to take its place:
Much improved wouldn't you say?
My cushion cover skills were limited to the one I made for our storage bench years ago. This time I had to buy the foam padding and add a strap down system, too. Luckily it was easy to find a sheet of foam at Mill End and it easily cut down to size (the sheet was so large, that I also ended up making a cushion for under Barkley's dog bed). I used the same strap/velcro system as on the original pad (see above photo), but I chose PUL (or polyurethane laminated fabric) for the covering. It is water resistant and popular for cloth diaper covers. It is easily also easily wiped clean or washed, and came in prints suitable for a young boy.
Much better!
So far the seat cushion has held up nicely during the past couple months. Makes me glad I took the time to do it right. Do you have a chair that could benefit from a new seat or cushion cover?


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This article is the first in a series that profiles boards that stand out for their drive to constantly raise their game. The authors, who are partners at Guided Futures, have interviewed over 75 directors, chairs and CEOs on how boards must evolve to make a real difference to their company's future success. Read part two
How does a board of directors prepare itself – and its company – for a very different future? This challenge becomes more acute when a business rises to global leadership. At Methanex Corp. – Canada's world leader in methanol production and distribution – a new era in board governance began in 2004. Pierre Choquette, the long-time CEO who had guided the firm to its worldwide prominence, handed over the reins to his trusted successor, Bruce Aitken.
At the Board's urging, Pierre did not retire, but became chair – a conscious breaking of governance best practice. He recalled: "People said the CEO should disappear". His joining the board was seen as "holding up your pants with both a belt and suspenders".
He proceeded anyway, on one key condition: He was convinced that the board should embark on a program of wholesale renewal, to equip itself to provide the governance and guidance worthy of a growing global enterprise.
This renewal has taken many forms, beginning with composition. Urgently, the board needed more directors able to guide the company Methanex had become. Over the past five years, out of 10 outside directors, five new members have joined to bring richer industry expertise, insight into world markets, and more diverse life experiences. The turnover continued last year when Tom Hamilton, a senior U.S. oil and gas executive, became the new chair.
In light of these changes, fostering director involvement and a constructive board culture has won top priority. Both the current and past chairs have invited all members to contribute more widely, often seeking the views of each director, in turn. While some may be apt to defer to greater expertise, the message is clear: All are welcome – and expected – to speak up.
To participate is one thing, but to express controversial or contrarian views is much riskier. This board works hard to ensure that they build the trust that makes risk-taking possible. They take time to get to know each other, along with members of senior management. As more new members join in future, renewing this trust and board chemistry will remain a pre-occupation.
Many may see this story as a reversion to the Best Friends Forever model of the past. This board acknowledges the risk, but will not let closeness degenerate into clubbiness. They stress that candid conversations only take place with deep personal trust. As with the ex-CEO becoming chair, if the spirit and the motives are right, behaviours that may break classic governance taboos may also be right.
This trust has delivered the greatest dividends at watershed moments in the life of the company. Just four years ago, Argentina sharply cut the natural gas supply to company production facilities in Chile. That one event ushered in a new era of uncertainty and market disruption, establishing a more complex environment for doing business.
Years before, Methanex had risen to global dominance on the wings of a simple, compelling business model. Locate abundant supplies of stranded natural gas in countries with stable governments in attractive regional markets, sign 20-year contracts at fair prices, and build production facilities to profit from that certainty. No one has done this as well as Methanex.
Today, key elements of that model are in question. Governments are far less prone to sign long-term supply contracts, or honour them if signed. Capital spending choices now confront riskier returns. Countries thought to be stable are in turmoil. Changing long-run price differentials between fuels can shift the best location for new production facilities. With China now the world's largest market, more complex changes and choices are coming. Methanex is still best at what it does, but is pursuing new ways to exploit that advantage.
Back in 2007, under the pressure to act, management rolled up their sleeves, got to work, and brought many creative solutions to the board: re-thinking the use of the shipping fleet, promoting gas exploration and production, and integrating upstream. The board also rose to the occasion, probing, testing, strengthening and supporting. Janice Rennie, then a new director, reported: "As a board, we opened ourselves to different ideas with one goal in mind – how do we find new sources of methanol and not disappoint our customers?"
New levels of trust and collaboration were forged between executives and directors that today sustain their latest discussions on new markets and capital projects. In this new world, board and management can expect to engage in many vigorous conversations on where to take the company next. Tom Hamilton sees world markets becoming less linear and more dynamic. The board can best contribute by "thinking around the corner and over the horizon".
Still, there are real limits to what this board should do. As one senior executive put it: "Directors aren't super managers...they touch the company once every six weeks." Full-time, expert management must continue to design, build and execute strategy. The board can be a feedstock of ideas, challenges, and encouragement, as management takes the next big leap forward.
Recently, the board renewal has stepped up a notch, with a major streamlining of committee membership, processes and reports. By clearing the decks of low-value activity, the board can become more productive, efficient, and focused. Director education is already thorough and ongoing. Searching evaluations lead to three or four new priorities each year for board improvement. The quest for "better" continues.
Close-knit, productive, strategic – definitely. Willing to declare victory – not just yet.


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A. The following regulations shall dictate the operation of vessels upon the waters of the state and shall set forth a standard of operation. In construing and complying with these rules, due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision and to any special circumstances, including the limitations of the vessels involved, which may make a departure from the Rules necessary to avoid immediate danger.
B. Any violation of the Rules of the Road as referred to in this section shall be prima-facie evidence of careless or reckless operation.
C. Boating accidents caused by deviation from the Rules of the Road shall be documented as such in accident reports.
D. The Rules of the Road for vessels upon the waters in the state shall be as follows:
- Vessels passing head-on shall each keep to their respective right.
- A vessel overtaking another vessel may do so on either side, but must grant the right-of-way to the vessel being overtaken.
- When vessels are passing at right angles, the vessel on the left will yield right-of-way to vessel on the right.
Motorboats shall yield right-of-way to non-motor powered boats except as follows:
a. When being overtaken by non-powered vessels.
b. For deep draft vessels that have to remain in narrow channels.
c. When vessel is towing another vessel.
- Motorboats must maintain a direct course when passing sailboats.
- A vessel approaching a landing dock or pier shall yield the right-of-way to any departing vessel.
- A vessel departing shoreline or tributary shall yield right-of-way to through traffic and vessels approaching shoreline or tributary.
- Vessels will not abruptly change course without first determining that it can be safely done without risk of collision with another vessel.
- If an operator fails to fully comprehend the course of an approaching vessel he must slow down immediately to a speed barely sufficient for steerageway until the other vessel has passed.
- Vessels yielding right-of-way shall reduce speed, stop, reverse, or alter course to avoid collision. Vessel with right-of-way shall hold course and speed. If there is danger of collision, all vessels will slow down, stop, or reverse until danger is averted.
- Vessels will issue warning signals in fog or weather conditions that restrict visibility.
- No mechanically propelled vessel shall be operated so as to traverse a course around any other vessel underway or any person swimming.
- In a narrow channel, vessels will keep to the right of mid-channel.
- Vessels approaching or passing another vessel shall be operated in such manner and at such a rate of speed as will not create a hazardous wash or wake.
- No vessel shall obstruct or interfere with take-off, landing, or taxiing of aircraft.
- All vessels shall be operated at reasonable speeds for given conditions and situations and must be under the complete control of the operator at all times.
- No person shall, under any circumstances, operate a vessel in excess of an established speed or wake zone.
- No vessel or person shall obstruct or block a navigation channel, entrance to channel, mooring slip, landing dock, launching ramp, pier or tributary.
- Vessels shall keep at least 100 feet clearance of displayed diver's flag.
- Operator shall maintain a proper lookout.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 34:851.27A.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, LR 29:1835 (September 2003).
PFDs AND CHILDREN - Children 16 or younger must wear a properly sized and fitted PFD when the boat is underway on all vessels less than 26 feet in length. Smaller children should have a PFD that has ample upper body flotation and a crotch strap, proper fitting is critical.
DWI - Boat operators who are driving while intoxicated (DWI) with a blood alcohol content of .08 and higher face the same penalties as someone operating a vehicle on the highway. Penalties include the suspension or revocation of boating privileges and driver's license. A designated sober operator is a must for both the roadway and waterway.


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My work always begins on the wheel. My attention to detail and finishing are a signature quality of my work.
The influence of native art from many countries is evident in my incised blackware and in my burnished and smoke-fired vessels.
The spectacular effects of the smoke-firing are helping me to learn that imbalance and spontaneity can be a good thing. From my free-form incised blackware I am learning not to calculate and plan everything, that each thing we do is a step which flows to the next thing, and to let go, trust and just know that "it all fits".
My continuing vision is to work in the peaceful natural setting of my home producing quality pieces for discerning customers.
Smoke-fired, Cone 6 glazed functional and incised blackware.
My work is in many private collections including 2 pieces purchased by former US President Bill Clinton. A piece of my smoke-fired pottery was chosen to be in the National Exhibition, Canadian Pavillion at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea in September 2009. Another smoke-fired piece was chosen to be part of the 2010 Olympics Fine Craft Exhibition at the Vancouver Museum Jan - April, 2010
Work Generally Available from:
Okanagan Potters Association Vernon & Kelowna, BC
Mind and Matter Gallery, White Rock, BC
Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, BC
CanWestArt, Harrison Hot Springs, BC
Courthouse Gallery, Kamloops, BC
The smoke-fired vessels are slipped and burnished to fuse the clay, helping to seal the surface and produce the fine sheen. For decorative purposes they are smoked in combustible materials such as sawdust, pine cones and leaves. The leaves transfer their carbon to the porous pots resulting in a photo-like image. As the artist I can influence the outcome but I cannot control the spontaneity of the firing, resulting in truly unique pieces.
My functional pottery is glazed and fired to Cone 6.
My incised blackware is also fired to Cone 6. I brush a black slip onto a brown stoneware clay then carve freehand patterns through the slip.
Born, raised and worked in Vancouver in the graphic arts field before running away to the woods of the BC interior where I became a potter in 1992. I enrolled in Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design for their summer ceramics program, read everything I could find on ceramics and attended many workshops with internationally known potters.
I am a member of the BC Potters Guild, Crafts Council of BC and the Okanagan Potters Association.


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Investigators will spend a sixth day searching Pine Lake Park in Bristol in connection with the investigation into Aaron Hernandez.
Hernandez, a Bristol native and former New England Patriot, has been charged with the murder of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old Boston semi-professional football player.
Hernandez, who has pleaded not guilty, is being held in lieu of bond.
Lloyd's body was found on June 17 in an industrial park about a mile from Hernandez's Massachusetts home. He had been shot five times in what officials have called an "execution style" killing.
Police have not found the weapon and told NBC Connecticut they are searching for evidence in the case, including the murder weapon.
They took a day off from the search on Monday, but will be back out today.
Bristol police, along with Connecticut State Police and Massachusetts state police, have been conducting the search, using metal detectors and special sonar equipment.
During the painstaking search, state police divers are able to see only about an inch in front of them in the murky lake waters.
To date, they have found nothing connected to the case in the lake.
Police said they will have to decide whether to search the entire lake.
This is not the first part of the investigation to focus on Bristol.
Since June, police have executed several search warrants in Bristol at homes linked to Hernandez and his alleged associates, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz.
According to warrants, Ortiz and Wallace were with Hernandez on June 17 and returned to Lake Street in Bristol, about a mile away from the lake.
Whether the search will continue tomorrow is not known.
Police sources have told NBC Connecticut that more charges could be filed against Hernandez.


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This week will be focused on scripts. I have an entire page devoted to those I have created and promote a few others that I find useful to my day-to-day design and cartography work in Adobe Illustrator (go there), especially as a former Freehand user. These scripts extend Adobe Illustrator's basic functionality thru a cross-platform JavaScript language.
I've updated my fitting script (today's post) and Make Point Type, Find and Replace Graphics, and will unveil my Tag Cloud generating script.
Fit Text Frame to Content (Depth)
Version 2 Beta 1
Important Enhancements:
- The text object now remains on it's parent layer in the same z-stacking order that it was found in. No more error alerts about locked layers.
- Expands the text box to fit overset type (before it only shrank the text box)
- Option to set how much "extra" buffer to include at the bottom of the box when it is fitted (measured in decimal lines automatically proportional to the type size)
- More intelligent about examining rectangular text boxes only (rotated text boxes still need attention)
Download script (3k file size). Installation instructions here.
Please give this script a whirl. Email me with bugs or feature enhancements.
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dress: Fletcher by Lyell
tights: thrifted
shoes: UO
hat: vintage wool beret
purse: vintage Bond Street bag
*listening to: The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge "Second Skin"
Tonight Tom and I went on an honest to goodness date. I can't even remember the last time we did that. Since before we bought the house, for sure. We went to a Hershey Bears hockey game, ate bad pizza and nachos, cheered for every power play and never once discussed paint colors or door knobs or what we need to buy on our next trip to Lowes. Then we came home to eat cookies and milk while we crashed on the couch to watch Mad Men. Perfection.


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Timetable for 10 Gigabit Ethernet
The next generation of Ethernet is likely to have a profound effect on storage; pumped-up iSCSI performance may challenge Fibre Channel's tier 1 dominance.
By Christine Cignoli
It's barely even here yet, but 10Gb Ethernet (10GigE) is going to have a hard time living up to its hype. Hailed as a "game changing" technology by some, it carries the burden of being a cure-all for storage (and network) managers' problems. But when you look beyond the hyperbole surrounding 10GigE, you'll see the technology is, in many ways, still just emerging.
That's not to suggest that 10GigE won't deliver on its promise -- perhaps not a cure-all, but certainly destined to give iSCSI storage and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) topologies a big boost. Still, real products are few and far between at this time, and per-port prices are still at a very un-Ethernet premium. While there have been some early adopters, its first few inroads into the market have been in higher-end implementations such as super-high-performance computing.
Switch vendors are starting down the 10GbE road with recent product releases and certifications. But it may still take some time for 10GbE to hit the mainstream. Brad Booth, chairman of the board of the Ethernet Alliance, thinks 2012 is when costs will be low enough for the market to see widespread adoption. "Generally when a standard is written, it takes about 10 years before it really hits what we consider the big volume adoption," he says. Booth calls those 2012 adopters "tier 3," and says that quicker-adopting tier 2 data centers are probably looking at 10Gb now and considering which cabling they'll choose. He cites Google as a tier 1 data center; they're now running a brand-new data center with 10GbE throughout, according to Booth.
|10Gig rides on copper or fiber
Optical fiber: The earliest 10Gb Ethernet components were built around optical fiber, but copper cable-based products soon followed. In most data centers, copper is the standard transport for data and storage networks because it's relatively cheap and easy to install. But copper cabling typically can't carry a signal over long distances, so it's used primarily within buildings, while optical cabling is usually used to link facilities over longer distances.
There are a number of IEEE standards for optical cabling with 10Gb Ethernet, each designated by a unique identifier. For example, 10GBASE-SR (short distance) is the standard for the cheapest optical implementation that uses standard optical cabling; it can cover distances of approximately 30 meters to 90 meters. The next step up in price and distance is 10GBASE-LR (long range), which can carry signals up to 10km. There are several additional standards for 10Gig over optics that offer greater ranges.
Copper connections: For copper cabling, 10GBASE-CX4 is an IEEE standard approved approximately five years ago that uses familiar twin-axial cable. Also referred to as 802.3ak, this standard is based on cabling and connectors used for InfiniBand, although some reengineering was done so they're not identical. 10GBASE-CX4 is effective at distances up to 15 meters.
10GBASE-T, approved in 2006, is likely to gain widespread popularity. It uses unshielded (or shielded) twisted-pair cables and will work at up to 100 meters; companies may opt to use already installed Cat 6 cabling, but the distance with be effectively halved. Connectors for 10GBASE-T are familiar, too, RJ-45-style connectors rated at 650 MHz.
One research institute has already moved to 10GbE. Bruce Allen, director of the Hannover, Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, chose a Woven Systems Inc. switch as part of their early 2008 systems upgrade. "I think 10Gb is now a proven technology," he says. And being an early adopter is standard for Max Planck. "We're a research institute," he says. "The one guaranteed way to fail is to wait. The wrong decision is waiting." The institute stores and analyzes data, with approximately 1.5 petabyte (PB) currently managed. Allen says storage is secondary for them, with compute cycles the primary goal. "I wanted wirespeed nonblocking to all nodes, and that meant Ethernet," he says.
Woven is one of the few vendors offering 10Gb switches, along with others including, Cisco Systems Inc., Force10 Networks Inc., Foundry Networks Inc. (now part of Brocade) and Mellanox Technologies Inc. Joseph Ammirato, vice president of marketing at Woven, thinks 10GbE will be more affordable by 2010. And, for more widespread adoption, "we need 10GbE as a default feature on server motherboards," he says. "Users still have to buy it as a separate add-on." He targets mid-2010 for 10Gb to be built in.
Ammirato names several customer requirements he thinks will drive 10Gb adoption: consolidation, server virtualization and what he calls desktop virtualization -- a need for organizations to better control mission-critical applications, running them from the data center and not user desktops.
Mellanox is trying to move into the 10GbE market from its base of InfiniBand products. T.A. Ramanujam, Mellanox's senior product marketing manager, says that in the past few years, Ethernet has come into the spotlight as a consolidation or unifying data center fabric. "To accomplish that," he says, "they've taken features from technologies like Fibre Channel and InfiniBand and added that to [a] new Ethernet specification, what's going to be called data center Ethernet or converged enhanced Ethernet."
|A sampler of 10GBASE-T NICs
Early on, networking vendors were challenged by issues such as power consumption and overheating with their designs for copper-based interface cards for 10Gig Ethernet. Many of these issues have been resolved. Today, there are a number of vendors offering 10Gig Ethernet network interface cards (NICs) that use the 10GBASE-T that supports twisted-pair cables and RJ-45 jacks, including the following:
Ramanujam says per-port prices are approximately $300 to $400 for a 10GbE switch, and predicts that the market will start adopting 10GbE when its price per-port cost drops closer to Gigabit Ethernet's cost. "It's not very far-fetched," he says, estimating that the second half of 2010 will bring 10GbE on the motherboard along with more affordable switches. "By then, the price of 10gig switches will be in the region of $100, $150 per port."
It also remains to be seen how FCoE, a potential 10Gb competitor, will affect 10GbE's adoption and pricing. Allen at the Max Planck Institute thinks 10Gb will triumph. "I tend to think that Fibre Channel is one of those technologies that doesn't really have a good place in the future," he says. "You're better off sticking to commodity stuff." But storage users managing the deeply ingrained FC infrastructures of many businesses might disagree.
In the meantime, the Ethernet Alliance's Booth says the group is busy putting on interoperability demonstrations and educating possible 10GbE users on what they'll need to do to be ready for the transition -- namely, consider their current server utilization and decide on cabling. "Looking at a server running 1gig, do they want to upgrade that server by putting in a new NIC and upgrade it to run 10gig?" says Booth. "Or do they wish to put a better server in there and put this 10gig card in it?"
Users must also think about whether they can reuse their current optical data center cable, or whether they'll need or want to replace copper cabling. Allen says the one mistake the Max Planck Institute made in setting up 10GbE was its cabling choice. They're using copper 10Gb cables, which Allen calls "bulky and inflexible." For $50 more apiece, he says, they could have had optical cables.
10Gb also signals a shift in thinking toward consolidation and centralization. "Unlike previous Ethernet technologies, where primarily volume went to desktop," says Booth, "now most of the volume of 10gig is in the data center, into the core of network."
BIO: Christine Cignoli is the Associate Site Editor for SearchStorage.com and SearchStorage.co.UK.


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This time of year is traditionally the ideal period to take stock of the events of the past 12 months and to look ahead to the forthcoming year. For Achim Feifel, 2012 brought with it plenty of big changes. In September, the long-standing coach of German Women's Bundesliga side Hamburg ventured to move to Russia, where he has been in charge of national champions FC Rossiyanka for the last three months.
"Even after such a short space of time, I can absolutely say that I don't regret coming here, quite the opposite," Feifel told FIFA.com in an exclusive interview though, as well as learning a new language and adapting to unfamiliar surroundings, a completely different mentality has also taken some getting used to.
"For me personally it was a good step to take in order to keep developing," he went on. "There are big obstacles ahead, but things have been progressing very positively. It's been great fun working with the side and our teamwork has paid off little by little. The players gelled quickly, they train enthusiastically and implement well what is asked of them."
Feifel first came into contact with women's football in 1999 as a coach responsible for both men's and women's teams with the Baden-Wurttemberg state football association, and has remained in the women's game ever since. He joined Hamburg in 2002, where he was at the helm until his recent move to Russia. The 48-year-old is therefore well-placed to make comparisons between the German Women's Bundesliga and the Russian Supreme Division.
Sleeping giant
"The biggest difference is the depth and breadth of quality. Women's football in Germany is up there among the best in the world. Due to the distances involved in Russia, the infrastructure is not as well established or as widespread," Feifel said. "In such a huge country it's a lot more difficult to identify and develop talent than it is in Germany for example. It involves travelling inconceivable distances. Not to mention those players who live abroad."
In the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women's World Ranking, Russia are currently in 20th place, just behind Finland. Their last participation at a FIFA Women's World Cup™ came in 2003 and they subsequently failed to qualify for both China 2007 and Germany 2011. With that in mind, Feifel is cautious on Russia's chances of muscling in among the world's elite.
"In Germany the game is supported by the governing body," said the veteran coach. "When you look at what's already being done in the youngest age categories, at how scouting is structured and organised in the different regional associations, then it's clear that a country like Russia still has a long way to go. There are good players here too and I have some of them in my team. There's a lot of potential in Russia and it hasn't been exhausted yet, not by a long way. It's a sleeping giant."
'The spectators decide'
Feifel believes structural changes are needed in his adopted homeland in order for the women's game to keep growing. Factors such as media presentation, marketing and public perception still have plenty of room for improvement, both in Russia and elsewhere.
"The big tournaments will only have a lasting effect when clubs start investing more energy into public relations and advertising in order to keep the sport in the public eye," Feifel said. "At the end of the day, the spectators decide. If there are only 300 fans watching a match at the weekend, you're probably not going to find many sponsors. Things are on the right track in Germany, but other countries are still having plenty of difficulties."
Under Feifel's guidance, Rossiyanka are certainly moving in the right direction. The defending champions may currently be down in second place in the domestic standings, but they have a game in hand over the leaders. Their progress in the UEFA Women's Champions League also gives cause for encouragement, although they face a tough task against Wolfsburg in the quarter-finals.
"Wolfsburg are clear favourites. In the last few years they've put together a fantastic team full of international players and have quality right across the board," Feifel concluded. "But we're not bad either. I think you always have a chance in cup games and we'll prepare ourselves well in order to try and reach the next round."


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It's another one of those random haul kinda days and at the moment I have an obsession with Matcha!
Matcha is a fine grounded powdered high quality green tea and not the same as tea powder or green tea powder.
If you've never tried Matcha before then it's quite unusual because I think it has a creamy edge to it.
I got these sachets of premade matcha lattes. It tastes like a creamy milky sweet green tea:
You can do it yourself but this is easy. Yes, it is luminous green.I also got DHC green tea is sachets (handy!) and Meji collagen drink in a tropical flavour.
Once again these are in sachets so it's handy and it tastes nice. I'm not sure that ingesting collagen helps anything but there you go:
Then I bought 2 bags of sweets. I don't buy these often as if I love them, then I finish them quickly and it costs a fortune to import them again.
These are a hard candy (with matcha and red bean flavour – love) and chewy matcha candy.
Both very tasty but unusual and if you're not used to red bean and the like it might seem extremely odd!
What is your favourite unusual snack?


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Good Morning!
Yesterday was a great day at the school funderaiser. I had a long day and didn't stamp a thing!! Can you believe it...didn't pick up a stamp ALL day...VERY rare for me! When I got home I just wanted to take my boots off and relax :) Lucky for me I had some cards done and ready to show you for today...
Little Paper Shop will be releasing some new stamps and this is the first sneak peek I have to share with you. It's called Flyin' By. I've made two 4.25x4.25 notecards. I like the clean and crisp look of them and I think they make cute little cards to send to anyone.
Thanks for stopping by!
I MAY be back volunteering today if we have a spot to fill...but have to wait until later this morning to hear either way. So I might be gone all day again and no stamping...ack!!