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Going from 'stop, drop, roll' to 'run, hide, fight'
Preparing our kids for real and present dangers isn't paranoia — it's basic, fundamental parenting and educating
I'm a Baby Boomer. When I was in grade school, nobody talked to me about "good touching versus bad touching." Now it's in schools' curricula.
Cars didn't have seat belts — kids rode around loose with dogs in the beds of pickup trucks.
D.A.R.E. programs didn't exist and medicine didn't come in containers with child-resistant caps.
Children in the Cold War
In the 1950s, school children were taught to "duck and cover" in case of nuclear attack and were herded into school basements for bomb drills. Millions of comic books were distributed to kids featuring a cartoon turtle called Bert that urged them to "duck and cover" in an atomic strike.
High school students manned Ground Observation Corps Filter Centers, charged with warning of impending nuclear raids. Ordinary families built and equipped bomb shelters in their yards.
Even in the 60s and 70s, my schools had signs designating them as nuclear fallout shelters and we were taught how to equip our home basements in case of a nuclear attack.
My point is, we didn't hide the dangers from our kids, we posted signs, provided guidance, and prepared contingencies. Teaching kids about potential dangers was as common as ensuring they were vaccinated for small pox.
My Alaskan born grandson grew up with guns in the home. His parents did a fine job discussing that. Soon after he learned to talk, when asked, "What do you do if you see a gun?" he immediately replied "Don't touch it. Tell a grownup."
Safety in All Forms
Different times, different circumstances and different dangers, demand different discussions... and drills. One thing hasn't changed between my school and my grandson's – fire safety. Ask a school age kid what they should do if they catch fire, and they'll tell you: "Stop, drop, roll."
They're not taught to just hunker down and wait for help or for an adult to tell them what to do.
Every teacher, kid, and custodian in my school and my grandson's knows what to do in case of fire or an alarm.
The result? Not one kid has been killed in a school fire in North America in the last 50 years. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, an internationally-recognized expert on human aggression and violence, says that's because schools have invested in sprinklers, fire retardant building materials, battery backed-up fire exit signs, fire extinguishers, and regular fire drills and training for staff and kids. We need to take a similar approach to violence.
Some schools have already embraced such training and drills. A program called ALICE — which stands for Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate — is one such training that has been recently given in Eastern Iowa schools.
It has a longer history in Texas. Debate and disagreement over the training content and whether children should be involved, or just adult school staff as in the Iowa schools, has already begun.
That's fine.
What we must not do is nothing.
Age-Appropriate Training
I am not a tactical expert. I leave it to communities, parents, schools, and experts to determine the content of such training and drills. But I respectfully disagree with those who say it is paranoid to provide even young children with these tools and could traumatize them.
In the same way that training needs to be age appropriate for other dangers, so does preparing kids for physical violence.
I believe we should address safety from violence like we do fire safety, "good touch / bad touch," and the dangers of drugs. We need to be teaching it and drilling it beyond just lockdown procedures in the school.
Violence — like child sexual abuse, fires, and drugs — is much more likely to endanger children outside their schools. Parents have a huge responsibility to prepare their children for today's violence, including active-shooter scenarios. Parents who are also police officers have an opportunity to help guide parents who are not as well-educated on things like the five phases of the active shooter.
Since Columbine, we've had mass shootings in workplaces, churches, concerts, public streets, shopping malls, universities, city hall, a nursing home, an immigration center, a military base, a super market parking lot, restaurants, a hair salon, a theater, and post offices.
After the mall shooting in Portland, Oregon near the end of last year, I listened to an expert interviewed on the radio about what bystanders should do in such a situation.
The expert provided a three-word hierarchy of actions — "Run, hide, fight."
I was glad for the information.
See Something, Say Something
The TSA over and over encourages us to report any suspicious activity at our airports. We need to teach that awareness and culture in our schools and all the other places of mass shootings and violence. In 1997 in my home state of Alaska, Evan Ramsey arrived by bus at the Bethel High School armed with a 12-gauge shotgun. He shot and killed the principal and a student and wounded two other students.
More than 15 students knew of Ramsey's intentions. Not one told someone in authority.
I bet all of them would've reported a smoldering fire.
In January of this year, there was a gun scare at a high school in my hometown. The Anchorage Police Department and the school responded wonderfully. But the fact remains that the victim who had a gun pointed at him waited an hour to tell anyone — an hour in which the assailant possessed a weapon in the midst of many other students.
Think what could have occurred during that time with just a standard magazine of 15 rounds, let alone a "high-capacity" one. I'm not blaming the victim. He's a kid and said he didn't tell because the assailant was following him around.
The lesson is that he hadn't thought about, discussed, or been prepared for what to do in that situation.
Preparing our kids for real and present dangers isn't paranoia — it's basic, fundamental parenting and educating. It needn't be any more traumatizing than teaching them about "stranger danger," fire safety, or drugs.


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Woolridge, Hunter will transfer from WSU
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) Starting guard Royce Woolridge and reserve center James Hunter have left the Washington State basketball program, while recruit Jermaine Morgan has been released from his letter of intent.
New coach Ernie Kent said Tuesday that Woolridge wants to play his final season of college basketball closer to his family in Arizona. Woolridge averaged 7.3 points per game as a junior last season.
Kent says Woolridge is on schedule to graduate this school year with a degree in human development.
Hunter, a native of Sydney, Australia, played sparingly in two seasons at WSU and will seek to play his final season elsewhere.
Morgan, a 6-foot-8 forward from Chicago, signed with the Cougars during the early signing period. Kent says he wants to play closer to home.


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Digging into the archives today for our first blog post in a while. This was a project that we produced for Blok Design who designed this rad identity system for Hoi Bo, a line of high-end bags and clothing.
Everything was printed using two letterpress inks, a dark navy blue and a soft pink. The bag images were converted to half-tone images (images made up of tiny dots, just like in old-school newspapers) in order for us to letterpress them. The business cards were printed on French Grout Grey 100# cover that was triplexed to a hefty 300# thickness before receiving the final abstract-shaped die cut. The origami inspired promo was printed on French Grout Grey 70# text and was hit with several score lines to ensure accurate folding when prepped for final in-store presentation.


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Welcome to the USGenWeb and VAGenWeb Project
If you find a problem with this website, please mail me a note!
On the left, you will find links to the most frequently requested information. At the bottom of this page will be links to other resources as well as information submitted by other researchers.
Jan. 14th: Nancy Agee Updated Obituaries from Central Virginian through the year 2018 (28,188 total). Thank you again Nancy Agee!!
Jan. 18th: A new research guide, Hanover County Research, by David Joyce, has been added to the website. This guide focuses on methods for researching 18th century Presbyterians, Quakers, and the members of the Church of England in Hanover County.
The fourth volume of Louisa County Family Graveyards, "Silently Sleeping", is now available. The book is $30 plus $5 s&h, check payable and sent to Pat Baber, 1105 Bethany Church Road, Bumpass, VA 23024. For more information contact Pat Baber
The combined index for all four volumes: Click Here For Combined Index
Copies of Volume 3, "In Loving Memory", are still available, plus a few copies of Volume 2, Rest In Peace. These are $30, plus $5 s&h, check payable and sent to Pat Baber, 1105 Bethany Church Road, Bumpass, VA 23024.
Oct. 12th: A new research paper has been submitted by Evans Peay of
Clarksville, TN Click here to open the PDF
[Mainly Carroll and Tally family from Louisa & surrounding counties] "These papers are in the possession of Ross Evans Peay (evanspeay at gmail dot com), Clarksville, TN
as of October 2014. They are also available at the Tennessee Library and archives on microfilm as part of the Austin Peay Family Papers, 1863-1977. The microfilm accession number is MF.559....
Jul. 26th: A new research paper has been submitted by Donald L. King, M.D.
"A few years ago I compiled the attached monograph, "Patriot Brothers" about the five King brothers from Louisa County that served in the Revolutionary War... so I thought I'd send it to you in case you might want to put it on the Louisa Co. website. It is 11.5 mb, 48 pages, lots of illustrations...
The third volume of Louisa County Family Graveyards, "In Loving Memory", is now available. The book is $30 plus $5 s&h, check payable and sent to Pat Baber, 1105 Bethany Church Road, Bumpass, VA 23024. For more information contact Pat Baber
email@example.com or Pattie Cooke
The combined index for all three volumes: Click Here For Combined Index
An additional 50 copies of Louisa County Family Graveyards, Volume 2, "Rest In Peace", are now available. The book is $30 plus $5 s&h, check payable and sent to Pat Baber, 1105 Bethany Church Road, Bumpass, VA 23024.
-- Uniforms of the Virginia Continental Line. Submitted by Jim Gillgam.
-- There are now almost 4,000 entries in the Death Certificate pages. (3/3/2009)
-- A new book "Louisa County History, A Brief History" by Pattie Cooke, is 115 pages and provides a history of Louisa County as seen through the eyes of the courthouse or town. It is basically a town book with emphasis on county history. Quantities are limited and the price is $23. Contact
Patti Cook for info.
Information on George R. Thompson, his father, Archibald Wyatt Thompson of Louisa County, and others was submitted by Ken Thompson.
-- Thanks to the efforts of the Louisa County Historical Society, I have now included almost 5,000 tombstone transcriptions from over 50 churches and family cemeteries in Louisa County. There is a master index of all names, plus pages for each cemetery, both of which provide a link to a photograph of the tombstone. Oakland Cemetery and First Baptist Church still need to be transcribed, plus a few other minor problems may exist. Click here to see the index
-- An index containing almost 20,000 names, showing the relationship, date and reference document between two parties has been added. This information was submitted by Janice L. Abercrombie. Click here to see the index
-- The book "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN", Louisa County Family Graveyards, Volume 1, is now SOLD OUT. You can still contact Pat or Pattie and have your name placed on a list so they can determine when to have reprints made. It contains photographs, tombstone inscriptions, and locations of 215 family graveyards in Louisa county. The book is $30 plus $5 s&h, check payable and sent to Pat Baber, 1105 Bethany Church Road, Bumpass 23024. For more information contact Pat Baber firstname.lastname@example.com or Pattie Cooke firstname.lastname@example.com Click here to see the index
-- Louisa County High School Students - 1945 including faculty and mentions men and women in Armed Forces
-- A new book "THE GARTH FAMILY: Descendants of John Garth of Virginia, 1734-1986" is available from Rosalie E. Davis. Click here for details and ordering information.
-- Bible Records and Cemeteries from the WPA Records. Submitted by Janice L. Abercrombie.
-- A new book "Cohabitation Lists of Former Slaves in Goochland, Hanover and Louisa Counties, Virginia as recorded by the Freedmen's Bureau" is available. Click here for details and ordering information.
-- The new book, "Abstracts of Louisa County, Virginia Will Books 1743-1801", by Nancy Chappelear Baird and Kate Hatch, is available for purchase from the Louisa County Historical Society for the sum of $22.00 (+s/h). Click here for their address.
-- The Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation website is now up and running. Click here to visit their site.
If you have pages (or know of pages) related to Louisa County, I would like to add a link to that information.
If you have ANY data you would like to share, please send it to me and I will include it for other researchers. Even if it's only one marriage, a couple of deeds, a will ........
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- African-American & Native Americans - Researching Tips
- Bethany Christian Church Cemetery Records
- Cemetery Index (from the book Gone But Not Forgotten)
- Cemetery List and Tombstone Inscriptions - from 57 cemeteries in Louisa Co. Provided by the Louisa County Historical Society
- Census - 1850 - Complete
- Census - 1860
- Census - 1920
- Chancery Causes - Index of names, plus summary showing all Plaintiffs and Defendants
- Death Certificates - List of names; images available from Pat Baber
- Deed Information
- Index To Names Found In Deeds
- Geographical / Historical Information
- Information Available From The Family History Center
- Town of Louisa Website
- Louisa County Clerks Office
- Louisa County Clerks Office -- Obtaining Copies of Documents
- Louisa County Historical Society (information on this website)
- Louisa County Historical Society Website
- Louisa County Website
- Map of Creeks in Louisa Co.
- Map of Creeks in Caroline Co.
- Marriage Index (Sorted By Husband)
- Marriage Index (Sorted By Wife)
- Obituaries from The Central Virginian (1929-current)
- Plat Maps from Patents and Grants - Provided by Jerry Sullivan
- Printed Material Available for Louisa County
- Query Index - Queries submitted by other researchers
- Slave Names
- Surveyor's Book
- Tombstone Inscriptions - from 57 cemeteries in Louisa Co. Provided by the Louisa County Historical Society
- 1767 Tithes / Census for St. Martin's Parish
- Volunteers for Look-up's
- Wills / Probate Records
- World War I Draftee's
- World War I Soldiers that filled out a questionnaire
- Library of Virginia's Genealogy Home Page
- Search Other Counties and States for Surnames
- USGenWeb
- USGenWeb Archives Table of Contents
- VAGenWeb
- VAGenWeb Archive Site - FTP Site
- VAGenWeb Archives Table of Contents
Bagby, Rev. William
Bickley, James Will
Bickley, Joseph Will
Biggers (from Bonnie Wilcox)
Bowles, Benjamin
Buckner, Phillip - Administrators Bond
Burnley, James Descendants of James Burnley Sr.
Carroll Submitted by Evans Peay
Callis William Overton Callis, Ann Price
Crank Information
Dunn, Thomas My Tree ( John, Martin, Thomas R., Frank L.)
Gardner, Daniel
Jennings - Chancery Suit
Jennings and Thompson - misc. Deeds, Wills, Marriages
Johnson, Anderson (Will) ---
Johnson, Roderick (Will) ---
Johnson (Deed)
Jones, many
King Genealogy, Louisa County (thanks Don King!) http://sites.google.com/site/kinggenealogy/home
Langston, John Mercer http://www.oberlin.edu/~EOG/OYTT-images/JMLangston.html
Lasley, John Deeds
McAllister family
Medlock, George - Heirs of - from Chancery Court
Morris, John Revolutionary War Pension Application
Morris, William Deeds
Morrison, John with surnames (ANDREWS, DUDLEY, SMITH)
Nuckolls Web Page http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ahopkins/nuckolls/
Nuckolls / Nuckolds / etc.
Nuckolls Worldwide Kindred Society http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nuck141/
Peays from Cuckooville, Virginia (Louisa Co) Copied from defunct: http://webpages.charter.net/epeay/peaycuck.html
Perkins Journal of A. M. Perkins
Price William Overton Callis, Ann Price
Ratcliff, Richard
Shelton Names from 1870 Louisa Census
Smith, Ellis (submitted by Kelly Alvarado)
Tally Submitted by Evans Peay
Terry, Stephen My Tree from Stephen, James, Champness, David, Martha.
Thompson, George R submitted by Ken Thompson.
Tisdale My Tree ( John Sr. & Jr., David Sr. & Jr., to Emily)
Trevilian My Tree ( John,, Thomas, James Lewis, Maria D., Emily E.)
Vest, John Descendants of John Vest
Williams, B. F. Deeds
Woodson, Payne, etc. About 900 names!!
Yancey Information - Louisa County http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/
Yancey http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/origin.htm
The USGenWeb Archives site is available now. Files on census records, marriage bonds, cemetery lists, wills, etc. are being uploaded now. We are accepting files to upload to the site. If you have transcribed primary source documents and would like to contribute them to the project, please send to Linda Lewis.
The Virginia Table of Contents list the files currently available for viewing or downloading.
Search Other Counties and States for Surnames
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To send me an e-Mail, please address to :
wayne at trevilians.com
I would like your feedback about what you would like to see included, or any other suggestions you may have. Thank You!!
Snail Mail to:
Wayne G. Dunn
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Evolution of this website
Way back in March/April of 1996 the GenWeb project was getting started. The goal was to have every county in every state hosted by a volunteer and they provide a website that would be available for researchers. Then in June of 1996, Linda Lewis, who was the state coordinator for Virginia, posted a message asking for volunteers for each of the counties in Virginia. At that time, only four counties were spoken for (Brunswick, Lee, Lunenburg, Scott & Russell).
I quickly volunteered, and by July 10th, had obtained a website (www.trevilians.com) from a hosting company named Hiway Technologies, Inc in Florida. After I had the website, I fired off the following email to Linda: " I am eager to race off at full speed -- just don't know where to!!" How true!! Internet? webpages? HTML? sounds kinda like "Lions, Tigers and Bears! Oh My!"
In one exchange, discussing how much space was needed, Linda replied "TWO MEGS is plenty. I have the VA page, all the VA counties that I coordinate, and another project totally unrelated to genealogy, on my one meg page with Compuserve". Hmmm, times have sure changed -- the Louisa site now takes up almost 700MB (as of December, 2007).


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Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species. By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public accepted evolution as a fact. However, many favoured competing explanations and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.
Darwin's early interest in nature led him to neglect his medical education at the University of Edinburgh; instead, he helped to investigate marine invertebrates. Studies at the University of Cambridge encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle established him as an eminent geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell's uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author.


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June 13-16, 2011
Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland
About The Event
A general theme to the top recommendations of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey is the importance of wide-area surveys. These surveys will provide data that are much deeper and covering larger solid angles than previous surveys, opening new parameter space for discovery. However a dilemma is that many future very large area surveys (Ω > 20,000 sq. deg.) are photometric and so spectroscopic follow-up will be essential to realize their full scientific potential. This will be particularly acute in the area of time-domain astronomy where sample selection for immediate spectroscopic follow-up will have to be made on very short time frames and probably be performed automatically. Another critical issue is having sufficient broadband coverage to interpret the physics of the sources. This workshop aimed to address two key topics: what science can be done by integrating current and future very wide-area surveys and what plans can be made for providing spectroscopic coverage. The overall structure included talks and panel discussions. "Tiger teams" were asked to summarize the conclusions in white papers that will help motivate future strategic plans to address these issues.
Follow the online discussion on the VeryWide Wiki.
Confirmed Speakers
- J. Gunn (Princeton University)
- M. Haynes (Cornell University)
- D. Hogg (New York University)
- A. Hopkins (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
- M. Jarvis (University of Hertfordshire)
- N, Kaiser (University of Hawaii)
- J. Kalirai (STScI)
- C. Martin (California Institute of Technology)
- S. Murray (Harvard University)
- R. Quimby (California Institute of Technology)
- G. Richards (Drexel University)
- P. Rosati (Eurpoean Southern Observatory)
- D. Schlegel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- A. Soderberg (Harvard University)
- M. Strauss (Princeton University)
- C. Veillet (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope)
- S. Warren (Imperial College)
- V. Wild (University of Edinburgh)
- M. Wood-Vasey (University of Pittsburgh)
- N. Wright (UCLA)
- L. Walkowicz (University of California, Berkeley)
- Y. Zhao (National Astronomical Observatories of China)
Scientific Organizing Committee
- Chairs: A. Ptak (NASA Goddard) & M. Robberto (STScI)
- H. Ferguson (STScI)
- T. Heckman (Johns Hopkins University)
- A. Hopkins (Australian Astronomical Observatory)
- N. Reid (STScI)
- N. Brandt (Penn State University)
- B. Nichol (University of Portsmouth)
- M. Jarvis (University ofHertfordshire)
- G. Meurer (University of Western Australia)
- S. Murray (Johns Hopkins University)
- D.Schneider (Penn State University)
- M. Strauss (Princeton University)
Local Organizing Committee
- M. Robberto
- A. Ptak
- R. Baxter
- B. Bozek
- S. Gezari
- K. Gordon
- K. Kuntz
- S. LaMassa
- C. Ly
- S. Pryce
- I. N. Reid
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Beauty Wellness Hydrogen Water Maker For Improve Sleeping Quality
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Clarion announces a partnership with Deezer
Clarion's Smart Access continues to develop and today welcomes on-board the popular music streaming platform, Deezer.
Vélizy-Villacoublay, June 30th 2014 – Clarion, the in-car electronics specialist, is positioning itself as a major force in the connected car sector. Today, the manufacturer announced a partnership with the online music service provider Deezer, thereby increasing the range of apps available through its Smart Access cloud service.
Smart Access is Clarion's cloud solution, which enables drivers to bring the power of online multimedia into their cars. Smart Access already offers apps for navigation, traffic information and social networking, to name a few. As part of the expansion of its multimedia services, Clarion is glad to welcome on-board the Deezer app.
Deezer is an online music streaming service, packed with more than 30 million tracks and offering a personalised music experience. Inviting Deezer into your car has become a necessity. Smart Access enables you to do this in complete safety.
From the outset, Clarion set itself a goal which it has never swerved from: the promise of entertainment and information in the car, in maximum safety. The partnership between Deezer and Clarion is a remarkable demonstration of this, allowing you to enjoy a relaxing drive, with you in control.
Clément Cezard, Chief Business Development Officer, Deezer said "Whether you want Beyoncé to help you get pumped up for a long drive, or some soothing Mozart to de-stress you on the way home from work, Deezer will have music to suit your taste on the road."
"We are very proud of this partnership with Deezer, a major force in the world of online music," explains Sébastien Brame, Head of Communication at Clarion Europe. "It means we can offer our customers the best of music in complete simplicity. Thanks to our expertise with in-car Hi-Fi systems, this will bring exceptional enjoyment to all our customers using Smart Access."
About Clarion: www.clarion.com
About Smart Access: www.clarion.info/smartaccess
Clarion Co. Ltd, a member of the Hitachi Group, was founded in 1947 in Tokyo. Today it is classed as one of the 100 largest global OEM suppliers by Automotive News. A world leader in car audio and electronic equipment, Clarion is positioned as a major independent manufacturer of car audio systems. The company specialises in research, development, design engineering and manufacturing work. Clarion combines these fields of expertise to offer innovative products, in terms of both their ease of use and their performance.
About Deezer : http://www.deezer.com
Deezer is a revolutionary global music service available in over 180 countries with 5 million paid subscribers. Deezer removes any barriers of the past, providing music fans with unlimited access to a catalogue of 30 million tracks. Deezer is available on PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, wireless home speakers, in-car audio, smart TVs and Xbox. Combining the best of man and machine, Deezer puts the focus squarely on music discovery with a global editorial team searching out the best music around the world, and algorithmic recommendations helping fans discover music they will love


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Arrhythmias are abnormalities in heart rate or rhythm. They arise from disruption of the electrical conduction system within cardiac tissue, which must be properly synchronized to maintain normal heart rhythm. Arrhythmias often occur in people who have some form of underlying heart disease, such as coronary artery disease, but a healthy heart is not immune to abnormal heart rate or rhythm (UoMMC 2012; MayoClinic 2011a; NHLBI 2011a,b).
There are two main categories of arrhythmias: tachycardia, in which the heart beats too fast, and bradycardia, in which the heart beats too slow. Fibrillation, in which the heart beats irregularly or "quivers", is an important heart rhythm irregularity sometimes classified as a subcategory of tachycardia (UoMMC 2012; Jeong 2012; MayoClinic 2011a; NHLBI 2011a,b; Katz 1999).
Arrhythmias are further classified depending on which part of the heart they affect; the 2 upper chambers of the heart are called atria and the 2 lower chambers are called ventricles (NHLBI 2011b).
Some arrhythmias, such as ventricular fibrillation, can be immediately life threatening because they impact the pumping action of the heart substantially enough to disrupt blood supply to the body, potentially leading to sudden cardiac death, one of the most common causes of death in the United States (Estes 2011; Tung 2012; Chugh 2008; MayoClinic 2011a). Atrial fibrillation is a common type of arrhythmia that is usually not life-threatening in its own right, but can dramatically increase risk of having a stroke because a blood clot can form within the fibrillating atria and then lodge in blood vessel(s) that supply the brain (Narumiya 2003; Schmidt 2011; Prasad 2012). Still other arrhythmias, such as premature ventricular contractions, are fairly common and not usually considered significant health threats (UoMMC 2012; NHLBI 2011b).
Conventional arrhythmia treatment strategies rely on pharmaceutical treatment with drugs that often have potentially serious side effects, electrical synchronization procedures, or surgical procedures that work in a certain percentage of patients.
There are lifestyle considerations and several natural compounds including magnesium and coenzyme Q10 that have been shown to support for a healthy heart and reduce occurrence of arrhythmia (Singh 2007; Weant 2005; Nagai 1985; Baggio 1993; Guerrera 2009; Bachman 2003; Falco 2012; Pepe 2010; Wu 2012).
This protocol will explain the different types of arrhythmias, their causes, and how they affect the heart. Conventional treatment strategies, including medications and procedures, will be reviewed and some promising new antiarrhythmic drugs will be examined. The important, though sometimes neglected role of diet and lifestyle considerations in arrhythmia prevention and management will also be discussed, and data on a number of scientifically studied natural compounds that may help maintain a healthy heart rhythm will be presented.


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There is a small, albeit outspoken, minority of Baptists who are confused on an important issue. With great conviction, they purport what they believe to be a biblical truth. Unfortunately, they do so with no biblical evidence. This doctrine that they preach with great exuberance has found a name in fundamentalist circles: "King James Onlyism."
This should be of great concern to anyone who is adamant about the authority of the Word of God.
Independent Baptists have consistently been reactionary preachers. When some new evil has found its way into modernity or post-modernity, we have been militant in our stance against it. We are not called "fighting fundamentalists" for nothing. And throughout the years, our stance has often been correct and necessary.
And in the last few decades, the Christian market has been flooded with numerous new Bible translations. Only a very few have been good literal translations. Some have been very poor. It has become imperative that pastors and church leaders clearly teach the difference between the two.
However, some Baptists have decided to forgo teaching the difference between good and poor translations, and have adopted a more severe stance; namely, that the King James Version is the only perfect translation of the Bible.
The KJV only stance is not very old. In my library I have a book by Jack Hyles, a very influential Baptist pastor in the late 20th century. In this book "Let's Study the Revelation", Pastor Hyles corrects the King James Bible with phrases like "better translated." The book was written in 1967. Pastor Hyles later changed his position, and in the last two decades of his life, was one of the most vocal leaders of the KJV only charge. He took the position to the extreme that an English speaking person needed to hear a gospel presentation from the KJV to be saved.
His conversion, and the conversion of many others, to the KJV only position was an overreaction to the introduction of some poor modern translations—the NIV is an example. They were correct in pointing out the errors in the NIV, just as we should be cautious of the TNIV, NLT or The Message. The Message is a paraphrase and should be read as such.
King James Onlyism has evolved since its inception around 30 years ago. In the small Baptist circles where it is perpetuated, it has become something of a litmus test, unfortunately. KJV only churches are known to spend extraordinary amounts of preaching and teaching time defending the honor of their favorite translation and less time on things of more importance, i.e. the gospel of Jesus Christ. They routinely break fellowship with other believers over this singular issue, and end up doing more harm than good.
They label anyone who retranslates the KJV into more accurate and clear wording a "bible corrector." This is both a serious, and usually unsubstantiated, claim.
The point that needs to be understood and emphasized is that the teacher is not correcting the Bible—he is correcting the particular word selected by the translation committee.
Furthermore, 400 years have passed since the translators converted the ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic words into the Queen's English. The English language is a constantly evolving organism. 400 years has produced countless significant changes in our figures of speech, colloquialisms, and common definitions. These changes must be accounted for. That is what a preacher, who wants to accurately teach the inspired Word of God, must do.
And sometimes the Bible teacher must say "No, the translators were not perfect; they were not inspired, and they didn't get it right." We are on very dangerous ground when we elevate the translation of a 17th century linguist over the original intent recorded by the Apostle Paul.
John R. Rice repeatedly pointed to Acts 12.4 as a classic example where the translation scholars were not perfect and chose to translate the Greek word pascha which means "Passover" as "Easter."
We can't go back and ask them why they did this. We know that pascha occurs 29 times in the KJV New Testament and 28 of those times it was rendered Passover. We also know that when we examine the same verse in any other Bible it is not rendered "Easter."
Now this is what it comes down to this for the reasonable person—there are only two possible scenarios.
1. A person believes by faith that the translators and everyone who subsequently has been involved in the changes that have occurred with the AV, since 1611, have all been inspired and uniquely led by the Holy Spirit unlike any other group of translators.
2. These godly scholars made a mistake and should not have selected the word Easter for the Jewish Festival of Passover.
The extreme minority position clings tightly to the first scenario. "Easter" for some reason was the perfect choice and not a single group of translators since 1611 have got it right. In this case, the KJV corrects the Greek NT and it is now held in a higher position of authority. The BBC Articles of Faith do not support scenario 1 because the church articles of faith state that the original manuscripts were inspired and we don't have any manuscripts that contain a Greek word for the holiday "Easter."
Therefore, scenario two is the only position acceptable for BBC. The Bible is perfect, preserved and prized, BUT the translators were not perfect and did not get it right in Acts 12.4.
Passover is the right word and anyone who teaches Acts 12.4 as the holiday Easter is not teaching the Word of God—they may be reading from the Word of God but if they let their people walk away with the understanding of a pagan holiday involving bunnies and eggs, instead, of the correct word Passover—they have not delivered the Word of God.


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Timothy "Tim" Van Patten (born 10 June 1959) is an Emmy-winning American actor, scriptwriter, producer and director. He is best known for his directing work for HBO, having directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, The Pacific, Rome, Deadwood, The Wire, The Sopranos and Sex and the City. He has also directed episodes of Ed and Touched by an Angel. Patten's most notable project was The Sopranos, for which he directed twenty episodes and won a Writer's Guild Award and an Edgar Award. Another episode he wrote won an Emmy Award for Best Writing.
Patten directed the first two episodes of Game of Thrones, including reshoots of the pilot originally directed by Thomas McCarthy. He was nominated for a Emmy Award for his work on the first episode of the series.
Van Patten did not return as a director for the second season. He did attend the 2012 Golden Globes ceremony and celebrated Peter Dinklage winning Best Supporting Actor.
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Well folks the ground hog saw his shadow so we have another month until Spring arrives as if we didn't anyway. According to New York their ground hog did not see his shadow but then again they are somewhat strange anyway. Daylight savings time will be here before you know on 12 March. Kind of sounds like time to be thinking about going on cruises doesn't it? Well you better be checking the air in your tires, changing the oil, filling up with gas and unplugging from the battery tenders and get ready to roll. We are looking at some cruises now for March, April and May now with dates and locations to be determined. If you have any suggestions and are willing to lead a cruise let us know. Don't forget the MS Corvette Classic will be upon us before you know it. Now is the time to get out and start getting sponsors and silent auction items.
General Motors has announced two new Corvettes for this year, the new ZR1 and the mid-engine Corvette. Keep in mind the information that follows is taken from several resources and hopefully they are more like Fox News and less like CNN, ABC and NBC in their reporting. The ZR1 was supposed to debut in January at the Detroit Car Show but was pushed until August at the Continental Tire Road Race Showcase. It will be a 2018 model that may be available in the fall. It will be powered by a new Code Name LT5 6.2 liter V8 naturally-aspirated dual overhead cam design with horsepower in the range of 750-755. The mid-engine Corvette will share the same power plant and will debut in January 2018 at the Detroit Car Show. It will be a C8 Corvette; however, the C7 will be produced through the 2021 production year. As it stands now the mid-engine Corvette will not replace the Corvette as we know it but will be an additional model. Rumor has it that the mid-engine Corvette could sell for around $155,000.
The headrest of car seats is deliberately kept detachable and sharp on the ends of the posts so that it can be used to break open the glass of a car in case of fire or other emergency. The car's glass is kept easily breakable from inside. Very few people know about and thus can't save themselves in case of emergencies.


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Variation on a Theme
Choosing an appropriate color palette is an important step in creating great design. Using the right mixture of colors is what gives life to the images you create and combine. But perhaps the best way to ensure you are using your colors to their full potential is to experiment with the placement of each color.
This variation on a theme, as seen above, serves to change the look and feel to give you a look that supports the image's message. The key to variation is experimentation. When you stumble upon the combination that works best, you'll be glad you took the time.
Color Index: Over 1100 Color Combinations, CMYK and RGB Formulas, for Print and Web Media
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Color Index provides more than one thousand color combinations and formulas--guaranteed to help graphic artists solve design dilemmas and create effective images for both print and the Web.
From progressive colors to natural tones, Color Index makes choosing hues for any job easier! Designers will start working with color in exciting new ways and create original, eye-catching designs that pop off the page. It's all the inspiration they need to explore and experiment with color as never before!
Just like the other clever little design books in this series, Color Index is portable, packed with inspiration, and neatly packaged in a colorful, sturdy vinyl jacket.


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Auditorium: Episode III →
Auditorium: Episode III Friday, August 12th, 9pm-2am. $10 advance, $15 door. All ages welcome.
At Safe Harbor Studios in Soho. 446 Broadway 3rd Floor Between Grand St & Howard St
"Auditorium is a new loft party for lovers of ambient, experimental, downtempo and slow electroacoustic sounds. Expect an evening of inspired music, immersive eight-channel sound, enchanting lighting, surreal decor and mountains of pillows.
Our audiologists for the evening are Dimensions, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), Noveller (Sarah Lipstate), Nathan Wheeler, and Zemi17."


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You might think from the recent spate of atheist best-sellers that belief in God has become intellectually indefensible for thinking people today. But a look at these books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, among others, quickly reveals that the so-called New Atheism lacks intellectual muscle. It is blissfully ignorant of the revolution that has taken place in Anglo-American philosophy. It reflects the scientism of a bygone generation rather than the contemporary intellectual scene.
That generation's cultural high point came on April 8, 1966, when Time magazine carried a lead story for which the cover was completely black except for three words emblazoned in bright red letters: "Is God Dead?" The story described the "death of God" movement, then current in American theology.
But to paraphrase Mark Twain, the news of God's demise was premature. For at the same time theologians were writing God's obituary, a new generation of young philosophers was rediscovering his vitality.
Back in the 1940s and '50s, many philosophers believed that talk about God, since it is not verifiable by the five senses, is meaningless—actual nonsense. This verificationism finally collapsed, in part because philosophers realized that verificationism itself could not be verified! The collapse of verificationism was the most important philosophical event of the 20th century. Its downfall meant that philosophers were free once again to tackle traditional problems of philosophy that verificationism had suppressed. Accompanying this resurgence of interest in traditional philosophical questions came something altogether unanticipated: a renaissance of Christian philosophy.
The turning point probably came in 1967, with the publication ...1


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CAIRO – Women here say it crosses class barriers, generations and faiths. It prevails in public buses, trains, streets and homes. It exists online, on university campuses, and in parks, markets, at work and in cafes.
CAIRO – Women here say it crosses class barriers, generations and faiths. It prevails in public buses, trains, streets and homes. It exists online, on university campuses, and in parks, markets, at work and in cafes.
Sexual harassment of women is epidemic in Egypt, where men pay few penalties for grabbing and groping women in a violent manner.
The harassment appears to permeate the nation's every pore, academics say. After decades of such behavior, a growing number of groups and initiatives are working to do something about it.
"For many women who have to rely on walking, public transportation or the metro, it's a grinding thing that happens every day," said Helen Rizzo, associate professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo.
"For some women, it's been very serious: grabbing, touching, trying to pull women into cars, and the whole phenomena of attacking protests," she said.
A recent report by U.N. Women said 99.3% of Egyptian women surveyed in a recent study reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment -- everything from inappropriate sexual jokes, to whistling, touching, groping and rape.
"Through this study we are able to confirm the spread of sexual harassment in Egypt to unprecedented levels," stated the U.N. report.
Some believe the problem has grown worse since the 2011 revolution that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak and led to a government under Muslim Brotherhood rule, perhaps due to a drop in effective security.
"Certainly sexual harassment and sexual assault and violent attacks are something not new in Egypt," said Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International's Egypt researcher, noting that under Mubarak they were used as tools to repress women.
The survey is striking for the sheer range of places where women feel they can be victimized.
Almost 83% of surveyed women said they don't feel safe in the street and 79% don't feel safe in a taxi. Sixty-seven percent said girls are subject to harassment regardless of what they wear, how they look, their manner of speech or their gait. Female workers and students are most exposed to harassment.
Brutality in the public space now has symbolic value for the nation too, Eltahawy said. Vicious mob attacks and assault happen often in Tahrir Square, the heart of that nation's uprising where men and women joined and camped out for days to demand democratic freedoms and a fair justice system.
An organization called HarassMap founded in 2010, allows women to report locations of abuse using technology. Through advertising on television, radio, in music and print the group seeks to change perceptions associated with harassment and remind the public it is a punishable offense.
While the law doesn't explicitly criminalize sexual harassment, three laws that address rape, public indecency and assault can be applied to harassment cases.
"It's all about culture and misconceptions," said Dina Samir, communications manager at HarassMap, who says harassment has worsened over the last decade. "If the culture changes it would put pressure on the government to enforce laws."
"We believe we can play a big role in changing perceptions," she said.
Men are also getting involved because "it's not just a women's issue," said Ayman Nagy, who founded the Anti-Harassment Movement. "It's a humanity issue."
Nagy and a group of 73 full-time volunteers hold workshops in universities and even in the streets among other places to talk about issues that include sexual abuse.
"We need to solve the problem from its roots," Nagy said. "We're going to work on the harasser himself, because we think he is a sick person and needs help, and that we can help him."
Other groups such as Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment seek to end mob harassment and assault, and Tahrir Bodyguard has a team of volunteers in bright green vests who intervene when they see sexual violence taking place during protests.
In March, President Mohammed Morsi launched an effort to help identify challenges facing women through workshops, fieldwork and discussions. Last month, local press reported that the government created an all-female unit of police to battle sexual harassment.
"Time will tell whether or not these are serious attempts, and also whether or not they are going to bring about real changes and results the way grass-roots movements have been able to do," said Soraya Bahgat, who founded Tahrir Bodyguard and is now working more generally on women's issues.
Not all groups, however, are on board with efforts to empower women and Islamists have blamed victims for their harassment.
Earlier this year the powerful Muslim Brotherhood condemned a United Nations report meant to reduce violence against women. The Brotherhood criticized articles in the document that gave judges, rather than husbands, authority in cases of divorce and granted women full rights to file legal complaints against their husbands for rape or sexual harassment.
"The document includes articles that contradict established principles of Islam, undermine Islamic ethics and destroy the family," the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement.
Despite challenges, activists persist, although their efforts have not led to a measurable drop in harassment.
"We cannot say it has decreased because of our work but the positive side is that it has become less of a taboo and so many activists and initiatives are working on the topic," HarassMap's Samir said. "These are the only glimmers of hope."


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The odds of Saab ever coming back as a mainstream automaker are not good. The quirky little company thrived as an independent, grew under the (mis)management of General Motors, and then suffered nearly certain death when GM discontinued the brand.
Rather than dying silently like Saturn, Hummer and other victims of GM's hatchet, Saab refused to give up the ghost and ended up under the ownership of supercar maker Spyker. The intent of Spyker was to revitalize the brand and earn profits it could use to spark development of its supercars.
That didn't work, of course, and Spyker dumped Saab, which nearly ended up in the hands of a Chinese company but instead went back to an electric carmaker from Sweden.
And now Saab could be on the verge of rising from the ashes.
The Motor Report says that Saab's new parent, National Electric Vehicles Sweden, is planning to reopen the automaker's plant in Trollhattan.
There isn't too much known just yet, but pictures of a supposed future 9-3 have floated around the web, sparking rumors that the Swedish automobile company was planning a major comeback.
Saab will apparently base its latest model off the last-generation 9-3, except with major changes all around, though it's not clear what those changes will be just yet.
The article says,
If it happens, and it's a big 'if', the born-again 9-3 will apparently get a turbocharged petrol four-cylinder engine, with extensive changes to interior and exterior styling.
Rumors also say a new all-electric Saab is on the way, based on a new platform, appropriately called the Phoenix.
The 9-3 could come back initially as a sedan beginning, believe it or not, this September. If that actually happens, and enough people buy it, a wagon and convertible could follow.
I like this idea of a new, updated 9-3, but it also makes a used 9-3 all the more appealing. If the architecture of the old one is good enough to be reborn, we might as well save some money and buy used.
At least until the electric version comes out.
Would you be excited for a new Saab 9-3 to become available?
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Senseless - Snap #422
It's an all-new Snap! We navigate our world using a full complement of senses. We hear, we see, we feel, we taste. But what happens if we lose one of those tools? From PRX and NPR, Snap Judgment proudly presents... "Senseless."
The Swill
Glynn learns that his party boy palate could benefit from a little sophistication.
Producer: Pat Mesiti-Miller
Blind, Yet Now I See
Mike May is a skydiving, downhill skiing, daredevil of a man who just so happens to be blind. And then one day, he is faced with his biggest challenge.
Producer: Julia DeWitt
Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio
Dining in the Dark
Producers Nick van der Kolk and Pat Mesiti-Miller go out for a night on the town in total drakness. Special thanks to George and Opaque in San Francisco.
Spice of Life
Molly Birnbaum's dream was to become a professional chef. And she was well on her way to making that happen--until a terrible accident took from her the one thing she needed, the one thing she never imagined she could lose.
Molly now works as an editor for America's Test Kitchen. She wrote a book about her experience dealing with her loss of smell titled "Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way." She writes the blog "My Madeleine."
Producer: Stephanie Foo
Miracle Ear
Faking a disability can have dramatic consequences, even if you are only in elementary school.
Producer: Anna Sussman
Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio


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Appalachia Fights for a Green Future
A call went up from the coalfields of West Virginia on Monday. Outside the headquarters of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, the voices of hundreds of people from across West Virginia and the country sounded as one.
Coalfield residents, clergy, human rights and environmental justice activists, and concerned fathers, sons, mothers, and daughters decried mountaintop removal and the devastation it wreaks upon Appalachian families and communities: "When a girl in fifth grade can't do a math problem as quickly as she should, that's what mercury from coal-fired power plants does to a child's mind," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the protesters.
Last Mountain Standing
Coal River Mountain offers a choice between mountaintop removal coal mining and a wind farm.
For opponents of mountaintop removal coal mining, tensions are running particularly high. Blasting has already begun on Coal River Mountain, the last intact mountain in West Virginia's Coal River Valley and the site of a proposed wind farm. "What would you call someone who blasts your country with ammonium nitrate explosives every day and poisons your people with mercury?" Kennedy asked. "Terrorists!" came the loud reply.
For many of the protesters, though, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) is as much to blame for the destruction as Massey Energy, the coal company that actually carries out the blasting.
Surrounded on all sides by the decapitated, toxic remains of mountains forever ruined by the coal industry, Coal River Mountain has exceptional potential as a site for industrial-scale windmill energy. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, heedless of the will of the people of West Virginia, of reason, and of science, has issued permits that will allow Massey Energy to destroy the mountain and the wind potential it possesses.
The WVDEP issued the Bee Tree Permit, which green-lighted the first stage of blasting, already under way. The permit area is located adjacent to the Brushy Fork Impoundment, the largest earthen dam in the Western Hemisphere. That dam is permitted to hold over nine billion gallons of toxic sludge. Blasting is taking place within little more than two hundred feet of that fragile construct of dirt and rocks, and a failure of the dam would spell epic disaster for everyone downstream of the sludge.
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is not only aware of the destruction; it enables the blasting—with full awareness that Massey Energy itself has admitted that if the dam fails, almost a thousand innocent human beings would die immediately.
Those assembled Monday know it, too, and insisted the WVDEP act to protect both the environment and the people who live in it. From Zoe Beavers, who described the ruination of her land and community, to 81-year-old Roland Micklem, who is in the midst of a fast to mourn the wreckage of West Virginia, to Lorelei Scarbro, who lives at the foot of Coal River Mountain and whose home is in dire jeopardy, people from affected communities gathered on Monday to make an unassailable case for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to live up to its name.
They are demanding that the WVDEP protect and preserve Coal River Mountain. If it fails to do so, they want the EPA to strip the WVDEP of its authority to issue permits for mountaintop removal under the Clean Water Act.
On Monday, December 7, 2009, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection learned that the eyes of the world are upon it. From Copenhagen to Coal River, from Whitesville, West Virginia to Woy Woy, Australia, from Pettry Bottom to Phoenix, people participated in the rally (both locally and via the live Internet radio broadcast), declaring their solidarity with Appalachian residents who want their government to protect them from the dangers of mountaintop removal.
It doesn't seem like too much to ask that American citizens be unmolested by explosions in their backyards and unthreatened by the prospect of a repeat of nightmares like the massive sludge spill that occurred in 2000 in Martin County, Kentucky or the 1972 Buffalo Creek Disaster, when another coal sludge impoundment dam burst—four days after being declared "satisfactory" by a federal inspector.
Nor does it seem out of line to demand that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection—and other government agencies ostensibly designed to protect the environment and those who live in it—stop permitting dangerous and destructive practices when greener ones, like the Coal River Mountain wind farm, are available. On Monday, Appalachian people and their allies declared their absolute right to participate in the coming greening of America. That greening, they all agreed, begins on Coal River Mountain.


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Alvarez able to pick up where he left off
JUPITER, Fla. -- Marlins right-hander Henderson Alvarez carried his no-hit momentum over into Spring Training.
Alvarez, who no-hit the Tigers in the 2013 season finale, opened his Grapefruit League action on Friday by tossing three perfect innings in a 7-3 win over the Cardinals at Roger Dean Stadium.
JUPITER, Fla. -- Marlins right-hander Henderson Alvarez carried his no-hit momentum over into Spring Training.
Alvarez, who no-hit the Tigers in the 2013 season finale, opened his Grapefruit League action on Friday by tossing three perfect innings in a 7-3 win over the Cardinals at Roger Dean Stadium.
Showing pinpoint control, Alvarez threw 26 pitches, 19 for strikes. He was only supposed to throw two innings, but he did that in 16 pitches. So he went out for a third. His fastball maxed at 93 mph, and he kept the Cardinals off-stride with his breaking stuff. He even dazzled with a super slow curveball, one fluttering in at 65 mph. Matt Adams was way out in front on a swing and miss.
"I think he just picked up where he left off, throwing strikes and scoreless innings," manager Mike Redmond said. "I wasn't sure how he was going to feel without really pitching yet this spring. It looked like he was feeling good and pounding the strike zone. It was good to see."
The reason Alvarez hadn't seen game action yet is because he was shut down for a few days due to an infection on his right shin. The shin is better, and the fact that he pitched in winter ball in Venezuela didn't cause him to fall too far behind.
Alvarez projects as the Marlins' No. 3 starter, but that could change. In the eyes of the organization, his no-hitter provided a lift to a team that lost 100 games.
"I think of that as a highlight to a rough year," Redmond said. "It was the start of a productive offseason. We all drew momentum and kind of got a big lift out of that game. That game kind of energized us. We were like, 'This is what we have to look forward to with our pitching staff.'"
With Jose Fernandez, Nathan Eovaldi and Alvarez, the Marlins feel they have a formidable top three. They identified their rotation as a strength, and set out in the offseason to add more offense.
Through free agency, they signed Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Garrett Jones, Casey McGehee, Rafael Furcal and Jeff Baker.
"We had to figure out a way to build some offense into this team, and energize it and give it some more depth," Redmond said. "We looked at that game as a stepping stone to staying focused this winter on improving this ballclub. That was a big mental boost for all of us. We all left there thinking, 'This is a big way to finish the season.'"
Alvarez's no-hitter was even rarer because he wasn't able to celebrate on the mound. The Marlins edged the Tigers, 1-0, on a walk-off wild pitch. So Alvarez ended up being mobbed by his teammates near home plate. He had been standing on deck when the winning run raced home.
"I felt good," Alvarez said through a translator of his outing Friday. "I was just trying to keep the ball in the zone and let the batters swing and just throw strikes."
In the offseason in his home in Venezuela, Alvarez was well-received because of his season-ending no-hitter. Omar Vizquel, the veteran shortstop who now is the Tigers' first-base coach, was among the many who congratulated Alvarez. The righty also heard from some of his former Blue Jays teammates, as well as his winter ball club.
"It was big for me," Alvarez said. "It gave me the belief to keep following my dreams. This winter in Venezuela, I prepared myself to be ready in the spring and to continue my success."
Alvarez has kept the ball and glove from his no-hitter, and his cleats were sent to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
"I was very well-embraced in Venezuela, from the fans to the writers," he said. "They congratulated me."
The pace and rhythm Alvarez displayed on Friday looked as if he was in mid-season form.
"He looked good," Cardinals righty Adam Wainwright said. "He's nasty. He threw a 65-mph curveball one time, a 93-mph sinker after that. He's good."
The slow curveball is a pitch Alvarez threw on occasion last year, and he showcased it on Friday twice.
"It's just a pitch I throw every now and then to catch the batters off-guard," Alvarez said. "It's something I started last year."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro.


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EEG Monitoring to Assess Emergence From Neuroanesthesia
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00443807
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 6, 2007
Last Update Posted : April 16, 2008
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|Condition or disease
|Cerebral Aneurysm Trigeminal Neuralgia
|Device: On-line EEG monitoring during neurosurgery Device: EEGo vs BIS
|Not Applicable
Objective: This study is designed to test the hypothesis that the EEGo monitor will be superior to the BIS monitor to assess emergence following neuroanesthesia. The EEGo will be able to more accurately indicate emergence and direct therapy at the end of the operative procedure. The EEGo will be superior because the raw EEG signal is processed using phase delay analysis, with each patient's raw EEG analyzed instead of a proprietary but generic signal processing approach on a linear scale as with the BIS monitor. Phase delay analysis is a standard approach to display nonlinear signals. A highly reproducible signal transition occurs from deep anesthesia to emergence. It is this transition that permits acute assessment of emergence. The ability to process the EEG and display phase delay plots in 50 msec is what makes the EEGo monitor attractive to acutely assess emergence from neuroanesthesia. Accurate emergence will allow better anesthesia management.
This pilot study will be done to assess a nonlinear EEG monitor (EEGo) to direct therapy and predict prompt emergence from neuroanesthesia where EEG monitoring is done in neurosurgical cases. In our centre we routinely monitor the EEG, SSEP and/or MEP during temporary aneurysm clipping and during microvascular decompressive surgery. It is just these cases where emergence can be delayed despite following standard neuroanesthesia techniques. The EEGo processes the standard EEG signal by nonlinear analysis of the raw signal by 3 dimensional phase delay plots. A cascade from a point attractor, periodic attractor, toroidal attractor to a 3-D chaotic attractor occurs from burst suppression to the awake state. These resemble phase transitions and occur rapidly from one state to the next. An analogy is the phase transition that occurs when water changes to ice and vice versa. Monitoring these transitions should permit a rational approach to therapy during anesthesia emergence, better predict emergence, facilitate extubation based on the awake state, allow titration of vasoactive agents during emergence to smooth hemodynamic control and permit more rapid emergence at end procedure. The EEGo will be compared directly in real time to the bispectral (BIS) monitor re goal directed emergence. If efficacy is shown with the EEGo, a more formal comparison to BIS and clinical judgement will be studied.
BIS monitoring can aid emergence in outpatient procedures, both with time to wakening and time in the recovery room. These results also impact on the cost of anesthetic drugs and OR and Recovery Room costs. Work demonstrating accelerated emergence from desflurane with BIS do not highlight the manner in which the BIS directs the emergence. The depth of anesthesia is adjusted to 50 - 60 ABU during maintenance and then emergence is tracked. A specific BIS number to indicate emergence is not suggested. In fact, a correlation between the BIS in the awake state and with movement and eye opening appears poor with the emergence BIS usually being lower than the pre-induction BIS. The BIS may also on occasion be very low during emergence - deemed artifactually so and in this work it is suggested that the raw EEG be observed to aid emergence. It would seem that significant issues relate to intra and interpatient variability with this processed EEG signal. Recent work suggests significant discrepancy of BIS signals between hemispheres and even recording from two sites in the same hemisphere. In addition, BIS correlates poorly with end-tidal desflurane and awake state.
Thus, it would seem that while the BIS can aid management of depth of anesthesia during maintenance, it is not ideally suited to direct a facilitated emergence. In contrast, the EEGo monitor uses nonlinear analysis techniques to provide a visual output related to depth of anesthesia.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|21 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Comparison of the EEGo and BIS Monitors to Assess Emergence From Neuroanesthesia
|Study Start Date :
|August 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2008
- Device: On-line EEG monitoring during neurosurgery
Comparison of 2 ways of processing the EEG signalOther Names:
- EEGo
- BIS Vista
- Device: EEGo vs BIS
comparison of two processed EEG monitors.
- An assessment of quality of emergence - smooth, single cough, multiple coughs will be provided by the neurosurgeon [ Time Frame: Wake up time in OR ]
- Twenty-four hours post surgery a directed survey of patient satisfaction and questioning regarding awareness will be done [ Time Frame: hours ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- All adult patients undergoing neurosurgery where intraoperative EEG monitoring is the standard of care will be approached in the Pre-Anesthetic Clinic for participation.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient refusal
- a history of asthma requiring routine use of bronchodilators, because the study will use desflurane as the volatile agent
- pregnancy
- non-elective aneurysm clipping
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00443807
|Canada, Manitoba
|Health Sciences Centre
|Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3A 1R9
|Principal Investigator:
|W. Alan C. Mutch, MD
|University of Manitoba
|Responsible Party:
|W. Alan C. Mutch, University of Manitoba
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|NCT00443807 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|March 6, 2007 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 16, 2008
|Last Verified:
|April 2008
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What's clear, however, is the need for more relevant ads that speak directly to consumers. Two-thirds of global respondents say most ads in VOD content are for products they don't want (66%).
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2014: Actress Lauren Bacall dies at the age of 89 after suffering a stroke. Bacall, who was born Betty Joan Perske, made her film debut opposite her future husband Humphrey Bogart in 1944's "To Have and Have Not" and went on to star alongside Bogart in "The Big Sleep," "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo." She also starred in movies such as "How to Marry a Millionaire" and "Designing Woman." She earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her role in 1996's "The Mirror Has Two Faces." [ + - ]
2007: TV show host and media mogul Merv Griffin dies of prostate cancer at age 82 in Los Angeles, California. From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, "The Merv Griffin Show." He also created the game shows "Jeopardy!," "Wheel of Fortune," "Click" and "Merv Griffin's Crosswords" with his own television production companies. [ + - ]
2004: The California Supreme Court voids the nearly 4,000 same-sex marriages sanctioned in San Francisco earlier in the year. The decision led directly to a 2008 decision by the California Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriages throughout the state. That was followed by Proposition 8 later in 2008, banning same-sex marriages, and the eventual U.S. Supreme Court Case that ended the ban in a 5-4 decision in 2013. [ + - ]
2002: Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Enos Slaughter dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 86 in Durham, North Carolina. Slaughter (seen here in 1999) played for four different teams during his 19-year baseball career, but is best known for the years he spent with the St. Louis Cardinals. A 10-time All-Star whose career was interrupted by military service during World War II, he was a part of four World Series champion teams, winning titles in 1942 and 1946 with the Cardinals and in 1956 and 1958 with the New York Yankees. [ + - ]
2000: Actress Loretta Young, an Academy Award-winner for the 1947 film "The Farmer's Daughter," dies of ovarian cancer at age 87 in Los Angeles. Young also earned an Oscar nomination for her role in 1949's "Come to the Stable" and hosted the Emmy-winning dramatic anthology series "The Loretta Young Show" from 1953 to 1961. She also starred alongside Clark Gable in a 1935 film adaptation of "The Call of the Wild" and Cary Grant and David Niven in 1947's "The Bishop's Wife." She's seen here with James Cagney in 1932's "Taxi." [ + - ]
1994: Major League Baseball players go on strike. The strike would end up lasting 232 days before ending on April 2, 1995, leading to the cancellation of more than 931 games, including the rest of the 1994 season and the entire 1994 postseason and World Series. The World Series cancellation was the first since 1904 and MLB became the first professional sport to lose its entire postseason due to a labor dispute. [ + - ]
1994: The Woodstock '94 music festival opens in Saugerties, New York, on the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Bands playing the three-day festival included Blues Traveler, Sheryl Crow, Peter Gabriel, Blind Melon, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, Santana, Country Joe McDonald and Joe Cocker. As this poster shows, the festival was originally only supposed to last two days, but a third day was added to open the event on Friday, Aug. 12, 1994. [ + - ]
1991: The heavy metal band Metallica releases its self-titled album, often known as "The Black Album" due to its cover. The album would end up producing five hit singles that are considered today among the band's best-known songs: "Enter Sandman," "The Unforgiven," "Nothing Else Matters," "Wherever I May Roam" and "Sad but True." [ + - ]
1990: Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota. The 42-foot long fossil stands 14 feet tall at its hips and is estimated to have weighed more than 7 short tons when alive. The fossil was eventually auctioned in October 1997 for $7.6 million, the highest amount ever paid for a dinosaur fossil, and is now a permanent feature at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. [ + - ]
1988: Painter Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of a heroin overdose at his art studio in New York City's NoHo neighborhood at age 27. Basquiat began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. [ + - ]
1982: Actor Henry Fonda, the Hollywood legend who starred in such movies as "The Grapes of Wrath," "The Ox-Bow Incident," "Mister Roberts," "12 Angry Men" and "On Golden Pond," dies of heart disease at age 77 in Los Angeles. Fonda, who won a Best Actor Oscar for "On Golden Pond" and was also nominated for "The Grapes of Wrath," was also the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda and granddaughter Bridget Fonda. He enlisted in the Navy in 1942 to fight in World War II and is seen here in a Navy photo from that time. [ + - ]
1981: The IBM Personal Computer is released. [ + - ]
1977: The space shuttle Enterprise flies on its own for the first time. The Enterprise was carried to a launch height on the back of a Boeing 747 before being jettisoned to glide to a landing on a dry lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. [ + - ]
1975: Actor and director Casey Affleck, the younger brother of Ben Affleck known for roles in movies such as "Manchester by the Sea," "Ocean's Eleven," "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," is born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He won an Oscar for his performance in "Manchester by the Sea" and was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." [ + - ]
1973: Jack Nicklaus wins the PGA Championship for his 12th major golf title as a professional. Counting his two U.S. Amateur titles, the win put him over the top in breaking a 50-year record held by Bobby Jones, who had won 13 major titles as a lifelong amateur. Nicklaus would add six more major wins in his professional career for a total of 18 (20 counting his amateur wins), a record that still stands today. [ + - ]
1971: Comedian and actor Michael Ian Black, best known for his roles in TV series like "The State," "Ed," "Viva Variety," "Stella" and "Michael & Michael Have Issues," is born Michael Ian Schwartz in Chicago, Illinois. [ + - ]
1971: Tennis player Pete Sampras, a former world No. 1 who won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, is born in Potomac, Maryland. [ + - ]
1970: At Harvard Stadium in Boston, Janis Joplin performs what would be her final concert, ending with a version of Gershwin's "Summertime." Joplin would die from a heroin overdose at age 27 on Oct. 4, 1970. [ + - ]
1965: Actor Peter Krause, best known for his roles in the TV series "Sports Night," "Six Feet Under" and "Parenthood," is born in Alexandria, Minnesota. [ + - ]
1964: South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's apartheid policies. The country would not field another Olympic team until the 1992 Summer Olympics, after apartheid had been ended. [ + - ]
1964: Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond series of spy novels, dies of a heart attack at age 56 in Canterbury, England. Fleming, a naval intelligence officer during World War II, wrote his first Bond novel, "Casino Royale," in 1952. Eleven more Bond novels and two short-story collections followed between 1953 and 1966. [ + - ]
1963: Rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, best known for his 1992 album "Mack Daddy" and its Grammy Award-winning single "Baby Got Back," is born Anthony Ray in Seattle, Washington. [ + - ]
1960: Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched. Once in low Earth orbit, the balloon satellite served as a reflector rather than a transceiver, with communication signals bouncing off it from one point on Earth to another. [ + - ]
1955: German author Thomas Mann, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, dies of atherosclerosis at age 80 in Zurich, Switzerland. Mann won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 principally in recognition of his novels "Buddenbrooks" and "The Magic Mountain," and his numerous short stories. [ + - ]
1949: Singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, best known as the frontman for the band the Dire Straits, is born in Glasgow, Scotland. After Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler started a successful solo career. He's also composed the scores for eight films, including "The Princess Bride" and "Wag the Dog." [ + - ]
1939: Actor George Hamilton, best known for movies such as "Where the Boys Are," "Love at First Bite," "Zorro, the Gay Blade" and "The Godfather Part III," is born in Memphis, Tennessee. [ + - ]
1931: Writer William Goldman, who has won Academy Awards for his screenplays for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men," is born in Chicago, Illinois. Goldman is also known for his novels "Marathon Man" and "The Princess Bride," both of which he also adapted into screenplays, and also wrote the screenplays for the films "The Stepford Wives," "Misery," "Maverick" and "The Ghost and the Darkness." He's seen here with James Caan on the set of "A Bridge Too Far," which he also wrote, in 1976. [ + - ]
1929: Country music singer-songwriter and guitarist Buck Owens, who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos, is born Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. in Sherman, Texas. Owens and his band pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound after his adopted hometown with songs like "Act Naturally" and "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail." Beginning in 1969, he also co-hosted the TV series "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark. He died of in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 76 on March 25, 2006. [ + - ]
1927: The silent movie "Wings" premieres in New York City. The action film, which starred Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen, told the story of two World War I fighter pilot friends, both involved with the same beauty. It would go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture. [ + - ]
1927: Country music singer-songwriter and guitarist Porter Wagoner, who charted 81 singles from 1954 to 1983 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, is born in West Plains, Missouri. Wagoner, whose hits included "A Satisfied Mind," "Misery Loves Company," "Green Green Grass of Home" and "The Carroll County Accident," is also known for introducing then-obscure singer Dolly Parton on his long-running television show in 1962 and for pairing up with her on duets through the 1960s and '70s. He died of lung cancer at age 80 on Oct. 28, 2007. [ + - ]
1910: Actress Jane Wyatt, best known for her role as housewife and mother Margaret Anderson on "Father Knows Best" (pictured, with co-star Robert Young) and as the human mother Spock on the TV series "Star Trek," is born in Mahwah, New Jersey. She died at age 96 on Oct. 20, 2006. [ + - ]
1898: An Armistice ends the Spanish-American War. [ + - ]
1898: The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ?Iolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States. [ + - ]
1883: The last quagga, a subspecies of the plains zebra that lived in South Africa, dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The quagga was extinct in the wild by 1878 and only one was ever photographed alive. [ + - ]
1881: Film director Cecil B. DeMille, best known for films such as "Cleopatra," "Samson and Delilah," "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "The Ten Commandments," is born in Ashfield, Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack at age 77 on Jan. 21, 1959. [ + - ]
1880: Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson, among the most dominant pitchers of his era, is born in Factoryville, Pennsylvania. Mathewson, who ranks in the all-time top-10 in major pitching categories such as wins, shutouts and ERA, played nearly all of his 17-year career with the New York Giants, winning a World Series championship in 1905. He compiled a career record of 373-188 and an ERA of 2.13 and was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its five inaugural members in 1936. He died of tuberculosis at age 45 on Oct. 7, 1925. [ + - ]
1851: Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine. [ + - ]
1827: English poet and painter William Blake, a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age, dies at age 69 in London, England. [ + - ]
30 B.C.: Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite. [ + - ]
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Drunken Debakery
October is Positive Attitude Month!
And today is Vodka Day!!
So let's do a little experiment: let's see if vodka makes you more positive about bad cakes.
(Because SCIENCE!)
Fortunately Jen, who has a tolerance only slightly lower than your average Mennonite squirrel, has agreed to be our test subject.
Let's begin.
Test Subject response after 2 sips of vodka:
"Ug. It's so... spurty. With the spurty bits on the sides. Spurty. Spuuurty. Spurty's a funny word, don't you think?" [peering into glass] "Can I have more of that raspberry stuff in this?"
Test Subject response after half a shot:
"Looks like a moldy glass of Guiness. GUINNESS GRACIOUS!! Ha! Ha! Ok." [staggering upright]
"Time to dance."
Test Subject after one full shot:
"YOU HAVE ANGERED THE TIKI GODS. Now we must sing.
[singing] "Said you like piña coloNICS!! Fungus cakes in the rain! If you're not into yoGURT!" [crawling towards living room] "I'mma... I'mma go pet the cats."
Test Subject response after 2 shots:
[flat on back, eyes closed] "... so I says to the guy, I says, "I know floral foam when I see it, man! I wrote a friggin' book!"
Test Subject response after 2 shots and five minutes:
[sound of running feet]
[bathroom door slamming]
Conclusion: While we need more data to determine the effect of vodka on positive attitudes, we can definitively conclude that Jen's attitude toward vodka has become slightly more negative. And also that we should probably bring her a moist towelette.
Thanks to Sarah L., Alison D., Rebecca B., Stephanie, and Wesa A. for the unwelcome knowledge that placenta cakes are a thing. URP.


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