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Britain's 110 Nuclear Alerts Are Revealed: Safety Watchdog Makes a Mockery of the MoD's Claim of Just 27 'Incidents' in 65 Years
A chilling catalogue of more than 100 accidents involving Britain's nuclear weapons reveals for the first time how often we may have come close to disaster.The shock report by an independent nuclear watchdog documents 110 major alerts – four times higher than the Ministry of Defence has acknowledged.
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- China, France to Intensify Nuclear Energy Cooperation – Chinese Premier, Sputnik News, Feb 21
- India, Pakistan Extend Pact on Cutting Risk of Nuclear-Related Mishaps, Economic Times, Feb 20
- INL, Vietnamese Researchers Finish First-Ever Nuclear Cooperation Program, Post Register, Feb 17
- FirstEnergy Seeking ZECs to Aid Sale of Ohio Nuclear, RTO Insider, Feb 22
- China Revises Commissioning Dates of EPRs, World Nuclear News, Feb 22
- Stable Nuclear Energy Will be Providing About 60% of Ukraine's Energy, Next Big Future, Feb 20
- Slovenia Nuclear Plant Krsko Begins Restart, Reuters, Feb 17
- Russia to Rely Less on Nuclear Weapons as Their Conventional Strength Rapidly Increases, Business Insider, Feb 21
- Machine Vision Helps Crack Inspection of Nuclear Reactors, The Engineer, Feb 20
- Robot Probes Show Japan Reactor Cleanup Worse Than Expected, CBS News, Feb 17
- Nuclear Energy Sustains New York, Iohud, Feb 21
- Want the World to Have Fewer Nuclear Weapons? We Need More Nuclear Energy, Motley Fool, Feb 18
- Small Nuclear Reactors Key to Energy Future, Daily Record, Feb 18


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Award-Winning Musician Randy Granger to Kick off "For the Love of Art" Month at Branigan Cultural Center
Award-Winning Musician Randy Granger to Kick off "For the Love of Art" Month at Branigan Cultural Center
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Branigan Cultural Center will feature a concert by award-winning local musician Randy Granger as it kicks off "For the Love of Art" month, Feb. 3, 2012 from 5 -7 p.m.
A multi instrumentalist and composer, Granger performs on Native American flute, World Percussion and vocals. He headlines many Native American and World Music festivals around the country and his music is heard on NPR, Music from the Hearts of Space, Sirius and stations worldwide.
Granger is a Las Cruces resident and has composed for multi-media art shows and the NMSU Dance Department. Awards include the Indian Summer Music Award, New Mexico Music Industry Awards and two Native American Music Awards nominations also knows as the NAMMY's.
National Public Radio featured his use of an unusual instrument called the Hang in 2007. His most recent album, "Pura Vida-This is Pure Life" featured a collaboration with late Las Cruces poet Wayne Crawford as well as Mariachi Real de Chihuahua trumpeter Marcus H. Royo.
"For the Love of Art" is a month-long celebration of art in Las Cruces. The Branigan Cultural Center will feature musicians, dancers, poets and an exhibit of art by many local artists throughout the month of February.
The concert will take place during the Downtown Arts Ramble, which also features art, music and gallery openings. The Branigan Cultural Center is located at 501 N. Main Street. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 9 – 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact the Branigan Cultural Center at 575-541-2154 or visit the Center's web site at www.lascruces.org/museums.

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Sunday, Feb. 12 -- Men's Downhill
American downhiller Daron Rahlves, now in the last year of his career, had set four career goals for himself.
• World Cup victory in Beaver Creek. Colo., downhill? Check.
• Become the first American to win the most treacherous and historic downhill in the world, the famed Hannenkahm in Kitzbuhel, Austria? Check.
• World Cup downhill title? He's already halfway there.
• What remains? The coveted Olympic gold medal, which carries the unofficial title of "King of the Mountain."
Rahlves is the winningest downhiller in American ski racing history and is the one to watch on the Sestriere-Borgata course. He has won the only World Cup race held there and loves the course's nonstop action and challenges. Rahlves will be pushed by his teammate, über-racer Bode Miller. If the upstart Americans were to pull this off, it will be a huge slap in the face to downhill's traditional power, Austria, which is ski racing's version of the 1957 Yankees. The Austrian's current Mickey Mantle: Michael Walchhofer. Their Joe DiMaggio: Fritz Strobl, the defending Olympic champ.
Tuesday, Feb. 14 -- Men's Combined
This is the ultimate graft job -- ski racing's rule makers have seen fit to combine the fastest of ski racing's four disciplines (downhill and its 95 mph speeds) to the most frantic (slalom, and its one-turn-per-second madness). Only the athlete able to meld these two, disparate skills on a single exhausting day (one downhill run in the morning and two slalom runs in the afternoon) will triumph. The eight-hour day is as close to a day job as any of these skiers will ever have.
Bizarre outcomes are the norm, since the downhillers hate short turns and the slalom specialists often fret in the start house of the downhill. Miller won a silver in this event in 2002, remarkable since he sometimes finds finishing just one run to be more than he can handle. Never forget Norwegian Kjetil Andre Aamodt, who has 19 Olympic and World Championship medals and will retire after this year. The Austrian Benni Raich is Mr. Consistency and is another medal favorite.
Wednesday, Feb. 15 -- Women's Downhill
If you miss Picabo Street and her audacious confidence and you like big, strong girls who make powerful sweeping arcs on even the toughest courses, American Lindsay Kildow will make you feel right at home. Kildow has already won two World Cup downhills this year and is arguably the favorite going into Torino. Kildow is an all-events skier, unlike Street, who was a speed specialist.
Also watch veteran Austrians Michaela Dorfmeister and Renate Goetschl, who have been around a combined 25 years on the World Cup circuit. It's that kind of experience you need in this event. With fast skiers like Julia Mancuso and Kirsten Clark, who is coming back strong from a slew of injuries, an American on the podium here is very possible.
Friday, Feb. 17 -- Women's Combined
Like the men's combined, this is a strange marriage of skills, a crapshoot of consistency. Any slalom ski racer who can hang on for the downhill has a legitimate shot at the podium, since they can make up huge amounts of time in this cumulatively timed event. Favorites are Croatian sensation Janica Kostelic (a triple Olympic gold medalist in Salt Lake City) and Swedish bulldog Anja Parson, who makes up in power what she lacks in grace. These two are clear and away ahead of the rest of the top 15 and, in many ways, will consider their results a settling of a near-blood feud. Their rivalry stands above the competition. Americans in the hunt include Kildow and her counterpart, Julia Mancuso.
Sunday, Feb. 19 -- Women's super-G
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes the women get their way on the international ski racing circuit. Case in point: After last year's so-called "test event" at the Olympic venue, when the World Cup sent women down the Olympic course for the first time, women's traditional speed-event skiers went ballistic. Why? Because they got beaten by slalom specialist Anja Parson, who normally quakes in her ski boots on downhill courses. The conclusion among the top women's super-G skiers was, the course must be too easy.
"It's like an AutoStrada," said Renate Goetschl, who likened the run to the smooth, unchallenging highways of Italian fame. Then, the lawyers got involved. Speed specialists, like decorated German powerhouse Hilde Gerg, Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister and American Lindsay Kildow, petitioned skiing's governing body and got them to make the Olympic super-G course tougher, faster and hairier. So the super-G will once again be a test of forza, Italian for strength. Watch Kildow, Mancuso and Kirsten Clark for the home team.
Monday, Feb. 20 -- Men's Giant Slalom
This will be a fun one. After two Italians went 1-2 in Alta Badia, Italy, in a World Cup giant slalom earlier this year, the crowd went completely pazzo. Imagine what will happen if the two Italian aces, Massimiliano Blardone and Davide Simoncelli, repeat the feat. It will sound a lot like, well, Beaver Creek, Colo., where Americans Bode Miller, Daron Rahlves and Erik Schlopy finished 1-2-4 and the crowd lost it.
For the uninitiated, GS is filled with technical demands, including a need for a subtle touch on the snow, which all these men have, plus a real and primal need for speed. Even for the layperson, GS looks and feels like the purest form of ski racing, filled with turns, terrain changes and thrilling 50 mph speeds. GS has all the nonstop action of slalom, with some of the velocity of the speed events. Fasten your cintura di sicurezza.
Wednesday, Feb. 22 -- Women's Slalom
(For this reporter, a complaint about women's slalom must be lodged against the 17 women who finished in front of her in Lillehammer in 1994!) That aside, this will be another battle between the Croatian Kostelic and the Swede Parson. The slalom paradox: it is not the fastest discipline, but the fewest competitors finish the event. The 60 gates in each of the slalom runs simply come too fast for many, and an athlete's Olympic hopes can be dashed in a matter of seconds.
Slalom puts an enormous premium on quickness and agility. It is far from the most dangerous ski racing discipline, but it is easily the most nerve-wracking. Favorites include American Kristina Koznick, who has been a perennial powerhouse, but has come up short in the big events; and free spirit Sarah Schleper, who won the last World Cup slalom of the year in 2005, but is making a heroic and timely recovery from back surgery. The strong Austrian contingent led by Marlies Schild, Nicole Hosp and Kathrin Zettel, will threaten for at least one medal if not all three.
Saturday, Feb. 25 -- Men's Slalom
The Italians once had Tomba. Now, they have Rocca. Giorgio, that is, the winner of the first three World Cup slaloms this season and the odds-on favorite to take the podium in Torino. A top-three finish under the lights at this night-scheduled event would guarantee that Rocca would never pay for another grappa in his life. But not so fast, Giorgio.
American upstart Ted Ligety (as in Ligety-split) has surged to the top of the World Cup standings by showing no signs of nerves that beset so many rookies in this ice-bound high-wire act. The 21-year-old Ligety grew up in the shadow of the Olympic slalom hill in Park City, Utah, and has, in a matter of months, gone from first-timer to world-beater. Oh, and then there's that Bode guy, who happens to have earned his first World Cup victory in … slalom. If Miller can make it to the bottom twice, he'll contend. Meanwhile, don't count out Austrian slice-and-dicer Benni Raich, who is in the hunt. Finland's Kalle Pallander and Canada's Thomas Grandi fill out the list of viable challengers.
Carrie Sheinberg, three-time national ski racing champion and top American finisher in the alpine slalom event at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, is a frequent contributor to ESPN.com.


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|The following is based on the canceled Fallout movie and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
The Master's Mutants are a faction that were set to appear in the canceled Fallout movie.
When the Master could not afford to buy into a vault, created the F.E.V. to adapt fallout survivors like himself to hostile radiation conditions. The formula worked and superhuman side effects were a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately, the mutants are sterile, and so they need humans to sustain their numbers.[1]
This is why the Master turned the LA basin into a jungle with stolen G.E.C.K.s. LA is just a cattle field for humans, an inviting oasis amidst the wasteland. The Master had been testing all sorts of genetic combinations for years, but Hero and Female Officer represent his last chance at creating pure bloodlines and a fertile, mutated Adam and Eve.[2]
The Master and his forces were obliterated in the final battle with the dwellers from Vault 13.[3][4]
The Master is in charge of the mutants, but other tiers in the structure are unknown. Scholar seemingly becomes important for a time, but he is soon killed in the battle at Vault 13. They also had an agreement with Dekker, but what exactly is unknown.[5]
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It is at the Hiring Manager's end that the need to fill in a position is felt most. Eighty-five percent of time, due to lack of foresight, and an absence of a well-engineered process, the Hiring Manager ends up spending more time in screening. Various members of the Hiring Chain scramble and spend lot of time engaging in fire fighting, Hiring costs soar, vacancy costs hit the bottom line negatively, and so on and so forth. This calls for rethinking: Are we doing it right? Is there a way that the Hiring Manager's critical time be more beneficially utilized? Can we improve the Hiring Value chain and cut down on the total effective time line of hiring?
The entire staffing process starting from the Requisition Management to the actual hire includes a great deal of role overlap. These not only delay the execution, but also increase the overall cost per hire. Not to forget, every vacancy remaining unfulfilled, or not fulfilled in time, has its own cost attributed to it. Next there always seems to be a rat race for fulfilling just-in-time jobs, and disaster recovery, leading to confusion and costly mistakes by the internal staffing members. The Hiring Manager's role within the organization, apart from the hiring process, is truly much wider. To begin with, his involvement within the hiring process is merely a fraction of the total time value he spends, vis-à-vis his role within the overall scope of responsibilities. Hence there is the need to re-engineer the Staffing Supply Chain towards optimization.
Strategic Partnerships have been tried, tested and proven methods of success since time in memorial. It is built on the truth, that no one unit has an all round expertise. Hence a strong equation and collaboration is the key to strength, efficiency and growth. This is specially so in a hiring process. In order to streamline operations and reduce internal costs of vacancy & hiring, identifying and collaborating with an expert / specialized agency to share the responsibility of not only sourcing and identifying prospective candidates, but also participate in evaluating and screening competencies. This adds tremendous value in the process of shortening the time to hire. This is a critical path to the optimization process of the Staffing Supply Chain.
You cannot expect the internal staffing team to have the bandwidth and the expertise of the Hiring Manager. However any help in reducing his repetitive involvement, and having him handle only such candidates, who have been previously tested by a panel of experts as himself, would take a lot of burden off his shoulders, apart from increasing the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the Process. This is what the External Specialized Agency substantiates. Choice of the right Specialized Staffing Agency is extremely crucial. The equation between the Agency and the Hiring Firm, as also their collaborative approach are the crux of the Optimization process.
Dipak Chatterjee, apart from being a thought leader, writer, deemed journalist and reporter, is the Director of Strategic Business Development of Technovision Inc. This is a firm that offers Strategic Human Capital Solutions to Fortune 1000 Clients. Technovision is known amongst its clients as a provider of pioneering Staffing Services, Strategies, Best Practices, Intelligence and Effectiveness. Url: http://www.etechnovision.com


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USF signee Waverly Austin has not qualified academically and will head to junior college instead. The 6'10" center was unable to qualify and had to open up his options. Although he could return to the Bulls in the future, that may be unlikely now. Austin wasn't expected to play much as a freshman, but was adding important depth as a big man. Is it just me, or is USF's roster turnover as high as any school in the nation?
The NBA draft is getting closer which means we are only days away from seeing former USF star Dominique Jones go in the first round. There's still a chance he could slip to the second, but based on everything you see, he should go somewhere in the second half of the first. Analysts like Jones' scoring ability and say he's a better passer than they thought. They believe he can contribute in the NBA and will have an opportunity to develop his game over the first few years. The Bulls are looking for the NFL/NFL first round double as former USF football player Jason Pierre-Paul was selected early in this year's NFL draft.
Don't let your kid sign with Ball State. At least not if you want him to actually play there. In a classic case of he said he said, Ball State denied admission to signee Marvin Jordan. Jordan's high school coach is furious because he feels the school led the athlete along throughout the entire recruiting season. Because he believed he was headed to Ball State to play, Jordan didn't look at other schools as much as he could have. In the end, the program dropped him and he had to settle on Niagara. Ah the trials and tribulations of recruiting.
I'll admit it. I like UNC. I think you pick a side in the Duke/UNC rivalry at some point in your life and ride it out. Sure you can choose to hate them both, but I went for one to cheer for. So, yes, I do enjoy watching the Tar Heels. And I'll really enjoy watching Harrison Barnes. The kid really does have it all.


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This year at Hillbrook, every student participated in the Hour of Code. Started by code.org to "demystify computer coding and show that anyone can learn the basics", the goal is to get every student in the world to spend one hour coding during the second week of December.
We had several events to celebrate Hour of Code (aka Computer Science Education Week). In this post, I'll walk you through what we did at Hillbrook, how you can recreate it, and why it matters.
Two years ago during Hour of Code, a few teachers spent one hour coding with their students. It was great. Our school hadn't participated in Hour of Code officially before, and we did. #eduwin
Since then, several teachers at our school have integrated coding and/or robots into lessons. First graders worked with BeeBoots and blockly programming on iPads. Middle school students began to learn Javascipt in math class, and program Mindstorms to create robots in science class. Coding in classrooms was bubbling up. It was time to double down.
Last year, every student was going to spend at least one hour coding. Instead of simply visiting hourofcode.com, we decided to have a week-long celebration of coding. It was epic, and led to more coding embedded into traditional lesson. This year, we renamed it Everyone Can Code and continued the idea of having many stations/sessions for students to participate in.
Let me walk you through what we did with our students, from junior kindergarten through eighth grade.
Warning: this was a lot of work. Even if you take these ideas and run with them (and please, take these ideas and run with them!), there's a lot of prep, and there's a lot of purchases. Feel free to pick and choose ideas, lessons, and sessions from the veritable smörgåsbord of coding activities. I recommend doing something for Computer Science Education Week/Hour of Code, but December is a crazy time of year to pull of an event or two at this scale.
Here's the rundown:
We created 12 stations/sessions. Over 95 minutes, middle school students will go to two stations.
Through this Google Form, students selected their top 3 choices. I manually created heterogenous groups, used Autocrat to email students their tickets, and used a Mac application Pages Data Merge to mail merge this fancy Pages document with a csv file of students and their assigned sessions.
Every single middle school student spent 95 coding at two of these sessions:
Here are the descriptions for each session:
Code Combat: Choose your hero and code your way through the ogre patrols, lava pits, and laser beams of Kithgard Dungeon. Level up, earn gems, and loot magic items to unlock new programming powers!
Sphero Maze: Create an intricate maze and program your Sphero to successfully navigate the most epic maze ever designed for a robot.
Programming music with MakeyMakey: Use the MakeyMakey to connect conductive material to control your computer. Create a game or instrument, and play or perform it with your MakeyMakey materials.
Make a Movie with Robot Actors, Dash and Dot: Write a movie script where the actors are robots. Using the app Tickle, program the actions of the robot(s). Use an iPod Touch to record your movie and add voiceover in real time to add the dialog.
Hillbrook Air Corps: Ready to try flying some drones? Do you have what it takes to earn your wings? Code drones to fly mini missions. By the end, you'll be saying… "I feel the need…the need for speed."
Sphero Art: Painting and programming using a robot? Yes, we are living in the future. With an introduction to action art by famous artists such as Jackson Pollock, work together to learn how to program Sphero using the Tickle app to create a collaborative art piece!
Paper coding: Learn the basics through games that use cards, string, and lots of running around.
Paper Circuitry: Make paper come to life! Build circuits onto a piece of paper using tape, batteries and paper.
Ozobot: Create a colorful maze to program these tiny tinker robots. Can you crack the code of colors? Your choice of color changes the path of the Ozobot. Crazy!
Build a Computer with Piper: it's physical computing on a Raspberry Pi!
Escape Room! Use the basics of coding to break into a box with multiple locks in a game called BreakoutEDU.
LittleBits and SAM Labs: Create your own prototype robot with magnetic circuits and Bluetooth modules
We recruited faculty and staff to run sessions, and created lesson plans called Ready, Set, Go with details on running each session.
Most of the planning for younger students is identical to middle school. There are enough differences, though, that it's worth listing each step, particularly if you want to copy and paste this to share with an elementary teacher.
We created 11 stations/sessions. Over 70 minutes, lower school students will go to two stations.
Through this Google Form, students selected their top 3 choices. (Note: this form is rad. Each choice is a separate section. The "what do you want for session 1" questions is a multiple choice question; we added an image to each multiple question choice (a rad new feature in Forms!)). I manually created heterogenous groups, and used a Mac application Pages Data Merge to mail merge this fancy Pages document with a csv file of students and their assigned sessions.
Every single lower school student spent 70 coding at two of these sessions:
Instead of session descriptions (several are identical setups to the middle school version), I made a short YouTube video.
Just like with middle school, we recruited faculty and staff to run sessions, and created lesson plans called Ready, Set, Go with details on running each session.
Every single JK/K student spent time coding in a small group. We used BeeBots and a BeeBot map to introduce students to computational thinking.
There isn't much to explain, but it should be duly notes that kindergarten students catch on to this quickly. Before long, most were able to write a complex path for the BeeBot to follow. It's a good reminder that we often underestimate students' abilities. One of my favorite things about a schoolwide initiative like this is that faculty and staff can see what students are capable of, and this can lead to significant transformations in how coding is integrated into the classroom.
Our school's vision is to "inspire students to achieve their dreams and reach beyond themselves to make a difference in the world." So the question is, "How can coders make a difference in the world?"
I arranged a field trip for eighth graders to Google to learn how coding makes a difference in the world. We heard from Googlers from a variety of departments: Google X, user interface design, software engineer, and marketing. A big takeaway is the huge amount of collaboration and interdependence between all these people with vastly different skill sets. It's also an epic way to see coding in the wild, and not just on a website.
As we work to integrate coding into the school day more, there are two things we need to do more:
Continue to question, continue to reflect, continue to practice, continue to implement.
Genius Hour? Yeah, I could do that with my second graders.
There are few projects that truly changed the culture of my classroom–this is one of them. Both 20timeineducation.com and geniushour.com provide a quick primer on Genius Hour, aka 20 Time, aka 20% Time, aka FedEx Days. All right, I'm assuming you know about what Genius Hour is know. I found that this project is one of the rare moments in school where students are given choice in curriculum. In my class, students were free to choose any topic, and they were able to share what they learned in a variety of ways.
After talking with Kate Petty about 20% Time in her high school english class, I decided to give it a try with second graders. Despite several failures and rocky lessons along the way, my class found their groove with the following workflow:
Week 1: Choose a topic. Research it.
Week 2: Finish research. Organize notes.
Week 3: Create a poster or Google Presentation (or something).
Week 4: Present your project.
We spent one hour every Wednesday afternoon on Genius Hour projects. Students worked in pairs, and chose a topic together. The goal was to decide on a topic (horses, how to become a vet, how to spawn Herobrine (Minecraft was quite popular) and deliver a presentation four weeks later, totaling four hours of work. The following month would be new pairs, new topics, and new presentations.
I learned pretty quickly, though, that Genius Hour needs flexibility. I started off trying to stick to this exact schedule (4 weeks fit nicely into a month), but realized that this particular style of project takes on a life of its own. I'm not sure if it was a rainy day, a more challenging topic, or if pizza for lunch was to blame, but some rounds took two or three weeks. So, sometimes we would spend four weeks on a topic/project and sometimes we would spend seven weeks.
It took a while to figure out the pacing on this with second graders. The first time I tried this, we did all four steps in one afternoon. I don't recommend that–it did not go well. Another mistake was using Google Slides for presentations. My classroom was typically 10:1, which meant students could only work on their slides when we had a laptop cart or when we were in the computer lab. Another bad idea was forcing buddies. Students could choose their partner, and could choose to work alone. I encouraged collaboration, but didn't force it.
I made a few tweaks to Genius Hour to better fit second graders. These projects were more successful when students worked in pairs. I thought 100% autonomy would provide more engagement, but found that students got stuck during the research phase when working alone. I also fond that one month seems to be the Goldilocks length for second graders. Flexibility is essential, but seven weeks seemed to be too long for a seven year old to stay passionate on a topic with the intensity I wanted.
Students were engaged in projects like I'd never seen before. We know that student choice and autonomy make a huge difference in learning, but I felt the difference in my classroom when students were working on their Genius Hour projects. The desire to learn outweighed barriers. There was no leveled reading when researching–my struggling reader (1.2) learned how a car engine works on his own. At that point, students owned their learning. They didn't need me to learn something; they just needed an environment that provided support and focus.
In my new position as Director of Technology, our senior admin team is talking about bringing the tenets of Genius Hour into faculty learning. Following Google's model of 20% time, we're trying to figure out how to give teachers time during the day to work on projects they are passionate about. I'm excited to see how we can create space for all learners–elementary students, high school students, and teachers–to follow their passions and share their learning with others. If you're doing Genius Hour with your students or with your teachers, I'd love to hear about it.


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Social Software and Strategy
Social software challenges strategic thinking in important ways: empowering creative, independent individuals implies indeterminate and uncertain reactions and creations in support of, or in opposition to, management's original thinking. We build a framework that organizes research on social software, taking perspectives from both inside and outside companies. We use this framework to introduce the contributions to this special issue in terms of strategy, technology, and community and to ask a series of questions for strategy research that pays particular attention to value creation and appropriation, the role of technology both as tool and mediator between managers and users, and the role that management can play in communities, both as leaders and in shaping boundaries. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Keywords: Private-Collective Innovation ; Open Source Projects ; Information-Technology ; Organizational-Change ; Online Communities ; Practice Perspective ; Knowledge Creation ; Virtual Teams ; Linux Kernel ; Model
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UPDATE: Morgan Stanley Initiates Tableau Software at Equal-Weight on Forecast Upside Risk
In a report published Tuesday, Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss initiated coverage on Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) with an Equal-Weight rating.
In the report, Morgan Stanley noted, "Tableau offers software that enables users to reduce the complexity and inflexibility associated with traditional business intelligence tools, allowing a broader population of users to derive insights from data. By expanding the overall market, DATA should sustain 30%+ growth for the next several years, in our view. We see a long-term path to 20%+ margins, but near-term we expect DATA to trade margin expansion for growth as it invests in the business. DATA's 16x EV/CY14 sales multiple reflects high investor expectations for solid execution over the next several years. However, if DATA continues to push outside traditional BI users and sustains sales productivity as capacity ramps, the Bull Case revenue CAGR of 50% thru CY14 is achievable and could drive shares towards our $78 Bull Case."
Tableau Software closed on Monday at $58.11.
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The CoreNet Global Summit was held in Atlanta earlier this month. My friend Ken Ashley sits down with Jim Young, the CEO of RealComm to discuss the latest trends in technology as it relates to corporate real estate.
I found Jim Young's comments regarding social technologies interesting, as he emphasized the challenge of filtering through the noise level of social networks. His view supported my assertion of a trend towards better content filters and the importance of vetted data will grow as people realize that managing their information streams requires streamlining to only the most impactful and relevant.


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Active Families
Active Families
We all know that physical activity and exercise are important for overall health. This is true for children and adults of all ages. Adults need 2 ½ hours of physical activity a week, and children need 60 minutes a day. If you have kids, you want to make sure they grow up fit and healthy. However, you also know that it's challenging to juggle, work, family and physical activity, especially when many children are involved in activities of their own. Still, setting a good example is important. When parents are physically active, it increases the likelihood their kids will be active, as well. They also learn that being active is fun and it makes you feel good.
As a family, make a list of activities you'd like to do. Parents, remember that letting loose and playing is ok, and it's fun! Consider these ideas to get everyone up and moving as a family:
- Go for a bike ride. Many towns are creating greenways or paths that are safe for biking and walking.
- Take a before or after dinner walk around the neighborhood.
- Have a weekly sports day. Mix it up from week-to-week, consider basketball, dodgeball, whiffle ball, volleyball, throwing a Frisbee or simply playing catch.
- Get involved in other family-friendly sports such as tennis, skating or swimming.
- Fly a kite.
- Use your kid's sports practices as an opportunity for you to get some exercise, as well, by walking the perimeter of the field during their practice.
- Wash the cars.
- Do yardwork together, such as picking up sticks or raking leaves. Make it fun by turning the activity into a competition where the winner gets a prize.
- Turn commercial breaks into fitness breaks. Mute the TV and march in place or around the room, do sit-ups, push-ups or just play tag.
- Have a family dance night. Share dances from your generation and learn theirs. Or create your own dances.
- Have a hula hoop contest.
As you can see, there are virtually an unlimited number of activities that parents and children can do together. Being active as a family not only promotes good health, it can also bring families closer together. So, get up, turn off the TV, computer, tablet or phone and get moving as a family.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/get-active/activity-plan.htm
American College of Cardiology. https://www.cardiosmart.org/~/media/Documents/Fact%20Sheets/en/abk6082.ashx
letsmove.gov. http://www.letsmove.gov/active-families
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|Dec 20, 2011
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|Sep 30, 2003
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|Nov 6, 1998
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|Erik J. van der Burg, Dino De Cicco, Andrew G. C. Frazier, Alexander K. Khairkhahan, Marc S. Kreidler, Michael D. Lesh, Chad C. Roue
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|Atritech, Inc.
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|Patent Citations (156), Non-Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (7), Classifications (47), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/435,562, filed Nov. 8, 1999 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,128,073, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/187,200, filed Nov. 6, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,152,144. The entirety of U.S. Pat. No. 6,152,144 is hereby incorporated by reference.
Embolic stroke is the nation's third leading killer for adults, and is a major cause of disability. There are over 80,000 strokes per year in the United States alone. The most common cause of embolic stroke emanating from the heart is thrombus formation due to atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is an arrhythmia of the heart that results in a rapid and chaotic heartbeat that produces lower cardiac output and irregular and turbulent blood flow in the vascular system. There are over five million people worldwide with atrial fibrillation, with about four hundred thousand new cases reported each year. Atrial fibrillation is associated with a 500 percent greater risk of stroke due to the condition. A patient with atrial fibrillation typically has a significantly decreased quality of life due, in large part, to the fear of a stroke, and the pharmaceutical regimen necessary to reduce that risk.
For patients who have atrial fibrillation and develop atrial thrombus therefrom, the clot normally occurs in the left atrial appendage (LAA) of the heart. The LAA is a cavity which looks like a small finger or windsock and which is connected to the lateral wall of the left atrium between the mitral valve and the root of the left pulmonary vein. The LAA normally contracts with the rest of the left atrium during a normal heart cycle, thus keeping blood from becoming stagnant therein, but often fails to contract with any vigor in patients experiencing atrial fibrillation due to the discoordinate electrical signals associated with AF. As a result, thrombus formation is predisposed to form in the stagnant blood within the LAA. Blackshear and Odell have reported that of the 1288 patients with non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation involved in their study, 221 (17%) had thrombus detected in the left atrium of the heart. Blackshear J L, Odell J A. Appendage obliteration to reduce stroke in cardiac surgical patients with atrial fibrillation. Ann Thorac. Surg., 1996.61(2):755-9. Of the patients with atrial thrombus, 201 (91%) had the atrial thrombus located within the left atrial appendage. The foregoing suggests that the elimination or containment of thrombus formed within the LAA of patients with atrial fibrillation would significantly reduce the incidence of stroke in those patients.
Pharmacological therapies for stroke prevention such as oral or systemic administration of warfarin or the like have been inadequate due to serious side effects of the medications and lack of patient compliance in taking the medication. Invasive surgical or thorascopic techniques have been used to obliterate the LAA, however, many patients are not suitable candidates for such surgical procedures due to a compromised condition or having previously undergone cardiac surgery. In addition, the perceived risks of even a thorascopic surgical procedure often outweigh the potential benefits. See Blackshear and Odell above. See also Lindsay B D. Obliteration of the left atrial appendage: A concept worth testing. Ann Thorac. Surg., 1996.61(2):515. What has been needed is a less invasive system and method for containment or elimination of thrombus formation in the LAA of patients with atrial fibrillation. The present invention satisfies these and other needs.
The present invention is directed to a device and method for obliterating or occluding a body cavity or passageway. Specifically, the invention is directed to a device and method for obliterating or occluding the left atrial appendage of a patient's heart, preferably by percutaneous methods which obviate the need for invasive surgical procedures. One purpose of obliterating or occluding a body cavity or passageway, or particularly the left atrial appendage of a patient, is to prevent the passage or egress of embolic material into the bloodstream of a patient.
One embodiment of an apparatus having features of the invention has an occluding member having an outer rim or periphery disposed around the perimeter of the occluding member, with the outer rim configured to sealingly engage a surface of a body cavity. The apparatus also has an anchoring device or means which is secured to the occluding member. The anchoring device or means may include an adhesive between the outer periphery and an inside surface of a body cavity, a suture or sutures which are engaging the outer periphery of the occluding member and the inside surface of the body cavity, or the like. The anchoring device or means serve to secure the outer periphery to a surface of a body cavity or passageway so as to prevent the passage of embolic material or other materials therethrough.
In another embodiment, an apparatus having features of the invention may have an occluding member and a retention member secured to the occluding member. The retention member is configured to engage and attach to a surface of a body cavity and maintain a position of the occluding member to sealingly engage the inside surface of the body cavity and prevent the passage of embolic material or the like therethrough. In embodiments of the apparatus which are intended to occlude a patient's LAA, the occluding member will typically be a frame structure of a high strength material such as stainless steel, a shape memory or pseudoelastic alloy, such as NiTi alloy, or a suitable composite material. The frame structure has a barrier or mesh material disposed over it and preferably secured to it to act as a barrier to the passage of embolic material or fluids. The frame structure serves to support the barrier or mesh material in an outwardly expanded state to substantially occupy at least a portion of the cross section of a body cavity or passageway within which it is disposed. The mesh or barrier material can be any suitable material for preventing the passage of fluids, embolic material or other material suspended in fluids. Typical examples of suitable materials for the barrier include a Nylon or Dacron mesh. Preferably, the barrier or mesh material is made from PTFE or ePTFE having a pore size of up to about 0.04 inches, preferably up to about 0.005 inches. Other suitable materials may include polyurethanes, polyamides, polyethylenes or the like. The outer rim or periphery of the occluding member is preferably made of a soft polymer material which facilitates a seal between the outer rim and the inside surface of the body cavity. The outer rim may have a radial hoop of a metal or other high strength material or composite to provide outward radial pressure on the inside surface of the body cavity, and to maintain the shape of the outer rim. The occluding member may have a transverse dimension of about 0.5 to about 5 cm, preferably about 1 to about 2 cm.
The retention member secured to the occluding member may have any suitable configuration which maintains the position of the occluding member within the body cavity or passageway so as to form at least a substantial seal with the surface therein and prevent the passage of embolic material. Preferably, the retention member is an expandable member configured to engage the inside surface of the body cavity or passageway. The expandable member may be an expandable cylindrically shaped wire structure, typically with linked metallic elements which are capable of self expansion from a constrained state. The expansion member is preferably made from a shape memory or pseudoelastic alloy such as NiTi, or the like, but may also be made from high strength materials such as stainless steel, MP35N and other suitable materials. The expandable member can be covered with a polymer fabric or mesh to act as a buffer between the metallic elements of the expandable member and the inside surface of the body cavity within which it is disposed. The outer sheath may be made of Dacron, Nylon, TFE, PTFE, ePTFE, polyurethane or the like.
In another embodiment of a device having features of the invention, the retention member may be a tissue penetrating shaft which is designed to penetrate an inner wall of a body cavity, preferably the fundus of a body cavity, and be mechanically secured thereto. In a particular embodiment of the tissue penetrating shaft, the distal extremity of the shaft has a helically shaped extension which screws into the tissue of the wall of a body cavity and is thereby mechanically secured thereto. The tissue penetrating shaft may have a length of about 0.5 to about 7 cm, preferably about 1 to about 4 cm, and more preferably about 1.5 to about 3 cm. An alternative embodiment of the tissue penetrating shaft would include radially extending members from the distal end of a shaft in place of or in conjunction with the helically shaped extension. The radially extending members serve to center the shaft within the body cavity or passageway, and also to engage the tissue of the body cavity or passageway to prevent axial movement of the shaft and occluding member. The shaft can have up to about 20 radially extending members, but preferably has about 3 to about 10 radially extending members.
Preferably a method of closing off or blocking a body cavity, in particular a patient's LAA, is performed in a non-invasive or percutaneous manner. Delivery of an occluding device is typically carried out via a Mullin's trans-septal approach whereby a trans-septal catheter and needle are delivered percutaneously from a point of insertion into the right femoral vein under local anesthesia. Single or biplanar flouroscopy can be used to image the trans-septal catheter during the procedure and guide the distal end of the catheter to the desired site. It is therefor advantageous for at least portions of the trans-septal catheter and LAA occluder device to be at least partially radiopaque. The trans-septal catheter is advanced through the right femoral vein into the right atrium and positioned adjacent the coronary septum. The needle is advanced from the distal end of the catheter and punctures the septum in a desired location. The trans-septal catheter is then advanced over the needle through the septum and into the left atrium. Preferably, the distal end of the trans-septal catheter or any other type of delivery catheter used for this procedure has a distal tip portion with angulation of up to about 40�, preferably about 10� to about 30� with respect to a longitudinal axis of the catheter disposed immediately proximal to the angled distal tip portion. An angled discharge axis of the distal end of the delivery catheter facilitates access to the opening of a patient's left atrial appendage. The needle assembly is then withdrawn leaving an open lumen within the trans-septal catheter with access to the left atrium. The LAA occluder device is then advanced from the proximal end of the trans-septal catheter to the distal end thereof and into or adjacent the patient's LAA. Once the occluder device is properly positioned, it can be deployed. Proper positioning of the occluder device can be determined by flouroscopy, intracavity or extracorporeal ultrasonic imaging, including transesopheogeal ultrasonic imaging (TE Echo), CT, MRI or any other suitable imaging technique.
Alternatively, the procedure to position and deploy the occluding member may be performed intraoperatively in a stand alone procedure or in conjunction with another procedure which provides access to the LAA or other desired passageway or cavity.
In another embodiment of an apparatus having features of the invention, a device for occluding a body cavity or passageway has an occlusive body configured to at least partially fill the volume of the left atrial appendage or other desired cavity or passageway of a patient. In one aspect of the invention, the occlusive body is an inflatable member which is detachably secured to a delivery catheter and configured to fit within, or preferably substantially fill the LAA of a patient. The inflatable member may also have a retention member secured to it which serves to engage the inner surface of a body cavity or passageway and maintain the position of the inflatable member relative to the body cavity or passageway. The inflatable member is configured to engage the inside surface of the LAA to prevent the passage of fluid or embolic material therefrom. Embolic material may be fluids, particulate suspended in fluids such as blood clots, gas bubbles, solid tissue or the like. In addition to or in lieu of the retention member, the inflatable member or balloon may have a ribbed surface which is shaped so as to engage the trebecula of the inside surface of a patient's LAA. The ribs should extend radially about 1 to about 4 mm from the nominal surface of the inflatable balloon, and should be spaced about 3 to about 8 mm from each other, and can be circumferential, longitudinal or spirally configured. The inflatable balloon may also include materials designed to induce fibrosis, such as Dacron�. Typically, the inflatable balloon is inflated within the LAA by injection of saline, silicone, or other suitable material.
In another aspect of the invention, the occlusive body may be a coiled member or members, in particular, one or more helical metallic coils having either a straight shape in a relaxed state or another configuration such as random, helical, convoluted shape in the relaxed state. When the coil is introduced into the cavity or passageway of the patient, it can assume the shape of a coiled mass that serves to occlude the cavity or passageway. The occlusion may result from the mechanical packing of the cavity or passageway, or may be augmented by thrombogenesis caused by the occlusive member. The coils may have a length of about 1 to about 20 cm and may have a diameter of about 0.01 to about 0.02 inches. The material from which the coils are wound can have a cross sectional dimension of about 0.001 to about 0.05 inches, preferably about 0.002 to about 0.006 inches. The occlusive coil can be made from any suitable material including stainless steel, NiTi alloy, or suitable radiopaque metals or composites such as gold, platinum, tantalum or iridium or alloys thereof. In an alternative embodiment, the occlusive coil is secured to a covering element or occluding member which is disposed in the ostium or opening of a body cavity to prevent the passage of embolic material therethrough.
In yet another aspect of the invention, the occlusive body may be a polymer mass or mass of other biocompatible material that can be introduced or injected into a body cavity or passageway, in particular, into the left atrial appendage of a patient. The polymer mass may be injected in a flowing fluid or gel form, and then harden to a non-flowing solidified or hardened mass with the passage of time or with elevated temperatures. Examples of suitable polymeric materials would include various epoxies, hydrogels, and adhesives, including polymers such as n butyl cyanoacrylate, polyisocyanate (polyurethane prepolymers), moisture curing silicone, synthetic polymers in non-aqueous but water miscible solvents (DMSO), latex, fibrin, and collagen type IV.
In general, the occlusive body would be deployed or delivered to the LAA percutaneously, as with the trans-septal approach discussed above. However, it may also be deployed intraoperatively during an invasive procedure, or ancillary to another procedure which gives access to the LAA. The occluding mass could also be secured to a covering element or barrier that is disposed within the ostium or opening of a body cavity to prevent the passage of occlusive or embolic material therethrough.
Another device having features of the invention is used to close a body cavity or LAA off permanently at its opening by pulling the opening closed and mechanically fixing the opening in a closed state. An apparatus for closing off a cavity or LAA of a patient having features of the invention generally has an elongate shaft with proximal and distal ends and a lumen within the shaft. Movably or slidably disposed within the lumen of the shaft are a plurality of tissue attachment members which also have proximal and distal ends. The tissue attachment can be accomplished by mechanical grasping or hooking, but can also be vacuum or suction actuated. The attachment by the tissue attachment members can be self activating or initiating upon contact with or penetration of tissue, or may be controlled from the proximal end of elongate members which are secured to the tissue attachment members and are also at least partially slidably disposed within the lumen of the elongate shaft. The elongate members may contain or house electrical conductors, fiber optic cables, or control lines operatively connected to the tissue attachment members to transmit the appropriate energy, signal or force to the tissue attachment members in order to initiate and maintain tissue attachment, or to collect and transmit an image of the site.
The tissue attachment members and distal ends of the elongate members attached thereto are configured to extend beyond the distal end of the elongate shaft which can be positioned adjacent to tissue to be closed off. In this way, the tissue attachment members can extend distally and at an angle to a longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft and make contact with tissue and attach thereto. The tissue attachment members may then be retracted into the distal end of the elongate shaft so as to pull the various portions of the tissue together and close the cavity or opening of the LAA. The device preferably includes a closure member which is generally configured as a retaining ring which is slidably disposed over the elongate members and configured to restrain tissue collected and pulled together by the tissue attachment members upon retraction. The closure member may also be a staple which secures the tissue of the opening. The tissue of the annular edge of the cavity which has been collected and pulled together by the tissue attachment members may also be fixed or secured in the closed state by suturing, bonding with a biocompatible polymer adhesive, stapling, tissue welding or the like. Tissue welding suitable for use with the invention may be carried out with laser energy applied to the closed tissue. Laser energy may be supplied by Nd:YAG or HO:YAG laser types. Various configurations of surgical staples could be used to fix or secure the closed tissue of the body cavity or LAA, including the type disclosed by U.S. Pat. No. 4,603,693 to Conta et al. which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety and which discloses a device for deploying surgical staples.
The apparatus for closing a body cavity is generally delivered in a non-invasive, preferably percutaneous manner. An elongate delivery catheter having an inner lumen is percutaneously delivered such that a distal end of the delivery catheter is adjacent the opening of the patient's body cavity to be closed off. The closure device or apparatus for closing off a cavity or LAA of a patient is advanced distally within the delivery catheter from the proximal end thereof. The closure device is then advanced out of the distal end of the delivery catheter, and the tissue attachment members and elongate members advanced distally from the elongate shaft so that the tissue attachment members are in contact with the tissue of the opening of the body cavity to be closed. The tissue attachment members are then activated so as to attach to the tissue. The tissue attachment members are then retracted proximally back into the elongate shaft and the closure member advanced distally, preferably by distal movement of an elongate push shaft disposed proximal to the closure member and slidably disposed over the elongate members of the closure device. The closure member is advanced until it is disposed over the tissue of the cavity opening that is attached to the tissue attachment members and confines the tissue of the cavity opening so as to close off the cavity. The tissue attachment members can then be deactivated and withdrawn, and the closure device and delivery catheter withdrawn proximally to complete the procedure.
These and other advantages of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying exemplary drawings.
In addition to connecting the retention member 12 and the occluding member 11, the hub 16 may serve to house a rotational coupling 23 which is connected to the proximal end 24 of a tissue penetrating shaft 25 within the retention member. The rotational coupling 23 allows the transfer of torque to the tissue penetrating shaft 25 which preferably has a helically shaped extension or distal extremity 26 which is configured to screw into tissue and be mechanically fixed thereto. Longitudinal movement of the tissue penetrating shaft 25 relative to the retention member 12 and hub 16 may be prevented by sizing a lumen 27 of the retention member which contains the tissue penetrating shaft such that the helically shaped extension 26 at the distal end is too large to pass through the lumen and the proximal end 24 of the tissue penetrating shaft is prevented from passing through the lumen by the rotational coupling attached thereto. The rotational coupling 23 may also be configured to be longitudinally captured by the hub 16 but still be rotatably disposed therein.
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The detachment mechanism 113 can be activated by mechanical force or by delivery of thermal or optical energy by a suitable conduit. Alternatively, the inflatable member can be pushed into the LAA from the delivery catheter 111 by an elongate push member without the use of a detachment mechanism. The inflatable member 114 can be filled with a gas, fluid or gel which is injected under pressure through the delivery catheter 114 and into the inflatable member. Suitable fluids to inject would include saline and silicone. The inflatable member 114 may also be filled with a polymer material that can be hardened. A fluid, gel or polymer used to fill the inflatable member may contain contrast agents such as gold, tantalum, bismuth, barium sulfate or the like in order to improve visualization under flouroscopy or x-ray imaging.
Optionally, a retention member 127 having a tissue penetrating shaft 128 or the like, such as shown in
Once a desired amount of polymer mass 141 has been injected into the LAA 142, as assessed for example by TE Echo imaging, the delivery catheter 144 may be withdrawn and the procedure terminated. Preferably the entire LAA 142 of a patient is filled with the polymer mass 141 as shown in
Another alternative embodiment of an occlusive member 140 can be found in
An apparatus for closing off a body cavity or passageway 150 is shown in
While particular forms of the invention have been described, it will be apparent that various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, it is not intended that the invention be limited, except as by the appended claims.
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The Benefits of Writing Groups: Dori Ann Dupré
Writer Communities
By Dori Ann Dupre
Like most things in life - although certainly not all - you reap what you sew. As a writer, I find that my solitude or my co-existence with another person (or maybe just a couple of others), is a priceless treasure. Many writers are introverts and we find that our greatest asset in writing is our introversion. We watch, we observe, we take notes and tuck them into the folds of our brains regarding what is going on around us. Introverted does not necessarily mean antisocial, however.
When I started writing my first novel, I decided to step outside of my own head and join a small local writers' group which meets monthly at a local brewery. It is a sub-project of the larger statewide network. It's called Pittsboro Writers Morning Out, but the meetings are held at 1:00 PM. I found that most intriguing…writers who name a group something that makes no actual sense…an editor would eat that alive in a manuscript. Writers would probably point out that error as well, but it's also writers who say, "We have creative license to call it whatever we want."
The group consists of an eclectic few local poets, wanna-be novelists, short story writers, some published, some not, some former writing professors, some current writing instructors, and really, anyone who considers themselves a "writer." One is Santa Claus. No, really, he is. He even gave me his business card. He has his PHD, which, he informed me means, "Pole Hole Digger." Got to love the rural southern town where I live. There are a range of ages and life experiences, but no matter where you are as a writer – whether you consider yourself an expert or a beginner or somewhere in between – you can learn something about writing and you can learn something about yourself.
Since entering that first meeting over a year ago, I have been more engaged with other writers, more willing to talk about my writing and (gasp) less introverted about it. I took a short fiction class, which introduced me to other local writers I otherwise would not have met. I'm a part of several online writing communities, each serving its own purpose within the larger writing world. Communities of women writers and bloggers are excellent sources, of not only information and ideas, but encouragement and support. Communities of independent authors are great venues to generate the kinds of practical conversations you need in marketing and branding and advertising and resources and learning new and improved ways to reach an audience in an overly saturated market. Communities of genre writers and communities of readers enhance your ability to communicate effectively, not just within your own writing but as an "author," as someone who has something valuable to say. These are all tremendous networking opportunities. You never know who you might meet.
Most importantly, to me, writing communities are stock full of possible kindred spirits just waiting to bond with you, and when you can find one of those in life, you are richer than any royalty check.
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Lately there have been gossip around the internet and in the B-town that Veteran Director Rajkumar Santoshi is planning to make a sequel for Andaz Apna Apna. As soon as the news came out there was gossip that the two Khans – Aamir Khan and Salman Khan might return into their original roles. The two Khan's even did a Andaz Apna Apna act in Salman Khan's Dus ka Dum two years ago but the project never came on floor. Now that Rajkumar santoshi has finished up work with his latest film 'Phata Poster Nikla Hero', the director is all set to bring back the old memories of one of the finest hindi comedy movie of all time. But the question rise who will be starring the lead roles of Amar and Prem which were previously portrayed by legend Aamir khan and Salman khan.
Andaz Apna Apna was the film that worked out equally well for the two khans Aamir and Salman. It was the one and only film that starred Aamir and Salman together. Fans surely wants the two Khan's back together but Sanotshi has made a smart move for going with younger stars in order to make the film look fresh. Rajkumar Santoshi has already given the rights to remake the animated version of Andaz Apna Apna (titled Andaz Naya Naya) with the voice of the two lead stars Aamir and Salman but what people are actually looking for Is a non-animated sequel.
If gossip are to be believed then Rajkumar santoshi has already set his eyes on two of the handsome men of Bollywood – Shahid Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor. If the rumors come out true then we will see the two kapoors portraying the comic roles of Amar and Prem in Andaz Apna Apna 2.
Rajkumar Sanotshi has already worked with the two actors. He worked with Ranbir Kapoor back in 2009 in the film Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahaani. It was the film that help Ranbir kapoor to shape his career and become an actor with vivid diversity. On the other hand, Rajkumar's latest film 'Phata Poster Nikla Hero' stars Shahid Kapoor. The director has praised work and dedication of Shahid for the film. Impressed from his comic skills the director is said to sign him for Andaz Apna Apna 2.
Santoshi is currently working on the script and is said has reportedly discussed his plans with Shahid. Shahid has given a positive response to the project. However, there is no news from Ranbir's side as Rajkumar is yet to approach the actor. Shahid and Ranbir has never worked together in past but the two are surely the most admired men in India. If all works out well then who knows this might become the best comedy film of this decade… What you say?


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