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ShytKicka necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 295 diseños de 91 diseñadores freelance.
Our family collects antiques (radios, clocks, and cameras). We are looking for a website design so that we can list and sell these antiques.
We can't find any site design that does what we have in mind, but structurally we may want to follow something like: http://robertmaron.com/home.php
We want the design to be creative, original, and detailed, just like our antiques are.
We are looking for a home page design only.
Our business is in collecting and selling antiques (clocks, radios, and cameras). We want to position ourselves to be #1 online in selling exclusive and rare antiques.
Our family owns the rarest antique collection, and we want the site design to show that.
We have two logos that we've chosen from a previous contest. It is upto YOU to choose which logo you want to use for the site design. Choose the one that your style works best with. These are attached as logo1.zip and logo2.zip. I personally like Logo1.zip better (bottom of the 3 variants), but upto you if you want to use a different variant in Logo1 or if you want to use Logo2 instead.
As far as site design, make it look classic, exclusive, and very detailed. We want the site design to look like the antiques that we sell. So similar colors, details, etc. Here is how our antiques look like: http://www.google.com/images?um=1&h…1&aql=&oq=
Basically just do a search for "antique seth thomas clocks" in Google images to see what these antiques look like. They have a great level of detail and we want the site design to be just like this.
Here's what we need as far as layout goes:
1. We need a list of categories, preferably on left hand side.
2. We need a search box somewhere clearly on the page, so people can search our large collection.
3. Front page should have either featured or recently added antiques with thumbnails.
4. I'm unsure what to do for the main content area. We can either have listings, or some 1 great featured antique, or perhaps some beautiful design/illustration/graphic of antiques. I'll leave this up to the designer.
Let's deliver the best design on 99designs! Good luck!


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|Some of the prettiness I love (Clockwise from Top Left)
1. My Pin Up Embroidery Skirt, 2. Bunny Slippers, 3. Petticoats,
4. Pink Bowling Shoes, 5. Adorable Pyjama Pattern
" I wonder, when will it get weird that my favourite outfit is a giraffe-print minidress with patent t-bar flats? ...What is the half-life of rainbow glittery oxfords?"
|Georgia Rose's Kitten Around Dress from the Velvettes
|Solanah from Vixen Vintage and Cassie from Cassie Stephens
|Twila Jean from twilajean.com and Brittany from Va Voom Vintage
|Elsie from A Beautiful Mess and Casey from Elegant Musings

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This post is a submission for the 78th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy being hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene. The request was for pony, cowboy, and cowgirl photos from our family albums and the stories behind them.
[This beautiful COG poster was designed and provided by the creative footnoteMaven.]
Cowboy Dreams
I think every little boy, no matter the generation, at one time or another, dreams about being a cowboy. To have his own horse, his own gun, his own cowboy hat, with the wide open spaces of the wild west ready to take on the worst of the worst, the meanest of the meanest bad guys the wild west could come up with, and to save the damsel in distress is what every little boy dreams of at one time or another. Certainly, though, the popularity of being a cowboy increased in the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's with the influx of Western movies made at the time. How do I know this? Just look below at the photos of my father dressed as a cowboy throughout his life. Then, take a look at the last one of my brother and sister on their donkey Oscar. I think that my Big Paw Paw [my dad's dad] had great dreams of dad becoming a cowboy, wouldn't you agree? Also, when I was young when VCR's hit the scene [you know, the big clunky ones?], my dad would rent tons of John Wayne movies. He said that they were really good, and that I just had to see them. He was right. They were good.
And below, no, your eyes are not deceiving you, the first photo is of my dad sitting on a real live bull [because, hey, that's how we roll in Texas], but of course my favorite is of him on the pony when he was three.


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During a two-day meeting in the last week of February, the Food and Drug Administration debated regulating a new technique that combines DNA from three people that would, in theory, create children free of certain inherited diseases.
Scientists say these genetically modified embryos, made with the DNA from two biological mothers and one biological father, would potentially allow mothers who carry DNA mutations for conditions like blindness and epilepsy to have children without passing on these defects.
The technique — nicknamed "three-parent in vitro fertilization" — is the latest in a long line of controversial scientific procedures regarding fertility and reproduction.
"Skyrocketing infertility rates and the accompanying explosion in reproductive technology are revolutionizing the American family and changing the way we think about parenthood, childbirth, and life itself."
That unsettling quotation is from the inside jacket of the 2007 book by Liza Mundy, "Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women and the World" (Alfred A. Knopf, $17.95). Assisted reproduction refers to creating babies by using one or a combination of technologies that include creating embryos in a lab with in vitro fertilization (IVF), using eggs and sperm from donors, and hiring surrogate mothers.
In some instances, infertility is self-inflicted, as many couples use contraception to delay childbearing during their most fertile years and then later expect technology to produce a baby on demand. Also, the use of contraception encourages sex with many partners, and this leads to more exposure to sexually transmitted diseases that can reduce or destroy fertility. Studies have shown, too, that abortion can lead to infertility.
Janet Smith, a professor of moral theology who holds the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair in Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, told Our Sunday Visitor that society previously believed sexual intercourse belonged in marriage and, as a result, children were to be conceived only with one's spouse. However, the prevalence of contraception helped sever the link between sex, love, marriage and parenthood, she said.
"The contraceptive mentality that leads us to believe we should be dictating when we have children and how many we have now dominates," Smith said. "Women are now freezing their eggs so they can get pregnant later in life through technology. Babies are seen as an experience to have rather than a gift to receive."
This concept of a baby as a commodity that can be manufactured on demand rather than a gift received through the love of a husband and wife has become acceptable to many.
However, few realize the huge moral and social problems involved in this technology. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches artificial reproduction methods infringe on rights of children by separating them from their biological parents and distorts the natural concepts of parenthood and family (CCC Nos. 2376, 2377).
A thriving fertility industry in this country that takes in more than $3 billion annually is, according to experts, largely federally unregulated and does little to no screening of potential "parents," unlike the legal adoption process that requires stringent scrutiny.
Fertility clinics will provide donor sperm to a woman (called heterologous artificial insemination) or will create embryos through IVF and implant the embryo(s) in a surrogate or the intended "social" mother, all governed by contracts among the parties involved.
The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, which claims to have 90 percent of U.S. fertility clinics as members, reported last month that more than 1.5 percent of babies born in the United States in 2012 were conceived by IVF. The society said its 379 affiliated clinics provided 165,172 IVF procedures in 2012, resulting in 61,740 babies, a new record high. The numbers do not include babies born from heterologous artificial insemination.
Another piece of data not reported was how many of the babies were conceived with sperm or eggs from anonymous donors, but experts estimate that between 30,000 and 60,000 babies born each year have one or both donor parents.
The repercussions of this fertility phenomenon, which deliberately separates children from their biological parents, recently have grabbed media attention.
In the 2013 film "Delivery Man," the lead character discovers he fathered more than 500 children through sperm donation 20 years earlier, and now more than 100 of his offspring want to find him. An MTV series in 2013, "Generation Cryo," followed a 17-year-old as she searched for her half-siblings and their donor father. The 2010 movie "The Kids Are All Right" had a similar theme.
As it turns out, the kids are not all right. A 2010 study of donor-conceived children, "My Daddy's Name is Donor" by Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval Glenn and Karen Clark, concluded that reproductive technology was advancing uninhibited without research on the effect on the children produced. They found biological and adopted children fared much better than donor-conceived children.
"On average, young adults conceived through sperm donation are hurting more, are more confused, and feel more isolated from their families," the study states. "They fare worse than their peers raised by biological parents on important outcomes such as depression, delinquency and substance abuse. Nearly two-thirds agree, 'My sperm donor is half of who I am.'"
Jennifer Lahl, president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, has produced a trilogy of films exploring the damage caused by assisted reproductive technology. "Eggsploitation" documents the damage done to women by egg donation; "Breeders: A Sub-class of Women" deals with surrogate mothers; and "Anonymous Father's Day" highlights many of the problems associated with the practice of anonymous gamete donation.
In the latter film, four donor-conceived individuals discuss feelings of loss, abandonment, anger and the deep desire to know their biological fathers and half-siblings.
One person, who discovered he has between 500 and 1,000 half-siblings, spoke of the "genealogical bewilderment" that unites those who are donor-conceived. Some speak of the "yuck factor" in their conception.
Alana Newman, one of those featured in "Anonymous Father's Day," has become the public face of many who are donor-conceived through her Anonymous Us Project. Anonymous Us is an online community, found at AnonymousUs.org, where anyone involved in the gamete donor process may post his or her story, well, anonymously. (Excerpts from these personal accounts are shared throughout this story.)
Newman told Our Sunday Visitor that her own experience of not knowing her donor father caused her great personal difficulties and alienation from her family. In response, she created a community where people like her could tell their stories. Many are poignant, relating identity crises, a sense of shame over the way they were conceived, a deep loss from not knowing half of their biological history and family, and concern about the exchange of money that brought them into being.
Moral theologian Smith said because contraception severed the link between sex, love, marriage and parenthood, some women have sex with men they don't love, don't intend to marry and don't intend to have children with. Thus, when they want a baby, they think it's no problem to conceive a child with the sperm of a man they don't know.
"All of this contributes to the lack of connectedness in our culture," she continued. "Being raised in single parenthood households, in households wracked by divorce, being made through artificial technology — all this leads to generations of children who do not have strong family influences and formation in being raised. Those ties are the ones that make us strongest and most secure.
"We are raising generations of badly formed and psychologically wounded young people. They will find it very difficult to face the challenges ahead," Smith said.
Newman also is very concerned about the potential for abuse of donor-conceived children, and the statistics show children are more likely to be abused by a non-biologically related male in the household. She said she had interviewed fertility clinic managers who admitted they rarely, if ever, turned away a client who wanted to get a baby.
Newman added that she also worries about the donors, especially the women who develop health problems and even infertility because they must undergo hormone treatments to hyper-stimulate the ovaries and then have surgical retrieval of their eggs. And there are plenty of egg and sperm donors who have written about their regrets on the Anonymous Us website, including the regret that they will never know their own offspring.
One sperm donor wrote on the Anonymous Us Project website:
"To all donor-conceived children I'm sorry. I needed the money and I thought I was making your parents happy. I thought you would be loved and wanted. But not by me. ... I now realize I was wrong. This whole system is wrong. Please forgive me, but I am not your father, nor did I ever intend to be."
Some clinics limit the number of children that can be fathered by one donor, but some don't. Even with limits, proliferation of clinics in this country and even international trade in sperm mean that one man could potentially father hundreds of children who will never know him.
A Sept. 5, 2011, New York Times article reported on a social worker who found more than 150 half-siblings to her donor-conceived son. The article cited the very real concern that genes for inherited diseases could proliferate widely when large numbers of children have the same donor father, as donor and embryo screening is not possible for all inherited diseases.
Furthermore, some children of anonymous donors worry they risk incest if they fall in love with a half-sibling who is unknown to them. The Donor Sibling Registry was created to help related people connect, but it is strictly voluntary.
This "revolutionary" way of forming a family has produced not only a moral quagmire but a legal nightmare. Margaret Brinig, who holds the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame School of Law, told OSV the fertility industry is lightly regulated. Federal regulations cover what diseases a donor is to be tested for, but beyond that, it is up to the states, where regulations vary widely.
For example, some states do not allow hiring surrogate mothers, while others, like California, do. This naturally attracts clients from countries around the world that do not allow surrogacy.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine issues guidelines for these procedures, Brinig said, but they are just guidelines. In any case, for some procedures, no doctor is even involved, and sometimes transactions take place informally between acquaintances.
Generally, Brinig said, states hold a biological father responsible for support of his child, so that is another reason donors prefer to be anonymous, and most fertility clinics provide a contract guaranteeing the donor's name will never be revealed.
More critical than the financial issue, however, is the sticky question of parenthood. Brinig described a case (Buzzanca v. Buzzanca) in which a married couple used a surrogate mother and donor sperm and egg.
Before the baby was even born, the couple split up, and the husband declared he had no children and would not provide support. Likewise, the surrogate denied she was the parent of the child. The wife sued, and the court ruled the baby had no legal parents.
An appeals court later ruled that the intended parents were legally responsible for the upbringing of the child.
"It's just a mess," Brinig said. "Once you go down this path, there is no terrific solution."
Even many married infertile couples prefer to use anonymous donors for IVF rather than adopt, Brinig continued, because with anonymous donors, there are no birth parents to deal with.
One of her big fears with the explosion of this reproductive technology, Brinig added, is that existing children who need adoptive homes might not find them.
"Once technology gets to the point where everybody can sort of manufacture their own children, nobody is looking out for those [adoptable] kids, many of whom desperately need a home," she added. "I worry a lot about the kids."
Indeed, all of these difficult medical, legal, psychological, ethical and personal problems wrapped up in assisted reproductive technology do seem to be "revolutionizing the American family," as the quotation near the beginning of this article states.
Mark J. Cherry, the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, told OSV that "there is a significant cultural movement dedicated to recasting the family as no more than a social construction — to pretending as if there is no deep reality to the family, other than what we construct in a social fashion."
Cherry said this phenomenon can be seen in TV shows depicting a group of postmodern friends with no deep moral beliefs and have no biological connection, but who live together and call themselves a family.
"Political support for the normalization of reproduction with donor gametes, homosexual marriage and other post-traditional forms of the family claims that there are no real or important differences between a socially constructed family — however it is structured — and the traditional biological family," Cherry added. "This debate is a central part of what we are seeing in the cultural wars around us: that the nuclear family — the traditional understanding of a man, his wife, their biological and adopted children — should no longer be thought of as the social and moral norm."
In order to combat this reality, he said, "traditional Christians must stand against such a cultural shift and defend the traditional Christian family."
Ann Carey writes from Indiana.
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Standing as the tallest building in the Western Hempishere, and the sixth-tallest tower in the world, The One World Trade Centre (also known as The Freedom Tower) was rebuilt in Lower Manhattan after the orginal World Trade Centre was completely destroyed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
Students can ascend to the top of the building in less than sixty seconds and enjoy the spectaculr views the structure has to offer.
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A Broadway show is without doubt a highlight for all educational groups visiting the Big Apple on their study trip and we are able to arrange tickets for your students to all the major shows on and indeed off Broadway.
Contact our student trips team at FHT Group Tours on 01279 658221 for schedules and prices and we will arrange this as an integral part of any School, College or University trip to New York for your students.
The American Museum of Natural History is located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in large grounds opposite Central Park, and is one of the largest and most diverse museums in the world. The Museum comprises 25 interconnected buildings that house 46 permanent exhibition halls, research labs and its well renowned library.
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Designed in 1858 by Landscape designer and writer Frederic Law Olmstead and English Architect Calvert Vaux, Central park was designated a National Historic landmark in 1962 and is the most visited Urban park in the United States.
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Taking a Liberty cruise or the longer semi-circle river cruise is probably the best way to enjoy the famous skyline on any educational group trips to New York.
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The Iconic Empire State Building, along with the Rockefeller Center, is one of the key attractions any Sixth Form school or student group should visit during your study trip and stay in the city and offers breathtaking views at any time of day.
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We are pleased to be able to arrange a number of subject-related lectures and tours of Macy's for schools and student groups. The largest department store in the world has just celebrated it's centenary and so a study visit here for your Business or fashion students whilst in New York is a great option.
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The Staten Island Ferry provides 20 million people a year (60,000 passengers a day not including weekend days) with a free ferry service between St. George on Staten Island and Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. The ferry is the only non-vehicular mode of transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan and can be used as an alternative to the Liberty ferry or Circle Line cruise if you want a taste of the Skyline from the water.
The Statue of Liberty is probably the most iconic image of New York there is. Groups will in due course be able to combine the free Liberty Ferry from Battery Park with a visit onwards to the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, both of which are symbolic of the American Dream.
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Stunning panoramic views await your group as you reach the observation deck of the Rockerfeller Center !
We heartily recommend a visit here rather than just to the Empire State, and with the larger observation deck giving fantastic views over Central park and the interactive displays it offers groups a more comfortable overall experience at the same price.
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The group tour of the famous Yankee Stadium includes visits to the New York Yankees Museum, Monument Park, MasterCard Batters Eye Cafe and Press Box. Tours are available morning and afternoon (just morning on game day). There are places to eat lunch or tea around the stadium including Hard Rock Café
In a great location a short walk to Times Square and offering higher quality single, twin or double double rooms with complimentary wifi and a comprehensive buffet breakfast for all groups, the Holiday Inn Express Midtown West is a great value option for groups wanting the comforts of a higher grade hotel, a great location and extremely competitive prices during low seasons months of Jan-March.
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A high quality and superbly located superior class hotel located just off Times Square in the heart of the Big Apple. Grab and Go breakfast is available and rooms are single or double/double, furnished to a high quality and will guarantee a very comfortable and great value stay for your student group in one of our favourite hotels in New York.
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A great location doesn't have to be out of reach for your student group trip to New York. The Hotel Pennsylvania is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, and our surprisingly affordable rates leave more money in your student's pocket to enjoy all that the city has to offer.
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Formerly the Comfort Inn Chelsea, the Heritage enjoys a great location for visiting student groups on educational study trips to New York. It's central location means that it is within walking distance of many popular New York City points of interest, including Penn Station, the Empire State Building, Broadway theatres, Madison Square Garden arena and Times Square, making it a great base for educational study tours to the city.
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With a stunning turn-of-the century façade and a privileged Manhattan location, just a 3-minute walk from the Empire State Building, the Wolcott offers a superb base for student group study tours to New York.
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Nestled in the heart of Manhattan's East Side and close to Museum Mile and the U.N, the Vanderbilt YMCA offers great value and good quality budget accommodation, making it ideal for budget educational group student trips to New Yok.
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The West Side Y, located just off Central Park West in a European landmark style building, is just a few yards away from Central Park, Lincoln Center, Broadway, American Museum of Natural History and the attractions of the upper West Side of Manhattan. it is therefore an ideal base for any student group educational trips to New York, whether Sixth Form, College or University.
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ZHUHAI, China (Reuters) - Wealthy Chinese are itching to take up flying as a hobby, drawing crowds to an air show in the southern city of Zhuhai this week, but high taxes and military controls on airspace are grounding the aviation industry's hopes of a sales boom.
Mongolian coal mine boss John Zhang, aged 39, is aware of restrictions on using private planes in China for now, but said he still wanted to buy one to take his family up for pleasure.
"Flying is my childhood dream and this is a gift to myself," said Zhang, pointing to a white Cirrus SR20, worth about $320,000 before tax.
"I probably will get a pilot license in three months as I plan to put aside everything and be fully devoted to training," he told Reuters at the air show on Thursday.
Zhang's personal dream, and the desire felt by many others to take up a hobby which has long been popular in the United States, ought to provide a boost to the aerospace industry.
The country's aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, estimates that about 1,000 general aircraft will be delivered to China from 2011 to 2015.
That is a fraction of the potential demand if the world's second largest economy opens up its skies to ordinary citizens.
With 310 million people, the United States had about 230,000 business-to-general aviation aircraft at the end of last year, while China with a population of 1.3 billion had about 1,100.
China pledged in its latest five-year plan for 2011-2015 to promote the general aviation industry and reform the airspace management system to open up more airspace - badly needed not just by hobbyists but also by congested commercial air lanes.
But observers say China's military, which technically governs all the country's airspace while carving out narrow corridors for use by airlines, is reluctant to give up control.
"The airspace here has not opened up as was forecast," said Briand Greer, Asia-Pacific president for Honeywell International's aerospace division, one of 650 exhibitors at the air show held every other year in Zhuhai.
"The military still owns the airspace and today with a fifth more aircraft in the sky you have got to have more airspace."
As the country emerges from a period of leadership transition, many in the industry hope authorities will relax the controls and promote the production of small aircraft.
The restrictions also apply to civil helicopters, a relatively rare sight in China compared to many Western countries but also seen as a huge potential market for foreign manufacturers who are investing in Chinese facilities.
Under test projects, private planes now can fly below 1,000 meters in the country's northeastern and central-southern regions, as well as seven second-tier provincial cities.
China will further open up low-altitude airspace to private planes next year, said Ma Xin, an official with the state air traffic control commission, at the show, without elaboration.
Despite slow moves to free up airspace, Western companies are positioning themselves for growth in China as they suffer a slowdown in their biggest market, the United States.
Textron subsidiary Cessna, the world's largest general aviation aircraft maker, signed a joint venture agreement with Aviation Industry Corp of China's (AVIC) general aviation unit, one of many suppliers at the Zhuhai air show.
The two companies will jointly assemble Citation XLS+ business jets in Zhuhai for Chinese customers.
Anticipating a flying craze and seizing a chance to acquire help for the development of its domestic aerospace industry, state-owned AVIC bought privately held Cirrus of Minnesota last year in a deal that briefly stirred U.S. political concerns over the transfer of aerospace technology to China.
Chinese private entrepreneurs like Fang Tieji, have also jumped on the bandwagon. His Jilin Hanxing Group in north China bought U.S. private plane maker Glasair Aviation last year.
Fang plans to set up 40 dedicated service facilities and 10 airports for general aviation alongside aircraft manufacturing and real estate all over China by the end of the decade.
At the country's first general aviation fixed-base operation, Fang presented a team of 12 female pilot trainees in Zhuhai, dubbed the city of dreams.
Private plane owners share the hurdles that have also slowed the growth of business jets - not only restricted airspace but also a lengthy import process and taxes of up to 21 percent.
Other problems include a shortage of infrastructure such as suitable airports, pilots and service facilities.
That may not put off enthusiasts with disposable incomes like Zhang, the coal mine boss, but piloting a plane or even taking one remains a distant hope for many ordinary Chinese.
"I go to this show every time it is on," said Li Qiang, an employee with a Zhuhai-based sportswear manufacturing firm. "I would love to have a private plane if only I could afford it."
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Sep.4 (GMM) Jean Todt is concerned about the viability of next month's inaugural grand prix.That is the claim of Ari Vatanen, an FIA official who once stood against Todt for the presidency of F1's governing body but is now one of his closest allies.Russia and its controversial president Vladimir Putin, who Bernie Ecclestone describes as a "super guy", are in the global headlines at present over the escalating aggression against Ukraine.The Financial Times this week claimed Europe is considering recommending new sanctions against Russia to include the boycott of key sport events, like the inaugural grand prix at Sochi scheduled for mid October.Daniel Johnson, the F1 correspondent for the Telegraph newspaper, believes Finn Vatanen is "testing the waters" with his comments on behalf of a more reserved Todt."Of course Jean knows about my comments, we spoke about it," Vatanen said. "We are friends. I think he partly shares my view."It is true that his hands are tied. I can say things much more openly and freely than he can."F1 chief executive Ecclestone, who personally agreed the race deal with Putin, consistently refers to his binding contract with Sochi organisers and the fact that sport and politics should not be mixed.Vatanen said: "It is often said that formula one should not mix politics and sport, but the Russian regime is already mixing politics and sport in a blatant way, so we have to respond."It is for Bernie and the owners to cancel the race."As the current situation worsens, Putin has in the past days even threatened nuclear war as the West exerts increasing pressure."It is an unprecedented situation since the second world war," said Vatanen, a former rally world champion and European parliamentarian, "and we have to ask ourselves how history will remember us and what we did or did not do."Do we support the regime who is masterminding this bloodshed? Or do we say this is not correct?"It would send a message of acceptance if we went to Russia. It would say we condone, effectively, maybe not explicitly, but by our actions we condone what is going on because it is used in propaganda," Vatanen concluded. comments powered by Disqus
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For Friends, Family & Partners
If you are a secondary survivor - a parent, friend or partner of a survivor of sexual assault - we are glad that you are here. At Pandora's Project, we understand that providing support to loved ones in the aftermath of sexual assault can be incredibly difficult, and we thank you for being there for the survivor in your life.
Knowing that someone you care about has been hurt may leave you feeling overwhelmed. Oftentimes both survivors and their supporters struggle with feeling helpless in the aftermath, and it can take some time to learn how to respond.
For many survivors, support is a crucial part of the healing process, and receiving compassionate and validating responses from friends and family can make a real difference.
You may have difficulty in knowing what to say or do to help your loved one. It's okay to not have all the answers; non-judgmental listening and simply being there can be a wonderful support for the survivor. Let your loved one know that you care, that you don't blame them, and that you believe in them. Unfortunately, there are no quick or easy fixes for healing from sexual violence, so it's important to be patient when the process seems to be taking what some consider to be a long time.
In addition to finding ways to support the survivor, it's very important to maintain your own well-being. You may find yourself feeling alarmed by the intensity of your own feelings. It can be helpful to recognize that it is natural for supporters to experience their own sense of shock, anger and devastation. Acknowledge the impact that this has on your own life, and seek outside support for yourself. Taking care of your needs can make it easier to provide support to others.
Helpful Resources for Supporters
Healing Together Forum
The Pandora's Aquarium message board has a forum dedicated to secondary survivors (parents, friends, and partners of survivors) struggling with the effects of rape and abuse to get feedback from each other and from survivors.
Pandora's Project has many informative essays and articles on various topics relating to sexual violence and recovery. The following articles are written specifically for secondary survivors:
Tips for Friends and Family of Survivors
Self-Care While Supporting a Survivor
Helping a Partner Heal Sexually
Secondary Survivors Surviving to Thriving's page for secondary survivors. Provides information on ways to help, things to say, what not to say, resources, and an area to share your secondary story.
A mother's story Details a mother's reaction to her daughter's rape and how they healed together.
A Guide for Friends, Family, and Partners of Survivors How to help the survivor and how to help yourself
RCIP's How to Help a Survivor and Partners of Survivors
For Carers and Supporters
ASCA's (Adults Surviving Child Abuse) page for secondary survivors. Provides information on healing, and helpful tips for supporting survivors.
Hope for Healing: Partners of Survivors
A mailing list for the partners of survivors.
What You Should Know about Rape and Sexual Assault
A comprehensive overview that may be helpful to you in understanding sexual assault and its affect on victims.
Herodes' Cave Spring Board & Live Chat Room
An online community for secondary supporters. Herodes' Cave offers a message board and chat room, as well as links to additional resources.
Books and booklets
Allies in Healing
When You are The Partner of a Rape of Incest Survivor
Supporting a survivor of sexual assault: MARC/UBUNTU Survivor Support Booklet
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What was written then is coming to pass, the back end of Johan Santana's contract appears to be choking the Mets. It was widely written, by me and others, that six years is too long a deal for a pitcher who had already accumulated a lot of innings.
Santana's velocity has been in decline, and now he faces shoulder surgery that ESPN is reporting could keep him out for up to two years. This is a tough surgery with a long and arduous rehab program. It won't be easy for Santana and there are no guarantees on the back end.
That said, the Mets will likely come to regret the $77 million balance on the contract, but they knew going in that was a strong possibility for the final two years, OK, now it could be three.
The Mets overpaid because both the Red Sox and Yankees backed out, but the circumstances of the times must be realized. The Mets, having lost in 2006 and collapsed in 2007, were in dire need of starting pitching.
The Mets needed an ace and Santana came back to them, and Santana has pitched like the ace he was portrayed to be.
Where the Mets failed or miscalculated is not in signing Santana, but not giving him the adequate run support. Had Santana pitched for the Yankees instead of the Mets, with their superior run support and Mariano Rivera, he might have won a Cy Young or won 20 games.
Santana has more than carried his share of the load since coming here. Injuries are always a risk, but he has more than lived up to his end of the bargain.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala-The Lipscomb Lady Bisons cross country team made it known they are still a force to be reckoned with after a fourth place finish in the Crimson Classic in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Dani Walker led the Lady Bisons with a 10th place covering the 5-kilometer course at the Harry Pritchett Course at the University of Alabama in a time of 18:03.62. The Lady Bisons finished fourth in the 14-team field. Alabama was first followed by Tennessee and Mississippi State.
"We took a big step forward today," Lipscomb cross country coach Bill Taylor said. "This was the best performance of the year for the women. They really fought hard for each other. I'm very happy and so is the team.
"I'm happy to say that the rumors of our demise were premature. Now we need to build on this big step we've taken forward and make the most out of all we have been through. Today was a big step forward though."
Tessa Hoefle and Maggie Lawrence also placed in the top 15 in the field of 135 runners. Hoefle crossed the finish line in 13th place with a time of 18:05.44 and Lawrence was 15th with a time of 18:08.63.
"Dani and Tessa ran their best races of the season," Taylor said. "They put themselves up in the right race.
"Maggie had her best race as a collegiate runner. She just kept getting stronger throughout the race and moved all the way up. I think she got a taste of what she can do, and it's very exciting."
Madeline Talbert placed 33rd (18:34.41) and Minna Fields finished 39th (18:42.06).
"Minna is working her way back up to where she was last year," Taylor said. "She gets stronger every day, and while we want her all the way there now, she will be that much stronger in two weeks."
Rounding out the finishers for the Lady Bisons were Kendra Lobley in 43rd place (18:48.73), Missy Dowd in 53rd (19:03.96), Hannah Munyan in 55th (19:04.87), Kellie Foley in 62nd (19:20.29), Kaitlyn Llewellyn in 63rd (19:22.35), Renee Menzie in 74th (19:34.59), Emily Longden in 79th (19:41.54), Amanda Twigg in 87th (19:54.01), Lana Hojeij in 93rd (20:00.11), Katie Bunker in 115th (20:51.70) and Makenna Rickner in 119th place (21:04.74).
"Kellie Foley just coming back from a season-long injury ran incredible in her first ever collegiate cross country race," Taylor said. "She was in our top four or five until about the last half mile. She will move up rapidly with a few more weeks of training and her first race under her belt.
"Missy also ran her best race of the season. She always gets stronger as the season gets longer, and she is such a tough kid. Hannah rebounded today from a rough middle of the season and ran her best race of the year."
The Lady Bisons received a major mental boost from the team performance. They lived up to the type of effort that has been expected of them since the start of the season.
"We have tons of room to improve still," Taylor said. "The girls forced their way to success today. They knew they needed to make a statement to themselves. That's what they had to do. Now they have done it.
"Now they know for sure what they thought they knew, and can run free and relaxed next race. This is a mental launch pad. They've faced some of the best competition in the nation this season, got knocked onto the ropes, got up with willpower and faith, and are far better for it."
While Taylor was thrilled with the outcome he knows there is a lot of work left before the Lady Bisons defend their Atlantic Sun Championship at the conference meet Oct. 27.
"I'm not saying we will win A-Sun," Taylor said. "But no team has faced what we have this year and we are ready to give our best.
"You can't really pick one girl on our team, because there could be five faster on our team any given day. And if we get eight or nine to do it right on the same day, look out!"
Taylor likes the many options and combinations that are available as he plots a plan of success for his team which will hopefully end with a berth in the NCAA Nationals.
"We have key people who can get much better," Taylor said. "Madi, who has been our No. 1 the past two meets, had a great first half and then struggled late today. That's not likely to happen again and we will help her.
"Kendra, who ran 16:41 last year as a freshman for a 5-K on the track, is getting better, but can be right up there too. Today opened up big possibilities for her. Kaitlyn struggled too, yet has shown she can run with anyone on our team in any given day. "
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The sum of "Google, plus CliffsNotes," might be the formula for making electronic health records software more usable, particularly in large hospital networks that use multiple EHR systems.
That formula is QPID Health CEO Mike Doyle's shorthand for what his company does. It adds search and summarization technology as a layer on top of EHR software to provide more convenient access to patient data when needed most -- the time doctors are making clinical decisions. The EHR world today is like "the Internet 20 years ago when we had all this data but no Google," Doyle said in an interview. "EHRs have done a great job of capturing all this data, but not at making it particularly useful."
A few months ago, in a column called Why Doctors Hate EHR Software, I quoted a pediatrician named Dave Denton on his frustration with EHR software and particularly the "treasure hunt" he found himself going on to find which tab of which screen might contain clinically relevant information about any given patient. Denton sits on his hospital's IT advisory board and believes in the potential of health IT, even as he is dismayed by the reality of it. Although the theory of EHR software is about getting all the information about a patient in one place, finding that information again is harder than it ought to be, he complained.
QPID just might be the map that makes the hunt a lot easier.
[Want more on how some EHRs can be tweaked for easier use? Read Medication Cabinets 'Talk' To Cerner EHR. ]
The EHR software designer's standard strategy for making information easier to retrieve is to add more structured database fields. But if there is anything doctors hate more than wasting time trying to find information in an EHR, it is wasting time checking boxes on a complex data-entry form.
Like Google search, QPID is designed to find information regardless of whether it is neatly tagged and classified or all stored in the same place by using contextual clues.
QPID, which stands for "queriable patient inference dossier" (but is pronounced "cupid," which you've got to love), was developed at Massachusetts General Hospital by Michael Zalis, an interventional radiologist, and Mitch Harris, the computer scientist who led development of the natural language search technology and medical ontology. When trying to find the clinical context for the images he was sent to read, Zalis found he spent too much time trying to dig relevant information out of the hospital's information systems. He approached Harris, thinking they ought to be able to find a better way.
The software spread from Mass General to the other major hospitals in the Boston-based Partners HealthCare system. It has started to be adopted elsewhere. QPID Inc. was launched in 2013 as a Partners spin-off venture backed by Matrix Partners, Partners Innovation Fund, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO), and Cardinal Partners. The company is now in the process of building a sales force, with a couple of customer implementations in progress at medical centers in Virginia and Connecticut, which Doyle said he is "not at liberty to name" just yet.
In one particularly advanced application of the technology at Massachusetts General, QPID sorts through both clinical and research data about a specific cardiac procedure and compares the patient's risk factors to best-practice recommendations. The software then gives the physician a simple green light, yellow light, or red light indicator on whether the procedure should be recommended for that patient, a recommendation the doctor has the power to override. If the decision is made to go ahead, the application generates the required consent forms, with the risk factor rating clearly spelled out to help the patient make his or her own best decision.
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The iPad Flip Turn Case is the most versatile keyboard case on the market. It provides excellent protection all around the iPad, and offers an unmatched branding opportunity using the customer's full color logo artwork.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 20, 2014
iGear's iPad Air Flip Turn Keyboard Case is a protective case with a built-in Bluetooth keyboard. It competes with offerings from Clamcase, Zagg, and Belkin, but several features distinguish the Flip Turn from all others:
1. iGear's Flip Turn mechanism turns the iPad into a laptop with one flip, and restores it into a true tablet with just one turn
2. A backlit keyboard with adjustable brightness for comfortable typing at night
3. Since the iPad is expected to be used in laptop mode much of the time, keeping the screen clean is a must. The Flip Turn Case is the only product on the market with a high quality built-in stylus. It is well integrated into the case using a convenient storage cavity.
4. Like all of iGear's products, the Flip Turn Keyboard Case can be customized with the user's logo artwork. Images can be printed directly on the Flip Turn Case, in either white ink or full color, using the company's G7 certified UV presses, ensuring brilliant colors, sharp details, and the highest standards of color accuracy and consistency.
The iPad Air Flip Turn Case is made of sturdy polycarbonate for enhanced durability. It protects the iPad all around – front, back, all sides and corners. Rubberized soft touch coating on the black case gives it just the right amount of grip, and the silver painted case offers a striking resemblance to leading laptops. Precision cutouts allow easy access to all iPad buttons, controls, and functions.
The flip turn mechanism is arguably one of the most versatile on the market. It performs acrobatic tricks on the iPad, allowing it to be used as a tablet, a laptop, or movie player. By simply opening the case, the iPad wakes up and goes into laptop mode, tilting the screen at a comfortable angle for typing. When turned 180 degrees, the keyboard base becomes a stand, turning the iPad into a beautiful presentation device. Folding the case completely flat hides the keyboard, and the iPad becomes a standard tablet. The tension closure system also keeps the iPad closed when not in use, with an auto wake/sleep smart cover design to conserve battery.
An integrated wireless keyboard is optimized for iOS 7, with a battery life of up to 60 hours. Short-cut keys allow easy access to the most popular iPad functions. Users will appreciate the subtle backlighting, available at five brightness levels, that shows through each letter, as opposed to just around each key, for enhanced readability in the dark.
The iPad Air Flip Turn Keyboard Case has won the hearts of customers with its unique set of features. Here is what customers are saying:
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A commenter wrote:
Congrats on your transatlantic heroism! I did get a funny feeling reading the story though. I know it must be annoying to be singled out, especially amid the stresses of traveling. And as a non-doctor of course I can only imagine what it's like facing these situations. And I know that with a story like this where you practically need a triage center on the plane, grumbles about bad luck and inconvenience may be exaggerated for stylistic effect. Nevertheless, I can't help but be bothered by the cavalier tone. Put yourself in the shoes of the panicked woman, or the guy too short of breath to speak, and think about how you'd feel if possibly the only person on the plane who can help you is using iPod headphones to drown you out... Yeah, it must suck to be constantly "on call," but doesn't it kind of go with the territory? I always thought people wanted to become doctors because they were passionate about helping people.
Am I cavalier? Well, the title of this blog is "Movin' meat." so I guess the answer to that has got to be "yes." There are two sides of every medical interaction, and from the consumer side, it *always* sucks, whether you are seeing me in the ER or on an airplane or elsewhere. And from the professional side, it's always kind of routine (though less so over the Atlantic Ocean). But every day, I care for people who are afraid, in pain, etc. It's just not possible for me to give each of those people my full emotional empathy. I've got the compassionate mien down, so you could never tell, but inside my personal emotional state is (usually) a million miles away. Obviously, as any reader of this blog knows, some cases affect me more than others. An emotional distance between the doctor and the patient is almost necessary as a defense mechanism, a survival trait for the doctor.
To those who see behind the veil: the family member who stops and listens at the nurses' station, non-medical persons who read this blog, etc, it can be more than a little disconcerting to see the emotional disconnect. It's hard to understand how a doctor can walk out of a room with a dying patient and grieving family, and seamlessly switch gears into laughing and talking about baseball. Until you have done it, it's hard to really wrap your brain around the fact that, to us, "It's just a job." Not that we don't care about it, not that it isn't important, but you don't bring your work home with you. So to speak.
I'm reminded of one time I was sewing up a laceration on a teenage girl's arm. She was a bit weepy and anxious, and she *hated* the anesthetic injection. As I worked, we chatted, and she said that she had wanted to go into medicine, but she didn't think she could handle it. "I don't understand how you can do this," she said, "Isn't it hard?" I thought for a moment and said, "No, not really. It isn't my arm."
As to "Next time," well, last time I swore that I wouldn't answer the call, but I did. Maybe I will suck it up again. Maybe I'll follow the advice of a partner who confided that as soon as he gets on the plane he has a few drinks so he *can't* answer the call -- now that is cynical! Who knows?
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This is a straight copy from my post in the previous thread:ReplyDelete
I wrote about this a few posts ago in this blog and I want you to know that your feelings about this are really shared, and to some degree inevitable. I know the author of this blog very well, and as I said before, knowing him and some of our other doctor friends was at first pretty unnerving. I've seen these people sick, angry, careless, drunk, goofy, mean, etc. At first I had that reaction of, "Are you really going to be handling people's lives and health?!?"
Then you slowly come to see that their humanity is inevtibale, and even more, a benefit. As the author says in a later post, the divorce of his emotions from the job is survival to him. Would he do a better job were he emptionally invested in every case? That's hard to say, I wouldn't want him responsible for his own child's urgent care -- not that he wouldn't do a fine job applying atiseptic or even setting a broken arm, but if his child were really in serious shape, I couldn't imagine him having the clarity or dispassion he'd need to make the right decisions (necessarily). In the same sense you could argue that a big emotional investment might be counter productive. His job is to keep you alive, not keep you happy (he is an ER doc, obviously this is a different equation for a different kind of doctor).
Even if we agree that he could do a slightly better job if he were emotionally invested, I would imagine his career would be limited to a few years and burnout. I burned out of a certain aspect of my job that was stressful, and I was dealing with issues costing companies about a million dollars a day -- I can't imagine the burnout potential of a job that could cost individuals the lives of their loved ones.
So although I know how you feel, and I totally get your perspective, I have to respectfully disagree and continue to hope that doctors as skilled as our author can continue to defend themselves in whatever way possible to get the job done right.
And he didn't address it, even in his follow up post, but I know him too well, he's not going to fail to answer the call.
Why is it that people fail to see doctors as human? I suppose it surprises me that in this information age there are still the romantic views of a doctor. I guess I know too many doctors personally and professionally to see doctors as heroic figures.ReplyDelete
I won't repeat what MSD said - I agree with what he said about answering the call.
This comment brings up another thing I have been thinking about. How do the medbloggers feel about the general public (non-medical types)reading their blogs? I have just started reading them and as a way too frequent consumer of medical services I really enjoy a glimpse into the other side. Am I an interloper if I comment on posts clearly meant for other medical types?
Matt -- Thanks for the kind words.ReplyDelete
Susan -- I know that I try to write for an audience which is both medical and non-medical. For the rest, I can't say how they feel, but if the submission directions for the medical grand rounds is any guide, I think that most are as interested in the lay audience as the medical. The submission guidelines read:
Remember, the target audience here is NOT other medical bloggers, or people in the health care industry. It's the educated but nonmedical readers coming from general-interest blogs. So write for that audience, if only for this one post (even if your blog is about echocardiography). The idea is to introduce the wider world to the growing medical blogosphere -- the doctors, nurses, students, administrators, EMTs, techs, and patients who blog.
And from reading the comments on most blogs, I would estimate that more than half are from folks with a patient's perspective. So, no, you are not an interloper.
I just came upon your blog, and I've enjoyed your postings. I'm an RN in a metropolitan ED. Before I go on shift, I put on my "teflon skin." That's the best description I can give. Of course I am compassionate, but I can't be effective over the course of a shift if I take in all that humanity.ReplyDelete
Funny when I read the original flight dispatch my thought was 'Wow I can't believe this guy has to do this. Great that he can but isn't he terrified of some freak on a plane going all malpractice on him when all he did was stand up and be a superhero because they ASKED HIM TO?'ReplyDelete
I mean doctors are such targets even at their offices with legal papers and medical histories and charts and tests - seems like even giving someone on a plane an aspirin is putting their career in danger. I think the doctor who stands up on a plane is a MONDO superhero.
I must say, I would really prefer that my doctor be dispassionate and objective. (1)Emotions cloud judgement and (2)I'd feel kind of intruded on if she were to be very touchy-feely and empathetic.ReplyDelete
The fact that my doctor worked and studied umpteen years, and now is willing to shoulder some responsibility for my health, is proof enough of caring. There are plenty of other ways, ways that don't require being on call or going into enormous debt for med school, to make money.
No one should expect thier doctor to be a saint.
No one should expect thier doctor to be a saint.ReplyDelete
Well, that's good because a saint I am not.
Great that he can but isn't he terrified of some freak on a plane going all malpractice on him when all he did was stand up and be a superhero because they ASKED HIM TO?'
Superhero maybe, but not because of my malpractice-defying courage. There is a "good samaritan" law that exempts physicians who help out in this sort of situation. Fortunately. Otherwise, I would probably ask for a waiver before offering to help out. . .
Very interesting. I never picked up on a "cavalier tone" in your post about airplane medicine. I thought you did an excellent job with the people and problems you were presented with. And I appreciate your honesty about your humanity, your feelings, your teflon skin. We all have it. We have to, as you say.ReplyDelete
To Susan: As a physician and blogger, I'll say that I expect that most of my readers are not medical, and I write accordingly. I appreciate feedback from anyone and everyone, as I see Shadowfax does as well.


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A 480VAC, 3-phase, 4-wire wye-connected electrical distribution in an existing facility is protected against short circuits by "fully-rated" overcurrent protective devices. The circuit breakers at the service equipment have a 42kA interrupter rating. The calculated fault current for the existing electrical system at the service equipment -- fed from a 1,500kVA transformer (480VAC secondary, 5.75% Z) was calculated to be about 31,378A. The utility is going to change the transformer that feeds the building from 1,500kVA to 2,500kVA. The calculated fault current for the system fed from a new 2,500kVA transformer (480VAC, 5.75% Z) is approximately 52,298A. Purchasing new distribution equipment that is "fully rated" is out of the question; the existing electrical equipment must remain. Motor contribution during short-circuit conditions is negligible, and is connected on branch circuits fed from an MCC downstream of the service equipment. If "series rated" protection is provided, which of the following minimum requirements must it meet?
A) A fusible switch that uses current-limiting fuses with 65kA interrupter ratings shall be installed ahead of the existing circuit breakers in the service equipment. This can be accomplished by a field design and installation.
B) A current limiting circuit breaker with a 65kA interrupter rating shall be installed ahead of the existing circuit breakers in the service equipment. This can be accomplished by a field design and installation.
C) A fusible switch that uses current-limiting fuses with 65kA interrupter ratings is permitted to be installed ahead of the circuit breakers in the service equipment. This installation must be designed by an electrical engineer engaged primarily in electrical design and maintenance, and field installed per the engineer's stamped and documented information.
D) The system may remain as is.
Answer: C)
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