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Do you recognize where this is? A clue: That's a photo of what used to be called the Enver Hoxha Mausoleum. If I told you it's in the capital city of Tirana, would you know the country, or is it easy because we are proceeding through the Wikipedia "History of" pages for the 206 countries in the world in alphabetical order?
This is Albania, a region where, in antiquity, the Illyrians lived. There was Roman rule, Byzantine rule, invasions by Visigoths, Huns, and Ostrogoths, the Bulgarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire:
Part of the Albanian population gradually converted to Islam, with many joining the Sufi Order of the Bektashi. Converting from Christianity to Islam brought considerable advantages, including access to Ottoman trade networks, bureaucratic positions and the army.... The Albanians proved generally faithful to Ottoman rule following the end of the resistance led by [feudal heir] Skanderbeg, and accepted Islam more easily than their neighbors. No fewer than 42 Grand Viziers of the Empire were of Albanian descent....There was WWI, then the rule of King Zog, who initiated reforms (such as ending the custom of making one's region part of one's name) and who was overthrown by the Italians under Mussolini in 1939. Mussolini "saw Albania as a historical part of the Roman Empire" and imposed "a policy of forced Italianization." After the Italian surrender in 1943, Germany occupied Albania. Germany "sought to gain popular support by backing causes popular with Albanians, especially the annexation of Kosovo.... Albanian collaborators... expelled and killed Serbs living in Kosovo."
[I]n the 19th century... an Albanian National Awakening took place and many revolts against the Ottoman Empire were organized...
The Principality [of Albania] was established on 21 February 1914. The Great Powers selected Prince William of Wied, a nephew of Queen Elisabeth of Romania to become the sovereign of the newly independent Albania....
After the Soviets liberated Albania in 1944, Enver Hoxha, the secretary general of the Albanian Communist Party, became the leader of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, and he continued on in that role for 41 years, until he died in 1985.
In 1967, the authorities conducted a violent campaign to extinguish religious practice in Albania, claiming that religion had divided the Albanian nation and kept it mired in backwardness. Student agitators combed the countryside, forcing Albanians to quit practicing their faith. Despite complaints, even by APL members, all churches, mosques, monasteries, and other religious institutions had been closed or converted into warehouses, gymnasiums, and workshops by year's end.The Communists were defeated by the Democratic Party in 1992. Efforts to introduce capitalism — Wikipedia says — "led to the proliferation of pyramid schemes" and "anarchy," which was stabilized by "an EU military mission led by Italy." In 2009, Albania joined NATO.
That's enough from Wikipedia for now. I can't vouch for the accuracy of any of that, but it's a jumping off place that is far beyond anything I'd had in my head before reading it. Enver Hoxha? Previously unfamiliar to me. And his erstwhile mausoleum? Horrific. Looking for better images, I found this nice Flickr stream, and I'll send you to this image first, because I love it. Then you you can click the "newer"/"older" buttons to see what else is there.


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Food Truck Night at Sons of Liberty 06-13-19
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Food Truck Night at Sons of Liberty Beer & Spirits Co. is back in 2019.
Admission to the event is free.
Sons of Liberty Beer & Spirits Co., recently named Whisky Magazine's American Craft Producer of the year, distills top quality whiskies from the beers they brew in-house. Their tasting room offers beer or whiskey flights, draft beer and craft cocktails using 100% Sons of Liberty made ingredients.
The Sons of Liberty tasting room is 21+ after 5pm. Children and families are welcomed and encouraged to attend and enjoy the food trucks and outside activities. Four legged friends are not permitted inside the tasting room but are welcomed outside as well.
Enjoy your food and beverages outside with the food trucks or head inside and take advantage of the seating throughout the tasting rooms unique seating options (21+ only inside).
Live entertainment will be provided at each event and will include John Fanning and the Curators, Mickey Lamantia, The Teledynes and others!
Eat from your favorite local food truck or try something new...or maybe even eat at multiple trucks. The trucks accept cash, credit, or debit. See which food trucks are participating at the upcoming events at https://www.foodtrucksin.com/food-truck-events
Be sure to stop by the retail shop and take some of your favorite SOLS products home with you.
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What's new in June 2017
June 22, 2017
Find out more about the 100 books that have been published to Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) in June 2017. They span a vast range of subjects — from the Littlehampton Libels to publishing social science research, and from a literary biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson to the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany.
This update includes Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America, an Open Access title by Guillermo Cruces, Gary S. Fields, David Jaume, and Mariana Viollaz.
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This comprehensive diagnostic clinic provides the students the opportunity to work in a medical setting and to interact with physicians. In addition, the clinic exposes them to the use of state of the art technology and the most current evaluation procedures available. These procedures include:
Voice and Swallowing Clinic
Functional Endoscopic Evaluations of Swallowing (FEES)
A specialized exam that allows direct assessment of swallowing skills.The use of this exam allows the clinician to try compensatory and therapeutic swallowing strategies and to determine their effectiveness.This valuable information helps to determine the dietary management and in turn decreases the probability of aspiration pneumonia. This exam is non-radioactive and therefore is a great alternative to the modified barium swallow study.
Speech pathology graduate clinicians at Ithaca College provide evaluations to patients with voice and swallowing disorders under the supervision of Mary Pitti, M.S., CCC-SLP, a speech pathologist and faculty member at Ithaca College.
The Voice and Swallowing Clinic was established in February 2004 as a collaboration between Dr. Robert N. Strominger, an Otolaryngologist in the Ithaca area and the Sir Alexander Ewing Speech and Hearing Clinic at Ithaca College.


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great to have you on board miss Naruhina
Hello everyone. I guess I'll try my hand at rp-ing. Do you mind if this is my first time?
Hi Gav! I sure don't mind! :)
Haha thanks. I'll wait for azzmeister's confirmation first.
Well then, I'll apologize in advance for any ***ty rp-ing I might do.Character ProfileName: Naoko YamatoAge: 17Gender: MaleSchool Club: Student Council (Does this count?)School Sport: NoneClasses: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Literature
be thankful this is non adult naru.... i have a thing for asian girls
right well we should try and recruit some more people into this, we need at least six people before we can start properly
We'll try and recruit some people, though I'm not sure where to do that. Hina's approved, so she can go to the other distant parts of the forum that no unapproved has dared venture. I guess the best I could do is mention the thread a little bit in the Doormat and this other League of Legends forum I've been talking on.
I can also recruit people in the Doormat. I seem to know more people than you, no offense.
Well of course you do. You have been around far longer than me.
No offense taken. I don't take offense very easily. Unless its directed against my friends. Then I'm easily riled.
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Modeling and analysis of solid state, molecular or atomic semiconductor photonics media.
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The "Active Media FDTD Nanophotonic Device Simulator" is a general computational model of complex material media for electrodynamics simulation using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. It is based on a multi-level multi-electron quantum system with electron dynamics governed by Pauli Exclusion Principle, state filling, and dynamical Fermi-Dirac Thermalization, enabling it to treat various solid-state, molecular, or atomic media. The formulation is valid at near or far off resonance as well as at high intensity. We show its FDTD application to a semiconductor in which the carriers' intraband and interband dynamics, energy band filling, and thermal processes were all incorporated for the first time. The FDTD model is sufficiently complex and yet computationally efficient, enabling it to simulate nanophotonic devices with complex electromagnetic structures requiring simultaneous solution of the mediumfield dynamics in space and time. Applications to direct-gap semiconductors, ultrafast optical phenomena, and multimode microdisk lasers are illustrated.
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Foursquare's New App Is Open for Business
Foursquare launched a new app on Tuesday morning, the company's second standalone application, and the first aimed squarely at the business side of the market.
The app is an extension of Foursquare's additions to its merchant tools updates from mid-2012, which allowed business owners to better control special offers to nearby customers using a more robust desktop dashboard.
One problem with that, said Foursquare: If you're a small outfit, running around your store helping customers willy-nilly, you may not have the time to run back to your computer and update customers with your latest happenings, like turning time-sensitive specials on and off, or pushing those items directly to Facebook and Twitter.
Not sure I buy that argument entirely; if I were running around my shop, I would think I'd type faster on a big keyboard than the smaller one on my smartphone. Still, if I'm out of the shop and on the town, I could see it being a convenient way of pushing out specials to my Foursquare account.
The new app comes at a time when Foursquare faces questions about the long-term sustainability of its business, as it has pivoted to a more discovery-focused model. As it happens, the startup now faces more competition in the space, as Yelp already handles many local discovery queries, and Facebook's Graph Search seems to push into the discovery space.
Of note: The new app is aimed solely at local business owners, not the major retailers looking to update their specials across an entire chain — those folks still need to update via the desktop.
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Index of Articles Published in Famila
Papers published in Familia
Vol 1-53
Compiled by Thys du Preez- Pretoria 18 1 1917
In the 1939 a small group of South African genealogists under the leadership of Prof. S. Engelbrecht founded the first South African Genealogical Association. As the association was unable to publish it's own magazine, space for genealogical articles was provided in the publication Historical Studies. Unfortunately the Association was dissolved due to a lack of interest and the outbreak of the Second World War.
The second attempt was made in 1964 in the Western Cape at the historic farm Joostenberg, close to Stellenbosch, the property of Mr. P. Myburg. At this meeting it was decided to establish a society which was then founded at a later meeting in Cape Town on the 17th of June 1964. The first executive committee of the Genealogical Society of South Africa consisted of: Rev. H. Hopkins (Chairman); Mr. I. Mitford-Barberton (Vice-Chairman); Dr. J.A. Heese (Secretary); Mr. P.A. Myburg (Treasurer) and Dr. C. Pama (Editor).
Within ten years the membership grew to more than three hundred. The main achievement of the society then, was publication of a genealogical quarterly named Familia which has since been published every quarter.
The content of all the Familia publications since 1964 until 1999 is presently available on CDROM. Also back copies of Familia are available. Both items can be ordered from the Society.
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Important publications that have guided our strategy
Evidence based knowledge is essential for us to develop and provide optimal product and service solutions.
Here is some of the key research that has influenced particular areas of our strategy.
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- Needs and opportunities for helping save lives
- Implementation of Chain of Survival
- Implementation for Safer Births
- Low dose high frequency training in healthcare
- Simulation in healthcare
- Self directed CPR learning for lay people
- Telephone-assisted CPR
- Quality of CPR
- Utstein publications
Note: Some publications, linked to from this page, may need to be purchased.
Needs and opportunities for helping save lives
Norheim OF, Jha P, Admasu K, et al. Avoiding 40% of the premature deaths in each country, 2010-30: review of national mortality trends to help quantify the UN sustainable development goal for health. Lancet 2015;385:239-52. Find the publication
WHO, UNICEF. Every Newborn, An Action Plan To End Preventable Deaths 2014. Find the publication
SAVE THE CHILDREN. Surviving the first day: State of the World's Mothers 2013. Find the publication
WHO. Essential Interventions, Commodities and Guidelines for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. A Global Review of the Key Interventions Related to Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) 2011. Find the publication
Berdowski J, Berg RA, Tijssen JG, et al. Global incidences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and survival rates: Systematic review of 67 prospective studies. Resuscitation 2010;81:1479-87. Find the publication
ILCOR. 2010 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations. Resuscitation 2010;81:e1-e330. Find the publication
Implementation of Chain of Survival
Public Health – Seattle & King County. (2014) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division 2014 Annual Report Find the publication
Herlitz J. Cardiac Arrest - Swedish Annual Report 2014 (in Swedish) Find the publication
TRYG. Dansk hjertestopregister: Hjertestop uden for hospital i Danmark 2014 (in Danish) Find the publication
Stromsoe A, Svensson L, Axelsson AB, et al. Improved outcome in Sweden after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and possible association with improvements in every link in the chain of survival. European Heart Journal 2014 Find the publication
Wissenberg M, Lippert FK, Folke F, et al. Association of National Initiatives to Improve Cardiac Arrest Management With Rates of Bystander Intervention and Patient Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. JAMA 2013 Find the publication
Msemo G. Implementation of the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Program in Tanzania - A comprehensive report. HBB 2013 Find the publication
Moller Nielsen A, Lou Isbye D, Knudsen Lippert F, et al. Engaging a whole community in resuscitation. Resuscitation 2012 Find the publication
Implementation for Safer Births
DeStephano CC, Chou B, Patel S, et al. A randomized controlled trial of birth simulation for medical students. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2015 Find the publication
Nelissen E, Ersdal H, Ostergaard D, et al. Helping mothers survive bleeding after birth: an evaluation of simulation-based training in a low-resource setting. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 2014 Find the publication
Evans CL, Johnson P, Bazant E, et al. Competency-based training "Helping Mothers Survive: Bleeding after Birth" for providers from central and remote facilities in three countries. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2014 Find the publication
Vossius C, Lotto E, Lyanga S, et al. Cost-effectiveness of the "helping babies breathe" program in a missionary hospital in rural Tanzania. PLoS One 2014
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Egenberg S, Oian P, Bru LE, et al. Can inter-professional simulation training influence the frequency of blood transfusions after birth?. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 2015
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Goudar SS, Somannavar MS, Clark R, et al. Stillbirth and newborn mortality in India after helping babies breathe training. Pediatrics 2013 Find the publication
Msemo G, Massawe A, Mmbando D, et al. Newborn mortality and fresh stillbirth rates in Tanzania after helping babies breathe training. Pediatrics 2013 Find the publication
Ersdal HL, Mduma E, Svensen E, et al. Early initiation of basic resuscitation interventions including face mask ventilation may reduce birth asphyxia related mortality in low-income countries: A prospective descriptive observational study. Resuscitation 2012 Find the publication
Ersdal HL, Mduma E, Svensen E, et al. Intermittent detection of fetal heart rate abnormalities identify infants at greatest risk for fresh stillbirths, birth asphyxia, neonatal resuscitation, and early neonatal deaths in a limited-resource setting: a prospective descriptive observational study at Haydom Lutheran Hospital. Neonatology 2012
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Conde-Agudelo A, Belizan JM, Diaz-Rossello J. Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2011 Find the publication
Low dose high frequency training in healthcare
Sullivan NJ, Duval-Arnould J, Twilley M, et al. Simulation Exercise to Improve Retention of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Priorities for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Resuscitation 2015 Find the publication
van Vonderen JJ, Witlox RS, Kraaij S, et al. Two-Minute Training for Improving Neonatal Bag and Mask Ventilation. PLOS ONE 2014 Find the publication
Mduma E, Ersdal H, Svensen E, Kidanto H, et al. Frequent brief on-site simulation training and reduction in 24-h neonatal mortality-An educational intervention study. Resuscitation 2015 Find the publication
Oermann MH, Kardong-Edgren SE, Odom-Maryon T. Effects of monthly practice on nursing students' CPR psychomotor skill performance. Resuscitation 2011
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Sutton RM, Niles D, Meaney PA, et al. Low-dose, high-frequency CPR training improves skill retention of in-hospital pediatric providers. Pediatrics 2011 Find the publication
Niles D, Sutton RM, Donoghue A, et al. "Rolling Refreshers": a novel approach to maintain CPR psychomotor skill competence. Resuscitation 2009 Find the publication
Wik L, Myklebust H, Auestad BH, et al. Retention of basic life support skills 6 months after training with an automated voice advisory manikin system without instructor involvement. Resuscitation 2002 Find the publication
Celenza T, Gennat HC, O'Brien D, et al. Community competence in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation 2002 Find the publication
Weaver FJ, Ramirez AG, Dorfman SB, et al. Trainees' retention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. How quickly they forget. JAMA 1979 Find the publication
Simulation in healthcare
Motola I, Devine LA, Chung HS, et al. Simulation in healthcare education: A best evidence practical guide. AMEE Guide No. 82. Med Teach 2013 Find the publication
Mundell WC, Kennedy CC, Szostek JH, et al. Simulation technology for resuscitation training: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Resuscitation 2013
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Cook DA, Hatala R, Brydges R, et al. Technology-enhanced simulation for health professions education: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2011
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Andreatta P, Saxton E, Thompson M, et al. Simulation-based mock codes significantly correlate with improved pediatric patient cardiopulmonary arrest survival rates. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2011 Find the publication
DeMaria S,Jr, Bryson EO, Mooney TJ, et al. Adding emotional stressors to training in simulated cardiopulmonary arrest enhances participant performance. Med Educ 2010
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Phrampus PE. Simulation in Prehospital Care, (Book Chapter) Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight, Vol 2, Kendall Hunt Professional. 2009
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Self directed CPR learning for lay people
Lorem T, Steen PA, Wik L. High school students as ambassadors of CPR--a model for reaching the most appropriate target population?. Resuscitation 2010
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Lorem T, Palm A, Wik L. Impact of a self-instruction CPR kit on 7th graders' and adults' skills and CPR performance. Resuscitation 2008 Find the publication
Isbye DL, Meyhoff CS, Lippert FK, et al. Skill retention in adults and in children 3 months after basic life support training using a simple personal resuscitation manikin. Resuscitation 2007 Find the publication
Roppolo LP, Pepe PE, Campbell L, et al. Prospective, randomized trial of the effectiveness and retention of 30-min layperson training for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators: The American Airlines Study. Resuscitation 2007 Find the publication
Einspruch EL, Lynch B, Aufderheide TP, et al. Retention of CPR skills learned in a traditional AHA Heartsaver course versus 30-min video self-training: a controlled randomized study. Resuscitation 2007 Find the publication
Batcheller AM, Brennan RT, Braslow A, et al. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation performance of subjects over forty is better following half-hour video self-instruction compared to traditional four-hour classroom training. Resuscitation 2000 Find the publication
Kaye W, Rallis SF, Mancini ME, et al. The problem of poor retention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills may lie with the instructor, not the learner or the curriculum. Resuscitation 1991 Find the publication
Telephone-assisted CPR
Bobrow BJ, Panzyk M, Stolz U, et al. Statewide Implementation of a Standardized Prearrival Telephone CPR Program Is Associated with Increased Bystander CPR and Survival from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Circulation 2014 Find the publication
Ong ME, Shin SD, Tanaka H, et al. Rationale, Methodology, and Implementation of a Dispatcher-assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Trial in the Asia-Pacific (Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study Phase 2). Prehosp Emerg Care 2015 Find the publication
Song KJ, Shin SD, Park CB, et al. Dispatcher-assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a metropolitan city: A before-after population-based study. Resuscitation 2014 Find the publication
Birkenes TS, Myklebust H, Neset A, et al. Quality of CPR performed by trained bystanders with optimized pre-arrival instructions. Resuscitation 2014 Find the publication
Birkenes TS, Myklebust H, Neset A, et al. High Quality CPR With Optimized Rescuer-Dispatcher Teamwork. Circulation 2013 Find the publication
Tanaka Y, Taniguchi J, Wato Y, et al. The continuous quality improvement project for telephone-assisted instruction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation increased the incidence of bystander CPR and improved the outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Resuscitation 2012 Find the publication
Lerner EB, Rea TD, Bobrow BJ, et al. Emergency Medical Service Dispatch Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Prearrival Instructions to Improve Survival From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation 2012 Find the publication
Rea TD, Eisenberg MS, Culley LL, et al. Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival in cardiac arrest. Circulation 2001 Find the publication
Kellermann AL, Hackman BB, Somes G. Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Validation of efficacy. Circulation 1989 Find the publication
Quality of CPR
Cheng A, Brown LL, Duff JP, et al. Improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation with a CPR feedback device and refresher simulations (CPR CARES Study): a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Pediatr 2015 Find the publication
Maeda T, Kamikura T, Tanaka Y, et al. Impact of bystander-performed ventilation on functional outcomes after cardiac arrest and factors associated with ventilation-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A large observational study. Resuscitation 2015. Find the publication
Bobrow BJ, Vadeboncoeur TF, Stolz U, et al. The Influence of Scenario-Based Training and Real-Time Audiovisual Feedback on Out-of-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality and Survival From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Ann Emerg Med 2013 Find the publication
Buleon C, Parienti JJ, Halbout L, et al. Improvement in chest compression quality using a feedback device (CPRmeter): a simulation randomized crossover study. Am J Emerg Med 2013. Find the publication
Stiell IG, Brown SP, Christenson J, et al. What is the role of chest compression depth during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation?. Crit Care Med 2012
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Edelson DP, Litzinger B, Arora V, et al. Improving in-hospital cardiac arrest process and outcomes with performance debriefing. Arch Intern Med 2008 Find the publication
Tomlinson AE, Nysaether J, Kramer-Johansen J, et al. Compression force-depth relationship during out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resuscitation
2007. Find the publication
Yeung J, Meeks R, Edelson D, et al. The use of CPR feedback/prompt devices during training and CPR performance: A systematic review. Resuscitation 2009
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Losert H, Sterz F, Kohler K, et al. Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation among highly trained staff in an emergency department setting. Arch Intern Med 2006
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Kramer-Johansen J, Myklebust H, Wik L, et al. Quality of out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation with real time automated feedback: a prospective interventional study. Resuscitation 2006 Find the publication
Edelson DP, Abella BS, Kramer-Johansen J, et al. Effects of compression depth and pre-shock pauses predict defibrillation failure during cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2006
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Wik L, Kramer-Johansen J, Myklebust H, et al. Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. JAMA 2005 Find the publication
Abella BS, Alvarado JP, Myklebust H, et al. Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during in-hospital cardiac arrest. JAMA 2005 Find the publication
Utstein publications
Cummins RO, Chamberlain DA, et al. Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: The Utstein style. AHA Medical/Scientific Statement 1991 Find the publication
Zaritsky A, Nadkarni V, Hazinski MF, et al. Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of pediatric advanced life support: the pediatric Utstein Style. A statement for healthcare professionals from a task force of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, and the European Resuscitation Council. Circulation 1995 Find the publication
Idris AH, Becker LB, Ornato JP, et al. Utstein-style guidelines for uniform reporting of laboratory CPR research. A statement for healthcare professionals from a Task Force of the American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, the European Resuscitation Council, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Institute of Critical Care Medicine, the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Resuscitation 1996 Find the publication
Cummins RO, Chamberlain D, Hazinski MF, et al. Recommended guidelines for reviewing, reporting, and conducting research on in-hospital resuscitation: the in-hospital 'Utstein style'. American Heart Association. Circulation 1997 Find the publication
Dick WF, Baskett PJ. Recommendations for uniform reporting of data following major trauma--the Utstein style. A report of a working party of the International Trauma Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society (ITACCS). Resuscitation 1999 Find the publication
Sundnes KO. Health disaster management: guidelines for evaluation and research in the Utstein style: executive summary. Prehosp Disaster Med 1999 Find the publication
Idris AH, Berg RA, Bierens J, et al. Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data from drowning: the "Utstein style". Circulation 2003 Find the publication
Chamberlain DA, Hazinski MF, European Resuscitation Council, et al. Education in resuscitation. Resuscitation 2003 Find the publication
Jacobs I, Nadkarni V, Bahr J, et al. Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcome reports: update and simplification of the Utstein templates for resuscitation registries: a statement for healthcare professionals from a task force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Circulation 2004 Find the publication
Langhelle A, Nolan J, Herlitz J, et al. Recommended guidelines for reviewing, reporting, and conducting research on post-resuscitation care: the Utstein style. Resuscitation 2005 Find the publication
Peberdy MA, Cretikos M, Abella BS, et al. Recommended guidelines for monitoring, reporting, and conducting research on medical emergency team, outreach, and rapid response systems: an Utstein-style scientific statement. Circulation 2007 Find the publication
Ringdal KG, Coats TJ, Lefering R, et al. The Utstein template for uniform reporting of data following major trauma: a joint revision by SCANTEM, TARN, DGU-TR and RITG. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 Find the publication
Castren M, Karlsten R, Lippert F, et al. Recommended guidelines for reporting on emergency medical dispatch when conducting research in emergency medicine: the Utstein style. Resuscitation 2008 Find the publication
Sollid SJ, Lockey D, Lossius HM, et al. A consensus-based template for uniform reporting of data from pre-hospital advanced airway management. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 Find the publication
Lossius HM, Sollid SJ, Rehn M, et al. Revisiting the value of pre-hospital tracheal intubation: an all time systematic literature review extracting the Utstein airway core variables. Crit Care 2011 Find the publication
Kruger AJ, Lockey D, Kurola J, et al. A consensus-based template for documenting and reporting in physician-staffed pre-hospital services. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2011 Find the publication
Issenberg SB, Ringsted C, Ostergaard D, et al. Setting a research agenda for simulation-based healthcare education: a synthesis of the outcome from an utstein style meeting. Simul Healthc 2011 Find the publication
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Dear Lauren,
All my family does is gossip! I love them and they're good people (...and I can't pretend I don't join in or laugh when it's funny...) but it's such a problem. What do I do?
Lauren Roth's Answer
This is a really good question, because it's universal. Everyone, at one point or another, disagrees with the paths/actions/opinions of his or her family. The million-dollar-question is: how do I handle that?
The answer depends on a lot of factors. The first factor to consider is the nature of your family members. Some of your family members might be the kind of people who are open to change and open to suggestions about changing themselves. Some of your family members might have fragile egos and/or live in denial (the two usually go together) and can never hear criticism directed at them without launching into long speeches denying their culpability for anything, ever. Those kinds of people most likely would not be good candidates for asking them to embark on a program of personal change.
Even if your family members are willing to hear constructive criticism about their behaviors, it's smart to say it in a way that they can hear it. Let me explain what I mean.
When I was in my early 20's, my husband and I had to decide which city to live in for a year while he did an internal medicine internship. I desperately wanted to do the year in Memphis, where I'm from. So I asked a wise older woman what to do, and she told me some of the best advice I've ever received. She said: "Wait for a time when he's relaxed. Cook a nice meal, eat it together, have a nice time. Make sure he's not too hungry or too tired. Then tell him, 'You know, it would make me really happy if we spent that year in Memphis.'" I am pleased to report: we spent that year in Memphis!
How can that advice be translated into your family's situation?
- Wait for a time when the family member/s you want to talk to are relaxed. Do not have this conversation when everyone is running out the door to a meeting/to the first day of school/to soccer practice. Do not have this conversation when everyone is upset and riled up.
- Do something nice for them that you know they like (let your sister borrow your iPod, help your parents around the house willingly and happily, take care of your younger siblings, compliment them on something they did well….)
- Make sure they're not hungry, tired, overwhelmed, stressed out, upset, or in any way agitated.
- Then tell them, "You know, I've been thinking about it. I think maybe our family shouldn't talk about other people. I don't want to be a gossip!"
Notice how you said "I" and "I think" and "I don't want to be…", putting the emphasis on "this is only my opinion." Even when you feel strongly that something is right, casting it as "this is only my opinion" helps the other party not be defensive. It helps the other party be more open to what you're saying. If you strongly insist "My way is the ONLY way!", they will probably dig their heels in and proclaim, "NO! I disagree!"
Even with my clients, who are paying me to give them advice, I have to say it in a way that they can hear it. If I would just tell them, "You are a gossip. It's disgusting. You'd better stop, NOW!" They not only wouldn't listen to my advice, they wouldn't want a relationship with me, either. They'd never come back! Instead, I'm always saying, "I might be wrong. But I'm listening to you, and I'm hearing…[whatever my observation might be.]. What do you want to do about that? Again, I might be wrong. But I might be correct, so what do you want to do?" I don't insist, and, probably, neither should you, if you want your family members to actually think about what you're telling them.
The first step is telling them (but only if they are the kind of people who would be able to hear constructive criticism). The second step is, WHEN (not IF, but WHEN!) they gossip again: be still. Be still, be calm, be peaceful. Don't fight them. Fighting, gangster-style, or bar-brawl-style, only begets belligerence and fighting back.
A better approach is the still, calm, centered, contented tack. Stay calm, recognize that gossiping is occurring, and deftly change the subject. "Oh! I just remembered I heard the most amazing story!" And launch into the telling. (You'll have to have a few stories or jokes or interesting anecdotes up your sleeve at all times. Maybe carry around note cards—ha!) Or recognize that gossiping is occurring, stay calm, and just kind of smile a gentle smile and say nothing, then gently get up to go to the bathroom—and linger there.
Another way: I have a friend who's really good at ignoring gossip in conversation—and totally engaging with the people around her otherwise. She's very gregarious and friendly and vivacious, and as soon as someone gossips about someone else, she just gets quiet and it's as if she didn't even hear. So the conversation just stops, until she—or someone else—starts it again, sans the nastiness. (By the way, this latter approach would be the way to go with those family members who can't hear any constructive criticism.)
I applaud your wanting to do the right thing. It is really important not to talk about other people, especially negatively. It's also important to balance not gossiping and not listening to gossip with being kind to your family. You should never yell at your family or degrade them—just as you shouldn't stand their doing that to others.
Of course, remember the cardinal rule: you usually can't change anyone else; the only person you can change for sure is yourself. Because you wrote to me asking this question, I know you know it's wrong to join in or laugh with them when they're trashing someone. It takes strength to change ourselves, and even more strength when we're going it alone. But there's no better feeling than doing the right thing, especially when it's hard to do.


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Trevor Hoffman, the long-time closer for the San Diego Padres and Major League Baseball's all-time leader in saves, has retired, reports ESPN.
Possessed of all the classic markings of a closer - a fear-inducing glare, a theatrical, high-leg kick, a killer pitch in the form of a deceptive change up, and AC/DC's "Hell's Bells as his entrance music - Hoffman, 43, ended his career with 601 saves. He entered the league with the Florida Marlins before spending 15 1/2 seasons with the Padres. He closed out his career with the Milwaukee Brewers.
"It was a little bit of self-reflection, trying to be honest with where I was at in my career skill-wise, and realizing that it was a time for a change, a change in venue, in a sense," Hoffman said in an interview with The Associated Press of his decision. "It's turning the page, a new chapter in my life."
Hoffman plans to join the Padres' front office in a management role where he'll "be a jack-of-all-trades. I'll learn the sides of the game I haven't been exposed to."
Besides being the game's all-time leader in saves, Hoffman statistics make a strong case for his inclusion into the Hall of Fame. He twice had streaks of four straight seasons with 40 or more saves (1998-2001; 2004-2007) and nine seasons with 40 or more saves, also an all-time best. He was a seven-time All Star and twice won the National League's Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award.
He also stacks up well against the man considered to be the best closer of this generation, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees. Over his career, Rivera - second place all time in saves with 559 - has converted 89.3 percent of his regular-season save opportunities. Hoffman? 88.8 percent.


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Accomplished entertainer Robin Mountjoy is an award-winning writer, director, actor, playwright, musician, and songwriter, but don't let his dizzying array of devotions fool you into thinking he's without direction. The multi-talented artist has follows his heart, which has led him on a coast-to-coast to conquest to captivate audiences both on stage and on screen.
But finding his place in the world didn't come so easily, at first. After a lot of struggle, the Kansas City native was lucky to find work on a low budget film and suddenly the pieces of the puzzle seemed to finally fit. "You have to be a little off, I think, to work in this business. Normal stuff wasn't working for me; I couldn't make normal things work. I'd been working hard for years when in 1995, I got involved in doing some soundtrack work for a low budget film. I realized I had the ability to get people together and make things happen, and shot a film with Tiny Tim in it. I going through some tough times and didn't know what my direction in life was, but I knew right then in there that I'd found my calling."
He did what came to him naturally and found that creative endeavors were indeed the niche he'd long been seeking. "As a kind of natural performer, I just started performing," he explained. "I picked up a guitar and six months later, I was playing shows, opening up for bands, making things happen. I was going through a lot so I was playing the blues. I was really good at getting people together and telling my stories. I was opening up for national acts in Kansas City, and I started producing shows. I went to New York and did a residency at CBGB's, only taking on the best and most original talent I could find, with real soul that came from the right place."
"In New York City, I met a music producer who came to two of my shows. We really were packing it in, he'd never seen anything like it, and he kept coming to my shows, encouraged me. I worked with him a little bit and he said, 'You're really theatrical when you perform, ever thought about acting?' He got me a part as an extra in "American Gangster", I stood around in an Army uniform and watched Denzel Washington, which inspired me to start taking acting classes," Robin said. One thing led to another, and the musician come aspiring actor's attention was caught by the creative forces behind the scenes. "Acting class is where I learned that the director is very intense," he laughed, "but also made the scenes better. I thought if I could direct and not make people cry, I could make scenes better too. I lead with my heart, and I knew I could get things accomplished without screaming at someone. I wrote a monologue from a story from one of my songs because it was easier for me ro remember and I used it in acting class. People liked it and that encouraged me to continue to write."
"I didn't have a clue on the structure of script writing, but people always complimented my stories and lyrics. I took it to a producer, but he wouldn't read it because it was practically written in crayon and stuck together with gum. I got a book on how to make it professional, and got it submitted to a performing arts center. Then I won a grant to have my play put on. That was my first break. I made more money than I ever made in my whole life in one night. I wrote six plays and taught myself how to be a playwright." Robin went on to produce an astounding twenty-six sold out off-Broadway productions of original plays.
Again, the logical progression took hold, and Robin the playwright now found himself in the throes of the film industry. When financing faltered or things weren't done up to his standards, he just put on another hat and taught himself another valuable new skill. "Shower Frown" was my first feature, a dark comedy. If anyone tells you it's easy, they're not making a good film. Since I was learning how to do it all while it was going, it was very hard. They'd leave after eight hours and I'd still be there. I didn't have anyone edit, so I taught myself Avid, for example. "Quick to Duck" was also hard, but less hard, fun." Robin recently signed with Cinema Epoch for distribution of the two movies.
But returning to his roots in raucous rhythm and blues, he just finished up "You Gotta Go", a studio album of original music featuring Dave "Roe" Rorick, classic country legend Johnny Cash's former bass player. Now a celebrated musician, Robin has also earned a residency at the iconic House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. "Music was my salvation. It saved me; it got me out of a rut. I had trouble finding a job that satisfied me and had been doing whatever I could for years to get by then found the arts and be we looked back."
Despite Robin's climb into a cozy, successful multimedia career; don't expect the relentless Renaissance man to rest. "I'm a constant creator," he promised, "I'm always creating something."
Learn more about Robin Mountjoy at www.robinmountjoy.com/
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NEW CANAAN -- Since the Huskies breakthrough season in 2010 which included an appearance in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, the UConn football team has fallen on hard times, compiling a combined record of 10-14 over the past two losing seasons.
The now-graduated Noel Thomas Jr. of New Canaan's St. Luke's School will be among the many Huskies looking to help buck that trend this fall.
"I definitely think I can play early as a freshman and I'm hoping I can be a game-changer," said Thomas, who wil enroll at UConn next week. "I just want to kind of bring a spark to the offense."
On Friday, Thomas signed his National Letter of Intent in the school's gymnasium while flanked by his father (and St. Luke's coach) as well as some classmates.
"It's pretty exciting," Thomas said. "It's bittersweet, though, because this is going to be the last time I'm here for a while."
After spending his first two years of high school at Norwalk High, Thomas transferred to St. Luke's where he enjoyed the special experience of playing under his father, Noel Thomas Sr., the head football coach of the Storm. Doing so also required Thomas Jr. to repeat his sophomore year of high school.
"I'm very excited and very proud. I'm looking forward to seeing him do some great things at UConn. It's a humbling experience," Thomas Sr. said. "I think he can play several positions. In my opinion, I would say safety or wide receiver."
Although he played several other positions for St. Luke's, including safety, running back and even quarterback, Thomas, who checks in at 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, will be listed as a wide receiver on UConn's fall roster. Thomas himself seems to believe that he can contribute the most by lining up at receiver.
Of course, Thomas is also aware that his ability to play more than one position could certainly help his chances of seeing significant playtime, particularly as a freshman.
"I got recruited as an athlete, but I kind of made it clear to them that I wanted to play receiver," Thomas said. "I can end up playing safety in the future; that's the only other position I could play. I think it'll help me see the field earlier."
Thomas' gridiron versatility was on full display during a home clash against long-time rival Rye Country Day last season. Starting quarterback Charlie Nelson was lost with an injury in the first half, and the reigns were turned over to Thomas.
Thomas responded by leading the Storm to a wild 26-20 victory over their long-time rivals, highlighted by Thomas' seemingly sky-high hurdle over a Rye defender on a scramble.
"(The best moment in high school football) was beating Rye because we hadn't beaten them in I don't know how many years," Thomas said. "I've got to say during that game when I hurdled a kid, that was probably my favorite moment of the season."
During his senior season at St. Luke's, the do-it-all Thomas racked up 1,226 yards on 106 carries for an eye-popping 11.57 yards per carry and 19 rushing touchdowns. He added 21 receptions for 349 yards and two touchdowns. During limited time at quarterback, Thomas completed 31-of-53 passes for 559 yards and four touchdowns. As a defensive back, Thomas recorded 43 tackles and four interceptions.
For his career, Thomas finished with 4,888 total yards and 53 touchdowns.
"I might be a little biased, but if he stays healthy and works very hard, I think he can make an impact early. Special teams, maybe see some reps at receiver depending on who's coming in and how hard the other guys are working," Thomas Sr. said. "But I think he can impact in a major way sooner than later. (UConn is) going in the right direction and I think he can definitely help turn it around."
Thomas graduated from high school in the winter, and his first semester officially begins on Tuesday, when he'll start his college classes.
While he indicated that he gave some consideration to other schools, including Rutgers and Temple, Thomas' said he felt immediately comfortable visiting UConn's Storrs' campus.
"I looked at Rutgers and Temple, but when I visited UConn, I felt at home as soon as I saw the campus," Thomas said. "I met the coaches and they showed they cared about me as a person first and a player second. That relationship is kind of big to me."
Thomas also played on the St. Luke's basketball team as a small forward as a junior, but isn't play this year due to his early graduation.
Thomas does not yet have a major in mind just, but says he may be leaning towards computers.
"I'm definitely thinking about computer engineering, but still undecided right now," Thomas said.
Although he was no stranger to a few "wow" plays on the high school football field, Thomas knows the Big East is guaranteed to bring bigger and faster competition, but the former St. Luke's student appears to be taking it all in stride.
"Definitely the conditioning and the lifting, but game-wise the speed of the game is going to be so much faster," Thomas said. "Everyone's going to be fast."
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Barcelona, Spain: Respiratory movement during radiotherapy makes it difficult to hit the right treatment target and this in turn can lead to an under-dose of radiation to the tumour, or a potentially toxic over-dose to the surrounding healthy tissue. Getting this right is a real challenge for the radiotherapist, but new techniques are helping to deliver the correct dose to the right place, the 31st conference of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 31) [1] will hear today (Saturday).
Dr. Amira Ziouche, a radiotherapy specialist from the Centre Lon Brard, Lyon, France, will describe to the conference how the technique of Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH) can spare the heart when irradiating left-side breast cancer tumours. In a prospective study, undertaken while she was working with Dr. Alice Mege at the Institut Sainte Catherine, Avignon, France, she showed that treating patients during DIBH, while they were holding their breath at between 60% to 80% of their maximum inspiratory (breathing-in) capacity, could spare their hearts and lungs from radiation without compromising the quality of their treatment.
"Unlike treatment under free breathing (FB), where the patient breathes normally, DIBH spares the heart by reducing its volume and movement in the field to be irradiated, and the lung expansion involved in holding breath leads to a decrease of relative lung volume which is irradiated," Dr. Ziouche will explain. "In effect, we can largely eliminate the problem of respiratory movement by using this technique, which allows us to reduce the volume of the healthy organ irradiated around the target volume while improving treatment precision. This is particularly important in breast cancer cases, where the life expectancy of most patients is long."
Dr. Ziouche and colleagues collected data on 31 patients treated with DIBH between October 2007 and June 2010 at the Institut Sainte Catherine. Each patient was her own case-control and underwent two CT scans, one in FB and the other in DIBH. The dose to healthy organs and targets was calculated based on these scans. Analysis showed that the heart mean dose decreased from 9 Gy in FB to 3.7 Gy in DIBH, and the maximum heart dose from 44.9 Gy to 24.7 Gy. The amount of radiation to the lung was also decreased with DIBH.
"This is the largest study to date of the use of DIBH in patients undergoing radiotherapy for breast cancer," Dr Ziouche will say. "It is an important result for breast cancer patients, where it can spare the volume of heart and lungs that are irradiated. Commonly, the margins around the tumour to be treated are increased in order to take movement into account. But this involves treating a larger area, some of it unnecessarily. The use of DIBH avoids this problem.
"Although the DIBH procedure initially involves additional time and therefore cost, if this technique results as we believe it will, in a clinical benefit in terms of reducing cardiac and pulmonary sequelae in specific cases it could result in lower healthcare costs in the longer term," says Dr. Ziouche. "Currently the DIBH technique is little used in breast cancer, and we need further studies of its clinical and economic benefits to demonstrate its value in breast radiation treatment. Once these studies are completed we would hope to see it in widespread use in the future, to the benefit of patients and healthcare systems alike," she will conclude.
In an earlier presentation, Ms Fanneke van den Boomen, from the Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, described how she and her colleagues had compared results from two different kinds of CT scan to see which could more accurately estimate safety margins for radiotherapy treatment where breathing motion was involved. They compared the results from 3D and 4D treatment-planning CT scans of 50 patients with lung tumours and found that the more recent 4D scans provided better results in cases where large tumour motion was involved.
"In a conventional 3D scan," Ms van den Boomen explained, "the scan is taken with the patient in the treatment position, but not taking breathing motion into account. Due to the fact that it takes around two minutes to perform the scan, the result is blurred due to the motion of the tumour. With 4D scanning you can account for breathing because the software creates a number of datasets at different phases of the breathing cycle, thus freezing the tumour in a certain position."
4D scanning equipment has only become available recently, and therefore the number of institutes using it is still limited. However, the researchers say, the results are so impressive that their hospital is now performing it routinely in cases where there is large tumour movement.
"The results from this study have shown that we can safely apply the 'mid-ventilation' concept, where we only irradiate part of the tumour trajectory instead of the entire volume in which the tumour resides during a breathing cycle. Thus we can reduce treatment volumes, with the result that patients have fewer complications," said Ms van den Boomen.
In another study presented to the conference, Gauthier Bouilhol, M.Sc, from the Centre Lon Brard, Lyon, described how he and colleagues from CREATIS (CNRS UMR5220, Inserm U1044) have developed a model to adjust the method currently used for the calculation of safety margins to account for respiratory motion asymmetry during radiotherapy.
"When a patient breathes during radiotherapy treatment," Mr. Bouilhol explained, "the tumour may also move. The normal way of calculating the treatment margins to compensate for potential errors is based on a symmetrical model. But if tumour motion is asymmetric the model is wrong."
The researchers suggest a new model that takes into account the differences between the two margins involved in inhale and exhale motion. "We believe that our model, once clinically validated, will provide a more accurate assessment of the area which is required to be treated with radiation, and this will improve both safety and efficacy for patients," Mr. Bouilhol said.
Dr. Nria Jornet, medical physicist from the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, and chair of the ESTRO-31 scientific programme committee said: "Organ motion due to physiological processes such as breathing poses a challenge in highly accurate radiation therapy. With the advent of technological advances such as 4D imagers, which allow making 'cine' images of internal organ motion, and treatment units that can synchronise radiation with the organ movement this motion can be monitored and accounted for. Nowadays we are not only able to know where the tumour is in each moment but also have methods to hit it with a millimetric accuracy.
"These three abstracts are a good example of how breathing motion is managed using different approaches either by reducing motion by irradiating in deep inspiration breath hold which also exploits lung inflation to spare normal tissues, or by personalising safety margins around the tumour so that we are sure that the tumour will be correctly irradiated in all breathing phases. Regardless of the method used to manage motion, image guidance during treatment is needed, as is shown in the study by Mrs. van den Boomen."
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Guys, I dunno about this:
It's important to understand that atheists scare religious people not because we're different, in other words, but because our beliefs do literally threaten their own. We don't simply present ourselves as another religious group whose beliefs can be kept to ourselves. We openly and unabashedly argue that religion is toxic and we'd like to see it end, just as we believe sexism and racism are toxic and should end.
My first thought on reading something like the above is that I must be pretty shitty at being an atheist. For one thing, I'm terrible at scaring religious people, even when I wear my black turtleneck and talk about how heaven is a lie and death is the end of existence. (It does not help that I am not a very intimidating dude.)
But then, maybe I'm not trying hard enough. I certainly don't "openly and unabashedly" call for the death of religion, like good atheists are supposed to. That's probably because I openly and unabashedly don't care whether or not people believe in God.
Really, the whole New Atheist "death to religion" push seems like a case of misdirected priorities to me. If there's one thing we've learned from the history of Communism and watching The Big Lebowski, it's that people don't need religion as an excuse to do shitty things to each other. Religious people don't even have a monopoly on banning abortion!
But maybe that's not the point. Maybe the point is that religious claims are false, and people shouldn't be teaching their children lies as a means of controlling them. To that, I again say: "Eh." It really depends on the character of the religious claim being made. People shouldn't have to grow to adulthood thinking that the world is 6,000 years old and dinosaurs died because they got left off the ark (the world is actually 8,000 years old, and dinosaurs died because they were too awesome for this fallen world). But most religious claims — indeed, the most popular and important ones — are metaphysical in nature. They don't concern facts in this world, but the other world. You know, that one.
You can call claims about that world "lies," but I prefer to think of them as "fictions." A lie is a verifiably false claim — false in the sense that it contradicts a fact. But what is the nature of a "fact" that takes place outside of the physical world? On what grounds do you call a claim about that world "false?"
The standard atheist response here is that such a world doesn't exist. "There is something beyond the material world" is a false claim, and any subsequent claim that takes that one as a premise is also false. Which, sure, okay. The only problem with that argument is that most of the people making it don't seem to really believe it.


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Hi people! My name is Martin Olofsson, I've started learning Java today and I'm just having a few questions that I hope any of you can answer me on. I'm learning Java by a book called "Programmering 1 Java" (written in Swedish) and it's really helpful.
What am I trying to do?
Well, basically I am trying to make the application ask for a character (A-Z) in capital letters and the application should answer in a small letter.
This is what I currently have:
package uppgift.pkg2.pkg8; import java.util.Scanner; public class Uppgift28 { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Insert a character: "); String alpha = input.nextLine(); char tecken = alpha.charAt(0); int kod = (int)tecken + 32; int newKod = (int)kod; String newTecken = Integer.toString(newKod); System.out.println("A small " + alpha + " is a " + newTecken + "."); } }
What is going wrong?
This happens:
I want it to answer in the character (small 'a'), not 97.run: Insert a character: A A small A is a 97. BUILD SUCCESSFULL (total time: 2 seconds)
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Die Hard is month one members your almost a year late... You needed to sign up by April 21st.
(smacks you)being stupid is gona start to hurt around here.
Prioritising awards would be great ,also any chance of a Tom award
You've always been able to do that, go to the show awards setting on your profile, and you can choose which ones get top billing. It's limited to showing 2 in forum posts due to size constraints.And yes, I shall be the first winner of the Tom award


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Working as a Café Customer Assistant at M&S
A huge amount of passion, energy and joy goes into making our Bakeries, Cafés and Delis special places to work and shop. Join this part of M&S and you'll be at the centre of it all. Our cafés are where our customers come to relax and unwind. They expect only the very best from M&S. So you'll be on hand to serve up a range of exclusive treats with a smile and genuine pride.
About the Café Customer Assistant role
Our customers are in for a real treat when they make their way to you and we don't just mean the finest coffee and sandwiches on the high street.
We'll be looking to you to make their visit to the Café extra special. Whether you are serving a bacon roll, a BLT sandwich or a jacket potato with chili, you'll be serving them in that unmistakable M&S way.
They're popular places, our cafés, so you'll be kept on your toes serving at the counter, checking orders and keeping the whole place looking its very best.
Of course, you'll always have a winning smile for your customers, but in such a busy team it's just as important to be charming and personable with your colleagues.
About you
Plenty of energy and stamina will be important, as will a sharp eye for detail and a positive, proactive approach to getting things done.
Some previous experience is also necessary - a good track record working in a café, restaurant, bar or fast-food outlet is essential.
About the application process
The first thing you'll need to do is complete an online assessment. This will involve a café based knowledge test as well as a customer service based situational judgement questionnaire.
If you're successful, you'll take part in a face-to-face assessment made up of café knowledge test, interview with a Line Manager and role play.
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Europe remains in a continual state of flux. The UK is leaving the EU and facing an uncertain future. The EU must punish Britain. It cannot afford to let the UK succeed outside of the Union, or others may follow her through the "exit" door. Greece is finally coming out of years of serious economic troubles. Eastern European nations are at variance with Germany over immigration. Austria has a new conservative government that includes the right-wing Freedom Party. Always remember, when looking at Europe, that the turmoil the continent is now going through will lead to the fulfillment of the following prophecy.
"The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to the beast." (Revelation 17:12-13)
It looks as if Mrs. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (supposedly a conservative party) is going to be able to form a coalition with the left-of-center Social Democrats, led by Martin Schulz. This combination is referred to as a Grand Coalition, bringing two opposing parties together again.
"One downside to the grand coalition is that it leaves the right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which made a surprisingly strong showing in September's polls, as the largest opposition party, giving it a number of advantages including public funding and leadership roles in some parliamentary committees. The AfD, the closest thing to Nazis to win seats in the Bundestag since the actual Nazis, ran a racially inflected populist campaign that capitalized on widespread anxieties about the influx of refugees and migrants from the Muslim Middle East, which the AfD said were threatening both Germany's national security and its national identity." ("Germany's political turmoil is bad news for Europe," Jonah Shepp, New York magazine, 1/16/18).
Looking to the future, Mr. Shepp wrote:
"Part of Merkel's problem is that she represents a waning generation of political leadership whose preference for moderation and incremental progress is being rejected in favor of bold new ideas on both the right and the left. German voters flocked to smaller parties in September, particularly the AfD and FDP, while the Greens and the Left made gains among younger voters.
"Younger members of Merkel's own conservative party have been urging her step aside, while a rising generation of leaders is waiting in the wings to succeed her. The most talked-about potential successor is 37-year-old Jens Spahn, an openly gay man who has criticized Merkel from the right on immigration issues. Another name that comes up is Ursula von der Leyen, the current defense minister, whose positions are more liberal.
"The other mainstream parties are also looking at generational transitions: CSU chairman Horst Seehofer is handing the Bavarian premiership over to Markus Söder, 18 years his junior, while many Social Democrats are looking to oust their leader Martin Schulz after their disappointing performance in September."
The composition of the new coalition means there will be fireworks ahead as each party wants different things. It's not likely the government can stay together very long. That also means Mrs. Merkel's future is uncertain and will be short-lived. She has been Chancellor for over twelve years.
Change is likely not far off.
Meanwhile, the German World Socialist website is warning that the new German government plans a massive expansion of its military. (This is exactly what President Trump has been demanding, that Germany spend at least 2% of its GNP on defense.)
Incoming German government plans massive military rearmament By Johannes Stern 3 January 2018 * World Socialist Web Site
"At the beginning of December, in a keynote address to the Körber Foundation in Berlin, Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel demanded that after seven decades of relative foreign policy restraint, Germany return to an independent foreign and military policy – supported by a militarized European Union under German leadership. "Now we realize that even with great economic prosperity in our country there is no comfortable place on the side-lines of international politics for us anymore. Neither for us Germans nor for us Europeans," he declared provocatively.
"Significantly, the SWP, which is close to the government, has once again submitted a paper titled "Dissolution or Replacement? The International Order in Transition," which openly makes the case for the establishment of a new world order under German-European leadership. Above all, it considers China and the US, with or without Trump, as international rivals.
" . . . The entire paper makes clear that the ruling classes in Germany and Europe are again preparing for a new major war. "
The Brits are on their way out and leaving the EU with an almighty headache about money. Rows over the common pot of cash in the EU27 will be about €13bn a year more painful after the UK blows a hole in the budget after 2020. (FT Brussels Briefing, 1/9)
It's a Grexit with a difference. 2018 should be the year Greece ends eight years of economic tutelage, closing a chapter on an extraordinary period in the EU's financial crisis fight.
August is the planned exit date and Greece's Syriza government has been quietly crossing the t's and dotting the i's on its €86bn bailout ahead of the summer. In a familiar ritual, the Greek parliament this week passed its last mountain of sweeping reforms – touching everything from energy markets to trade unions – to unlock its latest dose of rescue money. Eurozone finance ministers should sign off on the penultimate bailout review on Monday.
In one last act of defiance, thousands of protesters gathered outside the Greek parliament to vent their rage against labour laws that make it harder for trade unions to call strikes. "The law is totally undemocratic, a form of modern slavery" the head of Greece's public sector union told The Guardian's Helena Smith. (FT Brussels Briefing, 1/17)
2018 Annual Forecast – North Korea's likely achievement of a viable nuclear deterrent next year will give rise to a new and more unstable era of containment. As the specter of war looms in the Asia-Pacific, China and Russia will band together while the United States cracks down even harder on Iran — as well as its own trade partners. (Stratfor 1/17)
Israel launches plan to expel thousands of African migrants 4 Jan 2018
Jerusalem – Israel on Wednesday began implementing a plan to force tens of thousands of African migrants out of the country by April, threatening to arrest those who stay. "This plan will get under way today," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting. Under the programme, some 38,000 migrants who entered Israel illegally, mainly Eritreans and Sudanese, will have until the end of March to leave. Each will receive a plane ticket and $3,500 to do so. After the deadline, this amount will decrease and those who continue to refuse to go will face arrest. Holot, an open facility in Israel's desert south that can host 1,200 migrants who are allowed to leave to work during the day, is also set to be closed. Netanyahu pledged to "return south Tel Aviv to the citizens of Israel", adding that the Africans were "not refugees but illegal infiltrators."
Our youngest grandson, not even two yet, already knows a lot more than most politicians, judges and liberal intellectuals in the western world.
Hayden has it down pat. He knows to go to either Mom or Grandma when he wants food or needs his diaper changed; he's also learned, when he wants fun, that Dad or Grandpa are the go-to people.
If a 20-month-old toddler can clearly distinguish gender roles, why can't judges, politicians and lawyers?
They would do well to ponder the following words of Jesus Christ:
… Jesus called a little child to stand among them. "Truly I tell you, He said, "unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
(Matthew 18:2-4)
I took my wife and daughter to see a movie today. On the way there, our daughter was doing a crossword on her phone. She suddenly said: "I need a four lettered word." I suggested she call the White House!
It's ironic that the bad word President Trump allegedly used to describe African countries and Haiti has some truth to it. We lived in Africa for over ten years. During that time, we hosted many western visitors, both black and white. The one thing everybody complained about was the toilet facilities – or, rather, the lack of them.
This does not mean that there is nothing positive to say about Africa. As I often remarked to visitors: "we can teach them a lot about plumbing, but we can't teach them anything about relationships. That's where they can teach us."
Back to Trump's expletive. Both Richard Nixon and his predecessor LBJ used a lot of bad language. I suspect every president has since, to one degree or another.
Whenever I hear certain words, I am reminded of what my old English teacher said over fifty years ago. "People who use bad language have a limited vocabulary with which to express themselves!" There's a lot of truth in that.
Senator Jeff Flake (Arizona Republican) has compared President Trump to Josef Stalin.
This kind of ignorance is appalling and dangerous.
Trump has his problems, but he cannot be equated with Stalin, a dictator who killed millions of people in his own country. Millions more were sent to their deaths in the gulags.
Additionally, ordering the murders of five of his top nine generals prior to World War II meant the country was almost defeated by the German army. The death toll from this alone was twenty million.
Senator Flake should not be allowed back into Congress until he has read all three volumes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago." This would give him a much better idea of Russia's reality under Uncle Joe.
Others who have compared Trump to Hitler should be assigned William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."
Unfortunately, ignorance does not preclude entry into Congress! If anything, it helps.
Israeli Mayors Rail Against Law Limiting Commerce on Shabbat 11 Jan 2018 * JNS.org
Dozens of mayors across Israel vowed on Tuesday to fight the country's new law limiting commerce on Shabbat, saying they will not enforce it. The controversial "supermarkets bill" passed in the Knesset with a razor-thin majority of 58-57 on Tuesday morning. The law, an amendment to the Local Authorities Law's provisions on the operation of local businesses on days of rest, gives the interior minister the power to shutter businesses that choose to remain open on Shabbat. During the past few weeks, Israeli municipalities have raced to bypass the looming supermarkets law, passing and bolstering bylaws allowing businesses to remain open on Shabbat.
"The supermarkets bill is meaningless. It is up to the mayors to enforce it and I say in no uncertain terms that I have no intention of sending inspectors to enforce it," Ramat Gan Mayor Yisrael Zinger said Tuesday. "We are a liberal city, and we believe in allowing people to live their lives according to their own beliefs. This is what creates the fabric of life in the city," he said. Prior to the vote on the bill, Holon Mayor Moti Sasson pledged "to do everything within my power to preserve the status quo in the city, as part of which some businesses will be open on Shabbat for the benefit of the residents." Givatayim Mayor Ran Kunik also announced he would not enforce the new law, telling reporters he is determined to preserve the status quo in his city. "Givatayim knows what's best for its residents better than any minister," he said.


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Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in the Iraq War and, after testifying in Congress about the treatment of veterans, was sent where they figured he wouldn't be able to cause any more trouble: Asheville, NC. He is almost finished with his rehab when a local woman visits him and offers him a job with her security company. She promises to visit again, but is murdered before she can do so. After her death, a diary written by 12 year-old Henderson Youngblood in 1919 is found hidden in her apartment … and Sam's name is on it. Sam leaves the VA hospital and begins his civilian life by helping the deceased woman's sister investigate the modern crime and its connections to a death in the diary. This is the first book in de Castrique's series of mysteries featuring the Sam Blackman character.
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Total Volatile Organic Compound (TVOC) Measurement for LEED/Green Building EvaluationWednesday, May 27th, 2009
Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) may be evaluated when building designers/managers are pursuing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System for New Construction (LEED-NC) EQ Credit 3.2. The latest LEED-NC guidance document specifies that the maximum allowed concentration of TVOC measured in a building (post construction, pre-occupancy) is 500 µg/m3; the guidance also mentions using the sampling/analytical methods in the US EPA Compendium of Methods for the Determination of Air Pollutants in Indoor Air. However, none of these sampling and analytical methods address TVOC in particular, and thus the existing methods must be modified. In addition, TVOC is not defined (in terms of boiling point range, etc.) in the latest LEED-NC guidance and therefore is left open for interpretation; historically, many definitions of "TVOC" exist in literature.
For TVOC measurement, the analytical technique used must always reference one compound for calibration purposes. All compounds detected are then assumed to have the same response factor as the calibration compound. For instance, handheld instruments are most often calibrated using isobutylene or methane, and laboratory-based methods may reference TVOC as hexane (C6), toluene, or some other chemical species.
In practice, indoor air quality practitioners may use several different techniques for evaluating TVOC in buildings. Each sampling & analytical method has its own benefits and drawbacks, cost implications, and applicability.


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Hugo + Some Updates
I have five high-quality (non-iPhone) photos of Hugo. Pretty ridiculous considering his face looks like THIS.
His photos made me realize I need to start carrying my DSLR again. The iPhone, while convenient, doesn't even compare quality-wise. I forgot for a second there 😉
Hugo's been with us for almost five months now and I'm happy to report that he and Lily are BFFs. I was really concerned I wouldn't be able to handle two on my own but it's actually a little easier as they keep each other entertained. His separation anxiety has disappeared and I think he knows he's with us for the long haul.
I know I haven't posted that much craftiness lately but with good reason. I'm putting together a small clothing collection! It's not for retail or anything major, just my portfolio. I've grown a lot since I first started and my portfolio needs to reflect that.
I've been able to sneak in some knitting at night and have two projects on the needles. One is a cardigan that hasn't reached the photographable state yet and the other has to be kept secret until the end of the month.
I have a dentist appointment today and I think they're going to tell me if busting my jaw is really necessary. Wish me luck.
September 12, 2012 6:00 am
Ugh, they might BREAK your jaw?! I sincerely hope that doesn't happen. And I agree you should carry around your DSLR more because that picture is lovely!
September 12, 2012 6:26 am
Awww hugo! ❤ What a handsome fellow. I was just thinking a few minutes ago that 2 is easier because as i type this, my guys are playing outside together and i don't have to feel guilty for not using up some of their energy. They do it themselves hehe. That's great about your new collection! Best of luck 🙂
September 12, 2012 9:39 pm
Two frenchies, my idea of heaven!! He's such a cutie though. I love how even though all frenchies have the same squishy faces they can still look so different and individual.
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September 13, 2012 1:53 pm
So happy to hear little Hugo is adjusting! Will you share photos of your portfolio when it's finished? I'd love to see!! I just found out the University of Vermont has courses in costume design and I'm reaaaalllllyyyyy tempted to go back to school!!! I have no idea what I'd do with that degree since I wouldn't want to move to a big city, but seriously. ….how cool would that be? Rochelle the costume designer. I can see it now lol
October 4, 2012 6:48 am
So freaking cute!!


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|APPRENTICE GATEKEEPER (Bronze)
|As a Red Hacker, hack into an enemy and win.
|ARTISAN (Bronze)
|Equip a PLUG-IN for the first time.
|ARTIST (Silver)
|Obtain all PLUG-INS.
|BERSERKER (Silver)
|Equip the 'BERSERKER TIME' PLUG-IN and clear 'HEADQUARTERS' or 'DOORWAY'
|BETRAYED (Bronze)
|Discover Fernandez's betrayal.
|BIRTH (Bronze)
|Experience the wonder of birth as a Wanderer.
|BLUE BLOOD (Silver)
|Win 50 times as a Blue Hacker.
|BLUE COAT (Bronze)
|Win 5 times as a Blue Hacker.
|BLUE HACKER (Bronze)
|As a Blue Hacker, defeat a Mind Hacked enemy for the first time.
|BLUE HELMET (Bronze)
|Win 20 times as a Blue Hacker.
|BREAKTHROUGH (Bronze)
|Escape the security cordon.
|COMBO KING (Bronze)
|Defeat 10 enemies in a row using attack combos.
|CONFESSIONAL (Bronze)
|Discover Rebecca's link to Jim's wife.
|CONTACT (Bronze)
|Successfully make contact with Rebecca at San Mira Airport.
|COUNTERATTACK (Bronze)
|Successfully join forces with Rebecca to repel the terrorist attack.
|DEMIGOD (Silver)
|Equip the 'DEMIGOD TIME' PLUG-IN and clear 'HEADQUARTERS' or 'DOORWAY'.
|DIGGING DOWN (Bronze)
|Dig down into the truth behind the attack at the airport.
|GATEKEEPER (Bronze)
|As a Red Hacker, successfully defeat 50 Mind Hacked enemies.
|GUARDIAN (Bronze)
|As a Blue Hacker, successfully defeat 50 Mind Hacked enemies.
|GUN WHEEL GURU (Bronze)
|Mind Hack a Gun Wheel and defeat 20 enemies.
|GURU (Gold)
|Reach Level 50.
|HACKER (Silver)
|Reach Level 30.
|HEAD CASE (Bronze)
|Take out 30 enemies with head shots.
|HONORARY CITIZEN (Bronze)
|Mind Hack 100 citizens.
|HOTHEAD (Bronze)
|Defeat an enemy within 1 second of them being Mind Hacked.
|I KNOW KUNG FU (Bronze)
|Defeat 100 enemies using Attack Combos.
|MEDIC (Bronze)
|Heal 20 people.
|MIND HACKER (Bronze)
|Mind Hack successfully for the first time.
|MIND HACKER (Gold)
|Clear half of the scenes with Hackers present.
|MOWER MAN (Bronze)
|Use a Finishing Blow on 50 damaged enemies.
|MULTI-TASKER (Bronze)
|Mind Slave 4 enemies at once.
|MURDEROUS MACHINE (Bronze)
|Mind Hack a Quick Draw and defeat 10 enemies.
|NEWBIE (Bronze)
|Reach Level 5.
|PERFECT HACKER (Platinum)
|Obtain all trophies.
|PIECE OF THE PUZZLE (Bronze)
|Obtain an important piece of the NERKAS puzzle.
|PUPPET MASTER (Bronze)
|Successfully Mind Slave 255 times.
|PUSH THE TRUTH BUTTON (Bronze)
|Successfully press on to confont Andrew Gardner.
|PYRRHIC VICTORY (Bronze)
|Uncover the truth, but lost something valuable.
|QUICK MOVER (Bronze)
|Working with Fernandez, make good time to NERKAS Campus.
|RECEPTIONIST (Bronze)
|In Host Play, be hacked into by a Red Hacker for the first time.
|RED CAP (Bronze)
|Win 5 times as a Red Hacker.
|RED DEVIL (Silver)
|Win 50 times as a Red Hacker.
|RED FLAG (Bronze)
|Win 20 times as a Red Hacker.
|RED HACKER (Bronze)
|As a Red Hacker, defeat a Mind Hacked enemy for the first time.
|REUNION (Bronze)
|Join forces with comrade in arms, Fernandez.
|SCRATCHER (Bronze)
|Mind Hack a Swarmer and defeat 10 enemies.
|SEARCH (Bronze)
|Search the port of hidden bodies.
|SHIELD (Bronze)
|10 people engaged as bullet shields get defeated.
|STAR (Silver)
|In Host Play, get hacked into by over 100 Hackers.
|STREET RIPPER (Bronze)
|Mind Hack a Titan and defeat 10 enemies.
|TERMINAL DEPARTURE (Bronze)
|Evade enemy forces and escape San Mira Airport on the monorail.


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Chinese Immigrants in Cuba: Documents from the James and Ana Melikian Collection
The Chinese Immigrants in Cuba collection includes hundreds of original documents, manuscripts and photos covering the migration of 125,000 Chinese who signed up to be cheap labor in Cuba from 1847 until the later 1890s. The archive continues until the 1970s and records the Chinese community in Cuba and is rich with photos. This massive collection, from the archive of James and Ana Melikian Collection, is probably the largest one in private hands concerning Chinese in Cuba. At present the collection contains over 1341 records and about 8,000-9,000 pages.
- 1 Image
- Handwritten
- Patron
- Havana
- 1 First Contract
- 1 Juan
- 1 Luis Alonso
- 1 Superior Civil Government
A contract between Juan, a Chinese settler and Luis Alonso. The contract allowed Luis Alonso to bring Juan from China to Cuba to work. Juan was contracted by an employer upon arrival in Havana, a contract that lasted for two years.
- Created Date
- 1865


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We've got some new release dates to share with you today. Here they are at a glance:
- Robocop – Directed by Jose Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman, the reboot of the 1987 sci-fi classic will release August 9th, 2013.
- Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers – The sequel to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is due out December 20th, 2013.
Hit the jump for more on each project.
For fans of the original Robocop, you can skip the following synopsis. Newcomers to the material might want to read the summary for the first Robocop film if the title doesn't explain its premise clearly enough:
Paul Verhoeven's American breakthrough film, Robocop, is an exceedingly violent blend of black comedy, science fiction, and crime thriller. Set in Detroit sometime in the near future, the film is about a policeman (Peter Weller) killed in the line of duty whom the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The RoboCop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him.
Concerning Padilha's reboot of Robocop, the Elite Squad director closed the deal to direct the project last March. After that, Padilha eyed Michael Fassbender (Shame) as a fitting replacement for Peter Weller's over-sized metal shoes, but the role eventually went to Kinnaman (The Killing). Written by relative newcomer Josh Zetumer and Nick Schenk (Gran Torino), the reboot is avoiding an earlier script from 2009's planned remake by Darren Aronofsky. You can read up on Padilha's comments on the on-going project here. Get caught up with all of our previous Robocop coverage here.
On a lighter note, the sequel to the animated hit Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will be out just in time for the holiday season in late 2013. The adaptation of a memorable children's book by Judi and Ron Barrett came out in 2009 with dazzling visuals and a cast that included the voice talents of Anna Faris, Bill Hader and Bruce Campbell. The cast isn't set for the sequel, but the film will feature Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn, a pair of first-time directors who worked on the previous film and Horrible Bosses writers, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Check out our previous coverage on Cloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftovers here, including a first look at a promo poster. New release date info comes courtesy of Box Office Mojo.