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Macedonians Take On Soros
"We've witnessed the takeover of the entire civil sector and its abuse and instrumentalization to meet the goals of one political party. That is unacceptable and goes beyond the principles of civic organizing," Srbov said at the press conference.
"The Open Society Foundation, operating under the Soros umbrella, used its funding and personnel to support violent processes in Macedonia. It has monopolized the civil society sector, pushing outside any organization which disagrees with the Soros ideology," he stated.
Another co-founder, Cvetin Cilimanov, editor-in-chief of the state-run MIA news agency, accused Soros's Open Society Foundations of undermining Macedonian sovereignty by working not only with the opposition center-left SDSM party, but also with outside interests. By cooperating with foreign embassies and organizations such as USAID, Cilimanov believes Soros-backed groups have interfered in the political process of Macedonia.
Noam Chomsky on the Long History of US Meddling in Foreign Elections
The history of US foreign policy, especially after World War II, is pretty much defined by the subversion and overthrow of foreign regimes, including parliamentary regimes, and the resort to violence to destroy popular organizations that might offer the majority of the population an opportunity to enter the political arena.
Following the Second World War, the United States was committed to restoring the traditional conservative order. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to destroy the anti-fascist resistance, often in favor of Nazi and fascist collaborators, to weaken unions and other popular organizations, and to block the threat of radical democracy and social reform, which were live options under the conditions of the time. These policies were pursued worldwide: in Asia, including South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Indochina and crucially, Japan; in Europe, including Greece, Italy, France and crucially, Germany; in Latin America, including what the CIA took to be the most severe threats at the time, "radical nationalism" in Guatemala and Bolivia.
Sometimes the task required considerable brutality. In South Korea, about 100,000 people were killed in the late 1940s by security forces installed and directed by the United States. This was before the Korean war, which Jon Halliday and Bruce Cumings describe as "in essence" a phase — marked by massive outside intervention — in "a civil war fought between two domestic forces: a revolutionary nationalist movement, which had its roots in tough anti-colonial struggle, and a conservative movement tied to the status quo, especially to an unequal land system," restored to power under the US occupation. In Greece in the same years, hundreds of thousands were killed, tortured, imprisoned or expelled in the course of a counterinsurgency operation, organized and directed by the United States, which restored traditional elites to power, including Nazi collaborators, and suppressed the peasant- and worker-based communist-led forces that had fought the Nazis. In the industrial societies, the same essential goals were realized, but by less violent means.
Back Squat vs. Overhead Squat
The participants of this test could perform full range of motion overhead squats with a decent weight. That's a feat many lifters can't perform, not because of weakness, but rather because of immobility. The overhead squat continues to be a great test of mobility and flexibility, and can help determine where your back squat may need more work.
Shudras of the World, Unite!
What has been the appeal of Trump and Farage to the masses? Both have come from the bourgeoisie and have railed against the international bourgeoisie, calling on the mass to seize the global means of production and distribute the wealth the bourgeoisie created. Did not Karl Marx himself predict this? That in late stage capitalism, members of the bourgeoisie would turn class traitor and distribute the wealth of their class to the masses?
What is this rising tide of populism and nationalism, a restoration? No! a descent into the abyss. I once admired Trump, and thought that perhaps he could be at least the first rung on the ladder to restoration. How foolish I was. Nationalism, populism, and socialism are all attempts by the Shûdras to assert supremacy over the Vaishyas. To distribute the wealth created by the bourgeoisie to the masses. Differences concerning which mass are more deserving: Americans, Whites, Proletarians, etc. are arbitrary (the "white race" is the white nationalist's "international proletariat"). The principle remains that this is a transition into a lower caste, into deeper depths, into the final age of man.
The American Color Revolution
How does this relate to the coordinated operation to undermine the Trump presidency?
What is at stake is a "color revolution" Made in America which is marked by fundamental rivalries within the US establishment, namely the clash between competing corporate factions, each of which is intent upon exerting control over the incoming US presidency.
The OTPOR-CANVAS-CIA model is nonetheless relevant. Several foundations involved in funding color revolutions internationally are involved in funding the anti-Trump campaign.
Moreover, while CANVAS' mandate is to oversee "color revolutions" internationally, it also has links with a number of NGOs currently involved in the anti-Trump campaign including The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS). OWS launched by Adbusters was funded via the Tides Foundation which in turn is funded by a number of corporate foundations and charities, including the Ford Foundation, Gates Foundation and the Open Society Institute. Ford is known to have historical links to US intelligence.
The First Black President and Africa
"The proliferation of weapons from Libya continues at an alarming rate."
Indeed, those weapons flowing from Libya have directly fueled the civil war in Mali, facilitated the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria, empowered the terror group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and led to the rise of terrorist gangs and death squads in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, and elsewhere on the continent. In effect, Obama's war on Libya was the opening salvo of a continent-wide destabilization the effects of which are still being felt today and likely will continue to be felt for years, if not decades, to come.
With these troubling facts in mind, we return to Obama's speech in Ghana, where he haughtily pronounced that the West is not responsible for Africa's problems. Naturally, any student of colonialism and African history would immediately object to such selective memory. One wonders whether decades from now, when the legacy of the wars and terrorism that grew out of Obama's policies is still being felt, another president will stand before Africa and again chastise her for not solving her own problems.


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Royal Rumble!!! Tout And Bus Conductor Battle It Out In A Gutter In Lagos (Photos)Convert Clear
A bus conductor and a tout (Agbero) exchanged blows right inside a gutter yesterday at Ikeja, Lagos.
According to an eyewitness Gbenga Oni, the Agbero demanded for money from the conductor as the driver of the danfo bus stopped to drop off passengers but the conductor refused to part with any sum insisting he was carrying a "Staff". An argument ensued and the men began to fling blows at each other, right inside the gutter. SMH, Lagosians and their show of madness.


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Unable to save pool settings or create new pools in VMware View (2082413)
- You are unable to successfully apply pool settings.
- Virtual machines may stall when deleting, provisioning, or customizing.
- When creating a new pool, the folder is created in vCenter Server but no other tasks occur.
- Connection server dashboards show different information on different connection servers.
- The Connection server Administrator dashboard shows a red error status for vCenter Server and/or Composer certificates. When viewing the certificates, they cannot be accepted.
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- Before proceeding with these steps, gather a log bundle from each Connection Server in your View environment. For more information on gathering Horizon View logs, see Collecting VMware Horizon View logs and diagnostic information (1017939).
- Verify that all Connection Servers are correctly configured with 10 GB RAM and 4 vCPU.
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- The View Connection Server reports the error: [ws_TomcatService] STDOUT: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space (2009877)
- The Hardware Requirements for View Connection Server section of the View 6.0 Installation guide.
- Verify that all Connection Servers in the View Pod experiencing trouble are fully functional and replicating all information correctly.
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- If the issue is not resolved, file a support request with VMware Technical Support and note this Knowledge base article ID (2082413) in the problem description. For more information on filing a Support Request, see Filing a Support Request in My VMware (2006985). Ensure to provide the log bundles that you collected in step 1 with your request.
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Repeat this for remaining brokers. Do not attempt to restart any service until all the Horizon View services have been stopped on all brokers.
- Return to the original broker, locate the VMware Horizon View Connection Server service and select Start.
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- View Connection Server reports the error: [ws_TomcatService] STDOUT: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space (2009877)
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FINRA Fines Multiple Firms for Leveraged and Inverse ETF Sales
As noted in this press release from FINRA, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and UBS were fined for failing to supervise sales of leveraged and inverse ETFs. FINRA also alleged failures of a reasonable basis to recommend the securities (i.e. suitability).
FINRA found that: "from January 2008 through June 2009, the firms did not have adequate supervisory systems in place to monitor the sale of leveraged and inverse ETFs, and failed to conduct adequate due diligence regarding the risks and features of the ETFs. As a result, the firms did not have a reasonable basis to recommend the ETFs to their retail customers."
Many inverse and leveraged exchange traded funds, including some by Proshares and Direxion, were designed to seek multiples of the exchange they were designed to track. However, many of these ETFs were designed to reset daily, thereby creating drastic differences in their performance over time compared to the index they were designed to track. We have seen many situations where many of the risks of these funds were not disclosed to customers.
The prospectus for the Proshares leveraged and inverse ETFs from September 2007 makes clear that these investments were an aggressive day-trading tool, not an investment appropriate or suitable for most retail investors. Specifically, the prospectus stated:
p. 7: 'The Funds do not seek to achieve their stated investment objective over a period of time greater than one day because mathematical compounding prevents the Funds from achieving such results.'
p. 8: 'The Funds use investment techniques that may be considered aggressive, including the use of futures contracts, options on futures contracts, securities and indices, forward contracts, swap agreements and similar instruments.'
p. 9: 'Certain Funds are 'leveraged' funds in the sense that they have investment objectives to match a multiple of the performance of an index on a given day. These Funds are subject to all of the correlation risks described above. In addition, there is a special form of correlation risk that derives from these Funds' use of leverage, which is that for periods greater than one day, the use of leverage tends to cause the performance of a Fund to be either greater than or less than the index performance times the stated multiple in the fund objective, before accounting for fees and fund expenses'
In June of 2009, FINRA issued a Regulatory Notice (09-31) regarding these Non-Traditional ETFs. The Notice states: 'inverse and leveraged ETFs that are reset daily typically are unsuitable for retail investors who plan to hold them for longer than one trading session, particularly in volatile markets.'
If you suffered losses in your brokerage accounts resulting from your broker's trading in ETFs, and you would like to discuss your potential claim with an attorney, please contact Greco & Greco.
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Consequential Damages for Auction Rate Securities Unresolved
As set out in this Kansas City Star article Wachovia and JP Morgan Chase have joined UBS, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup in settling charges related to their sale of Auction Rate Securities. Although the settlement agreements with exact details are not completed, it appears that the firms will be buying back frozen auction rate securities sold to individuals and small businesses.
Left open is the recovery of consequential damages suffered by buyers of the allegedly liquid ARS who couldn't access their cash. The press releases and articles related to the settlements reference that customers will be able to seek recovery of their consequential damages through arbitration, with the firms admitting liability, but not conceding damages.
If you or your business suffered monetary damages as a result of having your funds frozen in ARS, please contact Greco & Greco for a free consultation with one of our attorneys to discuss options for recovery of your damages.
Posted by W. Scott Greco on 08/21/08.
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Auction Rate Securities Failures
Auction Rate Securities and Auction Rate Preferred Securities (ARS) are securities made up of long term bonds or preferred stock with variable interest rates and yields. The yields are periodically reset through Dutch auctions. ARS are often marketed and sold by a single dealer with the only resale market being through a successful auction. Problems have arisen in recent months as a result of the failures of the auctions, leaving investors in the lurch and unable to redeem the security. As set out in this SmartMoney article, ARS have been marketed as a safe, liquid alternative to money market funds. Investors believing they had their money in a safe liquid investment are understandably concerned by the failures in the marketplace for these securities, and our firm has been monitoring the situation closely and discussing the matter with concerned individuals and businesses. Misrepresentations and omissions in the sale of a security can form the basis for a claim for securities fraud as well as other legal claims for recovery of damages.
As recently as 2006, the SEC censured 15 of the largest brokerage firms for sales and auctions of Auction Rate Securities. As stated by the SEC in its press release, "since the firms were under no obligation to guarantee against a failed auction, investors may not have been aware of the liquidity and credit risks associated with certain securities." The SEC further stated that "the firms violated Section 17(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, which prohibits material misstatements and omissions in any offer or sale of securities." The fifteen firms which were censured were Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated/ Morgan Stanley DW Inc., RBC Dain Rauscher Inc., A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., Piper Jaffray & Co., SunTrust Capital Markets Inc., Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, and Banc of America Securities LLC. Read the SEC Order here.
UBS appears to be the first firm to actually begin lowering the values of auction rate securities on its customers' statements, as reported by many news sources on March 29 including this Reuters article. Citing a Wall Street Journal article, Reuters reported that the markdowns could exceed 20 percent for some customers. Additional concessions from other firms may be forthcoming as the first quarter of 2008 ends.
State Regulators, including Massachusetts, have also begun investigations of the auction rate securities market with Massachusetts reportedly issuing subpoenas to UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Bank of America.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released an Investor Alert on March 31, 2008 regarding auction rate securities which purports to set out various options for investors stuck with these products. FINRA, which claims to be a "trusted advocate for investors," notably fails to mention contacting an attorney or filing an arbitration claim as options. If you are an investor who was sold Auction Rate Securities, and you would like to discuss your legal options with an attorney, please Contact Greco & Greco.
Link to Securities-Lawyers.net Auction Rate Securities page.
Posted by W. Scott Greco on 03/03/08.
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Morgan Stanley Fined Over Failure to Produce E-mails in Arbitrations
Morgan Stanley was fined $3 million and forced to pay $9.5 million in restitution to arbitration Claimants as a result of its failure to produce emails in response to document requests in arbitrations with customers. According to the FINRA press release, Morgan Stanley incorrectly represented in the arbitration proceedings that "the destruction of the firm's email servers in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center resulted in the loss of all pre-9/11 email."
The unknown at this point is the amount of financial benefit gained by Morgan Stanley by this behavior through arbitration settlements and awards, and whether this benefit far exceeds the relatively small punishment ordered by FINRA.
Posted by W. Scott Greco on 11/02/07.
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Morgan Stanley fined for corporate bond overcharges
As set out in this FINRA press release Morgan Stanley was fined and forced to pay restitution to retail customers for overcharging for corporate bond sales and for "having an inadequate supervisory system for monitoring the pricing of corporate fixed income securities sold to customers."
Posted by W. Scott Greco on 08/03/07.
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Sony is scrambling to make up for a series of hacks to its Playstation and MMORPG networks that compromised more than 100 million accounts, at least 25 million of which included enough data to identify customers individually, the company admitted in a letter to Congress yesterday.
It also said it is cooperating with the FBI, hired computer-forensics and investigation specialists Data Forte, which is headed by a former agent of the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service to try to identify the attackers.
It hired more investigators from e-discovery and cyber-investigation consultants at Guidance Software and Protivity – a forensic-security consulting company that is a division of global recruiting and consulting firm Robert Half International.
That's a lot of resources to throw at an investigation. At least a normal investigation. One for a breach this size needs a few more bodies than most.
It also requires a little more accountability than Sony has provided so far, according to Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, who wrote Sony yesterday to ask for more details about compromised accounts and to let it know he's asking the U.S. Attorney General's office to investigate in addition to all the other players.
Sony's letter to Congress, btw, also mentioned it discovered May 1 that another network may also have been breached at some time in the past without its knowledge.
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that makes it much more difficult to bring class-action suits against companies in the U.S., Sony will almost certainly end up ponying up a lot of direct compensation to customers, in addition to the loss of reputation and business it will no doubt see.
A Toronto law firm is announced a class-action suit in Canada, representing a 21-year-old Ontario native as plaintiff.
The amount an average Canadian 21-year-old can lose by having a credit card compromised is limited, but there is a decent-sized pool of other potential victims who might expand the class-action a bit.
So far, except for its offer of a month's free subscription to a service that may be the cause of your identity theft, Sony hasn't done much to make things up to its customers, despite its own epic failure.
Apologies, lawyers, investigators and cooperation with Congress may help keep it out of regulatory trouble. Making things right with customers is what will keep it from losing their acounts as fast to competitors as it did to hackers.


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#1 Apr 5, 2013
America is the only nation on earth that pays for its infrastructure through taxes! Why are none of our "leaders" interested in taking this burden off of the taxpayer?
#2 Apr 5, 2013
Are you serious?
That is one of the dumbest comments I've seen on this forum.
So, tell us how the leaders will take this burden off the taxpayer and where will the money come from for such infrastructures.
Boy, I can hardly wait to hear this.
#3 Apr 5, 2013
It is NOT dumb. You are ignorant of how the world works.
Most countries have taxes that just cover their military. Infrastructure is funded by things like bake sales and selling T-shirts to tourists, and their governments are much more efficient than ours!
Why don't you go read a book, and not Harry Potter.
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#4 Apr 6, 2013
Did you say a bake sale can replace taxes?
#5 Apr 6, 2013
No, I did not say that one bake sale could replace taxes, I said MANY bake sales can supplement taxes and pay for our infrastructure. We still need taxes to pay for our military. LibeTards always deliberately misinterpret what I say.
Do you know how much the girl scouts make every year?
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#6 Apr 6, 2013
our taxes are so high because most of the time what we are being taxed for never goes to the expense it's suppose to cover. For example, gas tax should go for road maintenance but it doesn't. Lots of diversions in state budget for transportation taxes alone. check out TURF.org
#7 Apr 6, 2013
We shouldn't even have a gas tax.
#8 Apr 6, 2013
No, I do not know how much the girl scouts make every year. Can you tell me? Please break out the distribution of the $4.00 per box.
#9 Apr 6, 2013
I don't know the exact amount the girl scouts make, but I do know it is a lot. Every other country follows this model except us. Does it mean that the British Parliament and the Queen have to spend a few days every year baking cookies and printing tourist T-Shirts, yes, but they are actual public SERVANTS.
I would like to see our congress constrained to how much they can bring in, versus how much they can steal from us. They might think twice about spending so much on foreign aid!
#10 Apr 7, 2013
I'm definitely no liberal, but you are definitely an idiot. As soon as you can learn to read a Dick & Jane book instead of looking at the pictures, maybe someday you can hope to read Harry Potter.
I don't know where you get your information, but you have absolutely no clue what the hell you're talking about. Spewing out crap like that only gives the liberals ammunition to proclaim the idiotic lunacy of the right wing fanatics. You could be the poster boy for their next campaign.
#11 Apr 8, 2013
You are most definitely a liberal. You say you have no clue what I am talking about, but I am the only one citing FACTS, you are hurling insults.
#12 Apr 10, 2013
taxes aren't as bad as you might think...
it's probably cheaper than you at the bake sales...
hurling insults makes you a liberal????...and I thougt DoPeTX was a conservative...
Reading, UK
#13 Apr 11, 2013
Can any of you gentlemen tell me where I can get my T Shirt printed by the Queen and on what dates it will occur and the approximate cost, because I would like purchase one for posterity. Maybe it will help reduce my tax burden ie Income tax taken at source 40% national insurance Taken at source 13% ( there goes 53% of my wages before I am paid. Fuel tax 78% Value added tax on all purchases 20%. And you think you have it bad
#14 Apr 17, 2013
Wrong again, idiot. Oh, and that's not an insult, it's a FACT.
I didn't say that I have no clue what you're talking about. I said that YOU have no clue what you're talking about.
Where did you get your so called FACTS?
You should be careful what you read on the internet. You sound like the dingy blonde on the TV commercial that says everything on the internet is true.
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While everyone is getting excited about pumpkin spice lattes and apple pie, we're all suited up to make a hearty fall salad that makes for a perfect leftover lunch. With a crunchy kale base and mix-ins ranging from roasted root veggies, tart apples, toasted nuts, and Pecorino cheese, this salad is far from shy on flavor. Get creative with your components and rely of seasonal fall produce to make a satisfying, healthy meal that will only taste better the next day.
- 1 small butternut squash
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 1 bunch chopped kale (about 6 cups)
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 1/2 cups cooked farro
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 2 cups chopped apples (about 2-3 apples)
- 4 ounces shredded Pecorino-Romano cheese
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoon chopped shallot
Nutrition Information
- calories 394
- fat 24 g
- satfat 6.6 g
- monofat 6.7 g
- polyfat 7.7 g
- protein 11 g
- carbohydrate 44 g
- fiber 8 g
- sugars 15 g
- cholesterol 20 mg
- iron 2 mg
- sodium 602 mg
- calcium 255 mg
How to Make It
Peel, scoop out seeds, and cube butternut squash.* Toss in 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, cinnamon, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp ground pepper. Spread on baking sheet and roast for 30 minutes at 400°F, or until squash is tender and golden brown.
In a medium skillet over medium heat, toast walnuts until golden brown and fragrant.
Combine kale, farro, apples, squash, walnuts, cheese, and cranberries in a bowl.
For the dressing, whisk 1 tbsp olive oil, orange juice, mustard, shallot, 1/4 tsp salt, and 1/4 tsp pepper in a bowl until fully combined.
Dress salad immediately, or keep dressing on the side and dress your salad as you go.
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CUISINE Cucina is one of those 1990's hybrids. It calls itself a bakery-bistro-bar-market. Diners on their way to tables in the rear of this long, narrow, high-ceilinged Rockville Centre storefront first encounter shelves loaded with imported olive oils, pastas, biscotti and other specialty groceries. Most patrons then pause to make mental choices from the display cases of pastries, cakes and pies. A deli counter, presenting a colorful mosaic of fancy salads, prepared entrees and bowls of olives, is next.
The trek continues by the open kitchen, where speedy chefs are tossing pastas and grilling meats, on past the bar and finally to the small rear dining room with its marble top tables and metal chairs.
The restaurant's casual, laid-back attitude is mirrored in the friendly staff. One evening our cheery waiter was so pleasant that it took us awhile to realize that service was slap-dash. The bread basket was never refilled, replacement silver was unheard of and the delivery of dishes was an auction: ''Who gets the lamb chops?''
On another night, the waiter was more polished and efficient, but even he found our expectation of clean silver with each course an alien concept.Continue reading the main story
The restaurant's look and service may say casual, but much of the food is serious. Do not think pasta cafe. The eight pastas on the menu are outnumbered by a lineup of heavy-hitter steaks, fish, veal and lamb chops with prices as high as $21.98.
We sampled only one pasta: sea scallops tossed with angel hair and found the scampi butter sauce tasty but the seafood itself metallic tasting. Our attempt to order gnocchi elicited the response that the chef had not made any that day.
He had also run out of artichokes for the sauteed artichoke and spinach salad. Instead, try the terrific baby green salad tossed with walnuts, warm sauteed mushrooms and a knob of melting goat cheese on top. All salads were large, impressive, dinner-plate affairs. The tasty Caesar was classic, and the tricolor was garnished with triangles of Tuscan bread spread with goat cheese.
The appetizer to order is the sturdy slices of polenta piled high with a garlicy ragout of wild mushrooms. Two shrimp starters also make a good showing: sizzled jumbos encircled with roasted garlic and sun-dried tomatoes and another five-some atop a melange of julienned vegetables. A smoked salmon platter with chopped egg, black olives, capers and thinly sliced warm bread was a hit, but a plate of grilled vegetables was just routine.
Entrees I would order again are the meaty baby-back ribs with their fruity barbecue sauce, the quintet of succulent grilled lamb chops and the thinly sliced steak presented atop an arugula salad. A special veal chop crowned with a raisin-fig compote is another must-order.
But filet mignon arrived without its advertised four-mushroom-cream sauce. And, every entree one evening was served with mashed potatoes and spinach, no matter what the menu indicated. Another night the copy-cat accompaniments were mashed potatoes and shredded mixed vegetables.
Fish batted .500. A red snapper special was weighted down by a bready lobster stuffing. The simple grilled-to- order swordfish in a lemon-caper sauce, though, was everything is should be.
At meal's end our waiter suggested we ''take a walk'' to the dessert counter to make our selections. On our second visit, we were presented with a dessert menu of 22 choices. All the sweets are made elsewhere but are tempting, high-quality fare. My favorites were the tangy Key lime pie, the sinful truffle cheesecake and the apple pie drizzled with caramel. All are served with whipped cream and chocolate sauce or colored sprinkles. (Hold the sprinkles.)
The wine list is about what one would expect at a casual bistro like this: short, reasonably priced and mostly Italian. Table wines are available by the bottle and glass for as little as $15 and $4.25. We tried a pedestrian trebbiano by the glass and a lush, expansive 1996 Erath pinot noir ($23) from Oregon that is incorrectly listed under Washington State.
Cuisine Cucina
22 North Park Avenue, Rockville Centre, 594-4500.
Atmosphere Bustling restaurant-cum-market.
Service Nice but unpolished.
Recommended dishes Baby green salad, Caesar, tricolor salad, smoked salmon platter, polenta, grilled shrimp, sizzled shrimp, swordfish, sliced steak over arugula salad, baby-back ribs, lamb chops, veal chop.
Price range Lunch, entrees $5.98 to $9.50. Dinner, appetizers $4.25 to $12.98; pastas $10.98 to $16.98; entrees $12.98 to $21.98.
Credit cards All major cards.
Hours 9 A.M. to midnight Sunday through Thursday, till 2 A.M. Friday and Saturday.
Reservations Recommended.
Wheelchair accessibility No steps.
THE RATINGS Extraordinary, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Poor to Satisfactory.
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Californian Golfer Steals $28M
By Kickntrue on 10/21/08
A Californian "businessman" admitted in court this week to scamming investors for over $28 Million that he used for his failing golf business.
Colin Nathanson created a ficticious company and raised millions in funding. In reality the company didn't exist and he was using the dough to pay for 2 internet golf club selling businesses and to pay for houses and gambling debts.
Sounds like a classy guy. On that note- if anyone wants to send THIS internet company some money... feel free, but let the facts be facts- I will be using the money for myself!
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In October 2010, I blogged:
By embracing and welcoming the notion of teachers exiting during training (including helping them think about "what's next" — other professions they might want to pursue), you reduce the number who quit later (at more perilous times).
Here's a nice healthy exit story: Max. Tall dude, Harvard alum. I asked him to share his tale....
Back in 2010, Max was working for Sierra Club in San Fran.
He wrote then:
My decision to leave MTR was in some small way a result of some lingering doubts I had since that rocky fall. But mostly it came from a desire to explore other interests and passions of mine before committing wholeheartedly to a career. I think that in order to be a good teacher, you need to be ready to unflinchingly put your all into it. I wasn't there.
If I ever go back to pursuing teaching, I'll make that decision from the empowered standpoint of knowing that I want my life to center on my work. I decided to leave MTR right before April break, before the job search process. I finished MATCH Corps in June and felt immensely proud and satisfied with the work I had done all year.
Well, he did decide to go back to teaching. At a prep school. Like I said in my recent blog about Healthy Exit-er Steve,
Sometimes our sector gets caught up in trying to make a utilitarian calculation of how to somehow "generate the most good." It can lead to an implication that only teaching poor kids is noble and meaningful. That is silly.
That is as true today as it was 2 weeks ago. Max, like Steve, emailed me to tell me about his teaching job. I'm sharing with his permission.
Hi MG,
Overall I'm feeling good about how the year is going. I feel like I'm learning a lot every day and have at least one or two salient moments that reveal a path to how I can improve in the future. It's definitely been a challenge, but in a different way than the way than I found at MATCH. Working at a private school offers an environment that's more forgiving of initial mistakes, but I think still just as challenging to achieve excellence.
I can't tell you how much of a help my experience at MATCH was going into this new context. So many of the same principles still apply.
Most obvious is the fact that it's still all about relationship. When I have a strong relationship with a student, I feel empowered in the classroom to ask a tough question, or push them not to opt out of an answer, or work harder on a section of classwork.
I think the absolute most rewarding and downright fun moments for me as a teacher are when I see a moment where a student goes above and beyond and then follow up with them about their success after class. I had a pretty open ended question built into my lesson yesterday on finding a theme to a set of events surrounding the US's Westward Expansion. I remember distinctly two students diving into the question and not only finding the theme, but taking it one step further to say what it showed about governments in general. What MATCH taught me is how helpful it is to tell students that you RECOGNIZE and appreciate those moments. It felt great to give them that positive feedback at the end of the day and I feel like I'll be able to continue challenging them.
Management is still definitely present with my 3 sections of 8th graders, though not so much with the two ninth grade classes I teach. I don't use anything as specific as a consequence system, but I've found that relying on pro-active moves and the tenets of presence, coupled with a few stand-by's like stop and stare has been effective.
One thing that I've found that works well for me is the power of private correction. I think I always had a tough time in MTR with stopping the flow of instruction to deliver a demerit. Now, when a student has committed a "demerit-worthy" misbehavior in my class, I usually just stride over to them and whisper privately "It's time to get it together, bud" or "1st strike, you've got one left so you better bring it." Another really useful strategy has just been taking a few steps closer to a misbehavior happening off to the side without interrupting my speech or continuing to listen to whatever student is answering a question in that moment. When you privately correct a student's misbehavior, it takes away the incentive for them to stick up for their badass image in front of the rest of the class and act out or respond unprofessionally.
I can't lie-I still feel sometimes like there's a secret that I haven't unlocked about what makes a lesson plan that truly drives engagement. It can be frustrating sometimes when I pour hours of effort into a lesson only to realize that I've made it with too many moving parts.
The other day, I thought I had a really knock-it-out-of-the-park Lesson Plan that had an opportunity for my 8th graders to get creative and represent the Missouri Compromise graphically. With my first two sections it kind of flopped. There was a momentum loss when it came to independent work.
When it came time to teach to my third class, historically the most management-y, I was nervous. I was thinking going into that last class about how I was going to need to really stick to my guns in terms of management moves and be as proactive as possible given that I had a weak lesson plan. And you know what? Because I went back to basics in terms of presence (emphasis on eye contact, getting an 'all eyes up here' moment at the beginning of class) my last section had far and away the best level of engagement on the day. That emphasis on presence created more engagement during the direct instruction part of the lesson, so when it came time to work independently, my guys were set up for success.
I think the big take-away from that experience that I want to try to rely on going into next week is to keep it simpler and really focus on the proactive and see where that takes me.
Alright, I've really written an essay here, so I'll wrap it up. What I want to emphasize is that many MATCH moves and principles are totally applicable in this prep-school environment. This career move has been good for me because it gives me the freedom to make mistakes a little bit more freely without feeling like consequences are going to be irreversible.
In the moments when classes DO get off track, I find that it's pretty easy to get things back together, since management is less of an issue. As a result I've been able to try a lot of different strategies and I feel like I'm getting a solid understanding of what works and what doesn't. I'm going to leave you with one of my favorite David Brooks articles that I think illustrates this idea,
Hope the year is going great back in Boston. I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that dirty water.
- Max


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A new time-traveling fantasy from National Book Award-winner Lisa Goldstein. Ann Decker fixes computers for a living, and in the evenings she passes the time sharpening her hacking skills. It's not a very interesting life, but she gets by—until one day she's contacted with a job offer for a company called Transformations Incorporated. None of her coworkers have ever heard of it before, and when Ann is finally told what the company does, she can hardly believe it: TI has invented technology to travel in time. Soon Ann is visiting a matriarchy in ancient Crete, and then a woman mathematician at the Library of Alexandria. But Transformations Incorporated remains shrouded in mystery, and when Ann finally catches her breath, there are too many troubling questions still unanswered. Who are Transformations Incorporated, and what will they use this technology to gain? What ill effects might going back in time have on the present day? Is it really as harmless as TI says? When a coworker turns up dead, Ann's superiors warn her about a covert group called Core out to sabotage the company. Something just isn't right, but before she has time to investigate, Ann is sent to a castle in the south of France, nearly a thousand years in the past. As the armies of the Crusade arrive to lay siege, and intrigue grows among the viscount's family, Ann will discover the startling truth—not just about the company that sent her there, but also about her own past.
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Can we Repeal NAFTA? Do we even want to?
Trump got elected on the promise that he will repeal NAFTA and bring American jobs back from China and Mexico. I thought that was boneheaded from the beginning. I mean, look at Chinese factory towns, like, do it, right now:
Do we really want to bring THIS back to America? And even if we think we can do it on "American terms" with cleanliness and standards, who are we kidding? The world is addicted to a steady diet of rock-bottom prices. Nobody will buy goods that have been made in factories with Western standards.
But say we do bring them back, and we ruin our environment. Will Wal-Mart dismantle its whole supply chain to suddenly start supporting American manufactured goods? I doubt it. Chances are Wal-Mart will prevent Trump from making good on his promise.
Here is a good article that says basically the same thing. Promising to get us out of NAFTA was one thing, but actually doing it is another. Why American voters fell for this line of crap is a whole other article.
Listen to the Man
After Donald Trump's depressing victory in 2016, a lot of people have been feeling abandoned, depressed, and angry. Reading Facebook I see there is a tendency to blame the other side, the Republicans, the fascists, or whoever else comes in handy.
What makes me saddest is that Hillary Clinton took a real blow, and she really fought for us. The way Republicans smeared her is shameful. The whole "Hillary for prison" campaign was just hate mongering, and that offends me more than anything. Hillary would have been a great president! But it's not time yet.
But the democratic party has a few lessons to learn.
And Bernie Sanders recently said something really smart that sums it all up, for me. Sanders said:
"It is not good enough for someone to say, 'I'm a woman! Vote for me! No, that's not good enough. What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies."
Nailing it, as usual. Here is the full article. I totally agree with Bernie. The democratic party needs to stop pointing fingers and take a long, good look at itself. It needs to get over idenity politics. Are you black? latino? woman? jewish? muslim? transgender? That's good, then run! But it's not enough. Can you help lower college tuitions? Can you stop global warming, or create jobs that don't pollute? Now that's more interesting!
So Sanders, speaking with sense and tough love, says "it's not enough just to have an identity. You have to tell us what you can do for all working Americans". And maybe that's what the democratic party needs.
Let her Speak!
People always say Hillary Clinton has no personality. After watching last night's debate, I can see where those rumours come from. Donald Trump was interrupting her and even yelling at her at one point. She had to use all her resources to maintain dignity and composure. Who can have a "personality" while they are being yelled at? He might have a personality, but it's the personality and charisma of a crazy man.
But she got her message across, even with him yelling in her face.
Even if Hillary didn't have to stand vigil against his craziness, I don't understand why we are so obsessed with personality in politics. We elect people like Jesse Ventura or Arnold Schwarzenegger (wow did I spell that right? I DID!) and then they screw up the budget because they are basically ego-crazed showmen and not heads-down workers who knows the rules and listen to constituents. It's like we just want to be entertained by someone who is diverting on TV. We don't want to consider how they approach issues, because issues require paying attention and that is boring.
And how did Donald Trump address issues? My biggest issue is the environment, and global warming. My mom told me it was 103 degrees in California today. I don't know about the rest of you, but that is too hot for late September. Growing up in California I remember the temperatures were in the low 70s this time of year. It's pumpkin time! How depressing to think of a bunch of kids trying to trick or treat in 103 degree weather, walking around sweating in their costumes.
But Trump does not think global warming is real. At the debate he only laughed about climate change. In the first part of it he made a lot of noise about bringing jobs that have gone to China and Mexico back to America. I don't know about the rest of America but I don't want those jobs. They are polluting, dirty industry. In China they can't even see 20 feet in front of them because of dirty air. Their lakes and streams are all polluted. And in Mexico rivers run green and kids get rashes after going in the water. That kind of pollution is the result of tax breaks to companies so they can expand unregulated and wreck the environment, digging up trees and dumping in rivers, creating a horrible reality for poor neighbors and workers. Those are the kind of jobs Trump is talking about and I don't want them back.
Hillary did have a vision for growth, and although it was hard to pick up over Trumps repeated rude interrupting, it did come through. She wanted to boost small businesses, and provide tax incentives for middle class people who are trying to start businesses, and tax the rich who have been getting away with way too much for a long time. And she wanted to create sustainable jobs in alternative energy. That sounds perfect. Collecting tax money from those who should be paying it and building the economy in a slow, sustainable way, protecting trees and the seasons instead of God knows what Trump would do in his short-sighted, backwards vision of Mexican style maquiladoras and tax cuts.
I love Hillary's idea of a sustainable economy – America moving toward the future, paving the way for China and Mexico to create green economies one day too. It is a vision and in a way it reminds me of the leadership of California Governor Jerry Brown, another "boring" politician who is a serious, behind-the-scenes hard worker, who got California out of debt following Schwarzenegger and takes the environment seriously. Sometimes it's the boring politicians, who know the rules and just put their heads down and work, who are best to have in office. In fact I'd say that's true every time.
So Trump went on in the debate with some silly answers and some ridiculous back-pedalling about the Obama birther claims and his refusal to release his tax returns, and terrorism, and lying about how he didn't support the war in Iraq, all important stuff too, but not as important as climate change (to me). But the most important and scary part was his promise to cut taxes for the rich and bring dirty polluting industry back to America. That is just what we don't need. We have to move forward.
So I hope Hillary will win. I think she did beautifully at the debate in her quiet, somewhat stiff way. And a little stiffness never hurt anybody. She knows the rules, has a long-term vision, and makes good decisions, and that is more important than entertaining us on TV, although I think she will be able to do that once she is free of her abusive opponent.
Wearing Black – Punk, Mourning, and Victorian Manners
I started a blog where I could complain about men on dating sites, but now I'm off all dating sites, and besides that seemed negative, so I will go back to posting random thoughts.
The combination of "victorian" and "punk" is well accepted. After all there is steampunk, and there is that Fall song about the Victorian Child. I'll post the video, but I won't post a picture of steampunk, because there are a million of those.
Lately I was thinking about punk, and goth, and Victorian culture, and modern culture. For one thing, people started wearing a lot of black in the 1980s thanks to punk. The hippies never wore black, nor did the yuppies. It was the punks, and the goths who started that. But you'd never know that today, because most themed movies, web sites, etc describe the 80s as a time of really bright clothes. But for some of us, it was a decade to start wearing black, perhaps as a contrast to all that Miami Vice brightness. I think the the beatniks did the same thing in the 50s.
So goths of the 80s wore black, and beatniks of the 50s. And then after the grunge era of the 90s everyone started wearing black, and of course we all do now.
But was wearing black really so rare before the last few decades of the 20th century? And if so, why? I think it was. I've been reading the 2nd edition of Emily Post's etiquette book, from 1922, and she has an entire chapter on the subject of wearing black. It's called "Funerals". That's when it hit me. Wearing black had a special place up until the mid 20th century. It was reserved for funerals! And I just thought of it as a good basic color that went with everything. But most people did not see it that way in 1922:
Among those who come to the house there is sure to be a woman friend of the family whose taste and method of expenditure is similar to theirs. She looks through the clothes they have, to see if there is not a black dress or suit that can be used, and makes a list of only the necessary articles which will have to be procured.
Not that many women even had black clothes. They had to have them specially made for the occasion of mourning. Ms. Post continues:
Or the mourning departments of the big stores and specialty shops are always willing to send a selection on approval, so that a choice can be made by the family in the privacy of their own rooms.
A mourning department in a store! I'd never heard of such a thing. Back in 1922 black was probably a really powerful and rare color to wear. It meant death. It was a color you did not mess with. And it was rarely worn. I guess that is why the greasers and the beatniks adopted it in the 1950s, and the punks and goths in the 1980s. Black was the color people always stayed away from, and countercultural groups wanted that power.
Black also had sexual appeal. In her chapter, The Very Young Widow, Ms. Post acknowledges the desirability of a young woman in black:
The young widow should wear deep crepe for a year and then lighter mourning for six months and second mourning for six months longer. There is nothing more utterly captivating than a sweet young face under a widow's veil, and it is not to be wondered at that her own loneliness and need of sympathy, combined with all that is appealing to sympathy in a man, results in the healing of her heart. She should, however, never remain in mourning for her first husband after she has decided she can be consoled by a second.
There is no reason why a woman (or a man) should not find such consolation, but she should keep the intruding attraction away from her thoughts until the year of respect is up, after which she is free to put on colors and make happier plans.
I mean that sounds like something Nick Cave himself would write, or Lydia Lunch in a more innocent mood.
Incidentally, Ms. Post, who always advised against drawing attention to oneself, did not approve of wearing fancy black clothes:
Fancy clothes in mourning are always offenses against good taste, because as the word implies, a person is in mourning. To have the impression of "fashion" dominant is contrary to the purpose of somber dress; it is a costume for the spirit, a covering for the visible body of one whose soul seeks the background. Nothing can be in worse taste than crepe which is gathered and ruched and puffed and pleated and made into waterfalls, and imitation ostrich feathers as a garnishing for a hat. The more absolutely plain, the more appropriate and dignified is the mourning dress. A "long veil" is a shade pulled down—a protection—it should never be a flaunting arrangement to arrest the amazed attention of the passerby.
"A Shade pulled down". That sums up the serious of wearing black in past times. It had one meaning only, and that was death. Now black is just a practical color that does not get dirty in snow and always looks sharp. Today, it has been stripped of it's meaning of death and mourning.
But what will the punks and goths, who want to connect with the eternal and the power of death, wear now that everyone is wearing black?
How about wearing white?
A Random Post
Today I will just write a post with no theme. I don't know why you always need an agenda when you write, so I will write about anything. I have no idea why my 11 year old daughter is picky about lunch snacks. She never likes the chips I buy, whether it's corn chips, corn chips with a "hint of lime", potato chips, cheezits, or even pretzels. She just does not want them. And then she complains that I do not pack her a "crunchy snack". WEll I'M TRYING. So today I popped some microwave popcorn and just gave her some of it. I think she was happy.
A post about nothing should also have a picture, so here is one. This seems like as good a picture as any. I may replace it with a picture of something else at any time.
And something I am really angry about. Why do old people have to share a blood supply wtth young people? I mean, old people need to just GET OVER THEMSELVES. Like your time comes, and then your number's up. Is it really necessary to try to live to 100 or longer and especially by taking some younger person's blood? Just go out and leave the earth to some younger people without making it totally crowded with your old-ass selves. I guess this upsets me because I live in NJ and it's the most populated state in the nation, so crowds are part of my daily experience.
I'm going to California tomorrow. I have a lot of plans to see family, like every day. Hopefully we will try some good Mexican food too. Among other things we are going to Disneyland, well that is, if the Haunted Mansion is open. A friend told me that Disney is getting rid of all images of alligators in their theme parks, which means that they are changing (sob) that great picture of the girl with the pink parasol in the haunted mansion, on a tightrope with an alligator at her feet. I can't believe they are doing this. Seriously, grow some balls Disney. It's sad that little boy got eaten by an alligator. It really is tragic, but that is totally superstitious and lame. On the other hand I can sort of understand it. I would probably do the same thing in my home if I had a pet alligator and it ate a kid.
Sothis is the end of my post about nothing, which has actually been about several things.
Investing with the Princess
I learned something very interesting tonight. Investing can be almost as fun as shopping. OK, almost, and I'm new to it so I'm talking out of my ass, I realize.
Still, tonight after work I did two things. I went shopping at Target and Kohl's, looking for a vest. I didn't find the right one anywhere and spent about 40 minutes digging through sale racks. I almost bought a furry black vest that said "FILA" in large blue letters, at Kohls, but thinking it was tacky, and as the line was long, I left it there.
When I got home I decided to invest (wow after after not finding a vest, I just realized that!), for the first time ever. I had converted an old 401K into a rollover IRA a few weeks ago.
My bank kept telling me, "Now you have to invest it", and emailing me this tool. They really love to email the tool. I have about 6 copies in my inbox right now. I thought "oh, they probably automatically invest it in something like the "Saving Until You Are Old And Decrepit" fund. Whatever man.
But tonight I was bored enough to do something about it so I called them.
Now I should say that Fidelity has the WASP-iest sounding brokers in the world, and they are all men. I'm picturing a bunch of Indians with really good voice training saying they are "Jim Tate" or "Jonathan Peterson" or "George Michael" but good for them and their nice acting skills.
I should back up a little. I had actually done my research and figured out that I'll never be able to retire. If I want to have $45,000 a year by the time I'm 65, I'll have to invest well over half my monthly income in 401K. Forget it! Assuming that I'll be still be a poor college student at age 65, I can at least do something good with my money because poor students always care about the environment and besides, who cares!
With that in mind I have been researching "social responsibility funds". Because, for me, the quality of a fund depends on the types of companies it invests in, not how bullish it is (is that the right word?). And there are a lot of social responsibility funds but, as this article points out, they all decide what is socially responsible to them. Most exclude alcohol (I LIKE alcohol, alcohol is GOOD), cigarettes (I don't care!), and weapons manufacturers (Now we're talking. I like to exclude weapons manufacturers!). So in the end you have to do some research down at the level of companies.
Based on this article, I decided that a good fund would be Parnassus. They are doing OK, they invest in public water (yay! I don't like water bottles everywhere!), and Autodesk (CAD software – plus I used to work at Autodesk and they were nice).
So back to tonight. I called 1-800-whatever and spoke to a very knowledgeable man who explained about the difference between funds (a group of stocks) and stocks (individual companies). He said I could find out about the different stocks using the research tool that he'd be happy to email to me. They do love to email that tool.
He connected me to a trader and, after a brief hold, I seriously heard the following:
"Uh, I'm calling from the outside. I'm a customer" I said.
"Oh I'm sorry, I was not paying attention. Um. Uh." (puts on a professional tone) "What would you like to do tonight, ma'am? Are you logged in?"
"Yes I am and don't worry. I thought it was funny" (he's probably snorting coke off a prostitute's butt right now).
So after that he showed me the very complicated steps of going to the home page, clicking "trade" and entering the stock symbol and clicking "buy". When I did it all without a problem he said "well look at you!". Look at me! It's almost as fun as shopping!
And that was my first experience investing. I may do it again. I definitely like the fact that even if recycling is a joke, I could possibly be supporting public water, low-cost homes, vests in colors that I like, or any number of things that make a difference.
Programming and sewing
As someone who has been sewing since the age of 10 (that's 20+ years) and programming Java since the mid-1990's (yes I am old!), I am constantly amused at how similar the two activities are. In both practices, you are basically taking things apart and putting things together. Most people can envision how this works in sewing, but trust me, it's not much different in programming. You put together smaller objects, like you would put together the pieces of a garment, and then you sew the objects together into a larger program. In sewing you finish off the edges so that things won't unravel. In programming we do this by declaring final classes and static variables. In both you pick apart threads and you join threads together, which is never fun. OK the threads are already woven in sewing, but you still pick them apart sometimes. In both activities you have to patch things occasionally. In both we use patterns. These patterns are templates of how to do things to make something useful, and if the patterns are good, we use them again and again.
Finally, sometimes our sewing creations are a joy to create and turn out wonderful and useful, and sometimes they turn into a lumpy ugly mess that we spend lots of time reworking until we finally throw them away.
Can you think of other ways that programming and sewing are similar?


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PURPOSE: The ventriculophasic response (VR) refers to shortening of the atrial cycle length (PP-interval) during heart block that occurs when a QRS complex is interposed between P-waves. The purpose of this study was to determine if VR varied in relation to the width of the interposed QRS complexes
METHODS: We studied 16 patients with advanced heart block and chronically implanted pacemakers or defibrillators who had underlying escape rhythms. With devices temporarily programmed to VVI mode at 30 ppm the ECG and intracardiac electrograms were recorded at 50 mm/sec for 30 seconds. VR was computed for each P-P interval (A-A interval on the atrial electrogram) containing a QRS as the percent decrement in the P-P (A-A) interval with an interposed QRS compared to the preceding atrial interval with no QRS. For each patient we compared the average VR at the start of the recording, when interposed QRS complexes were paced, to the VR at the end of the recording when escape QRS complexes were present.
RESULTS: The mean VR associated with paced QRS complexes, was significantly less than the VR generated by escape complexes (1.90 ±1.60 % vs. 4.37±3.85 %, p=0.017). The QRS duration of paced complexes was significantly longer than escape complexes (158.75 ±33.04 vs. 117.50±30.87 msec, p<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Narrow ventricular escape beats generate a larger VR than paced QRS complexes, which are wider and would likely generate more ventricular dyssynchrony than narrow QRS complexes.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: These findings suggest that the degree of ventricular synchrony associated with interposed QRS complexes during heart block may be an important determinant of the ventriculophasic response.
DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Razvan Dadu, Craig McPherson
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