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It's nice to be back. It seems I timed my mid-week post break perfectly, due to an electrical storm causing damage to my computer and leaving me off-line for a period anyways. All fixed now. I learned a valuable lesson. To unplug things from the wall during a storm. Simply switching them off at the wall isn't enough.
Thanks so much for the lovely birthday wishes and sweet surprises I received during the week. Since I started blogging early this year I've enjoyed getting to know so many amazing, creative, clever, funny, kind and wonderful people. It's a beautiful blogging community out there. Thanks for making it so. xo
The Shadow Gallery collages this week feature one photo from each participant from last Sunday. If you'd like to participate in SSS, please do! Simply shoot a shadow, post it on your blog on Sunday (or close to Sunday), add your link to Mr Linky at the bottom of this post, and visit other players. Have fun!
Shadow Gallery - Ninety-Nine Red/Luftballoons (the other 98 popped in fear of listening to that song)
The Shooters:
1. Bobbityboo 2. GreyscaleTerritory 3. Gingerbread 4. Fog&Thistle 5. ZanesMilkMachine 6. Lisa'sRetroStyle 7. Paz'sNewYorkMinute 8. GalleryJuana 9. ThisGirlLovesToTalk
Shadow Gallery - "It's oh so quiet, it's oh so still, you're all alone, and so peaceful until"...BA!DA!BA!DA!
The Shooters:
1. HoosierRoots 2. HighDesertDiva 3. LongIslandDailyPhoto 4. GiddyJax 5. AnnetteHanigan 6. AlmostThere 7. SweetRepose 8. Aimer 9. TwinkleStarArt
Shadow Gallery - "ARRrrr! Take that you crazy sock puppet" says pint-sized pyjama clad pirate boy
The Shooters:
1. SummerKitchenGirls 2. ArtSquadGraphics 3. EmBelISH 4. RosebudCollection 5. SpittingImage 6. AllThingsAlissa 7. NakedLady 8. TheSmallThings 9. AboutNewYork
Here's my Shadow Shot Sunday #22
A photo taken of a murky and shadowy pond. The bird, thinking it was a frog, jumped onto a lily pad. As it was slowly sinking a whirlpool formed around it creating an interesting pattern in the water. The second image is a cropped section of the water from the first photo. I like it better than the first pic. Trippy!
I was very happy with my pooch Sophie for finishing the SSS post last week. Sophie did such a fine job that I'm thinking of having her contribute to my blog occasionally in the future. That will not be happening until I've purchased Sophie her very own keyboard. It took me a long time to clean the grotty paw prints and slobber off mine last week. Ick! Sophie is a little piggy pooch! A loveable piggy pooch all the same.
Date claimer! The BrisStyle team are busily preparing for this super event. All the details can be found here on the blog. If you're a local be sure to mark the date in your diary and come along. It promises to be a great day! While I'll not have a stall set up on the day, I'll be there doing the all-important coffee runs for my fellow BrisStyle members. I'll also be running around like a loon buying all my Christmas presents. Yes, MY Christmas presents. I'm thinking whatever I buy I'll not be wanting to part with! Also, something else fun will be happening in the BrisStyle camp in a couple of weeks and I'll be shouting all about it here as soon as it kicks off! It's going to be BIG! And fun! Did I already mention fun? Big & fun!
Ok, I do apologise for this SSS post being so long-winded. I'm just making up for lost time. I did actually have more to say but thought I'd better stop now as all this waffle may be a little coma inducing as it is. Happy Sunday! Perhaps I should yell it for the benefit of those who have nodded off. HAPPY SUNDAY!
|1. La Vie Est Belle
2. High Desert Diva
3. Charlie & Grace
4. Bobbi
5. Naked Lady
6. The Summer Kitchen Girls
7. Gemma
8. Bobbie
9. Hildegarde (from Flanders)
10. me Ann my Camera
11. Elizabeth
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13. Michelle Pendergrass
14. Bobbie-2
15. Paz's New York Minute
16. Lisa B.
17. GalleryJuana
18. Sweet Repose
19. Alissa Baptista
20. Long Island Daily Photo
21. ctmott
22. EmBelISH
|23. TwinkleStarArt
24. Katanya
25. Richie
26. Fog and Thistle
27. Spitting Ink
28. Toni @ Hoosier Roots
29. Bettye
30. Sweetagring
31. Serenity Now
32. Giddy Jax
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jeffreynathan needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
Healthy Body Personal Training with Jef Aldridge
I am a personal trainer. Specializing in Healthy Bodies!
Conscious effort in the gym + A natural diet = 1 Healthy Body!
Using a design found on this website as the template.
http://www.designfirm.com.au/agency/ > The actual design I am referring to will be found about half way down the page, and is a sample logo for a Personal Trainer.
The design looks like a man holding his hands up, with a circular background, and some leaves coming off the circle.
Within that design, notice how the image of 'the man' kinda looks like an abstract 'Y'.
Now using the same concept found in the sample I provided. I would like you to create a logo for my Personal Training business.
Basically, I would like the logo to say - 'Healthy Body' - and below that, in a smaller font - say 'Personal Training' - Then in a font resembling hand writing - say, with 'Jef Aldridge'.
<I've attached a rough draft of what I'm trying accomplish>
So... Healthy Body Personal Training with Jef Aldridge. Got it.
Now, playing on the concept of the 'Man' that kinda looks like a 'Y'. I want the 'Y' in 'Healthy' to not only be a 'Y', but also appear as a vibrant healthy symbol of a human.
Eventually this 'Y-Guy' will be able to stand alone as the brand identity of the company.
One more thing. Referring back to the link that I provided in the beginning of this description - I would like to keep the 'Circle' behind the Y-Guy, but take away the leaves, and have the circle resemble something more Sun like.
And when it comes to color scheme, I like the colors used in the the original link, but feel totally free to mess around and be creative!
Have Fun Guys!
I appreciate all your hard work!

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By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com It's Oscar time! Tonight, the longtime ABC late-night host, Jimmy Kimmel left his studio at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood and walked across to the Dolby Theatre where the biggest names in film gathered to celebrate the best in cinema. All eyes will be on La La Land, which tied […]
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Check out our review of the LG G2 smart phone.
The LG Optimus G has hardly had a chance to take off its coat and put its feet up, having started its international release schedule in late September, but rumors of its replacement have already started to gather. A Korean website has said LG is already planning the Optimus G2, and that it will be out during the second half of 2013, when it will do battle with Samsung's Galaxy S4 and Apple's next iPhone.
When the Optimus G was announced, it was one of the first to use Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon processor, plus it has a massive 4.7-inch, 720p touchscreen and a 13-megapixel camera. This combination certainly gained Google's attention, and LG used the Optimus G as the basis for the Nexus 4, its first all-Google smartphone.
With a specification like this, it's not immediately obvious where the improvements will come for its sequel, but don't worry, if the rumors are true then the G2 is going to be even more exciting. Remember when LG announced it was busily producing 5-inch displays with 1080p resolutions? Well, it appears the G2 will be one of the first LG devices to use one.
LG's Full HD panels will measure 5-inches in size and boast a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, with a pixel density of 441ppi. If that sounds familiar, it's because we've recently seen the Droid DNA announced with just such a screen, and it seems like every other major manufacturer is working on them too.
Again, a Qualcomm chip will power LG's flagship phone, and judging by the estimation it'll have a 2GHz clock speed, it could be a next-generation S4 Pro inside. Other technical features include 4G LTE connectivity and 2GB of RAM. Finally, the operating system will be Google Android, but version 5.0 or Key Lime Pie. As is traditional, the next major revision of Android will probably be launched during Google I/O next summer, so a late 2013 release makes sense for the Optimus G2.
If LG sticks to the same schedule as the Optimus G, we should see an announcement in late August next year.


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The Bronx Celebrates:
February 2-March 23, 1993
Introduction by Susan Hoeltzel
|Purple Heart, 1992
oil stick and charcoal on paper, 36 1/4 x 39 1/4"
The Bronx Celebrates: Whitfield Lovell
In the composition, the man looks toward the left, while the gun is aimed toward the right This balance, however, is more than a formal device, something which becomes disturbingly clear when the viewer moves beyond the act of seeing and begins reading the text which the artist has written out in orderly rows around both the man's head and the gun, forming a kind of frame in which the two of them exist. The textsomething we read from left to right, thus echoing the gun's directionwas taken from one of the city's daily newspapers, and is a report of the robbery and murder of "Pop" Glover, the artist's grandfather. It is the kind of story one encounters every day in the newspaper. The tone is detached and the emphasis is on the events that transpired. Lovell's juxtaposition of portrait and text makes clear a fact many in the art world are eager to ignore, which is that we do not all inhabit the same post modern social space, and there is a gap between public events (in this case, a murder) and a personal life (the artist's grief). Lovell's drawing puts him in direct odds with those cultural theorists who believe the world has been drained of meaning, and what remains is a composite of simulacra, a shifting field of representations.
For most of us, the public event that Lovell transcribes in Pop/Pistol is a distant one, something we read about in a newspaper. However, as the artist's memorialization makes clear, it is a public event which affects some people very differently than others. We read newspapers and throw them away. Someone kills someone, and both lives are wasted. By joining portrait and article together, Lovell brings two perceptions into proximity: an image associated with a private and now-haunted memory, and the disposable "news" of a public event.
The article purports to tell the viewer/reader about a murdered man, the artist's grandfather. It is a familiar litany of mostly statistical facts, which includes the man's age, the name of his wife, and where they lived. Although the language is precise, we quickly realize that all we, as outsiders, know about the murdered man is a series of surface events, and that we know nothing of the depth of his life, and the grief that his unnecessary death caused. We not only do not see how this event marked those who knew him, but we also remain ignorant of the indelible marks themselves.
Lovell doesn't reveal his grief. He knows that it is not something he can share with strangers, that to do so would be to dilute that which is undiminishable. Rather, he uses art to illuminate the disturbing chasm between the facts as they are recorded in a newspaper and the fact of his grandfather's face. He makes a portrait of both his grandfather and the world we inhabit, a realm made up of unbridgeable spaces between I and you, and he and she (or he).
Directing his work toward the intersection between private space and social space, Lovell undermines the idea that what we all have in common is second-hand experience. His work underscores the fact that what is primary to our lives is an awareness of mortality, and the particular manner in which loss articulates itself in one's life. This approach to art and by extension life sets Lovell apart from many of his contemporaries, who believe experience is at best a simulacrum of events. By resisting the paradigm of the "simulationists" who believe art and art history are dead, and the best that art can do is embody the death of art, Lovell brings into focus the disturbing realization that the world is divided, that we do not all inhabit the same social space, and that experience marks each of us differently.
The gaps between what Lovell knows and what he sees is one of the recurring subjects of his art. His art arises out of the desire, as well as conviction, to preserve what he knows. Often, this includes the presence in his life of those who are absent. In a number of works, Lovell depicts an empty dress or suit. This symbol is a tangible reminder of the things that are left when a friend or relative dies. Clothes are something each of us wears out and, like the newspaper, throws away. In House/Dress, 1990, Lovell depicts the image of a house within a white, short sleeved, summer dress. Is it the house the woman who wore this dress lived in? Is it a house she dreamed about living in? An image we can associate with both the past and the future becomes a symbol of absence. The past and future are irrevocably changed when someone you know dies. The dreams you might have shared with someone else can no longer be thought of in the same way. The past recedes as time passes, but a person's absence does not necessarily fade. As in Pop/Pistol, Lovell uses oil stick and charcoal to clarify this disquieting fact personal loss is physical as well as emotional.
Lovell's approach to private pain is understated. He never tells the viewer how he feels. The images he usesan empty dress, a portrait of a relative, a bird, hands, flowerspossess a directness that is visual and physical. They remind us of the things in our own lives, the range of associations a photograph or piece of clothing might have for us. We imbue things with meanings, make them into symbols. Something as ordinary as a summer dress takes on a different meaning when the person who once owned and wore it dies at a young age.
Lovell's art is the record of a survivor who knows he, too, is approaching the inevitable. He transforms his awareness of his family history into 1990, whose branches show how individuals are part of one unit, as well as separate organismseach of whom will live out his or her life differently. There is in Lovell's art a resistance to trends, and the belief that art's goal is to record its own death. In his art he recognizes that consumer culture may try and appropriate and level cultural, regional, and sexual differences, but that its promise of assimilation is in effect a denial of the facts. We are simultaneously a part of society and separate from it. Life (or death) impacts each of us differently. The differences are what Lovell seeks to preserve in his art. A newspaper appropriated the murder of Lovell's grandfather in order to tell a story. Lovell reappropriates the story so that he can show us that the stories we read each day in the newspaper in no way tell us the truth of what has occurred. A newspaper embodies the world of appearances. Identity, however, goes deeper than appearances.
Lovell is concerned with both identity and what can be identified. An artist who has traveled extensively in Mexico and Egypt, he has combined the symbols inherent in the Mexican ex-votoes with the facts of his own life. The work is autobiographical, but it is not centered around the "I." The artist is a witness to a world over which he, finally has no control. The viewer, in turn, becomes a witness to the lives and deaths of others. In being a witness, Lovell does not speak for others. Rather, he lets their presence (or absence) speak through him.
In Pop/Pistol, Lovell registers a common fact, which is that society's institutions and their representatives continually speak for others. It is a way of denying differences, as well as silencing others. Lovell's art goes against this common tendency. He does so without becoming strident, knowing that such displays of emotion are easily co-opted. There is a dignity to Lovell's project which makes his art all the more compelling. The empty dresses and empty suits, the hands with the faces of his mother and fatherthese symbols remind us that we all came from somewhere else, that we are all born into this world with a history. What we do with this history, and how we tell its story in a way that makes it ours, is a fact which Lovell continually finds ways to address. It is this aspect of his work as much as the stories he tells, which should not be overlooked.
In their scale, Lovell's drawings are distinct reminders that there is a human dimension to every story, to every loss. In this sense, his drawings are neither mementos (something small and precious) nor monuments (something immense and heroic). Lovell's choice of large sheets of paper, oil stick, and charcoal are not simply recapitulations of his knowledge of formal issues. They are ways of underscoring the dimensions of what he knows needs to be told, that one can make marks out of the way he or she has been marked by life. There is a lovely democratic feel to his work, the sense that it is for all of us to see.
Yed, 1992
Al, 1990
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
71 x50"
Big Heart, 1991
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
47 1/2 x 43 1/4"
Bird, 1988
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
25 x 38"
Boston Road, 1991
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
Earlene, 1988
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
38 x 64"
Head with Flowers, 1992
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
85 1/2 x 50"
House/Dress, 1990
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
60 x 50"
Marks. 1988
oil stick and charcoal on paper,
25 x 38"
I Did Good to Leave, 1990
All works are from the collection of the artist.


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Aphasia from a Neurolinguistic Perspective
Susan Edwards and Christos Salis
Aphasia is an acquired language disorder subsequent to brain damage in the left hemisphere. It is characterized by diminished abilities to produce and understand both spoken and written language compared with the speaker's presumed ability pre-cerebral damage. The type and severity of the aphasia depends not only on the location and extent of the cerebral damage but also the effect the lesion has on connecting areas of the brain. Type and severity of aphasia is diagnosed in comparison with assumed normal adult language. Language changes associated with normal aging are not classed as aphasia. The diagnosis and assessment of aphasia in children, which is unusual, takes account of age norms.
The most common cause of aphasia is a cerebral vascular accident (CVA) commonly referred to as a stroke, but brain damage following traumatic head injury such as road accidents or gunshot wounds can also cause aphasia. Aphasia following such traumatic events is non-progressive in contrast to aphasia arising from brain tumor, some types of infection, or language disturbances in progressive conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, where the language disturbance increases as the disease progresses.
The diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (as opposed to non-progressive aphasia, the main focus of this article) is based on the following inclusion and exclusion criteria by M. Marsel Mesulam, in 2001. Inclusion criteria are as follows: Difficulty with language that interferes with activities of daily living and aphasia is the most prominent symptom. Exclusion criteria are as follows: Other non-degenerative disease or medical disorder, psychiatric diagnosis, episodic memory, visual memory, and visuo-perceptual impairment, and, finally, initial behavioral disturbance.
Aphasia involves one or more of the building blocks of language, phonemes, morphology, lexis, syntax, and semantics; and the deficits occur in various clusters or patterns across the spectrum. The degree of impairment varies across modalities, with written language often, but not always, more affected than spoken language. In some cases, understanding of language is relatively preserved, in others both production and understanding are affected. In addition to varied degrees of impairment in spoken and written language, any or more than one component of language can be affected. At the most severe end of the spectrum, a person with aphasia may be unable to communicate by either speech or writing and may be able to understand virtually nothing or only very limited social greetings. At the least severe end of the spectrum, the aphasic speaker may experience occasional word finding difficulties, often difficulties involving nouns; but unlike difficulties in recalling proper nouns in normal aging, word retrieval problems in mild aphasia includes other word classes.
Descriptions of different clusters of language deficits have led to the notion of syndromes. Despite great variations in the condition, patterns of language deficits associated with different areas of brain damage have been influential in understanding language-brain relationships. Increasing sophistication in language assessment and neurological investigations are contributing to a greater, yet still incomplete understanding of language-brain relationships.
Japanese Psycholinguistics
Mineharu Nakayama
The Japanese psycholinguistics research field is moving rapidly in many different directions as it includes various sub-linguistics fields (e.g., phonetics/phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse studies). Naturally, diverse studies have reported intriguing findings that shed light on our language mechanism. This article presents a brief overview of some of the notable early 21st century studies mainly from the language acquisition and processing perspectives. The topics are divided into various sections: the sound system, the script forms, reading and writing, morpho-syntactic studies, word and sentential meanings, and pragmatics and discourse studies sections. Studies on special populations are also mentioned.
Studies on the Japanese sound system have advanced our understanding of L1 and L2 (first and second language) acquisition and processing. For instance, more evidence is provided that infants form adult-like phonological grammar by 14 months in L1, and disassociation of prosody is reported from one's comprehension in L2. Various cognitive factors as well as L1 influence the L2 acquisition process. As the Japanese language users employ three script forms (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) in a single sentence, orthographic processing research reveal multiple pathways to process information and the influence of memory. Adult script decoding and lexical processing has been well studied and research data from special populations further helps us to understand our vision-to-language mapping mechanism. Morpho-syntactic and semantic studies include a long debate on the nativist (generative) and statistical learning approaches in L1 acquisition. In particular, inflectional morphology and quantificational scope interaction in L1 acquisition bring pros and cons of both approaches as a single approach. Investigating processing mechanisms means studying cognitive/perceptual devices. Relative clause processing has been well-discussed in Japanese because Japanese has a different word order (SOV) from English (SVO), allows unpronounced pronouns and pre-verbal word permutations, and has no relative clause marking at the verbal ending (i.e., morphologically the same as the matrix ending). Behavioral and neurolinguistic data increasingly support incremental processing like SVO languages and an expectancy-driven processor in our L1 brain. L2 processing, however, requires more study to uncover its mechanism, as the literature is scarce in both L2 English by Japanese speakers and L2 Japanese by non-Japanese speakers. Pragmatic and discourse processing is also an area that needs to be explored further. Despite the typological difference between English and Japanese, the studies cited here indicate that our acquisition and processing devices seem to adjust locally while maintaining the universal mechanism.


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A winner was selected from 25 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
PodcastPeople is a web-based platform that makes it easy for people to create radio and TV shows on the internet.
Independent content creators. Small and Medium Size Businesses, Professionals.
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PARKLAND, Fla. (WPEC) - The Broward Sheriff's Office says a former student is in custody after a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland.
The sheriff's office said the shooting left at least 17 people dead and more than a dozen others injured. A football coach is among the dead. The sheriff's office says it has identified 12 of the 17 victims, but the names are not being released at this time.
The shooting happened Wednesday afternoon at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at 5901 Pine Island Road, according to the sheriff's office. Responding deputies were met with hundreds of students fleeing the school.
The gunman has been identified as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz. The Miami Herald reported Cruz had been previously flagged by teachers as a campus threat.
Investigators later learned that Cruz had concealed himself in the crowd and was among those running out of the school, the sheriff's office said. They were able to identify him after watching school security video.
Cruz was adopted at birth by an older couple, according to the Sun Sentinel. His adoptive father died when he was much younger and his mother passed away from pneumonia a little over three months ago.
Investigators with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spent Wednesday night at a mobile home park in Lantana where sources tell CBS12 Cruz may have lived with his brother.
Of the 17 victims, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said 12 were killed inside the school, 2 outside the building, 1 in the street and two people died at the hospital.
"He had countless magazines, we believe he had one AR-15 rifle, we don't know if he had a second one," said Sheriff Israel.
A reporter for CBS Miami said sources told him the attacker also had a handgun.
CBS Miami also reported the AR-15 is similar to the weapon used in the mass shootings in Newtown, Aurora and San Bernardino.
Cruz is now at the Broward County Jail after being evaluated at Broward General North.
The sheriff's office said he was expelled from the school for disciplinary reasons.
The sheriff's office said detectives will dig through his social media accounts as part of the investigation.
One student told CBS12 reporter Michael Buczyner she saw the gunman run down the hallway, shooting into classrooms after pulling the fire alarm.
One parent told CBS12 her son texted her to say he heard gunshots and saw police with guns and a dead body.
Sen. Bill Nelson tells MSNBC that there are "a number of fatalities." Nelson also tweeted that he is ensuring a number of federal resources are being made available.
CBS News shared a photo from a student barricaded in a classroom.
The FBI and agents from the ATF Miami Field Division are heading to the scene, according to CBS News.
President Trump has been made aware of the shooting and expressed his condolences on Twitter.
Florida Governor Rick Scott says he's spoken the president, and with law enforcement, school and city leaders about the incident. Scott traveled to South Florida where he ordered the immediate lowering of all flags statewide in honor of the victims.
The district says the school will be closed and all school activities will be canceled for the rest of the week.
The Los Angeles Times says Wednesday's shooting with 17 deaths is among the worst in modern U.S. history. The Las Vegas shooting ended with 58 dead, followed by Orlando (49), Virginia Tech (32), Newtown (27), and Sutherland Springs (26) in the top five. Parkland is ranked seventh with 17 dead, just ahead of the San Bernardino shootings that left 14 dead in 2015.
The high school is about 15 miles southwest of Boca Raton, just off the Sawgrass Expressway in Broward County.
A vigil will be held for the students Thursday at 12 p.m. at Parkridge Baptist Church in Pompano Beach.
OneBlood is asking for help to replenish the o-Negative blood supply following Wednesday's tragic shooting.
People are being encouraged to make appointments online.
This is a breaking news story that will be updated. Stay here for up-to-the minute developments.


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Dang.mpc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 924 designs submitted by 234 freelance designers.
A little info about us - hopefully this helps to influence your direction. We are a small web design/development shop who focuses on strong user experience and clean/simple/professional designs and functionality. We create hiqh quality web sites/applications that are powerful but intuitive - strong attention to detail. We don't create games or crazy 3d stuff, we don't do crazy animated flash sites. Our target audiences are small/medium sized businesses that appreciate good design and attention to detail.
We would love to see some entries that take inspiration from the word "enliven" and not just the emphasis on the "E" for no other reason that it is the first letter of our business name.
Thanks to all who are submitting. We have gone through and eliminated quite a few entries - but don't wish to discourage further submissions! We really want to make the most of this contest. We would encourage revised submissions or alternate direction.
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A long day continues: When last we left our country vet (to read the first part of this series, see Stories of Livestock Poisoning, Part I), he'd spent the morning ministering to poisoned cows, goats, horses and pigs, and was racing toward the Caulfield Ranch to see about a sick dog ...
12:30 P.M.: Colorado is known for its dry weather and today was no exception. I raced up the lane to the Caulfield Ranch, a plume of dust shadowing my truck. It overtook me just as I stepped out of the cab and noticed Bill Caulfield running up to greet me.
"Dr. Jon, thanks for coming on short notice. Sam is in the barn."
"When did he get sick?" I asked.
"Well, Sam always likes to ride on top of the hay bales when we bring them in. But this morning we noticed he didn't follow us out to the field. When I brought the first load into the barn, I found Sam more or less collapsed."
Sam was laid out on his side, breathing hard and fast. I checked his gums and found them a pale gray. Clearly, he was a very sick guy. I rolled Sam over onto his back. His abdomen appeared bloated and looked as if it were full of fluid. His heart was racing, and his pulse was weak—a sign of decreased blood volume. The heart was compensating for the loss of blood by pumping faster. Sam was probably bleeding into his abdomen. I carefully inserted a 22-gauge needle into his abdomen, pulled back on the syringe and watched it fill with dark, red blood. It was time for action.
"Bill, you have some other dogs, don't you?"
"Sure, we have three other border collies."
"I need the biggest one of the bunch over here right now."
I didn't need to do any blood tests to know that Sam was gravely anemic. Fortunately, because he was bleeding into his abdomen, he was able to reabsorb some of the oxygen-carrying red cells.
My brain tends to shut down at times, which is why I bring my diagnostic software with me to help home in on the diagnosis. I grabbed my laptop from the truck and immediately noticed there was some congealed blood between the E and R on the keyboard, probably from one of the vials of blood I'd drawn from Helga Volkman's pigs. As I was about to pull up a list of causes of internal bleeding, it struck me that in veterinary medicine answers are often staring you in the face; you only need to open your eyes to see them. Sam's blood wasn't congealing properly.
Warfarin toxicity is the most common poisoning among dogs and cats. It occurs when animals ingest rodent poison containing warfarin or brodifacoum, or when they eat poisoned rodents.
Warfarin is an anticoagulant that interferes with the normal clotting of blood. It has a delayed effect, and a dog or cat that ingests an anticoagulant rodent poison may not show signs for two to 10 days, depending on the half-life of the anticoagulant in the poison. Newer second-generation products such as D-Con Mouse Pruf II or Havoc are more potent, requiring a smaller dose to cause toxicity. Bill confirmed that some second-generation D-Con had been put out a week ago.
Bill brought over another border collie named Tess, who looked healthy enough. I clipped up her neck, gave it a few surgical scrubs and pulled about 150 ccs of blood. Immediately, I injected the transfused blood into a catheter in Sam's leg. Ideally, this blood would be given through a filtering system to remove any clots, but in this setting we had to improvise.
The blood transfusion gave Sam some clotting factors and red cells that he dearly needed, but he still required the antidote for warfarin poisoning: vitamin K. Vitamin K is an essential catalyst in the clotting process. Warfarin and other anticoagulants interfere with the action of vitamin K, preventing normal clotting and leading to spontaneous bleeding into body cavities.
If Sam survived the next 24 hours, there was a good chance he would be fine. The vitamin K would be given as an oral medication for the next two weeks. After dispensing the necessary capsules, I turned to Bill and said, "Here, let me write a prescription that may help with this problem in the future."
It read: Rx—One cat, adept at catching rodents. Refill as needed.
I got back in my truck, avidly anticipating a bite of lunch at the cafe down by the highway, perhaps followed by a short nap. But a check of my voice mail cured me of that notion: The Millers had a llama that had been down since this morning.
2:15 P.M.: The sick llama's name was Dolly, and I found her lying on her side next to the barn. She was salivating profusely, her pupils were very small and her heart rate was surprisingly slow. She was humming, as all llamas occasionally do, but clearly in a distressed sort of way.
"Doc, we found some lice on her yesterday and sprayed her with a solution they gave us at the feed store. Here's the container," Bill Miller explained, handing me a partly empty plastic spray bottle.
Dolly had been spritzed with chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate compound. Organophosphates work exquisitely well to kill parasites of many types by interfering with nerve transmission, causing paralysis. When used carefully at the correct dose, they are safe for most livestock and pets. But as with other insecticides and pesticides, some individual animals are more sensitive. Llamas are particularly susceptible because owners frequently overestimate their weight and consequently overdose them.
All of Dolly's signs suggested organophosphate toxicity. Fortunately, there is a good antidote called atropine. Atropine blocks the effects of organophosphates at nerve junctions, so I gave Dolly an injection under her skin and left several more doses for the Millers to administer every five to six hours until Dolly was acting normally. Organophoshphate toxicity is completely reversible when treated correctly.
While we were waiting for the atropine to take effect, the Millers couldn't resist showing me some pictures of Dolly when she was a baby, or crea. When you work with llama owners, this is the sort of thing you come to expect.
By the time I had loaded up my supplies, the llama's pupils had dilated somewhat and she was salivating less. She was going to be fine. As I was pulling out from the Millers' barn, Bill Miller yelled out, "Hey Doc, why do llamas hum, anyway?"
"That's an easy one," I shouted back over the hum of the truck engine. "Because they don't know the words."
My mind shifted gears as I headed up the long hill leaving the Millers' place. I tried to recall, from my vet school years, the three principles of treatment for poisonings: 1) prevent further absorption, 2) provide supportive care and 3) provide an antidote, when known.
If you catch the poisoning within the first few hours, you can prevent further absorption by inducing vomiting. A few teaspoons of hydrogen peroxide or syrup of ipecac (10 to 20 milliliters in dogs) is usually sufficient. Note, however, that only dogs, cats and pigs are capable of vomiting.
If a toxin is absorbed through the skin, clipping the hair or wool and a soap and water scrub may do the trick.
With ruminants or horses, a stomach tube can be placed and the stomach flushed out using a hand pump and water. Placing a stomach tube in a ruminant or a dog is a fairly straightforward procedure (see "How to Place a Stomach Tube" later in this article) . For horses, a veterinarian is required to sedate the animal and place the tube via its nasal passage.
One to two ounces of activated charcoal for every 10 pounds of body weight can be given orally to absorb toxins along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The charcoal slurry is ideally given through a stomach tube but can also be given directly into the mouth. In the case of a valuable ruminant, owners may opt to have the animal's GI tract surgically emptied of toxins.
Regardless, supportive care is needed until the animal can metabolize or excrete the poison. Depending on the condition of the animal, intravenous fluids, transfusions, antibiotics, pain medications, antiinflammatories or anticonvulsants may be required.
When an antidote is known or available, it is given once the animal is stabilized. (For more information, see "Antidotes for Common Animal Poisonings" later in this article.) Snaking along the Cache La Poudre River, my mind occupied with these tortuous academic meanderings, I suddenly realized that I was less than a quarter mile from the Schmidt place, my next stop.
3:30 P.M.: The thunderous blast of a double-barreled shotgun made me swerve as I skidded to a stop outside the Schmidts' house.
"Hey, Doc, want to give it a try?" Lance Schmidt and his son Forrest were standing proudly next to their new skeet launcher. Shards of clay pigeons lay scattered throughout the barnyard. Three turkeys lay motionless over by a fence. I eyed the Schmidts suspiciously.
"Doc, for God's sake, we didn't kill the turkeys! We found them after lunch—already dead. That's why we called you. We were just working on our marksmanship while we waited."
I was in need of some entertainment, so I grabbed the shotgun and took a few tries at blasting several skeet to oblivion. After several fruitless attempts, I actually managed to hit one of them. As the clay pieces rained down, I noticed a few of the Schmidts' hogs ambling over to investigate them.
"Lance, those clay pigeons will kill your pigs as dead as those turkeys!"
I'd recently read of a case where a pig died after eating just 15 grams of clay pigeons over a five-day period. As it turns out, clay pigeons contain coal tar, a deadly farm chemical also found in treated wood and tar paper. Sows kept in far rowing crates that are treated with creosote often have stillborn piglets and tend to do poorly overall, as do pigs raised on wood floor slabs that have been treated with lignite pitch.
While the Schmidts shooed the pigs away from the clay, I walked over to the turkeys. They'd been the only three on the farm, so there was less urgency in diagnosing the problem. I needed to do a necropsy (post-mortem) on one of the turkeys, so I could submit the tissues to a pathology lab. I noticed that all three turkeys appeared to have swollen faces. As I meticulously dissected out samples of each organ, I quizzed the Schmidts on any possible clues to the turkeys' demise.
Several days ago, the Schmidts had thoroughly disinfected the turkeys' feeders and waterers with quaternary ammonia. A common and effective disinfectant, quaternary ammonia is generally tolerated in small amounts by most farm animals.
I told the Schmidts I needed to look up some information, then returned to my truck and quickly thumbed through my well-used Merck Manual (Merck & Co., 1991). There it was, in the section on poultry: "Turkeys are extremely sensitive to quaternary ammonia ... necropsy lesions include caseous ulcers at the base of the tongue."
Caseous means cheese-like, and I momentarily found myself thinking ahead to the ravioli supper that would be waiting for me back home. My stomach grumbled, reminding of the lunch I'd missed. I jolted back to reality as Forrest Schmidt blasted another clay pigeon from nearby.
With my ears ringing, I checked the oral cavities of all three turkeys, and found that two of them had an olive-sized swelling at the base of their tongues. When I cut into one, there was a thick, yellowish material, not unlike melted provolone cheese. It appeared we had our diagnosis.
I bagged the tissue samples and tossed them on the floor of the cab. My pager was buzzing again, and I recognized the phone number of the Vee-Bar Ranch.
5:40 P.M.: The Vee-Bar is a dude ranch run by the Nelsons. I pulled up to find Tim Nelson in the shop, working on his tractor. It turns out one of their friendly barn cats had been staggering and falling down. The Nelsons wanted to do anything required to help him.
The cat, Toby, was a young neutered male, around two, who was current on his rabies shot. When he tried to walk, he would sway drunkenly. He had a glazed look in his eyes and did not seem responsive to his surroundings.
"Tim, when did you first notice him doing this?" I asked.
"Well, my wife went out to feed him this morning and he fell over when he tried to walk. Do you think he could have gotten into something?"
"Do your cats have access to this shop area?" I asked.
"Sure, we don't restrict them at all. They help keep down the mice population."
I only needed to look down at the puddle on the concrete floor to know what had happened. One to two teaspoons of sweet smelling antifreeze will make a cat critically ill. Initially, it will act as if it's drunk, then will go into kidney failure. Ethylene glycol, an active ingredient in antifreeze, is transformed by the liver and kidneys into toxic by-products that are potentially lethal to all animals. I've seen dogs, pigs, poultry and cattle all poisoned by antifreeze at one time or another. In cats, there was only one antidote.
"Tim, what kind of liquor do you have?"
"Doc, don't you think you better deal with Toby, here, first?" Tim replied, not a little incredulous.
"Do you have any vodka?"
"Sure, but ..."
"Quick, bring me a bottle. We need to help Toby, and fast."
While Tim was getting the alcohol, I placed a catheter in Toby's front leg and started running some IV fluids. It was too late to induce vomiting or to try to reabsorb the antifreeze. The ethylene glycol in the antifreeze had supercharged his blood, making it highly concentrated. As with many toxicities, "dilution is the solution to pollution."
I checked my formulary, then added 107ccs of 100-proof vodka to a liter of standard IV solution, to make a 7% ethanol solution (do not try this at home). Ethanol will block the metabolism of ethylene glycol, causing it to be excreted, unchanged, in the urine.
I started running the ethanol solution into Toby's veins and told Tim that he would have to watch carefully for catheter problems. I showed him how to flush and maintain the catheter, and he assured me the family would take shifts watching Toby throughout the night. If the cat did well for 24 hours, blood tests would tell how much permanent damage had been done to the kidneys.
"Hey, Doc, take some of this with you!" Tim cried out, as I settled into my truck.
It was some of the Vee-Bar's home brew; I had tried it before and it was tasty. Recharged with anticipation, I goosed the truck down the gravel road. Finally, it was time to head home.
My last call of the day was from my wife, received on my cell phone as I left the Vee-Bar. Our Malamute, Bruiser, had eaten an entire plate of chocolate chip cookies. We did the math together: A toxic dose of theobromine, the primary ingredient in chocolate, is 20 milligrams per kilogram. Since Bruiser weighed 30 kilograms, he would need to consume about 600 milligrams of theobromine to get sick; 10 times that would probably be fatal (although it is never all that nifty an idea to give your animals chocolate at all). Milk chocolate contains 44 milligrams of theobromine per ounce, while baker's chocolate contains 450 milligrams an ounce.
There were about 10 ounces of milk chocolate chips in the cookies, or about 440 milligrams of theobromine. That was comfortably less then the toxic dose, but possibly enough to cause some discomfort. Early signs of mild poisoning include diarrhea and vomiting.
"Hon, you might want to put him outside in case he has any problems." The silence on the other end told me my advice was too late.
My wife finally said: "Oh, by the way, he also pulled the pan of ravioli off the counter and ate that, too."
I couldn't help but cast a quick glance down at the bag of turkey parts on the floor of the cab. Hunger can do strange things to a man, I mused, as I continued homeward, enjoying what little there was left of the Colorado dusk.
How to Place a Stomach Tube
1. Choose an Appropriate Tube
For a full-sized ruminant, a tube with an outside diameter of 1 1/2 to 2 inches would be appropriate (a length of garden hose works). A calf, large dog or pig would take a tube 3/4" to 1 1/2" in diameter (such as flexible clear plastic water line), while a small dog or cat would need a tube no larger than 3/4" (such as irrigation tubing).
The tube should be long enough to extend from 12" beyond the animal's mouth to the last rib. Cut the tube to length or mark the tube to show how far to insert it. The tube should be smooth and flexible, without sharp ends or fittings attached.
2. Find a Speculum
A speculum is a device that will hold the animal's mouth open wide enough to allow passage of the tube without the animal biting down on it, possibly causing damage.
In a cow, the tubing could be passed through a piece of PVC pipe, with the ends smoothed off. In a dog, cat or pig, a speculum could me made from a roll of duct tape or medical tape, with the stomach tube passing through the hole in the center, and the roll wedged between the upper and lower teeth.
3. Pass the Tube
The animal must be calm enough to allow you to do this without sedation. Lubricate the end of the tube with vaseline or petroleum jelly, pass it through the speculum, place the speculum in the animal's mouth, and gently pass the tube down toward the stomach, stopping when you reach the premeasured point
4. Check the Tube
Check to make sure the tube is in the stomach, not the lungs. You should be able to smell stomach gas coming out of the tube: In addition, you should be able to feel the tube as it runs down next to the trachea.
5. Pour the Water
Pour a small amount of water down the tube. If the animal coughs, the tube may be in its lungs. Pull the tube out and reinsert it.
Note: This is a technique used for ruminants, pigs, cats and dogs. Cats often will not tolerate this procedure without sedation.
How to Lavage a Stomach
1. After you are sure the stomach tube is placed correctly, attach a funnel to the end of the tube and pour an appropriate amount of water down the tube. You could also use a bilge-type pump in a bucket of water:
- for cattle, pour 2 to 8 liters
- for small ruminants, pigs and large dogs, administer 1/2 to 2 liters
- for small dogs and cats, try 1/4 to 1 liter
2. If possible, roll the animal from side to side to lavage the entire stomach.
3. Remove the water by either attaching a suction device, or creating a siphon by lowering the end of the stomach tube below the animal's stomach. Suck on the end of the hose, being very careful not to ingest any stomach contents. Once a siphon is started, let the contents drain out.
4. Repeat two to three times if possible.
5. If available, consider giving a slurry of activated charcoal after you have finished.
Note: This is a technique used for ruminants, pigs, cats and dogs.
Preventing Poisonings on the Farm
- Carefully fence off all stored farm products from livestock and pets, and maintain this fencing diligently.
- Take great care to use and discard all farm products according to label instructions.
- Store feed and grain correctly and monitor for spoilage and contamination.
- Deny all animals access to trash barrels and compost.
- Feed kitchen waste sensibly.
- Use rodent poisons in places inaccessible to cats and dogs.
- Don't recycle or reuse containers that held pesticides, herbicides or farm chemicals.
- Test questionable soil for mineral content prior to grazing.
- Identify poisonous plants and weeds.
- Always maintain a clean, fresh water supply for all animals.
Antidotes for Common Animal Poisonings
Poison: Ethylene Glycol (antifreeze); Antidote: Ethanol or 4-methylpyrazole
Poison: Warfarin (rodent poison); Antidote: Vitamin K
Poison: Organophosphates (insecticides); Antidote: Atropine
Poison: Cyanide; Antidote: Sodium thiosulfate
Poison: Lead; Antidote: Calcium EDTA
Poison: Nitrite or Nitrate; Antidote: Methylene Blue
Poison: Ammonia (urea); Antidote: Acetic Acid (vingar)
Poison: Salt; Antidote: Water
Note: These antidotes should only be administered by a veterinarian.
For more information on pet and livestock poisoning, see Sources and Symptoms of Animal Poisoning. If you missed the first part of this series, check it out at Stories of Livestock Poisoning, Part I.


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Fine by me. If the Orthodox Church has to define what it can and cannot discuss according to the lowest common denominator of the views of those who are thinking of joining it, then I think I'd want out.
Certain people, such as Bp. Kallistos, say that we should talk about it rather than running away from the issue. There isn't really a large movement for the ordination of women in the Orthodox Church.
Agreed. That's the thinking of the Willow Creek Church and its progeny (I was a part of one of those once, and the whole "seeker-sensitive" idea was one of my major reasons for leaving).
And you know what they say? Oh, Let's talk about it! Let's talk about the possibility of his body not rising from the dead, lets talk about the possibility of him not performing miracles.....let's talk about it......we shouldn't run away from it. If the answer is not no, then what is there to talk about?
The people that say "we should talk about it", just want to pull a liberal Protestant move. They want to be modern.
Only Liberal gnostic loving and bodily resurrection denying Protestants would want to read that book.
I pray that the economy of the Western World collapse.
I love BP. Kallistos, but I've noticed that he's been changing over the years towards the left. I no longer want to buy his new edition of the "Orthodox Church". I can't give that book to conservative and moderate Protestants. Only Liberal gnostic loving and bodily resurrection denying Protestants would want to read that book.
just like the gnostic loving Episcopals
If the answer is not no, then what is there to talk about?
He lives in England, so he is surrounded by Liberal Protestantism, so maybe he is trying to please them. Or maybe they are constantly speaking in his ear. They listen to him speak, and once he says something they don't like.....they put pressure on him to change his mind.
Or maybe the World Council of Churches or the National Council of Churches are putting pressure on him to "SLOWLY" embrace women priests.
I once heard a Roman Catholic on EWTN say that in an old edition of "The Orthodox Church" he said that the ORthodox are against contraception. Then in a later edition, he said that it's up to the individual family.
If this is true, then he is slowly trying to push for the ordaination of women priests.
I pray that the economy of the Western World collapse.
OR that Russia pressures the Western World through Oil to embrace more conservative views.
So back in the day particularly during the Oxford movement relations between Orthodoxy and Anglicanism were fairly cordial. What is the state of the relations today since Anglicanism has embraced the woman Priest garbage and all the other "things" that are part of the Episcopal Church these days.
Not all Anglican jurisdictions allow this, and many view it as an innovation. Mine doesn't.
I pray that the economy of the Western World collapse. OR that Russia pressures the Western World through Oil to embrace more conservative views.Something needs to happen for the Western World is Hell-bound.JNORM888
It seems these innovations meet more resistance in certain areas compared to others. Recently, multiple parishes have severed ties with the Anglican Church of Canada in protest.Welcome to the forum, Matariel, as well!
How horrific! Since when is it ok to pray that evil things befall people?!
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Very humble words. Having suffered the trauma 12 years ago of somebody very close dying from lung/brain cancer (my mother from smoking and at the same age of Debbie), I can understand where Debbie's words were coming from. Rest in peace Debbie, look down and smile - you left your mark on many people. To her family - You have all my prayers and sympathies at this time and I'm sure you are all very proud of her. By all means mourn Debbie's loss, but also afford a smile at all she achieved. Remember she will be always there for you...you will never lose the support of her love and strength, because it is something that is felt in the soul...
I am dumbfounded by this news. I had no idea that any of this was taking place. My deepest sympathies to her family at this tragic moment. I found her to be always caring, generous and inspirational to anyone who she met online in the vue forum. I will miss her everpresent vivaciousness. She will always hold a special place in my heart. I shall remember her in my prayers. With great sadness, ~beck
I just visited Debbie's gallery and website for the first time and am truly sorry I didn't get to know this talented and wonderful woman who had so much to give, artistically and personally. She truly seemed to live her life to the fullest. Her last words both touched and broke my heart. My deepest condolences to her family and friends. CC
I've known Outlaw since I joined the WBS online RPG gaming community back in 1995. I was her XO in the Shadow Bands for many years. She was my friend, my online mentor, my gaming partner & my sister. She helped raise my spirits when I was down & deflated my ego when it needed it. We talked, argued, commiserated & confided. She had a great many friends and very few enemies (none really serious, more pests than problems). She was a horrible speller / typist & took our ribbing with simple grace. Goodbye OL... I love you very much and will miss you greatly. You were always a class act.
I am still under the shock of the news since Debbie won the Vue forum Challenge just before departing to the hospital. I hope her family will take comfort in the knowledge of the many friends and members of our community that she touched with her art.


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Players join Dick Dastardly and the gang, racing across a variety of action-packed and colorful cross-country rallies from the TV series. Racers watch out for traps and speed ahead to win the ultimate title of World's Wackiest Racer! Wacky Widgets are collected during the race to gain "Wacky Powers," as well as a character's super-special "Way Out Wacky" power, which can be used to gain the upper hand over sly opponents.
Also known as: Wacky Races: Crash and Dash
Release Region: United States
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: June 27, 2008
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Release Region: Australia
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Also available on: Nintendo DS
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Yesterday, I speculated about the future of Europe in a post called "Can Europe Turn the Corner?" In doing so, I referred to a piece in the February issue of Commentary (not yet available online) by Arthur Waldron. The portions of Waldron's piece on which I relied dealt with the economic situation in Europe. But Waldron also suggested that Europe seemed to be turning the corner in its attitude towards combating terrorism. The key event, Waldron thought, was the murder of Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh by a Dutch Muslim as retribution for his film Submission about the abuse of women under Islam. As I read Waldron's argument, it occurred to me that the Europeans were just as likely, Spanish style, to respond to van Gogh's murder by curtailing works of art offensive to Muslims as by becoming more resolute. But what I do I know?
Today, the same day on which millions of Iraqis disregarded security concerns and went to the polls, the BBC reported that Submission has been pulled from the Rotterdam film festival due to security concerns.
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Audi A3 e-tron concept revealed
Remember BMW's range of born-electric I cars? Well, this is how Audi's answering back - a concept that fits an existing model with hybrid and all-electric power trains at a price that'll rival traditional petrol, diesel and natural gas propelled offerings.
Haven't we heard this before? Well, yes - Audi gave us electro remixes of an R8 and A1 before telling us it'd never actually build them. But it's describing the A3 as a 'realistic glimpse into the future'.
So, what's under the bonnet in the manufacturer's brave new future? A petrol engine... namely the VW group 1.4-litre direct-injection 148bhp unit that works with an electric motor mounted in the front of a six-speed dual clutch gearbox, where it develops up to 101bhp. That lot equates to a combined output of up to 201bhp and 350Nm, which bests the new A3 1.8 TFSI's by 24bhp and 100Nm.
You'll be able to drive it in three different modes - petrol only, electric only, and hybrid. The latter gathers up all the available oomph from both motors for maximum POWEEERRR. In red-hot mode, it'll do 0-100kph in 7.6sec and top out at 222kph. Pop it in all-electric mode and it'll whir up to 130kph with a maximum range of 50km. But the most impressive thing is the 80kpl fuel consumption figure and CO2 emissions of just 35g/km.
We'll have to wait until its official unveiling at the Geneva motor show for more, but in the meantime, d'you want one? And reckon Audi'll actually make it affordable?


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Grab your kayak or canoe and find out what it would be like to take a leisurely Saturday morning ride around Northern Kentucky's largest lake as Paddle Williamstown Lake returns on Saturday, Aug. 25.
Williamstown Lake will host the second Paddle Williamstown from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
All power boat/jet ski traffic will be restricted during this time.
Williamstown Mayor Rick Skinner was pleased with the first event and hopes to show off the lake to even more participants this year.
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The good Bellman engaged him at once. pic.twitter.com/W1U7imwU9J
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies—pic.twitter.com/reeck9tAD33
"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, pic.twitter.com/CAKOTeymdd
(So the Bellman would often remark) pic.twitter.com/QQUZyhpSYn
And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad—pic.twitter.com/uCtvfeNdEvv
But the Bellman declared that would never agree pic.twitter.com/8ZyUdfDThK
He could only kill Beavers. The Bellman looked scared, pic.twitter.com/f7OLs7bPR8
And had often (the Bellman said) saved them from wreck, pic.twitter.com/G3jY9EiH84
Fit the First: The Landing. pic.twitter.com/vOCyBpIAfU
Fit the Second : The Bellman's speech pic.twitter.com/szN4b8KjDC
The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, pic.twitter.com/cZSK95aGJb
The last of the crew needs especial remark, pic.twitter.com/31zgFaSZS9
The Beaver, who happened to hear the remark, pic.twitter.com/5PoiiHPJB0
Supporting each man on the top of the tide pic.twitter.com/WZldf5GrpO
And the clothes he had bought for the trip. pic.twitter.com/uYXeC2C3yT
That not even the rapture of hunting the Snark pic.twitter.com/hXeJri8mLP
With the plans he had made for the trip: pic.twitter.com/kPeUDlRNJN
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK by Lewis Carroll, depicted by @fluaten pic.twitter.com/XE2MrQUokI
Whenever the Butcher was by, pic.twitter.com/AguGtb0RZu
That alone should encourage the crew. pic.twitter.com/odlh6yVJ3U
His intimate friends called him "Candle-ends," pic.twitter.com/sks9U66pfQ
Without the least vestige of land: pic.twitter.com/II65BsKSw9
But a Banker, engaged at enormous expense, pic.twitter.com/tzZ2Xc4FcA
Though none of the sailors knew how. pic.twitter.com/R3LSC68WU8
He forgot when he entered the ship: pic.twitter.com/Gc0LxFIb5Y
With an impudent wag of the head: pic.twitter.com/QiE8ijRBtJ
The moment one looked in his face! pic.twitter.com/1LjUp48ny9
The crew was complete: it included a Boots.. pic.twitter.com/EBTp2KV6XB
Or would sit making lace in the bow: pic.twitter.com/MlvJjnSXQl
But, since he omitted to mention the fact, pic.twitter.com/GhoPnXhCk3
They were all left behind on the beach. pic.twitter.com/ZvEg75FHvS
The loss of his clothes hardly mattered, because pic.twitter.com/8srOx705X0
When the ship had been sailing a week, pic.twitter.com/cV3WqQiGSo
It strongly advised that the Butcher should be pic.twitter.com/D38FbWlBFY
This the Banker suggested, and offered for hire pic.twitter.com/SLyzraxRkW
Had the whole of their cash in his care. pic.twitter.com/t2V1W2N4jg
Is the thing that one needs with a Snark." pic.twitter.com/eFKsO5Ricf
The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure pic.twitter.com/m3yQRjZ5fo
So the Baker advised it— and next, to insurepic.twitter.com/UHf9b6BSgpp
He had bought a large map representing the sea, pic.twitter.com/r9JLtOsHGx
There was also a Beaver, that paced on the deck, pic.twitter.com/WrJia38bRp
And he once went a walk, paw-in-paw, with a bear, pic.twitter.com/OLIgGXHCoX
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice: pic.twitter.com/enHcGD3sFs
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New Sloan-Kettering alliance includes Backus
Hartford HealthCare, the network that includes The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, has joined a new partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center that the institutions say will transform community cancer care.
The new partnership was announced Tuesday, the day before Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London's opening ceremonies for its new cancer center in Waterford, an affiliation with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The Hartford HealthCare-Memorial Sloan-Kettering partnership comes after a year of discussions between the two parties that will bring the clinical and research prowess of the prestigious New York-based institution to the network of seven Connecticut hospitals and related medical facilities.
"For more than a century, Memorial Sloan-Kettering has delivered exceptional cancer care and generated the discoveries necessary to develop effective new treatments. Today, we recognize the need to do more," Dr. Craig Thompson, president and chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, said in a joint news release from the two institutions. "We are looking to create a new model to address the fundamental challenge of providing high-quality cancer care in a wider population of patients."
Dr. James O'Dea, vice president at Backus in charge of cancer services, said the alliance will mean that Backus cancer patients will have access to the advanced treatments, research and clinical trials at Sloan-Kettering without having to travel outside of eastern Connecticut. Backus currently treats 800 to 900 newly diagnosed cancer patients per year, in addition to caring for previously diagnosed patients.
"This is very, very exciting for all of us," he said. "With this affiliation, patients can have advanced cancer care in a community hospital setting."
Backus oncologists, he said, will have "immediate access" to colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, enabling collaborative back-and-forth consultations between physicians in the academic medical setting and doctors treating patients in their home communities.
Elliot Joseph, president and chief executive officer of Hartford HealthCare, said it is an honor for the institution to be chosen as Sloan-Kettering's first partner in the new cancer alliance.
"Memorial Sloan-Kettering chose Hartford HealthCare because of our dedication to delivering high-quality, consistent care across the state and because of the proven expertise of our physicians and medical teams," he said. "This will save lives by bringing evidence-based, world-class standards to our entire provider network."
Dr. José Baselga, physician-in-chief at Sloan-Kettering, noted that while most of the cancer care in this country is done in community hospitals, "cancer advances can take years to be adopted in a community setting.
"We want to rapidly accelerate the pace of integrating the latest advances of cancer care into a community setting," he said. "This unprecedented approach will demonstrate real value to both organizations and most importantly will improve the lives of cancer patients."
One aspect of the collaboration is the establishment of the first Memorial Sloan-Kettering Alliance clinical trials site at Hartford Hospital.
Through the alliance, Memorial Sloan-Kettering physicians and leadership will be collaborating with Hartford HealthCare physicians on disease management teams, through on-site observations of new techniques, by sharing educational resources, by conducting quality and outcomes research, and by working together toward expanded access to clinical trials, the statement said.
Over the next six months, teams from both institutions will work together to assess the resources and capabilities of each of the system's five acute care hospitals, including Backus, and to identify specific areas of focus for each. In addition, they jointly will recruit a physician-in-chief of the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute who will be on the staff at both Hartford HealthCare and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the statement said.
The developments in cancer care, both at Backus and at L+M, come as new cancer diagnoses are expected to increase to 2.3 million per year by 2030 as the nation's population ages. Thompson also noted that when it comes to cancer treatment, "one size no longer fits all," and that the alliance will better enable doctors to tailor new treatments to individuals.
Founded 125 years ago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is the world's oldest and largest private cancer center. The Hartford HealthCare network employs about 16,000 people and has net revenues of $2 billion. It includes Hartford Hospital, Backus, The Hospital of Central Connecticut, MidState Medical Center, Windham Hospital and the Institute of Living psychiatric center, which is part of a greater Behavioral Health Network including Rushford and Natchaug Hospital.
It also includes VNA HealthCare, Clinical Laboratory Partners, Hartford HealthCare Medical Group, Connecticut Senior Health Services — comprised of five assisted-living and skilled-nursing facilities— and the Hartford HealthCare Rehabilitation Network.
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Best-selling novelist and Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rev. Andrew Greeley has passed away. He was 85.
Greeley, a prolific priest, sociologist and long-time NBC analyst, wrote more than 50 novels, including international mystery thrillers that were translated into 12 languages.
In a statement, his family said their lives "have been tremendously enriched by having the presence of Fr. Andrew Greeley in our family."
"He served the Church all those years with a prophetic voice and with unfailing dedication, and the Church he and our parents taught us to love is a better place because of him. Our hearts are heavy with grief, but we find hope in the promise of Heaven that our uncle spent his life proclaiming to us, his friends, his parishioners and his many fans. He resides now with the Lord of the Dance, and that dance will go on."
Greeley was known for his conviction. During the priest sex abuse crisis as early as 1991, he was one of the very few priests who criticized the church leadership for refusing to disclose priest accusations.
In 2010, Greeley released a study based on a poll of more than 500 Illinois Catholics that found their faith is still burning brightly with 78 percent of respondents saying Catholicism is either "extremely important" or "very important" in their lives.
While Greeley had an uneasy relationship with Cardinal John Cody and Joseph Bernardin, Cardinal Francis George reached out to him and they attended the opera together. Greeley lived in the John Hancock building but also had homes in Grand Beach Michigan and Arizona. His Saturday afternoon Mass in Grand Beach was often filled with sun bathers who came in their beach attire.
Greeley was involved in an accident in November 2008 from which he never fully recovered. His jacket got caught in a cab door, and as the vehicle pulled away, the priest fell to the ground and hit his head, fracturing his skull. The fracture left him in critical condition.
A California couple in town for a wedding is credited with saving the priest, calling 911 and staying with him until paramedics arrived.
Before the incident, Greeley had lectured at the Religious Education Association conference in Rosemont and was described by the association executive secretary as "very generous and very funny."


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Remember "Lassie"? Each week on the 1950s TV show, the brave collie saved her family and friends from wells, fires and other dangers. The show demonstrated in dramatic fashion what hospice patients experience every day—the devotion of our four-legged friends.
Many of our hospice locations have pet visit volunteers: loving animals—and their owners—who are trained to provide comfort and a special kind of friendship to anyone who can benefit, from a child struggling to read to disaster victims and the elderly. Hospice pet volunteers visit patients in nursing homes, assisted living communities and private homes. Hospice pet visits offer a welcome distraction from illness and help people feel a little less lonely. They leave their patients—and anyone else lucky enough to be around—smiling, more relaxed, maybe even healthier.
The therapeutic use of pets has gained more attention and widespread acceptance as it continues to bring measurable benefits to all kinds of needs. It even has an acronym; HAI research (for human–animal interaction) is the study of the association between pet caregiving and physical and mental health.
Healthcare experts say that hospice patients are noticeably more active and responsive during and after animal visits. But hospice teams, patients families don't need statistics and research to see that pets can bring about change that no amount of human intervention or medicine seems to accomplish.
At VITAS, the pet visit program is called Paw Pals. VITAS trains friendly, well-behaved pets to be Paw Pals. A registered VITAS Paw Pals volunteer, always accompanied by its human companion, knows how to visit patients near the end of life and is at ease in medical and residential facilities as well as private homes.
Although most VITAS Paw Pals are hospice dogs, other animal volunteers may be considered on a case-by-case basis. All potential volunteers, and their human companion, are screened.
If you'd like to volunteer with your dog or other pet, please contact your local program to find out if VITAS Paw Pals are available in your location, whether they are accepting new volunteers for training or how to arrange for a Paw Pals visit.
Paw Pals volunteers, and their owners, love to tell stories of the moments they have played a part in. One Paw Pal owner recalled a visit to a VITAS inpatient hospice unit:
"I stopped at a patient's room and asked the husband if his wife would like to have a visit with Pogo, my Shetland sheepdog," the volunteer said. "He said they'd never had animals and he didn't think she'd be interested. But I could see that she was interested, so I asked if I could just put the dog on her bed. The woman immediately put her arms around Pogo and held him for 15 minutes or more. She passed away the next day. Her husband later said that it was the first time in three years he had seen her smile. He has that memory of her smiling. That's what Paw Pals do; they brings hope to people."
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It's one thing when a player makes a mistake or a manager a bad decision. That's part of the game. It's expected. It is the human element.
It's also expected umpires will blow calls, but in that case, there's a vehicle in place to get it right. Baseball has introduced technology to work with the human side. Unfortunately, it's only used on home runs, but the game is far more than the long ball.
Who knows … perhaps it would be the Tigers playing the Yankees had plate umpire Randy Marsh got it right and called it a HBP on Brandon Inge with the bases loaded Tuesday in the Metrodome. Replay got it and the Tigers should have had a run. Maybe they beat the Twins, maybe they don't, but we shouldn't be wondering.
And, who knows what Phil Cuzzi saw a ball when he ruled Joe Mauer's ball off Melky Cabrera's glove foul instead of fair, which it was by close to half a foot if not more. Later, when it was too late, the umps admitted they got it wrong. Worse, Cuzzi was the extra umpire used for the postseason.
Instead of a runner on second and no outs, the Twins had a man on first with no outs. The Twins eventually loaded the bases with no outs, but with the human element, did not score. They lost in the bottom of the inning.
Had the play been ruled correctly and the inning unfolded as it did, the Twins would have scored. The ump's admission does not remove them from the brink of elimination.
"The left field umpire Phil Cuzzi saw the ball foul and called what he saw, rendered the ball foul decision," crew chief Tim Tschida said. "Afterwards, like any close play, we went in and looked at it and it's a clear indication that an incorrect decision was rendered."
There's a vehicle in place to get it right and it should be expanded.
Unlike football where the action takes place anywhere and the view is often obstructed by fly bodies, baseball has fixed locations in the foul lines and bases. It's far easier to correct plays. Even on trapped balls in the outfield, there's rarely another body to blur the view.
If the goal is to get it right, then MLB should use everything at its disposal to ensure the game is correctly called. There's too much at stake otherwise.


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- Italian Grand Prix
D'Ambrosio impresses Lotus hierarchy
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Jerome d'Ambrosio's performance at the Italian Grand Prix was described as "an amazing job" by Lotus team principal Eric Boullier after he suffered a KERS failure.
Starting from 15th on the grid d'Ambrosio had targeted a point in his one and only race of the season standing in for the suspended Romain Grosjean. A KERS failure early in the race heavily compromised his afternoon and restricted him to a 15th place finish, but Boullier was quick to praise d'Ambrosio's efforts.
"Jérôme did an amazing job after being thrown in at the deep end," Boullier said. "Without his KERS issue I'm pretty sure he could have achieved a points finish."
Trackside operations director Alan Permane also had praise for d'Ambrosio.
"Jérôme had one arm tied behind his back with a KERS failure very early in the race and KERS is worth a significant amount of time here," Permane said. "He did a very credible job despite this, and his pace on the medium compound tyre in the second part of the race was pretty good."
D'Ambrosio himself was pleased with his drive, and said he had learnt a lot throughout the weekend despite not being able to challenge for points.
"After losing my KERS on lap 6 it was always going to be tough as that's worth about half a second per lap around here," he said. "I got a good start and was up fighting with Daniel [Ricciardo] and Nico [Rosberg], but once I lost that extra boost it was impossible to keep up and I dropped back. My last stint on the medium tyres in clean air was pretty good and I didn't make many mistakes, so maybe with a bit more luck we could have had a slightly better result.
"My main aim was to finish the race and I've achieved that so it's not so bad overall. It was great to be back in the car and especially with such a fantastic team; I've learnt a lot this weekend."