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Celebrating 100 Years of a Faith-Filled Community Serving God
As the number of Polish speaking people in Buttonwood and Korn Krest began to grow, so did the desire to have a parish of their own. Without the transportation, we have become accustomed to today, travel to other parishes was a hardship, and the practice of their faith was primary in their lives.
Taking this into consideration, several of them met and decided it was time to take steps to organize a parish. Rose DeMorat, one of our original members, was given the task of naming the parish. Rose, a deeply spiritual woman, previously lived in Poland and attended the church Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego located in the village of Goworowo in the Ostrołęka diocese. In English, the name of Rose's prior church translates to "The Exaltation of the Holy Cross," and she decided that this was to be the name of the new parish.
On October 3, 1917, the first formal meeting for the new parish was held with a roster of 57 families. Rose and her sister, Frances Rominski, helped to gather the families together for the first committee meeting. Officers elected that day were: President, Anthony Kapuscinski; Secretary, Peter Stefanowicz; and Treasurer, John Urbanski. At this meeting, they discussed the strategy for establishing the parish as well as plans for the eventual construction of a church, rectory, school, and convent.
The first Mass for the parish was celebrated by Father Francis Dominiak at the Buttonwood School and continued to be celebrated there until March 1, 1918, at which time they were moved to a hall owned by Thomas Grondzik in Korn Krest.
The Bishop continued to send priests to celebrate Mass. When the number of people became considerable, the committee set out to meet with Father Drier that he might help them purchase or obtain a piece of land from the coal company to build their church. Father Drier willingly consented to this request, and the new parish of The Exaltation of the Holy Cross received an acre of land free from the Lehigh and WilkesBarre Coal Company.
Being in possession of the land, the committee requested a meeting with Bishop Michael Hoban to ask him to appoint a permanent Pastor. He granted that request with the appointment of Father Edmund Zawadzki as Pastor.
Now, having the land and a Pastor, the parishioners began the building of a church. The building of the frame structure was completed in February 1919 and on April 20, Father Zawadzki celebrated the first Mass in the new church. On July 25, 1920, Bishop Hoban arrived for the ceremony of the dedication of the new church.
After this memorable event, the parishioners began building the rectory on September 5, 1920. The first priest to live in the new rectory was Father Domasiewicz. In 1921, the parish purchased five acres of land for a cemetery in West Nanticoke during the Pastorate of Father Emil Sikorski.
The simple church was remodeled in 1938 with a new sanctuary, sacristy, heating system, electrical improvements, new paint, and a "bricktex" siding, popular at the time, on the exterior of the building. The balance debt of $4,850 was paid to the Plymouth National Bank on June 13, 1939.
Parish life went along well until the morning of December 27, 1946 when at about 3:00 a.m. smoke was noticed coming from the building by Miss Ann Clark passing by on the way home from a holiday party. The church, built with the financial sacrifices and personal manual labor of struggling coal miners, was destroyed. Despite the valiant efforts of the Hanover Green fire fighters assisted by fire companies from all of Hanover Township, the destruction was complete, since the metal ceiling of the church forced the flames downward, charring everything on the interior of the church. One of the brave firefighters risked danger by entering the burning church to remove Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Grateful the flaming embers did not ignite the rectory, the parishioners refused to accept defeat. Realizing that the basement was intact, they went about patching what was left of the floor and covered it with tar paper to make a roof over the basement, which then became their church, where they could still gather for Mass.
By May 1947, under the leadership of Father Casimir Wydra, excavation began for a new church, designed by local architect Michael Bochnik. The edifice was dedicated on September 19, 1947 by Bishop William J. Hafey. At the time, it was the most modern church in the Wyoming Valley. Built at a cost of $110,000, it boasted a cooling and hot air heating system, a sound system, new statuary, rubber floor and electric organ, with beautiful paintings in the Sanctuary. The stained glass windows were designed by the Baut Studios and include scenes of the discovery of the cross of Christ by St. Helen, the Emperor Constantine, her son, scenes from the life of Christ, the setting up of the bronze serpent by Moses in the desert, one of the Scriptural Readings for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and a magnificent crucifix window in the choir loft at the front of the church. The debt was paid off by 1963 through the 'March of Quarters' campaign.
On September 30, 1968, Father Wydra died, and was replaced by Father Albert M. Kaczmarek. This was the era of the exciting renewal of the church life and liturgy with the implementation of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, one of only twenty such councils held since the gathering of the Apostles in Jerusalem. The implementation of the Council's Documents and the Diocesan directives based on them became the first challenge of Father Kaczmarek. The church was renovated to accommodate the proper celebration of the renewed Liturgy. New marble altars, pulpit and baptismal font were installed and the church redecorated. This renovation was celebrated with great joy on November 27, 1977, the 60th anniversary year of the founding of the parish.
Mounds of useless rock behind the church were removed to create a parking lot, which then became the site of the parish bazaars, previously held in Ellis' Market parking lot across the street. With the strenuous manual labor of parishioners, emulating the founders, men of the parish built bazaar stands, a pavilion and an outdoor kitchen.
Under the wise and careful administration of Father Kaczmarek, the bequest of Father Wydra, fundraising activities and parish collections were expertly managed to create a treasury which would not only fund improvements being made but secure the future financial health of the parish.
December 18, 1986 became one of the saddest days in the life of the parish with the death of Father Kaczmarek, who had endeared himself to the parish with his sincere, jovial and friendly manner and deep pastoral concern for his parishioners, all of them known to him by name.
In January 1987, Father Joseph Papka was named Pastor. He began to lead the parish in making further improvements to the church, with its handicap ramp and new equipment in the church kitchen. Most memorably, he undertook the task of the much needed replacement of the old rectory. With the approval of Bishop Timlin and the Diocesan Building Commission, plans were drawn up, contracts signed, the rectory razed and excavation for the new rectory began. On January 15, 1989, the parish was shocked to learn of the sudden death of Father Papka from complications arising as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident the week before.
In February 1989, just in time for Lent, Father James McGahagan arrived as temporary Administrator of the parish, and was named Pastor in July of that year.
Work on the rectory continued according to the original plans and was occupied on December 19, 1989. At the celebration of the Parish Feast Day on September 16, 1990, parishioners were invited to an Open House to tour the newly furnished and decorated rectory, with the Presidents of the Christian Mothers, Ladies Guild and Men's Club acting as hosts and greeters.
Later a three-car garage was built so that it could serve not only as a garage but as an additional bazaar and storage building.
On June 10, 1990, a new three manual Allen Electronic Organ was dedicated to the memory of all the Bazaar workers at a memorable concert. Liturgical functions are now enhanced by the digitally sampled sounds of actual organ pipes reproduced through speakers in the front of the church. It can also reproduce the sounds of bells, chimes, and orchestral instruments, and it can interface with other electronic instruments, such as the electronic piano added at a later date.
On September 13, 1992, the parish celebrated its Diamond Jubilee, with a Mass of Thanksgiving and a Jubilee Banquet at the Woodlands. In attendance was Father Andrew Bocianski who had been Pastor of the parish sixty years earlier. Auxiliary Bishop Francis DiLorenzo was the main celebrant of the Mass, and speakers at the dinner included Father Carl Prushinski and Father Gerald Blaszczak, SJ, both former members of the parish.
In the early morning hours after the bazaar of 1993, the parish was again struck by fire, as the outdoor kitchen building was destroyed in a propane gas explosion. Volunteers arriving to clean up that Monday morning were shocked to see the kitchen in ruins, with all its equipment destroyed, but they were grateful that the expert and arduous work of the Hanover Township fire fighters had prevented its spread to the nearby buildings.
Because of the replacement cost provisions of the Diocesan Self-Insurance program, the parish was able to rebuild the kitchen on an even larger scale. It was furnished with restaurant equipment making it possible to prepare and serve large quantities of food quickly, after the style of a fast food restaurant. It is now one of the finest outdoor kitchens anywhere.
The parish hall was remodeled with new walls, refurbished restrooms, windows, dual lighting system, hot air heat and air conditioning. With funds from the Christian Mothers and Ladies Guild, the kitchen was remodeled extensively.
The church driveway was reconstructed to accommodate two lanes of traffic, making it safer and more efficient. Parish property was extended by the purchase of two acres of land on the Sans Souci Parkway to serve as additional parking for large parish events, and the paved area of the upper parking lot has been extended.
In preparation for the implementation of the Diocesan initiative entitled 'Call to Holiness and Mission' in 2008, Father McGahagan was assigned to St. Boniface and St. Patrick's parishes, which later became St. Andrew's Parish. He retired in 2017 from St. Andrew's, and many of our parishioners were in attendance at his celebratory retirement mass. Father McGahagan was known for his hands-on, pastoral approach, and he contributed greatly to many aspects of the life of our parish, one of which was the expansion and growth of our bazaar. He formed lifelong bonds with many parishioners during his time here.
In July 2008, Rev. Paul Lourdraj Pudhota (Father Raj) became administrator. Father Raj was known for his great spirituality, with one of his contributions being the start of a Bible group. He was also responsible for our new parish sign on the Sans Souci Highway and the Holy Spirit painting in our church. Also, many may remember the very special Palm Sunday mass in which Father Raj rode a live donkey during the procession, marking the start of a faith-filled Holy Week.
The year 2009 brought further changes to our faith community. Several church closures and mergers were implemented throughout the Diocese during this time. In the beginning of 2009, it was announced that our parish would become linked with the nearby St. Aloysius Church, which later became St. Robert Bellarmine Parish. The linkage was implemented in July 2009. Also, in July 2009, Father Raj departed our parish and was followed by Father Andrew Sinnott. Father Sinnott was given the task of moving forward with the implementation of the Diocesan vision for the linkage. With the help of Father Sinnott, the Saint Ann's statue and tabernacle were given to us from the recently closed St. Casimir's Church in Lyndwood.
In July 2011, Father Kevin Mulhern became pastor. Father Mulhern continued to move forward with the implementation of the linkage between our parish and St. Robert Bellarmine. Under his leadership, the St. Ann's statue was dedicated on May 30, 2012, and the tabernacle from St. Casimir's was refurbished and dedicated on November 20, 2016 as part of the 100th Anniversary celebration.
In addition, Father Mulhern oversaw a number of renovations made to the parish during the end of 2014 in preparation for our 100th anniversary year, including new carpeting and painting in the church, and the addition of the images of two angels in the back of the church by the choir loft. Father Mulhern was also very supportive of the many organizations and ministries in our parish, enabling them to grow and continue in their endeavors. Father Mulhern was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, and thankfully, through successful medical treatment and by the grace of God, he is presently in remission. When Father Mulhern went on medical leave in 2016, Father Richard Cirba filled in as administrator in his absence. Then, the following year, in June 2017, when Father Mulhern was assigned to St. Jude's Parish, we welcomed back Father Cirba as our current pastor.
Over the past decade, there have been several assistant pastors and senior priests who have contributed to the ongoing growth of our parish: Father Wilfredo Comellas, Father Vincent Dang, Father John Gali, Father Anthony Generose, Father Joseph Kumar, Father Arbogaste Satoun, and Father Maria Suvari Thumma. In addition, our current pastor, Father Richard Cirba, previously assisted at our parish, and as a result, he gained a great affection for our church community prior to becoming our pastor. His warmth and deep spirituality is loved and appreciated by many.
Parish life today includes many societies and ministries serving the spiritual and material needs of the church family. One such organization is the Our Lady of Częstochowa Society, formed when the Christian Mothers and the Ladies Guild joined forces on October 14, 2011 under the direction of Father Andrew Sinnott. The club continues the traditions they inherited both financially and spiritually in building up God's Kingdom in our parish. They participate in the rosary in May and October, and they supported charitable works such as St. Vincent de Paul Kitchen with a yearly donation as well as our Youth Ministry's activities with generous donations. The bench at the St Ann's statue was given by them, and they have donated to many church projects as well asthe Diocesan Annual Appeal. They were responsible for the renovation of the kitchen and upgrading of appliances under Father McGahagan. In addition, the Club gave a generous donation for the recent church renovations, and they have coordinated many socials for church events. Monies raised have been through fundraising efforts such as pierogi making, an annual bingo, and lottery ticket sales. The ladies are a large part of making ethnic foods for our annual bazaar.
The Holy Cross Men's Club has grown in the past several years to become one of the largest such parish societies in the area. Fundraising events by our Men's Club include the Tailgate Party, Night at the Races, Big Tent Dance, and a chicken barbeque. With these and other fundraisers, the Club has funded and personally worked on many projects for our church. Projects included the building of canopies over two of the church entrances, replacing the roof on the church, replacing the sound system, putting new windows in the sacristy, and constructing risers in the choir loft. They also enlarged the parking lot, constructed a modern restroom building, and made many other improvements to the bazaar grounds. Each year, the parish bazaar sees countless parishioners and other people in the community and is a most valuable source of income for continually rising expenses. In addition to fundraising and renovations, the Men's Club contributes to the spiritual and social life of our parish in various ways. The Men's Club has participated in the Rosary in May and October, and they have delivered poinsettia to the church as well as holiday gifts to homebound parishioners at Christmas. They present the Thomas Tryba Service Award to a graduating high school senior, and they hold a breakfast in June for the graduates. The Club also holds periodic communion masses and breakfasts as well as other social gatherings.
The youth ministry, which was started in 1989 by Diane Bogarowski, contributes greatly to the life of the church and the community. In the spring of 2014, the youth ministry celebrated their 25th Anniversary, with a Mass celebrated on May 21, 2014 by Bishop Joseph Bambera. A plaque in memory of two former youth group members, Donnelle Baumer and Jaclyn Mazur, was blessed by Bishop Bambera during the mass. Also, a prayer garden in the land adjacent to the rectory was dedicated to their memory. Over the past 28 years, youth ministry members have participated in various spiritual, charitable and social activities. Some of the activities include participation in Youth Family masses, visits to area nursing homes, the annual Cookie Walk, the March for Life, the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), and Diocesan retreats such as ISLI and Up and Over. On a global scale, representatives have attended World Youth Day on two occasions. In 2002, three youth ministry members, Amanda Alberola, Jessica Hudak, and Jaclyn Mazur attended World Youth Day in Canada and attended mass with Pope John Paul II. Then, in 2016, the current youth ministry director, Dominick Costantino, Jr., and youth ministry assistant, Christine Skiro, attended World Youth Day in Poland and attended mass with Pope Francis. Additionally, one of the recent contributions by the youth ministry to parish life is monthly evening Eucharistic adoration, which began in September 2016 and is held throughout the fall, winter and spring. The evening consists of both silent adoration and adoration with praise and worship music and is followed by a social.
The Soup for the Souls committee was formed in 2010 with the goal of raising funds to keep our cemetery maintained. Fundraisers held by the committee include monthly soup sales, book sales, wine and cheese gatherings, the Victorian Christmas Tea, and the Arts, Antiques, and Craft Festival. Also, each Lenten season, the Soup for the Souls Committee holds Gorzkie Żale, which is a 300-year-old traditional Polish devotional service. The service is then followed by a traditional Polish dinner and social. This event draws parishioners and many individuals from surrounding regions each year, some of whom travel quite a distance to attend.
Numerous other aspects of parish life are enhanced by various groups and ministries. The Parish Pastoral Council is an integral part of pastoral planning for the future. The Parish Finance Council meets to advise on financial matters. The Parish Liturgy Committee meets regularly to help plan celebrations of the Liturgical Seasons, Solemnities and Feasts. Thanks to the gifts and talents of a small group of dedicated individuals, our church is always beautifully decorated throughout the year. The Senior, Teen, and Youth Choirs further enhance Liturgical celebrations, all choirs having grown tremendously in recent years. The teachers who dedicate their time to the religious education program have enhanced the faith development of future generations within our parish community. The RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) Team has helped many people to embrace the Catholic Faith through the continuing faith development of those baptized in other church traditions or those preparing for baptism as adults. Other liturgical ministries are provided by the parish such as Lectors, Cantors, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, Altar Servers, Adult Funeral Mass Servers, and Ushers. Our church also has a Parish Prayer Circle which consists of parishioners committed to praying daily for specific intentions when requests are made through the parish office. Also, a Bereavement Committee began in 2011 and consists of individuals dedicated to helping those who have recently lost loved ones. The committee holds a Mass of Remembrance each November in memory of all who have passed away the year prior. Overall, the variety of groups and ministries that currently make up our parish has led to the ongoing growth of our church, including the growth of new young families.
We look back with deep gratitude today as we reflect on the dedication and hard work of those original 57 families wishing to provide themselves with a parish where their language and customs could be kept alive along with their cherished Catholic faith. The ethnic foods at our bazaars and the pierogi making today are vestiges of the heritage of those courageous, generous and self-sacrificing people who began this parish. Barely able to eke out a living in the mines, they went beyond what could be expected in order to begin for us a parish where we now live and celebrate our faith. We pray that the souls of those great and dedicated people may rest in peace from their fruitful labors. We also thank the countless other individuals of all cultural backgrounds who have kept our parish alive and growing throughout the century. While many changes have occurred over the years, with devoted people and through the grace of God, we are thankful that our church has been able to continue to grow in faith and to serve our community and world.
With today's celebration, we look back gratefully and with admiration, we look around us with gratitude for the faithful and dedicated people who make up the parish today, and we look forward to the future years ahead. We give thanks to God for guiding us through the past 100 years, and we ask for God's blessings and guidance for our church, our community, and our world, as we move forwardto the second century of our existence.


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Great security camera
I bought this camera as a Dropcam/Nestcam replacement. It looks better in my living room, I can store/archive video locally (I setup a Raspberry Pi as an FTP server) i.e. no subscription and, the facial recognition actually works!
The only thing that keeps me from giving it 5 stars is the iOS software: HomeKit compatibility is not yet enabled--only promised, and turning on/turning off monitoring with the Apple Watch app is wonky at best.
Bottom line: This is a good camera. It delivers on all features claimed in its advertising and, I'm fairly confident that software updates are going to make it even better.
App is decent, camera has problems, support is nonexistent
Overall, the app works as advertised. Could use a better interface for configuring the network settings without having to flip the camera upside down and lose its position.
The bigger issue is that any time the Welcome camera is power cycled, it will sometimes just stop streaming video. Subsequent power cycles may or may not bring it back. If you need reliability, look elsewhere.
Edit: Response to developer response. I already contacted support 6 days ago and have only received an automated acknowledgement. There appears to be no phone number or other means of contacting Netatmo support. After following up, asking for any form of update or acknowledgement by email to the automatically generated support ticket, I still have yet to receive any response from a human regarding my support request.
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App Needs improvement. I like the Cameras
Netatmo, can you make it so the Presence Cameras can be turned onto their sides. So the rotate feature would have 45deg rotation options? I would like them to be up under the eves of my roof more and having them upside down looks funky. Plus they don't tilt down as much when mounted upside down.
Also would like to see an option to link cameras to start recording when another camera has already sensed motion so they don't have to wait for motion to activate the record mode. I have 4 Presence cameras in my front yard and would like to link them when one gets triggered with motion.
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Pros. No monthly fee. Local storage and to your own NAS or Dropbox. Apple HomeKit.
Cons. When mounted upside down. You can't tilt down very far if mounted on the wall. I ended up hanging it upside down from my eves. The camera doesn't have a very wide field of view like some other cameras currently on the market that are HomeKit compatible.
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Dear Joey, thank you for your review, we appreciate your feedback about the field of view and the rotation, we will take it into account. Note you can already tilt the camera at a 45° angle to each side, 90° down, and 20° up. Thank you for being part of the Netatmo community!
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Exaggerated QT prolongation after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation
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- Received July 28, 1998
- Revision received March 19, 1999
- Accepted April 23, 1999
- Published online August 1, 1999.
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- Anna Maria J Choy, MB, MRCP1,a,b,
- Dawood Darbar, MBa,b,
- Simonetta Dell'Orto, MBa,b and
- Dan M Roden, MD, FACC1,a,b,* (dan.roden{at}mcmail.vanderbilt.edu)
- ↵*Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Dan M. Roden, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, 532C Medical Research Building I, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-6602
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the extent of drug-induced QT prolongation by dofetilide is greater in sinus rhythm (SR) after cardioversion compared with during atrial fibrillation (AF).
Anecdotes suggest that when action potential–prolonging antiarrhythmic drugs are used for AF, excessive QT prolongation and torsades de pointes (TdP) often occur shortly after sinus rhythm is restored.
QT was measured in nine patients with AF who received two identical infusions of dofetilide: 1) before elective direct current cardioversion and 2) within 24 h of restoration of SR.
During AF, dofetilide did not prolong QT (baseline: 368 ± 48 ms vs. drug: 391 ± 60, p = NS) whereas during SR, QT was prolonged from 405 ± 55 to 470 ± 67 ms (p < 0.01). In four patients (group I), the SR dofetilide infusion was terminated early because QT prolonged to >500 ms, and one patient developed asymptomatic nonsustained TdP. The remaining five patients (group II) received the entire dose during SR. Although ΔQT was greater in group I during SR (91 ± 22 vs. 45 ± 25 ms, p < 0.05), plasma dofetilide concentrations during SR were similar in the two groups (2.72 ± 0.96 vs. 2.77 ± 0.25 ng/ml), and in AF (2.76 ± 1.22 ng/ml). ΔQT in SR correlated inversely with baseline SR heart rate (r = −0.69, p < 0.05), and QT dispersion developing during the infusion (r = 0.79, p < 0.01).
Shortly after restoration of SR, there was increased sensitivity to QT prolongation by this IKr-specific blocker. Slower heart rates after cardioversion and QT dispersion during treatment appear to be important predictors of this response.
Although drugs that prolong the QT interval can suppress arrhythmias, their potential to cause excessive QT prolongation, leading to the development of the polymorphic ventricular tachycardia torsades de pointes (TdP), is well recognized. When such agents are used to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) or flutter, clinical anecdotes suggest that TdP occurs more frequently after conversion to sinus rhythm (SR) rather than during the atrial arrhythmia (1–4).
The purpose of this study was to prospectively test the hypothesis that an action potential–prolonging antiarrhythmic drug would exert a greater effect on cardiac repolarization (as measured by the QT interval) shortly after restoration to SR compared with during AF or atrial flutter. Most QT-prolonging drugs (quinidine, sotalol, disopyramide, amiodarone) exert ancillary pharmacologic effects (e.g., autonomic blockade) that might confound testing of this hypothesis. Therefore, in this study, we used dofetilide, which exerts repolarization-prolonging effects due to block of the rapidly activating, outward potassium current, IKr(5,6). Dofetilide, which is devoid of significant other pharmacologic effects, prolongs refractoriness in most tissues, and its sole electrocardiographic (ECG) effect is QT prolongation (7,8). The efficacy of dofetilide in the acute cardioversion of AF or atrial flutter has been previously reported (9). The goal of the present study was to use the drug to determine whether the extent of QT interval change depended on whether the rhythm was AF or sinus and, if there was a difference, what the underlying mechanism(s) might be.
Twelve patients (nine male, three female) with AF (n = 9) or atrial flutter (n = 3) scheduled for elective direct current cardioversion were recruited consecutively from the Arrhythmia Service at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. All participants had a history of hypertension. Coronary artery disease was present in four, and diabetes in four. All participants provided written informed consent, and the study was approved by the Vanderbilt University Institutional Review Board.
Patients were enrolled into the study if they met the following eligibility criteria: AF or atrial flutter of more than 24 h but less than 12 months duration in whom elective direct current cardioversion was planned; therapeutic anticoagulation for at least two weeks before study entry, unless the arrhythmia was atrial flutter; normal biochemical and hematologic parameters and no symptoms of unstable angina or decompensated congestive heart failure. Women of childbearing potential and patients with previous adverse reactions to QT-prolonging drugs were excluded. All patients had a full medical history, physical examination, urinalysis, 12-lead ECG, biochemistry and hematologic examination before entry into the study. Patients were admitted to the Clinical Research Center at Vanderbilt University for continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythm while all antiarrhythmic therapy was stopped 48 h before the study. Because dietary sodium can influence atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) release (10)and QT interval (11), a sodium-controlled diet was given to all subjects during this period and for the duration of the study. Oral digoxin was used for rate control if required, and other atrioventricular nodal blocking agents were withheld for >24 h before entry to the study.
Each patient was scheduled to received two infusions of dofetilide, each after a 6- to 8-h overnight fast: the first infusion during AF and the second during SR, within 24 h of cardioversion. If the AF infusion did not restore SR, scheduled cardioversion was performed the same day. On the morning of each study day, an intravenous line was inserted in each arm of the supine patient, one for drug administration and the other for blood sampling of plasma drug concentrations; serum potassium and magnesium and plasma ANP and norepinephrine.
Intravenous dofetilide (Pfizer, Groton, Connecticut) was administered in a three-stage infusion over 100 min. The first six patients received 5.25 μg/kg over 100 min: 0.198 μg/kg/min for 5 min, 0.065 μg/kg/min for 35 minutes, then 0.033 μg/kg/min for 60 min. In the next six patients, the dose was 8 μg/kg over 100 min, and the rates of the three infusions were 0.3, 0.1 and 0.05 μg/kg/min, with the same infusion durations. Each patient received the same infusions on both study days. Infusion rates were based on pharmacokinetic data describing the disposition kinetics of dofetilide boluses in human participants and were designed as previously described (8,12)to rapidly achieve and then maintain stable plasma concentrations in the 1.5- to 2.5-ng/ml range. Electrocardiograms were recorded at baseline and every 10 min during the infusion.
Blood sampling and assays
Venous samples were collected at baseline (5 min before dofetilide infusion) for serum potassium and magnesium, plasma norepinephrine and plasma ANP. Serum potassium and magnesium and plasma norepinephrine were analyzed by Roche Biomedical Laboratories (Newark, New Jersey) and LabCorp (Burlington, North Carolina), respectively. Samples for measurement of plasma dofetilide were collected at baseline and at specified time points during infusion, and were analyzed by high pressure liquid chromatography (Pfizer Central Research, Groton, Connecticut). Plasma ANP was measured by radioimmunoassay as previously described (13)(AD Struthers, University of Dundee Medical School, U.K.).
QT analysis
All ECGs were recorded with the patient resting supine, using an analog system at 25-mm/s paper speed, 10-mm/mV gain and 40-Hz low pass filter setting. The ECGs were analyzed using a semiautomated digitizing program by a single observer. Intraobserver variability was examined by randomly selecting 50 ECGs to be reanalyzed by the same observer; the coefficient of variation was 4% to 6%. To examine for interobserver variability, independent duplicate determinations were made by a second blinded observer; the coefficient of variation between patients was 8% to 10%. The QT interval was measured in a precordial lead (V2 or V3) from the onset of the QRS to the end of the T wave, as extrapolated from the maximum negative slope of the T wave to the baseline. During both AF and SR, in the presence of a U wave greater than 25% of the amplitude of the T wave, the QTU interval was similarly measured. In each patient, the same precordial lead was measured in AF and SR. The mean of five consecutive QT intervals measured in AF and SR was used. The limb leads were not used in this analysis because when the underlying rhythm was AF, it was not possible to distinguish low amplitude U waves from coarse fibrillatory activity in the limb leads. Similarly, since U waves tend to occur in some leads and not others, ΔQT (the change in QT) was not measured in a single lead, but rather QT in all precordial leads was measured, and the mean of the differences in each lead was used to calculate ΔQT.
Dispersion of the QT interval (QTd) during SR was calculated as the difference between maximal and minimal QT intervals occurring in any of the 12 leads, and adjusted using the formula QTd = (maximum QT − minimum QT)/√(number of leads measured) (14). For the reasons outlined above, QTd was not measurable when the underlying rhythm was AF. Mean heart rate was calculated in both AF and SR from five consecutive complexes.
Analysis of the difference in QT and heart rate before and after infusion during AF and during SR was performed by using analysis of variance with repeated measures. Differences in ΔQT in all patients and by subgroup were tested using the paired and unpaired Student ttest where appropriate. All tests were two tailed, and a p value of <0.05 was considered to be significant. All data are presented as mean ± 1 SD.
Twelve patients participated in the study, three women and nine men. One patient cardioverted from atrial flutter to SR after 60 min of infusion. The remaining 11 patients received the entire 100-min infusion of dofetilide during AF without cardioversion to SR. After dofetilide infusion, three patients did not electrically cardiovert and were withdrawn from the study.
All of the remaining nine patients received the second infusion during SR. In four patients, the infusion was terminated early (2 after 20 min, 1 after 30 min and 1 after 60 min) because of QT prolongation to more 500 ms in at least two ECG leads. One of these participants developed asymptomatic, recurrent runs of TdP self-terminating after up to 17 beats and lasting over 10 min after stopping the infusion. The remaining patients (group II) completed the second infusion. The mean time from cardioversion to SR infusion was 19 ± 2 h. There was no relationship between the time between cardioversion and the outcome of the SR study.
Three patients in group I and two patients in group II received the higher dose of dofetilide. There were no significant differences in the clinical or demographic characteristics between group I and group II, and the durations of AF and previous treatments were similar. No other adverse effects and no significant changes occurred in systolic and diastolic blood pressure during the infusion in both AF and SR.
QT intervals
Data are presented in Figure 1for the first 100 min of the infusion during both AF and SR. In group I, data for the first 20 min are shown, as this was the time point that all four patients reached in SR. Baseline QT in AF and SR was not significantly different (AF vs. SR: 386 ± 49 and 420 ± 39 ms, p = NS). There was minor QT prolongation with dofetilide during AF, but the change was not significant (baseline and 100 min infusion: 386 ± 49 and 420 ± 60 ms, p = NS). The increment in QT produced by dofetilide infusion during SR in group II was similar to that seen in AF (412 ± 52 ms at baseline vs. 459 ± 62 ms at end-infusion, p = NS). In contrast, in group I, dofetilide administered during SR increased QT from 432 ± 15 to 580 ± 63 ms after 20 min infusion (p < 0.01 baseline vs. 20 min).
Other differences—AF versus SR
Despite the significantly different QT responses during AF and SR, plasma dofetilide concentrations were comparable on the two study days (Fig. 1). Baseline heart rate in AF (81 ± 17 beats/min) was higher than in SR (68 ± 15 bpm), although this was not statistically significant. Dofetilide infusion did not significantly alter heart rate in either AF or SR (Fig. 1).
There was no significant difference in mean serum potassium before infusion during AF and SR (4.3 ± 0.1 mEq/liter and 4.1 ± 0.1 mEq/liter, respectively). Mean serum magnesium was normal in all patients before infusion in AF and SR. Atrial natriuretic peptide during AF was elevated, 167 ± 89 pg/ml (normal range 7.3 to 32.4 pg/ml) and fell after cardioversion to 71 ± 46 pg/ml (p = 0.04). Plasma norepinephrine fell after cardioversion from 127 ± 47 pg/ml to 91 ± 59 pg/ml (p = NS).
Differences between groups I and II
Whereas there was no significant difference in QT at baseline (431 ± 14 vs. 411 ± 52) between the two groups, QT at 10 and 20 min of the SR infusion was significantly longer in group I than in group II (10 min: 585 ± 80 vs. 443 ± 71 ms; 20 min: 580 ± 63 vs. 432 ± 27 ms both, p < 0.05). Thus, ΔQT was significantly greater in group I compared with group II (91 ± 22 vs. 45 ± 25 ms, p < 0.05). Group I tended to have slower heart rates compared with group II (62 ± 17 vs. 74 ± 13 bpm), although this difference was not statistically significant. There was a significant correlation between baseline heart rate and ΔQT (r = −0.69, p < 0.05).
QT dispersion
QT dispersion during SR increased with dofetilide infusion from 30 ± 6 ms at baseline to 42 ± 15 ms at 20 min, but this change was not statistically significant. However, QTd measured at 20 min of infusion correlated significantly with ΔQT (r = 0.79, p = 0.01). The correlation was similar when QTd was calculated without correction for the number of leads measurable (r = 0.76, p = 0.019). Again, QTd tended to be greater in group I patients compared with group II patients (49 ± 15 vs. 38 ± 8 ms, p = NS).
The major finding of this study is that there is increased sensitivity to the QT-prolonging effects of dofetilide in some patients after restoration of SR compared with during AF. This exaggerated QT response was not seen during AF at comparable plasma drug concentrations in the same patients. Slower heart rates postcardioversion and increasing QT dispersion during dofetilide infusion were associated with exaggerated QT response, but no other clinical or demographic characteristic identifying patients at risk was identified. Serum potassium, which we have previously shown to be an important modulator of drug-induced QT prolongation (15), was not significantly different during AF and SR, or between the two groups during SR, and therefore does not appear to modulate this differential QT response to dofetilide.
Only one of the 12 patients in this study was cardioverted by intravenous dofetilide, whereas previous studies report conversion to sinus rhythm by intravenous dofetilide in 15% to 58% (9,16,17)of patients with AF and 54% to 83% (9,17)of those with atrial flutter. It is likely that the rate of infusion accounts for this difference, as animal data indicate that the rate of infusion is a crucial determinant of the extent to which pharmacologic effects are observed with an IKrblocker (18). The total dose of dofetilide used in this study was comparable to those in previous studies, but the rate of infusion was lower and was specifically chosen to study the effects of dofetilide on QT prolongation in the two rhythms, rather than to achieve pharmacologic cardioversion.
The QT intervals in this study are presented uncorrected for heart rate. The relationship of QT to heart rate in AF appears to be different from that in SR (19)and correction by Bazett's formula (20)appears to undercorrect the QT. In addition, correction of the QT interval by Bazett's formula would have been inappropriate at the very slow or fast heart rates seen in some of our patients (21). However, it has been reported that under conditions of rest versus exercise, the relationship of the QT interval to heart rate is less strongly correlated, and QT interval is relatively unchanged with regard to heart rate (22).
Mechanism of increased QT sensitivity
The finding of a correlation between heart rate and the extent of change in QT may be a manifestation of the property of reverse use-dependence displayed by many action potential–prolonging antiarrhythmics (23). However, this characteristic is not likely to explain the near-total lack of QT change in AF (or in group II), in the face of a striking increase—at marginally slower heart rates—in group I. Moreover, some in vitro and clinical studies have suggested that over this range of heart rates, dofetilide does not exert prominent reverse use-dependence (24,25).
Although baseline bradycardia identifies patients at risk for drug-induced QT prolongation in this and other (26)studies, we do not believe that the small differences in baseline heart rates are sufficient to completely explain the striking QT prolongation we observe in group I. We therefore suspect that other, as yet unidentified mechanisms conferred increased risk in this group. One possibility is an altered neurohormonal milieu, such as changing sympathetic nervous activity (27,28)or ANP levels (29); this could modulate a change in drug sensitivity by altering the magnitude of one or more of the multiple currents that control repolarization (30–32). Another possibility is that some of these patients had subclinical mutations in the genes encoding repolarizing channels, as has previously been reported (33); this could then reduce total "repolarization reserve" (34), with QT prolongation becoming exaggerated upon exposure to a blocking drug such as dofetilide.
Study limitations
All the patients in this study had AF associated with long-standing hypertension, and other cardiovascular disease was present in most. It remains undetermined if increased sensitivity to dofetilide or other drugs is similarly seen after restoration of SR from lone AF or AF associated with noncardiovascular disease. The small size of this study may also represent a limitation, particularly in interpreting ANP and norepinephrine data. We considered studying larger numbers, but the development of TdP in one patient and analysis of available QT data convinced us that our central hypothesis had been tested. Further studies will be required to more fully elucidate the suggestions from our data of a role for ANP, norepinephrine or genetic factors in mediating the exaggerated QT prolongation seen in group I during SR. The Food and Drug Administration's Cardiorenal Advisory panel recently recommended approval for the marketing of oral dofetilide for maintenance of SR after conversion of AF. The major adverse effect in the summary data presented was TdP. The incidence in patients with supraventricular arrhythmias was low, 0.8% (11/1,346), after maneuvers were implemented to reduce the risk, including screening patients for excessive QT prolongation and hospitalizing patients during initiation of therapy. Whether other markers implicated here might help further reduce this risk, or allow out patient drug initiation in some subsets, will require further study.
The correct method to measure QT interval, especially in the presence of a U wave, is not established. When the underlying rhythm was AF, we could not distinguish U waves from fibrillatory activity, and so we used measurement of QT only. When an obvious QTU complex developed during SR, we included the U wave in determining QT and in the calculation of QT dispersion. Because a goal of this study was to evaluate susceptibility to TdP, and because large U waves are common with the development of TdP (35), we feel this approach is justified here.
Clinical implications
We did not study participants again days or weeks after SR was restored, so we have no data as to whether the susceptibility identified here is transient or remains as long as SR remains. The clinical anecdotes that in part prompted this study suggest the susceptibility is transient. In addition, it has been reported that normal volunteers receiving sotalol (like dofetilide, an IKrblocker [36]) display greater QT prolongation with initial doses that with chronic therapy, achieving the same plasma concentrations (37). The mechanism(s) underlying this effect are unknown, but a similar phenomenon could contribute to the susceptibility we observed here.
From a practical point of view, the present data further reinforce the concept that patients receiving QT-prolonging antiarrhythmics for maintenance of SR should be closely evaluated in the immediate postcardioversion period to detect excessive QT prolongation. Such monitoring, in our view, should include assessment, preferably in multiple leads, by individuals sensitized to issues of QT lability and of postpause QTU duration and morphology. Our data indicate that this sensitivity is present for at least 24 h, although future studies would be required to determine whether monitoring the QT for a shorter period of time after cardioversion might be sufficient to detect patients displaying this exaggerated response. Our data also indicate that QT dispersion in SR may be a marker of undesirable QT prolongation.
New class III antiarrhythmic drugs, many of which include an important component of IKrblock (38), appear to have potential in the treatment of acute and chronic atrial arrhythmias. The main disadvantage with these otherwise well tolerated antiarrhythmic agents is their potential to cause excessive QT prolongation and development of TdP. Our data suggest that the QT response to one of these drugs, dofetilide, during AF does not predict the response after restoration to SR, and that exaggerated QT responses may occur in predisposed individuals. Monitoring of the QT interval in all patients after restoration of SR and dose adjustment may be prudent, particularly in the presence of bradycardia and increasing QT dispersion during treatment.
Physicians on the Vanderbilt Arrhythmia Service supported the study by referring patients. Kris Norris, RN assisted with the infusions.
↵1 During the conduct of this work, Dr. Choy was a recipient of an American Heart Association Fellowship-in-Training Award from the American Heart Association (Dallas, Texas) and the Derrick Dunlop Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation (London, U.K.). Dr. Roden is the holder of the William Stokes Chair in Experimental Therapeutics, a gift from the Daiichi Corporation.
☆ This study was supported in part by grants (GM07569 and RR00095) from the United States Public Health Service (Bethesda, Maryland), and from Pfizer Central Research (Groton, Connecticut). This study was conceived, and approval obtained from funding agencies and the Institutional Review Board, by Dr. Roden. Drs. Choy, Darbar and Dell'Orto were responsible for identification and recruitment of study participants, and actual conduct of the studies described, under the supervision of Dr. Roden. The manuscript was prepared by Drs. Roden and Choy.
- Abbreviations
- atrial fibrillation
- atrial natriuretic peptide
- electrocardiographic/electrocardiogram
- QTd
- QT dispersion
- sinus rhythm
- TdP
- torsades de pointes
- Received July 28, 1998.
- Revision received March 19, 1999.
- Accepted April 23, 1999.
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Therapeutic Group Counseling
The UP Foundation believes in creating a team atmosphere. To accomplish this, our counselors and Certified Peer Recovery Specialists work together to conduct Therapeutic Group Counseling sessions. Group Therapy allows participants to develop trust and reliance in one another. Each group counseling session includes an ice-breaker game and a closing activity. These sessions occur on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 3:00PM to 4:30PM, and focus on topics such as the following:
Relationships (parents, significant others, friends, etc.)
Anger Management
Recovery Maintenance
Assets and Liabilities
Emulating Role Models
Just for Today
Coping Skills
Health and Wellness (personal care)
Social Anxiety


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TEFL Online Course Testimonial
Rishi has currently completed our 120-hour TEFL course. He especially benefited from the units on lesson planning. Now, he is confident in the classroom and can easily prepare for his classes in an efficient way.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
Content and what I have learnt:↵•⇥The unit covers vocabulary, grammar and functions.↵•⇥Teaching Vocabulary – I have learned the terms receptive and productive word. I have also come across students who could write much better than they speak. This highlights the important point mentioned in the beginning of the unit – that students should have opportunity to practice the language.↵•⇥Grammatical Structures – meaning, usage, forms and patterns.↵•⇥Language functions – typically taught with the boomerang and patchwork type ESA lessons.


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Mariners Insider Blog
Mr. Morrow will be starting again soon - for the Rainiers
The back-and forth career of Seattle right-hander Brandon Morrow – he's a starter, no a reliever, no a starter – is about to take another turn.
It will land him, probably by the end of this week, in the starting rotation of the Tacoma Rainiers.
Morrow, the 24-year-old first-round draft pick in 2005, approached the team last month and told them he'd changed his mind about being a reliever. He wanted to be a starting pitcher.
What the Mariners want is a way to use Morrow and his 97 mph velocity, in a capacity that works for him and the team. This spring, when Morrow fell behind because of a tender elbow, he volunteered in the final week of camp to close.
Now that David Aardsma has seized that role, Morrow has used the last month to work on mechanics, especially driving his front foot toward the plate, not first base. After an adjustment period, Morrow seems to have taken to the change.
"It gives me more balance, better location," Morrow said.
Since Morrow doesn't have a specific role in the Seattle bullpen, the team appears willing to send him to Class AAA and give him time – plenty of it – to return to the role he had in college.
What's he need to do in Tacoma? Stay healthy, build his arm strength and pitch effectively.
Right or wrong, the team is concerned with his diabetes and isn't certain Morrow can stand up to the rigors of, say, 175 innings a season. Morrow doesn't doubt he can start regularly and wants the chance to prove it.
Within the week, it seems, he's going to get that chance.
Look for the team to bring up Roy Corcoran and assign Morrow to Tacoma, then feel free to watch Morrow start for the Rainiers over the next month and a half, at least.


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De Bethune DB28 and DB28T Kind of Blue
Watch brands are smitten by the colour blue and, as if to affirm their devotion, a myriad of blue dials appear at Baselworld each year. Of the miscellany of hues available, none will stir your senses and draw you in quite like those produced by De Bethune. Now they have a new collection comprising of two models to add to their portfolio - the De Bethune DB28 and DB28T Kind of Blue.
The "Kind of Blue" collection has been created to honour the colour which has been a signature feature of De Bethune since they began their watchmaking adventure and indeed, these new pieces are almost entirely Cerulean in appearance, with Grade 5 titanium cases and a good deal of the movements having been treated using traditional hand and heat methods to give them an other-worldly character.
The DB28 model features the brand's precision spherical moon-phase so therefore wins me over. It also packs in an innovative high-precision escapement and a host of De Bethune extras. Although it is the least exclusive of the two, just 10 pieces will be made this year so it's likely that yours will be the only one you'll ever see.
Add a "T" to the title and you get the same lust-worthy case plus a tourbillon - the lightest in the world they say - the ultra-limited DB28T model of which just 5 pieces will be made available this year.
More information at De Bethune here.
More De Bethune from us here.


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Vitra Design Museum
Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company founded by Willi and Erika Fehlbaum. After WWII they moved the production facilities of their small furniture shop located in Biersfelden, Switzerland, to Weil am Rhein, Germany, and named their company Vitra. On his US trip in 1953, Willi Fehlbaum discovered the designs of Charles & Ray Eames. Subsequently, he acquired the production licenses through Herman Miller not only for Eames but also for George Nelson. In 1967 the Panton chair by Verner Panton was launched, the first cantilever chair made out of plastic. In 1977 son Rolf Fehlbaum took over and in 1984 the partnership with Herman Miller was terminated - without loosing the rights to designs by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson for Europe and the Middle East. Today, Vitra produces furniture for homes, offices and public areas. Their home collection includes not only classics by Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton and Alexander Girard but also pieces by designers such as Antonio Citterio, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and Hella Jongerius to name just a few.
The Vitra Campus is always worth a day visit. At the VitraHaus, designed by Herzog & deMeuron, you get a chance to stroll around, explore your love for design and place an order for any design piece your heart desires. The Frank Gehry's Vitra Design Museum consistently features exquisite exhibits on the works by important designers such as Alvaro Aalto, Gerrit Rietveld, Charles & Ray Eames. And there is also a two-hour architectural tour (both in German and English), which gives you a closer look at the production facilities designed by a group of the most notable architects of today.
To learn more, visit Vitra.
Vitra & G-Star RAW launch Prouvé RAW Office Edition.
Vitra Campus Architecture
The architectural campus features following buildings:
Petrol Station, Jean Prouvé, ca. 1953/2003
Airstream Kiosk, 1968/2011
Dome, Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1978/2000
Factory Buildings, Nicholas Grimshaw, 1981/1986
Balancing Tools, Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, 1984
Vitra Design Museum Gallery and Gate, Frank Gehry, 1989
Vitra Design Museum, Frank Gehry, 1989
Factory Building, Frank Gehry, 1989
Fire Station, Zaha Hadid, 1993
Conference Pavilion, Tadao Ando, 1993
Factory Building, Álvaro Siza, 1994
Bus Stop, Jasper Morrison, 2006
VitraHaus, Herzog & de Meuron, 2010
Diogene, Renzo Piano, 2013
Promenade, Álvaro Siza 2014
Vitra Slide Tower, Carsten Höller, 2014
Euro Trip
My trip to Switzerland this year took me again beyond Zurich as well as the Swiss border not only to visit with family as well as friends but also to enjoy fabulous art and architecture ...
~ EUROPE BOUND over the East Bay and via Pfannenstiel ~
~ ZURICH in winter ~
Sunny but cold skies over old town and my Alma Mater.
~ ZURICH by night ~
Especially beautiful around the Holidays. The town is always looking so festive decked out with tons of Christmas lights.
~ ZURICH: University ~
Library at the Law Research Center, Santiago Calatrava 2004
~ ZURICH: Kunsthaus ~
Juan Miró Wall, Frieze, Mural - a fantastic exhibit on Juan Miró (1893-1983), a prolific artsit, whose oeuvre radiates an irresistible immediacy and material quality.
~ ZURICH: Museum Haus Konstruktiv ~
(Un)Ordnung. (Dés)Ordre was put together in honor of Vera Molnár's nineties birthday. Born in 1924 in Budapest, she has lived in Paris since 1960 and is considered one of the ground-breaking pioneers of computer and algorithmic arts. A delightful exhibit!
Learn more, check out Vera Molnar.
~ BERN: The Museum of Fine Arts ~
Toulouse-Lautrec and Photography is a comprehensive exhibit on Toulouse-Lautrec, which pulls you right into his world of fin-de-siècle Paris and his fascination with photography. While I enjoyed viewing his lithographies, I was very fascinated by his oil paintings and especially his drawings!
The second exhibit Embracing Sensation featured artist couple Silvia Gertsch (1963*) and Xerxes Ach (1957*). Each artist has their own artistic language regarding style, technique and materials. Gertsch's stained glass paintings are truly magnificent in technique and the way how they capture the sunlight - bestowing to them an almost spiritual glow. Whereas Ach's painting have a fascinating textural quality about them radiating off shades of beautifully rich and deep colors.
~ RIEHEN: Beyeler Foundation ~
A visit to the Beyeler Foudation is always a must. Designed by Renzo Piano, the museum was built from 1992 to 1997 and is situated in the park of the 18th century Villa Berower. Piano succeeded in immersing the building in the surrounding greenery while having it entirely lit by natural light.
In 1915/16 The Last Futurist Exhibition on Painting should prove to be one of the most influential exhibits in the history of modern art. It was here that Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) exhibit his Black Square. With In Search of 0,10 the Beyeler Foundation accomplished to put together yet again a brilliant exhibition, which is orchestrated into two parts: While 0,10 features most of the surviving works of the original show, Black Sun juxtaposes them with paintings, sculptures, installations and film of artists inspired as well as influenced by Malevich - such as Alexander Calder, Olafur Eliasson, Wassily Kandinsky, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra and many more. Loved it!
~ WEIL AM RHEIN: Vitra Design Museum ~
While in Basel, a quick drive to the Vitra Design is worth the detour!
Please also check out my blog on the Vitra Design Museum (December 13th, 2015) featuring more pictures of the campus and the Vitra Haus.
~ BASEL: Basler Minster ~
Landmark of the city of Basel, the minster was built in red sandstone between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles. The so-called Galluspforte is one of the oldest Romanesque Tympana in the German hemisphere and dates back to 1185.
~ ULM: Ulm Minster ~
The minster is the tallest church in the world, with a steeple measuring 161 meter. We climbed all the 768 steps of the spiraling staircase to the top to enjoy the magnificent view of view Baden-Wurttemberg and Neu-Ulm Bavaria. The foundation stone was laid in 1377 and construction lasted; but is was not until 1890 that the building was completed. The church consists of five naves, the main with a height of 41 meter being almost three times high as it is wide. The stained glass windows are stunning, and so are the wood sculptures of the choir seating.
~ ULM: Die Malweiber von Paris at the Edwin Scharff Museum ~
A inspiring exhibition about German women artists of the early 1900s, who had the fortune to study art in Paris, at a time when it was considered indecent for a woman to develop artistic ambitions in Germany. Maria Slavonia (1865-1931) especially caught, especially her two self-portraits from 1887 and 1910 respectively (center: Houses at Montmartre 1900, oil on carton detail).
A visit to Hungary is always a treat. This time my travels took me to my relatives on the Western border, where I got treated like royalty, was served heaps of delicious food and shlepped all over the region: Meszlen, Szombathely downtown and art museum, Köszeg downtown and Sacred Heart Church, Novákfalva in Velem.... Köszönom szépen a kedves vendéglátast!
~ HOMEWARD BOUND over the Canadian Rockies to the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area ~
Centre Le Corbusier
The Maison l'Homme of Zurich, Switzerland, today the Centre Le Corbusier / Heidi Weber Museum, is an inspiring art museum, which I always make a point of visiting when I am back home.
The center was commissioned on the initiative of Heidi Weber, owner of the interior design gallery Mezzanin. She met Le Corbusier (Charles-Eduard Jeanneret, 1887- 1965) in 1958 in Roquebrune Cap Martin and maintained a close professional relationship with the architect throughout last years of his life.
Thanks to her inspiration and tenacity, Le Corbusier completed his sketch of the kind of dream house he had been working on since 1950. Heidi Weber's vision was a museum / an exhibition hall serving as the perfect space to house Le Corbusier's works of art - a Gesamtkunstwerk reflecting all aspects of his oeuvre: architecture, sculptures, paintings, furniture, design and theoretical writings in unified harmony. Construction began in 1964. The center was completed in 1967, after the death of Le Corbusier.
To learn more, visit Heidi Weber Museum.
Euro Trip
With our hometown being out base, this trip took us to beautiful Alsace and Burgundy to enjoy fabulous wines, delicious food and medieval architecture.
~ EUROPE BOUND over the North Bay ~
~ ZURICH on a rainy day ~
~ ZURICH on a sunny day ~
~ ZURICH: Reliefs at the Grossmünster ~
~ BASEL: Kristof Kintera at The Museum Tinguely ~
The museum was designed by Mario Botta and opened in 1996. It houses a permanent collection of the works of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), whose kinetic sculptures never fail to delight the young and the old to this day. Therefore the Museum Tinguely provides a fitting backdrop to the works by Czech artist and sculptor Kristof Kintera (1973*).
Please feel free to check out also my blog on the Abbeye of Fontenay (September 02, 2014).
St. George's Abbey
I always enjoy exploring medieval churches as well as abbeys. St. George's Abbey in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, is one of my favorite places to visit.
As a former Benedict monastery founded in 970, it has a rich history to look back on. The banquet hall, containing the frescos commissioned by David von Winkelsheim (dating from around 1515) are a must-see and are considered to be the earliest proof of Renaissance influence in northern Switzerland. The cloisters are equally note-worthy. In 1525 the abbey was secularized. In 1927 the property underwent an extensive restoration and was eventually turned into a museum. St. George's abbey is a wonderful place in order to immerse yourself into the monastic life of the Late Middle Ages.
To learn more, visit Kloster St. Georgen.
Neues Museum
This was a long awaited dream of mine. On our recent Euro trip we made it all the way up to Berlin and spent an entire day, if not two, on the Museumsinsel, devoting most of the time to The Neues Museum. It was built from 1843 to 1855 according to the plans by Friedrich August Stüler (1800-1865), a student of the prominent Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). Over the decades, time took a heavy toll on the museum and it was in danger of being demolished. In 1997, David Chipperfield and Julian Harrap were chosen to overview the rebuilding and renovating of this UNESCO world heritage site. The museum officially reopened in 2009.
I thoroughly enjoyed wandering through the museum and catching myself time and again being more fascinated by the renovation than by the actually art collection itself. I loved how Chipperfield and Harrap accomplished to gently restore and touch up the building while leaving murals, mosaics, columns or sculptured unfinished or just filled in and juxtaposing them with modern materials.


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I wanted to share a really well written blog post that is based on a presentation about the evolution of Network Programmability. One of the things I tend to like about a strong presentation is that it covers enough history and current context to make the content relevant to its audience. The writer of this article does that amazingly well. I'm glad to share it since I agree with much of what he said and it dovetails with my thinking on the subject.
Here are some of the points summarized: - We need a new model. We need to put into place a methodology that allows us to interact with the network in the same way that we design it. - Purchasing products or building solutions that do the [high level abstractions], without a mastery of [fundamental technologies],.. will inevitably result in failure. - At scale, repetitive tasks are the not-so-silent killer…. These repetitive tasks tend to occupy a lot of time, mostly for those whose time is really valuable… These tasks are prime candidates for automation. - Some kind of centralization will win out. - No, you do NOT need to become a programmer, but you can if you truly want to. - "The truth is that we don't need all network engineers to learn code. We need network engineers to solve networking problems. We also need a smaller subset of these folks to tackle the problems in existing tool sets and getting the networking discipline to understand how to improve processes for the better."


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Electric Heated Towel Warmers
Electric heating is the perfect way to heat your bathroom and towels when plumbing is problematic. We have electric heaters in our range to cater for all situations and style choices. All that's needed is a standard plug socket, which make electric heaters easy and practial to operate.


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A.C.W. Christmas Pizza Night: Thursday, December 8th at 6pm
A.C.W. Christmas Pizza Night: Thursday, December 8th at 6pm. Cost: $10. Please bring 2-3 dozen cookies for the Seniors Christmas baskets and Mission to Seafarers.
We are still collecting 'Hot Socks' (wool blend please) and gently used stuffed toys for the Mission to Seafarers. There is a basket at the back of the church to leave the 'Hot Socks' – please see Ann or Sylvia regarding any stuffed toys. We are also collecting unused Christmas cards to donate to the Burnaby Youth Custody Services. We are no longer collecting Campbell's Soup labels as this program has been discontinued.
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