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The Canon EOS 7D – The Camera We Want to Love
By Darwin Wiggett and Samantha Chrysanthou
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In early October we were lucky enough to test the soon-to-be released Canon EOS-7D. Samantha, a Nikon user, was interested in testing the camera, as a possible replacement for her aging D200. Samantha had hit a wall with her Nikon D200, finding the files lacked the detail she wanted for her intimate landscape photography. She rented and tested a Nikon D300 and was impressed by how much better the details were in the files compared to the D200. She posted a blog about her tests and started to save up her pennies for a D300. Canon at the time had no APS-c sensor camera that had the features and price point of the D300. Nikon had the market cornered on mid-priced semi-pro cameras.
Enter the Canon EOS 7D, a direct competitor to the Nikon D300 (now discontinued and replaced with the Nikon D300s). Darwin was interested in the Canon 7D as a possible replacement for his Canon Rebel XSi (EOS 450D). Darwin uses his Rebel as a backpacking camera and thinks the quality/price ratio of this little entry-level camera is unmatched. He uses the Rebel for professional stock and magazine work. The Rebel XSi, although a solid performer with fine quality files, simply does not have professional level controls or responsiveness. Darwin finds it works fine as a landscape camera for deliberate and slow images but as a quick action, travel, people or wildlife camera it lacked important features of a pro camera. The 7D promised pro-level controls and more.
Samantha also wanted a camera that was super intuitive to use AND had great files. The specs of the 7D (18MP, 8fps, Live View, 1080P video, 100% viewfinder) looked great to both of us. We were pumped to test the new Canon camera.
Out in the field, the Canon EOS-7D did not disappoint. We loved the handling and customizability of the camera. Darwin has used almost every Canon camera ever made since the Canon AE-1P was released in 1981. Of all the Canon cameras Darwin has used the 7D was the most exciting, intuitive and fun camera he has tried. Darwin was immediately sold; he wanted this camera!
Samantha was so impressed by the logical and easy to use features of the 7D that, after several days of using the camera, she was ready to switch from Nikon to Canon. Samantha is not easily impressed by gear and has a sentimental attachment to Nikon, so for her to consider a switch said a great deal about Canon's design innovations on the 7D.
For example, in our opinion, Canon's Live View is superior to Nikon's because Canon includes a simulated histogram (to preview exposure) and the ability to preview depth-of-field on the rear LCD by pressing the DOF preview button and changing the aperture settings on the fly. So far Nikon does not have these features. We also like Canon's Roll and Pitch leveling feature over Nikon's and almost everyone agrees that Canon's video feature is much better than Nikon's. In many ways the Canon 7D was just easier to use than many cameras on the market (although Nikon's D300/D300s are amazingly intuitive as well). And the autofocus on the 7D seemed zippy and fast. What was not to like? For a complete list of specs and features please visit dpreview .
File Quality
Our final test was to look closely at the files. We had a Canon Rebel XSi, a 12 MP entry-level dSLR, and the 21 MP Canon 1ds Mark III (Canon's flagship camera) as cameras to which we would compare the 7D files. We had big expectations–we admit it. We thought the quality of the files from the 18 MP Canon 7D should fall somewhere in between the quality of the Rebel and the Mark III. After all, the price of the 7D in Canada ($2100) is more than triple that of the XSi ($625) but is still 1/3 less than the 1ds Mark III ($7500).
Here is how we tested file quality. We shot various subjects with all three cameras at 100 ISO. In all comparisons we outfitted the cameras with the same lens. We used numerous different lenses on the cameras as well. We tried to match compositions, which meant we had to move the full frame 1Ds Mark III a little closer to the subject to get the same framing as the Rebel and the 7D. We always used Live View and 10x magnification on each camera to get precise focus using manual focus. We turned off IS (image stabilization) on the lenses, we used solid tripods, cable releases, mirror lock-up and apertures that we would actually use in the field (f8 to f16). No filters were used on any of the lenses in our tests. We shot all cameras in RAW mode and processed all files in Canon's Digital Photo Pro (DPP) software. In DPP we turned off all noise reduction, turned off sharpening, and processed images in 'standard' picture mode. All settings (white balance, contrast, brightness etc.) were the same for all camera files. We then brought the processed RAW files up in Photoshop CS4 and compared the files at 100%.
Studio Results
We first tested the cameras in the studio. We shot the images below with all three Canon cameras using a Canon 45mm TS-E lens at f13.
Because each camera has a different number of pixels on the sensor it is difficult to do a direct apples-to-apples comparison but below are the 100% views of the 7d files compared to the Rebel and Mark III files.
To our eye, the 7D file looks the least sharp, seems to have less detail in the shadows and seems 'flat' and muddy with very little snap. The Rebel and Mark III files look noticeably better.
Just for fun we interpolated the Rebel's 12 MP files up to the size of the 7D's sensor at 18 MP and downsized the 1Ds Mark III files from 21 MP to 18 MP. We used Photoshop's bicubic interpolation for resizing. We left the 7D at its native 18 MP resolution. This is not really a fair test because upsizing and downsizing reduces image quality. So the 7D is really at an advantage here. No sharpening was added to any file. Below are the results.
Again to our eye the 7D files look soft and mushy compared to the snap in the other two files. Of course we expected the flagship Mark III to outperform the mid-priced 7D but we did not expect the entry level Rebel to better the 7D especially when the Rebel's 12MP files were interpolated to 18MP!
Field Results
In the field we thought it best to just compare the Rebel and the 7D since they both had an APS-c sized sensors and the 7D is probably a camera for people who might be moving up from something like the Rebel or the Canon 30D or 40D.
In our first test we made an image of hay bales in the country. As always we used Live View and manually focused on the hay bale. We used a 70-200 f4L lens at f16 (mirror lock-up, cable release, sturdy tripod etc.). The detailed comparison shot follows the overall view.
We were surprised by just how much sharper the Rebel images appeared in the field tests.
Every time we put on a telephoto lens and shot distant scenes, the 7D came up much softer than the Rebel. Remember, we were using the same lenses in every comparison, the same apertures, Live View focusing, mirror lock-up etc. We processed the photos in Canon's DPP exactly the same with no sharpening or noise reduction. In each case, the 7D file did not match the performance of the Rebel.
The example below shows the problem we kept running into with the 7D. The image looked tack sharp on the LCD using Live View at 10x, but the actual details in the file were mushy.
We were continually dismayed at the soft, muddy files we were getting from the 7D. In test after test, the 7D files were especially poor when using telephoto or wide angle lenses with distant scenes. When the subject was closer to the camera (like the original still life) the 7D performed slightly better. Below is a scene taken at 20mm at f11 (with a 17-50mm f2.8 Tamron lens). The detailed file has the characteristic 'mushy' look we grew accustomed to seeing from the 7D. Both photos are ©Samantha Chrysanthou
We did not directly compare the 7D against our little Canon G9 (a 12MP point-n-shoot), but we happened to take very similar shots one morning of the same subject with the two different cameras. When we processed the RAW images in DPP we were surprised by the fact that the G9 files looked nearly as good as the 7D files!
A Second and Third 7D Body
The files from the Canon 7D were so disappointing to us that we began to wonder if we had received a dud camera. We borrowed a different body. Off we went for round two, again shooting numerous scenes with both the 7D and the Rebel XSi. We got the exact same results: the little Rebel bested the 7D every time in terms of file quality. The second 7D body performed as 'poorly' as the first.
So… we got a THIRD 7D body and ran more tests. We went out and shot a city scene with three different Canon cameras; the new 10 MP Canon G11 point-n-shoot, our trusty Rebel XSi, and the 7D. We also threw the 12 MP Nikon D300s into the mix just for fun. With the G11 we used a tripod, f5.6, IS off and used auto-focus. With the Rebel and the 7D we attached a 45mm TS-E lens, used f8, Live View for precise focus and mirror lock-up with a cable release. On the Nikon we also used Live View and manual focus, mirror-up, a cable release and a 17-55 f2.8 Nikon Lens. The Canon cameras were at a default setting of 100 ISO, the Nikon at its default of 200 ISO. We processed all the Canon files in DPP using auto white balance, standard picture style, and all noise and sharpening off. We processed the Nikon image in Adobe Camera Raw 5.5 with all sharpening and noise reduction off and all controls zeroed out.
Here is the overall city scene followed by the detailed comparisons
The little $575 G11 point-n-shoot can definitely hold its own against the 7D in terms of file quality. This is especially noticeable if you compare the points of contrast in the image, such as the window frames in the building. For some reason, even though we processed both RAW images in DPP using the same picture settings (standard) and white balance (auto), the two cameras gave very different colour renditions of the scene.
The photo above is consistent with what we saw with in all of our tests, the Rebel comes out on top in terms of fine details captured in the scene.
There is simply no question that the Nikon comes out on top in terms of detail and nuance of tonal capture. In fact, we think the D300s outperforms our trusty little Rebel—which you would expect from a higher end camera like the $1800 Nikon. Even though both the Canon 7d and the Nikon D300s camera files were processed using 'auto' white balance the difference in colour cast is not surprising given that these are two different brands of camera (Canon and Nikon) and that we used two different RAW converters (Canon's DPP and Abobe's Camera RAW). The top camera in this test was the Nikon
Finally, we shot a detailed wall of graffiti in the city with the Canon 7D, Rebel XSi, 1ds Mark III, G11 and the Nikon D300s. The 3 Canon dSLR's were outfitted with the 45mm TS-E lens, the Nikon was outfitted with the Nikon 17-55 f2.8, and the G11 with its built-in lens. We tried to match the exact composition with each camera. Below is the overall scene and following that the detailed results.
The G11 gives very vibrant colours even when the RAW files are processed with the exact same settings (auto white balance, standard picture settings) as the 7D. We're not sure why. Disregarding the colour differences it looks like the little G11 produces files to compete with the bigger sensor on the 7D.
The Rebel wins again both in terms of micro contrast and tonal capture.
Because we were using a 45mm TS-E lens on cameras with two differently sized sensors (the 7D has an APS-c sensor while the Mark III has a full frame 35mm sensor) we needed to move closer to the scene with the full frame camera. We did not get the framing exact. The 1Ds files should look larger because it has more megapixels. Nevertheless the end result is still the same. The $7500 1Ds Mark III gives much better files than the $2100 7D (we should hope so!).
In this comparison the D300s easily wins in our opinion. The fine detail is really nice, the tonal changes are subtle. The Canon 7D file has a characteristic mushy look. But one could argue that the 7D could be enlarged bigger because it has more pixels on the sensor.
In the next test we interpolated the Nikon D300s file up to 18MP. Then we tried to match the colours and contrast of the two files for a 'finished' image. The final two images look pretty close – below:
Even at a disadvantage the interpolated Nikon file simply trumps the Canon file. In our opinion there is no contest, the Nikon D300s produces better files than the Canon 7D.
Of all the cameras we have ever used, we loved the handling of the Canon 7D the best. What a little sports car of a camera! We so much wanted to love this camera. But in test after test we constantly were disappointed in the quality of the files. For our purposes, landscape and nature photography shot using RAW images, the 7D just does not cut it. Darwin is definitely keeping his Rebel (a great camera for the money) for backpacking. We were so impressed with the Canon G11 that we plan to add it to our camera bags as an everyday walk around camera.
Sam has since purchased the Nikon D300s because it gives her the both great file quality AND strong performance and handling.
We looked on the web for reviews of the Canon 7D and almost every review site RAVES about the camera both in terms of features and performance (we agree) but also in terms of file quality (huh?). Also on photo sharing forums a lot of photographers think the file quality of the Canon 7D is awesome. Maybe our expectations were too high? We thought the 7D should give us files better than a Rebel or G11. Maybe we are just too anal?
Here is what we know. The Canon 7D is not good enough for us to buy and use for the way we shoot (RAW). A whole lot of people love the camera and are super happy with it. Different strokes…. We suggest before buying ANY camera, rent it if you can and go out and shoot stuff you normally would shoot. Compare it with the camera you already own. Is there a jump in quality and performance? Don't listen to the hype and reviews, go test for yourself. We did and we are content with our choices.
Technical Notes
Royce Howland has made some 'suspicians' about why he thinks the RAW files look 'mushy' on the Canon 7D
– Effects of different levels of AA filtering that may require different initial "capture" sharpening to normalize the images from different bodies for apples-to-apples comparison. My suspicion is the 7D has one of the strongest AA filters ever on a Canon body which would put its files at an immediate disadvantage in zero sharpening comparisons.
– Effects of diffraction limitation and depth of field when comparing different sensor formats. Looking critically at my own shooting of late, I'm now trying to stay in the sweet spot of f/8 to f/11 because it's amazing the softening impact of going to narrower apertures (not to mention focus errors) on these densely packed sensors.
– Effects of things like picture style differences in DPP, even though equivalent RAW conversion settings were selected, which may contribute to the flat appearance of the 7D files. I don't think the DPP conversions are really normalized with each other across different bodies for the same style settings, which is one reason I don't like DPP. (See also the super saturation of the G11 shots.)
Royce continues:
Some of these things, ironically, might be better equalized for apples-to-apples comparisons by shooting JPEG in the camera instead of RAW. This would give the camera's own engine the chance to produce its best-effort output given a set of baseline picture style controls.
But regardless of those things, at the end of the day when you look at the results out of the camera, softer is softer and flatter is flatter. One clear conclusion is that the 7D RAW files will need more work to compete with other camera images that need less work. When you start off with the RAW image further behind the 8 ball, it limits how good you can go… especially without getting into a "digital processed" look.
NEW Updates
There are concerns about Canon's DPP making 7D files look soft while Adobe's Camera RAW does a better job. Below is the same 7D image shot at f8 using the Canon 45mm TS-E lens. The left image was processed in DPP (auto white blance, standard picture style, no sharpening or noise reduction). The image on the right is with the latest version of Camera RAW in Photoshop CS-4 (auto white balance, all controls zeroed out, no sharpening or noise reduction). Is DPP bad? You decide.
End Note
We have summarized the deluge of comments on this review here
For those who want to see how the camera performs relative to the Rebel at f5.6 and in JPEG and with various RAW converters go to here and here
And if all of the 'serious' comments have you shaking your head, cruise on over here for a good ha ha.
Jan 31, 2010 Update. Comments on the 7D Review posting are now closed. We received a lot of great and helpful comments on the 7D review that should give people a lot of resouces to check out and a lot of information to judge the validity of our tests. In the end you should just rent the camera, see if it fits your needs and decide for yourself if the 7D is a good match for you. I am closing the comments for one main reason. There is a small vocal minority out there that just want to flame, and name-call, and act like kids by posting rude and offensive comments on this blog. In short they are not following this blog's House Rules. Rather than spend all my time policing other people's behaviour I am ending comments on the review.


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I am changing a page into a post. This was posted previously as a page. I don't know how much more clear I can make that. This was a "page" and now it is a blog "post." The original small blurb was posted April 13, 2016.
So this is where I'm going to write about the shitty emotions I feel all the time right now. It sucks pretty badly. Losing weight fast is not easy. You think it is, but it isn't. I'm like a bipolar bear. I stomp around, sad, angry, happy, scared, nervous, upset, sad again…just clomping all over the place and all over the people near me.
Update – January 24, 2018
Turns out, I'm actually a bipolar bear. I was diagnosed after a terrible, horrible incident in August, 2017. I have also come to realize I am an alcoholic. That's not an easy thing to write. Nothing is easy to write right now. I have no energy for creativity. I blame the pills I'm on, but I won't stop taking them.
The thing no one realizes is that after a RnY surgery, if you drink, you can quickly become an alcoholic. I can drink one drink and feel drunk nearly instantly, but then it fades really quickly, so I drink another, and before I know it, I'm blackout drunk. I have no memory of what I've said or done. I have done some horrible things whilst in this state, and I can't remember any of it. I think that is the worst part–knowing I've done something wrong, but not knowing exactly what it was or why I did it.
I nearly destroyed my marriage because of my drinking and my disorder. I always thought I was strong, but with those emotions running through me constantly, I was terrible and weak. I could not control myself. I had no control.
I met another woman who got a DUI during my sheriff's work who also had the same surgery. She also became addicted to alcohol very quickly. She was out of control as well.
If you get this surgery, don't drink so much, huh? Just have that one drink and stop there. Even after one drink, I'd sometimes not remember things I'd just said. I love wine. I miss my wine, but I'd miss my husband much more, so I do not drink anything. I don't even taste, because sometimes, tastes can make me feel drunk. It goes right through the pouch, directly into the intestines, where it hits the body all at once. Boom. Drunk!
I would do anything to keep my marriage of 24 years alive and well, but it is super hard. I feel like I've let everyone down. I've destroyed my husband's confidence. I've made him depressive and constantly remembering what I've done. I can't do anything to make him understand that I will never do that again except by just not doing it again. I can't undo anything. I can't go back in time and stop myself. I can't help what happened in the past.
My hope is that one day he will forgive me and forget. He will love me with everything the way I love him. Right now, he doesn't. I am not his everything anymore. That hurts so much to write. But I need to be honest with myself.
I screwed up hard. I lost friends. Friends I've had for years. Those are gone forever. I don't care about those as much as I care about my Dee. I never want to lose that friendship, and I've already worn it down so much over the years that this final betrayal may, one day, be the crack that destroys it. I know that. I know that even though he said we will try, he could decide that it is just too hard to go on with me. That it is too hard to be with me.
I'm a hard person to love. I don't do anything the way I should. I am always one step closer to destruction.
I just want to be happy again.

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Week 9 FanDuel Tournament Pivots
In daily fantasy football tournaments, you don't want to use the same guys everyone else is playing. You need to be different. You need to be contrarian.
Throwing chalk plays into a tournament lineup can sometimes work, but it's also important to know which players to pivot to, or use instead of the popular, chalky option. Let's take a look at the Week 9 slate with a list of pivot options.
Chalk: Philip Rivers $8,600 vs Chicago Bears
Philip Rivers has been nothing short of remarkable this season. He steps into this Week 9 matchup having thrown for 300 yards and multiple touchdowns in each of the past five games. Despite losing Keenan Allen for the season to a kidney injury, we should see Rivers continue to build upon his career year facing a Bears defense that ranks ninth worst against the pass, according to Net Expected Points (NEP).
Pivot: Peyton Manning $7,700 at Indianapolis Colts
Is Manning past his prime? Sure. But he still has something left in the tank. He looked like a whole other man coming out of their bye week, and he looked poised as he was connecting on his deep balls to Demaryius for most of the game in a tough matchup against the Green Bay Packers.
This week we see the revenge narrative, as Peyton faces his old team the Indianapolis Colts. He has an excellent matchup (Colts are ranked 27th versus the pass according to NEP), and also gets ideal throwing conditions (inside in a dome). With two elite receivers (Demaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders), a new weapon in Vernon Davis, and a resurgence in the running attack, we should expect to see this Broncos offense firing on all cylinders on Sunday afternoon.
Running Back
Chalk: Mark Ingram $7,700 vs Tennessee Titans
The New Orleans Saints have the second highest implied point total of the week, and appear to have a positive game script for Ingram, who has the benefit of playing at home in a game where the Saints are favored by nine. And while the Titans have allowed the seventh fewest fantasy points to running backs this season, we have them ranked as a bottom 10 defensive unit against the run when it comes to NEP.
Much of Mark Ingram's value comes from his red zone usage -- only once this season has he surpassed 80 rushing yards. Drew Brees has absolutely insane home/road splits this season, averaging twice as many touchdowns (2.75) and 45 more passing yards at home than on the road. Given Brees history at home, we should expect the touchdowns will come through the air. That may hinder Ingram's upside.
Pivot: Chris Ivory $5,900 vs Jacksonville Jaguars
After consecutive duds (just 58 rushing yards the last two games), we should expect Chris Ivory to have a nice bounce back game here against the Jaguars. Since returning from injury, Ivory is averaging over 22 touches per game. With Ryan Fitzpatrick dealing with torn ligaments in his thumb, the Jets could opt to run even more this week against a Jaguars defense which is allowing the seventh most fantasy points to opposing running backs. Also, as an added bonus, we've seen Ivory catch 8 passes in their three games following their bye. As a reference point, Ivory had just five receptions in his first three years in the league.
Wide Receiver
Chalk: Stefon Diggs $7,400 vs St Louis Rams
Since bursting on to the scene in Week 4, only DeAndre Hopkins, Odell Beckham, Allen Robinson and Tavon Austin have more fantasy points per game in PPR leagues than Diggs. I haven't been a big Diggs believer over the last couple weeks, but at his modest price tag, I had been riding the wave. This week, not so much.
Diggs has seen his salary rise almost $3,000 ($2,900 to be exact) since playing his first NFL game. He's now literally priced between Randall Cobb and Amari Cooper (two wide receiver options I like better this week). Since their bye, Diggs has faced pass defenses ranked 23rd on average, according to NEP. This week is a much tougher matchup against the third-ranked Rams pass defense, per NEP. Also, according to Pro Football Focus, Diggs should be lined up Janoris Jenkins, who ranks as the 10th best cornerback in the NFL. Just how good has Jenkins been? Well, over the last three games, he's held opposing wide receivers to just 28 receiving yards. Combined.
I'm staying far away from Diggs this weekend.
Pivot: Brandin Cooks $7,100 vs Tennessee Titans
As I pointed out earlier, Brees has amazing numbers at home. The Saints' 28.5 implied point total indicates that Vegas expects the Saints and, in turn, Brees, to score touchdowns. Cooks seems to be getting back into the groove of things with back-to-back 6-reception, 80-yard games, and has lead all Saints wide receivers in targets in all but one game.
Tight End
Chalk: Antonio Gates $6,000 vs Chicago Bears
Ever since bursting on to the scene in Week 5 following a four game suspension, Antonio Gates has been a staple in both cash and tournament lineups. Despite missing those first four games and another due to an injury, he's tied for the team lead in red zone targets (7) with Keenan Allen, who was recently placed on season ending injury reserve.
However, this week seems to be the perfect week to pivot off Gates. With Allen gone, we should see an increase in volume, but the Bears are currently fifth best against opposing tight ends in fantasy points against. Aside from Jimmy Graham's 7-reception, 83-yard and 1-touchdown stat line in Week 3, no other tight end has caught more than three balls or had more than 35 receiving yards against them.
Pivot: Charles Clay $5,700 vs Miami Dolphins
Charles Clay has long been awaiting the return of Tyrod Taylor. In the first five games of the season, Clay was fantasy's sixth overall tight end, posting 22 catches for 262 yards and 2 touchdowns on a team-leading 33 targets. Since Taylor's been gone, he's only had 12 receptions for 88 yards and no scores on 21 targets. Clay also has the advantage of being the only game in town, as Percy Harvin is doubtful and Sammy Watkins is questionable.
What puts this even more into tournament consideration is the roller coaster ride that is the Dolphins defense against tight ends. In three games this season, they've completely shut out team's opposing tight ends; literally no catches. Yet, in the other four games, they've allowed an average of 7.75 receptions for 93 yards and 0.75 touchdowns. I'll let you guess on which side I think Clay will be on this weekend.


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This isn't just another directory of restaurants in Siem Reap. If you're looking for that, then go to TripAdvisor. The restaurants I feature on this website are here because they are my favourite places to eat in town.
If you want me to consider your restaurant, send me an email, invite me along, and if I like it, I might just add it to this site!
Of course, if you don't want your restaurant featured on a site which lists the "best restaurants in Siem Reap", then I'll happily remove it for you!!
Well, I've been in Siem Reap for many years and there's a lot of good places to eat in town. There are also a lot of bad places to eat. Liking food is a very subjective matter, but I wanted to list my favourite restaurants in town to help other people make an informed choice about where to eat.


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Use of the Medicool™ cooling system to increase efficacy of therapeutic hypothermia post cardiac arrest
© Goodhart et al. 2011
- Published: 1 March 2011
- Cool Rate
- Cardiac Arrest
- Healthcare Professional
- Cool System
- Therapeutic Hypothermia
Patients admitted to intensive care (ITU) at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals who have had a cardiac arrest are cooled according to the local therapeutic hypothermia (TH) protocol regardless of rhythm or location of arrest [1]. A previous audit identified poor efficacy in cooling patients to target [2]. Following this, the Medicool™ device was purchased to improve cooling. This aim of this evaluation is to assess the efficacy of cooling with Medicool™.
Following local audit committee approval, patients admitted between May 2008 and July 2010 were retrospectively identified from ITU admission records. The following data were collected: demographics, arrest and admission characteristics, details of TH and outcome. Previous audit data from 2008 were also examined [2].
The Medicool™ system increases both the cooling rate and the efficacy of cooling in patients undergoing TH. We would advocate the use of Medicool™ over the traditional cooling techniques. It is more effective and additionally when compared with other more invasive cooling techniques is cheaper to instigate, easy for healthcare professionals to use and is associated with less side effects.
Authors' Affiliations
- Porter R, et al.: Therapeutic Hypothermia Guidelines following Cardiac Arrest. Sheffield: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals; 2010.Google Scholar
- Meekings T, et al.: Audit of outcome of patients admitted to ITU following either in or out of hospital arrest. Intensive Care Med 2009,35(Suppl 1):22..Google Scholar
This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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On a clear day the channel dividing Chios from the Turkish coast does not look like a channel at all. The nooks and crevices of Turkey's western shores, its wind turbines and summer homes could, to the naked eye, be a promontory of the Greek island itself. For the men, women and children who almost daily make the crossing in dinghies and other smuggler craft, it is a God-given proximity, the gateway to Europe that continues to lure.
Samuel Aneke crossed the sea almost a year ago on 1 June. Like those before him, and doubtless those who will follow, he saw the five-mile stretch as the last hurdle to freedom. "You could say geography brought me here," said the Nigerian, a broad smile momentarily dousing his otherwise dour demeanour. "But it was not supposed to keep me prisoner."
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Earth Day 2018
Since conservation is a part of saving the earth and keeping species from going extinct, it seems we should refrain from eating sushi that uses blue fin tuna. They are at the brink of being an endangered species. One YouTuber claims that 80% of Atlantic and Pacific Blue Fin Tuna caught is consumed by the Japanese. If you look up a 2014 article by The Atlantic Magazine, it examines the issue.


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Text by Caitlin Donohue. Top image, glittering junk food at Art Basel 2013. Photo by Amos Mac.
It was the end of Art Basel week 2013. Artists and girlfriends Signe Pierce and Alli Coates were moments away from premiering their short film in a Miami Beach dive bar whose walls appeared to be covered by garbage bags for the occasion. I was unsurprised to learn that the art at the storied Miami expo — perhaps the largest art fair in the United States — had failed to stun the duo with its risk and relevancy. The question of whether Art Basel Miami is the center of the American art world, after all, hinges on your definition of the word "art".
Last year, a record 75,000 art lovers attended Art Basel Miami at South Beach's glittering convention center, many of whom also tottered around the 20-plus smaller fairs that have popped up in town during the week that Basel proper brings in the high rolling art freaks. If you're hypebeast enough to want to enter into this fray, you probably will add magazine events, product launches and pop-up clubs sponsored by emerging booze brands to your schedule. Most attendees spend the week functioning on no sleep and several thousand cortaditos, the tiny Cuban coffees that deliver an atomic bomb of caffeine and sugar.
Miami ambiance. Photo by Caitlin Donohue.
The $2 billion worth of art on display at the convention center, with its attendant wheeling and dealing, hardly impressed Pierce and Coates. "Are we just going to pretend that the Internet hasn't existed for the last 10, 20 years?" scoffed Pierce. "I just kept saying 'where's the photo art, where's the digital art?'" She shrugged. "And then I was like oh, it's all on Tumblr." Like I said, they didn't come away with any art crushes. But it did make them want to suck face in the face of so many soulless canvases, said Pierce, who wore a cartoon print crop top over a pink fishnet body stocking and under a high peroxide blonde ponytail.
"And wear price tags," continued Coates, flashing the palm tree tattoo she'd gotten that week in Miami. "It's definitely not something that I'd want to spend a lot of time around," concluded Pearce. Minutes after our talk, the duo's genius "American Reflexx" rolled, projected on a drapey bedsheet that wasn't quite as large as the image of the film. Upon it, Pierce vamped robotically down the crowded sidewalks of vacation mecca Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She wore a blue micro-dress with a silver half-dome strapped to her face.
BYOB art. Photo of Kelly Lovemonster's ass at Basel 2013 by Amos Mac.
The horrifying, real life climax to this promenade (no spoiler) spoke of American mob mentality and the hideous ramifications of slut shaming. After "American Reflexx"'s credits unfurled to whooping applause, the event that had been organized by artists from the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn segued into screamy holiday songs being sung by New York scenesters SSION and Lauren Devine. Then there was a number by LA's Jesse Hoffman a.k.a. Ben Woozy, who rapped with his arm in a sling, shoulder dislocation sustained during an ill-timed dive from a speedboat en route to a private island concert earlier in the weekend. Because, Basel.
It seemed a little surreal that such a freaky, downtown affair would take place in Miami Beach. But then, I had arrived in Miami the Monday before, so maybe I was just a little delirious by the time Sunday night rolled around. My 2013 Basel crew, 4U co-editor Kelly Lovemonster and photographer Amos Mac — we called each other "the Basel boyfriends" — hadn't yet arrived so I headed solo direct from my flight at Miami International to a party for Elton John's AIDS Foundation. This being the third Basel I'd be reporting on, I didn't want to miss the early week VIP orgies. The event featured Marina Ambramovic and Ricky Martin. By the time Wednesday morning rolled around, I was sitting on a folding chair with a hundred other journalists in the well-appointed Art Basel Art Fair Collector's Lounge. We were in the pregnant moments before the convention center floor and its 250-plus gallery displays opened to the first wave of VIPs. To the right of us reporters sat a BMW race car painted by Andy Warhol. Behind us, a quiet man employed by the art fair's cigar sponsor sat at a desk rolling "authentic" tubes of tobacco. And in front of us, a parade of dignitaries told us why we were at the center of the art world universe. Salient points: the 6,297 artists and 1,000 galleries represented at various fairs during Basel week 2013, their impact on Miami's economy, and the admittedly fabulous array of Art Basel public programming like al fresco screenings of artist Mickalene Thomas' film about her mother and the US premiere of the Nan Goldin documentary.
Andy Warhol's BMV, Art Basel Art Fair Collector's Lounge 2013. Photo by Caitlin Donohue.
After the speechifying, we solemnly munched the crustless sandwiches and eclairs provided for our brunch, wondering whether our 10am flutes of champagne would sharpen or hinder our journalistic verve. In short order, we would find out. One otherwise well regarded art publication tailed Leonardo DiCaprio through that first day of the fair, fully documenting his convention floor wanderings in a print publication handed out at the Miami Beach Convention Center the next day. Was it the champagne?
I read somewhere that going to Art Basel, for an artist, is kind of like seeing your parents have sex: you know it's why you exist in the first place, but that doesn't mean you want to see it happen.
Some artists avoid Basel altogether. Otherwise capitulate to the looming menace of their FOMO. In 2013 panicked pre-Basel thoughts might have included: Miss the show of Tracey Emin's neon art at North Miami's MOCA? Perish the thought! The opening week of the Pérez Art Museum, with the country's first Ai Wei Wei retrospective? No! New York City artist Matthew Stone's epic fashion opera, co-starring rapper Zebra Katz, athletic haute couturiers Hood By Air, and avant garde performance artist/"it" person boychild, all on a glass runway extending over a luxury hotel's swimming pool? Nope. Forgo lingering Nas at the Vfiles party hosted by A$AP Rocky? NEVER. Give me Instagram likes and complimentary alcohol or give me DEATH.
Your author after a lot, maybe too much, Basel. Photo by Amos Mac.
Despite the fact that Amos, Kelly and I all navigated the week based on the power of hard-won press passes, none of us published a word about the proceedings. Which is not to say we didn't document — Amos got a photo published in Butt Magazine of Kelly's ass raised suggestively off his beach towel in the Miami sun.
The most memorable art I've seen at Basel weeks was a large hamburger made entirely of rhinestones. It is always at SCOPE, somehow, and it sits with a similarly spangled boxes of French fries and roll of Live Savers. I've seen people inquire about its price, but never get around to buying the monstrosity.
On Saturday night, my crew suffered a severe ego blow when we couldn't get into the MOMA PS1 event — even though we were on the VIP list, even though the person who had put us on the list was the headliner, even though the party's doors had opened 20 minutes before. We arched our eyebrows aggressively at the stone cold doorman — until we realized the line of Internet celebrities behind us was doing the same thing, confronting the same lack of shits given. Perhaps that when I decided it would be my last year at Basel for a minute. I was defeated, for the last time, by the posturing and faux wealth. It can give you acid reflux if you don't already have a well-fortified wall erected around your sense of self worth. And of course, there's your standard art world idiocies, both high and low. A potato faced dude wearing a "Girls Love Graffiti Writers" t-shirt that confirmed my resolve to miss the street art-heavy Wynwood neighborhood I'd spent so much time in during past years of Basel.
Artist Monica Canilao at her installation at the Shore Club South Beach last year. Photo by Caitlin Donohue.
Installation artist Monica Canilao is good at Art Basel. The Bay Area's Juxtapoz Magazine and soon-to-open Chandran Gallery invited her in 2013 to trick out the tony South Beach hotel Shore Club's private beach house for the art fair hordes. Her only question: whether they could supply her with a canoe, or if she had to bring her own?
True to form, she is decorating said vessel with curlicues and color blocks when we arrive to kick it with her. Thanks to Canilao, the Shore Club's beach house pool area now looks like an aristocratic desert wraith's messy boudoir – strips of lace, weathered rope, lightly colored fabric swatches hang from every tree branch, pool house beam, even on strings crisscrossing above the pool. Canilao's band of helpers, who came on planes from New York and in a hippie bus from New Orleans, saunter about setting the stage for the night's Juxtapoz festivities.
This was not Canilao's first Basel. "When we came a few years ago we got a moped illegally," she remembered. She also staged a marriage to papercut street artist and painter Swoon in an abandoned Miami building. "We lit some couches on fire and were like 'we just got married!'" Canilao tells us matter-of-factly. So she did find some moments in which to be a freaky artist. Still, she thought Basel was kind of lame. It was hard to find places where you could just hang out with friends you rarely saw during the rest of the year. Hence, the desert wraith palace. "I've always made forts and hangouts — since I've been doing work, since I've been doing installations. They've just gotten more and more elaborate over the years." Later that night, we return to see Canilao's "epic secret ceremony," for which her band of misfits attired themselves in ivory and gold tones to move glacially across the landscape they've built. Over the fence from this weird world, in the main pool area of the Shore Club, David Arquette is hosting an event for his LA nightclub.
Juliana Huxtable DJs at a Sunday afternoon party hosted by NYC's Topical Creams in 2013. Photo by Caitlin Donohue.
"There's so many people doing their thing," said Canilao of the contrasting events before offering me a paintbrush to leave my own magic symbol on her canoe. "I'm reveling in the funny craziness of Art Basel. Everything is funny."
That convergence was a theme that even the Basel rebels kept coming back to. "Just as important as going to see art this week is meeting other female artists," said Coates. "Our contemporaries," added her closest contemporary. "Even when you see people on the Internet or at parties all the time, it can be intimidating," reflected Coates. "It's great to be like 'you're in Miami, I'm in Miami.' Being removed from the party scene so you can actually talk about real ideas."
Basel boyfriends. Photo by Amos Mac.
So Art Basel may be the center of the art industry in the US, but it is hardly the center of creativity. No lie, it indisputably provides a yearly – sunny! By the beach! Get a tan and make your snowbound friends jealous! – meeting of successful creatives that you can't quite find anywhere else. Fortunately, I have creative friends I get to kick it with year-round, and in places around the world where the guest list equals the guest list and not everyone's one cortadito shy of keeling over from exhaustion.
But … did I mention I saw Ricky Martin and Marina Abramovic at the same party last year? Or that LiLo's boyfriend got in a fist fight with Paris Hilton's brother after an after-party for a party we actually attended? That I received my first B12 shot mere feet from one of my favorite New York DJs spinning on the sunny roof of a South Beach hotel? That a year later I can't remember a single piece of art I saw that week? I mean, except the slut film. And the fort. And Kelly's ass.


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The 16-year veteran on how marijuana helped him recover from injuries—and how he fought off the munchies to stay in playing shape.
When Al Harrington saw the medication lined up on his grandmother's counter that she used to deal with diabetes, glaucoma, and a variety of other ailments, the former NBA player had a suggestion for her: Perhaps medical marijuana could be a helpful alternative.
Harrington spoke from experience. The 16-year veteran suffered a variety of injuries over the course of his career, many of which required surgery. To deal with some of the post-procedure pain, he had treated himself with cannabis. She took his advice, and afterward she told Harrington she was able to see clearly and read the Bible with no trouble for the first time in three years.
These experiences inspired Harrington to start his cannabidiol (CDB) company, Harrington Wellness. While he has become known as the "former basketball player promoting weed," this business venture is just part of his ongoing search for wellness: Harrington maintains a mostly vegetarian diet, with smatterings of eggs and fish, and his strict workout regimen keeps him in shape for BIG3 basketball in the summers. We caught up with the 38-year-old to talk about dieting in the NBA; how the Filet-O-Fish saved him while he played in China; and how he avoids the munchies when high.
GQ: What's your day-to-day eating routine like?
Al Harrington: In the morning, I usually drink a fruit smoothie. During the day, I'll grab a salad and sandwich. At night, we have a chef at home, who makes jackfruit dishes and a lot of different things. But one thing for me is no tofu. I don't like the soy.
How tough is it to stay in shape after your playing career ends?
It's very difficult. Obviously, when you're playing, you had a paycheck. [laughs] Now, it's the challenge of fighting the attitude where you say, "I'll just do it tomorrow," or "I just won't eat anything today." I hate working out. But you need to go out and do something every day.
I work out now for the BIG3. That's the main reason. Aside from that, I don't ever want to be big and sloppy. That happens to a lot of players, when they lose all motivation to take care of themselves. That's something I fight against.
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What are some of your cheat meals?
For me, it's the sides. I still love macaroni and cheese, especially if it's my mother's. Ice cream, too. I'm a big sweets guy. If I'm going to cheat, it's going to be one of those two.
Do you have favorite snacks?
Right now it's definitely Trolli candy. I like a lot of the Hershey chocolates, too.
Was dieting and physical fitness a big deal to you when you first got to the NBA as an 18-year-old?
Man, when I first got to the NBA, McDonald's was an acceptable dinner for me. [laughs] To go from that to now, where I make sure everything is all-natural—I didn't even think about my diet until my third year in the league, when I came into training camp overweight and [Indiana Pacers general manager] Donnie Walsh was like, "You're too young to be overweight." That was the first time it hit me how much weight I was carrying around.
Were you ever around teammates who just did whatever they wanted with their off-court eating habits and it didn't matter?
I definitely had a couple teammates like that. It was always the little guys, the guards. They were the ones who could pull that stuff off. Even a guy like Stephen Jackson—he was a guy who did whatever he wanted and worked out whenever he wanted, but he was always at his playing weight and always went out there and dominated.
You played in China, too. How did you manage your diet in a foreign country?
I was in China for about 16 months, and no one knew English where I was staying, so I ended up going to the buffet, and all they had was bok choy. For the first two days, I didn't really eat—I was trying to figure out how to feed myself. I ended up going to McDonald's. I had Filet-O-Fish every day that I was there.
You played for eight different NBA teams. Did you find a difference in the way each team treated your diet and monitored your weight?
Totally different. I've been on teams where diet wasn't something they talked to players about, and on teams where all they wanted to talk about was your diet. Back then, it just wasn't as popular to monitor everything a player did. Now, every team has a chef, and they cook for players before and after practice. On the road, they have specific foods delivered.
One of my last NBA stops was in Orlando, and they had a person who was teaching us how to sleep. We had to sleep with this hat that was connected to these things that monitored your sleep—that's when I knew it was getting popular. Now, they try to control every part of the body so they can put a better product out there. I think it's starting to make the players soft. [laughs]
Do you feel like it's a different era now when you watch the NBA? People use social media to beef with each other now after games, and nothing ever really happens on the court.
You're right, nothing happens. But it doesn't feel different, because we all know no one really wants to fight. It costs too much. Back when Larry Bird and all those guys played, a lot of times you would fight and just stay in the games. You didn't even get fined. It was a different time. It's just a part of it—you have to stand your ground on the court, and if someone is going at you, you have to say something.
You've been in the news a lot post-retirement for your marijuana ventures and your push for leagues to legalize weed. When did wellness become a part of your lifestyle?
I've always been looking for ways to make myself better, whether it's food or the way I train or the way I approach the game. Wellness is the same thing. I've had a lot of injuries and surgeries in my life, and for the time that I'm going to be here, I want to be able to move around and enjoy it and be around my kids.
When I learned about cannabis, it taught me the value of being able to medicate yourself naturally. I always try to figure out advantages to make me feel a little better, and that's how I got into this whole wellness business.
Since we're on the topic, I have to ask: What advice would you give for people who tend to really want to eat a lot of bad snacks when they're high?
Don't have it in the house! That's the best advice I can give people. [laughs] Just try to change up what your snacks are. Instead of candy, maybe eat some cherries or grapes. And while there are strains that will make you hungry, there are also strains that don't give you the munchies. I always try to educate people about that. You don't have to get high and have an eating issue, too.


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This drama is a special kind of stupid. It took me all of two seconds to fall in love with it as soon as the story line began. I am also aware that I am late to watching this seeing as it ends today and here I am writing about the first two episodes. I feel a little ashamed about that since Heechul is my number one bias and he is in this drama. I knew that this drama was going to happen, but I didn't hear that it had started until episode seven and I'm not watching it until right now. Better late than never though, right?
The story line for this drama is that four detective pretty boys, Lee Joon Hyuk (Choi Jin Hyuk), Han Won Bin (Park Min Woo), Jun Kang Suk (Park Doo Shik), and Park Jung Woo (Kim Heechul) are given a special assignment to find out why a 43 year old man was murdered in a phone booth and appeared to be a man in his 70s. The stumble upon a warehouse where everyone but Jung Woo is transformed into 70 year old men after jumping into a tank of water. How much of a hot mess does that sound? Isn't it great?
They haven't addressed why Heechul hasn't changed yet, and everyone seems to be taking it oddly well. I mean, we need this kind of young/old relationship, but I think that it is weird that no one is making a bigger deal of it.
The good thing about Heechul remaining young is that he gets smacked around a little when others hear him speaking down to his "elders". I would also like to mention his entrance into the show. He shows up super cool and important looking and then not two seconds later her tries to vault a fence and it does not end well for him. So, just the usual.
Back to the extremely stupid nature of the show, I think that this show is doing a better job and what Nail Salon Paris tried to do last year. From the two episodes that I have seen this far, the drama seems to be going for an episodical approach to the writing and it is constantly flipping from being ridiculous to serious. Nail Salon Paris has a ridiculous concept but pretended to be serious and that was (one of many) a flaw that it had. This drama knows that it's stupid and the writing is better because of that.
Overall, I think that I am going to be powering through this drama through the next few days since there isn't any school next week and depending on how life goes, maybe I can write the end review next Friday. I make no promises though, I am going to be in Japan next Friday! I'm so excited!
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Calls for measures to make cycling safer in Midhurst town centre have come from chairman of the town council's planning committee Gordon McAra.
He told fellow members of the committee on Monday night (August 14) that cycling in North Street was now a 'death trap'.
He said he hoped the highways group set up by the town council to look at traffic issues in the town would include the problems facing cyclists.
"It is getting dangerous to cycle in Midhurst because the traffic is so horrendous - cycling up North Street is like being on the dodgems."
Fellow town councillor George Evans said the speed of traffic was also an issue in other parts of the town.
"Cars do go like the clappers, doing upwards of 70mph as they go past the pond on South Street."
The highways group has been set up to raise awareness of traffic issues and want to hear from members of the public.
Among the problems they want to hear about are on and off road parking, speeding, lineage. signage and signals and the conditions of highways, pavements and kerbs.
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All day every day most of us have incredibly good cameras right in our pockets or purses, but that doesn't mean every moment we capture is picture-perfect automatically.
Sometimes they need a little bit of loving care to bring out their best.
That's why we're always trying out different photo apps to help keep you in the loop on all the ways you can help make the most of the moments you capture. Here's the latest, from our intern, Natalia.
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What is Pixelmator?
Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, layer-based app that provides a range of editing options. It has features for things like retouching, adjusting colors, adding effects, paint features, and more. Because Pixelmator gives you a canvas-like feel, you can let your creativity run wild.
Should I use this app?
You should use this app if you want a start-to-finish editing process and only want to rely on one software. Pixelmator is simple enough for everyday use but makes your images look professional.
What does it do exactly?
When you open the app, you're able to choose from changing how the feed looks or beginning the editing process. The app has several different tools like paint, erase, retouch, distort, adjust colors, add effects, select, crop, and format.
By featuring all of this on one screen, Pixelmator provides a seamless experience for the user. Within each option, there are pre-made filters, text options, layer images, and add-in shapes.
What are the pros?
I think what makes this app great is that it's super simple to use and anybody can make the most of it. Pixelmator almost always leaves you with a better image than the one you started with. Whether you consider yourself an editing pro or beginner, everyone can get something out of this app.
Are there any cons?
I think what would turn people away the most is the initial cost. While the app provides editing options, the features are not incredibly unique.
How much does the app cost?
Pixelmator is $4.99 for the iPhone app. If you use it and end up loving the app, it's available on Mac for $29.99. For those willing to invest in a top-of-the-line option for Mac, Pixelmator Pro is $59.99.
Where is the app available?
The app is only available for Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, and Mac.) Pixelmator does not have an Android or a Windows counterpart.
Anything else?
All three versions of Pixelmator (iOS, Mac, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac) work and build off each other. Each upgrade brings more creative freedom. Even though they become expensive, they provide more options for those seeking enhanced editing tools.
The three programs have a hand-off system, so if you start editing on a Mac, you can continue editing on an iPhone. The versions are also compatible with iCloud and functional with Adobe Photoshop. By only being available for Apple products, Pixelmator allows for split-view functions with the iPad, iPhone, and Mac apps.
Pixelmator believes in "creating the best and most powerful image editing app that anyone can use and enjoy," and with each upgrade, they're working to do just that.


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Persistence is important, particularly to programmers. Data should be persistent as well; that is, it should survive when the program is finished. This article will show you how to make your data persistent by saving it to a file. It is excerpted from chapter 13 of the book C++ Demystified, written by Jeff Kent (McGraw-Hill, 2004; ISBN: 0072253703).
In the previous program, exactly two read attempts were made because we knew there were two lines of data in the file, no more, no less. However, often we may not know the number of pieces of data to be read. All we want is to read the file until we have reached the end of it.
The ifstream object has an eof function, eof being an abbreviation for end of file. This function, which takes no arguments, returns true if the end of the file has been reached, and false if otherwise.
However, the eof function is not as reliable with text files as it is with binary files in detecting the end of the file. The eof functions return value may not accurately reflect if the end of the file was reached if the last item in the file is followed by one or more whitespace characters. This is not an issue with binary files since they do not contain whitespace characters.
A better choice is the fail member function, discussed in the earlier section Checking if the File Was Opened. The following code fragment shows how to use the fail member function in reading a file until the end of the file is reached:
ifstream infile;infile.open("students.dat");infile >> data;while(!infile.fail()){infile >> data;cout << data;}infile.close();
The preceding code fragment has two infile >> data statements, one before the loop begins, the other inside the loop. The reason is that the end of file is not detected until after a read attempt is made. Thus, if the infile >> data statement before the loop was omitted and the file was empty, the cout << data statement would execute before an attempt was made to detect if the end of file had been reached.
NOTE: A do while loop could be used instead of a while loop. This would dispense with the need to check for end of file before entering the loop, but add the requirement to check inside the loop if (using an if statement) end of file had been reached. This is the usual tradeoff between while and do while loops.
Modifying the previous program, the code now would read
#include <fstream>#include <iostream>#include <string>using namespace std;int main (){string data;ofstream outfile;outfile.open("students.dat");cout << "Writing to the file" << endl;cout << "===================" << endl;cout << "Enter class name: ";getline(cin, data);outfile << data<< endl;cout << "Enter number of students: ";cin >> data;cin.ignore();outfile << data<< endl;outfile.close();ifstream infile;cout << "Reading from the file" << endl;cout << "=====================" << endl;infile.open("students.dat");getline(infile, data);while(!infile.fail()){cout << data << endl;getline(infile, data);}infile.close();return 0;}
Chapter 9 explained how you can use functions to make your code more modular. In that spirit, lets rewrite the previous program to add two functions, each to be called from main: writeFile to open a file for writing using an ofstream object, and readFile to open a file for reading using an ifstream object. Each function includes code to check if the file was opened successfully and returns a Boolean value indicating whether the file was opened successfully:
#include <fstream>#include <iostream>#include <string>using namespace std;bool writeFile (ofstream&, char*);bool readFile (ifstream&, char*);int main (){string data;bool status;ofstream outfile;status = writeFile(outfile, "students.dat");if (!status){cout << "File could not be opened for writingn"; cout << "Program terminatingn";return 0;}else{cout << "Writing to the file" << endl;cout << "===================" << endl;cout << "Enter class name: ";getline(cin, data);outfile << data<< endl;cout << "Enter number of students: ";cin >> data;cin.ignore();outfile << data<< endl;outfile.close();}ifstream infile;status = readFile(infile, "students.dat");if (!status){cout << "File could not be opened for readingn"; cout << "Program terminatingn";return 0;}else{cout << "Reading from the file" << endl;cout << "=====================" << endl;getline(infile, data);while(!infile.fail()){cout << data << endl;getline(infile, data);}infile.close();}return 0;}bool writeFile (ofstream& file, char* strFile){file.open(strFile);if (file.fail())return false;elsereturn true;}bool readFile (ifstream& ifile, char* strFile){ifile.open(strFile);if (ifile.fail())return false;elsereturn true;}
For each function, the file stream object is passed by reference instead of by value even though neither function changes the contents of the file. The reason is that the internal state of a file stream object may change with an open operation even if the contents of the file may not change.


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OK, so I survived Day 1, just!
Day 2 started bright and early, well, early anyway, not so sure about the 'bright' bit, it wasn't a particularly peaceful night ! I thought I'd better beat the crowds to the shower in case the hot water ran out. It was more drizzle shower than a power shower (my hair REALLY needs a power shower!) but it was nice enough and hot. I think everyone else had worn themselves out during the night so I was out of the shower, dressed and watching telly before any of them even woke up. Breakfast arrived, as did the Dr who was going to do my right heart catheter, who promptly told me I shouldn't eat my breakfast until after the procedure 😭
She got me to sign the consent form (I mean, what's the worst that can happen [read form] oh! All of that!! 😕), and handed me a lovely gown to wear for the special occasion! I have a sneaky suspicion day is going to end Kill - 2, Cure - 0!!
As it was, it wasn't too bad, slightly uncomfortable and apparently they only made a 2mm hole in my neck and jugular vein and it was a 'clean puncture' so Woohoo! Bring it on!!
It turns out that I do have pulmonary hypertension anyway so there was no need to do the cycling test with the catheter shoved through my neck into my heart / lungs.... Every cloud!...... I never thought that sounded like a good idea anyway!
I finally got my breakfast and was on bed rest for 2 hours with a lovely pressure dressing on my neck. Slightly uncomfortable and restricting but hey ho....
We did some more puzzles and crosswords and admired how well I'd done not to smother anyone. Yet (there's still time.........) . In order to prevent such a terrible thing from happening, it was strongly advised that I wore headphones for the rest of the day!
I did.
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Event 100 Meter Dash
Mark 12.83
Meet Allegan Invitational
Place 31st
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Round Prelims
Heat 1
Team Wayland Union
Native Country USA
Season Outdoor 2016
Level HS
Meet Date Apr 29, 2016
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Grade 2019
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On March 3, 1991, police officers pulled over Rodney King after a high-speed car chase that lasted several miles. Five officers surrounded King as he exited the vehicle and, after a short time, began viciously beating him. Unbeknownst to the officers, an observer, George Holliday, filmed the entire incident. The footage then aired on television stations across the country, adding fueling to existing racial tensions in certain cities. Almost all of the officers involved appeared in court and they all were acquitted of the charges. These events, it is widely believed, contributed to the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
Part of the reason that the footage held the nation captive laid in the immediacy and urgency the candid piece of film possessed. It appeared uncut and unedited, as if viewers at home could be watching it happen live. The video contained a certain authenticity due to the fact that it was a home movie. These facts, coupled with the Regan-era criminalization of blacks, set up the perfect storm of anger and hostility. Following the verdict of the trials, people took to the streets in outrage, providing the opportunity for news outlets to continue showing a version of "liveness." The power and impact of these events was mimicked in numerous television shows at the time—including Doogie Hower, M.D. and L.A. Law.


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INTRODUCTION:There seems to be quite a bit of moral ambiguity in tonights story. The cast of characters includes one witch who appears to be the baddie but, on closer inspection, turns out to be suffering from a rather extreme case of paranoia.
A husband who's only role is to get caught pinching Rapunzel [1].
|You get 10 points if you can spot the connection between the two
Finally there's a handsome prince who doesn't actually seem to have any redeeming qualities beyond the ability to look rather dashing while scaling tall towers.
|But not these towers. I'd have a little more respect for the story if she was at the top of one of these ones
Seriously, it's been done to death and is even lamer than the "French are cheese eating surrender monkeys" meme. I don't have a lot of lines but this is one that I absolutely refuse to cross.
Infact, if I do accidentally make this joke I am fully prepared to take 10 points off Gryfindor. That should give you an idea of how serious I am.
A long time ago, a husband and his wife lived happily in a cottage at the edge of a wood, one day the wife fell ill and would eat nothing. As she grew thinner and thinner [2] her husband pleaded with her to eat something, All she had to do was name it he said and he'd get it for her. Finally the wife confessed that there was only thing that she could eat and that thing just happened to be a strange herb which grew in the beautiful garden next to their cottage [3].
Now this beautiful garden belonged to a wicked witch who used it to grow herbs for her spells and when you add this to the fact that the husband simply vaulted over the wall rather than knocking on the womans door and simply asking for some or even offering to buy it from the witch, which I think we can all agree is what any normal person would have done, then she's very much justified in both catching him in the act and also wanging him over the head with a number 9 size cast iron frying pan wot has been specially designed to be used both in the kitchen and also in the field of burglary prevention [4].
"Think you can steal from a defenseless old woman do you?" she cried out in the time honored fashion of someone who doesn't have a lot of time and is determined to get in as much payback as possible "well I'll learn ya!"
It took a long time but the husband finally managed to spell out exactly what his reasons were and the witch [5] let him know that if he were to give her their first born child then he could take all the Rapunzel that he wanted.
Now the thing to remember is that, although the husband agreed to the deal, his thinking was that
A) She was a very old witch and would certainly be done away with by a couple of young tearaways any day now.
B) Even if she wasn't 'orribly murdered in some manner then she was so old that she probably wouldn't remember this meeting.
This goes to show that you can't expect convenient murders to just happen. You have to go out and make them happen. Because a few years later, when the wife had just given birth the witch paid a visit.
"Ah" said the husband "I thought you was dead"
"I got better. But lets not hang about, give me the child and I'll be off"
"Are you sure we can't keep her? I mean we did all the work after all. What about if I guess your name?"
"Don't you try and lay the old Rumpelstiltskin game on me Sonny Jim. We had a deal and if there's one thing you don't want to do it's back out of a deal with me and my magic capice?"
"Capice" the husband agreed sadly, wondering how he was going to explain this to his wife
"I mean I might not even bother with the old abracadabra. I've still got the frying pan you know"
"I'm capicing already! Oh just take the little poo larvae if you must"
"Oh I must" said the witch [6] and took the child far away.
Except that she didn't. The girl grew up in the witchy garden right under the noses of the couple who could see her laughing and playing, just to add the extra strength industrial sodium into the wound the witch named her Rapunzel [7]
But the good times couldn't last forever and eventually the witches paranoia got the better of her. Rapunzel was 12 when she was locked up in a high tower just in case she tried to run away, there were no doors or staircases but Rapunzel was quite happy up there as she could sit at the window watching the life of the forest and talking to the birds.
Yet sometimes she would sigh, for she longed to be back in the beautiful garden where she could run and skip in the sunshine but then she would sing to cheer herself up and that was how she spent her days.
Each day the witch came to see her and brought fresh food and Rapunzel would drop her hair out of the window and allow the witch to ascend the tower while, and at the same time, thumbing her nose towards plausibility and sticking her tongue out at Split Ends.
|But not these guys. These guys are super cool.
When the witch left she would use the hair to abseil down the side of the tower with, it should be noted, absolutely no safety gear on at all [8].
One day the kings son was riding through the forest when he heard Rapunzel singing, once he found the tower and saw how the witch gained access he waited until she had gone and then called for Rapunzel to do the same. Naturally when he got to the top of the tower he fell instantly in love with her [9] and they talked together for a long time before he left her with a promise that he would come again [10] and soon [11].
Things went on like this for a while and then one day Rapunzel said "Why is it, when you climb up my hair you are so heavy? The handsome prince who comes in is much lighter than you" [12]
Predictably the witch flew into a rage and took Rapunzel out of the tower and led her into the forest to a lonely spot and told her that she must stay there without food or shelter and then cuts her hair and leaves her alone.
When the prince came by that evening he called for the hair and it came down easily enough but the punchline was that it wasn't Rapunzel at the end of it.
"Surprise Princy!" the witch cackled "You'll not see my Rapunzel again" and she scratched out his eyes before pushing him out of the tower and laughing even harder when she saw that he landed in a thorny bush.
The prince wandered blindly in the forest for some days [13] but then he heard a voice singing. He blindly followed the sound since he couldn't do much of anything else and realized that he had stumbled across Rapunzel with the extremely contrived sort of luck that you normally only get in the Disney version. They kissed and as she did so the princes eyes were healed and he could see again. Wasting no time they went to the king and told him the story [14]
Rapunzel was finally reunited with her parents who were overjoyed to see their daughter again and a proclamation was made to forever ban that witch from the kingdom. A grand wedding was had and the celebration lasted for a week, but as for the witch she was never seen again [15].
• Rapunzel the herb:
What, exactly, is Rapunzel? After all the trouble it's caused it had better be something like a saffron that sells for $100 an ounce.
• Rapunzel the girl:
It has to be said and I'm not trying to be cruel but I don't think that this is the sharpest poisoned apple in the poisoned apple basket. I mean she just blurts out the fact that she's seeing a prince to the, obviously paranoid witch of a mother and when she's locked in the tower she just accepts it as a matter of course and doesn't mind it at all because she can look out at the forest and talk to the birds.
Seriously? She doesn't even have an internet connection! [16] I mean at the very least give her a binoculars and a CB radio so she can watch out for forest fires.
• The witch. Which witch? That witch:
The witch puts a girl in a tower because she's scared Rapunzel might run away. Then when an uncontrollable variable, i.e. The Prince, comes onto the scene she removes Rapunzel from said tower, gives her a haircut and then leaves her alone in the forest with nothing more than a promise to stay where she is?
My only answer for this behavior is that she was dangerously paranoid, didn't cope well with change. In her mind there were very logical reasons for her actions but to the rest of us however the whole thing seems pretty strange.
I suspect, were this story being written today, that this prince wouldn't get much of a look in. I mean Rapunzel, once free from the witch, need only pick a direction in which to move and sooner or later she'll come across a village or some woodsmen or a little gingerbread cottage [17].
In fact, were it I who was writing this story it would most certainly have one scene where the prince is in the tower and hiding in plain sight with a variety of silly costumes. Also, after she was abandoned in the forest my Rapunzel certainly wouldn't stay there crying her eyes out or moaning about where her prince is [18].
The big thing to ponder about this story is exactly who is the villain? I mean we're told that its the witch on the rather flimsy and extremely circular piece of logic that she's wicked because she's a witch and she's a witch because she's wicked. While this is a woman who, perhaps, shouldn't be around children it would seem that all this hostility stems from the rather extreme paranoia that she suffers from rather than actual magic powers.
Neither is it the father who, it cannot be denied is a thief yes but when your wife will only eat one particular thing then you can be forgiven for making certain that she has a steady supply of it.
No once we've stripped away everyone else I'm afraid that it's the prince himself who is the real villain in this melodrama. He was healed from blindness by her kisses – or her tears depending on which version you're going from – and what did he do?
Only took her home to the castle to live a life of luxury and several bouncing happily ever afters which all combine to keep her away from any sort of potentially rewarding career as a miracle optician.
This whole aspect of the tower story intrigues me and not just for the phallic symbolism [19]. It's an interesting thing that the witch was never seen again in the kingdom because the last place that we saw her was in the tower scratching out the princes eyes.
Now please forgive the speculation but:
Maybe the tower was the only place that the witch felt safe from the outside world. But she couldn't just build the tower and then kick the ladder away because it wouldn't be long before some wandering hero and his pussycat happened across the structure and decided to climb to the top.
The witch decides to put Rapunzel in the tower and kicks off the series of events which
A) Get her daughter a good husband who is far above the type of man she would have gotten if she'd stayed with her birth parents [20]. and
B) Give the tower a fearsome reputation which allows the witch to live out her days in solitary bliss.
Which witch Joke Counter: 40 points from Gryfindor – Sorry, I just couldn't resist. The joke was just too much for me. [21]
- The herb, not the girl – I wouldn't normally include a note for this sort of thing but in this story it's important to know the difference.
- The no food diet actually works? Who knew?
- Which was by a forest in case you had forgotten.
- It's worth pointing out that it wasn't actually being used in a field but only because I want to make certain that there's no life left in this gag.
- Which is what she was by the way, you might want to start taking notes.
- "The narrative demands it"
"Why didn't you say so? That makes it perfectly all right then"
- If nothing else it guarentees that she is going to have one hell of a story for the girls 21st birthday party.
- "Bye mum. Thanks for setting such a good example"
- Ah would that it worked like that in real life. All anyone would need to guarantee true love is a handy tower. The renting of which, I feel certain, would not be too much of a strain on ones finances.
- And since this is, ofiicially at least, a story for children I'll take 10 points from Gryfindor for anyone who sniggered at this bit.
- Most princes would need a ten minute break – another 10 points from Gryfindor BTW.
- "Also, why is this, like, my only line in the whole story? I mean, come on"
- In older versions of the story he wandered blind for years before finding Rapunzel AND she was in a completely different country. Talk to your grandparents and you'll soon realize that people back then were a lot tougher.
- "Hey dad. I found this girl in the woods like two days ago and now I'm gonna marry her" It is to be hoped that they worked out the details a little better than that but I'm not pinning my hopes very high.
- Day: 1045 – Still inside tower. sick of all these birds. @PrinceFabuloso: Where are you?
- She should avoid at least one of these.
- My kids will happily go to sleep after I read them the story of Princess Ripley, the powerloader and the Evil Queen. Of course I'll wake them up to make certain they hear the good bits.
- Don't worry I'm not about to start banging on about Freud – Mainly because I think a lot of what he said is absolute rubbish and will be the subject of a future post.
- The fact that he was a prince seems to be a happy turn of fate. Presumably there was nobody else available because they were all at work with no time to swan about looking dashing.
- Surprise! You've just been Slytherined! - I've taken the online test three times now and there is clearly only one house that is prepared to accept me.


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Being a Jew means having just finished one holiday to start looking forward to another. Here they are barely having savored Passover now rushing to Shavuot. Serifat Ha'Omer is the counting of 49 days (7 weeks) as stated in Leviticus 23:15-16. The idea of counting each day represents spiritual preparation and anticipation. You don't countdown the days nor number off the days. Rather, you must say, "Today is one day of the Omer," "Today is two days of the Omer," etc. By doing it this way, they try to give more significance to the days achieved than to the goal.
Two lessons we can learn from this:
1.- The moment we reach a spiritual milestone, we have to move the goalpost and aim higher. "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14.
2.- It's not just the second or tenth day of a process, but every past and present step on the journey is significant. Life is not just about the goals; it's about the journey itself.
Different events grow in value because of the hours we spend looking forward to them
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.Ps 90:12


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