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Last weekend I got to put this bag to the test. I went on a solo camping/skiing trip to Mammoth Mountain. I decided to tent camp at the local RV park to save a few bucks on lodging. They got dumped on by snow the night before, and the night I arrived, the temps were expected to reach 0 degrees. I pulled this bag out for the first night and it kept me toasty and warm, even down to my toes. The thermometer says it only reached 12 degrees that night, but still, it was way below freezing and I slept like a champ.
This bag is voluminous. It is quite large and fluffy when out of the stuff sack. I have a large mesh laundry bag that I keep it in for breathability and it fills up the whole thing. Despite this, the bag is able to compress down to a tiny size, considering the volume it has when it is laying out on its own. A Kelty stuff sack will get this into your backpack no problem. The materials are strong and durable. I was disappointed to see that the baffles around the edges are filled with synthetic insulation, rather than down, which fills the main body of the bag. Not a huge deal, but seems like a small corner to cut for a down bag as great as this. Reduces the packability in the end. Maybe they have to do this for rigidity or construction of the baffles? Could be.
I am 6'1" and have found the regular size to be just barely large enough to fit me. If you want space above 6 feet tall, I would go with the long version.
Overall a fantastic bag and I feel ready to tackle any winter adventure with this awesome Kelty. Alex on Dec 21st 2016
After several weeks of window shopping (and coming back to the Kelty repeatedly), I finally went for it. I just couldn't get over the price. After outings including high desert in the southwest in early February and the Rocky Mountains just after the thaw in June, I'll never leave home without it! As long as the climate calls for it, this is the "go to" bag. It packs down nicely, fits in the sleeping bag pocket of my pack, and the weight is quite manageable. Considering that most of the 0 degree bags that I looked at were in excess of $500, this one is unbelievable. Before you spend the money on a much more expensive bag, I highly recommend trying the Cosmic ) first. you won't be sorry. Unknown on Dec 20th 2016
I've owned this sleeping bag for the past 3 years, got it as a birthday present. I like to do winter camping up here in Michigan, where in the past years the winters have been drastically different; ranging from 20s all season to sometimes in the consistent negatives all season. The coldest I've slept in was a ridiculous overnight we that consisted of -28 degrees Fahrenheit (my friend said it got to -32, but I didn't see the proof). This bag has kept me warm in times of need. And to this day with handle and care, the bag still holds good loft and provides good insulation. This is a great investment for your money, and has a little more range in my mind for all season camping. This isn't the best winter bag on the market by far, but it manages to not go down without a fight. Jac Wave on Oct 6th 2016
I am looking for a low temp down sleeping bag but I need more information than you list.
What are the internal shoulder, hip and foot circumferance of this bag? Timothy on May 31st 2016
This is a great, warm, comfortable bag. I originally bought one for my daughter and liked it so much I had to have one for myself! Its a little packed down when you first take it out of the compression sack (from the store), but quickly expands. Its very warm. Very nice bag for the price point! slcdawg on May 17th 2016
I have the ignite 0 degree (an older model, I assume) and it has the dridown. It is rated to 0 degrees and comfort rated to seven, but I used it once when it was -12 out and I stayed perfectly warm. Great quality, nothing has broken in over two years since I got it and if you want a good sleeping bag, don't get anything other than this. It is so worth the price and you will not regret it Unknown on May 14th 2016
I got one of these recently to replace a cold weather marmot bag I had. At first I was hesitant because of the lower price-point, but I used it many times now and am quite confident in its comfort and warmth. This dri-down stuff is no joke! Great value and great bag!! If only Kelty made apparel. Benjimonster on Mar 31st 2016

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Tent set for Scottish Champion
My Tent Or Yours is the star name among 21 six-day acceptors for the QTS Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr.
Nicky Henderson's seven-year-old finished runner-up in the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and is one of 21 possible runners in the Grade Two limited handicap, in which he must shoulder top weight of 11st 10lb.
Frank Berry, racing manager for owner JP McManus, said: "The plan is to run. He's been in good form since Cheltenham and Nicky can't be any happier with him.
"He's got a fair bit of weight to carry, but we are looking forward to him running if all goes well this week."
Stablemates Sign Of A Victory and Master Of The Game are also still in the shake-up.
Irish runners are, at this stage, out in full in force, with Willie Mullins having left in Upsie and Midnight Game, while the Gordon Elliott-trained Flaxen Flare is still a possible contender.
Sailors Warn could represent County Tipperary trainer Edward O'Grady, with Northern Irish handler Stuart Crawford responsible for Trucking Along.
Crawford's compatriot James Lambe still has Bertimont and Silk Hall engaged.
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I could use some advice or hear opinions.
I have been granted and validated my 189 visa. However, I can't decide whether to go after all.
My marital situation is a little bit different than most of what I've seen in this forum and others. I'm single, rapidly pushing 40, never married, so I have no other half or dependents to worry about if the move goes wrong. I applied thinking of the 'lifestyle' and the good weather and because after just over a decade in the UK, I think life in London didn't turn out to be all I hoped for (slow on the uptake but I get there). Good job and a nice (rented) flat but I've found most people I've come across are in a rush all the time and though I've made many acquaintances, as in the type I can go out for a drink with, I've made no real friends like the kind I have back in the 'old country'. If I move to Australia I would have to give my job and careerwise possibly start from the bottom. If the move doesn't work out I'd have to move back to London and start over finding a flatshare and a job. I will have lost a lot of money in the meantime which is going to set me back a lot from getting on the property ladder.
Family-wise, I have a father soon to be 70 who lives on the other side of the continent whom I visit twice a year and he sometimes comes over for short visits too. I also have a brother who has a young family whom I see when I travel there. I hadn't told my father of my intent to move before I got my visa so as not to get discouraged as I was going through the process. But since then we talked a lot and he's never stopped attempting to talk me out of it. He's hyper active and mostly in good physical health but, although he never brought it up, I know that if neither of us gets hit by a bus in the near future, I'll see him eventually slowly lose his mental and physical faculties and if in Australia it would pain me to see him only once every 2-3 years.
I'll also be completely on my own without a partner and it'll probably be lonely at first. But I get this here in London too.
Then there's the work opportunities. I applied thinking that there's no way there won't be many jobs in my field in Melbourne and Sydney (I do software/web development). I get varying experiences in the forums about that, some find work within 1-2 months after landing, some takes them 6, others move back to their country of origin a year later having spend their life savings looking for work without success. I've also heard of the request for "local experience" before many consider you for a position. But, like in product reviews, you're more likely to report on something when you have a bad experience of it in order to inform others. There's always the positive possible outcome which is finding work relatively soon and settling in. I'll probably also have to take a pay cut for the first couple of years as a new migrant.
On the other hand, I applied for the visa knowing that life is short and at nearly 40 I'm itching for an adventure. I'm tired of this weather and the stress of London and need a change of scenery. At a first glance it seems like I'm giving up a lot but here are no certainties in life. Additionally there's the upcoming Brexit which has affected my work directly as well as possibly the number of job opportunities in the UK. I don't want "what-ifs", to regret things I've not done. I have to do what I feel is right. I miss the laid back, "there's always tomorrow" lifestyle which I had before I came to London.
I've been swaying between the two options for the past two weeks and I think it's not doing me any good thinking about it again and again especially after revving myself up for the better part of last year, but I think I have to follow my instinct. It's all very nice, safety and comfort, but sometimes you just have to live your life.
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TL;DR - I've been granted and validated my 189 visa but I can't decide whether to go. I'm a single man with a good job and a rented home in London and at nearly 40 it'd scare me to give all that up and start over on the other side of the planet. If the move doesn't work out I'd have to uproot again and move back to London looking for a home and work and in the meantime I'll be set back by thousands of pounds. I also have family I'm close with on the other side of the continent and it'd be scare to see my ageing dad once every 2-3 years.
Workwise, as someone who wants to work in IT/Software in Melbourne or Sydney I' getting good and bad stories about job availability.
However, I have little social life in London as everyone seems to be in a rush all the time. There are no certainties in life, even the good home and work could disappear, and if I don't go I'm afraid I'll look back at 50 and deeply regret it. I've got a scratch I need to itch and if it doesn't work out I'll have dragged no one else into this but myself and I can possibly absorb the monetary setback in a few years time.Do you think that small adjustments in life could significantly increase its quality instead of uprooting and leaving?


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Throwing the spotlight on the Friends and Family Test – Anu Singh
In the first of a series of blogs we are running to coincide with the Friends and Family Test Spotlight Week, NHS England's Director of Patient and Public Participation and Insight explains why we are focussing on this vital patient feedback:
When it comes to this important area of our work at NHS England, we are loud and proud and we make no apology for that.
NHS England is running a short national campaign this week to raise more awareness about the Friends and Family Test, a feedback opportunity that lets everyone have their say on healthcare services.
We have a national conference on patient insight in Leeds on Thursday and, at that event, we're handing out awards to some of the providers who have had great initiatives that take account of their patients' opinions. Expect to see local advertising and other activity in your local area too as our regional teams get involved, along with service providers and other partners such as local Healthwatch and patient groups.
Why do we think this is so important?
Any service needs to understand the people it serves and good organisations do this as a matter of course. Without this understanding the NHS has less chance of delivering care that is safe, effective and that is experienced positively.
To help us achieve this we must have insight into the needs, experiences and outcomes of the patients who use our services and of the staff who deliver them.
Insight does not come from a single source: from a single survey or patient story; from a one-off focus group or patient participation meeting. It's about using a combination of sources to understand a number of different issues. Successful organisations would not conduct one survey once a year to understand their users. They use a range of methods but most importantly they ask the questions, "How do we use what we've learnt to improve?" This last question needs to be at the heart of what we do.
Insight is about people. It involves us all, as users of services or citizens with a responsibility to say what we want and how the NHS can do better; or as providers, clinicians and managers trying to deliver the highest quality healthcare the taxpayer can afford.
It is one of our chief means of evaluating what we should prioritise and how we can drive up the quality of every patient's experience by learning what we are doing well and where we need to improve. It can tell us things that other performance data cannot, particularly about how people feel about hugely important issues such as dignity, compassion and respect.
The NHS has a duty to listen and respond to the people it serves. We must ensure that every voice counts.
That's what our publicity drive this week is all about. There'll be news on the website all this week about the various activities and we'll have a daily blog on this subject too. Please help us by spreading the word about how important it is to make YOUR voice heard in the NHS.
- For more information about the Friends and Family Test in particular, see nhs.uk/friendsandfamily or, if you work in the NHS, you can find out more in the FFT section of this website.
Anu Singh takes the lead for NHS England in ensuring that the voices of patients, service users, carers and the public are at the heart of the way NHS England works.
Central to implementing the Five Year Forward View vision, she is responsible for taking forward national programmes of work that not only embed patient and public voice, feedback and insight in the NHS commissioning system, but also actively promote patient-centred care and approaches to care that make the most of community and patient participation.
Anu has a long history of leading personalisation, empowerment, and placing communities at the heart of decision making. She is passionate about the integration of public services around the customer.
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Long-term outcome in medical patients aged 80 or over following admission to an intensive care unit
DOI: 10.1186/cc9984
© Roch et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Received: 2 July 2010
Accepted: 24 January 2011
Published: 24 January 2011
The aim of this study was to evaluate factors influencing short- and long-term survival in medical patients aged 80 and over following admission to an intensive care unit.
All patients aged 80 years or over and admitted between 2001 and 2006 were included in this study. Survival was evaluated between the time of admission and June 2009; factors associated with mortality were determined. Health-related quality of life was evaluated using Short Form (SF)-36 in long-term survivors.
For the 299 patients included (mean age, 84 ± 4 y), hospital mortality was 55%. Factors independently associated with hospital mortality were a higher SAPS II score at ICU admission; the existence of a fatal disease as reflected by the McCabe score and a cardiac diagnosis at admission. In the 133 hospital survivors, median survival time was 710 days (95% CI, 499-921). Two-year mortality rates were 79% of the initial cohort and 53% of hospital survivors. The standardized ratio of mortality at 2 years after hospital discharge was 2.56 (95% CI, 2.08-3.12) when compared with age- and gender-adjusted mortality of the general population. Factors independently associated with mortality at 2 years after hospital discharge were SAPS II score at ICU admission and the McCabe score. Conversely, functional status prior to admission as assessed by Knaus or Karnofsky scores was not associated with long-term mortality. In long-term survivors, SF-36 physical function scores were poor but scores for pain, emotional well-being and social function were not much affected.
The severity of acute disease at admission influences mortality at the hospital and following discharge in patients aged 80 or over. Although up to 50% of patients discharged from the hospital were still alive at 2 years, mortality was increased when compared with the general population. Physical function of long-term hospital survivors was greatly altered.
As in many countries, in France, average age and life expectancy of the population are increasing [1]. Because of this, a growing number of much older patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). There is some evidence to suggest that age is a restrictive factor for ICU admission [2, 3] and that it determines treatment intensity [4, 5]. However, even though an increased risk of mortality accompanies old age [6–10], most studies suggest that age alone does not represent a strong predictor for mortality [4]. However, few data concerning long-term survival after ICU admission in much older medical patients are currently available. Since these may be the patients with the worst prognosis at the hospital and following discharge [11], a better knowledge of factors associated with long-term outcome in this population is warranted.
The goal of the present study was to evaluate short- and long-term survival in a large cohort of medical patients who were at least 80 years of age. Moreover, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) was prospectively evaluated in long-term survivors by means of the Short Form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire [12].
Materials and methods
The protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the Institut Fédératif de Recherche 48 de la Faculté de Médecine de Marseille (Marseille, France), which, in accordance with French legislation, waived the need for informed consent of patients whose data were retrospectively studied. In regard to phone interviews, participants themselves or a close family member gave informed consent to participation in the study.
This study was performed in the Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, an adult acute, tertiary care university teaching hospital. Our ICU is a 12-bed medical unit admitting 400 adult patients per year for a mean stay of 9 days. Patients were admitted after an evaluation by an intensivist. We had no specific admission criteria. Before ICU admission, we tried to obtain information regarding prehospital disability, presence of any underlying disease, number of organ failures, and patient wishes. In the absence of this information, the patient was nevertheless admitted. All patients who were at least 80 years of age and who were admitted to our ICU for medical reasons between January 2001 and December 2006 were retrospectively included in this study. Only the first stay of patients who were admitted several times during the study period was included in the study. Vital status was determined in June 2009 from the patient's record or by calling the primary care physician or proxies. The following data were prospectively collected for each patient while he or she was present at the ICU: gender, severity of illness at admission according to the Simplified Acute Physiologic Score II (SAPS II) [13] and the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score [14], duration of ICU stay, initiation of mechanical ventilation or renal replacement therapy, treatment limitation during ICU stay (defined as the decision not to use mechanical ventilation or renal replacement therapy or both), occurrence of ICU-acquired pneumonia according to predefined criteria [15], and ICU and hospital mortality. The reasons for ICU admission were classified into the following subgroups: respiratory disease, cardiac disease, sepsis, renal disease, coma or neurological disease, digestive diseases, or other reasons. The severity of any underlying disease present at the time of ICU admission was classified according to the McCabe score [16]. This classification uses precise criteria to group patients according to disease fatality: no fatal disease, ultimately fatal disease (expected to be fatal in the next 5 years), or rapidly fatal disease (expected to be fatal in the next year). Functional status before admission was routinely assessed by means of Karnofsky [17] and Knaus [18] scores. Shortly after patient admission, the physician in charge prospectively documented these scores on the patient's computerized record on the basis of information collected from the patient, proxies, and other physicians. The time point for the determination of functional status was just before the current hospital admission.
Long-term follow-up and health-related quality of life measurement
We used the SF-36 questionnaire [12] to describe HRQOL. Each heading in the questionnaire is represented by one or more items with scores ranging from 0 to 100, 0 being the worst score. SF-36 questionnaires were completed during phone interviews that were all performed by the same investigator in June 2009. After information on vital status was collected from the primary care physician, patients or their close family members were called. Participants themselves or a close family member gave informed consent to participation in the study. Patients were interviewed directly, but assistance from a family member was allowed.
Descriptive statistics included frequency analysis (percentages) for nominal variables and means ± standard deviations (SDs) or medians and interquartile ranges (IQRs) for continuous variables, according to their distribution. The survival curve after hospital discharge and median survival time were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method, and patients who were still alive at the date of follow-up (15 June 2009) were censored. The survival of our cohort was compared with the survival curve for the French population as a whole, established from mortality data obtained in 42,336 people who had a mean age of 84 years [19]. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) method was used to compare the hospital mortality observed in our cohort with SAPS II-predicted mortality and to compare the mortality observed in our cohort at 2 years after discharge with age- and gender-adjusted mortality of the general population. We used a Cox survival analysis to identify independent predictors of mortality at the hospital and of mortality at 2 years after hospital discharge. For the latter, survival was measured from the first day after discharge, and patients alive at 2 years were censored. First, univariate analysis was performed for each potential factor. Factors with a P value of less than 0.2 in the univariate analysis were then introduced as part of a backward stepwise Cox proportional hazard model. Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated. In the final multivariate model, a P value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Factors significantly associated with mortality in the multivariate model were tested for a possible interaction. Statistical analysis was performed by means of SPSS 15.0 software (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Population characteristics and factors associated with hospital mortality
All patients
Hospital survivors
Hospital non-survivors
HR univariate [95% CI]
Adjusted HR [95% CI]
Age in years, mean ± SD
84 ± 4
84 ± 4
84 ± 4
1.02 [0.98; 1.06]
140 (47)
58 (44)
82 (49)
0.90 [0.66; 1.22]
Mechanically ventilated
176 (59)
48 (36)
128 (77)
2.38 [1.65; 3.43]
Renal replacement therapy
21 (7)
2 (1)
19 (11)
1.54 [0.95; 2.49]
SAPS II, mean ± SD
52 ± 22
42 ± 13
61 ± 24
1.04 [1.03;1.05]
1.03 [1.03; 1.04]
SOFA score, mean ± SDa
7 ± 4
4 ± 3
8 ± 4
1.18 [1.14; 1.23]
McCabe score
No fatal disease
129 (43)
69 (52)
60 (36)
Fatal disease at 5 years
117 (39)
53 (40)
64 (39)
1.28 [0.90; 1.83]
1.40 [0.97; 2.02]
Fatal disease at 1 year
53 (18)
11 (8)
42 (25)
2.66 [1.78; 3.96]
3.17 [2.08; 4.83]
Knaus score
No limitation
45 (15)
27 (20)
18 (11)
Slight limitation
121 (41)
53 (40)
68 (41)
1.51 [0.89; 2.54]
Severe limitation
103 (34)
42 (32)
61 (37)
1.61 [0.95; 2.73]
30 (10)
11 (8)
19 (11)
2.55 [1.33; 4.87]
Karnofsky score, median (IQR)
80 (50-90)
80 (60-90)
80 (50-90)
0.99 [0.98; 0.99]
Nosocomial pneumonia
30 (10)
7 (5)
23 (14)
0.77 [0.49; 1.22]
Treatment limitationc
69 (23)
25 (19)
44 (26)
1.38 [0.80-2.05]
Admission diagnosis
141 (47)
71 (53)
70 (42)
0.77 [0.51; 1.16]
0.88 [0.57; 1.34]
Coma or neurological
56 (19)
22 (17)
34 (20)
1.23 [0.77; 1.98]
0.97 [0.59; 1.58]
43 (14)
10 (8)
33 (20)
3.04 [1.87; 4.9]
2.28 [1.38; 3.77]
29 (10)
12 (9)
17 (10)
1.48 [0.83; 2.6]
1.32 [0.74; 2.38]
17 (6)
11 (8)
6 (4)
0.38 [0.16; 0.90]
0.56 [0.23; 1.35]
7 (2)
3 (2)
4 (2)
0.74 [0.26; 2.12]
0.46 [0.16; 1.33]
6 (2)
4 (2)
2 (1)
0.83 [0.20; 3.39]
1.51 [0.37; 6.24]
Intensive care unit and hospital mortality
ICU mortality was 46% (138/299), and mortality throughout the duration of hospital stay was 55% (166/299). Factors associated with hospital mortality are detailed in Table 1. After multivariate analysis, the factors found to be significantly associated with increased hospital mortality were a higher SAPS II at ICU admission, the existence of a fatal disease as reflected by the McCabe score, and a cardiac diagnosis at admission. No significant interaction between factors associated with hospital mortality was found. The SMR of our cohort was 0.99 (95% CI 0.84 to 1.18) when compared with SAPS II-predicted mortality.
Mortality at 2 years after hospital discharge
Characteristics of hospital survivors and factors associated with mortality at 2 years
Hospital survivors
Two-year survivors
Two-year non-survivors
HR univariate [95% CI]
Adjusted HR [95% CI]
Age in years, mean ± SD
84 ± 4
84 ± 4
84 ± 3
1.00 [0.94; 1.08]
58 (44)
27 (39)
1.37 [0.84; 2.23]
Mechanically ventilated
48 (36)
27 (42)
21 (30)
1.53 [0.93; 2.50]
Renal replacement therapy
2 (1)
1 (1)
1 (1)
0.72 [0.09; 5.20]
SAPS II, mean ± SD
42 ± 13
40 ± 13
44 ± 12
1.02 [0.99; 1.03]
1.02 [1.00; 1.04]
SOFA score, mean ± SD
4 ± 3
4 ± 3
4 ± 3
1.02 [0.94; 1.11]
McCabe score
No fatal disease
69 (52)
39 (62)
30 (43)
Fatal disease at 5 years
53 (40)
22 (35)
31 (44)
1.62 [0.96; 2.73]
1.81 [1.06; 3.13]
Fatal disease at 1 year
11 (8)
1 (2)
10 (14)
2.60 [1.22; 5.54]
2.62 [1.23; 5.59]
Knaus score
No limitation
27 (20)
9 (14)
18 (26)
Slight limitation
53 (40)
26 (41)
27 (39)
1.54 [0.72; 3.30]
Severe limitation
42 (32)
23 (36)
21 (30)
1.86 [0.86; 4.01]
11 (8)
6 (10)
5 (7)
2.13 [0.76; 6.00]
Karnofsky score, category
80 (60-90)
80 (50-90)
80 (50-90)
0.99 [0.98; 1.00]
Nosocomial pneumonia
7 (5)
3 (5)
4 (6)
0.75 [0.24; 2.39]
Admission diagnosis
Long-term health-related quality of life
This follow-up study was conducted in a population of severely ill medical patients who were at 80 years old (84 ± 4 years) and who were admitted to the ICU. In this population, hospital mortality was 55%, and 47% of hospital survivors were alive at 2 years. Both hospital and post-discharge mortality rates were dependent mainly on the severity of acute illness and on the existence of a pre-existent underlying disease. Conversely, pre-admission functional scores as evaluated by the Knaus classification or the Karnofsky index before ICU admission did not affect mortality at the hospital or over the 2-year period following discharge.
The reported hospital mortality rate of 55% in our patients is higher than in several recent studies of much older patients, in which hospital mortality rates ranging from 12% to 41% were reported [5, 20–26]. However, some of these studies were performed in patients who were just 65 years old or older [20–25], in populations with lower severity scores or lower rates of mechanical ventilation [5, 20, 25, 26], in surgical or mixed populations of medical and surgical patients [20–22], or in patients with a previously healthy status [23]. Conversely, De Rooij and colleagues [11] reported a 56% mortality rate in 146 medical patients who were at least 80 years old, with a rate of mechanical ventilation and severity scores that were similar to those described in the present study. Upon comparison, medical patients had a worse prognosis than surgical patients. Subsequently, these authors reported a 75% mortality rate at 2 years after admission [11], which is close to our results.
The long-term follow-up indicates that mortality of our patients in the 2 years after discharge was two- to three-fold the mortality of the general French population of the same age. However, after this time, the evolution of survival over time was comparable to that of the general population. Therefore, we analyzed which factors could be associated with prognosis during this period of over-mortality. We observed that severity score at the time of admission independently affected mortality in this 2-year period following discharge. This is an interesting result since it shows that the severity of an acute illness will influence outcome after ICU and hospital discharge. The results of additional analysis in survivors at different time points after discharge suggest that the severity at admission negatively influences prognosis mainly during the first months after discharge. Conversely, we found that Knaus and Karnofsky scores of functional status before admission did not influence mortality in the 2 years after discharge. In a previous report, Bo and colleagues [25] showed that dependence for regular daily activities was independently associated with hospital mortality in medical ICU patients who were at least 65 years old. In that study, severity scores and hospital mortality (14.7%) were much lower than in our patients, far fewer patients required mechanical ventilation, and two thirds were independent for regular daily activities before ICU admission. Similarly, Sacanella and colleagues [23] found that full autonomy before ICU admission was independently associated with a lower mortality rate after discharge in patients at least 65 years old. In contrast, in older patients such as those of the present study, only 15% of patients had no functional limitation. Therefore, the ability to identify functional status as a prognostic factor in such a homogeneous population is limited. However, since functional limitation is frequent in much older patients, our results suggest that care should be taken when using it to make admission decisions and in the determination of treatment intensity in this category of patients. Nevertheless, our results contrast with those of Boumendil and colleagues [24], who found a severe or total functional limitation to be independently associated with mortality after discharge in 233 medical patients who were at least 80 years old. In this latter study, included patients had lower severity scores and a much lower ICU mortality rate (16.3%) in comparison with those of the present study. Discrepancies between previous studies and the present report on the influence of functional status on long-term mortality could be partly explained by a higher rate of patients with severe limitation in our study and by the selection in other studies of patients in good condition, who are able to recover well after ICU discharge.
We prospectively evaluated HRQOL in the 24 long-term survivors. The scores for physical function were poor, but scores for bodily pain, emotional well-being, and social function were not much different from those of other populations of octogenarians [27]. These latter results could be positively interpreted. Indeed, Nilsson and colleagues [28] interviewed healthy individuals who were 77 to 87 years old on the quality of their lives and showed that the importance of material values declined but that the importance of social relations and spending time by oneself increased with increasing age, suggesting that 'quality of life' has a different meaning for older individuals than it does for younger ones. In ICU patients, Tabah and colleagues [21] recently found that quality of life was similar between (a) patients who were at least 80 years old and who survived 1 year after discharge and (b) reference populations of the same age and that quality of life was not modified after the ICU stay. In contrast, in a previous study in a similar population, the same group showed a decrease in quality of life 1 year after ICU stay [2]. In the present study, we evaluated HRQOL of long-term survivors a median of 5 years after discharge. Recently, Cuthbertson and colleagues [29] showed that the physical component of quality of life worsened faster in the 5 years following ICU stay than in the general population. Additionally, Unroe and colleagues [30] showed that age was associated with an increased risk of high functional dependency following prolonged mechanical ventilation. Therefore, our results of high long-term mortality in the most severely ill medical patients in the age group discussed here and of severe functional disability in long-term survivors could help physicians to explicitly discuss treatment decisions with surrogates on the basis of the future functional dependence that patients will likely experience.
This study has several limitations. First, this is a single-center study, and owing to variations in admission policies, caution must be taken in translating these results to other ICUs. Second, the analysis of factors associated with survival after ICU discharge did not include parameters occurring after ICU discharge, such as repeated ICU admissions or institutionalization. However, the goal of this study was to help clinician decision-making on the basis of data available during ICU stay. Third, only very few patients were long-term survivors, and further studies are required to evaluate HRQOL in much older patients in the years following ICU discharge. Finally, although we found that functional status prior to ICU admission was not associated with mortality either at the hospital or after discharge, it was determined after admission by physicians using information obtained from the patient or from proxies. Moreover, we cannot rule out that other scores of functional status may be more accurate in predicting long-term outcome in much older patients.
Our study provides information about short- and long-term outcome for a large group of much older patients in the medical ICU. We showed that the severity of acute disease at admission influences mortality at the hospital and also after discharge. Conversely, functional status prior to admission did not influence short- and long-term prognosis in this category of frequently dependent patients. Although up to 50% of patients discharged from the hospital were still alive at 2 years, mortality in the 2 years following discharge was three times the mortality observed in the same age group in the general population. Finally, physical function of long-term hospital survivors was greatly altered, but other components of HRQOL were not much affected when compared with the general population. These results could help the clinician make decisions with regard to the most severely ill patients in this age group.
Key messages
Severity of acute disease at admission is associated with mortality at the hospital and also after discharge in much older patients in the medical intensive care unit.
Mortality for much older patients in the 2 years after discharge is three times the mortality observed in the same age group in the general population.
The physical component of health-related quality of life is greatly altered in long-term survivors.
confidence interval
health-related quality of life
intensive care unit
interquartile range
Simplified Acute Physiologic Score II
standard deviation
Short Form-36
standardized mortality ratio.
The authors thank Vincent Pradel for assistance in the analysis of data.
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Eva Narcissus Boyd, also known as "Little Eva" was an American pop singer known for her smash hit, "The Loco-Motion." Little Eva made her way to stardom while working as a maid and babysitter for singers Carole King and Gerry Goffin. The couple noticed Eva's dancing and singing style and wrote "The Loco-Motion" for her as a demo. Once recorded, the song hit number one on the charts in 1962. The song sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.
Little Eva recorded "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby," which hit the top 20 on pop and R&B charts the same year. In 1963, she recorded "Let's Turkey Trot" and "Swinging on a Star."
Because of the times and people's resistance to change, Little Eva's music was labeled as "dance craze" and her recording style was limited. King and Goffin would write an additional song named, "He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)", performed by The Crystals, after hearing Eva's stories about domestic abuse from her boyfriend. In her explanation, Eva told King and Goffin that the abuse was the way he showed his love for her.
Little Eva first retired from the music business in 1971. She would never capture the rights to her music and rumor spread that she was only paid $50 for "Loco-motion." It was later discovered that she was paid $50 a week for her recordings, which was only $15 more than her babysitting job for King and Goffin.
Little Eva Boyd moved her family to South Carolina, worked as a waitress and lived paycheck-to-paycheck. Though she returned to music years later and recorded a few more songs, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2001 and passed away at age 59. Her grave was marked only with a white cross until 2008.
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3 thoughts on "Little Known Black History Fact: Little Eva"
I remember her quite well. Thanks for sharing this.
This is why we need to be more aware of whats up not even EDUCATION would not have helped her in those days,,,,,,
Little Eva was from a little town called Belhaven, North Carolina instead of South Carolina. Wish her story could be told on "Unsung". Family still live in the Belhaven, NC area. Her gravesite is in belhaven as well and she is honored in the town for her contribution to the music industry.


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This seems to be causing a crash with the patch in bug 778724. If I iterate over all type objects in a compartment outside of a GC, sometimes the iteration turns up empty (there are several hundred types in the compartment).
If I break in gdb at a point where the iteration is empty, I see in cx->compartment->arenas that the freeLists and arenaLists for FINALIZE_TYPE_OBJECT are both empty, but that arenaListsToSweep[FINALIZE_TYPE_OBJECT] is non-NULL but ignored by CellIter. cx->runtime->gcIncrementalState is SWEEP.
I'm guessing this is due to bug 729760.
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I think this should fix the problem. I need to work on a testcase, though.
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Ah yes, I didn't think of that.
Cheers for fixing this. The patch looks fine, the only problem might be that we are handing out references to objects that are about to be finalized so hopefully CellIter is not used in a way that will cause any of these to become live again.


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Renowned for his inflexibility and cruelty towards his enemies, he gave birth to the Dracula legend.The name Dracula means "small dragon" in Romanian, for he and his father belonged to this order of saint knights.The legend started when Bram Stoker read a part of his memoirs still stored at the British museum in the end of the 19th century.The fact that Stoker's novel is in the public domain, and the fertile ground for exploration that is the vampire myth, assures that the King of the Vampires will not be going away any time soon.Chaos ComicsDracula was a powerful vampire but next to Purgatori, he was practically nothing. He was first her lover and swore his loyalty to her, but this could not last.Eventually she judged him too be powerful in the Vampire Clan Wars and she decided he would have to be brought down. So, while she sought out the Chalice of Regeneration he used her to almost gain it for himself, she would not allow that and battled him at the Vatican where after a strenuous battle she ripped his fangs out and he was permanently burned by the rising sun.DC ComicsCount Dracula was a murderous vampire who ruled in Transylvania. He was killed in his coffin while sleeping by the villagers of his town. They shipped his body to Gotham City in the 1600's, they then buried his body underground so that no one would find it. After being dead for centuries, the Penguin came by looking for a fortune, but instead found Dracula's body. Penguin accidentally cut himself, and the blood dropped onto Dracula's dead body. He then a woke, and made Penguin his eyes and ears of Gotham.Dracula became obsessed with Batman, thinking that his legacy of darkness has gone on even after his death. Dracula confronted Batman and asked him to join his living of the undead, Batman rejected this offer. Furious of this, Dracula attacked Batman and nearly killed him, however the sun came up and almost killed Dracula. Dracula also got obsessed with bringing his dead wife back to life. To do this he used the life force of Vicki Vale, The Count nearly succeeded in doing so, however the Batman stopped him just in time.Since Dracula knew that his minions have been taken out, Dracula had to fight Batman One-On-One. They had a destructive battle, that lead to the Batcave where Batman had a plan. After Batman being nearly killed, and Alfred knocked out, Batman used his prototype sun energy storing device, when Dracula started to burn up, Batman delivered a punch to that finally ended his reign of darkness.BuffyverseDracula's first appearance in the Buffyverse, was in the Season 5 Episode " Buffy Vs. Dracula" of the television series. Dracula came to Sunnydale because heard about the powers of a slayer and wanted to meet one. He hypnotizes Xander so that he can become his slave and his eyes around Buffy and the gang. Xander is the one to lead the team to his castle which is located the outskirts of Sunnydale. After Buffy staked him and the gang left Dracula reformed out of mist.After the annihilation of Sunnydale Dracula kidnapped Xander again. After finding his castle Buffy went to rescue her friend. Dracula tried to scare her but Buffy brushed this off. While they were fighting Dracula told Buffy on how he had become a joke and warned that she would one day be forgotten. Buffy scoffed at this and laughed at Dracula for his mid-life crisis. After the fight Dracula agreed to let Xander go.Sometime after Xander's capture some vampires who had abilities like that of Dracula attacked the slayer headquarters in Scotland. They stole Buffy's Scythe. Hitting a dead end on all their leads Xander and a slayer were sent to ask Dracula for help. When they found Dracula he had become an alcoholic, not having the will to kill anymore. At first sight he shape-shifted into a younger and more attractive appearance. Dracula told Xander that he had a good life since they last met and had a new manservant. Though after a while Dracula revealed that he lost his powers (save shape shifting) while drunk in a bet with Japanese vampires. He agreed to help Buffy and her army of slayers fight the vampires in Tokyo. While in Scotland he helped Willow in preparing a spell to protect against the spells of the vampires in Tokyo. In battle Dracula killed many of the vampires and he used his sword to undo the spell of the vampire's. Its not known if he gained his powers back after the battle.Powers/SkillsDracula possess many abilities which includes enhanced physical attributes (strength of twenty men), ability to shape-shift (transform into a bat or a wolf) hypnotize, and immortality. Other powers include invisibility, intangibility, telepathy and regeneration. Note his powers varies according to the writer.Vlad is a very skilled fighter, and a brilliant military tactician. His able to engaged multiple opponents in sword fighting.MarvelDracula is the most powerful vampire in the Marvel Universe. Though not the first of his kind, he is considered lord of all Earth's vampires. Dracula is the father of Lilith and Janus and is frequently opposed by Blade the vampire hunter.OriginVlad Tepes DraculaVlad Tepes was a Transylvanian warlord who gained the nickname "Vlad the Impaler" from his particular love of impaling his enemies. In life, he was a highly feared yet respected warlord who stopped at nothing to attain victory. When Vlad began having dreams about winning a battle against the Turks, he decided that his force should take on the invaders, thinking that his dreams were prophetic. Vlad's forces were supposed to lose the battle, due to the deceiving dreams being the work of Varnae, who is truly the first vampire and had chosen Vlad to be his successor, but managed to drive the intruders out using his superior strategic mind and abilities. However, the victory over the Turkish was short-lived, as Vlad's troops were mercilessly slain by Apocalypse and his Riders of the Dark. Vlad was the only survivor of the attack, and he just barely managed that. The warlord Turac had seen the assault, and sent one of his men to aid the injured Vlad, believing that he could use him to lead his military to global domination. Vlad was then sent to the residential healer, Lianda, who turned out to be a vampire. In order to heal Vlad, Lianda made him one of her own.Lord Of The VampiresDracula then went on to live under the lordship of Turac in one of his towns, and did not realize his vampiric abilities until Turac and his men killed Vlad's wife, Maria. Infuriated by the homicide, Vlad brutally killed Turac and his men. After he had done so, he felt he needed to escape. He dropped off his son, Vlad Tepulus who was named after him, to be raised by a group of residential gypsies and attempted to leave the town. On his way out, he was confronted by a group of Varnae's agents, and was escorted to the lair of Varnae to make a deal with their master. Varnae put Vlad through a series of tests to see if he was truly capable of being the king of the vampires. He was forced to slay Nimrod, who had posed as the ruler of earth's vampires. He did this with some ease, but was soon after confronted and destroyed by a band of priests.Varnae acknowledged the defeat, but did not give up on Vlad. Varnae resurrected Vlad with the blood of the niece of the head priest who had defeated Vlad. The king of the undead then aimed to kill the girl, but was himself killed by a grateful Dracula. Vlad then drank his blood, and became the king of the undead. This event showed Varnae that Vlad was fit enough to be the king of the vampires, so Varnae decided it was his time to go. After Varnae handmade an enchanted casket for Vlad, to protect him from the sun, he killed himself by walking into the sunlight unshielded. Thus began the reign of Count Dracula. Throughout the next few centuries, Dracula reigned supreme over many European lands. Dracula was often killed, but never stayed defeated; using his mystic and unholy abilities to revive himself upon death.Character CreationWhile already famous via the novel, in plays, and several movies, a character called Dracula would not make it into a comic book until 1951 in Marvel's Suspense. After the Comics Code Authority came about he once again became scarce but reappeared with the weakening of the code in the 1970's. He was then reimagined by Gerry Conway and Gene Colan and published in Tomb of Dracula #1, in 1972.Character EvolutionAt the turn of the nineteenth century, Dracula fought Jonathan Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, Mina Harker, John Seward, and Quincey Morris. This conflict is chronicled in Bram Stoker's Dracula. After his apparent death, Dracula was resurrected by accident from the Frankenstein monster. Later Dracula caught wind of Clan Akkaba, which was a large following of the god-mutant Apocalypse, the same Apocalypse who brought about his downfall as Vlad the Impaler. Using his extensive resources to find more out about the Clan, Dracula began attacking them, killing off their members rigorously. He then manipulated the now vampiric Clansmen to do his will from within the clan, turning all but a handful of the members into Dracula's undead army, who also had mutant abilities thanks to the blood of Apocalypse flowing through their veins.After many battles between the remaining Apocalypse followers, along with the vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing and Dracula's army, Apocalypse managed to impale Vlad through the heart. Apocalypse refused to take Abraham's advice, though, and did not do anything to keep Dracula permanently killed.Major Story ArcsFurther LifeDracula returned a few years later and killed Abraham, but unknown to Vlad at the time Abraham had a apprentice named Quincy Harker. He was the son of John and Mina Harker. Another century later, Dracula found himself in the United States. Much to his disgust, Dracula found Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers imprisoning and slaying his own gypsy followers. In order to put a stop to this, Dracula teamed up with Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos and helped bring down the Nazi empire.A few months after Dracula assisted in the Nazi downfall, he turned his attention to Castle Mordo in Transylvania. When Dracula began to turn some of the Castle's inhabitants into his vampiric slaves, Baron Mordo successfully managed to fend off the vampire lord. The year after this Dracula observed the transformation into his werewolf form of a man later found to be the father of Jack Russell. Dracula deduced accurately that the reason for this transformation must involve the notorious Darkhold, which was one of the only objects that could cure Vlad of his vampiracy. Vlad kept an eye on the lycan population from behind the scenes for the next few years, slowly building a strategy. Afterwards, Vlad tracked down the famed vampire hunter, Jamal Afari, who was also the mentor of Blade, and killed him. After the death, Blade swore to see to it that Dracula died at his hands. Many years later, Dracula again turned his attention to the home of Baron Mordo, but decided it unwise to attack the sorcerer, remembering his past encounter with him.Dracula versus the Dracula HuntersClifton Graves awakening DraculaFrank Drake would inherit the Castle of Dracula and go to its location in plans to sell it. Drake is occupied by his fiance Jeanie and friend Clifton Graves. Clifton stumbles across the corpse of Dracula and accidentally awakenings him. After being the only survivor Frank Drake almost commits suicide, but is stopped by Rachel Van Helsing. Drake is introduced to Quincy Harker. Quincy Harker soon advanced into Vllad's deadliest enemy as his successor Abraham Van Helsing was. Quincy had set-up a network of vampire hunters through-out the world. Vllad dwindled this number to only a few through the years. They were called the Dracula Hunters. Eventually Quincy died trying to rid the world of his evil in a final battle.Dracula would get his revenge on another Dracula Hunter Rachel Van Helsing by turning her into what she hated and hunted and killed. Dracula would soon cross paths with X-Men and Storm who he had had obsessed over. He tried turning Storm into his new bride, but was stopped by the X-Men with the help of Rachel Van Helsing, who was now a vampire. Next the Six Fingered Hand would take control of Dracula and have him attack the superhero team Defenders. Dracula would get out of his control and allied himself with the Defenders against the Six-Fingered Hand saga.Montesi FormulaDracula would soon cross paths with the Mighty Thor, when he tried to turn Lady Sif into his next bride. A few of the Dracula Hunters (Hannibal King, Frank Drake, and Blade) would reunite to help Dr. Strange rid the world of vampires by using the Montesi Formula. This happened with Dracula's quest and craving for the Darkhold book's power brought him in control of the Darkholder's Cult, this would put the vampire Lord and the Sorcerer Supreme on a race to retrieve the book first.The Montesi Formula lasted several years, until Blade returned the vampires by using the Darkhold. Upon his return, his daughter Lilith would control Charles Seward (Who is related to the late John Seward), who created a formula to stop the blood disease of vampirism. The formula backfired, and made a epidemic spread to normal people, but was stopped by Dracula himself.He recently has had dealings with his daughter Lilith, duping her into calling a gathering of all the great leaders of the various vampire families and then slaying them single handily, by the sword.Invading BritainDracula Invades EnglandDracula then found himself a new castle on the moon, where he made plans to invade Great Britain. He made an allegiance with Doctor Doom - all of this seeming to be part of the Dark Reign started by Norman Osborn. He launched an attack on Great Britain in an attempt to establish a country for the vampire race with the aid of Lilith, mother of of Demons and Captain Fate. Despite careful planning, he was outmaneuvered by Pete Wisdom and MI:13. His armies were destroyed and Dracula himself was killed by Faiza Hussain with the sword Excalibur. In the end, he was unable to overcome the holy blade, despite his superior physical abilities and swordsmanship skills, resulting in him being stabbed through the chest and turning to ash.His devotees quickly collected his ash and brought him back to life. Dracula then prepared for the vampire gathering, which takes place once every century. All the vampire sects gathered along with his two sons, Janus and Xarus. Xarus, with the help of the leaders of the Charniputra, Nosferatu and Atlantean Sects killed his father.Curse of the MutantsDuring the Curse of the Mutants arc, he is brought back to life by the X-Men who hoped he would aid them against Xarus. He declined their offer and took his leave of them. Only to return at the end to reclaim his throne and torture his son.Powers and AbilitiesVampires in general have superior strength and reflexes. Dracula being older and being the recognized Lord of Vampires should be considered to have Super-Strength and Super Reflexes. (He once back-handed Colossus, felling him with one blow.) Dracula has command over several natural elements, such as summoning storms, and control over the lesser creatures (Bats, Rats and Wolves). Dracula has very powerful abilities where hypnosis, suggestion and memorization are concerned, and only the strongest minds/wills (such as Professor X or Dr. Strange) would be capable of resisting him. Dracula's own will is practically indomitable and he himself is seemingly immune to any kind of will-controlling powers. This, combined with his powers of invulnerability, allowed him to nearly withstand the full fury of a mystic energy attack from Dr Strange at close range before finally falling. It is a credit to Dracula's powers that he was actually able to use mental suggestion upon Dr. Strange himself, making him think he had actually destroyed the Vampire Lord, thus allowing Dracula to escape complete annihilation.Dracula has shape-changing abilities, such as turning into an insubstantial mist that can still direct itself about according to his will. He can also change into various animals, but prefers to travel as a bat. Apparently he can control the size and degree of transformation from a normal sized bat to one of monstrous proportion (6 foot wingspan) as well as a demonic looking half-humanoid were-bat variation. Dracula is invulnerable to all mundane weapons except the wooden stake (when thrust directly through his heart.) He has tremendous healing faculties, recovering from most damage, including magical damage, given time. Fresh human blood will accelerate healing and increase all powers temporarily.He has complete control over lesser vampires and can command them as an army. Only a direct challenge and trial by combat by another vampire can unseat his authority.Dracula is a master tactician and thoroughly competent in all the Knightly weapons of the 1400's, which seem to be his favorite choice when he decides to use something other than his bare hands, themselves being tipped with semi-long pointed fingernails. Combined with his super-strength and invulnerability they have been used with feral and bloody efficiency, even scoring metal upon occasion.Dracula is also capable of recovering/resurrecting from utter destruction as long as his ashes or bones are recovered by someone. Usually some kind of magical ritual is necessary to activate this resurrection, though sometimes it can be as simple as the tears of a virgin being poured on his remains to bring him back to un-life. It is also rumored that Dracula drank women's blood because it was more pure than men's bloodCharacteristicsHeight: 6'5"Weight: 220 lbsEyes: RedHair: Black


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But then Polunin is no ordinary pierrot, no low-rent Biffo. He not only filled the 1000-seater auditorium but stilled the audience with his bittersweet series of loose-linked sketches, Snowshow. In fact, he quite literally blew them away with his piece de resistance, a tumultuous King Lear-style arctic blizzard that roared off the stage, pinning those lucky enough to be in the stalls back into their seats. Afterwards, the crowd refused to leave, batting around around huge balloons, while the king clown sat at the bar.
There are - to Polunin's regret - no such balloons in Edinburgh. The chandelier in the Assembly Rooms' Music Hall is too precious for that. The rest of Snowshow is, however, intact and Polunin, widely acknowledged as the world's greatest clown, is having his first crack at the world's greatest arts festival. He has installed himself and his family in a lavish flat a mile from the city centre, where he holds court to the press. In Russia, it is said, Polunin has the fame of a rock star. I may be a clown, his festival accommodation says but, where money is concerned, I am no fool.
Without his make-up, Slava resembles Professor Branestawm. He looks older than his 46 years. His hair has beaten a retreat straight down the centre of his domed head, leaving spindly grey tufts of gorse above his ears. Only when he smiles does he look younger - and in conversation he doesn't smile often. Mr Polunin - as the interpreter formally addresses him - is a very serious man, it seems - a philosopher clown. He is also, you soon suspect, a little obsessive.
Polunin owns, he reveals, 91 videotapes of Charlie Chaplin. In the two years before he went professional (in 1978), he went to the library most days from eight in the morning to seven at night and read every book about his profession that he could lay his hands on. "As soon as I wake up in the morning," he says, "it's as though I'm in the theatre. When I'm asleep, I'm living in the theatre. For over 15 years, I haven't had a holiday. It's only in the last couple of years that I can occasionally take a day off."
This indifference to designated leisure time seems to be more than just common-or-garden workaholism. It has philosophical roots. Polunin believes that it's important to believe that the idea of play-acting should not be confined to the stage. His favourite book, not surprisingly, is Don Quixote. Life should be a game; it "should take place in accordance with the laws of art". If you believe that, holidays seem rather irrelevant.
"The concept of play is such a huge one," Polunin adds, warming to his subject, embroidering the conversation with references to Stanislavsky and the commedia dell'arte. "There's a whole philosophy enclosed within it: Homo ludens. Play was a very powerful idea because in our highly regulated Soviet society, sincerity and naturalness, the openness of natural feeling and demonstration of your personality was extremely rare."
For his first two years as a professional, Polunin worried away at the whole idea like a dog at a bone. The result was a piece like The Fantasisers, in which four adults in short trousers act out extravagant daydreams - space travel, running away to sea - in the courtyard of a block of flats. "There were no games associated with everyday life in this piece, only romantic dreams," he says. "This theme became the leitmotif of all my later productions: to retain one's childlike dreams throughout adult life. A human being is happy when he follows his childhood dream right to the end."
And - though you would never believe it from the straight-backed, serious figure on the sofa opposite - Polunin has done exactly that, like some Slavic Quixote, reaching a peak of dreaminess in 1989 with his Caravan of the World. An implausibly gigantic, utterly impractical, travelling theatre that took three years to organise, and meandered from Red Square in Moscow to Paris's Tuileries Gardens.
It was, Polunin says, an unrepeatable experience. So now he is simply trying to "restore the art of clowning in the 20th-century". With the arrival of Cirque du Soleil and Archaos, the circus has reinvented itself. "They are contemporary. The only thing these new theatres lack is contemporary clowns. I'm now looking for the aesthetics and philosophy of a new clown language." And, for the moment, he has come to live here to do it.
Not that he'll probably stay here long. The Polunins have no permanent home. They live, he says, "on wheels", clocking up thousands of miles around Europe each year in a mobile home. Slava hates that most magical of experiences, flying. If they do settle down, it's unlikely to be in this country. Somewhere in central Europe, Polunin thinks, so he can nip with ease from country to country. And even then one suspects that life in the Polunin household will never be entirely ordinary. "We approach everything in our lives as though we're putting on a new show. We fantasise that, yes, we need our own home. It will have the bathroom here" - the clown moves his hand above an imaginary plan - "and it has to have lots of sea shells. You'll be able to hear the sound of the seas from above, and when you enter the bathroom some spray ought to hit you in the face."
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/author-box-2/ folder and its files to the
/wp-content/plugins/ directory or just use the WordPress admin interface to install it.
Author Box <something> Contact. See image 8 in Screenshots. Should also install the Author Box Reloaded Pack with several ones already included. Those where previously included with ABR but now are a separated package. You can create your own ABR Contacts without too much work. Instructions are included.
Users) and Author Box Reloaded will appear automagically after author's articles in single view. This is not set by default so nothing will show in your front end if you don't do at least this.
Auto Display Off and use one of the following options:
<?php if (function_exists('wp_authorbox')) echo wp_authorbox(); ?>
Personal one
Posts single view and also use the other options in specific
Pages or inserted in other
theme templates, like an
author theme page.
You should have at least your "Contact Info" Website and/or one of the Social Networks defined or, at least, a not so short "Biographical Info", or the CSS may be real messy.
If you have User Photo, 0.9.4 or greater, installed, a photo loaded and
Override Avatar with User Photo: selected, it will automatically use that image instead of the Gravatar one.
You can also use Simple Local Avatars, 1.3.1 or greater.
If you use WordPress Mu and want to add this plugin to all blogs just install it in the mu-plugins directory instead or, in more modern versions, activate it globally.
Requires: 2.8.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.9.16
Last Updated: 3 years ago
Active Installs: 800+
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